Naruto stood outside his door for a couple of seconds, mentally preparing himself. With a deep breath, he opened the door and casually walked in. He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote his name on the board first in hiragana symbols, then in English.

"My name is Naruto Namikaze, and I hope you will address me as 'Namikaze-sensei', or something related to that term. I will be your English teacher to prepare you for business life, since English, as you know, is the universal language of business. It's as crucial to learn English as it is Math, alright?" he introduced, scanning the room for a smart looking person. Well, you couldn't pick them out by just looking... But he was sure to figure out which one it was in due time, "Now, since you know a little about me and I know little about you all, we will introduce ourselves one by one. Would anyone like to go first? If not, I'll just go down by row."

One by one, the nervous students shot up, bowed, and gave obviously rehearsed salutations. In the distant corner on the back row, however, one youth did not stand nor say anything. In fact, the teacher saw that he was snoozing. Naruto sighed heavily, not having heard the smart student yet. He was hoping the snoozing one was not this person. He walked past several desks until he reached the layabout, giving a couple more seconds of sweet silence before deliberately dropping the textbook he had in his hands flat on the floor. It made a fairly loud smacking noise, right next to the sleeper's desk.

"Eh? Is it time?" the dozer muttered. He sat up, opening his fierce hazel eyes. "Sorry, Teach, I just came back from Russia this morning." He rested, until another student motioned him to stand. Reluctantly, his heavy legs pushed his tall figure upright. "I'm Ivan Atushi," he croaked in an odd accent.

Atushi? Naruto had to hold back laughter, which he was relatively good at doing, so not even a smile crossed his face. Since he didn't make anyone else say anything more if they didn't want to, he motioned for the kid to sit down. He picked up his book rather quickly and headed back of the front of the room. "Anybody else that I left out?" he asked once he turned around and placed the textbook on his desk.

The newbies stared back at him like deer in headlights. Curling into the corner, Ivan laid his head on his desk. Everyone else looked around to find any empty desks. They were all occupied.

Naruto sighed and rubbed his head, still looking for that smart one in the crowd. Surely, surely it wasn't Ivan. Then again, their IQ was based on tests. He might do really well on tests, just not class work. He guessed this kid was like a mini version of Shikamaru...

"S-sensei!" The short cry of a girl with cotton-candy pink hair alarmed the hushed class. "I forgot my laptop in the locker! M-may I retrieve it?"
Naruto looked are her for a moment and sighed, rubbing the back of his head.

"Sure, but try to be more prepared for class. Next time I may not be so lenient." Who the heck are you fooling? Of course you'll be just as nice the next time! And the next time, and the next time, and the next..., he fussed at himself on the inside, continuing to rub his head. How will I, of all people, pull off this discipline thing?

Blushing, the girl mentioned "Arigato!" as she sped out.

While she was running contraband, an immature sophomore decided to mock the embarrassed girl. "Oopsie, Sensei, I forgot my lappie!" He cracked, and a couple of his friends joined in. A few roared with chuckles, but the rest of the class still mentally roamed.

"I can't believe the highest GPA left her materials…" whispered the back row's heavy accented voice.

One thing Naruto would not tolerate was harassing other students. This was the number one thing to get his blood boiling. If you wanted to get him irritated, just mock a few classmates and you'd be on the road of regret. A firm hand slammed on the sophomore's desk, a sinister, grinning face looking down at him. "What was that? I didn't quite catch it. Sounded hilarious though. Why don't you repeat it for me?" he asked darkly with a hint of sarcasm.

The idiot threw his hands back in surprise, showing his tearing white eyes. "N-n-nothing!" he lied. His buddies quickly glanced away, as not to have noticed the thrashing teacher. Were these violent teachers even allowed at college? But the helpful words from Itachi remained in Naruto's memory.

Naruto eased back, once again sighing. He backed up and took the chalk to write something extra on the board. He wrote quickly, yet also neatly, in hiragana 'One thing I will not tolerate is harassing other students. If caught, I will not hesitate to assign everyone extra homework. Keep this in mind and we'll have a good year. -Naruto Namikaze.' I hope this is what Itachi meant, Naruto thought to himself, already feeling the early effects of guilt. He hated punishing students, especially innocent ones.

Once again, the room fell silent and attentive, absorbing the sensei's writing. The thugs looked pissed, yet not a bit of remorse showed on their ugly faces.

With laptop in hand, the tiny girl bounced back into the room. She looked healthy, but was simply delicate in stature. When the class stared at her, she blushed again, confused, as she took a seat.

"Now that that's cleared up, we can get this semester started," Naruto said when everyone was finally in a seat, "But one more thing I forgot to mention: I don't like to punish, so I'm also not good at it. So I'll be honest with you guys; after my punishments fail to make you behave, I'll personally send you to a person I'm sure you'll regret being sent to. With that being said, I hope we have a good year without this having to be done."

"Hai, Sensei," the class responded in unison, except Ivan, who was already dreaming of his snowy homeland. Glancing maliciously at Naruto, the kid who jeered at Sakura conspired to make this wishy-washy teacher's life hell. At least, his antics would be fun for him.

Having already passed out study sheets to his groaning students, Shikamaru firmly guided his class from the first minute. "Perhaps Naruto-kun found his smarty," he thought, smoothing his hair back.

Everything he wanted to say was out now, and probably more than half of the students already hated him. He turned towards the board and erased where he had wrote his name rather large to write something new. It was a page number. "We'll start on page 45. This deals with the vowels of the English language: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Vowels are the main structure in all English words-" He droned on about vowels for a few minutes, before addressing the class yet again, "Who would like to attempt to read sentence one?"

By this time, half of the class was in la-la land with Ivan. Jerkishly, the troublemaker volunteered someone else. "I think Sakura should do it. Everyone else is bored to Hades," he grumbled.
Sakura shot up at the mention of her name. Although it was rude, she tried to be as impressive as possible. "I-I can read it," she said meekly. Without missing a word, she translated it perfectly into English.

"Good job Sakura-san! Have you taken English lessons before?" Naruto curiously asked, then looked to the sophomore again. "And please, don't shout to volunteer someone else. If anyone wants to do it, they can. If they don't, I won't make them, nor will you." The smart one, who he assumed was Sakura at this point, definitely wasn't the problem. It was practically every other student besides her, one in particular.

The Yankee cursed and turned his head away. Who was that wimpy teacher, standing him up?

Sakura smiled, gazing shyly toward the floor. "Ever since my second year in high school. I love English," she proclaimed in the Germanic language. Sakura had worked tirelessly to get this scholarship, and knew that she wanted to major in the foreign language.

Sheesh! She knew a lot. Figures, since she started this in her sophomore year all the way up into college. She probably did her own studies at home too! But she wasn't showing him up just yet. She wouldn't in English, at least... he hoped. She'd definitely take him to the cleaners in Math, though. "That makes my job all the easier. Now, to continue on, vowels-" The fresh students were taught the material, but not all of them learned it. Sakura continually answered the questions with humble intelligence. Naruto wished for other students to come up to bat with the sentences, but only Sakura ever raised her hand, so he only had one to pick. Tomorrow he'd call on random people so everyone had a chance to ask questions to better understand the material. The bell let out a loud ring and Naruto waved bye to his students as they shuffled out. He sat with a sigh at his desk, shutting the reference book he had on his desk. After the classroom emptied the students, Shikamaru snuck in.

"Your kids may not be smart, but they sure are cute."

"Don't be hitting on them, Shika," Naruto responded, laughing. He leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms behind his head to act like a pillow. "But don't be fooled; one of the cute ones is the smart one," he mentioned.

"Oh, so Pinkie's the smart one? Darn, I hate smart women. They learn that you have a life, and then they leave you," Shika joked.

"She seemed ok, not full of herself. Then again, that could have been just because she was shy," Naruto mentioned, tapping his foot on the floor, "Can't say I get you. I've never been in a relationship before."

Shikamaru lazily leaned his head on his fist. "Naruto," he chimed, "student-teacher relationships are forbidden. Just keep that in mind." He completely avoided the topic of his past relationships.

Naruto quickly sat up, shaking his hands in denial, "I wasn't thinking about that! Gee, Shika, you're so blunt. I know stuff like that! I was just sayin' I've never been in a relationship before, so I wouldn't know how they would usually turn out..."

"It's completely up to you whether or not to date. But I recommend you to only have serious relationships," he suggested, pointing his finger in the air. "We're old enough to be married, you know."

"Except with students!" Naruto added, to prove he had been paying attention. Well, he already knew that rule and how important it was, but he was making sure Shika knew that he knew.

A warning bell rang as a different English class filtered into the room. Laughing at Naruto's response, Shikamaru dragged his heels to the mouth of the door. "You never know who you'll find. See ya, bro."

"See ya, Shika!" Naruto quickly responded, giving a short wave before going back to his studies.