Disclaimer: I do not own naruto. Sorry these are so short but I never know what to say…ah well.

Chapter 3

Sasori now had his head on his desk because, after his outburst, it turned out that the seat next to him just so happened to be emo boy's seat.

Said boy was now staring at Sasori's red-hooded head with hatred. Sasori decided to look up to make sure. Yep. He was.

Sasori heard the teacher talking so he looked up.

"Ok, let's get everyone into groups for now." Sasori could see what was coming next from a mile away. This wasn't going to end well.

"Ok the first group is…Sasori, Naruto, Hinata, Shikamaru…" another marker was thrown at a kid with black hair tied into a spiky bun on the back of his head. The kid just lifted his head enough for one eye to be seen. "…all right, continuing, Sakura and…"

Please don't say who I think you're going to say!

"…Sasuke."

DAMMIT!

Great, the one guy out to get him is going to be in close quarters with him for the class. Perfect.

Sasori groaned and walked over to where his group was. Sasuke glared but the rest of them seemed nice…well the kid that was sleeping was asleep again so he didn't know about him.

He sat down in between the blond kid he now knew as Naruto and a pink haired girl. She looked at him and smiled.

"Hey new guy. Your name's Sasori right?" She questioned

"Yeah." Was all he said.

She smiled again. "Cool. My name is Sakura, this is Naruto." She pointed at the blond who answered with a "Hey!" and then pointed at a lilac haired girl staring at Naruto. "That's Hinata. The one sleeping is Shikamaru and…well you know Sasuke." She looked over at Sasuke and sighed lightly and Sasori had a feeling she liked him. As for emo boy, he just looked annoyed with her.

Sasori decided to make nice with Sasuke. It's never good to be on the bad side of emo people. That's when they name you in their suicide notes as the reason they killed themselves.

He cleared his throat and looked at Sasuke. "Hey Sasuke, I'm sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to say what I said and I feel bad about it. I'm really sorry."

Everyone turned to look at Sasuke. Apparently Sasori wasn't the only one who wanted to know what Sasuke was going to say.

Sasuke looked around for a second and then finally spoke up. "Shut the hell up asshole. I don't like you. In fact, I hate you and I'm going to get you back for embarrassing me like that in front of the class." With that said he grabbed his stuff and left the room, a very pissed off looking Mr. Pein at his heels.

The rest of the group turned back towards Sasori. "Don't worry, he won't do anything." Sakura finally said, breaking the awkward silence Sasuke had created.

Shikamaru decided now was a good time to be awake and jumped into the conversation. "Yeah he will. He got Naruto suspended for saying the same thing, only quieter and only to Sasuke."

Naruto crossed his arms angrily at the memory and grumbled to himself, Hinata trying to comfort him.

Sasori was shocked. "What about the principal? Surely he wouldn't just suspend someone for saying that!"

That just made Shikamaru snort. "The dude loves Sasuke. It borders on pedophilia. He lets Sasuke get away with everything and does whatever he asks him to do. He even changes his grades so he doesn't fail anything."

This shocked Sasori even more, and slightly scared him. The dude he pissed off pretty much had the principal on a leash. Great.

The bell rang and everyone exited. Sasori said goodbye to his new friends and headed for his locker, wondering what Sasuke was going to do.

He got to his next class and, to his surprise and delight, saw Sakura in the back. He smiled and sat down next to her. She was also surprised but smiled. "Well, look who we have here! Nice to see you again Sasori!" He smiled back and was about to say something when the teacher walked into the room.

He was a tall guy with spiky silver hair, slightly resembling Naruto's, only standing up more. What really got Sasori was that the teacher was wearing a headband that covered his left eye and a face mask that covered his mouth and nose. So all you could see was the right side of his face.

Sasori leaned over and whispered something to Sakura.

"Why is he wearing a headband over his eye and a face mask? Is there something wrong with his face?"

"I don't know he never moves them. He also says that it makes him look cooler."

Sasori laughed and looked up to see if the teacher heard him.

He didn't. He was to into the book he was reading. About 20 minutes passed before someone finally got his attention by clearing their throat very loudly.

The teacher looked up and saw that, unfortunately, his class was here. He sighed sadly and placed his book on the table. Sasori could swear it was one of those perverted books that have recently popped up.

"Hello class." He looked up lazily and saw Sasori in the back.

Damn hair giving me away again. He thought before the teacher sighed again.

"Looks like we have a new student. I'm Kakashi Hatake, but just call me Kakashi. Welcome to English."

Sasori and Sakura talked all class, mainly because a few minutes after telling them what to do, Kakashi went back to his book.

They talked mostly about their past. Sakura did in fact have a crush on Sasuke but had never told him; though Sasori had a feeling Sasuke knew and didn't like it.

She also told him that she had lived in Konaha all her life and had never even visited another town. Neither had Sasori but that's because he had no money.

She had also gone to school with the others he had met since elementary school. Naruto had had a crush on Sakura all those years, until recently. She hadn't minded it but was glad he didn't like her anymore. It gave Hinata a chance.

She tried to get him to tell her about his past but he kept avoiding the question, causing her to become more interested. Finally she was able to get him to tell her, after saying please about a million times.

"My family was…well…not a family really. My dad was the only one that worked and he spent most our money on beer and was almost never home, so we never had much money for food. When he was all he did was drink more beer and yell at me. My mom, on the other hand, was home all the time but that wasn't good. She constantly cheated on my dad and even brought her boyfriend's home when my dad was gone and made me wait on them hand and foot. I finally left when my dad came home one night while my mom had someone over. I jumped out my window when I heard a chair hit the wall."

Sakura had listened through the whole story and was now staring wide eyed at Sasori.

Sasori stared back for a while and finally spoke up. "Uhhh….you ok?"

Sakura then leaned over and hugged Sasori. It had surprised him. "I'm so sorry! I never thought that you went through all that!"

Sasori blushed slightly and hugged her back. "Thanks, but these things happen. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there that's gone through hell."

Sakura sat back in her chair and smiled at him just as the bell rang.

They packed up and before they parted ways, Sakura asked for his phone number. He gave her his home phone, explaining that he didn't have a cell phone. She smiled a little sadly and said she'd call him after school, gave him another hug, and left.

Sasori headed to his locker and got some things out before going to his next class. He didn't pay attention to the teacher, seeing as he just kept staring out the window at the girls in PE, and instead tried to talk to Shikamaru, who was in his class, but Shikamaru just grumbled something about being troublesome and went to sleep.

The bell rang, signaling lunch time and Sasori left. He was getting his food when something hit him in the back, almost making him drop his pizza. He turned around to find a smiling Naruto standing behind him.

"C'mon Sasori, we saved you a seat!" He practically yelled and dragged Sasori across the lunch room to a table in the back.

He sat down and looked around the table. Sakura, Naruto, Hinata, and Shikamaru were there, plus some other people.

One of the others smiled and held out a hand to Sasori. "Hey! My names Kiba! I heard that you called Sasuke an emo in front of the whole class! Ha-ha! Wish I'd seen it! Honestly he deserves some embarrassment."

Sasori smiled and shook his hand. "It was pretty funny."

The kid next to him looked at him and frowned slightly. "Hi." Was all he said.

Kiba decided to introduce him for him. "That's Neji by the way."

The girl sitting next to Neji smiled and shook Sasori's hand as well. "I'm TenTen."

The other girl sitting next to Shikamaru and the other red-headed kid just nodded towards him. "My names Temari, and this-"she pointed to the red head. "-is my brother Gaara. Nice to meet you."

After that they all just talked for a while about random things. He found out that Neji had a superiority complex, meaning he thought he was better at everything than anyone, and that Gaara only ever talked to Temari and Naruto.

Sasori smiled happily as he watched Naruto argue with Kiba about how ramen was the best food there was and thought about how he was able to make such good friends so fast. Then he almost fell over laughing when Kiba threw ramen in Naruto's face, almost causing a food fight.

When school ended Sasori walked home, still wearing his smile. Almost the second he walked in his door, his phone rang. He walked over and picked it up, already knowing who it was going to be.

"Hey Sasori!" came the familiar voice.

Sasori smiled again to himself again. "Hey Sakura. So what's up?"

"I'm glad you asked. We have a plan, and we want you in on it." Sasori could swear he felt her smile.

Authors notes: Another chapter down! This one is my longest yet! WOO! XD There's going to be some action in the next chapter so keep reading! Oh, and please review! You know you want to! XD