Chapter 10

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After Naruto and Sasuke settled their differences through fist fighting, the six genin decided to formulate a plan to get into the guarded records room.

"Well, we do have one advantage: the Transformation Jutsu," planned Sakura. "We could transform into a guard, but we don't know if even they are allowed into the records room. Finding that out would blow our cover and then the room would be even more heavily guarded."

"Why don't we just go in and bust their faces in?" asked Naruto.

"Because, stupid, then word would get around school that there are people trying to break in and panic would spread through the whole student body. Then, being new here, we would get blamed because this hadn't happened before we came," replied Sasuke.

"I'd like to see you think of something better, Sasuke!" growled Naruto.

The ninja thought for nearly an hour, each new idea having some fatal flaw, dooming it to fail. "The guards must have to change shifts sooner or later. If we could find out when, we could sneak in and check the files, disguised as guards," suggested Shino.

"But how are we going to find out? I bet they keep profiles on all the guards, plus we'll have to take out the guards which will lead to suspicion in the school like Sasuke pointed out earlier," replied Kiba.

"Arg! This is making my brain hurt! I'm going back to my room and sleeping. It's already 8:00," shouted Naruto.

"Oh my god! I haven't even looked at my homework!" exclaimed Sakura.

"Oh damn. I completely forgot." groaned Kiba through gritted teeth.

"Keep thinking and we'll meet again same time tomorrow," ordered Sakura.

"Ok," the others agreed and retired to their rooms.

In their dorm rooms, Shino, Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Sakura, and Hinata started their homework. All was going smoothly except for the homework for advanced quantum mechanics which no one even attempted except Sakura whose endeavor ended in tears. Naruto did only half of his homework. Since he didn't know a lick of Spanish, he didn't even bother with the homework. They had no homework in PE, art, and music since there wasn't much they could do for it. History was to study for the quiz on Friday. Physics homework was to do a quick worksheet on kinetic and potential energy.

Naruto, the extremely talkative person that he is, tried desperately to engage Shino in conversation. You can imagine how that turned out. That's right: in tears.

The next day went on more or less like the previous one. This time, Naruto, taking his promise to Hinata very seriously, didn't daydream in history much to the surprise to the rest of the group. He, then, he used Spanish to make up the loss of daydreaming time. The bell rang and Naruto sadly waved goodbye to Kiba as he left for his break. During his extra help session with Ms. Rien, he learned the noun-verb agreement rule, the genders of some words, and basic vocabulary. During PE they played dodge ball again. The coach said that they would play that for the rest of the week. Then they would move on to flag football. During the game, Naruto paid special attention to keep the balls away from Sasuke's "tender area". Physics went on well enough mainly because the teacher didn't say "physics". At lunch Naruto sat down, mouth agape and drooling like yesterday. Sakura sighed and gripped the baseball bat, readying herself for the obnoxious ritual to get Naruto out of his math-induced state. Hitting Naruto square in the forehead, he vanished into a puff of smoke. Dumbfounded, the group gaped at the empty air that once contained a Naruto. Another Naruto walked up to take the place of the previous one.

"Hey, guys," said Naruto. Taking a bite of what appeared to be steak, (but you can never trust cafeterias) he continued to say, "What's up? You all have an odd look on your faces."

Sakura grabbed the collar of his orange coat and hissed, "Idiot, idiot, idiot! What if someone saw you? You just managed to almost jeopardize our whole mission on the second day!"

"W-well technically, you just jeopardized our mission. You hit my shadow clone with a baseball bat," Naruto squeaked.

"Why did you even make one of your stupid clones in the first place?" Hissed Sakura, her voice rising.

"You saw me yesterday, think of all of the trauma I've had to go through!" Naruto shivered slightly. "If I kept going to that class it might turn out like ph… ph…"

"Physics?" said Kiba.

"Physics!" Naruto screeched as he dropped to the floor and assumed the fetal position, rocking back and forth on the white speckled cafeteria floor.

"Oh good job, Kiba!" scolded Sakura.

"N-Naruto?" murmured Hinata, slightly nudging him with her foot.

"Great, just great," sighed Sakura. "Well, who wants to help me beat Naruto back to his senses?"

Hey, guys. I will officially be continuing this story. Thanks to Jiece, seguha, and WiShBuRr for your support. Chapters will be coming out a little more than a week apart.