Ch 9: Pictures, Pancakes, and Professors

Author's Note: For those slow learners out there I'll say it outloud if you haven't caught on by the updates schedule of late. I plan on updating at least once every two days. There I've said it, and please leave some reviews if you read this, your input is greatly appreciated. Also feel free to tell me what your expecting to happen or what you guessed would happen, it's a good thing . Also, if you get offended at some of the references tell me and I'll raise the rating, also it may change for a chapter because the person that Kismet is based upon is advocating a lemon be done for a couple of pairing, in which case cast your votes in your reviews for that, I wont be writing it cause I cant write those. Most likely Kismet will be writing them cause she's good at that stuff. Well that's it for this author's note, on with the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any affiliated characters, just my OC's.

Giggles erupted from the medical room where all of the girls were resting up and healing from their fight earlier that day. Another fit of laughter as girls wearing all sorts of casts and other healing equipment huddled around Kara who had managed to sweet talk the new pictured of Naruto and Sasuke from Gaara, an impressive feat to say the least. "Oh my God Gaara is evil!" Kismet squealed from the middle of the pile, evidently already accepted as part of the pack. The picture she was holding was of Sasuke in his red satin boxers with Naruto in orange boxers posing as a gay couple, both looked like they would kill the person who was looking at the picture. They all laughed once more as they switched to the next photo which was on Naruto being hand cuffed to the bed by Sasuke. Kismet smirked "that's hot" she said grinding her legs together. They sifted through the pictures of various mock positions between Sasuke and Naruto until they got to a picture of Sasuke with a t-shirt and bright orange spandex with mock slits on his wrists. At the bottom of the picture there was a caption in typical Superman style that said "Captain Emo-boy" They all cracked up until they got to the next photo which unleashed all of their laughter plus more as it had another caption "and his sidekick….The biatch-boy" it showed Captain Emo-boy holding a leash and at the other end of the leash on all fours, sat Naruto, looking like he was going to go kill himself after this, he was wearing a silver jumpsuit with a gold cape and a bitch gag over his mouth. The girls sounded as if they were going to laugh up a lung. When the laughter was over they put away the pictures and went back to their respective beds.

As dark crept upon the house of Gaara, the girls one by one turned in for the night exhausted from the fight. Sakura smiled in her bed, the dark was soothing to her as she nursed her own wounds I would never have thought...that Hinata would be the one to win…she looked over to Hinata's bed where the girl was still sleeping. She really did give it her all…I respect you Hinata-sama she thought watching the peaceful girl sleep.

Why am I so weak? Ino thought as she softly curled up inside her cocoon of blankets on the bed. Why doesn't Gaara-kun even look at me anymore? She sniffed The girls call me a slut but…I thought that's what guys wanted…now I just feel used…and alone… she sniffed sadly and curled up once more to fall asleep. I don't know what to do anymore…I just don't know…

Damn that Kismet, she broke one of my ribs! GRR! Kara thought grimacing as she tossed and turned in her sleep she thinks she can just waltz in here and seduce Gaara? Bah! Gaara is tougher than that and…she's not safe for him…I still fear what would happen if he ever got seriously involved with one of these girls…and they were to break his heart again…she shuddered the deaths would be worse by at least 200 this time…and what's worse is that I couldn't stop him, I can't let any girl near him, I just can't let them turn my brother into a monster again…I just can't…and poor Hinata…she doesn't even know what she's getting into…she doesn't know what type of horror's my brother is capable of wreaking…she's so innocent and pure…I don't have the heart to tell her that she's in love with a monster…

Kismet sat up on her bed too awake to sleep This place is different than my home village…it's different…like…peaceful almost…its like something tangible in the air here. Something about these people and the way they act, they may not admit it but over however long they've been together they have become best friends…and after only a couple of days here, I'm already accepted…that's..so…weird. she huffed as she laid down and tussled around trying to get to sleep knowing that tomorrow she would either be in school or alone here. And this Prince Gaara…there's more to him than anyone here suspects…he is so harsh on the outside but yet…he lets us stay here for the weekend…and he spared my life…those two things contradict themselves…he's hiding something from us all…maybe he's hiding himself from all of us…who knows…her eyes opened slowly when she came to the realization Kara…Kara would know… she smirked resolving to get to the bottom of this Gaara. Her thoughts subsided and she fell into a deep sleep.

Hinata slept just as she always did, peacefully in sweet dreams. She had Dreams of marriage, dreams of happiness, dreams of love and dreams of the future. She smiled softly in her sleep as she dreamed. Her thoughts undisturbed, her wounds healing, and her pride swelling from making Gaara smile and secretly for beating the other girls. She knew deep inside her that she was attracted to Gaara and that she would probably do most anything to make him notice her…..ALMOST anything…she still had her standards. But for the here and now, things were just peachy, so she slept.

Naruto sat in his room drinking with Sasuke both of them trying to forget the ridiculous things they had done lately because of the bet they had made with Gaara. Naruto downed his glass in one gulp "damn it, I don't ever want to remember this day again" he said as he reached for the bottle of Vodka. Sasuke beat him there and poured himself another glass "same here, never again…." He handed Naruto the bottle and proceeded to down his own glass again. They were not new to drinking, they had started since they arrived here and by now they knew how to hold their liquor….or so they thought. Sasuke sighed and said "I can't believe he won that damn bet…..we gotta get technical…we cannever do that again Naruto, I wont pose for another photo that will probably come to haunt me sometime in the future. We have to get lawyer speak, we have to fine line him….its the only way…" Sasuke said as he downed his glass and put his head on the table. Naruto nodded and said "Sasuke, why lawyer speak?" he asked perplexed. Sasuke motioned for Naruto to pour him another glass, Naruto nodded and smirked as he poured him a glass of pure Everclear. Sasuke put his head up and said "Cause when you deal with the devil………you gotta learn to dance around the flames." He said as he tried to drink the glass Naruto gave him but spat it out "Naruto, even though you could have killed me right there, I think I need to tell you something….even though I used to think of you as an annoyance and a liability in a fight…Now that I've to know you, its hard for me to say it, but you've become my best friend…." Naruto laughed and fell off his seat "yeah, well even though I used to think you were a stuck up emo kid, now that I've spent some time with you, you've become my best friend as well…" my first friend…Sasuke…who'd have thought it? he said as he fell asleep on the floor passed out. Sasuke fell back on his bed and fell immediately to sleep hoping the liquor would do its job and make them forget this entire weekend.

Gaara sat on top of the roof of his house looking up at the stars quietly, he didn't sleep much. He took a drag on his cigarette and blew the smoke out of his nose. "Quiet night" he said to himself "nights like these are when you want to just stay out here." He turned to face the moon and took another drag thoughtfully. Today was a good day……and I don't have many of those. I wonder what we do tomorrow in school…not that I like it…he thought softly. A shooting star shot across the sky hmm, I wish that I could have more of these peaceful nights…he thought as he stood up and flicked his cigarette over the edge of his roof and climbed back into his window. He softly floated to his bed on a disk of sand. Time to sleep…he closed his eyes and started to float off to dreamland.

Normally all would have been sleeping quite peacefully if they all hadn't had a notion that they were all forgetting something, something important. Around 3 am all the students except for Kismet awoke with blood shot eyes and hurried breath as they realized what they had forgotten. One thought raced through their minds I FORGOT ABOUT THE TEST TODAY!

All the students rushed out of bed, got dressed and ran down the stairs….well almost all of them ran down the stairs…."AGGHH!" Naruto screamed as he fell down three flights of stairs thumpthumpthumpthumpthump Kara made pot after pot of coffee to keep everyone awake as they all hurriedly studied their book on ninja fighting techniques and quizzed each other. Kara made pancakes hurriedly but they still turned out well while Gaara quizzed her. This system of quizzing each other worked well….except for Naruto and Sasuke whose words were slurred from the Vodka not wearing off yet. The seven students hurried to the car and all piled into the Jaguar somehow that involved strapping Naruto to the roof of the car with duct tape. Gaara floored it, lucky he had killed the policeman whose job it was to patrol this sector early on.

The students quickly ran out of the car as Gaara locked it remotely and dashed off to their classes. Sasuke and Sakura paired off and held the doors open as Hinata and Kara dashed in. They then followed them into the classroom taking their appropriate seats. Gaara appeared in a flash of sand in his seat. Kara looked around "yes, everyone's here and we still got two minutes before the bell rings!" she smiled but then frowned at the silence where a certain obnoxious shinobi would usually interject. "Wait…where's Naruto?" she asked. They all looked out the window at the same time to see the Orange clothed ninja screaming still duct taped on top of the car "SASUKE! GAARA! HINATA-SAMA! SOMEBODY?". They all laughed but then realized that the bell was going to ring in one minute "oh damn! no one here is fast enough for that!" she exclaimed worried that they would be at fault for making Naruto get detention. Suddenly a bored voice spoke up "I'll go" Gaara said to everyone's surprise as he disappeared in a flash of sand. The others looked out the window and saw a flash of sand as Gaara quickly grabbed Naruto and disappeared again. Appearing in a flash of sand just as the bell rang, Gaara and Naruto landed in their seats. Gaara acted like nothing had happened and appeared to be fine, but the others looked over to Naruto and found him duct taped to his chair with an added item, a gag made from duct tape. Kara laughed and thought so…he's finally opening up…I didn't think I'd live to see the day…

Right on time…………ten minutes later, Kakashi walked into the class yawning "sorry" he said to the class. Ino raised her hand "Kakashi-sensei did you get attacked on the way here? Is that why you were late?" she said worried. All the class hushed as Kakashi seemed to TRY AND REMEMBER ten minutes ago. "uhhh…no…Ino…I just slept in" Ino fell over in her desk. Kakashi paid her no mind and turned to the rest of the class "alright class….someone remind me what I scheduled for today?" he asked genuinely confused. No one raised their hands because they didn't want to take the test….at least until one person raised their hand. "Kakashi-sensei we had a test today!" Sakura chimed. All the class groaned either from lack of studying or from not wanting to take it. A swift hand found the back of Sakura's head "baka!" Kara said as she slapped Sakura upside the head. Kakashi smiled beneath his mask "alright teens, calm down." He shuffled through his briefcase looking for the tests "hmm…where did I put those tests…." He said to himself. Ten minutes later he popped his head up "oh damn…I meant to make that test over the weekend…oh well..I guess everyone gets an A cause I don't feel like making a test." The class cheered except for Sakura "but I studied really hard…." She poked her fingers together sullenly.

Kakashi seemed to think, emphasis on seemed because sometimes he would just sit there for hours staring off into space, and finally after about an hour he turned to the class, which had dissolved into chaos, "I'm bored, its your job to entertain me today. He looked to a particular boy who was dressed in a green jumpsuit and had weird hair and overly fuzzy eyebrows. "you!" he pointed to Rock Lee as he searched his memory for his name "Rock Lee! You will fight…errmm…."he looked around and saw a particular red haired boy sleeping. He looked down at his roster and picked a name at random "Sabaku no Gaara!" Gaara woke slowly "hrmm?" he asked. Kakashi nodded "you will fight Rock Lee to entertain me and the rest of the class, go to the gym now." Gaara shuffled to the gym clearing his groggy eyes. Once there he walked out of the dressing room still dressed in what he had worn to school to see a huge statue n the middle of the room along with a giant ring on the second story of the building where all the students were watching from. It appears to be quite the event…Gaara thought to himself as Rock Lee walked out from the dressing room still in his gay green jumpsuit.

Gaara crossed his arms and put on a scowl "This is going to be interesting." Gaara said bored. Rock Lee assumed fighting stance and Kakashi said "GO" Immediately Rock Lee jumped up in the air throwing a powerful roundhouse kick. To his surprise the sand rose up and blocked it, furthermore to his surprise it solidified around his leg and the sand proceeded to throw him into a wall with his own leg. Rock Lee soared through the air until coming into contact with the wall, which cracked under the impact. Rock lee got up slowly "err…what?" he said as he saw the sand whirling menacingly around Gaara "hmm…this fight needs more…."Gaara's eyes got blood shot "blood" he let out one of his errie smiles, one of the smiles that he had that seriously made you wonder what Gaara had been through that had sent him so far off the deep end. Lee's mouth hung open as the sand dashed for him, he rolled to the side and charged at Gaara dodging Gaara's sand by rolling either left or right then throwing a punch combo only to hit sand. He kept up the attack thinking that the sand couldn't keep this up for long. Meanwhile Gaara brought up the sand that was behind Rock and used it to wrap around Rock's legs and throw him up into the air. Rock Lee soared up in the air on his back as to everyone's surprise Gaara used the sand to propel him up into the air where he rammed his knee hard into Rock's back and then turned around nailing Rock with and swift round house kick that sent him rocketing down to earth.

Naruto grimaced as Rock Lee smashed into the ground face first "ouch….fuzzy eyebrows is taking it up the…" Sakura cut him off in mid-sentence "NARUTO!" she slammed his face into the bar "stop thinking like that baka!" Sasuke chuckled to himself "its true though Sakura, Lee is not doing as well as Kakashi thought he would do. I think Gaara has this one in the bag." Sakura pursed her lips "I don't think so, Sasuke-kun, but to make it more interesting I'll bet you that Gaara will get seriously injured but not lose." Sasuke nodded "alright, I like a good wager…what do you want if you win?" Sakura smiled and said "you have to take me out to dinner and kiss me." She said daring him to back down. Sasuke, not wanting to lose face, agreed "alright, but if I win….you have to kiss Naruto". Sakura shuddered at the horrific thought "and I have to video tape it." Sasuke added. Sakura shuddered again If I lose this bet, I'm never going to live it down…meh… She looked at Sasuke and shook his hand firmly "you got a bet" she said confidently. Naruto beamed "I get to make out with Sakura!" he shouted…or would have if halfway through his sentence he hadn't gotten a face full of knuckles from Sakura so it came out as "I GET TO MAKE OUT MPPHHH!" followed by Sakura jumping on his sprawled body and continuing to pummel him which made him yelp "OUCH SAKURA! STOP! OUCH! OUCH!" he screamed. Sakura yelled "BAKA! I WILL NOT LOSE THIS BET!" she climbed off of Naruto and walked away to go be with Hinata and Ino.

Meanwhile back at Gaara's house, Kismet yawned and stretched like a cat as she just woke up. She looked at the clock, it read 1:30pm, "its too early to get up now" she wined as she stretched and went back to sleep. ((poke poke Kismet :P))

Rock Lee climbed out of the crater he had just made in the ground son of a bitch…these are the times when I wish I could use ninja techniques…he thought as he jumped over another slash that the sand tried to make at him. He jumped back in a back flip and loosened the straps of things on his shins I need to be faster to beat this guy…he thought as he unstrapped the weights from his ankles and then threw them at Gaara. He smirked and disappeared in a flash of speed. Time to go to work… he thought.

Gaara was having his fun toying with the gay green jumpsuited boy. His sand caught the weights that Lee tossed at him huh? What are these? Weights? He thought until a pock mark of sand appeared to his left side as if blocking something there, then to his right, then above him, his left, his right, above, over and over again until he realized "oh no…" his eyes widened "I can't see him anymore" he whispered to himself. Just then a giant boot hit Gaara's head from above sending him skidding back a couple of feet. Crap…Gaara thought as he raised his sand defense and prepared for the next onslaught.

Rock Lee smirked as he finished skidding and got into fighting stance much better, now I can actually hit him…he thought as he jumped and disappeared hitting Gaara in the stomach, followed by a blow to the head and then to the side sending Gaara rolling in the air to the side. This match is in the bag..

Gaara spat blood from his mouth, it had been a long time since he tasted his own blood. He saw Rock Lee coming for his next attack run and his sand picked up on something, something lethal to Rock Lee….a pattern. The sand blocked up, to the right, to the left, all in unison before Rock lee even through the punch, he was mortified. Finally the sand managed to get a grasp on Rock Lee as he threw a punch and smashed the titanic weights that he had thrown at Gaara on his head sending him realing. Gaara smirked and then wrapped him in sand "Sabaku…Sosou!" he said but before the sand crushed Rock, Rock Lee opened his forest gate and with that new strength burst open from the coffin of sand. Gaara growled really pissed off now.

Rock lee looked at his own hands as he was surrounded by a bright green glow. His eyes went white and concrete from the floor got torn up from the updraft around Lee. He moved toward Gaara and grabbed him "secondary Lotus!" he said as he kicked Gaara up in the air and kicked him again, and again, but paused for one moment wincing from the pain then continuing until his wrapped arms unwrapped and the bandages wrapped around Gaara as he spiraled down with Gaara gaining momentum and force as he slammed Gaara down into the pit leaving a giant crater where the sand warrior seemed to gaze up at the ceiling, his face in a grimace. Rock lee panted and knelt down his green glow faded too. "I….I win" he said to the crowd. Cheers went up all around the gym but Sakura and Sasuke were at a stalemate in their bet….or so they thought.

The body of Gaara cracked and shattered crumbling into itself, an empty shell. Lee was shocked "A replacement?" just then a wave of sand grabbed Rock Lee and choked him in its writhing grasp. A pile of sand rose up revealing the evilly smiling Gaara who was laughing "nice try Rock Lee….but now…I will know…that I exist!" he clenched his fist "Sabaku Sosou!" he said as the sand clenched around Rock lee and he let out a scream as he burst into a puddle of blood that the sand soaked up greedily. Gaara smiled with satisfaction and walked off seemingly hurt badly but he had won, and his sand had fresh blood that was all that mattered to him.

The crowd looked on in shock as Rock Lee exploded. Kakashi was surprised No one has had the balls to kill another student in a battle since…my generation… he watched Gaara leave and made a mental note watch this Sabaku no Gaara… Sasuke nodded as he saw Rock Lee explode It isn't illegal to kill another student in a match…but…its not encouraged either…and…DAMN IT! I LOSE THAT BET WITH Sakura… Sakura, Ino and Hinata grimaced and looked to Kara for an explanation. Kara shook her head "that's the problem with Gaara….he's….well…messed up…he doesn't think anything of killing….its like second nature for him now…" she said. Sakura, Ino and Hinata looked for more explanation but Kara shook her head "there will be a time for that….but not now….lets go…" she said ushering them out. Naruto murmured "I cant believe fuzzy eyebrows is dead…" he said as he walked with them to the car where Gaara already was ready to leave. They got into the word without a word and drove back to his house in silence.

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