Welcome to Chaos High
Disclaimer: Don't own these characters other then the few I made up. I'm just using their appearance, some characteristics of theirs, and names.
This is dedicated to Snowbording Lash, without them this story wouldn't have gotten past the first chapter, or on paper at all for that matter. You suck!
Red painted nails strummed the wooden desk in front of them as the other set held up the board head of principal, Mori Tsunade. Sometimes she forgot why she wanted to be a principal of all professions in the first place. She could have been a doctor like her father wanted or have worked for the highly successful businessman Mr. Gato like her mother. But she had to pick a principal and deal with kids like Uzumaki Naruto almost everyday for one thing or another. She pushed the thoughts of reconsidering her job aside and looked at the problem at hand. What would it be this time, upsetting the class or a practical joke set on a teacher or student?
"So Naruto what happened to you not getting into trouble the first week you promised me last year?"
Naruto sat in the chair in frustration, it really wasn't his fault this time, he was just poking fun at Lee like he always did when suddenly the teacher had a fit, going on about, "Disrupting the thought process of the wonderful youth in the classroom" or something to that degree. Everyone made fun of Lee, just looking at him sometimes was funny, but that teacher... which reminded him why did they look so similar, yet not related?
"It wasn't my fault this time!" he shouted in anger.
Tsunade just rolled her eyes at the teen's usual excuse that she could see coming from a mile away. "You really expect me to believe that Naruto?"
"This time you have to! This teacher is weird he sent me in here just because I said Lee was a stuck up... which he is."
He did have a point, Lee was the biggest suck up she had seen in her many years of working here.
"Well, that still doesn't matter... Who was it exactly?"
"Gai-sensei." Naruto huffed.
She thought about the more then flamboyant teacher she had hired a few years ago, now what a character he was.
"Oh yeah..."
There he was, in a bright green business suit, that made the chalkboard look like a joke in color. Most wondered who even bothered with such a ridiculous color, seriously, bright green? And that haircut, who still got a bowl shape haircut, well, other then Lee but he was just strange. Then there was those unrealistic eyebrows that seemed to be alive. Kidomaru even swore he once saw them move on their own, though it was an idiotic statement, no one wanted to disagree with it knowing that it was probably true and didn't bother going against it.
"And so my young youthful spirits that is how-"
'When is this class going to end?' A bored and inattentive Nara Shikamaru wondered with a hand propping his head up while the other was moving the pencil on his notebook that currently held nothing but a few markings that looked like swiggles and nothingness. Even the loud and rambunctious teacher couldn't keep his attention for more then five minutes before his mind went off on it's own, not that it was the teacher's fault, most teachers seemed to lose his interest after a few minutes into lecture anyway; it was just how it was.
His eyes trailed off into the nearby window and fixed themselves on the floating cotton clouds outside. 'Why can't I be a cloud once in while? They don't have to deal with such troublesome things...' He let out a sigh, if he looked at the clock it wouldn't be much later then the last time he looked at it, besides how did the phrase go, if you keep watching something it's never going to change? Or something like that.
He could hear his best friend, Choji, a few chairs away from him eating happily behind the usual folder that was placed in front of him to maliciously hide the BBQ flavored potato chips that he so loved to indulge himself in during class (the idea was courtesy of Shikamaru when Choji kept getting caught and put into detention leaving Shikamaru with no one to accompany him home).
Was this really only one class? How long could this drag on before the day was over? It had only been the first week into the new school year and already he was missing his little freedom he had during the summer break. Even if it did mean more time spent with his mother, who was scary to be around at times, especially during breaks.
"Shikamaru, Shikamaru... Hey Shikamaru wake up, class is over." Shikamaru turned over to see Choji standing beside his desk as the other students got up to leave but that meant... just how long was he out for? He missed two classes after Gai's? He never felt the word "space cadet" applied to him, but today it seemed to fit just perfectly.
Walking to Mimi's candy shop, their usual spot to go to after school had ended for the day, Shikamaru and Choji would usually do their homework (homework being Shikamaru copying onto paper what he sees in their books and changing a few answers on Choji's paper as he ate the usual banana spilt with extra hot fudge and whip cream holding the bananas).
But today someone else occupied their usual table, the one they unofficially had marked, the one that was theirs and only theirs during the time they came around, the one that now had two girls at it; not just any girls, girls from their own classroom! Tsuchi Kin and Sabaku Temari were sitting there as if there wasn't any problems, as if there was nothing wrong, as if their weren't taking their seats.
Choji, Shikamaru could tell was about ready to throw some things around but before he could do anything the boy next to him placed a hand in front of him and walked up to them.
"Hey, you guys." Both girls looked at the boys, mildly disgusted for interrupting their conversation but showed that they wanted to know what was so important to do so. "You're sitting on our spot."
"Your spot?" The blond spoke out first rather surprised by the choice in words. "Yes our spot The one we-" But before the enraged Choji could go on the other girl at the table spoke up. "I don't see your names on it."
'Oh boy this could be troublesome...' Shikamaru thought and sure enough as soon as the thought left his mind Choji had his hands smacked down on the table and up in the girls face.
"What did you say?"
Kin then stood up and accepted the challenge by getting right up in him as well and spat, "You want me to repeat it? Fine, I don't see your names on it! There, did you hear it that time?"
"Just because you're a girl doesn't mean-"
"What you wanna hit me?"
They seemed to be in a staring contest forever until Kin broke it off and turned away. "Come on Temari, lets get out of here, it's not worth it, not for him anyway!" And with that they got off to leave, leaving Choji with fire of fury in his eyes.
'See, I knew this would be trouble. Always with girls is it like that.' Sighed Shikamaru inwardly as he heard Choji go on about them the rest of their time spent there with things like "Can you believe her?" and "Our spot they can't do that!" or "If I see her there again I'll..." So when Shikamaru got done with their homework and said he had to leave due to a headache, he wasn't lying.
As the door to Mimi's candy shop closed shut and Shikamaru headed off to his house a few blocks away with the thoughts of today's events played back in his pounding head. One idea couldn't help but enter his mind, this was going to be one long school year...
That's it, here's a fourth of July present!