I took a deep breath. Or tried to, anyway. It was hard to breathe when I just found my best friend's boyfriend was swapping spit with her little sister. Holy shit, holy shit, holy SHIT! What do I do? What do I DO? Thinkthinkthinkthink! I bit my lip. I'm so sorry… I am so sorry that I'm gonna ruin your life… but you both ruined mine first, right? With that in mind, I squeezed my hand to make sure it was still there in my hand, and I raised my hand, pointing my phone to their direction…
Ok, this is not the best intro of me. From this little piece you would probably assume that I'm some psychopath who stalks her best friend's boyfriend for fun. That's not true. I just coincidentally stumbled upon this jerk cheating on my best friend, and I just happened to have my phone in my hand, already on the camera app…
Ok, stop. Before I continue this crazy thing, I have to start at the beginning, with a proper introduction.
My name is Tenten. I am a senior at Leaf Academy, alongside with my three good friends, and my one best friend. (Who will be introduced later on.) I am a halfie. Half Chinese, half Japanese. I have brown hair that I like to keep in two neat buns, and matching color for my eyes. My height is 5'8, and weight is 110 kg and I live and breathe sports. There's just something about sweating that turns me on. And the fact that I love determination and the great feeling of winning helps too.
I will rewind the story to the beginning, starting with the beginning of senior life at Leaf Academy. Let me start by explaining that Leaf is a crazy rich school, with a wheel barrel full of money for the entrance. I'm not rich. So it amazed me that I got accepted there.
It was the first day of school, and I'm walking with my best friend Satou Natsumi (ARGH! I love her name! Natsu means summer, and Mi is beautiful, which perfectly describes her. I'm jealous.) And we're talking about, well, everything.
The thing about Natsumi is that she's the closest to perfect in this world. She's beautiful with her long auburn hair and her green eyes and her lean and muscular body, she's smart with her 195 IQ, and she's strong from all those sports that we play together. (Which is basically, all of them.) But she also loves to sleep in late, and she's tall (5'10) and she wears high heel sometimes to look even more intimidating, and shove her face with food and laugh about it, and she has bad eyesight so she has to wear these glasses sometimes, and to not always be attentive to herself so most of the time she wears mismatch socks or she has lines on her face from sleeping so deeply. But these are the flaws that make her so loveable.
I moved from China to Japan three years ago. But I've known Natsumi longer. Her grandma is Chinese, and she just had a stroke, so Natsumi flew over there to see her well. And I just happened to be the caretaker of her grandma. We talked, (she's fluent in Chinese, and I knew Japanese from my dad.) and became instant friends. When I moved to Japan, I told Natsumi, and she was the person to pick me and my family up, and welcome us with gusto. Luckily, her sister wasn't there.
We were wearing out thick uniforms, which sucked because Konoha is usually steaming hot year round. The standard uniform consists of an undershirt, a vest, a jacket, knee socks, shoes, small tie at the neck, and some heavy skirt. And because I'm me, I wear a pair of shorts under my skirt. Yay me.
"Why do you always look so damn hot in everything?" I groaned. It was part of our routine. I moaned about her hotness, and she denies and punches me.
She rolled her eyes, but she didn't say anything.
I looked at her. "Are you ok?"
She looked back at me, her face full of worry. "Karin."
"Ah." Karin. Her bitchy, younger sister. I always tried to feel for her, what with her awesome older sister. Karin had red hair and red eyes with black rimmed glasses. I don't know if she's trying to be cool with her hair (one side is short and fuzzy, the other is long and smooth.) but she's failing. And she always makes it hard to like her. Bitch.
"Don't judge her that harshly." Natsumi told me when I first met Karin. "She's a good person. You just have to know her better." I've known her for three years. Where is the improvement?
And as usual, she read my mind. "Karin's Karin. Don't mind her that much."
"She wrote slut on all my jerseys." I defended myself.
"You poured water on her."
"On accident!"
"Tenten, please."
I sighed. "I mean, I get it Natsumi. She's your younger sister. You just naturally have to defend her. But she is a bitch, especially to you." And it's true. There are always messages in the bathrooms and on Natsumi's locker that were about Natsumi that were very inappropriate.
"I've gotten used to it." Natsumi said breezily.
I frowned. I hated how Karin treated Natsumi. I suspect that Karin hates Natsumi because she's cooler, more popular, and the guy that Karin likes probably likes Natsumi. Karin always bitched about her to everyone, and spread hurtful lies about her. And Natsumi always covered for her and acted like it was nothing. "Oh, it's fine." Or "She's got an odd sense of humor, huh?"
I sighed. "What did she do this time?"
"Nothing."
"Then why are you worried?"
"Because she did nothing. She's always doing something. Applying another layer of makeup, eating, brushing her hair. Today she just sat there."
"Huh." Karin was always about her looks. So this was strange. "Maybe it's just the nerves settling huh?"
"Maybe…" Natsumi let it trail off, uncertain.
We reached the school within minutes. "Tenten! Natsumi!" Yamanaka Ino ran to us and jumped Natsumi, knowing that I'd probably shove her off immediately.
Ino was literally wrapped around Natsumi. Her legs were around her waist, and her arms around her head. Natsumi was struggling to shove her off. I just laughed. Yeah. I'm that awesome. "Oh my god! I cannot believe that we're finally here! Like, who would've guessed? ME? A SENIOR! Oh my gosh, I will rule this school with an even more positive attitude! I will get each and every one of the students to shout 'GO FOXES! YAY!"
Ino here is one of my closest friends. I've known her since I moved here. She's usually hyper and on the up-go, and way too enthusiastic about everything. But she's the captain of the cheerleading squad. She's supposed to be preppy and hyper. But when things get serious, you can count on her. She also has this weird best friend thing going on with Haruno Sakura, her best friend and her rival. (More on her later.)
And being the captain, she's one of the most popular girls in school. But so is Natsumi, and they're like, second cousins or something, so they're cool. But they don't really look alike. Ino's shorter, being 5'6 and Natsumi 5'10, and Ino's hair is blond and straight opposed to Natsumi's copper colored curls, and Ino is more girly.
Ino continued to chocking Natsumi and babbling when Uchiha Sasuke came, our little silent hero. Or Natsumi's silent little hero. He tapped Ino on the shoulder, and as soon as she saw him, she screamed and jumped him, but only for a few seconds. "Hi Sasuke-chan." Ino grinned and batted her eyes.
Sasuke looked at her. "Please don't call me that."
"Ok! I have to go find Sakura! Bye you guys! Sasuke-sama!" Ino ran off.
Natsumi choked out a laughed. "I bow down to you Sasuke-sama."
And to add to that, I dramatically went down on my knees and bowed to him.
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
Sasuke's actually pretty hot. I don't know if he knows it or not because he doesn't seem to notice the attention he receives from girls. I myself am somewhat attracted to him, even though I like some other guy.
Sasuke's the cool and silent type, which turns girls on. He doesn't talk much, and he makes cold gestures like glaring and rolling his eyes at you, but that apparently is his way of showing compassion. According to Natsumi, who is Sasuke's best girl friend. And he doesn't like most people. Only Natsumi, Uzumaki Naruto (I think?), Huyga Neji, me (well, he doesn't really hate me. And he talks to me…), and some other people.
Oh, and this is the guy who Karin likes, but probably likes Natsumi. Just keep reading and you'll understand. I'll even emphasize the parts for you.
He has jet black hair that sticks up at the back, and jet black eyes. He's tall at 6'2, and he has that wiry muscular body that is gorgeous. He wears loose clothing, and puma shoes.
As Natsumi caught her breath, I studied him. I haven't really seem him that much this summer, because I was so busy going to China and coming back. Natsumi came with me most of the time. He looked tanner, taller. His clothes fit him perfectly. Unlike the girls', the boys' uniform was thinner. They didn't have a vest. Just a jacket and an under shirt. Sometimes they didn't wear the jacket at all. They wore pants, either shorts or longer ones. Lucky bastards. I envy them.
He saw me looking, and he nodded. I nodded back. I was never the shy scared girl. If people saw me staring, I wouldn't look away. Why bother? So I kept staring, and nodded to them.
Natsumi finally regained her breathing, and smiled brightly to Sasuke. "Hey Uchiha. How was your summer?"
He never talked when Natsumi wasn't around. Like, a few times he would be waiting for her, and I would wait with him. We never talked. I tried, but he didn't answer with long answers. So we sat there. And when Natsumi came, all of us talked like old pals. This is one sign that he likes her.
"Boring. I hope your guys' was better."
"It was not boring at the least, right Tenten?" Natsumi laughed.
"Oh yeah." I laughed too. "There were always the crowds at the airports, and we somehow manage to lose at least one luggage each time."
Sasuke laughed too. Another sign. He laughs and talks and smiles with Natsumi around. Never with anyone else. "That sucks. I've never felt the humiliation of losing something at the airport."
"'cause you never had to." Natsumi grinned. "All the attendants personally checked that your stuff was there."
"Let me guess, they were girls." I wagged my eyebrows at Sasuke. "Ladies' man much?"
"Ha-ha. Very funny. And like you guys aren't guy magnets?"
"We're not." I said. "At least, I'm not."
"Oh shush Tenten." Natsumi shoved me lightly. "You're pretty hot. Ask Neji." Her turn to wag her eyebrows as I blushed. Sasuke chuckled too. They both knew that I like Neji. I mean, he's so cute. And one of my closest guy friends. He's always there for me. Can I help it if I fall for him? I mean, he's also one of the hottest guys here. He has long black hair tied loosely together and pale lavender eyes to die for, and he has a kind and old fashion thing about him.
"Neji hates me." I mumbled. That's probably true. Recently, I've been trying to ask him out. The most recent one was last week, when I was blushing and stuttering like crazy and accidently knocked over a pile of shoes and dropped my water on him. Smooth Tenten. Smooth.
"No he doesn't." Sasuke shrugged. "He told me that last week was fun."
I blushed even more as Natsumi laughed. Dang it.
"Sure." I muttered, trying to stop blushing. "Amazing."
"I'm still wondering how you did that." Natsumi winked.
"I'm a klutz." I said, miserable.
"You're a pretty hot klutz. If you weren't, then Neji would've probably thought that you were crazy." Sasuke said.
I blushed madly. I punched him. "Shut up!"
He laughed. He never winced from getting punched. Probably from all those damn fist fights with Naruto. Idiots. Just when I wanted to inflict some pain on him.
"Alright, we'll stop. For now." Natsumi grinned.
I grinned back. "Thank you."
Sasuke shrugged.
"Hi Sasuke." A girl's voice rang out behind them. They stopped and turned around to see Satou Karin, Natsumi's younger sister. She wore her jacket, with nothing under, with a few buttons on the top unbuttoned. I could tell that she tugged her skirt higher up, so you saw more than you needed. I tried my best not to throw up. I wish I did.
"Honorifics Karin." Natsumi reminded her. She ignored her.
He just looked at her. Like me, he hates her. Been messing with his girl too long, eh? I mentally laughed, and physically smiled. Ah, he would've killed me for that.
"How are you?" she asked. Her voice reminded me of honey. Too think, and too sweet.
"Hm." He grunted.
I looked at Natsumi. She was frowning at Karin. I think that she thinks that Karin being a year younger is too naïve and can easily be corrupted. I think that Karin's trying to get corrupted.
"Well, if you get lonely, give me a call, ok?" Karin pouted her lips while she talked. How did she do that?
"Mm." Sasuke sighed, annoyed.
Natsumi stepped forward, and quickly buttoned up her sister's jacket and pulled her skirt down lower.
"What the hell are you doing?" Karin fumed.
"She's trying to give you the gift of modesty." I chimed in.
"Don't dress like that again, you hear?" Natsumi said in a low, dangerous voice.
"Whatever. You're not the boss of me." She rolled her eyes.
"I'm your big sister." Natsumi said.
"I have Mom."
"Mom's a piece of work. That's a sucky thing to use against me."
"She cares more about me that you and you're jealous. I guess it's because that you're a slut. Hurts, doesn't it? Having someone to hate you."
I wanted to punch her. That bitch.
"I don't hate her." Sasuke said.
We looked at him. We kind of forgot that he was still there. Whoops.
"I don't either!" Karin gushed.
"Sounded like you did."
Karin bit her lip, trying to look innocent.
"Look," Sasuke sighed and put his hand to his head. "I need to talk to Natsumi and Tenten alone, thanks."
We stared at him. Huh. First time for everything right? He just dissed Karin. Sasuke, you have just earned my permanent respect. I thought.
Karin just stood there. "Go away." Sasuke said.
She nodded so much I thought her head was going to fall off, and then she ran off.
"Don't talk to her like that Sasuke." Natsumi said crossly.
His face didn't show any emotion. Which meant he was fuming. "Alright." He almost spat out.
Natsumi's own anger seemed to drain out. "I'm sorry. I'm still an idiot, right?" Natsumi laughed.
"Yes. You are." I said crossly. "I've been trying to tell you for 3 years that she's a bitch, and you have to give her a good slap across the face. Teach her some damn manners!"
Natsumi rolled her eyes. "Enough. Can we just go now?"
I glared. Then gave up. Natsumi is more stubborn than she lets on. "Fine."
We started our walk again in dead silence, but Natsumi picked us up, and we flowed on. I always knew she was special, and that she could become a huge person. But she doesn't let herself because she blames herself for her mother's crappy job as a mother, her father leaving, and her sister being a slut. And being her best friend, I can't help but think that sometimes, I'm holding her back too. Great. I thought sarcastically. Natsumi's blaming-herself thing is rubbing off on me too.
I looked at her. She seems happy, but I can see just a faint glimmer of sadness in there. It makes me sad. It could be me. I'm sorry Natsumi. I thought. I'll make it up to you. I'll make you see that I am worth being your friend, and I'll make you the happiest person alive.