I ? You
AN: This is my first fanfic so I hope you guys like it, and please take it easy on me. Please note that I have this problem to, umm… over-use triple dots, that is. So you might find lots and lots of '…' in this story (or maybe just the ANs). And I'm not good at making titles, or summaries. Bear with me! *puts hands in a defensive state* I definitely hate a predictable story, but this is the only one that I had on my mind, plus I suppose that you guys already knew that this is a SasuSaku fanfic, so no matter what happens, yep, they'll end up together in my story. Besides SasuSaku, there's - of course - NaruHina, NejiTen, ShikaTema, and SaiIno. They're my favorite couples in Naruto. :-)
Note: Edited. Formerly titled 'I Love You'. Since I think it sucks, I changed it. Simple as that. *wink*
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Disclaimer: No, nope, definitely not. I do not own Naruto. Or Sasuke. Or Sakura. Or any other characters from Naruto. At all.
Summary
After losing her beloved father, Sakura Haruno was devastated. She still desperately wanted to continue her studies. Thus, she decided to take a test for a scholarship for the most famous high school in her town, Konoha High School. Thankfully, out of hundreds of students, she won the scholarship to Konoha High School. There, she found herself praised by most of the teachers, and soon, she's chosen to be one of the Students in Charge. She's happy and proud for that. Yet life is colorless without its twists and turns. When she's given the honor - no, not honor, but order - to accompany the famous heir of the Uchiha Company, the roller coaster ride started. R&R please…
Chapter 1 - Welcome to Konoha High School
Sakura Haruno was a new transfer student at Konoha High School. Actually, she'd just lost her father. She could enter it just because of the scholarship she'd won. Her brother, Sasori, went to Sunagakure to go to an art university a year ago and he missed his father's funeral courtesy of the strict rules in Sunagakure Art University - he's such an art geek. Sakura loves the dolls he made. Her brother was always against calling them dolls; he called them 'puppets'. So, it's just her and her mother in Konohagakure. But since today's her first day at Konoha High School, and since this school was a boarding school, she would be leaving her mother alone.
It was a beautiful day in Konohagakure. Sakura Haruno just loved days like these. She currently stood in front of the school she was about to be in for the next years. Said girl watched the gates with amazement. Her emerald green eyes were wide open staring straight at said gates. And her waist long pink hair was dancing with the wind. And in her mind was only awe. She always knew about just how marvelous Konoha High School was. Just not with her own two eyes. She wasn't all so new to all of these things. But she has just won a scholarship to this school, Konoha High School, the most famous senior high school in Konoha. She didn't mind all the people running past her. She stood there doing nothing for a full 5 minutes, and she was about to stand there for another one if not for someone to run into her.
"Sak!" Someone squealed behind the pinkette. Typical Ino.
"Wha-" She did look behind right away, but much to her surprise this blonde girl grabbed her wrists and pulled her. "Ino!" she scowled. Ino Yamanaka was Sakura's voluptuous blonde best friend since kindergarten. She stood up against Sakura's bullies and gave her a tip to make her look better. Fashion crazed. Over-confident. Playgirl. That's Ino for you.
"What are you thinking standing there, we'll- no, you'll be late! And I guess you won't like it to be late on the first day of school…," Ino teased her and then continued, "Tell me, oh, please tell me you're in 10B…" She said with gleaming eyes.
"Well, you must've been lucky, because I am in 10B. And let me guess. You're in 10B, aren't you?" Sakura replied.
"Yup." She stated. "So… How do I look?" She asked while putting both hands on her hips and tilted her head a bit to her left.
Sakura raised an eyebrow at her question. "You look… good. As always." She finally said.
"Aww… Really? I spent an hour trying to figure out what to wear and what should I do with my hair!" She grumbled.
Sakura can't help but laugh. Ino's her best friend since elementary. Sakura's family was wealthy enough when her dad's still alive. But ever since he died, they've been pretty tight in money. She'd almost lost her hope on going to high school after her father's death in the school's holiday. That incident happened right after Sakura was officially graduated from junior high school. The pesky car crash took away her beloved father's life. Thankfully, she saw a scholarship offering in a local newspaper. She attended to the written place right away. There, she - and a bunch of other children - was given a test, and an interview. And, Sakura won the scholarship out of… more than 500 kids, maybe?
"Well, what else should I say? You look dazzling all the time, pig!" Sakura grinned.
"And you look great also, forehead!" She retorted while also grinning.
The two then was about to walk when someone whispered an almost inaudible 'Hello' from behind them. Now, this is undeniably Hinata.
"Hinata!" Ino smiled at the indigo-haired girl. Ino's blue eyes stared deeply at the girl's - Hinata - mild purple eyes. "How's your holiday?" She gibbered.
"O-okay, I guess. My family and I went to Kumogakure." She told her friends. Hinata Hyuuga. Keep in your mind: Hyuugas are rich. And Hinata is a Hyuuga. Connect those two-by-two, and voila, Hinata's a rich girl. But don't get it wrong; she's kind, and she's the exact opposite from Ino; overly shy. And she's polite too, but the fact that she's a rich girl got that covered up already, no?
"Wow! What did you see?" Ino spoke right away.
"Umm… Quite a lot actually." Hinata replied as she tried to remember.
"Anyway, guys, don't you think we are going to be late if we just talk here? I mean, why don't we continue at class, while making new frie-" Sakura's speaking has been cut again.
"Yes, you're right! Come on guys!" Ino exclaimed happily as she - again - grabbed Sakura's wrist and dragged her and Hinata away.
"Ino, I can walk!" Sakura scowled at Ino in front of 10B's class.
"Never mind, now, let's see… Today's first session is homeroom. The teacher is… Kakashi Hatake. I wonder if he'll be nice…" Ino read her schedule for her and Sakura.
Her class is not so big. It fits for about more or less 30 students per class. They explore the class with their eyes and spotted an empty desk (for 2 persons).
"Come on!" Ino moved her hand to grab Sakura's hand. But this time, the pinkette quickly pulled her hand away.
"Not again." She growled fretfully.
"Aww… Okay…" She grumbled. Then Ino walked to the unoccupied desk. Sakura glanced at Hinata, who nodded as a sign of 'go on', and then followed Ino. After she looked around the classroom again, she spotted another empty seat not so far from Sakura and Ino's and quickly took it. And right after they - as in Sakura and Ino - sat,
"Hello!" A girl with a brown eyes and brown hair tied into two neat buns approached them. "I'm Tenten! Aren't you Sakura? The girl who won the scholarship? I recognized your hair from the newspaper! Did you dye it? Gosh! You must've been so clever! I heard those tests are hard!"
Sakura blushed slightly. "Well, it is actually pretty hard. But if you learn it'll be easy! And, no, it's natural" She claimed. Inwardly, she was sulking. It's always been her pink hair. It's natural! But then she realized that the girl's eyes weren't focused on her again, but on a boy who was talking - and laughing - with his friends and his back faced them.
"Umm… Hello?" Ino waved her hand in front of Tenten's eyes.
"Isn't he gorgeous?" She said, daydreaming.
"You mean that boy with long brown hair and his back facing us?" Sakura asked. For Sakura, he somehow reminded her of Hinata, his eyes' color. But she stayed quite.
Tenten nodded dreamily. Suddenly, the boy looked back, maybe noticing someone looking at him. Tenten gasped and turned, then hid behind Sakura.
"Why are you hiding?" Sakura questioned her.
"He… he's looking at us." She whispered; as if it wasn't the most obvious thing on earth.
"Well, isn't that great? I thought it's great to notice that your crush is looking at you..." Sakura said.
"Uhm… Not really, how if he sees me when I'm blushing?" She muttered.
Sakura giggled at that. And then, a thought came over her and she asked her,
"Tenten, do you have friends to accompany you at break?"
"Yes, of course. A few boys, and… there she is, Temari!" She called out at a girl who tied her hair into 4 ponytails. "She has 2 brothers, Kankuro and Gaara," Tenten added.
The girl noticed and started moving towards us.
"Yo! Whassup?" She said to Tenten as she rested her right arm on Tenten's left shoulder.
"You don't mind if they join us at break, do you?" Tenten asked her.
"Nope. Why should I?" Temari replied. "I'm Temari no Sabaku."
"Ino Yamanaka." Said Ino.
"Sakura Haruno-"
"Aren't you the one who won the scholarship?" She interrupted. "You've got," she pointed at her hair with her left hand, "pink hair." She finished.
"Yes." Sakura answered, sighing peevishly. But then, she realized something, "Seriously, does everybody knows about this?" She is actually a bit embarrassed by this. Entering such a famous school because of a scholarship, she might be stamped as a nerd or a geek or something like that.
"Quite likely," Tenten replied. "I mean, you won! That means you're the one who actually deserves to be here!" She added joyfully.
Sakura blushed slightly, relieved. "Where's the teacher actually?" She's just realized that up until now, the teacher hasn't arrived yet.
"I don't know," Tenten trailed off.
"Thankfully he's only a homeroom teacher…" Ino mumbled quietly while reading her schedule.
"Yea," Temari agreed. Followed by the others
"Homeroom has two sessions, and the first one's almost over!" Sakura said, after seeing her schedule.
Tenten mumbled an agreement.
Right there and then, the door flew open, by a silver-haired guy wearing a mask and an eye-patch. Her only visible eye crinkled as if he's grinning. Which he's most probably was doing.
"Sorry, guys. I'm late, there's this old lady - well, never mind," he stopped after seeing the uninterested students' faces staring straight at him. "Okay, class. Since this is another year, I guess you won't be mad at me if I order you to introduce yourselves. Even though you've knew each other already. I'll start; I'm Kakashi Hatake, and I'll be your homeroom teacher." Kakashi spoke, "Now continue from you." He pointed at Tenten.
She began the introduction, and then Temari. Thereupon there's a boy called Shikamaru next to him. He looked like a lazy-assed genius. And to the one next to Shikamaru, Choji, he's quite, chubby. And all along until Sakura's turn came.
"Hello," she stood up, just as the others did, "I'm Sakura Haruno. 16 years old, and yes, I'm the one who won the scholarship; don't look at me like that. I'm a human, just like you guys." She added, and then sat down back.
And the introduction continues to Ino, and to Hinata who sat behind her, and to the boy who sat beside her; Shino, quite a creeper he is. There's Kiba afterwards who claimed that he owned a 'real cute humongous dog' as how he said it. And then a loud, talkative blonde named Naruto, who's got some scratches on his cheeks that made him look like a fox. And a viable dark haired guy with, dare she said it, bushy eyebrows named Rock Lee. And all along until the whole class has introduced themselves.
"Okay, now that we've known each other, you guys can just chat, or do something else, just don't get out of the class, and try to make the least sound you can." Kakashi stated before sitting on his chair with one hand on his head, the other hand holding an orange book that looks perverted, and both feet on the desks like a boss; leaving Sakura gaping at him like a fish.
"W-what?" The pinkette spluttered.
"I know right? Better get used to it." Tenten shrugged.
"So," Ino started (Tenten and Temari sat in front of them),"Who's the 'few boys' you said before, Tenten?"
"Oh, one of them is Tenten's crush, Neji, definitely." Temari said abruptly.
"Oh, shut up! Shikamaru's there too!" She glared at her while waving a hand in front of her face and pulled the other hand to cover up her red face.
"Okay, cut that off, now, who else?" Sakura laughed.
"Kiba, my idiotic brothers and, maybe you have another friend?" Temari asked.
"Oh yea, Hinata must've wanted to join!" Ino exclaimed loudly, enough for the said girl to hear. With that she heard, she looked towards the four questioningly.
"Would you like to join us at break time?" Ino asked without wasting any time.
"Okay," Hinata answered softly, which almost went unheard, but it's quite surprising that her words are still audible.
"Why don't you join us?" Tenten called out for her.
And then, she walked towards them and pulled a chair. They talked and talked and talked like there's no tomorrow. And their talking must to be stopped when an annoying bell decided to rang right there and then and thus succeeded on making the girls grunted in response, except for Hinata of course.
"What class do you guys have now?" Tenten asked.
"Umm… English. You?" Ino replied.
"Same here." Tenten returned.
"Math…" Temari said lazily.
"M-me too," Hinata said.
Sakura sighed, "Guess I'm alone in Biology, right?"
"Don't worry; it's not that bad, is it?" Tenten soothed her.
"Yeah, and hopefully I can make some new friends too…" Stated the pinkette as she rose, "Come on, we'll be late." And all of them got up from their respective seats and started walking.
Ino Yamanaka decided that she'll kill a certain brunette with two buns once she was sure that Tenten was out of her sight. "Tenten!" Ino shouted as she ran uncaringly, apologizing now and then to many people if she hit them, all just because she lost Tenten in this crowded place near their locker; or rather, being left by said brunette. She ran and ran while searching for Tenten's two brown buns. At times like this, Ino would be more than thankful to be searching for Sakura's pink locks instead. Natural pink hair was definitely one in a million. She kept on running, and without her realization, she ran into a direction of a black haired-black eyed pale boy and bumped into him. But this boy is strong; he stood as nobody bumped into him a few minutes ago. But poor Ino was not as lucky as him. She fell butt first, and her English book, notebook, pencil case and a few papers - including schedule, et cetera - scattered all around the floor.
"I'm sorry!" She apologized as she started picking her stuffs.
"No, I'm sorry." He replied. And he helped her gathering her stuffs. Another coincidence happened as Ino reached for one of her papers, and the boy has the same intention as her, and he accidentally put his hand on top of her hand. After a moment of awkwardness, the boy - thankfully - said,
"Here." He handed her the paper ungainly.
"I-Ino." She stuttered as she stuck out her hand for him to shake.
"Sai." He took her offered hand and they shook hand slightingly.
"W-well, I-I have to go. See you around some other time!" Ino smiled at him as she said so, but deep in her heart she didn't want to let go. Although deep in her heart she scolded herself for stuttering just like Hinata. She waved at him before running again. Then, she caught a sight of Tenten and shouted,
"Tenten! WAIT!" She waved both of her hands on top of his head. Little did she know, the Sai boy is still looking at her and frowned slightly after seeing what she'd did. Then he pulled one book from his bag; 'How to be Friends with Strangers'. "I hope I didn't do anything wrong," he mumbled as he started reading solemnly.
Hinata Hyuuga and Temari no Sabaku walked together in silence. The class wasn't so far away anymore when Temari started a conversation,"So, Hinata, do you enjoy math?"
"I-I'm okay with m-math. I-I usually s-scored 8 or 9." Hinata answered. "W-What about y-you?"
"Well, don't call me arrogant or so… But ever since I was in elementary, math is my favorite subject." Temari stated.
"Wow, you're clever!" Hinata exclaimed, not a usual attitude for her.
"Don't be like that; I'm pretty sure Sakura will be better than me." Temari cackled. "Come on." She said and they entered the classroom, picked a seat, and started looking around. Temari froze when she saw her crush, Shikamaru, that's playing something with his laptop. He has some 'attraction' with laptops, if you ever saw him, that's what he usually does. And to complete it, Chouji would be sitting right next to him eating chips. Those two are practically inseparable since elementary. Just then, she saw that there's an arm wrestling match held in the back of the class. "Hinata!"
"Y-yes?" She looked like she's deep in her thoughts, but she was looking at the arm wrestling match too. To be exact, she's looking right into a blonde boy with blue eyes.
"Can you do arm wrestling?" gleaming eyes still glued at the match intently.
"Umm… I-I'm not s-so into it…" She murmured.
"Oh, okay, I'll be going there then." Temari proclaimed.
"Hey Temari?" Hinata called out at her. "I wish you all the best luck."
"Thanks. I hardly ever lose, anyway!" Temari replied playfully smug.
Just then, the blonde boy has won another match.
"Haha! Who dares to fight me?" He said as he stood up with pride in his eyes.
Temari looked around. Silence enveloped the classroom. She smiled when she didn't spot anyone raised their hands.
"Me." She stated calmly. And that's when; everybody looked at her direction, including her crush. And she felt her heart jumped a bit, nervous and excited.
- End Chapter 1 -
AN: So… (See? It's the triple dots again) How was it? Do you like it? Is it long enough? And with the triple dots issue, so sorry, I just can't help it. I'm gleaming this whole day! :D Anw, I'll update as soon as I can, okay? ;)
Also, um, Sakura, Ino, and Hinata weren't from Konoha Junior High School, while the others (mostly) did. So, if they're like new people while the others not, I've told you the problem ;)
Contemplated on deleting this story, then, Shaymin33starphoenix encouraged me and told me to just edit it. I hope it's better… :) I changed the plot a little, can you notice it? *wink, wink*
Well, that's all for now… Please R&R… Please, pretty pretty please with cherry on top…
Sincerely (is it too formal? :D),
- DarkLight08