Thank you for reading and favoriting and following Symphony! This was not proofread, in fact none of the chapters are proofread hence the typos and grammatical errors. I am sorry about that, I'd work on it.
The door bust open and in came Hidan followed by Kakuzu into the classroom. The former looked really pissed but knowing him, it was probably for something stupid.
"I am in a bat shit kinda crappy mode right now so nobody fucking talk to my ass!"
"Wow Hidan, it's the first time we've seen in weeks and you say that. Just wow."
Kakuzu sighed. He considered taking his best friend (don't tell Hidan he said that) to a priest and then pour holy water down his throat. Hidan needed it. He also needed it but Hidan needed it more.
"What happened?" Kisame straight out ignored the silver haired teen's request not to be spoken to and asked him a question. He knew that Hidan would answer.
"I had a fucking rude awakening call this morning! Finally got down and dirty with Cardi and my asshat shit bag alarm took it from me! I oughta fucking burn this school down till it's the perfect place for Lucifer to live in!" Hidan raved true to Kisame's thoughts.
"Then you'd just be transferred to another school, stupid." Kakuzu deadpanned.
"It is so you to like Cardi B." Kisame shook his head and went back to the book about sharks he was reading.
"I said not to talk to me! What a loada elephant shit." Hidan huffed and placed his head his the table with a bang. "I am going to the land of the dead!" He declared and fell asleep seconds later.
"Good morning good people!" Yahiko bust into the classroom but in a more cheerful manner than Hidan did. He had a big grin on his face that matched the smile on the beanie he wore. The weather was still cold out.
"Morning." Konan greeted silently unlike her loud boyfriend.
"Morning." Nagato, the third member in their triad (as Kisame often joked) followed after them. (My phone just auto correctedKisameas Kiss me)
"Morning." Itachi greeted back. He was the first to arrive in the class and had been silently observing everything that happened.
"Morn." Sasori also greeted back. He was usually silent so it was easy to forget that he was somewhere when he wasn't being impatient. Few minutes passed in silence and the door bust open again. This time, it hit the wall with a loud bang that startled Hidan awake and Konan off her seat.
"DANNA UN!" Guess who?
"Fucking Dora, you interrupted my slip you cunt- #@$#!" Hidan's irritated curses were cut off by Kakuzu who hit Itachi's hard cover notebook on his head. He went back to sleep with a thud.
"Somebody didn't get their morning coffee." Yahiko commented amusedly while the rest of the class reprimanded Deidara for his flashy entrance.
"Sorry un! Anyway, Danna, did something happen- katsu!- happen with your - with your cousin?! I saw him just now and he looked just like you do when- when you're waiting for someone to vacate a cubicle in the boy's toilet un."
Everybody laughed at Sasori's expense and Deidara's words. Impatient Sasori was very amusing to watch when his anger wasn't directed at you. Somehow though, Deidara was immune to the redhead's glares and sharp words.
The blond's eyes narrowed in disgust at the heavy book Itachi was currently reading. "Nerd." He accused.
"Is it your mission to pick a fight with me, Deidara?" The calm teen asked without even looking up from the book to acknowledge his self proclaimed rival.
"I am going to beat you, un!"
"Don't delusion yourself."
The bells rang for the beginning of classes before Deidara could start any trouble and their homeroom teacher, Orochimaru, stepped in at that moment.
"Deidara-kun, please take your seat and somebody should wake Hidan-kun up."
Kakuzu borrowed Itachi's hard cover notebook again. It was effective. Before the silver haired boy could start swearing, the tanned one pointed at their teacher in front and he calmed down. For now.
"We have new students –!"
"Who the hell transfers in the middle of Senior year un?!"
Orochimaru was used to Deidara's frequent interruptions so it didn't faze him. He called on the new students instead.
Three people entered the class at Orochimaru's beckoning. One had black hair and dark eyes like Itachi's, even had the flecks of red Itachi had. An orange nose mask obscured his face much like Kakashi-sensei. The other two looked alike and had green hair but while one was fair, the other was dark.
"Introduce yourselves." Orochimaru informed.
"Tobi's name is Tobi!" The first one introduced in a very cheerful happy go lucky voice. He also spoke in third person. "Tobi likes dango and Tobi is a good boy! Nice to meet everybody!"
"I'm Kuro Zetsu." The dark one among the green haired boys introduced briefly.
"My name is Shiro Zetsu and I like how it feels to poop." The other introduced weirdly.
"Forgive him. My mother dropped him on the head when we were young so he's stupid." Kuro sighed at his twin's weirdness.
Lunch time was officially the time to pull a prank on new comers (literally any person that stepped into their class for the first time) and this time it involved nail polish. Never mind how on earth he got nail polish ready at such a time but Yahiko brought out a series of nail polish from his bag ranging from puke yellow to hot pink.
He specifically chose off putting colours for this purpose.
"Welcome to KSA newbies. As you might have noticed, one of the requirements to be a full member of the Akatsuki aka our class is to wear nail polish. If you're caught it's at your own expense of course." The ginger decided to add that last part because he was feeling merciful.
Kuro raised a brow as he glanced through all the flashy colours that screamed 'notice me!' "It's like you want us to get caught-!" He started but was interrupted by his twin.
"Look Kuro, they have pink! I want this one!" The fair one screamed.
Everyone in the class cringed at how their own joke was turning on them.
"Pink?!" Hidan grimaced. Never mind that his own eyes were a shade of pink though.
"He genuinely likes the colour." Kuro provided. "Like I said, mum dropped him on the head."
"No... it's just that pink is a...flashy colour." Konan shrugged. The nail polish joke was getting ruined by these weirdos. The one with the mask was already painting away on his nails with dark purple. "Are you two related?" The only girl questioned, gesturing to Tobi and Itachi.
She asked the question because of the colour of their eyes. Only Uchihas had flecks of red in their eyes like that.
"We're cousins." Itachi provided easily.
"Itachi is Tobi's baby cousin!" Tobi announced cheerfully.
"Shit, you're the older one?!" Hidan cussed.
"Yes!"
"Could have fooled me." Nagato spoke for the first time that day.
"By the way weird fuckers, are you brothers or what?" Hidan asked the Zetsus. They looked alike but their skin colour was different for a reason. It was strange.
"Oh? Kuro and I..." Shiro started.
"...are twins." Kuro finished.
"Twins? Weird. Why are you black and he, white?" Konan questioned.
"Mum's white..." Kuro began this time.
"And our dad's black." Shiro finished.
"Okay, are you going to keep freaking me out with this twin telepathy thing, un?" Deidara sweatdropped.
"Get used to it." The both of them said in unison which further creeped the blond out.
"Ah ha! Tobi is done with his maninure!" Tobi suddenly announced, stretching out his hands and fingers to show off his bad work of a manicure.
"That is rubbish, un." Deidara piqued. "I'd help you do something better if you change that colour, un." He directed the last part of his sentence to Shiro who was still intent on using hot pink.
"Pink is just a shade of red, Deidara." Itachi quipped, referring to the blood red colour of the blond's nails.
Deidara's vein pulsed on his temple in irritation. He hated Itachi with all of his guts, he needed to blow something up or he'd commit arson! On a particular raven's house!
"Fight in the cafeteria! It's the red devil and some freshman kid!" Somebody's yell from the hallway stopped Deidara from retorting or committing homicide followed by the sound of running feet.
"FFFIIIGGGHHHTTT!" Another yelled.
"Someone's beating Gaara's ass!" Another yelled.
"Gaara?! You mean Sasori's little fucker?!" Hidan perked up at that.
"Don't make him sound like he's my child." Sasori muttered but Hidan was already out the door with Yahiko and Deidara not far behind. The flapping of the doors was the only indication that those three had been in the class before. Even without knowing who Gaara was, Tobi and Shiro had sped after them at the promise of an interesting fight.
With a sigh, Itachi marked the page of the book he was reading with a bookmark and dropped it, standing up from his seat. Being the head prefect/student union president was not easy.
He and the rest of the responsible ones in their class ran outside to stop whatever Gaara was up to now. As expected, the cafeteria was rowdy and the students had formed a circle around the spectacle which was unbelievably in the middle of the hall. Phones were out to record the moment and cheers of encouragement for the unknown kid to beat Gaara's ass filled the air.
At the same moment they rushed in, Temari and Kankuro, Gaara's siblings barged in along with other sophomores.
They found Hidan and their other wayward classmates not far off from the entrance and standing atop lunch tables. Hidan was recording and whooping like he was in a sports stadium while the rest were just orating and yelling like Hidan.
"Remind me who made those three part of the student committee." Itachi muttered in disdain. Nagato was thankfully on the move to get those idiots to control the crowd while Kisame paved a path through the sea of bodies for him and the others with his large body.
They finally got to a break point. The bushy browed kid was actually holding Gaara down which was a huge feat because this had never happened in the history of KSA before.
Gaara suddenly turned the tables and Itachi was not one for cursing but he knew that shit was about to go down. "Shit." He allowed himself to swear and began running towards the mad red head.
Before any of the seniors could get there though, the bushy browed kid's scream rang through the dining hall.
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Naruto's feet barely touched the ground from the seat he was on in the principal's office. He felt like a six year old that got into trouble for fighting with his friend because they both wanted to marry their kindergarten teacher. Why was this stupid chair so high?!
The principal's honey brown eyes stared into Naruto's baby blues for a good one minute without blinking. The blond was getting perplexed by the staring contest already so he broke the tense silence.
"Ano...am I on suspension, Baachan?"
Tsunade's vein popped at the term he used for her. Some things never changed, amnesia or not. "I've told you not to call me 'granny', gaki!" She yelled loudly. The look in her eyes however betrayed the irritation in her voice. She was happy to see him again.
When Tsunade heard that Minato and Kushina were dead, she had been so devastated but never once believed Naruto was the perp. Unfortunately though, she was not able to prove that with so many candid proofs pointing towards Naruto.
The boy was too young to be jailed so he was placed in Juvenile Rehabilitation. Tsunade would go to visit him along with others that believed in him, but the boy was so shaken that he didn't look at anybody in the eye. He stopped accepting visits altogether then one day, when Tsunade went to visit even though he would refuse, she found out that Naruto had been transferred.
It didn't make any sense and they wouldn't tell her where he was transferred to. This prove to show that there was indeed another person behind Minato and Kushina's deaths. She looked for Naruto but didn't find him so when during a staff meeting, Iruka called her aside and told her that he had Naruto, she was elated.
But.
Naruto had forgotten her. He had no recollection of anything that happened before the day of his parents' deaths and even some months after that.
Tsunade then decided that it was best Naruto stayed with Iruka and regain his memories slowly than to bombard him with overwhelming things if he stayed with her. Now the kid was in front of her, hale and hearty. He was looking more and more like Minato as he grew.
Naruto on the other hand curled his knees and placed his feet on the chair in fright. The principal was scary dattebayo! "You've never told me that before dattebayo!" He argued against her prior words.
"Yes I have. Are you calling me insane, Uzumaki?!" Tsunade's eyes narrowed threateningly at the other blond who shook his head rather quickly and vehemently. "Good. Now for your offense, you know fighting is prohibited and you went ahead and picked one. This is your first grace, gaki. Remember that you have three graces before expulsion."
"Yes baa- I mean principal Tsunade." Naruto replied.
"You are on an in-school suspension for one week beginning tomorrow. You are to assist the non teaching staff and do whatever they tell you to."
"GAAH!" Naruto's shriek startled Tsunade to some extent. "I have to wear that horrible purple uniform?!" The boy tugged at his hair in despair and tried to calm himself down. Contrary to popular belief, Naruto had a good sense of fashion. He just loved the colour orange a little too much. "At least it won't clash with my hair and eyes like it did with Gaara but it's horrible all the same!"
"SHUT UP!" Tsunade bellowed with a huff. "Get out of my office before you start self destructing on me! Shoo! SHOO!"
The office door slammed behind Naruto's back.
"I don't think principal Tsunade likes me very much." Naruto told Iruka with a dejected shake of his head.
"Uh? She didn't tell you?" Iruka was genuinely surprised.
"Tell me what?" Naruto mumbled.
"She's your grandmother."
Naruto took three steps forward before the words finally sunk in. Iruka prepared himself for the outburst that was sure to come by putting his hands over his head.
"WHAAAAAT?!"
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Naruto urged Gaara to go but the other boy was adamant. They both carried a dumbbell with a bow on top each because Naruto said a peace offering was a good idea. It was but Gaara didn't just get who would want dumbbells as an apology gift.
"Trust me, Bushybrows would see you like you hung the moon for it." Naruto had said.
And why was he apologising to Lee?! And Sakura?! And Ino?!
"They are your classmates Gaara, the first step to socialisation is to not hurt your classmates." The blond's words in quote.
Naruto finally persuaded Gaara to ring Lee's doorbell. He had a cast on his arm and a few plasters here and there but other than those, the bowl haired boy was fine. The green freak's room was, well, green and could almost be mistaken for a gym. He accepted Gaara's awkward apology and the dumbbells of course.
Like Naruto had said, Lee burst into tears and started spouting some nonsense about 'admirable youthful owning ups' or some things like that. Next on the list of apologies were Sakura and Ino which he would do at school after his suspension was off.
Which was tomorrow.
Borrowing the guy in his class that oddly resembled a pineapple's words, apologies were such a drag.
The whole school grew silent at Gaara's entrance as usual if you counted hushed whispers as silence. The boy could guess the reason for their surprise, he was also surprised that he wasn't expelled. Temari and Kankuro left for their block so it was only him and the crowd now.
"What?! What is he doing here?!"
"He wasn't expelled?"
"One would think after almost killing a classmate that he would be expelled."
"Must be good to be the kazekage's son."
The disdainful looks and harsh whispers only increased with every passing step until...
"GAARA!"
"GAARA-KUN!"
The green eyed boy's head whipped around along with every body in the hallway's. The owners of the voices that so loudly and cheerfully called his name were Naruto and Lee. Gaara never understood the basis of their happiness when they saw him, he literally broke Lee's arm for crying out loud!
"Isn't that the boy that got injured?"
"What is he doing with the red devil and the murderer?!"
"Guess he's as dumb as he looks."
Gaara had the sudden urge to glare at the annoying group behind him for talking shit about those two, and he did. He wondered why though. The group scampered at his narrowed eyes like they should. The two caught up to him with large blinding grins. They knew well not to glomp him and for that, he was grateful.
"Morning!" Naruto chirped.
"Good morning, my freshly converted youthful classmate!" Lee hollered but for him that was his normal voice. And what did he mean by freshly converted?!
Gaara had no idea what to do so he stayed quiet. "Uh, this is the part where you say 'good morning' back." Naruto informed. Oh. So you say it back.
"Good morning..."
"...Good Morning!" Naruto exclaimed. "Let's get to class dattebayo!"
Unseen to the trio was Kiba who had just dropped Akamaru off at the pet center. He was confused. He understood that Naruto could make friends with even the lochness monster but why was Lee acting like he and Gaara were pals? Didn't the dude get injured by the other dude? That was enough reason to avoid somebody, wasn't it?
The looks his classmates gave him was of surprise and something Gaara could not read. It was to be expected though. Lee had started hollering greetings to everyone in the class with Naruto not far behind. Their classmates answered in their own different ways from Yukata's enthusiastic greeting to Shikamaru's snore.
Naruto pegged him with a look and mouthed the word 'morning' to him and the redhead made a small noise from his throat. It was a whine but nobody needed to know that he was capable of whining.
"M-morning." Gaara rushed to his seat after that awkward greeting. It tasted weird in his mouth. His classmates seemed stunned for a moment before finally thawing from their frozen states.
"EH?!" They chorused. Gaara sunk into his seat.
"Did I just hear right?!" One of the bluntest people in his class, Tenten, breathed.
"Yes you did. He actually did it!" Another of the bluntest people in his class, Karui, also breathed.
"Good morning Gaara-kun!" Yukata was the first to reply him with a friendly wave.
"This is weird but good morning to you too." Omoi replied through his lollipop.
They were the only two that replied but that was okay. Ino and Sakura were frozen shocked when Gaara approached them and apologised. Sakura had nervously accepted the apology but Ino wasn't so forgiving and she let it known to the redhead.
"You apologising doesn't mean I'd come to forgive you or add you in my good books. You're dangerous and that'll never change. I never liked you so don't think I'd see you different just cause you gave some stupid apology..."
"Ino..." Sakura's hand on her shoulder stopped her angry rants. The girl laughed nervously. "Please forgive Ino. I'm really okay, see? I can move my wrist and I accept your apology. We're classmates, aren't we?" She smiled.
Gaara nodded and left their presence. He allowed himself to take a glance at Sakura's retreating figure with a slight scowl. That girl... He shrugged it off. He didn't care anyway.
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"I am sure you know just how badly you all performed in the last exams." Iruka's students groaned as expected. Ignoring them, the teacher continued with his announcement. "If you continue like that, you might not be able to pass this grade so principal Tsunade came up with a new method of tutoring to avoid mass failure. Well I can't say it's new because it's pretty common."
"What is it?" Tenten dreadfully voiced the question in everyone's minds. Iruka's mail after she asked wasn't so comforting either.
"Each one of you from class B is assigned to a student tutor from class A!"
"AAAAAH!"
Everyone turned around to give Omoi, the source of the scream, a look although they were equally perplexed. Class A?!
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"What?!"
"You heard me. Each of you would be student tutors to those from the recuperative class." Kurenai repeated.
"But why, sensei? Do we have a say in this?" Suigetsu protested as well as the others who silently backed him up.
"You don't." Kurenai replied. "But you do get extra specs for a successful rate of turnover." That was enough reason to get class A into the show. All they had to do was tutor someone and if they do well in the exams, they get specs for it?! Sonuvabich, I'm in!
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"Listen up for your tutors for the term/semester. Akimichi Choji gets tutored by Nara Shikamaru." Iruka was interrupted by Kiba's raised hand.
"Shikamaru is in class D and Choji too, why are they paired up?" The brunet asked.
"Shikamaru is brilliant enough to tutor Choji, isn't he?" Iruka replied with a question.
"Still, giving Shikamaru specs for tutoring is unfair!" Kiba complained.
"There's no possibility that it would turn out well though." Karui said, gesturing to a half asleep Shikamaru. Yep, the tutoring would fail.
"Moving on, we have Ay Karui with Momochi Haku and Ay Omoi with Hoshigaki Suigetsu."
"Heh!" Karui shrugged. Haku was manageable.
"Inuzuka Kiba is with Juugo."
"Juugo? You mean that giant?"
Iruka didn't know what Kiba was imagining currently and he couldn't be bothered so he continued. "Matsuri is with Haruno Sakura and Neko Tamaki is with Uzumaki Karin." The girls were thankfully silent unlike others who had something to say about their student tutors. "Rock Lee is with Yamanaka Ino."
"OSU!" Lee commented.
"Hey, how come he's with one of the cutest girls in our grade? This is so unfair!" Kiba complained, so did Omoi and Iruka ignored them.
"Sabaku no Gaara is with Aburame Shino."
"Oi, oi, oi, those two would kill themselves with silence dattebayo!" Look at him acting like he knew Gaara since they were in diapers! The redhead snorted inaudibly while Iruka continued with the list.
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"Hyuga Neji, you would be tutoring Ten Ten." Kurenai announced.
"Excuse me?!" Neji allowed his composure to slip for once at the mention of that crass co-captain's name. Why the hell was he tutoring her?! Wasn't being co-captains enough?!
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Tenten who had been leaning back on her chair, lost her balance and toppled backwards when she heard who her tutor was. Ah, that arrogant rich boy? He was unbearable but she was going to have fun tormenting him. The bun haired girl could feel an evil smile creep unto her face.
"Stand up Tenten." Iruka broke her swelling evil laughter with his voice. The girl stood up and sat back but her mind was wandering and coming up with ways to torment Neji. "Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto is with Uchiha Sasuke."
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"Hn." Sasuke protested.
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"EEEEK! Iruka-sensei, why would a genius like myself be paired with somebody like Teme?!" Naruto complained and everyone started snickering. He just said 'genius', right? Pfft! Ha!
"Naruto, whereas Sasuke was second best overall in the previous examination, you were the third to the last." Iruka deadpanned.
That was everyone's breaking point. They all laughed at the blond's astounded face at Iruka's roasting of the blond.
"Shut up dattebayo!"
That only made them laugh louder. Stupid people.
"Okay now, decorum please. Finally we have Yukata with Hyuga Hinata." Iruka just knew that Kiba would complain, and he did.
"Aaark, why wasn't I paired with Hinata?" He whined.
"You'd just overwhelm her with your small brain." Karui snarked and now it was Kiba's turn to be laughed at.
"I hate my class."
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It was a nice day out this weekend. The sun peaked out of the clouds like a teaser that it was going to be sunny but it was a lie, it was still cold. Many people were out to enjoy the cool weather and among them was Kisame.
The teen easily stood a head above the crowd because of his big stature. Being almost two meters tall had its perks, like being able to reach where most people can't without stress, and it had its disadvantages like everybody randomly assuming that he played basketball or volleyball. He was an artist for crying out loud!
Kisame specialised in dyeing the scales of fishes, shells and exoskeletons and using the coloured items for mosaics and collages. Aquatic life was beautiful, even to their scales!
Kisame was pondering on how he was going to include a shark in his art when he passed by a cafe. The boy stopped, frozen, and hurried back to the window pane he just passes. His sudden appearance startled the couple sitting next to it but he couldn't be bothered because he just saw the world coming to an end!
Just meters ahead of him was Itachi, his stoic and expressionless classmate whom he had marked off as asexual, sipping at a mug of coffee with the dreamiest, lovesick-est look on his face!
Ew!
But Kisame had to know who had the school president in the palm of her hands like that so he followed Itachi's line of vision to...whoa! Now Kisame understood the reason why his friend was so stricken.
The person that so caught Itachi's attention was the girl behind the counter. Definitely a year or two older than Itachi with beautiful brown hair and dark eyes. Said eyes met with Kisame's after someone (one of the people sitting at the window his face was currently plastered upon) talked to her. And she was definitely coming to kick him out.
Kisame quickly removed his face from the glass, now registering the coldness of it, and entered the cafe. "I'm with Itachi." He offered, just to see if she knew who Itachi was.
The girl looked him up and down before lighting up with recognition? "Hi, you're Kisame right? Itachi's over there." She directed him to Itachi's table. The other was not so happy about his presence. "What can I get you?" The girl asked. Kisame went to the counter to make an order and came back to face his scowling friend.
Wow, how powerful girls are.
"So...you know her?" Kisame asked.
"Yes."
"I see~" Kisame hummed. "You like her." He dropped the bombshell. It was amusing how Itachi choked on his coffee and tried to deny it. Kisame's sharp teeth blared along with his grin. He liked her! Wonders shall never end!
"No- yes- how-?" Itachi stumbled upon words to say.
"You weren't exactly discreet, you know?" Kisame took a bite of the fish rolls which were wonderful by the way and gazed at his friend. "Talked to her yet?" He asked.
"No."
"Why? Suddenly being shy?"
"No."
"Afraid of rejection?"
"No. And I don't see why you would be involved in my romantic life."
"Aha, got it!" Kisame went on, ignoring his friend. "Daddy issues, right?"
"Hn."
Kisame was spot on. Fugaku would never allow their relationship. He would only see the girl as a distraction from his son's perfectly planned life. Kisame could even guess that the older Uchiha had chosen a bride for Itachi already!
"I dunno about you but if I were serious about her, I'd go ahead with it." Kisame advised. "It's your life and emotions, not Fugaku's."
"Hn." Itachi grunted.
The mood was souring so Kisame decided to tease Itachi a bit. "Wait till Deidara hears about this." The reaction was immediate.
"Don't you dare."
White Zetsu does use hot pink nail polish in the series!
Tsunade has finally been properly introduced as Naruto's grandma. I made her and Dan Minato's parents in this fic.
See you in the next chapter, I anticipate your reviews!
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