Saskue tipped his head back in boredom. A quick glance to his side showed him that Sakura was doodling on the corner of her new physics exercise book. The teacher in front of them continued to drone on monotonously. With a great effort, Saskue dragged his mind back to what the teacher was talking about. The lesson was about the reaction time when driving, but Saskue hadn't even seen a car before, there being an absence of motorised vehicles in the hidden continent. It was their first day of lessons at the school and Saskue had come to the conclusion that all the students were pretty stupid. He couldn't believe that they were older than he had been when he had graduated from the academy, yet they knew nothing.
"Mr Uchiha, could you tell me one cause for an increased stopping time?" Saskue's black eyes flickered over to the teacher.
"… thinking time," he said tonelessly. The teacher nodded.
"Very good. Normally, despite being the most obvious factor, it is generally the one that takes students the longest to think of." Sakura deadpanned next to Saskue, who's own suspicions about all the students to be completely and utterly thick were confirmed.
In the lab next door, Ino and Naruto were watching the teacher in front of them wave a black handled knife in the air, an animal's heart in front of her.
"Dissection! That is what we are going to be doing today!" She then proceeded to go through the instructions for said dissection. Around them, students were complaining about the smell and disgustingness of it all, but Ino and Naruto watched with mild fascination. As shinobi, they had had their fill of blood and gore, and were therefore unfazed. When the teacher had finished giving out instructions, the blonde pair quickly completed their dissections. Naruto prodded part of it with the tip of his knife. The biology teacher, who was going round the class, came to where they were working, and stopped in her tracks. The heart that the two transfer students had dissected was cut up with frightening accuracy- sliced even more perfectly then she could cut it, and she had been doing dissections for 10 years.
"Um… have you two done this before?" Naruto was about to shake his head when Ino stepped on his toe. Hard.
"Oh yes, we're on a slightly different programme to the one here!" Ino lied, her eyes glittering dangerously. "Why do you ask?" The teacher was stunned, but pulled herself back together before addressing Ino.
"Oh, nothing at all, it's just hat's a near perfect dissection."
"Thank you. Our teacher used to be a surgeon, so she's very precise." Naruto snorted, but changed it into a cough once he saw Ino's eyes flash to him.
"Hm..." murmured the teacher. Luckily for the two ninja, the bell rang at that moment and they scurried out into the corridor.
"Baka! You have to be careful! She can't find out about our true identities!" Ino smacked Naruto over the head, and a lump appeared.
"Okay, okay. Please don't turn into Sakura-chan!" Ino's eyes narrowed, and a vein appeared on her forehead. Naruto started backing away, holding his arms up in front of himself protectively.
"Do. Not. Compare ME to Bill-board brow!" Ino screeched, and took off, chasing Naruto down the hallway and to their next lesson.
Sakura peeked at Saskue who was walking silently next to her, before glaring at some of the other girls in the hallway who were starting to drool at the site of him. She possessively hooked her arm through his. He looked at her, his famous glare already gracing his features.
"Sakura… what are you doing?"
"Saving you," Sakura replied simply. "Have you noticed all those looks? If you're not careful, you'll get a fan club even bigger here than in Konoha." He sighed, mentally cursing Tsunade for even sending them to this godforsaken place. Eventually they got to the English classroom. The two ninja slipped in unnoticed, and settled themselves down at the back of the classroom, watching as the other students filed in. Eventually everyone was seated and the teacher started the lesson.
"Now, before we begin, I see that we have to of our new transfer students in the room. Although I know we know your names, you probably don't know who I am. My name is Mrs Braines, and I am one of the English teachers her. We are studying poetry at the moment. Now, who has heard of this poet?" She went on with the lesson, and once again the two shinobi felt their brains numbing over with boredom. At that moment, however, salvage for Saskue came in the form of a young girl blushing furiously.
"Um… Mr Uchiha is needed." Saskue immediately stood up. Sakura looked at him in panic.
"Saskue! You can't leave me here with this boredom on my own!" Saskue smirked.
"You're a big girl now. I'm sure that even you can take care of yourself." With that Saskue stalked out of the classroom. Sakura slumped her head on the table. Life was so unfair.
Saskue followed the small girl in front of him not paying particular attention as to where he was actually going, lost in thought. He knew that he was going to see the counsellor person, but really, what was he going to say? Oh, when I was younger my psycho older brother slaughtered our entire clan, but left me alive. Now I want to find him and kill him. Yeah, because that was really going to go down well.
He was pulled out of his procrastinating when he realised that they had stopped. Still ignoring the girl, Saskue knocked twice on the wooden door in front of him and entered.
"Hello, you must be Saskue. My name is Veronica Phillips, but call me Ronnie, everyone else does! In my sessions, there are no secrets or hidden pieces of information- we share everything." Saskue blinked at this sudden onslaught of cheerfulness.
"…Saskue." He glared at the hand that 'Ronnie' (or the Insanely Cheerful One, ICO for short as Saskue dubbed her) held out to him. She dropped it, and her smile dimmed a little. Saskue smirked slightly in triumph.
"Well, Saskue, I've had a look through your file, and I can see that we have a lot to chat about!" Saskue blinked again. He wasn't even aware that he had a file. He decided to call her upon her previous words.
"Can you show me this… file?" Her smile slid off her face instantly and the temperature in the room fell by several degrees.
"Oh, I don't think that that is necessary, do you?"
"On the contrary, Ronnie, didn't you just say that we share everything?" Saskue replied, eyes narrowing to slits and sarcasm lacing his voice. The woman sucked in a sharp breath through her teeth.
"I think that we will definitely have to talk. Now, tell me. Your brother ran away from home, correct?" Saskue folded his arms and sat back in his chair. He wasn't going to go into his family history in front of a stranger. Especially in front of a stranger. "I know that you probably don't want to go into it with someone you barely know, but don't worry. I'm sure we'll become friends in no time!" Saskue unconsciously withdrew himself from her. He was sure that he was going to hate the overbearing woman in no time at all… actually, he was pretty sure that he hated her now. Ronnie sat back as Saskue continued to stare stonily at her and recoil back towards the door.
"Okay then, I can see that you don't really want to talk." 'Damn right I don't- I don't want to be here at all, but Lady Tsunade made us,' Saskue thought as the woman in front of him babbled on about dreams and whatnot.
"So, tell me, what was your last dream?" Sasuke again looked on stonily. He didn't dream. He used to, but ever since that night the only dreams he had had were nightmares. Oh, and the one to restore his clan and 'find' Itachi. And there was no way he was telling the woman in front of him all of that. So he would just have to lie. He was a shinobi. Lying was part of the job description.
"I dreamt… of… going on a boat. At sea," he improvised, spying a cup of water on the desk and a picture of a sailing boat on a postcard pinned to the corkboard by the window. Sasuke had hoped to bore the counsellor woman into letting him go early, when he could find Kakashi and threaten/beg him to be allowed to go back to Konoha, whichever one worked best. However, the simple statement had the opposite effect on the woman. She positively beamed. It was like being looked in a highly suspicious, hyper Naruto. And not being able to punch him.
"This is excellent! Did you go anywhere?"
"No. I just sailed."
"Interesting, interesting. Do you know what this means?" Sasuke shook his head. "The dream means that you are desperately looking for somewhere, but feel lost. Now, the bell for lunch is just about to go, but before we depart I want you to confide in at least one secret to your friends here. By telling them more about yourself, you will learn more about yourself and this will lead to happiness." Sasuke widened his eyes fractionally. Tell a secret? Oh hell, what had Tsunade pushed him into now?
Whilst Sakura suffered in English, Ino and Naruto scared the biology teacher and Sasuke was mentally tortured in Counselling, Kakashi had taken it upon himself to explore the grounds a bit. Leaving a shadow clone to observe the PE lesson- of which he was supposed to be helping out with- Kakashi slipped off and darted around the building. There was the canteen and dormitories, of which all five undercover ninja had experienced, numerous classrooms which held all manner of classes- Kakashi subconsciously sorted these into two categories- ones that would benefit ninja (maths, science, English, PE and drama) and ones that were utterly pointless (history, geography, art and music). Outside there was a large concrete playground and several fields where the PE lessons were held. There was also a large swimming pool and towards the end of one of the fields a large copse of trees. Kakashi was darting through these spindly specimens which were nowhere near as big as the ones in Konoha, but they provided enough cover for training, as long as they didn't knock too many down. There was also a staffroom, of which Kakashi had already discovered was a hotspot of gossip between the teachers. As Kakashi headed back up towards the main school, he let his mind drift back to the previous night, when he had met most of the teachers.
"Hello! You must be the new transfer teacher. Kakashi Hatake, right? I'm Fiona Braines, the English teacher. Tell me, what subject do you take?" Kakashi blinked at the outstretched arm, and opted to bow instead.
"I teach sport." He tugged at the eye patch covering his sharingan.
"I see. If you don't mind me asking, but what happened to your eye?"
"Huh? Oh this?" Kakashi lifted up the eye patch, keeping his eye firmly closed. The teacher balked at the long scar stretching down to underneath his mask. "I fell against a table when I was little. It tends to make people anxious though, so I keep it covered up," he lied smoothly. The teacher nodded weakly. "Anyway. If you'll excuse me, I must see to my students, make sure that they are settling in and everything." With that Kakashi replaced the eye patch and promptly left the staffroom.
With a start, Kakashi realised that he had arrived back at the main building just in time to see a very irritated looking Sasuke storming out of an office, glowering at anyone and everyone. Kakashi walked up behind him and bent down.
"Boo," he muttered, and Sasuke jumped a little. "What happened?" the older jounin asked as he lent against the side of the corridor and whipped out his little orange book.
"Nothing." Kakashi raised an eyebrow and turned a page. Sasuke sighed and walked off down the corridor. Kakashi watched the brooding Uchiha go, his eye narrowed slightly. Something was obviously bothering the teen, but he wasn't going to go into it now. To be honest, most of the time something was bothering him. Somewhere above Kakashi's head the bell rang and, wincing as the loud sound penetrated his ears, Kakashi quickly moved off towards the dining hall. He didn't particularly want to be stampeded by a horde of students making their way to lunch and it was time to reconvene with the other ninja anyhow.
Sorry that this took so long to write. Actually, I had planned it and was going to write it a month ago, but then some crazy family s* happened and so it wasn't until a few days ago that I actually wrote it. And it was going to have more in it, but it was already pretty long for me! XD
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