Hello! Betcha thought I forgot about this, huh? I've been kinda busy, that's all. And my computer's been giving me hell, to boot. This chapter will be kind of a DRAG, to say the least, but DON'T WORRY - Chapter 3 will OWN! Oh yeah, if its not much of a bother, can you guys review my other story, too? It's about Kakashi and Rin attending Obito's funeral yada yada yada. I posted it at a funky time and it only has like, 11 hits. It's kinda angsty-ish, so don't read if its not your thing.

Plus: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. That includes Lee's sexy eyebrows. Come on, you know they're hot...

PLUS: There may be some grammar mistakes and oddly stated sentences and what-not because I couldn't stand to hold off on posting this for much longer.

PLUS: For any of you Ten/Neji fans, you may wanna check out the Pairings listings on my profile, because this story has a sort of IMPLIED Lee/Ten thing goin on. Nothing you should gouge your eyes out over or anything. In fact, all pairings are listed there, so go take a look at it.

BACK TO THE SHOW (wow that was looonnnnggg)...

Chapter 2: "Say WHAT!"

Hatake Kakashi, a tall man with a shock of silver hair, lifted his gaze from a miniature novel, Icha Icha Paradise.

"Hm? Someone say my name?"

"Yeah," a women's voice nearly shouted. "When Tenten called out, 'perv'!"

"Dis!" Kiba hollered, being the second one in the room to receive concerned stares. "Erm… sorry," he mumbled, scratching his head. Ignoring Kiba's outburst, the three male Jonin took a fairly large step away from an agitated Kurenai, knowing to be extra cautious during her 'Monthly Crimson Tidal Wave'.

"So, why did you guys call us here without giving us an explanation? Some of us – meaning, not me, obviously – are simply dying to know," Shikamaru questioned, referring to the extensive debate over the issue earlier. The Jonin shifted around tensely, not meeting eye contact with any of their pupils.

"For the record, this was all your idea, Kurenai!" Asuma whispered furiously.

"Well, it's part Gai and Kakashi's fault for telling me what they found on Kiba's computer!" She averted her eyes in their direction. "Were you guys honestly going to leave them to their own devices after finding on 'porn-r-us dot net' (1) his desktop?"

"Well, yeah."

"That pretty much covers it."

"It's not THAT bad of a site."

All the Jonin stared at Asuma, but Kurenai took it a step further and SMACK! Poor Asuma.

"Well, when you guys are finished having your pleasant little chat, maybe you can answer Shikamaru's question," Neji said calmly. I REALLY want to get out of here…

"Er – why don't we have Iruka explain it, and he should be here any minute now," Gai replied, and then snickered to himself. He probably chickened out…

All the sudden, without ANY foreshadowing from Gai's previous comment WHATSOEVER, Umino Iruka darted into the room. "Hi! Sorry I'm late! I, er -"

"Don't say ANY more, Iruka-sensei. We've heard every excuse in the book from Kakashi-sensei," Naruto interrupted.

"It's true," Kakashi added.

"So – for the," Naruto counted his fingers slowly, "THIRD time – can someone tell us WHY WE'RE HERE!" he yelled, his patience thinning.

"What?" Iruka turned to the four sheepish Jonin and mouthed: "You didn't tell them yet?"

Shikamaru, being too damn smart for his own damn good, caught on that there was something amiss… Something cryptic, from the sound of it… Something… troublesome. He shivered at the prospect of having to actually apply himself.

"Well, we decided since YOU'VE taught them for nearly all their lives, you should have the obligation of going first!" (It could only be Gai…)

Iruka glared, and grumbled at him, "Damn you." Gai replied with a thumbs-up and a PINGING toothy grin. Iruka faced the students with his hands fidgeting uncontrollably.

"Hey, Iruka, if you don't want to do this, I will," Kakashi offered. It was his turn to face the young ninja. "You see…"

"NO!" The other three shouted, casting evil glares in his direction.

I guess I have no other choice…

"Erm, right. So, um…" he soon noticed that the majority of the students wore perplexed expressions, while the more stoic personalities gave him a look that screamed: Hurry up, goddamnit!

"Yeah, so you guys are all shinobi, and well, we…"

"Damn right, bitch!" Sasuke stated, perhaps more loudly than he desired. He instantly became the third to receive odd, concerned glances from everyone occupying the room. Realizing this, he folded his arms and "hmph-ed," reverting to his typical 'Sexy Glare Demeanor'.

"Sasuke, did you forget to take your medication today?" Naruto asked in a mocking, motherly tone. Everyone – minus Sakura and Ino – burst into hysterics.

"Naruto!" Ino lamented, shooting him death glares.

"Why don't I just cut to the chase? Kiba, when Gai and Kakashi came over to check on you guys last morning, they found something very odd on your computer," Asuma started.

Oh no, Kiba thought as he gasped in horror. Why was THAT still on the computer? I don't like the looks of this...

"Porn-r-us dot net ring a bell?"

All the guys in the room fell silent with fear etched in their features as they glared at Naruto. Meanwhile, the girls felt a mixture of rage and disgust toward the boys.

"WAIT!" exclaimed Lee, dramatically rising from his seat. "This is a terrible misunderstanding! We didn't intend to find it!"

"Yeah sure," Kakashi remarked dripping with sarcasm. "It just found you, right?"

"Um," he felt his cheeks redden. "Well, it's all Naruto's fault!" Lee shouted, pointing at him.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted.

"Lee's right," Shino added, making his first appearance in the chapter.

"Of course! I have no doubts, my youthful student!" Gai responded in his boisterous manner.

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"LEE!" A new voice shrieked, and then, for the second time: SMACK! Except Kurenai did not slap Asuma (yet), but rather; Tenten slapped Lee.

The once ecstatic boy flinched, sidestepping away from Tenten and whimpered. "What'd I do?" he asked with sparkly puppy-dog eyes (though they really resembled sparkly fish eyes, but anyways…)

"I'm sick of all your 'sentimental moments' with Gai-sensei, that's what!" she shouted, folding her arms and turning her back to him. Lee, after thinking for a moment, simply shrugged his arms and sat back down. I still don't get what's so bad about it… and I've never noticed anyone ever being ANNOYED…

Kiba snickered. "Why do YOU care, Tenten?"

Tenten deepened a few shades of magenta, then retorted: "Because it gets REALLY old when you have to deal with the same crap EVERY DAY!"

"Right," he replied, rolling his eyes.

Tenten flashed an evilly pleasant smile. "Would you care to end up like Lee?" and she gestured to the glowing red mark on Lee's cheek.

"No," he responded instantly.

"Anyway, back on topic…" Kakashi agonized, wishing to be ANYWHERE but at the academy listening to all this incessant chatter when he could be reading.

"Let me explain," Sasuke offered wearily. "We weren't doing anything wrong," Sasuke paused for a moment. Per se… "But we had a pop-up and Naruto – being the idiot he is – clicked on, I quote, 'the picture of the pretty girl'."

"Oh!" Gai clapped his hands together with a merry countenance. "Then – why couldn't you close the window?"

"Uh… well, um…" the guys stuttered, not exactly wanting to describe what transpired two nights ago. Meanwhile, Neji's face turned, if possible, redder than what Tenten's had been several moments earlier. (2)

I HAVE to get out of here! He glanced at Naruto, Kiba, and Lee, who returned his worried, pleading expression with silent fits of laughter. (3)

"But that's our point – you guys should have clicked out!" Iruka shouted over the commotion at Naruto's corner of the room. Chouji finally set down his potato chips (this is SERIOUS business, peoples!)

"But we didn't have a choi –"

"Too bad," Kurenai interrupted.

"So what now?" Shikamaru asked, folding his arms behind his head, still tilting back on his chair.

A long, awkward silence ensued. Very long.

………………..

"I'm hungry!" Chouji exclaimed to himself, then picked up his bag of potato chips and poured the crumbs into his mouth.

"Okay…" Asuma's eyes traveled around the room, landing on the back wall. "Well, KURENAI – meaning, none of us four guys – thought it would be a great idea if we… talked to you… about it."

Shikamaru toppled out of his chair.

"SAY WHAT!" a chorus of voices screamed.

"I knew it!" chanted the one and only Lee.

"How… troublesome!" Shikamaru grunted furiously, trying desperately to untangle himself from his chair.

Sasuke covered his face with his hands and shook his head in exasperation. Someone, please, kill me. Just put me out of my misery. He threw a tentative glance in Sakura and Ino's direction. They returned a slightly appalled expression, but scooted closer to him anyway. Poor Sasuke.

"So… uh…" Iruka looked at the Jonins for backup

"Here, let me explain it," Kakashi offered as he let out an overly dramatic sigh. The teachers exchanged worried glances and pitied their students.

Kakashi, if you even DARE and say anything inappropriate, I swear… Kurenai absent-mindedly shook her fist in his direction menacingly. Once she realized that everyone was, once again, sending odd, concerned stares in her direction, she blushed and moved her hand by her side. "Heh heh heh… eh…"

"So, anyways," Kakashi began. "Instead of just telling you about relationships and what-not, I came up with a better idea."

"We can leave?" Neji asked.

"Unfortunately, no. I decided to read parts of my novel -" the teachers were about to interrupt, but he continued casually, "some of the less explicit parts, anyway."

(1) "Porn-r-us dot net" will be explained in "Naruto's Internet Adventure." It was originally written in another format, but document manager won't accept an actual URL format, so I wrote it out in a sort of 'short word form'. Yay!

(2) Neji's nervousness will be explained in "Naruto's Internet Adventure".

(3) Naruto, Kiba, and Lee's laughter will also be explained in "Naruto's Internet Adventure".

YET ANOTHER PLUS: Comments of all kinds are appreciated! I had a HUGE trouble with revising this, so if you see ANY mistakes, lemme know cause my computer's been giving me a lot of crap lately.