Second chapter

Well, basicly, everyone else is the same age as Naruto, so I'm not gonna bother with the ages this time.


"Kuso!" Two voices yell in unison as Cici waits at the door, holding two pieces of buttered toast in her hands. Majick-Artemis comes running out, biting one, while Naruto bit the other.

"Chew. Swallow, Good, now finish the rest of your toast" the fair-skinned girl instructed.

"M'okay, let's go. What class do we have first?" She looks over at Naruto, her toast in one hand, her books in the other, and a fan attached to her belt at the waist.

"Art… KUSO! NOW WE'RE EVEN LATER THEN BEFORE!" The blonde yells after checking his watch, grabbing the wrists of both girls and running, rather quickly, down the halls…

…And making it to class on time.

"Eh? Oh. Uh… Gomen!" Was all Naruto can come up with as he slides into the classroom ten minutes late, with Artemis crashing into him from behind, and Cici giggling at the pair. The class immediately breaks into whispers.

"Yo. You mind telling the class why you're late?" Kakashi's eyes don't leave the book.

"Well…Uh…Y'see, this giant cat came crawling into my window last night and it was-"

"We slept in" Majick ran a hand through her ponytail.

"Ah, you two must be the new students. Uzumaki, sit down, and the two of you can introduce yourselves." Eyes still glued to the book. Artemis decides that she wants to know what's so great about a little pink novel, and peaks over his shoulder, only to smack him with her fan barely seconds later. "Pervert!"

He just dismisses it as though it happened often… which it did.

Cici coughs and smiles. "Hullo, I'm Cici, and I'm from Canada. I'm fourteen, but in Asia I believe that I'm fifteen, and I'd like to make some friends soon. Other than Majick, at least." This earns a "hey! You meanie!" from her best friend.

"Aiight, you can go sit…" Kakashi looks around a bit, stopping at Neji, thinking up the possibilities, he decides to put her next to him. Why? Because Cici reminds of Hinata, except… No stuttering. "You can go sit in front of Neji," his eye curves with amusment to see the shocked look on Neji's, and everyone else's face.

"And you?"

"Peace." Majick-Artemis makes a peace sign, "I'm Majick-Artemis, I'm violent, and I like my fan." She doesn't wait for Kakashi to tell her where to sit, instead, she just finds the seat closest to Naruto, the one beside him, and sits down.

"Eh? Majick-chan, I want you to sit beside Sasuke, over there," he points to a raven-haired boy near the back corner.

Silence. Kakashi never assigns anyone near Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke is way to cool to be sitting near anyone. So why now? And so we zoom into Kakashi's mind, avoiding the unnecessary areas, and figure out why he's putting Artmes beside Sasuke. The answer? Because I wanna see what happen, with people who have personalities like that. Kakashi is a strange sensei. He makes the one other girl in the class, no, not Cici, glare in utter jealousy.

"Right, so anyway, today we're going to sketch a portrait of your partner using one colour. I'm assigning them, so don't bother." Groans fill the room, as yes, Kakashi sensei loved teaching. And so he partners up everyone in the room, most with people they probably would never work with.

"Dude, I need paper! Aren't you gonna give us anything to draw on?" Majick pulls out her pencil case and takes out her black pen. She looks over to the Uchiha guy, after all, he was her partner, only to find him gone. She looks around the room and see him coming back with two large pieces of sketching paper.

"Oi! You got some!" She takes one of the offered pieces and turns her desk so that facing him. Usually, people would stand to do art, like their teachers would always tell them to, but she found it was so much easier to sit when it was anything other than paint. She takes the cap off her pen and starts drawing the boy in front of her. He looked like a frikkin' emo kid. And a vampire, that worked too. She looks up every once in a while, and sees him using a pencil crayons, all in shades of green. Green was her favourite colour. Damn, he was good. And so the two spent the period sketching each other, both looking up at the other every now and then; and Artemis looked around once to find Cici paired up with the guy sitting behind her, the one with no pupils, and Naruto attempting to draw a girl with insanely pink hair, was it natural?

"Could you tilt your head more to the left?" Wow. The man speaks. She does so, and continues sketching.

Ten minutes before class ends, Artemis finishes her portrait with some red pen added onto the eyes, she then waits for Sasuke to finish, with her head resting on her hand, elbow on the desk. Luckily, he finishes not two minutes after.

And they showed each other their work.

Artmeis looked at the piece. Damn, the guy was good. He even made it look like she was giving off her "Oh-god-you're-so-annoying-stop-wasting-my-time" stare. Damn him. The picture was cut off at the neck by the collar that she wore and was accented in, from what she could tell, six different shades of green. And it looked like her. Wow.

Sasuke raises an eyebrow. The girl drew him as a vampire. The picture was detailed and well done, and looked better than half of what the majority of the class could do. But it was anime. Realistic anime, but anime none the less. Done down to the waist, she had him hold a large cross in one hand, and gave him a cape that covered the rest of his body and swirled around into nothing. But no fangs, probably because she thought it'd make the pic look like crap. He blinked, she gave him red eyes. Damn, she was good.

"Okay, class is over. Hand in your portraits and head out." Kakashi's reading his book, as usual. Everyone hands in their art, grabs their stuff and scurry off to their next class.

"Cici! Wait, I wanna see your drawing!" Artemis runs over to her friend and looks over her shoulder. Cici, Like Majick, also drew in anime, and although her style was quite different, it was still elegant (think Yu Watase's style).

"He looks like a girl!" She smiles along with Cici, who asks to see her picture, so she bounces off to find Sasuke, who had it.

And so everything goes along pretty smoothly, turns out that Naruto drew anime as well, but was the only one before the other two came along. He ended up with a slap from Sakura, his partner, because she didn't like his anime drawing of her, she wanted realism.

"Eh, picky." Artemis says as she opens her new locker, neatly putting away her things except what she needed for her next class, math. Cici's locker, luckily, is right beside hers. And since Cici's always got many cans of pop in her locker, Majick never has to worry about being dehydrated.

Grabbing a Pepsi and a Diet Pepsi, she hands the original to Naruto and opens her sugar-free soda, she's not on a diet, she just thinks that diet tastes better. Cici grabs her things as well, along with a root beer, and follows her two friends down the hallway.

"Oh god…" Naruto looks up from his doodle. Majick-Artemis' eyes were shining with an I-can't-believe-this-stuff-is-ninth-grade-math look. No, it wasn't that it was too easy for her, nope. It was too hard. "Dammit!" She raises her hand.

"Hai?" The sensei asks, "is something wrong?"

"Uh… In Canada, we're not supposed to know this stuff until like… next year…" Artemis looks like an anime character, with all her hand and body language. The class, once again, begins to whisper.

"Well then, I'll just have to assign someone to help you catch up." She looks around, ignoring Naruto's arm waving frantically in the air, "Uchiha-san, would you please help her?"

"WHAAAAAAAT? Why not ME! She's my friend! I can help her!" The blondes pouts.

"Yeah! I've already been paired up with the guy last class!" Artemis looks around and spots Shikamaru, "what about Shika-kun?"

"Good idea. Cici-san, since you're also from Canada, you can go with Nara-san." Cici nods and quietly takes her things over to his desk.

Artemis just lets her head bang onto the table, but slowly collects her things and walks over to the gothic boy soon enough. This creates an aura of hatred and jealousy from the angry girls who were scattered around the room. Dude, rabid fan tension.

And so math class progresses slowly, very, very slowly. It was disrupted quite a few times with Artemis banging her head against the desk, complaining, in English, that she didn't understand it. Of course, nobody except Naruto and Cici understood that and the many swear words she growled along with it. But… Sasuke chuckled? Sasuke never chuckles. He never laughs. He never smiles. And he DOESN'T CHUCKLE. Ever. Everyone in the class instantly stops and stares, even the sensei, for what seemed like eternity, before Artemis asks what's wrong. And since she got a stupid answer, she decides to open her pencil case, and chuck a writing utensil at everyone in the room. Of course, she checks her – well, Sasuke's- watch, grabs her junk, grabs Cici, and stomps out as quickly as quickly as possible, but then ends up sticksing her head back in for a fraction of a second to make sure she didn't miss anyone she threw.

"Argh! I hate him!" Majick and Naruto exclaim at once. The three of them were sitting against they're lockers, drinking their sodas and watching the students walk by.

"Who? That Uchiha guy?" Cici looks up from the novel she's reading; the passers by stare in wonder at it, they've never seen an English book before.

"Hai, he's so…" Majick is at a loss of words as her head hits her knees, and waves her book around, "I dunno… Gothic?"

"Aywsafdudseewstukuutersmthin" Naruto mumbles through his hands, which are covering his face, because he still can't believe that they didn't pair him up with one of his best friends.

"Sh'mo?" Majick said. Only Cici would know that sh'mo meant what?, but Naruto must've figured that out himself, because he replied.

"I was afraid you'd say that he was cute or something," opens his soda and drinks half of it.

"Why? Am I supposed to?" She whacks him over the head with her empty can.

"You and Cici must be almost the only girls I've ever met who haven't said anything about his looks yet, and you don't even think he's cute!" he puts an arm around either of them, "that's why I love you guys so much, you're not shallow!" and the few girls who're passing by shoot heavy glares at him.

"Artemis is a non-sexual. She loves all, and she hates even more. She's never actually fallen in love before, and she doubts she ever will… But the girls are right, Uchiha-san is kinda cute... Except…" Cici pauses and looks at Majick.

"I thought he was a girl the first time I saw him." She finishes for her.

Naruto sweatdrops and would've fallen over, had he not already been sitting in the first place.

"It's true" Artemis shoves her empty can into Naruto's pocket. She then decides to check the watch of a random passer by, and finds out that English class is next. So she grabs the othe two and drags them, and their binders, to random classrooms until Naruto directs her to the right place.

"So anyway, then she was all like, what!, and…" the loud chatter dies down as Majick, Cici, and Naruto come in. Cici just sighs and walks over to the teacher to introduce herself.

"Eh, why are they staring?" Artemis whispers to her blonde friend, finding an empty seat near his.

"Either because we're speaking to each other in English, or the fact that you've already gotta reputation," he looks around the room. Majick notes that the pink-haired girl is also in this class, along with an extremely skinny blonde with her long hair tied in a ponytail. They both glare at her with heated anger.

"What? Because the teachers keep on pairing me up with the emo kid over there?" She points over to the opposite corner, where Sasuke is sitting, "is he always in your class? And… why do you and him always sit in… the same seats?" She looks over at Naruto, and then back to Sasuke. The blonde was always on the back right corner of the room, and the Uchiha was always on the back left.

"I dunno, want some Pocky?" He shrugs and pulls out a box of strawberry Pocky, which causes Artemis to forget whatever she was talking about. Cici joins the two moments later, also stealing some Pocky from the spikey-haired boy.

"Alright class, today I'd like you all to welcome-" The teacher is interrupted halfway.

"They know us, it's okay!" Majick said as she made an attempt to grab the last Pocky stick.

"Oh. Well then…" And so the class wore on.

Majick-Artemis, was hit over the head with something small and pointy halfway through the lesson. Of course, she didn't really mind, she wasn't paying attention, leave that to Cici, she understand Kanji better. She looks around the classroom and finds a boy sitting nearby, staring at her. Just staring. She hadn't seen him when she came in, he must've been late, maybe he came when she was asleep a few minutes ago.

"Naruto'kun, who's he?"

"Eh? Oh, that's just Gaara, he's my best friend… eh, other than you, of course… You're sitting in his seat right now…" The blonde sweatdrops and twirls his pencil.

"Oh, really? My bad," she turns back to the redhead and gives him a toothy smile. He doesn't bat an eyelash. So she takes her things and moves to the seat in front of her, beside Cici.

The boy mutely packs up his things and makes toward his desk… But then the class ends, so he just stands there and waits, probably for Naruto.

"Gaara, stop scaring my friends!" Naruto points towards Cici, who's slightly shaking. Artemis, however, just slings her arm around her best friend's shoulder and leads her out of the room, an amused look on her face the entire time.

"Gah, I'm starving! How come lunch is after three periods? In junior high it was after four, and I heard it's only after two in high school…" Artemis complains after five minutes of roaming the halls.

"We're going to the cafeteria to get some lunch right now, Majick, calm down!" Naruto pats her on the back while Gaara just…stares.

Majick looks over and the redhead and makes to poke him, wondering if he'll react. And he does, of course, Artemis keeps her fingers intact because she pulls back quick enough, "hi! I'm Majick-Artemis, and this is Cici," she bops Cici on the head, "you're Gaara?"

He nods, and just that moment, the four turn the corner and crash into two others.

"Omigawd! You just made Sasuke-kun fall! How dare you!" The girl with pink hair, Sakura, points her finger accusingly at Artemis and Naruto, who were sprawled one on top of the other, with poor Sasuke squished underneath. It wasn't the nose-touching-romantic type, either. Neji's also smushed, right under Cici, this, however, is a romantic nose-touching one.

Majick pulls herself up and then leans against the wall. Gaara, who somehow refrained from falling, helped Naruto up. Artemis looks at Cici, and chuckles, this'd be funny; she then looks at the crowd of girls yelling at her. Pshht. Damn rabid fan girls, so annoying. Then she spots someone in there who wasn't yelling at her, and seemed to be trying to make it through the crowd without being trampled. So she grabs the girl's arm, gives a tug, and drags her out; she mutters a small "thank you", and then runs over to where Neji and Cici are.

"N-Neji? A-Are you o-okay?" She stutters and tries to help Neji off, who's blushing to the fullest extent, "Neji, you're blushing, I-I've never seen you blush before…" She tries to hide a smile, but it comes through.

Flustered, the raven-haired boy pushes a tomato-red Cici off him and hastily walks off.

The stuttering girl just starts to giggle.

"Waaaaah! You made Sasuke-kun FALL! You witch!" The fan girls are still screaming, but are silenced when Sasuke gives them a mean glare.

"Eh? Didn't mean to crash into you, Uchiha." Artemis pats him on the back and then grabs Cici, "okay, now… To the cafeteria!" She bounds off in a random direction, and then pops her head back around the corner, sweatdropping, "eh, I dunno the way…" So Naruto and Gaara lead the way.

"Oi, Uzumaki!" A boy starts running in their direction, but stops at the sight of Gaara. Cici notes the red marks on his face.

"Hi, Kiba!" The blonde waves and then motions to the girl from before, apparently, she had followed them, "Hinata, say hello to your boyfriend!" Which causes her to blush like a rose, but give a small wave.

"Wow, Cici, didn't think I'd ever find someone who used to be like you…" Artemis looks from Hinata to Cici, then back, "well, you guys still kinda act the same, though…" Cici whacks her over the head, something she had caught on from her a long time ago.

Thus is the meeting of Kiba, who was soon followed by Chouji, whom was Shikamaru's friend.

"THE CAFETERIA!" Majick-Artemis yells into Naruto's ear after a while, she was hungry.

So they go to the cafeteria, a place filled with the delicious smell of good food. Unfortunately, it's also a battle zone, where the students duke it out for a piece of lunch. So Majick grabs Cici, tells the others to save them seats, and walks into the crowd. Seconds later, it disperses, and a smug looking Artemis comes out with two trays, filled to the rim with edibles, as does Cici.

"How…?" Shikamaru raises an eyebrow, the only people who were known to be able to clear a lunchroom crowd like that was Sasuke, using his bad-boy looks, Neji, just by glaring, and Gaara, because he could kill.

"Did I ever tell you guys how well I can punch? And how strong she is?" She ruffles Cici's hair, and takes a bite out of a blueberry muffin.

Everyone just mentally puts the two on their list of lunchroom crowd dispersers and grab something from the tray.

"Hey! You two!" Sakura and her friend, whom they found out was Ino, come strutting up to Naruto and Artemis, "we demand that you guys apologize to Sasuke-kun for pushing him down today!"

Both raising an eyebrow, they say in unison, "or what?"

This leads to an amount of gasps from the two girls, "or… I'll never talk to you again, Naruto!" Sakura crosses her arms and pouts.

"Eh? No, Sakura-chan! Don't do that!" The blonde wails, but then gets hits over the head by something hard. It was Majick's fan.

"You're an idiot." She whacks him again. "Geez, if you're so cooked up about it…" So she gets up, grabs another muffin, and walks over to the other side of the room, dragging Naruto with her

"Yo, Uchiha! Sorry for falling on you back there. You better forgive me." She sticks her tongue out at him, "okay Uzumaki, you're turn" but she whacks him on the back to hard, so the blonde goes flying forward… And ends up locking lips with Sasuke.


So, what d'you think?

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