CCNote: Making Pho on a super rainy day. As anyone who has made Pho from scratch before, you know it takes forever. So while I wait for the broth to get all flavorful and shit I'm just going to bang out this chapter. On a side note, I've been getting lots of PMs about my life here in Japan. (I.E. what do I do? What level do I teach? How do I do something similar?) I'm not really active on Tumblr or Instagram but I am always on Snapchat. If you're interested in adding me on Snap just say so in the Reviews and I'll message you my id. My Snapchat is like a vlog for me and helps me keep in touch with my family and friends back home. Mostly it's cooking, traveling, and my life at my rather odd school. If you're curious about my life here, it's a fun way to see what I'm up to.

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A Sense of Responsibility

Hinata sat straight as a rod in her desk. In fact, even her prudish etiquette tutor from her childhood would have been impressed with her perfect posture. If only her tutor had known that the secret to getting her not to slouch was to have her father breathing down her neck. The man whose eyes mirrored her own were glaring daggers into the back of her head. Sometimes those cold eyes slid across the noisy classroom to where the Uchiha family was gathered. Among the dark-eyed family, her father's cold gaze rested upon Sasuke who was at the top of her father's shit list, but for the most part, they stay glued to her.

She couldn't even fault her father for being angry. Skipping school? Yea that was bad but skipping school with the son of his rival was even worse. The only reason her father was silent at the moment was likely because he wished to salvage some semblance of whatever dignity he had left. The Hyuuga girl dared to take a small shaky breath. There was going to be hell to pay when she got home. Would her father even let her out of the house to graduate next year?

To her right, Ino groaned although most of the sound was muffled by her desk. The only person who was likely in bigger trouble than herself was Ino. Hinata felt fortunate that her father hadn't caught her with a hickey on her neck. If so, Sasuke would be dead by now. The poor blonde girl looked as though she wanted to jump out a window when she and Sasuke had entered the room, a bright red mark marring her otherwise perfect skin.

Ino's father was currently engaged in a shouting match with Naruto's mother who was not one to back down to anyone. It was easy to see where Naruto got his fiery personality from but Kushina's anger was not helping the situation. With all of the finger pointing and name calling between the two, it was likely that Inoichi and Kushina would never get along. Hinata looked away from their commotion and bit her bottom lip. Poor Ino. After a few more moments of awkwardly fidgeting with her fingers underneath her desk, the door to the classroom opened again and the last remaining members of their group were roughly carted in by Tsunade.

"What a drag." The brunette mumbled under his breath.

Hinata watched wide-eyed as Shikamaru and Choji lumbered into the room. Out of everyone they should have been the least likely to get caught. The grin on Tsunade's face was huge as she roughly shoved the two boys in empty seats near their respective parents. The woman's blonde hair was sticking to her neck and forehead, streaks of chocolate riveting down from her locks. Her clothing was clinging to her body, accentuating her already voluptuous form. Despite looking like a hot mess, Hinata had never seen the dean appear so...satisfied. The woman turned her attention from the two boys to address the rest of the room.

"So now you see what I'm dealing with." She said with a huff.

Their parents all grumbled their varying degrees of agreement. What was Tsunade even talking about? See what? What were their parents even doing at the school in the first place?

"Your children are irresponsible, disrespectful, and downright delinquent at best. The hallways of the main building are coated in chocolate milk. Half of my staff is currently trying to clean up the disaster in the cafeteria while the other half is ensuring as much of an orderly early dismissal as possible. This kind of behavior is completely unacceptable. Never in all my years have I ever had to deal with something like this!"

Hinata flinched at a bit, guilty at the damage they'd caused. Although she clearly felt remorse for their actions, her other counterparts did not. If anything the morose looks on their faces were due to the fact that they'd actually been caught.

"What do you propose we do Tsunade?" Mikoto snipped, a bag of ice pressed against her throbbing temple. "It's not like you keep that great of an eye on our children and they are with you for most of the day."

"There are clearly some children that are worse than others. Expel the rotten ones and the problem is solved." Hiashi said in a low threatening voice. "Otherwise you will have a lawsuit on your hands."

"Lawsuit?!" Hissed Fugaku. "You're the one who injured my wife! We should be the ones suing you right now!"

"I was an accident." Mikoto defended but her words didn't seem to calm down the two men whose tempers had been stoked since that morning.

Hinata had never seen her father so undone in her life. The usually poised man's clothing was rumpled and his hair was slightly tousled. All of which was due to the fall he and Sasuke's mom had taken in the coffee shop. It was awkward to find them in such a position but somehow she'd been able to keep Sasuke and her father from fighting right there in the middle of the shop. While that might have been a semi-successful deescalation, she didn't have to energy nor the clout to keep her father from fighting Fugaku.

"Sit down!" Tsunade shouted but both men ignored her as they stood from their desks and crossed the room.

"Your son has ruined my daughter's future. I should not only sue the school but you as well. You're lucky I'm only calling for his expulsion!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about but try it Hyuuga. You know you'll lose!"

"He got her pregnant!"

Hinata felt all of the blood rush from her body as she locked eyes with Sasuke across the room. He was no longer slouching in his seat but upright, mouth slightly slack. He looked as confused as she felt. Hinata shook her head furiously. What the hell was her father talking about? Around her, her friends gave her pitying looks and Ino sank further into her chair. Despite their suspicious looks, it wasn't even possible for her to even be pregnant. Why would her dad even think such a thing? Fugaku immediately froze at Hiashi's accusation and turned his ire towards his youngest son.

"Is this true?" He asked, his voice low and threatening. Sasuke only rolled his eyes. "Look at me when I'm talking to you boy!"

"All I know is that he's going to have to take responsibility for this!" Hiashi growled.

"Stop it!"

All eyes turned to the small Hyuuga girl who had jumped out of her seat with her fists clenched tightly at her sides. Hinata could feel her body trembling but she couldn't make it cease. Her heart was beating too frantically, her breathing much too erratically. Her father's pale eyes were narrowing as he turned his attention to her.

"I-I I'm not pregnant." She said, voice barely above a whisper.

"Speak up Hinata, no one can hear you." He father said sternly. Hinata squeezed her eyes shut and gathered up all of her courage.

"I'm not pregnant!" She shouted and the room fell silent. "I'm still a virgin!"

All of the air seemed to escape from her father's lungs. His shoulders slumped and he leaned against the large teacher's desk in the middle of the room. Nervously Hinata opened her eyes and played with her fingers.

"We...we both are." She said, this time her voice was much lower but everyone still heard what she said.

Kiba snickered at the revelation but was quickly silenced by a hard smack to the back of his head from his mother.

"Didn't we see them go into that janitor's closet?" Ms. Haruno spoke up and Sakura groaned.

"Mooooooom!"

"What?" The woman shrugged, peeling a sticky lock of hair from her face. "We all saw it."

Hinata's entire face turned red as she remembered just what had transpired earlier that morning. They hadn't had sex but it was close to it. She wasn't quite ready to go all the way yet but that never stopped Sasuke from indulging in what she was comfortable with doing. The fact that her father might have seen what had happened between her made her want to faint. Hiashi covered his ears and headed back to his seat. He didn't want to hear any more about his daughter's clearly deviant habits. For now, he was satisfied knowing she wasn't caring a demon Uchiha spawn.

"Are you all ready to act like adults or are there going to be more outbursts?" Tsunade asked and the room's occupants shook their head simultaneously. "Good. Let's talk punishment."

At the end of the meeting, it was decided that they would all return early Saturday morning to wash the halls of the main building. After that, they were to assist the grounds crew every Saturday morning until the end of their junior year. Not only that but they were banned from all extracurricular activities. Instead, they were assigned to the local assisted living center and a kindergarten where they would rotate volunteering. Tsunade was determined to teach them a 'sense of responsibility' since it was beyond evident that none of their parents had instilled such a thing.

Their parents signed off on all of the forms Tsunade made them sign agreeing to their new punishments much to the chagrin of their children. When all of that was said and done the final nails in the coffin were their cell phones being confiscated. Sakura was the most reluctant out of all of them to give her phone up, to the point that she looked as though she would cry. Their junior year had barely begun and already it looked to be a wash. As the parents filed out of the conference room with their currently subdued spawn in tow, Tsunade finally let out a sigh of relief. Shizune closed the door to the classroom and slumped her weary weight against it.

"Glad that's over." Tsunade said and Shizune nodded her head.

"You did well today Lady Tsunade." Her assistant assured although the dean didn't take too much comfort in that.

She still had a school that was quickly starting to smell sour and no doubt a phone ringing off the hook in her office. They'd had to send all of the other students home early because of the sprinklers so of course parents that actually paid attention were worried. She didn't look forward to having to field their questions but, hopefully, this would be the last time she'd have to send the student body home early.

The exhausted blonde tried to run a hand through her hair but was immediately disgusted with how sticky it felt. Her upper lip curled as she tried to futily wipe her hand off on her equally sticky blouse. The phone calls would have to wait. First and foremost she needed a shower...and a bottle of single malt whiskey.

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"You've gotten yourself into a right mess you know that?" Shikaku grumbled and he and his son stood on the sidewalk.

They were about a block away from their house but the elder had stopped the car and got out to have a smoke. His first of the day. Usually, he never smoked so close to the house, his wife hated the way the smell of tobacco clung to his clothing, but he couldn't help it. This day had been a bit too stressful. His son barely acknowledged his statement, merely shrugging his shoulders with the words 'troublesome' written across his forehead. He couldn't really be mad at Shikamaru. When he was that age he used to skip school all the time. His school had been filled with idiots who had no idea what to do with their lives. When he had his son he'd hoped that the delinquency streak he had wouldn't show itself. Unfortunately it had and even though he might have skipped school, he never orchestrated elaborate distractions to shake the staff off his tail. He was much sneakier than that.

"Why did you do it?" Shikaku asked, taking a long drag from his cigarette.

"Because I could." Shikamaru replied blandly as though he were stating the obvious. "That school is boring. It doesn't teach us anything useful."

"It could be useful to the other students but you disrupted their day."

Shikamaru didn't say anything in response. He only turned his dark brown eyes to the ground, kicking stray pieces of gravel that were underfoot. Shikaku sighed. Should he be mad? Yes. Was he? No. Shikamaru was a genius and he had no business attending a school that didn't challenge him enough to keep him out of trouble. However, this was the best school in the country. They could have sent him to much better schools abroad but he and his wife had wished for him to have some semblance of a normal life. When the boy was growing up he mostly kept to himself and was too weird to have friends his own age. He was too smart, knew too many big words to connect to younger minds. At least at this school, he had friends. The elder Nara sighed and took another long drag of his cigarette before patting his son on the head.

"Just don't get caught next time. It's troublesome to come up to your school like that." he said and Shikamaru looked up at him curiously. Shikaku only smirked and dropped the butt of his cigarette on the ground, extinguishing the light with the back of his shoe. "Don't look at me like that. You haven't gotten off easy. I'm sure your mother has created a more than sufficient punishment for you."

"You told her?" the young teen growled, smacking his forehead with the palm of his hand. Shikaku only laughed.

"She's my wife. I'd be crazy not to!" he said and climbed back into the car. "C'mon, the faster you take your beating the faster we can get this over with."

Shikaku smirk grew into a wide smile as his son shoved his hands into his pockets and skulked into the car. For once he looked like an actual teenager and not the lazy old man he always pretended to be.

...

Ino sighed as she rubbed her forehead with the back of her hand. They had only been cleaning for a half an hour but already she was breaking a sweat. She absolutely hated being sweaty. Next to her Naruto was furiously trying to scrub a particularly stubborn chocolate stain off the wall.

"Dammit, Choji why did you have to choose chocolate milk?" The blonde male whined and Choji only shrugged.

"I didn't expect us to get caught and it seemed like a good distraction."

"Well, we did. How did they even figure it out anyway?" Kiba huffed as he lugged in a bucket of fresh water.

Ino's eyes narrowed as most of the water sloshed onto the floor. At this godforsaken rate, they were never going to get done. Sakura came up behind Kiba and set her water bucket down next to his although she managed to keep most of her water inside of her bucket.

"I knew I shouldn't have come along with you guys. I said I didn't want to do it anymore."

"Well, now you're in the same boat as us billboard brow. Enjoy it." Ino quipped before dipping her dirty sponge into the new water. "Besides don't you want to spend more time with us?"

"Hell no! Sasuke's not even here."

"Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke!" The blonde girl teased only to have Sakura throw a wet sponge at the back of her head.

"Where is that bastard anyway? Hinata isn't here either." Naruto mused just as the doors to the main entrance opened.

The missing teens walked into the hallway, unfazed by the mess that was created or the fact that they were late. Ino raised an eyebrow at the fact that the two of them were actually holding hands, something that neither one of them would have dared to do previously. Inwardly she giggled, she was going to have grill Hinata on this new development later. Ino then glanced over at Sakura who was pointedly not looking at the pair. She sighed. Hopefully, her friend would get over her crush on Sasuke sooner rather than later.

"Nice of you to show up Uchiha." Kiba snickered but Sasuke only spared him a blank look. "Grab a sponge and get to cleaning."

"I'm not cleaning this." Sasuke scoffed just as the main doors opened again.

This time a small horde of rather creepy looking men filed into the hallway all clad in black coveralls and purple nail polish. Ino's attention was instantly drawn to a man with blonde hair so long that it even made her jealous. How was he able to maintain that? She took a step forward, she had to question him on his routine! Next to her Naruto let out an indignant huff, drawing her attention away from the older man. Ino looked at him curiously, his cheeks puffed up and his eyes narrowed at the blonde man. She smiled and nudged him in the side. A jealous Naruto was cute too. She blushed as she recalled how cute Naruto looked when he was flustered before they'd been caught by their parents. Teasing Naruto was almost worth being grounded.

"Aw! Wittle Sasuke made a fucking mess." A pale man with silver hair snickered and his companions all joined in on his laughter. Sasuke did not seem to find any humor in the man's statements. Instead, he let go of Hinata to grab a dry sponge and placed it in the laughing man's hand.

"You have until three." He said sternly and grabbed Hinata's hand again. "Let's go."

"Fucking snot-nosed brat thinks he can just boss us around and shit." The silver-haired man growled, squeezing the life out of the inanimate sponge in his hand.

"I think its cute hun!" The blonde haired man cooed. "He wants to spend time with his new girlfriend."

"You think everything is cute dumbass!"

Sasuke ignored the two men's bickering and headed back through the main entrance doors with a thoroughly embarrassed Hinata in tow. Naruto threw his sponge into one of the buckets and stretched.

"If Sasuke's not cleaning, I'm not cleaning." He declared with a mischevious grin in Ino's direction.

Ino didn't have to be told twice. Even though she'd assisted in making the mess she sure as hell didn't want to clean it up. Without a second thought, she tossed her own sponge and followed Naruto out of the school. The others quickly abandoned their posts to the shock of the creepy group of men and rushed out of the school. It didn't take long to catch up with Sasuke and Hinata who had barely made it to the gates of the school. Naruto threw an arm around Sasuke's shoulder and used his other hand to ruffle the Uchiha's hair.

"Sasuke you sly dog!" Naruto laughed. "Who the hell are those guys?"

Sasuke pushed Naruto away and tried vainly to fix his hair with his free hand.

"Who they are isn't important. They owe Itachi a favor." The raven explained.

Ino's eyes grew wide. Those guys knew Itachi? The Itachi Uchiha? Well if they were there to take their punishment, Ino wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. She grabbed Naruto's arm and pulled him in the opposite direction before he could question Sasuke any further. They had their own discussion that needed to take place. Namely how to get him off of her father's kill list. Ino turned back to wave at her friends who were also dispersing in opposite directions, no doubt trying to maximize the free time they now had until they had to report back to the school. She sighed as she watched their retreating backs. This was going to be a long year.

The End

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