3Naruto stared at the open book with disbelief. He was sitting on his bed eyebrows knit together, lips pursed, his face flushed.
"Nani o?" a voice rumbled next to his ear. (What the- )
Naruto jumped in the air throwing the book as well. "I don't know where it came from I just happened to see it," he wailed closing his eyes.
"heh?" Sasuke smirked sitting on the bed and picking up the book. The cover read 'Principles of Lust'.
"He looked down with large brown eyes" Sasuke read from the book, "as his lover slowly brought down his lips to…." He stopped abruptly. "Naaruto," Sasuke dragged out his name, his eye twitching with anger, "Just where did you pick this book from?"
"eh heh heh….from the library….I..I just took it for research," Naruto said twiddling his fingers while looking down sheepishly.
"Dobe, did you at any point read the tag in the section saying adult fiction? Did you read the summary at all that says it's a gay fiction story?" Sasuke expectantly at Naruto with an eyebrow raised.
Naruto went red again fisting his hands beside him, "I-it wasn't very clear, teme! Tonikaku, why do you know about such things?…Moushikashite, kimi wa homo-" (could it be possible that you are homo-)
"Don't run away with your imagination, usuratonkachi! Its c-common knowledge," Sasuke replied, looking away, scratching his head, his face a light shade of pink as well. "Seriously you are so troublesome sometimes," he sighs. "Mou, kaeru," Sasuke got off the bed walking towards the door. (I'm going home)
"Matte, teme!" Naruto yells. He began to go red again this time he looked like he's about to burst. "Onegai, please….you have the experience..please teach me about lust and love!"
"HAAAH? AAHO! Think before you speak sometimes!" Sasuke replied looking as scandalized as he could look.
"Demo, demo, I don't know anything about it and I suck at math anyways if I don't do this I'll surely fail and you'll have to go to the next grade alone don't you care about that?" Naruto asked in one breath while mock weeping and holding on to Sasuke's leg.
"Betsuni ii kedo," Sasuke said flatly. (not really)
Naruto leaves Sasuke's leg. "Sasuke no baka. Leave my house this instant we're not friends anymore!" with that Naruto plops his head on his pillow and starts weeping noisely as Sasuke sweat drops.
"It's not really that hard though," Ino remarked as she munched on a carrot from her salad plate. "I mean lust is our second nature seeing as we're teenagers." Sakura rolled her eyes at the statement, while jotting down notes from what looked like a Shakespearean play. "And all of us have to have experienced love at some point of our life right?"
"Really? Define love." Sakura looked up from her notes to shoot the question.
"It's a warm and fuzzy feeling."
Sakura snorted, "Yeah, now try and convert that into 5000 words," she said returning to taking notes.
"I personally feel love doesn't exist," Temari said as she seated herself next to Ino with her tray of food. Her eyes twinkled wickedly. "Now an irresistible lust for someone…..that is something that totally exists."
"I d-don't agree," a small voice came from next to Sakura. "L-l-love is a v-very dif-different feeling" said a blusing Hinata.
"Aww Hinata, when are you going to get over your crush on Naruto? Either that or tell him about it." Ino commented. Hinata blushed harder. "But I can totally understand if you want to share 5000 words on your love for Naruto with us," Ino said leaning forward and holding Hinata's hand. Temari cackled as Sakura kicked Ino under the table.
"Lets leave the two sex crazed bitches to their fantasies Hinata, I've gotta get to work and you've gotta go home to meet the guy your dad's trying to hook you up with." Sakura said, her eyes boring into Ino as she got up to leave.
"You've got a hook up?" Ino gasped between Temari's catcalls. "tell me everything about it" she yelled at Hinata as she was dragged out by Sakura.
Shino crouched on the floor, his sunglassed eyes leveled with his desk. He watched silently as two ants carried a crumb of something across the desk, presumably towards their nest. Shino liked insects. Like ants for example. They were such complex creatures and yet so simple. The worked in groups, they communicated, they had division of labour, they stood together as a family. They were probably more civilized that humans itself, atleast so Shino thought. When they needed to produce offspring they mated with each other and that's it. Ok so it was a little more complicated than that, there were the fertile males or 'Drones' and the fertile females or the 'Queens' and only they were allowed to mate but no matter. It was still a very simple system. So Shino just couldn't figure out where love came into the picture for humans?
"Eew! Ants!" Kiba slamed his notebook in the two busybodies effectively squishing them.
Shino stood up looking murderously at Kiba despite the dark glasses and collar that covered his face. He stormed out slamming the door.
Kiba scratched his head, confused, "What did I do wrong?"
"Baka," Shikamaru tapped his book on Kiba's head walked out of the door as well as Choji. Kiba followed muttering under his breath.
Kiba whooped out loud as he scored a point on his video game. Choji watched while munching on chips while Shikamaru dozed on his bed.
"You guys done with your assignment?" Ino popped into the room. Ino was known to do so since Shikamaru and her were neighbours and childhood friends. To Shikamaru Ino was more like an annoying sister he couldn't get rid of.
Kiba looked puzzled, "What assignment?"
"The love and lust one baka."
"Shimata! I forgot all about it" Kiba said looking horrified, "Have you guys done it?"
"I'd rather fail this and study a little harder to pass the over all exams. This assignment's too much trouble." Shikamaru answered without opening his eyes.
Choji just shrugged.
Kiba trained his eyes on Ino.
"Bye." And with that Ino disappeared as quicky as she'd appeared.
"Ino help me!" Kiba yelled following her out her.
Monday Morning –
"I see some of you have taken this assignment seriously," commented Kakashi looking at a bunch of reports on his desk as he seated himself. He was a full 20 minutes late but he couldn't care less for such mundane trivialities as being on time. Those were for the students.
He picked up the first on and read it out loud. "Lust is Pamela Anderson. Love is Anjelina Jolie. Lust is a necessity and therefore abundant, love is a tooth fairy that we all believe in but know it does not exist. The gritty truth is that Love is all but a metaphor for sexual pleasure of mind blowing proportions that delude you enough to make you believe you're in heaven and let's face it, who doesn't want that?...How very eloquent" Kakashi commented dryly. "This project gets a minus 5" he said while ripping up the measly 2 sheets. A yell was heard from the back of the class.
"Now I have some good news for you," he paused for effect, "Since I'm a Math teacher I'm not authorized to give you such assignments." There were some cheers and sighs of relief. "However I have convinced Iruka Sensei to let me test you on his behalf and since he's an English teacher he is very much allowed to make this assignment a part of your yearly projects…." – a unanimous groan of disappointment – "But that means you don't have to submit it now, you have all year to complete it." The students were mollified for the time being.
The class continued without much trouble after that although silence amongst the students was rather foreboding. The bell rang and Kakashi walked out the door.
"Oh, did I mention," he popped his head in again, "The word count has now gone up to 20,000 words, and since it's the only project it'll account for 50% of your final marks for English." He walked out quickly dodging the numerous objects being hurled at him as loud voices of indignation proclaimed him a sadist, several anatomical parts, Satan reincarnated, and the likes.