Hellooo! This is my second Naruto story! Isn't that awesome! Since I got some pretty good reviews for my one-shot, Apologize, and the first chapter of The Wrong One, I thought of this idea, and I just had to write it … so … yeah … still SasuSaku…eventually =p so … yeah
Summary: They say a tiny fly could destroy a huge plane…but how could something this small lead to something so big? SasuSaku
Set: At some point after the Chuunin exams but before Sasuke leaves.
Sakura is pretty OC in this, then again, most will probably turn out to be kinda OC in some way. But just try and go with the flow..
Disclaimer: The day I own Naruto is the day the orange sky rain's chocolate drops from fluffy candy floss clouds…I'm delusional, leave me be.
-Beep, beep, beep, beep be-
Lazily whacking my alarm clock, desperate for it to be quiet and allow me 5 more minutes of sleep, I only woke up fully as the red and black clock crashed onto the floor. I peered around the edge of my bed, only to find it battered and broken, batteries and springs peeping out from under my bed, and pieces of plastic were scattered about in random places. I groaned and sat up fully – I'd had that alarm clock since I was a child, so I knew parting with it would probably hurt me at some point when I was fully awake.
As I slowly stood up, wobbling a bit, I realised that wasn't just any normal Wednesday…this was the day.
Ninja Community Service Day.
I'd heard all about it from Rock Lee and TenTen, since they were the year above me. At this time every year, the Academy takes part in the Ninja Community Service Day, or NCSD for short. Rock Lee told me that it was vital to get there early, so that you could get the best one. He'd gotten there a minute after 8.00, and the only thing left was cleaning the toilets in the hospital, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out how bad that is.
I glanced at the shattered remains of my clock once more, sighed, and went towards my wardrobe to get out the red dress with the Haruno symbol on that I loved so much.
Once I was dressed and brushed my hair (still half asleep, mind), I went downstairs slowly and greeted my mother with a tired grunt before grabbing a piece of bread from the bread bin and sticking it in the toaster rather forcefully. I was so hungry because I hadn't eaten much the night before, and I could not let this toast go to waste. I had to wait until it finished, didn't I?
"Hi honey…I thought you might've come down a bit earlier for breakfast since its 7:50 … but if you think you're going to finish it and get to school within 10 minutes, then okay."
I paused and quickly turned to face my mother, with innocence plastered on her face.
"IT'S 7:50? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER!? I have to get to school!"
I turned to face my toast once more to find it was burning quite rapidly. I stopped the toaster, took the now darkened toast in my hands, juggling it a bit due to the heat, and ran out of the door, leaving a shocked-faced mother behind, and ran as fast as I could to the Academy.
I had never felt so honoured to be a fast runner.
As I reached the gates of the Academy (just finishing my pretty horrible tasting toast), I noticed a blonde haired, loud-mouthed girl waiting by it. 'Ino, YES! I'm not the only one late!' I thought as I ran towards her.
"INO! What's the time!?"
Ino jumped halfway out of her skin, terrified by her best friends arrival, since she had her back to the entrance. She glanced down at her watch, and lifted her head up, a smirk on its way.
"It's 8:05, Forehead. You might wanna be quick."
"But you're out here… don't tell me you're…"
"Already done? Yep, I'm finished. I'm a volunteer photographer for some band at some place…I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention…"
"I-I'm going to t-teach a class about the Byakugan and the jutsu's that we c-can use. N-Neji did it last y-year, a-and his went okay."
Hinata walked up behind Ino and smiled sweetly at me. I grabbed Ino's wrist and looked at the time again. 8:10. Shoot. At this rate I'm not even going to get anything, let alone worry about getting a bad one.
I ignore the rest of what Ino and Hinata are talking about and run inside the hall to find our entire year in there. The majority of people are leaving, talking with their mates about their community service, and I run around the circle of tables, trying to find an option that didn't have the big red sign saying 'FULL' on top of it.
Finally, I spot one. It's probably bad, but I don't care what it is, as long as I actually have something to do. I scribble my name quickly on the paper, making my name look like "Hamno Sakuno" due to the scruffiness, and look at the sign of what I had just written my name down to do before neatening my handwriting.
I could've fainted.
On the bright side…it wasn't toilet cleaning.
I pinched myself, making sure this wasn't some horrible nightmare.
Nope…didn't think so.
The sign read: "Trash cleaner."
If there was anything at all I disliked…anything…it would be garbage in the streets. The thought of where said litter had been beforehand was … in some cases, disturbing. I neatened my name out, making it look more like "Haruno Sakura" before collecting a leaflet about what I had to do and glancing down at the sheet of paper, to see who else had volunteered/been practically forced to do this.
I wish I didn't.
This was not my day.
If I could take one thing back, it would definitely be this whole day.
I shut my eyes as I groaned inwardly and stared at the paper before me. There was only one other name on the list.
Uchiha Sasuke.
Okay, chapter 1 done. I have no idea when this will be updated, so please don't hold your breath waiting … I have so much stuff going on at the mo and so many other stories to be updated … it's almost scary lol … I have no idea how to start the next chapter either … Meh, I'll think of a way … I seem to be able to with everything else …
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