Hello Peeps. MushiMonsters here. This is a new story of mine called In Denial. It is based of the NaruSaku pairing.
Summary: Sakura Haruno is an average school girl. Sasuke Uchiha is the most popular boy, it only makes sense for almost every girl in the school to like the most popular guy. Sakura will do anything just to be with Sasuke, but all her plans seem to falter when the new kid arrives. Naruto Uzumaki is stirring up trouble and Sakura seems to always get caught into it. Sakura finds Naruto to be nothing more than an annoying troublemaker. Though for some reason he's all she ever talks about.
Warning: OC characters. Some grammar mistakes.. maybe. If I can be bothered editing.
Pairing: NaruSaku, slight SasuSaku, SasuHina, ShikaTema, Slight NaruIno, ChoIno, and others
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine, Naruto belongs to none other than Masashi Kishimoto.
Hope you enjoy.
Sakura P.O.V
"Sakura, are you finished in the bathroom yet?" I heard my mother call from downstairs.
"Hold on mom" I yelled back, frustrated that she would interrupt me. I looked at all the products in front of me. I finally received the make-up products that I ordered online. A cute eyeshadow pallet filled with different colors, a smoky eyeshadow kit, some Mac products, a few blushes, lip gloss, foundations, concealer, primer, nail polish, blush, eyeliners and some mascara. Yeah I ordered a lot and they weren't cheap, but they were worth it.
I saw Ino's collection of make-up and felt the need to buy my own. Today is the first day back and I want to look my best. Tying my long pink hair in a high bun to get it out of my face. I looked over all the products and decided that I probably should clean my face to remove all the dirt and oil. I applied the face primer, Ino told me that it helps make the make-up last longer. I applied the concealer to hide my imperfections. I had very bad dark circles.
I added foundation and then added some lose powder to help make the concealer and that last longer. I looked at my face in the mirror and smiled, my skin looked absolutely flawless. I did a small happy dance.
I skipped putting on the eyeshadow since I was afraid that I might put too much on and make myself look like a clown. Instead I chose to put on some of the eye liner. My eyes looked a bit darker, I was about to add the liquid liner but thought against since I might make a mistake. So I curled my eye lashes with mom's lash curl. Yeah, my mom has make-up, I would use her's if the colors weren't so ugly. I applied the mascara and gasped as I looked at myself.
"Now who is that sexy thing in the mirror" I started making duck lips and wiggling my eyebrows. Giggling to myself.
I added on the pink blush and decided to go with a pink lip gloss. Just a simple look. I smiled to myself, It was somewhat easy to tell that I was wearing make-up since I put on so little. As I said before I didn't want to look like a clown since my choice in colors won't suit or it would look to plain, or I'll end up putting to much on.
'Maybe Ino could help me with the eyeshadow' I thought to myself.
Ino Yamanaka has been my best friend since we were in diapers. Her mother and my mother were the best of friends in college, so it only made sense that me and Ino would become the best of friends. Ino has always been the better one out of us both. She had confidence, style and not to forget her beauty.
Ino has long platinum blonde hair that she tied into a high ponytail. Beautiful blue eyes, though you can't see her left one since her blonde bang covers it. Full lips, soft skin, light tan and great curves.
Then there is me. A pale skin color, though not as pale as a vampire but close. Pink hair, a huge forehead, emerald eyes, barely any curves and pretty short in height.
Yup I'm just an average school girl by the name of Sakura Haruno. I'm neither popular nor unpopular, just in the middle. I used to get bullied a lot thanks to my large forehead, but Ino got rid of those bullies, I was always self-conscious of myself but Ino talked some sense into me. After that I began embracing what I looked liked, Ino told me that instead of hiding it show it off, be proud of who I am. So I did, though I wasn't as skilled as Ino was.
I tried finding myself a talent but I sucked at almost everything I did. So I did nothing but studied, might as well put this big forehead of mine to use right? Anyways, I studied hard and became number one in academics. Getting perfect scores in almost everything. Only a few people can rival me. Shikamaru Nara, a lazy genius. Literally. He's always asleep in class and yet he gets perfect scores, the teachers don't bother him since he's so smart.
I always see Shikamaru watching the clouds. I'm only somewhat friends with him through Ino. Ino's father is friends with Shikamaru's and Chouji Akimichi's father. Chouji is Shikamaru's best friend. Anyways the only thing to describe Shikamaru is Lazy with a capital L.
Then there's Hinata Hyuuga. A shy quiet girl who always stutters when talked to. Hinata's always hanging out with Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame. Kiba is an annoying mutt who always brings his dog and Shino is just plain.. creepy. I'm not close to Hinata but the girl is probably the most prettiest girl I've seen. She looks more like a princess rather than a normal girl. Long silky black hair, pearly white eyes, pale skin, full pink lips and probably the most curviest girl out there. Her curves are better than Ino's.
Lastly another person that can rival me is the one the only.. Sasuke Uchiha. The most popular and hottest guy in school. I mean he is Hot with a capital H. He's mysterious, cool and down right sexy. He's number one at everything he does. Sasuke's is the definition of perfect, and he's the reason why I want to look good.
I've had a crush on him since Kindergarten. Now I'm 16 in High School and I still haven't had the guts to go up and talk to him well every since 'that day'. Ino has no problem though. It's no secret that Ino likes him, though even though she does, me and her are still the best of friends. I just don't want to be rejected, every girl that's asked Sasuke out has been rejected. Rumor has it that he's never had a girlfriend and it's my goal to be the first girl to be his girlfriend.
"Sakura hurry up. I need a shower" My mom growled, she was banging on the door. My mom is very impatient she just hate's waiting.
"Alright, wait on" I cleared up the make-up and shoved them into the bag that they came in. I guess I'll have to do my hair in my room.
I walked out to my impatient mother. She looked at me with those emerald eyes of hers. "Are you wearing make-up" She asked with a raised brow.
"Yes mom" I say. I was about to leave before she grabbed my arm and yanked me towards her. I yelped in shock, clearly not expecting that. She observed my face.
"Not bad, you did a good job with the concealer and all that. Though your eyeliner is a bit crooked. We can fix that" She reaches into the bag and I blush in embarrassment.
"Mom!" I shout in protest.
"Oh hush you." She pulls out the eyeliner and the liquid liner. "Stay still" She commands. She places her soft hand on my cheek and begins applying the eyeliner, then she puts the liquid liner on and I can feel her extending it a bit. I've seen Michelle Phan do this a lot on YouTube, in other words, my mom is creating fake lashes. I know that she gave me some kind of cat eye look. "Done"
She reaches into the bag and pulls out the eyeshadow pallet. "Mom!"
"Shush" She opens it up, revealing the eye shadows that clearly haven't been used. She picks the natural looking colors like the topaz, white, brown and this bronze looking color. Blending together to give me a natural look.
"Gasp. This can't possible be my little Sakura" She pushed me back into the bathroom and turned me around so I could face the mirror. True enough this person looked nothing like me. This person standing in front of me looked.. prettier than me, the only thing I could recognize is my emerald colored eyes, my large forehead and my pink hair... which I still have to do.
"Thanks mom" I screamed with glee. I sported the biggest smile ever, oh yeah. There is no way Sasuke could keep his eyes of me now... kukuku.
"Your welcome. Now hurry up and get dressed and fix that hair of yours" She says. My mom sure is weird, I can tell shes screaming with glee. She's been trying to put make-up on me for years.
"Hai" I walked off into my room. It wasn't exactly big. But it was a typical girls room, pink walls, nice comfy bed in the middle, furry rug, bean bags, t.v, desk with a laptop, wardrobe, mirror, posters and pictures of Ino and I splattered all over the walls.
I put the bag with the make-up in it down for now, deciding that I'll sort it all out when I get back from school. I walked over to my wardrobe deciding what to wear. I opted for a black tank top with a short black skirt, I put or a stripped white and pink sweater that was a little large but that's okay.
I fiddled around with my hair for a bit, having no clue on what to do about it and just decided that I'll leave it down like I normally do (Sakura's long hair from the first session of Naruto). Simple but cute. I didn't have much accessories so I just put on a white scarf with pink bangles. I put my white Nike's on and twirled around in the mirror.
'Something's missing' I thought to myself. I looked over and saw a red ribbon sitting innocently on my desk. I walked over to it and picked it up, smiling. Ino was the one that gave this to me when I would hide my forehead behind my bangs.
"Think of this ribbon as a new beginning a new you. When you have this on, embrace it, show it off, tell the world that you aren't afraid to be you"
I chuckled at that. Ino sure did have a way with words.
I decided to wear it. I placed the ribbon in my hair securing it in place.
"Perfect" I say to myself. I looked at myself in the mirror one last time before grabbing the perfume and spraying some on me while grabbing my school bag.
I grabbed my phone from my desk and saw that I had 2 messages, one from Ino and the other from Karin.
I rolled my eyes at that 'typical'. Karin Oto (A/N: Yeah I'll just make her last name that since I don't really want her to be related to Naruto). You could say that me and Karin are enemies. Karin has been my rival since kindergarten.
It was all over Sasuke too. Though to be fair I had a closer relationship with Sasuke. Until 'that day'
FlashBack
I was hiding behind the tree. Ino was away and I was scared that I was going to get bullied again by those mean people so I decided to play it safe and hide.
The swing set was free so I decided to go there. Barely anyone uses the swing since it's faraway from the play area and there's only one swing. I hopped on the swing and started swinging my legs back and forth, a small smile crept on my face as I felt the wind run through my short pink hair.
I didn't know that there was someone approaching me.
"Hey" I heard a voice. It was a boy's voice. I turned around to see a small pale boy with black hair and black eyes. He was wearing a black shirt with some jeans. He looked to be about 6 while I was 5.
I was scared that the boy was gonna pick on me so I quickly got off and yelled that I was sorry. I started running until I felt a hand on my arm. The same boy was holding my arm. Tears welled up in my eyes and I was waiting for the insults.
"Your weird" The boy says. I started sobbing "Oi" The boy said but I ignored him. He lifted up my bangs from my head and I began to whimper "Why are you crying?" He asked. Looking me in the eyes with those black orbs of his.
"B-b-because y-y-your g-g-gonna tease m-m-me" I stuttered out.
"Baka. why would I tease you" He asked in an annoyed tone.
I didn't reply and just pointed to my forehead. He rolled his eyes. "So what? You think I would tease you because of that" He said.
I looked up at him in awe. No one has said that to me before. "R-really" I asked hopefully.
"Really" The boy said. I smiled a small smile, I noticed that he had a small smile to. "What's your name" He ask.
"H-haruno Sakura" I squeaked out.
"Hn. Uchiha Sasuke" He said. "Wanna play with me" he asked.
I nodded eagerly. Happy that I found a friend. We walked over to the swing set and he let me hop on. He started pushing me.
"Higher" I giggled out. I heard him laugh a bit.
"Okay" He pushes me a bit higher.
His arms got tired and I came to a stop. We both were laughing. He looked at me. "You know, your probably the first girl I could stand"
"I-is that a g-good thing?" I tilted my head to the side.
"Yeah" He laughed a bit. "Say Sakura-Chan, can we be friends" I saw the hopeful gleam in his eyes. I blushed a bit.
"Hai Sasuke-San" He scrunched up his nose.
"Just don't call me Sasuke-San. It makes me sound like an old man" He stuck is tongue out in disgust. I giggled at his actions. I saw Sasuke scowl at something and turned to see a red headed girl approaching us.
"Sasuke-Kun!" The girl squealed. I held my ears due to the sheer volume of her voice. She looked at me and scoffed. "Yuck what is that" She said her nose scrunching up. Tears prickled my eyes at the girls harsh words.
"Karin go away" Sasuke says. "And for your information she is my friend" He defended me.
"Ewww. You want that thing to be your friend" This Karin says.
"Yes, now go away" Sasuke snaps at her.
"But Sasu-Kun. I'm so much better than her" Karin flips her hair while adjusting her glasses.
"Tch your annoying" Sasuke glares at her and grabs me by the arm pulling me away. We don't talk, he just takes me to the flower field and we sit down in a comfortable silence. "Gomen Sakura-Chan" He says softly. Eyes full of guilt.
"No, it's n-not your fault Sasuke-Kun" I reassured him.
"Hn" He falls onto his back sprawled out in the flower field. Staring up at the clouds. He looks at me and speaks. "Lay down with me" He gently pushes me down to lay down with him. My little heart starts beating and I began to blush. I looked over at Sasuke and his eyes were closed, he had a small smile on his face.
My blush increased and I knew for a fact that I was starting to like Sasuke more than a friend. 'My first crush' was the only thing I could think of. I closed my eyes and before you know it Sasuke and I were both sleeping.
I was harshly woken up by that Karin girl and dragged of somewhere. Sasuke was still sleeping while I had tears in my eyes, too afraid to scream or say anything.
"Listen and listen good. Stay away from him. You don't deserve him, your not even worthy enough of him. Sasuke is mine. Remember that" And with that she left. Leaving me as a sobbing mess. I sunk down and pulled my knees to my chest.
'your not even worthy enough of him' I cried and cried. At times like this I hate myself. I get bullied and do nothing about it, all I ever do is cry. I'm so weak that I can't even defend myself.
So the following days I avoided Sasuke and hung with Ino instead. I saw the sadness in Sasuke's eyes but pretended that I didn't see it. I looked over at that swing we played on and he was by himself. He looked sad, I felt so guilty, so I walked over to him. Ignoring the glare from Karin.
"H-hi" I stuttered.
"Hi" Was his simple reply. I was scared that he was going to hate me and tell me to go away. "You've been ignoring me" His eyes hold a lot of sadness and I felt like crying.
"I-i'm s-s-sorry" I stuttered again.
"Sigh It's okay. I know it was Karin" He answered. I snapped my head up and looked at him.
"Y-y-you d-d-did" I asked.
"Yeah" was his only answer. He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards him. He turned around and gently dragged me to the same flower field. We sat down and he placed a flower in my hair. "You know, I reckon you look a lot nicer without those bangs in your face" He says as his small hand brushes the hair out of my face. I blushed, now I know that I like Sasuke more than a friend. I may be 5 but I know what crushes are.
Weeks went by and mine and Sasuke's friendship grew a bit stronger. I found out that he had an older brother that he wishes to be like and how much he loves his mother. Though not so much his father since he's pretty much ignored by him.
By the time he was 8 and I was 7 something horrible happened. Sasuke lost his parents in a car accident and the only one that survived was his older brother. Sasuke grew a lot colder then, he glared at anything. He was as cold as ice, even to me.
"Sasuke-Kun" I ran up to my best guy friend. I can't say best friend since that role has been taken by Ino. I ran up to him but something felt off. His eyes were sad and angry at the same time. "Sasuke-Kun" And he did the thing that I thought he would never do to me. He glared at me.
"What" He snaps. Glare still in place.
"A-are y-you okay" I asked. Scared that Sasuke was like this.
"I'm Fine" he says through gritted teeth.
"Sasu-" I was cut off by Sasuke.
"Sasuke-Kun, Sasuke-Kun" He said in a mocking voice. "You know what Sakura, just shut up. All you ever do is yell Sasuke-Kun like some annoying girl. And plus you can't even defend yourself without the help of me or Ino. All you ever do is cry, it's like you depend on me all the time. Well stop it! I'm not always gonna be there for you" He says harshly. Tears welled up and I was crying.
"Sa-" Again he cut me off. I thought he was joking but he was serious.
"See, like right now all you ever do is cry. Tch, your just as annoying as Karin" That statement hurt the most. It felt like a knife piercing my heart. Cliche but it was true. Never in my life would I imagine Sasuke being harsh to me. He glared and walked away leaving me crying on the ground.
"Awww did poor wittle Sakura get her heart broken" A taunting voice said. I knew it was Karin, she started laughing. "I told you your not worthy of him" I couldn't stop the tears that fell out. Sasuke was right, All I ever do is cry and depend on either him or Ino. Am I really that much of a burden? does Ino feel the same way that Sasuke does?.
Karin got bored and walked away. While I walked home with a heavy heart. I ignored everything around me and went straight to my room.
"Sasuke" Was the last thing I said before falling asleep.
Flashback end.
Hard to believe that the average girl like me was once friends with the most popular guy in school. Well it's true. After that incident I thought that everything was going to go back to the way it was and that it was all a nightmare and that Sasuke will still be my friend. Boy was I wrong, he avoided me at all cost and ignored me. I felt hurt. Karin was happy about my pain while Ino was worried. I still had no confidence in myself, So that was when Ino gave me the red ribbon. As a toast for change.
From then on I became a lot more smarter and confident. My crush still remained on Sasuke because I still believe that he will once again be the Sasuke that I used to know.
I read the messages.
From Ino:
Hey Gurlfrewnd xxx I heard that u got some new MAKE-UP! \(*▼*)/ I'm so proud of u... ur finally a woman *squeal* anywho's see u at school
mwah xoxoxox
From Karin
Sakura. I heard that YOU got some make-up. Good idea, you need something to cover that face of yours.
Shaking my head I headed out the front door not even bothering with breakfast since I've got my wallet in my bag to buy me something down at the small shops/dairy whatever you wanna call it.
I headed into the dairy and went straight to the drinks. Grabbing myself a Vanilla Up & Go, I walked around for a bit and was oblivious to the fact that cerulean eyes were watching me. I was looking at all the chips and turned so suddenly that I bumped into something.
"Ow" I groaned out.
"Hehe sorry about that" A voice said. One that I'm not familiar with. I looked to see a boy with tanned skin, the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen and sunshine colored hair. He wore a black t-shirt, a pair of Capri's and some white chucks. A blue necklace around his neck. The guy stood up extending his hand for me to take. I take it without a word, he rubs the back of his head sheepishly. "Again, so sorry about that" I know for sure that I've never seen him before.
"Don't worry about it" Honestly the guy wasn't bad looking. But Sasuke-Kun was so much better. Though when I looked into his eyes they seem too tell a different story, it seemed that he had meant to bump into me.
"Seriously though, I should've watched where I was going" He grins.
"It's okay" I say feeling rather awkward. I've never had much experience with guys, I hang around them but I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the male species.
"The names Uzumaki Naruto dattebayo. I just moved here. Hey do you know where Konoha High is?" The guy now known as Naruto rambled on. I raised my eyebrow.
'A new kid' I thought.
'Damn he is fine' Inner Sakura said.
'What the? I thought I got rid of you' I argued with her. Inner Sakura is pretty much my Inner emotions of how I really feel. She was created when I started Middle School. I had confidence but I never spoke my feelings so Inner Sakura was made. Though I feel as though she's a real person, because we sometimes have argument's of whats wrong and whats right.
'Pu-lease. You could never get rid of me. And don't deny it honey, he is hella fine' Inner gushed. I rolled my eyes.
'Whatever' Ending our little debate.
"Hello?" I was brought back to reality by that Naruto guy. He looked at me with confusion in his eyes "Are you okay? You sorta spaced out" He said.
"Oh yeah, sorry. Wait did you say Konoha High? I go there" I stated.
Konoha High School. A public school mainly known for sports. Yup, Everyone there is a fan of some kind of sport, no matter what one it is. The popular sport being Football, next would be Basketball, then their would be Baseball, next up would be Netball and the list goes on until we get to the least played sport... Rugby League.
Not many people play Rugby League since the League team pretty much SUCK. The coach is too Lazy, the people on the team aren't fit enough and so forth. So no one really plays League, I hear that they might be taking the League program down next year if they don't win anymore games. Good, maybe they can use that extra money for other things.
"Oh cool.. then maybe we could walk together" He says with a hopeful gleam in his eyes. A flashback of Sasuke comes rushing through my mind and I can't help but feel sad.
"Sure" I faked a smile. I didn't really want to spend my time with the new kid but what choice do I have.
"So what's your name" He casually asked while looking at all the snacks trying too figure out what he wants.
"Haruno Sakura" I reply.
'Doritos or Pringles or maybe Blue Bird' So many choices. I decided on a cheese flavored Doritos. I looked over to see that Naruto chose a packet of Tim Tam's and he also had a packet of Doritos, though he had that Thai Chilli Sweet one. That one is probably my favorite one, if I chose that one they would be gone before I even arrived at school. Scratch that they would be gone the moment I leave the store.
I turned around and brought some other snacks, I brought some lollies as well. A habit of mine, I'm known as the girl with lollies since I buy them everyday. Yeah, 16 years old and I still buy lollies, but don't judge me at least I'm not smoking. (A/N: I based one of my own habits on Sakura. It's a true story that I turn up to school everyday with lollies). Lollipops, gum, zombie chews a few chocolates, a lot of other lollies and I'm all set. I grab a pie for breakfast. I pay for my meal and thank Jeffrey for it.
Naruto caught up to me. "Wow you sure love lollies" He said.
"Yeah" I say.
"Mind if I call you Lolly-Chan" He says casually. I glared at him slightly.
"Don't call me that" He chuckles and pats my head. I looked over to see what he brought. A blue G-Force (These are really nice) the Tim Tams, The Doritos and that was all I saw. Does this kid barely eat or something, well that explains why he's so skinny.
"Neh Lolly-Chan what's KHS like" My eye twitched at that nickname. Huffing I decided to ignore it for now.
"It's alright I guess. The education their is one of the best considering that we have teachers from former private schools. Oh and also-" I didn't get to finish since Naruto decided to cut me off.
"By what's KHS like I meant how are the sports" Of course a sports freak. Figured.
I sighed. "I wouldn't know since I don't play sports and I don't get myself involved. But from what I hear it's one of the best since we win in almost every sport" I answered truthfully. He gave me a look that said 'are you kidding me' I know that he's probably thinking how weird I am for not liking sports. But I just can't help it, I don't see the point of it. You don't learn from it, sports doesn't take you far in life.
"Do they have Rugby League?" He asked. Now that's a first. Usually all the new kids would want to play Football or something.. never League.
"Um yeah... but don't even bother since they're probably gonna take it down" I state in a matter of fact tone.
"Why?" His eyebrows were raised.
"To put it simple. The coach is lazy, the team sucks, no one want's to play it and they've never won a game before" I crossed my arms. We were still walking to High School. It shouldn't be too far now, I make a right turn and Naruto follows.
"Well not anymore. I'm going to be the best League player their is, the principle should keep the League program going because with Uzumaki Naruto here we'll be the number one team." He grins to himself. I held a small smile at his determination. Though I couldn't help but ask something that I've been thinking of.
"But why League. You could always make another team number one" Well majority of them since almost every KHS sports team is number one.
"It's kind of personal" He had this look in his eyes. I nodded my head, understanding that we've only just met and it would be pretty weird spilling out all your personal secrets and stuff to a stranger.
I spotted the High School up ahead. It's only somewhat fancy, but not too fancy.
(A/N: Can't be bothered explaining what the High School looks like so just use your imagination or Google one up)
Naruto and I walked towards the school. I looked over to see that he had a look of awe etched onto his face.
I have a feeling that this is going to be an interesting year. I walked towards the High School with Naruto in tow. Yup I have a pretty good feeling that the new kid is going to spice things up a bit this year.