"Sakura, I need to ask you something!" Naruto said, as he pulled her off to the side before she entered the classroom. She sighed.

"What is it Naruto? I don't want to be late-"

"You won't be late! Your class is right here! Anyways, can you get Sasuke to change where the rematch is?" he asked desperately.

"You know he won't. Even if I ask. Why? Afraid of Hiashi?" Sakura replied.

"No, I can't go near him. He'll expel all of you if I do and I think Sasuke knows-" Sakura punched Naruto down the hall.

"Yeah, right. If that was true, how would Sasuke know? He'd have to be there to find out!" Sakura yelled down the hall at him and walking into the classroom, slamming the door behind her.

Naruto stood. "Looks like she won't help. I guess she doesn't want to be in school anymore." Naruto said to himself as he walked back to Kurenai's. "She's right though. Sasuke would only know unless he was there or someone told him. He wasn't with us so someone… but it was just me and Hiashi- Sotaru for a little while but he doesn't know Sasuke. Who could it be?" Naruto pondered, thinking hard.

His phone rang and he saw the number was blocked. Naruto moaned. "Not this again. What does he want?" Naruto answered.

"Yeah? I thought we were done with this?" he asked ignorantly.

Takeshi laughed. "Remember when I told you I'm everywhere?" he asked, making Naruto shiver.

"Yeah and that just makes you a creeper."

"You really do act like a child. First you set Hinata's alarm twenty minutes ahead, getting her yelled at and now you don't even realize you answered your own question." Takeshi replied.

Naruto walked quicker and he could hear Takeshi smile on the other end. "You told Sasuke? But why?" Naruto asked, seeing his classroom.

"I'll tell you another time. I don't want to make you any later for class." With that, Takeshi hung up and Naruto looked around, hoping Takeshi wouldn't come out and grab him.

'Why the hell am I so scared!?' Naruto thought as he ran into his classroom, sitting in his seat.

"Where's your-" Kurenai began, noticing Naruto had entered.

"It wasn't there. Someone must have taken it." He replied and looked at Sasuke a few seats away. Naruto looked back at Kurenai who was faced towards the white board, and crawled on the floor to Sasuke.

"Hey!" Naruto whispered, poking him. Sasuke looked down at him in annoyance.

"What do you want? I'm trying to learn."

"Oh really? You didn't seem too focused on learning in Iruka's!"

"You really pissed me off! Ever say stuff like that again and I will kill you." Sasuke responded.

"You've said that twice now. Are you going to kill me at the Hyuuga's?" Naruto asked, feeling as if something wasn't right. He turned around, seeing the sensei still faced towards the board. He sighed.

Sasuke didn't reply. "Did Takeshi tell you?" Naruto asked. He saw Sasuke twitch and he frowned. "Why Sasuke? Don't you care about our friends at all? You'd get expelled too-"

"I don't care! There's nothing left for me here Naruto. Don't you get it? Orochimaru is leaving the school Thursday and after you and I fight, I'm going too-"

"Don't you know how weird and crazy that sounds!? He's like fifty years old and he wears make-up! He's like a snake… Besides you're only seventeen!" Naruto told Sasuke, trying to convince him to stay.

"Once you grow up and see what's really going on, then you'll understand why I'm going to leave and why Hinata lied to you." Sasuke said, turning his attention back to the front.

Naruto laid on the floor in gloom. "Naruto!" he heard and he sat up, turning around. "What do you think you're doing on the floor?" Kurenai asked in a commanding tone.

Naruto laughed nervously and went back to his seat. "I just dropped my pencil." He lied.

Kurenai shook her head. "You're staying after school-"

"What? Why?" he demanded.

"One: You weren't paying attention. Two: You were goofing off. Three: You lied." Kurenai explained, looking back at the board.

Naruto moaned, and looked at his notebook. "Great. Now I will be grounded." He sighed, beginning to take notes and copy problems.

The rest of the day dragged by slowly and as Naruto walked to the detention room, he got another call from Takeshi. "Just leave me alone! Hinata isn't here for you torture anymore so just go away!" Naruto yelled into the phone, hanging up.

The phone rang again, this time Jiraiya. Naruto answered slowly, taking time to get his self together. "Hello?"

"I was going to ground you after the Hinata thing" Naruto silently thanked God. "But I'm grounding you instead for that video. What were you thinking!?" Jiraiya yelled on the phone.

"Hey, I didn't get detention or anything for it and Sasuke was the one who started it!" Naruto protested.

"Have you seen how many people like his comment?"

"No. Let me guess- 10?" Naruto asked, extremely uncertain.

"Two hundred and nine! You better not even think about going-" Jiraiya's voice was harsh but Naruto didn't care.

"I won't. I swear on my living grave."

"Your living grave?"

"Uh… Yeah. It's this new thing that teenagers say when they promise stuff." Naruto lied.

"I would rather you promise me how everyone does."

"What if I can't keep that promise?" Naruto asked, hoping Jirayai would be fine with that.

"I won't be there the next morning- I'll have scheduled my next tour."

Naruto shrugged. It didn't bother him anymore. 'Does he think I've gotten used to him being around? Heh, it's going to take more than a month to make up for all that lost time.'

"Ok. If that's it, then fine." Naruto replied as he walked into the detention room, hanging up on his godfather.

Naruto slid into his seat, waiting for the teacher to show. "Kiba? You got detention too?" Naruto asked happily as Kiba walked into the room, taking a seat beside him.

"Yeah and before you ask, I was caught trying to prank Asuma." Kiba slumped in his seat, trying to ignore Naruto's stare. "What?" he asked.

"What was your idea?" Naruto asked.

"I was… You know what, never mind. It was really stupid. He just got mad, that's all." Kiba replied.

"Tell me." Naruto insisted.

"Me and Choji were going to switch the metals like nickel and copper with actual nickels and pennies. Choji bailed on me at the last minute."

Naruto laughed. "Ha, that was your plan? That's so stupid!"

"I told you… What would you have done?" Kiba asked.

"I would've smashed the rocks and then tried to glue them back together, putting them back on the shelf so that way when Asuma took them off, they'd fall apart." Naruto smiled happily.

"Idiot, you can't glue rocks together with regular glue. It takes-" Kiba silenced, seeing the overseer of their punishment.

Naruto's jaw dropped. "Here too? Since when are you certified to work as a teacher?" he asked the woman.

She shook her head. "I don't need a teaching degree to be a babysitter. Besides, they've offered me position as principal considering Sarutobi, who was my own principal back when I attended, died. The substitute isn't doing a good job."

"Yeah well, you won't either! You don't know anything about teaching-" Naruto said angrily. He was upset that he would have to deal with her at school now and hoped she wouldn't take the job.

The woman smiled, an evil look in her eye. "I thought we were getting along Naruto. Don't you want me nearby so when you-"

"No Granny, I don't! What about your job at the hospital?"

"Part time there. Oh come on Naruto. Why are you being such a baby? Is it Hinata?" she asked, sitting on the desk.

Kiba swallowed, looking at Naruto and hoping Naruto wouldn't spaz out. A shadow fell over Naruto's eyes, his fists clenched.

"Naruto? I'm sorry-" Tsunade began.

Naruto shook his head and walked out, waiting until he got outside to let the tears fall.