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Only Secret, crazy-antman, starry096, Alana-StarSugarCat, Azamiko I'm glad you liked it.
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Wraith a straight pervert wouldn't use such a jutsu on other straight perverts. Then again he's twelve on the show so I really don't think we can judge. Anyway I tend to lean both ways when it comes to Naruto pairings; unlike Sasuke I buy it when he is paired with males and females as long as the pairing itself is believable.
Queen Dopplepoppleous hmmm… I don't think there is such a thing as a lame review they all make me happy. I was going to try to add that in but I think I may have gone a bit overboard on pairings so I might not. I hope you like this chapter as well.
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AxFaTaLxiLLuSioN thanks. Yeah about the profile, the homework assignment mentioned was one I did at like four in the morning and I amused myself so much that I posted it. The real reason I don't really like St. Pat's day is because I'm not Irish and a lot of my friends when I was younger were so I always felt left out; plus I don't see why we need a holiday as an excuse to get drunk. Happy late birthday by the way.
Thanks to all my reviewers I'm glad you're all still enjoying it and find it amusing. I'm trying here but school is hectic I get out this Friday so updates will pick up then. Till the next chapter enjoy and I hope you all have non hectic lives unlike me.
This story is AU (Sasuke's still there) starting after about chapter 177 of the manga that means there will be spoilers if you haven't gotten that far. Information about the past five years will be told throughout the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
B regular stuff
B internal thoughts and such
Picture Day
"So has anyone seen them?" Kiba asked Neji and TenTen as the three walked through the halls of the Academy.
"Not since this morning," TenTen answered despondently. She hadn't had nearly enough fun with Naruto and Sasuke yet. "Why are we here again?" she asked after a moment, gaining an amused chuckle from Neji.
"We're seeing if Hinata wants to come with us to lunch," Kiba replied.
"But it's like three in the afternoon," TenTen said in confusion.
Kiba rolled his eyes at her and Neji was tempted to pat the poor girl on the head. He resisted the urge and instead turned to Kiba and asked, "Did you really find Naruto sleeping in a tree?" Kiba began cracking up; Neji took that as a yes.
"So we're gonna go look for them after this late lunch right?" TenTen pleaded.
Kiba nodded. "Yeah, Chouji and the others should be finished by then so we'll have more help," he said.
"How are Kakashi and Sakura fairing during all this?" TenTen asked; she hadn't seen the two Jounin since early that morning when she had corralled Sasuke for them.
"They seem to be having the time of their lives," Neji responded, glancing at the room number of the classroom they had just passed. When they arrived at the next classroom, Kiba poked his head in before turning back to the others and grinning. The three paraded in and stood near the back as Hinata lectured her class on the history of Konoha.
She glanced up in the middle of her lecture and nodded to her friends in the back. "I'll be finished in half an hour," she said before returning her attention to the students.
Kiba, TenTen, and Neji took the empty seats in the back while they waited for her to finish. The three listened silently to her as she recounted the early years of the last war with Stone. After several minutes TenTen and Kiba's attention began to drift. TenTen turned to gaze out the window as she wondered where Naruto was so she could torture her runty captain. Actually he isn't so runty anymore; she thought thinking back to the previous day's run in. Seriously how did I not realize he had a body until after I learned he was gay? She despaired. She glanced sideways at Neji before and grinned, that's why, she thought to herself.
Kiba was just as bored and distracted as TenTen. "You know," he whispered, leaning over towards Neji, "I remember Iruka-sensei giving us this exact same lecture," he said.
"Mizuki-sensei gave it to us," TenTen said, snapping out of her daze and turning to the other two.
"Yeah I remember cause me, Naruto, Chouji, and Shikamaru all snuck out of class that day because it was really boring," Kiba said, causing a few of the students in front of them to turn around in awe.
"I wish I had been able to, but Mizuki-sensei locked the doors and windows to stop us from getting out," TenTen stated, slumping down a bit in her seat.
In front of the class Hinata paused momentarily to glance at her cousin and friends. Their increasingly loud conversation was beginning to distract her class and she wanted to finish up for the day. "Pay attention class," she said nicely, causing her students to look at her bashfully.
"Hey you know he was like executed a few years ago, right?" Kiba said to the other two. The children in front of him stiffened slightly but remained as attentive as possible.
"Really?" TenTen asked.
"Why?" Neji added.
"I'm not really sure I didn't hear about till Naruto mentioned it, but I think he broke some decree and the Hokage thought it was serious enough to act against," Kiba said shrugging.
"Hmmm… maybe it was because he was such a boring teacher," TenTen replied giggling.
One of the little girls in front of her gasped and turned around with wide-eyes. "Kana-chan," Hinata said, causing the little girl to turn around politely. "Neji nii-san, Kiba-kun, TenTen-chan," she added smiling politely, causing all three to look up at her curiously. "You're frightening my students," she said.
"Sorry, we'll be quiet," TenTen said apologetically.
Hinata smiled at her class and continued. She had begun talking about the peace talks when Kiba leaned over to TenTen and whispered, "I don't remember this part."
"You must have been gone by the time Iruka-sensei got to it," she whispered back grinning.
"You said Naruto went with you?" Neji asked.
"Yeah we used to sneak out of class all the time," Kiba responded.
One of the younger boys in front of them turned around in awe. "You didn't get caught?" he asked.
"Sure we did," Kiba responded a bit too loudly. "We used to get detention all the time," he added, "but it was worth it because we never had to listen to the lectures."
At the front of the classroom Hinata took a deep breath and looked back at Kiba and the others. They were making her day very difficult and what should have been a brief lecture was taking much longer because they kept distracting her students. "Kiba-kun," she said with a slight warning in her voice. Her teammate looked up a bit startled and bowed slightly in apology. Alright Hinata calm down, she thought as she took another deep breath and went on with the lecture.
"If Naruto skipped class so often how does he expect to become Hokage?" Neji asked, smirking at the other two. The last two rows in the room were completely ignoring Hinata in favor of listening to the conversation going on in the back of the room.
"Because he can kick our asses," Kiba suggested, causing Neji to scowl a bit.
"Class," Hinata said with a slightly strained voice. Several of her students turned back around but the more troublesome ones were blatantly ignoring her.
"Strength isn't everything he has to have some intelligence," TenTen said back.
Kiba snorted and shook his head at the other two. "Yeah right, Naruto has Tsunade-sama wrapped around his little finger. She's so desperate to retire she's practically torturing him into taking the job," he scoffed at them.
"So the next Hokage has already been chosen," one of the students said, looking at them curiously.
"Of course it's been guaranteed for years that Naruto would be Tsunade-sama's successor," Kiba replied.
"Kiba," Hinata said a bit more forcefully in an attempt to regain her class's attention. Unfortunately they continued to ignore her.
"So we can skip class and still become really good shinobi," one of the students said slyly.
"Yeah, sure," Kiba replied offhandedly much to Hinata's horror.
"So, anyw-" Kiba said before being cut off.
"Would the three of you take your conversation outside, so my class and I can actually get something done instead of listening to you prattle on about how insignificant their education is?" Hinata shouted, losing her temper. The room fell silent after the normally timid girl's out burst, and she immediately slapped her hands over her mouth. Her students turned to look at their sensei in shock, but the most thunderstruck were the three the rant had been aimed at.
Of course that didn't stop Neji from cracking up a moment later. Hinata whimpered slightly and covered her entire face with her hands. "It isn't funny," she whispered a moment later. Neji attempted to stop his laughter but this only caused TenTen to begin giggling as well. A moment later she was on the floor laughing hysterically and Hinata looked around desperately.
Kiba took pity on his ex-teammate and scratched the back of his head nervously. "Sorry about that Hinata-chan," he replied, causing several of the girls in the class to giggle. Their response only served to embarrass Hinata further. Kiba misunderstood her reaction and walked up to the front of the class. He got down on both knees and clasped his hands together as if begging before he began actually begging in a very overdramatic scene. "Oh great Hinata-sensei can you ever forgive your humble ex-teammate for his most grievous insult to your wonderful teaching abilities?" he asked dramatically.
"I think he's been spending too much time around Lee and Gai-sensei," TenTen mumbled.
The girls began giggling more as their sensei blushed darkly. Kiba looked around desperately trying to find inspiration to help him pacify Hinata, finally he grinned up at her. "I promise I'll make it up to you by buying you lunch," he said brightly. A chorus of "oooh" went up around the classroom and Hinata looked and her students horrified. Kiba took her silence as yes and jumped up excitedly. "It's a date then," he said, walking back to the back of the room, "We'll wait outside till your done," he added, pulling Neji and TenTen with him.
The moment he closed the door, Kana-chan turned to her sensei with grin. "Hinata-sensei has a date," she squealed.
Hinata looked at her class desperately before giving up. "Class dismissed," she mumbled, "I'll finish this lecture tomorrow."
Once her class exited Hinata collapsed at her desk and began banging her head on its surface.
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Once they had exited the classroom Neji wiped the smirk off his face and turned on Kiba. "Did you just ask Hinata on a date," he said.
"I suppose I did," Kiba quipped back coolly.
TenTen giggled at Neji's over protectiveness. "Did either of you know she could yell like that?" she asked, breaking the tension between them.
"What's going on out here?" Iruka asked from the door of his classroom.
Kiba turned to him grinning. "Hinata-sensei yelled at us because we misbehaved, and we were sent out here to wait for our punishment," he replied as sincerely as possible.
Iruka rolled his eyes. "Right. Well whatever it is just keep it down a bit," he said before turning back around.
Neji caught a glimpse of yellow and black in the classroom and suddenly remembered that Iruka had become headmaster of the Academy three years ago. As headmaster he no longer taught classes, which meant that he had no real reason to be in a classroom. Oh well, I'll leave them be for another hour or so, he thought before turning back to Kiba.
A moment later students began filing out including many giggling young girls glancing at a smirking Kiba. Neji rolled his eyes at his behavior.
They waited for Hinata to follow her class but instead heard a slight banging noise coming from inside the classroom. Kiba poked his head inside just in time to see Hinata drop her head onto her desk once more. "Oi, don't do that," he said walking inside. "It wasn't that bad," he added trying to calm her, "and now I know first hand that you're a good teacher."
After one last head bang Hinata looked up exasperatedly. "Let's just go get lunch," she said standing up. Kiba nodded enthusiastically and led the way out of the classroom.
AN: This doesn't have much to do with story. Actually this really belongs in a different story that I'm going to start writing but I didn't think it would fit there so I put in here. It works don't you think? Hope you enjoy, next chapter we'll see more of Team 7 now that all the other Teams have finished shopping.
I have to say that while writing the past several chapters, especially this one, TenTen is now my favorite character. I don't have a clue what she's like in the series because there is no real character development for her, but I find her really fun to write as she is in this.