I decided to edit this because people were getting confused. There are no real changes only I placed some bars in, and wrote when it changes to past and present. And I also fixed some wording and grammer mistakes. Warning- this story switchs from 3rd person and back. The third person is Sakura's throughts, this is her remembering, and she places her thoughts from now in.
The underlined is Sakura's present thoughts on the past
The Sketchbook
Chapter 1
Sakura's new persona
Sakura sat on the bed inking in the pictures in her sketchbook being careful with every stroke of her pen. Her boyfriend was draped over her shoulders just watching her.
"Sakura, why is it that all you ever do is draw? You don't talk to anyone, you just sit and draw. Did I do something that would make you ignore me?" He whispered into her ear.
She just continued to color in the black hair of the man in her portrat, acting as if he said nothing.
"Would you pay attention to me?" he yelled grabbing her sketchbook and throwing it across the room as it smashed into the wall. Sakura just stared at where the book had laid to where it sat now on the other side of the room open and bent. Moving from her spot she picked the book up and fixed the bent pages, when her eyes looked into her love's own, he saw hurt, sadness, tears, and even anger.
I should tell you about myself. My name is Sakura Haruno. And you see I wasn't being rude up there I just no longer talk. I can speak, but I chose not to. I do still sometimes, if I find it important. Which is rare in itself. I have my own reasons for such actions and they are my own.
That boy, my boyfriend, I met him 1 and a half years ago, when I was suspended at my old school for attempting to kill a student I was sent there, to his. They said it helps straighten out bad students and is one of the top schools that many intelligent students have come from.
He is from a very rich and protégés family, he had a name to hold up, but he doesn't care. If he did he would never go out with a person like me.
When I switched schools I came to this one dressed up, not really 'dressed up' but to me it was. So it was just not my normal entire. You know how they say first impression right? I was like attacked, in my opinion anyway, by this blond girl.
I was in a short black skirt and a fitting dark green shirt that said 'out of my mind, back in 5 minutes' with monkeys on it. My hair faded from pink to black then back to pink to black tips. It was fun to fool people for the time, and to see how many people could figure it out. I had on combat boots and knee high fishnets. A black bat chocker lay delicately around my neck, and a layer of black eyeliner with a layer of red right above it. I had 3 holes in one ear with a cross hanging one, skull stud one and a loop one on top, the other had 4 a round one that went through both top holes, same skull as the other one, and dagger in a heart on the bottom most one.
"You're the new girl right? Oh my god, you are so cute."
In my mind I was gagging and wanted to choke her. What an annoying bitch.
Wellthe blondwas talking to her,she was looking around to see what this place will expect from her, and saw 3 other girls walking over to join them.
Now my mind is like, 'shit someone save me.'
A blond girl, a scared timid looking girl, and a Chinese girl.
"Hey Ino." They all said. The blond one just looked at Sakura, she gave her this look that said she was sorry. Sakura must have looked annoyed. Oh well.
"Hey Ino who is this?"
"Haruno. The names Sakura Haruno. I just transferred here, of sorts anyway." Sakura sort of looked off to the side.
"Oh the new girl."
"Yes let's just call me the new girl. It's like no one noticed." Sakura mocked.
"Oh we should show her Sasuke. She will love him. He is so HOT!!"
"I don't love Hun, I just get very close to like." The one they called Ino looked at her, so did the others but the one blond who looked like she was about to laugh. "Anyway who is Sasuke? And why are you so creepily happy about having me meet him? Is he like an evil bastard or something? Or one of the jocks? Cuz you know I don't really do that?" Sakura just stated it like it was obvious.
Sakura was sort of scared, who wouldn't be! Who were these people? How did they find her? Guess her ninja stealth doesnt work that well in an open closed-in field that was the school yard.
"He's the most popular kid in school. He's so hot." Ino was blushing and had a starry look in her eyes.
"And intelligent"
"And Strong."
"And rich." The blond girl added indifferently.
"Yeah…right. Who are you people?" Hopefully they got distracted cuz she really didn't care about any of that.
"Oh right. I'm Ino, that's Tenten, and the shy one is Hinata, and…" The respective person waved. Little Hinata seemed scared of me, I felt bad, she hadn't said a thing.
"The name's Temari Sabaku. I'm 2 years older then them. You'll meet my brothers soon enough, but watch out for them, k?" she winked.
"Right." Sakura walked toward the school rudely. "I have to go get my schedule could you show me the way? You're sort of the first people I had the chance to meet. Be it willing or not."
"Sure no problem." Temari smiled to her catching on to her point. "Just follow me, I'll take you. They need to go to class."
"We'll see you later, k, Sakura." The girls smiled and walked away.
Sakura looked to Temari.
In my mind I was like 'god I love so much, I owe you my life.'
"Thank you."
"I saw that horrified look in your face. I feel sorry for you. I'm not in their grade so I don't see them that much, but you…" Temari trailed off and turned to take Sakura to the office. "But if they want you to meet Sasuke then I really feel for you. I think he's cute but I wouldn't want to meet him. And my brothers, watch out for them. Especially the youngest, he has red hair so you shouldn't miss him. Always in black and blood colors…"
"So he's sadistic hu?" Temari gave a little sad nod, "Not to worry, I put up with them all the time. Masochist, you know. Let me guess he wears blood red shirts with mesh, and black baggy pants with a studded leather belt holding them up. Black eyeliner, laid on thick. Short spiky messy hair that looks like it hasn't been combed in years. And really pale with pale green colored eyes."
"H…how did you know?" She looked at the girl as if she was psychic or something.
"He's fuckin staring at me right now." Sakura said angerly and flicked him off and turned her back on him.
I got revenge for that later so you know.
"Oh that was bad." Temari squeaked as she looked over where Sakura was looking just in time to see the anger enter her youngest sibling's eyes.
"Don't worry about me. I love pain, and I find it funny that when I get into fights I let people hurt me and it shocks them. I mean a small girl like me take hits and not dodge even when I can clearly see it coming. The last fight I had that got me kicked out and sent here, I stabbed someone in the arm and licked the blood…" she stared silently forward. "Don't tell anyone that. Really please don't. I need to be good at this school, or at least get my classes before I get kicked out. Again."
"You got kicked out too? So did my brother. He went to a private school but he was kicked out for hospitalizing 5 kids. So he was transferred here with us."
"So you went to different schools? How odd." Sakura looked at the blond senior sideways.
"Well here you go." She stopped in front of a dark green door. "And I would avoid Gaara for the day if you don't want to get into trouble." Temari smiled and walked off just as the bell rang.
"Whatever." It took Sakura 30 minutes to get her classes and reach the classroom. They are really slow. (A/N I once waited 2 days for them to change me out of a class I couldn't be in)
Which was way to long in my book. Go I just wanted to say 'can I get kicked out now?'
When she entered her first class, Biology, all the students looked at her as she opened the door.
"Hello, you must be the new student." The teacher smirked. "My name is Orochimaru. Who might you be?"
"Um, Sakura Haruno."
"Tell us a little about you."
"Well I was sent here after being kicked out my old schools. I don't see wayI should tell you what I like beacuse I hate just about everything. Dreams is just a word for little kids, but I have a goal, that is to find the one person I ever cared about. I don't really believe in anything, and I don't really listen to people. And I have a feeling that I am going to be making a lot of enemies today." Sakura held alook of apathy (indifference).
"Well that was a lot, um take your seat by Mr. Uchiha. Uchiha raise your hand." A boy in the back's hand went up. She felt like she heard his name before, but couldn't really remember, it was like something was blocking her memory. Things had been like that for a while now.
When the boy looked up, Sakura froze. Some of his black hair fell in front of his coal colored eyes. Her eyes widened as she shook with fear. Without even knowing it she stepped back. Her mind was racing. This can't be, he looks just like…no that means he's…no. A face flashed in her mind, black hair, black eyes, and that cold look that could make the sun freeze over.
"Sakura can you please take your seat." Orochimaru pushed her forward slightly.
"What? Oh right, sorry. Just remembering something." She laughed nervously and walked to her seat. She noticed how some of the girls were staring at her, some jealous and some mad. "Hu… what the hell is their fuckin problem? Little bitches." Dropping her bag to the floor and pulled out a sketchbook and continued to work on the picture she was drawing earlier.
The teacher was kind of mean but I got used to him and became one of his favorite students. This may be why the class was relatively easy considering girls would come and bother the boy next to me, which I glared at and said, not really said per say.
"Shut up you little chipmunks. Obviously he doesn't like nor want you around him. So go back to your damned seats and do your work, the next to annoy me, I will mess up those ugly faces of yours." Sakura growled out almost animalistic.
The females saw the evil swirling in her eyes and moved back to their seats faster then hell and started working or bitching about how she could do that and be so mean, all the way to girls acting like they werent afraid of her well they ran just as fast as the others.
"Thanks." A quiet voice said from her side.
"For what?" She looked up at him puzzled. "They were annoying me with their little squeaky voices and one of them hit my book and fucked up my picture. I didn't do it for you, I don't know you." Sakura turned back to her work. After that the messed up chipmunk blond I met earlier came up she started talking about the guy she mentioned earlier.
"Who the hell is Sasuke? And why should I care about some stupid pretty boy who is stuck on himself? I hate boys who are always so happy, and popular people seem to think they are better then me, or anyone." Every female (and some males oO) looked over at her glaring.
"You know that so called 'stupid pretty boy' is right next to you?" the boy on my right said.
"Hu?" Sakura looked over him scanning his choice of clothes and the look he was giving her. "Well I was wrong about the happy part." She stated coolly.
"He is so hot." Ino squealed like a pig in her ear causing her to flinch involuntarily.
"Damn it Ino don't do that, you trying to destroy my eardrums?" Looking from the giddy blond to the brooding boy on my right. "Okay, I see him, I hear him, I can feel him," she poked him to see how he reacted. He slapped the offending hand away, "All 5 of my sense are on him, yet there is nothing special about him! Except that girls seem to jump the poor boy, and he's cold and they don't go away until I threaten there fuckin faces. He doesn't seem very smart. He's just in Biology, I had AP Chem in my last schools. I mean I imagined a bit more from the way you were, like drooling earlier." Resting her head on her pale hand, ignoring the glares being sent at her from everyone.
"How could you say that? Sasuke-kun is so wonderful." She looked hurt.
I really saw nothing special about him, he just looked like some pretty boy. And I don't fawn over boys like that.
"No, not to me. I have seen way hotter, stronger, smarter, and even richer then he is. I mean he is so immature, and so child like. Who falls in love with people like that? And he is so cold that he could freeze water if he touched it. And I just hate him because he is a noncoclectent bastard who just needs to be put in his place. Which does not mean worshiping him like some fuckin god, I mean really?" When Sakura looked up she realized that was the wrong thing to say. "What? You got a staring problem, what me to fix it?" cracking her knuckles the females turned and worked quickly. "When will they learn?" She wasnt really judgeing him. Sakura really didnt know him but she had seen this all before and she knew his type right off the bat.
"Sakura how could you say that? That is so mean." Ino looked about to cry.
"Listen child you know nothing about mean, he can act like that here and be fine but if he does that to the wrong person he will get the shit beat out of him. I have seen it happen so many times that I no longer care. I AM one of those people that you don't do that to without risking consciousness. Ino listen to me, this is high school, not the school for the non-wicked and mentally challenged. But I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. I'm making a name for myself by just saying my opinion about a person." Sakura just shut up and started working on her picture that was before her. "I hate this place already." She mumbled.
Well that wasn't very good, but it was just something that came to my head. In the next chapter she has a run in with our little red headed friend, and things start to heat up when some boy starts to mess with her.
You see in one of the coming chapters we should see what the sketchbook really means, and why it's important. The same with what caused her to stop speaking.
