Perplexed
By: PikaBoo.LoVe
Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own the plot and well that's about it… The Songs are owned by the singers/bands, and the reviews are owned by you.
Warning: The First Chapter Of Every Story Usually Sucks!
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HIDINGThis was finally it… It was finally the day… I was in High school!
Oh how anti-climatic, lets just forget all the fluff and get on with the real story. My name is Sakura Haruno. OR formally known as the queen of geeks, dorks, dweebs, nerds, losers, know it all's, etc.
I usually have the feeling I can never really…well…talk to people. I always seem to back out of things. Many students would choose to go out and party all night, get drunk and probably get laid by one of the many number of jocks. Yes I am still a virgin, and I am proud. But enough about me not getting "Down and Dirty" with one of the jocks or some other guy who has hormonal problems. Then again…which teenage guy does not?
I am in grade ten, and you know how I said "it was finally the day I was in high school!" well yes I am, but in grade ten. The teachers at my new school could not find enough teachers to teach us grade nine courses so we stayed back in middle school for another year. Oh well I guess there is a first time for everything.
This summer I really had nothing to look forward to. I figured I would ride through a number of books, maybe review a few notes. But I would spend most of the summer on the computer, playing some games that I could find on the Internet. Although when the first month of summer was coming to its end, and I came across this game site where I could play games, as well as talk to others on the web.
My username.
ChemicalPink.
I loved chemistry so I decided to go with that. My hair was pink as well…oh yes forgot to describe myself. I am finally an actual height! I was 5 foot and a half. How sad… I wasn't even 5 foot1. But during the summer…must have been something I ate I grew a few more inches and now I am 5 foot 3. Still I am short, but it is better than nothing…I guess. I have long pink hair that reaches my mid back, but is usually in a messy bun. I go to school wearing the school uniform of course, but when I arrive home I wear slacks. My eyes are a bright green color, I wish they weren't so well bright…I would have enjoyed a nice dull color green but I guess you can't really change that. Besides I hate contacts.
I was playing a game of blackjack on the game site. I never played blackjack but I caught on and was playing like a pro in 10 minutes. It was me, and only me playing the game until a username of.
Ekusas entered.
I never took much notice too him because I was too into my game of black jack to even know he was there until he said.
"Chemicalpink? What are you? Hydrogen from the Periodic table of elements?"
I blankly looked at the screen and saw what the person had written, from the choice of their name and the color of their text. Green. I figured it was a guy, although wouldn't hurt to ask.
"Ahem. If you took a quick look at the periodic table of elements, you would see the color of the box is pink. The others are different colors."
I decided I could just reply it wouldn't hurt me, besides the guy didn't know me so I can always hide behind the internet…
'and hide the fact I am a real coward' I thought to myself and laid my fingers upon the keyboard itself. And I began typing.
"Very Funny. Your one to talk, Ekusas."
"Mmhmm, having your time of the month? I was only joking."
"I realized that the moment you entered the first sentence for me to read. And no it is not."
"Oh so you did read it?"
This person asked to many questions.
"Yes."
"So why did you choose your name?"
"Its should not be of concern for you."
"I was Just asking. But if you want to be formal fine, I am Ekusas, and if you get to know me better maybe I will tell you my actual name."
"I highly doubt that."
"You never know"
"Very True" I wrote back. I was actually beginning to enjoy this conversation with this boy.
"You seem intelligent"
"Why thank you, although I cant say the same about you."
"Your one to talk Mr. Green text" I laughed at the way I responded. Wow how the internet could surprise you in such, interesting ways.
"Oh didn't you hear that green is the new red?"
"Really. I thought that was only during Christmas"
"Oh Dang. You are correct. My apologizes I guess you are like most girls, color observant"
"Hardly. Any moron can see that red and green are Christmas colors."
"Ah Touché"
So that's where we started. In a game room on the Internet playing blackjack. Not the most romantic thing in the entire world. But it was a start.
From then on… I began to fall in love with Ekusas. He added me on his friends list and I accepted. We began talking every night and sometimes during the day, but mostly during the evening. It was summer vacation so I could stay up all night long, and apparently he could as well.
I knew that an online relationship was a real stupid thing to get involved in. But, after the amount of time I talked to him and realized he was just an amazing guy, it seemed that an online relationship was the last of my worries. Everyday during the summer I would wake up and look forward to actually living the day to its fullest. Just saying his name out loud or repeating his name in my mind would just send shivers down my spine.
He was a very calm and cool laid back kind of guy. He enjoyed science classes as much as I did, and he also liked politics. He said when he grew up would like to become a leader in a political party and go down in history, as the man who made change in the country he lived in. He also enjoyed sports; he said he was on the basketball, swimming, soccer, football, and the tennis team in his school. He was going into grade ten as well, so that meant we were in the same range of age.
I told him I was in grade ten as well and enjoyed science, art, music, and physed not so much. I also told him I was entering grade ten after the summer vacation and finally enter high school. He found it quite humorous that I haven't been in an actual high school before. Of course I have walk in one, but to attend classes I had to agree on him on that. He learnt my weaknesses and my strengths; I learnt that he only dated only one girl because his best friend badgered him into doing it. He enjoyed my opinions on the average male, but sometimes it hit a soft spot.
As the days began passing the sun starting to rise later and set earlier, we really began getting very close. But that dreadful day had come. The last day of the summer vacation. Its funny how summer is usually so boring until the last few weeks of it. That is what annoyed me, well…the part that I wouldn't get to spend as much time as I would like talking to him, like I did during the summer. He said it was a bummer for him as well, he said he got into a 11th grade politics class, and I was happy that he did. Although he was still chicken about the whole, I am going to be the only 10th grader with a group of 11th graders. But that was another sidewalk we walked upon.
We finally exchanged e-mails so we could chat when we came home from school, and maybe even help each other on some homework assignments. And there it was…
The Shutdown Button…
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SHUTDOWN?
Yes
No
Cancel.
I move my curser towards the button with the letters.
Y
E
S
Attached to it. And that was it.
The end of summer.
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Beep. Beep. Beep.
I heard the alarm clock ring but thought it was just an annoying buzzing noise from the dishwasher or maybe mom was working with the laundry machine, early like she used to do. Ugh the laundry machine…I hate that thing. Killed my cell phone the bloody demon.
"6:30am"
I groaned and sat up and growled remembering yesterday was the last day that I could just lay back, relax, and spend endless hours talking to Ekusas. I sighed and looked at the calendar that was hung on the wall opposite of my bed.
"September 7"
I looked over my shoulder and look at my computer screen. I yawned sat up and sat back down on my little stool in front of my computer screen, I switched on the monitor and saw a message.
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Bleep.
From: Ekusas
To: Chemical Pink
Subject: Im Awake
Morning sleepy head, I can only imagine what your hair looks like in the morning. One thing for sure it must look better than mine does at the moment.
READ.
From: REPLY. Chemical Pink
To: Ekusas
Subject: Reply Im Awake
Don't be so modest. How was your sleep? Mine, I need more. The alarm clock and I didn't get off to a very good start on the first day back at school.
REPLY.
From: Ekusas
To: Chemical Pink
Subject: Reply Im Awake
Mmhmm If were aiming to being modest it would have been towards myself. And sleep; of course I didn't get enough of it. But it was not the alarm clock that gave me a rough start; say thank you to my obnoxious brother.
What are you thinking about?
SEND. READ.
From: REPLY. Chemical Pink
To: Ekusas
Subject: Reply Im Awake
How very kind of you Ekusas. What am I thinking about? Bashing you in the head with my alarm clock. Nah im thinking about how my first day of school is going to be like. Im so nervous, but I guess that goes with everyone the first day back to school.
The word for me today is.
Optimism. Underline. Underline. Underline.
Anyway ill see if I can enter the world of the web when I get back from school. Some of us have to take a shower and get to school on time. Have a fun time at school though. Ok?
SEND.
Shutdown…
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20 minutes later and I was rushing like a rabbit trying to get the last carrot out of a box. I couldn't believe that I was side tracked with Ekusas e-mail. That boy, he always puts a smile on my face, even though I know I am going to drown in the world of numbers, Shakespeare, and the dreaded biology lessons.
I slid down the rail of my stairway and grabbed the 20-dollar bill my mom left me on the counter for the first day of high school. We had a huge discussion on what to bring, and what not to bring for lunch on the first day of high school. I figured that buying lunch was the safest road to follow.
I grabbed my keys and my mini back-pack and stuffed a few sticks of gum in my back pocket, hopefully it would not melt while I sat my butt on a chair the entire day and make a huge pink sticky stain in my pants, that my mother would not be so thrilled about.
I took a quick peek at myself in the mirror and nodded in approval. I had to admit. I look just, lovely. I headed for the door, opened it, locked it and stuffed the keys in my pocket. I grabbed my rollerblades, put them off and began skating to school.
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The first thing I see when I get to the front of the school is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Did I get the dates wrong? Was I that late? Was it lunch already? I looked at my wrist and saw nothing there. Damnit! I forgot my watch! I slide my Ipod out of my sweater pocket and took a look at the time.
"9:00am"
'Classes do not start until 9:20…where is everyone?' and then it came. My panicking I didn't know what to do so I flung out all my schedules, and calendars, and found my agenda. Yup September 7th. The first day of school, so where was everyone?
I groaned.
"How infuriating this first day of high school can be" I grumbled to myself and someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around and saw this old man looking straight at me. His smile was so huge I thought his fake teeth might have fallen out.
"Infuriating? That's a word you do not hear often."
"Im sorry sir. I just do not know where all the students are, im sort of new to this school and I have no idea where I even am."
"Calm down. Everyone is inside in the auditorium, it's a assembly but it was only mandatory for the students who have a average lower than a 80 percent."
"Oh, well thank you. But where should I be headed"
There was that huge smile again. Gosh that was one of the things I wish I had never seen. An old man giving me a huge smile, if I didn't know any better he was probably just trying not to laugh at my freakish pink hair.
"Probably to your first class, just stand by the door and begin reading a book to keep you busy. When the bell rings your teacher will be at your class. If your lucky you may even get the back seat of the class."
"I prefer the second row to the front. But thanks anyway…Mr?"
"Evans. I am the genealogy teacher, for the 11th grade classes, although I don't mind helping the new students in the school."
"Thank you again Mr.Evans"
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I walked cautiously into the classroom thinking maybe the boogie man or even a kindergartener would grab me and pull me into a dark corner, and I would never see the next day, and…and…the cops would find my dead body on the highway with birds poking at my dead flesh. With one of my eyes rolling to the back of my head and blood oozing out places I never knew blood actually flowed through.
I shook my head and brought in a deep breath, there was nothing more terrifying than the first day of school. Everything is so new to you, like a new born baby, every thing they see, touch, feel, smell, taste is all new. I felt that way, but my mom wasn't here to hold me in the warmth of her arms, which made my body shiver a lot faster than it had.
I took another step into the classroom and looked around it was empty. Or so I thought.
"Boo!"
I screamed and everything went…
BLACK.
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I stirred for a moment and finally came to. There was a bright light above me and it shone right into my eye. There were two people hovering my body, but my eye sight was still blurry so I couldn't quite tell who they were.
"Mom…"
"Dad…"
I clenched my teeth as the light got brighter, I layed my arm across my forehead and shadowed the bright light.
"Sweet pea, we wont be able to see if your pupils are in full vision yet if we cannot see them." It was a female voice for sure, she sounded quite old but very kind. Then it came to me, I was dead…this must have been one of God's angels. I was in heaven…I was raped! Oh why as I stuck in such of position.
"Am I…are i…how am…am I dead?"
I heard laughing, or maybe it was cackling. Oh no it was worse than I thought, I went to the one place that no one ever wanted to visit. The home of the all mighty, Devil and Satan, how could have I been so blind as a child! I knew I shouldn't have stolen all those cookies from the cookie jar at camp when I was four! I knew it was bad news! Now I was stuck in the worse place possible. Hell.
"Im sorry for stealing those cookies! I just couldn't resist! They were chocolate chip and so chewy and delicious! I never thought it would bring me here, please take me back! I will be a better person!"
"I think she's nuts"
"Pumpkin, don't panic your fine, you just got a slight fright, fell and hit your head is all. You fine." I moved my arm away from my face and brought my body up I looked around and my vision came to. It looked like a very clean room, there was a book shelf on the right hand side, a door on the left a window behind me, the bed I was lying on and a bunch of shelves painted white.
"Hey im sorry, I never thought you would get that scared. I just couldn't help myself, is your head okay?"
I rubbed my eyes and the minute the person mentioned my head, here came the pain. It was nausiting and sore. I moved my hand behind my head and rubbed it, there was a small bump and my hair was down, not in a bun like it usually was. This was weird…
"What are you talking about?"
"You were taking your time to enter the classroom, and I could see you were nervous but I couldn't help but give you a quick scare. Sorry again about the head thing"
"Sir may you please get this young lady some tea, and a coffee with milk for me as well while your at it."
"Bu-" She cut him off with a quick wag of her finger and he nodded and left the room. I shook my head and pulled off the hair band on my wrist and pulled my hair back up. "Where…where am I?"
"The nurses office dear, do you need an Advil for that bump or some water? You hit your head pretty hard on that desk." She said kindly taking a seat on her stool.
"No im fine, thank you." I gave her one of my trademark reassuring smiles. Yes I did need the Advil like a person needed air, but I didn't want to be a bother on my first day at this new school.
"All right then, I will just put your name in the school files and let your teachers know you are in the nurses office."
"There is no need for that really, I will be leaving the moment I get my legs to wake up."
"Nonsense you are all ready dazed as it is, when Mr. Uchiha comes back with your tea you may leave. But you are not going anywhere before you hydrate yourself first." She shook her head and continued "Silly boys, always getting the girls in problems. Not any different from my other schools I have worked at."
I sighed not really wanting to hear another old person remembering their past. I wanted to get out of this office as fast as I could. I hated being in secluded places, then again I didn't like crowds either. So this was okay too.
She began laughing and smiled at me. "Did you know you are the first student who has came here? Lucky you"
I laughed nervously and looked to the side. Wonderful, this is exactly the way I wanted to start the new school year. Getting hit in the head from a quick scare from someone and being told stories that I don't really care about. All my dreams have come true.
I heard a quick click from the door and sighed in relief when the boy came back with my tea. He handed it to me and just stared at the tea that was now in my possession. He looked back up at me again and I could see his jaw stiffen. He turned his attention to the teacher and handed her, the coffee she asked for. She nodded and he left the room and muttering 'sorry about the head' before he left. I looked at him astonished and just shrugged it off. Whatever.
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I finally left the nurses office when I finished my tea and she told me a few stories about the old country. How riveting…
I looked around and gulped. Oh right.
I was the new kid, and I had no idea where I was going. I looked left and right and just saw long, dark, gloomy hallways. There was no life to them, just long and empty. This just made me more nervous than before. I pulled out a mini map I had in my back pocket of the school and looked at it.
"Science class. Biology. Room: 210. Mr. Akamatsu" I looked at the map I found the room. This shouldn't be too hard to find, I mean its just a three story school.
20 minutes later…
"straight then turn left…wait no, right…STAIRCASE? I didn't see one! Staircase my ass, im looking at the big map."
I walked over to the map and look up at it.
DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?
(We don't either. Good Luck)
I stared blankly at the map and I could have sworn a vein my forehead must have popped, because this was getting on my nerves.
"WHAT IS THE POINT ON HAVING THIS MAP IN THIS SCHOOL ANYWAY!" I stomped my foot into the ground and growled angerly at the invisible dust.
"Lost?"
I jumped and did a quick pivot with my foot; I lifted my arm up and hit the person in the head with my hand. In the position a person would put their hand in, when they wanted to do a karate chop.
It was that guy again, the guy who scared me earlier and gave me tea. He still had his stoic face plastered but this time his eyes looked annoyed. There was my hand sitting on his forehead, proof of a miserable attempt to protect myself.
"This place is almost impossible to get used to. Im not surprised that you of people would have gotten lost."
So he did have a mouth. Interesting…
"So how do you get yourself around?"
"Im not directionally challenged."
Oh yeah why not bring a big billboard stick it on my forehead and write across it. OWNED. Lovely he was making fun of me, he was definitely someone who I would like to get to know…Psh right.
"That's funny" I said in a sarcastic voice.
"Im glad you find it humorous" this time he smirked. Guess the guy wasn't into smiling. Maybe he was one of those kids who were all depressed and only talked to freaky people like themselves.
"mmhmm. Well im fine, I can find my class no problem. I just got distracted."
"By What? Oh no wait let me take a crack at it, the lovely ceiling tiles. Oh how I can tell you what a genius the man was who put those up." He pointed upwards and I looked up. All I saw was a cracked ceiling, there was so much dust up there, dust bunnies left and brought the dust elephants to town.
"Im glad you find my first day of school amusing because I don't."
"Nahh im just pulling your tail. Anyway if you don't need my help be my guest." He nodded and waved his hand while he began walking away from me. "Bye"
I scowled and crossed my hands over my chest. He was a pain in the royal ass. So I decided to try and find my class again.
30 minutes later…
"Well That's just lovely. Im lost and I have no idea what class I am in anymore." I looked around and saw that boy again. He was sitting on a bench outside reading a book. I sighed in defeat, grabbed the handles on the door and stepped out.
"Hello" I smiled sheepishly; I must look like a real idiot now. He looked up at me with weary eyes and smirked. "Is this seat taken?"
"Nah, knock yourself out. Although don't expect me to carry you to the nurses office again."
"Aw you wish, I just kind of got bored of the continuation of getting lost so I decided to come look for someone I have seen before.
"This place is almost impossible to find. Are you stalking me or something? Although I can't blame you, I am very attractive."
"Well im glad you think so highly of yourself, but your still only the guy who brought me tea in the nurses office."
He smirked and slid on his sunglasses. "All right, all right I will introduce myself first. My name is Sasuke Uchiha. Captain of the swimming, tennis, basket ball, soccer, and football team. How about you?"
"Sakura Haruno. Captain of getting lost and being spooked easily"
"Yea sorry about that."
"Apology accepted. Actually I thought you were one of the bad boys, but I guess im not going to be attracted to you. Sensing you seem like a real nice guy."
"Don't think so huh? Why you into the bad boys? Wasn't that a seventh grade phase for girls or something?"
I laughed nervously and rubbed the back of my head where I had the massive bump. "Guess so, but then again I don't really know you and im kind of into someone else all ready so I cant go after you anyways."
"Someone else?"
"Yeah, but you probably don't even know him."
"Whats his name?"
"Erm…I don't know."
"So you like this guy, and you don't even know his name?"
"Well there is a story behind it, but yeah that about sums it up."
"Think you can tell me this story" He closed his book and looked at me like a child who was about to receive a Christmas present.
"Nah, maybe some other day."
"Oh come on"
"You know a girls name and your king of the world, where did you learn that from?"
"The very best." The bell rang and he stood up, I looked at him questionally and smiled and rose behind him. "So what class is it now?"
"Um. Home?"
"HOME! YOU MEAN SCHOOL IS FINISHED!"
"Basically…yeah. What? Don't tell me you were lost the entire day basically"
"No of course not!"
"You…were lost weren't you."
"Yes." I dropped my head in humiliation and sighed, he waved his hand and I followed him until I was in the front of the school again.
"Just so you wont go clutz tomorrow, meet me in the front of the school 10 minutes early and I will show you to your next class. Deal?"
"You would really do that???"
"Call it a sorry for making you black out"
"All right. Thank you Sasuke."
"No problem. Sakura right?"
"Yes."
"Goes with your freakish pink hair"
"Hey!"
"I was joking. Im gonna call you Grapefruit from now on. Later"
"Bu-!" before I could say anything he was already running to the car that was in the parking lot waiting for him. I sighed and remembered Ekusas was waiting for me. I put the pedal to the medal and ran home as fast as I could. I unlocked the door and ran up the stairs.
I dropped my bag at the door of my room and switched on the monitor, and I wasn't surprised he sent me an e-mail already.
From: Ekusas
To: Chemical Pink
Subject: School
Hey Chemical. How was your first day at school? Mine was odd, you cant believe what an amazing this book I just finished was. I can't believe Rinko was actually the bad guy! Aside from that how was your day?
SEND. READ.
From: REPLY. Chemical Pink
To: Ekusas
Subject: Reply School
It was interesting as well. I was totally lost, I even hurt myself today but it was interesting. The school is huge compared to my middle school, you wouldn't believe how intimidated I was. That's awesome, I have to remember to read that book. But im starving so im gonna eat. I will talk to you tonight though. Kay?
Later Ekusas.
SEND.
SHUTDOWN.
xXx
Perplexed – End
