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Chapter 5:

Entering School Crash Course

"You mean to say that this place…is the future Konoha?" Tenten asked of Kakashi slowly. Kakashi nodded in response.

"This is correct," he answered. "Surely you recognized a few physical features?" He asked. The girls looked at one another and recalled the Apple Store and it's resemblance to the weaponry shop they knew so well back home. And this building itself and it's resemblance to the Academy way back when. And the…

"But…the mountain outside of the building…" Stuttered Hinata. "Could that be…?"

"The Hokage Mountain? Yes. Only we now know it as Mt. Bryan." At this, the girls cringed.

"Bryan?" Ino echoed, scrunching her face as if the tip of her tongue had just met the surface of a lemon. "What kind of a name is Bryan?"

Kakashi cleared his throat a bit. "Let's just say, it's what people are commonly named nowadays."

At this, the girls scoffed. Whatever happened to the old traditional names?

At this time, the boys were just laying back in there chairs, staring at the ceiling, letting it soak in to the girls that these bits of information didn't shock them whatsoever.

Kakashi noticed this, and decided to break the silence.

I'll let them find the rest out on their own. "Ah, boys! Didn't your school start an hour ago?" Kakashi eyed them (with the one eye exposed).

The boys looked at each other and gritted their teeth. Can you say busted?

"About that, Kakashi," laughed Kiba, rubbing the back of his head. "You see…"

"Get going." Kakashi interrupted seriously. "In fact, take these girls along with you. A little 21st century education would be good for them, I think." At this, the boys sat up in their chairs, much more aware then they had been only thirty seconds ago.

"But Kakashi," Neji argued. "As if it wasn't bad enough you released them outside for a mere hour, now you're risking us bringing them to school with us? Did you not see the soldiers only a mile away?"

Each word of what Neji said entirely befuddled the girls. Risking? Soldiers?

"And they're only going to accumulate as the day goes on. They know something's up, I can tell." Sasuke stood up, looking around suspiciously.

Kiba sat back in his chair again though. "Uchiha, you always think something's up. Remember that time you went running maniacally down the road because you mistook someone's bowling ball for cherry bomb at the bowling alley?" Kiba reminded him.

The girls giggled at this. Sakura smiled and looked at him. Sasuke caught her eyes and flushed in embarrassment. I'll have to thank him later…Sasuke grumbled within his mind as he sat back down, still red.

After the chuckles went down, the debate continued.

"I have to agree with these two hot-heads," Shikamaru said, twirling a pen between his fingers. "It is a huge risk, especially in our…line of work." Ino looked at him funny. What does he mean line of work? "Besides, how will we avoid all the questions such as where did they come from? Why? How did they get in…way too much looping around the truth." The boys nodded in agreement. Kiba continued to sit back, amused. (AN: Does "Time" Kiba ring any bells of "Highschool" Kiba?)

Kakashi moved his hands up and down in a "settle down" motion. "I understand your points boys, but you're just going to have to, oh I dunno, try? You're geniuses for crying out loud! Don't tell me you can't even figure out how to smuggle a few girls into a school." This one caught the boys off guard. Geniuses they were, in areas of intelligence and battle that is. But when it came to those of the opposite sex…well, you might as well call them morons.

"But-"

"Nah! You're taking them to school, end of discussion." Kakashi halted their protests. He was definitely like the father they never had. The boys dropped their arms in defeat. They had no choice but to bring the girls along.

Kakashi sat back in his chair snugly. Hehe! I won! As soon as his grown-man-self kicked back in, he sat up straight and waved the girls and boys off. "Off now! I won't have you missing third bell!"

The guys and girls curried out of the room and into the hallway. An impeccably awkward silence followed. They all just stood in a staring contest.

"So…" Ino broke the silence. "Off to school, are we?" She attempted lightening the mood, but it didn't prove to be as effective as Kiba's wise cracks usually are. And Ino could tell why. There was something about the outside that was repelling the boys from bringing them out. The only question was why?

"Sure," sighed Shikamaru, answering for all the guys, as they began walking. A few of them caught the opposite persons gaze, and looked away immediately. The girls had no idea why the boys were so mysterious about everything, but they figured they'd find out eventually.

The boys picked up their school bags, which had been lying sloppily by a room as if they had just flung them there when they came hope the day before (Which they probably did).

The boys led them back to the exit pod. This time, Sasuke punched in a code, and beeps sounded and lights blinked.

"Code accepted. Access to outdoors granted." The robotic voice rang out again. The boys rolled their eyes. You think they took kindly to that machine?

"Oh yeah….guys?" Kiba reminded the boys in an irritating singsong voice, gesturing to their headbands. The boy's eyes widened and they immediately took them off and shoved them deep within their bags. Kiba smiled smugly, glad that he for once was the one reminding them.

The eight of them began walking toward the town.

"So," said Neji, crossing his arms and looking the opposite direction of the girls. "You're from the past, huh?" Neji mentally slapped himself. Good going, Neji! No duh!

"I think we went over this already," said Tenten, smirking. Neji looked back at her, and smirked slightly back. For once, a girl with spice who wasn't afraid to express it in the presence of the Hyuuga prodigy. But then again, she knew little about his capabilities.

Noticing his smirk a bit too prolonged for comfort, he looked away. "Shut up," he said in a muffled tone, yet his lips still curled at the edges ever so slightly.

"On that note, what's the big deal here?" Sakura asked loudly, looking around at the worn down buildings. "I mean, it's like you're under some dictatorship or something!" At this, the boys immediately shushed her all at once, and each pulled a girl to the ground. The girls were startled, but flattened themselves as well as they could.

"Follow me," hissed Sasuke as he quietly began to crawl around the curb of a brick corner. The rest of them followed. The girls were even more startled to here deep voices sounding from only a short distance away.

"Hey Mark! I heard somethin' over this way!" After this voice, they heard a cha-chink noise that of which was not a cash register, but an ammo cartridge being ejected from a gun. Sakura gulped. What had she landed them in?

"You sure? What'd they sound like?" Another deep voice drew closer.

"I dunno…sounded a lot like kids actually." The other said. The girls began to shake as they heard the voices draw closer. They continued to follow Sasuke in their army-like crawling. The over casting clouds had been enough to create a fairly dark effect, so crawling on the ground actually kept them hidden pretty successfully.

"Kids?" the other asked suspiciously. Another gun cartridge popped, making Hinata squint. "It's regulations that all kids in the village should be in the school at this hour."

"Yeah, well, we always have those few rebels…" The other said, drawing ever closer.

"And it's up to us to make sure they learn their lesson." The other said in a lingering voice, knowing that whoever was out there heard him.

The girls looked up and saw that Sasuke had lead them to the foot of the school entrance stairs. They silently sighed in relief.

"Ok, on the count of three, stand and bolt into that building as fast as you can." Sasuke whispered. They all nodded. The boys were ready, as if they had been through this maneuver many times before.

"One…"

"Yo Mark! I think it's over here!"

"Two…"

"I'm Commin I'm commin…jeez I dropped my Playboy subsription."

"WHAT?"

"Well, what do you think I do when I get bored? These shifts are hardly ever eventful!"

"Sick retard…" The other said in a disgusted tone. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"These guards get dimmer every time…" he said quietly. "Just go now." They all immediately sprang up and up the steps and burst through the doors safely. Just then, the men had rounded the corner.

"Yeah, see I told you nothing was round here! I'm going back to my chair…"

"Again…sick retard." The voices faded. The kids sighed in relief as they took to walking down the hallways. The girls looked around in fascination.

"What are these things?" Tenten asked peculiarly.

"Lockers," Neji answered as the boys all stopped at one of the square objects (they all coincidentally had lockers next to one another.)

"More detail, please?" Ino tapped her foot.

"Here," Shikamaru gently took Ino's arm and pulled her to his locker. Something inside her jumped as he did.

The girls gathered round each boy's locker.

Ino watched as Shikamaru spun the wheel-like object three times, a different number each time, and a different amount of terms. It slightly confused her. A lot about this time had to do with codes. Were people that untrustworthy in this time?

After entering their combos, the boys all opened their lockers and put some books in and took some out. The girls watched. It was so strange to them, it was almost fun.

Since the whole combination concept confused them so, they chose not to ask about.

"Oh…" Kiba said, pointing at the girl's forehead protectors. "You're gonna wanna stash those for now. Let's just say, people aren't really accustomed to them anymore. Don't wanna draw any unwanted attention, you know?" The girls nodded and took off their forehead protectors. They placed them deep within their pockets. They all began walking again.

"C'mon, maybe if we're quite, we can slink into study hall without being busted by…"

"Mr. Inuzuka, Uchiha, Nara and Hyuuga! What on earth do you boys think you're doing, being tardy four bells late?" A strong male voice came behind the boys and they all slowly turned on their heels, cursing mentally.

"Why Mr. Thompson, what a pleasant surprise!" Kiba said, kicking into the last resort suck-up mode as he plastered on a fake smile.

Thompson? Weirder names than I thought in this time! Each girl thought identically.

"Save it for debate Inuzuka. Why are you boys late, and who are these charming young ladies who have the misfortune of being in your presence?" The man asked rudely.

Shikamaru, being the genius he was, plus the common favorite of most teachers, decided to take care of this one.

"See, Mr. Thompson, these fine young ladies are the reason why we are late," he said in a mature tone. "They're foreign exchange students from…um…England and we were getting them adjusted to their bunks. May I introduce you to Ino Yamanaka, Hinata Hyuuga, Tenten, and Sakura Haruno. Girls, this is our brilliant principal Mr. Thompson."

"Hello!" Shirped Sakura.

"Pleasure," Ino did a small curtsey.

"Sup?" Tenten asked.

"Hi." Hinata squeaked. Thompson just eyed them suspiciously.

"England, eh?" He looked them up and down. "If you're from England, where are your accents?" Each girl froze up at this question, as they had no idea what the English accent was, let alone what England itself was. For all they knew, the world was merely a vast land divided elementally.

Hinata, being the one of them to have the most innocent of nature, took them out of this conflict safely.

"Um, practice you know? We were so worried about sticking out, we decided to take up the…um…accent of this village." Hinata spoke softly, yet was convincing, though she didn't even know there were different accents depending on locations. Thompson decided to forgo his interrogation of the fact that it would take years to take up a whole new accent, and nodded slowly, as no one could slam such a fragile girl as Hinata.

"Very well," he sighed, looking at the ceiling. "Welcome to our school. Go on if you must." He waved them off irritatingly and walked down the hall again.

"You're a life saver," said Sasuke as they all began walking to the library.

"That's Hinata for ya!" Said Tenten as the girls all swung their arms around their friend. The boys watched with raised eyebrows. Female driven congratulations were exchanged very oddly in their opinion.

Sasuke hurried them all along and broke up the girly moment. "I dunno if anyone here minds or anything, but we kinda have to go before we risk being halted by the evil hall monitor by the name of-"

"STOP right there!"

Sasuke sighed. He spoke too late.

Again, I'm sorry for not updating fast! It's just been so much easier to update "Stupid" because it's letter chapters instead of ten page chapters, so it's so much more convenient. But I hope you liked this chappie! Much for eventful stuff coming up, I swear! R and R!