Staring at her lunch, Hinata was bored. Her A.P classes were a bore and she had actually slept through two of them. Hinata had done the same work last year at her old school, so she already knew what was going on. Spotting an empty table, she waltzed over banging down the tray as Sasuke got there.

"looks like we're going to be buds" she said, sitting right across from him.

"it's Hinata right? Why don't we forget about this morning and start again" he muttered, looking at his text books.

"wow, when did you start trying to be diplomatic Uchiha, because I gotta say solving fights with fists was more your style" he glared at her brows creased, to Hinata it looked like he was having a brain aneurism trying to figure out who she was. Rolling her eyes, she grabbed her apple leaving the rest behind. Wondering the halls she found herself outside her chemistry room, with a small shrug she entered. Better to be early then late. Hinata almost jumped when she noticed the guy slumped over the desk, asleep. She waved her hand in face to see if he was faking then stepped back. His long chocolate-brown locks covered most of his face and he had an unlit cigarette resting between his fingers. He looked totally ready for the beach wearing an open green button up shirt over a black tank top, light brown board shorts and flip-flops. She sat down next to him, figuring that if he was the type to sleep in class he was either smart or had a smart lab partner that could put up with him slacking off. It was most likely the first one. Hinata placed the apple in front of her and rustled up her books for chem, answering the questions for the first chapter. Hinata, so caught up in her work, didn't even notice when the rest of the class started to file in. Not until the uneaten apple left her hand only to be replaced by an unlit cigarette, the teen next to her was happily taking a bite out of her apple.

"so your my new lab partner then?" he asked, she nodded and swapped back her apple.

"least you seem better than my last one" he muttered pointing over to the woman sitting on the teacher's desk. She had sandy blonde hair separated into four pigtails and deep-sea green eyes. Her shoes were knee-high blood-red converse, she had black stockings on with a loosely fitted black dress and red belt with fingerless red gloves.

"looks like you've got a lab partner thank god" she said, almost making Hinata jump. Lazily she walked back to the front of the class

"Tsunade-sensei has a hangover today, so I'll be supervising as you go on with book work, the lab work has been moved to next week" half of the class groaned others sounded relieved. Turning back to her partner she took a chunk out of the apple before offering it to him again.

"Shikamaru Nara" he said as he took the offered fruit. "Hinata, who is she?" asked pointing to the blonde.

"Temari teaching aid" he passed the apple back, grabbing her book instead and looking over her work.

"you can slack off for a bit Hinata, your already ahead of the class" he said looking a little impressed, Hinata just shrugged, chewing.

"I did this work last year at my old school, I was hoping the A.P classes here would be further along" the T.A came over to their table with a look of displeasure marring her features.

"another genius, I can give you the projects and reports you missed if you like along with a few that are coming up but if you want the rest of the work for the year ask Tsunade when she comes back, he can help you with that" she said with a sigh pointing at Shikamaru.

"I got bored and finished the years work early, had to bargain with the old lady to do that, I'll get her to agree to it tomorrow for you" Hinata smiled brightly at the lazy man , hugging him much to his surprise before passing back the apple. "Thanks Shika-kun, I hate asking the old lady anything"