Author's Note: What be cloggin' yer minds, landlubbers? In fer a tale moure!? [English Pirate is the best thing to have happened to Facebook. xD]
My style might not be that great right now, but I'm sure that I'll regain my flow from the next chapter on.
So anyway, here's the thing! :D Hope ya'all enjoy it.
It started with a meeting...
Chapter Name: When Boy Met Girl...
The rosette glared daggers at the blonde girl seated beside her, whilst the latter fiddled with the garbs she had on, endeavoring to not leave the slightest hint of imperfection on herself. For all she had knowledge of, her blonde friend was probably conspiring against her, and leading her to some brothel where she'd rid herself of her, for a lifetime; considering the haste with which the aforementioned blonde had asked her to dress up, and pushed her into the cab which had been waiting for them outside their apartment-building.
So, in actuality, she had not the minutest bit of hint as to where they were headed.
And that called for concern.
"Pig!" the agitated roseate half-yelled.
The blonde girl cocked her face towards hers, a sign of anticipated-bastardy in her eyes.
"What, Sakura?"
The girl, addressed as Sakura, flared her nostrils, and glared even more darkly into the eyes of her object-of-apprehension.
"Tell me where we're headed, Ino," she spat, remembering the ungraceful kick the other had gifted her butt on their way out, "Or you die."
Miss Blondie; or rather, Ino, blinked at the roseate, as if contemplating whether revealing anything at that point of time would be a good idea, or not. However, she vaguely understood that not revealing anything right then, would probably leave her handicapped in a multitude of aspects.
Which is why she shifted in her seat a little, until she was in a position comfortable enough to make the Big Reveal.
"We," said Ino, in a manner which Sakura deemed was suspiciously pointed, "are... gonna attend a reunion."
Silence.
Sakura blinked.
And then her rage morphed into a weird hybrid of anger and tension, which basically rendered her mental faculties dead.
Shaking uncontrollably, she looked at a thousand points on her body in a matter of seconds, and then, quite aghast, at Ino.
"I look like a goddamn whore!" She screamed, making the cab driver eye her in intrigue.
Sensing that the moment of the emerald-eyed girl's breakdown was nearing, Ino braced herself, and came closer to the girl.
"Listen, you don't look bad, okay? Calm down, just take deep breaths an-"
"I'm wearing my unlucky panties, bitch!"
Again, the cab driver's interest was aroused, and this time, he turned around almost completely, in an attempt to check the rosette's appearance...
...something that caused him to gain a death-glare from Ino...
...something that made him turn back towards the windshield at a speed that could have been a world record.
"Its just a reunion, for Christ's sake," the blonde sighed, "Not a freaking fashion show!"
Sakura glared at her.
"That's easy for you to say. Perfect dress, perfect make-up... evil mind."
Ino merely sighed, understanding that any comment made in an attempt to soothe her friend would merely fetch a verbal bitch-slap in return. Thus, she chose to do what every logical woman would, in her place, choose to.
Picked out her earplugs, turned Green Day on on her iPod, and wished for time to heal the monster of a rosette beside her.
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The Academy was not, for general information, an actual academy at present.
A millennium before the present day, it was inaugurated by two merchant-families, as a school for the leaf-village, the place which was the foundation of modern-Konoha; the city of cities. Those two families were the Senju and the Uchiha; each of which had only one living male descendant remaining.
However, presently, it had become a museum; the hall of which was used to host programs for the city's elite. Therefore, while Sakura had good knowledge of the fact that her Alma Mater; Konohagakure High School, was the best in the entire city, she still couldn't fully grasp the concept of attending a gala being held there.
Wearing her unlucky panties.
Ino nudged her.
"C'mon!"
Feeling exorbitantly nervous, and a gigantic sense of anxiety, Sakura gulped. She pleaded with Ino again, throwing her emerald eyes at her, trying to make her change her mind about the thing she was pushing her into.
Unsurprisingly, that attempt went in vain, as the latter pushed her through the gates in front of them... and into what was the historical hall of the Academy.
"Pig! I don't want ta-," speech suddenly left the rosette, as her emerald eyes swept over the scene in front of her.
"Wow."
There, beneath confetti, chandeliers, and domes; stood...
Her batch.
"Better?" asked her blonde friend, smiling knowingly at her.
Sakura blinked.
And grinned in a way, which made quite obvious her intent.
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About fifteen minutes into arriving at the party, Sakura had basically lost all the qualms she'd been having, and actually started to mingle with the crowd again.
"Heya, miss popula'!"
"Haruno-chan!"
"Oh cherry-blossom, how you remind me of the vigour and beauty that youth possesses!"
The rosette had smiled when the last comment had been thrown at her, and given its speaker; the obnoxious Rock-Lee, a proper greeting. Then it'd been all smiles, and laughter, as one by one, most of the members of their group, the Konoha '11' as most called them, neared in, and began conversing.
"Wow, Sakura," winked Kiba, looking at her in a analytical manner, "Haven't you become more sexy!"
"Kiba!" screamed Shino, as he delivered one sweet punch to the dog-lover's head, "You've met her after seven years. Be courteous."
"Yeah right, Bug-sy! Mind yer own business!"
"Kiba-kun!" the soft scream was from the pearly eyed Hyuuga, "Please don't fight with Shino-kun, we've all met a-after so long."
Muffled snorts of agreement ensued.
Thus, soon enough, the conversation had been veered clear of the grounds of the Haruno's popularity, and into the life she lived.
"Yeah, Sakura," said a smiling Tenten,"What became you, eh?"
The Haruno smiled, as a flood of memories related to High School washed over her," Well, I'm a practicing gynecologist now, and work at the Metropolitan Hospital."
"Wow! That's awesome," said Chouji, who had surprisingly gained a figure that was slim!
"Yeah, seriously Sakura!"
The emerald-eyed girl blushed, and chuckled awkwardly, as the compliments kept pouring in.
"So how's your love life goin'? Gosh, after school, you, and those two bastards became so mysterious!"
And suddenly, the entire world screeched to a halt, as the rosette's brain tried to register what she'd been told.
You, and those two...
"Yeah, come to think of it, only Mr. Orange Spark had paid us a couple of visits," said Tenten, a bit thoughtfully, turning suspicious eyes on Sakura, "Were you and Sasuk-"
"No," said Sakura, shaking her head inattentively, "No, we never were."
Suddenly, an awkward silence was over the group, and the sound from the surrounding party became an almost overwhelming sort of pressure. Anxious glances were exchanged between the members, as eyes darted from place to place; only to eventually come to rest on the beautiful pink-haired woman.
"Who's the 'Orange-Spark'?"
The rosette's voice was barely audible as she uttered the question.
Shikamaru blinked.
"Oh, t-that's right, you wouldn't know," he said, and looking up, Sakura found that the faces of the rest of her ex-peers had suddenly started lighting up again.
"Remember the outcast of Konoha?" asked Tenten, with a small smile, shaking her head," Who would'a thought..."
Outcast?
"The prankster!" said Kiba, thumping his chest as a grin flew over his lips as well.
"The guy who mixed chilli flavoured drink-powder with Tsunade-sama's sake?" prompted Chouji, chuckling, "That one led to hot circumstances."
Tsunade-sama's sake?
"Jiraya-sensei's only student," said Lee, smiling in a manner which didn't bode well with 'manly-pride'.
Jiraya-
Sakura's eyes began to widen again.
"Uchiha's-"
"-Nemesis."
The Haruno gulped, after finishing the last statement, and slowly looked around at everyone again; only to find that smiles were abound on the faces surrounding her. If what she was conjecturing was correct, then her friends had-"
"Naruto Uzumaki is your friend?" stupefaction was evident in her voice.
"He's changed, Sakura," Shikamaru said, noting the happy tone that'd settle over their group, "He's... he's amazing."
"The Naruto Uzumaki?" Sakura gazed at them again.
Kiba snickered, "Yeah. And as hot as you are now, I probably think he's over the 'Sakura-chan' thingy, so no worries."
Sakura still couldn't believe her ears.
"B-But how did you all-?"
The group exchanged glances, as if trying to remember something.
"The party at Shizuka's?"
"Yeah, he totally nailed that one."
"Saw the look on that Otami-girl's face when he said no? Classic!"
"I guess it all started when Shizuka introduced us, right?"
"Re-introduced, you mean."
Sakura knitted her eyebrows together, "Uh, Shizuka- who?"
A red flare settled over Lee's face," Naruto-kun's first girlfriend. Aah... Shizuka..."
"Shizuka..."
The looks of ecstasy on the looks of the male members of the group, were probably enough to confirm the fact that Shizuka, whoever she was, was someone considerably pretty. But that wasn't the intriguing part, what was intriguing was-
"Naruto Uzumaki got a girlfriend?" said Ino, her voice a half-scream.
Kiba smirked.
"No Ino, he didn't get 'a' girlfriend."
Sakura knitted her eyebrows again.
"What do you mean?"
It was Tenten's turn to smirk.
"He doesn't exactly look like he used to anymore, does he," she sighed, a different expression enveloping her face, "Hot damn..."
Sakura blinked, clearly not understanding what was going on around her.
A question finally found its way to her mouth.
"Wait, what exactly does Naruto do?"
A fusillade of weird looks was offered to her, as if she was asking something blasphemous.
"You can't be serious."
Sakura blinked, "Why?"
Tenten narrowed her eyes at her, "Don't you read People, or any magazine, for that matter?"
The rosette raised her eyebrows, "No, I hate trivia."
Kiba was the one to ask the next question.
"Don't you watch the TV?"
Sakura scrunched her nose; "I catch a flick once in a month."
"News?"
"Only deaths and stuff."
"Ino?"
The blonde raised her hands, "Don't ask me! We work, live, and do everything, together! We're twin bitches."
A unanimous sigh followed.
"Y-You don't know about the S.O.6.P-Enterprises?" asked Hinata in her characteristic undertone, eyeing Sakura with the least bit of disbelief.
The rosette blinked yet again, "Sure I do," she raised an eyebrow, "My cell-phone's of that company."
Shikamaru smiled, "And do you have any idea about the guys who own the company?"
"Uh, no."
Kiba butted in, "It our 'gay-duo' Uzuma-"
Suddenly a sort of chaos erupted in the hall, as everyone; near about, began pointing towards the door. The Konoha '11' too, gazed up; and caught a glimpse of the objects which had garnered the gala's curiosity walking down the entrance steps.
"S-Sakura?"
The rosette's eyes were as wide as golf balls; but she willed her form to turn her head away from the doorway, and towards her blonde friend, to find her staring unbelieving at something on her phone.
"Y-yeah?"
Ino gulped, turning to look at her with gigantic eyes.
"People magazine's sexiest man award this year. Y-you know who it went to?"
A suspicious tone settled over her mind, as the rosette shook her head in a 'no'.
"N-Naruto Uzumak-"
"Sakura-chan?"
The Haruno turned around...
... and caught sight of the blonde-mischief who'd once been the guy most looked down upon in their school...
... and understood, completely, exactly why the 'People' magazine had voted this particular guy the sexiest man alive.
"N-Naruto?" she gulped.
There, standing before her; adorned in a black tuxedo, and a blue tie, with haphazardly greased hair; was the guy she'd once scorned; for the most popular girl had to go with the flow right?
And it didn't help that his looks were such that she almost completely didn't register the presence of the biggest of her crushes beside him.
Crap.
The blonde winked at her, with a smile on his lips.
"How's life?"
...Again!
AND THERE is my latest one. Sorry, didn't think the last one had the tone to become a Romance/Humour sorta thing. :D And notice that I'm trying to inculcate British-English's spelling format into my work; because we follow that pattern here, and not doing that, kicks each of my grades' ass. :D
AND, as usual, I have NOT proofread this, so shoot me mistakes at me!
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~THA musIc GuY
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