Disclaimer: I honestly don't own Naruto. If I did, Naruto would like doughnuts, not ramen (not that ramen isn't nice).

A/N: This chapter is for Catopia, Rocker05 and Beauty of Nature because you lovely, wonderful people reviewed the last chapter! Um, and a lot of others that I've forgotten… Sorry. Yay for all you people! Thanks so much!

Yes, guess what, I'm not dead! No, seriously, and here's a chapter to prove it! Sorry, it took a long time to finish it, I'm really tired and busy and everything so… hope this will make it up to you all!

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School Life - Chapter 4

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"WHAT?!" the loud scream echoed through all the hallways of the school.

A long haired blonde woman, was standing backstage, with children running around her, crying, screaming, and throwing up.

"But, Tsunade-sama!" said a frightened teacher, name unknown. "The costume company said that those were the ones we ordered!"

The woman known as Tsunade took a deep breath, trying to remember that anger wouldn't help, but you could see by the twitching vein on her forehead that it wasn't really working.

"How can you make a mistake like that?! We wrote Nativity costumes on the order form, not CAT COSTUMES!!!!"

"W-well, that can't be helped! There's only 30 minutes to show time, and that's not enough to get the proper costumes! We'll just have to make it up as we go along!"

"Okay, okay, okay… Calm down, calm down."

I'm not the one that needs to calm down, Tsunade-sama! Thought the poor teacher, watching the principal clench her fists to stop herself from making a hole in the wall.

Sweat started rolling of said teacher in buckets.

"GAH!!!!" Tsunade suddenly screamed, sending the teacher scrambling for cover. "Just get the brats to ad-lib or something, and HURRY UP!!!!"

"Y-yes, Tsunade-sama… eek!!" screamed the teacher, running away in a most undignified manner.

Tsunade sighed and ran her hand through her hair, watching the teachers try to get the kids into furry cat costumes of many shades.

"Oh boy, this is going to be one heck of a show…"

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The lights slowly dimmed, and the oblivious and blissfully ignorant parents clapped politely. Among them sat the Umino family, the Hyuuga family, the Aburame family, the Nara family, the Inuzuka family, the Akimichi family, the Rock family (gasp!), the Yamanaka family etc.

Yumi grinned at Tsuyoshi, who was seated next to Sakura's older brother, Haruno Eiko (the two were classmates). All the adults nodded politely to each other and shook hands and all that stuff. Whatever… the play was about to start! Dun dun dun dun!

The spotlights came on, showing poor Shino in a bright orange cat costume, and a paper crown. He was seated right in the middle of the stage, and he had his sunglasses on (0.0).

Then the wise men… er, I mean cats came in. Chouji, Shikamaru and Kiba all came in wearing gray stripy cat costumes.

"Eh… come here, my… kitties?" Shino managed. The three wise cats shuffled forward reluctantly.

A sudden roar of laughter came from the audience, perhaps from the Hyuuga family's direction. Hmm…

The show went on without much trouble until it was the donkey scene.

"Come, let's go to Bethlehem." Said a not-so-happy Sasuke. The orphanage director, who was seated in the audience, grinned. He's actually cooperating! Ah, the miracles of a school…

Sakura nodded, until she realized the next part.

What were they going to do about the donkey?! They didn't have a donkey costume, they had… another cat. Shoot, cats don't ride on cats…

"Ehh… Okay! I'll… um, get the donkey…" she finished lamely, before rushing off the stage.

Sasuke scratched his head, confused. A moment later, a very cheerful Naruto came on, in his school uniform and two pieces of coloured paper stuck to either side of his head.

"What the?!" Sasuke muttered into Naruto's ear as he came to a stop.

The 'donkey' grinned.

"It was Shizune-sensei's idea." He whispered, referring to the principal's 'assistant', or more accurately, 'slave' or 'secretary'. Depends on how you look at it.

Sasuke sighed in relief, and Sakura came back on, in her school uniform.

Tsunade nodded.

She's a smart one… knowing school uniform is better than the costume. But she looked kinda cute in the cat costume…

"Now, you must go change into your traveling clothes! We will wait for you here." Said Sakura, pushing Sasuke to the 'changing area', obviously hinting he should get into his uniform.

"Yeah…" he muttered, and trudged off.

There was silence for a moment, and then Sakura decided she should do something while they waited for Sasuke.

"Soooooooo… How was your day?" she asked Naruto, obviously forgetting that he was supposed to be a donkey. Everyone in the audience bit their tongues to stop themselves from bursting out laughing.

Naruto flashed another one of his trademark grins and said, "Fine, thank you. How was yours?"

The orphanage director gagged himself on his handkerchief.

Tsunade clasped both hands over her mouth.

Hyuuga Hiashi was doing his very best to keep up his 'stoic' look, and failing terribly.

Tsuyoshi and Eiko were both grinning like crazy (but they didn't dare say anything).

A split second later, a very flustered Sasuke rushed back onto the stage. He'd taken the liberty to tell the other characters to wear their uniforms. Smart guy!

"Um, let's go then!" he muttered, face redder than his beloved tomato. He dragged Naruto by the collar off the stage, unceremoniously letting his knees bang all the way down the short flight of stairs.

The curtains opened to reveal the stable and the inn. With a very unhappy Neji standing in front of it.

The next part continued without interruption, with Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto making it to the stable in one piece. Phew!

Unfortunately, Lee was in this scene. Were there even sheep in the stable?

"Yo!" yelled Lee, springing out as the group came. "I am a little random sheep!"

Sakura stared at the florescent green clad boy with orange wool stuck on his back. Sasuke decided to ignore it, while Naruto (and the audience?) burst out laughing.

Lee glared at the boy.

"You dare laugh at the costume my beloved Gai-sensei made for me?!"

The entire hall fell silent. Half of the audience remembered what had happened last year when Gai was involved.

At this moment, the doors swung open with a blast of trumpet fanfare, revealing Gai in an identical florescent green suit etc. Plus a brand new afro with the price tag still attached. Which was obviously a wig.

"My dear Lee!" he screamed in a shrill voice, and ran at top speed towards his beloved student. They embraced, both with tears streaming down their cheeks.

"Gai-sensei, I'm so glad you could make it!" A backdrop of crashing waves fell down from nowhere and landed on poor Naruto, who couldn't make it out of the way in time.

"Ouch." But his complaint was not heard. Many parents were screaming and pushing towards the exit!

Gai pulled out a very evil looking remote control, and pressed a very evil looking green button marked 'music'.

Immediately, the speakers began blaring out 'Random Little Sheep' at top volume.

Children shrieked and covered their ears, in a vain attempt to block out the noise.

Not to mention Gai and Lee were singing along and dancing the dreaded cha-cha! Gasp!

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That night there were many puddles for the poor janitors to wipe up. Many of these said puddles had bits floating in them and were incredibly sticky… never mind.

Tsunade whipped Gai until he begged for forgiveness, and locked him up in a deep dungeon underneath the school for exactly 74.5846293 hours.

Many of the victims did not completely recover until several months later… but that's another story.

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What will happen next to our favourite characters? Hmm… I wonder! I think we'll leave it here for today. We've had enough of a traumatic experience already… but let's first get some responses from the victims!

Hyuuga Hiashi:… (he's kinda humiliated)

Tsunade: Hmmph (she's all bandaged up because of the numerous holes in walls she's etc)

Naruto: I will never see backdrops the same way again… (still kinda dazed after being hit by the backdrop)

Sasuke:… (he's also humiliated)

Ino: I didn't even get to act! Wah…

Tenten: Gai-sensei will DIE!!!!! (hehe… yeah, good luck with that…)

Tsuyoshi: It was hilarious. Too bad we didn't get to see the end. (well, at least someone has a sense of humour!)

Eiko: No comment. (how helpful! But he was grinning his face off, so… wait, is that even possible?)

Um, I think you get the picture. So! 'Til next time on School Life!

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…You didn't think I was going to let you off without ranting a bit, did you? Okay, I'll keep this brief. First of all, I must apologise for not updating in such a long time. It's not entirely my fault! I mean, lack of inspiration of all, but! I have one completely valid excuse!

Norton Antivirus 360 Add-on pack Parental Control is blocking me from logging in to I mean, I can read and everything, but I can't log in!!!! And I thought, gah, this is so annoying, I'll just ask someone to help me upload it. Aren't I a genius???? Haha, anyways, everyone please thank Catopia for helping me upload this.

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