A/N: This took me forever to write because it had to link chapter three and five together. Now I've learned to write the chapters in the order they're supposed to be read, no more going back and forward all the time to check whether the chapters match up. Well I hope you like it, and there's the same warnings as in the previous chapters.

Ch 4 Leaving

Sasuke found a seat in the back of the classroom, and tried to make himself as invisible as possible. It was a Monday morning, and he had never despised those mornings more than when he walked into his biology class that day. Why had he even bothered shoving up? For a moment he contemplated escaping the inevitable meeting with his teacher. There had not been said a single word, between him and his teacher since their last collision, and Sasuke wanted to keep it that way.

Tch, why am I even disappointed whit that idiot. I knew from the beginning that he didn't really care, this only proved it. If he doesn't want to talk to me because I'm annoying then I won't bother him anymore. Sasuke thought bitterly. Then all thoughts stopped when Naruto walked in the door, arms so filled with papers and books that he had to keep them in place with his chin. Sasuke clenched his fists and locked his eyes on the chair in front of him. He knew just how easy it was to become a nobody, since that was all he was to most people here anyway. It wouldn't be hard to establish the same relationship, or lack thereof, with Naruto. He felt that it would be better to have no interactions with Naruto, than having it thrown in his face that he was unwanted. He had had enough of that in his life already ; he didn't need to add another person who didn't want him around, to his list.

That day the class had to go on another trip, this time to the local animal hospital. Afterwards Sasuke couldn't remember much more than that Naruto had tried to get him to answer a question by pointedly looking at him when asking the whole class. Or at least he thought that was what the teacher wanted; to get the disobedient brat to answer a simple question to see whether he had been listening at all. He hadn't been, and just looked away from Naruto. He had spent most of his time staring at an old black cat that sat in one of the cages. It had stared back at him, looking somewhat pissed off and turned its scared ears back. He felt that it resembled himself in a way, and wondered if he would be better with animals than people. Maybe he would end up like one of those old cat ladies, lonely, weird in the head and surrounded by stray cats. The thought wasn't appealing, and was also discarded when the black cat made and angry noise at him. Not even animals liked him, so he would just make do with being lonely and weird in the head sans the pets.

Sasuke stood in the gym with everyone else, expecting to see their crazy teacher Gai(whom they all suspected had a severe case of ADHD), jump in the door yelling about youthful this and youthful that. Instead a certain biology teacher opened the door and flashed his usual bright smile to them. Naruto stepped into the middle of the gathered students and announced;

"I can bring you the happy news that yesterday, mister Maito and the shool nurse Shizune became parents to a healthy little boy! That means that your teacher will be busy handling his youthful newborn," here he couldn't help but laugh a little, "and that mister Maito will be on paternal leave for the next three months. Therefore you will have me as your temporary PE teacher until he comes back."

At first there was some confusion, who was mister Maito? Gai had always insisted that they call him by his first name, since that made him feel youthful, so it took a few second for the words to sink in.

Then as one, the whole class went crazy. It wasn't that the students hated Gai, they just couldn't handle his amount of energy. No more marathons, and excessive, bordering on insane training. No push up challenges, military like obstacle courses, mud runs (Sasuke shuddered at the thought), in general no more torture disguised as sport.

But was it really an improvement if the replacement for Gai was Naruto? With the current hostility between them Sasuke really didn't want to be around the young teacher more than necessary.

Naruto seemed to be oblivious to the annoyed glare he got from Sasuke, and told the class to put up the badminton nets, and get into groups of four so they could get started. Of course he did this with a bright smile. It infuriated Sasuke how the man could be so happy, carefree, and energetic, it just didn't seem fair that somebody could be like that all the damn time and Sasuke never could.

He got to team up with Gaara whom didn't really have any friends either, and took out all his frustration on the tiny featherball. He used way too much force on the innocent ball and continuously shot it too far. When Naruto walked over to their court he had just managed to shoot Ino in the face with the small but still painful-to-get-hit-by ball. Naruto went to check on her and then over to Sasuke.

"Look at this," He said and held the featherball in front of him, "This is an innocent featherball, but for now let's say it's a bird."

Sasuke's angry expression shifted into a confused one.

"Your job is to help the bird get over on the other side of the net; it is not to kill it. Your technique is good and you're fast, so if you just ease up a little I'm sure that this game will be more enjoyable for everyone and less dangerous."

"Hn."

"Come on, it's not like you can't play properly." He said and gave Sasuke an annoyed look. Naruto sighed, and walked out the badminton court. "I swear that kid is just doing it to piss me off" He muttered to himself.

Sasuke was putting away the badminton net, when he overheard the girls speaking to Naruto. He tried to convince himself the he wasn't particularly interested in hearing what they talked about, and that it was just because, they were standing close to him anyway. Sakura's voice was the first to be heard.

"Mr. Uzumaki, are you going to leave Konoha when you're done teaching here?" then Ino's outraged voice; "No way, you have to stay here, you're the best teacher we've ever had!"

"Aww thank you, you're also the best students I've ever had, but you know I'm not done studying yet."

"Aren't we your first student's?"

"Well, that too, but as I said, there's more studying to do, even if I would rather just stay and teach you guys." Naruto replied, "Isn't it unfair that even though I'm the teacher I have to study too?" He asked playfully.

"Bu-but do you ha-have to move a-and will you… do you think t-that you might come b-back here?" Hinata stuttered out. Sasuke was impressed that the shy girl was the one asking and not just answering for once. "C-cause I really like you!" Oh… that was… unexpected. But it did explain her sudden talkativeness. There was a shocked silence, and Sasuke was sure that he saw Naruto's cheeks turn pink.

What the hell! Perverted teacher Sasuke thought and had a weird feeling of disappointment.

Then Hinata's face went absolutely scarlet when she realized that basically everyone had misunderstood her words. "A-as a teacher of course!" she finished, and hid her face in her hands.

"Oh, thank god!" Naruto exclaimed, "Not that there is anything wrong with liking somebody of course!" He explained and ruffled up her hair. The same way that he had touched Sasuke's hair the first day they met.

"Remember girls, if you have to like someone older, make sure he is not your teacher, find someone like…" He scratched the back of his head, "Like a doctor, or no, maybe just someone rich, doctors have long working hours and irregular schedules…" he mumbled. "Yeah, just not teachers, okay."

They all looked at him thinking that there must be a screw loose somewhere in that blonde's head. Probably because he had said it with a serious tone, as if that was his best love advice, to his young innocent students.

"But back to your first question, yes I will have to move, but I do intent to come back, I just don't know when, sorry." He said with an apologetic smile.

What is all this about him leaving to study? I thought he was a permanent replacement, is he just an intern? But he must stay here for a while, right? It's not like he's leaving soon is it?

Sasuke's thoughts were answered by Naruto's next words.

"I'll be with you guys until Christmas, isn't that plenty of time?"

He should have felt relief. But even though Sasuke wasn't much in touch with his feelings, he was pretty sure that relief wasn't supposed to be a painful clenching in his chest.

Chapter 5 is as good as done and will be posted soon, but sine it's actually written before chapter four and most of chapter three it might have a different feel to it. I hope it works out anyway, and sorry for the wait wih this chapter. I have the utmost respect for people who write stories with 10.000 words in each chapter, 'cause I can barely do 1.500 xP

And thank you for the reviews! I didn't really expect to get any, so it made me really happy xD I love to do creative things like writing and drawing, but it's even better if I can get somebody else to appreciate it too.