Kankuro P.O.V.
It was Monday again and I was headed to my class. I decided to walk down the hallway slowly, since there were still lots of time left before I actually had to be in class. Temari had made us get up early for school but didn't really tell us why. All she said was that she had to meet someone, my guess was Shikamaru. As I walked past the gym I saw a sign on the wall:
"Spring Dance this Friday, All Junior High and High School Students of this school are welcome.
Ticket price is two dollars each.
We will have food and drinks on sale in the hallways just outside the gym. Prices range from fifty-sense to three dollars, so bring extra money. Tickets will go on sale at lunch in the lunchroom.
We will also be having a live band this time from our own school called The Akatsuki who have offered to play for free. So if you see Deidara, Itachi, Kisame, or Sasori in the hallways please thank them for playing.
There will also be shirts for the band on sale in the lunchroom. Shirts are twenty-five dollars."
I rolled my eyes and continued to class. Who would want to listen to them play, and who in their right mind would buy a shirt? I got to my homeroom and sat down. To my surprise I saw Neji sitting in his desk. "Since when do you come this early?" he asked. "You're usually just on time getting in."
"Temari made Gaara and I come early. She didn't say why though," I told him.
"Is she on the Dance decorating committee?" he asked.
"I don't know. Don't the popular kids usually do that?" I asked.
"Yes, but they didn't want to do this dance for some reason. So they needed some people to do it. And they needed them to come in early today to make posters, and decorations and stuff," Neji told me. "That's why I'm here early, because Hinata didn't want to come alone."
"Oh, well Temari might be on it then. I have no Idea why else she would come so early. She usually complains about having to get up," I told him. He laughed.
"Yeah, Hinata said she asked Tenten and Temari to join with her, but when we got here it was only her. So I stayed with her until Tsunade made me leave. She told me no one but the committee could see what was going on," he told me rolling his eyes.
"Tsunade is kind of scary, I'd hate to get on her bad said," I told him. He laughed.
"Kiba and Naruto know what it's like for her to be really mad. They said it's not a pretty sight. So Gaara better start behaving himself or he is going to see her like that," he told me.
"I'm sure he will be fine," I told him.
"I hope so. Kakashi is ready to send him and Kiba to the office, which isn't good for Kiba because he almost got expelled last year, him and Naruto. If they keep it up they might be gone this time," he told me.
"Fine, I'll talk to Gaara and tell him to tone down the stuff he does in Science," I said with a sigh looking up at the clock. I got up and left my bag in the desk. "There is about half an hour before school, I'm going to see if I can find him." Then I walked out of the classroom.
Temari P.O.V.
I put my bag in my first class at my desk and ran to the gym. I had to go help with the dace stuff because I was on the dance committee, and we only had a week to get everything ready. I got the gym and pushed open the doors. When I looked inside I saw Hinata sitting there looking at a sheet of paper with the principle looking confused. "Hey, how's it going?" I asked. They looked up at me.
"You're late," Tsunade said in an angry voice. "Hinata has been here for over an hour." Hinata blushed.
"Well I'm here before Tenten aren't I?" I asked.
"That's true," she told me slightly less angry. "And you are new to this. Hinata and Tenten have been on here before so they have no excuses. Well anyways, I'll be leaving this to you now. Shizune will probably have a load of paper work for me to do," she said with a sigh. "A word of advice girls, never become a principle if you don't like paper work and meetings and stuff." And with that she left the gym.
"So, what was making you and the principle look to puzzled?" I asked.
"Well It's just we don't know what the gym should actually look like. Some students sent in some ideas, but none of them seem too good," she told me. I went over to her and sat down. I looked over some of the designs and sighed.
"These are all horrible," I said.
"I know, we need Tenten now, she is good at this kind of stuff," Hinata said.
"Well what can we do while we wait?" I asked.
"We still need to make the tickets and a sign so that people know which table to go to buy them today. I've already made some signs advertising the dance and put them up. Oh, and we need to set up the stage for the band to go on. Or make a new one the looks good and goes with the "spring" theme," she told me.
"We are having a band play?" I asked.
"Yes, didn't you read the signs?" she asked with a sigh.
I shook my head. "I was too busy running here from my class room on the other side of the school," I told her.
"Oh, well The Akatsuki is playing for free for us," she told me. My eyes went wide.
"Deidara and his friends are going to play?" I asked.
"Yeah, that's what I just said isn't it? Well anyways, they said they would only play for free if we sold shirts in the lunchroom for them. So we need to make a sign for that too," she told me.
"So what do you want me to start with?" I asked.
"Well you can start making the signs for the tickets and shirts," she told me. I nodded, grabbed some paper and markers, and went over to start working on them.
Tenten came a few minutes later. She went over to Hinata and they started talking. Then Tenten started yelling. I looked up to see what was wrong. "These are the ugliest designs I have ever seen! Do people have any sense of style these days?" she asked angrily. Then she took a piece of paper a few markers, and sat down on a bench, and began scribbling away furiously. I sighed and got back to what I was doing. I had finished the tickets sign. I wrote "Tickets, two dollars" on it in black, and drew flowers all over the page. Now I was working on The Akatsuki band shirts sigh. I had the words "The Akatsuki" written in red and black, but didn't know what else to put on it. Then I remembered the big sign they had up in the room they were practising in at lunch when I use to go there. So I began to draw red clouds all over the sheet.
I was done and there was still twenty minutes before school actually started. I went over to Hinata and showed her the signs. "It took you ten minutes to draw flowers and clouds?" she asked.
"Hey, I'm not that good of a drawer. I wanted to make it looked as good as I could," I told her angrily. She smiled and laughed.
"I was just joking, they look really good," she told me. I smiled and thanked her.
"So now what are we suppose to do?" I asked.
"Well I have been working on what the tickets look like. So when I'm done someone needs to scan it onto the teacher's computer in the computer room, and print it off onto the special paper from the office," she told me.
"Well how long is that going to take?" I asked. "We only have twenty minutes."
"It won't take long. Go get the paper from the office. Ask for the stuff they use to print tickets on. And I'll meet you in the computer room," she told me. "And Tenten said she should be done the designing by tomorrow, so she said once I leave, she will start cleaning up, and then go to class." I nodded and went to get the paper.
When I got to the computer room Hinata was already there and had everything ready. "I scanned the ticket design onto the computer and saved it just in case we lose the one I made. So just put the paper in and we will print about two hundred tickets. I've already set it so that it puts six on one page, so as they come out you can cut them out," she told me. I nodded and pulled out some scissors and brought over two chairs to the printer; one for me to sit on and one to put the cut out tickets on.
"You know Hinata," I said as I finished the first sheet. "You're really good at being a boss and leading people when you want to be." She blushed.
"O-oh, r-really?" she asked a little nervous now.
"Yeah," I told her.
"T-thanks," she said with a smile. "I-I think I-it's because I'm j-just use to b-being around y-you now."
I looked up at her and smiled and then got back to what I was doing.
Kankuro P.O.V.
I found Gaara about ten minutes later outside sitting on the curb. "What are you doing out here?" I asked him.
"I got bored in the school by myself," he told me picking up a rock and throwing it to the other side of the road.
"Well you're still alone out here," I told him.
"So, at least there is something to do," he said.
"I remember when you use to skip rocks across the pond when you were bored and lonely at our old house," I told him.
"Yeah, well there isn't a pond by the school. So this is the best it gets. Now you can either join me, or go away and pretend you never saw me doing this," he told me.
"You use to tell me that when I saw you at the pond too," I said.
"Yeah, and you would always choose to leave. So what are you going to choose this time?" he asked.
"I think I'll join you," I told him.
"Fine," he said like he didn't care, but I could see him smiling a little. "So why were you looking for me?" he asked as I sat down beside him. I sighed and told him what Neji had told me.
"So, I'll just tone down the goofing off in Science for a bit," Gaara told me. "The other teachers need to start getting some fun in their lives anyways. I was thinking about doing something to Orochimaru," he told me. I laughed.
"That would be fun, but I'm sure he will use any excuse to have you guys stay after school or something.
"That pedophile isn't getting me to stay after school for anything. Besides, I don't think you can get detention in gym," he told me.
"I'm sure he will think of some way to keep you after," I told him.
"Whatever, I'm still going to get the guys to pull a prank on him with me," he told me.
"Ok, just as long as you cut back on the ones in science," I told him getting up. "Are you coming into the school?"
"No, I'm going to stay here a bit longer," he told me.
"Ok, I'll see you later then, Gaara," I told him with a smile. He just nodded and threw another rock across the street.
Temari P.O.V.
We finished with the tickets and rapped an elastic band around them. "Tenten and I are getting out of class early at lunch to sell the tickets and shirts. Can you get out early too?" she asked. I shook my head.
"They don't let you out of the class early for anything in High School," I said with a sigh. "But I'll come straight to the lunchroom and look for you guy when the bell rings." She smiled and we said goodbye. Then I started to head to my class. The bell was going to ring in five minutes.
I was almost to my first class when Deidara stopped me in the hallway. "Hey Temari," he said.
"Hey Deidara, what's up?" I asked.
"I was just wondering how the dance was coming along," he said.
"It's going good. Tenten is doing the designing, so it will be really good," I told him.
"That's good. So you going to be selling our shirts?" he asked. I shrugged. "They are the same ones I gave you and your brothers for free. The only difference is that the ones they are selling here aren't sighed from us," he told me.
"You signed the shirts you gave us?" I asked.
"Yeah, did you look at them at all?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, I guess I just never looked at them enough. Well anyways I need to get to class," I told him.
"Want me to walk you to it?" he asked.
"No that's ok, it's out of your way and I don't want you to be late," I told him.
"Why, it will be like that day I first walked you to class," he said. I turned red and shook my head.
"No, it's really ok. Bye," I said to him and ran down the hallway.
Gaara P.O.V.
I had Science first block again today. I got up from the curb and started to walk to the class; it was right by the back door of the school and just up the stairs. As I got in and started to climb the stairs Naruto and Sasuke came up behind me. "Hey Gaara, how are you?" Sasuke asked.
"We never saw you all weekend, why didn't you come over?" Naruto asked pouting.
"I was busy with all the homework we got," I told him.
"That was easy," Sasuke said.
"Yeah, we finished ours in a few hours," Naruto told me. "What's the real reason you never came over? Did we do something wrong?" he asked sadly.
"Shut up Naruto, you're such a baby," Sasuke said.
"I am not, and what does that have to do with anything?!" Naruto asked in a yell. Sasuke just smirked.
"You really like getting Naruto upset don't you?" I asked Sasuke.
"Only because it's easy," he told me shrugging.
"Don't change the subject! Why didn't you come over Gaara?" Naruto asked me.
"Because I was doing homework, and I didn't want that thing with Itachi happening again," I told him.
"But I wanted to see you, I was so bored all weekend," Naruto whined.
"So what, I'm boring now?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes, you kind of get boring after a while," he told him. Sasuke just sighed as we walked into science.
We sat down were we usually did with Kiba and talked for a bit. Then the teacher came in. "Ok class, I've decided to make a new seating plan since a few people have moved around since the last one," he told us looking at Ino and Sasuke. They were at a table with Sakura before, but after what had happened during Halloween they moved. Everyone whined and sighed, but got up. We moved over to the side of the room and as he called our names we sat down again. I ended up sitting with Kiba, Shino, and Ino. And Naruto, Sasuke, Choji and one other kid sat at the table behind us. I sighed. "Now this isn't going to be for the rest of the year. If you guys behave yourselves then I'll let you sit where ever you want for the last month, maybe more," Kakashi told us.
"Yeah, so you two better be good," Ino said snobbishly. "I rather not have to sit with you longer then I have to."
"Watch yourself pig, or you might get a big stain on that purple shirt of yours," Kiba said.
"Are you threatening me dog boy?" she asked angrily.
"Maybe I am, you're just lucky I never said I was going to poor acid on that big butt of yours," he told her. "But that might not be such a bad thing for you. Sure it will hurt, but it might make it smaller."
"I'd watch what I say if I were you, dog breath, I have friends in high places," Ino told him.
"Are those the same friends that shit on your head when you walk under them because they get scared of your ugly face?" Kiba asked. Ino opened her mouth to say something but closed it and stuck her noise in the air.
"Nice one," I said to Kiba giving him a high five.
When the bell rang we headed straight to the door and waited for Naruto and Sasuke. "Ino looks really pissed off," Naruto said. "What did you guys do?" I told him and Sasuke about what Kiba had said as we headed down the hallway.
"Nice, she is going to be mad about that for a while," Sasuke said. "She hates it when someone beats her at insults."
"So Shino never did anything about it at all?" Naruto asked.
"Nope, me and him just sat there listening," I told him.
"So how was sitting with Choji?" Kiba asked. Sasuke shrugged.
"He didn't pay attention to us," Naruto said. "Usually when he is by me he asks about Shikamaru trying not to let Ino know."
"Well I'm sure he will start talking to you if you talk to him. Or start a conversation on something he likes," I told him.
"Why would we want to talk to him?" Sasuke asked.
"So we can get him to leave Ino and Shino and the other popular kids and join us. We are trying to get rid of them one by one, remember?" Kiba said.
"And this is the perfect chance to get Choji back to being best friend with Shikamaru," Naruto said happily. Sasuke sighed.
"Whatever," he said as we got to our next class.
Temari P.O.V.
The lunch bell rang and I got up to go the lunch room. "Where are you going so fast?" Shikamaru asked.
"I need to meet Hinata and Tenten ASAP," I told him. "Oh, can you get my stuff for this afternoon and then bring my bag to me in the lunchroom? I'm not going to have time to go to my locker at all," I told him.
"What, why not?" he asked.
"Please just do it, you'll see when you come to the lunch room. My locker com is in my notebook on the second page from the front," I told him handing him my stuff.
"Ok, I guess I can," he said. "It isn't too far from mine."
"Thank you so much," I said happily giving him a hug. "I'll see you soon." And with that I raced out of the room.
When I got to the lunchroom Tenten and Hinata were working hard on getting tickets and shirts for everyone. I ran over to them. "I got here as fast as I could," I said.
"Good, can you move the shirts to that table over there and put the sign out?" Tenten asked. "Here is the box for the money for them," she said handing me the box. I nodded and moved the shirts over to the other table. They only brought three of the boxes we had. One box had an S on it, the other an M, and then last one an L, for small, medium, and large. I opened the boxes and put the sign out. A big group of people came rushing over as soon as I had done this. How do they have money for this? The notice just came out today. Do they carry a hundred dollars or something around with them? I started selling shirts. They were just like mine and my brothers like Deidara said. They were black and had red clouds on them, with the words The Akatsuki on them in silver and a list of places they were playing this spring and summer at the back. When there was no one left in line, because they never had any money left to buy a shirt after buying lunch, I took a shirt out to look at the back. I had never really looked at it that much before, just the front. It said on the back that they were playing: here at the school, at the night club, at a teen club, and a few other places this summer in different towns. Well I guess going lots of places this summer is good. I mean this is their last year in school. After that they have their high school and if they ever brake up they can go straight to collage. But I never knew they were this popular.
A few minutes later when the ticket line had settled down Hinata came over to me. "Lunch is almost over, are you going to go get something to eat? You can close this stand, Tenten and I will move the boxes back to the storage room," she told me.
"Well what about your lunch?" I asked.
"When we came to set up we bought lunch and ate it while doing it," she told me.
"Ok, I'll see you two later then," I said getting up and waved goodbye as I walked over to the lunch line.
I got my lunch and sat down with the guys. "I see you girls were working hard over there," Lee said.
"Yeah, I didn't know The Akatsuki was that popular," I said. "And I don't even know how people had money for shirts today."
"So where is the money for the shirts going?" Neji asked.
"I think the school is getting twenty-five present of the money, and the band is getting the rest," I told him.
"That's just like them. They were probably like, "well if we get them to sell shirts and we play for free then we will get more money,"" Shikamaru said.
"I'm pretty sure that's what this is," I said with a sigh. "Thanks for getting my stuff by the way."
"You're welcome," he said.
"Well anyways, Gaara, Kiba, Sasuke, and Naruto were just telling us about their Science class," Kankuro said.
"Oh god, what did you guys do now?" I asked. They told me what happened.
"Well as long as you never got in trouble or anything," I said.
"We never," Kiba told me as the bell rang.
"Well I'll see you guys later," I told them, and me and Shikamaru got up and headed to class.