Authoress's Notes: I'd like to thank all of the reviewers who have driven me to write another chapter! Thank you all so much, and I'm glad you're enjoying my story! I know I am! So, anyway, here's Chapter Four; Uchiha's Worst Nightmare.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Sasuke, or any of the other characters. I own the plot and the students; nothing more.

Uchiha's Worst Nightmare

Sakura smiled as she swung Tsunade's door open. The first thing she saw was that Tsunade suddenly had a new taste in desks. She sweatdropped, and then focused her attention back on the task at hand.

She had to ask about Sasuke, after all.

"What do you want, Sakura?" Tsunade asked grouchily. She hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. Sakura placed her hands behind her back calmly. "I wanted to know how Sasuke reacted to the news yesterday."

Tsunade stared at Sakura. How Sasuke reacted to the news? She didn't remember giving Sasuke any news yesterday. She did recall taking a medication for her headaches yesterday morning, though, and suddenly got the suspicion that it hadn't been 'medicine'. She had also walked into her office to find that she had a new desk, and was curious to know why it was there.

Shizune swore up and down that she had thrown it out after Sasuke left, but Tsunade insisted that she hadn't seen Sasuke.

Now she figured that she might have been wrong. "What do you mean 'news', Sakura?"

"You were going to give Sasuke my suggestion about working in the Academy."

I recall saying that, but I don't remember telling Sasuke . . . she thought. She couldn't let her title as Hokage get ruined, though, so put on a smile and nodded. "Oh, right! I remember now. Sasuke took the offer happily. He said he couldn't wait to get to work," she lied.

She didn't know how wrong she was.

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These were exactly the situations that Sasuke tried to avoid. He was going to be stuck, alone, with a ton of little children that were probably ready to rip his brain out to feed to their pet lion. He sighed. This was not his day at all.

He walked out of the teachers' lounge and walked down the hallway; heading for Iruka's class. He stopped when he saw that none of the students were in the classroom, and tried to rack his brain for a plausible reason as to why.

Then he remembered that Iruka had always come out to get the students. He turned and walked down the hall again; this time heading for the playground. He stared outside and saw all of the kids. He walked out and stood straight. The kids looked like they were having fun. They were so cute!

But they weren't cute to Sasuke. To him, they were pathetic nuisances that would only get in his way. He sighed, and then called for them all to come. The boy who had mocked his hair, Tai, was the first to run up. "Where's Iruka-sensei?" he asked curiously.

"He had to go to a meeting. I'm taking care of you until your parents come," Sasuke replied stoically, as the rest of the kids ran up to hear his statement.

Sasuke didn't like the sudden sparkle that lit up in the kids' eyes.

Iria stared at him curiously. "So, Iruka-sensei, and all of the other senseis are . . . gone?"

"Yeah, and?"

"You're the only one here?" Tai asked, staring up at him. Sasuke suddenly felt very awkward, but hid it well.

"Yeah, I am."

"Will you come and play with us?" Another child asked; her bright green eyes lit up in excitement.

Sasuke was about to say no, since they had to go back to class, when a sentence suddenly popped into his head. It was from his worst nightmare.

And you will play with them if they ask you to.

Sasuke was about to shout something extremely foul, but before he could, he imagined that being told to the senseis. It wasn't a pretty image. He sighed, but nodded. "Sure. Whatever."

The children cheered, and then managed to drag Sasuke over to a slide. "Sasuke-sensei goes first!" Iria announced with a grin on her face. Everyone else cheered, chanting the same. Sasuke's eye twitched as the kids tried to push him up onto the slide.

This was stupid, but he didn't have a choice. "I can get up myself."

"Then go!" Tai stated, watching with wonder. Sasuke sighed, and then climbed the rest of the way; taking a seat at the top of the slide. A sudden question loomed over his brain.

How old is this thing?

He recalled that it had been around when he was a young Academy student, so it had to be at least ten or eleven years old. He also realized that none of the children had been sliding on it. "I don't think this is–"

He didn't get to finish his statement as a blue-haired boy gave him a push and jumped back to the ground. Sasuke slid forward. It was a rather long slide, built for menial seconds of entertainment, and it was going well until Sasuke heard the God-forsaken noise.

Crack.

His eyes widened as the slide suddenly fell apart, causing him to land in a heap on the ground, groaning from a light pain in his back, head, and ankle. The slide had completely broken, and all of the kids were laughing their evil little heads off. Sasuke scowled. This wasn't funny at all!

He climbed to his feet, brushing him self off in an attempt to calm his fury. He felt like using Chidori on each one of these little brats.

You will not be allowed to harm these students.

That statement was the only thing keeping these children alive. He looked at the children. "Why are you laughing?"

"Y-you broke the slide!" Tai laughed. The blue haired boy who had pushed him grinned. "Didn't you know that the slide was unstable?" he asked, trying to talk without laughing. "It's older than you!"

Sasuke's eye twitched. Oh, these kids were like the devil all divided into thirty little minions.

"It's time to go inside," Sasuke stated sternly, allowing no room for any type of argument. A few 'aww's were heard, but they were almost drowned out by the laughter of the other students.

The laughter didn't end until everyone was seated in their seats. Sasuke sighed as he walked over and looked at Iruka's desk. His eyes widened a little.

Iruka had left him a note.

Dear Sasuke-san,

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to reach you in time before I have to go to my meeting, so I'm writing this as an extra precaution. Tsunade informed me of all of your conditions and I wanted to let you know that I understand your situation.

If the children ask you to play with them, be sure to avoid the slide. Since Chouji was the last one to use it, it's very unstable.

Sasuke scowled. Sure. Now he found the note. He sighed, before focusing his attention back on the note.

Anyway, I'd like for you to complete the transformation test for me. Read out the last few names on the clipboard. By the time that you get through with that, the time for class to end should be there. Tell the children to transform into you, so you can tell if they're good or bad at it.

Thank you,

Iruka

Sasuke turned to look at the clipboard the note had been set on top of. He set the letter down and picked up the clipboard.

"What are you gonna do with that, Sensei? You won't break that too, will you?" Tai asked curiously, a mock smile on his face. Sasuke wished that the boy's parents would have beaten him a little more.

"No, I am not going to break this clipboard," Sasuke stated. At least, on nothing less than your big head, he added mentally, though kept that to himself. "You're going to finish your Transformation Jutsu, with me as the teacher. I don't want any fooling around – do you understand?" he asked sternly, recalling how Iruka had used to threaten the students when he was in the Academy.

The muttered answers of 'uh-huh' were echoed by most of the students. Sasuke didn't take this seriously, though, as he kept a carefully placed eye on each of them. He didn't want to seem paranoid, after all. That would just feed their little egos.

It was just the fact that these kids were . . . Evil. They were to him, anyway. He'd never liked kids very much, and now he was alone with at least twenty-five to thirty of them.

The thought made him want to shudder.

"Okay, first off, Sanburou," Sasuke announced, as a scrawny red-headed boy walked up to stand in front of him.

"Iruka has asked that you all transform into me," he stated, watching as the boy shrugged and did a decent replica of him. Sasuke nodded and put a check by 'good'. "Okay, next . . ."

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Sasuke sighed as he sent the last of the students off with their parents. He leaned against the door of the Academy, suddenly exhausted. The day had been rather boring, up until the stupid kids had made him fall off of the slide. Sasuke looked down at his clothing.

They were stained pathetically from grass, and he had a few scratches on his sleeves. He muttered an inaudible curse to himself as he rubbed his forehead, trying to relax his tensed body. He turned and began to walk towards his house, reflecting on the Transformation tests.

Everyone had basically done well, but he had had to resist the urge to put a check next to the 'bad' check-box when it came Tai's turn. The little demon had decided to replicate the way Sasuke had looked when he had fallen off of the slide – causing a sudden uproar of laughter to emit from the other students.

Sasuke would have given him a bad grade if the boy hadn't of looked just like him. He sighed as he turned the corner and walked into his house, deciding to take a bath.

At least Iruka would be around tomorrow. Things would be okay, then.

It was wishful thinking, but, it made him feel better. That was all he needed at the moment, too.

He absolutely dreaded tomorrow, no matter which way he looked at it.

This reality came to smash into his forehead as he lay down to go to sleep. The kids would probably brag about how they had managed to trick him so easily, and his reputation would be destroyed.

Well, whatever reputation he had left, anyway.

He finally drifted off into a restless sleep, his dreams consumed of children laughing at him.

There you go! There's chapter four! I hope you enjoyed it! I felt like this chapter lagged a bit in the comedy section, but I intend to make this funnier as it goes along. :) So, anyway, please review! Thanks!