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Their trip was largely uneventful except for a few Kakashi related incidents which he will gladly tell you about another time.

As the three teens and their teachers walked into their new house the boys noticed something.

“There’s only three rooms,” Sasuke observed.

“Of course, I told you we didn’t have a large budget for this mission so we could only get a small house. Iruka and I will share and Sakura will have her own room,” Kakashi told them quickly pulling his mask up over his ears in preparation for the explosion.

“I’M NOT SHARING WITH SASUKE-BASTARD!!!” Naruto yelled just as Sasuke opened his mouth.

“You can’t honestly expect me to share a room with this dobe! He probably snores and everything,” the Uchiha said glaring at the loud-mouthed blonde.

“I DO NOT SNORE!!!” Naruto yelled at the brunette.

“Quiet both of you!” Iruka said shutting the door behind them, “While we are here you are not to draw attention to yourselves or the rest of us. Kakashi and Sakura I’m talking to the two of you as well. We are undercover here and none of you are to draw any attention to us. No-one is to know anything about ninjas or Konoha, in fact forget the name Konoha! You’ve been enrolled at the local school under your real names but you are not to mention anything else from the past. You are all exchange students staying here under the supervision of Kakashi and myself who are high school teachers and this is the first time we have met. If any of you are caught using your ninja training by either of us you will be severely punished.”

“What’s the use in us being here if we can’t use our training,” Naruto whined.

“He didn’t say we can’t use them idiot, he said we can’t be caught there’s a big difference,” Sasuke told him rolling his eyes.

“That’s right, now go up and unpack,” the three teens began up the stairs, “Oh Sasuke can you please stay here for a moment?”
Sasuke walked back down the stairs and waited, “Right well the Hokage asked me to give you these.”

Sasuke unwrapped a small package with four little circles of colour in it
“They’re contact lenses,” Iruka explained, “There is one set of your normal colour and one set of sharingan style lenses so you can swap between to cover up when you use your sharingan. Either you can wear one set all the time or you swap between them every once in a while, the teachers won’t punish you for it, they have been given a medical certificate for their use.”

The boy put them in his pocket and walked up the stairs as Naruto and Sakura both bolted down the stairs carrying coat hangers of clothes.
“Is this some kind of joke?!” Sakura demanded holding up the hanger with the blouse, tie and short skirt. Naruto held up a hanger with long trousers, collared shirt and tie.

Kakashi followed them laughing, “Nope that’s your new uniforms. They must be worn everyday at school.”

“WHAT!!??” the two screeched together.

“That’s the rules, there’s one there for you too Sasuke,” The Uchiha’s eye twitched, “Well don’t just stand there! Go try them on!” Kakashi laughed again as the three climbed the stairs slowly.

Sasuke got to the room first and slammed the door in the blonde’s face.
“Come on Sasuke, I have to try this on,” Naruto whined.

“Use the bathroom moron I’m getting changed in here,” came the muffled reply.

“Oh right,’ Naruto mumbled getting changed in the bathroom. He looked in the mirror, he wasn’t sure about the colour (but then again he wasn’t really sure of any colour that wasn’t orange) but he thought the navy blue pants and tie and white shirt looked quite attractive on him. He walked out into the hallway and almost burst out laughing. If looks could kill the whole planet would have spontaneously combusted at the look it was getting from Sasuke, although the uniform did suit him. Naruto sulked, anything would suit Sasuke. The two of them glared at each other and walked down the stairs to where Kakashi and Iruka were waiting. Naruto couldn’t help but strike a pose for them and got a smile from Iruka. Kakashi just burst out laughing at both of them.

“Don’t forget to take off your forehead protectors boys, we really should have left them back in Konoha,” Iruka mused.

“Do I really have to wear this?” Came Sakura’s muffled voice from somewhere on the second floor.

“Yes,” chorused Kakashi and Iruka together.
There was an audible sigh and Sakura came down the stairs in the navy blue pleated mini skirt and tie with the tight white blouse.

“Is this some kind of joke?” Sakura asked pulling at her skirt, “Do they actually expect us to wear these things? How are we supposed to be able fight if we have to worry about this?”

Iruka tried to hold back a smile, “I don’t think you are supposed to be fighting Sakura. I think they expect you to have more, er ladylike pursuits.”

“I think it looks great!” Naruto told the girl, almost drooling over the ensemble, she sighed.

“So what do you think Sasuke-kun?” she turned to him and fluttered her eyelashes.

“We all look like idiots,” the boy stated moving up the stairs to get rid of the clothes as soon as possible.

Sasuke was right but it was absolutely no comfort. Naruto did snore. Loudly. So far he hadn’t gotten even a wink of sleep, he covered his head with a pillow, which, contrary to popular belief was absolutely no use at all. He thought of smothering the boy or just pinching his nose or something, smothering definitely sounded more permanent but they might not like that. He had heard somewhere that rolling people on their sides helped, or was that stomach? The boy decided just to roll Naruto over until he stopped snoring. The boy was on his back and the bed was almost vibrating with the sound, he wondered if the others could hear it. He got his hands under the blonde boy’s sides and lifted. He almost had a heart attack when Naruto started rolling of his own accord and pulled the Uchiha over with him. The boy had somehow trapped Sasuke’s hands between his side and arm and when he rolled the brunette either had to go with him or bend his arms in a rather unnatural way. He chose the less painful of the two. He realised he was lying next to Naruto and wasn’t entirely sure that he had chosen the best option. The blonde moved his arms and the Uchiha tried to make a quick escape but Naruto was too quick for him. Before he could get anywhere the boy had grabbed him in a big bear hug. This was going to be mighty embarrassing in the morning and Sasuke had absolutely no faith whatsoever in Naruto’s ability to keep this to himself.

Sasuke inwardly sighed, he was such a moron. Why get caught in a situation like this when he was a ninja? One jutsu later and he was safely out of Naruto’s clutches and the boy was harmlessly hugging a pillow. And the snoring had stopped. Sasuke finally drifted off into a land of disturbing dreams.

“I’m so glad you came along too. If I had no-one but Sakura to help break up the fights between the boys I think I would go crazy,” Kakashi told Iruka later in their shared bedroom.

“You already told me that,” Iruka reminded him, blushing, “Do you think you might be able to get off me now?”

“I suppose so,” Kakashi rolled over reluctantly, “But we’re going to be stuck here together for a while so we might as well get to know each other a bit better.”

“Kakashi I can quite easily get to know people without having to share a bed!”

“Well you’re no fun!” Kakashi pouted, “Anyway if we’re trying to save money maybe we should huddle together for warmth,” he suggested cheekily.

“Kakashi! We are sharing a house with three of our impressionable young students! What would they think if they found us…you know…” Iruka blushed and rolled away so the jounin could not see his face. This was not how he had ever thought this mission would possibly go. The last person he had thought he would need to fight off was Kakashi!

“Come on Iruka-sensei, I even sound proofed the walls!” Kakashi leaned over and ran his hand down the other man’s back, “You know you want to.”

Iruka stiffened, what was he doing? They were ninja on a mission, shouldn’t Kakashi be taking this more seriously? He sighed, did Kakashi ever take anything seriously? He remembered the bag full of Icha Icha Paradises that the silver-haired man had brought with him, nope he never took anything seriously. Maybe if he just pretended to be asleep…
He felt something pinch his bum, well that didn’t work.
“Kakashi if you don’t calm down I am going to go sleep on the couch!” Iruka told him sternly.

“Fine,” he sighed, “You’ll come around eventually.” He smiled and lay down to sleep. This was going much better than he’d planned. He thought Iruka would have left ages ago.

Sakura knew nothing of the problems going on in the other rooms, her thoughts focused more on the immediate future. New school, she shuddered under the blankets, she would have to make new friends. She groaned, trying to do that with Naruto fawning all over her would be almost impossible! Maybe she could hook him up with some unsuspecting girl, and Sasuke, she felt a fear grip her heart. What if he found someone else? A new school full of female students who would surely jump all over him as soon as he got there. This was going to be a nightmare!