Finally, FMA has been toppled as my favorite manga ^^. Now it's Eyeshield 21! My friends are already annoyed at me for talking about it too much to them on AIM… Lately I've been reading it…a lot…I'm on my 4th time rereading it…………..

I just felt the urge to add Gaara, Kankuro, Shino, and Lee :) Gaara and Kankuro because the Sand Sibs are AWESOME. Shino cuz he's just funny like that and all silent and stuff. Lee…well because he's Lee..

Ed was lying awake in his bed. It was past midnight but he didn't care. His mind hovered to those sleepless nights where he watched Al just sit there, with nothing to do. The moon shined on, making it look like Al had tears running down his mask. He swore to himself, on those nights, just like any other night, that he would get Al's body back soon.. In less than a year. In less than a month...

And now, here he was, closer to the Stone then he had been since he met Marcoh. The Stone, just like now, was within these very walls. All that was left was to decipher to clues that were left behind. The dark intriguing mystery that was alchemy.

He began wondering why the hell there was magic in this world. It was just…unnatural. Of course, that was the view that nearly got him killed by homunculi. And of course the Philosopher's Stone was supposed to be impossible. But this magic was just…odd... After all that he gave to learn alchemy and become a State Alchemist, all that he had to do here was just wave a wand and get the same result? Possibly a better result? What about the law of equivalency? Even the homunculi, as demonstrated by Greed, followed equivalency, perhaps with the exception of Envy. Even the Philosopher's Stone followed equivalency, if not in a crude manner. So why was it in this world, where alchemy wasn't supposed to work, magic worked. Something even more absurd and unbelievable than anything he managed to dream up…except for that time with the monkeys…but that was a different story.

Ed closed his eyes before hearing a rustle of the curtains. He eyes snapped open fast enough to see a figure practically fly out the window. Ed scrambled up to look through his own window. With his keen eyesight, he saw one…two…three…four…five. Five figures were rushing into the Forbidden Forest. It wasn't long before darkness over took them, and Ed couldn't see a thing. He could only guess at what they were doing. Ed chewed on his lip as he tried to think of all the possibilities of why they would be going in.

Wasn't that forest the dangerous, go in, and you die, forest? So why would anybody in their right mind go in. Of course, if there was anything that he learned these last 1 and almost a half days here at Hogwarts, was that barely anybody was in their right mind.

Ed shook his head. It didn't matter. He was here for one purpose, and once he fulfilled it, he could leave. Of course, if he happened to take out Envy and Wrath in the process, all the better.

There was nothing more to do, nothing less.

He fell into a light slumber, the figures vanished from his thoughts, just as quickly as they had vanished into the forest.

The Forbidden Forest was just as it always has been. Silent, deadly, and mysterious. Not a leaf rustled, not a creature made its appearance, not a thing stirred. Beneath the serene appearance, lays a whole other world of dangers and risks. It was survival of the fittest. It was kill or be killed. It was life. One wrong move in the forest, and you'd be dead in less than a second. It was a world where you never knew what was around the corner. It wasn't somewhere you could play around, and have fun.

"DATTEBAYO!"

Unless you were that idiot.

There was a rustle of leaves. A flurry of movement. A great creature raised its magnificent head and let out a roar of triumph. Not long after that, it roared again. This time in pain. The roar lasted a minute, before it finally died down. It was yelping, and crying, a mournful cry, let out for the entire world to hear. It let everyone hear the story of his life, and of his death. Stories of happiness, of survival, of despair, and of agony seeped into the roar.

A pink haired girl rubbed the lifeless Amorak's head sadly.

"Poor thing," she cooed to the giant wolf. A small whimper of clinging to the last thread of life was brought to her ears. Her eyes watered a bit, as she rubbed the silky smooth gray hair of the wolf. She was a ninja. A ninja didn't cry over a dead animal, nor did a ninja cry over dead comrades. It was bitter, but it was the life she had chosen. And she was going to stick with it.

"Don't spend every minute regretting something. If we let it live, it would have killed us," Shikamaru said solemnly, unlike his usual self.

"I know, but..." Sakura trailed off. She wiped the silvery blue blood on a tree root and stood up, "Let's work on the plan, then."

They moved over to where Neji was sitting. His Byakugun was activated. Behind him, Naruto was trying to wrestle with a bear. Of course like all creatures of the Forest, it wasn't like the ones back home in Konoha. The 5 inch long claws, the dark blue fur, and the moss green scales upon the arms were big giveaways to that.

"RAAAAWWRRR!" the bear roared in Naruto's face. He blanched a bit at the putrid smell. Naruto immediately shut him up with a swift kick from his knees to the bear's jaws. While the bear was still reacting to the kick, Naruto gave the bear a strong punch to the stomach. The bear was blown away and Naruto came back for a bit while waiting for the bear to come back again.

"Tch," Neji growled, he relaxed and said, "I still can't see anything there. I might like to add that it's particularly difficult when I have to watch Naruto's retarded fight with that bear."

"The great Byakugun has been defeated a second time! And no, that fight is not retarded. I'm training up to fight Fuzzy Brows when he gets here," Naruto said cheerfully.

"It's not good that the Byakugun doesn't work, Naruto-baka," Temari said, striking Naruto on the head.

"But why can't you see anything there? The Byakugun should be able to see anything within a radius, right?" Sakura asked, sitting on the dusty ground. She peered curiously at the great castle that sat near them.

"Why not?" Shikamaru mused. "I suppose it's because the Byakugun is also able to see chakra. Magic, being the raw form of chakra, still shows up. Exactly what do you see?"

Everyone was much too used to Shikamaru not speaking what was on his mind when he was thinking to bother asking. Besides, he always elaborated (in a way that Naruto couldn't understand, mind you) anyway.

"....A haze. I can see something behind the haze, but nothing that can actually be recognized. There a mist around the school too. Although it's much lighter." Neji muttered, eyes trained on the castle.

"Is it centered around somewhere?" Shikamaru asked, deep in thought. His hands had moved into his own original handsign that let him think better..

"...Yes, in the middle of the haze, although there are some areas where it seems to also shoot out, but nowhere as strong as the middle," Neji answered, sweat rolling down his forehead despite the cold weather.

"That makes sense," Shikamaru muttered.

"I don't get it!" Naruto complained.

"Baka! Wait till Shikamaru explains it," Sakura growled.

"Magic leaves traces, unlike chakra. Ninja can't afford to be messy. If chakra had traces, then enemy shinobi would be able to tell where others had already been. Plus, everyone has a signature magic or chakra, you'd be able to tell exactly where everyone has been, and who's been there," Shikamaru said, "Haven't you guys felt it these past days? Like the air is heavier than back home?"

"Now that you mention it...yeah," Sakura said, thinking.

"So now we know exactly where and I suppose the other areas where there is more magic would be the defenses."

"But that still doesn't explain why Neji-san couldn't see what the defenses were," Temari pointed out.

"...I don't know," Shikamaru admitted.

"NANI?" Naruto exclaimed. "How can you not know something? You're supposed to be a genius?"

Neji hesitated.

"Remember how Shikamaru said that chakra doesn't leave traces? If we, as in shinobi, were to leave traces, the Byakugun's secondary purpose, to see objects around them, wouldn't be there. The primary purpose is to see chakra whether it's within the body or released. The primary purpose, or course, outweighs the secondary. The chakra is the main priority, because if you see the chakra, you'll know where your enemy is. From the amount of chakra that shinobi use, and the amount of shinob generally in a fight, the traces would cover anything else," Neji said.

All the other ninja blinked.

"That's one of the secrets of the Hyuuga clan so if any of you, especially, you Naruto, breathe a word of this, I'll give you a very painful death," Neji stated.

Naruto didn't have a doubt that he would. He shivered. Had the temperature gone down? Not that he thought it was possible. Really! It must be less than half the temperature of Konoha in the dead of winter!

"RAWR!" an extremely pissed blue bear roared. Spittle went flying.

"Well, I've got to go!" Naruto said happily, glad for an excuse to leave Neji.

He jumped at the bear to tackling it, taking special care to avoid the long claws. This time, the bear didn't budge. Naruto smiled with anticipation of a great fight. He gripped the bears shoulders and used his knee to kick the bottom of the bears jaw. He extended that leg and kicked the bear up in the air.

"U-ZU-MA-KI RENDAN!" Naruto yelled, striking the bear multiple times.

"No matter how you look at it, it's still Sasuke-kun's technique," Sakura sighed.

"That was a nice workout," Naruto said happily, skipping away from the unconscious bear.

"Don't be so loud next time," Neji said, taking a second to shoot a disdainful look to Naruto.

He went back to his conservation with Shikamaru.

"So when would be the best time to strike?" Neji asked.

Shikamaru was silent for a second, before saying, "Halloween."

"Hall-o-weeeen?" Naruto said, butchering the word cheerfully.

"Yes, Halloween. We can't wait too long. Sasuke-san doesn't look like he wants to be here in the first place. He'd want to get this over with. During Halloween, everybody will be distracted. The teachers will be busy trying to stop students from pulling pranks that day. Uchiha-san and Cody-san might attack at that day too," Shikamaru said.

"That's only if they care as much as we do if they get," Sakura mentioned.

"Shika-kuun, she's right." Temari quipped. "Knowing Sasuke, if he gets caught, he's bound to be ready to escape and maybe even kill despite the already miniscule chance that he's going to get caught."

"He knows how angry Orochimaru will be if he does not get the Stone," Shikamaru interjected. "Orochimaru's desperate for the Stone. It's his key for immortality. No matter how strong Sasuke is, even in his current state, Orochimaru can defeat Sasuke."

There was a silence, broken by, who else but Naruto.

"Awww, why can't we do it today?" Naruto pouted.

"Hurry up and grow up, Naruto," Neji snapped. "This isn't some D-rank mission where the worst that will happen is you get knocked over the head by Tsunade-sama. This mission could either revive Konoha or destroy it. We need time to learn more about magic and to plan our attack."

Naruto lowered his head slightly. He knew what Neji was saying was true…but…

"Hey, Naruto. Think about it this way. You'll have more time to think of a way to beat the crap out of Sasuke-kun and drag him back home," Sakura smiled gently.

"Oh, I'm not scared of that," Naruto said, "I was just trying to think of what could be worse than Tsunade-baachan bonking me on the head."

Nobody believed it, but they all chuckled, wishing it were as simple as that….

All was right this morning in the Gryffindor first year dormitory. Everyone was still snoozing happily in their bed, and even Ed seemed to be relaxed, and not angry at some frog or whatever. Martel was patrolling the door, just as she did yesterday. Tail up and alert, she noticed that the clock had chimed softly that it was 7:00 already. She pounced on each of the boys in order, just like she saw Gamakichi do yesterday. It looked like fun. But of course, if you include that Martel had claws…that tended to be out most of the time…it sure as hell wasn't fun for the students.

"Yow!" Neville screamed as he was rudely awaken from his nice (kinda) dream. The scream alerted the other students and managed to narrowly avoid Martel's deadly looking claws.

Although it did work as a great alarm clock for the other students, Ed, being Ed, was always the exception. He still was snoozing just as happily as he was 10 minutes ago. Martel decided not to horribly mutilate her owner, and leaped gracefully onto his bed.

Ed's nose twitched. He opened his mouth to sneeze and something furry brushed inside his mouth. His eyes snapped open, while he tried his best to get that fur out of his mouth. His line of view was smothered by a orange furry tail that he immediately recognized as Martel's tail. She purred happily as she managed to get her master to finally get up.

"Martel!!!" Ed roared angrily. She replied by whimpering, wondering why the hell that her master was so angry.

"Somehow, I don't think you're much of a morning person,"

Ed's eyes snapped open.. There was something wet on his cheek. Something red. Something kind of rubbery. Something that was unusually like GAMAKICHI!

Ed took his fingers and plucked Gamakichi right off his cheek, brought him to eye level, and …

…blew a raspberry at him. So much for the suave, mature State Alchemist, or at least the soon to be one.

It made Ed feel very much happier.

Ron sighed before letting out a large yawn from his own crimson red four-poster bed. No hilarious Gamakichi vs. Ed battles today.

Martel looked up and pawed at Gamakichi as she was wondering what the hell her master was doing. He was acting like the imbecilic frog! After all, sticking out his tongue like that was nothing more than acting like a frog, even worse than actually being the frog.

That frog…that juicy plump looking frog…she put her weight on her forelegs and pounced at the frog. But not before Ed had moved Gamakichi out of the way. Martel saw this a little too late, and her paws scrambled, with nails out, to claw on to the ground, stopping her movement. She sighed, very relieved, as one of her nails clawed onto the bed sheets; she was only a second away from colliding head first into the mirror.

"Martel?" Ed said curiously, picking Martel up by the scruff of her neck.

It's all your fault! You shouldn't have moved him out of the way! Martel hissed furiously, trying to claw at Ed's face.

"You know guys, I don't think I'm a very good animal person…" Ed said, holding Martel out further as not to damage his handsome face. She still swung with all her might at him. The automail looked like it would hurt him…a lot…

"I think so too," Harry chuckled as Martel continued to hiss and Gamakichi was practically laughing at Ed in that odd froggy way of his.

"Hey!" I don't want to Naruto to get all mad at me for you eating Gamakichi!" Ed defended…uselessly.

"What!? Gamakichi's eaten?" Naruto wailed, suddenly getting up from his bed. "Nooooo! And he had such a short life too…"

"He's not eaten, Naruto. Don't worry, Martel," Ed said with a glare, "wanted to eat him. But fear not, for I made sure that he is safe! He's on my desk….or somewhere like that."

"He's not on the desk!" Naruto wailed.

Ed glanced back at the desk to see that Gamakichi was not there. He looked back at Martel…who had a suspiciously froggy looking leg sticking out her mouth. Naruto followed his glance and, before Ed even saw, Naruto rushed to Martel, and pried a very wet Gamakichi out of her mouth.

"Gamakichi!" Naruto cried happily.

Ed stared out Martel and decided, "Whatever anyone says, you sure as hell act just like Martel."

"Hey Harry?"

"Hm?"

"I think that this year will be very interesting," Ron said, grinning. And so concluded another morning in the boys dormitory, for the first years, in the Gryffindor common room.

The boys walked into the Great Hall for breakfast to find everyone inching away from Neji. His fearsome glare to anyone who happened to wander within a 5 foot radius certainly helped. Of course, the veins popping out near the sides of his eyes did a great job at keeping everyone away. However, there was one boy with pineapple shaped hair, Ed remembered his name as Shika-something (really, these Japanese names were too hard to remember), seemed completely fine with Neji's death glared pointed to him.

He sighed and muttered something hat sounded oddly like, "This is too troublesome."

Neji growled, and pushed up, off of the bench and stalked away, an expression that plainly said, "Mess with me and you die." It might have been Ed's imagination, but he was pretty sure that he could see an aura just radiating out of him.

"It seems my eternal rival is not feeling the spring-time of youth! (1)" Harry heard. He looked to the source of the, er, loud (to be an understatement) shout. What he saw, putting it nicely, shocked him. A boy…in green spandex…with orange leg warmers. Orange! There was no worse color clash.. But the color clash wasn't even the oddest thing about him. It was his deathly white teeth, the brightest thing Harry had ever seen. It was even brighter than those Muggler commercials that his aunt had watched of toothpaste. Although he was enough to take a good long stare at and still not be able to tear your eyes off him, his companions were similar.

One was a red head with what looked like a thick layer of eyeliner and a large tattoo of some Japanese symbol on the corner of his forehead. He was dressed in a loose robe-like outfit with a sash from his right shoulder to his waist. There was a thing that looked like the headband that Temari wore tied around the sash. And what drew Harry's attention the most was the large gourd on his back…it looked heavy. The boy looked haughtily at the crowd of students that stared and gaped at them.

There was one with a very high collar, nearly extending up to his eyes. He wore sunglasses, although it wasn't very bright in the Great Hall. His hood was also pulled low over his head, making very little space to be seen. There seemed to be a soft, yet distinct buzzing sound coming from him…

And the final person, was a boy with a hood-like hat coming over his head, with points at the sides, looking like a cat's. There was purple face paint drawn onto his, well, face. He was dressed in all black, with a circle half yellow and half red on his chest. There was a thing on his back wrapped in bandage like things, with what looked like fur sticking from the top. Harry couldn't even hazard a guess at what it was. And if he could, it would probably be wrong anyway.

But even all that wasn't the thing that drew Harry's attention. It was Temari, usually acting like the bad girl, the one that always gets her way and never acted like a little girl, running at 2 of the boys, the two with something on their backs, and ruffling their hair.

"My little brothers! I missed you too!" Temari laughed.

"Temari, I would suggest that you remove your hand soon, or else you'll die a very sandy death," the red-head said coldly.

"Heh, heh…" Temari laughed nervously. She gingerly lifted her hand off the now very messed up red hair.

"Gaara!" Naruto yelled cheerfully. He waved a large wave, making his entire body go in the back and forth motion. Gaara glanced at the energetic blonde and gave a curt nod.

"Er…hello, but who are you?" Hermione asked, extending a hand.

"Gaara Sabuko," was the curt reply from him.

"Kankuro Sabuko," the guy dressed in black muttered, glaring at anybody who had the nerve to stare at him.

"I am Konoha's green beast, Rock Lee!" Lee gave his thumbs-up pose. Hermione blinked a couple times.

"I have to spend a year…with him…" the boy in black said with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"That's Kankuro, my idiotic brother. Gaara's my psychopathic brother. Weird how they're both crazy," Temari laughed.

Hermione laughed nervously.

"As if you're not," Gaara said quietly.

"What about you?" Hermione asked the boy nearly completely covered in cloth.

"…"

"…"

They went on like that for a bit, until Sakura noticed them and decided to spare her house-mate from Shino's stare.

"That's Shino, he's not much of a talker, but for some people, like his teammates, they can understand he's saying, " Sakura said, she added, "Not that I think I ever will."

"Er, nice to meet you, Shino," Hermione said.

Shino stared at her for a few seconds longer before turning away.

"An odd guy, fellow isn't he?" a voice said from behind Hermione. She jumped slightly before turning around and recognizing him as Percy, the one that she was talking to last night during dinner.

"I guess," Hermione said.

"He wouldn't talk no matter how much we talked to him. Fred and George have already been trying to plan out some way to get him to talk. Merlin help us all," Percy added.

"Why?" Hermione asked. "Surely they're pranks aren't dangerous?"

"Dangerous? No, but loud and annoying? Usually," Percy said distastefully.

"Pranks?" Sakura mused. "Try and make sure that Naruto doesn't catch wind of this.. Next thing you'll know, the walls will be painted with- ah- crude paintings. He did that to the mountain with our Hokage's faces on them."

"Hokage?" Percy asked,

"Our leader," Sakura supplied. "Really, I sometimes wonder what it is going through his head. And if my hunches are correct…nothing."

Percy frowned unapprovingly.

"Good morning all of you," Dumbledore said, standing up. "I believe that everybody has already arrived for breakfast. I'm sure you are all wondering who these new students are. Due to a mix-up at the Ministry, they were sadly not able to arrive yesterday. Two of them are from Konoha Ninja Academy, and two from Suna Ninja Academy. I trust that you will also treat them warmly. Now let's start with sorting them."

"Aburame, Shino."

Dumbledore brought out the ragged, dusty brown hat again and placed it on Shino's awaiting and unwilling head.

The hat, being huge, covered what was left showing of Shino's face. Naruto stifled a giggle at the sight.

Hm, it's awfully early. I wasn't even done with my nap…what an odd person.

What the Hat heard was the buzzing of entire families of beetles, flies, and various other less common insects.. He could barely even hear Shino's thoughts.

They're my insects, Shino thought to the Hat.

My, my possessive are we? Now let's get on with sorting. I see that you care for your friends to an extent, and quite brave. Although it seems it's practically a job requirement for shinobi. Hm, very intelligent, too. Ravenclaw would do good for you. Cunning, too, so Slytherin would be fine too. What house do you want?

I don't care, came the blunt reply.

Well then, RAVENCLAW, it is.

"Rock, Lee,"

"YOSH!" the green clad ninja exclaimed happily.

Quite loud, aren't you, my dear boy? the Hat chuckled.

I'm not you're dear or your boy though…Lee thought, tilting his head in confusion, Or at least I certainly hope not…

The Hat chuckled, Well, I can clearly see that you aren't the sharpest kunai in the bunch, as I believe the expression goes. That rules out Ravenclaw, and you obviously aren't a Slytherin. I can see that you are brave, and would throw yourself into a fight if it means defending those that you care for. That means GRYFFINDOR is the house you shall be in.

"Sabuko, Gaara."

Interesting, another Jinchuuriku, the Hat murmured into Gaara's head.

Who the fuck are you? another voice asked rudely. It was, obviously, Ichibi.

A rather rude one at that, the Hat muttered.

I heard that!

If you would please get on with it, I will make sure that you will do not die a sandy death, Gaara thought, listening to the two bicker like old men. Which they probably were now that he thought about it.

Hey! I am not old. And fine, fine. Let's see, ah, you had a horrible past. You killed like a serial killer when you were younger, but you have been trying to change ever since you met that Naruto kid.

Ugh, that fucker. I wanna rematch with him! I'll show him that I might be Ichibi, but, I'm the strongest! It doesn't matter which Tailed Beast I'm fighting, I'll beat the fuck out of 'im! Could be Kyuubi for all the shit that I'll care!

Shut up, Gaara thought. Sometimes, it really was annoying that there was such a rude and crude-mouthed person living in his stomach area. He shuddered slightly. Put me in either Ravenclaw or Slytherin.

Really? the Hat wondered, bewildered. He was pretty sure that the kid wanted to be in Gryffindor with Naruto.

Of course. I can beat up Shikamaru if he tries anything on my sister. And I can defend her if I'm in Slytherin. Temari's not a Slytherin, she's changing. They must be giving her hell. I can control her, make sure she doesn't do anything serious. On the other hand, I can get away with anything, I'm the youngest Kazekage, Gaara thought smugly.

If you say so, and you're quite smart aren't you? Your sister didn't mention it, but I could tell that she wanted to be in Slytherin as a spy on Sasuke and that Cody kid, the Hat said, Well, you'll be in SLYTHERIN! Although I don't understand how being the youngest would influence that.

Most people don't. Gaara stood up, glad to have that snoopy hat off his head and strode to the Slytherin table to sit next to his sister. He glared at anyone who had the unfortunate chance to be caught staring. Which was everybody.

Finally, Dumbledore called the last new student, a "Sabuko Kankuro."

Not the brightest, eh? The Hat thought, searching through Kankuro's memories.

Hey! Kankuro defended himself. Don't put me in Slytherin. I finally get a chance to be away from my psychotic bro, and I do NOT want to be with him again. And not Gryffindor either. Lee annoys the shit out of me! Naruto too.

Er…ok…the Hat thought hesitantly. Well you won't be able to make it into Ravenclaw, so HUFFLEPUFF it is!

The Hufflepuffian's clamored and cheered as they heard released the breath they didn't know they were holding. Finally, after praying to Merlin, they had finally gotten one of the exchange students! Granted it was one that looked like an idiot, but still! Now they weren't loners.

Greenhouse 8 was the home to the most boring plants alive in the world, Wizarding, Alchemical, Ninja, and of course, the normal one too. It was one of the dirtiest, smelliest, and disgustingest places in Hogwarts, and that was saying something if you've ever seen the Gryffindor boys' dormitory…not that I'm pointing fingers at anyone. Anyway, of course, it was just delightful to the poor students who, for the half hour or so, were yanking some slimy, boring ol' plants out of nasty manure-like smelling dirt (guess where the fertilizer came from), and stuffing them into a different pot of nasty, manure-like smelling dirt. Simply delightful. Especially for a certain alchemist.

"Have I ever said that I really don't like plants?" Ed muttered darkly.

"Nope," Naruto answered cheerfully to Ed's rhetorical question. He didn't even bother moving soil out of the way and shoved the poor plant in. It squirmed in protest.

"Well now you know," Ed grumbled.

"Ed, I get the feeling you don't like anything much," Ron grunted as he struggled to pull the leafy green plant out.

"No, I don't," Ed said. He was annoyed at his jacket getting all muddy at the sleeves. But it wasn't like he could roll them up, was it?

"He's just really annoyed about Mustang, or at least not looking forward at all to our next class," Harry said, wiping his brow with the sleeve of his arm, and in the process, wiping some manure smelling dirt on his forehead.

"Shut up you guys, and start working!" Sakura scolded. "Look! Neville, Hermione, and I are all done already! Lavender and Pavarti too!"

Despite having done it already, she didn't look the least bit dirty.

"All right! If I can do this before Neji can, my love for Sakura-chan will be returned!" Lee shouted cheerfully. Sakura's cheeks had a pink tinge…it turned red, and finally, into a crimson line across her cheeks.

"Shut up!!" Sakura screamed as she punched Lee right in the jaw. He went flying.

"What do you think we're trying doing?" Naruto muttered, staring at the wiggling plant. "It squirms! Plants aren't supposed to do that!"

"Besides, the lazy kid, what's his name, he didn't even start!" Ed defended. He was not enjoying the day…at all.

"Shikamaru!" Sakura scolded, turning around, and said threateningly, "Do you want me to get Temari here?"

The thought of that can make even the laziest lazy-ass get up. Shikamaru's eyes snapped open and he started to pull the plant out of the original pot. In an amazingly short amount of time he finished the stuffing it back in the pot. Perhaps Sakura's glare helped. Or perhaps it was that feeling that Temari would somehow find about this…and tell him that he wasn't doing enough and was too lazy…in a very painful way…He was gonna die! In a way that would involve high speeds of wind rushing at him. Oh joy.

"There, Shikamaru's done now," Sakura said proudly. "Now you idiots better hurry up! …Do I have to say without killing the poor plant?"

She added the last part in an exasperated tone. They glanced at Naruto, who was doing his best at shoving the plant forcefully in the soil.

"Apparently," they all said in dead-panned voice. The pink-haired girl sighed. Naruto ignored her as he finished up the poor torturing of the plant. He looked around the green house, poking and nudging the different plants periodically.

"Just let it go, it's too troublesome," Shikamaru yawned.

"You lazy-butt!" Sakura said. "You think everything is too troublesome."

"I'm glad you think so, too," Shikamaru said. He reclined back again on a leafy plant and decided to take a short…nap…zzzzz.

Sakura sighed as she saw Shikamaru snoozing within the midst of the plants. Oh well, as long as she wasn't going to be blamed when he realizes it was Twiggle Vine, a rash causing plant. Of course with Shikamaru, he'd probably be too lazy to even grow the rashes.

"You should be more careful!" Sakura yelled to Shino as he left some bees to do the job. "It's a very delicate plant, as Naruto should know by know," Naruto smiled weakly through a pus covered face, "if you're bees poke it too much it's going to burst and they'll drown!

"This plant is in season for pollinating," Shino murmured. A bug crawled out from who-knows-where and who-wants-to-know-where. Sakura had to use all her self-control from squealing. She sighed. She just couldn't win today, huh? She turned to Neji, who hopefully was done potting his Vine. She sighed in relief as she saw that he had finished.

But, that was short-lived as he was snapping at any person who turned his way…including Professor Sprout. Sakura sighed. Today was not going well.

There were many things Edward Elric did not mind doing. Going after some freaky dudes that seemed bent on terminating everyone else on the planet was one of them. Barging into a building full of enemies with absolutely no plan whatsoever was one of them too. But, going into a room…with Mustang in it…and a bunch of snot-nosed kids…He shivered. It was not going to be pleasant. Plus, he also had to learn something! There was nothing worse than that. Ed could feel the smirk that he was sure was going to be on Mustang's face. He didn't like it.

Might as well get this over with…Ed thought miserably.

"Ah, the Fullmetal Alchemist finally decided to join us," Mustang smirked, from his desk.

Ed stalked over to an empty seat as far back in the room as he could get. Perfect! He could barely see that Mustang's nasty, annoying, arrogant head.

"Har har har, Colonel Bastard," Ed laughed sarcastically.

"That's Professsor, here," Mustang said.

"I'm sorry, Professor Bastard," Ed shot back. He wrinkled his nose in distaste, "It just doesn't have the same ring as Colonel Bastard."

"Unless you want detention with me for the rest of the week, you will shut up. Ah, having this much authority and being able to enforce it is so wonderful," Mustang chuckled to himself.

The class stayed silent. Smart class.

It was the first class with Slytherins of the school year. The first class with Cody, a.k.a. Wrath. Ed wasn't sure he'd like the class very much. Really, who would be able to stand being in the same room as those psychotic two, Cody and, from what he heard from the ninja, Sasuke too. He had spent enough time around crazies, thank you very much, and did not want to spend any more time. Mustang, Russell, Mustang, Envy, and Mustang were just a few of them…did he mention Mustang yet? No? Well Mustang should be on the list too.

Mustang should be so proud of his short little subordinate. After all, no one got such a loyal, caring subordinate like that anymore.

But back to the point, he was not going to enjoy a whole hour in Wrath's company. And what was even crazier was that Naruto looked positively pumped up to go to class. How could anyone enjoy school? Unless, of course, you were going to the school to look for some stone that could do pretty much anything, but they definitely were not…were they? Ed shook his head, of course not. What kind of people would go treasure hunting like that and brought Naruto, that Lee kid, or Gaara, or Neji, well, pretty much any of them? The only sane ones were Sakura and …and… well Sakura was the only sane one.

That Jiraiya person must be crazy…which he thought was obvious. Anyone that can get along well with Mustang was crazy…except Hawkeye of course. She was the exception because she could turn him into Swiss cheese, which was something even alchemists couldn't even do.

Women.

There was proof that women were crazy too. For example, every time that he did something wrong and ended up in the hospital, Winry would come by and inflict more injuries on him, through her wrench…now that he thought about it, Major Armstrong did that too…not with a wrench, but with his muscles…he could be one…could he? Now that was a disturbing thought.

"You bastard!" was heard from a certain blonde headed ninja. Any guesses?

Ed sighed. He should've seen this coming, remembering how Naruto was yelling about how he was going to beat the shit out of Sasuke and drag him back home if he had to. He reaaaally should've expected this. He glanced at Sasuke, who had a amused smirk on his lips. He watched as Naruto made rude gestured at Sasuke while yelling at Sasuke and while Jiraiya sighed in exasperation. Jiraiya finally got up, walked over behind Naruto, clamp his hand over Naruto's, and lift Naruto up and nearly threw him out the window.

"Pervy sensei!" Naruto pouted as he climbed up the wall, to the window. He barely noticed the other students as they all gaped in wonder of the feat while he pouted and moaned to Jiraiya about how nasty his hand tasted and how weak he'd gotten.

Jiraiya got madder and madder as he listened to Naruto's rambling. Until finally, Sakura came up forward and gave Naruto a nice large smack across his face that seemed to make him go through the stone walls, and through the next stone wall…and the next…

Note to self, never get Sakura mad. Ed looked at the fuming Sakura again. Ever. And there was more proof that women were crazy. Joy. And he learned one more thing. Sakura was not sane. Not at all. Which meant, out of all of the ninja that came absolutely zilch were sane...comforting...

"Beautiful Sakura! Your fire of youth is eternal!" Rock Lee said happily, with little hearts for eyes. Little did he know that instead of the hearts he was expecting in Sakura's he got an evil looking glare, that could rival Orochimaru's...or Dante's...or even the boogey monster! There was something weird about him...the monster..not Lee. Well you never know, Lee was kind of odd...

"Drop it, Sakura" Gaara hissed annoyedly. Sakura might have been mad, but she was no idiot. She knew when to let Gaara run around killing people, or in this case, run around and controlling people.

With Gaara's history of being sadistic, that might be a bit scary. Just a bit.

"I dropped it," Sakura whimpered.

"Stupid brats," Jiriaya muttered, rubbing his temples. If he rubbed them anymore, Sakura guaranteed that there would be bruises. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for Tsunade to send so many ninjas over...Just maybe.

"I say that being a ninja with all those super powers and stuff makes them bloody mad," Ron muttered.

"I heard that!" Temari glared.

Ed shivered slightly. This was gonna be a long year...

(1)- I'm not sure if that's Gai's talking or Lee's; it's been a while since I last read Gai or Lee's stuff. I know that Gai calls Kakashi his eternal rival, but I'm not sure who 'spring time of youth's' is.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I didn't like this chapterrrrr. Plus I bet you all thought I was dead, right????? :) Well I'm not, but nearly there. My history teacher decided that he wanted to become more sadistic, he already was quite, and gave us piles of hw. My English teacher, who's prone to spasms, also decided that she wanted to become more sadistic. Thus, more piles of hw. And of course, the devil I got for my science teacher gave us so much friggin hw. And I can barely understand the math. Woe is me…:( What does woe even mean…?

Plus, I've been drawing a lot :) My English teacher checked our binders and she was like o_O Did you draw all this in class???????? Oh I've been reaaaaaaaally lazy lately too…