Me: YAY CHAPTER 2 IS DONE! *jumps and down cheering*

Tobi: YAY! Tobi will now see Tobi in high school!

Me: *still cheering punches Tobi out* disclaimer anyone?

Konan: *grinning* Ghostwritter9396 does not own Naruto or anything.

Sakura: she's just a lazy fangirl who doesn't have a life

Me: go and suck your gay boyfriend bitch

Ino: *holding Sakura back and smiling* Okay on to the story!

Me: *dancing in a fight stance* bring it PINKY! Huh? *looks over at readers* oh yeah, enjoy *turns back to Sakura* we gonna dance or what princess?

High School Is Murder

By: Ghostwritter9396

Ch. 2

"Hey there, Mermaid."

"Excuse me." Hinata Hyuga whispered, her long black hair falling in her face as she tried to squeeze past the three boys who had crowded around her.

"Aw, come on, Mermaid, how's bout you and me go around the corner and fulfill a little beach side fantasy?" one of them said slyly, pressing his face close to hers. She felt her face turn red and, realizing that she wasn't going to be able to push them away, she pulled her arms close to her chest, hands up to her face, loose fists hiding her mouth. Her muscles tightened and her eyes closed. She was trying to will them away as she pressed her back against the wall as far as she could.

The three boys who had cornered her were members of Snake, the twins Sakon and Ukon, and their best friend Suigetsu. All of them had whitish hair that fell half way past their ears, the tips of Suigetsu's died a light sky blue. All wore identical black baggy jeans and colored sneakers. Each wore a long sleeved cotton shirt with hood, they looked more like triplets then twins and friend. Only their facial features made it clear that the twins and Suigetsu were not related. But if you didn't look closely, you could mix them up. Today though, they were identifiable by the color of their shirts; Sukon's was green with black stripes, Ukon's was red with black stripes, and Suigetsu's was dark blue with black stripes. They had 'emo' written all over them.

A few more taunts and suggestions were thrown at her before…thank God.

"Excuse me gentlemen, I believe the lady is trying to get through."

Neji was there, with Naruto beside him, both boys looking pissed as hell.

"Naw, we're having a chat." Ukon said brightly.

"Yeah, she's alright." Suigetsu laughed.

"More then alright," Sakon smirked. "I'd say she's F.I.N.E. fine." He reached out and swept some of her raven hair off her shoulders, revealing her red face. She flinched away from his touch and tears started tickling silently down her face. Sakon went to lift her face but Neji stopped him.

"It doesn't look that way to me." Neji whispered dangerously. Naruto reached through the boys and gently took Hinata's hand, pulling her to his protective side and wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

"Hinata and I have reading now, last class of the day. I'll walk her, she'll be alright now." He told Neji who nodded.

The other boys started protesting, getting nasty expressions on their faces. They started to follow Naruto and Hinata but Neji stopped them.

"Come near my cousin again, and I'll make sure you'll never be able to impress her, or any other girl, ever again." He threatened. Before they could respond a voice rang out in the hall.

"Alright, move along boys, you'll be late for your next class." A pause, then, "Is there a problem, gentlemen?"

"No, Mr. Sarutobi, no problem." Neji said coolly.

"He just threatened us, Sir." Ukon said quickly. Asuma looked at Neji sharply.

"Neji?"

"I just told them to stop harassing my cousin, Hinata, Sir. This wasn't the first time I caught them cornering her."

"Boys?"

"We were talking, nothing more." Sakon assured the teacher.

"Well, I don't know exactly what's going on here, and I wont unless Hinata herself comes forward. But if I get wind that something like this happens again I'll make sure you all are suspended at the very least. That goes for you too, Neji, I don't care if you are just trying to protect her, threats are not the way to handle things. Understood?" Asuma said sternly. They all mumbled and nodded in agreement. "Good, now get to class."

As the teacher walked off, Neji noticed the icy stares the three Snakes were giving Asuma's retreating back. It sent shivers down his spine.

The next day the entire school was a buzz. By now, everyone had at least heard about the new student. What made it even bigger news was that he was a transfer student who was not a military kid. This made him a rarity due to the fact that Konaho was the city military families moved to on account of there was a base about 50-60 miles north of it. It wasn't unlike the Quantico area in Virginia.

"Did you guys hear about that new kid, Sai?" Hana asked her friends, Tenten, Temari and Hinata. They both nodded their heads as they ate their lunch.

"He's kind of strange." Temari said. Blunt as usual, Temari was a pretty 18 year old senior who kept her curly blonde hair in four bundles at the back of her her head. She wore short dresses with ¾ sleeves, tight booty shorts underneath, and high top sneakers with no stockings. She had that, 'I'm sexy and tough and I know it' attitude about her.

"How can you say that with out knowing him?" Hinata asked quietly. She was the exact opposite of Temari. She was probably hotter than any other girl in the school, even Sakura and Kerin the two sluts. But no one could really see that because, unless you caught her in the school pool doing laps, you only saw her in baggy jeans, sweatshirts, and sneakers. She never wore make up, jewelry unless you count the necklace her mother had given her before she passed away, and she hid her face behind long bangs. She had worn her hair in a cute pixie cut in middle school, but ever since she started catching the eye of every guy she passed, she grew it out and started hiding herself. She had always been soft spoken and shy, but lately it seemed to have been getting worse. She still hung out with Hana, Tenten and Temari, but she rarely spoke these days. This was true even with her boyfriend, Naruto.

"I heard it through the grape vine." Temari replied.

"Oh, I love that song." Exclaimed a voice behind them. They turned around and saw Tayuya, Kin, Kerin, Ino, Sakura and Konan come up. Tayuya started singing the chorus to the song, doing a little dance to the music playing in her head. Konan shook her head in exasperation.

"Well, look who we have here." Tenten said. "What are the princesses of Konaho High doing talking to mere peasants like us?"

"Don't get your hopes up Number Girl." Sakura smirked, calling Tenten her 'label' name. "Some of us just had something to say to one of you."

Hana, Temari, Hinata and Tenten exchanged looks over their lunch table as Tayuya, Kin and Kerin stepped up.

"We heard what the twins and Suigetsu did yesterday, Hinata, we wanted to make sure you were okay." Kin said. She had her black straight hair tied tightly in a pony tail, her marine tank top just barely touching her hip hugger jeans. She was holding the strap to her bag that was slung across her body, showing off a thick brown wrist band. Temari, Hana and Tenten couldn't understand why this bad ass girl hung with the preps. She seemed, to them, like a girl who would fall in their crowd. But, no matter who she hung with she seemed nice enough, nicer than that bitch Sakura anyways.

"Oh, umm…I'm…" Hinata whispered, her face burning as she looked down at the floor.

"We wanted you to know that they have been spoken too, and won't bother you any more." Kerin said assuringly.

"Yeah, don't worry, your sisters got your back." Tayuya said smiling at Hinata. Hana, Temari and Tenten looked at each other. Sisters? No matter how mute the cast system in the school was, one thing remained adamant, the preps NEVER did nice things for the outcasts like them.

"Umm…thank you." Hinata said quietly, not looking at the others. The three girls nodded and, feeling that their obligation was done, walked away with the rest of their group.

"Hinata?" Hana asked curiously. Hinata however had grabbed her bag and had swung it on her shoulder, ignoring the rest of her lunch.

"I have to go, gonna be late for class." She said hurriedly and ran off. Tenten turned to Temari.

"The bell's not going to ring for another ten minutes." She said. "Unless my watch is busted."

Hana took her cell out to double check the time. "Nope, you were right."

"So what's she hiding?" Temari asked.

"Beats me." Tenten said, shrugging.

"So what's your read on this new guy?" Kin asked Konan as they headed to their geology class.

"He was in my advanced Art class with Diedara and Sasori." Konan said, her blue hair dancing behind her as she walked. She wore designer jeans, a mesh under shirt and a short dark blue sweater that stopped at her navel. Her thick healed sandals clacked against the hard floor. "He's quiet, more quiet then the Hyuga girl. He draws, sketches, no color. That in itself tells a lot about his personality. He's incredibly detailed, but his work is dark. I took a sneak peak at his sketchbook when he went up to get some pencils from Ms. Rin. I doubt any one, except maybe Hidan, has a messed up mind like that."

Kin flintched. "Deep."

They walked in to room 409 and was greeted by their teacher Mr. Kakashi Hatake.

"Morning, ladies. You're looking nice today."

They both cringed slightly but if he saw this he didn't comment. Truth be told, out of all the perverts in the school, Kakashi was the least threatening. He just made slight off handed comments that, come to think of it, probably didn't mean much seeing as how he was dating Rin the Art and Health teacher.

As they took their seats he began roll call, everyone was there except, to their surprise, Sai, the new kid. That was weird, this was only his second day of school, where was he?

Sasuke Uchiha sat in his Calculus class waiting for the teacher to arrive. He drummed his pencil on his desk glaring out the window. His brother sat two seats to his right and he could feel the older boy's eyes on him. He refused to look at him though. Last night his father had made a beeline for him and Itachi, as usal, intervened. Now, Itachi had a busted lip and bruised eye that was covered up with make up. But the sudden banishment of his brother's wounds did not help Sasuke forget his father's anger at him, or his own guilt. If anything, it just made it more apparent to him.

He had gone home with the results of his last Calculus test and when his father saw the giant A- he flipped. Sasuke had felt rather proud of himself, missing only one or two questions. But his father, a drunk ex-cop who had been removed from the force early after a perp shot him in the gut, expected nothing but 100% from both of his sons. If they fell short just by a single point, he went off like a cannon. Sasuke was, irrationally, furious with Asuma for giving him an A-. Why couldn't he have just over looked the minor errors and given him a damn 100? Now, because of it, his brother had been forced to save his sorry, worthless ass once again. Of course, if it hadn't been him last night, then his mother would've undoubtedly been the target and Itachi would've still been forced to intervene. Itachi felt that, being the eldest, it was his responsibility to shield his brother and mother from his father's violent tantrums. But that didn't sit right with Sasuke and he felt a nasty twinge of guilt every time he thought about it.

Five minutes went by, then ten. Finally, when fifteen minutes had passed, Sasuke couldn't stand it anymore. Where the hell was he? He looked over at his brother who was talking quietly to his boyfriend, Kisame.

Kisame, a strange boy who had a weird obsession with sharks was looking worried. His eyes, covered by yellow contacts were narrow and he kept running his hands through his short black spiky hair that had died blue highlights. He was pale and he wore baggy jeans, a grey t-shirt under a jean vest that matched his pants and cut off gloves that had an open gash on the backs. One knee jumped rapidly in the air, his grey sneaker folded at the toe line on the floor.

Sasuke leaned over, passed Choji Akimichi who was sneaking chips into his chubby face every few minutes or so, to tap his brother on the shoulder.

Itachi, who's long black hair was tied back in a low ponytail and who looked weary turned around. "What?" he asked in a low tone.

"Where's Mr. Sarutobi?" Sasuke asked. "Shouldn't he be here by now?"

"We were just thinking of going to check to see if anyone's seen him." Kisame hissed at Sasuke. Although Sasuke was a member of the Snakes and the other two were Akatsuki, Kisame got on relatively well with him because he was Itachi's little brother.

"Should I go? I'm the only one of us who hasn't gotten into trouble this year, they wont suspect me as much." Sasuke said, wanting to get out of the class room that was, he realized, starting to close in on him. What was wrong with him? Was this because of his guilt? Or was it because of the fact that he couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong?

Itachi looked at his younger brother of two years with a level stare. "Alright." He said.

Sasuke got up and immediately ran out of the room. Not a full minute later he ran into a teacher, Mr. Ibiki, the history teacher. The tall muscular man halted Sasuke and asked him what he was doing out of class. Sasuke had the instinct to ask Ibiki the same thing but decided not to start trouble.

"I'm looking for Mr. Sarutobi, he hasn't shown up for class yet."

"What? That doesn't sound like Asuma." Ibiki said, his face wrinkled in worry. He rubbed the back of his bald head and thought for a moment. "Come on kid, let's check the teacher's lounge."

But Asuma wasn't in the teacher's lounge. They checked the front office but he wasn't there either. Now Ibiki was getting really worried, he had just seen Asuma that morning, and before lunch, he was fine, he was happy. He had been going on about how he couldn't wait for the wedding that was to be on Saturday, less than three days away. He had invited Ibiki to the bachelor's party on Friday, starting immediately after school let out. He went into Tsunade's office and asked her to call him to the office over the intercom speakers. They waited there, Sasuke feeling a little out of place, for a full ten minutes before Tsunade called Shizune in.

"Yes, Ma'am?"

"Shizune, when was the last time you saw Asuma?" Tsunade asked her sharply.

"Umm…he was going to his class room with a young man, I believe his name is Shikamaru, during lunch. I think he needed to to discuss the boy's homework with him." Shizune said nervously. "I happened to run into them in the hall and they were joking around, every thing seemed okay."

Tsunade took action and called Shikamaru to her office. A few more minutes passed and then a tall boy with a high ponytail slandered into the room, hands in pockets of cargo pants, a green t-shirt under an unzipped dark grey hoody half off of one shoulder, and a bored expression on his face.

"What'd I do this time?" he cracked.

"When was the last time you saw Mr. Sarutobi?" Tsunade asked without preamble. Sasuke studied the boy's face as it registered shock.

"Asuma, I mean, Mr. Sarutobi and I played a game of chess during lunch while he talked to me about my homework. I only did half the problems again and he was explaining to me that if I kept doing that, I would only get half credit for the work. He said that I could get all 100's on the tests but if I kept getting 50's or lower on my other work it would cause me to fail the class. He said he wanted to try and save my lazy ass before it got too late into the school year, but that he had seen enough to spot a pattern in my work, or rather, lack there of."

Tsunade nodded thoughtfully. "Did you see him any time after that?"

"No. I saw that new kid, Gay or Say or whatever his name is go in when I was leaving to get my stuff for my chemistry class, about ten minutes before lunch got out, but I don't know what they talked about." He said now looking around the room at Shizune, Ibiki and Sasuke all staring at him. "Why, why are you asking me all this? What's happened?" fear was creeping into his voice and now his hands were out of his pockets, he was standing a little straighter and his face was turning from shock to pale worry.

"He didn't show up for class today." Sasuke explained as the bell signaling the end of the period rang. They could all hear the kids in the hall shift from one class to the next.

"You mean…" Shikamaru's voice was getting thicker now, fear constricting his speech. "You mean he's missing?"

"We can't seem to find him." Dr. Tsunade said softly. Just then high screams rang out from outside. They all bolted out of the room, Tsunade in the lead.

As they reached the knot of students, dressed in gym uniforms, huddled around a bush by the running track, Mr. Gai ran up to them.

"Dr. Tsunade!" He called out. "You better come and look at this."

The principle walked sternly up to the bush, weary about what she would find there. Gai kept Sasuke and Shikamaru back grimly telling them and the other two adults that they don't want to go over there. His usually energetic face was full of morbid horror and grief.

"Gai! Get everyone inside now! Shizune call the cops!" Tsunade's voice rang out.

Suddenly Shikamaru couldn't take it any longer. He pushed by the gym teacher, ignoring his order to come back. He ran up next to Tsunade who quickly grabbed him and shoved him back from the bush, but not before he saw the body of one of his father's best friends and the greatest mentor he'd ever known. Asuma Sarutobi's body was mangled, bloody, broken. It had been tossed aside like trash, his eyes were wide with horror and pain and his mouth was open in an unfinished scream, blood pouring out of it. But that wasn't the worst of it. The head was severed, lying next to the body, the limbs were bound, and he was in nothing but his slacks and socks. The words PERVERTED BASTARDS WILL DIE was painted on his chest in his own blood. Shikamaru felt the world spin all around him. Someone was saying his name, asking if he was alright but he couldn't respond. He felt his strength leave him and he was falling, falling into nothingness as he heard his own voice call out Asuma's name.

Okay sorry…I think that was a tad graphic ^^' and before you go off on me…remember he does die in the anime…I think…from what I was told…to be honest…I haven't seen all of Shupiden…And I'm taking a guess at a lot of these guys personalities….but it's not too bad…is it?

Itachi: why am I the one that gets hit here?

Me: because you're the honorable older brother who is loveable and awesome and brave

Itachi: …fangirl

Me: I AM NOT! I'm too mature for you… I go for other guys thank you.

Itachi: who?

Me: *looks over at Rock Lee blushing*

Naruto: BUSHY BROWS!?

Lee: YES! I HAVE A FANGIRL! AT LAST!

Gai: *tears streaming down his face* LEE! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!

Me: *face palms* okay embarrassing…next chapter….now