AN: AAAAAAAAHHHH! I'm SO sorry!! I haven't updated in three months!! I apologize to all my lovely lovely reviewers. I am not worthy. I just transfered to a new school, and things were pretty damn hectic for a few months.

chibi-me: smacks accolay on the head You better be sorry. turns to reviewers Please do not give up on our story!!

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Shino narrowed his eyes at his class, expression unreadable behind his reflective sunglasses. Boring fools, he thought. Why was he here again? And what was his teaching "assistant", Kankuro, doing snoring away in the back of the classroom? His eye twitched. Most of the class were sweating nervously.

"Uh...sir?"

Shino turned and focused his stare on the hapless individual. Said student swallowed convulsively.

"Ah, uh, that is to say... I was...I'm sure we all were thinking--"

Don't lump us in with you!!! the rest of the class thought furiously.

"--uh, wondering when you would..I mean, you're supposed to be, well, teaching us,,,,riii..ght..? No? Okay, I'm sorry, don't be mad, I'll just..."

"Harold! Shut up!" his friend hissed at him.

Shino slowly turned back to his class.

"Yes, I see how it is." He raised his finger to eye level, and watched a bug crawl across it with apparent fascination.

Holy shit, is that a bug?

Dude, a bug just crawled across his finger.

EEEW!! I REALLY hope that isn't what I think it is!!

Isn't that a bug?

Dude, that's a bug.

Did a bug just...no way!!

That's kinda cool...

Oblivious to the various expressions he was receiving from his class, Shino let it crawl back into his skin. Straightening a little, he
mentally prepared himself, then spoke again in a bored monotone.

"Right. I have resigned myself to my fate. Pair up. The first thing I would like you to do is focus on your inner selves. Some would call this meditation, but I also want you to try and call out magic without using your wands. We will do this for the remainder of the class period. If I catch you fooling around, make no mistake, you will regret it."

The class sat, stunned at such a long speech from the silent teenager, then hastily gathered into pairs.

He's really scary...

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In Sasuke and Naruto's class, since Naruto remembered next to nothing from his elementary school days with Iruka ("DOBE!! How the hell did you become a ninja if you didn't even know the basics?!" "Well,
eheh...I kinda just played it by ear. I guess..." "...you're so stupid
sometimes..."), Sasuke was doing the lecturing and Naruto was
demonstrating.

"And if you focus your chakra properly, which is the aim of this class, you will even be able to transform your own body without use of a wand, or make "doppelgangers"-- many different separate copies of yourself to confuse the enemy. Naruto will demonstrate. Naruto, if you will."

"SEXY NO JUTSU!!"

"AAAAHHHH!!" sound of thirty nosebleeds at once

"NARUTO!!!!!"

"Eheheheheh...sorry, wrong one."

Sasuke hit him on the head.

"Ooow, what was that for, Sasuke?"

"DOBE!"

Class: sweatdrop

(a/n: you had that coming to you, Sasuke... --;;)

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Gaara regarded his class stoically.

Neji put his head in his hands.

This is SO not happening.

"Trevor! NOO! Come back to me!! Trevor, where do you think you're going! No! Don't go there! Bad toad!!"

"EEK!!!"

"Toad on the loose!!"

"TREVOR!!"

Shukaku roared with laughter.

...shut up.

Sand moved restlessly around the room, but Gaara restrained it. He would NOT stoop so low as to stop a mere toad from hopping around a classroom. He would not. He would not. He--

Neji looked at him as only those suffering from the mother of all migraines could.

"Gaara. Please."

Sigh.

Sand rose from the ground in a small wave and caught the toad just as it was about to hop down the shirt of fifth-year girl.

Dammit.

"SO." Neji got up from the desk, pushing his hair out of his eyes.

"I think today we'll just start with meditation."

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"YYYOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!! I GREET THEE, YOUTHFUL AND EXUBERANT STUDENTS OF THE VIRILE SCHOOL OF HOGWARTS!! TODAY YOU WILL BEGIN YOUR PURSUIT OF THE WONDERFUL JOYS OF NINJUTSU!!!! I, ROCK LEE, DO SWEAR UPON MY HONOR AS A MAN TO TEACH YOU AS MUCH AS YOUTHFULLY POSSIBLE!!! NOW!!! LEAVE EVERYTHING TO MEE!!! FOCUS YOUR CALM YET EXCELLENT SELVES INWARD!! YOOOSH!!!" grin/thumbs up (nice guy pose)

Class: so bright!! can't...see--going...deaf...

Tenten:used to it sigh. facepalm

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Dumbledore checked in on the other classes. Kiba and Hinata seemed to be doing fine, the shy girl writing on the board and the dog boy speaking enthusiastically. Temari and Shikamaru...he smiled to himself. He had done well in putting those two together, whenever Shikamaru found something too "troublesome" Temari would force him to go into further detail. The two girls, Sakura and Ino, also had everything under control, and Choji was willing to work with them.

"Sir, is everything well?" Professor McGonagall asked, walking towards him from the opposite direction.
"You seem deep in thought."

"Ah, Minerva, it's nothing, nothing."

"Albus, you're laughing. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or not." Their footsteps echoed throughout the stone hallway as they left the scene.

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"Lord Orochimaru."

The snake man's gleaming yellow eyes slid over to rest on the bowed head before him.

"Yess, Kabuto?"

The blond bowed, then straightened and pushed his glasses up his nose. "A message from Lord Voldemort-sama. He says we seem to be doing well and is pleased with our progress." A smirk.

"Ahh, Kabuto. Tell me what you think of this missive."

"Frankly, Orochimaru-sama, I think that it is mildly insulting. He must believe we are doing his dirty work for him. How degrading."

"Indeed, Kabuto, indeed. What shall we do about this little glitch?

How shall we remind him who, exactly, has the upper hand in this situation?" A semi-rhetorical question. The snake grins, skull-like, showing far too many teeth for a human, and a thrill runs through Kabuto. This is what drew him to Orochimaru-sama, this raw power and bloodlust. He smirks again, glasses glinting.

"I await your orders, Orochimaru-sama."

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accolay: ok, I know that was really inadequate, but it will have to do. i have SO. MUCH. HOMEWORK. is ded

chibi-me: to accolay Get some sleep, darn you. As for everyone else, please review and tell us what you think!