It was midnight when they finally assembled. Two cloaked figures stood at the doors, and three more were converging around a wide desk in the middle of the room. The silent figure behind the deck shifted her chest, and stared at the three teammates before her, eyes gleaming in the moonlight. "You three" she stated "have a new mission."
"Really? A Mission?" Came an energetic, young male voice.
"Yes," Was the reply. "This is a high level mission- you will be guarding a teenage girl in a nearby private school, known as 'Konoha Hikari Academy."
She threw a folder out onto the desk. One of the figures walked forward and grabbed the file with a pale hand. Opening the first page, the figure scanned its contents. There was a picture of a young girl, maybe 15, smiling widely at the camera, her teal eyes full and sparkling. There was a sense of sincerity about her.
"Name?" Came the male voice of the figure.
"Haruno Sakura."
The first male of the group curiously perked up. He walked over to the one with the file and regarded her carefully.
"Oh, she's pretty!" He said, eyes gleaming.
"We're guarding her? Who is she? Someone important?" The third figure asked. His monotone voice sounded doubtful.
"Her father is Konoha's most successful doctor, Dr. Haruno. Recently his competitors have gotten, well could you say, violent." Her hazel eyes turned cold. "He's hired us to watch her, as he's been feeling some bad vibes coming around lately. He didn't want to take any chances, so that's what you're here for."
"So, what you're really saying is she's not in any immediate danger?" asked the lazy voice again.
"No, not exactly, but I want you three to take special caution and watch over her. I actually her know father quite well, as we worked together a few years ago. I owe him quite a lot, so I offered to get some of my bodyguards to watch his daughter for him. You three will be perfect. What do you say?"
"Yes ma'am!" "Got it." "Okay."
"Good." She said. "Oh, and I've arranged for you," you said, pointing at the figure with the file, "to be her roommate." There was a silence.
"Roommate?" came the reply. "Tsunade-sama, as you are very well aware, this Sakura girl is female…"
"Yes, I know." She cut him off. "But I trust you, out the other two, to behave well and complete your mission to its fullest, even in that circumstance, am I right?" Her gaze was piercing.
"Of course." He stated after a few seconds.
"Hey! What this business about trusting him over me?" Came one of the other boys' voices. Her lip twitched.
"I trust you with my life, brat, but in this situation, I can't trust you alone in a room with a girl." Her voice was almost amused. He huffed.
"What's with this? Baa-chan? You can trust me!" She glared. "Sure, Sakura-chan's looks pretty nice and I totally wouldn't mind sharing a room with her…" She cracked her knuckles. Laughing awkwardly, he starched the back of his head nervously.
"And that's what I mean" she muttered to herself. "So, any objections?" The three exchanged uneasy glances, but shook their heads.
"Good. The rest of the information regarding the information is in that file. The mission starts tomorrow." Slowly the three turned to leave.
"Oh, and by the way…" She paused, and then smiled twistedly. "The Hikari academy…is an all girl private school."
The young girl sat dejectedly at her desk, writing furiously. Her shoulder length hair was disheveled and looked something sort of an explosion coming off her head. Biting her lip, she muttered something along the lines of "smacking…brutal…torturing… sensei…" Her current canvas, a rather pitiful, crumpled piece of paper, was enduring her wrath. A long haired, tall woman was depicted on the sheet and the girl cocked a sly grin on one corner of her mouth. Writing all sorts of crude comments about the 'oh so dear teacher,' this young girl was in complete ecstasy at this small dose of payback, and at the moment, content. Until something landed on her paper. A very big, hairy, gross thing. And she did not like this thing at all. She shrieked, reared back and tripped over her chair.
A young girl, recently given the name Hokomari Hikari, was walking through the hallway labeled 2B, her eyes scanning the numerous doors for the number 257. Other girls were giving her curious glances and she wondered if they ever got out. Seriously, she wasn't that much of a spectacle was she? She supposed it didn't matter what they thought, as long as they left her alone she wouldn't care what they thought. Even if she was, she supposed, it would have to do, as she was going to be stuck in this school for a long time. Sighing, she contemplated the chances of getting a good roommate. Someone who was nice, quiet, who would respect her space, and most importantly, someone who was not a lesbian. She had enough of that already. The numbers on the doors were getting close. 251, 253, 255…257. As she reached the door number 257, the first thing she heard was an ear-shattering screech.
The spider was crawling all over her paper. Commanding it to go away, she cringed when it started getting closer. Crawling off the table, it fell into her chair. "Not the chair!" she yelled at it. It was unnerving how blatantly the spider was ignoring her commands. Her eyes widened as it crawled off the chair and onto to the floor. Huddling further into her corner, she yelled for it to go away. But the spider was relentless. Shaking in a cold sweat, she was about to scream bloody murder when there was a knock on the door. Staying away from the spider as much as possible she ran to the door, opened it, and jumped into the arms of the person behind it. She didn't know it was, but she didn't really care. She'd choose the arms of a stranger over a spider any day.
The first thing she noticed was that her arms were wrapped around a thin neck, and pale arms were holding her in a bridal style. The gesture had been almost automatic, but then the person whose arms she was currently in realized what was going on. "Get off." was the first thing she heard. It was a girl's voice, low and smooth. She cringed, shook her head, and shivered in fear.
"There's a…a…" she stammered. "A what?" came the reply. She just shook her head. "Don't go in there. There's a…spider in there!" The girl's eyes widened in surprise, but then changed into a look of disbelief.
"A spider? That's it?" She seemed almost vaguely amused.
"What do you mean, just a spider!?!" The girl sighed.
"I just thought it would be something more serious. Not a…"
"Spider?" She looked at the girl. "How is spider not serious!?!" She practically yelled it in the girls face. Her eye twitching, the girl sighed yet again.
"Let me go and I'll go get rid off it."
She gasped. "Really? You'd do that? How?"
"It's just a spider. Really. Now, let me go." Obeying her she let go off the death grip on the girl's neck and felt herself being putt on the floor. She watched the brave girl enter her room, better described as the lion's den, with an amazed expression. A few moments later the girl came back out.
"It's gone." Her eyes sparkled with admiration at the unknown girl. The girl watched her warily and then grunted with surprise as the crazy girl ran up to her and hugged her.
"You're amazing, just amazing, Hi-ro-chan!" Said Hi-ro-'s eye twitched.
"My name is Hikari. Hokomari Hikari." Hikari said.
"No, no, you're Hi-ro-chan!" She said happily. "You're my hero!"
Hikari sighed for the umpteenth time. "Whatever." She said.
The girl smiled at Hikari with gleaming eyes.
"My name is Haruno Sakura!" She stated happily. "And I think we'll be great friends!"
Hikari contemplated Sakura with amazement. She has just met this girl, thrown a spider out a window, and now she being called a hero? It was just too weird. So this was her new roommate. Oh the irony.
"Are you my new roommate, by any chance?" Sakura asked. Hikari glanced at the door again, checking for the umpteenth that this was indeed room 257.
"It would appear so." Hikari replied dejectedly. Sakura clapped her hands together with glee.
"That's great! Let's get you situated!" Sakura said. Hikari new this was going to be a long night.
Later that night, after talking excitedly to her new roommate for hours about all the fun times they were going to have, Sakura thought about her. At first Sakura had been stunned when she saw Hikari, as she was one of the most beautiful girls she had ever seen. Waist long blue-black hair, full black eyes, and a milky complexion. She was as tall as Sakura, and had all the right curves in the right places. But, unlike Sakura, she admitted unfortunately, she had actually development in her chest area. That was royally unfair. And Sakura new this girl probably got a lot of attention. She couldn't help but feel jealous, even if they did go to an all-girl school.
However, Hikari was nice in her own way, though quiet. She wasn't the type of nice that talks-with-the-animals-every-shining-morning, but was gentle and calm. Sakura liked this girl. But she had no idea that in the future she was going to like this girl a lot, almost obsessively. Or that this girl was actually not a girl at all.