A/N: Well, hi everyone. This is the first chapter of my latest story and I hope you enjoy it. There will be several pairings, SasukeXSakuraXItachi, NejiXSakuraXSai and maybe something involving other members of Akatsuki.
The first chapter is most likely somewhat confusing, but I am going to explain the crucial thing in the next chapters. Well, enough of me, on with the story
Chapter 1: First taste
„Geez, ugly it can't possibly be so hard to just stop moving for a few minutes, can it?" Sai asked rather annoyed. The pink haired girl simply huffed and continued eating her sandwich. "I have already told you that I am hungry so go search for another girl who will act as a model for you, will ya?!"
Sai sighed and leaned against the old trunk of the tree, which had become their lunch location about two years ago. The soft vibration caused by his movements made several cherry blossoms fall down towards them. One of them landed on the head of the seventeen year old girl and blended in with her natural pink hair colour nearly immediately.
The pale boy smirked. "And I already told you that I don't want to paint another girl, right?"
Sakura stopped eating and looked at him warily. "Actually, no you haven't."
"Oh…Well, I told you now. So stop eating, you are already fat enough!" Sai teased her, still smirking.
Sakura, having gotten immune to his childish behaviour long time ago, just looked at him annoyed and finished her lunch. Chewing purposely slowly she leaned back against the rough bark and flicked away some crumbs which had fallen on her school uniform during her meal.
"You ready?" Sai asked, immediately picking up his sketch book and pencil. "Hm." she just made, earning an assessing look from her best friend. She sighed and made herself comfortable. It would take a while for him to finish his picture so she closed her emerald eyes.
They had about twenty minutes left until the bell would ring and their next class would start. P.E. was one of her favourite classes, next to English, so she looked forward to it.
Only her teacher was creepy, with his speeches about the 'power of youth' they had to treasure dearly and improve every day - according to him at least. Today they would only have to run laps, which Sakura could only laugh about. Seriously, they had forty minutes to complete three miles – whoever couldn't do that clearly had to improve his or her fitness.
She shifted slightly because of an aching feeling next to her spine, which earned her a rumble of protest from Sai. Ignoring him she thought about the days they had spent when their little group still consisted of four people. She missed her two former friends, Temari and Gaara, but she had gotten over it. The siblings had to move because of a terrible tragedy that had happened about a year ago. She didn't know the details but obviously someone had murdered their parents and older brother, leaving their bodies without any blood. But that was just a rumour which had spread all over the school in less than one day. She never had gotten the chance to ask Temari or Gaara about it since they moved immediately after that incidence.
Shaking her head to get ride of the irritating thoughts she could hear her best friend groaning and opened her eyes to see what happened.
"Just stop moving!!" he shouted at her but his voice was drown by the plain sound of the school bell.
Sakura immediately jumped up and offered her right hand to the pale boy to help him. "Come on, it's time for running laps!" she said enthusiastically. He just frowned at her and accepted her help. Sakura straightened her uniform, which consisted of a dark red skirt, reaching her mid-tight and a grey T-shirt with the school symbol printed on the front pocket. The red tie around her neck was done carelessly and she didn't bother to adjust it. Sai's uniform was done according to the dress code of their school, not caring if that was considered as uncool or snotty. He generally didn't care about being popular or being part of a clique.
Sakura smiled slightly, remembering the day Sai arrived at Konoha high. He was offered to sit at the table of the popular kids but declined and joined Sakura and her two friends under their cherry blossom tree. He had smiled a fake smile and asked if it would be okay to paint her.
They had constantly gotten closer, not caring about the gossips and rumours their classmates made up about them having a secret relationship or at least being fuck buddies. And now they were best friends, the pretty boy and the girl with pink hair.
"Hey, ugly what's up? Stop daydreaming and go into your changing room. You know what Gai thinks about tardy people, don't you?" Sakura snapped back into reality as soon as she heard Sai shouting from a small distance away. Grinning to herself she ran to catch up with him.
As soon as Sakura had changed into her sport uniform she went outside towards the school sports ground. She passed several giggling girls who showed each other how they had managed to make their skimpy sports shorts even shorter. Shaking her head she tried to pull hers further down but wasn't really successful. Sighing out of annoyance because of their perverted principal she made her way towards her teacher who welcomed her with sparkling teeth and shouts of how youthful she looked today. Smiling slightly and nodding to show him that she agreed with whatever he said she switched her I-Pod on and started to run. She didn't bother to wait for Sai since she was pretty sure that he had decided to skip again. He just wasn't someone to enjoy running in circles all the time so he probably had excused himself and painted something while sitting on the roof or just watching her while she jogged.
She could feel several drops of sweat running down her back after about ten minutes and frowned slightly. It was quite hot today so she wasn't surprised to be sweating but she just hoped she would finish early so she could take a shower before their next class started.
Pushing herself harder she closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying the breeze that came with the change of speed.
Suddenly she could feel something blocking her path and lost her balance. Gasping she immediately opened her eyes and could see the red ground coming towards her quite quickly. She reacted knee-jerk and pushed her right hand forward so that it would take the full impact of her downfall – after all her left one clutched her I-Pod and that thing was really expensive.
Scratching her palm heavily she quickly rolled towards her right side to lessen the impact.
Panting heavily she just lay there for a few seconds and listened to linkin park – thank goodness her music equipment was still intact.
She could hear worried voices coming towards her and quickly stood up. She really hated to be the centre of attention so she quickly hid her bleeding hand behind her back and looked nonchalantly at her classmates and her teacher. "Are you okay, youthful flower?!" Gai cried and looked at her with tears streaming down his face. "Yeah sure, nothing happened. Just tripped over something." she said plainly and than shifted her attention to the spot where she had lost her balance. Nothing was there, not even an irregularity of the ground.
Shrugging she started running again but was stopped by the green form of her teacher. "I admire your youth, Sakura, but I can't allow you to continue running. Please take better care of yourself and sit down over there!"
Sighing she made her way towards the bench he had pointed to. Not that bad, she mused. After all I can sit in the shadow and watch other people jog. Pretty much the same thing Sai does every day. And I don't even have to fake a letter of excuse.
She sat down and looked at the display of her green I-Pod. Thirty minutes to go, then she could take a shower. Making sure no one watched her she carefully pulled her right hand out of her small pocket and examined it. She had obviously scratched herself pretty bad since her palm was covered in blood and she could see some gashes scattered all over her hand. Sighing again for the thousands time this day she pondered about what to do next. Should she just ignore it for now and take care of it when she got home? She didn't have a tissue after all and though her short was red it would be noticed by Gai when she just whipped her blood on it. That man had some strange sense for blood, like he could smell it or something. Fortunately her palm hasn't been covered in blood when she spoke with him – otherwise she would surely be in the hospital wing by now.
Deciding to just ignore it she was about to put it back in her pocket when she suddenly felt a cold hand on her shoulder. Turning around immediately she came face to face with Uchiha Itachi. How she knew his name? Everyone did. He was famous since he succeeded in everything he did. Straight A in every subject and perfect in every sport you could imagine.
But she guessed he would still be popular even if he was as dumb as a post. He just looked incredible, even Sakura had to admit that. He was tall and lean, had silky black hair and unbelievable black eyes. He had opened several buttons of his sport shirt, but didn't sweat like the other guys who had just ran three miles. Shaking her head to get the fan-girl-like thoughts out of her head she looked at him blankly and snapped "What do you want, Uchiha?"
"Your hand." he simply stated with a somewhat husky voice. "Huh?" Sakura made dumbly.
"Let me take a look at your hand." he said again, this time looking at her with his onyx eyes.
"Why would you-"but before she could finish her question the tall man had already lifted her bloody palm and brought it to his mouth. She could clearly see his tongue darting out of his mouth and sipping some of the red liquid, which covered her hand, away. "What the fuck-"but she was interrupted again, this time from behind. A pale hand darted forwards and gripped Itachi's arm, which was currently holding Sakura's wrist. "Leave her alone, Itachi!"
Said man slowly lowered her hand again, but not before licking her blood for one last time. Sakura shuddered. Had she just seen fangs?
A cold breeze carried his husky voice to her"See you soon, Sakura." and with that Itachi turned around and went towards a small group of people. They all looked at her blankly, waiting for their leader to come to them.
Immediately turning around to avoid their glares, she noticed two boys standing in front of her. The one with the black hair had still lifted his arm, so she assumed that he was the one who had gripped Itachi and forced him away from her. "You okay?" one of them asked, and Sakura scolded herself that she hadn't identified him earlier. After all she had once been one of the most obsessed fan girls of him. Meeting his gaze nonchalantly she saw him smirking. "Yeah, Sasuke, everything is just fine." she answered calmly. "I could have handled your brother by myself."
She could hear someone snort and glared at the second boy, Neji. "What's so funny, Hyuuga?" Said boy just smirked
Before she could throw more violent insults at the two boys she heard someone shout her name loudly. Finally jumping up she looked for the source of the noise and saw Sai running towards her with a worried expression on his normally ever so calm face.
"Hey, are you okay?" Feeling affected by his worried behaviour she opened her mouth to ensure him that everything was okay but was interrupted once again. "What the hell just happened with you and Itachi? Did he kiss your hand?"
Looking at him like he had just grown a second head she quickly shook her head. "Seriously, you should visit an eye specialist, you know?" Well, at least that proofed her assumption of him sitting on the roof and watching her jog. But she sure as hell wouldn't tell him what really happened. She shuddered remembering the feeling of Itachi's tongue darting over her skin. He wouldn't believe her anyway. But hey, maybe he had seen why she tripped earlier. They walked in the direction of the changing rooms so that Sakura could take her much needed shower and clean her hand. Sasuke and Neji watched them go and then looked at each other. "He tasted her blood, didn't he?" Neji asked calmly. The younger Uchiha just nodded. "That's not good. We have to watch over her for the time being." "Yeah, let's talk about it later when the others are with us, too."
Nodding, Neji moved back towards Gai who shouted something about 'not youthful breaks' and continued jogging with an annoyed expression on his pale face.
Sasuke meanwhile looked at the wooden bench and noticed crimson drops tainting the surface. Dipping his forefinger in Sakura's blood he slowly brought it to his mouth and licked it from his finger tip. He growled silently and moved back towards his teacher. Her blood was too tasty for her own good and she would surely experience that by herself soon.
A/N: So that's it. I hope you liked it. Please don't forget to review ;)
Cya
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