Now according to Tenten's plan this whole 'mission' was simple. We were split up into different groups using the old tactic of divide and concur, personally I thought this was a suicide mission but hey when in Rome.

So the groups were planned out as follows, Myself, Tenten and Neji were busting into the office to switch the tape with a Michael Jackson one we 'borrowed' from the music room, Kiki and Sepsuma were acting as lookouts at the teachers lounge making sure none of them came are way, Sasuke was acting as a distraction for Orochimaru chatting to him in the nearby corridor with Kiba and Naruto as backup ready to pull the fire alarm at his signal if things got out of hand, Kankuro, Rock Lee and Shino were blocking the school camera's, how they knew where they were I'll have to ask later, Ino and Sakura were having a pretend cat fight in the lunch hall over the bored looking Shikamaru to get everyone's attention, even though they were acting it sounded truly frightening, whilst Hinata and Chouji keeping lookout for them as well in case the teachers took it too seriously.

Shockingly everything was going to plan, Tenten whipped out her tool with her hand wrapped in tissue picking our way into the office, once the door opened Neji scanned quickly making sure there were no obvious camera's to catch us on film. He nodded and Tenten motioned me to show her where the cassette player was I quickly indicated the only lockable draw in the desk.

She grinned manically and made short work of prying it open, my hands also wrapped in tissue I pressed eject and replaced the tape with Michael Jacksons greatest hits. Then slid the draw closed again, it occurred to me how were we going to lock it again when Tenten fiddled with some more. A few moments later she tugged it and it wouldn't budge open, I sincerely hope that she doesn't pursue a career as a safe cracker because they'd never catch her.

Neji's pale eyes flickered in urgency meaning we mad better hurry up as voices floated down the hall to where we were. Tenten and I moved into the hall as Neji closed the door behind us, Tenten worked her magic even with the added pressure looming.

The footsteps drew closer with the voices, Tenten nodded confidently and we made our escape down the hall heading back towards the lunch room.

We did it.

We actually pulled it off.

I stared at the tape we had retrieved wondering what to do with it, I wanted to burn it just to be rid of it forever, Sasuke brought me out of those thoughts when he appeared seemingly from nowhere snatched the tape stuck it in his cassette player rewound and hit record. I blinked at him. He raised an eyebrow "What? I like this song and you wanted the evidence gone."

Huh everyone wins.

Naruto and Kiba soon joined us pouting, Naruto said "Aw we didn't get to pull the fire alarm."

Sasuke rolled his eyes "You poor things. You should have tried distracting Orochimaru. He kept going on about 'how lucky I was to be blessed with such a young and perfect physique.' I nearly gouged his eyes out with a pen just to stop him looking at me like that."

I may not know him that well but I'm pretty sure that's a lot of words for Sasuke to say at once, the others stunned silence confirmed my theory. Sasuke glared and went "Hn."

Therefore reinstating normality apparently.

We regrouped with the others at the table, Sakura asked "Well? Did it work?"

Naruto beamed "Uhuh! One hundred percent success!"

Her and Ino breathed in relief "Thank goodness! I didn't want our fight over Shikamaru to be in vain."

Ino added "Totally. No offence Shika."

Shikamaru just muttered "Troublesome." Before resuming his sleeping position.

I will not get jealous, I will not get jealous, aw damn it I'm jealous. Just a little. Okay. Maybe a lot. But not at Shikamaru himself really I'm just jealous that he can sleep so much when I can barely get a minutes worth of rest before waking up from a nightmare or otherwise. If it wasn't for my sweet delectable coffee I would have keeled over a long time ago. Speaking of which there was one hovering in front of nose, I looked surprised at Kankuro who was offering the heaven in a cup at me.

He smirked "Go on Gaara you need it more than me anyway."

Gingerly I took the cup unsure what to make of my brother's new attentions, I know he wishes to make up for ignoring me but still this is gonna take some getting used to. Still he brought coffee which is instant bonus points in my book. We all sat in contemplative silence for a little bit when Lee suddenly yelled "YOSH! Our mission was a success so I will train even harder for our next one! I will do fifty sit ups and if I cannot succeed then I shall so three laps around the school on my hands!"

Tenten sighed and Neji hmmed "You can't fight destiny Lee."

Naruto stood up "WHAT THE HELL! I THOUGHT I KICKED THAT DESTINY CRAP OUTTA YOU AGES AGO!"

Sakura got mad and punched Naruto "IDIOT! Don't yell like that in my ear!"

Sasuke smirked "Hn."

Naruto turned on him "WHAT WAS THAT BASTARD!"

Sakura and Ino punched him this time "DON'T CALL SASUKE A BASTARD IDIOT!"

Hinata twiddled her fingers nervously face flushed red, Kankuro smirked at Sepsuma "Talk about a love hate relationship."

Without out looking up from her revision book she quipped back "At least they have a relationship which is something you lack."

Kiki giggled at their banter watching with Shino as the two bickered, Chouji munched on chips as Shikamaru continued snoozing, Kiba had started arguing with Naruto as well, lee added a "YOSH!" every so often despite Tenten's exasperated berating for him to stop and Neji watched the proceedings quietly.

Yes this was the new normality and I must say I'm getting rather fond of it.