Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...I wish I did but well...

--Okay everyone. So I was looking back and reading the fic and I realized that I started this LAST summer. TT.TT I'm not worthy!! I promise I'm going to update more frequently from now on. But aside from that I'm glad everyone is liking it so far. I kind of beat myself up over it but I suppose if you guys enjoy it I must be doing something right. But enough about me! On to the fic!--

--LINEBREAK/NARUTO POV--

I am the man! I am amazing and I deserved to be worshiped! Now to go tell Gaara...not that I think he'll bow down to me or anything. I just want him to stop being so damn smug. Gaara, Gaara, Gaara, Gaara, la la la, there he is. I wonder how far he's gotten in that book. Looks like a few chapters. Hm, there's no cover thing-y...I wonder what it's about. Ooh, ooh, maybe it's like a porno, or better yet some cheesy romance novel about star-crossed lovers in Europe or Spain or...some far away romantic-y place.

"You're hovering Uzumaki. Did your chat with the Uchiha go well?"

"Yup! He says I can be his friend, and you too. All we have to do is get approval from Haku and some guy named Zabuza. No big." Gaara looked me right in the eye the second I mentioned 'Zabuza' and he even closed his book. Okay so maybe it is big. "What?" He put his book away and started walking lazily towards first period.

"Nothing Naruto...good luck." No! NO! He did NOT just use my first name! And then he added good luck. It must be a really, really big deal! Oh man, what should I do? Should I chase after him and demand answers? Or maybe I should go find Sasuke and ask him about his friends? No, that would make me look like a selfish coward. I've got to be brave for Sasuke! I've got to. Okay, so I can go after Gaara and demand answers that I won't get or...or what? Class! Class starts in like three minutes. I do NOT want to be late to math again. I swear every time I show up late to that class Ibiki-sensei eats a little more of my soul.

So on to math it is. I can do this. I'm brave, I'm awesome, I AM THE MAN! Breathe Naruto you can handle this. Just take it in stride. Breathe in and out...why is everyone lookin' at me? Oh...I'm practically heaving in and out like a pregnant chick in labor. Switching now to more subtle breathing. The last thing I need is rumors about me having a mental breakdown in front of Ibiki-sensei's room. But then again that would reflect poorly on sensei...maybe the school board would make him tone down his 'I-must-torture-you' aditude.

No, that wouldn't be good. I need to keep a low profie for now. Sasuke doesn't like the spotlight. I have to remain calm, or at least less impulsive, until my friendship with Sasuke is written in stone. After we become good buddies I'll be free to go ape-shit whenever I want and I'll just make things up to him afterwards. Now that that's settled where to sit today? Hm...Shikamaru or Sakura-chan. Sakura can give me tips on how to woo Sasuke...well as long as I don't tell her it's Sasuke. But Shika lets me cheat off of him. Sakura's doing something new with her hair, and that shirt really shows off her stuff. But I'm currently interested in Sasuke and staring at Sakura's little boobs won't get me in his good books. I mean, he's not in this class but he could still find out. I guess I'm sitting with Shikamaru today, damn Sakura and her baby-tee's. If I wasn't such an all around horny teenager I wouldn't be having this problem.

I slump down in my seat next to Shikamaru and dig out my weekend assignment. What kind of sadistic teacher assigns weekend homework, honestly. I think I did it right but ugh. I just don't understand why we do this. When in my everyday life am I going to need to know how imaginary numbers affect equations? They're -imaginary-, so why do they even matter?

"Did you talk?"

"Huh?" Oh mai gawd! It speaks! Shikamaru must've slept at least eighteen hours yesterday if he's giving up his nap now to ask me questions. "Yeah, we talked. He says I've got to get approval from Haku and Zabuza before I can be his friend though. Which totally blows. I thought it would be easy but the way Gaara acted. I'm thinking Haku and Zabuza aren't pushovers." Shika turned his head to the side to look at me. His hair is down today so I can't really see his face but I think he's thinking.

"Have you ever hurt Sasuke?"

"Nope."

"Then you have nothing to worry about. There's no logical reason for those guys to disapprove of you if you haven't caused Sasuke any harm." Well there's some nice logic.

"Yeah, but I don't think they're going to be logical. I mean, what if Sasuke tells them ahead of time not to approve just to be rid of me?" That's what I'm really worried about. I don't want to get shut out of his life before I get a good chance at making things better. If his friends don't approve and he tells me to fuck off I'm gonna do it. I'd rather he rembers me being nice to him once than have him hate me for being persistant.

"Well Naruto...if that's what he does then you just have to deal with it."

"Well Shik--"

"ATTENTION CLASS! Pass your homework forward. I'll be counting the papers from each row. If you didn't do it, or don't have it, make things quicker by just getting out now. You had all weekend, there's no excuse." I start passing homework up, mine included, and lo and behold at least three kids get up and stomp out of the room. Ibiki-sensei's a real hardass. But still, if I hadn't done my homework I'd much rather leave now than suffer in class.

--MEANWHILE/SASUKE POV--

Whoever decided language was fit to be a first period is slow in the head. This early in the morning most kids barely speak English let alone something foreign. It doesn't help the German sounds so ugly. When I listen to Lehrer Asuma (1) speak it's like listening to angry sick people complain. There's too much throat and tongue involved for this to be a pretty language. It would've been nice to learn something that flowed a bit better, like Chinese maybe. But I took German as a half-assed attempt to piss Orochimaru off. Apperantly he came off bad in a battle of wits against someone in Asuma's family and it was always a sore subject for him. When freshman orientation rolled around and Orochimaru all but ran from Asuma's table I just felt compelled to take his class. As digusting as the language is I can't bring myself to hate the decision.

"Sasuke, wie gehts? Sie schauen nicht gluecklich. Warum?"(2)

"Ja...Ich bin gerade muede."(3) Asuma takes my word for it and continues teaching the class. He tries to make everything into a happy get together, like the class is a family. I'm always the one sitting out, like the forgotten cousin no one likes. I don't really mind. I get participation points taken away each time I sit out but it's preferable to the alternative. Even if I were to join in I'd still be excluded intentionaly by my peers. And pretending to be happy with all these meandering idiots would be a lie not worth keeping up.

--LINEBREAK/AUTHOR'S NOTES--

NARUTO DOES NOT FAWN OVER SAKURA. He just thinks she's pretty.

1. Lehrer male teacher. Lehrerin female teacher

2. Wie gehts What's up. (roughly) Sie schauen nicht gluecklich You don't look happy. ( the u in gluecklich should have an umlaute over it, the two dot things, you use the e after a vowel if it needs an omlaute and you don't have that key) Warum Why?

3. Ja...Ich bin gerade muede Yeah, I'm just tired. (The 'ue' in muede should be a u with an umlaute.)

I took German in school and I did like the class but the language isn't very pretty. It always sounds so angry and phlemy. I suppose if you guys want to hear some german I could put some phrases on Youtube but I won't do that unless it's requested.

I'm sorry this chapter was so short. I just wanted to get something else up. Read and Review Please. This chapter was brought to you by Vanilla coffee and sticky rice.