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A/N Okay, so I did post my new sequel to Where?, called How? (if you like Tamora Pierce's books, check them out okay, done promoting my stories). The poll is still up in my profile so go vote!!
Sakura's POV
I woke up and looked around the room I was in. It took me a minute to remember the orphanage. I stood up and grabbed some clothes out of my closet. I quickly dress, and brushed my hair before heading downstairs for breakfast. Ino and the rest of the girls had beaten me down. Some of the younger kids were chasing each other around. A female teacher came in and yelled at the kids to sit down for breakfast. One laughed and continued to run around until she grabbed him and sat him down herself.
We all laughed as Gaara walked over to the table. His hair was slightly messy, showing that he had just gotten up and had only put some clothes on before coming down. Temari stopped laughing, "Konohamaru is getting himself into trouble with Kurenia-sensei again."
He shook his head and sat down across from me. I looked him in the eye for half a second, then I looked away blushing. Neji had come into the room and sat next to me. "Morning."
He glared at me as if I was crazy. Not a morning person I guess. Naruto and Sasuke came down the stairs. Naruto had his sleeve pushed up and was inspecting a bruise that was beginning to show on his arm. "You didn't have to hit me so hard Sasuke."
"It's not my fault you can't wake up idiot."
Naruto sat down next to Hinata, who began to blush, with a pout on his face. "You agree with me Hinata. He didn't need to punch me, right?"
"T-there m-may be a b-better way."
I looked down at Hinata, she needed a confidence booster. Something the girls and I could do later. The buffet that served breakfast had opened. I jumped up to grab some food, hitting Kankuro. "Sorry, didn't realize you were there."
He muttered something, another one who wasn't a morning person. I wasn't either, but normally started my day off with music to improve it. Lee came in panting slightly. "Good morning my friends."
He headed straight for the buffet, filling his plate with food before sitting down. I shook my head at his words and grabbed some food for myself. Temari looked around the group at the table, "No one woke Shikamaru up."
She left the table and ran out of the room. It seemed that Naruto wasn't the only one who had trouble waking up. These guys seemed like they had been up all night, yet they went to bed around the same time us girls did. Temari came back into the room, dragging a dressed Shikamaru behind her. She helped him get his food, placing the plate at the place next to hers, forcing him to sit down and take a fork and eat.
Breakfast was a silent affair after everyone started eating. As Ino finished she said, "We all meet in Sakura's room before classes today."
Everyone nodded in response. While it could have been anyone else's room it had to be mine. I guess it made sense since only I had to be ready. I finished my food and headed up stairs to my room. I walked in and made my bed, finishing as someone knocked at the door. Neji stood there. "Congratulations, you are the first to arrive."
I got another look as he walked past me and into the room. He sat down at the desk looking at me as I straightened the room. "Is there something you want?" I asked after standing from putting some papers in the bottom drawer if the desk. "Yeah, this."
He leaned forward pressing his lips against mine. He pulled away and flopped back down into the chair. The door opened, Tenten and Ino walked in. I moved over to the pictures I had put out and moved them all slightly. They sat down and everyone else came in shortly after. As Gaara walked in I looked at him for a minute remembering what he had said the night before "And be careful, there will be plenty of guys who will want to do that." I didn't think that this would ever really happen to me.
We left the room as a group with Naruto leading us outside where a guy in green track suit was waiting. "Hello everyone and welcome to a new day. To the new students I'm Gai-sensei. We shall start today off with laps until I tell you to stop."
We continued to run for a while. Everyone was getting tired and slowing down, leaving Lee and Gai full of energy by themselves. I was ready to take a break when I felt someone grab my hand and pull me towards the trees. I followed Gaara until we were hidden. I fell to the ground, sitting with my back against a tree. Gaara stretched slightly. "Get up; you need to stretch unless you want your legs to cramp up."
I stood back and stretched with him, falling back into a seated position after we finished. "Is there any point to this class?"
"No clue. Although with the amount we do, it does appear to be geared towards us being able to defend ourselves, rather than just fitness."
I heard something moving. I stood up and walked over to Gaara, watching the direction it came from. The rustling grew louder, but Gaara didn't seem bothered by it. From the trees came Temari and Shikamaru. "You guys here already? And I thought Shikamaru and I had left early."
I gave Gaara a confused look. Temari smiled at me. "He just brought you here with no explanation, right? Well, when Lee and Gai start running there is no stopping them. They don't even realize that we disappear."
I heard another crashing sound as Hinata, Tenten, and Ino came into view. Naruto's voice could also be heard coming closer. Sasuke managed to appear without making any noise, and Kankuro was with Naruto. Everyone joined me on the ground, leaning against a tree, or just lying back. Shikamaru had a look of envy on his face as a cloud drifted by, barely visible. We sat there mainly in silence looking around at nature around us. I looked up from the feet I had been staring at, "Any ideas as to what the files are for?"
"Easy police files." said Sasuke.
"Couldn't be," Neji stated, "If they were police files, then why would they be in the hands of those who aren't part of the police force?"
Naruto jumped up, "Spies. They were spies."
Sasuke hit Naruto on the head. "Right spies. Do you know how hard it would be to hide something like that?"
I looked at him, "Most the city must be in on this. Knowing what is going on. Something like this is too hard to hide. Plus this information was never publicly released, yet the road between us and Suna has less travelers right know."
"A city wide secret kept from the kids?"
"Yeah, except they prepare us for it in secret."
Shikamaru looked at me, "And what do you do when someone may find out?"
"Lie through their teeth. Make them swear to secrecy, give them a good exchange."
Neji looked from Shikamaru to me. "Or prepare them in a way that they could never guess from. Prepare them at a place where we are to go to learn, and call it all school."
Temari laughed slightly, "Gym that seems to be self-defence based. Books that appear to only be written so that they entertain, using ideas that seem fake. Classes to advance thinking into not only money and finance, but can be used in a plan."
"Things that we would think are normal so we never look too deeply into it."
Gaara looked around at us, "Now we have an idea. Gai and Lee should be stopping soon, let's go. We can finish this discussion later."
With that we all stood up, and started running. Minutes later Gai-sensei stopped us, and told us we had done enough for today, but be prepared because tomorrow we were fighting. Then we were sent off to find Kakashi-sensei for our discussion.
A/N While I writers block on my homework for Peace and Politics (our values shown through the media, and I don't have the paper from last year that would have been perfect for this) so I wrote the rest of this chapter.
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