Melody (Konoha School Of Arts)

10. How class D made Iruka-sensei mad

Filler chapter! We need a break from all the angst.

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"SASUKE-TEME, OVER HERE!" Naruto's voice carried throughout the whole dining hall big as it was. It inevitably attracted attention both to him and the person he was calling to. Right now Sasuke was learning how not to be an antisocial jerk and Naruto was showing him the wheels.

It was the worst decision he had ever made, being the blond's best friend that is, but he was stuck with the dobe so if the dobe was being stupid, unfortunately he also had to be stupid by association. (AN: me and my friends all the time)

Sasuke, embarrassed, walked through the crowd of people and tables to the table Naruto was seated at with Gaara. Sometimes Sasuke wondered how the redhead put up with their blond best friend even. He sat once he reached there and acknowledged Gaara with a grunt. The guy nodded back.

"You two are weirdos dattebayo." Naruto commented before stuffing his mouth full with rice. He was about to start rambling about some random nonsense when Gaara hit him with a slap stick- yes he bought a slap stick specifically for Naruto and maybe Kiba- and chided him not to speak with his mouth full.

"That's a nice idea." Sasuke was referring to the slap stick. Hitting Naruto with his fists hurt him in return but with a stick...that was a really nice idea!

"Oya? Sasu-chan eating with the losers? What gives?" Haku teased as he came to sit beside said boy.

"Hey, we're right here!" Naruto yelled, offended.

"That's just how he speaks. Don't mind him too much." Sasuke explained that Haku had no regard for mincing words. Said boy just laughed and raised his hands in mock surrender.

"No offense to you guys." He laughed. Gaara ignored him in favour of eating while Naruto just blanched as if he saw a ghost. Haku blinked in confusion when he realised that Naruto was staring at him as if he grew another head. "What?" He asked unsurely.

"You're a b-boy?!" Naruto screamed dramatically. It had almost been a year since he and Haku were classmates and he was just knowing that he was a boy! Unbelievable!

"Hn, dobe." Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Girls wouldn't shower with us after gym class, Naruto." Gaara shook his head at his friend's dramatics.

"I'm offended, Naru-chan. We've been classmates for months!" Haku feigned being hurt. He got that kind of reaction a lot so he was used to it. It was fun seeing Naruto sputter in an attempt to change his pronouns in his head.

"You're prettier than Sakura." Naruto said after a while of thinking about how his whole life was a lie. How come he missed Haku in the showers anyway?!

"You're a big baka, dobe." Sasuke rolled his eyes for the one millionth time today.

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Yamato-sensei's voice went through one ear and flew out the window through the other one for the majority of Class D. For others people like Shikamaru, Omoi and Tenten, the man's words didn't even reach their ears at all. Everyone was doing their own thing like looking at the beautiful white ceiling, doodling on their notes, making paper planes, finger wars, pen fights, et cetera, et cetera.

This was how the Dumb class looked like during maths, more like during every class that wasn't practical class. It would have continued had Judgement Day not come suddenly upon them in the form of the dreaded pop quiz.

It wasn't exactly a pop quiz. KSA always organize two tests before the midterms to ensure that the students actually understand what was taught. These tests are based on the works taught in previous terms and sometimes, grades, but of course nobody in class D was paying attention to anything being said on their orientation day and absolutely did not read the school handbook so the tests always came as a surprise to them.

The results of Yamato's sudden (not really) test were chewed pens and finger nails.

In the staffroom, said man reached into his drawer and took a bottle of paracetamol. Just one glance at the scripts and he could already feel an headache storming in his head. Was this an actual pie?! Yes it was if the 'apple pie' label was any indication. What was this?! It looked like a chicken tried to write! And this?! A blank page?! Yamato's head dropped on his table.

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Iruka was fuming as he entered the class. Those children would cause his untimely death one day, he knew it. As if noticing his deadly aura, everyone went pin drop silent as the teacher calmly yet dangerously arranged what looked to be their test notes at the teacher's platform.

"I am very mad at you all, pissed even." Series of gulps broke the silence at the dark voice. It wasn't often that Iruka became mad at them despite his short temper so this new development was plain scary. "These tests are something you have done and aced before so I don't understand why you all performed woefully this time."

Iruka opened the first note in the stack on his table. "A question was asked. 'What would you get if you add iodine with starch?' The answer this person wrote is bread. Bread. BREAD!" Umino lost his shit and slammed the book closed. "Who the hell is this person?!"

Everyone wisely kept their mouths shut.

"Next question. 'Where did the waltz dance originate from?' This person had the gall to write CINDERELLA!" Iruka could not even comprehend what was going on in that person's brain at the moment. "What disease is often accompanied by the reddening of the eyes?' What the hell is a Sharingan?!"

Nobody dared to answer that it was an eye technique from a popular manga.

"I find it disturbing that you all did a little bit good at sex education but what is this?! Is this supposed to be human anatomy?!" Iruka raised a diagram of a badly drawn picture of the skeletal system. Not that the person was bad at drawing, this was just a plain lazy sketch of a skeleton wearing lingerie...at least that was what it looked like.

Iruka dug his fingers in his hair and tugged hard, causing everyone to wince.

"This apple pie was drawn instead of a pie chart and another person wrote the menu of a bakery down as a literal 'pie chart'." Iruka did the air quote fingers as he said that one which was rather weird on his angry face.

Everyone knew it was Choji, it was so obvious. They were not foolish enough to out him though. It was good that Iruka was too pissed to actually check their names because it would've been a disaster if he did.

Said man sighed as he slumped down on the teacher's seat. "You guys did so well in the last exams and I was really proud. Some of the questions in the tests were things you solved and aced in the previous ones. Does this mean you all cheated or did you actually forget?"

Of course nobody said anything.

"You guys are really...I don't know what to do with you. Use the rest of the period to do exercise 11 of your Language textbooks. I really don't want to see you right now." With that Iruka left the class glumly.

It took a while for the silence that came upon class D to be broken by Tamaki. "I don't like it when sensei is mad at us." She said and everyone had to agree. Naruto had it worse because he was practically Iruka's son. He, like the rest of the class, had not taken the tests seriously since they didn't amount to much. He felt like he disappointed his sensei and wanted to make it up.

"We could make it up to him dattebayo." Naruto voiced his opinion.

"How? The only way sensei would be happy with us is if we make it to the top 15 and none of us here have the brains for it." Karui bitterly commented.

"Actually all we need to do is not perform so ridiculously in our tests." Matsuri piped in. "I'm curious though, who wrote bread as the answer to that iodine and starch question?!"

"Doesn't iodine and starch make bread?!" Omoi asked profoundly and everyone shook their heads. At least now they knew who did that.

The classmates swore that they would study and listen to their tutors in order not to perform so miserably in any test again. But that was easier said than done, wasn't it?

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I keep forgetting to explain that I named her Izumi Uchiwa on purpose. Uchiha, meaning paper fan, can be written as Uchiwa so I decided to use it instead of Uchiha. Izumi and Itachi only have similar last names in this fic, they don't belong to the same family tree.

Thanks for reading!