This is the followup story to my one-shot songfic 'Every Night' you might want to read that before you read this, or you might just have a little trouble understanding... This isn't going to be long... only another chapter or two...
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... yet...
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Chapter One: Teardrops On My Guitar
He's
the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that
keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He's the song in the car I keep
singing, don't know why I do
~ Teardrops On My Guitar by Taylor Swift
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Sakura's porcelain cheek was poked by TenTen, her roommate. "Damn... Wake up you troublesome woman!!" TenTen huffed.
"You're starting to sound more and more like your brother," Sakura's eyelids opened as she spoke. (A/N: Yeah... I just felt like making TenTen and Shika siblings SO DEAL WITH IT!!)
"That was so funny I forgot to laugh. Get up woman... you're going to get sunburnt."
"I'm going to tell him today. And TenTen, I don't burn, I don't even tan!" Last night, TenTen had come in later then usual, after a long night with Ino and Hinata, and Sakura told her why she was out on the balcony, like she was every other night.
"Well you're not telling him today," TenTen crossed her arms on her -a little smaller then normal- chest and headed inside with Sakura.
"Huh? Why not?"
"Midterms are starting soon, and tomorrow is parents' day, how the hell are you going to find the time to tell him!?!"
"Good point... what time is it?"
"Like quarter to seven... I just came back from my run... If you want to make it to class you have to be back here in half an hour for a shower and to get ready for eight."
"Thanks, you're a life saver... damn I only get a half hour run today," she pulled on her white form fitting t-shirt (but doesn't stick to her) and her black short shorts. "Socks," she held her hand up and TenTen tossed a white pair that she caught with ease. "Thank you," she pulled them on her feet. "Where did I put my running shoes? Hmm...." she looked around her and TenTen's room. "In the entrance!" she exclaimed and ran out the door and to the entrance. "I found you!" she slipped her feet into her runners and grabbed her iPod off the table by the door.
The soft beat of her favorite song reached her ears from her white iPod strapped to her bicep through her candycane colored earphones.
She turned off the girls' walkway and ran across campus to the guys' dorms and when she got there she saw something she did not want to see... Karin and Sasuke together... engaged in a furious liplock. She felt the tears start to well up in her eyes and was about to turn away when she suddenly remembered something her aunt Tsunade, the dean, had once said in an interview when she was asked her trick to living after her husband died and people wanted to take advantage of her in her fragile state: "Don't let the tears flow, don't let them know you're dying inside." So she ran right past them and continued on her normal route around the campus.
After forty-five minutes she found herself back at her dormroom greeted by TenTen who was watching the plasma. "You're late."
"I know," she made a beeline to the bathroom and took a quick shower and brushed her teeth, blow-dried her hair put it up and was out the door in twenty minutes. She ran to her room and pulled on her red and black plaid pleated skirt, the black t-shirt blouse with the white bottons and white trim, pulled her red tie around her neck, grabbed her red jacket and headed for the door. "You coming Ten?"
"I'll be there in a- never mind... it's the husband that killed the daughter... Let's go!" TenTen pulled on her black Tennis shoes and grabbed their backpacks as Sakura pulled on her black thigh-high socks and her black platform Mary Jane's.
"To home room!" she got to the elevator and pressed the down button and waited for the elevator to get there. "Come on," she stabbed the button repeatedly.
"And people call me a spazz..." TenTen mumbled.
"What did you say?!?" Sakura shouted.
"Calm down Saks... breathe. In and out, in and out. Good."
"Sorry," she pressed her forehead to the wall. "It's just midterms... and then parents are coming tomorrow... I guess the pressure's getting to me."
"You'll do great, don't worry. Finally," they stepped into the elevator.
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"So for your midterm projects. . ." Kakashi took his gaze momentarily off his book to look at his groaning class. "Okay then. It was going to be a short story, but now it's a poem," another collective groan. "Don't complain, you only have to write one I have to read twenty-seven. Do it on whatever you want, I want it on my desk by Friday." He finished and leaned back in his chair.
"What the heck?" a ball of paper hit Sakura square in the -slightly large- forehead and fell on her open composition book. She huffed and opened it. Of course it was from TenTen, she was the only one with that good of aim. Can you help with the stupid poem? She read in TenTen's slightly sloppy writing. So you want me to write it for you? Sakura scribbled in her least neat writing as to not dwarf TenTen's, but still, her elegantly formed words were out of place on the white page. She crumpled it and threw it at TenTen's head, hitting her perfectly between the two buns. Pretty much. She read after TenTen threw it back. You'll have to help... Somewhat... She scribbled.
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"Sakura, you need to relax," TenTen watched her pacing roommate with bored eyes.
"Relax?! Don't freaking tell me to relax!!" Sakura momentarily stopped pacing to look at TenTen, who just rolled her eyes at her. "Ugh, you're right... its just parent's day... just parent's day..." she repeated over and over, taking a seat next to TenTen on their black leather couch.
"Yeah, and you're the main act," TenTen grinned when Sakura burst up and starting freaking out.
"I'm gonna screw up! I'm gonna screw up!" she shouted over and over, clutching her fingers deep in her hair, scraping at her scalp. "I'm gonna do something wrong, I know it! I just know it!"
"I was joking... jeez, chillax, you have five minutes before we have to meet them out on the front lawn," TenTen pulled Sakura down to sit on the couch. "You need comfort food..." TenTen jumped up and went to their makeshift kitchen, they had a small bar-like counter, three cabinets on the wall, and a minifridge (they eat real meals in the caf). "Chocolate!" TenTen grabbed one of Sakura's Hershey's bars from the tiny fridge and threw it at her.
"Mmm...." Sakura tore it open and devoured it. "Thanks," she mumbled, breaking another piece off.
"You and your goddamn chocolate," TenTen crossed her arms and leaned against the counter, waiting for Sakura to finish her feast.
"And lollipops," Sakura added throwing the beige rapper in the trash.
"And milkshakes," TenTen pushed off the counter and joined Sakura at the door, both in their uniforms, except TenTen was wearing black pants, like the guys' uniform, instead of the short skirt.
"And bubblegum," Sakura opened the door and closed it behind them.
"And Skittles," TenTen pulled her key out of her jacket pocket.
"And ice-cream," Sakura grabbed the keys out of TenTen's hands and locked their dorm door.
"And all other junk food," TenTen grabbed her keys and put them back in her pocket.
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"Ready?" TenTen asked as they paused in the lounge, preparing to go out and face the crowd of teens and their families.
"Yuppers!" Only Sakura could have a mental breakdown, and be utterly perfect the next minute. "Haha, let's go!" Sakura pushed the doors open and they were met with the cold December wind.
"Why December?" she heard TenTen mutter under her breath. "Hey guys!" she called Ino and Hinata over loudly.
"What took you guys so long?" the blond huffed and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Mental breakdown," TenTen pointed her thumb over her shoulder at Sakura who was jumping up and down, trying to get a look over the crowd. "Ahaha, you're soooo short!" TenTen laughed as they joined the jumping Sakura.
"Shut up!" Sakura paused and let out a deep sigh. "I can't see anything!"
"We should go to the front," Hinata suggested. (A/n: Why the hell would she stutter around her friends?! Hmm..?! Tell me that!!)
"Move!" Ino was already shoving her fellow students out of her way. They quickly reached the front, thanks to Ino and TenTen's shoving.
"That's not what I meant..." Hinata looked at her weird friends who weren't being very polite.
"Weeellll.....we're at the front aren't we?" TenTen grinned and Ino joined her while Hinata shook her head disapprovingly and Sakura... wait SAKURA!!!
"Daaaaaddddddyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!" the girl screeched out running to her father who was getting out of the big black SUV by the front gates.
"I guess she found her parents," all three sighed and laughed as Sakura jumped on her huge father.
Haruno Bayou was a very tall man, standing at 6'7", and he was muscled, big time! Not in a Mr. Universe-its-almost-disgusting way, but a 6'7"-250pounds-of-muscle kind of way. If that didn't distinguish him enough, he had light blue hair and icy-blue eyes, strong, high cheekbones, a prominent squared chin, an angled nose, and thin lips, he looked very aristocratic. You could easily see where Sakura got her odd hair color and pale skin from.
The older man laughed his loud booming laugh as he caught and embraced his tiny daughter. "How are you Hime?" he asked as she leaned away from his body.
(A/n: Okay, here's what's going on if you don't understand. Sakura's dad's holding her up while she has her legs wrapped around his waist. Get it? Got it? Good.)
"I'm fine Daddy, how are you?" she stared him directly in the eyes, something hardly anyone ever did, even his wife avoided it. It scared people to look at him, his sharp face and intense eyes frightened many. But Sakura wasn't afraid of her father, that much, he was more of a big cuddly teddy bear then a huge muscled scary business man.
"Happy," he pulled her closer and buried his head in her pink locks. A chorus of 'aw' from the mothers in the yard and some female students as they watched the happy scene before them. But unknown to them he was whispering something in his daughter's ear. "She's gone Sakura," he whispered ever-so quiet. He felt her nod against his shoulder as she hid her face there. "Don't cry Darling, she's better now, no pain, she won't hurt anymore," she nodded again, and pulled her head away.
What everyone else thought were tears of joy, joy of seeing her father again, were tears of sadness, of despair, but if you looked close enough, as her father did, you could see a hint of relief buried deep in her grass-green eyes.
"Ah Bayou, wonderful to see you again," Tsunade had come out of the school and had finally made her way to the front of the crowd. She took one look at her niece's eyes and saw it all. They had lost the fight, the hope was gone, her sister was gone. He set Sakura down and hugged her gently. "Is it done?" she whispered.
"Yes... It is," he let go and grabbed his daughter's tiny hand in his huge one. "So, where are we going?" he looked down at her and smiled, and she smiled back.
"Tsunade-shishou, do you need me right now? Or can we go see some of the teachers?" Sakura turned to her aunt and felt a twinge of pain surge through her. They're exactly the same, she thought. Tsunade and her mother were the same height, the same body type and probably had the same weight too, but there were slight differences. Like her mother's hair had a brown undertone while Tsunade's was completely bleach blond. Tsunade's eyes were a blazing amber, while her mother's were a softer brown.
"I don't need you right now, but at one everyone's meeting in the auditorium for a final run through and you should be there," Tsunade left to talk to the other parents of her students.
"So?" he asked as the crowd turned back to their own families.
"Hmm? Oh yes! Let's go see Kakashi-sensei!" She pulled him toward the school to see her home room and language arts teacher, otherwise known as her aunt's niece Shizune's (who Sakura had always loved like her own family) husband. "Kakashi-sensei? Are you in here?"
"Yo," the lazy teacher popped out of no where.
"Kakashi-sensei, Otou-sama, have fun, I'm going to go find Sasuke and his family," Sakura waved and ran out of the class.
"So Bayou," Kakashi sat on his chair and leaned back lazily, the taller man sat on one of the desks. "Have you met Sasuke's girlfriend?"
"No," the older man replied indifferently. "Who is she?"
"Oh, just the biggest slut in school," the silver haired man pulled out his little orange book.
"Kakashi-sensei!" a squeak came from the doorway. Sakura couldn't find the Uchihas and had returned to her father.
The rest of the day went off without a hitch, the Harunos had found the Uchihas and had gone out to lunch together at eleven, seeing as Sakura and Sasuke had to be in the auditorium for one.
But what Kakashi, Bayou and Sakura didn't know is that Karin was passing by the class at the precise time that Kakashi had told Bayou about Sasuke's girlfriend.
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Knock, knock, knock!
Sakura groaned and got up from the couch that she was laying on to get the door. She mumbled a 'hello' as she pulled it open. Her eyes went as wide as saucers when she saw who was standing there. "Uhh... Hi Karin," she looked the tall girl over. "Is something wrong?" she took notice of the girl's tear stained face.
"Are your friends here?" Karin looked past Sakura at the huge room, that was much bigger then her own.
"No, they're going to get popcorn for our movie marathon, 6 movies, 12 hours," Sakura smiled at her, all the while wanting to her to die.
"Can I come in?" Karin pushed her glasses up her nose.
"Sure," Sakura said a little uncertain, but nevertheless she moved aside and let Karin in. They both sat on a couch, side-by-side.
"Sakura, about what Kakashi-sensei said to your father today-" Karin started but Sakura interrupted her.
"I'm SO sorry. He didn't mean it honestly. What he said isn't true!" Sakura pleaded for forgiveness even if she wasn't the one who said those awful things.
"No, what he said was true.. This morning, when you were running, that was Sai, not Sasuke, and all the other times too. Sasuke won't even touch me," Karin sniffled and wiped her nose on her sleeve.
"Are you okay?"
"Can I ask a favor of you?"
"Sure, anything," Sakura smiled and nodded.
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"I'm pregnant."
"I thought you said Sasuke wouldn't touch you?!" Sakura said, VERY alarmed.
"It's not Sasuke's, it's Sai's," Karin sniffled and started to cry.
"Have you told anyone?"
"NO!! And you can't, please! If anyone found out it would ruin me!"
"I'll call the hospital, Dr. Jijiro owes me a favor," Sakura smiled and grabbed her cellphone out of the front pocket of her sweater.
"You would do that, for me?" Karin stopped crying and hugged Sakura tightly. "Thank you Sakura! You're an angel! Thank you so much!"
"It's no problem," Sakura hung up the phone. "You're set for tomorrow morning at nine thirty, I'll ask my aunt to give you permission to leave campus."
"Thank you! Thank you SO MUCH!! I have to go or someone's gonna notice I'm gone," Karin got up and made her way to the door. She hugged Sakura one last time and the door opened at that exact moment.
"Whoa!" TenTen exclaimed as she saw the scene in front of her. Ino looked like she was about to scream and Hinata looked very, very confused. "What's this all about?"
"Nothing," Sakura smiled at Karin. "Karin just came over to say hi."
"Yeah," Karin agreed and once TenTen and Hinata has entered the room fully she pulled Ino back. "Yamanaka, I need your help."
"Help with what? Taking that mask off?" Ino glared at her. "Just because Sakura's nice to you, doesn't mean I have to be, I have no obligation to help you."
"I need your help to get Sasuke and Sakura together," Karin pursed her lips and looked around, she pulled the door completely closed so that Sakura, Hinata and TenTen couldn't hear their conversation, she scanned the hall quick too.
"HUH?!" Ino exclaimed, stunned. "I thought YOU were with Sasuke!"
"I am... I was..."
"Why the sudden change of heart? I thought all you Sasuke fangirls hated Sakura."
"First, no one can hate Sakura, and second... him and her... its just... he... mumbles her name... and she's so nice... and you can tell and yeah!"
"Good enough reason for me! We've been trying to get them together for years!"
"So?"
"So what?"
"Do we have a deal?" Karin stuck out her hand.
"Yes, but I am not touching that," she pointed to Karin's hand. "I don't know where its been."
"That would be the reason everyone loves Sakura and loathes you."
"Like it hurts coming from you," Ino gave her a sickly sweet smile. "I'll start tomorrow. I'll," she shuddered. "Talk to you tomorrow morning in Algebra."
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Hope you liked it!
