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Italics - Thoughts

~There Once Came A Spider~

"Why can't anything interesting happen in Konaha?" A dark raven hair boy said to his blonde friend.

"Your right Sasuke. Konaha is a small boring town. The most excitement we get here is your simple robberies or someone happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and end up getting shot or stabbed." The blonde boy said scratching the back of his head as the two continued to walk to school.

Sasuke Uchiha was eighteen and was a senior this year at Konoha High School. His black locks hung on the sides of his face while his hair was spiked in the back. He was on the tall side and lean. His eyes were as dark as ash and he had to be in the right lighting so you could see his pupils.

For the other boy, Naruto Uzumaki, he was seventeen and also a senior at Konoha High School. He had the brightest blonde spikey hair in Konaha. He stood out as much as a yellow highlighter. His eyes were as blue as the ocean. Naruto wasn't as tall as Sasuke, but he was very lean just like him.

Both boys crossed the street and stopped. They always made stops at this house that was as scary as the devil himself. The house was a very dirty brown with a porch that seemed like it would fall apart at any time. Some of the windows were busted and some shingles were hanging off the roof. Some of the bushes out front looked like they haven't been watered in years.

There was always a different story someone would tell about the house. One boy said a witch lived there, while another girl said it was Frankenstein that she saw glaring through the upstairs window. While other people had these different stories, Sasuke knew that there was nothing wrong with this house, and if there was, what was it going to be, your typical ghost? Everything that they were saying was just fairytales.

Sasuke and Naruto continued to stare at the house until finally Naruto spoke up, "Dude I'll pay you twenty bucks if you can go in that house and bring something back from it."

Sasuke didn't know what to do. He wanted to go in there to show that he was brave, but a something seemed to frighten him and he wasn't sure what it was. A cold chill ran down his spine. He knew there was no one in the house, but for some reason something was stopping him, something in his mind was telling him to forget it and just move on. Sasuke looked at the house and gulped, he didn't want to back out.

"Yeah I can do that, no problem. Tell me when you want me to do it." Sasuke said smirking at Naruto like he wasn't afraid.

Naruto grinned at Sasuke, "Okay, I want you to go there tomorrow night. I want you to stay one hour in the house and bring back something from inside."

"Piece of cake." Sasuke said trying to keep his cool.

They eventually made it to school.

First class went by smoothly, half the time the teacher just slept. Mr. Iku would tell the kids to read a few chapters in their books and he would wait until they were finish. However, Mr. Iku would fall asleep half way through class so the kids didn't end up doing anything else, but whisper to each other.

Two brunette boys that sat in the back of the classroom began gossiping about one of the students. Sasuke leaned back in his chair a bit so he could overhear who they were talking about.

"Why does she wear those boots and have black fingernails?" The spikey brunette boy said.

The other boy laughed," I know what you mean man, all the girls here wear black or brown flats and has typical girl color nails like red or pink."

Sasuke laughed to himself, he thought they sounded like two girls gossiping instead of boys.

The boy with long brown hair laughed and said," And what's with the pink hair? Obvious dye job. Someone told me she lived in that creepy house on Chimiriku St."

Sasuke scanned the room to see who they were talking about. He looked in the corner of his left eye to the back of the room and noticed a girl with long cotton candy pink hair. She looked completely different than the rest of the girls here at Konoha, he didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. He only wondered why he hadn't notice her before.

The pink haired girl was looking down at her book and noticed two boys laughing. She looked over and noticed they were talking about her. She shut her book loudly and glared at them. If looks could kill.

The boys gulped and sunk like the Titanic in their seats. The pink haired girl reopened her book and began reading where she left off.

Sasuke tapped Naruto on the arm and whispered," Naruto, who is that girl in the back of the room with pink hair?"

Naruto lifted his head up from doodling on his notepad and whispered back, "I heard her name was Sakura Haruno. No one really knows anything about her accept Hinata."

For some reason Sasuke wanted to talk to her, his heart urging him to say hi to her. He even wanted to know why she was living in that hell hole house or even if she actually did live there.

Sasuke began to turn around to say hi until the bell rang. Some of the kids moved past him and once they were out of his way, her seat was empty. She was gone.