A/N: This is an M-Rated fic. You've been warned.
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Konoha Prep was a large school, over 3,000 students years six through twelve, and was one of the most prestigious schools in the country. Graduating with even a moderate final average could get students into top universities around the world. Parents sent their children across cities, even overseas, in order for them to attend Konoha Prep.
In such a competitive school, it took a lot to stand out from the rest. Competition was encouraged, and everyone wanted to leave their mark at the school. Some wanted to break athletic records, others wanted to achieve academically to raise the bar even higher than ever before. There were troublemakers, over-achievers, scholarship students, students of all kind.
At Konoha Prep, a group of six left their legacy living what they considered the best years of their lives.
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The familiar smell of Itachi's sheets overwhelmed her senses. The expensive duvet enveloped her in the chilly room making waking up seem impossible. Hinata reached over to the bedside table for her phone and saw that she had woken up 14 minutes before her alarm — it's the little wins in life that really make life sweet. Nothing could disturb her in the next 14 minutes; not the sun beaming through the window, not the unreasonably low temperature that Itachi liked to keep his room at, not the angry stomping she could faintly hear, not even the weight of Sasuke's body crushing her as he groggily walked into his brother's room and unceremoniously dropped himself on top of her.
"Wake up." He mumbled into her hair, his body draped over hers which was comfortably cocooned in deep red Egyptian cotton. "You need to shower."
"14 minutes..." Sasuke just laid on top of her waiting for her to move knowing very well that her alarm would go off any second. Unfortunately for Hinata, her 14 minutes had passed a lot quicker than she had expected. The blaring sound of the default alarm tone was like an attack on her senses catching her off guard.
Sasuke pushed himself off of Hinata and retreated to his own room to get ready for the day. Hopefully Itachi would be back already with breakfast, and the girl he had just kicked out gone. He had expected the whole ordeal to go a lot smoother than it had. He specifically went for older women expecting that they'd understand that he wouldn't want them around the next morning.
Sasuke didn't consider himself promiscuous, but he was a human with needs. There was no way he would sleep with any of the girls in his school, so occasionally going to a bar to find a casual hook up didn't seem so bad.
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"Foolish little brother, always leaving me to deal with the messes you create." Sasuke frowned looking at the woman from the night before. She was supposed to be gone.
"He was just so cruel!" The woman sobbed, dramatically throwing herself onto the kitchen island.
"You'll have to forgive my foolish little brother. Teenagers can be difficult to deal with, especially at this age." Itachi explained, patting the woman on the head. Sasuke rolled his eyes. Itachi always spoke as if he was in his thirties when they really only had a five year gap.
"T-teenager?" The woman gaped at Itachi, finally really noticing Sasuke's uniform clad body.
"Fake ID's a bitch." Sasuke shrugged.
"Itachi, did you bring breakfast home?" Hinata asked, walking into the kitchen. She continued to try to towel dry her hair, not paying any attention to the happenings in the kitchen.
"Brought you your favourite, but no coffee yet." Itachi suppressed a chuckle at Hinata's lack of awareness due to the towel covering her face. Hinata draped her towel over her shoulders and let her damp hair rest on it so that she didn't get her uniform too wet.
"I'll make coffee then! We were just delivered a new shipment of pods yesterday but you weren't home." She dug through the fridge for her almond milk cold brew, and the box of half and half for Itachi's coffee. "Sasuke do you want...coffee..?"
Hinata and the woman stared at each other. "Umm...would you like coffee too?"
The woman just stood up realizing she was in a house that required parental supervision but had none of it. She looked at Hinata who, without her uniform, could pass for someone in her early twenties based solely on her body. She began to question how old Itachi even was.
Taking one last long hard stare at Sasuke, she walked away deciding she did not regret her night with him but this was definitely not going to be a story she'd share with her girlfriends. How many other women had had these same thoughts, she wondered.
"Okay, no coffee." Hinata popped in a coffee pod for Sasuke, and added two scoops of sugar into Itachi's mug.
Itachi silently ate his bagel and watched the way his brother interacted with Hinata, the way they just naturally functioned together. Hinata continued to make coffee, adding ice to a glass for her cold brew while Sasuke picked up her task of towel drying her hair.
"You're due for a trim." Sasuke mumbled, feeling the ends of her hair between the tips of his fingers.
"I was thinking of cutting my hair short again." Sasuke scowled thinking of the atrocious haircut she had when they were kids after a nasty prank some of their classmates had pulled on her. "Don't worry, I'm not thinking of getting it cut that short." She said, reading his mind.
"Hn." Sasuke took the towel and brought it back to the bathroom while Hinata brought their coffees to the island and sat next to Itachi on one of the stools. Hinata dove into her smoothie bowl, it was the closest thing she had to a cinnamon roll that she liked since going vegan.
It had been two years since she had become vegan. She didn't do it for any real purpose at first, sure she loved animals but she didn't really do it for that. It had started with a stupid challenge that had been sparked between Naruto and Sasuke, but eventually their whole friend group got roped into it. Each person drew a sheet of paper out of a hat, and they'd have to give that item up for a month. Hinata had drawn meat which she was fine with not having. Ironically, it was Naruto and Sasuke who had failed in the end; Naruto drew 'energy drinks' which everyone was sure was entered for Lee, and Sasuke drew 'driving' which was obviously put in there for him. Naruto lost by accident, and Sasuke just didn't care enough about the challenge, and although he wouldn't admit it, he didn't have the willpower to give up riding his motorcycle.
"Enjoying your bowl of sludge?" Sasuke sat on the other side of Itachi and reached over to dip a finger into Hinata's smoothie bowl. It was a thick consistency and looked like awful brown slop. He tasted the amount on his finger and scowled. "Your disgustingly sweet bowl of sludge. That can't possibly be healthy for you."
"You know you hate it, and yet you try it every time." Hinata continued eating her bowl finishing it relatively quickly and left to Itachi's room, coffee in hand, where she had set up to get ready for the morning.
Sasuke silently drank his coffee trying to ignore his brother's stare. He knew Itachi was staring at him very obviously to get his attention, but he refused to give his brother the satisfaction of acknowledging it.
"So do you intentionally pick your women to look nothing like Hinata?" Sasuke was no longer shocked by his brother's morning comments. There had been a time when there was routine hissing because he'd burn himself on his coffee every time Itachi would bring up Hinata knowing she was close by. "I find you two are getting more and more ridiculous as you get older."
"Do you pester Hinata as you pester me?" Sasuke inquired, still not even sparing a glance at Itachi.
"Mother does that enough I'm sure." Itachi sipped his coffee and noted that Hinata had once again picked a pod that he had never tried but that he enjoyed.
There was always a debate amongst the school's population about whether the Uchiha brothers cared for Hinata Hyuga as a sister or romantically. Neither brother acknowledged the whispers or the rumours — there was one year that a rumour went around that Hinata lived with them because she was their shared bride, sold to the Uchiha so that Hiashi could focus on his two prodigal children. Itachi knew his foolish little brother didn't want to admit it, but it was obvious to their entire family that there was no one more precious to Sasuke than Hinata.
While Itachi would never say anything, he too had to admit that he noticed the way she blossomed beautifully over the years, and that perhaps if it were a different world and situation, he may have pursued her — perhaps if the rumours about his brother and the Uzumaki boy were true.
Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke had known each other since birth. Their mothers were best friends, and although Mikoto Uchiha was the only living one left of the trio of mothers, Hinata and Naruto never felt deprived of a mother figure thanks to her. Hinata ended up spending more and more time at the Uchiha family house as the years grew on. Hinata's lack of motivation to work for the family company made her uninteresting in the eyes of her father. So much so that he did not fight Mikoto when she suggested that Hinata stay with her family while Hinata's siblings went to boarding school. The moment Hinata expressed her desire to step away from the family company, was the moment Hiashi removed her from his list of priorities. Hinata did not hate or resent her father, nor did she have any negative feelings towards her two siblings, Neji and Hanabi, who held all of his attention. She was simply thankful that she had a home with the Uchiha family.
"Ready to go?" Hinata asked. Sasuke cocked a brow looking at his watch. "I'm meeting Ino at hers first."
Hinata's face looked fresh with her usual no-makeup makeup look. Itachi always thought she was radiant. Sasuke, an artist himself, always appreciated the way she brought out the best in her features rather than trying to alter her appearance. Sasuke unhooked his keys from the front door and walked over to the entrance to the garage. Hinata hugged Itachi from his seat before going to meet Sasuke in the garage.
Sasuke pulled two helmets out of the seat of his bike, and tossed one to Hinata who just barely caught it. "Any reason why you're going to Yamanaka's so early?" Sasuke asked.
Hinata shrugged. "She sent me a message and said it was an emergency."
"You don't seem too concerned." He noted, adjusting the mirrors on his bike and pressing the button to open the garage door.
"Her emoji use tells me that it's not life threatening." Hinata hopped onto the back of Sasuke's bike and buckled in her helmet. Although it probably wasn't anything important, Sasuke knew something was up. He could read Hinata and Hinata knew that he could. He just respected her privacy enough that he wouldn't press any further — he would ask the dobe later.
Hinata wrapped her arms around Sasuke's waist and held on tight. No matter how many times she got onto his bike, she'd never truly get used to being on it. It always felt so much faster than it was actually going. Sasuke's abdomen was rigid and firm albeit slim. His frame was narrow making him look even taller than he already was. It wasn't that Hinata didn't find Sasuke attractive, it was quite the contrary. Sasuke was undeniably handsome. He was the school bad boy — a title he had inevitably inherited given Itachi's lasting reputation at Konoha Prep.
Mikoto always teased her that some day they'd end up together and give her beautiful little grandchildren. She would reminisce about the jokes that she, Kushina, and Hinata's mother Naoko would make during their pregnancies about whose son would end up with Naoko's daughter. Hinata would always note how sad she got telling these stories as Kushina had died during childbirth, and Hinata's own mother a few years later also during childbirth when Hanabi was born. Perhaps it was survivor's guilt, but Hinata could always tell that Mikoto treasured her and Naruto like she did her own children. In order to fill the void of losing her two best friends, Mikoto decided to join her husband Fugaku on his business travels once Itachi became old enough to run the house on his own.
Hinata and Sasuke were inseparable. Their love for each other ran deep, and existed on multiple levels. But ultimately, it was a mutual decision to not pursue any romantic relationship. From Hinata's perspective, they just didn't want the same things for the future. To Sasuke, he just wouldn't be good enough for her, he couldn't give her everything she might want, and he just couldn't stand thinking about how she might always fret over him. To their friends, their dynamic was confusing given they had no idea they had had a chat about what might come of them if they had gotten together.
Sasuke pulled into Ino's driveway and got off after Hinata. He took her helmet and put it back into the seat. "Let me know if you need a ride from Yamanaka's to school."
"I will." Hinata hugged Sasuke and jogged over to Ino's porch. "Later babe!"
Sasuke smiled behind the tinted mask of his helmet. He lifted the screen of his helmet and called out, "Later babe."
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Sakura stared at her best friend. Ino was pacing around the room in her underwear, perfect breasts out and about. When was Hinata going to get here and calm this girl down?
"Babe, chill out." Ino stopped in her tracks and spun around to glare at Sakura. Sakura noticed the way her perky breasts bounced with every movement she made. It always seemed so unreal that they were real. Sure Hinata's were bigger but the two were in agreement, Ino's boobs were the best amongst the three of them.
"Forehead, how could you expect me to be calm right now?" Ino sulked. "If I'm caught walking in or out of an abortion clinic, I'll be ruined!"
"And since when have you been worried about what anyone has ever said about you?" Sakura didn't have the heart or the energy to tell Ino that she had one of these pregnancy scares every few months, and every time she would cry about how it would be the last time she'd ever sleep with Naruto again. Then when the test came back negative, she'd celebrate by telling Naruto they weren't hooking up anymore in the middle of hooking up with him. Pregnancy scares were scary, but it was getting tiring. Hinata always had a pregnancy test handy in case something like this would happen, which it inevitably did.
"Babe, I know you think I'm just overreacting but I have a feeling about this one." Ino stood in front of her full body mirror and held a hand over her flat stomach.
Sakura never really spoke about her insecurities with Ino. That was more of a thing she'd talk about with Hinata. Ino was by far the prettiest girl in school, and although Sakura knew that Hinata didn't see it herself, Hinata came a close second — they were different kinds of pretty which Sakura could never measure up to. Ino was like a model, and Hinata ethereal. Sakura tried not to think too much about superficial things like looks, and Ino was never shy to express how beautiful she thought Sakura was, but she just felt like she paled in comparison to her friends.
Having Ino Yamanaka compliment you was perhaps one of the biggest confidence boosters. Being complimented by anyone you considered more attractive than yourself was a confidence booster. Ino would marvel about her green eyes, about how her lips were the perfect shape with the perfect amount of pout, about how jealous she was of her body — Ino Yamanaka, jealous. Ino was never one to give empty compliments, and knowing that meant that much more to Sakura.
Sakura was an outcast before meeting Ino. Ino had always been the prettiest most popular girl in school, and for whatever reason, she decided that she really wanted to be friends with Sakura. Although she rejected the idea at first, even so far as antagonizing Ino on occasion, Sakura truly admired Ino. Although she felt like a fourth wheel at first since Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji were childhood friends, eventually she had accepted that these three had welcomed her from the beginning as one of them.
It wasn't until year five that they met Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata. Their schools had merged, and Ino and Sakura were immediately drawn to Sasuke Uchiha. This caused a minor rift in their friendship but it was Hinata who brought them into their group, inadvertently. That fateful day when some jealous classmates decided it would be funny to corner Hinata and cut off one of her braids. Although it was Naruto and Sasuke who beat up the boys, it was Sakura and Ino who comforted Hinata and got revenge on the girls. Shikamaru, well, he was Shikamaru. By the time they were old enough to transfer to Konoha Prep, Chouji did not go with them as he could not afford to attend. Eventually, he had moved away altogether.
It was strange to think she was surrounded by so much wealth. Her birth parents had given her up when she was born in order to give her a life better than they could afford. Despite the hand that she was dealt, Sakura grew up to become many great things; pretty, athletic, intelligent, assertive, and ambitious. But more than anything, she was loyal. Aside from the dean of the school, Tsunade, who adopted her when she was born, her friends were her family.
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"Thank god." Sakura hurried over to the door and let Hinata in who was already rummaging through her backpack for the plastic stick Ino was about to pee on.
Hinata handed her the pregnancy test, and a pair of rolled socks. Sakura had completely forgotten that she had needed the extra socks since Ino had thrown up on hers when she arrived. Ino thought it was morning sickness, and Sakura said it was food poisoning.
"Thank you so much Babe!" Ino held Hinata in a tight hug. "I'll be out in a flash!"
"She's been flashing me all morning." Sakura sighed. Chewing her lip, Sakura turned to Hinata and asked, "Do you ever feel weird about the whole Ino Naruto thing?"
Hinata shook her head no. "I remember the first time they had ever hooked up, Ino ran to Sasuke's crying and it took a full hour for me to get it out of her. You know Ino, she likes to start from the beginning with everything. It wasn't until 45 minutes into her story that I realized what she was leading to. I honestly don't care. Me and Naruto didn't work out but we're still friends. I love him, always will, but not like that."
Sakura had always avoided the dating within the friend group thing. For better or for worse, they would be friends, but she just couldn't jeopardize that. She knew herself. Even when she was crazy for Sasuke, she was smart enough to know she shouldn't pursue it — half because she realized she liked him for his looks and half because it was quite evident that no one would ever come between him and Hinata. At this point, there was just too much at stake.
When Hinata and Naruto dated when they were all fourteen, she had never seen Sasuke so moody and cold. Everyone else said it was an angsty period for him because his parents were leaving him and his brother to live alone, but Ino, Sakura, and even Shikamaru knew better. They dated for exactly six months to the date, had sex, and broke up promptly after the ordeal. It was awkward. Not in the sweet way where you lose your virginity to the love of your life and neither knows what to do kind of awkward. It was the kind of awkward where they were both going through with it because they were already there in the middle of it. Naruto had profusely apologized afterwards, strongly emphasizing that he definitely thought that Hinata had the most bangin' bod that any fourteen year old could ever dream of. Sakura frankly couldn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to even utter those words, Ino was not surprised by Naruto's outburst because well...Naruto. Somehow, despite the awkwardness of the entire ordeal, they weren't awkward the next day.
The end of Naruto and Hinata's awkward early teen romance was the birth of their crew's namesake — Babe. It was a joke at first because Naruto would only ever address Hinata as babe whether she was present or not. And after, to relieve what might have become awkward, Sasuke of all people said 'hey babe' to Naruto who, as usual, was the latest to meet up with them at their morning meeting spot. From then on, they were all Babe. It caught on and someone had decided that they were indeed all Babes — their officially unofficial crew name.
"Just gotta wait a few minutes." Ino said, staring at the plastic device she had just urinated on.
"Ino, put that thing down and wash your hands." Sakura cringed. "Also, go get dressed so we can get breakfast before school starts. I don't want to deal with Shika's stupid girlfriend so hopefully we can fill up the bench before she gets there."
Ino popped her head out from her ensuite and frowned. None of them liked Kin, she was frankly a huge nuisance who was definitely only using Shikamaru so that she could pretend like she was part of their friend group even though everyone in the school would basically tell her otherwise. It isn't as if Shikamaru didn't know, he knew very well. He just couldn't be bothered to do anything about it because Kin's mom was best friends with Shikamaru's 'troublesome mother'. Every morning when they would meet up at their usual spot, a bench under a tree at the entrance of the school that they had all claimed when they entered Konoha Prep, one person would always have to stand because Kin would take up one of the seats to say she was there.
"Yeah, I wish he'd just break up with her already." Ino rolled her eyes and looked down at the pregnancy test. "I'M NOT PREGNANT!" She cheered.
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Sasuke all but kicked down Naruto's bedroom door after Minato let him into their lavish condo. Naruto and his father lived in one of the many residential buildings in the city. Unfortunately, Naruto was often late because he could never get up early enough to get to school on time since he lived fairly far from Konoha Prep.
Sasuke tore the sheet from under Naruto's spread eagle body dragging him to the floor with it. "Get up dobe."
"Teme..." Naruto gurgled irritatedly.
Minato observed amusedly from the doorway. He had been watching the interesting relationship between his son and Sasuke Uchiha develop for their entire lives, best friends to the end whether they admitted it or not. Mikoto made sure that they remained in each other's lives, and for that, Minato felt forever indebted to her for giving his son someone to give him the warmth of a mother and the companionship of a brother. He did his part as a father, but he worked long hours in order to send Naruto to Konoha Prep — Naruto was on an athletic scholarship but it didn't cover the entire tuition. Naruto was more than understanding but Minato couldn't help but feel that it was thanks to the Uchiha family that Naruto could fill a large place that would have been filled by Kushina had she still been alive.
Minato however served as a father figure to Sasuke. Sasuke had great respect for the man not only as a man with great responsibility but because he chose to be present in Naruto's life in every way he possibly could. As much as he tried to talk to Itachi, Sasuke always found himself somehow chatting with Minato about whatever inner dilemma he couldn't resolve himself. Oddly enough, it was Minato who had been giving him clear guidance during the confusing period when Hinata and Naruto had been dating.
"Teme, it's so fucking early. What do you want?" Naruto groaned on the ground.
"Why did Yamanaka ask Hinata to go to hers so early?"
"Why the fuck do you care?" Naruto grumbled, getting up and trudging over to the bathroom.
"Hinata didn't seem concerned so I assume it has something to do with Yamanaka overreacting about something which usually has to do with you." Minato decided this was a good time to leave. Naruto shoved his toothbrush into his mouth and looked over to see his dad retreating to the kitchen.
Quickly brushing his teeth, Naruto gestured for Sasuke to go to his room.
"So every few months, Ino has some sort of pregnancy scare which turns out to be a false alarm." Naruto explained. "But it still freaks me out y'know? I'm not ready to be a dad or whatever. But also, I know we're going to have crazy 'I'm never hooking up with you again' sex somewhere in the school later because that's just what happens."
"Too much information, but what does that have to do with Hinata." Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Teme, you're not her keeper, why are you so concerned about every aspect of her life? They're best friends, Sakura is probably there too dealing with Ino." Now that he had mentioned it, Sakura's car was parked out in the driveway. "You should just stop being such a little bitch and ask her out already. You already live together, what are you waiting for?"
"Shut up dobe."
Naruto didn't get it. Literally everyone already knew that they were inseparable, what difference would it make if they made it a relationship? He had dated Hinata, and she was great! They'd be friends forever, but...just friends. Losing his virginity to her had been the strangest thing of his life. He was excited, his body reflected this as well, she was smokin' hot, but it just felt wrong. It was like seeing her body got him excited but knowing the person who it belonged to made it weird...like he was about to go at it with a sister, or cousin.
For as long as he could remember, Itachi and Sasuke had threatened every guy who even looked at her for a millisecond too long. Hinata had expressed to him at one point that she was beginning to think she was just unbelievably unattractive and that was why she was the least pursued girl of their friends. He and the Teme got into arguments all the time about how they couldn't just ward guys away from her if they weren't going to pursue her themselves. Sasuke would do the Sasuke thing and say it was because no one was good enough for her. Hurtful. The only other guy to Naruto's knowledge that had ever attempted pursuing Hinata and succeeded was Kiba Inuzuka who followed her like a puppy the first day they had all entered Konoha Prep. At some point in Junior year at a party, Hinata and Kiba drunkenly hooked up ever so classily in the master bathroom of whosever house they were in.
The strangest thing about that whole thing was that it wasn't Sasuke, nor was it Naruto who had punched Kiba Inuzuka in the face the next morning. It was Shikamaru. He just went into the bathroom during a hunt for Hinata, found the two of them, woke up Kiba just to knock him out again. Despite the threat of everyone else in the crew, nothing deterred Kiba from quietly pursuing Hinata.
"Let's go before Nara's stupid girlfriend decides to join us."
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Shikamaru didn't like surprises. He especially didn't like surprises that came with his obnoxious troublesome girlfriend. One of her favourite surprises since they had started dating had been to show up at his house in the morning to go to school together.
It didn't help that his friends weren't too fond of her and it didn't help that Kin didn't seem to care that they were outright unwelcoming of her presence. Hell, he didn't like her all that much either but he didn't want to think about the wrath that would inevitably emerge from his troublesome mother if he hurt Kin's feelings. Shikamaru has never pretended to be the nice guy type, his indifference typically translated to him being an asshole so he was sure he never gave off the nice guy vibe. Dating Kin was a nice gesture for his mother. She asked him to try. How was he to know that Kin would latch onto him like she had? It would be unfair to say that Kin provided nothing to their relationship. Kin, albeit crazy and obviously interested in him for some strange obsession with the high school hierarchical system, was fairly attractive and went above and beyond in bed.
Kin jumped into bed with Shikamaru and straddled his hips. Shikamaru opened one eye to peek up at his girlfriend and sighed, it was really early. What a drag.
Kin wasn't stupid. She knew that the Babes didn't like her. It was hard not to notice. She actually did like Shikamaru though. They'd known each other since they were young, and although she only got to see him when her mom would go see his, she had become enamoured with him. She remembered the embarrassment she felt when her mom told Mrs. Nara about her crush on the young Nara, but it all turned out to work in her favour. Zaku and Dosu didn't understand why she bothered with the Babes — Zaku was still bitter about the time Sasuke Uchiha had broken both of his arms for making mean comments about Sakura's forehead.
Whether people admitted it or not, they worshipped the ground the Babes walked on. They were the most well-rounded students in the school, the most perfect combination of beauty, brains, and brawn. The front runners for all the best universities. They were in-school celebrities, merely being associated with them brought so much power. She automatically got invited to anything they were invited to, and she got to do it all with her childhood crush. Shikamaru would come to like her more over time.
"Wakey wakey sleepyhead!" Kin grinned down at Shikamaru.
"Kin, it's way too early to head to school right now."
"Duh I know that. I wanted to go get breakfast." Shikamaru groaned at the suggestion which would force him to get out of bed. "Come on! There's a super cute breakfast spot I saw on Insta that I wanna try."
—
Konoha Prep had a campus more beautiful than Konoha University which was located in the heart of the city. It was castle-like, surrounded by nature. Hinata liked to spend first period laying out on the field drawing or just watching the sky. She had first period off, and sometimes Shikamaru would skip first to join her out on the field.
"Where the heck are Naruto and Sasuke?" Sakura wondered. The school parking lot was located a five minute walk away so not to disrupt the scenery of the school campus. Sakura had already thought they took a slow stroll over to the bench. Knowing the two of them, if they could get away with it, they were racing on their bikes. Sakura took a bite out of her 7-Eleven onigiri, and looked out towards the direction of the parking lot.
"Oh, I think I see them." Sakura squinted and groaned.
"Nope. Just Shika...and Kin."
"Look again, Forehead." Behind the couple was Naruto and Sasuke making their way over.
Sakura frowned. Not so much because of Kin as much as she was realizing that high school was coming to a close. The routines they had developed over the years would have to change, and the bond they had would be put to the test by distance. They would all be going to university, and she still hadn't made a decision about which school to go to. Sakura had gotten into all ten schools she applied to on scholarship, her options were vast. She knew they weren't going to be in the same place forever, but she couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen to them in the following year.