Rabbit Princess [Gaara] [1]

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"Listen, Naruto," Iruka shouted. "You failed the last final exam and the exam before that!" Tsukiko watched in boredom. Uzumaki Naruto had run away from class and their teacher had finally caught him and brought him back, again. "You shouldn't be fooling around like that,"

"Hn," Naruto said, looking from where he was sitting on the ground, tied. A tick slapped over Iruka and he looked over at all the students. Tsukiko straightened up a little, not wanting to appear as if she wasn't paying attention.

"We're going to have a review test for the Transformation Jutsu!" Iruka announced to the class. "Those who already passed will have to line up as well!" Tsukiko wanted to slap herself and Naruto for bringing this up again.

"What!" Everyone groaned loudly except for two student – Tsukiko, who was busy craving her name into the edge of her desk, and Uchiha Sasuke, who just generally stayed quiet all the time. Tsukiko had never talked to him either.

In her wise opinion, Tsukiko believed that Uchiha Sasuke had created a disease that had consumed the majority of females in their class. It had to be something of that sort, because there was no other way the girls could become so loopy, stuttering messes otherwise. Tsukiko was proud to say that she was one of the few who had managed to avoid Sasuke like the plague and steer clear of this horrible disease.

The students got up from their desks and walked over to the front of the classroom, lining up according to their names. Tsukiko joined them as well, standing a little bit aside from others since most of the classmates didn't really like to approach a 'demon's child'.

Iruka took his clipboard and one by one the students started to step forward and show off their Transformation Jutsu. Tsukiko had no problem with that – She had practiced it well enough to know how to do it on a whim. Naruto on the other hand... Nope!

Four years had passed since Tsukiko had joined this class. Everyone was at least a year older than her but she did not let that get to her – she worked as hard as each and every one of them. She knew that they didn't really feel comfortable with her (and Naruto) there, but Tsukiko did not let it get her down.

People of Konohagakure were still repulsed by her presence among them, and Naruto's, but Tsukiko tried her best to not let it affect her. She had tried her best to make friends with others regardless of everything, but none of them except Naruto was ready to be her friend. And vice versa.

"Haruno Sakura going... Transform!" Haruno Sakura said, holding up her hands in the Ram hand seal. There was a poof of smoke and in her face now stood a perfect copy of Iruka Sensei. Once Iruka had approved of it, she turned back. "I did it! Did you see that? Sasuke-Kun?"

But Uchiha Sasuke made no response. In fact, he made no indication that he even heard her voice. However, everyone in the class was used to this behaviour. Sasuke rarely talked and was mostly interested in only the lessons. Tsukiko didn't really mind his presence, but the other girls loved it.

"Next, Otsutsuki Tsukiko," Iruka called out. Tsukiko walked over to the front and moved her hands through the Dog, Boar and Ram hand seals. There was a poof of smoke and she had transformed into her Iruka Sensei. "Good job,"

Tsukiko turned back into herself and smiled at him before going to join the rest of the class who had gotten done with their Transformation Jutsus. As Tsukiko moved her long white hair back, Sakura eyed her and huffed slightly. Tsukiko did not respond as she watched the other students.

Sakura and Ino had a rivalry for Sasuke, along with the rest of the girls in the class (or most of them, at least as Tsukiko or Hyuga Hinata could care less). Tsukiko had no problem with all this, but what she didn't like was that the girls believed that she might join this contest as well. She wouldn't. She would never get that disease!