(A/N: Hey all! Shinigami Goumon here! Next chapter, hot off the grill, just for you! And a side order a fries! ENJOY!)

The boys and girls parted ways at the locker rooms.

They would reunite soon enough, though.

Sakura didn't need to change ever since Akane decided she need an attitude adjustment; she was already squared away in the embarrassing buruma and loose white tee (see Ch 11)

She leaned against a wall and waited for the others, occasionally throwing glares at Akane's back, though the girl didn't even flinch.

When the former gang leader removed her regulation top, Sakura decided at that moment to hurl another glare her way, and she was stopped dead in her tracks.

Scars.

Thick, ropey, long and horrible, tore across Akane's back, weaving in no discernable pattern, crossing over one another, often more than once, up to her shoulders, around her hips, disappearing below her underwear (they stop just below the elastic)

Her back resembled something close to Morino Ibiki's head.

Taking no notice of Sakura behind her, Akane tugged her shirt on over her head and ambled on past the anime girl made real.

Akane looked at the currently brown-haired girl, who's mouth was currently opening and closing like a fish, sneering, "It's really not nice to stare."

Hinata, Temari, Sora and Hinode walked past the now shaking Sakura.

"What part of, 'Abusive Mother' didja not understand?" Sora asked, a puzzled look on her face.

"Was it the 'Abusive'? Or the 'Mother' part?" Hinode asked.

Regaining her composure, Sakurabounced backangrily.

"Shut up!" she spat, face filling with color, "Don't treat me like I've got some mental handicap!"

"Ooo! Big word!" Akane said sarcastically.

"Don't hurt yourself." Temari snickered.

"Shut up!" Sakura yelled.

Hinata giggled softly, despite herself.

The gym teacher's name was Iwayama Domon, a fifty something man with thick, white hair, cut short, and a small, balding spot at the back of his head.

"ALLLLright class!" Iwayama boomed, "Today's game is dodgeball! Kakyoin! Sugimiya! You're captains today. Pick your teams!"

Akane scanned the class for students she already knew for a fact to be strong; hoping against hope that some of the Ninth St. Hell Cats had come to school today.

She lucked out.

Three of the younger members were here.

"I pick Daidoji." Akane said calmly.

A tall boy, who literally towered over her, with black hair that was longer in the front than in the back, strolled forward coolly.

Sugimiya looked over the class, scoping out his first pick.

"Kankuro." He said.

"Listen up…whatever you do…do NOT lose to Kakyoin." Sugimiya growled.

Kankuro glanced up at Akane.

"Notta prob."

"Tsuyosa." Akane said without any hesitation.

A boy with shoulder length silver hair strode forward.

"Good t' be workin' with ya again, Byakko." He smirked.

"Haruno." Sugimiya said, taking note of how hard Sakura was glowering in Akane's general direction.

"Ichiwa." Akane said evenly.

A teen with dark brown hair and black eyes stepped forward to join them.

"Byakko." He nodded.

"Oh wow." Sora whistled, "Akane's really going for a powerhouse lineup."

"What do you mean?" Gaara asked.

Sora promptly turned tomato red, started sputtering like a motor boat and couldn't speak.

"Everyone she's picked so far is a current member of her old gang, the Hell Cats Assassination Squad." Hinode filled in for her stuttering friend.

"Huh." Naruto said, cocking his/her head to the side.

After a few minutes the teams had been selected.

The line up looked like this:

Sugimiya-Uzumaki-Kankuro-Haruno-Watase-Ijima-Unkai-Kouen-Manatsu-Kashu-Umibe

VS.

Kakyoin-Daidoji-Tsuyosa-Ichiwa-Sakai-Aoki-Gaara-Temari-Aburame-Uchiha-Hyuuga

Now, why did Akane have so many Animanga charas on her team?

Because the minute she picked Sora, she begged and begged and begged for her to pick Gaara.

And Gaara is only complacent with Temari.

And once she picked Hinode, she of course, demanded that Shino be picked!

It was only fair right and just after all!

I mean, Sora got her way with GAA-RA-KUUN!

And after THAT occurred, Sugimiya ATTEMPTED to get Sasuke on his team, but he and Naruto flat out refused to be on the same side, so she got stuck with him.

Hinata was one of the few that had been left and Sora and Hinode argued that since she had been quiet, out of the way, and had in no way, shape or form, done ANYTHING to bug her, she had no choice but to spare her the shame of being picked last.

God, Geineisha, Buddha, Shiva, Jehovah, Spongebob, the KFC Colonel, whatever higher power existed, apparently enjoyed looking down on Akane, giving her a BIG old smirk, and flippin' her the bird.

Seven balls were lined up in the center of the gym.

The Naru-tachi, having NEVER played dodgeball before in their lives, had no idea what was going on, or what was about to take place.

"Ready?" Iwayama boomed, bringing the gleaming silver whistle around his neck to his lips.

"Ready?" Temari thought nervously.

"Ready for what?" Sasuke wondered.

"Is that…battle lust in the air?" Kiba mused, sniffing the space around him.

"Why do the Gods hate me so?" Hinata thought miserably gazing across the gym at the currently female Naruto.

"I have an impending sense of doom." Gaara thought in concern.

"Stupid Akane. Stupid Akane. Stupid. Stupid. STUPID!" Inner Sakura screamed.

"The insect life of this building have fled in terror…why?" Shino wondered.

"There's a strange feeling in the air…rather familiar." Kankuro thought.

"I'm still hungry damnit! I want ramen! Ramen! Ramen! Oh, and Sakura! Can't forget about that! But Ramen's more important at the moment!" Naruto's mind buzzed tunelessly.

"BEGIN!" Iwayama roared, blowing fiercely into his whistle.

Most of the members of both teams shot forward and grabbed at the red rubber spheres, Akane's getting four of them, Sugiyama's getting only three.

"Uh, Akane?" Temari asked hastily as Akane revved up her pitching arm, "What's going o-!"

"Learn-As-You-GO!" Akane snarled, lobbing the red ball she held at Kankuro's gut.

-PNK-

"Kankuro! Out!" Iwayama roared.

Winded, Kankuro stumbled to the sidelines, wondering, "What the Hell just happened?"

Gaara was lost in confusion as the hailstorm of red rubber blazed about him.

Now, he may have been total blind for how ga-ga she was for him, but he did notice how much information she possessed about this world and it's customs.

Bobbing and weaving, he made his way to Sora.

"What is going on?" he asked as Sora flung a ball at Sakura (almost got her too).

A red rubber bullet, otherwise known as a dodgeball, came barreling towards his head.

"Talk later. Down NOW!" Sora squealed, wrapping a hand around his head and yanking him towards the gym floor.

The ball whizzed over his head, missing him by inches.

Sora, currently too concern with not getting picked out and/orkilled to focus on her crush, pointed to the people around her.

"See what their doing?" she said, "Well, the opposing side is the enemy and it's our job to knock out, or 'kill' as it were as may as ca-DUCK!"

Both crouched down swiftly as another ball flew by.

"As we can." Sora continued, "No hitting below the belt on guys and no hitting in the chest on girls, that about sums it uh-DOWN!"

Another ball rocketed past.

"Sums it up." Sora sighed, "Basically, just huck the ball as hard as you can at the opposing team without killing someone or causing permanent injury. Akane got into trouble for that once."

Across the gym, Hinode was having the exact same conversation with Shino.

Temari and Sasuke had gotten the basics down on their own, and were aiming at the regular students before targeting their fellow Shinobi.

Naruto however, seemed to have an undiscovered gift for dodgeball.

Even with most of the team gone, he did a fine job on his own.

And when I say on his own, I mean that in the sense that Sakura was to much of a baby to try and catch to ball when it was thrown at her, so he was doing all the work.

He managed to take out Tsuyosa and regain Kankuro, but that didn't last very long.

Akane, who's unbelievably competitive (thank you very little, Takaomi), hurled the ball at Sakura.

"AHK!" Sakura shrieked as the ball bounced shot off her colossal forhead.

Tsuyosa was back and Sasuke took out Sugimiya with the next ball, ending the game.

"Aw…man! This…sucks!" Naruto panted.

"'snot…your fault." Hinode gasped, "You had…more normal players…than Shinobi…on your team…it's…understandable."

"No…excuse!" Sakura huffed.

"Like your words…hold a lotta weight…Queen Cowers Alot." Akane managed.

"All you did…was hide behind…Naruto." Sasuke grunted.

"And you're the…being critical?" Kankuro asked between gasps.

"Sh-shut up." Sakura blushed.

"Why…should we?" Temari asked bluntly.

"This…is fun." Kiba grinned.

"ARF ARF!" Akamaru yapped.

Gaara and Shino nodded in silent agreement.

-BNNGBONGBNNGBONNNG…BNNGBONGBNNGBONNNG-

(A/N: Six Period! Math. YECH! I. Hate. Math. Math should die. Erherm. Anyhoo, that's what's up next time! R&R!)