Okay all, here's the next chapter of Pets of the Underground. I hope you all like it. Thanks to anyone who read and reviewed and all that jazz. I hope you enjoy the chappie.

I'm sorry that it's taken me ages to update but life has been rather hectic for me lately, so I haven't been jumping at my laptop for a while. I've been rather busy helping my poor Mom to clean up the entire house. I'm not sure when I'll be updating next, but I try to make it a habit to update at least once or twice a month. You see my Mom is having surgery and she won't be allowed to move around a lot afterwards, so I will be (unfortunately as it were) taking over the household until she's up and about. I apologise to all of you that have to wait for my updates, and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience everyone.

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Pets of The Underground.

Chapter Seven – School Time.

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Monday morning came, and Sakura found herself wondering exactly what her new school would be like. After all, she'd been at one school throughout her secondary school life, and now she would be going to a new school. The school was called Orchid Garden Secondary School. Sakura had given her father an extremely dirty look when he stated that a school named after a flower would be the best place for his daughter. Naruto had continued to be amused by the dispute until his mother had given him a firm whack to the back of the head and told Naruto to stop teasing his cousin. Now, Sakura was sitting in the sitting room with Naruto, dressed in her new uniform. A royal blue blazer, black skirt, white shirt and black tie, along with black shoes and tights. Naruto wore the same uniform, but of course he wore black trousers and he hated his blazer. He wore a black long coat over his uniform instead, and his tie was in a loose knot around his neck. Sakura always wondered how Naruto managed to do as he wished without getting into any trouble. That was of course when the pair heard a beep from outside, and saw Obito's car waiting to take them, as well as Sasuke, Sai, Hinata and Neji, to school this morning. The pair grabbed their schoolbags and left the house, after hearing their respective parents shouting a goodbye to them. For Sakura, this was a new start.

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After they had been registered, Sakura, Sasuke, Neji, Sai and Hinata sat down with Naruto. They took note that most of Naruto's friends were sat around the room. As they sat waiting, Sakura wondered why Naruto looked so alert. It wasn't like him to seem on edge.

"This is our English class. I'll just warn you now. Our teacher is the devil." Naruto stated seriously. The others looked at him as if he'd grown an extra head.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked.

"If you fall asleep in her class, talk without permission, whisper while she's giving the lesson, or even while you're supposed to be doing the work, she throws chalk and erasers at you. She once poured a bucket of cold water over Shikamaru because he was sleeping in the back of her class. She also springs pop quizzes on you out of nowhere. Just to see if you were paying attention in her class. If you get nearly all the questions wrong, then you get to stay behind at lunch or break and she tells you to study more. If you fail three times, you get detention." Naruto added. The other five looked disbelieving.

"It's true." The lazy boy behind them said.

"Thanks Shikamaru." Naruto stated. The lazy teen nodded and rested his head on his arms again. A muttered "Troublesome" escaped his lips.

That was when she arrived. Their teacher, Miss Rika McLaughlin, opened the door and swept into the room. Her clothes were casual. A pair of jeans, an orange three-quarter sleeved shirt and a pair of orange converse. She seemed extremely young to be their teacher. She was only five foot two, if she was even that in height. Her long chestnut brown hair was down, and her fringe swept to right side. Her olive coloured eyes swept the room calmly. She smiled almost angelically. However most of the class cringed at the smile.

"I see we have fresh meat. You five get out to the front here and introduce yourself to your English class." Their teacher stated. It wasn't a request, it was an order, and Sasuke glared at the idea of being ordered to do anything.

"Hey, emo kid, get your backside to the front. I personally don't care how you feel about authority figures. Do what everyone else does and complain about me after class." The female said nonchalantly.

Sasuke glared evilly at the teacher, who remained non-plussed about the situation. The group went down to the front and they all stared at the teacher in confusion.

"The sooner you introduce yourselves the sooner you can go back and hide in your seats." Miss McLaughlin stated. Sai stepped forward first.

"I'm Sai Uchiha." Sai stated blankly. Hinata blushed furiously as she stepped forwards.

"I-I-I'm Hi-Hi-Hinata Hi-Hi-Hyuga." She stammered out fearfully. Miss McLaughlin grinned.

"Okay Hinata, Sai, you two can go and sit back down." She said kindly. Sai and Hinata went back to their seats.

"I'm Sakura Haruno-Hatake." Sakura said confidently. She hoped it sounded confident.

"You can go and sit down too Sakura." Their teacher quipped. Sakura went and sat down. Now it was just Neji and Sasuke still standing there. Neither wanted to give up and both were too stubborn to submit to their teacher at any rate.

Everyone waited with baited breath until Miss McLaughlin sat down in her chair. Sasuke and Neji smirked to each other before they went to go back to their seats.

"Where do you two think you're going? You can go back to your seats once you've introduced yourselves. Unless of course you are completely mute which I doubt. If you don't want to introduce yourselves that's too bad, but this lesson is starting and the two of you make great statues. Not to mention all the fangirls in this class who are practically drooling in their seats." Miss McLaughlin said cheerfully. Then she looked at a random girl.

"Tayuya if you're going to drool, get a bucket. By the way you had better be paying attention. If you fail another test you're getting detention for two weeks, during lunch hour." The female stated. The red-haired girl she'd been speaking too looked away, with an embarrassed blush on her face and quickly looked into her work book.

"So are you two ready to introduce yourselves or would you like to stand there for the rest of the lesson?" Their teacher asked pointedly. Both boys glared making a silent agreement.

"I'm Neji Hyuga." Neji said blandly.

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke added straight afterwards. Miss McLaughlin smiled kindly.

"There now that wasn't so bad was it? Neji, Sasuke you two can go and sit back down." Miss McLaughlin said cheerfully. Just before they got to their seats, Miss McLaughlin spoke again.

"By the way. You five should be aware that you are in my form group. It's usually held in here. Of course I accept that you were being registered with the school today, but tomorrow, the bell rings for registration at quarter to nine and I expect to see all five of you there on time. I'm sure Naruto will make sure that you're all here on time. Right Naruto?" Miss McLaughlin said sweetly. Naruto nodded fearfully.

"Good. Now on with the lesson." She quipped. In that moment, Sasuke and Neji started calling her the devil.

She stood up and took out a large cardboard box from under her desk.

"Where the hell did that come from?" Sasuke thought to himself. Everyone was thinking the same thing. After all, the box looked too large to be able to fit under a desk.

"Okay class, it's a fresh start after your holiday and seeing as we studied 'Our Day Out' last half term, we'll be studying "Blood Brothers" for this half of the term. Both of these plays are very different. Can anyone explain why that is?" Their teacher asked. Sakura raised her hand before she even thought about it.

"Sakura?" Miss McLaughlin called out.

"One of the plays is about a school trip for a class of students from Liverpool, who've not got a lot of anything and have hard lives. The other one is about a pair of twins that are separated from birth and become friends even though they don't know they're brothers." Sakura replied.

"Very good Sakura. Now I'm going to pass round the books. I expect you to make sure to bring them with you to your lessons and to take care of them. You don't have to love this play. I don't expect you all to hero-worship Willy Russell after reading this. All I ask is that you take care of the books. Other students will be using them in the future and they need to be readable and undamaged." Miss McLaughlin told the class. The students all nodded and as their teacher passed the books around Sakura, Sasuke, Sai, Neji and Hinata were all wondering exactly what kind of teacher they were dealing with.

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At the end of the day, the group dragged themselves over to Kakashi's car, and Kakashi gave them all a cheerful grin (under his mask) as the six teens climbed into his car.

"So how was your first day?" Kakashi asked. The teens groaned in response, and Naruto just grinned in response.

"It was fine Uncle Kakashi. They just met the devil." Naruto quipped. Kakashi laughed loudly.

"Oh you're talking about your form tutor, Miss... Rika McLaughlin?" Kakashi asked. Naruto nodded.

"She's evil." Sasuke stated. Neji and Sai nodded in agreement.

"Don't be so overdramatic Sasuke. I've met the woman a few times when I've been with Naruto to a few of his parent's evenings. She's friendly enough. Just because she wants you to behave in her classroom, doesn't make her the devil." Kakashi stated.

"I still think she's the devil." Neji stated. Sasuke and Sai nodded in agreement.

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Okay that's the end of this chapter. Next chapter will be longer and darker. I hope. Anywho, please R&R and let me know what you think. See y'all next time I update.