Chapter 2 up!
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L o v e M e f o r W h o I A m
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke and the guys, the royalty of Konoha Academy. Haruno Sakura and co., the misunderstood beauties. When the teachers decide to do a little matchmaking with the school, chaos ensues, especially among these 8 students. SasuSaku, NejiTen, ShikaIno, NaruHina
Rating: T (PG-13)
Genre: Romance/Drama/Humor
Standard disclaimer applied.
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Chapter 2: luck is overrated
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Last time on LMfWIA:
Kakashi sighed and downed the rest of his coffee. "Well, I'd better get to class. I'm later than usual."
"Sucker," Anko snickered. "I don't have a class right now."
Then a courier bird flew in the open window and sat on top of the coffee machine.
"It's for you, Kakashi. And me, too. Tsunade-sama must've known that you're always about thirty to forty minutes late."
"Just read it," Kakashi drawled. "Naruto will be louder than usual in accusing me of lying."
"Aren't you?" Anko retorted lazily, but she took the burden off the bird and gave it some water.
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Kakashi, Anko:
Phase 1 complete. She told me everything.
U2 has made contact with U1.
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"It worked?" Kakashi sounded incredulous.
"It worked!" Anko crowed. "I am a genius. Admit it. I predicted everything, and everything happened, like I predicted!"
This is what Kakashi described as getting 'lost on the road of life'.
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"Good morning, class–"
"YOU'RE LATE, KAKASHI-SENSEI!!"
Kakashi sweatdropped. "Well Naruto, I was planning something important...–"
"LIAR!"
The silver-haired teacher scratched at the back of his head. 'But I'm telling the truth.'
"Just shut up, dobe."
"Teme!"
The teacher sighed. 'Of all the homerooms I can be assigned to, I just had to have this group.' "Alright, alright. I'm here, chill out, and let me take attendance."
Naruto glowered at the raven-haired teenager sitting in the desk in front of him. As usual, the Uchiha was looking as fine as ever, fingers laced in front of him, glaring at Kakashi for no reason at all.
Why did Sasuke look more pissed off than usual...?
"ppst, Sasuke-teme!"
Fighting back a twitch of his eye, Sasuke turned and glared at the blonde. "What, dobe?"
"Why are you acting all PMS-y?"
Sasuke blinked confusedly, before glaring at the Uzumaki again. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Naruto thought for the longest and probably hardest in his lifetime, and Sasuke could see the rusty machinery in the blonde's head working overtime.
"Tch, careful dobe. You don't want your head to blow up from thinking so hard," Sasuke scoffed.
"Is is because of that kiss?"
Wow. Score for the dobe.
"No."
"I think it's a yes, teme," Naruto giggled.
"Dobe, only girls and gay guys giggle."
"Which is why I do!" Naruto declared.
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"Wait, what?"
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Do me a favor."
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"Wait, what?!"
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"They're planning something."
"How can you tell?"
"Because Uchiha Sasuke asked Uzumaki Naruto for a favor."
"Very astute, Ino. Very astute. For you, I mean."
Ino stuck her tongue out at the bun-haired brunette, who was folding paper. "Haha, very funny. Hey, are you making a paper shuriken?"
"Mhm," Tenten replied, letting the corner of her tongue stick out as she smoothed out creases.
"Don't you want to eavesdrop?"
"Not really, Ino. The Gossip Girl job is all yours." Tenten finished her shuriken and, when Kakashi turned to the other side of the room, opened the window a couple of inches and threw it.
Bingo. The chakra fueled paper shuriken met its mark in the branch of a particularly large oak tree.
"But I heard something about a U2."
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"Count me in, partner."
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"You heard me right. Do me a favor."
"...What do I get in return?"
Naruto knew he was treading on thin ice, but his super ninja instincts told him that Sasuke was actually taking the matter seriously.
Sasuke growled. "Dobe, don't push me."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Well, what do I get in return?"
The Uchiha's eyes narrowed. "I'll let you copy off my Calculus homework for this trimester."
The blonde rubbed his chin. "Hm... you're driving a hard offer there, Uchiha Sasuke," he declared dramatically. "I'll take it!"
"Good." Sasuke smirked. "You know that... U2 I... ran into, right?"
Naruto looked surprised. "Of course! I even think Neji camcorded it!"
Sasuke blinked. "Oh really?" 'Hm... mental note, kill Hyuuga Neji during Gym.'
"Anyways, what about the U2?"
"I want you to get info on her."
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Ino turned to Tenten in horror. "Oh no! This is horrible!"
The brunette of the two blinked confusedly. "Why is this horrible, other than the fact that Sakura has now had her wish to be invisible killed?"
"This is like one of those cliché drama and fanfictions I always read about!" Ino wailed. "Hot, bastardly, popular guy runs into the nerdy, misunderstood girl by mistake! Then he finds her different and interesting so he orders his best friend to work as an agent to get info on her! And then he makes her life a living hell until she punches him in the face, but then the science teacher pairs them up to work together."
"...So?" Tenten was starting on another paper shuriken.
"Girl grudgingly goes over guy's house, and then the girl suddenly shows her true beauty when she takes off her glasses and puts down her hair and changes into the guy's clothes because they walked in the rain, which causes the guy to get all mushy gushy inside! And then they get all romantic and the guy's mom and brother walk in them kissing, and the big brother teases and the mom coos!"
"...Soooooo?"
"But then at the day of the dance the evil stepmother and jealous stepsister pay some thugs to kidnap the girl and makes the guy run to the abandoned warehouse to be her knight in shining armor, but ends up getting beat up for the girl!"
"And?"
"I dunno," Ino said nonchalantly. "I haven't read the next chapter."
The bell rang, signaling the start of first period.
Tenten sighed and shouldered her messenger bag. "We'll just keep an eye on them. Happy?"
Ino nodded eagerly. "But I swear," she added a minute later. "If they end up being one of those cliché fanfiction couples, I will intervene."
The bun-haired teenager was kind of scared of the look in the Yamanaka girl's eyes.
Scratch that.
Tenten was terrified of the glint in Yamanaka Ino's eyes...
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"Good afternoon, class! My name is Mi.. ta.. ra.. shi... Anko... and I'm your Home Ec. teacher!" She spoke loudly, confidently, almost maniacally. As her name rolled off her tongue, she wrote out her whole name in huge letters on the blackboard.
Sakura and Ino exchanged a look. 'This is going to be a fun class.'
"This trimester, we're learning cooking and sewing," Anko announced with a grin. (A bit to crazy...)
"Hey, sensei!" Naruto hollered from the back of the room where he and Sasuke were sitting.
Anko's eye twitched. "RAISE YOUR HAND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING, TWERP!" she screamed, picking up the eraser and chucking it at Naruto with amazing speed and accuracy.
"Guh–!" Naruto's head snapped back animatedly as the eraser made contact painfully with his cranium. However, he quickly recovered and threw the eraser back at Anko (who swiftly caught it). "HEY! You can't do that!! That's assault!!"
"Quite a surprise you even know what assault means, dobe," Sasuke muttered, earning an acid glare (surprise, surprise!) from Naruto.
"SHUT UP!" Anko yelled back at Naruto, now throwing a piece of chalk that exploded in front of the blonde's sputtering face. "First assignment: COOK ME SOME PASTA! START TODAY, DUE TOMORROW! START!!"
Sakura blinked while Ino hid a giggle.
"It's a good thing that we know how to cook, Pig."
"Psst, Sakura-chan!"
Sakura turned to the pair behind her. "Yes, Tenten-chan?"
"Don't you like the Home Ec. Teacher?" Tenten asked innocently.
Sakura twitched. "C'mon Tenten-chan. We have to start on the assignment."
"S-She said it was d-due tomorrow, S-Sakura-chan... we can d-do it at h-home." Hinata put in from next to Tenten, fumbling with the faucet of the built-in sink.
"We're only at fifth period," Sakura replied flatly. "I want to minimize the amount of homework today for... you know."
Ino snorted. "You could just do part of your homework here. Anko-sensei said nothing about not starting your homework in her own class, and nothing about starting the assignment here and now. You can get to it on time – mmph!"
Sakura had clamped her hand over Ino's mouth, looking around frantically. "Ssh!"
Tenten smirked. "The walls have ears, Ino. The walls have ears. And so does a certain someone."
Ino blinked from behind Sakura's hand, and gave Tenten a thumbs up.
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"Watanabe Ami."
"Here."
Sakura stared out the window, her hair hidden by the black wig, her blue-tinted eyes (contacts) covered by the long bangs her wig provided.
'It's finally the last period of the school day!'
'I know.'
'But then we have the hospital shift.'
'I know.'
"Taiyou Kuroi."
She snapped out of her reverie, hearing Tsunade say the name of her alias in the Medical Ninjutsu class. "Here."
"Now," Tsunade started briskly. "AP Med Ninjutsu II is a challenging course, and I will expect much from you. Work hard and get a good score on the exam and I will have your career as a medic set and sealed. If not, I don't even know why you're here. Understand?"
"Yes, ma'am!" The whole class chorused in unison.
Tsunade smirked, and gestured to a huge tank full of fish. "All of these fish have been injected with a different poison that will kill them by the end of the period. Extract and identify the poison, and write down the ingredients needed for the antidote. You can start... now."
Sakura smirked as well; this was going to be easy. She had done this at the age of thirteen. However, knowing Tsunade, it would be tricky. Rolling up the sleeves of her white coat, the standard uniform the Medical Ninjutsu students had to change into, she walked briskly to the large tank, wrestled a fish out, and brought it to her table. She gently set the fish on her healing scroll and began her work while still listening to her fellow class peers easily.
"No, Ami," Tsunade was saying to Ami, who was struggling and sweating already. "You're forcing too much chakra into it. You're going to damage its bloodstream and nervous system at this rate."
Sighing, Sakura focused on her own work. Effortlessly, she pushed her chakra inside the fish's bloodstream, locating the poison in no time. She slowly pulled her hands up, easing the poison out.
'Crap.' All of the poison had not been extracted the first time. She placed her hands in front of the slightly twitching fish once more.
She frowned. How could she have been so foolish to get so rusty in the basics? Keeping the contents of the poison in an orb of her own chakra coming from her hands, she swished it around a few times before identifying the poison. She deposited the poison in a vial, labeled it, and quickly scribbled down the ingredients needed for the antidote.
'That was pretty easy!'
'Yeah, but extracting it was a bit slow.'
After returning the fist to the tank ('Wow, we're first!') she handed in her vial and paper to Tsunade. "Here you go, Tsunade-sama."
Tsunade gave Sakura a knowing look. "Good job, S – Kuroi."
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MistressIno07 has entered the room.
iSharpie18 has entered the room.
LadyHyuuga has entered the room.
SakuraDrops17 has entered the room.
MistressIno07: So guys, how was school?
SakuraDrops17: Ino, we're in the same house. Why can't we just talk in the den?
isharpie18: Obviously, she has news to distribute but is afraid that you'd kill her, Sakura.
SakuraDrops17: ...haha. It's so funny I forgot to laugh.
LadyHyuuga: Ano
LadyHyuuga: You got here from the hospital earlier than usual, Sakura-chan.
SakuraDrops17: Yeah, Tsunade-shishou let me out early
iSharpie18: She's planning something.
SakuraDrops17: How would you know?
SakuraDrops17: And why is Ino so quiet?
SakuraDrops17: It's not like her.
MistressIno07: I'm right here!
MistressIno07: I was just getting some snacks. I'm hungry.
SakuraDrops17: Hey, come next door and give me some?
iSharpie18: Whoa, that sounded wrong.
MistressIno07: Get it yourself, forehead.
MistressIno07: And ew, Tenten. Ew.
LadyHyuuga: My father wants us to go eat dinner with him and some other family members.
MistressIno07: Really?! I think I'll pass.
iSharpie18: Casual or formal?
MistressIno07: Nothing against you Hina. Hiashi-san's just really scary.
LadyHyuuga: Formal, at that new place opening today.
SakuraDrops17: Oh, I've heard that they're a bunch of hot new waiters there
SakuraDrops17: Sorry, just reviewing over the different poisons and elixirs pop quiz Tsunade-shishou's going to give the class tomorrow
iSharpie18: Then how would you know there's going to be a pop quiz?
SakuraDrops17: She told me. Hospital shift.
iSharpie18:oh.
MistressIno07: Nvm. I'm going.
LadyHyuuga: because of the hot waiters?
MistressIno07: Hell yeah.
iSharpie18: Well then, we'd better change.
SakuraDrops17: Yep. Well, later gators.
SakuraDrops17 has left the room.
LadyHyuuga: Father will be arriving in an hour.
LadyHyuuga has left the room.
iSharpie18 has left the room.
MistressIno07: Damn it, don't you know how uncool it is to be the last one in here?!
MistressIno07: I was going to ask why our schedules suddenly changed...
MistressIno07 has left the room.
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Ramenlove77 has entered the room.
UchihaLegend has entered the room.
Hyuuga18 has entered the room.
username has entered the room.
Hyuuga18: What do you want, Naruto.
Ramenlove77: INFO!
UchihaLegend: I told you to get the info yourself, dobe. Not invite everyone to a chatroom to have a nice discussion of her.
username: You're talking about Haruno Sakura, no?
UchihaLegend: How do you know about her, Shikamaru?
username: I was bored so I messed with the school's system to mess up random peoples' schedules.
Ramenlove77: ZOMG, THE Nara Shikamaru did something other than sleep and stargaze?!
Ramenlove77: -dies-
UchihaLegend: if only.
RamenLove77: TEME!
Hyuuga18: Shut up, Naruto. I have dinner with Hiashi-sama today and I have no time for your stupidity.
Ramenlove77: So harsh.
Hyuuga18: You guys are invited as well, unfortunately.
Ramenlove77: I'll pass
username: I heard that that place served gourmet ramen
Ramenlove77: nvm. I'm for it.
Hyuuga18: Geez, thanks Shikamaru
username: np
UchihaLegend: and back to the topic at hand.
username: troublesome.
username: her name's Haruno Sakura. 17. Female. 5'6". 115 lbs.
Ramenlove77: wtf, stalker?
UchihaLegend: that's a lot of information you got there.
username: I told you, I hacked into the archives.
Hyuuga18: for once I agree with the dobe, you're a stalker.
username: ...
username has left the room.
UchihaLegend: I'm killing both of you during Taijutsu.
username has entered the room.
username: career interest is medic.
username: Sasuke, I can feel your flat, bloodthirsty Sharingan glare ©
username: Please stop, or I will leave the chatroom again
UchihaLegend: ...continue.
Hyuuga18: Heh. I'm so saving this chat.
UchihaLegend: Oh, and by the way Neji, I burned your camcorder
Hyuuga18: ...bastard.
username: family is unknown
username: U2
username: and the rest, i'm too lazy to uncover. Too much more hacking needed.
UchihaLegend: I guess that'd be enough.
Hyuuga18: Why the sudden interest, Uchiha?
UchihaLegend: no reason
Ramenlove77: Are they serving ramen?
Hyuuga18: Yes.
username: i'm going to change then, too much of a hassle to cook
Hyuuga18: Hiashi-sama's coming to pick you guys up in thirty minutes.
Hyuuga18 has left the room.
UchihaLegend: aa.
username has left the room.
UchihaLegend has left the room.
Ramenlove77: DAMMIT GUYS, YOU ALWAYS LEAVE ME TO BE THE LAST ONE!
Ramenlove77: ... I hate you guys.
Ramenlove77 has left the room.
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Kind of a short chapter. But... yeah. I'm sorry.
I've tried to incorporate the Instant Message thing, frankly because... um... I was too lazy to try description. This is what I get for procrastinating. I apologize.
And thank you to kumori dokuro, Anniezumi, Chibi Strawberry Neko, MitsukixTakuto 4 ever, Neitzarr, Lavender Water, The-Trapped-Phoenix, 93addict, coolteen92, BuBBly CaNis luPus, cherryyuki-chan, sakura9898, ramenlova610, ChristinaAngel, endlesswind03, slavetothekeyboard, Claud-kun, Neko Grafic, Winter Thunder, RunningBarefootAtMidnight, icecandy74, Coco-Minu, mintxrain, mak0-ch1, Hearshy-Kiss, Little Minamino, deedee2034, Airashii Mochidzuki, RoseSayukino, Angelsorceress, Asamii, ohsoteresa, Firefly Lanturns, xXbunnyholicXx, momo-sake, sakura4594, Kaze-Yume No Tenshi, xXx m1nAm! Xxx, lilxcutexmonstah, rikku92, Wingless-Crying-Angel, Depressing Truths, alexthegreat123, unconditional, Aoi Hana9, Kawaii IceCream, Cnguyen456, Co0kIeS-n-CrEAm, Princess of drama, Frank Was Not Like Other Sheep, TenTenXIrista, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, NorthernLights25, Chocochip Haruka, Kayarin, lolsuzie, kittygoesmeow, Cherry Lollipop and Skittles, kiko91, HPBabe91, Maki-Zushi, Micheal the Archangel, CherryBlossoms016, TakemenowTish, Pink Shinobi, and Lina Mistress of Elements for reviewing for the debut chapter of Love Me for Who I Am. Until then, later gators!
