Summary: Follow Haruno Sakura's journey in the world of rich but crazy students of Konoha Gakuen! Mainly SasuSaku with ShikaIno NaruHina NejiTen on the side!
Okay... First and foremost, this story is currently undergoing meticulous editing because I'm kind of not satisfied with its format. I don't know. Maybe it's the First Fic Syndrome (when you wite another fic and come across your first one, you seem to notice a lot of errors and such that you want to edit it thoroughly).
Fyi, this story had been written years ago and I'm still not finished. Ugh! It's so frustrating! The entire story's in my head but I when I'm in front of the blank document, I just can't find the words to write it.
Naruto will always be my number one favorite manga/animé and I'm quite unsatisfied with the way the manga is progressing so I kinda stopped reading at chapter who-knows-what. I'm just not happy with the way Masashi Kishimoto-san implies that Haruno Sakura is Uzumaki Naruto's. Duh. It's obvious how Sakura's still hung up on Sasuke. And besides, Hyuuga Hinata's such an amazing character that she deserves to be the future First Lady of the Future Hokage.
Standard DISCLAIMER applied.
I present to you...
SURVIVING MY OWN STUPIDITY
Chapter 1
My Name is Haruno Sakura
"HAHAHA! That is SO DARN FUNNY! HAHAHA!" A girl's high pitched voice dominated all the other noises inside the library.
Everybody else had their own noisy conversations.
I fiddled with my eyeglass and sighed while putting my blue slug bookmark on the page of the book I was reading without really understanding anything AT ALL.
'What a bother.' I thought and checked the time: 10:58. Two minutes left before my lunch break. Thank God I'm finally getting out of this stupid place.
It's not that I hate the library. I ABSOLUTELY adore this place! It's just that… this is the only library I know that has student talking, eating, sleeping and NOT studying their lessons! Gosh! This is the library for Pete's sake! A sanctuary of knowledge! Not a classroom, or a canteen, or even a bedroom!
Now before you think I'm such a geek, I'll introduce myself. My name is Haruno Sakura, an orphaned scholar in one of the SUPER ELITE school in Tokyo, Konoha Gakuen.
Yes, I'm an orphan. My father died even before I was born and my mother died two years ago because of breast cancer. I don't have any distant relatives so I'm living alone in an apartment me and mother lived in since I can remember. Oh, and I work for myself. My current work is delivering milk and newspaper in the neighborhood early in the morning and I work as a waitress in a restaurant at night but during my day- offs every weekend, I work part time in a clinic near my apartment as a helper- slash- nurse- slash- assistant to the town doctor.
And yes, I'm a scholar. This school only has VERY FEW scholars. I think there's only two in this academic year. I'm the only one in our batch that survived two years of high school already. This school accepts scholars for different fields, like me for example; I'm an academic scholar that's required to have PERFECT GRADES in ALL SUBJECTS. Cruel eh? But I can do it, sice I'm pretty smart. Not that I'm bragging, it's the truth! Oh, I heard the other scholar has the sports scholarship and she (Yes, SHE. GIRLS ROCK!) must win every competition the school enters her in. She's a third year, if I'm not mistaken. I heard she's really athletic that nobody (even the boys) has ever beaten her in any competition. I've never got the chance to meet her because I'm too busy in the library while she's probably in the gym.
"Hellooooooooooo? Earth to Forehead? Did your brain malfunctioned because of all the lessons you're studying all in one time? Hellooooo?" My bestfriend, the blonde heiress of the Yamanaka Flower Boutiques, the biggest and most successful flower business in Japan, Yamanaka Ino, waved a hand in front of my face.
I blinked and raised a brow. " Why, Ino-pig, are you jealous 'coz I' can read ten books in a day while you can't even finish one in a week?" I retorted. Ino's really impatient when it comes to books. She hates how it proves her wrong.
She just rolled her eyes at me. "Really, Forehead? Come on. I'm starving like hell here."
"Alright, alright. Can't let the pig starve." I said and swung my body bag on my shoulder. I left the librarian's desk and slide my ID in the swipe machine for my time off.
Being the ONLY librarian in this school gave me so much benefits. First, I can borrow books ANY TIME I like. Second, I don't need to pay for the 100,000 Yen library card. And third, the 5,000 Yen monthly allowance is great. It has the most pay than my three jobs put together. Enough of my daily expenses. The school cafe's food cost too much that I just make myself a bento before going to school.
"Gosh, Sakura, I can't believe you're wearing that hideous eyeglass again!" Ino scolded while we're walking down on one of the many grand staircases in the school leading towards the café. "Where are the contact lenses I gave you?"
I sighed and unconsciously pushed my black thick-brimmed eyeglass up. "Stop picking on my eyeglasses, Pig. These are the first thing I bought when I received my first pay slip. About those contacts, I think I left them somewhere."
Ino rolled her clear blue eyes. "Really, Sakura, I'll make sure you won't have any excuses over those contacts ever again." She got her iPhone and dialed. "… Hey Anthony. Please get me a lifetime warranty of clear contact lenses. Deliver it to Sakura's apartment. No, I mean the contact lenses. Leave the contract in my room. Yes, immediately. Yes. Okay. Please tell Mom and Dad that I'll be with Sakura later so don't look for me. Yes. Thanks. Bye."
"Ino… You are such a…" I scowled in defeat. She is just too stubborn.
"Oh come on, Sakura. If you'll only let me, I would take care of all your expenses but you refuse to! That's what's bothering me. Others would grab this opportunity to have a friend help them financially but you won't! You'd rather be a working machine than be a financially supported girl by me." Ino scolded me, her expression unbelieving.
We entered the huge café and sat on our usual 4 person table. It was originally a greenhouse renovated to accommodate some of the students who doesn't want to go out of the school during lunch time and some who have tea time in the middle of their classes.
"How many times do I have to tell you? I don't want to take advantage of our friendship. I don't wanna be a gold digger. Besides, you ruining your image as an heiress to be with a poor girl like me is enough for my pride."
"Tss. Pride, pride. You can't eat pride, Sakura. Why can't you-"
I grinned. "Before you continue nagging me about my pride, I should clear something with you before you think I didn't notice such important things. I have work in the restaurant tonight so why did you tell your butler that we're gonna hang out huh? Got any plans?"
"Great, you got me. I just want to hang out in the La Italia for a while. I don't want to go straight home." She told me before giving the waiter her order for her lunch. She had her usual vegetable meal.
I roam my eyes around the café. There are only a few students eating here, as usual. Those rich brats would always go out the school to eat in restaurants and such. Ino told me she prefers to eat here because she loves the food cooked by the chef.
"Really huh... Don't worry. I'll reserve one table for you. Just don't cry by yourself, okay? I would totally ignore you and personally be the one to throw you out." I teased her while opening my bento.
When I heard her scoff, I smiled.
Ino's my first true friend ever (though she doesn't seem like it). I met her during my third week here. I was bullied by some upperclassmen because I wasn't wearing their really expensive uniform but Ino saw us and fought with the girls. She even gave me her old uniforms. Since then, she accompanied me everywhere and kept all the bullies away from me.
"Oh my, Sakura…" Her voice broke my reverie and I turned to look at her face. She looked shocked as she stares, wide eyed, at something- or probably someone- behind me.
"What is it, Ino?" I asked. Not planning to look at it since it's probably just another handsome guy. Ino's really obsessed with handsome guys.
Ino grinned at me. "It's the other scholar."
"Eh?" My brows raised and looked behind me where her finger was pointing. She's right. It's a brunette with two buns as her hairstyle. She's carrying a bento like I do, proud but tense and she's being followed by a shy looking blue haired girl. "You're right."
"Let's invite them here!" She exclaimed and sprinted excitedly towards the two girls.
I sighed. I'm gonna let her be since no one can stop her when she's all hyped up like this.
Hm. What're the assignments for tomorrow? First period, none. Second, none. Oh. Art class in third period! Geez, where the hell will I get a bock of granite that we'll use to build a miniature sculpture? Guess I'll have to ask Ino for another favor again. Sigh.
"Oi, Sakura? Your mind's malfunctioning again?" Ino's waving her hand in front of my face again. The two girls are beside her, looking at me curiously.
I rolled my eyes. "Geez, Ino. Why can't you let me be?"
Ino laughed and sat beside me. "Anyway, this is Tenten and Hinata."
I gave them a smile which they answered with a grin and a shy smile. "Nice to meet you two. I finally got to meet my co- scholar eh?"
"Ha ha. Right, finally! I was too busy in the gym to visit you in the library since those two are in different buildings far from each other." Tenten said and sat across me while Hinata's across Ino. "It's too much of a hassle."
"True." I chuckled.
And we chatted about our lives like best friends do.
End of Chapter 1
That's it. Too much information, right? I don't want Sakura to have any relative here because of my plans for the next chapters. Personally, in the manga, I believe Sakura's strong. She's just portrayed too much of a damsel in distress but if she puts her mind into it, BAM! She became Tsunade's ultimate apprentice: medical ninjutsu, perfect chakra control, and a genjutsu expert. She's just too emotional.
I like making Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Hinata in one little posse. They're just so different. Sakura the serious girl, Ino's the confident girl, Tenten's the tomboyish girl and Hinata's the shy girl. Reminds me of my friends, we're all just so different and argues a lot but whenever we agree on something, it's the best!
K. See you next chapter!
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