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CHAPTER 3!

As it turned out the sponges really were necessary, well in the teachers case. He was a weird fellow who much resembled Lee... He wanted the kids to call him Sensei, instead of Mr.

He had lost the key to the room over the summer and had asked the principal to put sponges on the school list, along with other pointless objects he thought would be fun. 'This is such a drag' Shikamaru thought as he wiped the gum off the bottom of the twenty four desks.

" Okay!" Sensei yelled as he examined the room, "You all pass the first test!" He said dancing around. "This is gonna be a long year" Whispered Sakura to Ino. Shikamaru who set a desk apart from them could hear whatever they whispered to one another.

Sensei took a stack of paper from his desk that was placed in the front of the room. He gave one to the people in the front row and said, "Take one and... Pass! IT! BaCk!" Neji was a little hesitant to take the paper from him, scared the man would burst into song and dance...

The papers were all passed back, on the top it read "ABOUT U!" Shikamaru sighed, he hated when adults attempted to be like that of the adolescents. He pulled an unsharpened pencil out of his binder. "More walking..." He muttered. He slowly got up and joined the line of people with unsharpened pencils. Naruto came up from behind him.

"What do you think of this guy?" Naruto whispered, a pen in his hand. Shikamaru wondered how that would turn out..."I dunno he seems a little, awkward" Shikamaru responded. Shikamaru sharpened his pencil and walked slowly back to his seat.

"CRAP!" Came a voice from behind him. There stood Naruto, the sharpener covered in pen ink. The classroom, (With the exception of Hinata) just laughed as Naruto took a seat. The students filled out their ABOUT U! sheets. Shikamaru heard several giggles coming from Sakura and Ino. Probably about the question that asked who do you think would be dating at the end of the year, (A/N My English teacher actually gave us one of these with that same question on it...)

After that class people considered changing the name of homeroom to homoroom...

At the end of the homeroom he handed the students their schedules. " What...The...Hell?" Kiba said at the end of the class. Naruto and Shikamaru simply shrugged. "I have science" Shikamaru said dully. "Math for us..." Kiba and Naruto said looking at one another's schedule. They began to sulk... math wasn't their strongest subject.

Shikamaru walked off to science, from what he heard this guy was a little crazy, for women.

He entered the classroom and the board read stand up against the wall facing the desks. He did as he was told. Shikamaru was the only one in the class at that time. The room was really big. It had 24 desks, six by four. And the remaining half of the room was lab tables.

More students entered the room as Shikamaru found himself standing between his good friend Choji, and Sai...just Sai. The students all gathered together, lined up against the wall. A white haired man entered the room, he wore a lab coat that covered up a majority of his face. "Call me Mr. Hatake" The man said bluntly. "I'll create the seating arrangement. He took the prettier girls and sat them up front.

'Pedophile' Shikamaru thought rolling his eyes. The remaining girls sat behind them, and the boys in the last two rows.

So far Shikamaru had a pedo teacher and a homo homeroom teacher.

The rest of the day wasn't as fun either. His classes weren't that great, considering Sai and Sasuke were in a good majority of his morning classes. It was now lunch time and it was up to them to choose their seats. Shikamaru, Choji, Naruto, and Kiba sat at the first table they could locate. They threw their bagged lunches on the table. Shikamaru didn't wanna know what his dad packed him.

It was almost as if Choji packed himself a feast. He had freakin steak. Naruto and Kiba had the simple lunches, a sandwich with fruit and an Oreo or two. Shikamaru had cheese on one piece of bread, Trix yogurt, no spoon, and what looked like a broken of piece of a waffle.

"Dig in?" Shikamaru said glaring at his lunch. Lunch was the only good part of the day for Shikamaru, he sat with his friends and enjoyed crappy food. Fun.

It was now last period and Shikamaru was relieved, even if it was gym. It was the gym the Freshmen sat in, in the morning, it had the Konoha colors, Red and Green. Merry Christmas. The gym teacher reminded Shikamaru of someone. 'Oh Shit' He thought, the gym teacher was also his homoroom teacher. "In the locker room to change" he said flipping the kids a bag with a green shirt and red shirts," Take turns writing your name" He added flipping them a red sharpie.

He unsealed the bag and took out the neatly folded uniform. In the center of the green shirt there was a little square to write your name, Shikamaru Nara, he wrote as neat as possible, the uniform was all wrinkly. He undressed folded up his clothes, and laid them down on a bench. He then slipped on the gym shorts and the shirt and walked out to the gym.

In the gym he looked over his class. Lee...Sai, of course...Choji...Naruto and Hinata... Sasuke, of Course, and Sakura and Ino. An efficient class, with the exception of Sai and Sasuke.

The gym teacher broke us up into two big groups. He showed us the line that ran down the center of the gym. "DOdggeeeBAOL!" He shouted awkwardly He flipped a ball to Shikamaru's side of the gym. On his team was Lee, Choji, and Ino, and a bunch of other random kids. The random kids of course got all the random kids out...and Choji. Lee was the main dominator on his team, he would pretty much kill himself to win.

He was diving, jumping, ducking, even flipping. And then there was Shikamaru standing in the corner half asleep. The other team used the old strategy. Sasuke flipped a ball high into the air, as Lee was watching it fall down, Sai ran up and pegged him. Luckily Lee still managed to catch Sasukes dodge ball before he was hit. Sai got Ino out with a weak toss. And Random kid # 14 got Hinata and Sakura out. All that was left was Shikamaru, and Random kid #14. And on the other side, Sai and Naruto. As it turned out Random Kid #14's name was Steve.

Steve was an athletic kid, although nobody knew who he was. He ended up getting Naruto out, but Sai countered by beaming Steve in the face. It was Sai against Shikamaru. 'What a drag...' Sai threw one of the two dodge balls directly at Shikamaru. He jumped to the side, the two of them hit the wall and bounced back to Shikamaru, he caught one of them and threw it as hard as he possibly could. It hit Sai square in the jaw as he flew backwards.

Gai ran up from the chair he was observing from. He ran right past Sai and up to Shikamaru. "That's quite a gun ya got there kid" He said arms crossed. "Yeah, sure..." Shikamaru wasn't paying much attention. "How would you like to be the quarter back for the football team!" He said this loud, really loud. Everyone turned and whispers flew about. " Yeah, sure, whatever" Shikamaru said still not paying attention. "AlRiGhT!" He said," Practice is after SchOoOol!"

"So your a Quarter Back now eh?" Choji said in the locker room. "Wait is that what I agreed to?" Shikamaru asked... Wow... I'm on the football team.