A Day in the Life of a Senior:
Naruto woke the next morning from his regular dream. He was jolted awake by the beeping from his alarm clock. He hit the snooze button just like he did every morning. He put an arm over his head and tried to get back to his safe bright place that only existed in his dreams. It was gone just like every morning, but he would never stop trying to get back there. Once he was sure it was gone he got up and did the same routine he did the previous day only altered by an added sandwich with peanut butter. As well as a large water bottle filled with milk.
He grabbed his bag rearranging his face at the same time. He left the apartment locking it behind himself. He walked to school just like every morning since he started high school. He walked into the schoolyard normally. He walked into the school heading towards the office instead of his locker.
When he stepped into the office the secretary was doing something so Naruto sat down on one of the chairs. Naruto was glad that no one he knew could see him when he was in the office they might say something. The secretary finished up whatever she was doing and Naruto approached her slowly. She noticed him and asked "What can I do for you?" with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm here to get my new schedule?" Naruto questioned.
"Ok, what's your name?" She asked politely though looking at the whisker- like marks on his face.
"Naruto Uzamaki." Naruto stated twitching a little at the staring.
She ruffled around a few papers but eventually produced a paper that looked to be a schedule. "Here you are."
Naruto looked at the schedule and said a quick thanks to the secretary before picking up his bag and leaving the office.
'1st hour – A.P. Calculus – Kurenai- 504
2nd hour – A.P. Composition – Jiraiya- 702
3rd hour – A.P. Psychology- Kakashi- 405
4th hour- Senior Physical Education/Health- Gai- Gym
5th hour- A.P. Sociology- Asuma- 410
6th hour- Anatomy- Shizune- 607
7th hour- Study/Free- 302'
'Almost all my classes are A.P great just great.' Naruto thought as he walked down the hall towards his new math class. He glared at the schedule in his hand as if it would help with his predicament. He easily found the classroom. It was only a few away from the one where he had his other math class.
He glanced up at the conveniently placed clock and found that he only had a few minutes until class started. 'Late or not late? Late or not late?' Naruto contemplated. 'Well it is the first day. I suppose I should be on time today.' Naruto walked into the classroom a little hesitantly. He made sure his smile was in place then walked to the desk where he assumed the teacher was sitting.
She was good looking he noticed. 'Not that I care.' Dark brown hair fell around her face which made her red eyes stand out on her face. 'Interesting.' Naruto stood in front of the desk for a moment before giving a little cough since she seamed a little distracted with some papers on her desk.
"Yes?" She asked.
"I'm Naruto Uzamaki and I got transferred into this class today." Naruto said smiling.
The teacher nodded "Right I was informed that you would be joining us today. My name is Kurenai. Welcome to A.P calculus." Kurenai held out a book for Naruto, "This is the book for the class we have already done up to chapter 3 and a half. We will be talking about the second half of chapter 3 today. You will be expected to know the material for the exam although you don't have to turn in the old assignments."
Naruto took the book from her and smiled saying a bright, "Thank you."
Naruto moved to the back of the class a few people glancing at him not having seen him here before. He sat down putting the book on the desk. He took out an already full notebook to see how the book he had used compared to this one.
Naruto pretty much had a notebook for all the high school subjects and most of the AP ones they offered as well. He had never wanted anyone to know he was smart though. That just brought him unwanted attention. The only people that knew about his smarts were Iruka and Gaara. Gaara had found out because he saw Naruto's notebooks and asked him about it. After some hesitation on Naruto's part he had confined in the quietly probing redhead.
Iruka had found out when he adopted Naruto when he was only 5. Naruto had taught himself to read out of boredom and curiosity. Mostly because the foster families he was with for the few years Iruka didn't have him had ignored him and left him to his own devices. Not only that but reading was an escape from reality. Then when Iruka adopted him he encouraged his studies getting him books and the years when he was in collage even letting Naruto borrow his books if he wanted.
By the time Naruto was in 4th grade he was doing high school and collage level work. After a while of being one of the smartest kids in his class he was tired of the jealous looks and the beatings that came with being smart. In third grade Naruto stopped showing anyone that he was the least bit smart. He stared only getting regular grades. Iruka was a little mad for a while but eventually stopped bugging Naruto to show other people his real abilities.
Naruto looked up from his reminiscing to see that class was almost over. He looked up at the teacher seeing the problems on the board. He glanced at them for a moment before sighing finding that this wouldn't be any more of a challenge than his old classes.
Naruto put his head on the desk in front of him not even bothering to pay attention. He glanced up to the board once more to see that one of the problems was done wrong. He didn't really care figuring someone would point it out. But no one did. After a while the bell rang. Naruto was just about to leave the room when he stopped. He stared at the wrong problem for a moment before a boy with an odd ponytail came up to the front and erased the part that was bothering Naruto. He wrote in the right answer before glancing over to Naruto.
"That's how you wanted to do it right?" He questioned Naruto lightly not taking his eyes off the board.
Naruto looked at him, smile still stuck to his face, for a moment before saying, "Yeah, it would be improper to do it the other way. You wouldn't get the problem right."
The other boy nodded, "Yeah, troublesome isn't it. Apparently you and I were the only ones that noticed it."
"I suppose troublesome is a good way to explain it." Naruto stated lightly.
The other boy looked over at him. "You just transfer into the school?"
Naruto was tempted to tell him yes and be done with the subject. "No the principal moved me up a grade." He ended up saying in full honesty.
The boy snorted. "Troublesome. My name's Shikamaru."
Naruto was fairly curious and amused by Shikamaru's reaction. But all he said was "My name's Naruto. You don't by any chance have A.P. Comp next hour do you?"
Shikamaru shook his head no and Naruto took off down the hall waving goodbye to Shikamaru saying "I suppose I'll see you tomorrow then."
Naruto walked into the next class in slightly better spirits from meeting Shikamaru. He looked around at who would be his classmates for the rest of the semester. He wasn't surprised to see that the class was relatively small and that it mostly consisted of girls and nerdy looking people with the once in a while normal person mixed in. He glanced to the front of the class to see the teacher sitting at his desk with a comical expression on his face looking at something on his computer. 'Just what I need,' thought Naruto, 'a weird teacher.'
Nonetheless Naruto walked to the desk smile in place and said, "Excuse me," a bit louder than was necessary. The teacher looked up.
"Hi my name's Naruto Uzamaki and I was just transferred into this class." Naruto announced in a normal tone of voice to the teacher.
The teacher looked at him for a moment before pulling out a book and handing it to him saying, "I'm Jiraiya just Jiraiya mind you no Mr. that makes me feel old which I'm not. Oh and welcome to A.P comp. I put all the assignments on the website."
Naruto nodded his thanks to him and taking his new book walked to the back of the class. A few of his new classmates looked at him funny but Naruto tried to ignore them. At the back of the class Naruto sat down next to the most normal person he could find from just appearances. He was pale with black hair that stuck up in the back. He had his head down so those were the only things he could see.
Naruto looked at the book he was holding for the first time. It was a regular A.P book large and bulky though it was not one of the ones Naruto was well acquainted with. He looked at the publish date and found that it was newer than most of the books he used. He flipped through the book to see that there wasn't really anything different about this book compared to the one he had.
He looked up from his skimming to see that "just Jiraiya" was explaining a writing device that he had already implemented quite a few times. He took out one of his random notebooks and pretended to be taking notes while actually just doodling for the rest of class. Once the bell rang and Jiraiya dismissed the class Naruto stood up to leave.
"Do you think it's wise to not pay attention on the first day of class?" Asked the guy he was sitting next to in an offhanded way, the voice coming from low to the ground because he was packing up his bag.
Naruto laughed a little at that and said "Yeah, bastard I do think it's a good idea."
"Well if you need homework help don't come ask me idiot." The other guy said taking the bait.
"Wouldn't dream of it bastard." Naruto exclaimed with such a childish tone of voice the other guy turned towards him a little bit, as if he hadn't heard him right.
Naruto just picked up his bag keeping the smile on his face. He walked out of the classroom and sighed at the new thought he just had. 'If that guy has friends and he wants revenge for my name-calling I might have a problem.' And with that pleasant thought Naruto proceeded to his next class.
He walked into the room and didn't look at the class. He walked to the back and placed his bag in his regular seat; then went back up to the front of the class to wait for the continuously-late Kakashi. Five minutes into class Kakashi showed up.
Naruto waited for him to put the book down before he said, "I need the book, the old assignments and a new school."
Kakashi seamed a bit amused by his assessment, "Well the first two I can do for you but as for the last one maybe you should ask Iruka about that."
Naruto glared at him for a moment.
"I mean I'm sure you could get into a very good private school, you know if you actually tried." Kakashi said lightly as if everyone knew that. He held out a book with a sticky note on it for Naruto.
Naruto grudgingly took it and walked back to his seat. He noticed that most people seamed to not have really noticed the odd exchange at the front of the class. He sat down and started to look at the book he had been handed, finding a few new things Psychology being something that changes relatively often. He began reading some of the things that he didn't know from the beginning of a random chapter.
"Not paying attention again I see."
Naruto started a little at the voice coming from slightly above him. He hadn't even noticed the older boy from the last class. He looked up to see that he was leaning over him. He was a little taller than Naruto probably around 5' 10". He had black hair that was standing up seemingly on it's own in the back making it look like a duck's butt to Naruto. He also had the blackest eyes that Naruto had seen which were right now boring into his face.
Naruto suppressed a sigh and asked, "Nope I'm not. What's it to ya?"
"Well seeing as we're doing a group project together I suppose now it is my business." He answered in a monotone.
Naruto allowed his head fall to the table and started to lightly bang it against the desk. After doing that for several seconds he looked back up again and saw the guy still standing there. Mentally cursing Kakashi he stood up and grabbed his bag and book.
"So where to?" Naruto questioned the boy he was now standing next to.
"The front apparently we're working with Sakura Haruno as well." The guy said gesturing lightly to the front of the room.
Naruto walked to the front fidgeting a little and sat down next two girls one with pink hair and one with blonde hair. They both immediately started to glare at him. He was about to ask why when the girl with the blonde hair practically yelled at him.
"I was saving that seat for Sasuke!"
Then the girl with pink hair yelled, "What are you talking about pig?! I was the one saving the seat for Sasuke!"
Naruto glanced up at the guy with black hair to see his reaction to these statements. He just stood there with a blank face except for the very slight clenching of his jaw. Naruto returned his vision to the two girls he was sitting between and started to move from where he was sitting only to feel a hard hand on his shoulder keeping him sitting in his chair. He glared up at the older boy but said nothing, knowing it would only cause him problems. Though he really wanted to jerk away from the hand holding him in place.
Kakashi who was only a few feet from where the two girls were still fighting finally intervened and firmly stated, "Ino the rest of your group is in the back of the room, please go so that you can get started."
Once Ino moved to the back of the room Sasuke removed his hand from Naruto's shoulder and sat down were Ino was just sitting. Naruto breathed a sigh of relief at the hard grip leaving him. Sasuke glanced over at him sharply. Naruto just put his grin on his face and stared at Kakashi.
"Ok now that everyone is in their groups for this project I will explain it to you all. For this project you must come up with a psychological profile test. It must be an accurate test. It cannot have been done by anyone you saw on TV or one you found on the internet. I hope that some of you can get original with this assignment. Those are the only instructions. I hope you have fun with it!" Kakashi announced to the class.
A lot of people started talking about what they were thinking immediately. Some even saying how this was an easy assignment. One girl in the second row raised her hand though. Kakashi pointed her and she asked,
"How much is this assignment worth?"
Kakashi's eye practically shined, "Oh, did I forget to mention? It's worth thirty percent of your final grade. The other seventy percent going to your class work, homework, quizzes, tests, and final."
The pink hair Naruto now knew as Sakura and even Sasuke turned towards Naruto since he was sitting in the middle. They looked at each other for a moment before Sakura asked,
"So what do you guys think?"
Naruto smiled and was going to suggest something absurd when Sakura continued unexpectedly,
"...because I was thinking something like profiling questions. But I'm not really sure what do you think Sasuke?"
Naruto actually frowned a little at the idea but didn't say anything. He waited for the other boy to respond to Sakura.
"I defiantly think we should go with a written test. So, perhaps with more original questions?" Sasuke prompted Sakura.
Naruto just nodded his head at the two older students. He got a notebook out and started on his own idea for the assignment. It was a video game where based on things you picked and decisions you made in the game you would get profiled into a specific place. There you would get told what type of person you were.
Naruto looked up every once in a while to make sure the other two were still doing alright without him. Finally when it was almost the end of class Sakura asked,
"So Naruto what do you think?"
Naruto grinned then looked her straight in the eye and said, "Do what you want I don't care. If you give me work I'll complete it alright?"
Sakura was surprised at the almost harshness in Naruto's voice that was almost concealed. Sasuke looked at him a little oddly then said,
"You better do some of the work idiot because you might not care but I do."
Naruto nodded absently and waited for the bell to ring.
Naruto walked down the hall bag slung over his shoulder (grin firmly plastered to his face) heading to his locker. When he got to his locker he deftly did the combination and grabbed out his lunch. Then stuffed the books from his other classes in there but drew out one of his more familiar notebooks having only written it last year. He redid his lock and opened the notebook. It was perfectly ok for stupid Naruto to have to study during lunch. He started to read about it while walking towards the cafeteria.
When he got to the noisy place intended for people to eat their lunches at he glanced around wondering where he should sit. He didn't really want to sit with the people he normally sat with because they would ask him a bunch of weird questions he didn't want to answer. Though Naruto did want to see Gaara. 'What should I do?' He sighed.
He looked at the table he usually sat at hoping that Gaara wasn't already there. Gaara wasn't he would probably be there pretty soon though. Naruto stood in the door of the cafeteria for several more seconds before heading towards an empty table. It was pretty far from his old table and he hoped that no one from over there would notice him. Naruto sat down and opened his lunch he took out the sandwich he packed last night and started to eat it keeping one eye on the door for Gaara and reading some things from his notebook to refresh his memory.
After about one minute of sitting he wondered why the table he was sitting at was empty he didn't think it was usually. Most of the time almost all of the tables would be filled. He glanced around the entire cafeteria to see which group was missing today and came to the conclusion it was probably what he referred to as the 'multiple sport muscle heads'. 'Great. I pick the ONE table where I could probably get beat up for just sitting.'
Naruto started to pack up his things to move to a less hazardous table. Suddenly he felt a hand grab some of his hair to force it onto the table. Naruto let his head slam into the table unhindered only moving so that it would be his cheek to ketch the fall. Naruto made himself breath through his nose calmly not particularly liking the position he was in.
"Well what do we have here?" The one who held him asked sarcastically. "Did you think you were going to take our table? We sit here everyday and well we don't particularly like when people try to take things that are ours."
Naruto forced himself to speak in a controlled way, wanting nothing more than to lash out on the one who held him to the table. "I understand I was just going to move when you guys got here."
The other guys that were with him filed around the table leaving him no escape routes that way. "Oh, but that hurts since you were sitting here alone we thought that maybe you wanted to be friends with us."
Naruto sighed. He had hoped that they would just let him go if he explained that he would leave. "Oh, yeah I'd like to be friends. My name's Naruto. What are your names?" Naruto asked calmly playing the guy's sick little game.
The guy holding Naruto seamed relatively surprised that Naruto was so calm. "Yeah well we don't want to be friends with you. Do we guys?"
There were several responses from the other guys mostly in agreement with the guy that held Naruto. "Oh, why don't you just let the poor guy go Ralf? He said that he'd leave."
"No way," said Ralf, "If we just let him go everyone will try to take our table."
Naruto just sat there in silence face still shoved into the table. He was getting a little bit nervous because although he was trained in Karate he didn't want to try to fight a lot of guys at school. He was already on thin ice with the principal as it was. He was feeling really helpless. Suddenly he flashed back.
****Flashback*****
A much younger Naruto is on the ground. Several men are hovering above him. Suddenly one grabs him and pins his small body to the ground. He is crying and telling them to let him go. Not knowing who they are or what their going to do. A few seconds later one of the other men produces a tool used for tattooing. He turns it on it makes a buzzing sound.
Naruto starts screaming even louder begging for his parents to come help him. The man starts to tattoo an intricate pattern on his little white tummy. It starts to bleed as soon as he starts as his skin is very soft being he is only one. He screams and cries while they do it. He screams for the men to stop. Eventually he passes out.
****End Flashback****
When Naruto comes back to himself the first thing he realizes is he is crying. Then he opens his eyes to see that he is no longer in the cafeteria but in the hall. He looks up and finds that his head is on Gaara's lap and the older boy's hands are soothingly petting his head.
"Hey Gaara," Naruto says when he notices that Gaara is staring off into space.
Gaara blinked and removed his hands from Naruto's hair.
"I told you to call me." Gaara said in a monotone though really hurt.
"I'm sorry Gaara. I didn't know that they were going to gang up on me if I sat there. Thanks for getting me out of there." Naruto answered in a sincere, quite voice.
Gaara sighed. "The flashbacks are getting worse again aren't they?" He asked.
Naruto sat up slowly and looked away. "Yeah." He divulged shortly.
Gaara sighed again.
Naruto turned back to him remembering that something he should ask Gaara. "How is everything at home?"
Gaara almost smiled. "It's good. I'm getting along with Tem and Kankuro right now. It's a lot better now that Temari's eighteen we have our own apartment and no nosy foster parents."
Naruto smiled softly. "That's great."
"Yeah," Gaara admitted. "I actually feel that it's all over now you know? Well at least the stuff with Father."
Naruto nodded. The bell rang so they both got to their feet. "I'll see you later 'K Gaara?"
Gaara nodded to him and they both headed in different directions. Naruto headed down the hall to the gym for his senior gym class. He stepped into the locker room and wondered what how he should go about getting a gym uniform. Then he remembered how he had suggested one day to his friends to put a usable extra one in a locker where they all knew the combination so that they would always have one. 'Wow how convenient.'
He went over to the specified locker and did the combo. It unlocked and he took out the shirt and sweat pants sniffing them to make sure they were clean. Fortunately for him they were. He glanced around at the few other boys that were changing self consciously. Hoping no one would see his out of character behavior.
He took off his sweater then quickly started to unbutton his shirt. He soon found himself only in his pants and undershirt. He turned his back to the wall and quickly took off the undershirt putting the gym shirt on just as fast. He took off his shoes pulling off his pants and replaced them with the shorts. He put his shoes back on and glanced around to see if the other guys were done yet or not.
He walked through the rest of the locker room and into the gym soon after. As he walked into the gym he could feel eyes on him as though the older boys were sizing him up. He looked around the gym for the teacher. But he couldn't find him so he decided to wait by the door until he got there.
A few of the other boys glanced his way but no one approached him. As the bell rang the teacher walked into the room. Naruto mentally groaned at his attire. He was wearing a green spandex suit. 'Great more weirdness.'
Naruto walked up to him right as he entered and asked,
"Are you Mr. Gai?"
He looked over then gave his full attention to Naruto, "Why yes I am!"
"I'm in your class from now on. My name's Naruto Uzamaki." Naruto said smile planted to his face.
Gai seamed to brighten even more if possible when he heard this. "Oh, this is great!" He exclaimed loudly. Then he grabbed Naruto's shoulders and dragged him towards the rest of the class.
Naruto's eyes widened at what the teacher was now doing to him. He didn't even have time to react before he was being pulled across the gym. Naruto tried to get loose of the teacher gently but couldn't. Starting to panic at the tight hold Naruto wrenched himself from Gai pushing him down in the process. At this point several of the other students in the class were openly staring at them.
Naruto smiled rubbing the back of his head. "Sorry Mr. Gai I must have tripped."
Gai stood up and smiled going into the 'nice guy' pose. "That is alright my youthful student it was an accident."
Naruto mentally breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn't want anymore flashbacks that day. As he was lost in his own thoughts about the day Gai had already told the class what they were going to be doing that day. When Naruto started to pay attention again he found that they were going to be play soccer today out on the soccer field. Naruto followed his classmates outside to the soccer field.
They ran around the field a few times to get warmed up. During this time Naruto allowed himself to retreat into his mind just running at a steady pace. It wasn't hard for him he kept himself in good physical condition all of the time. He almost didn't register that it was time to stop.
They played a soccer scrimmage after that. Naruto played with faked enthusiasm. He yelled for passes and ended up making some good plays. After class when they were walking back into the school. Three of the other guys in the class approached him.
One looked oddly a lot like the gym teacher and had huge eyebrows. 'Weird eyebrows…' The next had hair long enough to be a girls and bandages over his forehead, he looked oddly familiar. The last had sunglasses on and a sweatshirt with a particularly high collar even though it wasn't really that cold out yet.
Naruto turned to face them as they went into the gym. The one with the huge eyebrows was talking about him rather loudly.
"We should defiantly talk to him! His youth and energy on the soccer field was great! Even though it was only his first day!"
"I don't know Lee I think he might be a little high maintenance…" said the one with long hair.
The one with sunglasses spoke up then saying, "I think we should talk to him."
Both of the other boys looked surprised.
"Well if you say so Shino." The one with long hair finally agreed.
Naruto hearing the whole conversation was ready for them when they approached him. He put on an easier smile instead of a full out grin and tried not to glance towards them before they approached him.
"Hey." The one with long hair greeted.
"Hey." Naruto responded.
"That was a good game wasn't it?"
"Yeah it was pretty good."
"So anyways my friends and I wanted to introduce ourselves to you since your new in the class and don't seam to know anyone. I'm Neji. The loud one's Lee and the guy with the sunglasses is Shino."
"We hope that your youth will blossom in this Senior gym class with us!" yelled Lee.
Naruto smiled a little more at the antics. "I'm Naruto. Thanks I don't seam to really know anyone in this class."
"Did you ever try out for the soccer team?" asked Shino.
Naruto let a little of the surprise slip onto his face from the question. "No, I haven't."
Shino nodded as if he had just figured out something.
"You should defiantly have Naruto! Your youthfulness and sportsmanship on the field was inspiring!" Lee exclaimed at this.
Naruto glanced over to the side not knowing whether to be embarrassed or yell back. Instead of doing either he said, "Thanks Lee you were doing good too."
When Naruto and the guys got back to the locker rooms Naruto tried to detach himself from the other boys. He unlocked his locker slowly. He didn't take a shower like some of the other boys. He took off his shoes slowly whishing that there weren't so many people around. He took off his shorts and replaced them with his dress pants slowly doing the belt. At this point most of the boys had already finished, which Naruto was grateful for. He quickly took off his long sleeved t-shirt and put on his undershirt. Then quickly buttoned up the dress shirt and pulled the sweater over his head.
Right as he was leaving the locker room Naruto suddenly gripped his head. An intense pain flooded through his system before he flashbacked for the second time that day.
****Flashback****
A four year old Naruto looks up to the angry eyes of his foster father. He was sitting on his bed with a short chapter book, reading quietly. The big man was really close now; Naruto could smell the alcohol on his breath. Naruto curled up knowing what was coming next.
The large man roughly dragged Naruto off the bed. Naruto just curled up knowing he couldn't get away. The man slapped Naruto's face; then pulled him over his knee hitting him hard on the bottom. After he hit him several times he grabbed at Naruto's crotch. Naruto whimpered pitifully at this. He just pressed his hand against Naruto more.
Naruto wasn't startled when the man took off his clothes. He was frightened when the man undid his own pants and threw them across the room. He had never done that before. Then the man shoved him to the ground.
Naruto started sobbing incoherently, whimpering painfully. He didn't cry out though he knew that if he did it would make it worse. That day though, it was horrible. After thrusting into Naruto for what seamed to be forever he finally finished and pulled out.
Naruto still sobbing and whimpering didn't move. He hurt all over. 'What did I do?' He thought before he finally passed out from exhaustion.
****End Flashback****
Naruto woke up from the flashback breathing hard. He was on the hall floor in the fetal position. He sat up and found that no one seamed to have noticed him during his little episode. 'How unlikely.' Naruto thought still grateful that no one seamed to have seen him.
He stood up slowly blatantly aware of how his head felt as if it were going to split in two. He walked slowly to Sociology hoping that it would be a normal class. He easily found the classroom and tested the door knob quietly. It was open so Naruto opened the door as silently as he could and seeing the teacher lecturing headed to one of the spare seats in the back of the class. Naruto took out his note taking notebook and started to write down what the teacher had written on the board adding his own notes every so often.
Class concluded right after the teacher stopped lecturing. By which time Naruto was having a hard time finding things to take notes on. After the bell rang and the teacher dismissed the class Naruto walked to the front where his new teacher was at his desk.
Naruto smiled at him then said, "Hello I'm Naruto Uzamaki and I just transferred into your class today."
The teacher gave him his full attention and pointedly said, "Oh, I was wondering who you were when you came in late."
Naruto did a half hearted attempt at a chuckle. "Sorry about that I don't make a habit of showing up late… It just happens sometimes."
"I guess since it's your first day I can give you some leeway. My name's Asuma."
"Ah, well did the principal inform you I was going to be in the class?" Naruto asked unsure after the comment about wondering who he was.
Asuma nodded saying, "I think so, said you were really smart or something."
Naruto fidgeted a little. "Ea she's just an old bat."
Asuma got out a book and handed it to Naruto saying, "There's a note on the inside cover that has the assignments, as soon as you get them done give them to me. Now get to your next class."
Naruto found the anatomy room with little difficulty and walked in. The class wasn't big he noticed. At the front the teacher was grading papers at her desk. He glanced to the clock to see that he probably had enough time before class started to introduce himself.
"Mrs. Shizune?" Naruto questioned the teacher.
"One second." She answered finishing the paper she was grading. Then she looked up at him.
"I'm Naruto Uzamaki. I just got transferred into your class." Naruto said holding out his hand for her to shake.
She nodded at him but didn't return the gesture. Which Naruto was actually relatively grateful for he didn't know how he would react to any more human contact. He just let his arm drop as she started to speak. "I'm Shizune and this is Anatomy." She grabbed a book off of her desk and gave it to him. "You can ask one of the other students for the assignments. I really hope you're as smart as Tsunade seams to think you are because to pass this class you have to be."
Naruto fake smiled and took the book saying, "I don't like this situation any more than you do."
Naruto walked to the back of the class and took a look at the inside of the book. It was all the basic systems and functions of the body. He actually had the same textbook in an older version back at his apartment. 'Great this is going to be about the most boring class I could possibly be in.'
He looked to the front where Shizune was explaining a simple system and lay his head down on the table. Naruto just felt so tired. He knew he should probably at least make it look like he was paying attention but he was just so exhausted. Naruto left his eyes open but allowed his mind to slip away a little.
Naruto heard the bell ring from far away. It jolted him from his subconscious. He blinked repeatedly because it was hard to see after almost going to sleep with his eyes open. He rubbed his face a few times then picked up his bag and left grin firmly on his face.
He walked slowly to his study class knowing he had a lot of work that he would have to do. Even if it was something he already studied that didn't mean he wanted to do it. Naruto walked into the classroom and went to the back. He put down his bag and opened it taking out his Calc book. He looked at the questions he was supposed to be doing and pulled out a blank notebook he used when he needed to eventually rip out the assignment.
He worked on it quickly doing one problem after another occasionally checking the back to see if he was getting them right. After about a half hour Naruto stopped and decided to do another subject bored out of his skull from the math. He did the psychology work he missed next finishing it just as the bell was ringing.
Naruto stuffed his bag with his books and took off towards his locker. He got there and saw that Gaara was there waiting for him which he did occasionally when he wanted to talk to Naruto.
"Ne Gaara-chan!" Naruto yelled knowing it would get to the stoic redhead. It was also a cue to speak in Japanese which Naruto was fluent in and Gaara was mostly fluent in.
When Naruto got close enough that Gaara didn't have to yell he responded, "Hey Naru-chan."
"Oh, no fair Gaara-chan!" Naruto pouted letting himself show some real emotion around his best friend.
"Naruto I want you to come live with me and my family for a while." Gaara stated knowing Naruto wanted to find out why he was going to talk to him.
Naruto looked over at him with serious eyes. "I don't know when Iruka is going to be back. His grandma is really sick and he won't want to abandon his students."
"Exactly why I want you to come over for a while." Gaara responded.
"If it isn't too much trouble and you think your siblings won't mind." Naruto said. Not really wanting to be alone with the flashbacks acting up.
"Naruto you're my best friend I'm sure they will be glad to house you for a while." Gaara deadpanned.
"Heehee I guess you're right. I am awesome aren't I?" Naruto laughed at Gaara's deadpan.
"Come on if we hurry Kankuro will give us a ride."
Naruto got his stuff and hurried after Gaara happier than he had been in quite a while.
AN- hello! I am so sorry this took so long to do but it was being mean. I also can't find a beta reader so if anyone reads this and sees any blatant mistakes please tell me. Oh and if you could recommend one even better! Anyways as always if you want to figure out what the heck is going on keep reading. It will be explained soon. Oh, yeah and I'm eliminating the chapter named 'The Project' at least for now. This chapter is like more than half the story… I thought about making it shorter but decided not to. I enjoy reviews!