Chapter three- Ready, Freddy?

It was seven in the morning. The weather was partly cloudy. It was November second. It was time for the first day of team seven's new high school career.

Uchiha Sasuke was just leaving the Uchiha complex and was making his way over to a brand new, Austin Martin 2011. Now many would think that ninjas wouldn't own cars… But why not indulge a little if you had the money? And yes, Sasuke had the money. When his parents died, they left him a very large sum of money due to the fact that the Uchiha clan was one of the wealthiest in all the land… was.

All males have their own little hobbies and Sasuke's was cars. He loved going fast so his wide array of cars were all top of the line sports cars, naturally. Kakashi had told him to be as inconspicuous as possible but Sasuke figured that, as long as he had a mode of transportation other than his feet, it shouldn't matter if it looked straight out of an episode of MTV cribs because it was still considered normal… OK normal for rich people.

Sasuke thought of his blonde companion and wondered how he would be able to walk the distance and make it to school in time before school started. It was then that Sasuke made the unconscious decision that once they became "acquainted" at school, he would allow Naruto to ride with him. He immediately thought of his other team mate and felt almost guilty when he realized that Sakura would most likely not get the same treatment as Naruto- her riding with them would be a little… conspicuous.

Sasuke opened the driver's seat of the car and got in, turning the ignition key as he did. In no time flat, he had entered the school's student lot and found a spot close to the front. He got out slowly, being careful not to startle any passerby's with his speed. But he quickly found there was no need for precaution for the only other living soul near the school was a lone teacher making his way hastily into the school. The man took a quick glance back at Sasuke, who met the man's gaze with a stoic stare. The teacher whipped his head around in an embarrassed fashion, realizing he had been caught. Sasuke shook his head- inconspicuousness would be difficult for him. He could already feel it.

Sasuke glanced at the light shadow cast from a nearby "student parking" pole. Roughly 7:05.

He made his way to the main entrance in silence- he didn't forget that normal kids don't quite their footsteps, he just didn't want to be completely normal. It was in his nature to always be prepared for ambush- even if that ambush was to take place at a school- so being to careful and not taking extensive precautions was not in his vocabulary.

He got to the front door. Doors more like it. It was a large section of glass doors- he counted four- with steel frames. His quick eyes memorized the entire front of the building in the few moments he had outside of it. He took note that the drainpipe on the left side of the building had a rusted crack, that the second story of the school had been most likely suffered from a recent window breaking due to the fact the seventh window in form the right had an almost undetectable color difference to the ones on either side of it, and that if he were to ever need to jump from the top of the school, it would only be a 40 foot drop meaning chakra would not be necessary. This knowledge was picked up unconsciously. For as a Shinobi, no matter how trivial the information, it could be very useful if something were to happen.

When inside the school, he found his way to the main office where a tired looking woman was sitting, stamping the dates on different sheets of papers.

Sasuke was at her desk before the door closed which made her look up in surprise at his swiftness. Her glasses-clad eyes widened at the sight of the male beauty standing in front of her but her eyes quickly shifted to her desk where she shuffled more papers around.

"Can I help you?" she asked politely finally gathering her bearings enough to look at the boy again.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha," He said in his velvety voice (the receptionist snapped her head down to the computer screen in attempt to concentrate on the information he was delivering), "I just transferred from the Rain village and I came to get my schedule."

The woman typed for a few seconds before looking back up and smiling, "Welcome to Konaha high, Mr. Uchiha. My name is Sheryl Fonico, if you have any questions or concerns, all you have to do is come in here and I'll be happy to help. This is your schedule and here is a map of the school," She said while handing him the items, "School starts at 8:30 so you are quite early. But feel free to walk around the school and get to know it, or you could just go to your home room. The class room door will be open but don't expect a teacher in there, like I said you are very early. Of course I wouldn't expect anyone in there anyway…" She trailed off at the end of her sentence; the last part of it was barley audible.

"Thank you, Ms. Fonico." Sasuke's voice caught her off guard again and she faltered for a second before regaining composure.

She put on another smile before saying, "Oh please, call me Sheryl," Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes, "Oh and you'll want to check back in here at the end of the day just so you can fill out the new student review sheet, Okay?"

"Hn." Sasuke said turning to leave, "Thank you, again, Sheryl." He smirked when he saw Ms. Fonico nearly fall over as he spoke her name.

Sasuke was out of the door and heading toward the nearest set of stairs. The map was not necessary, for Sasuke had already memorized the one Kakashi had given Naruto and himself the previous day. He found the set of stairs near the front door and headed up them looking for corridor 5 which held his first period class.

Again he found it quickly and started glancing at the doors along the long hallways walls as he passed them, for the correct room.

Corridor 5, room 76.

Sasuke stepped into the room not sensing anyone inside and made his way to a random desk in the back of the room. He laid his schedule and the map on the desk and mentally noted where each of his classes would be.

Period 1, AP world history with… Sasuke looked at the sheet of paper calculatingly. That was really annoying. The first teacher's name on the list was missing, something he hadn't noticed before while trying to find the classroom. In fact, there was more than one name that was absent on his schedule. Sasuke noticed that a second name was non existent as his fourth period class, as well.

Typical he thought thinking back to the scatterbrained secretary who had checked him in. He ran his hands through his onyx hair before looking up at the clock on the wall. 7:35. Students would start to enter the school at this point and his mind flickered to the people he would have to re-acquaintance himself with. And then with a jolt he remembered that team seven was not the only ninja group in Konaha high. He really hoped he wouldn't come in contact with any of those groups in his little high school experience.

It was true though, that none of them really bothered him any more. Even Ino Yamanaka, who had been in love with Sasuke from the first time she laid eyes on him, had fizzled down into just a crush-y flirt instead of making a scene of proclaiming her love for him. Actually, Sasuke wasn't even sure if Ino still even liked him. She had been hanging out with Shikamaru a lot more lately. Shikamaru Nara was another team mate of Ino's along with the big boned, Choji Akamichi.

Sasuke felt the need to walk around, and stared down at the map remembering that there was a bathroom in every corridor.

He was out of the door in less than a second. Not smart. How did he not feel the presence? How could he not hear her loud footsteps that had stopped directly outside of the classroom? Then he looked at the girl more closely and figured out why.

In front of him, a girl was looking up at him with complete shock which was added onto by a reddish tint creeping across her face. She was standing so close that he could hear her heart beating at a spasmodic rate at the sight of him.

The girl took a step back and looked at her feet before stuttering out, "S-sorry. I-I should be m-more careful next time," she continued on with her ramble still not meeting Sasuke's black, icy glare. "I-I just n-needed to drop off s-some papers from the office. I-I'm really sorry a-again."

Sasuke made a great effort not to chew the girl out right there and tell her not to be a klutz and to watch what she's doing if she gets so skittish. But he resisted. He wasn't supposed to know her.

Just what he didn't want. Hinata Hyuuga.

"Please excuse me," his pure honey voice was laced with acid as he spoke, "I didn't mean to startle you."

Hinata nodded her head once, still not meeting his gaze before lithely sliding past him into the room. Sasuke was a bit surprised at her graceful and obviously not regular steps and wondered why she was not at least trying to act normal. Of course there was no one around so it didn't matter if she had saved them both another awkward moment by acting like a regular teenaged girl. He couldn't really complain about that.

Hinata was another ninja and she was also someone Sasuke was not happy to see. Because he knew if he saw one of them, he would see more of his "comrades". Hinata was on team 8 along with the very loud and annoying, Kiba Inazuka, and the quiet and bug-creeper, Shino Aburame. He disliked Kiba more than Shino for the obvious relationship to Naruto who was also very loud and annoying.

Sasuke sighed and kept making his way down the extremely long hallway at a normal pace. The bathroom was at the end of the hallway, and Sasuke made it there in about two minutes.

7:45 he thought as he made his way back down the hallway that still had no occupants besides himself. He could distinctly hear the sounds of many voices from down near the front door though, with his amazing hearing abilities.

Perhaps he would just sit in the classroom and wait.

XOXOXOXO

Naruto was just making his way into the front doors of the school, cursing the long walk he had just done in his jeans and t-shirt.

8:15.

He still had 15 minutes before class started. He made his way to the main office, trying to act as natural as possible. He soon was stepping over the thresh hold of the main office and spotted the lady behind the desk as he walked up to her.

"Hi, I'm Naruto Uzimaki. I just transferred here from the Tea Country and I was wondering if I could get my sce-"

He was cut off as the lady, who was still looking down at the papers she was ruffling, started to speak, "Ah, yes Mr. Uzimaki, we've been expecting you." She looked up with a smile and her eyes went immediately wide as she spotted the new student. He was no comparison to Sasuke but Naruto still pulled off a handsome look. "Ahem ummm, right here's your schedule and a map of the school. Please come check back here if you have any questions and ask for Sheryl Fonico oh and come in at the end of the day to fill out a new student review sheet okay?"

"Sure. Thank you for the help." Naruto called behind his shoulder as he exited the room. He didn't even notice Ms. Fonico give a sigh of approval.

Naruto looked at the map the whole way to his class, determined not to get lost (he hadn't even looked at the map Kakashi had provided him with the previous day). He ascended the stairs and made his way to corridor five where he had first period.

Room 76, room 76… where the fuck are you! Naruto thought as he looked at the doors he was passing. Oh there you are.

He stepped inside the classroom that was buzzing with students who all looked over at him in curiosity. Well most faces were curious but one face near the back had a shocked expression on his face that disappeared almost as quickly as it had came. Sasuke. You are shitting me.

Naruto soon averted his eyes to an empty seat near where Sasuke sat, and made his way over and sat down, not looking once at his team mate again. He did a quick scan with his eyes and saw that most people had gone back to what ever they were doing before he had walked in the room. Naruto noticed with disgust, that a lot of the girls had been taking quick, blushing glances over at Sasuke and now at himself also before he had entered. Naruto caught one girl's eye and smiled friendly back at her but the girl turned a furious shade of red before looking away.

Naruto finally looked over at Sasuke as he turned his head towards Naruto in response. They started at each other for a minute. Naruto glanced over Sasuke's clothes which consisted of a pair of dark jeans and a black t-shirt under a dark-blue zip-up sweater.

"Hi, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I just transferred here from the Tea Country. So what's it like here?" Naruto spoke casually and loudly so that people would assume that they were meeting for the first time.

"Sasuke Uchiha," Sasuke spoke in his velvet voice, making the girls that were closest to the pair sigh with satisfaction, "I wouldn't really know what it's like here, I'm new also. I just transferred from the Rain village."

"Oh, I see. Cool." Naruto said turning his head back to the front as the door started opening again. Sasuke followed his lead waiting for the teacher to enter…

XOXOXOXO

Sakura was late. She knew she was and there was no point in trying to cover up that fact. She was currently running towards the entrance to the school at top (regular) speed in her hard to run in, slipper flats. It had taken her an hour to get fully prepared for school and almost half of that time was spent trying to get on the very tight fitting jeans that restrained her from running faster. She was wearing the same outfit that herself and Kurenai had picked out for her the day before.

Oh shit! 8:25! Sakura thought as she raced into the school and toward the main office. She burst through the door nearly causing the secretary to scream.

The secretary scrutinized Sakura's beautiful appearance with loathsome eyes, especially marking Sakura's hair, which was flat ironed and silky-pink. Again, her hair is totally natural.

The lady stared angrily into Sakura's green eyes before asking, "What do you want?"

"Oh, um," Sakura was a bit taken aback by the hostility in the woman's appearance and spoke quickly and politely, "Hello, my name is Sakura Haruno. I just moved here from the Grass village and I was wondering if I could get my schedule."

The lady's expression changed from one of complete fury to that of uncanny sweetness in half a second. "Of course Miss Haruno. My name is Ms. Fonico. Please come and ask if you have any questions. Here's your schedule and a map of the school. Get to class now, your running very late. Come in here at the end of the day to fill out a new student form okay? Bye-bye!"

Sakura was utterly baffled as she exited the office. Jeez, can you say bi-polar?

Sakura really didn't need the map but used it any way to look like she really was confused. Even so, she found corridor five with ease and very soon after, her first period class room within the corridor.

She took a deep breathe before opening the door slowly and carefully. 8:31

She was so, so late now and was hoping the teacher might let her off because it was her first day and all.

But when she entered the room, there was no teacher in sight-just about thirty, awe-struck eyes of the students starring at her.

She looked around the room uncertainly and then froze. In the back were the only two familiar faces she saw. Ones mouth was wide open to match his eyes which had grown twice their regular size. The other's eyes were narrowed, and a deep frown pulled the edges of his beautiful mouth down.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. She was not expecting this.

Sakura quickly averted her eyes to the only open desk next to a boy with light-brown hair and a cute face. She was about to take a step forward when she felt some one behind her. Her instincts told her to round house kick who ever was there but her mind thought rationally for a second. Normal people don't round house kick random people.

She kept her eyes forward, knowing that she wasn't supposed to be able to sense the presence. Then he spoke.

"Good morning. You must be Miss Sakura Haruno correct?"

No way. She knew that voice.

"And I believe we have two other new students as well?"

It couldn't be. But it was. It had to be him.

"Please stand up boys."

Sakura looked over at her team mates. Though they were good at keeping collected façades, there was no hiding the shock that was almost apparent on their faces.

Sakura turned around slowly to face the teacher.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Professor Kakashi Hatake. It's nice to meet you!"

It was him. Kakashi.

Sakura pulled it together so quickly that she was sure no one had seen the surprise that had flitted across her face.

"Pleased to meet you." Sakura said fully confident now.

"And you to in the back must be Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki. Glad to meet you also!" Kakashi spoke cheerfully. Sakura looked back to see that both Sasuke and Naruto had collected their features, also.

"Same here!" Naruto said happily. Sasuke just nodded before sitting back down with Naruto.

"Now Miss Haruno, will you please take a seat next to Mike and Allison over there?" Kakashi asked pointing to the only free seat in the room. The boy named Mike, with the light brown hair, smiled warmly at Sakura as she made her way over, feeling every single pair of eyes watching her every step.

"Hello, Sakura. I'm Mike. Welcome to Konaha high." He said, extending his hand to take hers.

"Thank you." Sakura replied as Mike took her hand in both of his while staring into her eyes with his own blue ones the whole time.

"My pleasure." He spoke this time in a whisper for Kakashi had just told everyone to open their textbooks to page 123 and read to page 134.

"And if you don't have a book, please share with someone around you." Kakashi said making meaningful glances at the three under covered Shinobi. "I'm just going to be up here reading my uh, book…"

Kakashi pulled out a certain orange book that Sakura recognized immediately.

Sakura hadn't really realized this before because she was so used to it, but Kakashi had a mask on in here as well as an eye bandage.

Sakura looked back at Mike who had scooted his desk over so that they were now seated next to each other with the text book in between them.

She took a quick glance over in the direction of her team mates and was surprised to see them both glaring at the boy with pure hate in their eyes before they each caught Sakura's eye and stared at her instead, conveying messages with their eyes.

Whatever Sasuke conveyed as he rolled his eyes and turned back to his partner who was a small girl who was looking smugly around the room at the other girls.

Be careful Naruto told her through his eyes with caution, if he tries any thing, I'll punch his lights out!

Sakura scowled before turning back to Mike who was smiling warmly at her again.

"Shall we get started?" Mike said to her smoothly.

Sakura's returning smile was dazzling, leaving her partner wide eyed and well, dazzled, "Of course."

XOXOXOXO

AN:

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