Sakura hated embarrassment. She hates it , doesn't mean embarrassment hates her. Sakura and embarrassment have become synonyms. She is one of those fools who trips and falls flat on their first day of school. Yup, she tripped on her own foot and got intimate with the floor as she entered the Konoha high – magical school which immortals go to.. She got up on her knees and stood up dusting her skirt , white shirt and black blazer. She looked at her palm and saw that it was bleeding . What a grand entry.
"Hey ,you are so clumsy "
She looked up in the direction of the person who was obviously having fun at her expense. She is a blonde girl with sky blue eyes and she looked quite pretty . More than her beauty , she liked the way she carried herself with confidence.
"Hey, why isn't your palm healing by itself. "
"Hn" Sakura replied
"What's your name ? I am Ino. Are you going to class 10 , section 6"
" I am Sakura, yes I am going there too"
"That is great come with me. We can go together. We are already so late . Must have missed at least 20 minutes of the class . I missed the bus , dad drove me all the way to school. How I wish ,I knew teleportation technique. We can't use it until we are fully developed. Hope we turn 18 years old soon, so that we can be wherever we want to be, at snap of our fingers."
"Hey, which school did you attend for 1st nine years of your study? I went to Iwa junior"
" Kiri Junior"
"Ho, that's great and why is your hand still bleeding".
I didn't plan to answer her question. So, I resorted to nonsensical reply "Hmmm"
"You don't seem to talk much. But that's fine with me. We are going to be great friends".
"Hey, we arrived to our destination. Let us conquer the class with our beauty and talent" Ino declared it to her friend while dragging her into the class.
Class was very huge, almost the size of a Kiri playground. All the benches were far behind with kids seated on the benches. There were innumerable mirrors attached on the ceiling, reflecting every crook and corner of the room. It looked less of a classroom and more of a palace , with all glass decorations around. Magnificent would be the right word to describe the display.
"So beautiful" Ino said.
She silently agreed with her, too tired to open her mouth and express her feelings in words.
She looked away from the beautiful ceiling , as she wanted to analyze the students around. She felt shiver run down her spine as she felt something eerie in the surroundings. Whatever it is , it is not good. She caught group of people in the middle of the stadium like dias . They wore black cloaks with red cloud patterns as design. They didn't look like their class members as they were tall , huge and carried authority . They couldn't be professors either as they have uniforms on. They must be upper class men. The question is that ,what are they doing in the class whilst all the freshers looked like they would run to their Mamas, to hide behind them. She was sure that she was late to the class by 20 minutes. So, she had missed whatever has happened .
"You have got some nerve coming late on the first day of your class" Blue haired man said.
She felt Ino grip her wrist tightly. Ino looked scared . So was she. Those men looked predatory.
Rest of the cloaked members turned their attention from the students on the benches to the girls , who stood at the entrance of the door.
In the blink of an eye, they were no longer in front of benches but in front of them . They must have teleported. She knew , eyeing her socks which rode down her leg wasn't the best thing to do while cloak members stared at her . So, she lifted her head to look at the men who were trying to intimidate them. She swept her eyes across the men in front of her, a black haired man with a pony tail and tear ducts under his eyes, a blue haired man who reminded her of a large blue shark, a blonde man with hair style similar to Ino, an orange haired man with piercings on, all over his face , a red haired man with brown eyes and a grey haired man with hair slicked backwards with distinctive purple eyes.
"Where is your tie" black haired man enquired Sakura
She looked at the man who looked displeased at her incomplete dress.
"I forgot" she replied.
"Why haven't you forgotten wearing clothes , yeah, you should have came naked" man with the blonde hair stated.
She gave a disgusting look to the blond man. She felt like slapping the girly man for talking to her that way. But she stayed quiet as she knew better than to make enemies on her 1st day of school. This isn't some human school where she settled things with her fist. This is immortal world where people use their powers to torture others just to test their powers. She had beforehand experience in these immortal schools where she got her skin burned for whole 4 hours and there were no scars, just the pain. She may be an immortal but she is part human too, unlike pure breed immortals her body heals slowly, resulting in blood loss and anemia. Another reason for her to stay away from violence, even though her hand was itching to plant her fist into the smug blonde's face.
She drew her gaze away from the blond man , who was looking at her with arrogance.
"Introduce yourselves. Name, age, speciality and element" orange haired man ordered.
"My name is Ino. I am 15 years old and I could manipulate people. My elements are wood and sand"
"Sakura. 14 years old. Going to turn 15 soon. Can go transparent and walk through objects and living things. My elements are water and earth "
"Ino, what do you mean by manipulate people. Is it body moments or mentally" orange haired man enquired
"I can control their mind and can make them do whatever I wish to. " she replied excitedly.
Man with red hair smirked and approached the girl, invading her space. Ino blushed deep shade of red as she stared into the man's greyish brown eyes.
"Why don't you show me your talent Ino- Chan"
Sakura eyed her friend, who at some point stopped holding her wrist . She looked like a tomato as she stared giddily into the red head's eyes.
She looked at the red haired man who looked complacent on his effect on the girl and instantly Sakura knew he had no good intentions. She decided she needed to bring her friend from the lalala land . So, she clutched Ino's hand bringing out from her trance.
Ino reverted her eyes from the man and towards the girl beside her. Sakura pulled her friend closer towards her and placed her hand protectively on her waist.
It may be only 30 minutes since she met Ino but she isn't going to allow the wolves harm her friend.
Red haired man raised his eyebrow finding the interaction amusing.
She blinked her eyes feigning innocence. She has got a degree in playing a fragile , innocent girl.
"Ino- Chan choose anyone from the class and make themselves stab until I tell you to stop"
Ino's eyes widened in shock and she went mute. All the giddiness she felt previously was gone and replaced with fear .
She knew he is no good. She also knew these immortals are heartless towards their own beings. Someone is going to get hurt. Damn who are they to order Ino around . They aren't even professors just some seniors.
It's not the time to get emotional , loose conscience and act irrational. So, she mustered her atmost innocent voice and eyes ."Ano, it will hurt ."
"Of course, it will pinky. " man with blue hair replied
She knew Ino was in no state to use her loquacious skills . So she once again tried to negotiate.
"what if professor , saw it ?
We all will be punished " she acted scared at the prospect.
Black haired man with pony tail smirked and replied " Professors asked us to introduce you all to the rules and regulations of the school. They gave us the first period. "
Sakura tightened her hold on Ino and so did Ino.
"Fucking bitch , why don't you do as we say. Just get started. " man with purple eyes and grey hair sweared at them.
In a blink of an eye ,man with piercings teleported behind the girls, grabbed Sakura and placed one of his hands around her waist other hand, on her chest , where her heart resided
She could feel her heart being held by the strings of chakra. She couldn't go transparent and escape the threat. So, she just went still breathing heavily .
"Itachi, weapon "
Black haired man removed sharp pointy knife from his cloak and placed it at Sakura's throat.
Her pulse hiked when the cold metal touched her skin.
Just fantastic, this is what she was waiting for. To be tortured by people just for kicks and giggles.
Ino started panicking and walked towards Itachi to pry away the sharp metal away from her friend's neck.
"Please, don't do it. Why are you doing this. There's no reason for anyone to get hurt. Please let go. "
"Yes, Dattebayo, let her go" blue eyed boy with blond hair jumped from one bench to the another and reached the dais to rescue the girl.
He rushed towards Itachi to smack the man and protect the girl from sharp pain. He was thrown away by the blue haired mman.
The boy rose from the polished floor , dusted his pants and lunged towards Itachi with a war cry ,only to be caught again by blue haired man.
"You seem relentless blondie. Let me show you your place."
He held the boy around the wrist which got him shouting and wailing. Every nerve of his body screamed pain just with one hold of a huge blue haired man.
"What is he doing to him " Sakura whispered even when the knife was pointed against her neck.
She knew there is no point in wiggling , when her heart and neck are in constricted position. She is going to enter this day as the worst day of her life in her dairy .
She set her eyes on Ino, who looked like she was going to cry at any instant
"Kisame, stop it. He is Naruto, Minato sensei's son. " man with orange hair ordered him while still holding Sakura's waist and heart.
"But Pein, he is a total brat". Kisame replied.
"Kisame, do as I said".
"fine" Kisame stopped torturing the kid and held the boy ,who was trying hard to get away from the huge man and land a punch on him and other seniors.
"Now are you going to or not going to" red haired man chimed with fake smile plastered on his face.
She looked at her friend with pity who looked scared. They were only 15 years old, how could those full grown men do something like that to them .
As a threat Itachi held Sakura's hand and sent a burning chakra into her hand. She screamed loud in pain.
Ino cried out and agreed to do it and swept her eyes across the crowd. Every one looked innocent and she couldn't choose.
"Bitch are you going to choose or should we torture the pink bitch " grey haired man growled.
Itachi pierced the knife a little into Sakura's neck and drew some blood.
Ino panicked and picked the guy with canine teeth. He tried to control and halt the moment . He clutched on to the bench but he dragged the bench along with him. He gave an animalistic cry trying to get himself under control but when he got his whole brain invaded, he went still and walked towards the dais and took the knife from blond haired man and started stabbing himself continuously. He didn't even whimper while doing that to himself.
After 15 minutes of stabbing .They gave Ino permission to let go the boy.
He fell on to the ground on his knees clutching his bloody stomach. He wailed as his deep wound sarted knitting instantly as he no longer stabbed and aggravated it. A boy with black goggles and half his face covered with the collar of his shirt got down the benches , reached his traumatized friend ,supported the boy and walked towards the benches on the steps.
"That's fantastic Ino-Chan. You have got some artistic specialty. " Red haired man complimented.
Teary eyed Ino, glared at him with hatred.
"Now why don't we test the Pinky's talent hun " Blond haired boy suggested.
Ino understood anything done by them wouldn't be good so she interfered and shouted .
"Fucking bastards, let her go. I did what you said. Now, leave her"
"Little girl, you don't want to test our patience keep your mouth in control. " Pein warned her.
Sakura frowned as she now became the target. It's early in the morning , yet she is already tired.
Pein promptly turned Sakura around and pushed her forward. She was finally free.
"Itachi " Pein signalled .
Itachi nodded and turned on his magnifying vision . His eyes turned red with 3 commas swirling.
"Sakura, try to use your speciality to dodge things thrown at you."
Without any signs he started throwing things he got his hand on. He pulled weapons out of his cloak and threw at her. From the speed he is throwing the weapons at her, she knew she couldn't dodge physically, so she turned on her specialty . All the weapons he threw at her, passed through her. She has little energy left yet she maintained her body to be transparent. He paused a little and when she was about to relax , he threw a wooden bench at her. Her eyes widened as the bench came flying towards her. It passed through her and crashed on to the wall, breaking into pieces. That was scary she noted. She thanked the world, when it passed through her rather than smash against her. She didn't know how long she could hold it but the mad man doesn't seem to stop any sooner. She was sure she is going to bleed liters of blood.
"Stop, stop enough I don't think I could hold any longer" Sakura cried
He didn't stop and started throwing smaller objects at her. Paper weight it is she finally lost her concentration and energy and got hit by a paper weight against her wide forehead. She fell backwards losing her balance. She was sure, she cracked open her skull. It damn hurts.
Bastard, must have born when 1000 bastards died. Damn it , it hurts.
She slowly lost her consciousness .
Ino ran to her friend lifting Sakura's head and placed it on her lap. She looked at the extent of injury. It looked too deep and doesn't seem to stop.
"Leave me bastard" Naruto wriggled in Kisame's grasp.
"Kisame, leave the boy". Pein ordered.
Kisame released the boy, who ran towards the girl, who looked unconscious.
As much as Naruto knew, Immortals recovered very fast, healing of the skin and bones happens with in seconds. The girl with pink hair doesn't look like is going to wake up any time soon , while bleeding so profusely.
"She is not healing" Ino cried
"This fucking bitches are so dramatic" grey haired man commented.
"What have you done to her bastards" Naruto who sat beside Ino cried out.
"You heathens need to stop whining. " grey haired man shouted.
Itachi moved towards the trio, sat on the ground and reached towards Sakura and touched the cheek, where blood was- dripping down her forehead onto her cheek.
Ino slapped his hand away, when he tried to touch the injured girl. While blonde boy glared at Itachi.
"Don't touch her " she hissed.
Ignoring the girl, he brought the blood on his finger in front of him and activated his eyes.
"She is part human" Itachi said.
"I knew it ,that scrawny pink bitch can't be used for target practice" grey haired man cursed.
"Is she going to die " blonde man with the shady cloak on, asked.