Hey everyone. You guys are truly great. I love getting all the reviews. It makes me feel like I actually have friends. Just kidding about that last part. Don't worry, I have friends. But please continue to review anyway. So, I'm sorry I have taken forever to update, but I just got throught the dreaded midterms this week, and it was brutal. Luckily all that studying is over now and I'll hopefully have more time to write since the second quarter is also over. I made this chapter longer, and I hope you like it. It also has two new characters intoduced into it, so enjoy.

Feral Tales and Irrepressible Petulance

"Not eating Cherry Blossom, yeah," Deidara asked Sakura as he grabbed the seat to her left.

"No, Sasori is getting food for me," she replied honestly.

"You met Sasori, yeah," he asked with a grin.

"Well, it was more of a rescue than a friendly meeting," Sakura explained.

"Rescue, yeah. Making enemies already, Cherry Blossom," Deidara inquired with a smirk.

"Hey, it's not my fault that I was attacked by an angry fangirl," she bellowed in defense. "Your fangirl actually," Sakura added.

"Is that so, yeah? I can't help if I'm simply irresistible to all girls. And some guys I might add, but sadly for them I don't swing that way, yeah," Deidara stated with a cocky smirk.

"You sure, Deidara," Sasori said while placing down two trays on the table, and taking the seat across from Deidara and to Sakura's right.

"What is that supposed to mean, and where have you been all day? I was looking for you everywhere, yeah," Deidara asked.

"Well to answer your first question, last year you started hitting on me and feeling up my leg at the party I threw after finals," Sasori told Deidara. Sakura started to laugh.

"I was drunk, yeah," Deidara said in a very unamused tone while showing his signature frown-pout.

"Regardless, it was still a homosexual pass at me. And, I think Mary can answer your second question better than me," Sasori said with a huge grin.

Sakura met his grin and glared back. "Well, as you know, I was attacked by your super fan Kin, then I was dragged to the coffee shop with Sasori where he basically took out all his drugs on the table for everyone to see...," Sakura started.

"First off Mary, no one was in there, and secondly I only took out a bong, a packet of meth, and some scotch," Sasori stated in his defense.

"Yeah, that's three more socially unacceptable things than I have ever taken out in a public place for my entire life, or in private for that matter," Sakura said.

"What can I say Mary, I'm a one-of-a-kind type guy," Sasori said with an innocent smile.

"So then Sasori decided that it would be a good idea to fill the sugar shaker with meth...," Sakura started.

"Nice yeah," Deidara said as he high fived Sasori.

"I thought it was pretty funny," Sasori said with a grin.

"Anyway, then we went to the laundry mat to get my clothes and Einstein over here decided to have a little experiment," Sakura said as she glared at Sasori.

"What, I was only helping Konohamaru with his laundry," Sasori responded sweetly while he picked up his slice of pizza and started eating it innocently.

"Yeah, helping by flooding the entire building with bubbles," Sakura stated while starting to eat her pizza as well.

"That's just a minor detail. Over all, I believe that I was quite helpful. That building looked pretty dirty anyway. I did them a public service," Sasori said with an air of pride.

"Well aren't you a regular Mother Teresa. They should give you a metal," Sakura stated sarcastically.

"Finally, someone is seeing it my way," Sasori said. "But, Deidara still pulled the prank off way better last year," Sasori added while continuing to eat his pizza.

"Why what did you do," Sakura asked Deidara slowly, unsure if she really wanted to hear the answer.

At this, Deidara grinned with a wild look in his eye as he began to tell his story. "Well it all happened last year after Sasori and I decided to go clean our clothes. We had these two huge piles of dirty clothes because we didn't wash them for like over a month or so, yeah. There were so many people in there and I was getting really antsy just having to wait there while our clothes were washing, so I came up with the perfect prank. I was going to blow the whole room up with clothes and soapy foam. I added an outrageous amount of soap powder and cranked the machine on high, yeah. After waiting less than a minute, the washer reached its pressure limit and...Boom! Bubbly soap flew everywhere, yeah. People started screaming, and soon the room was filled up to everyone's necks with foam. Although, what made it even better was when one of our friends, named Kisame, walk in and accidentally slipped and flew under all the foam. He has a little problem where people often confuse him with being a walking shark, so that didn't go over to well, yeah. He started grabbing at peoples legs trying to get up from under the bubbles, and people started screaming even louder. He was able to get his head partially above the bubbles, and people were screaming shark as they saw his hair, which they mistaked for a fin and his teeth, which are kind of pointy. Apparently some random student that was walking by outside got scared and called the fire department when they saw the washing machine first blow up, because there was a slight fire due to the technology program melt down, yeah. So by the time when Kisame was flopping around, the fire fighters were there hacking down the doors, which scared the people even more. With all of this going on, mass panic broke loose and people started braking through windows to get out. Five ambulances, fifteen people slightly injured, and one traumatized Kisame later, I was sent to the Head Master's office where I was given a months detention with Ibiki Morino and put on probation for the rest of the school year, yeah," Deidara finished with a feeling of self satisfaction and the biggest grin you could ever see.

"You're insane," Sakura said with shock evident on her face.

"I prefer mentally unstable, yeah," Deidara said as he grabbed the piece of pizza that Sakura was eating away from her and took a bite of it.

Lunch ended over ten minutes ago, and all the students had rushed off to their classes by now. Deidara, Sasori, and Sakura were now making their way over to the school union building to get Sakura's ID card.

"So, what happened after the laundry mat, yeah? You never told me," Deidara inquired.

"Well, nothing really; we just went back to my room so I could change into my uniform," Sakura said.

"Is that so, yeah," Deidara asked.

"Well, that and I had mad hot sex with Mary," Sasori said while laughing. His response was met by a hard punched in the arm from Sakura.

"Funny Sasori," Sakura stated sarcastically.

"I thought it was," Sasori responded with an amused face.

"So, after the brief sex, we headed over to the cafeteria, and Sasori went to get us food. Then that Itachi guy came over, and that's where you came in," Sakura told Deidara.

"Wait, hold on. Itachi came over to you. That fucking bastard, I knew he was up to something. He didn't make a pass at you, did he Mary," Sasori asked as he stopped walking, and put an arm out to stop the other two as well.

"Well not exactly. He basically just stood there staring at me. By the time we even started talking, Deidara was already there and he left," Sakura said while thinking back on her strange meeting with the Uchiha.

"Dei, this isn't good," Sasori said with all seriousness.

"Yeah, I know," Deidara said back.

"What's the big deal? He didn't even hit on me," Sakura stated in confusion.

"Look Sakura, you just have to trust us on this guy," Sasori warned.

After a few minutes of walking, they had made it to the school union building. It was a rather small building, but large enough to hold its purpose.

"So, remind me again why we're here Mary," Sasori asked.

"I have to get my student ID," Sakura said.

Ah, the school union building. One of the most hated places on campus for Sasori. It was here that he had his student court hearings for getting caught selling alcohol, going to class intoxicated, having sex in Orochimaru's science supply closet, grabbing the headmaster Tsunade's boobs to see if they were real, sucker punching the teacher's aid Kabuto in the face, and stealing all the extra condoms from the health room. All the incidents ended with Sasori only getting a few detentions each time, but he still disliked the place none the less.

Besides student court hearings, the school union building was also used for additional purposes which included: student government, teacher board meetings, student counsel, student forum, debate team, and the dreaded detentions with Ibiki Morino.

They made their way up the stone steps to the school union building and carefully opened the large doors. They then crossed the tiled floor over to the main desk in the main entrance area. Once here, Sasori presumed to put one elbow lazily on the counter and rested his head on it with a look of boredom placed on his face. He then gave out an agitated grunting noise which seemed to get the attention of the boy who had had his back facing them when they first entered. "Oh, sorry Sasori; I didn't think to see you in here until classes ended," the boy said with a little bit of nervousness in his voice.

"I'm not here for detention...well not yet at least," Sasori answered with a mischievous grin.

"Well, you can't use the copy machine. Not after what you and Deidara did last time," the boy told him firmly.

"Who said anything about using the copy machine? Besides, we only copied our butts a few times," he finished with a playful grin.

"Regardless, I still got in trouble for your clowning around with school property. So, if your not here for detention or making my job harder, what are you here for," the boy asked somewhat annoyed.

"I'm new here and I need my school ID card," Sakura said sweetly as she stepped up to the counter from behind the two boys, who were previously hiding her from view.

"I'm Rock Lee. You're name is Sakura, right," the boy asked with a corny smile.

"Yeah," Sakura answered.

"Be my girlfriend, and I promise to protect you from hoodlum like these two," Lee promised with a wink and a cheesy thumbs up. Sakura was speechless at his forwardness, and had her mouth slightly agape.

"She's not interested, Lee," Deidara said while raping his arm protectively around Sakura's shoulder and giving Lee a deadly glare. At this, Sakura gave Deidara a weird look, but he just continued to stare Lee down. Sasori simply sighed and continued to look bored.

"S-sorry," Lee said while trying to look anywhere besides at Deidara.

"That's alright," Sakura answered with a small companionate smile. Deidara continued to stare angrily at Lee, while he gently rubbed his thumb where he was holding Sakura's shoulder.

"Um, well if you follow me to the room behind the desk, I can take your picture and scan it into the computer," Lee said awkwardly.

"Sure," Sakura said as she tried to follow Lee into the room behind the desk. But, to her dismay, Deidara wasn't letting go of her anytime soon. "Deidara," she said while looking at him. He simply glanced at her for a few seconds and grudgingly let go of her. Sakura then followed after Lee and left the two boys to wait by themselves.

"Smooth Dei," Sasori said sarcastically while continuing to lean on the counter.

"Who does that little geek think he is, yeah? He isn't even fully grown yet," Deidara said with annoyance at the whole situation.

"Don't get so jealous man. Besides, you have bigger problems if Itachi is making his way into the picture," Sasori stated calmly.

"Yeah, I know. I'm just really worked up today," Deidara responded.

"You should have said so earlier. Come on," Sasori said as he nudged his head toward the door.

"So, just sit right there and I can take your picture," Lee commanded while pointing to seat. Sakura did as she was told, and Lee moved over behind the large camera stand to adjust it. "I really am sorry to make you feel uncomfortable back there," Lee apologized.

"It's okay Lee," Sakura assured him again.

"It's just, you're really pretty and girls here at this school usually don't like me," Lee told her sadly.

"Why not," Sakura asked him.

"Well for one, I'm not exactly as mysterious as Itachi, as funny and suave as Deidara, or as cool as Sasori. And, they all beat me out in the looks department. All the girls love them, even you" Lee said with a frown.

"No, that isn't true. But, they do have one thing that you don't have," Sakura said with a cute smirk.

"And what's that," Lee asked skeptically.

"Confidence," Sakura supplied.

"Confidence," Lee said back in a question.

"Well yeah. They're all overly assured of themselves," Sakura answered.

Sasori and Deidara made their way out behind the building and both sat down next to the large rusty dumpster. Sasori easily took out a joint and reached into his pocket for his lighter. "Damn, I must of left my lighter back in my room. Do you have yours with you, Dei," Sasori asked the blonde sitting next to him.

"Yeah, hold on," Deidara said while fishing into his pant pocket for his lighter. "Here," he said while tossing it to his friend. Sasori caught the lighter and flicked it open with his hand. He lit the joint and took a long relaxing puff of it, before passing it to Deidara.

"Dei, we need to talk about Sakura," Sasori said in a serious tone.

"What about her," said blonde asked while smoking the joint.

"Well, when you told me this morning that she was something special, you weren't kidding. I don't know, I just don't want anything bad to happen to her. I know I sound a little gay right now, but I just want you to promise me you won't treat her like your last girlfriends," Sasori told him.

"Believe me Sasori, I would never treat Sakura like that, yeah. I'm just worried about Itachi. It wouldn't be the first time he has stolen a girl from me, yeah" Deidara said while taking a long puff and handing it back over to Sasori.

"Yeah, he will prove to be a problem if we don't handle this right away. We'll have to find out from Kisame what the deal is with Itachi. He'll know," Sasori answered back while finishing up the joint, and getting up to go back inside. Deidara followed suit.

"So, all I need to do to get a girl to like me is act like a complete jerk," Lee questioned while playing around with the camera lens to get it perfect.

"Not a jerk, but not insecure either. Girls like guys who are assertive, not spineless," Sakura informed him.

"Say cheese," Lee said as he got ready to take her picture.

"Cheese," Sakura said while smiling cute and innocently with an adorable peace sign and wink. Lee took the photo and presumed to hook the camera up with the computer via wire in the back room. Once he got the picture scanned into the computer, he added it to her personal information and printed off Sakura's own student ID card. "Wow, it looks great. Thanks," Sakura said as she looked over her card.

"No problem, anything for you Sakura," Lee said.

"You know, I can help you out with getting a girl to notice you, if you want," Sakura offered.

"Really, that would be great. How about tomorrow after classes get out," Lee asked not trying to hide the eagerness in his voice.

"Sure, that sounds great. "Meet me at the entrance to the girl's dorms, and we can hang out in my room," Sakura stated.

"But Sakura, guys aren't allowed in the girl's dorms. It's against the rules," Lee protested.

"Lee, be a little adventurous. Do you think Sasori or Deidara would be afraid to break the rules? Actually, Sasori already has been in my room," Sakura said with a slight smile.

"Well, they get in trouble all the time. I don't know if I can do it," Lee said a little apprehensive.

"Think of it as your first test as my student. Trust me Lee, it'll all be okay," Sakura assured him.

"Well, if you say so," Lee concluded.

"Great, you won't regret it," Sakura promised as her and Lee started to leave the room.

They came back into the main entrance room and saw that Sasori and Deidara were right back where they left them at the front desk looking completely bored. Deidara was tapping his fingers on the desk rapidly, while Sasori was somewhat passed out leaning on the desk counter.

"What do you think," Sakura asked as she held out her student ID for both the guys to see. They slowly glance over at Sakura from what they were just previously doing and looked at the adorable photo.

"Cute, yeah," Deidara said while playfully grabbing it away from her and grinning.

"Hey, give it back," Sakura demanded while reaching up to try and pull it away from his hand.

"No, I think I'll hold onto it for a while," he said while continuing to hold it above her head.

"Deidara," Sakura said with a bit of annoyance evident in her voice. At this second, a tall man with two large scars evident on his face can up from behind Deidara and grabbed Sakura's ID card from him.

"Sakura Haruno," the man read as he look over her ID. "You best not be hanging around with these two delinquents. They'll do nothing but get you into trouble," He said sternly in a deep voice with an overly serious looking expression on his face, while he handed her ID card back to her.

"Father Morino," Sasori stated coolly.

"Sasori, I didn't know you came here freely," Ibiki stated, somewhat trying to be a dick.

"I didn't know you were auditioning for the lead role in the Scarface remake," Sasori shot back in all seriousness as retaliation.

"Watch your tongue Sasori. You wouldn't want to have to spend this fine afternoon all alone with me, now would you," Ibiki asked.

"It wouldn't be alone. Deidara has detention for not wearing his uniform," Sasori told him.

"Ah, is that so? Well, I guess I'll be seeing you later then, Deidara," Ibiki said teasingly while looking at the blonde.

"I guess so, yeah," Deidara said with piercing eyes.

"See you around Miss Haruno. Oh, and Sasori. You might want to think about getting your eyes checked. They look a little blood shot," Ibiki said with a slight smirk. At this, Sasori only gritted his teeth, trying to stop himself from assaulting the man in front of him in any way. "What, no witty remark? I thought so. Be seeing you, Sasori," Ibiki said before walking out the door of the building.

"Aaahhh," Sasori screamed as he chucked the stapler that was residing on Lee's desk across the room at the exit sign above the door that Ibiki just walked through. With a loud sound, the sign came crashing in pieces to the ground. "I fucking hate that guy. When I finally graduate from this school, I'm so beating the living shit out of him," Sasori said as he tried to calm down, but was failing at doing so.

"Is he going to be okay," Sakura asked Deidara quietly.

"Of course, yeah. This always happens after Sasori talks with Ibiki. Except he's taking it a bit better this time, yeah. Last time he threw his chair out the detention room window when Ibiki left to talk to a teacher," Deidara said with a chuckle.

"It wasn't funny to me. I almost got hit by it when I was bringing papers back here from the main office. I dropped the papers everywhere, and had to spend over a half an hour looking for the scattered documents," Lee said with a frown.

"I need a line. I'll be back," Sasori said as he stormed out the door with determination.

"What's he doing," Sakura asked confused.

"Nothing, yeah. Why don't we head over to the school store now, yeah," Deidara suggested with a small smile as he grabbed Sakura by the shoulders and started to push her toward the door.

"Sure. I'll see you tomorrow, Lee," Sakura reminded said boy.

"I can't wait, Sakura," Lee said back with enthusiasm.

"Damn Father Ibiki Morino," Sasori said angrily to himself as he made his way over to the large main school building, where students were still currently in classes. Once inside, he treaded loudly down the hall, kicking a trash can over as he did so.

"What the fuck are you doing here," said a voice to Sasori's side.

"Not now, Hidan. I'm on my way to the bathroom to get completely blitzed out of my fucking skull," Sasori said as he pushed passed said guy.

"Fuck yeah, man. Count me in. I was going to shoot myself anyway if I had to listen to Father Orochimaru bitch about fucking scientific shit anymore," Hidan said while trying to catch up to Sasori. The two then found the guys bathroom and proceeded to scare away the one freshman in there that was washing his hands. Sasori took a seat on the ground with his back against the wall, while starting to fish in his jacket pocket for the materials he desired. Hidan presumed to barricade the door by putting the broom stick that he found in the corner, through the door handle. "Alright, lets horn some fucking nose candy," Hidan said with a grin as he crashed onto the ground next to Sasori. By now, Sasori had grabbed a small plastic board from his jacket pocket, and placed it gently on the ground in front of the two. He then pulled out a straw, a razor, and a packet of cocaine as well. Carefully, he dumped the solid substance on to the board and started to break and separate it into four lines.

"You owe me big time. This stuff costs a shit load," Sasori said as he took the straw and presumed to snort two of the lines in front of him.

"Yeah yeah, who fucking gives a shit," Hidan said as he took the straw from Sasori's fingers and snorted his two lines. "Fuck, Jashin," Hidan said as he started to feel the effects appear. Sasori simply leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes as he felt his heart begin to beat rapidly in his chest. He could feel himself growing overly energetic by every passing second, and loved the building feeling of euphoria. He glanced over at Hidan with a slight open mouth smile and could see said man's purple eyes dilating in the bright light that shined in through the large bathroom window. "Aaahhh," Hidan said somewhat dazedly as he started to rock back and forth in an anxious manner.

"Well, this definitely beats talking with Ibiki," Sasori said with an amused smile over his face.

"In every fucking way," Hidan replied back. Sasori was starting to feel mental clarity stimulate his brain. He could feel himself growing restless, and quickly gathered all his stuff into his inside jacket pocket. "Where are you going," Hidan asked quickly as he saw Sasori making for the door.

"I told Dei I'd meet up with him and Mary," he supplied.

"Mary, is that her name," Hidan asked.

"Her nickname." Sasori told him.

"Even better," Hidan said with a large grin consuming his entire face.

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