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They somehow managed to get through breakfast without damaging or destroying anything, much to Iruka’s disbelief, and with a minimum of fighting. Luckily he had been prepared, he cooked everything himself and then woke Sakura up, she could use the bathroom before breakfast, then he woke the boys up for breakfast. Once they had finished Sakura came down for hers and they quickly got ready and so everyone was ready to leave at the same time. Kakashi had already been gone when he woke up, although he had no idea where.

They went straight to the office to meet with the principal

“I’m so glad you were able to come on such short notice. I’m Mr Hakuro, I’m the principal here. We have had students disappearing and other odd occurrences within the school and we need your help finding out what is happening. Only the faculty know why you’re here, we don’t want to worry the students or their parents so please keep this to yourselves,” the principal wiped his forehead and sat down behind his desk.

“Of course sir, we are trained in the arts of secrecy,” Iruka said, more to the students than the principal, “We won’t be any trouble at all, apart from the student sort of trouble anyway. I am Iruka this is Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke.” He said gesturing to each of the others.

“Of course, where is my other teacher?”

“Uh, I think he may be investigating the layout of the school,” he said blushing, obviously uncomfortable with covering up for the other teacher, “He should be here fairly soon. He’s very good at being unobtrusive.”

The laugh arrived before he did, Kakashi appeared in one of the seats opposite the desk, “Nice school you have here. I’m Kakashi, sorry I’m late.”

“Oh uh welcome Kakashi,” the man said both flustered and obviously impressed by his sudden appearance, “Oh here are the students timetables and a map for each of you. If you need anything don’t hesitate to come ask. Could the two of you stay here so that I can explain the classes you’ll need to be teaching? The rest of you can go.”

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were firmly ushered out into the hallway; Sakura was still trying to adjust her skirt obviously uncomfortable without her shorts underneath.

“So uh, what do you guys have first?” Sakura asked brightly looking at her timetable.

“Um it looks like I’ve got…maths,” Naruto wrinkled up his nose.

“Maths,” Sasuke, man of a thousand words informed them.

“Oh,” Sakura said disappointedly, “I have history. Hey I’ll meet you guys at lunch okay? I have to go find my locker.” They had all been given lockers filled with all the books they would need for their classes, courtesy of the school.

“Hn,” Sasuke said making his way to his own locker.

“Okay! I’ll be there, don’t worry about Sasuke-bastard I’m sure he’ll come too. After all who else would want to sit with him?” Naruto grinned, “See you at morning tea!”

Naruto whistled as he made his way to the locker they had given him. This was going to be fun, new school, new town, new start. So he couldn’t be a ninja here, at least he wasn’t a fox demon either. He was surprised that Sasuke wasn’t embracing it more. Here he could be ignored just like he always seemed to want. He would no longer be a figure of pity or worship. After all it obviously wasn’t his personality that endeared him to people.

Naruto made his way to the classroom for maths and slid into a seat next to Sasuke, new students should stick together right? Sasuke had managed to take a seat in the very back left corner. Naruto smiled, they’d probably be asked to introduce themselves and everything, as he smothered a giggle he wondered whether Sasuke realised that meant they’d have to walk all the way to the front, past all of the curious students.

The door opened and someone who was obviously a teacher entered and stood up the front. “Welcome everyone, we have two new students today. Would you boys like to come up here?” Naruto grinned broadly and walked up to the front and stood on one side of the teacher, Sasuke glared and did the same.
“Can you please introduce yourselves to the class?”

“Hi! I’m Naruto Uzumaki, this is Sasuke Uchiha we’ve both just transferred here which unfortunately means I’ll be stuck with him a while. I do have a map but I’m quite open to being shown around,” he winked outrageously, “And yes ladies I am single.”

A laugh went up around the room and Naruto grinned even more, this was laughing with not at, he was quite aware of the difference.
The teacher looked at him and smiled, “I’m Mr Ito, did you have anything else to add Mr Uchiha?” he glared and shook his head, “Well then would you boys like to sit down again and we’ll begin the lesson.”

They made their way up the back again with Naruto grinning the whole way and shaking a couple of hands and ending up with quite a few notes on his way. Sasuke walked quickly and sat down ignoring all of the proffered hands and friendly looks. He sat and glared at the blonde who was obviously enjoying all the attention. Naruto finally sat down and the girl next to him leaned over.
“I’m Amaya, if you still want someone to show you around I’d be glad to,” she smiled and winked.

Yep, Naruto thought, this was going to be fun.

Sakura was enjoying herself too. When she introduced herself there had been quite a few whistles and catcalls, what surprised her most was that they weren’t exclusively from the guys. Although that worried her a bit she was sure that meant she would have no trouble making friends. Of course, she told herself, friends meant contacts and ways to find out more about the problems in the school. Really though she just liked the idea of having girlfriends to gossip.
'I’ll have to be a bit more careful about how I throw that word around I guess,' she thought to herself.


Sasuke was not having fun. Unfortunately Naruto had decided that the offer to show him around included the Uchiha. So he walked around while the blonde talked animatedly to Amaya who seemed just as interested.
'How long until lunchtime?' he wondered. 'At least then we’ll be able to get away from all of these morons.'


Unfortunately for him it was not meant to be. Word had spread throughout the school about the three new students and everyone wanted to find out about them for themselves. Luckily for them Sakura and Naruto were quite happy to answer their questions. Sasuke just sat there and alternated between glaring at people and ignoring them.

“What’s his problem?” someone asked after being on the end of one of his particularly nasty glares.

“Oh don’t worry about Sasuke-teme! He’s always like that, you just get used to it,” Naruto told them laughing.

“Wow talk about the ice prince!” one girl said sarcastically and the whole crowd laughed.