Stuck in the Middle
Chapter One:
"Oh! My baby is growing up so fast." Said a 45-year old woman with long pink hair as she hugged her 18 year old daughter with the same hair feature.
"College is a wonderful opportunity to learn what you love." Said the girl's grandfather. "Get your education, Sakura." The girl known as Sakura smiled at him.
"I will." A little girl of age 3 pulled on her skirt.
"I don't want Sakura to go." Sakura giggled softly.
"Don't worry Rini. I'll come visit you."
"Pwomise?"
"I promise." Sakura's mom picked up her youngest daughter and smiled at her oldest.
"Your father would be so proud of you. He gave you all his retirement money for college. I know you will succeed." Sakura smiled at her family one last time before grabbing her suitcase and walk into the dorm building. She looked around at the many students crowding the lobby. The only weird thing is that on one side there are beautiful pale students and on the other side there are tan, semi-muscular students. Some had weird hair color as well. Sakura walked up the stairs to the third floor and found her room. On the left side of the room, a girl with long purple hair and white eyes sat on her bed. She looked up as Sakura closed the door.
This girl, Sakura thought, looks kind of like the students downstairs. She has paler skin than most of them and a semi-muscular build. Sakura gave her a shy smile and went to her side of the room. The girl slowly turned to her and gave her a shy smile too.
"H-hi." Sakura smiled back.
"Hi."
"W-what's y-your n-name?"
Sakura Haruno. What's yours?"
"H-Hinata Hyuuga." Sakura beamed at her.
"Wow. Such a pretty name." Hinata blushed a deep red.
"T-thank you." There was a knock on the door and Sakura got up to answer it. A girl with long blonde hair pulled up into a ponytail, blue eyes, and pale skin stood at the door smiling.
"Hello there! My name is Ino Yamanaka. Nice to meet you!"
"Uh . . . hi. My name is Sakura Haruno." Ino smiled and frowned when she saw Hinata.
"You're roommates with her? I feel sorry for you." Sakura looked confused.
"Huh? Why? Nothing's wrong with Hinata."
"You don't know, do you?" asked Ino. Sakura was still confused.
"Know what?" Ino crossed her arms and smirked.
"This college is no ordinary college."
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
"All the students here are vampires and werewolves." Sakura gasped in disbelief. "And that thing of a roommate is a hybrid."
"Hybrid?"
"She means that I'm half vampire and half werewolf." Said Hinata quietly. Sakura looked at her.
"But . . . vampires and werewolves don't exist. Only in fairytales." Ino shook her head.
"You humans don't see things clearly. A vampire is pale and beautiful. A werewolf is muscular and tan. A hybrid is a little bit of both."
"If that's the case, then there are humans here too, right?" Ino shook her head again.
"You are the only human student accepted into this college." Ino scented the fear from Sakura. "Don't worry. There are some vampires who take blood pills and some, on the other hand, don't." Sakura gulped.
"Do . . . do you take blood pills?" Ino grinned.
"Of course!" Sakura sighed in relief. Ino linked arms with her. "Come on. Let me show you around." Sakura looked back at Hinata.
"What about Hinata?" Ino rolled her eyes.
"Fine. She can come too." Hinata slowly got up and followed the two out to the lobby. The lobby was packed with students. Of course segregated supernaturally. All the students, both vampire and werewolf, gave Hinata a look of disgust.
"Now, I want to give you a heads up." Said Ino as she led them to the corner of the lobby. "There are two leaders that rule the school. Sasuke Uchiha, leader and prince of all vampires. He has blackish blue hair that's spiked up in the back and onyx eyes that can turn red called the Sharingan. If you run into him, just do as he says. Now, the leader of the werewolves is Naruto Uzumaki. I'll admit that he can be cool and fun at times, but he's a werewolf and it's in our nature to hate werewolves. Anyway, Naruto has blonde hair like me and ocean blue eyes. He's nicer than Sasuke I'll tell you that."
Hinata instinctively moved closer to Sakura as she kept getting hateful looks from the other students. A vampire boy with dark brown hair and green eyes walked gracefully over to them with an evil smirk on his face.
"Look here." He said in a leery tone. "We got a little hybrid at our university." He looked over to Sakura and smirked again. "A human, huh? Your blood smells delicious. Mind if I have a little taste?" Sakura stepped back as he took a step forward, his fangs lengthening. Hinata whimpered and hid behind Sakura. Ino stepped to block the vampire boy.
"Leave them alone, Christian." She hissed as her fangs lengthened too. "You know the rules."
"Screw the rules. I want human blood."
"Enough." Commanded a deep, silky voice that made Sakura shiver. The four of them looked behind Christian to see a tall pale boy with blackish blue hair spiked up in the back and ruby red eyes.
"L-lord S-Sasuke!" Christian stuttered as he took a couple of steps back. "I-I was just . . ."
"I don't want to hear it." Sasuke growled. "Beat it." Christian scurried off quickly. The red eyed boy turned to look at the girl trio.
"Um . . . thank you, Lord Sasuke." Said Ino as she bowed her head in respect. Sasuke regarded her for a moment before shifting his gaze to Sakura and Hinata. There was slight disgust in his eyes as when he looked at Hinata, but a completely different emotion when he looked at Sakura. Sakura shivered as his ruby red eyes locked on her soft emerald ones.
"Are these the two new students?" he asked not moving his gaze from Sakura. Ino smiled brightly.
"Yes sir! This is Sakura Haruno and . . . Hinata Hyuuga." Sasuke looked between them.
"A human and a hybrid?" His gaze returned to Sakura. "Interesting." Sakura blushed and looked away from his red eyed gaze. "Look at me, human." Sakura slowly looked back at him. "Tomorrow you will be by my side during classes and can only leave when I dismiss you."
"What?" Sakura gasped out. "But . . ." Ino cut her off quickly.
"She will, Lord Sasuke." She said as Sasuke's tomoe eyes started to spin slowly. Sakura looked afraid.
"Hn." Sasuke mumbled before walking off gracefully. Ino whirled on Sakura.
"Are you crazy? Do you want to die early?"
"He can't tell me what to do!" said Sakura. Ino glared at her.
"He's the vampire leader. Whatever he says goes." Sakura sighed sadly. "I wonder why he wants you though."
"I think we should go back to our dorm now." Said Hinata. "C-class starts tomorrow a-anyway."
"Okay." Sakura agreed and they went upstairs to their dorms.
Later on at night, Sakura layed in her bed as Hinata sat on her bed wide awake. It was silent for a moment before Hinata spoke up quietly.
"If y-you don't want t-to be roommates with m-me . . . I'll understand." Sakura sat up.
"What?"
I'm an h-hybrid, a disgrace. I'll understand if y-you don't want t-to be my f-friend. N-no one wants to a-anyways."
"No."
"W-what?"
"I don't care if you're a hybrid. I'll be your friend until you don't want me to be." Hinata looked surprised.
"R-really?"
"Really." Hinata truly smiled with tears coming out of her eyes.
"T-thank you . . . friend."