I hope this chapter makes up for the long wait.

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Sasuke tapped his fingers on the handlebar impatiently as he waited for the old Konoha citizen to cross the narrow road. He sighed. He had realised that this high stress job combined with his personality, were certainly not good for his health. Still, this was the one thing he could really enjoy, he thought. He placed pressure on his left peddle and began to ride off on his bicycle. It is only a matter of time before I have to see those idiots. He thought as the wind brushed through his hair; this was Sasuke's time to himself.

Having thought that, Sasuke saw a familiar red head join his street from the next corner. He too appeared to be on a bike.

"Gaara?" He said as he neared the red head, who turned his head back at the sound of his name.

"Sasuke." He replied.

They were now cycling at the same level.

"You cycle too? I thought you used your sand to float to school." He said sarcastically whilst smirking.

Gaara narrowed his eyebrows. "I like the exercise" He replied. "Why do you cycle, Uchiha?"

Sasuke sighed. "It helps me escape the fan girl mobs; a car won't fit into tight spaces, and a bike is a lot faster than human legs..."

"Ah, touché." Gaara said; Sasuke had a valid reason indeed.

They continued to cycle, in silence for most of the way, until they had reached Konoha High School. They were approached by a puppet at the gateway. Sasuke and Gaara both showed it their ID cards before they were allowed in. It was a rather tense moment as the two Sensei's and gatekeepers eyed each other as they walked by.

"I can't stand those Akatsuki goons…" Sasuke said when they were away from ears reach of Sasori and Deidara.

"Wasn't your brother one of them?" Gaara said.

"He's the one I can't stand most."

Gaara raised a non-existent brow.

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The bell had rung which suggested that the first periods at Konoha High were about to begin. As usual, many of the students dreaded attending the lessons, except for the few daring ones that found their not-so-professional teachers challenging and exciting. This time round, a class was going to attend archery and combat skills class (After all, Konoha was a Ninja country) for the lower years, which was taught by the cute and pleasant Ten-ten sensei.

"Ohayo gozaimaz Sens- woah! Ten-Ten Sensei?" The student had just barely dodged a kunai that was headed for his head.

Ten-ten looked at him wide-eyed. "That was close… I wouldn't hear end of it from Tsunade-sama if that'd hit you, be more careful!" she said as she sweat dropped.

The students looked at the doorway to see what Ten-ten was attacking. What they saw didn't and didn't surprise them. It was a badly drawn picture of Sakura with different weapons on it. This did not surprise them because they knew that Ten-ten had something personal against Sakura, though they had yet to find out what; although rumour had it that it had something to do with a certain sensei that carried a special eye trait... It also surprised them because they never thought she was the kind of person to attack a picture of her despite what she had against her.

Ten-ten cleared her throat.

"Settle down class! I hope you're all awake and ready for today's lesson. I had something fun packet planned, but after that little incident I think I'll remind you of how a shinobi should always be careful and fully aware of their surroundings."

"No sensei! We get it, we do! Besides, we shouldn't do practical work when you're angry…"

Ten-ten grinned. "I'm not! Look, see, happy, happy. I've had my daily dosage of happy now let's go! To the gym!"

Meanwhile…

Kakashi was walking across the corridor of the quiet school carrying a bunch of books under his arm. He was also reading his perverted novel when suddenly he heard someone calling his same obnoxiously.

"Kakashiii my eternal rival of youth! Wait!" Gai shouted.

"Yo' Gai, what's up?" Kakashi said not raising his eyes from his novel.

"Kakashi, are you trying to get in touch with the children's youth using that trendy language?" Gai said as he approached Kakashi.

"No" Kakashi replied bluntly. "I'm making life easier for myself."

"Ooh smart Kakashi, you may have some brains but you obviously have no brawns." Gai grinned.

Kakashi looked at him suspiciously. "The amount of books you are carrying is puny! I challenge you Hatake Kakashi! We shall carry 70 fat math and science books each and whoever gets to the other side of the school first, shall be the glorious, youthful and brawny winner!"

"I should have seen this coming." Kakashi sighed.

"Waiit! Ask me what the looser will do." Gai said enthusiastically jumping up and down like an excited toddler.

"What? Carry the whole library around the whole school 120 times without stopping until their leg muscle feel like they'll rip out and yada, yada." The apathetic Kakashi simply guessed, whilst looking at his novel still.

Gai stopped for a second. When Kakashi looked back, he noticed that his mouth was wide open. He then closed it and with a glint in his eye approached Kakashi.

"Oooooohhh you're good Kakashi!! You quoted me well, only I would have put more oomph into it… So it's a deal! Let's go!!"

As Gai dashed at the speed of light toward the library, Kakashi walked languidly towards his destination.

"Ahh… Sensei, what was that?"

Ten-ten squinted her eyes in the distance to see what had run past. "All I see is smoke…" she said.

"W-well, I saw a green and black blur that almost attacked me…" Ryuen said rubbing her arm.

"Hmm… green? Lee-kun? No… Gai-sensei!" Ten-ten grinned. "Anyway, let's get on with the lesson!"

The students were grateful for those few moments she was distracted. But now it was time for them to dodge for their lives. Ten-ten took out a scroll with a series of kunais, shurikens, sword and other lethal material.

"Right, you know the rules. These items will come flying at you and you must dodge. As Konoha shinobi and Kunoichi this should be a piece of cake for you guys! Don't let me down!"

"S-sensei wait! Why can't we use dodge ball for practice?"

"Don't be silly, no ones scarred of dodge balls, it won't hurt if they hit you and so you won't learn. Ready?" Ten-ten was about to start throwing her equipment at the students when another distraction came along. The students felt as if it was their lucky day.

"'Morning Ten-ten."

"Ohayo Kakashi-san! Uhh… why are you…? Never mind." Ten-ten said as she saw Kakashi walk by holding 70 fat books on one hand and his reading his novel on the other… how he had managed that, was a mystery unknown…

"Uhh… see you all should be able to do stuff like that when I'm done with you!" Ten-ten turned her attention to her students and began firing kunais at them.

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Technology department.

Sai was currently having a staring competition with one of his students. His eyebrow twitched slightly.

"Feh, what do you know huh? You can't even draw a straight line." He said as he turned away. "Besides, I said the subject of whether fine art can be incorporated into graphics-design is no longer up for discussion, I made that clear at the beginning of the year."

"Sai-sensei, we already have an art class."

"Of which I should have been the sensei for. No wonder your drawing skills suck, it reflects the incompetence of your current sensei. That shy little girl doesn't know how to express her emotions in real life let alone through art."

There was silence for a moment. Sai turned to face his students; they obviously had something they were hesitating to say...

"Neither can you, sensei."

Sai frowned. It was true after all, but he didn't like to be defeated by people younger than him.

"Detention" he smirked.

"W-w-what? Why? What did I do?" the student panicked.

"You got on my nerve, that's what. Now go."

"S-sensei! I'm sure Tsunade-sama didn't make such rules…"

"Oh?" Sai smirked. "Well let me rephrase that so that it will be a foil for Tsunade-sama's rules; you didn't raise your hand to speak thus shouted out when not asked, you were rude, what you said was uncalled for… need I go on?"

As the student walked out of the classroom, terrified, Sai turned his attention to the other students.

"Today, we will be doing portraits of our favourite persons or things… this will help develop our ability to draw things accurately from memory THUS when doing graphics such as architecture we can draw things out we have in our minds precisely… Maybe some of you will become great enough to make them come to life, although it's highly doubtable, who knows." Sai emphasised the things that had to do with graphics design.

"Can we draw favourite senseis?"

"Hmm…" Sai pondered. "Fine. As long as it's a beautiful piece then it's fine." He said, drifting away from he subject of graphics, and more into art once more.

"Yay! I'm drawing Sakura-sensei!" a student smiled happily.

"What?" Sai raised his eyebrow. "You're going to draw ugly? Tell me, where does ugly come into beautiful? Are you retarded or something."

"B-but sensei, Sakura-sensei is very pretty… I heard you were in the same team so I assumed you'd be attracted to her like Naruto-sensei is." The student said smiling happily still.

Sai blushed slightly. "What the hell gave you that gross idea?! Naruto is an idiot, and if you want to draw her you can, but don't expect very good results."

"But sensei…"

"She has pink hair, enough said. There are many better senseis' you can draw but if you want to fail that badly then be my guest." Sai said smirking.

"Oh well, I'm doing Sasuke-sensei… you can go wrong with him!"

"Tch, what he the hell have I just started…" Sai sighed to himself. "You don't need to be discussing anything." He said sternly to the students, which made them shut up at once and continue their art… I mean, graphics work.

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1:00 PM

It was now officially lunch time at Konoha High. The children were able to escape from the daily weirdness of their senseis. However, that was not to say that the weirdness itself took a break. Of course, the teachers them selves needed to get their energy from somewhere for their high-level stress job. Naruto-kun for example, gained this energy from his natural habitat, the ramen stand at the school dinner (that was built in especially for him as a way for Tsunade to bribe him to work at the school.) Luckily for Naruto, this side of the dinner hall was completely empty. This being because not many of the other senseis were Ramen lunatics and the children got enough Ramen in lesson to last them a lifetime. So thus it was all for Naruto, and the school dinner-man Chouji who, on the occasion, would secretly sneak in some of the food for himself. (In other words, there was hardly any left for anyone else by lunchtime.)

"Ramen please, Chouji-kun!" Naruto said, holding his bowl in front of Chouji's face with a huge grin on his face.

"Jeez Naruto, leave some for me… I'll have nothing to eat later." Chouji said whilst pouring the ramen and chewing on his chocolate bar at the same time.

"Of course, obviously the whole dinner hall isn't enough for you…" Naruto mumbled under his breath. "But you make great ramen! I never thought you had it in you!" was what Chouji actually heard.

"Heh-heh, don't underestimate my taste in food Naruto! By the way, I heard what you mumbled… if you don't want me to spit in your ramen next time I suggest you mumble quieter." Naruto grinned sheepishly at Chouji's last comment.

He headed over to sit next to other members of staff. In a table, he saw Gaara, Shikamaru, Sasuke and Kiba.

"Hai guys!" Naruto said in a bubbly voice.

They all greeted the blonde sensei vaguely and continued their former conversation.

"So Gaara aren't you gonna get that cleaned?" Kiba asked pointing at Gaara's arm. It had a sticky red substance on it. "If Tsunade sees you she'll flip"

Gaara shook his head.

"You didn't strike me as the kind to like your victim's stains on you…" Sasuke said.

"My sand will take care of it." He replied.

"Jeez, you're lazier than Shikamaru." Kiba said, funnily enough Shikamaru was asleep as this was said.

"You really love blood don't you?" Naruto said, as he came back from his second round of ramen.

"Blood? Blood makes me queasy…" Gaara said slowly. "I don't remember things when I'm in contact with blood, but apparently it's not pretty."

"So what's that?" Naruto was confused now.

"You idiot." Sasuke said. "It's strawberry jam."

"Huh? Why is it on his arm…?"

"One of Gaara's admirer's tried to get close to him to give him home-made jam as a present and hug him but, as his sand is over-protective and thought the girl wanted to attack him with it or something…"

"…accidents happened." Gaara finished Kiba's sentence.

"Wow, now I know 2 things Gaara's scarred of! Blood and …Orochimaru!" Naruto shivered as he said the sannin's name.

"Everyone's scarred of Orochimaru." Gaara corrected. "Besides, he doesn't scare me; I can handle him in a battle… just not in a detention room."

"Naruto how many bowls of ramen have you had?" The conversation swiftly changed direction as Shikamaru woke up.

"Dunno…" Naruto said with his mouthful.

"In a matter of 5 minutes, you've had about 4 bowls…" Shikamaru said matter-of-factly.

"Naruto can suck up ramen faster than a vacuum. The vacuum would be jealous." Sasuke said.

"W-what's that, teme! Are you insulting me again?!" Naruto growled.

"No, you should be honoured being compared to a vacuum. At least they're useful for something."

"Oh… well that's fine." Naruto grinned.

"Naruto that was more of an insult that the first thing, you do know that right?" Shikamaru raised and eyebrow.

"Oh yeah… of course I know! I-I was going to deal with that eventually…"

"Naruto, do what you're good at and eat your ramen." Sasuke said spitefully once more.

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It was now time for the last lesson of the day. For some of the upper years, their sensei was Temari who taught self defence and archery for upper years only.

"As a shinobi village, we take this kind of lesson very seriously. Frankly, I don't see you doing so well in this lesson, people. For example, your quick thinking is poor." Temari was currently in the middle of demonstrating battle strategies to her students, at the same time Ino happened to walk past the field where the lesson was going on with a cheery smile on her face. "When an enemy is spotted…." Temari began.

"Kyaah! What the…?" Ino screamed as she dodged for her life when she noticed Temari's fan blow a gust of sharp wind towards her.

"Oops, I didn't see you there, Ino-sensei." Temari said sarcastically.

The students looked at their sensei as this was said.

"Urgh, my hair… Not so professional are you Tema-chan." Ino countered.

The students heads turned towards Ino.

"It can't be helped when a bug gets in the middle of a battle demonstration can it. Maybe you should walk with your eyes open; it's what most people with brains do." Temari, being herself, couldn't have apologised in a better way.

This turned the student's attention back to her.

"W-what?! How dare you insult me right after you attack me! This isn't going to be good for you Temari." Ino's eyes had fired up with rage.

And they turned to Ino.

"Gosh, why do drama students have to be such drama-queens all the time." Temari said.

And they faced back to Temari.

"I'm a sensei not a student! At least I have a femine figure, not a butch one!"

"Why you…"

"Uhh, sensei…?"

"WHAT?!" They both answered at once.

"Heh-heh… never mind."

"Gosh, Temari, don't you really don't educate your students do you." Ino attempted an insult.

"Heh, these are your drama students too, bimbo." Alas she failed miserably.

Suddenly, half way through their bickering, the two female senseis heard something like a window opening.

"Can't someone get some sleep around here? Jeez, how troublesome." Shikamaru said out of his classroom's window. It appeared that he had no last lesson to teach and so was taking a nap.

Ino and Temari both blushed. "Sorry Shikamaru-kun!" they said.

"Stupid bimbo." Temari mumbled.

"Butch lady." Ino mumbled.

And they off went their separate ways.

"What?" Temari glared at her students, who were looking at her in shock.

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That evening at the school fields...

"One hundred and one…. Wheeze…… oh man, this is my biggest challenge yet. Kakashi you sure do have a crazy stuntman side to you I was never aware of!" Gai wheezed as he was crawling across the floor with the whole library at his back.

"Eah?" Kakashi said.

"This… this idea of yours for the loser to carry the whole school library around the school 120 times… It's impossible!"

"It was your mind I read Gai. Anyway, I'm going home so you can stop if you want." And with that Kakashi poofed away leaving smoke behind.

Gai's giant eyebrow was twitching slightly.

"That damn Kakashi, trying to patronize me by saying it is okay to stop… It is never okay to stop! Now I have to do 150 just to show him I am better than that! Mwahahahahaha!!! The evening is still young! One hundred and two!"