School was boring.

It was the same shit every day. Read this, write that, do your math. If Naru was more like the other kids in her age group these things wouldn't have bothered her so much. But she wasn't like the other kids in her age group. She was SMARTER, and more CUNNING, and MANIPULATIVE, and they were DILLWEEDS. Weak, simpid, foolish, bratty little dillweeds. And for the hundredth time in the past hour she wondered why she even bothered to come to school at all.

Sure she was technically trying to avoid being caught at being the Hokage, and an Anbu, and a demon container that was more than she appeared to be, but she was really getting tired of acting dumb to alleviate the fears of others. And to make things worse that damn boy-the brooding dark eyed one sitting across from her desk, was staring a hole through her skull and making her nervous.

She hated being nervous.

It made her want to kill something. And that was never a good thing. Iruka turned to look at the class, and she had to force herself not to tense up as he smiled and said happily, "Now to demonstrate our ability to see underneath the underneath, I want each student to pick a person in the class and do a report on that person and what you think lies beneath the surface. For example a normally happy person, could in fact hide some very dark things in their hearts. Sadness. Despair. Depression. A secret hobby of cutting themselves-" Iruka's eyes automatically went to her and she plastered on a fake grin.

So she cut herself from time to time, so what. It wasn't like there was anyone to notice. Or stop her. Hell, there were never any scars behind so even if Iruka seemed to have a suspicion, he had nothing to prove his suspicion. "Okay now, everyone pick your subject and give it your all. You have one hour."

Naru picked up her pen and smirked evilly. She would do her report on Saus-Gay since he had been making her nervous for the past few hours, she'd pay him back by ruining his reputation. The damn cock sucker.

She wrote a few words, absent mindedly noting that Iruka had never said how long or short the report had to be. So hers was short, sweet, and icy cold revenge served up on a silver platter.

Sauske is gay. He hides it with his aloofness and cold behavior towards the opposite sex.

Wow, would'nt his fan club be bummed. She snickered and set her report aside and waited for everyone else to finish theirs. As it turned out everyone had some idea about the rest of their classmates, and the report didn't take an hour.

It took thirty minutes. Which was when Iruka started to call names, meaning that they would have to give their reports in front of the class. Great, Iruka probably knew what she had wrote down and was trying to make her think twice about her report by making her an easy target.

The jerk.

First up was Sakura, who had written her report about Ino. Then Ino who had written about Sakura, both reports were stupid, both trashing the other person's abilities and personality. Next up was Shika who did a report on Choji, followed by Choji who had written about BBQ ribs. Iruka looked like he could have either laughed or cried and quickly ushered the boy to his seat as the rest of the class laughed.

Next went some people that she didn't know, who wrote about other people that she didn't know, until only her and Sauske were left. Surprisingly Hinata had written about her and she was still sort of in shock even as the timid girl took her seat and Sauske's name was called. Sauske got up out of his seat and walked down the steps to the front of the class and turned to look at them, his dark eyes landing on her as Iruka asked, "And who did you choose to write about Sauske?"

"Naru." The emo boy deadpanned and Naru shook her head and growled.

"Naru Uzumaki..." Here it comes.Naru thought darkly as Sauske paused for dramatic effect. "Is far more than she seems. I have noticed that she's always watching us-"

Because you all look so gosh darn tasty that the mere idea of taking a bite out of you makes me drool. Naru thought sarcastically as she faked wiping the drool from her mouth and looking hungry. "She wacthes us with the single mindedness of someone who is..." Sauske looked at her and cocked his head to the side and looked thoughtful. "Worried."

"Worried about herself, cause she's so lame." Someone said, a girl in Sauske's fan club. Naru glared at the girl and drummed her fingers on her desk, the soft clicking sound causing several students with exceptional hearing to turn and look at her.

Sauske shook his head no. That wasn't what he was trying to say. He was merely trying to point out that Naru was neither stupid, clumsy, or inept. If anything he could sense that something was off with her whenever she was around the school, when she was playing her pranks, and getting into trouble, he always felt the same thing.

Power.

Great and terrifying, simmering in her blood, hidden deep inside, so tightly leashed that it should have ripped her apart.

But that wasn't the only thing that he had noticed.

He had also noticed that she was supremely confident in everything that she did. To most people this came off as sheer arrogance, Sauske had thought so too at first but now... Now he wasn't so sure. And the fact that Naru was constantly causing trouble told him that she had a lot to hide and was using the trouble that's he got into as a distraction to keep others from noticing. And judging from the trouble she was constantly in-what she was hiding was huge.

But because there was only one or two in the room that might understand what he was trying to say, he decided to dumb it down for the rest of the fools. "Okay lets try this. What's the best way to hide something?"

Sakura and Ino both put their hands in the air and looked eager. Sauske sighed tiredly as Ino blurted out, "In the open!"

Sauske nodded his head. "Yes. Out in the open. Now imagine that instead of hiding yourself you instead hide your natural god given abilities."

"Naru doesn't have any natural abilities." Sauske rolled his eyes. Again with the dumb jokes. Really?

"Yes she does. Everyone has things to hide-" But only Naru seemed to have the single minded focus to pull off making herself seem much dumber and less skilled than she really was. "But I think that Naru hides something much more than the usual hobbies and habits." He looked at the girl again and noticed the dark almost furious look that flickered across her face and felt the bottom drop out of his stomach before she looked away.

What the hell?

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After school, Sauske waited until the halls were clear before he even bothered to get up out of his seat and go to his locker to put his books away. He had stayed behind because of that look that had been on Naru's face before she had looked away from him. He had never seen such a dark and apathetic expression on her face. That look had told him several things. 1) She didn't like the fact that he was watching her. 2) She wanted blood.

His to be specific.

3) She had better not catch him alone, or he would be spending some personal time in the hospital, reflecting on what he had done to upset her.

All of which made him more than a little paranoid that she would be waiting for him after school. Which was why he had waited until he was sure that she was gone. He unlocked his locker and was rummaging through it when he felt something icy cold shoot down his spine, a sliver of awarness of something dark and sinister was lurking close by. He started to move back so that he could check over his shoulder but felt his heart slam against his ribs in fear as a small hand grasped the fine hairs at the back of his neck and a slender waif like body pushed him into his locker and slammed his head against the back of the locker before letting go and vanishing.

Sauske staggered back away from his locker and fell onto his but on the cold tile floor shaking and bleeding from where his face had hit the metal back of the locker, busting open his bottom lip. He looked around, noting that once again the halls looked clear. But he could'nt shake the feeling that he was being toyed with by something malicious and maleviolent. Something that he couldn't see or detect.

Was it Naru? Or was it something else?

He didn't stick around to figure it out, he grabbed his things closed his locker door and ran like hell out of the school building.