Really short chapter but I think it might be appropriate. I and BETA-chan (lol) do think it's better this way.

I haven't much to say for once. Enjoy.

The competition.

It was after school hours so all the students had returned home. The teachers and staff however were all gathered in the staffroom on Tsunade's request. She had told them that she had an important announcement to make. Everyone was waiting around lazily, it was almost complete silence considering everyone was too tired to say or do anything… Apart from one of course. "What the hell does Tsunade want now? I'm hungry and tired from doing all that marking!" Naruto complained.

"Naruto, your marking involved eating ramen… How can you be hungry and tired?!" Sakura questioned. Naruto simply shrugged. "And what good ramen it was, I get hungry just thinking about it."

"Don't mention food dope. Please." Sasuke, who was languidly resting his upper half across one of the tables, said. "Those stupid fan girls gave me so much of it I feel like I'm going to die."

"First of all don't you always feel like dying or being depressed or whatever? Secondly, why did you eat it if it made you sick?!" Naruto asked.

Sasuke gave him something of a death glare in nature. "I was bored in class." He said simply, choosing to ignore his first remark.

"Figures. Anyway, they probably want you to get fat so no one else will look at you and so they can have you to themselves" Naruto snickered.

"Naruto you sure do know the mind of a fan girl well, it kind of makes me wonder whether you actually do know how they feel." Kiba laughed.

"Just WHAT are you suggesting?!" Naruto was about to jump on Kiba. "Are you saying I find Sasuke attractive, because if that's it then you've been living in a cage for the past 10 years! At least I'm not into animals!" Naruto said in attempt to spite Kiba.

Kiba growled, this would have gotten ugly if Tsunade hadn't burst in the room. "Hello Konoha High staff!" she said bubbly, in contrast with the atmosphere to the rest of the room. "Look at all these gloomy faces. Well my announcement will surely wash it all away!" she began. "as we all know; you are not the best teachers in the world. In fact, I can safely say you all completly suck in one way or another… Unfortunately, this is costing the school a lot of money and I'm not willing to go into debts again. Are you all with me so far?"

"Maybe if you got to the point, we would be." Sai said what everyone else was thinking.

"This is so troublesome." Shikamaru sighed.

"I'm in too much of a good mood to sack you two right now. So I will continue. Because you all slack so much, I have come up with a cleaver plan to sort out all the money problems. We are going to be holding an art competition with money as the grand prize. Whoever wins will receive a lot of money. And this is a STAFF only competition; the students will be the deciding factors of some things such as who joins and who wins. Anyway the one who wins will be able to contribute well in the schools budget. I don't want to name anyone but some expensive teachers, such as Gaara and Itachi who ruin equipment and children bones on a daily basis, should be trying EXTRA hard." Tsunade was now starring into the faces of her indifferent colleagues. They really didn't seem to care, apart from the obvious ones.

"This sounds like FUN! Besides more money, more ramen…" Naruto shouted.

"Tsunade-sama, that does sound like a very good plan. I will definitely work hard and try my best!" Lee also shouted.

"I'm sorry Tsunade but, I beg to differ. My equipment is still usable even if I chose to throw them at my students on the rare occasion." Itachi tried to sugar coat his personality problems.

"Oh really Itachi? Is that why even the charity shop threw them back in our faces? Remember that grand piano we ordered that cost us a fortune, by the end of it we barely found a single key left. I mean what did you do, eat it? Not to mention the violin's and guitar string…"

Itachi frowned. "Hey, I never asked for new stuff."

"Me neither, my woodworks machine's look fine to me…" Gaara decided to join in.

"Gaara you are indeed right however, the blood stains and other human parts don't provide a very comfortable working area. And plus they only vaguely work well." Tsunade looked around. "Anyone else have any objections?" she asked rhetorically.

"Yeah, if we suck so much why did you hire us against our will?" Sasuke decided to answer it regardless.

"Against your will Sasuke. I don't think you can speak for everyone." Tsunade countered.

"Yeah, I like my students." Sakura, the science teacher, smiled.

Sasuke raised his eyebrow. "But Sakura… They're stupid little children." He said.

"And weren't you one once Sasuke? Kakashi-sensei had to deal with that, think about how he felt." Sakura replied.

Naruto suddenly got all reminiscent. "Yeah, I wonder how he's doing now, and where he is… and if he ever finished those perverted books, OH and if he still keeps that dumb mask on and I wonder what colour his hair is now that he's old I mean it was grey to begin with, so what's it now, fallen off? Man there are so many questions I'd like to ask him…" However Naruto was cut off by loud coughing and the presence of someone behind him. He turned around. "K-Kakashi-sensei! What are you doing in this school?! Man I miss you!" Naruto had temporary memory loss it seemed.

"I work here Naruto; you tried to steal my novel just yesterday. But my, it seems you are even more of a fish then I remember." Kakashi smiled under his mask.

Sasuke looked at Naruto as if he was an idiot. He decided however to continue the conversation he had before. "Anyway, I was never a stupid child like the ones at this high school, or the majority in this room for that matter." He said.

"Beg to differ." Itachi said from the corner.

"Stop saying that…" Temari said irritably.

"What? It's true, he was a stupid kid."

"Itachi I have no interest in talking to you right now." Sasuke's eyebrow was twitching slightly. He was trying to have a conversation with Sakura, but everyone was getting in the way.

"Tsunade, may I leave now?" Gaara, who was getting really aggravated with the amount of stupidity in the room, decided to ask.

"Nope." She said, causing Gaara to give a deadly look. "Everyone dismissed from the meeting! Now you can go Gaara." She smiled.

Gaara looked at her apathetically as he walked out of the room first.

"Come on foolish little brother, let's go home." Itachi grabbed Sasuke by the shoulder and dragged him out the door before he had the chance to do anything about it. It seemed that Itachi was in one of his more cheerful personalities at the current moment. However as they got out you could hear Sasuke screaming at him whereas Itachi was silent, possibly because he was too busy smiling carelessly.

"Well this'll be fun, I wonder if it's legal to let some of the sensei's join coughOROCHIMARUcough." Naruto said. He then felt the hair's on his neck raise as he felt somone's presence. "Don't worry Naruto-kun, I won't do anything ungodly." Orochimaru grinned at him...

This was going to be interesting indeed.

Aha we're seeing changes. 'bout time ne?