He could feel a migraine coming on at the insistent talking from his "best friend", the blonde who's desk sat in the row in front of his own. There was a look of pure annoyance on the raven's face as he felt the migraine grow in strength.
"Oi, Teme! You're not even listening!" The boisterous voice of the blonde cried, his cerulean eyes watching onyx eyes expectantly.
"Of course I'm listening. You're so loud, I'm surprised the whole school isn't listening." The Uchiha male sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
"Bastard!" Growled as he prepared himself to launch at the raven haired male.
"Enough, Naruto-kun. We have a new student and I rather not run her off before we've even met her." Came the voice of their sensei, Umino Iruka.
This piqued everyone's interest, even the Uchiha's (but he'd never say so).
"Right then, come on in." He said softly as the door opened.
Everyone could not help but gawk at the female that stood beside their teacher. Her eyes were the brightest emerald anyone had ever seen, she had ivory skin and she had an air of confidence that made her stick out. But, of course, that was not the most prominent thing that stuck out about her. Hushed whispers started, they questioned whether or not the pink hair that was elegantly braided and pulled over her left shoulder was natural or dyed. She bowed before the class for a moment and stood straight with a small smile, "My name is Haruno Sakura, but please…. Just call me Sakura. And yes, before anyone asks, my hair is really pink." She shrugged, causing a few people to snicker.
"Right then, thank you, Sakura-chan. Please go ahead and sit in whatever empty chair you can find. "
Looking around the classroom, Sakura began to seek an empty chair. Spotting one, she slowly walked towards it. Her new seat was beside a raven haired male that had a calculating look on his face. Internally, the Uchiha was annoyed, he prayed to Kami this girl would not be another fan girl, he'd had enough of those. Sakura gave a small smile as she sat down, only to scoot a bit over, getting away from the raven haired male. Saskue couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in silent question.
"I have a thing about personal space, my own and that of others." She responded softly before placing her things on her desk and putting her attention to the front of the room where their lesson was to resume. Saskue stared at the female for a long moment. He was used to women trying to move closer, not further to him.
'Tsk. Maybe she won't be so annoying then.'
Sasuke couldn't help but sneak glances at the female beside him. She wore a pair of black spandex shorts and a white shirt beneath a Crimson red vest that looked as though it was a pull-over. He had noticed, when she went to pulled the chair away, that her vest had a white circle on the back. It was probably her clan's symbol. He thought he was being stealthy in all of his musings until the pink haired girl turned her emerald eyes to him and she gave a smirk, "Staring is rude, sir." When a red blush painted his cheeks, he whipped his head towards the front of the room and let out a small huff.
Laughing to herself, the rosette turned her attention to the book on the desk. She was reading something and seemed to be ignoring whatever Iruka-sensei had been saying. Sasuke couldn't help but glance over once more time to time, interested in what the new student could possibly find more important than getting updated on their class. Okay, that was a lie. He knew a million things that were more important, but that wasn't the point.
"It's about a man who finds himself the sole survivor of his family after a rather nasty civil war. He gets bogged down with anger and revenge, he allows it to fester and guide him down the path of no return. He finds out that the war was in the favor of the greater good and that it was his family that had killed thousands of innocent people before finally meeting their own fate. He was left to live because they thought he could start over and give his family the respectful name it deserved, but he only allowed it to further soil." Sakura murmured, her eyes not removing themselves from the page.
"If you know all of that, then why are you reading it?" Sasuke found himself asking.
"I've read it at least twenty times already. The story it's self is rather drawn out, but it reminds us to stay humble. That life has a plan and that things happen for a reason. That sometimes our curse is a gift and we have to learn to see it that way." Sakura responded, her tone soft as it carried beneath Iruka's lesson.
Before Sasuke could say anything, the bell rung indicating it was time for lunch and the girl removed herself from her seat and walked over to the teacher, probably to get caught up with what they'd been learning to that point. Sasuke stared at the empty seat for a few moments before Naruto's obnoxiously loud voice pulled him back to reality and made his head throb with annoyance once more.
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She hadn't expected for the class to be so... basic. She knew everything the teacher had been talking about, hence her not paying attention. She didn't mean to be rude, but she wasn't feeling challenged and figured at least she could do something productive. She could feel the onyx eyes that kept peering over at her and couldn't help but mentally laugh - if he thought he was being stealthy, he had a long way to a. When the bell rang, Sakura asked Iruka-sensei about what she'd missed so far and listened intently as he spoke. Yes, she figured just as much - she knew everything that was being taught and had nothing to worry about as far as being behind in classes.
At least her next class, after lunch, was physical education - or rather it was hands on training on the little basic information they'd been taught so far. After Sakura finished with Iruka, she found herself outside beneath a tree and staring at the sky, her book resting on her barely formed chest.
"You like watching clouds too?" Came a bored voice beside her. Sakura looked over to the male with pineapple shaped hair.
"Yes. I get to think, or not think. Either way, it's a nice reprieve from class... and life." She mused lightly.
"I'm Nara Shikamaru."
"Nice to meet you, Nara-san." Sakura responded, her emerald eyes watching him for a moment before flickering back towards the sky.
"Shikamaru is fine. Nara-san is my dad."
"Right then, nice to meet you, Shikamaru-san." The rosette repeated, earning a smirk from the male beside her. He wasn't sure yet, but he had a feeling he could get along with the new kid, she didn't seem as troublesome as most of the girls in the school were.
"Hey! You! Forehead girl!" Growled a voice from aside them. Sakura was completely oblivious to the calling as she was too absorbed into cloud watching that she didn't hear anything the girl said.
"I think they're talking to you. How troublesome." Shikamaru grumbled, there went his peace time.
"Eh?" Sakura turned to the group of girls staring at her from a few feet away.
"Yeah, you, the freak with pink hair." Called a girl with purple hair. "Stay away from our Sasuke-kun. We'll let it slide for now 'cause you're new and all, but don't be thinking that'll save you from now on! Keep away from him!" She spat.
Sakura propped herself onto her elbows and cocked an eyebrow at the girl, "Who the hell is Sasuke?" Sakura asked dryly.
"That's Sasuke-san to you, forehead! He's the boy you sit next to in class!"
"Ah, the sulky looking one? I'll keep that in mind. Thanks." With that, Sakura lay back down and continued with her cloud watching, missing the smirk the Nara boy beside her held on his lips.
"Don't you dare ignore me!" Hissed the girl, stomping over to the rosette. Just as she was about to push the girl with her foot, Sakura looked the girl in the eyes and sighed, "I really would not do that if I were you."
"And why the hell not?!"
"Because I am a stranger, for all you know I could be able to break every bone in your foot."
"Is that a threat?!"
"Do you care enough to find out?" Sakura asked, cocking an eyebrow.
The girl seemed conflicted and before she could answer, the bell rang signalling the end of recess. "You're lucky, you pink haired brat! I'll find you and I'll make you regret threatening me!" With that, the girl turned on her heels towards her friends and headed into the academy.
"That was annoying." Sakura sighed as she removed herself from the ground.
"Would you have been able to do it?" Asked the Nara.
"Mhm, maybe." Sakura answered with a mirth in her eyes. With that, Sakura turned towards the academy and headed to her next class.
"Troublesome." Nara said in a tired voice with a small smile on his lips.
He definitely liked this girl.
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When class began, Sakura stood amongst the other girls, her braid in a tight bun at the back of her head. She wore a black tank top and dark green shorts. There was a loud voice carrying over all the others which seemed to belong to the blonde haired boy she had seen in her class earlier that day. Amongst him stood the boy she sat next to, Sasuke she assumed, and a few others. Nara stood beside a kid in a rather large coat and a boy that was hefty and eating from a bag of chips.
She didn't miss the fact that two girls stood beside them as well, a girl with blue or purple hair (it was hard to tell from where she stood) and lilac eyes who was blushing profusely (she looked almost as if she was going to pass out) and beside her stood a girl with platinum blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She wondered if they were all clan kids, she had heard that most clan kids hung out with each other - at least that had been her experience in the past. She wondered if the same rang true here as well.
"Sakura-chan, seeing as you are the newest addition to the class, I'd like to see where your strengths and weaknesses lie. If that's okay with you, of course." Came Iruka's voice, pulling the rosette from her thoughts.
"If it is helpful, I don't mind." Sakura answered.
Iruka stared at the girl for a moment before giving a nod. Turning his eyes over to the crowd of girls, he tried to find a good match. Of course, what best punishment to give to the lovely Ami who decided to be late to class? "I see you managed to find your way to class, Ami-chan."
The girl with purple hair, the one who'd been harassing her not even an hour ago, gave Iruka a sheepish smile before looking away with a pout.
"Then you get to be our guest of honor and take Sakura-chan for a ride."
Ami groaned before perking up, it was the pink haired little brat that mouthed off to her and sat next to Sasuke-kun in class. This she could have fun with. "Of course, Iruka-sense. Couldn't dream of anything better."
It seemed the whole class found this interesting and gathered around the two girls, they wanted to see what the new girl had to offer. Sakura stood across from the purple haired girl and stared passively. "Well, guess you're all talk then!" Ami shouted, "We'll see who can break who's foot!" With that, Ami launched herself at the rosette, only to miss her entirely. Sakura had simply moved to the side and Ami fell to her face. "You shouldn't just run into battle." Sakura said in a monotone voice.
"Shut up!" Yelled Ami as she went for another hit, only to end up with Sakura grabbing her arm and pushing her away. "Fight me and stop dodging!"
Sakura shook her head, "Why should I fire at my enemy when they are sinking their own ship?" She asked, her calm demeanor annoying Ami to no end. This, of course, caused Ami to fling herself once more, only to end up tossed into the crowd of children beside them. "You allow your rage to blind you. You need to work with it instead of allowing it to engulf you. Doing that in the battlefield is a liability. That will only get yourself and your comrades killed." Sakura said with an icy voice, "And I refuse to be killed because of someone's careless mistakes." With that, Sakura turned to Iruka, "I no longer find this fight useful. I hope you've received your answer." Sakura stepped to the sidr, evading a sneak attack by Ami only to have her run right into Iruka. "Point proven."
When everyone got back to class, the students were all buzzing about what Sakura had done and said during physical education.
"That was amazing! She put Ami in her place!" Cheered Naruto, "She was so calm and didn't even raise her hand!"
"It was pretty damn awesome! I wonder what she's like in an actual fight!" Inuzuka Kiba added, the excitement on his face just as obvious as the blonde's.
"She was just a snotty show off." Yamanaka Ino huffed, she hated how the new girl was getting all this attention, even Sasuke-kun had been amused by the so called fight.
"Why don't you go ahead and test that theory, Ino." Mused Shikamaru. He knew this girl would be interesting. Ino's face turned pink before she plopped into her seat and huffed out a "whatever" under her breath, causing Naruto and Kiba to laugh loudly. Hyuuga Neji remained quite as did his cousin, Hinata - although internally she had been applauding the rosette. Someone finally shut that damn girl up. Lee was going on and on about spring time youth and the power of her beauty.
When the door opened to the classroom, everyone quieted down as they watched the girl in question make her way to her seat beside the Uchiha. "I'm Uchiha Sasuke."
"So I've been told." Sakura smirked and turned her attention to Iruka as he knocked his knuckles against the chalk board.
"Alright, alright. Enough. Tomorrow's agenda has changed. Tomorrow we will be looking at teams that will be headed by Jounin instructors." Iruka stated calmly, earning a bunch of cheers from most of the children in the class, Naruto being the loudest.
"Alright. Everyone get a night's rest, tomorrow will be a long day!" Before Iruka could say anything further, a blur of bodies rushed past him into the halls and outside of the Academy.
Sakura walked calmly down to the door with Sasuke close behind. "Have a good night, Sakura." He said simply as he walked towards the gates in the opposite direction. Sakura waved goodbye to him and several other children that called her name, Nara being one of them.
The walk home was simple enough, she lived not too far from the academy. "Welcome home, honey! How was your first day?" Greeted her mother, Haruno Mebuki.
"Eventful, to say the least. Tomorrow we get put into teams." Sakura answered giving her mother a warm hug.
"My little ninja, you're a prodigy just like your father. Wait and see. Go get cleaned up, dinner is almost ready."
Sakura smiled and headed to her room, today had been a rather long day, but she couldn't help but feel excited for the next day of class.
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Author's note:
I really have no business writing another story, but here I am hehe. So this is a AU story with nonmassacre and with Naruto's parents alive. I don't own Naruto or anything about it aside from my own plot, just FYI. This will be eventual Itachi/Sakura. I am rating this M just in case. I have another story called Voices going on if anyone is interested. Anyway. Shoot me some reviews and let me know what you think so far. I have no schedule planned as far as updates and no goal when it comes to length in chapters, some may be 3000 words some maybe 500... we'll see. I apologize for a lot of it OOC for the characters I'm sure you'll all notice.
Much love.