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Chapter 3 – Who Are These Freaks?

Sasuke

Well, I've gotta say that this kid is in for some shit at that school – I'm starting to doubt actually sending him there. he's bound to get in to a fight with someone that's going to piss him off and then it will all come down on me like a ton of bricks. The Chief and I arranged everything with the school in case things get out fo hand, but knowing that fucking blonde he's going to do something ridiculous. He' so annoying. Plus he's going to be mega pissed at me for sending him to school in first place as well as playing that trick – it was good though. But guessing his childish nature, he's going to retaliate back. I've started something here but maybe if he focuses on me, he won't get in any trouble elsewhere. I sure hope so...

Naruto

This school is one of the better ones I've been to but its seriously stupid me having to go here of all places. For one they have a really shit uniform – wait they actually have a uniform which is annoying. Secondly, how many posh pricks are here I don't know and I don't like the look of the way I'm going to get treated here because I'm a delinquent or however you spell it, a troublemaker. But these kids are all so strange and I've already had lots of funny looks. I need to get out of here fast and to a place where I can sneak off away and so that bastard Uchiha and Jiraiya don't find me and I can live in peace again. yeah, like that's going to happen now – I'm in the shit, in too deep for me to get out now. This sucks.

The classroom unnerved Naruto slightly – how long had it been since he was last in one? he didn't show his nerves however as he followed Sakura to the empty seat next to her at her desk; the class was divided in to pairs that sat together and her being his guide meant that she probably had to move whoever she originally sat by to make room for him. He was slightly relieved by this because then it meant he wouldn't have to sit by himself, making himself look like a complete loser. He sat down beside her, looking as though he had no care in the world. However as he turned around to look at the rest of the class, everyone was staring at him as well as the teacher. It didn't help to calm down his nerves as all.

"Well you must be Naruto then", the teacher spoke at last, breaking the slightly awkward silence of the room. Naruto said nothing but stared at the teacher; apart from the scar on his nose, the man was unremarkable. He had muddy brown hair, dull coloured eyes and skin that looked like he had sat in a tanning bed slightly too long. He looked like an average, boring teacher.

"Okay", he said realising that he wasn't going to get a reply from Naruto. "This is the last lesson as a whole before this class is separated and merged with others to match their abilities so today I'll test your own mathematic skills so as to put you in the correct learning environment for you. We would have used your record but because of your, ahem, colourful school history, we couldn't decipher what would be best for you". The teacher smiled at him before he turned back to introduce the rest of the class.

"That's Iruka-sensei", Sakura whispered quickly to him before returning to silently listening to their teacher. He began to talk about something called cumulative frequency and he knew immediately that he was lost. For one thing he had no textbook to look at to help him figure out, or school books of any kind, and also he had never been taught that in his life. He reflected back to the last time he sat in a maths lesson and remembered that Kenta Tomoyuki had actually got out a knife and stabbed the person sitting next to him because he was going through withdrawal for cocaine. Naruto shuddered slightly remembering the amount of blood everywhere and how it didn't seem to affect the rest of the students, as though Kenta usually stabbed the person next to him every lesson. The kid, Naruto didn't know his name, died that day on the way to hospital and that was the last day Naruto went to school.

Naruto returned back to the present and realised that he would be placed in the bottom set group because he didn't have a fucking clue what Iruka was talking about. With that in mind, he proceeded to not listen to Iruka because he knew that he would not understand it and began to think of some other things to do. He sat there, bored out of his head, staring around the room. Sakura was too busy listening to Iruka has he banged on about numbers and whilst that happened he somehow managed to capture the attention of the guy in front of him. scruffy haired, wild eyed with a sly grin, he winked at Naruto who raised an eyebrow in his direction.

"Do you get any of this?"

"No", he replied.

"Me neither. What are you even doing here anyway?"

"Scuse me?" Naruto replied.

"Well, you're not in uniform and you don't look like you live around here".

"And your point is?"

"Why are you in a place like this?"

"Because I have to be".

"Oh now I get it".

"Shh you two. Kiba be quiet and stop disturbing Naruto".

Kiba pulled a face at Sakura who glared at him and then turned back around to pretend he was listening to Iruka. Naruto shook his head slightly – the kind in front of him was definitely a moron. Naruto watched this Kiba tap the table impatiently, yawn, make his rubbers race around the desk, make his pencils talk to one another in odd voices and start poking the poor kid next to him. yep, there was definitely something wrong with him.

He realised that Iruka had stopped talking and had got some of the students to start handing out paper with questions on. This meant it was now quiz time for Naruto and he was not looking forward to it. Iruka walked on over with a piece of yellow booklet and set it down in front of him.

"Naruto, you have until the end of this lesson to complete all the questions and then I will use that to determine what ability group you are going to be in".

Naruto said nothing but stared at the yellow booklet on the desk. He stole a pen from inside Sakura's pencil case as she talked to Iruka and began to answer the questions. They were very easy in the beginning, simple adding before he realised that the questions got harder as he went along. The thing about cumulative frequency appeared somewhere in the middle of the paper which meant that all the questions at the end he was never going to get right. Naruto decided that he would at least try on the paper because he didn't want to appear as thick as he could have been if he didn't try. As he answered and wrote, he heard little odd noises from Sakura as she looked at his answers. Naruto could tell that she wanted to tell him what the answer was but because it was wrong and cheating she couldn't let herself do it. she looked as though she was getting in a rather wound up state over it as well. She got up and walked over to the bin to stop her self from answering it for him. Naruto shook his head at her – the people were really odd.

The bell eventually went and Naruto handed in the paper to Iruka. It was now break time according to Sakura and she asked him to follow her so she could introduce him to some of her friends. They were all sat in a corner across the large stretch of tarmac that was the 'playground' despite they were too old to be playing.

Naruto saw that the Kiba kid from maths was there. Sakura rolled her eyes at him and introduced him properly as Kiba Inuzuka.

"This is Shikamaru Nara – he really is brilliant at every subject, he doesn't even have to try. But he has problems – he is always tired and he is so lazy", she kicked the body of the boy lying on the ground with his eyes closed. He looked slightly pissed off at her but nodded towards Naruto, greeting him with a simple "Hey" before closing his eyes again. he had long-ish brown hair tied up in a spiky know in his head and uninterested dark eyes.

"Well this is Ino Yamanaka. She lives up to her hair colour – oh sorry, I didn't mean to offend you". Naruto raised his eyebrow at the slightly nervous Sakura. He turned to Ino – she was a beauty of a girl but Naruto could tell a girl like that was high maintenance. She gave him a wave and blew him a kiss, winking at him. Yeah she was also a flirt and probably giving it away free to everyone. He wasn't interested in her.

"Yeah she's a bit of a slut", Sakura said which confirmed what he thought, "This is Chouji Akimichi – he likes to eat", she simply. The guy was in fact quite large and short and it wasn't hard to see why when Naruto caught a glimpse of what was inside his lunch box. He had odd swirls on his cheeks that looked almost like tattoos despite the kid's sissy-looking appearance; he also bore a weird hat that hid his gingery brown coloured hair.

"This is Hinata Hyuuga, from the famous Hyuuga clan", Sakura said moving on from her large friend to a shy looking girl sat down knitting something. She caught sight of Naruto and grew bright red and managed a sweet "Hello". Her voice was soft and quite high pitched but Naruto put it down to her nerves. He was after all rather intimidating to a lot of people. She had short-ish blue hair, pale skin and intriguing white eyes. She was also quite skinny, looking close to skeletal next to Chouji.

"There are actually more of us but they are away today so I'll introduce you to Shino, Neji and Tenten tomorrow".

"Fine", Naruto replied.

"So where are you from then?" Chouji asked.

"I've lived just about everywhere so I don't know where I'm from exactly. You could say the police station since I'm there so much".

"Oh a hard one we have then I see", Kiba said grinning from across the way.

"I'm now stuck living with a policeman that I absolutely despise", Naruto carried on, ignoring Kiba's comment, "And I've been sent here to educate me and to get me to conform to the typical and legal way of life".

"What do you keep getting called in for? Shoplifting or something?" Chouji asked interested.

"Nah, fighting – assault and battery as it's called police-wise. Cocks always pin it on me but I'm the one that keeps getting picked on. Ten or so guys try to jump me and I fight back making me the criminal. Its only coz I keep sending them to hospital".

"Ooh", Kiba added supposedly for effect.

"Okay what the fuck is wrong with you, you retard?" Naruto said to Kiba, looking straight at him.

"What can I say? I'm just the way I am", Kiba replied, sticking his tongue out at him.

"Shut up Kiba, you ass. Leave him alone, he's got it rough", Chouji countered.

"G-guys, c-can you s-stop arguing?" Hinata stammered from next to the tree.

"Yeah guys shut up", Ino added. "So Naruto, you like what you see?" she looked at him seductively.

"No", Naruto said bluntly which seemed to hurt the blonde.

"That was mean", she replied.

"You should have seen him arguing with his new policeman guardian earlier", Sakura said.

"That's none of your business Sakura, so shut up".

"His guardian is pretty fit though", Sakura whispered in Ino's ear. With his very good hearing Naruto heard anyway.

"Okay Sakura shut up about Uchiha alright?"" Naruto glared at her. she looked taken aback and nodded at him. she looked as though she didn't want to incur the wrath of Naruto. Naruto sighed again and muttered an apology to her. she smiled at him and then went back to talking to Ino about girly things that he didn't care about.

Naruto stared around the group and realised that they were all really weird. A kid that ate a meal the size of banquet for lunch, a kid that can't stay awake and is apparently really clever, a complete retard that definitely had issues, a swat who has a wrong answer defect, a shy weird looking girl who liked to knit and belonged to some kind of famous clan and then a slut who was really stupid. Just who were these freaks? And apparently there were more that Sakura was going to introduce him to? He didn't want to imagine how odd these three were.

Naruto lay backwards and looked up at the sky and shut his eyes; he needed to think of an escape route and fast, he couldn't be with these freaks any longer.

The bell rang and Naruto gritted his teeth and sighed. This mean another class. He waited for Sakura to stop talking to the blonde Ino girl so she could take him to the next class. She smiled at Naruto and began a conversation with him about something that actually interested him – music. With a slightly more upbeat Sakura, he walked off to his next class, all ideas about an escape plan forgotten.

"Well, I'm not surprised that he got quite a low mark so I'm going to have to stick him in the lower ability group. Is that alright Sarutobi?" Iruka asked the old man.

"It's fine. I was wondering whether I should get some one-to-one tuition for him a few lessons a week if his scores are like this. I've asked all the other teachers he ahs to today to test his abilities so we can figure out his academic nature. He may be dyslexic because of all that's been going on with him", the old man smiled at the younger teacher in front of him.

"What's actually going on with him sir, because it's very uninformative what we do know?"

"Well, that's why the police are investigating him Iruka and anything of use that we uncover we need to inform them. That's why there are teachers always keeping an eye on him and he's living with a policeman at the moment. His past is murky and for one thing, the police couldn't even figure out where he was living, nor do they know where his parents are. And they know he's hiding something so the police are in a bit of a muddle over this enigmatic blonde".

"Well if you want me to do the one-on-one with him, I will be glad to do it. my nature may be just what he needs, someone who isn't going to judge him or anything like that".

"Well, don't force him in to it – we need to figure out if he agrees. And I also want you to watch out for the friends he will hang out with here. I placed him in the care of Sakura and she will undoubtedly have introduced him to her friends which are Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akimichi, Hinata Hyuuga, Neji Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Tenten".

"Right sir".

"Well all the teachers he will have are on this but I will probably pick you to be his one-on-one instructor".

"That's okay then sir".

"Right, well you have a lesson to teach now don't you so you don't want to be late and make the class think they haven't go a lesson. Go Iruka, we will talk more about this later".

"Okay then, bye Sarutobi".

Iruka exited the headmaster's office and headed down to his lesson. Sarutobi sighed and looked back to the file on his desk, a certain file entailing the only information known about Uzumaki Naruto.

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