I know this is late. I still got 2 more stories to update so plz forgive me! I love all my reviewers though! I love you all!

A/N: Is there even a Halloween in Japan? I don't know of there is. Well I kind of need some ordinary holidays in this story and since it's only the beginning of the year I thought why not put Halloween in?

Disclaimer: I never will own. Sigh.


High School Drama

Chapter 8: Halloween

It had been a month since the fight with Itachi. The days had gone by and it is now in the last week of October. The last Monday to be exact.

Cool chilly autumn air cooled their warm cheeks as they walked across the grounds enjoying their small break before classes begin again.

Naruto and his friends walked around to a place under a huge forest tree that had its branches shading them from the blaring hot afternoon sun.

Even if it was the last week of October, the sun was still scorching hot.

Low hanging branches were great beds to lie down on. Naruto sat at he base of the great tree leaning his back on it folding his hands behind his head. He let his eyes wander the sky before closing them.

He felt Shikamaru lie down next to him imitating his gesture.

Kiba jumped on the low branch just a little more above Naruto's blonde head.

Choji just sat on the ground along with Lee. Lee had joined there circle shortly after the incident of the attack. Him and Neji. And Gaara. Yes Sabukyu No Gaara. Naruto and Gaara came to an understanding of each other after their fight. They shortly became friends. Best friends as a matter of fact. But by looking at the two you wouldn't be able to tell.

Speaking of Neji, he sat on one of the higher branches above Kiba.

Gaara had calmly sat somewhere along side Naruto on the fresh green cool grass.

It was a lazy afternoon and they still had 15 minutes left until break had to end.

As Naruto opened one of his lazy eyes he spotted the familiar raven haired head of none other than Uchiha Sasuke. Naruto's stoic room mate who had became sort of a…..best friend to him since the incident.

They don't talk much to each other though. They acknowledge each other in the halls and corridors when they see each other.

All the same Naruto opened both his eyes staring at the Uchiha.

Sasuke must have felt his gaze too because he suddenly turned and black coal eyes met baby blue eyes.

They just stared each other down and glared.

This was like a daily routine for them now.

Although they were already best friends, they were slowly becoming more aware of each other lately.

Neither had wanted to admit it or even consider the fact that they did. They just glared at each other.

Naruto broke the gaze first and turned away. Sasuke didn't even blink and proceeded to go somewhere else in the school yard.

As he disappeared in the corner, Naruto could still see most of Sasuke's fan girls stalking the Uchiha wherever he went. At the front were none other than Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino. His two biggest fans.

Naruto had fans himself but after the first few weeks he blew up at them. Of course some went to stalking the Uchiha because he never yelled like that but most of them stayed faithful to him after he had apologized right after.

He really was too kind and forgiving. Though he did ask for them not to scream and stalk him everywhere. They happily complied.

Though some still stalked him from a distance. He was still content with that as long as they left him be.

He was about ready to fall into the oblivion of sleep when Kiba spoke to him.

"Oi Naruto, what costume are you going to use for the Halloween dance this Saturday?" He asked in boredom. Akamaru on top of his unruly dark brown hair. His eyes were like a dog's, his nails and teeth like a canine's as well.

Naruto lazily opened his right eye and looked up at Kiba.

"Dance? What dance?" He asked puzzled. He never really did pay attention in class anymore since he knew it all.

"Didn't you hear the announcement from Jiraiya at 1st period?" Choji asked munching once more on his bag of chips. He had an endless supply of those. Even in school.

Jiraiya had all told them to call him by his name since he never really did like to be addressed formally. Like Jiraiya-sama. He never liked the added formality.

"Yeah, there will be Halloween treats and everything! They will be using the gym for the dance." Kiba exclaimed. Akamaru barked in agreement with his master.

Naruto's eyes widen some more.

"Can we have any costume we want?" He asked boiling with excitement on the inside for the dance.

"Yeah! They permitted everything! Oh and a birthday suit is not a costume. Your costume also has to clothe ALL private parts." Kiba whooped. "This school is awesome! Too bad about that rule though."

Naruto rolled his eyes. Kiba was pervert. He probably wanted to woo Hinata because he had a crush on her.

Then he added, "You are also required to have a mask on. This dance is a masked ball."

Naruto quickly thought of what his costume should be for that night.

"What will you guys do?" Naruto asked them all.

They all looked thoughtful for a minute before answering all at once. Even Gaara and Neji seemed to have joined in the outbursts.

"I want to be a wolf!"

"Dog!"

"Vampires are cooler!"

"Ghost is more scary!"

"No! A frog!"

"That's stupid!"

"Foxes are better!"

"Pigs are!"

"Boxer beats you all!"

"Hey! No it doesn't!"

"Ninja is way cooler!"

"Hold It!" Naruto yelled over all the murmurs grinning so widely that his eyes appeared to be closed tight.

"What's the problem Naruto-kun?" Lee asked.

Naruto kept grinning at them all.

They all stared at him waiting for him to continue.

"Since most of the suggestions are animals, let's go as animals! We could be like the only gang with animal costumes!" Naruto yelled jumping up and down in excitement.

Kiba pondered for a moment thinking before giving his suggestion.

"Why don't we ask for an animal theme then. Jiraiya needed a theme anyway." He barked out. Akamaru seemed to understand because he seemed to look like his head was bobbing up and down like he was nodding. But dogs can't understand. Can they?

"That doesn't seem to be a bad idea." Shikamaru nodded, his eyes still closed.

"Yeah!" Naruto was still grinning broadly. "While we're at it lets suggest animal spirits! Wouldn't that be cool!"

Everybody raised an eyebrow at the boy's suggestion. Animal spirits. That didn't sound shabby at all. In fact, it sounded fun!

"Oh the imaginations of youth! That's a great idea Naruto-kun!" Lee had jumped up from where he was sitting and had given Naruto the thumbs up in a nice guy pose.

Everybody rolled their eyes at him. They were all used to Lee and his nice guy poses. After all, he had taken after Gai-sensei their P.E. teacher, who Lee remarkably looks like but an older version.

"That doesn't sound bad." Neji spoke up nodding his head.

As they all pondered on it a little longer the bell rang to signify break is over.


"Solve the problem on the board." Their teacher Anko-sensei said while writing the problem on the white board. "This should be easy, it's practice since you all should have taken algebra before this class."

Anko-sensei was their geometry teacher. She taught all math classes in the school for their Freshman years and Sophomore years. They were in an advance class for passing the algebra exams in middle school.

Sasuke, Neji, Shikamaru, Gaara, and surprisingly Naruto were all in the same geometry class.

His friends all wondered how Naruto got in to geometry. Naruto was barely passing though.

8x2+2x-10 was the problem on the board.

Naruto sat on the desk in the middle row beside Shikamaru who snorted at the board. He had one lazy eye open and was staring at the board. Everyone knew he was a genius and Naruto immediately knew that Shikamaru already had the answer, hence the snort. Shikamaru wrote what Naruto presumes is the answer on his notebook before falling asleep again.

Naruto looked down on his own blank notebook page and wrote the problem.

He wasn't as stupid as people made him out to be. In fact, he acted like his stupid obnoxious self only to lead people wrong. Shikamaru never found out either.

He was a good actor after all.

He wrote it all out and found his answer. He could do this mentally anyway.

As he started to drift off he heard a part of what the teacher was saying.

"….Expelled if you don't get a perfect score…"

"WHAT!" Naruto yelled startling the class.

Anko-sensei just glared at him.

"Yes brat. If you do not start getting better grades then you will be expelled."

Naruto just stared at her. 'I'll have to drop the stupid ness if I want to stay in school?'

He always acted stupid because it fit his unusually and obnoxiously hyper self. Hyper and smart wasn't a great combination after all. He learned that the hard way.

"Why though?" He asked in his whiny voice. He could see a vein pop in her forehead.

"You have heard of the dance at the end of this month? This Saturday? Well, there will be another school that will be visiting us. Jiraiya-sama wants all students to have top grades or they will be expelled."

Naruto gaped at that.

"So you better pick up your grades kid or get kicked out." She smirked.

Naruto just narrowed his eyes. 'Might be good. I can be smart for once without having to purposely screw up. Sounds good to me.'

He scrunched his face up for the heck of it and fold his arms over his chest and pouted.

"Hey brat!"

Naruto glared at her.

"Give me the answer to the question on the board and I will give you extra credit if you get it right you maggot."

Naruto just glared at her more while inwardly he was smirking. He already knew the answer but he had to act.

He scrunched up his eyes to look at the board and nervously darted his eyes around. Everyone was looking at him now.

'Perfect!' He thought wickedly.

"X¼ and X-½" He informed her while packing his bags.

As he did the bell rang signaling the end of class but nobody had made a move.

Everybody had wide eyes and some were gaping at him. Even Sasuke had wide eyes. Shikamaru had woken up and looked at him oddly as well.

He sniggered inwardly and looked at Anko-sensei's surprised look.

"Don't forget my extra credit Anko-sensei!" and Naruto walked out the door.

'Perfect.'


Tuesday went by just like Monday. He had top grades in all his classes by Wednesday.

This was a mystery to everyone as Naruto rose to the top very quickly. His grades matched those of one Uchiha Sasuke.

'How could Naruto of all people have top grades with the Uchiha Sasuke?' was the thought running through everyone's minds.

No one didn't have time to ask as slackers studied and geniuses did extra credit.

Nobody dared drop their grades in case Jiraiya really did expel them.

Naruto and Kiba had already gone to see Jiraiya about the theme. He had thought it was a great idea and voiced it immediately around the halls.

So the theme is now Animal Spirits for the masked ball.

Excited whispers could be heard through out the corridors. Discussions of costumes and dates all around.

The bell had rung for lunch break.

Naruto stood staring at a flyer on the bulletin board in one of the halls after putting his books away.

All his friends surrounding him reading it as well.

Halloween Masked Ball

Students are to wait outside the entrance

doors to greet the students from Gakuen Hebi.

Dress in a clean outfit and no pranks.

All students must represent this school

with great behavior and respect. The

masked ball will start at 6:00 pm

in the evening on Saturday. There will be

a contest for the Best Couple Award

and the Best Dressed Award.

Also for a bonus,

there will be a Best Dance Award. All

costumes must have a mask to cover

there faces hence the title,

Halloween Masked Ball.

Enjoy the event!

And don't forget!

Bring a date!

Jiraiya

As Naruto finished reading, so did all his friends around him. Discussion broke out all at once.

"Gakuen Hebi! So that is the other school that is participating!" yelled Kiba.

Naruto rolled his eyes at his dog loving friend. "So he wants to boast that his school is the best?" Naruto asked Neji who was right beside him.

Neji nodded. "It would seem so."

They all headed to lunch to get their food and then they were back a the same spot they were at break a few days ago when they came up with the theme.

They ate in silence all thinking about that last comment on the flyer. 'Bring a date!'

'A date huh? This will be a living hell.' Naruto thought shoving the last bit of ramen in his mouth, chewed, and gulped.

He looked around the solemn faces of all his friends. They were all deep in thought. Naruto would bet his apartment that those thoughts were the same as his. Their dates.

"So who ar-" He was interrupted by his 'best friend' who so happened to pick this convenient time to come.

"Dobe." He acknowledged Naruto and nodded to the rest of the group who stared blankly up at him.

He cocked an eyebrow.

Realization hit him at their stony faces. He smirked. Remember. Uchihas do not chuckle.

"What the hell teme!?" Naruto half yelled.

Sasuke just gave him a knowing look. He thought the exact same.

Naruto just pouted huffing angrily trying to calm himself down.

'Naruto…you really did forget.' Sasuke thought sadly. He never did forgot that little confession Naruto said at the beginning of the school year.

He knew it might have just been a spur of the moment because Naruto was drugged but he still couldn't help to feel flustered by the blond boy.

Sasuke really wanted to ask Naruto about the whole incident but the boy just shoved it aside like he really did forget about it.

"Teme!"

Sasuke rudely awoken from his thoughts as Naruto shouted his name.

"Are you listening damn it!"

Sasuke hid his emotion of surprise and looked at Naruto who was an inch away from his face. Naruto was red with anger and something else he couldn't place. He fought hard not to blush as he braced himself for the only thing he could think of while retaliating back.

He bonked his forehead against Naruto's, their noses barely touching and their lips a centimeter apart. Naruto 's red face receded into a light blush on his cheeks.

Sasuke smirked.

"Are you blushing Naruto?"

Naruto blushed a slightly darker shade as everyone sat and watched the encounter.

"Heh. I could say the same for you."

Sasuke blinked as he broke eye contact. He indeed felt a small heat in his cheeks. His face betrayed him.

"Dobe!"

"Teme!"

You could see electricity between them as they glared daggers at each other growling.

Screams penetrated the air breaking the tension as fan girls all around them started to pop up.

"Sasuke-kun!"

"Naruto-kun!"

They all yelled with a malicious glint in all their eyes.

Startled, the two gazed a the fan girls and then at each other. The same look in both their eyes as the message ran clear.

'RUN!'

And so they bolted through the clearing fast as smoke trailed behind the two as they darted past a opening that was clear.

One moment they were staring at Naruto and Sasuke and the next moment, the spot was empty.

'Damn!' they all thought as they went back to their previous posts already planning on another way to capture the two most popular boys in school. Even older girls such as sophomores and above were interested in the two. Who could blame them?

Sasuke and Naruto stopped at a secluded spot behind the dormitories where trees surrounded them hiding them from view.

Chests were heaving for air as they collapsed on the ground right next to each other eyes closed.

As they caught their breath, they looked at each other yet again.

Sweat was beading down their faces. Their hair sticking to them like they just took a shower.

The uniforms sticking to their backs as well because of Perspiration.

Naruto grinned at the other boy.

The Uchiha couldn't help but smile a little at the blonde haired dobe.

"Baka."

Naruto just kept grinning. 'He really is cute when he smiles.'

Sasuke couldn't help the slightly red tint on his cheeks as he turned away.

'Is he blushing? He is! How cute!' Naruto thought.

As they sat up, they brought their right arms up fist clenched and they banged their knuckles together.


The days went by again and it was now, Friday night. The day that the Gakuen Hebi students would arrive.

Naruto and Sasuke never knew how they escaped the mobs of girls that threw them questions like "Would you go with me to the dance?" or "Please come with me will you?"

They evaded the halls as much as possible and tried to get into class as soon as possible. Other boys would glare at them but the girls would just give hungry stares at the two.

They don't know how they came out alive but were glad to be.

As they all waited in their best outfits, Jiraiya and all staff members were also their. Jiraiya had on his best black suit, Tsunade her best casual lime green dress, Iruka and Kakashi had black suits as well.

In fact, all the men had black suits while the girls had on different but just as beautiful casual dresses as well.

Naruto wore orange baggy pants with a regular black t-shirt and a jacket that was also orange and matched his pants. It was outlined black and the arms and upper back was all black. On the back of the sweater was a large big red spiral. Also on his upper arms were white spirals.

It was not zipped up. His hair was spiked up in tufts. All in all it was a look only Naruto could pull off while still looking hot.

Anybody else would have looked like a total imbecile. Even the Uchiha Sasuke.

Speaking of Sasuke, he wore his casual blue high collared short sleeved shirt and white soft cotton shorts he also had white coverings on his lower arms. His bangs reached to his chin and the back of his head was spiked in large tufts.

They were right next to each other as everyone was separated from them as they lined up.

As they waited at the entrance they saw about five limousines park right in front of the school. The doors opened and crowds of students came out of all the limousines.

In the front was what everyone assumed was their principal. He was very pale and had dark black thin long hair hang around his face down to his mid back.

His eyes were yellow and were snake like. He was wearing a light gray suit. All his students wearing casual outfits as well. Some of them looking at Naruto and Sasuke with wide eyes and whispering excitedly. The two said boys were sighing mentally thinking the same exact thing.

'Joy. More rapid crazy fan girls and still no date.'

As the principal walked forward so did Jiraiya.

"Long time no see Jiraiya." He had a odd sort of sneaky voice and a mischievous look in his eyes he gazed through the hordes of students laying longer at Naruto and Sasuke.

They looked at each other until he looked away.

A sinking feeling in Naruto's stomach warned Naruto that he had a bad feeling about this. From the look in Sasuke's eyes, he knew he had the same feeling.


Again I am sooo sorry for the long wait. I had writer's block and I only just now typed this this morning and posted it right away. Hope you guys review!! School will be starting again and I won't be able to update this often anymore. So I don't know when I will be able to update again. I really am sorry!! I'll try to update everything before school starts. SORRY!

I hope you will still review! They give me inspiration!