It's a kinda long chapter, sorry.
Warning: I dunno how far shippuuden has gotten but if you haven't watch that much of it then there might be slight spoilers concerning Sasori. I don't think its a biggie but better to be safe that sorry.
Enjoy.
Chapter 7 - Debt
In the humanities department.
Neji picked up his books as he finished his last sentence.
"And that settles today's lesson on how Buddhism influences the society around us." He has a superior look on his face as he said this. "Please remember your assignment. It is due for 2 days."
A student raised his hand.
"Yes."
"Neji-sensei" the boy smirked. "What was our assignment?"
Neji glared at the boy, knowing his intentions. He then looked at him unnervingly.
"The, assignment, is written in your journal, I see no reason to repeat myself." The bell went off. "Class dismissed."
Neji turned and faced Tsunade. "Well, are you satisfied? Will you stop babysitting me now?" he said.
Tsunade grinned. She then sighed. "I'm sorry Neji, it's just that everyone in this school is slacking, and hearing that you teach and exploit the greatness of your clan as a 'religion' of its own, rather than doing actual religions like the Religious Education teacher you are, I had to make sure the rumors were not true. It's nothing personal." She said.
Neji nodded sympathetically as Tsunade left before she told him to "keep up the good work."
Suddenly, as soon as Tsunade was out of sight, Neji spotted the boy that questioned him before. He called him over.
"Y-yes sensei?" He said.
"Exactly what was that before? I suggest you explain yourself." Neji replied.
The boy looked extremely worried. "W-well, it was just a joke… sensei."
And thus, not a very wise one, as the contents of this assignment was something like 3000 words on the Hyuuga clan's destiny of greatness. And so the boy was sentenced to detention.
It was now lunch time, a time where the students could get away from the madness of their subject teachers. Or so, they thought. For the boys it probably was, but there were many impurities lurking around the school walls or, more accurately, the school's halls themselves.
Jiraiya sighed deeply as he leaned on a broom stick. It was a warm sunny day and he, as the school's janitor, was stuck cleaning floors and picking up dirt. He didn't mind it when the school girls in their small little uniforms walked by; however it was strange even for him to be perving on the young-uns that hadn't even fully developed, which is possibly why every lunch time Tsunade would force him to clean up the locker rooms of the first years, only. It was not like she hadn't given him a chance at having a real profession, but he blew it every time by not keeping his eyes to himself. He was even awarded the chance of assistant deputy head, but even that was impossible for him, so it was then handed out to Orochimaru, the other of the three sannins. Suddenly, he saw something he hadn't seen in quite a while – the chest of a fully grown woman. Despite it being fully clothed, it still caused his eyes to widen and a blush to arise.
"Hey, there. How can Jiraiya the legendary, err, janitor help you?" He said to a skeptical blond.
"O-oh." She blushed. "I was asked to deliver something to you, ero-sennin." She said, with a suggestive look in her eyes.
If he wasn't so flushed and mesmerized by the amount of sexiness that was emitting from the female, he might have noticed that there was something wrong with this scene as the girl grabbed him by the collar and neared his face to hers. All of a sudden – poof!
A grinning Naruto appeared before him.
"You're too easy, ero-sennin!" he said as he made a run for it.
"NARUTO!! That's not funny!!" Jiraiya then chased Naruto with his broom.
A bunch of the students in the common room laughed and giggled. It was not unusual for Naruto-sensei to pull such pranks.
Meanwhile, by the school gates, Deidara was doodling random butterflies and watching them come to life, whilst Sasori was watching the clouds mindlessly.
They were interrupted as Naruto and a fuming perverted hermit were headed towards them. Having noticed this, Sasori did some hand movements and had a puppet appear inform of them, it held out its hand.
"Halt!" Sasori said firmly.
Naruto put pressure on his heels in order to stop, and he managed to stop just before the puppet's hand could touch his nose. However, Jiraiya, being behind Naruto, was not as successful and he crushed into Naruto causing them to fall on the puppet. Sasori frowned.
"You are not permitted to leave the school walls during school hours, at any circumstance, unless you have a valid note from the head." He said.
The puppet lifted itself above Naruto and Jiraiya, and as it was about to grab the both of them, it began to wobble and then collapsed on the floor, cracking somewhat. Sasori's frown deepened.
"We weren't leaving the building; it's just that the perverted hermit was chasing me, Sasori." Naruto grinned.
"It's not my fault you pretended to be a babe and made a fool out of me, again! It's not nice to toy with a person like that, have you learned nothing?!" The hermit rambled. Naruto simply grinned sheepishly.
Sasori's eyes continued to move from the pair, to his dislocated puppet for a few moments. There was silence as this happened. Suddenly the silence was broken by the other gate-keeper.
"Oooh Sasori, look at this one… wow it's a masterpiece! Even if I do say so myself. Yeah!" Deidara was giggling at an overgrown butterfly he had created.
Everyone turned to look at him for a while.
"Welll, it was fun hanging out with you gatekeeper guys but, me and the runt will be leaving now." Jiraiya said. As they both got up to leave, a flock of puppets blocked their way in to the school. Two of them approached, and grabbed Naruto and Jiraiya but the shoulder and upper arm leading them towards Sasori.
///////Moments later…
The bell had finally gone and the children were heading to their next lessons.
For one particular group, it was time for their history lesson. As they entered the familiar classroom, the saw their teacher wearing his usual black attire with a cat-like hood and purple face paint. He was leaning back on his chair with his feet on the table, and quickly put them down as he saw his students enter the room.
Unlike many of the other teachers, for their lessons so far Kankuro had actually been teaching his students things on the syllabus, however recently he had decided he was bored of history, he knew the history of the sand village already thus he simply could not be bothered to learn about every other country. So he had decided to replace this with something more "fun" and yet still make it relevant to the subject. He made this announcement to his students.
"Um I'd like you all to forget last weeks homework, we're doing something new now." He said. There was some chatter amongst the children, since the syllabus seemed to have moved so fast. "We will be learning about my personally favorite subject; the history of puppets." He said, grinning.
Everyone looked doubtful.
"You mean, the kind that that gatekeeper uses to guard the school?" a kid said, he was of course talking about Sasori.
"Ah yes, exactly that. He is one of our key people in this subject." Kankuro continued to grin.
"But he's still alive…"
"So?"
"In history we usually learn about key dead people……." The kid pointed out.
Kankuro pondered this.
"You're right. But you're also wrong. You see, Sasori is in fact dead…. Kinda." This made everyone gasp and give questioning looks. Many students were freaked out, however little did they know that this was only the beginning…
Kankuro cleared his throat.
"Yeah, this is jumping the topic a bit…" he began, which was an understatement seeing as he completely skipped the first topic. "But basically one of the amazing things about puppets is that you can create them out of real people, whether they are dead or alive, and you can still keep all the chakra and kekkei genkai the person who was alive had."
Despite all this fascinating new information they had received, there was only one thing that boggled the student's minds.
"So Sasori is actually a puppet?"
"Yeps"
"Then how do you make puppets out of real people?"
Kankuro grinned. That was his favorite part of the "syllabus" and he didn't hesitate describing it in full detail to his students.
//Meanwhile, in the arts department…
"Hello boy and girls! I have a fun packed drama lesson for you all today!" Ino said in a high pitched voice. "Furthering our lesson on how to get a guy to notice you, today will be ever MORE fun, trust me." She giggled.
"Ino-sensei, is this really drama? Aren't we supposed to act?"
"We will, we will! I'm just getting you into the whole feel of this, okay? Now let's pretend this guy you want to get is called Sasuke…" as she said this, the girls' interest was immediately caught.
"Sasuke-sensei? Well that won't be hard to act out." The girls giggled, Ino joining them.
"Of course it won't, but before we begin I would just like to say; SHAME you're all too young for him! Me on the other hand…" she blushed.
The girl's frowned.
"Anyway, let's begin…Mission; how to get Sasuke. Any young fresh ideas that might work are welcome ne? Let's work as a team girls!" Ino shouted.
The boys were all currently sweat dropping.
"Umm sensei, what are we supposed to do?" one said.
Ino put a hand on her chin a thought for a while. She then raised her index finger.
"Hasn't it ever crossed your minds how pretty Sasuke-kun looks when he's wearing that sexy, professional suit of his?" she said suggestively.
Even so, there were some that blushed and nodded. The others remained unconvinced so Ino continued...
"Or if not, then haven't you ever noticed how many girls he can easily get?" She grinned as the rest of the boys nodded. "Okay then let's continue with Mission; How to get, and how to be Sasuke-kun!"
The students all cheered a "yeah!" and continued acting random scenes Ino assigned them.
It was now the end of the lessons, and a bunch of students walked out of the history lesson, many of them grasping their stomachs.
"That… was… disgusting." Someone said.
"Too right, I can't believe Sasori-sensei did that to others and even his own guts and skin and… Oh crap." The girl covered her mouth.
"I thought that was TOO COOL!! I want to be a puppet shinobi when I leave GEN ED school!!" one of the boys shouted as he run out the classroom. "Shinobi like Sasori-san and Kankuro-sensei, I want to be like them!!"
"You're sick!" another student complained.
Kankuro walked out grinning. "That was the best lesson I've ever had" he laughed as he watched his students looking for the nearest toilet to puke.
It was clear that from now on, the children would not be able to see the puppets hovering around the school, making sure justice was in order, in the same way ever again. As they were about to leave the building, they saw a huge smile plastered on the face of an old looking puppet, that was standing right before them.
"CHICHI!!!!!!!" They all screamed as they run away from the father puppet, which they had learnt alllll about in their "history" lesson.
//////// In the school garden. Deep inside the greenhouse...
Shino adjusted his glasses as he was finishing off preparing the last plant, with help of his trusty assistant bugs, for his lesson today. The bell rang suggesting that the students would enter any minute. Indeed, they all began walking into the greenhouse moments later and greeted their sensei.
"Sensei, what are you doing?" a kid said.
"You will find out soon enough." Shino answered.
He had his back faced to the kids and looked like he was struggling a little with whatever he was doing. Without changing positions, he placed a white sheet over all the plants.
"In today's herbology lesson, you will be helping me rid the world of dozens of disgusting creatures that pose threat to a wonderful group of members of our society."
"We're killing bugs?!" someone shouted out.
Shino twitched. He placed both hands on his desk and leaned on them; he looked like he was about to cry, or laugh like an evil maniac…
"Get out." He said, having done neither of the above. "It's the complete opposite, in fact. But if that's what you expect then get out."
He then continued. "All these weeks I have been teaching you about the concept of B.A.O.F society; 'Bugs Are Our Friends'. I even placed it in simple form for your puny minds to understand. If you are to become shinobi of this organization one day, this lesson is vital. So no fooling around, anymore of that and you will have detention." He said.
"Um, sensei… is BOAF a real organization?"
"No, not as yet. But mark my words, you'll be hearing of it soon enough." Shino reassured. "As members of this organization that will eventually come into existence, I would like to introduce to you our worst enemy." Suddenly the lights went off, and there was a spotlight on the place where Shino had put the white cloth – all courtesy of the great lighting technology arranged by Shino's bugs and co.
"Behold." Shino said for dramatic effect, as he equally as dramatically lifted the sheet revealing ordinary looking plants.
"Flowers? Don't bugs like flowers…?"
"NOT ordinary flowers; Insectivorous Plants. This one here..." Shino pointed at the biggest plant there. "Sarracenia purpurea, or more widely know as, the pitcher plant. It lures our little friends with her beautiful colours and smooth skin that provides fine shelter for them… while it lasts. Eventually, she traps them, and fries them, and skins them just before she's prepared them and that is the end of our little friends! They are eaten."
Shino was breathing rather deeply, like a dictator after a charismatic speech. He then straightened up and faced his class as he spoke in a professional manner.
"Your task, comrades, is to pick one these preposterous creatures up and then pick up a very detailed informational sheet about them. You are to observe and read and understand them. As the saying correctly goes, you must keep your enemies closer." He said; there was a glint in his eye, so bright, that you could even see it through his shades. "And then, you will crush them."
There were gasps from the crowd.
"L-literally crush them?" a kid asked.
"Yes." Shino responded. "Whichever way you find most enjoyable, you can use kunais, shirukens, any form of ninjutsu, taijutsu or kekkei genkai you may possess. You can even use your bare hands, if you read and found out that they don't contain any form of poison or dangerous toxins."
He said this in a calm monotone.
The students looked confused.
"I will give you a demonstration." He said as he picked up one of the plants. "This one here, despite being held hostage, felt smart and daring and as soon as my back was turned for a mere second, it blindly took one of our own into its sly fangs and silently took his life away. One moment silence please." He said as he lowered his head. The students followed.
A moment later…
"This is the punishment it will receive for being so cocky."
He smashed the plant against the floor causing it to explode all over the room, its guts staining the children's faces.
"Please, do not show the rest the mercy I showed this one. Once the deed is done, we will conclude the lesson." Shino noticed that a student had her hand raised.
"Sensei isn't herbology about herbal medicine and the such?" she questioned, rationally.
"Maybe so, but I find this a much, MUCH more important matter. If there are any objections take it to the head. We will do more herbal medicine later on in the year… Possibly. Now take those plants and grill them!" Shino said.
The rest of the lesson was rather interesting. It was a sight of a bunch of children stomping and killing bug-eating plants, whilst their sensei stood in the middle of the room snickering to himself, along with his bugs that felt safe as ever.
///30 minutes after the end of the school day… back at the front gates of Konoha High.
Naruto had a huge sheepish grin on his face and was holding a puppet in front of an unconvinced Sasori.
"I don't know… I could have sworn he's eyes were not that squishy." He said as he rubbed his chin, and poked his puppet's eye continuously.
Naruto sweat dropped.
"Well, the truth is… I couldn't find his real eyeballs." Naruto rubbed the back of his head.
"Oh?" Sasori said. "And what did you replace them with?"
"Umm… Liquorice sweets"
Sasori raised an eyebrow.
"If you ever get hungry half way through a battle, you can help your self! – ouch!"
Sasori slapped Naruto at the back of his head. "Keep working." He then turned to a mumbling Jiraiya. "How's it going, perverted hermit?" He said.
Jiraiya twitched and mumbled something like "stop calling me that you stupid kid!!"
Regardless he didn't say it out loud. "I finished brushing your mother's hair, now I'm oiling her joints and giving this other one a foot massage. I have 8 more puppets to do and repeat the whole routine over, at this rate I think I'll be finished by midnight!" He said, trying his best to keep a smile on his face.
Sasori nodded in approval. Once Sasori wasn't watching, Jiraiya began to have teary eyes and whimpered as he looked at the sky. This was NOT the kind of woman I'd like myself to be doing these things to. He cried in his head.
"Wow, Naruto has a lot more to do yeah? You better hurry up if you don't want to pull an all-nighter." Deidara said.
"I don't mind, puppets don't really need to sleep anyway." Sasori pointed out, much to Naruto and Jiraiya's horror.
"True that." Deidara said grinning.
Naruto then began to whine. "B-but, we're not puppets! And we need, NEED sleep otherwise act like PMS-ing teenagers the whole day!"
"Then think about whose puppet you break next time, you're lucky he didn't feed you to them." Deidara snickered; he was getting a lot of amusement out of the situation.
"Would you like me to turn you into puppets? I wouldn't mind having the nine-tailed fox and a Sennin added to my collection. Plus it would make your lives easier." He, ever so kindly, suggested.
"N-no, we're fine." They answered quickly and simultaneously.
"Suit yourselves then, and stop complaining."
Regardless, after about 5 minutes Naruto and Jiraiya continued to complain and try to get out of it throughout the evening, with no avail, possibly as they would until they had completed their debt to Sasori for ruining his precious puppet.
Not so sure about Deidara and Sasori's characters - does Deidara say "yeah" alot 'cause I've seen people at fanfic use it alot on him. (still cant watch shippuuden due to crappy internet.)
Anyway, I have a little "poll" thing that my friend (darkphoenix23) suggested I do. As you can see half the time I make up the children's names or call them "that kid" haha. SO if you want YOUR name to appear in this fanfic let me know in a review or message or something.
It should look something like this:
Name: "YOUR NAME"
Age: (this can be your real age or whatever age you'd like to be, keeping in mind it's a high school so you have certain age limits. you can chose to not specify your age though, its not that important.)
Preferable Naruto character you'd like to be taught by:
Personality:
The personality part is 'cause I don't wanna make someone out to be a fangirl/boy when they dislike fangirling/boying or whatever, ne? Anyway, this would be much appreciated and FUN! Hopefully.
Next chapter - Just WHAT is so bad about the boy's detention you ask? All will be revealed. XD kinda..