Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Okay, so right now, it should be about March/April kinda setting.

And I'm sorry for not updating earlier! I had lots of tests and work... Since I'm starting high school next year, I'm probably not going to update as often now... Registration sucks donkey balls! :( And yes, I know, I rarely update as it is... Well, you guys'll just have to get used to it, I guess... I'm not sure how much I can update from June to September (summer break), so we'll see in a few months...

Sazuko POV

Snow and rain are nice. But not the mud in the morning that's a result of it.

"Stupid...damn...mud...," I cursed under my breath, shaking the wet dirt off of my combat boots, taking care not to get it onto my black jeans. Walking to school after a rain shower sucks. Especially when you're going to be fighting like hell to survive at school.

Long story short, today we start eliminating people for the school wars. And sometimes, the losers do die.

After trudging through the mud and finally arriving at the school, I met Gaara in front of the gate. We don't walk to school together any more, since after the first few weeks, people started asking questions that neither of us wanted to answer. So we just meet in front of the school gate now, but we sometimes walk home together (He still comes over occasionally).

"Hey," I called out in greeting. He nodded back in reply. "How's Shukaku today?"

"Fine," he said curtly. "He's still kind of twitchy, but he doesn't seem to want to come out so much now. He hasn't come out since February."

I nodded in approval. "Good." I reached over and gave him a quick peck on the cheek, instantly causing him to turn a light shade of red. For some reason, he still hasn't gotten over me kissing him yet.

As soon as we went into the school gates, I caught a quick peek of Sasuke and Naruto in a heavy make-out session against the lockers, Sasuke pressing Naruto back. Now it was my face to turn red, but for a different reason, obviously. At least Naruto accepts Sasuke's affection. I couldn't say the same for Tenten. All of us knew that Neji likes her, and she likes him back, but for some reason, she keeps denying it. How could a girl so talented in martial arts be so blind to love? My goal for the last half of this year was to get them together.

"Is something wrong?" Gaara's deep rumble snapped me out of my thoughts.

"N-no..." I stuttered out. Catching Gaara's skeptical glance, I sighed and explained, "I just saw Sasuke and Naruto making out. Against the lockers. And Sasuke's hand was in a pretty inappropriate place. And school is starting in less than three minutes."

The redhead seemed to get where I was going with my train of thought, because he said, "Oh," and left it at that. A sheet of silence covered us for the next minutes as we went to our lockers to get the necessary items for our classes.

"Let's just hope they make it to Art on time." I sighed.


My hopes were in vain. They didn't make it to first period, nor second. They came to third period (well, only Naruto, since I had third period with him) in the last few minutes.

"I'm...sorry... I was...busy," Naruto panted out as he came to class. His cheeks were flushed and his hair was a mess. Luckily, his clothes were clean and not that ruffled.

"Get your notes from your classmates after class. Make sure this doesn't happen again," came the sharp, clipped voice of Mr. Yamato. I heard a couple of snickers from his friends, Kiba and Sakura, since they could assume what Naruto had been going through the last hour or so. Let's just say that the blond now knows the janitor's closet fairly well.

Since class was almost over, all three of us packed our stuff and walked over to the still blushing blond.

"How was it?" Sakura asked eagerly. Even though she was in a relationship with Kankuro, she still had a strong bond with Naruto. And, what girl could reject yaoi?

"S-Sakura!" Naruto stuttered. "Not now!"

"Why not? I'm curious too!" I urged.

Kiba nodded in agreement. "C'mon, blondie, spill it! We want details! Who was bottom?"

Naruto gave us all a glare before finally replying, "I was bottom this time...but that Sasuke better watch out for tomorrow!" His reply rose in sound, thus causing a few yaoi fangirls around us to start squealing. I could've sworn I heard the words "video record" echo a couple times.

I sighed. Much as I love the blond knucklehead, he really didn't know when he should shut up and listen, and when he can yell. This was one of the times he should've kept his voice down.

Luckily, the bell rang, saving the blond from a torrent of questions that would have attacked him.


Lunchtime.

Sure, it was just lunchtime, nothing big. It happened every day, 180 days a school year.

But today, it was the announcements of who made the cut, as well as the match-ups. Last year, I had to go against Suigetsu the first round. I didn't know him that well, so I had nothing against beating him up. But this year, I have more friends. If I get paired against one of them...

"Alright, brats, listen up!"

...there went Ms. Tsunade. Always loud and rude.

Everyone at my friends' and my lunch table turned around to pay attention. Ms. Tsunade never really like this event, but it was a tradition at our school, so what can we do about it? Besides, most people enjoy doing this anyways.

"You know what day it is, so I'm just going to cut the chase. We're going to do things a bit differently this year... I'm not going to tell you who made it! You'll just have to know one day prior, when I announce the match-ups..." She broke off to start laughing manically, accompanied by complaints by some of the students closer to her. Even from so far, I could tell she's drunk.

"Is she always this drunk?" Gaara muttered from my right. His warm breath on my ear caused me to shiver a bit.

"Usually. Now shut up, let me listen." I took the sting out of my words by giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Tomorrow's first battle... Neji versus Tenten!"

*le gasp* What's going to happen? How's Sazuko going to get Neji and Tenten together? What will happen?

Oh, and send in some OC's for the school war! With descriptions, or I'll just use the name you give :P

Reviews would be honored and worshipped for the next month...