"What was that all about?" Breathless, Naruto managed to ask. After they had their first lesson, a crowd of students suddenly bombarded them. Meiko answered a few questions and told Naruto to run. With the noise created however, he didn't fully hear her command. She was sick of whispering it to him so she grabbed his wrist and ran for it.

"Ehh, well. As you can see I'm quite popular." Naruto rolled his eyes and answered back. "Well, duh. Why are you so popular though?" She started to laugh nervously and slumped against the wall.

"I'm kind of known to be good in every subject, I'm the school captain of Badminton and Hockey, I'm a class representative and I'm the head of the School council. I'm in the Gifted and talented program in English, Drama and Art and I'm also a counsellor of some sort…so I suppose that makes me kind of well known." She finally finished and waited a response from Naruto; her head leaned to the side as she saw him stare at her, his mouth open.

"Kind…Kind of! Whaddya mean kind of!" With each syllable he pronounced, the pitch of his voice went higher.

Here he was, standing with the most perfect girl. She was clever, pretty, had the nicest personality to go with it and she did not fall for the charms of Uchiha. It was Uchiha, out of all the people! Even he found himself struggling to resist his charms. He never thought anyone like that existed and suddenly he was in awe of his discovery.

"Now, now Naruto. It doesn't make me perfect. Come on. Let's go to Maths" She said offhandedly and dragged him to their next class. Naruto thought it was amazing that all of their classes are the same but unfortunately so was Uchiha's and he definitely had a bad feeling about this one.

Their maths teacher was one he knew quite well. With his shocking silver, well Naruto said it was grey but who was he to decide? Anyway, it could be only one person. The lecherous, pathetic, lazy, sorry of an excuse, the one and only lover of Iruka, his sort of foster parent. Hatake Kakashi. Then again, he wasn't too bothered, as fate seemed to be on his side today. He was once again sat next to Meiko and remained happy until Kakashi mentioned the vile 'p' word that he had oh so detested.

"For this next 6 weeks, you'll be paired up for a project" At this Naruto mentally groaned and knew that Kakashi was enjoying it. How? Kakashi was currently grinning at him like the idiot he was.

"You have no freedom to choose who you're partner is because I'll be choosing. All right, first partner. Nara Shikamaru and Yamanaka Ino" He then presumed his all too innocent grin and continued to read the list of torture.

"Fuck, stupid bastard" Naruto mumbled and harshly stabbed the table imagining it was a certain maths teacher's head.

"Language, language Naru. Now, what's wrong?" Meiko wagged her finger and propped her chin against her left hand. Naruto sighed and decided to tell her of his 'curse'

"Every time there's a project, I always manage to end up with Uchiha. It's been going on since first year." He muttered miserably and stopped stabbing his table. Meiko looked at him sympathetically and then smiled.

"Maybe Fate's trying to tell you something?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at her, equivalent to 'What the hell are you saying?' She only shook her head and paid attention to Kakashi. Soon enough he heard what he never wanted to hear.

"Uzumaki Naruto…and Uchiha Sasuke" Kakashi paused after this only to look at Naruto's defeated face and he almost felt sorry for him. 'This is what you get for depriving me time with my Iruka' he thought almost gleefully. He looked to the girl beside Naruto and smirked. 'She looks like she knows something about our little Naru-chan.' She must've been aware of what he was thinking because she returned his smirk.

"Umire Meiko, you're with Hyuuga Hinata." The girl named Hinata gasped. 'Probably didn't think she was going to be paired up with the most popular girl in school.' Kakashi thought and read his list until the end. He gave out their objectives and waited for the sound of protest in 5…4…3…2…1.

"SENSEI!" Ah, this is why he became a teacher.

He could feel someone glare at him and to no surprise; it was Naruto. "Sensei, what the hell is this? This hasn't got anything to do with maths!" He could see most agreed with him whilst some just looked amused.

"Ahem. Uzumaki-kun. I know this hasn't got anything to do with Maths however because we are one topic ahead, the Health & Social department requested if this could be done instead because of the limited time they have. So for this term, I am your Health & Social teacher."

He leaned against his desk and resisted the urge to shout out 'Take that you suckers' and stick his tongue out because that would just be down right immature and he was definitely nothing but a mature man. 'In every aspect' he grinned to himself.

"So, shoo, it's lunch time. You have to answer all the questions about your 'partner' and you have six weeks to do so." He left the classroom and felt proud that for once, he made his students stunned and at loss for words.

"Awwe Naru, it's not too bad. I think." Meiko tried to comfort Naruto but was failing miserably. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw none other than Uchiha making his way to their table. He stopped a few meters away from them and nodded his head at Meiko to acknowledge her. He then glared at the blonde haired boy sitting pathetically next to her.

"Uzumaki. My house. 11 AM. Meet me outside school. I don't want the whole school to know where my house is. Don't be late." He then made his way back to his 'fans'. Naruto gritted his teeth and made a mental note to kill Kakashi later.

"I can't believe they made us come back on Friday. Why can't they be like other schools and actually start on Monday? Now I have to go to that bloody I -think-I'm-so-great bastard's house." He ranted on and on until a girl made her way to them.

It turned to be Hyuuga Hinata. "Ano, Umire-san. I heard Uchiha-san a-and I-I thi- I mean I, that is…umm." Hinata was a complete wreck at this point and Meiko couldn't help but find it amusing. Deciding to help out the poor girl, she smiled at her reassuringly.

"How about you come over to my house tomorrow? Come by at about 2 P.M and bring some spare clothes, you can sleep over at my house over the weekends." Meiko scribbled her address and handed it to the stuttering girl.

She blushed furiously and nodded. Before Naruto could make a comment, the school bell went indicating lunch had finished.

"Nooo, how did time pass by so quickly?" Naruto whined, almost childishly tugging at Meiko's sleeve whilst they made their way to class. "Erm, you were whining your butt off?" Meiko remarked. Naruto punched her arm lightly as a response.