Purple Haze

[Blah] – Author's Note

Blah – Character thinking

"Blah blah" - Character talking

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Chapter One: Empty Halls


"Tenten, give me that phone," Ms. Mitarashi Anko sighed, holding out her hand towards the chocolate colored eyes. The teenager grunted before obliging then the P.E. teacher continued, "Who were you texting?"

The girl, Tenten, had her haired pulled up into two buns tied with black ribbons. She replied, irritated, "No one, Ms. Mitarashi…"

"Do not lie to me, girl," Anko hissed, narrowing her eyes.

"I'm not, it was no one. I just started texting random people. Honest," Tenten insisted. Then she raised one hand in the air as if swearing to an oath. Anko gave Tenten an accusing stare before she stood straight again, like a General in war.

"Alright then, but you'll have to get this after school," Anko commented before turning on her heel and walking towards the group of kids who hadn't even bothered themselves with the previous conversation between Anko and the mud-colored eyes girl.

"Ten, what happened today?" A blonde girl asked Tenten as they took a seat at a table in the cafeteria. One other joined them.

"Ino," The pink haired one sighed, "What do you ask the same question everyday? It's obviously the same thing…"

"Wrong! A year ago there were some incidents with prank-pulling," Ino shouted, smiling victoriously. The pink haired girl sighed.

"That's what we get for being friends with a blonde…" The pink haired girl muttered to Tenten. Tenten laughed and nodded, causing Ino to frown and glare at them.

"Ugh, I hate when you two do that, you know that?" said Ino.

"We were just kidding, Ino," Tenten smiled before looking at pinky, "Right Sakura?" The pink haired girl nodded.

A teenage girl with disheveled hair came strutting up to their table. Sakura turned to Tenten and made a face and Tenten returned to gesture.

"Hello Ino," The red-head smiled pleasantly at Ino then she hesitated when her eyes – which were shielded behind her 1995's glasses – caught sight of Tenten and Sakura. But she continued, "Would you like to hang out with me and my friends today?" Yes, she emphasized her part in her sentence, trying to show the other two teens that they were missing out on something. But – unfortunately – they didn't see her point.

Ino shrugged, "I suppose I could, considering how no one wants me here," Ino gave her friends a look, "I'll come sit with you, Karin."

"Great, we're over there, in the courtyard, when you're ready," Karin exclaimed before walking away.

"No, Ino. You shouldn't hang with that type of crowd," said Sakura.

Ino had already stood, "Well they actually like blondes."

"We were only kidding, Ino!" Tenten disagreed.

"Whatever. I'll see you later, bye," Ino waved at us dismissively before grabbing her lunch tray and heading towards Karin's table.

Tenten slapped her forehead, "That's what we get for being friends with a blonde person!" [A/n: No offense to blondes. I actually have two blonde friends and I used to be blonde.]

"I agree…" Sakura sighed, "Well we should get to class and you should try not to get into trouble, I can't keep lying to our foster parents, Ten."
"Alright, I understand." Nodded Tenten then she paused for a minute or two then finished, "I can just do it!"

"Tenten!" Sakura looked at the brown-haired girl, appalled.

"Kidding! Just kidding, Saki," exclaimed Tenten, grinning sheepishly.

Sakura gave her a suspiciously, "Hm… Okay, Tenten."

Tenten made her way through the hallways without hassle. She began to become confused when there was practically no one in the hallways.

Where is everyone? Normally I have to use the old push-and-shove technique. But today… Today is just weird, Tenten finally decided. She quietly passed people; most were people she had never seen before.

Thirteen minutes had passed and Tenten had been around the building three – nearly four – times! Yet, it didn't get crowded, it merely got quieter and lonelier. When there were only about five people in the hallways, Tenten screamed, "Where is everyone?!"

"Who is yelling the hallways?" A masculine voice growled loudly, making Tenten just into a hopefully unoccupied room and slamming the door shut.

"Um, hello?"

Tenten froze and peeked over her shoulder, "Who's there?"

"Who are you?" The voice replied stubbornly.

"I'm not telling you!"

"Fine!" The voice shouted, "Then get out the boys' bathroom!" Tenten's eyes widen immensely before she took the advice and ripped open the door and ran across the hallway intersection and into the girls' bathroom. There were three other girls in there, but probably all seniors… They were smoking cigarettes and blowing out the smoke out with one side of their mouth. Slowly, their eyes began directing themselves towards the sophomore girl.

"Want one?" One girl held out the cigarette box out to Tenten and wiggled it a little, trying to make tempting.

"Oh, no thanks. I'm trying to get off heroine. Sorry," Tenten mumbled before shuffling out of the bathroom. Okay, she had lied, but she needed to escape each and every single one of those crazy restrooms. Seriously! Who goes around asking people that and being rude? Tenten didn't know, but her head started hurt and her eyesight was becoming blurry.

"Tenten! Why aren't you in class?" Oh the just gets better and better… Tenten spun around to face her Biology teacher, Umino Iruka questioned me, crossing his arms over his chest.

Oh God, can the day get any worse? Wait… Don't jinx it! Because it can!! Tenten's mind yelled, going panic-y.

"Well, because I needed to go to the nurse because I'm not feeling well," Tenten hastily answered, rushing past him.

"Oh. Hope you feel better, Tenten," Iruka commented before he started walking down the Science hallway.

Later, around 5 o'clock Tenten was laying on the couch, a washcloth resting on her forehead. She supposedly had a fever of 103.5. Tenten didn't care, as long as she didn't have to go to her other few classes. Plus Sakura could just help her with the school-work and homework Tenten didn't get before leaving campus.

"Hey Ten, I'm home…" Sakura called from the front door of the house. "And I got your work."

"Oh, great! I was just waiting for it!" Tenten declared sarcastically.

"Oh shut up, I'm doing you a favor. You're so lucky I'm in all of your classes, dude," replied Sakura.

"I know," Tenten nodded, trying to sit up.

"Where are mom and dad, plus other three?" Sakura asked, snatching a quick glance in every room in the house.

"I don't know, they just dropped me off here after picking me up."

"Really? Well that's odd considering how they don't normally do that."

"Well they did this time."

"Probably 'cause you pissed them off with all those phone calls from school to home. Don't you think?"

"Not really."

"Just do your work…" Sakura shoved the several papers towards Tenten and started on her Advanced Math homework.

"I don't get it…" Tenten whispered to the pinkette.

"You can't say that!"

"Why not?"

"Because you haven't even read the directions or tried the first problem. And if you can't draw a stupid angle, then how'd you get into Advanced Math?"

"Fine. I'll try a little harder," Tenten quietly murmured.

"Damn straight you will," said Sakura.


Author's Note: Hope you liked it! Thank you for reading. Please no flames or rude comments, I wasn't exactly feeling inspired today so it might suck. And this was my first story… so yeah. Thanks again.