"Sakura Haruno…class 2A…."
Sakura walked through the halls of the "ninja academy" at least that's what it was called by the students. It had been her school for a year now and it didn't take long for her to learn who to befriend and who to avoid. She had befriended Hinata and TenTen. She had seen Hinata being bullied behind the school and TenTen had sat with her at lunch on the first day of junior high. As she walked through the hallways going to her homeroom she heard some obnoxious giggling. She turned around to see Ino talking with another girl Kin. Ino was the most popular girl in school and everyone wanted to be like her, everyone except Sakura. Then she heard
"Hey! Ino! Kin!" it was Temari. She pushed past Sakura to join Ino and Kin
Its no use saying anything….they're just going to ignore me anyway…thought Sakura. She started to quietly walk away when she heard a remark from Ino
"That's why people always push past you billboard brow! Because you always act like a doormat! I have an add for a play im doing next week! Can I rent out you're billboard brow??"
Sakura sighed, she heard laughter. People weren't necessarily laughing at her per say they were laughing to fit in with Ino. The only one not laughing was Sasuke. That's why Sakura liked Sasuke so much. He never laughed with Ino or her friends and never seemed to be moved by anyone. He was his own man. But Sasuke didn't seem to show any feelings for anyone either and Sakura wasn't the only one interested. She and Ino both liked Sasuke, and there was nothing either of them could do about it. But there was someone interested in Sakura and that was….
"Stop this at once!" Sakura heard some one say.
It was Lee. Just having Lee show up in his green spandex uniform was enough but then having him trying to protect Sakura was too much.
That's when TenTen showed up.
"C'mon Lee…we have to uhm…get to class! You too Sakura!"
Whew…if Lee had pledged his love for me Ino would NOT let it go…ever…ill have to thank TenTen at lunch…I hope Hinata is doing okay shes much more fragile than I am…I hope her morning hasn't bin too rough… Sakura thought.
As it turned out Hinata was in the same homeroom as Sakura. However, she also noticed Neji was in the same homeroom as themselves…this couldn't end well.
As class dragged on Hinata seemed more and more unnerved. And Neji seemed angrier and angrier at either the desk Hinata was sitting at or Hinata. Which couldn't be good.
I remember Hinata telling me about some sort of family feud with a cousin or something…ive never met Neji but he does seem to dislike Hinata. Is this the cousin Hinata was talking about?
Sakura drifted from class to class, lost in thought. It was the end of 4th period when she heard…"S-S-Sakura we can go to lunch now? Would you want to walk with me? We could meet TenTen around…now!!!!" Neji was approaching Sakura's desk and Hinata was shaking slightly. She saw Neji glare and walk past them out of the room. Hinata gave a sigh of relief. There was a minute or so of silence in the classroom as Hinata did some steady breathing
Sakura didn't want to pry, but she did anyway "is that him? Neji? Is he the one who doesn't like you?"
Hinata nodded slowly "yeah…yeah." She whispered.
Sakura gave a small smile "I see. Then lets go find TenTen okay?" she put her arm around Hinata's shoulder and they walked out of the classroom.
Hinata and Sakura talked as they walked out of homeroom. Everything seemed to be okay with Hinata untill they ran into TenTen. She was with Neji and they were talking together happily! As if they were the best of friends! Hinata just stood there staring and then Neji turned around
"Hello Hinata…" he said
He smiled "see you TenTen-chan" he said and walked off.
Sakura turned "what was that?"
TenTen smiled "that's Neji Hyuuga! He's so nice!" TenTen swooned "we were in 2nd period together and…" she trailed off
Hinata was shaking her head at Sakura as if to say "Sakura please! Don't tell her that…"
But Sakura didn't take the hint. She pointed to Hinata "that's Hinata's cousin Neji! He hates her and shes afraid of him"
"Cousin? I didn't know that…" said TenTen still off in la-la-land
"Well are you going to keep going out with him then?! It's going to bother Hinata if you go out with him"
TenTen flushed bright red "g-going out??!! I never said we were going out!"
"Oh please its obvious you like him!" Sakura started to chant "TenTen and Neji sitting in a tree..!"
"And Sakura and Lee pushed them out to take their place!" Lee interjected
"Leeee!" Sakura groaned
"Uhm maybe we should go to lunch" Hinata whispered
"You can come too Lee…"
"Oh joy! I can sit next to Sakura at lunch! Thank you Hinata!"
Hinata smiled"Well im going to sit next to Neji today!" TenTen proclaimed
"Humph" Sakura said "fine go sit with you're boyfriend!"
Both girls glared at each other for a long moment then turned and went separate ways.
Then Sakura heard what she least wanted to hear at the moment. Ino's voice.
"What a shame shame shame!" Ino said "two best friends having a fight over a boy!"
Sakura smiled "well yes I guess we are fighting over a boy Ino!"
Ino stood there in shock because her comment didn't get a rise out of Sakura. She then shook her head and watched as the girls calmly walked to the lunchroom, which matched anything but their calm mood. Food was flying everywhere and tables, chairs and people were on the floor. Naruto zoomed past Sakura with a container of pudding in his hand.
"Naruto!!!" Sakura screamed after the boy "what the heck do you think you're doing?" but Naruto was long gone he was now chasing Shikamaru who was completely uninterested with the food fight. He was angry, yelling things like, "Oh great. lunch was supposed to be the time when I nap!"
Sakura, Hinata and Lee carefully walked to the quieter side of the lunchroom where a couple of kids were huddled together trying to stay out of fire. As they made their way over to the corner Naruto fell in front of them with tomato on his shirt, screaming "im hit im hit!!!"
Hinata giggled and smiled
Lee helped Naruto up and fled for the corner saying
"Wounded solider wounded solider! Clear the way!"
Sakura saw TenTen and Neji sitting together in the back of the corner eating lunch and playing cards with a few other kids but luckily there were two other groups of card players. Sakura dragged Hinata into a card game before she noticed TenTen and Neji. After lunch Sakura went off to her science class. She looked over her schedule.
"Hmm…science room 1b, Anko-sensei…" Sakura made her way to science and noticed that Sasuke was in her class and there was an empty seat next to him.
"Hi Sasuke…do you mind if I sit here?" Sakura asked
"Go ahead" Sasuke said in his usual I-don't-care tone.
Sakura couldn't help but smile. But then she realized who else was sitting next to Sasuke on the other side, Ino.
What a way to spoil a perfect science class! Why does Ino have to be in my class? Why can't it be Kin? Or even Temari? At least they don't like Sasuke. Sakura thought then Sakura noticed Chouji sitting in the back row, as always he was eating. The bell rang and Anko-sensei walked into the room. She noticed Chouji sitting in the back row eating. She smiled and threw a sharpened pencil with such accuracy it hit the bag of chips and pinned it to the wall. The class fell silent. Anko-sensei smiled
"Now" she said "who wants to be the first caught with no homework?"
At the end of the day Sakura met up with Hinata while walking home. Hinata was always quiet.
"So how was you're day? What teachers did you get?"
"Uh well for gym I got Jiriya-sensei. And "
"Wait did you say jiriya?"
"Yes…"
"The legendary pervert?"
"Well I don't know about that but he let us do swimming today."
Sakura groaned. Hinata was so innocent
"What about you Sakura?"
"I got Anko-sensei as my science teacher…she almost punctured a hole in Chouji today"
"She what?"
"He was eating in class. No big deal she only pinned his chip bag to the wall"
Hinata shivered.
Then they heard the fire bell. Sakura and Hinata quickly ran off of school grounds when they bumped into Neji.
"Hinata I need to talk to you." He said.