06 AIHE

I woke up in bed… I must've fallen asleep on Gaara's back again.

But I was in PMS boy's lower bunk because I guess they found it too much of a hassle to carry my sleeping body all the way up the ladder. Yay for fatness.

"What time is it?" I mumble, not really expecting an answer.

"5:45 AM" PMS replies from somewhere in the darkness.

"Why is it so God-forsakenly early??" I ask, rolling around in the bed.

"Just hush and get outta my bed"

"Yes, ma'am" I once again gracefully roll off, hitting the floor with a THUD! Oh, I hit the same shoulder, too. Ouch.

Once he goes off to shower, I change quickly in the safety of my own bunk. And underneath my blankets. Just in case. They won't think it odd because, well, they already know about that.

"Offta school" I announce to no one in particular. I wandered the halls plenty yesterday, so I didn't really have much to do.

Yay, fun.

-:-:-:-

Lucky me! I've found that Gaara's always up this early and now I can force him to kill some time with me!

No, I do not torment the poor soul. Haven't I said earlier that he's my bestest buddy?

But we couldn't find any runaway clocks so there goes our plan. (Get it? Kill time? Ah, never mind)

I had sincerely hoped that stupid PMS boy wouldn't have his stupid alarm on but he needs his beauty time, as I so gracefully explained to Gaara. Of course I exaggerated a bit but he's used to that too.

Although no one threw any clocks around, time flew (haha, another lame pun, I'm sorry). Because clocks grow legs and time goes so much faster when you're with friends. (Seriously, I'm gonna stop with all of these lame time/clock puns; they're killin' me)

We walked to homeroom together.

"You two sure are close" a classmate said with a rather cheeky grin. Hm… what was his name? Spiky brown hair, red triangles on face, illegally smuggled in dog… what was he called again?

"OH! KIBA!" I yell, pointing at the child. I know without looking that Gaara's rolling his eyes.

"Must you yell?" pineapple-haired-kid asks, raising his head up from where he had been sitting. "You're not a girl but you're still troublesome… what a drag"

"Excuse me, Mr-ray-of-golden-sunshine" I mutter under my breath before dragging Gaara to our seats.

Blah, blah, roll call, blah blah, announcements, blah, blah, blah OH IT'S THE BELL. I jump up as soon as the bell rings, ignoring all of the stares of those other jealous kids. They just wish that they're as cool as me.

"BYE GAARA-CHAN" I yell, skipping out of the classroom.

-:-:-:-

P.E.'s next. Several of the kids in my class groan. When I asked why, they replied with a look; "We have Gai-sensei."

Unfortunately, for me, the noob freshie, I still didn't know what they were talking about. I asked PMS boy, who told me that I would 'find out soon enough.'

I sighed, changing as quickly as I could inside the bathroom stall. In fact, I was so fast that I must say I'm very ninja-like, very… stealthy.

And as I thought the word 'stealthy,' I trip over some kid's dropped shirt. I hit my head on a bench- it was soo gonna bruise up later.

"Smart" I recognize the pineapple-kid's voice, and I look up to see him staring down at me with uninterested eyes.

"Thanks" I reply, standing up and dusting myself off. "Do you have this… 'Gai-sensei' too?"

"Yeah. He sounds like a drag"

"Haru-kun!" Lee called out to me, still wearing that green jumpsuit under the required grey shirt and red shorts. Other than those you can wear whatever you want, as long as the uniform's on top. "You have changed fast! How youthful of you!"

"Hai! Lee-kun!"

I could hear the complaints as I walked over to the gym, right next to the green-clad wonder.

-:-:-

I could not believe this. Lee and this… Gai-sensei are made for each other. I can see where Lee got the green jumpsuit idea from. But this guy's even worse. (get it? guy? Sounds like gai…? Never mind.)

Besides the tacky bowlcut and those caterpillar eyebrows, he had this giant nose that reminded me of a rather odd-looking zucchini.

It's like… Gai-sensei's a Lee Sr. Lee's a Gai-sensei Jr. I would be surprised if these two are completely unrelated.

"OH THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH!" the taller bowlcut man yelled, his arms moving into a ridiculous pose. The shorter green-clad wonder echoed his sensei's words. As if on cue, a sunset on the beach backdrop appeared, and they run off into it.

Wait. That's no backdrop. It's a real freakin' sunset.

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"If we're lucky they'll be like that the whole period and we won't have to do anything" Tenten speaks up from where she was standing behind me.

"If we're lucky" I repeat after her, staring off into the distance where the two had run off into the sunset.

Unfortunately for us, they soon ran back from the sunset, all the while shouting each other's names and stuff about youth and fountain of youth and springtime of youth and other 'youth-a-misms' (get it? euphemism? Haha, I'm a comedian)

"And now, our youth is in its prime! Run with me, to the springtime of youth! 100 laps!" the teacher declares, a finger pointed in the far-off distance. I think I saw another sunset forming.

"YOSH! GAI-SENSEI!"

I deadpanned. These two were crazy… 100 laps? We didn't even have enough time for 25, let alone 100!

"It's okay, we usually don't finish half of his crazy demands before the period ends." Tenten says, very very used to this from the 'this-happens-daily' look on her face.

"Usually?"

"Usually."

"… okay then" I say. Once Gai-sensei comes around from what seems to be his 20th lap, the rest of the class starts on their first. Because, of course, the teacher didn't notice the non-moving kids until then. Silly teacher, trix are for kids.

Pretty soon, class ended. I'm beyond tired, because the sensei seems to think that we're completely capable of keeping up with him. We're all forced to at least try. One kid, way in the back, didn't and ended up being pulled by one of them and pushed by the other. I definitely don't want to try something like that.

Let's just say I couldn't be happier when class ended.

-:-:-

"Oi, freshie!" I heard yelling. Turning around, I see that it's that junior… Hi-whatever.

"Hidan-san…" I say slowly, not sure if I got the name right. Frowning, he stops in his tracks and gives me a funny look.

"Don't call me 'Hidan-san' -makes me feel old" he says, his face returning to its normal smirk. "Just Hidan's fine."

"Okay, Hidan" I say. The way he walked was obviously saying, 'follow me' so I walked behind him.

"Oh, it's Hidan-senpai!" what I think is a child calls out. It turns out to be that orange-capped child. Okay, so he's waaay taller than me. Big deal. I can call whoever I want a child.

At least, I can in my head. I wouldn't dare do so out loud. Who knows what these friends of my brother are capable of doing. I really don't wanna find out by personal experience.

"And it's Hidan-senpai's boyfriend!" he chirps, looking at Hidan, then me, then back to Hidan, and so on until he notices something. "But why aren't you two holding hands?" I think this kid's name was something with a T… Thomas? Tobi? Why am I so bad with names? Anyways, he runs over, grabbing one of my hands, and one of Hidan's.

I knew something seemed suspicious.

When he lets go, I notice that something's different. Vastly, importantly different.

"Bye Hidan-senpai! Bye, Hidan-senpai's boyfriend!" The child runs off, probably so we couldn't kill him.

After all, he did just handcuff our hands together.

A/N: 1,300+ words

Bwahaha. Kinda boring, I apologize. but it'll get fun :D

And I also apologize for those lame puns. I couldn't help myself.