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Chapter 2- New 'Friends'

The rest of the car ride with Sasuke was a long and awkward one. Neither of them spoke after his comment. Sakura couldn't have been more relieved when they finally pulled up at the K.A parking lot. As she stepped out of Sasuke's sleek black BMW, she had to take a moment to take in the beauty of the school. The building was five stories high with a massive courtyard and beautiful gardens surrounding the structure, the stone walls made it look ancient yet elegant. Her thoughts were abruptly interrupted when she noticed everyone around her whispering and pointing at her. Shrugging her shoulders and running after Sasuke into the building the pinkette didn't think too much about it; after all she drew attention wherever she went because of her unusual hair colour.

She followed her map towards her designated class room, and taking a deep breath, she walked in. Everyone was already seated and staring at her.
"Hey that's the girl who stepped out of Sasuke-kun's car" she heard one girl whisper.
"Really? What's so special about her?"
"I didn't think she would be his type."
The whispers were cut short when the teacher spoke up, "Sakura, welcome. I'm Kakashi, your History teacher for the year. Why don't you introduce yourself to the class?".
"Oh…Um Ohayo, my names Haruno Sakura, I'll be attending Konoha Academy for the semester." she offered.
"Sakura-chan! Is that your natural hair colour?" She stared in bewilderment at the boy who yelled out the question, she'd never met him before, and yet this blonde hair blue eyed boy was smiling at her as if they had known each other forever. If everyone was as friendly as him this semester would be a breeze, she thought.
"Um…yeah I guess it is," she giggled.

The first half of the day flew by pretty quickly, Sakura was still attracting stares and whispers as she walked through the hallway, but she attributed that to her being a new student. When the bell rang for lunch, Sakura made her way to the cafeteria and picked up a tray of food. The cafeteria looked pretty crowded so she made her way into the courtyard. Everywhere she looked, students were pointing and her, some staring, others glaring. Suddenly she felt very self-conscious. Scanning around for a place to sit, she finally spotted Sasuke at a table with a few students. The blonde boy who has asked about her hair colour earlier was seated next to him, he waved enthusiastically when he spotted Sakura looking their way. Nervously she decided to go sit with them, but the scowl on Sasuke's face when he saw her approaching was enough to send her running in the opposite direction. And then she remembered his words from earlier today 'you're annoying'.

Feeling dejected and lonely, Sakura ended up eating lunch in one of the toilet cubicles, she knew it wasn't very sanitary, but it was better than sitting alone in the corner of the courtyard with everyone around undoubtedly talking about her. Finally, the pinkette sighed and left the cubicle to wash her hands, the bell for everyone to return to class would ring soon and she didn't want to be late. She was just drying her hands when she heard the bathroom door open, and in waltzed two girls with a malicious sneer on their faces.
"So, you're the one who's been trying to get into Sasuke-kun's pants, huh?" The first girl sneered.
Sakura was shocked into silence, she'd only been at school for half a day and there were rumours about her already?

"Wow, your hair is even shinier than mine. You must spend a lot of time conditioning it, huh? You think you can seduce Sasuke-kun that way?" The other girl mocked while grabbing a handful of Sakura's pink locks.
"Ow! What the hell, stop it, I'm not trying to seduce anyone!"
"Well I don't believe you, we're going to have to do something about that won't we Kin?" The first girl sarcastically asked her friend.
Kin laughed as she pushed Sakura down by the head until she was forced to sit on the floor, "Do it, Ami!"
Sakura's eyes widened in fear as Ami took a wad of chewing gum out of her mouth.
"No please! Don't! Stop it!"


Ino watched in shock horror from within the confines of her bathroom cubicle as Watanabi Ami and Tsuchi Kin continued to harass the new student. Sure, she wasn't a fan of the pink haired girl either, because anyone that close to Sasuke is just more competition for her. But she couldn't help but feel that Sakura didn't deserve this.

Peering through the crack where the cubicle's door met the wall, Ino watched as Ami pull out a chewed up piece of gum from her mouth. She held a hand to her lips to supress a gasp when Ami walked over to Sakura and smothered her chewed up gum all over the girl's hair. Her anger had reached boiling point, she could no longer sit in here and watch the poor girl get tormented. She heard Ami and Kin laughing, their expressions as smug as ever as they exited the bathroom. Clearly, they were quite proud of themselves.


Sakura sat there for a moment, much too shocked to move. Was this the infamous Konoha Academy? A school full of bullies and mean girls? After a while she finally pushed herself off the floor and looked at herself in the mirror determined not to cry. Her hair had been ruined, a tangled mess with a huge lump of sticky chewing gum stuck to the back. She knew trying to wash it out would be futile, so instead she pulled out a pair of scissors from her pencil case and began to cut. Watching as her pink strands started to fall to the ground, she could no longer hold back the tears and began to sob.

"You need some help with that?" Sakura gasped and turned around to see Ino holding out her hand. Amid her tears, she hadn't noticed the blonde girl exiting the cubicle she was watching from. Hesitantly, she passed the scissors to her.
"So, rough first day huh?" Ino asked conversationally as she snipped away at the rosette coloured locks, "You must be Sakura, you were in my History class first period."
Sakura was still too stunned to form a coherent reply, she simply offered a slight nod.
"Listen, don't be bothered by Ami and Kin, they're two of the biggest bitches on campus." Ino continued as she evened out Sakura's hair.
"There, you're all done," the girl placed the scissors back in Sakura's hand just as the bell signalling the end of lunch rang, "Well, I guess that's the bell, I'll see you around Sakura!"
Sakura could only stare as the blonde hair blue eyed beauty walked off. This school was nothing like she imagined it would be.

Author's Note: For some reason I can't double space between paragraphs and everything looks all bunched together :( Even if I hit enter twice it shows up as a single space when I upload it, please help if anyone knows how to fix this

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