Life's Overrated
A/N: Thanks for the reviews & alerts people. :) I didn't plan on post this yet but oh well. Here's Chapter 2. Read, enjoy, and REVIEW!
Disclaimer: I don't own NARUTO.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
2
Meet Mr. Hottie
"YES! YES! KEEP JUMPING WITH ALL YOUR YOUTHFUL HEART'S CONTENT!"
"Yosh! Gai-sensei is right!"
The class was doing a set of jumping jacks and they were already tired from the 'little' work out; well, except Lee who was jumping at a launched missile's speed.
"Ugh," Sakura groaned. Sweat was dripping from her like a waterfall and her muscles were too strained from all the jumping jacks–yet Gai-sensei was too dense to notice that everybody was tired; no, exhausted. And Lee didn't make it any better since he kept encouraging Gai-sensei, aka his older clone to keep barking orders at them.
"YAMANAKA! DO NOT RESIST! THE TEMPTATION IS WRONG! KEEP GOING!" Gai hollered at Ino, jumping along beside her and showing her what to do as if she was a baby.
Sakura chuckled slightly, but her air supply was getting short and she ended up gagging.
Meanwhile, the rest of the class was still jumping like rabid bunnies. Gai was still by Ino's side, and she grunted in annoyance when he started screaming at her again.
"We are almost to five hundred my precious students! Just ten more!" Gai's encouragement was futile, because any second now and someone would collapse flat on their face.
"NINE!" Gai yelled, now in front of the group of teenagers.
"EIGHT!"
"SEVEN! COUNT WITH ME!" Gai demanded.
"SIX!" Voices bellowed out. They were so close; just FIVE more jumping jacks and they were home free. Sakura glanced around.
"FIVE!" Crap. No, oh no. A brown haired boy was gonna crack.
"FOUR!" He was cracking. Great, just great! Please, no…
"THREE!" He was stopping, he was slowing down. Resist! Resist!
'Don't do it!' Sakura literally screamed in her mind. Seriously. And her ears were just breaking.
"TWO!" Gaah! NO! He tripped over his foot! Please no! For the sake that is all good and kind please! Don't!
"ONE–"
SMACK!
He dropped. Literally. He just fell. Do you know how bad that is?!
Gai turned his head slowly yet creepily toward the faller's place; everyone shuddered. Just watching Gai do it, like in one of those scary movies when they just stare at you. You want to run, but you can't move. The hair on your back is glued to you, and your teeth start to chatter. Cluck, cluck, cluck. Then–he gets you. They get you. And you scream bloody murder.
"TWO HUNDRED MORE JUMPING JACKS!!"
"NOOOOOO!!"
But this was worse. They had Gai-sensei.
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A lavender haired girl served the volleyball over the net. On the other side, a boy bumped it up into the air and another spiked it to the girls' side. A girl with two buns–one on each side of her head–tried to dive for it but missed it by a few inches.
"Oh yeah, baby!" a guy shouted from the boys' side. He high fived his friend.
"Boys' serve! Neji! You're up!" Gai instructed.
The said boy with long dark, brown hair that reached his butt grunted. He took his position. He held the brand new volleyball in his right hand, and with a powerful lift with his left palm, he sent the ball flying up in the air to the girls' side.
One girl rushed forward, managing just barely to keep the ball into the air. Another girl behind her then bumped it back to the other side of the net. The pattern continued on for a while. The girls would hit it, then the boys, then the girls and so on.
Neji spiked the ball over and it headed over to Sakura.
"I got it!" Sakura sprinted to the ball, hands held out in a bumping-position. She didn't notice a foot sticking out and before she could reach the ball she tripped over it.
"Ah!" Her body collided with the cemented ground. Sakura cringed at the pain, but lifted her head slightly to the perpetrator. A roseate haired girl chuckled, her glasses gleaming from the sunlight.
"You 'kay, Haruno?" Karin asked–which was pretty dumb, since SHE was the one who tripped her!
'Nah, I'm fine, SINCE I JUST FELL!' Sakura huffed, blowing a strand of hair from her mattered face.
'Dude... Calm down. I don't like Karin either, but I'm not all moody 'bout it.'
'Humph, try saying that when YOU fall.'
'Um, does Inner Sakura mean anything to you at all? Emphasis on the 'inner'. And I thought you were the smart one.'
'I am the smart one. Who's the one who gets A's with no help at all?'
'Hey! I did help! Remember last week when you were all goldfish when you didn't know the answer to problem seven? HA!'
"HARUNO!" Gai's call rang into Sakura's brain. Oh, yeah. She forgot to get up. Sakura pushed herself off the ground. She stood up still, and then began dusting away the dirt. Most snickers and devious grins were shared through out the class, but some felt sympathetic toward her. Not that she noticed, since she was still cleaning herself up.
Gai strolled over to Sakura in all his green-tight shorts-and-top glory. Ugh, till this day they hadn't gotten used to his skinny-hairy legs.
"You all right, Haruno?" Gai asked. Sakura nodded. He was going to announce the continuation of the game until the bell rang.
"BRRRIIINNG!!"
"All right class! Meet me here tomorrow and be prepared! It's fifty-six laps around the whole field tomorrow!"
Groans were heard as they shuffled out the door.
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"My arms hurt so bad…" Sakura whined, clutching onto Rei's scrawny arm tightly for balance. Rei had on a faint blush at their closeness, but tried his best not to show it. They were walking down the hall to reach their English class. Whispers of "Dweeby Duo" were heard, but they ignored it–at least Sakura did, because Rei was never comfortable from their name.
They reached their class five minutes till 9:05 am. The classroom was empty since they were about fifteen minutes early for class, so they took two seats at the second to front row and placed their bags on their respective seats. Sakura took out a piece of scratch paper and pencil and they started playing MASH.
"Three girls, Rei-kun," Sakura instructed, twirling the pencil in her two fingers. Rei rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Vanessa Ann Hudgens, YUI, and…um…Ami Onuki."
"Stocking up on celeb crushes, ne?" Sakura giggled and wrote the three names down. Rei grinned sheepishly.
The game continued. They found themselves in a peaceful tranquility, away from all the madness that would soon unfold through out the day. It was just calm, nice. To just relax without all the name callings and enjoying each other's presence.
"Okay, last one. Three colors for your tux," Sakura said.
"Black, gray, and brown."
"Now, tell me when to stop," Sakura hid what she drew under her hand and waited until Rei said, "Stop." Sakura counted the lines of the circle; eight. She started counting, crossing, counting, and crossing. Rei waited patiently.
"Okay! You're gonna marry Baby V, you own a mansion, you live in Honolulu, Hawaii, you're a lawyer–do lawyers live in Hawaii?–you drive a Ferrari, you have a hundred kids," Sakura laughed at this part. "–and you're tux is brown. Man, Rei-kun. Busy, busy!" Rei laughed with Sakura, hard. Their stomachs were just aching for them to stop. The thought of a hundred kids, man that'd be a bum. That's like, everything twice the amount. Would you imagine everyone sharing the same bathroom? Ew.
It was Sakura's turn and Rei started the game. But before they could finish it, students started filing into the class giggling, chatting, and play fighting. Sakura quickly stuffed the paper into her book bag and took out her English textbook and notebook in case if they needed to take notes. Rei did the same.
Five minutes later, everyone filled in the classroom and the bell rang. Their teacher walked in.
"Good morning, class," A woman who looked to be in her late 20's or early 30's greeted the class. She had wavy, dark hair that reached around her waist and deadly piercing red eyes that you did not want to be stared at with.
"Good morning Kurenai-sensei." The class chorused together.
"Before we start things off, we'll collect homework. A show of hands, who has done the five-page story I assigned last week?" Most of the class raised their hands, except four ones who tried to avoid Kurenai's sharp gaze.
"You four. As punishment, you have two days detention. I will not tolerate late assignments, and you will receive a F." As Kurenai said this, the four bowed their heads in shame. "Now, everyone take out your English textbooks and turn to page 134."
Everyone did as told, but was interrupted at a knock on the door. Whoever was at the door was in big trouble. Kurenai-sensei absolutely detested tardies.
Kurenai went to open the door. Everyone peeked in silence to see who it was, but Kurenai covered their view. They could only see the top of the figure's head, which had black hair the shape of a chicken's butt.
They saw Kurenai talk to the person, nodding her head in acknowledgment. They finished their conversation and Kurenai stepped aside to let him in.
The girls gasped.
The person standing before them was clearly a god. His handsome face showed of his unscarred chin, his buttoned down shirt showed off his well built but not buff body, the pale skin practically gleamed, and his deep onyx eyes were gorgeous but serious.
"Class, I'd like you to meet Uchiha Sasuke." Kurenai introduced. Girls were already giving him flirtatious winks and dazzling smiles.
'He's pretty cute,' Sakura admitted in thought.
'He's gorgeous for crying out loud!' Inner Sakura opposed.
"Uchiha-san is new to Konoha Prep, so would anyone mind showing him around?" Kurenai asked. The whole female population raised their hands except Sakura. He wasn't a big deal. New kid with looks, okay. No need to be infatuating over him after one glance.
"Hm, it seems you have fans Uchiha-san," Kurenai chuckled slightly. She peered at the room of girls flailing their arms in the air to be with Mr. Stud. The guys in the room already disliked him from all the girls' attention giving Sasuke death glares, which he ignored with a steadied composure.
'Wow, he's got Mr. Popular written all over him. I wonder how he'll deal.' Sakura thought amused.
Kurenai saw Sakura reading the English assignment and called her.
"Haruno-san, would you mind showing Uchiha-san around?" Sakura looked up from her book wide-eyed. Girls gave her 'how-dare-you-take-him-you-freak' looks. Okay, uncomfortable much.
"Um…sure Kurenai-sensei," Sakura replied, grinning slightly. Oops, wrong move. Now they were going to get her.
"Good! Now, Uchiha-san you can take a seat over there near Hinata-san–the girl with violet hair!"
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"So, Sasuke-san. How did you think of your first class?" Sakura asked. They were walking down the corridor to math class. Rei wasn't with them because he had life science with Orochimaru-sensei.
"So 'kay," Sasuke replied coolly, hands in pockets and head faced straight ahead.
"Okay." Girls were giving Sakura envious looks, lips curled into snarls. Sakura felt the pressure but chose to ignore it.
"Anyways, mind if I see your schedule so I can see were we should head after?" Sasuke handed her his list and Sakura peered at it: PE, math, life science, world history, etc.
"Oh! You have the exact same schedule as me. That sounds good, so we could just go together!" Sakura exclaimed with her bubbly enthusiasm.
"Hn."
"Pardon?" Sakura had a quizzical look on.
"Hn," Sasuke repeated. 'Weird word.' Sakura thought.
"Okay, by the way–" Before Sakura could finish her sentence Karin and Ami stopped them in their tracks.
"Hey, Sasuke-kun!" Karin greeted cheerfully, already clutching his left arm and nuzzling her head into it. Sasuke raised a brow at "Sasuke-kun!" and Sakura rolled her eyes. Could Karin show anymore PDA? Ami smiled seductively his way, complimenting on how handsome and strong he looked. Sakura felt like gagging, but managed not to show it.
"So anyways Sasuke-kun, since you're new and all how about we ditch Ms. Pinky–" Karin threw Sakura a quick menacing glance but directed her attention back to Sasuke. "–and have some fun?" She battered her eyelashes prettily to add effect, and used her index finger to make swirls on Sasuke's chest.
Sakura watched the whole scene in disgust.
"Ne, what do you say Sasuke-kun?" Karin and Ami sweetly asked in unison.
Sasuke's left eye twitched slightly and his lips were turned into a frown.
"Huh?" Karin asked, furthering into question.
"I don't even know you," Came Sasuke's cold reply. Karin and Ami just gaped. Did he just say that? To them? Impossible!
"Excuse me?" Karin said with attitude, letting go of Sasuke's arm. Ami was still gaping like a goldfish. All Sakura could do was grin ear to ear. Finally! Someone who rejected Karin!
'Burned!' Sakura thought.
"I said, 'I don't even know you.' " Sasuke repeated in a monotone voice, speaking every word clearly and slowly. "Or are you bad at hearing?" A smirk appeared on his sexy face. Karin fumed the color of her dark red hair, bringing her fists down to her sides in anger and embarrassment. No one insulted her and got away with it! With a final "Humph!" she stalked off down the hall pushing anyone in her way with Ami following after her.
Sasuke and Sakura watched them go, both feeling a little devious. This was good day.
'Maybe having him around won't be bad after all.' With that thought, they made their way to math class with Kakashi.
A/N: This kinda seemed suckish to me. But anyways, what do you think? Am I moving to fast, and are the characters in character-ish? Haha, anyways, flames not allowed! Constructive criticism only!
p.s.-There won't be any updates soon 'cause my computer broke. :( But we might get one tomorrow. :D If we do, I'll start writing soon.
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