"K.A.D. Konoha Academy for Delinquents." Tenten says proudly. "If you're not smart, then your parents sent you here because you're a troublemaker. Welcome to heaven."
You stare at her shocked.
'I'm not smart… so I'm… a delinquent!?'
Your fingers twitch to grab your phone, hit speed dial one, and make Zabuza's ears bleed with your screaming. The only thing that stops you is the knowledge that your teacher will be here soon. You look back at Tenten.
"So… why are you here? And what do you mean 'Welcome to Heaven'?" You ask. She grins sheepishly.
"Well, I'm here because of a slight misunderstanding with one of my ex-boyfriends…" She says as Naruto laughs. "And by heaven we mean that the teachers expect us all to have an IQ of four unless you're gifted."
Naruto stops laughing and raises his eyebrows at Tenten.
"'Slight misunderstanding?'" He asks. Tenten blushes. "You set the guy on fire!"
"Oh and that makes me a pyromaniac does it?" She snaps. Naruto laughs again.
"What about you?" You ask the hysterically laughing Naruto.
"Neither." He says proudly. You raise your eyebrows.
"It's his guardians." Tenten informs you. "Principal Tsunade and Jiraiya-sensei are his Aunt and Uncle."
Your mouth drops open as you return your gaze to Naruto, who's grinning again.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Old Hag and the Pervert." He says, flapping a hand.
"What about Shikamaru?" You ask, not wanting to disturb the sleeping boy.
"Gifted." Tenten says. "The Nara family has always been incredibly smart and incredibly lazy."
"It pisses off the teachers!" Naruto announces happily. "He sleeps through the whole class and sits the tests, gets one hundred percent and the teachers can't do anything about it!"
You eye the sleeping boy disbelieving. Moving your gaze to the rest of the room, you realize other people have arrived while you were talking.
Sitting alone in the row across from you is a shy looking girl, her dark purple-black hair done in a strange style. You catch a glimpse of her eyes and bite back a gasp. They are milky white with a hint of lavender in them. Like she's blind.
"That's Hyuga Hinata." Naruto informs you, his eyes sad. "Class three. She's nice, considering…"
"Considering what?" You ask, confused. The girl leaves her hands folded in her lap, eyes fixed on the table.
"Don't listen to Naruto." Tenten says, smacking said boy around the head. "Hinata's lovely, Naruto just doesn't like her choice in boyfriend."
Naruto rolls his eyes.
"Well, I thought she was smart! She should know better!" He says. Before you can ask, he changes the subject. "Anyway, in front of her is Hachimon Rock Lee, Class two, like you, Tenten and Juugo."
You take one look at the guy, rub your eyes, and look again. Sure enough, he's wearing a full-body green jumpsuit and orange leg warmers. His shiny black hair is cut in a bowl cut, the same color as his thick eye brows. His eyes are as black as Tobi's but somehow hold less depth.
"D-Does he dress like that on his own free will?" You whisper. Tenten laughs.
"Yep. He's Gifted – Sports freak." She says. "He's sitting next to the schools best footballer – Akimichi Choji."
Naruto rolls up a paper ball and throws it at the well-built Choji's head. It bounces off his orange-brown hair and he whirls around, glaring. Naruto and Tenten give him to 'Peace' sign and wave like mad. He ignores them and turns back to Rock Lee.
"Don't let him fool you." Naruto whispers. "He may look fat, but it's all muscle."
You shake your head, letting your gaze wander again.
The door flies open and a blonde girl stride in talking on a mobile phone.
"-left, right, up! So I said, screw you, I'll do it my way and-" She doesn't seem to care that the whole room can hear here. She dumps her things at the end of Hinata's row, causing the poor girl to flinch. You eye the blonde and shake your head.
'Typical teenager…'
Her long blonde hair falls to her waist, even though it's swept up in a high ponytail. One bang hangs free, falling over one of her dull blue eyes.
'How many blue-eyed-blondes are at this school?'
She finally hangs up the phone and immediately starts texting.
Tenten shakes her head.
"That's Yamanaka Ino. Moron. She's Gifted, but is turning into a delinquent." She informs you. Naruto sighs.
"She starves herself half-to-death, and yet refuses to date any of the guys here." He says.
Loud shouting down the corridor announces the next group of people. Naruto stiffens, facing the front. You frown, but four people entering draws your attention away from him.
The first to enter is a tall girl, her short blue hair matching her eyes. A paper flower sits proudly atop her head. A piercing sits below her lower lip. On her right is a tall boy, incredibly handsome, yet incredibly cold. One look at him tells you this must be Tobi's cousin. His black eyes match Tobi's but seems to have a touch of red in their depths. His long black hair is pulled into a low ponytail.
Behind them is a blonde girl, her hair in four pig-tails. Her sharp blue eyes are alight with anger as she argues fiercely with the person next to her.
'Another blue-eyed-blonde…'
You take one look at that person and groan, dropping your head onto the table. Deidara seems to be as angered about the subject as the other blonde.
"The blue-haired one is Yahiko Konan." Tenten whispers to you. "The brunette is Uchiha Itachi, the blonde girl is Sabaku no Temari, and the other blonde is Katsu Dei-"
"Deidara." You cut her off, glaring at said blonde as he waves his arms in the air at Temari. "I've met him and Tobi."
Tenten smiles surprisingly.
"Isn't Tobi sweet?" She asks. "He was such a nice guy, before he fell in with them… oh well."
Naruto glares over at Deidara.
"Itachi and Konan are Gifted, Temari and Deidara are delinquents." He says sounding bored. "You'll get to know them all later."
"Monkey!"
You and Naruto both flinch, looking up. Temari is gliding over to Naruto, a smirk slipping onto her features.
"Tell me, what's better, Vampires or werewolves?" She demands. You almost fall off your chair.
'These guys are class one!?'
"It's vampires, un!" Deidara proclaims waving his arms in the air. "How can you even ask that, un!?"
Temari ignores him.
"Well, Monkey?" She asks, her sapphire eyes drilling into Naruto's.
"Er…" Naruto looks around, desperate for an escape. You decide to help the poor guy.
"Neither." You say drawing the eyes of all three blondes. A smile breaks out on Deidara's face.
"Monkey Two, un!" He says, leaping across the desks to drop into the seat next to you, beside the window. "Explain, un!"
He sits cross-legged on the chair, eye sparkling as he looks at you expectantly.
"Vampires and werewolves both have too many weaknesses." You say, trying to ignore that Konan and Itachi have wandered over. "In all the movies they eventually get killed."
Deidara ponders this for a moment.
"Yeah, but everyone gets beaten, un." He points out. You shake your head.
"Batman doesn't." You say flatly. "Therefore, Batman wins."
Without saying another word, you slip your headphones onto your ears, hitting play on your Ipod. The music drowns out Deidara's counter argument, which is obviously not agreed upon by Temari. You almost groan out loud as Temari takes the seat on your other side. As they argue over you, Konan sits on Temari's other side, and Itachi settles next to Hinata across the aisle. Hinata looks up at him terrified, and he offers her a cruel smirk before engaging her in conversation, obviously aware of how uncomfortable she is. Glancing at the clock you realize that the teacher is over half an hour late.
Hands slide the headphones back around you neck and you glare at Deidara. He grins back.
"Spiderman or Superman, un?" He asks. Before you can answer the door open yet again. A tall man with silver hair strolls in, the majority of his face hidden by a scarf. This has to be Hatake Kakashi.
"Sorry I'm late, everyone." He says cheerfully. "But I saw a poor dolphin being molested by a scarecrow and had to sto-"
"Liar!" Half the class shouts. You stifle a giggle at the innocent expression plastered on his face.
"Me? Lie? I nev-" He cuts himself off suddenly as he spies you. "A new student!"
You flinch as every eye in the room is suddenly trained on you.
Kakashi practically dances over to your desk.
"Well, tell us about yourself!" He demands. You raise an eyebrow at him. "Your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future."
With a heavy sigh, you rise.
"I'm Tasogare Suki." You say flatly, staring at the blackboard. "I like music, to sleep in, and read. I don't have any dreams for the future."
You sit back down.
"What do you hate?" Kakashi prods. You narrow your eyes.
"Annoying blondes with speech impediments." You snap. As the class laughs you drop your head onto your arms, intent on trying out Shikamaru's style of napping.
"I'm not that bad, am I, un?" A husky voice whispers in your ear, sending Goosebumps racing down your neck. You turn your head to the side to glare at Deidara. He grins at you. "If you want I can show you my more… fun side, un."
You glare at him but before you can retort Kakashi takes control of the lesson.
"Welcome to another semester!" He says, clapping his hands together. "Now then, let's get down to it! To start off, I will be assigning you a book to read! Then, you will have to write a book report on it, and we will be having class discussions on it. Ino, can you hand these out please?"
Ino saunters to the front of the room, picking up the stack of orange books. She begins to hand them out, ignoring the people that receive them.
When she drops an orange book onto your desk, you mutter a quiet 'thank you'.
"Ok! Put the books away, you can start them tonight for homework." Kakashi says ignoring the groans sounding around the room. "For the rest of the lesson I want you all to participate in the intriguing argument of Spiderman versus Superman!"
You slam your head on the desk and notice you're not the only one to. Itachi and Konan look around as happy as you do.
'Tenten's right… this is a school for morons…'
As Temari takes up the argument of why Superman is infinitely better, you stuff your book into your bag.
"Hey, let me see you timetable, un!" Deidara demands, snatching it out of your bag. You sigh and let him have it. His visible eye scans eagerly, and you shift uncomfortably.
Deidara hands it back without another word, tuning in on the argument between Temari and Rock Lee.
"Well?" You hiss. He ignores you. "How many of my lessons are you in?!"
Deidara grins at you and holds a finger to his lips.
"Shh… I'm trying to listen, un." He says, his eye twinkling mischievously. You narrow your own eyes before turning your back on him to listen.
"-through the springtime of his youth! Ergo, the youthful powers of Spiderman's youth overweight the less-than-youthful ideas of Superman-"
You aren't even sure if he knows what he's talking about anymore.
Temari cuts him off.
"Superman is Superman!He automatically wins! This is no competiti-"
You pull your headphones back on and drop your head back onto the table, ready to wait the lesson out.
"So what did you think of Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asks excitedly as you bounce out into the corridor.
"He's…" You stop, trying to think of the right word.
"Peculiar." Tenten supplies. "The word you want it peculiar."
You nod.
"That sounds right." You mutter, eyeing your timetable. "Any of you have Maths next?"
Naruto shakes his head.
"Me and Tenten have P.E." He says. "Same with Juugo."
"Troublesome… I have Math." Shikamaru say, leaning against the wall.
You smile at him.
"Great. Can you show me the way?" You ask. He nods and slouches off. You wave to Naruto, Tenten and Juugo before hurrying after him.
"Not into P.E?" You ask sarcastically. A small smile flickers onto Shikamaru's face.
"Something like that…" He mumbles. You smile and enjoy the comfortable silence as you follow Shikamaru down the hall.
"Are you good at Math?" You ask Shikamaru as you look around the room. It's identical to the English room, but the walls are covered in Math posters.
"I'm good at everything." Is the bored reply. "Except for P.E."
You raise your eyebrows at the boy's arrogance but let it pass.
You inspect the class, noticing new people.
The boy from yesterday morning, Kankuro, is sitting with the Elevator Boy, Neji, one row from the front. On Kankuro's other side is Karin, who chose to ignore you.
Ino is sitting on Neji's other side playing with his hair and ignoring his annoyed growls. In the front row, Sakura is hunched over her books, working at something furiously.
"She had Psychology first." Shikamaru informs you. "Ibiki-sensei sets lots of work."
You shake your head and turn your gaze onto the back row, opposite yours. Sitting in the corner is a boy with round black glasses and a high collar. His dark hair is of medium length, like a mini-afro.
"That's Aburame Shino." Shikamaru supplies. "He's… creepy."
Shaking your head you turn your gaze back to the door as it opens again. The guy that enters is obviously in class three, and definitely another Uchiha. His black eyes and perfect features give it away. You try not to laugh at his blue-black hair which is spiked up at the back, giving it the appearance of a ducks ass.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Shikamaru drawls. "All around pretty-boy."
You snigger as Sasuke sits down next to Shino.
"His head looks like a ducks ass." You say. Shikamaru chuckles.
"MONKEY TWO UN!!"
"No." You whisper, the color draining from your face. "No, no, no…"
Sure enough, Deidara is dashing past the tables towards you.
"Tch. Troublesome." Shikamaru mutters before dropping his head down for a nap.
You groan and do the same, hoping Deidara will go away.
"Deidara, sit down." A new voice cuts like ice across the room. You raise your head to see Itachi and Temari taking seats and leaving a tall guy standing. His orange hair's style reminds you of Naruto, but there is nothing about the happy blonde in the hard face. His eyes captivate you. He must be wearing novelty contact lenses to have those rings. But what stands out the most is his piercings. Both ears are identical; the cartilage pierced all the way around and with a bar through it. His nose has three piercings on either side. A snake-bite piercing equip with fangs adorns his lower lip.
Deidara sighs and trots back to sit down next to Itachi.
You sigh in relief and watch as the mystery guy sits down next to Temari.
"Nagato Pein." Shikamaru whispers next to you. "He's the Head of Class One."
"Who's the head of Class Two?" You whisper back.
"Hyuga Neji." Is the dry reply. You pull a face.
The door opens again, and thick boots stomp into the room. You gape at the teacher as he crosses straight to the window, tossing it open and lighting up a cigarette. His black hair continues down his face into sideburns, which turn into a small beard. You eye him up and down, skeptical of his dark clothing.
"Oh listen up." He says, leaning next to the window. "New semester, same routine. I'll get you the work, you do it. If you need help, ask one of the smarter students."
You gape at the man.
'Is he serious!?'
Shikamaru chuckles.
"Same Asuma-sensei." He says. You blink a couple of times before you notice that Asuma is handing out worksheets. You sit back into your chair, tempted to smack your head repeatedly on the table.
'This day can't get any weirder…'