Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters.

A/N: And the second chapter of the new and improved Rich and Famous! Sorry for week-long delay, I've been busy with other things, among getting hit with plot bunnies for this fic. Which will add quite a bit more story to it, but I'm not saying much else.

Hoping to update more, I'm trying my hand at Camp NaNoWriMo in April, so I'm slowing down my writing on my original novel until that time. So, that leaves more time for this one. Until next time...

Chapter 2: Announcements and Petting

Naruto held Sasuke Uchiha's schedule in a tight grip as he walked through the halls back to his English class, which had fifteen minutes left before the bell. Tsunade gave him a note, so he wasn't worried about Kakashi getting on to him about being absent. Then again, it was Kakashi, he probably didn't need to have a note in the first place.

He shared four classes with the bastard; English, Art, Health, and Gym. He snorted in amusement to see that the actor was going to have a cooking class. Maybe Naruto should buy him a nice pink 'Welcome to Konoha High!' apron as a gift.

As he finally neared his first period classroom, he folded up the schedule and slipped the door. His teacher, a man who appeared to be in his early 30's and had messy silver locks and wore a mask over the bottom half of his face for whatever goddamn reason, barely looked up at Naruto. Naruto tried to offer up the note but Kakashi merely waved him on by, keeping his nose shoved in a book he was reading.

The class was casually chatting away and Kiba leaned over to Naruto when he took his seat. "Dude, what the hell was that about? What'd ya do?"

Naruto hesitated only briefly. The announcement of the new classmate would be announced later in the day, with the hopes that students don't bring the press' attention to the school. But still, it was a bit embarrassing to admit what he got roped into doing. So instead he just handed Kiba the schedule.

Kiba skimmed over the schedule, frowning. "So what, they gave you a new schedule? What for?"

Naruto shook his head. "No, but I'd take cooking over the reality. Look at the student's name."

His best friend furrowed his brow in confusion, and Naruto resisted the urge to hide his face in his arms. And then Kiba let out a loud guffaw, which went unnoticed in the already-noisy classroom by everyone but Gaara and Shikamaru, who peered at them curiously.

"This is a joke, right? What is this shit?"

"I wish it was a joke," Naruto muttered. Kiba noticed the questioning glances from their other two friends and handed them the schedule.

Shikamaru let out a snort while Gaara surprised them by having his red eyebrows fly up in surprise. "Details," the latter commanded.

Naruto scooted his desk nearer to theirs and the other three took the hint, scooting closer and leaning into the middle of the four desks. "Okay, from what Principal Gran told me, that whole England thing is a ruse for the press while the asshole is moved to Konoha so he can lay low and try to live a normal life." When he got to the last bit, Naruto gave his friends a wry smile to show what he thought of the idea. "And for some reason Tsunade thought I was the perfect candidate to show our dear Uchiass around."

Kiba burst into a fit of giggles at the whole situation, and Naruto gave a growl and smacked his best friend across the back of the head. "Ow! You have to admit it's funny, man!"

"Not for me!"

"What isn't funny?" a female voice intervened. Naruto turned his head to see Sakura there, and he did his best to keep the heat from his face.

"Nothing that you'd find interesting!" he blurted. Liar. "What's up, Sakura?"

His crush gave a casual shrug. "I was getting bored and saw you guys looking all conspiratorial and I was curious." She glanced at Sasuke's schedule, tilting her head slightly, and Naruto tried to subtly angle it away from her line of sight.

He was saved by answering further by the bell, and Naruto swore to himself he'd ask her out soon as he made his way to his next class, which was Math. In class before the final bell rang, he killed time doodling a fox on a scrap sheet of paper when someone felt the need to sit their ass on top of his masterpiece. He glared up at the person to see another apparently new student, one with short black hair and pale skin.

"Can I help you?" Naruto muttered.

The student flashed him a smile. "I am Sai," he said. "I just moved here."

Naruto wasn't quite sure what to say to that. After a second or so, he gave the boy a grin and said, "Welcome to Konoha High, then. Do you mind, though?" He didn't care all that much about the drawing, he was just doing it to kill time, but it still annoyed him.

Sai blinked and hopped off the table, instead moving into the seat next to Naruto's. "I noticed you drawing," he admitted. "I enjoy art as well, so I came over. Though mine is better than yours."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at the boy. "I was just killing time doodling stuff, dude. This isn't some serious piece."

"Are you serious about drawing in general, then?"

"No."

Sai looked relieved. "That's good."

A pang of annoyance hit Naruto and before he could lash out and ask the boy exactly he meant by that, the bell rang. Sai gave him another smile before settling back in his chair and giving the Math teacher—Yamato—his full attention. Naruto did the same after glaring at him for a moment, huffing. Annoying he may already be, this new kid was still much better than Sasuke.

After a long, horrendously dull class, the bell finally rang. It interrupted Yamato mid-lecture and the teacher looked bummed out when the class scrambled up and out of the classroom without further ado.

Just when Naruto left the classroom, he felt another presence walking next to him. He shifted his backpack and did his best to ignore the other person, which he knew to be the new kid, Sai.

"Hello again, Naruto!" the kid greeted, sounding quite cheery. Naruto sighed.

"Need something, Sai?"

Naruto pursed his lips as an arm was thrown around his shoulders. "We're friends now. Friends just hang out between classes."

"Friends do, yes, but I just met you. Not even an hour ago." Sai just kept smiling. "All you did was insult my doodling."

Sai's smile slid into a smirk. "You said it was just something to pass the time and that you had no aspirations to a career in art. Besides, even if you did, criticism is a good thing, Naruto."

Naruto was aware he was being grumpy over nothing, more or less, especially over just stupid doodle of a fox he didn't even care about. Just the upcoming Sasuke thing put him in a bad mood. "I wouldn't really call what you said criticism."

The other boy gave a low laugh and slid his arm off Naruto's shoulder, but only after trailing a finger through the messy blond hair. Naruto wasn't quite sure what to say, but Sai responded before he had the chance to. "True enough. I apologize then. I must get in class—" here he jerked his head over to the classroom they stopped in front of, "—but as an apology, if you ever do find yourself interested in drawing, I'm happy to help. Can I find you at lunch?"

Naruto found himself giving the new kid a real smile. After his initial first impression, he wasn't so bad. Maybe a new addition to the group? "Yeah, sure, man. The table's near the glass wall on the far left, I sit with Kiba, Shikamaru, and Gaara."

"See you, then, Naruto." The two nodded to each other and Naruto left Sai to head to his next class, which was Art. Yes, Sai was definitely better than Sasuke.

That hair thing was still weird, though.

After a perversion-filled Art class with Genma, another dull History class with Kurenai, Sasuke's Monday arrival was announced over the intercom during his fifth class, Health, right before lunch. The teacher, Jiraiya, who was also Naruto's guardian, was in the middle of telling the class about an erotica novel he was writing.

"Attention students and faculty of Konoha High. This announcement is important."

Naruto knew what it was the moment Tsunade got on the intercom. He slouched in his seat, grumbling, while Kiba and Shikamaru snickered at him. Gaara just sat with his arms crossed while staring straight forward. The redhead never showed much emotion, but Naruto was sure he was snickering as well, only inside his head.

"On Monday, a new addition to our student body will be arriving. His person is well-known, and we ask that the students of Konoha High treat him with respect and—most importantly—keep their traps shut. We do not want the press, he does not want the press."

The students were whispering to each other, getting excited. Naruto slunk down further and Jiraiya noticed and gave him an odd look.

"Everyone believes he went to Europe, and we'd like to keep it that way. Sasuke Uchiha is seeking to experience a low-key lifestyle—" and the rest was interrupted by Sakura and Ino jumping up and shrieking at the top of their lungs at the same time Naruto snorted at the 'low-key lifestyle' shit. The rest of the class started freaking out soon after, and Jiraiya looked like he ate something sour.

He was elbowed in the side by Kiba, and Naruto glanced over at his friend and glared. "The fun begins," he laughed.

At lunch, the whole room was filled with excitement about the imminent arrival of Sasuke whoop-dee-fucking-doo Uchiha, while Naruto stabbed at his green beans. Every so often he'd look up and watch Sakura talking with her girl friends, of which he assumed were talking about make up going by the gestures to various facial parts. His view was blocked by the sudden arrival of Sai.

"Who the hell are you?" Kiba demanded. Shikamaru slept. Gaara just watched.

"Guys, this is Sai, he's a new student, we chatted a bit in Art today." He grinned at the pale boy, who gave him a wink, which only caused the blond to blush. Thankfully no one noticed.

"Dude, nice to meet you then, I'm Kiba Inazuka." The two shook hands, and Sai looked over expectantly at the other two.

Shikamaru sighed. "I'm Shikamaru."

Kiba jumped back in. "And this is Gaara. He's not all that chatty, but he's cool. Shika isn't talkative either, but he's just a lazy fuck."

Sai laughed. "I'm glad to have found a group of good people already. I look forward to getting to know you guys." He glanced over to Naruto, who was oblivious. Kiba raised an eyebrow, however.

"Naruto," the new boy said, and Naruto focused once more. "I hope you're not too stressed over the Sasuke thing, but I'm sure your friends will help you vent."

Naruto shifted, and gave the boy an odd look. "Why do you say that bastard would stress me out?"

Sai raised an eyebrow. "Besides what you said just now? Some girls in my class were talking about him after the announcement, and your name was brought up. About how you hate him and how they were worried you would start something."

He just shrugged in response. "I do hate him, yeah, but I'd very happily ignore him." Too bad he couldn't. He sighed.

Before Sai could ask, Kiba snickered and said, "Our dolt over here has been assigned to be Sasuke's little guardian or some shit for a while, until the excitement dies down."

Naruto whined and let his head bang down on the table while Sai laughed. He felt a hand give a gentle pet to his hair, and unless Kiba suddenly took up that habit, Naruto was willing to bet it was Sai again. What was with this dude and hair?

"Touchy fellow, aren't you?" he heard Kiba ask, plainly amused by pretty much everything going on right now.

"Comfort comes through touches," was the response, which Naruto guessed he wasn't wrong about. Still weird, though. The lunch bell rang, signaling everyone to get back to their class, and the group dragged their way back to Health while Sai went wherever he was.

School was finally over for Naruto and Kiba. There was still seventh period, but theirs was free so they left. Naruto found that Sai shared Gym with him as well, and after getting into Kiba's car, he programmed the boy's number into his phone.

Kiba glanced over at the screen and turned the car on, backing out of the space. "What do you think of him?"

"He has some quirks, but he seems to be a cool guy."

"Yeah, dude's chill. Do you get any gay vibes from him?"

Naruto bit his lip, trying to think back on the day to see if any stood out. "Not really, he just seems awkward sometimes. Why, do you?"

"I just got the impression he was into you." At this he waggled his eyebrows at his friend, who gave out a loud snort.

"What's not to love? I'm irresistible."

"You poor delusional suck— OW!"

After getting out of the car at his apartment and giving the dog loving best friend a goodbye salute, Naruto made his way into the complex's elevator, going up a floor. He found his door already unlocked, and sighed as he opened it to find Jiraiya lounging on his couch watching TV. While he was his guardian, he gave Naruto the luxury of his own apartment a few months ago, while Jiraiya himself lived in another room upstairs.

"What do ya want, perv?" he asked, tossing his backpack on the couch next to his guardian.

"Just checking up on ya, brat."

"You saw me a few hours ago. You're getting kind of clingy."

The white-haired man gave the boy a punch in the arm and scowled. "Nah, I just imagined you'd be annoyed after that announcement. First thing I thought was, fuck, Naruto's going to have be ecstatic with this!"

"You didn't know? Tsunade called me down to tell me about it while I was in English."

"No, most of the faculty found out during fifth—" Jiraiya paused for a moment, squinted. "Wait, why were you called down? Was she worried you'd set his hair on fire?"

Naruto guffawed. "No, but thanks for the tip. I have been assigned as Sasuke's official guard boy guide thing."

Jiraiya stared for a moment, unsure of how to respond. "Whose idea was it?"

"What do you mean? It could only be her's, right?"

"No, I meant—yeah you're right. Dumb question." He reached over and gave the boy who he considered a son a hard clap on the shoulder. "You're in for a fun school year then, huh?"

Sadly.

Hope this chapter was fine, it was fun to write. I just heart Sai. Our two favorite boys meet next chapter. :) Also, yes, perverted!Genma is FastForward's Genma. If you haven't read any of her work, what are you waiting for? It's amazing. Check out Roommates.