Kalivax: Yuppers! I am baaaack! I've been so caught up with school and Live journal that-sigh- just don't ask. Well, This thing was brewing in the back of my mind and darn it! It was killing me so I decided to post it, I'm actually thinking of changing this to GaaNaru and SasuShino, but, ah well...slacker...hate my IB US History...I should probably get on with the fic...Oh! thanks for all of you who left those lovely reviews! This chapter is going to be abit longer than others-hopefully...by the way, Thanks to Steffie who got me into Gokusen!

Ogenki desu ka?

by: The shonen-ai Shinobi Kalivax

Uzumaki Naruto slept soundly. His huge feathery bed seemed to cradle his lithe form. Hair mussed from a good night's rest, whole body tucked under the covers, his head the only visible body part...he was a perfect angel. The pillow that hit him was absolutely merciless. Naruto blinked his baby blue eyes, ears slowly perking up. "Phwee?" he cooed softly, rubbing his eyes. That was such an odd dream. Being taken from D, going to some house with some weird pink-haired fan girl and her bodyguard, and ending up as a pet to a weird, rude, annoying, waste of-

"Get up allready! School's about to start!"...oh...riiight...it wasn't a dream...damn.

"Now? its only-" Naruto began yawning, falling back onto his bed spread eagle."6:30 am, the ride to school takes two hours and our ride arrives in exactly forty minutes, get dressed and come downstairs or else I'm feeding your breakfast to the lawn." Sasuke cut in, dropping his weapon on Naruto's face. Naruto made some grumbling noises under the pillow, some of which sounded suspiciously as if he was trying to describe Sasuke with 'sentence-enhancers'. Sasuke rolled his eyes. You'd think that because of last night events, that Sasuke would be trying to woo over his 'pet', but honestly, it wasn't in his nature, what was though, was too constantly annoy and poke fun of him.

"Loser, get up allready or else you're finding your own ride," Sasuke began and was about to gripe some more when Gaara came in and tossed Naruto his uniform. "There's someone here for you," he stated monotonely. "Oh, Gaara?" Naruto pushed the pillow of his face and beamed at the red-headed boy, "Good Morning." Gaara blinked. "Let whomever it is in," Sasuke interjected, making his presence known. Gaara turned to face Sasuke and regarded him silently before replying: "Do it yourself." And walked out. Naruto tilted his head and shrugged it off. "I wonder who he was talking abou-" he started, when a blur of pink burst in.

"Ohayo Gozaimasu! Sasuke-kun! Naruto-san!"

"Sakura!"

"Sakura-chan!"

And Sakura it was, dressed head to toe ready for school. She hugged Naruto affectionately and then smiled amused at Sasuke: "How was your first night together?" Sasuke turned beet red. "SAKURA!" he exploded. Sakura just giggled and then noticed Naruto's uniform. "Oh! Naruto-san! we'll be classmates!" she was about to hug the blond bishie again, when moment was interrupted when they heard Lee yell from outside(1).

"SAKURA-SAN! WE HAVE TO HURRY! WE'LL BE LATE!"

Sakura let go of Naruto and scowled. "Mouhe needs to stop treating me like a kid, I know allready, what a nag," she muttered, pouting, then turned and smirked, "I'll see you two at school ok? till next time! Jaa!" and with a final embrace to both parties, she was off. "That was fast, don't you thin-" Naruto mused, but then stopped when he noticed Sasuke leaving the room, "what a jerk, you could at least let me finish my thought!" Biting his lip he turned and glared at 'his' uniform. Fingering the black cloth, he cast one last look to Sasuke's escape. With a resigned sigh he gathered it up and began to try and figure out how to put it on-he would be damned if he had to rely on Sasuke for that!(2)

Sasuke walked past Shikamaru who was allready in his clothes. He nodded to Sasuke and cast a eye over to Naruto's room. "He goin' to my school or yours?" he contemplated aloud, more to himself than Sasuke. Sasuke shrugged. "Where do you think?" he retorted, as he walked past. Shikamaru scowled. He could never to this day figure out, why Ino liked that egotistic jerk. "Whatever, I'm sure he'll get kicked out of St. Roy's soon enough," he announced, equally non-chalant, knowing well enough he was in hearing distance. Sasuke faltered, then grunted.

"We'll see about that..."

After being yelled at by Sasuke and barely having any breakfast, Naruto was having a bad morning. He was tired and hungry damn it! And Sasuke's little inputs weren't exactly welcome. The morning itself was ugly cloudy and murky, its humidity was apparent. He slumped against his seat in the limo. Apparently there was a seating system for the limo, students of Elric brothers sat facing Students of St. Roy's. Why? He had no bloody idea-what he did know was Neji's blank stare across from him was more than a little un-nerving. It wasn't helped that he was sandwiched between Gaara and Sasuke, who were both eerily quiet. The only noise seemed to be coming from the car itself since even the radio was off. This silence was grating on Naruto's last nerve...when was this day going to end? He just wanted to go back to the house and sleep……

"Oi," Naruto looked up to see Shikamaru looking questiongly at him. "What?" he answered, glad that the silence was broken, even in its place was just complaining on Shikamaru's part. "You're going to St. Roy's right? can you do me a favor-" three sets of eyes glowered at Shikamaru, who in turn rolled his eyes, "it's not like that. I need you to give a girl there something, here-" Shikamaru handed a letter to Naruto, "give this to Hyuuga Hinata, tell her its from Inuzuka Kiba and he wants a reply." Naruto took the letter and looked at him confused. "Why doesn't he just give it to her himself?" he asked in reply, oblivious. Shikamaru just looked back at him. "Are you serious? you don't know why?" Shikamaru wondered, again more to himself than to other party, "wow, that's a first." Naruto just ignored Shikamaru's comments and continued his inquiry.

"Well? why? why not just call her instead? what's the big deal? he likes her right? is he shy?" Naruto pressed on. Shikamaru was about to explain when Sasuke launched in, 'annoyed' by the pestering on his 'pet's part: "Its because she's from the main part of the Hyuuga family and he's from the 'lowly' Inuzuka family." "So, they're from different families, it be a bit creepy if they were from the same family-" Naruto began, but Gaara interjected: "It's because her family has a higher social status, because she's rich she's only allowed to be with the same type of people-old money and the Inuzuka maybe rich, but they aren't as prestigious, they're considered dirty and rude. Each family finds something wrong with the other, because of that they're always separated from each other. The only way they keep in contact is through secret meetings and letters, anything else would be too risky." There was silence.

"That's retarded."

All of them looked down at Naruto who was fuming. "Why should it matter if he's really rich or not? if they're happy it's ok right?" he argued. "It's not that simple, happiness doesn't matter in this world, what does is the amount of stock you have and continuing your blood-line," Neji cut-off, his eyes full of loathing, "the main family's only concern is that their precious estate is looked after so they can continue living comfortably." "Neji?" Naruto questioned at the sudden change in his attitude, worry clearly in his eyes. The limo stopped as if on cue.

"Don't forget to give the letter to Hinata," Shikamaru ordered and shuffled out after Neji as soon as the door opened, "and make sure no one see's you." The door closed after that and after a few brief moments the limo picked up speed again and the limo resumed its silence. "That's it, its too crowded, I'm sitting in their seats." Naruto said aloud, needing to hear some noise and promptly unbuckled and sat on the other side. "Hey, its pretty comfortable over here," he declared and decided to lie down. "What're you doing? get back here you idiot," Sasuke hissed, "that's only for Elric Brothers' students." "Watch me care," Naruto grumbled and closed his eyes preparing for a nap, "I'm starving and way too tired, wake me up when we get there."

Sasuke looked around and was about to throw his bag at him when the sun decided to enter through the tinted windows and highlight his features. Sasuke dropped the bag and decided to turn away. Damn him. he cursed mentally blushing, while Gaara watched Naruto's movements out of the corner of his eye...

Naruto was having a wonderful dream about a school built entirely of sweets and a had a ramen moat. He was about to dig into the gum-drop gym when something hard and heavy whacked his head. He was jarred awake immediately and looked around. Sasuke was frowning at him. "Get up we're here already," he was ranting. Naruto just rubbed his eyes and let out a small yawn. He then sleepily scuttled out and tripped, falling into Gaara's awaiting arms. "Eh? oh, arigato Gaara," he straightened and then looked up. He just gaped as he looked up at a loss for words. The school was amazingly huge, from its solid ash doors to its many statues littering the huge front perfect grass lawn. "It's so big..." he gasped. Sasuke's mind decided to provide an image to Naruto's words and he choked turning red. "Uh...of course what do you expect? what's with your hair? let me fix it." He combed his hands through those soft spikes of gold and noticed that Gaara was looming behind them still, among other people.

"Kyaa! It's Uchiha-san!"

"Ohmigawd! Where!"

"Like, let me at him!"

"Where's my future husband!"

Sasuke stopped and then immediately barked some orders to Naruto. "We're in the same classes, I have to go, you look for Sakura or finish your errand, which ever, if you need help go look for me in the library." and with that the fan girls spotted Sasuke who dashed quickly past them, the girls followed soon enough. Naruto noticed Gaara about to walk away and he smiled and latched onto his arm. "Gaara, can you help me please? I don't know how to get around this school yet," he moaned, pleading. Gaara looked away and nodded. Naruto beamed and together they walked through the thresh-hold.

Naruto just stood wide-eyed. If this school looked big to him outside, it was enormous inside. It was elaborately decorated and it was amazing how little people there were. He now understood what Sakura meant by exclusive. There were two problems though, he and Gaara had yet to find Sakura and he didn't even know what Hinata looked like. "OiGaara, what does Hinata look like?" he inquired, as they walked into the huge central courtyard. "Like Neji." Gaara stated monotone, Naruto frowned-did she really? "she's usually here." Naruto spotted a timid looking girl reading on a bench near the huge center water fountain that depicted Hero and Lysander. Her head was bent and she seemed to be trying to hide her face with a curtain of long midnight blue shoulder length hair. "Is that her?" he gestured to the girl, who was by herself. Gaara nodded and was half dragged as Naruto rushed over to the girl.

"Oi! are you Hinata?" he demanded, casting his shadow over her, causing her in turn to look up. Pure white eyes blinked as they suddenly found themselves in a blue ocean. She turned away. "Erm, well, yes, demo-"she began to stutter, but then she noted the letter he thrust to her face, "Kiba!" She grabbed it quickly and held it to her chest blushing. She opened it and read it rather quickly. Letting out a sigh of relief, she placed the note in her book and turned to the pair before her, a genuine smile on her face. "Arigato Gozimasu, I was so worried about him," she explained, closing the book and getting up, "both of our parents have been very severe on us, mine have even had my phone calls tapped into." Hinata let out a sad sigh, her smile fading. Naruto glanced at Gaara and then shocking both, hugged Hinata.

"Why would someone want that badly to interfere? it's your life, not your parents'," Naruto growled, when he let go of her she saw something burning in her eyes. It startled her a bit. Why was this complete stranger getting worked up over something she had to deal with? Who was he? That's when she noted Naruto's tail flicker in agitation. "Naruto," Gaara placed a hand on his shoulder, albeit a little awkwardly. Hinata blinked, now taking in all of Naruto's appearance.

A half-demon! she realized, eyes widening. Suddenly the bell interrupted her thoughts. "What was that?" Naruto wondered tilting his head. Gaara rolled his eyes and took Naruto's hand and dragged him away. It then hit Hinata she had never asked the boy's name...

Naruto nursed his aching arm, Gaara had practically pulled it from its socket when he took him away from Hinata. Apparently he, Gaara, and Sasuke were in the same class. But Naruto was too busy taking the classroom's atmosphere. It was a huge room with posters of the world plastered all over the walls, a gemstone globe sat on the teacher's huge walnut desk. All the other desks seemed normal enough but, Naruto noticed on closer inspections of Gaara's that it had many compartments, enough room to hide three textbooks and laptop. There were huge windows with girls giggling as they crowded at one seat in the corner, as the murky weather outside worsened. Sakura-chan was still no where in sight, Lee for that matter also.

"Oi, Oi, class settle down," a voice commanded as a man with a cigarette in his mouth, came in. The girls dispersed and Naruto could see (or rather feel) Sasuke's glaring eyes upon him. Naruto looked around. Where was he supposed to sit? "You," Naruto looked up to the man gesturing for him up in the front of the classroom. "Yes?" Naruto asked, in reply. "You must be the new 'special' one, all right, hold on," The man rapped on his desk and the classroom grew silent. All eyes were on Naruto and him. ""Ok, class, this is Uzumaki Naruto he's a new transfer student, treat him well," the man commanded and turned to Naruto, "I'm Asuma, refer to me as Asuma-sensei, sit next to Gaara." Naruto nodded and with almost a skip was at his desk, eager and ready to learn-it had to be interesting, after all if the school's interesting, the stuff it teaches has to be too, right?

Naruto whimpered pitifully. Next to him, Sakura patted his head, sympathetically. "You poor thing, you really didn't expect school to be this hard did you?" she stated as Lee sat down next to her, setting lunches before them. Naruto looked up and asked desperately: "Is it too late to go to the other school?"

Lalalala sprays magic fairy dust-+

1) Aww… the Lee and Sakura fluff waves are devouring me whole, they're one of my fav hetero couples!

2) Naruto's a bit proud isn't he?

Well, kiddies I'd go on longer…but I've hit a snag plus, I'm supposed to be off the computer….Ehehehe….sooo yeahhh…it's all Spanish's fault (gets in angrified mode) Damn it all! (coughs and is calm) I really don't like this chapter I tried to make it long but I think it drags on…what do you guys think? Ah well. Now if you'll excuse me I'll be killing cards on American McGee's Alice-oh and R/R guys pwease? Pwease?