The Mean Piano Player
1: The new Student
"Hello, my name is Sakura"
It was 12 past 8 when she stepped into the room. Her abnormal cherry -blossom-pink hair seemed to float in an invisible wind behind her, her uniform tight fitting round her curvaceous figure and glowing green eyes drizzled in the sunlight.
The teacher looked over at Sakura, breezed by her cheerful smile
"Hello Sakura my name is Kakashi sensei, the home room teacher," Then continued explain to the class.
"This is Sakura Haruno, she just recently moved here to Konoha…INO!"He suddenly snapped .A girl with blonde hair tied up in long a pigtail jumped up abruptly.
"I-I really, absolutely, definitely wasn't SLEEPING" she stuttered. Kakashi sensei sighed deeply and shook his head in dismay. He was just about to have a row at Ino but was interrupted by a soft sunshine like giggle. Behind the teacher Sakura was clutching her stomach from laughter. Soon enough the whole class had broken into laughter.
Sakura took a couple of breaths before relaxing herself. She carefully adjusted her blue hair band before hopping towards Ino…smiling. Ino who was flushed red with embarrassment shot a glare at Sakura and taunted:
"Forehead"
Sakura sat in the cafeteria, her eyes flaming with anger.
"How DARE she! She thought to herself "THAT…That PIG!" She thought about having to put up with her for two of the three periods already and hoping not to see her in the last. Her facial expressions were becoming more and more menacing by the minute. She sat alone out-staring anyone who tried to approach her until some tapped lightly on her shoulder. Sakura looked up. It was INO PIG.
Ino pursed her lips looking form one side of the room to the other trying to act calm.
"Look…" she started "about before…Well…sorry… won't you come sit with us?" Sakura was stunned; she looked over to where Ino had waved her hand at. It was a table with three girls sitting on it, not including Ino of course. A girl with chocolate brown hair tied in two Chinese style buns on either side of her head mouthed 'come here' to Sakura. Sakura feeling refreshed with an apology follows Ino over to her table.
The Two other girls smiled kindly when Sakura joined them. The girl with raven-coloured hair was the first to speak.
"H-Hello, My name…is-is Hinata Hyuga" She stated rather awkwardly. She looked slightly embarrassed, constantly shuffled her feet and playing non-stop at the bottom of her skirt.
"I'm TenTen" The girl with Chinese bun beamed at Sakura "and that's Temari" she continued pointing to another girl with blonde hair except her hair was tied in four "pony tails"
"AH" the raven head yelled as if she had just mysteriously remembered something. "Y-you're…Sakura... Right?" Sakura nodded, confused. Hinata had an extremely serious look on her face. When she opened her mouth to speak again Sakura was practically leaning into Hinata's face. Hinata raised her hand to her mouth and placed one finger on her lip.
"Would you like some Sakura mocchi?" Sakura's chair tipped suddenly sending her butt first onto the hard tiles canteen floors. Sakura was about to pull herself up when a hand was placed in front of her. She instinctively took the hand without looking up. The hand was warm and soft but strong. It pulled Sakura in one heave.
"Thank yo-"she began, but stopped mid-sentence to see the most dashing boy in front of her. His hair was a shade of dark blue and his onyx eyes melted in yours. Sakura was speechless, frozen, around her and the boy was a gathering crowd of girls screaming dreamily
"AHHHH~! SASUKE-KUN"
The boy (presumably this 'Sasuke') left Sakura with a snicker followed by the wind in a rush of about 1000 girls. After the crowd was gone her new friends swarmed her. Ino stroked the hand Sasuke had helped Sakura up with.
"I can't believe you got to TOUCH him" Ino squeaked while grasping Sakura's hand so tight it almost went blue. Sakura looked at her hand then at Ino. She instantly wipes her hand against Ino's face. Spinning around she tilted her head towards Ino and spoke innocently
"YOU can have him"
You see, Sakura didn't have much of an interest in this boy because she had seen him before. Somewhere in the past, she wouldn't want to go back to. Sakura walked into 4th period to find herself in a completely different setting (even with Ino). She found herself in a bright, airy room with all windows open to keep the classroom cool. She definitely loved Art best. Sakura spotted Hinata, Temari, Ten Ten and Ino quickly and took her seat besides them. Sakura exchanged smiles and hand gestures with the rest of the gang. They sat and chatted while waiting for all the students to enter.
"Sakura I don't think I have many classes with you" Temari smirked while leaning back on her chair.
"me too" Ten Ten joined in.
"Sad isn't it?" Sakura sighed in the most sarcastic way.
Hinata giggled. "Yup"
"But we all get to see each other at lunch anyway" Sakura piped up
Ino nodded in agreement. You could tell the girls were quite distracted; in fact the whole group of them has their eyes glued on a bunch of HOT guys who just entered through the Art classroom doors. Hinata seemed familiar with a blonde haired boy who led his friends to sit on the same table as us, among them was the 'Sasuke' boy from before, a red headed boy, a boy with long brown hair and one with short brown hair. As they introduced one another Sakura found out the name of the boys: Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Neji and Kankuro.
Soon enough the teacher came stalking in and all the students returned to their seats and began the days lesson.
The red-head plopped himself next to Sakura with such force it made Sakura do a little jump off her chair. Gaara gave off a strictly intense atmosphere making Sakura sat as still as possible. The pink-haired girl turned her head slightly towards the red-head to see him staring at her. Sakura laughed nervously at him, and then whipped her head towards the boy named Neji.
"Umm…Neji right?" she asked
Neji looked up from his work and raised his eyebrow, questioning.
Sakura took this as a sign for her to continue. "How come you and Hinata have the same last names?"
Neji, dropping is head back to his work and letting out a huge sigh as if he had already explained the story 1000 time to Sakura. "Because we're cousins…Duh?" he said blankly.
After this Sakura sat in silence as did everyone else. Ten Ten looked over at Neji before raising from her chair and walking over behind him.
"Ten ten…"the teacher began
Ten Ten hit Neji over the head with enough strength to knock him over.
Ten Ten lifted her head, smirking, hands on hips at. "Don't be so rude Neji Hyuga~ "she teased. She skipped back over to her and sat down to resume her picture of a sunflower. The astonished Neji did nothing but apologize to Sakura. On the other hand Sakura was shocked by the relationships all these people had. By the time the Art lesson was finished she had figured out that Neji and Ten Ten were together, so was Naruto and Hinata and that Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were all brother and sisters. The only person who was left out was Sasuke but then again he had Ino….maybe?.
Sakura had been in such deep though she hadn't noticed the ringing bell, the class being dismissed and her friends waving goodbye to her. Sakura sat at the desk trying to recall everything that happened in the day so far. The whole classroom was completely empty and the silence was music to Sakura's ears, speaking of music from the other side of the hall you could hear the soft playing of a piano.
Sakura quickly grabbed her things and stuffed in into her bag and went in search of the beautiful melody. As she travelled down the hall the music became clearer, it didn't get anymore clearer when she came to her final destination. The sign on the door read "music room" and stuck to it was a piece of paper with "DO NOT ENTER" written in blue marker.
The door was slightly open. Sakura took a peek in. On the other side was a boys figure seated on the piano seat, playing gracefully with hands barley touching each key as it slid over the piano's surface. Sakura turned with her back to the door. The music floated over her ears. It had such a sad and pure tune to it. Sakura sat down on the floor outside the room and shrivelled up as close to the wall as possible. She could feel her eyes slowly dropping.
Gaara lifted his hands from the piano to stretch his arms. He looked through the window behind him. The sky had already turned black so now he was sure he had been playing for at least 2 hours or so.
"Temari's going to kill me" he muttered to himself. The red-head grabbed hold of his bag and made his way towards the classroom door. When he opened it a loud THUMP like someone falling to the ground came from the door. Puzzled Gaara checked the door. There was nothing on or in it. He was carefully inspecting the door when his eyes fell on a human figure lying on the ground. At first the red-head freaked out but somewhat remembered the clump pink hair on the figure. Gaara sighed lightly.
He bent over the figure and shook it lightly. "Psst, Sakura?"
Sakura rolled over and smiled. "I don't wanna get up… -mummy"
Gaara stared at her amused. He moved strands of messy hair from her face and smiled. Gaara went on staring at her sleeping face. 'How cute' he thought to himself. Slowly he lowered his face over hers.
*END OF 1st CHAPTER*