High School, What a Drag
Dragged Down

"You can't do things like that." Temari could feel the stares people sent her way. She could also hear the whispers involving the rumor of her being a yankee. Gaara simply stared at her indicating he honestly didn't care what she thought about the situation, nor did he care about what people thought about him personally.

"Don't bother explaining things to him Temari." Kankuro turned his head at the exiting students. "Speaking of which here comes those idiots."

"Idiots..." Temari drew her breath as she looked at the four existing the building. One was attempting to stuff a dog into his book bag. "I only think that kid actually goes to our school."

"Then why the hell are they even here?"

The blond with the group suddenly pointed at Gaara, and Temari found her throat tightening. "They're coming this way."

"Wh..." Kankuro's words were cut off as the blond came over and the others followed rather reluctantly. A hissing sound was added to her oldest brother's tone of voice. "Say what? They've got to be crazy."

"Hey you!"

Temari's teal eyes widened as the blond pointed at Gaara, and her youngest brother finally turned to look at the blond. "Good god! Nobody pulls this kind of stuff with Gaara ever. He's got to be an idiot."

A quick glance told her Kankuro was trying to not lose it. The blond became more vocal as he pointed at Gaara. "I'm trying to talk to you." Gaara continued to stare at the blond, and the situation kept escalating on the blond's part. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm going to be class representative next year. You better believe it!"

A silence fell between the two groups. Temari noticed the kid with the dog shoved into his backpack looked like he wanted to pick a fight. The chubby kid didn't seem more focused on stuffing food into his mouth, and the kid they met earlier looked like he was bored with the whole situation.

Gaara finally opened his mouth to say something. "I honestly don't care. You're not worth my time."

"We should go and meet that kid."

Shikamaru simply stared at Naruto. "What a drag. Leave it to Uzumaki Naruto to be attracted to trouble when he sees it." A quick glance at Kiba said the other boy was wanting to egg the blond teen on. "And somebody else isn't helping. Not that I want to help either. To much energy."

Kiba's smirk quickly grew as he tried stuffing his dog back into his bag. "I think we should. That kids rather funny looking."

Choji frowned. "Don't go there. People who are sensitive about their looks don't like that being brought up."

"Who says he's sensitive about his looks? The kid's got guts."

Shikamaru let out a sigh as Naruto took off, and the only choice was to follow after. The blond gave his usual tirade despite being ignored, and then the red haired teen spoke in an emotionless manner. "I honestly don't care. You're not worth my time."

"You..." Naruto's temper flared, and the boy lunged at the red head.

"What a drag. Should have stepped in." Shikamaru took a deep breath as he prepared to pull Naruto back away from the red haired class representative. A quick assessment told him all three siblings were ready to but heads making it clear the situation wouldn't resolve with a quick fix like this morning. A rather loud voice broke out over the crowd as both Gaara and Naruto moved closer to come to blows with each other.

"Stop!" A young man from their school rushed forward with a haircut as loud as his voice. Somehow the young man managed to redirect the two so they passed each other buy. "We should not be fighting people, but instead enjoying the spring time of youth. That my friends is what the high school life is about."

Shikamaru cringed upon recognizing the loud mouth from their neighborhood. "I forgot there was someone louder then Naruto. What a drag." Gaara simply glared at the older 'youth', and then walked away. His two older siblings followed after, and Shikamaru let out a sigh of relief. "That was close."

"There were to many close calls today." Temari found herself not at all pleased with the new student, and his friends. "How come there are kids not going to our school showing up even?"

Kankoro's attitude was more relaxed then her own. "Give up Temari. You can't babysit Gaara all day. You'll just have to get used to the idea that he's going to mess up everything in our lives."

"You're just pleased that you don't have to share a class with him. Perhaps I should suggest to dad the idea of having Gaara skip another grade."

"Hey... don't do that. He wouldn't be in my class though. I'd say see you after school, but you've got that traditional dance class. I honestly don't know why you're in that club when you're the only one. At least with the puppet club there's more club members."

"Like three."

"They don't think I'm creepy at least. Everyone at school thinks you're a yankee."

"News for you Kankoro. They don't think you're creepy because they are creepy. You wouldn't catch me dead in that club room." A thought crossed her mind. "What about getting Gaara into a club?"

"Don't even try. He's going to be a part of the go home club."

Temari let the frustration out of her lungs as the older of her two brothers disappeared. She couldn't help but check in on her younger brother's class, and found herself flinching when she saw the new student they met on the train staring out the classroom window.