A/N: thank you to TheAttentionJustEncouragesHer, my first reviewer!! :)) you're gonna get a cookie from me. :D
Voila! i present CHAPTER TWO of Impatience! (thanksie again to my sister!)
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Sakura was lost. Very lost.
She was lost in a god forsaken alley with only a list of her school supplies and some money from Tsunade to help her get out. What more, the people around her were gruesome, green and well,... just plain wierd.
"Let's just get this overwith." She told herself. Sakura inhaled deeply, bracing herself for what's to come next. She decided to enter the quaint shop on the right side. "Maybe someone there would know what i'm looking for."
Stepping foot into the dimly lit room, she saw the only furniture was the front desk and a chair and rows and rows of little brown boxes which were lined neatly on the long bookshelves.
She chuckled inwardly. "If these were shoes, Ino would have been in heaven!" She was amazed by the organization of the shelves. She was always a sucker for neatness.
"Yes?" A tall, thin, middle-aged man walked up to her. He studied her long black hair (she put a wig, knowing that her usual bubblegum hair would be too noticable) which matched her black and red jeans-and-sweater outfit. "Normal enough." he thought.
"H-hi..." Sakura stuttered, raising up a hand in the greeting. She decided if she was to be inconspicuous in a normal-student type of way, might as well channel the mistress of blending in, Hinata Hyuuga. "I-I'm...um...looking f-for a w-wand."
The shopkeeper smiled, still keeping his gaze on the petite teenage girl that stood before him. He focused his eyes on her own emerald orbs, seeing a rare hint of innocence he never got to see anymore.
He tilted his head in a small nod. "Of course."
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Sakura walked past the long strip of shops and botiques. She was almost done shopping for her school supplies. All that was left was her books.
She entered the bookshop finding that there was a long line of people, so long that the line was jutting out from the store itself!
"If this is for the books, I'm definitely gonna kill someone! CHA!" Her inner self screamed angrily in her head. Sakura sighed. She didn't have time to deal with her alter ego. Instead, she walked to a stout, red-haired woman standing in the line.
"E-excuse me." Sakura said, mumbling as she thought Hinata would. "W-what's this line for?"
The matron looked at the younger female. "Well deary, this is for the books of Hogwarts."
"I'M GONNA KILL SOMEONE!!!!!!!"
"Shut up!" Sakura snapped inwardly at her self, wondering how she could be that...inconsiderate.
"Oh...well...um, I need these books for school." She shakily said, lifting her list of books for the woman to check.
The woman smiled. "Well, does that mean you are entering your 5th year my dear?" She asked.
Sakura nodded politely.
"Ronnie!" The woman cried out. "Well hello there, I'm Mrs. Weasley...oh a RONNIE!"
Just then, a red heaired boy about the sme height as Sakura popped behind Mrs. Weasley. He also had the same horrid carrot colored hair as the woman, who was probably his mother. "Mum, you have to stop pestering me like that. Especially not here!" He spoke with a heavy English accent.
"Oh Ronnie, stop being so rude to your mother!" She said, pushing her son foreward. "This is..."
Sakura knew that was her queue to speak. "Uh, Ch-Cherry. Cherry S-Springfield." Sakura said her english name shyly.
"Cherry, this is my son Ron. You are in the same year, am I correct?"
Ron shrugged off his mother's hand from his shoulder. "I've never seen you around school before. What house are you in?"
Sakura remembered what it said on her mission scroll. She was supposed to be a transfer student from the Tokyo School of Wizardry.
"I-I'm a transfer student from Tokyo. I've never been in London before." She said. Phew. Quick save.
"Oh." Ron said, shrugging again.
"Well Cherry, why don't you stay in front of me in line? I don't want to abandon you right now." Mrs. Weasley offered kindly with a large grin on her face.
Sakura smiled and nodded gratefully. "Thank you Mrs. Weasley."
So Sakura tagged along with the Weasleys until they all got to platform nine and three quarters.
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"Miss Springfield." A thin but tall lady clad in dark green velvet robes smiled as she gave a small curtsy. "I am Professor Mcgonagal. I am pleased to see you arrived safely."
Sakura returned the polite bow with one of her own. "Hai." she said, losing the Hyuuga-Hinata-personality. She removed her black wig, but was now wearing the Hogwarts uniform with the a red and yellow necktie.
"Professor Dumbledor will meet you after the opening ceremony. I will be standing by the door where you will see me as you are last to leave. Understood?"
Sakura bowed again. "Yes Ma'm." then she left.
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The whole Hogwarts student body sat down on four long tables which were almost as long and the large dining hall itself. The ceiling was endless: Sakura looked up and saw galaxies with stars swirly endlessly. It wasn't anything like the stargazing sessions she had with her friends back in Konoha.
Suddenly, she brushed shoulders with someone...really hard. She was caught off guard and flew elbows first to the floor. "Agh!" Sakura made a sick and hurt sound from the back of her throat as her arm came in contact with the cement.
"Watch it." A boy with white gold hair snickered at her. He was followed by two other boys, the fat one nearly stepping on her hand as he passed.
"YOU WATCH IT ARROGANT ASS!" Inner Sakura shouted, probably with fire coming out of her eyes as well.
Sakura stood up, not minding the three stuck up asses that walked ahead of her. Instead, she walked to an empty seat on the Gryffindor table. Beside her was a very pale thin girl, with hair that was a close shade to the arrogant bastard's.
"Hello." The golden haired girl said calmly, looking up from the book she was reading. Sakura's eyes jolted from her plate. "My name is Luna. Luna Lovegood."
Sakura smiled, not showing her teeth. "M-my name is Ch-cherry. Cherry Springfield."
"Welcome to Hogwarts Cherry. Apparently you are new here, am I correct?"
Sakura nodded. "I'm from Tokyo."
"That's interesting." Luna smiled. She turned completely to face her new friend. "Why are you here?"
Sakura pushed away her raven bangs away from her face. "My parents died in a car accident and so I moved here tto live with my aunt."
"Oh."
Silence.
"I lost my mom in an explosion."
Sakura looked up. Luna was in the same bangs-over-face position she was in earlier.
"Of course," Luna looked up again, the smile back on her face. "That was a long time ago. I don't like pondering on the past."
Suddenly, a booming voice came from the front of the hall. "WELCOME STUDENTS TO A NEW YEAR IN HOGWARTS!"
If only I could leave the past behind me, like Luna.
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