An Honest Mistake
Chapter 1 : Old Love, New dorm
Sorry everyone, I rewrote this because I found that I wanted the story to go another way and some alterations had to be made from this chapter. But anyway, chapter 2 is on it's way and I'm sorry if this chapter is not to your liking. Anyway, please favorite and review!
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"Where do you want to go next?"
He asked, leaning back into the plushiness of the cushiony seat with the ice cream cup was steadily poised in his elegant fingers. He was looking, watching her with those coal eyes people would call cold and indifferent but she begged to differ; Those eyes were the doors to the inner workings of his emotions, every little thing he felt always shone through his eyes although they were expressed rather minisculely that everyone would think he was an ice cube.
Heck, even she was scared the first time meeting him because he didn't say anything to her and he just stared down at her looking rather disinterested (and pissed?) because of their wide height difference. It didn't help that the first time they met that she threw a tray of food at him which were supposed to be for her pig of a friend and he just happened to be in the way.
She smiled sheepishly, realizing that she didn't answer him because of that memory. But really, she didn't know where to go and she didn't want this meeting to end so soon, not when this is the first time they hung out in 5 months. It wasn't their fault really, his busy student life and her strict dorm rules were the cause for their rare meets and she hated it.
"I don't know really. We can go anywhere you want to. I-I mean, I just want to go somewhere with you!" She stuttered out.
Even though he his other hand covered his lips, she could see that he was smiling at her answer through the spaces of his fingers. He ran that hand through his hair and leaned forward, making his smile more visible to her and her heart beat even faster. When he smiled, his lips would stretch upwards and form a heart shape with his pearly whites peeking through. When he smiled, that was when he was either the cutest or most smoldering.
But it was the way his fingers placed the ice cream cup on the table and gracefully make their way to her own smaller fingers, slowly entwining together and tightly, showing her that he didn't want this to end just as much as she did, that he too was in love with her just as much as she was in love with him.
If his smile made her heart flutter, then this touch of skin coupled tempered with a quiet affection made her breathless.
The both of them stayed quiet for a time, trying to think of what to do. The ice cream steadily melted as they took their time until he took out his car keys from his pocket and stood up, walking and tugging her hand for her to follow suit. She followed, but she was confused by his sudden change of momentum.
"Where are we going?"
"Taking you out for a drive," he said coolly, seeing his car in the distance. She laughed lightheartedly, curious and excited to see the places he would bring her to. After all, he was an unconventional type of lover.
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She smiled fondly at the memory, she loved those days where he would take those weekends off to drive her around to places she's never been and sometimes, they would venture to places he's never been too. They would always meet at the ice cream parlor or the dango shop beside it first and then drive around the nearby area where they would eat the dango they bought or the onigiri he made (which was the best) in the car while talking or just silently watch the sunset before he drove her to her school and back to his life.
It was fun, and those days were really the best days of her life. If only the days were more like that.
Finally reaching her opening her front door and entering her living room, she screamed and spun around in joy, finally free from school, unbearable people and homework! She flung herself to the couch face first, reaching for the remote and flipping through the channels as she sighed and nuzzled in the warmth of her couch. This comfort is something she missed and she was going to enjoy it to the max by sitting on it while watching netflix for all of her summer break.
"Isis, come here girl!" And so the dog did, running through the living room and barking at her, happy that her master was finally home. But Sakura noticed that Isis dropped anletter so she picked up both the letter and Isis before settling down on the couch. She noticed that her name was handwritten in capital letters on the front of the envelope and it smelled like vanilla, like rich people.
Was her grandpa finally giving her money?!
She grabbed the knife, quickly dragging it through the top for easy access, taking it out and finally reading the contents of it. She scanned the letter twice before letting out a loud scream, jumping here and there and swinging her dog around. Screw getting money, a chance to a better education was far better and that better education was at a place where she dreamed, prayed and sent many appeal letters begging to get in.
She got her phone, making a brief prayer to thank God for this opportunity and called her mom while she cuddled with Isis as she waited for her mom to answer. When her mom finally did, holy shit her heart burst from giddiness and if she didn't tell her mom now, she would explode!
"Mom, mom, mom you wouldn't believe what happened!"
"You managed to convince grandpa to give up all his money?"
"No, that would be the end of the world if he did but I have something even better, I've been accepted into Konoha High!"
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"Mom?"
Slam!
"Where is it?"
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"Welcome to Konoha High, Sakura-san. I apologize for the late arrival of your acceptance letter, especially when the land of Snow is having quite a blizzard, huh?"
She just stared at old man passively through the bundles of scarves and coats she wore, specks of snow could be seen visibly on the clothes she had wrapped snuggly on her frame to keep warm. Not only did she receive the letter late, she had to come for the registration the next day (which was today) when she hadn't prepared anything for the trip or her stay in the dorms and the blizzard this time, it was a bitch.
Thankfully, it cleared in time for her to leave in the early morning but the coldness still bit her skin and made her shiver nonstop throughout the whole journey. She left around 4 am in the morning and arrived at the High school around 4 pm with chapped lips, an insane thirst for a coke and her stomach grumbled for food, hot, warm delicious food. But even in her caveman hunger, she still had the decency to blush which amused the old man.
"Here," he handed her a cream puff which she took and started eating it immediately, sighing in bliss at the warm, delicious cream of the pastry. She thanked him softly and he begun the exclusive tour of the campus around the lush gardens first. She saw a number of students jogging around the vast, empty expanse of green to which he told her that this field was usually used for outdoor festivals.
Then he showed her around the buildings, which there were three buildings; the administrative, the dormitory and the actual school in itself. He started with administrative first and introduced her to the teachers that would teach her in her upcoming classes.
"And this is Hatake Kakashi. He will be your homeroom teacher for this semester in which he will be responsible for you starting now."
And so the old man left, leaving her gape at his back unbelievingly as the silver haired man closed the orange book he was reading and stood up with his hands in his pocket, as if he was used to the principle leaving students to him. He rubbed his neck sheepishly and she noticed he was tall, VERY tall. Like the crown of her head barely touched his shoulders.
"So, you're Haruno right? I'm Kakashi, dont need to call me Hatake-sensei, Kakashi-sensei will do fine and let me guess, he hasn't shown you the other facilities in this building?" He asked, she nodded and briefly wondered how his voice didn't get muffled through the white mask he wore or whether he was used to the principal leaving students to him. Like the principal, he started giving her an exclusive tour of the campus, saying hello to the occasional people who greeted him while she was struggling to keep up with him.
Damn tall people and their long legs.
"So, where were previously from?" He asked, slowing down slightly so that she could match his pace.
"I was previously from an all girls boarding school from the land of Snow and I've been appealing for about 3 years to enroll here until yesterday, I got the letter of acceptance and rushed here despite the blizzard."
"How was everything there? Did you feel sad leaving everything behind?" He asked, ushering her to the left.
"Everything was okay there and it was a nice school. I was kinda the mega nerd there, like my grades were always the highest in my form and everyone came to me if they didn't understand anything. As for how I felt, I kinda felt more excited than sad because the last school was my second choice in the list of boarding schools that I applied for when I was 13. So, everything's good."
He stopped in front of a grand-looking mahogany door, pushing it to reveal a library that was way more amazing beyond her wildest dreams. The library was a spacious two-floored complex where both floors were occupied with tall shelves filled with books of all types of genres and the warm colored lights gave the library a kind of nostalgic and peaceful ambience to its surroundings.
She walked inside the magnificent looking library, admiring the wonderful splendor of it. Even her old library wasn't as big as this. Oh she would come here every day after school to study.
"I take it your old school wasn't as large as this?"
"The library at the old school is like a plankton compared to this giant whale of a library," She said, admiring the wonderful splendor of this magnificent library. Oh she would come here every day after to school to study, weather be damned. He smiled at her reply and tapped her on the shoulder so that he could show her the gym next, snapping her out of her daydream and leaving her to scramble after him.
The gym however was quite normal-looking but one look into the inventory room proved otherwise. There was a multitude of gym equipment in there for many types of sports - gymnastics, boxing, netball, you name it- and they all looked new, result of a well maintenance by an overly enthusiastic bowl haired teacher who wears a tight fitting green spandex every day, Kakashi noted casually.
The swimming pool was beside the gym which was the type of swimming pools usually seen in Olympic stadiums. This area didn't surprise her, she didn't like swimming much, not after she almost drowned in the sea.
"So, what sports Haruno-"
"Sakura. Just call me Sakura-chan," She interrupted, uncomfortable with the formality of his referral to her.
"So, Sakura-chan, any sports you interested in?"
"I was a mega nerd so sports didn't really interest me, except for the ones involving martial arts then yeah. I was quite an active member of my Taekwando club if I do say so myself."
"Well then, you should talk to Neji about it, he's the head of the club. Unless your hobbies are more towards reading and analyzing then I can help with the registration."
"What do you teach, Kakashi-sensei? And don't you have a girlfriend to attend to?" She asked as she picked up a stone and threw it to god knows where.
"That you will find out later and no, I don't have a girlfriend but I have a child to take care of."
"For a handsome person who reads the Icha Icha series, I would've thought that you were quite a favorite among the female students and teachers."
"For a innocent looking girl from an all-girls school, I would've thought you wouldn't know what Icha icha series is but we surprise each other, don't we?"
"More like disappoint each other." She quipped, not missing the beat of their conversation and sticking her tongue out at him childishly. She took out her phone seeing as it vibrated in her pocket and it looks like she got a text message from her mother.
"Hey hun, how you doing? We'll be sending the rest of the things later in the week. How's registration?"
"It's great, I haven't seen the dorm yet but the dorms should be normal looking though."
"We're here," his deep voice broke the silence as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck as he stopped at the front door of a luxurious looking building that definitely did not look like a dormitory. He pushed the door open.
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"Thank the lord for sponsors," she said with a far away tone, stepping into the brightly illuminated room and staring at all the gadgets in the room. 50 inch HD TV, state of the art stereo speakers and there was a ps4 with a whole shelf of games that wasn't even released anywhere, which baffled her to the point of stupefaction. Her last dormitory wasn't anything like this and she could get used to living here, no need to return home in months.
"It's like the Buchanan mansion in the great Gatsby only more modernized," she finally said, looking at her silver haired teacher with a blissful look in her green eyes. He whistled for someone and came in one blonde who ran through the halls and made his entrance as noisy as possible with his shouts and thundering footsteps. The blonde stopped beside Kakashi, a very big smile on his oddly whiskered face.
"This was the child I was talking about. He's Naruto and he's going to be your dormmate for the rest of your stay here. Naruto, Sakura."
"Nice to meet you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto greeted with an enthusiastic shake of hands which he managed to make her hand feel like jelly but he had good intentions of being friendly which made her like him instantly.
"As much as I would like to go on, it's already late and you're probably tired from your trip here. Get some sleep, you've got quite a bit to do tomorrow and if you need anything, I'm here or you can always ask Naruto. Don't let his hyperactiveness turn you off, he's actually reliable," he ended the tour with that, leaving naruto to retort offendedly at his statement while Sakura was surprised her to know that it was already nighttime and true enough, it was 8 pm. Must've just been her being too excited seeing the campus grounds.
Naruto ushered her to the dining table where he served her a plate of tuna onigiri and a cup of hot chocolate as a sign of welcome to the new quarters. She sipped the hot chocolate and just groaned blissfully, this hot chocolate was better than her mother's. She would take note to have him make more of this in the future.
"Enjoying it? So, where you from and why did you come here?"
"Naruto, you gotta make more of this. I am from the land of Snow and I came here because well, I applied to get here for 3 years and I finaly got in, provided that I got a scholarship because of my grades and active curricular involvement," she reeled out, repeating her answer to Naruto before her head snapped to the sound of glass breaking which didn't phase Naruto.
"That's probably Ino or Kiba. They're both quite noisy neighbours to have but you'll get used to it. Bring your mug along, I'll introduce you to everyone and show you around ttebayo!"
And so he did, going up the stairs and into the second floor of the lavish complex which the second floor impressed her. There was a small living room where there was a tall shelf filled with books, a grand piano and a few loveseats for anyone to sit.
"Since this is a co-ed dorm, the boys stay on this floor so that they wouldn't peep at the girls. There are 2 empty room but don't worry you won't be staying in there. The only ones staying on this floor is me, Kiba, Lee, Shikamaru who always has his door open, Chouji and Neji. Neji and Shikamaru's not too bad but Kiba's known to cause quite a ruckus so it's better to have your ears plugged when you're sleeping."
And Sakura could hear a masculine scream from one of the closed rooms, followed by a loud bark which made her automatically assume that it was Kiba. She followed him up another flight of stairs and this floor seemed empty compared but the balcony facing the lush forestry that surrounded the Village had a few tables and chairs and a small scale garden decorated the space, making it look more pleasing to the eye.
She yawned loudly, finally feeling the drowsiness of the day's activities on her body. Naruto took her to her room, and she was a little surprised by the spaciousness of her room which she alone accomodated, a luxury of privacy that she wasn't allowed in her previous dorm.
"You can meet everyone tomorrow. As for the dorm rules, as long as you don't try to sneak out at night and you don't disturb the other dorms then everything's fine. For meals, usually we all just order take-out or just eat anything in the fridge. As for laundry, we all place our clothes in a basket and when it's full we just load it into the washer. It's a lot but you'll get used to it 'ttebayo!" She nodded dumbly, feeling the sleep creep into her nearly closed her sleepy eyes.
"If anything, just ask me okay!" He shouted before he disappeared from sight. She shut the door closed and flung herself on the bed, not bothering to change or turn off the lights because she was exhausted. She adjusted her sleeping position on the bed to a more comfortable one, texting her mother a brief goodnight before she slept with a smile on her face.
I am going to enjoy this year.
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Oh no she wasn't going to fucking enjoy this year. Not only did she wake up to a rude start, she also woke up in the middle of the night to Naruto sheepishly apologizing to her saying that she was supposed to stay on the second floor, with the rest of the BOYS. Her mood instantly darkened, what with her exhausted state of mind.
And the boys true to Naruto's words, were inconsiderate fuckers who didn't give shit about people sleeping on their floor. Not only did she have a hard time trying to sleep, they were banging on the walls like drunk animals. She tossed and turned, her sheets were crinkled and she was sweating. This wasn't how she imagined her first night would be.
"DRINK DRINK DRINK!" they chanted, surrounding Naruto and Chouji who were at odds with each other in a beer drinking competition. The bet (aside from money) was that if Naruto lost, he would dye his hair black and he would pay for their meals for the rest of the month but if Chouji lost, he had to train AND Participate in anko's gauntlet run at the end of the month.
Kiba and shikamaru placed 50 each on Chouji, Neji placed 100 on Naruto to make the betting fair. All of them were having a fun time, partying and having massive hangovers in the morning which was worth it.
SLAM!
Their dong-measuring contest was interrupted, everyone snapped their head to the doorway where a pink haired girl stood there with clenched fists and muffin patterned pyjama pants.
"I WILL CUT YOUR DICKS OFF, STAPLE THEM TO YOUR FOREHEADS AND BURY YOU IN SWINE SHIT IF YOU DON'T STOP SCREAMING LIKE UNCULTURED BABOONS!"
That stopped them from drinking and slinked back to their rooms immediately. Even one of the girls came downstairs and congratulated her on taming what was the 'local tavern' into the 'church'. She shrugged thinking that if she didn't bring a knife with her they wouldn't have taken her seriously. That would actually teach them to do so.
But it didn't help that she was still very sleepy and she felt like she could pass out any time. So she groaned and dug her face into the table, hoping that the teacher would be late so she could catch some sleep. She didn't even know why she even bothered coming to school today if she was this tired. Even her inner self was too tired to have sarcastic bouts with her.
The door slid open and she groaned even louder, hearing everyone push their chair and standing up so that they could greet the teacher. Damn manners and sausage club people, making her lose sleep.
"I know you're all excited to have me back," the voice spoke to the class. She didn't bother standing up or raising her head, she was too sleepy and the desk felt awfully nice to sleep on until she heard footsteps come her way and a warm presence make itself known by standing beside her. So she raised her head up, her dozy green eyes widened to saucers.