Disclaimer: I managed to chainsaw the rights out of Kishimoto's body:D Now all that's left is to escape the cops!! –runs and hides in Akatsuki lair- Naruto's not mine, people.

A/N: OMG on the very first day I got one review several hours after I posted:D thanks to xCanYouHandleThisx for reviewing, I feel special. So now thanks to that wonderful reviewer I'm putting up the second chapter. Maybe more? Who knows.

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Chapter Two: Sophomore Year: A New School With Surprises in Every Person!

Recap:

Gaara stood up silently and left the office, glancing at the map and schedule. First period was…English with Mr. Hatake in Room 251…Mr. Hatake…

Hadn't he heard that name before?

Shrugging it off, he ascended a flight of stairs and stopped in front of the door to Room 251. Putting on his best don't-touch-look-talk-to-me face, he opened the door. To his utter dismay, one kid in the class noticed him immediately.

"Hey, it's Gaara!!! Find your way here all right???" Naruto chirruped happily, waving like a maniac. Gaara groaned mentally. Mr. Hatake. Naruto. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Mr. Hatake himself was a tall man in his mid to late twenties, with silver hair that looked as if he had just gotten out of bed. His eyes were oddly mismatched, one a deep gray, the other a shade of crimson. A scar ran from under his eyebrow to the top of his cheekbone, right across his crimson eye. The bottom part of his face was covered with a brown plaid scarf. Gaara stopped dead in his tracks.

Oh. Hell. No. He very nearly killed himself at that moment. Very nearly.

"Well, well, hello there, Gaara," said Mr. Hatake pleasantly. His face crinkled in the semblance of a smile and an amused glint appeared in his eye. "I didn't expect to see you again so quickly." Gaara seethed, making a mental note to kill Kankuro when he got home. That bastard, he thought. That fucking bastard…

Whoooo!!! Flashback Time!! Cookies and green tea for everyone!!

Gaara was reading one of Temari's stupid romance novels, mainly because she had threatened to hit him with her oversize fan if he didn't read more. He had just finished the end of a steamy love scene when the front door burst open and he was thrust right into another one. Loud sounds of making out and things banging against the counters in the kitchen drifted to the living room, where Gaara hunched against the pillows on the couch, trying hard to ignore the sounds of his oversexed older brother and whoever the hell he was with.

Do you remember the old saying, "There is no rest for the weary"?

Well, Gaara was the "weary" in this instance.

His brother came in with an older man's arm draped around his waist. "Hey there Gaara!" said Kankuro cheerfully. "Meet Kakashi!"

Kakashi smiled—or at least Gaara thought he did. The lower part of his face was covered by a brown plaid scarf…

End of Flashback…now wasn't that fun?? Moar green tea for the readers!!!

Gaara was seething, although on the outside he still looked expressionless and emotionless. How's that for control??!

"Anyway, there's an empty seat next to Naruto, who I assume you've already met. Why don't you have a seat there?" Mr. Hatake smiled again and turned to the blackboard, completely oblivious to the death glare Gaara was sending his way. The death rays fizzled against Kakashi's back and were instantly swallowed by either his scarf or his happy-happy-joy-joy aura. Gaara growled and took his seat. Already he was in a bad mood, and first period wasn't even half over. Naruto grinned at him, ignoring the waves of hostility rolling off the redhead's skin.

"It's great that we have first period together, huh Gaara??" he asked excitedly. "Do you like English?? Do you like art? Do you like ramen?" Naruto chattered on animatedly while Gaara just blinked at the words carved on the desk.

Kill me now, the words read. Wow. His thoughts exactly.

Gaara strongly suspected the last person to sit beside Naruto had carved out these words. Although he doubted that the aforementioned last person's brother had been screwing the teacher in the front of the classroom. Oh, no. It couldn't be someone else; it just had to be Kankuro, didn't it? His own brother. There would definitely be some words had when he got home this afternoon.

Naruto was still babbling on about something unimportant. Gaara glared at the blonde boy. If he squinted hard enough he could almost make out the words "I'm an idiot" scrawled across the boy's forehead. Gaara almost snorted. Then he squinted harder.

Holy shit. There really were the words 'I'm an idiot' on the boys' forehead. Without thinking, Gaara pushed back the blonde locks from Naruto's forehead and inspected the words. He blinked. Had he been born like this?

"Wha--? Oh, I see, you're admiring Sasuke's handiwork," said the blonde boy, laughing nervously. Gaara immediately pulled back. "You see, we were fooling around with markers and writing stuff on each other's arms, and then I wrote something on his forehead, so then he wrote on my forehead, only he used a Sharpie." Naruto chuckled and scratched his nose. "I couldn't get it all off without skinning myself, heh."

Gaara could not have looked less interested.

The class passed by in much the same fashion—it seemed that Mr. I'm-Screwing-Your-Older-Brother Hatake didn't actually teach this class, meaning that Gaara was subjected to more chatter from the brainless blonde. He wondered vaguely if maybe the stereotype had been thought up by someone who knew Naruto. (The blonde stereotype, people…in case the author-ess didn't make herself clear.)

When the bell finally rang, Gaara immediately got up and stalked out of class, completely ignoring both the grinning teacher and the chattering blonde next to him.

"Hey hey, what classes do you have next??" asked Naruto, skipping along next to the murderous redhead. Without asking, he tugged the schedule out of Gaara's hand and examined it. "Let's see...first period…oh yay! We have second period together too! Not third though…oh but we have fourth together…and not fifth but we have lunch…and not sixth either…but hey! We end the day together!!! How fun is that??!!" Naruto laughed and whacked Gaara on the back again. "This is great!! We're gonna be best buddies!! Well, after Sasuke and the others, I suppose…or…hm…" Luckily, this train of thought kept Naruto preoccupied and silent during the rest of the walk to the most shit-fit hellhole on the face of this universe, also known as Science.

The teacher was named Orochimaru, and he scared the living shit out of all the students at Konoha High. He was creepy, goddammit. Pale, pale skin, long jet black hair, slitted golden eyes, an abnormally long tongue, an obsession with snakes and seemingly pedophiliac personality…you would think this was Michael Jackson in (not so great) disguise. At least Orochimaru didn't grab his balls and dance.

"Well well, I see we have a new student today," he said silkily as Naruto and Gaara walked in together, Naruto still lost in thought. "And he's already made a friend…how sweet." Naruto jolted awake and stared at Orochimaru as if he'd never seen him before. "Sit where you like, Gaara."

Gaara had his eye on a nice seat in the back and went straight for it, sitting down with a sigh. Unfortunately for him, Naruto plunked down next to him. The blonde answered his hostile glare with a grin.

"This is my seat," he explained. "I like sitting alone in class, otherwise I can't concentrate. But you're so quiet it doesn't matter!!! So it's cool, don't worry, I'll be fine with you sitting next to me!" If he was capable of emotion, Gaara probably would have rolled his eyes and scoffed at the boy. Instead, our favorite emo redhead turned his attention to the man (?) in the front of the room.

"Today we will be talking about cellular anatomy," droned Orochimaru. Gaara almost yawned. Bo-ring. The class passed by in relative quiet, until the last five minutes when Orochimaru ordered everyone to pack up. Naruto immediately launched into a long-winded and utterly pointless conversation until the bell rang. To Gaara's intense surprise, Naruto leapt up as if his life depended on getting to his next class. He shouted over his shoulder, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Bye Gaara!! I have Chorus now and I can't be late!!! See you next period!!!" Gaara just stood and walked slowly out the door, on his way to the next class.

So, Naruto sings? he thought idly as he wandered off to his next class, Math. I'm surprised that his voice doesn't give out from all the talking he does…

He walked in the door, only to be assaulted by the teacher, Mr. Iruka Umino. And by assaulted, I mean Naruto-style hey-someone-just-walked-into-the-room-I'll-talk-his-ear-off-now assault.

"Hello there, you must be the new student, Gaara," he said cheerfully, shaking Gaara's hand. Gaara merely gave him a cold eyeliner-ringed stare. "It's going to be a great year with you in our class!! I've seen your grades from your previous school, and I doubt you'll have any trouble in this class!! But unfortunately for you and me you won't be in class today! I was wondering if you would be so kind as to deliver these papers to the Chorus teacher??? I was supposed to hand them in to her but it's been a busy first day!! So would you do it for me? I promise you won't miss anything important."

Gaara blinked. My God, this guy was hyper. He wondered vaguely if Iruka was somehow related to Naruto.

"No, I don't mind delivering them for you," said Gaara in his quiet voice. "But I don't see how it would require the whole period…"

"You'll find out when you get to the Chorus room," said Iruka with an amused glint in his eye. He handed Gaara an enormous stack of papers and sent him out with a cheery wave. "Say hello to Naruto for me!!"

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A/N: OMFG so now you know!! Naruto sings and Kakashi is doing the naughty with Gaara's big brother:D Next chapter: Sing Your Soul Out! A Person's Smile is only Skin Deep?

lol, notice how chapter titles are getting longer? I'm so bad :3 My orichar (OC for those of you who don't speak RoyalFox) Yuki is coming up soon. I promise that she and Gaara will have nothing going on, even if it does seem that way. Strictly GaaNaru! Gaara and Yuki will merely be very close friends.