This story is reuploaded. To my old readers of AGoSW I am so sorry for deleting the story because as I had mentioned before, ideas had been a mess and the way it was written before did not satisfy me and seems to be all so long but stiff with many plotholes. Nothing much had changed I just soften it a little you could say (# I am sorry if my choice of words are incomprehensible but I hope you get the idea). As an apology for me deleting it I am uploading three chapters already so I hope you enjoy and forgive me.
A/N: This story was inspired from the multi-saku story "Wicked" by Queen Sapphire.(CHECKITOUTPEOPLE!) So you might find some similarities from hers but don't get too surprised because Its still completely different from mine. Hers is so amazing, unfortunately she had stop updating it. Help me remind her into updating guys!
Also you might consider this as OOC but I won't say it does, because this is in an alternate universe where no one was evil, massacred, died and they all experienced a different childhood from the cannon. So yeah, they are not OOC -for me that is-, but I hope you would still enjoy!
By the way, I'm a slow-burned-story writer. You'll see what I mean, so please tell me honestly if its boring like that or not.
Disclaimer: I only own a lot of headache from thesis…
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Full Summary:
Haruno Sakura was already on her 2nd year of high school. She expects her remaining year to be smooth and uneventful just like the previous year (if you call scaring off fellow students and sometimes teachers that made them avoid and spite her as smooth and uneventful.)
However, she might had unfortunately ventured a little bit too far this time while trying to make things the same by maintaining her status as the wicked witch of her school (which practically is a tag that tells,"mess with me and you'll wonder where did your sanity went to." that is... until she met those who were might've been already sanity-deprived.) because what she doesn't expect is that even a gleam of something wicked can catch attention. And sometimes... even more.
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CHAPTER ONE
Contrary to what most thought, Sakura is actually just as normal as the others.
She HATES Mondays.
Because surely hating Monday is one of the normal students does. You wake up early when you could've still be sleeping until the rooster dies crowing -or end up with a smashed alarm clock for that matter because the sound is just satisfying don't you think?; take a bath hurriedly when you could've taken your sweet sweet time and then you could've read novels and watch TV for the rest of the day until you get your eyes bloodshot red, or simply just to lazily daze off watching the clouds and sky until you fall asleep again, and many more things you could do on Monday instead of putting up with the same crap every start of the week like the school announcement, project deadlines, pop quizzes and many more.
Unless of course your one of those gossip maniac who can't wait, as you've figured, to "know what happened last weekend," which is not the Gakuen Konoha's pink haired student's kind of abnormality.
How is she doing you ask? Well she's currently in the predicament of facing one of the world's largest faced problem... traffic. Well in her case, student traffic more precisely. Aren't Konoha suppose to be one of Tokyo's largest academy? Where's the space people?
This, is one of the things she also genuinely hate on this school: crowded Monday. Students littered all around the hallway gossiping like their the only person in the room, talking about their weekend spent and details about some party(in which case you should know has many kinds like slumber, tea, club, the crazy sort of stuff, and... you get the idea). She can't help but wonder, how the hell are they still not tired from those stuff? Not to mention gossiping like LOUDLY must be tiring for their throats.
What's more, apparently, Monday is the day for the stuck-upped high-above-the-hierarchy students to welcome back those below them to their hell which is one of the students' form of entertainment.
Sakura can't help but scoff, because of course there's also the show off battle between groups of seniors and juniors, which had been going on since last year.
She doesn't doubt that the ruckus this time is one of those reasons.
Actually, getting her way is not the problem but the noise is. And glaring early in the morning on this large number of students IS a drag, although she very much revel in their scared faces.
'What are they even crowding for?!' Sakura thought while giving her annoyed look to some students, who immediately parted like the red sea similar from the bible's story for her.
She smoothly made her way through the crowds whilst trying to tune off the noise by putting on her headphone, but she still can't stop from glancing at the Monday ruckus and only to see that a certain blonde and redhead was apparently having an argument slash catfight, again.
Sakura can't resist rolling her eyes "Some things never change, stupid Ino and Karin," she muttered and continued her way to her locker whilst not noticing that the ruckus she was leaving behind had escalated since their guidance councilor appeared with a murderous aura everywhere causing those involve in the fight to scatter.
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Tsunade's not THAT old.
But she surely is not that young anymore dang it!... Why can't her student's get through a day, or even JUST a morning, without causing trouble?
At this rate, she's going to earn more wrinkles than she likes and she surely as badly doesn't need to, with Jiraiya already on her number one list of wrinkles-inducing since forever.("His Come Come Paradise will certainly meet its Hell one of this days, that jerk!" She can't help but thought.)
"But it was an accident Miss Senju, yeah! I swear that it just fell off my hand because the snake suddenly appeared out of nowhere and land on my head. My HEAD, UN! I'm sure you would understand I was just surprised at the moment and WITHOUT the utmost intention of setting off the fireworks. And because Orochimaru-sensei's laboratory was full of chemicals, the room would surely explode, yeah! So it wasn't entirely my fault," Deidara Iwa, the blue-eyed blonde-head 3rd year student, one of the delinquents of the school explained while gesturing with his hands, as if his life's end will be determine by his explanation. Which in truth is not far from reality because the Principal is trying hard not to strangle him that would really end his life and yeahs right then and there.
"Although the explosion I must say is pretty spectacular..." the blonde-knucklehead muttered quietly as an afterthought with a secret glint in his eyes, which was still not missed by the woman.
Tsunade tried hard to composed herself, she is still the Principal of the school and even though the idiot deserved to be blasted off to fire himself with all those number of times he cause explosion and many more other chaos to the school since his very first day in the academy, the boards would still find a way to excuse him because of his uncle's authority. And it always give her a much bigger problem every time case like this reach those elder boards-of-huge-jerks. So its much better to solve this herself, preferably -but with SO much difficulty- without bloodshed.
"Iwa, this is already the seventh time you cause an explosion in just three weeks since the start of this school year. Yet because the higher ups always found a way to get you out of the MUCH suitable punishment," Tsunade's eyes glinted darkly, which made Deidara deduced that their Principal's definition of suitable might have much more to do with pain when sided with the word punishment. Deidara can't help but gulped, Tsunade Senju's temper is indeed like her breast: massive."this time, I'm not going to make the same mistake again of letting them handle you," the big-busted principal continued with an equally evil smirk,"Because I will personally-"
But before she could finish it - to Deidara's relief- Tsunade's assistant Miss Shizune, entered the room and announced,
"Tsunade-sama, Ino Yamanaka and Karin Uzumaki are fighting in the hallway."
Ok, she admits it. She's quite old.
And she already wants to retire DARN IT!
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The way to the locker was long and irritating that when she arrived it was already a few minutes before the school announcement. To Sakura's relief, the lockers are not very crowded which gave her the luxury in removing her headphone without worrying for her ears in greeting annoying noise.
But before she could do it, someone removed it for her. Sakura knew that only either the fools or someone she really knew would try to disturb her, so it didn't come as a surprised to see that it was her childhood friend, Tenten.
"Wow, this headphone is more comfortable than mine!" Tenten exclaimed while listening to Sakura's music which was playing Panic at the Disco's The Good the Bad and the Dirty.
The witch yanked it from her friend's ears and ask blankly, "What do you need Tenten?"
"Why? Can't someone greet her buddy without reason?" Tenten asked.
But Sakura didn't change her expression.
"Ok. I admit, there's something I need you for. But i also came to greet you because i rarely saw and talk to you this past weeks. But seeing that your still the same, i guess that your big time OK. So I'm going to the main point... Ino and Karin is in trouble," the brown-head girl explain.
"Well what a surprised," the pink-head girl lamely answered that clearly contradicts her statement before opening her locker and getting her books for her first period class.
Tenten thought how her friend never cease to amuse her without trying to. Sakura is just too cute even with her blank expressions. Others failed to noticed it because their just too afraid of her. Not that she doesn't, but she knew her friend more than anyone so she also knows that Sakura doesn't act harshly without reason, that's why she can look at the wicked witch of their school in the eyes without fear.
"So?" Sakura asked, "what does it have to do with me?"
Tenten chuckled nervously since this is the first time she was asked to do this, "They… asked, very kindly your high-evilness, for your help."
Sakura look at her with an deadpan expression that says, "seriously?".
"Hey, not to worry miss Villain, the two promise you a reward. And…" Tenten drawled seemingly unsure if she should continue and say it, "it also includes… saving Ino's cousin Deidara by the way, because apparently, 'the moron got caught in trouble again'- from Ino's words that is," she quoted and with eyes looking at her friend pleadingly.
"Oh?" Sakura just answered without a change in her face and voice. After closing her locker she faced Tenten while leaning on it waiting for her to continue.
"Ino and Karin heard of how a large number of first years still doesn't know the Pink-haired cruel witch and that they're giving you a hard time. Like the time when those male first year soccer players purposely hit you in the head while you were reading on the bench because they were having a bet on who can hit your pink head the most. And... three of them did land on you i think,"
"Four actually," Sakura corrected.
"Right- four. Then there was also the time when those first year girls pour a bucket of cold water on you during P.E. for swimming lessons last week. So... Karin and Ino said that if you bail them out, together with Ino's cousin, from Tsunade's wrath -because according to Shikamaru that they would surely not get out of the punishment smoothly this time-, they would help you in teaching all first year how really wicked you are so you can get your peaceful school life again sooner. What do you say?"
After a moment, Sakura laugh humorlessly that made Tenten's hair on his neck stand. And the brown-haired girl can't stop from relating on why almost every students, including the teachers, of Gakuen Konoha fears the girl in front of her.
"That's the reward? Well they must've forgotten that those foolish boys who unfortunately messed with me ended up with a bloody nose and broken arms and currently cannot participate in soccer. And if they DID come back," Sakura trailed off and gave a sickeningly sweet smile that doesn't betray an ounce of her title -which made Tenten chillingly thought that what's more scary than a mad evil smile, is a sweet sweet evil smile-"they would surely be less foolish than before, ne? They still have their legs after all, lucky for them actually" Sakura continued.
"And those girls you said had the unlucky of missing their class after P.E. And the next day, i heard that they apparently caught colds. Each one of them did, come to think of it. How strange..." Sakura said purposely acting innocent, even when many students knew that she was definitely behind those accident where those said girls missed their next class because they were lock for almost two hours in the shower room, in which accidentally the shower can't stop pouring mercilessly and the heater was off.( Who won't get colds in that?!)
Their teacher thought they skipped class again and didn't look for them, and if it weren't for the janitor,they would've freeze to death.
"So tell them that i don't need help in teaching those young fools. Because unlike them, i can cause troubles without getting caught," the witch added but with the end part in an almost whisper.
If it were any other, he or she would've ran cowardly but fortunately, it was Tenten. So instead of running off, she put her arms on Sakura and cheerily said, "Your Wickedness, you must've forgotten that this is Ino and Karin. Of course that was ONLY a part of the reward. Ino said that if you succeed in getting them out of trouble, she would also pay you. And not only that, your beloved guitar and piano will be repaired in separate prize from the cash. While Karin also agreed to find a way to exclude you from the upcoming summer party hosted by the Uzumaki's without damaging your grade."
Sakura was thinking over it deeply. She doesn't desperately needed money, but her guitar and piano does and what she REALLY desperately needed is playing her instruments again but it was broken and she can't afford to repair it even with her weekly salary from her parents and the pays from her part time job combined.
She's not greedy, but getting also extra money does sound very appealing specially with college almost near and she doesn't really want to depend on her parents who was in China and only owns teashop as a business.
On the other hand, this was a chance in not attending the crazy party without worrying for her grade. She needs high marks if she want to go to her dream university, but she hates party and their academy has this annoying tradition of hosting one EVERY change of the season and EVERY students need to attend whether they want to or not because its part of their EVERY class requirements with points as high as a thesis and two projects combined.
So yes, this was once in a lifetime chance.
When Tenten saw Sakura rolled her eyes, she know she got the witch in agreeing with her.
"So?... Just a little bit of spell?" Tenten excitedly ask.
The witch shrugged nonchalantly and smirk.
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The clock reach 8:27 which indicates that it was almost time for the school announcement held every Monday at the Academy's huge convention hall where their indoor stage was located just across the hallway.
Students starts to make their way towards it while others were already on line.
If Tsunade wasn't trying to hide the three student's troubles -yet again- from the board she wouldn't have let them go and attend the announcement.
"Those punks even have the luck to delay their punishments," the principal grudgingly mumbled.
"What was it, Tsunade-chan?," a voice behind her playfully asked.
And she knows exactly who it belongs to. A middle-aged man with red pointed tattoo permanently painted below his eyes, Jiraiya- Tsunade's not-so-dear friend and the vice-principal of the school.
When she faced him, Tsunade noticed that a familiar dreadful orange notebook was peaking behind his jacket. And if she's correct, it must absolutely be the man's prized porn which he was writing ever since they were high school: 'Come Come Paradise'.
"Jiraiya..." a vein was starting to form on Tsunade's head while clenching her fist so hard that made Shizune seriously worry for her blood pressure.
"Yes honey?" the vice-principal, oblivious to his acquaintance's uncontain rage, sweetly asked.
"How many times do i have to tell you, not to bring that trash here!?" Tsunade shouted before sending him to the trash can, 3 meters far from them, with a punch in the face.
Just when Tsunade started to calm down that made her assistant beside her sigh in relief for her master's health because of too much temper, a white-haired man in his middle 20's with a mask covering his lower face walks over and wave towards them lazily but without glancing in their way.
"Yoh Jiraiya-sensei, Tsunade-sama, Shizune-san..." Kakashi greeted uncaringly, engrossed in his book.
A. Dreadful. Orange. Book.
"Ka-ka-shi!"
Shizune use all her strength from preventing her principal in murdering the English professor who literally left dusts behind his trail while running with all his might.
The assistant were thankful that no students was around or their reputation was surely ruin.
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Maybe she should have taken Shikamaru's warning to heart and her embedded it in her head. Ino wasn't normally nervous whenever she was caught in troubles, especially when troubles involved catfighting against Karin Uzumaki. Because both their family was powerful enough against the school's board of directors so they could always evade grievous disciplinary action ever since their first year.
However, Shikamaru formulated before the start of this school year that it can't go on forever, especially when constant trouble makers such as the Akatsukis have been doing so for their whole time in the academy. The Principal would surely get full of everything and finally find a way to take measures in making sure that they won't get out smoothly like before.
For instance, Tsunade could always not present the issue to the boards. Only serious troubles -like they always gives- should be presented to them and the principal could always say that what they did are not -even if it absolutely is. Wherein in that case, she would personally take it upon herself to fix it by, for example, making them do exhausting community service or Ino would clean all the schools bathroom for one month.
Shikamaru said that Tsunade will definitely use a seemingly simple punishment so it won't look that serious to the eye of the boards but which she could easily manipulate into something grave.
It was okay so far since she and Karin had manage to not fought over the board like usual ever since the start of the school year, inside the campus that is. But, the moment that idiot Karin provoked her this morning especially after the unsettled event yesterday, Ino forgot about Shikamaru's warnings of not getting into trouble.
Even though both of them always fights on silly things, Ino can't deny that they were really close friends. Although the best term for their relationship was frienemy.
They constantly fight, but they also escape consequences together, that was why fighting with Karin was not a problem.
Well... except for now.
It was such a luck that before getting caught by the guidance councillor, Danzo, they got a hold of Tenten and without even thinking about it she had asked her to get help from the Witch into bailing them out because idiot Shikamaru found it troublesome to help them. (Where she also included her cousin because the idiot can't last a day without causing trouble).
The Witch was their only chance. She is a person who can easily manipulate simple words into like a spell and use it against anyone. Ino even heard how the Sakura Haruno made one of the member of the Demons of the Mist -the most famous gang of Hidden Mist Academy, Gakuen Konoha's rival school- cry with just her words.
It was impossible yes, but she actually heard it first hand when she personally witness how Sakura spout simple lies like a game she's used to, and with an additional equally simple facts, the Wicked Witch of Gakuen Konoha had managed to tongue-tied even THE terribly cruel Danzo himself that made her escape from his grasps as a suspect during the shower incident after P.E.'s swimming lesson. Ino would've believe her, if only she didn't saw herself that Sakura was the last to come out of the girl's changing room.
And she was really sure that the witch knew she saw her during that time, but Sakura still blatantly escape from trouble in front of her. She even directly look at Ino's eyes after lying smoothly, not even remotely showing a dust of fear in her expression that Ino might gave her in(It was even as if she was daring her to do it!).
Ino isn't someone who is easily intimidated but those sort of things did happen to her at that moment, which was maybe why she decided that she wasn't crazy enough to go against the Witch.
So if there's anyone who can surely help them out of Tsunade's wrath, it was her.
Tenten said that Sakura won't easily agree to them which was why she and Karin agreed on the rewards Tenten suggested to make her agree. They will give anything really, just to get away from their temperamental principal's reach. And after seeing Tsunade's dark auras a while ago that cause even her foolish cousin to go uneasy on his feet, Ino was really glad for her two lucks: finding Tenten and the school announcement.
Oh boy, was she really grateful for the school announcement. The moment she and Karin entered the office of the principal, she was so sure she would need to say good bye to her freshly painted nails, new shoes and expensive perfume because she was going to clean the school's every bathrooms. If it weren't for Miss Shizune to declare that the school announcement is going to start in ten minutes, the farewell almost happened.
Tsunade let them go to attend but not before glaring at them and reminding them to come back after it.
Ino was deeply wishing that Tenten would manage to make Sakura agree. But the announcement was almost starting and she still haven't heard from Tenten while she's currently trying hard not to feel Tsunade's rage(which had gotten even higher all of a sudden as if she wants to commit murder), who was on the stage.
Someone touch her shoulder and to her relief it was Tenten, who was wearing a wide grin and wink at her before going to her line behind Lee who was at Ino's leftside.
Ino let out a sigh she didn't realized she was holding before looking at Karin's way who was three persons away in front of her and was giving her a silent question.
She answered her with an assuring smile and together they faced the stage just when the singing of the national anthem had begun followed by the announcements given by different school staffs.
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"... and lastly, i would just like to remind everyone that the Summer Party is already three weeks from now. And don't forget that all students are required to attend unless you have a VALID reason not to," Miss Shizune ended her part on the morning announcement with an emphasis on the 'valid' while pointedly looking at Sakura who can't really be miss even among the midst of students because of her pink hair.
Sakura rolled her eyes, it was really just her luck that the person in-charge to every party's attendance was her aunt, Shizune. She was just 11 years older than her so instead of being an aunt, Shizune was more of like a sister than one. And because of that, Shizune would really know Sakura -even more so than Tenten- including the younger girl's hate of social events.
The principal's assistant was the reason why the witch can't use her words to sway her way out of the parties because she doesn't accept -or more appropriately, HEAR- every excuse she'd present.
The next professor to give his announcement is Danzo, the guidance councillor, reminding the students about the school's laws and regulations and whatnots that she didn't really hear because she started to tune him off.
'Honestly, clouds are even more interesting,' the witch mused.
She looked around and noticed that Ino and Karin, together with Naruto and Kiba are currently looking at each other and laughing secretly, as if Danzo had just made a joke.
She remembered her walked over at where the two fought a while ago and had noted that unlike their past catfight, there where no damage done to the school's property.
On the other hand, Sakura had asked Tenten about the explosion Ino's cousin cause and Tenten said that not everyone really saw it because apparently, it happens on the lower eastern part of the campus where mostly are just stock and supply rooms, including garage and empty ones. The only people who saw it are those near it during those period and mostly just because of the colorful fireworks.
Every little piece of information slowly entered the witch's mind, and after looking at Danzo, Sakura smiled... she's going to have a fun time with Tsunade later.
After all, its one of the rewards she's going to earn.
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The blabbers had finally stop thankfully.
Deidara stretched his arms widely, "Finally yeah..."
"Deidara."
The sound of his name stopped him from walking out of the hall.
"What do you want Itachi?" Deidara irritatingly asked.
"Don't forget that you still need to go to the principal's office," the Uchiha unemotionally answered.
A brick of cement seems to fall over him.
"Darn.S" before sprinting off.
But Itachi caught him in his collar and is already yanking him away.
"Dang it Uchiha, get your mighty hands off me, yeah! Sasori-danna don't let him take mEEE!" Deidara all but shouted while trying to wiggle his way out of Itachi's strong grip.
However, his partner whom he asked help for just wave at him lazily and went ahead.
"Danna!..."
"I'm still the student council President, Iwa. I already told you that just because your my groupmate doesn't mean that your getting off your trouble easily," the Uchiha said nonchalantly, pulling him with hardly an effort and like a rag while many students are looking at their way.
The girls was whispering how cool Itachi was and others commented that Deidara still look hot even while being drag.
"I have the right to remain silent and walk on my own, yeah! Give me my attorney and my bomb, un! And where is that traitor TOBI, I'm going to murder that idiot, YEAH!" the blonde-head continued shouting.
"Eeek!"
Just then, a blur of an orange masked and a black robe with red clouds over a boy's uniform ran away in Deidara's peripheral vision after making those sound.
"Come here you baka, YEAH!" but Itachi didn't stop walking to let him chase Tobi.
"Tobi's a good boy senpai! But Tobi's more afraid of the big breasted woman!..." Tobi's shout trailed off behind him.
"Let me at him! Let me at your stupid cousin, Uchiha, yeah!"
But before he could finally yanked himself away from the student council President, they were already inside the said legendary big-breasted woman's office.
"Glad to finally have you here Iwa," Tsunade said with a reassuringly to-make-you-suffer-HARD smile.
Deidara gulped.
"Your dismiss Uchiha," the principal turned her attention to the dark-haired student council who bowed in returned and walk away, not even glancing at Deidara's direction.
"Sit down Iwa while we are waiting for your cousin and Miss Uzumaki," Tsunade ordered.
It was then at that time that he notice another person in the room aside from the principal's assistant, a sickly pale man with long straight black hair and yellow slit-like eyes -the biology professor and whose lab he had exploded-, Orochimaru.
Then Deidara suddenly thought, 'What if my punishment is to be Orochimaru's assistant, yeah?'
Before a huge dread settled over him, 'No...no. No, un. Tsunade isn't that cruel, is she?'
But a glance at the principal didn't assure him.
'Noooo...yeeah!' Deidara wailed despairingly inside him.
'Any punishment! I'll accept any punishment, yeah. Anything but related or something to do with that pedophile. Kami-sama pleeease... What if he'll take my innocence, yeah? What if...'
During Deidara's dreadful thought of possible worst case scenarios with many yeahs at the end, the door finally open that cuts it.
However, instead of his cousin, a small girl, who seems to be younger than him, with pink hair entered the room.
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End A/N: Again I apologize for deleting this and hope you enjoy the chapters with minor details edited.
And please, if you think my story is worth it, help me put a barrier against the so called laziness and writer's block so that it won't end with me having a mess of ideas again by telling me how to enhance my writings, point out errors and if you like, put some suggestions. (Amazing Sakura-centric stories suggestion to boost my writing-adrenaline and inspiration would be nice).
P.S. this is unbeta-ed
P.P.S everything is just from my imagination so many things are not accurate because i don't live in japan which is why i'm mainly basing all from my wants on how things should be like in my own story...