Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. All rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto
Hi, the name's Sakura. I'm a girl with a busy life. I have to go to school early and leave school late. Speaking about school, I just arrived on time for the bell to ring. I went to my classroom, 3-2. Well, I'm a third year student under section 2. I don't have a lot of friends. Acquaintances? Yes, but friends? Nope. I'm the secretary of the student council. And just like I said, I'm a girl with a busy life. While I was stuck in my thoughts and formally introducing myself to you guys, I noticed that my classmates quieted down. I looked to the front and saw our teacher arrive earlier than expected. I took out my ear buds and listened to what he had to say.
"There will be no class this day because of an urgent PTA meeting. Please inform those who have not arrived yet here in school. That is all, you may be dismissed."
After that my classmates celebrated, shouted, squealed and so on and so forth. I just sighed and stood up from my seat. "That's one way to waste my morning." I mumbled to myself. I was headed outside when an arm was placed on my shoulder. It belonged to Naruto, the student council vice president.
"Ey, Sak! The pres-teme told me to hand you this." Naruto said while handing out a stack of papers towards me.
"And these are?" I questioned while shrugging off his arm. I hate physical contact.
"Aww… why do you have to be so cold towards me Sak? We're friends aren't we?" Naruto grumbled out while pouting.
I just raised a brow at him.
"Dude, just get it over with. We're all heading to the café." A guy, who I recognized as my classmate Sai, told him.
"Yeah, yeah, Sheesh. Anyways, pres-teme told me you need to finish signing all of these before noon." Naruto told me apologetically.
I couldn't blame him though. He did just hand me about 20 or so papers to sign to the teacher's with. I just nodded and went out. I hear him grumble out a soft "so cold" and I just sighed again at his antics. Naruto is a much respected Vice president of the student council. Which is completely surprising since he's so god dang noisy. He's really outgoing and practically has enough energy to charge up our school generator. He's just that … annoying. I just shook of my thoughts. Thinking about people I don't call as friends, bothers me. I walked towards the faculty room and just went inside after knocking. After the numerous times I have done this while I held the position as secretary of the student council, the teachers got used to my sudden entrance. I just nodded and greeted to the teachers while politely asking them if they could sign all of these papers before noon. I told them that I would just come back before lunch time. They just agreed and left me on my merry way. After leaving the faculty room, I heard them squealing about how cute I looked being polite and all. I just sighed, again. I don't know why but adults love calling me cute.
I was walking around the campus when I heard voices. The curious girl I was, I went to look for where the voices are coming from. When I was near the back of the school gym I saw 4 people, one girl and three guys. I recognized the girl as our teacher in music class and the guys as Neji, Kiba and Sasuke. Neji's the school's precious pianist, Kiba is the school's most treasured athlete and Sasuke's the school's student council president. I grumbled at the thought that I had to do the papers when it was his job to do that. After all, I wrote those papers and it's his duty to assign his own secretary to sign them to the teachers with. In our school, the student council officers have their own committees. Unfortunately, I belong to Naruto's committee as the secretary. I take orders from Naruto to write letters and all. Sasuke's secretary was assigned to be in charge of looking for the people to sign them with. But because his secretary was busy ogling the stupid pres, I had to do all the work. Sasuke would just give them to Naruto who in turn, gives the paper to me. This actually doubles my workload. I'm not even sure why Sasuke had Karin to be his secretary. She's not even doing anything besides lounging in the student council office.
The four continued to sing oblivious to my presence. Although I expected them to be talented, I was still caught off guard with their singing. I noticed that I was just staring at them for the whole 10 minutes so I just shook my head and went towards the school's roof. I don't usually waste my 10 minutes just to stare at something so … unproductive. I mean, singing's good but it doesn't take you anywhere unless you're rich, your parent's are singers or both. In this school, being rich is all that. Naturally, when you're rich, you get to 'rule' the school. I'm just thankful that I got a scholarship to study here. I need to work harder than everybody else. After all, I have to look out for my little brother.
I arrived at the school's roof and decided to just stare at the people below. I calmed myself while feeling the breeze whip my short hair behind me. I love the scenery from this view. It makes me feel at peace. Free from worries and stress about school, the council and at home. I'm just thankful I can keep this sanctuary all to myself. I sat at the bench conveniently placed here at the roof top. I closed my eyes, plugged in my ear buds and listened to my music play. While listening to Austine Mahone's 'All I Ever Need', I didn't notice that I began singing along with it. I stopped after noticing that. I don't particularly hate singing, but it brings back bad memories. Singing just won't get you anywhere. I noticed the time and decided to get back to the faculty office. I think they already finished signing all the papers I left them with. As I was headed towards the door, I noticed that it was slightly opened. I didn't pay attention towards it, after all, the winds strong enough to open it up a little. That's what I usually notice every time I leave the roof top.
Just as I arrived at the faculty office, I saw Minato-sensei carrying the papers I gave them. He noticed me and smiled.
"Hi Sakura. You arrived just in time. I was about to deliver this to the student council office."
I smiled back at Minato-sensei. I like Minato-sensei. He's a gentleman and he's just a some years older than me even if he's already working as a teacher here. He's the teacher that all girls wish to have as their advisor. I mean, who wouldn't he's just so … charming. He's good looking too. After I noticed that I was staring at him, longer than usual. I blushed and took out the papers he handed to me. Minato-sensei just laughed at me and ruffled my hair affectionately.
"You know I only see this side of Sakura towards us teachers. I'm beginning to think you're playing favorites, Kura?" Minato-sensei teased.
"I ... it's just because you're neck tie caught my attention." I lamely replied.
"Oh! You noticed? My girlfriend gave me this during our 6th months together." He sheepishly replied while blushing and scratching the back of his head. I am fairly acquainted to this pose of his. He only does this when he's speaking about his girlfriend, the thought leaving a bitter feeling in my chest.
"Congratulations!" I smiled. Not forced, mind you. I'm already used to the fact that he has a girlfriend and that I don't stand a chance against her. That doesn't change the fact that I still feel down for being just his student and not something more.
Minato-sensei smiled brightly at me. This time, instead of ruffling my hair, he patted my head and smoothened out my previously ruffled hair.
"That's what I like about you Kura. You're the only one who seems happy about my girlfriend's gift towards me. The other young teachers just think I'm bragging about her and the older ones just squeeze my cheeks, cooing about how proud I am of my girlfriend. I mean who wouldn't be. She's so busy with her work, I'm surprised she has time to go look for my gift. After all, being a worldwide singer demands a lot of her time. I'm just thankful that she still has time for me, you know? She even booked her Saturday's as our date days. Isn't she …" And he continued to rant about his God-given girlfriend.
I blushed because he doesn't usually call me Kura in school or Kura in general anymore. He usually called me Kura when I was still in elementary. I started to like Minato-sensei when we were still young and were neighbors. I thought of him as my big brother. He would always come over to play with my little brother and I. When I entered high school though, we weren't neighbors anymore since he left to work for abroad. That's why I was surprised to see him as one of my teacher during my second year in high school. He once called me Kura in class and everyone was staring at me because no one ever calls me that, or any nicknames at all besides those who just stupidly do so like Naruto. Or the fact that they're new, handsome teacher just called the indifferent, cold Sakura Haruno, as Kura. But ever since then, he stopped calling me Kura. I'm not particularly sure if that's the reason why he stopped calling me that, but I just don't like it. I missed him calling me that.
"Oooops, I ranted too much. I better send you off now Sakura, or you'll be late." 'And back to being called as Sakura. He patted my head and left. As much as I wanted to stop him, talk to him more, spend time with him and all, I dislike the thought of listening to him talk about his girlfriend. I know he sees me as his little sister and all but … 'Gaaaaaaaaaaah, stupid Minato-sensei, stupid crush, stupid thoughts, stupid girlfriend of his…' I ranted in my head while walking towards the student council room, carefully keeping my exterior face as indifferent as possible. Not showing any signs of the inner turmoil I'm feeling right now.
I entered the room only to find out that Sasuke, student council president; the school's ice block prince, was 'getting it on' with his secretary Karin. I was so proud of my indifferent facade because if I was any normal teenage girl right now I would have blushed, screamed about their indecency and slammed the door close really loud all the while clutching the stupid papers in my hands. Karin had the decency to blush and cover what needs to be covered and left saying some lame excuse about 'fixing her hair.'
'Iron your clothes and take a bath too. You reek of the sin you just did in the office' I thought to myself. I entered the room looking as indifferent as always all the while hiding my shock and disgust. After 5 seconds of Sasuke being in a daze, he snapped back to reality, zipped whatever needs to be zipped and wore his slightly crumpled school uniform. I glanced at his table and noticed the air freshener. 'No doubt its purpose is to hide the smell of their shame. Ghaad, no wonder the office would usually smell so clean for some reason and the pressing issue of always having to buy those expensive, stupid looking air fresheners.' Then another thought popped up in my head while I headed towards Trish's assigned desk to leave the papers. 'Is this the reason why Karin gets to stay in the student council without doing any kind of job as a secretary? Because her actual job is to please our hormonal, testosterone-filled, perverted president?'
While I was thinking all of this, I already stacked and left the papers neatly at Karin's table and was already headed outside (door slightly ajar) until a hand just came out of nowhere to roughly grip my arm and push the door closed. The resounding 'bang' snapped me out of my thoughts. I stared at the face of the hand's owner and forced myself to hide my shiver at his stupefied yet downright angry expression.
"I've been calling you for the past few minutes Haruno Sakura and either you lost your sense of hearing or you're trying to ignore me!" he growled at me.
I congratulated myself for keeping the shock and anger out of my face and tone as I replied to him. "I'm sorry President Sasuke, I didn't actually think you'd have the guts to call me after what I saw. Shouldn't you have left me to my own thoughts while you sort out your own stupid excuses to say to me?"
His look remained passive. 'Hah, total ice cube.' If he was taken aback by my retort, he sure as hell didn't show it. I mean, others would be taken aback too. I'm not usually much of a talker. I talk when needed and that's that. A scowled formed on his face and he replied back at me.
"You did not see anything a while ago. You will not mention this to anyone, got that?!"
I shook my arm of his grip and pointed my finger at him. "Listen here president Sasuke, I'm not the kind of person you need to warn about that. I don't particularly care about what you and Karin or anyone in here does. Unlike some people, I keep my thoughts to myself. Thank you very much."
"I don't believe you." He bit back. I just raised a brow and motioned to leave until he slammed both of his hands beside my head, preventing me to leave. My temper flared at that.
"Just what the heck is wrong with you! I don't even talk to you while I'm in this office, so why would I care about whatever happens between the two of you in here. And for the record, get away from me. The scent of your shame is filling my nose up. Disgusting." I shoved him of off me and swiftly walked towards my desk to snatch my phone. I was too preoccupied by what happened that I must have placed it there and almost forgot to bring it with me.
Just as he was about to retort back, Naruto opened the door with Karin behind his back, hollering and screeching for some apparent reason.
"Teme, you have got to stop doing it with inside the office. What if others see, or what if Sak sees you and--" Naruto cut off his rant as he watched me and Sasuke. Sasuke was about to grab my shoulder, uniform still unbuttoned and I was clutching my phone and looking as impassive (though inside ready to faint out of too much shock) as ever all the while staring at him and Sasuke. Naruto quickly pushed Karin inside, locked the door and pulled Sasuke away from me.
"Sak … Teme, Karin and I can explain what happened. Let's be civil and put your phone down. No need to c the police." Naruto talked to me as if I was a stupid and was unable to comprehend simple English. The poor dude just had to jump into conclusions.
"I'm not gonna call the police, Naruto" I replied back.
"Teme and Karin are just friends with benefits and they don't usually do it here. I'm really sorry for what you just saw and all but please put. the. phone. down."
"-- I told you I'm not calling the police!" I shouted at them. I'm just so angry, confused disgusted and shocked. "I just wanna leave, pick my brother up and call it a day. I don't care what you guys are doing in here. I just want to leave. Okay?!" I huffed out, red in the face. I am so close to breaking down right now and I just don't know why I am so pissed and angry at them.
They were all shocked, Sasuke's face remained impassive as ever, at my outburst and I just wanted to scream and claw their eyes out for being too stupid to answer. I walked towards the door, slapped Sasuke's hand that stupidly tried to stop me, shoved a too shocked Naruto out of the way, unlocked the door, and went out, all the while ignoring a furious Karin shouting my name. 'I just had to enter at that precise moment.' I was so busy ranting to myself, with my brows in a twist and with eyes unfocused, that I bumped on to Neji. My phone flew and was picked up by Kiba and Neji helped me up.
"Are you okay?" Neji asked.
"I'm fine. Thanks." I answered.
"Here's your phone. Are you sure you're okay?" Kiba asked me while handing my phone back.
"I'm fine so please just leave me alone. I need to go and pick my brother up. Excuse me." I snapped. 'Why is everybody annoying me today?' I asked myself as I brisk-walked towards the elementary section, picked up my 8-year-old brother and went home. After cooking dinner, and tucking my brother in bed. I got my answer. After my hot bath, I discovered I was on the first day of my stupid girly period.
"Yay me." I unenthusiastically cheered.
Hi! This is my first story. Hopefully, all you reader could give me some tips to improve my writing. Please no hate-filled comments though. Creative criticisms are welcomed.
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To fill you in, the plot I used was from my reoccurring dream so I'm going to apologize in advance if you find it quite unusual. Thanks for reading it again! Reviews are very much appreciated. :)