AN: Yay, I'm inspired!!! That might have something to do with the events of Naruto chapter 469 (I think). I don't spoil that stuff, I'm too nice. But I can say, it's pretty Anti-NarkuSaku. *Victory dance* So, now that's out of my system, roll on disclaimers.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, my name would be Masashi Kishimoto. And the Okami know that changing my name wouldn't help in any way, shape or form. So, poor me. I do own my OCs (no-one submitted any) and the randoms though, so I'm not complaining. ^.^

Chapter 2

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Naruto walked towards the P.E department, where his mentor's classroom was.

There were two courses in P.E, athletics and martial arts. Naruto's mentor, Kakashi, taught the athletics course, while Gai, the mentor of Lee, Neji and Tenten, taught martial arts. Athletics was always the more popular course, especially with the female students. For some reason, Kakashi-sensei was as popular with the ladies as Sasuke. Which was weird, because he always wore a mask.

Back to Naruto. As he entered the P.E department, and walked towards his mentor's office, he met up with Sakura and Sasuke.

"Whoa, it's weird being back here with Sasuke," Naruto said, looking at his friend.

"Yeah, it's such a relief Sai's gone to that creepy Woodwork teacher. If he called me hag one more time, I would have murdered him in his sleep!" Sakura added, smiling brightly.

"Sai wasn't that bad..."

"Oh yeah? Remember his favourite word?"

Naruto shuddered as he remembered Sai's constant talk about a certain part of the male anatomy. And being in the shower rooms, where he was 99% sure that Sai was watching him. ALL THE TIME!

"Wonder if sensei's in the classroom," Sasuke said, staring at the door.

"He's probably not. I bet we're gonna go in there, and he'll arrive 10 minutes later, saying 'I'm sorry, my pet alien was giving birth' or something ridiculous like that," Sakura replied, rather moodily.

Naruto just opened the door. To their surprise, Kakashi-sensei was actually in his classroom. He was laying on his stomach on his desk, looking at something turquoise. Naruto groaned.

"He's reading Icha Icha Tactics," He sighed to Sasuke and Sakura, rolling his eyes.

Sasuke looked at him with a raised eyebrow, Sakura with a really pissed-off face.

"How did you know that?" They both asked in a whisper, Sasuke in a calm-yet-curious voice, Sakura in a lethal, murderous tone.

Naruto sidestepped away from Sakura, who looked like she would punch him, and said "Ero-sannin writes them, remember? I have to act as his editor."

Naruto remembered reading the draft of Icha Icha Tactics, the story of Jiyaira, the Newt Sage, his beautiful wife, Sunade -of who's beauty and, erm, body, we are told of every five lines- and their love life, which was filled with incredibly descriptive smut scenes that lasted at least 5 pages. Occasionally, it switched POV to that of Foxy, Jiyaira's young grandson, and his love of Blossom, who, in turn, loved Dark Chicken. What Foxy didn't know was that the fragile young Sunflower secretly pined after him. Dark Chicken then left, and Foxy and Blossom had a long make-out session, that was interrupted by Scarecrow. Scarecrow, meanwhile, was in a secret relationship with Sweet Bean, who was in yet another secret relationship with Dolphin. The trio later have a threesome. There were also multiple other side pairings, and side plots, such as a whole chapter dedicated to Sunflower trying to speak to Foxy, but getting too embarrassed each time.

Naruto had run into the bathroom immediately after finishing, which was at noon, and had not reappeared until dinner time.

The next day.

Sakura began violently shaking Naruto, seeing him pale and go slightly green. "Naruto, wake up!" She said, and he snapped out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, I dunno how he can read them for fun," Naruto just said, looking at Kakashi, who'd finally noticed them, and was blushing slightly.

"Oh, you're here. Sorry, I'm loving this book. The Scarecrow character is really relatable. I wish Foxy was less dense though. It's so obvious Sunflower, not Blossom, loves him," He sighed, looking lovingly at the little turquoise book.

Naruto held back a gag, and replaced it with "So, sensei, can we have our timetables? We'll go once we get them, and you can return to your book." That you can somehow read for fun, Naruto added mentally, not daring to insult the book in the teacher's presence.

"Oh, of course," Kakashi said, as thought he'd forgotten the timetables. He got off his stomach, sitting up, and revealing that he had, in fact, been laying on them. "Okay, you've got them," He impatiently continued, getting up, walking over and giving them to the students, jogging on the spot slightly. "Now can I get back to my book?" He asked desperately, his voice up an octave. The trio just backed away from him, and he smiled really happily. "Thank you," He said in an equally as happy voice, crawling back onto the desk and getting back to his book.

Naruto looked at his friends and traced a circle near his head, the sign for crazy. Sakura snorted, holding back a laugh, and Sasuke rolled his eyes, although one corner of his mouth was curled up very slightly.

Sakura looked at Sasuke, going a little pink. He's so grown up. I thought he was good looking before, but... She thought, before snapping back to reality. "Well, I'm going to meet up with the girls for dinner. Don't bother coming unless you're seriously interested in what we want to talk about-"

"No thanks," Was the simultaneous reply of both boys.

"I'm gonna go hang with the guys," Naruto told Sakura brightly, smiling.

"I'll go with him. Good to make allies," Sasuke added, his voice still flat. Seriously, was his voice permanently set on 'emotionless'?

So, for the second time that day, Naruto and Sasuke parted ways with Sakura, to go to meet either the guys or girls.

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The canteen was a massive hall, with many groups of tables scattered around. There was a serving area- well, three actually- and an area for putting the plates to be cleaned up.

The canteen was already partially full, the students chatting and laughing and eating. Normally, groups stayed within their houses, but there were some exceptions.

The 'girls' and 'guys' that Sakura and Naruto had spoken of, for example, contained students from Konoha and Suna.

Or Hanako and the guys in her group, Daisuke and Takumi, hung with Hoshiko, one of the Akatsuki girls, because, in the elementary school, the two girls had been best friends.

So, first, the girls.

Sitting around the table were Sakura, obviously, Hinata, Ino, Tenten and Temari. On a table nearby were Hanabi and Moegi, two new students, Hanabi being known as the younger Hyuuga sister.

The girls were all talking animatedly, getting up-to-date of the summer activities of the others.

"Oh my God, I so can't believe Sasuke's back. Maybe he'll finally realise that I'm truly made for him," Ino sighed girlishly.

"I thought you liked Shikamaru..." Temari asked, looking at Ino.

"She changes her 'true love' every time the new one rejects her! And besides, Ino Pig-Chan, Sasuke is mine!" Sakura told Ino, a smug smile on her face.

"What about Naruto?" Ino, Temari and Tenten all asked at once. Hinata was just sort of looking at Sakura. She'd always been the quiet one, but people thought she was psychic the way she could read someone with such ease. Hinata just had to look at Sakura, and she could tell.

Was that a slight smile on her face?

"Oh, erm, I, er, broke up with him..." Sakura said, trailing off at her friends' faces.

"YOU BROKE UP WITH NARUTO?!?! ...You really like Sasuke that much?" Tenten yelled, staring at Sakura.

"Er, who doesn't?!" Sakura and Ino said at the same time. Sasuke's looks were the only thing they could agree on.

"Me."

"Me."

"...me."

All the girls were looking at each other.

"So, who do you guys like then?" Ino asked, smirking at the girls.

"Well, let me just say...it's a good thing Sasuke's back. I don't want a rival," Temari purred, looking over at the boys' table. Specifically, at Shikamaru.

"Ooh, what happened to 'lazy bum'?" Ino asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Eh, maybe our differences make him...cuter," Temari grinned. "Anyway, Tenten?"

Tenten sighed. "I don't know. I mean, there are lots of cute guys here. I just need to get my mind clear first," She told the girls.

"Basically, Neji," Sakura said, Tenten opening her mouth in shocked smile.

"I do-"

"You said 'I do'. There, proof"

Tenten sighed, looking away. "Anyway," She sighed, before they all turned to look at the last girl.

"Hinata?" They all asked in unison.

Hinata's eyes widened, and she looked at her friends. "Huh?"

"Come on, Hinata. Tell us," Temari said with a grin.

"We already know anyway," Tenten added, smiling.

"Yes, it's that obvious," Sakura told her, when Hinata opened her mouth to ask.

Hinata blushed, smiling a shy smile. "Naruto," She told the girls quietly, and they all whooped, jumping up.

"She admitted!" Ino said with triumph, punching the air.

"Hey, Ino! Quiet down, I'm trying to sleep!" Shikamaru called over from the boys' table, before putting his head back in his arms, trying to sleep.

"I don't know what you see in him, Tem," Sakura murmured, sitting back down, along with the other four.

Temari just smiled.

Anyway, the rest of the conversation was spent talking about little things, so, here's what the guys were talking about during that time.

Naruto was sitting at the table, Sasuke next to him. Also around the table, which had needed to be made bigger, were Kiba, Shino, Chouji, Shikamaru, Lee, Neji, Sai, Gaara and Kankuro.

The boys were having a very odd conversation indeed.

They had been talking about school, when suddenly, they heard Tenten yell "YOU BROKE UP WITH NARUTO?!?!"

All of the guys looked at Naruto.

"No way...Sakura did that?" Kiba asked, staring at Naruto.

Shikamaru opened his mouth to speak, then shrugged and put his head in his arms, closing his eyes.

Shino stared at the bugs on his hands. ...no, he wasn't weird at all.

Chouji was half-staring, half-eating both his dinner and Shikamaru's.

Lee was shocked. "Sakura-chan hurt you like that? That's terrible, and most un-youthful of her!"

Neji facepalmed at Lee's comment. "Not everything revolves around youth, Lee," He sighed through gritted teeth.

"Painful," Gaara said, not looking at Naruto, but at the sand he was swirling around.

And Kankuro was playing around with a puppet, not knowing what to say.

Naruto looked at all of them. "Yeah, she broke up with me. I have no idea why. The weird thing is, it was about a week after that e-mail went around saying that Sasuke was returning," Naruto told them, looking baffled.

Gaara looked up at the sky. Naruto could be so dense sometimes.

Sasuke looked over at the girls' table, to see Temari looking at their table.

"Gaara, Kankuro, why is your sister staring at us?" He asked, blankly.

The boys in question looked over at their sister, who was just turning to look back at the girls.

"Beats me," Kankuro said with a shrug.

"They're spying on us to learn our secrets!" Kiba joked, some of the guys laughing.

"What like the secret that Gaara sleeps with a teddy bear?" Kankuro laughed, Gaara glaring at him dangerously.

"Or that Kankuro does Karasu's hair like a girl's?" Gaara spat back, a venomous smile on his face. Kankuro choked mid-laugh, staring at his little brother.

"Brothers fighting, so fun to watch," Sai remarked, looking at the two of them, who looked ready to kill each other.

"Hey guys, c-calm down!" Naruto said, smiling. "There's no need to fight."

Neji just stared, saying "I fight with my siblings all the time. I see no harm in it."

"That's because you couldn't kill your siblings," Shino commented. Everyone suddenly stopped, staring at him, like they usually did when Shino finally decided to speak.

The silence was broken by the girls suddenly whooping and cheering. The boys looked around to see all the girls, bar Hinata, had jumped up, Ino cheering "She admitted!"

Shikamaru sat up, as though he'd just awoken, and yelled back "Hey, Ino! Quiet down, I'm trying to sleep!" He then put his head back in his arms, the girls sitting back down.

"Didn't *munch* you sleep enough *slurp* in assembly, Shikamaru *chomp*?" Chouji asked, still eating.

"Stupid teachers won't let me," Shikamaru began, before yawning. "Apparently, I need to pay attention this year, if I want to achieve anything. Ugh, what a drag," He continued, before yawning again, and drifting off to sleep.

"So, who admitted what over there?" Sai asked, staring at the girls.

"Well, Hinata was the only one to not jump up whooping like a moron," Neji sighed bluntly.

"She admitted that-" Lee began, when Neji glared at him. "Not everything's about youth, right," He sighed forlornly, playing with his food.

"We'll never know, I guess," Naruto said, still smiling.

"Anyway...prom this year," Sasuke commented, looking at the others.

"Yes. So, any of you guys gonna ask anyone?" Kankuro asked, looking around the table.

"I shall ask Konoha's youthful lotus, Sakura-chan!" Lee exclaimed cheerfully.

"I just couldn't stop another youth comment..." Neji grumbled to himself, facepalming.

"Well, I would've asked Sakura, but...y'know," Naruto shrugged.

The guys all nodded sympathetically.

The bell rang, indicating that it was time to get back to the dorms.

"Well, we better get going. Come on, Shikamaru," Chouji said, finally finished eating, nudging Shikamaru, who yawned and woke up, getting up and lazily trudging towards Konoha.

"See you guys tomorrow!" Naruto called to Gaara and Kankuro, who waved to him.

And so ended the first day back at Shinobi High.

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