Sasuke looked at his new teacher, and exchanged a glance with Shikamaru. Chouji's and Naruto's mouths had dropped, while Lee gazed at him with shining adoration.

Kakashi grinned at the class. "Everyone, I'm extremely pleased to introduce you all to your new Dance teacher. This is Gai."

"YOSH! We shall dance in the springtime of youth! Everyone, we shall all dance as one, one huge pile of enthusiasm combined in a mush of YOUTH!"

He struck a pose. Kakashi grin grew wider. As he left the room, he gave the class a thumbs up, "Have fun!"

Sasuke glared at Kakashi's back.

"Everyone, get into boy-girl pairs! We shall dance!"

As is high-school, the class had already naturally divided, with all the boys on one side of the room, and all the girls on the other. They were exchanging nervous looks, but one boy noticed something.

"Ummm, sir?"

"YES! YOU BOY, TRYING TO HIDE YOUR DOG!"

Kiba flushed, "Sir…there are more boys than girls…."

This seemed to be something Gai had not considered. "Yes! So there is! Okay! I am going to assign some of the boys to be girls!"

Looks of horror fell on the boys faces.

"YOU!" Gai pointed at Shikamaru who was staring at him, frozen to the spot. "YOU ARE A GIRL FROM NOW, HAIR-BAND BOY! GO TO THE GIRLS SIDE!" Shikamaru stayed frozen, his eyes wide.

"GO!"

Gai began to walk towards Shikamaru, who realised the green-clothed teacher was coming near him, so he ran to the other side of the room, where he was immediately pounced on by some of the girls. He had been there about 10 seconds, and already the girls had taken their declarations of Shikamaru's new found feminity slightly too seriously, and were now 'gossiping' and 'doing his hair'. Shikamaru seemed to have blanked out, and was staring into space, but there was pain behind his blank eyes.

The rest of the boys looked on in horror.

"Shikamaru…" Chouji started to walk forward, despair in his eyes, wanting to help his poor friend. He was stopped by Naruto hand, "No, Chouji. He's gone. He wouldn't have wanted you to go too."

Naruto led Chouji back, hand rubbing comfortingly on his back.

Gai seemed unaware of the drama, and had turned his eyes back to the boys, ready to nominate more boys. The boys realised this, and were going to drastic measures to appear more masculine, with Neji trying to hide his hair, Shino hiding more under his collar, Kiba puffing out his chest, and Naruto had taken to hiding behind Chouji, who was still in mourning and oblivious of the scared blonde boy behind him. Sasuke and Gaara were relying on what they knew best.

Glaring.

Lee seemed to want to be picked, and was making his eyes wide and blinking a lot.

Gai's gaze fell on his little mini-me. "YOOOU!"

"YES!" Lee punched the air triumphantly, while all the boys backed away from the boy-now-a-girl. He bounded over to the girls, and was pounced on, but he seemed to greet it enthusiastically…

Gai looked around again, and this time his gaze fell on a boy with feminine features, slim legs, and stylish hair.

Sasuke glared back at him.

Gai didn't notice.

"YOU!"

No-one moved.

"YOU! YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN! GO!"

Sasuke glared some more.

"YOU, ARE PROJECTING SOME NEGATIVE VIBES!"

All the boys looked at Gai. Some negative vibes?

"YOU ARE MAKING THE CLASS NEGATIVE! LEAVE!"

Sasuke shook his head and picked up his bag, and headed out the class.

He strolled along the corridor until he found an empty classroom. Once inside, he put all his stuff out, finally settled and feeling peaceful now he could plan his brothers diminish.

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Sasuke strolled in late for Home Economics. Why? Because he was cool.

Plus, he had got caught up in a plan to drop his brother off the top of the school building, but had then encountered the problem of how to get him up there, and the likely possibility that his brother would counter-attack and chuck Sasuke of the side to his ultimate doom.

He had scrapped the plan, then realised he was late.

Their teacher, Iruka, sent him a slight scolding look, but carried on explaining to the class the cake project they were going to do.

Could Sasuke kill his brother with a cake? Maybe he could put poison in it…hmmmm…

He glanced around and saw people were starting to do work, and he noticed that the new boy was sulking.

"He got nominated by Gai." Shikamaru explained. Sasuke nodded in understanding, and Naruto growled.

"What happened to you?" Sasuke asked. The last time he had seen the boy he was experiencing things that would emotionally scar most men.

Shikamaru shrugged, "Its cool, I just partnered with Chouji."

"Naruto, I don't understand why you're upset! You should be pleased to be chosen!"

"Lee, it just means I look like a girl!"

"You don't look totally like a girl!"

"WHAT!"

Sasuke turned to Shikamaru. "Who'd Lee go with?"

"Shino."

Sasuke's eyebrows went waaay up. Shino.

And Lee?

He couldn't help but turn around and look at the boy, and noticed Shino was staring at their table already. Actually, was staring at…Lee.

Shino noticed Sasuke, and turned his head away, while Sasuke whipped his head back round, eyes wide and body frozen.

Had Shino blushed?

He whipped his head round again, and saw Shino was looking down, working. Sasuke's eyes narrowed suspiciously, and he was so busy being suspicious that he didn't notice Gaara lift up a pen and throw it until it hit him, straight on the nose. Where the other had hit him before.

"Son-of-a-!"

"SASUKE!" interrupted Iruka, staring at Sasuke with wide eyes, "Do not use that language here!"

"But it hurts like a-!"

"SASUKE!"

Sasuke scowled and turned to glare darkly at Gaara, who was twiddling a pen between his fingers, whilst staring at Sasuke.

Well, glaring.

Sasuke glared back.

5 minutes later, there little glare-fest was interrupted by a loud knock on the door, and a teacher waltzing into the room. Kakashi.

Sasuke did a double-take. Was this man everywhere? It was bad enough he had to teach Sasuke about sex, now he was just popping into random lessons?

"Ah, K-Kakashi! What are…you doing here?" Sasuke frowned, why did Iruka look panicked?

Kakashi merely grinned, before grabbing a chair (which still had a student in it, mind. Naruto yelled and glared at Kakashi) and dragging it next to Iruka. He sat down, and explained, "I got bored."

Iruka blinked at him. "You're here because you're bored?" Kakashi nodded, still smiling, just staring at him. Iruka blushed.

Then he looked and saw he had a rather large audience, so yelled, "HEY! Everyone, get back to work!"

Sasuke swore he heard Kakashi mumble, "Oh Iruka, I love it when you yell…"

Next thing anyone knew, Iruka had managed to barge Kakashi out of the classroom. Flustered and breathing loudly, he turned around and saw the wide, curious, innocent eyes of his students. "WORK!"

Everyone jumped, and grabbed their forgotten pens, writing as fast as they could. Iruka was scary.

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"Hey, anyone home!" Sasuke yelled as he walked into his house, kicking his shoes off at the door and dumping his bag on the ground.

"Guess not…" he mumbled, heading to the kitchen. He felt like a sandwich.

"Hello, foolish little brother…"

"AHHHHHHH!"

"You weakling, how dare you scream in my presence?"

Sasuke was breathing hard, and staring at his older brother. Lately, Itachi had a bad habit of standing in shadows and then coming out and saying things in really creepy voices. Sasuke wished he would stop.

"Wh-what….do you want Itachi?"

Itachi stared at his brother. "Prepare me a sandwich. Bring it to my room."

Sasuke scowled, fear forgotten. "No! Do it yourself!"

"Do not speak like you have a choice in the matter. Prepare me a sandwich." Itachi paused. "Do not use as much butter as last time. Filthy child."

Sasuke swallowed, but stood his ground. "No, you're in the kitchen, you make it."

Itachi's eyes narrowed. "But you are already preparing a sandwich for yourself. Do not be foolish, Sasuke. Make me a sandwich. Peanut-butter. Make it good, or face the consequences." Itachi finished on a very dramatic whisper, before waltzing out of the room.

Sasuke glared at where his brother had been. He would not make the sandwich! It was the principle! But…he was making his own sandwich…didn't it make sense to make Itachi one while he was making his own?

NO! These were Itachi's twisted mind games! He just wanted to make Sasuke believe it made sense!

But…didn't it make sense…?

NO! He wasn't going to make Itachi a sandwich! In fact, he wasn't even going to have a sandwich himself! That'd show Itachi!

He went upstairs to his room, and sat smugly ready to watch TV and NOT eat a sandwich. He almost smiled as he realised he'd got one up on Itachi.

What Sasuke didn't know was that Itachi had never even wanted a sandwich in the first place.