Okay, so I'm really lame and can't wait a week to publish the next chapter. And thus, here's the next chapter. There's a little refresher if you've forgotten the end of the last one.

Oh, and I don't own Naruto or anything related to it.

Recap

"We'd better go to sleep too." Gaara said. "We get our new roommates in the morning."

"Yeah, how could I forget." she said as Gaara closed his eyes, laying his head down on his pillow. Within mere minutes he was fast asleep. Sy smiled at his sleeping form and closed her eyes as well. This time though, Sy fell into a dreamless state, which in her mind was a dream come true.

--------------------------------The next morning----------------------------------------

Sy's eyes fluttered open as a small amount of sunlight from the window hit her eye lids. She sat up in the bed, stretching and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She looked around the room, she noticed Naruto's empty bed on the floor. She also noticed the lack of warmth at her side. She looked down beside her on her bed.

Gaara must have gotten up already. She thought, looking at the empty spot that the boy had been sleeping in. Then her gaze landed on her alarm clock beside her bed, it read 10:42 am.

Wow. I really slept in.

She got up from her bed and walked over to the dresser that was leaning against the wall. She opened one of the drawers and got out a plain T-shirt, putting it on underneath a gray hoody. She then put on a another sweater, this one black with silver and light blue skull deign on it. She wore her hair down like always, it was so unmanageable, some of her bands falling into her eyes. She also had on tight black jeans, a baby blue scarf with black gloves, and black skate shoes. She looked over herself.

Acceptable. She thought plainly, while walking down the staircase to go see what everyone else was up to. When she entered the kitchen she found no one there, so she looked in the living room, seeing no one there either. She found that odd. That's when she heard laughing coming from outside. She went to the front door and walked outside. She stood on the porch smiling when she saw her friends in the front yard. Tenten amd Shika were racking the colorful leaves that had fallen off of the trees and where scattered all over the lawn. Naruto was throwing crunchy leaves at Gaara who was sitting on the bottom step of the porch. Naruto looked up grinning when he noticed her presents.

"'Morning sleepy-head." he called to her, making the rest of their friends look up to her. She smiled at him, prancing down the front steps and taking a seat next to Gaara.

"Good Morning!" she chirped to them in a sing-song voice.

"Someone's feeling much better." Shikamaru said, turning his attention back to the job at hand, saving the lawn from the horrible leaf monsters.

"Did you sleep well?" Tenten asked her. Sy nodded her head. "That's good." She continued, handing a rake over to the girl. "Now you can help us rake these pesky leaves."

She nodded and went to work. After an hour, all the leave where gone. They all sat on the porch, admiring their job well done. Sy's gaze traveled from their now semi-clean lawn, and to the rest of the street that they lived on. It wasn't a very nice part of the village, with buildings where old and threatening to fall down at a moments notice, and streets littered with trash, bear bottles and the homeless. It was really sad.

"So do you think that they'll survive here?" Tenten asked, about the students from St.Terean.

"If they don't, Tsunade will put us through hell." Gaara told her.

"How troblemsome." Shikamaru replied.

"Oh come on guys, it wont be that bad." Sy tried to cheer them up a bit.

"Yeah, it's not like any of us are going anywhere." Naruto agreed.

"That's right." Sy said smiling. "We'll still be together."

"But it wont be the same with the new guys here." Tenten argued. Just as he finished his sentence, a large black car pulled up to the house and stopped in front of the sidewalk.

"Speak of the devil." Gaara mumbled to himself.

"How troublesome." Shikamaru sighed.

They all watched as the door to the vehicle swing open and out walked a boy with white eyes and long brown hair, the kind any girl would love to have. He looked straight at the their group and after a second, he walked off to the side of the car. Looking back where the boy had just gotten out from, came a girl. The girl looked really nervous, and scared. She had short blueish hair and pail lavender eyes. She looked a lot like the first boy, they were most likely related somehow. She looked up at them and blushed, looking down at the ground almost immediately. She then walked slowly to the side where the boy was standing.

Next was a girl with long blonde hair that was tired back into a high pony tale. She had blue eyes that traveled up and down the street, and a look of disgust on her pretty face. She then looked up at the group, the look on her face change quiet fast. Sy assumed it was from the glares that she was reserving from Gaara and Shika. She then walked out of the way for the next person. It was another girl, but this one hair bubblegum pink hair and sea green eyes. She looked around nervously playing with the hem of pink dress. She was then was dragged by the blonde girl over to where the rest of them where stand. The last person to get out of the car was a boy with onyx coloured hair and eyes. His pail face held a somewhat irritated look. He then closed the door to the car and shoved his hands into his pockets, looking over to the rest of the kids from St.Terean.

All ten of the teens stood there in silence until someone spoke.

"Hey there!" Naruto called to them, making everyone turn to him. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and you're the kids from St.Terean, right?"

The three girls nodded, while the two boys just stared at him.

"Well, welcome!" Naruto said.

"Umm, thank-you." the girl with pink hair said politely. "I'm Harano Sakura."

"And I'm Yamanaka Ino." the blonde girl added. "Nice to meet you."

"Sure you are. I'm Tenten" she introduced herself.

"Hyuuga Neji." said the boy with long brown hair.

"I-I'm Hyuuga Hinata. P-pleased to m-meet you." the girl with blue hair managed to stutter out quietly.

"Introductions are so troublesome." Shikamaru muttered. But continued in a normal voice. "Nara Shikamaru"

"Sabaku no Gaara" Gaara said, trying hard not to glare at the new people. But his attempts failed.

"Uchiha Sasuke." said the other boy. Sy's eyes widened a little and she inhaled a quick breath.

"Uchiha." she whispered to herself, remembering something. Everyone looked at her, but she seemed off in her own little world. Naruto waved his hand in front of her face to get her attention, Sy looked up at him, slightly embraced at her odd behavior.

"Are you okay?" Shikamaru asked her.

"Uh huh." she said, smiling at him in reassurance. Then she turned her gaze back to her new roommates. She smiled warmly at them and introduced herself. "Hi, I'm Chotei Syrenia, but you can just call me Sy, everyone always does."

"So this is the house we'll be staying at?" the girl named Ino asked, looking up at their rundown home.

"Yes." Shika told her. "You have a problem with that?"

"No, no. Not at all." Sakura said waving her hands in defense.

"Come on in, we'll show you around." Sy said, gesturing everyone inside.

They gave the new kids a tour of their home, and showed them where they where to stay. They had to shuffle everything around because the house only had four bedrooms, so everyone had to share a room. The first bedroom was Naruto and Gaara's, it was probably the messiest room in the house. Dirty laundry, grafitied test books, food wrappers and other garbage, pages out of torn up magazines, half full cups of some unknown substances, pizza boxes from when they had first moved in, dirty dishes, lost homework from the years that passed, and much more lay outstretched across the floor in between the mismatched and beaten furniture. This obviously caused a horrendous smell that made all the bugs and insects for miles come and conjugate in their bedroom. It was truly disgusting.

The second bedroom was Shikamaru's, and now also for Sasuke and Neji. It was the biggest bedroom in the house, which wasn't saying all that much. But since it had just been Shikamaru living in the room it wasn't that dirty. His bed stood against a wall, a small desk leaned against the opposite wall, but it would have to be moved to accommodate for his new roommate's things. A large, bulky bookshelf was places it the door less closet. It held a massive amount of old books and little things that Shika had received over his years. The walls were painted a smoky blue colour which made the room seem rather dark, even with the tan fabric only slightly covering the small window in the room.

The next room in the hallway was the bathroom, which was about as bad of a bathroom as anyone could imagine. The pipes were all rusted and made horible rattling noises, they even spurt out water at times. The walls had once had light green paint on them, but it had begun to peel off reveling the mustered yellow coating of paint that had been there before. The sink that sat against the two toned wall was full of everything that had fallen off of the small unleveled shelf above it. Toothpaste, combs, empty shampoo bottles and dirty towels were scattered across the floor. There was only a small shower that looked like it had never been cleaned, and it was clad in a moldy shower curtain that bore a picture of faded yellow roses. It stood beside the toilet that-well, lets just leave that to your imagination, shall we.

Across the hall was now going to be Sakura and Ino's room bedroom. It had originally been Naruto's room, but since he is now sharing a room with Gaara the girl's were going to have it. It was a creamy yellow colour with brown, stained carpets. It wasn't all that big, but it's not like anyone was going to have enough room in their house anymore.

Tenten and Hinata where left with sharing Tenten's room. It wan't nearly as messy as Gaara and Naruo's room was, but it was really cluttered with sports equipment and books of Tenten's family history. She was really into those kinda things. She had a bunk bed leaning up against the far baby blue coloured wall. The only reason she went out and bought a bunk bed with the little money she had was so that Sy always had a place to stay if she wanted to. Cause even though she sometimes sleeps in Gaara's bed, nobody would want to spend alot of time in that room. They'd die.

After having the tour of their home, and everyone went back in the living room, there was a knock at the door. It was an short, chubby man with graying hair and cigar in his mouth.

"May I help you?" Shikamaru asked the man.

"Do 'ou kids wan dis crap in 'ere or not?" the man asked, pointing over his shoulder towards the street. Shikamaru saw a big white truck that said in bold letters on the side 'Gerry's Movers".

"Oh, our stuff is here." Sakura said looking out the front window at the truck carrying their things.

"Yeah it's ours." said Gaara, looking at the man in their doorway.

"Sign here." the man said to him, holding out a clipboard for Gaara. But after receiving only glares from Gaara, the man decided to hand it to the next person there. Neji took it and signed the sheet of paper on it, handing it back to the man.

"Alright boys!" the man called over his shoulder to the three other men standing outside waiting for instruction. "Bring 'er in."

The men nodded and started pulling things out of the truck and carrying them into the house where they were directed into rooms by the owner's of the objects. After a while, there wasn't anything left in the truck and three of the men got back into it. The first man looking back at the teens.

"dat's da last 'o' it." He informed them. "We be off now."

"Alright." Neji said.

"T-thank-you." Hinata quietly added.

"No prob'em 'ittle 'ady." he said while winking one eye at her. He walked out of the house and got into the truck, then drove away. Sy closed the door behind him and turned back to everyone. They all looked at her.

"So you guys wanna go unpack now?" she asked them, they didn't say anything but headed off to their new bedrooms. She looked at her friends and continued. "You guys wanna go help them while Tenten and I make some lunch for everyone?"

It was more of a statement then a question, and they new better then to go against Sy's wishes. They've all done it once, but just once. They'll never do it again though, that girl's got one wicked temper.

Complaining under their breath, Shika and Naruto got up and made their way down the hallway, while Tenten and Sy walked into the kitchen. Gaara stayed seated for a moment, but then noticed how hungry he was. He got up and walked into the kitchen, knowing that Sy would be mad that he didn't do what she had told him to.

--------------------------------In Shikamaru, Neji & Sasuke's room-------------------------------

There was a knock at the door but the boys didn't bother to look up. But the door opened anyways and in walked the Shikamaru and Naruto.

"Sy told us to come see if you needed any help unpacking." he explained to them. The boys just stared at him, but figured it was like a peace offering between the kid's from Kona-High and himself. None of them wanted to start off their stay on the bad foot, so they agreed to let them help set up.

"So are you and the girls friends?" Naruto asked after a few minutes of silence.

"We aren't that close." Sasuke told him, while putting his clothes into his dresser drawer.

"How long have you known each other?" Naruto asked.

"Sasuke and I have known each other for a few years now." Neji told them grabbing one side of the mattress that was lay on the ground. "As for knowing the girls; Hinata's my cousin, and the other two have been friends with her since junior high."

"Oh." Naruto said, grabbing the other side of the mattress, helping Neji put in onto his bed frame.

"What about you?" Sasuke asked them. "How long have you guys been friends?"

"Well," Naruto said, trying to remember. "Sy and I have been best friends since they were seven. Then when we were eight they met Gaara and were friends with him. And when they were turned ten the met Tenten and Shika. We've been inseparable from then on."

"Wow, that's a long time." Sasuke said, flopping down on his new bed.

"How long have you been living together?" Neji asked.

"A year." Naruto said, almost proud that he had been living with his best friends for that amount of time.

"So you guys must be really close then." Sasuke said, lifting his head up so he could see the other boys. Shika nodded.

"The closest." Naruto told him.

"Then it must be really weird letting us live with you." Neju commented.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"Since you're all so close, it must be strange for you to let other people in." he explained.

"Well yeah." Shikamaru said, looking at the other boys. "But we'll get used to it, we don't really have a choice."

-------------------------------In the Sakura and Ino's room------------------------------------------

"So what do you think of this place?" Ino asked her two best friends. They had just finished setting up Hinata's room, and decided to take a small break before they started on Sakura and Ino's stuff.

"I-I think it's n-nice."Hinata said quietly.

"Well it's better then any other house on this street, that's for sure." Sakura said.

"I wasn't talking about the house." Ino told them, "I was talking about this part of the village. It seems like a dangerous place to live."

"If it was that dangerous then our parent's wouldn't let us come." Sakura said. But then put on a thoughtful look. "But my mother was crying when I left. She kept telling me things like 'Call me if anything goes wrong, and I'll be there before you know it.', or 'If someone hurts you, you tell me right away and I'll get them thrown in jail.' She even told me every step I would need to take if someone was trying to sexually assault me."

"M-my mother w-was like t-that t-too." Hinata said.

"My mom told me not to talk to anyone besides my teachers and the people that lived in this house." Ino said. "I'm not even supposed to make eye contact with anyone."

"That's so stupid!" Sakura exclaimed. "It's not like these people would actually do anything."

"I know." Ino agreed. "I mean, I realize that these people can't afford much, but that's not going to make them attack us."

"I-I don't k-know." Hinata said. "Haven't y-you heard t-the s-stories?"

"Yeah, I've heard them." Ino said. "But I don't believe them."

"Me either." Sakura said. "Don't you think we would have seen more about it in the news or in the paper?"

Just then there was a knock at their bedroom door.

"Who is it?" Ino asked.

"Santa Clause. I've come really this year." Gaara called from the other side of the door. "Who do you think it is?"

"Come in." Sakura said. The door opened and Gaara walked in. He had a small red mark on his forehead. Sy had banished him from the kitchen and sent him back to help.

"I've been told to help you unpack." Gaara stated.

"Alright then." Ino said. "We really could use some help moving our beds and dressers around."

"If I knew there was going to be heavy lifting involved," Gaara said. "I wouldn't have come at all."

-----------------------------------In the kitchen-------------------------------------------

"So Tenten," Sy said, getting ingredients out of the fridge. "What do you think of them?"

"I dunno." Tenten said honestly, while stirring the left over chicken in the frying pan. "It's only been a little while since they got here."

"I supposed you're right." Sy said while chopping up some not-so-ripe vegetables.

"But I can tell you this." Tenten said in a hushed voice. "Neji is pretty cute."

Both of the girls giggled. Sy passed all of the veggies to Tenten, who put them into the frying pan as well. Then Sy filled the pot of boiling water with an assortment of rice. It figures that they would have a dozen almost empty bags of different kinds of rice.

"So what do you think about that Sasuke?" Tenten asked her friend.

"I don't know." she said. "It's just that-"

"-It's okay Ren." Tenten said sweetly, "You don't have to say anything. I shouldn't have asked."

"Thanks Tenten." Sy said softly while smiling at her friend.

After a moment of silence Tenten held her hand out for the spoon in Sy's hand. "Give it here, I'll finish up. You got tell everyone that it's ready."

Sy passed her the spoon she was using to stir the rice and went off down the hall to go get everyone.

-----------------------Back in Neji & Sasuke's room--------------------------------

"There you go. It's all done." Naruto said.

They had just finished unpacking all of the boys' boxes, and everything was in it's place. Naruto was sitting backwards on the chair at Shikamaru's desk, he was facing the rest of the boys. Neji was sitting on his bed with his back against the wall. Shika was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed beside Sasuke's bed, Sasuke himself was on top of the bed, staring up at the ceiling.

"So now what?' Neji asked.

"Food should be ready soon." Shika said. "Not much to do until then."

"So what's Konoha high like?" Sasuke asked, trying to start a conversation.

"If it could be described in one word-" Naruto started but was cut off my Shika.

"It'd be shit." he said.

"That wasn't word I was going to use." Naruto said irritatedly.

"But it is the right one." Shika said back.

"Is it really that bad?" Neji asked.

"No." said Sy who had just appeared in the doorway. "It's worse."

"It's worse?" Sasuke repeated, not sure what she meant.

"Yup, worse." Sy said as she walked into the room and sat down on Sasuke's bed where his feet where. "The windows are cracked, the paint is chipped, the doors are off of their hinges. The hallways are filled with chaos, and the classrooms aren't much better. Most of the teachers are assholes. The students are worse. The cafeteria is crawling with bugs and diseases, and thats just the food. We have a bet going on which wall will fall down first."

She stopped to take a breath, but continued listing off the things that were wrong with her school. "There aren't enough desks or chairs for everyone, so most people just sit on the floor. The text books are outdated and falling apart. The bathrooms are revolting, just stepping foot in one make you want to hurl. Our lockers are graffitied, and dented so bad they are hardly usable. Our science class doesn't have enough money to buy any kind of equipment or chemicals. We have one map for studying geography, and it's a map of the sewer system. We have very few balls for our gym class, and one's a medicine ball, so have fun playing soccer with that. Our school nurse is also our principal, who also teaches. So if you're hurt it may take a while for her to come and look at you. The heater is broken, and we don't have an air conditioner. The whole place smells like a mixer of booze, sweat and vomit. And I'm sure that our mistress of punishment is the spawn of the devil."

Neji and Sasuke could only stare at her. They weren't sure if she was telling the truth or not. How could a place be that bad, and yet still be used everyday? They had heard stories about the school, but none as bad as how Sy made it sound.

"What?" Naruto asked them. "You think we're making this stuff up?"

"Are you sure it's that horrendous?" asked a voice from the hallway. Everyone in the room looked up to see Ino, Sakura, Hinata and Gaara standing in the doorway.

"Yes, we're sure." Shika answered Sakura's question. "But if you really don't believe us, you can see for yourself tomorrow."

"And on that happy note," Sy said, remembering the reason she was there in the first place, "it's time to eat."

------------------------------After dinner in the living room----------------------------

"So why don't you tell us something about yourselves." Tenten said.

"Umm, alright." Sakura said. "What do you want to know?"

"We already know everyone's name, and we know we're all the same age." Tenten said. "So why don't we go around the room, say something about yourself?"

"I donno Tenten," Ino said, "Doesn't that seem like a very elementary school thing to do?"

"So what?" Naruto asked, "It could be fun."
"I agree, we should do it." Sy chirped out happily.

"Who's going to go first?" Neji asked.

"I will!" Naruto exclaimed. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and I love ramen!"

After a moment of everyone staring at Naruto, Ino finally asked, "Is that it?"

"Pretty much." Shikamaru said in a mellow tone. "Who's next?"

"I nominate Gaara!" Naruto yelled rather loudly. Gaara sighed to himself, but decided it wasn't worth the effort to refuse.

"I'm Sabaku No Gaara. I like gory and violent movies, and I like sand. But I don't like most other things, and if you get in my way I will hurt you."

Tenten laughed nervously at Gaara's last comment "He's just joking." She tried to assure their new roommates. "Anyways, why don't you go next Hinata? You've been really quiet all night."

Everyone turned to look at the lavender eyed girl. She blushed when she noticed all the eyes on her. "I-I'm Hyuuga H-Hinata, and I umm I l-like umm-"

They all tried to hear what she was trying to say, but it was rather difficult because she was speaking so quietly.

"Why are you so shy?" Naruto asked bluntly. Hinata's face reddened at the question.

"I umm, it's b-because umm..." Honestly, she had wasn't sure why she was so shy. It may have had something to do with her family, but she didn't know exactly what it was. So she had no idea how to answer the question.

After a few more minutes of silence Ino decided to step in for her friend. "Hinata is a really sweet, quiet and kind girl."

Hinata blushed even more at the compliments that she was receiving.

"Yeah." Sakura agreed. "She's a great friend and you can always count on her."

"Okay." Tenten said, "How about you go next Neji?"

Neji stared at Tenten for a moment but then began. "I'm Neji, I like sports, I'm good at school, and I like pancakes."

"Pancakes?" Sy questioned him.

"Yes, pancakes." Neji said, he seemed rather irritated. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Sy shook her head slightly and said no.

"Why don't you go next Sasuke-kun?" Sakura suggested.

"Hn." Sasuke started. "My likes arn't really any of your business, and there are a lot of things i don't like."

"Very specific." Gaara muttered sarcastically. After that it was Shikamaru's turn.

"Nara Shikamaru, I like watching the clouds, playing chess, and things that arn't troublesome." He sighed. "And I find all of this very troublesome."

"Of course you do." Naruto said. "Next!"

"That would be me." Ino stated. "I'm Yamanaka Ino-as in the florist shop Yamanaka. I like hanging out and shopping with my friends."

"I wanna go next." Sakura said. "I'm Haruno Sakura, yes my hair is natural and yes my favorite colour is pink. But it's just a coincidence, nothing more. Oh, and I like shopping and reading romance novels."

"My turn." Sy said. "Like I said earlier I'm Syrenia, but everyone calls me Sy or Ren. I don't really like my name, it's too formal. Anyways, I like my friends and my family...well a selected few members of my family anyways."

"You're the only one left Tenten." Ino stated.

"'Kay, I'm Tenten and I like sports and history, and just about anything I do with my friends." She finished up for everyone.

"We'll that was productive." Neji said, a slight tint of sarcasm in his voice.

"Whatever Mr. Pancake." Sy said, receiving a heated glare from Neji. "It's not a bad thing to get to know each other, since you will be living here for a while."

Just then Sasuke got up from his seat and started to walk down the hallway. When Ino asked where he was going he replied "Bed. There's nothing more to talk about."

"W-we should g-go to b-bed too." Hinata said, "We s-start school t-tomorrow."

Without another word they all got up from their seats and started walking down the hallway. When they were almost into their separate rooms Naruto turned to Sy "Your going home?"

Everyone turned to look in her direction. She stood with her hand placed on the front door. She turned so she was facing them all, "Yeah," she said, "But I'll come by in the morning before school so we can all walk together."

Naruto nodded his head and wished her a good night and a safe trip. It's not safe for people to walk around in the streets at night. But Sy is a tough girl, if she gets into trouble she can take care of herself...well, most of the time.