(A/N: Hey all! Shinigami Goumon here! Sorry about the wait! Here's the next chappie!)
The Naru-tachi walked through the hall, staring hard at the blue-haired, purple-blue eyed teen.
If she hadn't liked them before, her hatred of them must have multiplied by a couple million because they could feel the loathing rolling off the girl in waves.
The distinct tic reappeared, as if by magic, on her forehead as she struggled to control her TNT temper.
"What's next?" Shino asked quietly.
"Studio Art with Morita Shigeru!" Hinode replied quickly, face filling up with color.
"…art?" Gaara asked.
"Yuh-huh!" Sora nodded furiously, blushing like mad, "You'll like him! He's wicked coo-!"
"I'm headin'…t' th' john." Akane said, voice straining as tried to keep from screaming, not caring about the bold faced lie she was telling, "I'll meetcha there."
"Huh?" the pair replied, "Oh. Okay."
Akane walked off without so much as a backwards glance.
"Sooo…" Kiba said placidly after she'd walked off, "…Akane's a gang leader?"
Sora and Hinode looked at one another.
"Did we say leader?" Hinode asked, grinning sheepishly, "Oops! Slippa th' tongue! Sorry! We meant "Forrrmer" leader!"
"Yeah!" Sora smiled, "She quit a while back, but as long as they pay her current rate, she's their hired gun!"
"You speak as though that's a good thing!" Hinata thought to herself.
"That's not any better!" Naruto thought in horror.
"Any ideas on why she quit?" Kankuro asked.
"She said she got bored." They replied in unison.
"BORED?" Sakura thought in terror.
"She said the fights were growing too stale." They continued.
"STALE?" Sasuke thought wildly.
"Here we are!" Sora said happily, "Room three dee!"
Hinode slid open the door and a man with honey brown hair that almost reached the small of his back looked up them through rose tinted glasses.
"My spiritual sisters and brothers!" he grinned, "It is like, soooo awesome, to like, see youuu…in the physical realm."
"Uhhh…" Temari blinked, unsure of what to say.
"Don't worry about him!" Sora whispered.
"Yeah!" Hinode whispered back, "He's whatchad call a Pot Head!"
"Uh huh." Akane drawled behind them, shoving her way past, "Perfectly harmless. Now would you dumbshits move?"
"Whooooaaaa!" Morita cried, "Talk aboutcher negative vibes, man!"
Akane glared at the art teacher.
"I'll show YOU negative vibes if you don't SHUT UP!" she snarled.
"Whooooaa!" Morita cried, "Chilll man! Just chillll!"
"Tch!" Akane snorted, walking to a desk at the very back of the room.
Why the back of the room?
Because there was an open window…and Akane wanted to smoke-BAD!
She riffled through her bag and finally uncovered her Mild Sevens and with a swift shake, popped one out of the pack and lit up with in a matter of seconds.
"Yick!" Hinode gagged, "I don't wanna sit next to her while she's smoking!"
"Why isn't the teacher doin' anything? Kiba asked.
"Cuz he tokes reefer in his office." Sora responded, "So it would be hypocritical to tell her not to!"
"Oh…well…I guess that…makes…sense?" Sakura said, realizing the stupidity of her response as she said it.
As if on cue, Morita rose his feet.
"Okay, like, it's time fer like, free study." He drawled, "Let yer mind flow'n like, paint'n draw'n sculpt th' first that like, pops into yer minds, okay?"
Silence.
"Okay! Cool." Morita grinned sloppily and teetered into his office, off to rock the ganj.
"I think I'm gonna sculpt today." Sora said, rising to her feet.
"Is that…when you work with clay?" Gaara asked quietly.
"Uh-um-err-y-y-y-y-yes!" Sora stammered, turning a very interesting shade of red.
"I think I shall sculpt as well." Gaara muttered.
"Oh-oh-oh-k-k-k-kay." Sora stuttered, leading him jerkily to the clay bins.
"Ya know what? Hinode drawled, eyeing her purple haired friend as she did her impression of Porky Pig, "I think I'll work on the potter's wheel."
"What's that?" Shino asked, coming up behind her.
"HEEP!" Hinode squeaked, "Uh-um-ah-err-I c-c-c-could sh-sh-sh-sh-show you…if y-y-you w-w-w-want!"
"Mm." Shino nodded.
Akane watched this spectacle and took another drag off her cigarette.
"Pathetic." She snorted.
After a lot searching Naruto and the others located the brushes, pencil, paper and paints and set to work.
"Take that, stupid Sasuke!" Naruto smirked, doodling a rather sad looking picture, the quality of which would make a four year old hang his head in disgust, of himself beating the crap out of the Younger Uchiha.
"And that and that and THAT!"
"Die, DIE, DIE!" Sasuke thought, smiling in a frightening way as he sketched out a very detailed picture of himself, drenched in blood, holding up Itachi's severed head as he stood onto top of the body.
"La la la laaa" Sakura hummed, painting a water color of herself with her darling Sasuke on their wedding day; her elbow hit her water tin, splashing water all over her water color.
"AAAAAUGH! NOOOO!"
"Now hold still, bud." Kiba said with smile, continuing his acrylic painting of Akamaru; the giant dog in puppy form proceeded to scratch an itch, shake himself out and walk across the wet acrylics to rest contentedly on his master's lap, smearing him with paint.
"AkaMARUUU!"
"Na…ru…to…kun…" Hinata whispered, working on a very lifelike sketch of the jinchuriki and herself holding hands in a sunset backdrop.
"Hey, whatcha workin' on?" Temari asked, glancing over her shoulder.
"N-n-nothing!" Hinata squeaked, flipping her drawing board over to reveal a landscape, "J-just…"
"Huh…" Temari thought, raising an eyebrow, "Weeeeeird girl."
She went back to work on her water color of her brothers and herself; it was a rather unrealistic painting because Gaara was smiling in a way that WOULDN'T frighten children and small animals.
"Someday…" Temari sighed.
Gaara molded clay into no discernable shape, just played with really; digging his fingers into the slippery, messy clay with a blank look on his face; it looked a lot like one of the distorted faces in Ringu.
"This substance feels funny." He thought.
"Hmmm…I'm a lot hotter than that." Kankuro carved a statue of himself (peh…narcissist) with Karasu, attacking his cowering father; to say the statue wasn't true to life would be the understatement of all time.
"A bit less on the nose."
Shino had spotted a June bug on a leaf outside and was so completely focused on his sketching that he didn't notice the tin of orange acrylic paint pouring into his lap.
"Almost…"
Hinode was too busy drooling over Shino to even start her project on the potter's wheel.
Sora was so entranced by Gaara's childish antics that she hadn't touched the clay in front of her.
Akane had watched all this from the back, behind a veil of smoke, and was finally at the end of her rope.
Enough was enough.
She rose to her feet and with quick steps, walked to the potter's wheel where Hinode sat and stomped down on the throttle.
Clay sprayed to all four corners of the room causing screams of dismay and anger to ring out as Akane continued along.
"Alright!"
"Who's the dead man!"
"I worked on that portrait of my grandpa for over two months!"
"I borrowed this shirt from my SISTER! She's gonna KILL ME!"
Akane scooped up two handful of the still dazed Sora's clay and-
-SPLAK-
-SPLAK-
"AUGH!"
"Sora! I can't buh-lieeeeeve you!"
"Huh? Wha'?" Sora blinked, coming out of her Gaara induced trance as Akane ducked under a desk, "What was tha-?"
-SPLAK-
A fistful of paint splattered across her face.
Sora growled angrily.
She reached across the table and grabbed a tube of green paint.
-SPLAK-
"SORA!" Hinode cried, eyes flashing, "You're so dead!"
She grabbed what was left of her project and hurled it wildly.
-BLAK-
"AAAAAGH!" Naruto screamed, flailing his hand girlishly (well...he IS currently a girl), "EEWEEWEEWEEWEEW!"
"Oh, it's ONNN NOW!" Kankuro snarled, swiping theclay off his eyes.
Akane snickered under the desk and lit up a second lung dart as an all out war broke out outside her safe house…desk…whatever.
-BNNGBONGBNNGBONNNG…BNNGBONGBNNGBONNNG-
The fighting came to a cease fire at once.
"Eh?" Sora said, "Oh great!"
"Only fifteen minutes to clean up." Hinode groaned, "This is just perfect."
Akane rolled out from the other side of the desk (careful not to get any paint or clay on herself) and took in the sight that met her eyes.
She began to howl with laughter.
The only part of Kankuro visible beneath the thick wall of clay that had once been his face were his eyes, and that was only because he had switched the terracotta out of them; the rest of him was drenched in tempera paint in ever color of the rainbow.
Shino had pink, green and yellow acrylic paint splattered in his hair, his "black sunglasses" were a thing of the past, now covered by a thick layer of purple paint; his pants were saturated in orange acrylic
Gaara had an interesting mixture of sand, paint and clay stick to his entire body forming a sort of cocoon as it hardened; papers clung to his torso and he had several pipe cleaners fixed in his hair.
Hinata had clay, red and black paint covering her forearms and the top of her head defensively; she had done no throwing, only blocking.
Sakura had yellow, black and red paint smeared across her face, feathers plastered on her cheeks, papers stuck to her shoulder and Naruto's picture plastered to her Super Sized Forehead.
Temari was now an interesting shade of brownish-green, with pink and baby blue splotches; Sasuke's sketch was stuck to her ass, and her once blonde hair was in danger of permanently becoming cyan blue.
Kiba and Akamaru looked as though they had simply taken cans of paint, dumped them over their heads, rolled around in paper then smashed clay on the sides of their heads.
Sasuke was an interesting mix of Gai jumpsuit green, Sakura dress red, and Naruto's jacket orange; Sakura's water color had adhered itself to his back and his hair would never quite be the same.
"AHAHAHAHAHA!" Akane howled, "AHAHA…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Yeah, yeah." Sora grumped, "Glad this is so funny for you."
"Yes." Hinode said with a wide smirk, "Sorry you had to miss out on the fun!"
She turned around and called out-
"C'MON EVERYBODY! BIIIIIIG GROUP HUG!"
Akane's eyes contorted in horror as they started closing in on her.
"No." She hissed, backing towards the door, "No. No! NO! N-YEEEEAAAAAAAAUGH!"
Their was a loud, rather disgusting squelch as the Naru-tachi glommed onto her.
"AAAAAAAAUGH!" she shrieked, "EEEEWWW! YUCK! ANIMANGA SPOOGE! GET IT OFF ME! GEHET IT OFF ME!"
Satisfied, they pulled away.
"Come on." Hinode said, "We hafta clean up quick or we'll be late for third!"
"I'm gonna kill you!" Akane snarled, now completely smeared, head to foot in paint, pipe cleaners, paper, sand and clay.
"We love you too, Akane!" Sora smiled.
(A/N: Third Period! English Class! But waitasecond...why is the teacher looking at Kankuro like that? What's THIS guy's deal? R&R!)