Sorry this took so long but here it is! :)

"Why is Art class starting a week late?" Naruto asked as he and Gaara sat down behind Sai. He was already doodling something in his book even though it was early in the morning. "Aren't we losing out on a week's worth of education or something like that."

"Freshman art always starts one week after all the other art classes. It's so the teacher can secure volunteers to assist the freshman. This year she said she would just need me however as she knew some of the students." Sai replied quickly. He turned around and greeted Gaara quickly. "Also, freshman art is kind of like a feeler class for the student to refine what he or she wants to go into. Most people here already have their four years planned out."

"This teacher's one of the part-time college part-time public, right?" Gaara asked. Sai nodded. "That's cool, the teacher should know one of us then, hopefully."

"Yes, you may remember her, Ms. Mitarashi." Sai asked. Both of them kind of stared at him.

"I don't, do you Naruto?" Gaara asked. Naruto scratched his head for a while.

"It sounds familiar." Naruto said scratching his head trying to place a face with a name. He ended up shrugging and giving up on the thought search. He looked up and saw Anko walk in the room growling into her coffee cup about the staff room not having sugar in it. "Oh hey, what's Anko doing here?"

"That's Ms. Mitarashi." Sai said blankly. "I can't believe she lets you call her…"

"What? Anko's teaching us?" Naruto accidentally out loud. He quickly covered his moth and watched as a demonic gaze ushered over him.

"You got a problem with that, Uzumaki!" Anko yelled back.

"I thought we were going to have an actual teacher." Naruto answered removing his hand. Garra quickly tugged on his arm and told him to shut up. He had come moments too late.

"You get an F for the day, Naruto! Now shut up!" Anko said quickly regaining her composure. She sat on her desk pouring sugar into her coffee. She grabbed an old yellow paintbrush from the cup on her desk and used it to stir.

"That's so unfair!" Naruto argued. "The only thing you should be able to dock is participation!"

"F minus!" Naruto sighed angrily and dropped down in his seat glaring at her with crossed arms. Anko smiled and took a sip of her coffee. "Anyone else want t question my credentials?"

The entire class was paying attention and quiet. "Thought so. Now Freshman art is a little bit like art in middle school, we cover all sorts of art with paint, clay and even scrap metal. There is one big difference, Freshman Art 2 is next semester, and you are only working to your projects to get into your specific art. This week and next week you will have 3 works done every day, hence it being four hours long. Today, we are working with pencil, pen, and water colors.

"Now, for those of you who are in here for an easy A…. It's not easy! I am demanding! I want perfection! This is college!" Anko said as she slammed her coffee cup down. She got up and walked over to the corner where there was a wagon with a large white sheet covering something. "You were all required to pick up a school sketch book and pencil… Now draw this plant!"

Anko ripped the sheet off to show a giant hedge trimmed in the shape of a rose. "If any on you have any questions, need advice, I and my assistant Sai will be glad to help, he's in advanced oil paintings."

Sai stood up and bowed quickly. He sat back down and Anko returned to her coffee cup. Gaara sighed grabbing his backpack. "She's… Wow."

"Yep." Naruto said quietly. He pulled out his note book and pencil and opened to the first page. He started by drawing a circle.

"So, toe gangster..." Anko said sitting down in a seat next to him. "How's your foot?"

"You remember that?" Naruto laughed. "That was embarrassing…"

"Of course, I have a memory like an elephant." Anko said quickly. She took a sip and set down the cup of coffee. "You're in here for an easy A aren't you?"

"Actually, I want to learn to draw. Sasuke is constantly drawing and I never have anything to do when he's doing that." Naruto said honestly.

"That's so cute… Sasuke was one of my favorite… Besides him never showing up to class… Or showing up late to class… Or leaving class early… Or the time he cussed another student out." Anko took another sip of her coffee. "Your boy's got to work on some people skills."

Gaara snickered a bit as he was sketching away. Naruto nudged him and turned back to Anko. "I know… He's just disagreeable."

"And who are you?" Anko said sitting foreword starring at Gaara.

"Gaara." He said simply. He looked at her and saw he hand jut out nearly hitting Naruto in the face.

"Hi, I'm Anko." Gaara took her hand and shook it. "Are you in here for an easy A?"

"No, actually I need to learn cartooning and realism, I want to make political comics and posters."

"Just be careful and try to make it tasteful. Wouldn't want to get tied to the back of a truck and dragged down a quarter mile for something offensive." Anko said standing up.

"Um… okay. Thanks for the advice." Gaara muttered confused.

"Well, I'm off, my student s need me!" Anko quickly rushed off to the next person who look like an 'easy A' student.

"She's crazy." Gaara was astonished at their teacher. "I think she's genuinely crazy."

"Yep, isn't it great?" Naruto muttered. He showed Gaara what he had so far. It was a simple child-like rose. "Should I do leaves or shading next?"

"The bell rang five minutes ago." Sasori noted at Sasuke. They both just sat in their desks quietly starring down at their respective work.

"I'm doing homework." Sasuke muttered. He had actually finished his homework earlier while Sasori was teaching. He was working on a story since his Suigetsu scheduled dorm time with Karin.

"Shouldn't you do that in your dorm or the library." Sasori asked. He was going through papers, also a bluff since they were already graded.

"What if I have questions?" Sasuke muttered quickly. He hadn't added description to the characters yets so decided they would both be Mexicans. John's deeply tanned arm reached across the cold air. The intensity brought his thick black hair on his head to stand alert.

"You, questions?" Sasori scoffed quickly. "I have things to do."

"You, things to do?" Sasuke scoffed back.

"I wanted to go to lunch."

"You packed a lunch, remember?" Sasuke said and pointed to a brown paper bag across the room. Sasori sighed.

"What's this about?" Sasori asked standing up from his desk leaving the stack of papers alone. He walked around the side and Sasuke quickly shut his story inside.

"Your nephew." Sasuke said quickly. He interlocked his fingers and set them on the desk. His manner remained cool. "I don't like him."

"You've been quarreling with Gaara again, and physically this time, Minato told me over breakfast this morning when he randomly appeared in my kitchen." Sasori said still astonished he would just appear like that.

"He's genetically modified."

"I know." Sasori said. He felt his phone vibrate and checked the name quickly before shoving it away. "We need to have a meeting to discuss this."

"My quarreling or Minato's return?" Sasuke asked tilting his head almost innocently. Sasori shook off a familiar notion and sniffled.

"We'll talk about the quarreling now." He said quickly. He sat down on his desk and looked away. "So…"

"People argue, it happens."

"Yes, but not to the degree at which you two were. Would you like to tell me or should I guess, because I think I know exactly what's going on."

"He's a prick and he shouldn't be around Naruto." Sasuke said firmly. "He's abrasive and I don't want Naruto around him. I don't think a kid with a sword should be playing body guard."

"You're jealous because he's around Naruto. I did place Gaara there for a reason, you know. They are friends for one and secondly Naruto doesn't have any honed fighting skills. Would you rather him go unprotected with Madara on the loose?" Sasuke's head lowered a little in his seat and Sasori saw his confidence in his argument slipping. "Who else could we get to guard him?"

"I should be there!" Sasuke said quickly. "The only reason he would be in danger is because of me.

Sasori slammed his fist on the desk. "It's against the rules, you know that. You will have to deal with the situation until Madara is done for."

"Why should I?" Sasuke asked leaning forward. "Why should I follow what everyone else does?"

"Madara asked that question a lot." Sasuke grabbed his book, pencil and bag, stood up and walked out of the class room.

"I can't believe she really gave me an F for participation today." Naruto said and tossed his head down on the library table. It made a loud thud. Neji and Shikamaru jerked their heads over to him. Both growled.

"You'll get over it, try writing this paper, it's ridiculous." Shikamaru complained. He closed another book and set it off to the side. "I'm almost finished with my part."

"This is why I tested out of that class. The work is too tedious and repetitive." Neji said quickly. He had five articles to pre-edit before handing it off to the chief editor of the newspaper. Neji grumbled. "There is a comma before 'which' for the last time! I swear these new people… They need to be tested for grammar first."

Neji quickly went back into an editing frenzy. Shikamaru sighed and laid his head down on the open book starring at Naruto. "If I was awake when it happened… I would have tested out."

"Neji, when I get in that class…" Naruto popped his head up quickly. "I'm not that good at writing. I can't get all the punctuation right. Can you write my papers?"

"No, but I will offer advice." Neji said and then looked around. "I was thinking of editing papers for 3 dollars a page, no charge for cover page. I'll do that with you, alright? Editing only."

"Cool, thanks." Naruto said. He held out his hand and Neji shook it quickly.

"You're going to be hopeless when we all go into specialty classes." Shikamaru snickered quickly. Naruto stuck his tongue out and sighed.

"I'll find someone to help me…" He said a bit hopelessly.

"Hey Naruto." Gaara said stopping by the table. He was carrying about ten books of horticulture and landscaping. He shifted them back and forth trying to keep the balance of the huge volumes.

"Hey Gaara. I thought you were going to be an art major?" Naruto said turning to him. "Unless you wanted to recreate that rose bush thing Anko had."

Gaara smiled."These are Temari's books, I'm only interested in plants with healing properties."

"What's the hold up?" Temari said pushing him foreword. She looked down at the table. She noticed Naruto and thought. "Oh, you're Gaara's roommate right? He said you were blonde."

"Umm… Hi. Naruto Uzumaki." He stuck out his hand but saw that her hands were full with books too. She sat her books down on the table and shook his hand.

"Temari. We were going out for pizza on me, do you want to come, Shika, you can come too."She offered like he would be an annoying tag along. They glared at each other before Temari picked up her books and Shikamaru went back to the book.

"I am getting hungry. You paying?" He asked not looking up.

"You can work it off." Temari said. She shoved the pile of books over to him. "Carry these to the car? You want to come, Naruto? It's really yummy!"

"Sure." Naruto said standing up. He said goodbye to Neji as he watched Shikamaru pack up and pick up the pile of books. Naruto waited for Shikamaru and exited out in the group. He looked at the siblings. "You two don't look a lot alike for siblings."

"Well, I look like mom, Gaara and Kankuro look like dad. I tried to get us all to get the same red with blonde highlights once but…" She nodded over to Gaara.

"My hair." Gaara grabbed his skull cap and held it down over each ear. Gaara turned to Shikamaru somewhat inquisitively and muttered. "So, how do you two know each other?"

"We worked with each other over the summer as junior assistants to the mayor, my dad made me. I was in charge of organization…" Shikamaru said. He sighed and adjusted the large amount of books in his hands. "I made sure page two came after page one and your sister…"

"I changed out the flowers and decorated." Temari said happily. "I ended up his favorite."

"She wore a mini skirt…" Shikamaru argued.