woot! another slow moving chapter! -sweatdrop- ehh...it'll come along...but hey. IT’S 1646 WORDS LONG!! XD!! I’M GETTING BETTER!! Moo.

mY StUPiD jApaNESe tUToR 7

"DAMMIT!" Naruto cursed, slamming his fist onto the poor unfortunate locker next door. "He pisses me off without even being there! My day is ruined because of that bastard."

Kiba peered inside the depths of his locker. "Dude, um, one--chill. Two--speak in English. It's kinda weird to rant in Japanese here."

Naruto blinked. It came so naturally, he hadn't realized he wasn't speaking in English. "Yeah, sorry, my bad." He glanced behind him at a boy who was staring. "What are you lookin' at?"

"It's just a pretest, Naruto," said Kiba, "it doesn't even count for a grade. What are you getting so worked up over?"

Naruto sighed and shifted his weight to lean on the locker. "Yeah, you're right. I"m being kinda stupid, blowing up over something like this." It's just that Sasuke...arrggh! Something about him just makes me want to slug him in his perfect face! ...Perfect face? I hang around Sakura too much.

"'Kinda?'" Kiba snorted. "You are stupid. You’re the only person I know who gets a freaking lousy thirty-eight.”

Naruto protested, “Well, hey, what about Shikamaru? He got a zero.”

“Yeah, but he doesn’t try. You tried and got a lousy score. Baka!” Kiba teased.

"Shut up," Naruto laughed, punching him in the shoulder. "You can call me sensei, you know."

"Nah, you ain't my teacher anymore.”

"Hey, education never ends!"

"Um, excuse me," a barely audible voice behind him spoke.

"Hm?" Naruto turned his head to see a girl with long black hair clutching her books. Her hair mostly covered her face, and the way she held her books looked like she was trying to hide from him.

"You're, um, in the way of my locker," she said.

Kiba slammed his door shut and began walking. "Yeah, Naruto, you're blocking Tammy's locker. Jeez, fatass."

"Hey, that could be counted as sexual harassment!" the blond retorted. He left his position and headed for their third period class, social studies.

"Psh, who'd wanna sexually harass you?"

Naruto huffed. He gave another glance behind him. "She's cute but really shy..." he remarked, speaking of Kiba's locker partner.

"Yeah. You like her?"

"Nah, not really. I'm not into the shy type. But she's kinda like Hinata...speakin' o' which, did you ask her out yet?"

The brunet's face turned slightly pink. "No..." he mumbled.

"Why not? You've liked her since this spring and through summer without even seeing her. I think that means you kinda like her a LOT."

"We're just friends...and she likes someone else anyway."

They entered the classroom and took seats by each other. In social studies, they didn't have assigned seats.

"Really? Who?" inquired Naruto.

His friend sighed and stared at the clock. "You’re so dense, Naruto.”

Naruto sat down in his fourth hour reading class, fuming. "I swear to God," Naruto growled in Japanese through clenched teeth, "if we weren't in school now, Carl, I swear I would WRING YOUR FUCKING NECK!"

"I-I-but-it-wh-ARRGH!" Kiba stuttered, trying to justify himself. Unable to think of anything, he pointed at Naruto. "Don't call me Carl!"

"You know what? Don't talk to me. I will never ever talk to you again. I hate you. DON'T TALK TO ME."

"Eh, but??" the poor brunet whimpered. It really wasn't that big of a deal, he couldn't see why Naruto was still so pissed. All Kiba did was upload an innocent, educational video that helped people memorize the first part of the United States Constitution onto Youtube (disclaimer: I do not own youtube. it'd be nice though. I wouldn’t delete the shippuden episodes if i owned it, even if tokyopop made me. T.T lol.) Lots of other people uploaded the same video too! He didn't really do anything wrong.

Kiba sunk down in his seat and let his forehead collide with the desktop with a thunk. Why did their social studies teacher have to make the whole eighth grade student body sing the Preamble--from HIS video nonetheless?

Why? (Thunk.) Why? (Thunk.) WHY??

The bell signaling for fourth hour class to begin rang. Sasuke closed his book and stared at the board attentively. Well, not really, because it was pretty blank.

The teacher greeted from behind his desk, "Good--"

"GOOOOD MOOOOORNING MY YOUTHFUL FOURTH HOUR READING CLASS!!"

Sasuke sighed. It was routine for Mr. Hatake's rival, Mr. Might next door, to shout his greeting to the class before the other did.

"Goomorninmistrmight," was the incoherent reply.

"LOUDER! I CAN'T HEEEEAAAAAAAAR YOU, CLASS!"

"GOOD MORNING MR. MIGHT!!" his class shouted.

"There we go!"

"Um..." The teacher stood up from his seat at his desk and went to the wall behind him. All his students turned around in their seats to watch. It was a divider wall that separated his classroom from the one next door. He pulled open the wall a crack. "Good morning, again, Mr. Might. Could you please lower your voice for the time being?" he requested in a soft voice. The students sitting in the back of the room could barely hear him.

"MY SINCERE APOLOGIES, MR. HATAKE!!" was the reply everyone could hear. Some people giggled.

Mr. Hatake closed the wall again. "As I was going to say, good morning everybody."

"Good morning, Mr. Hatake!" most of the class chanted. Most of the class consisted of females for some odd reason, and Mr. Hatake was a very popular teacher with them. He was tall and very good looking, one could just tell even though the bottom half of his face was covered up by a cloth mask (he explained at the beginning of the year that he had year-round allergies. Sasuke, along with most other people, didn’t really believe that). Mr. Hatake wore a navy T-shirt tucked into brown pants. He looked young, but he had a mop of grey hair that had a tendency to flop over his left eye. And he almost always seemed to have a weird little orange book with him that he would let no one see, but it was in Japanese anyway, so most people couldn’t read it anyway.

This school has a lot of Japanese people…thought Sasuke. Mr. Hatake, Sakura, she’s half Japanese… who else…that lazy Shikamaru…and that one girl…Hinata, was it? And Naruto.

Mr. Hatake picked up a hardcover book from his desk and held it up. “Today we’re going to get started on our first book, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. Has anybody read it before?”

No one raised their hand.

“Um…” he scratched his head. “I…guess that’s …somewhat…good?” He sighed. “Kids need to be more exposed to classics…”

A boy in the front of the room raised his hand. “Is that book you’re always reading a classic?”

The teacher’s only exposed eye showed a smile. “Yes, it is a Japanese classic.”

“Why is there that red circle with a slash through it on the front?”

“That’s the back,” corrected Mr. Hatake. “Most Japanese books read right to left.”

Sasuke remembered seeing some books and magazines in his house that were that way.

“Anyway, get out the book in the rack under the chair, and we’ll get started on the first few chapters with Mr. Might’s class.”

He approached the wall again and was about to pull it open when—WHOOSH! SLAM! The wall disappeared, and a man with tan skin, very bushy eyebrows, and a bowl cut hairstyle wearing a green T-shirt and pants was revealed.

“WE’RE READY, MR. HATAKE!” Mr. Might shouted to his face.

“Thank you, but I think you should be a little gentler on it. The school budget is low at the moment and our wall wouldn’t be replaceable for a while if it broke.”

The rival English teacher nodded. “A logical statement, Mr. Hatake. My apologies,” he said in a low voice.

“No worries.” He held up the book. “So let’s get started.”

“Very well!” Mr. Might shouted. “How shall we do this?”

Mr. Hatake scanned his roomful of students and the other roomful of students. “How about we fold my class over yours? For instance, Sam—“ he pointed at the girl sitting in the front left corner, “—will pair up with Justin,” he pointed at the boy in the back right corner of Mr. Might’s class, “and you two will read the first two chapters.”

Mr. Might nodded again. “Very smart system of things.”

Ignoring Mr. Might, he continued. “Michael will be with Taylor, Jessica with Zack, Sasuke with Naruto, Abbey with Carl, and so on.”

The other teacher clapped his hands. “Hup to! Let’s go! Pair up and start reading!”

The students got up and went to their partners. Sasuke just glared at Naruto as the blond walked over to him and sat in the empty seat in front (well, technically behind Sasuke, for he was sitting backwards in his seat) of him.

Naruto glared back just as hard, crossed his arms across his chest, and huffed in annoyance. “My day is freaking ruined by you and Kiba, so you read first, Mr. Perfect.”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. “I ruined your day? What did I do? You’re the one more liable to ruin my day.”

“Teme. Just. Shut. Up. And. Read.”

Sasuke mimicked the blond’s pose and replied, “What if I don’t want to? Because I don’t.”

“If you don’t want to die, read. Now.” Naruto’s glare intensified.

“Make me.” So did the other boy’s.

Smack, smack!

“Oi, you two. Start reading or I’ll give you both a detention.”

They looked up to see Mr. Hatake, who was passing out packets that went along with the book. Naruto looked like he was about to bite off the teacher’s hand. But Mr. Hatake spoke to the blond in Japanese with a warning tone, causing Naruto to shift his glare back to Sasuke and mumble incoherently.

“I’ll read the first paragraph, and you read the second…”

Sasuke opened the book. “Whatever.”

Hm, what did Mr. Hatake say?
Naruto: (mumble) He threatened to tell Iruka I was “misbehaving” so that I wouldn’t get a ramen treat for two weeks.

Ah… anyhoo. Nope, Gai is not Japanese here. So I have to go with his English dub name “Might Guy.” I don’t know why it bothers me so much though… rawr… I just like Maito Gai better. –weird- lol.

OH right! The Preamble thing!! This year... UGGGH!! Our social studies teacher made us learn the Preamble to the Constitution by memorizing the SchoolHouse Rock song!! Dx It was horrible!! On youtube the user's name was "dogboy" something and numbers after it, and i immediately thought "-glare- kiba..." lol. aggghhh...i still remember it...

We the people...in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility...provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and...

-SHOT- SHUT UP!!

I’d love reviews with your thoughts and comments and questions if there are any. :D