nightDREAMERms- 2nd chapter! Finally a long one! Oh and I haven't exactly decided on a pairing for the InoShikaTem triangle, so if you wanna vote go ahead!
'thinking'
"talking"
"Inner Sakura"
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Chapter 2- "Louder than the intercom"
"Stupid, heavy, suitcase, what'd you pack in here mom, rocks?!"
Sakura gritted her teeth as she dragged her overstuffed baggage into the building.
Inner Sakura was in a very, VERY bad mood. Oh, not because her grades and suddenly plummeted, not because she couldn't go on a vacation cruise like how had been planned. Not even because she had been forced to stay 2 extra months in the place she hated most. It was because-
"It's an ALL GIRL's SCHOOL?!" she screamed horrified.
Sakura paused a moment, looking up from the form she was filling out. Her eyes scanned the feminine crowd.
'Yes, it always has been. Did you think there was going to be a difference?'
Inner Sakura didn't answer, she was too busy weeping/throwing a tantrum on the floor.
Sakura sighed, 'Why couldn't I just have gotten a normal conscious, you know, one that helps you?'
"Yamanaka Ino," shouted a voice from behind.
Sakura bristled.
"What do you mean I'm not on the list?!" screamed an irritated blonde.
The rosette shrank as far down in her seat as she possibly could.
"You stupid people send me that stupid letter, make me pack up all my crap, show up at this stupid place again and have the nerve to tell me that I'm- Forehead Girl?" Ino interrupted her own rant to look over att he only chair sporting a pink ponytail.
Sakura pulled down a lock of it and glared, 'Dang, you conspicuous hair! I knew I should've dyed you!'
Hesitantly she turned to face her ex rival.
"Hi, Ino!" her voce was dripping with fake sweetness.
Ino merely frowned and childishly stuck her tongue out, "What are you doing here bumkey-girl. Come to laugh at me? Or are you just here to rub it in my face that I really should've studied last semester like you-" Once again she cut herself stare in shock at Sakura.
Her eyes took in everything from her uniform to her luggage.
"No. Way." Ino gasped her lips slowly curling upwards.
'Oh, here it comes.' Sakura readied herself for the bomb to drop.
"YOU FAILED?!" Ino screamed at the top of her lungs, effectively giving every in a mile radius a heart attack and taking 2 years off their life expectancies.
"Straight A Sakura, actually failed?!" she chirped once again eyes glittering.
"OMG, Don't Move." she ordered while frantically searching through her rose handbag.
Sakura sighed. This was to be expected but- FLASH "click"
"What the heck was that?!" the pink-haired girl roared.
"That, my dear friend," Ino replied, "was the picture of a lifetime." She ended with a heart felt sigh and hugged her camera phone to her chest.
"Overly Dramatic," both Inner and outer Sakura agreed.
"Anyways!" Ino snapped out her daze, "What'd you fail?"
"N-nothing, I mean Nothing much" Sakura stuttered. She didn't want Ino to know. It was one thing to get bad grades. It was an Entirely different thing to grades worse than the junior varsity cheerleader captain. Or would that be ex-captain? Sakura wasn't exactly sure if the rules about grades for sports coincided with the ones for cheerleading. Either way, it was still bad.
"Right. Nothing." Ino mocked her, tone flat. "Guess I'll just have to- OMG A FLYING SQUIRREL!!!!" she pointed behind her.
"Ino. That didn't work when we were five, it's not gonna work now. Seriously, by now you should've came up with comething a bit- HEY!" Sakura glared down at her so-called "best friend" who had silently ignored her lecture and emptied her bookbag's contents on the floor.
"Come on, it can't be that bad. Ah ha!" The blonde exclaimed, lifting the crumbled piece of paper high up on the air.
Sakura winced, as Ino began to read her letter.
"Error in the printing of your students report card, blahblahblah, here we go!"
Science- F
Math- F
Personal fitness- F
English- F
Spanish- D
Elective 2- D
Elective3- D
Ino's eyes widened, "You've got the same grades as me!' she shrieked earning a glare from everyone in the building.
Sakura paled, "I do?"
The blonde nodded excitedly handing her a crisp piece of paper, this one slightly burnt on one side. Sakura raised an eyebrow.
Ino looked on innocently, 'What? You crumbled yours, I stuck mine in an oven, the emotions still the same."
Sakura just shook her head.
'Let's see,'
French-D
Math- F
Elective 2- D
Science- F
Elective 3- D
Personal Fitness- F
English-F
"..that's just weird"
"Yeah, I know, me failing P.E. p-shaw! Like that would ever happen- but you know what irks me? You know how the school board or the principal signs our papers? Look at this one."
Ino had always been very talkative. Even during elementary she had been sent to the corner many times for "disrupting the class", but as one of her best friends, Sakura had gotten used to her lengthy sentences.
Sakura skimmed down to the 2nd to last line of the letter.
'M.S.' (1)
"Who the heck is M.S.?"
"M.S." boomed an unfamiliar voice, "is a member of the newly-developed executive committee of out state-school board."
Both school girls jumped and twirled around to face, … a brunette girl sitting a swivel chair, drinking a Starbucks.(2)
They both sweatdropped, the girl was the same age as them, probable younger.
"And how would you know?" Ino questioned.
"Classified." The brunette answered, spinning the chair 360 degrees, expertly handling her coffee.
"Okay? –wait a minute-" A lightbulb appeared above the blonde's head. (3)
"Didn't that guy you made out with at the Christmas party say he was in that committee?"
Sakura's cheeks burned, "Ino!" she growled. "You know that-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, that was one hot Uchiha though."
The brunette broke into a coughing fit. (4)
Both girls shot worried looks towards the choking one.
"Are you okay?" asked Sakura extending a hand out towards her.
Still coughing she blocked it. "I'm –cough-fine, I've just gotta-, would you excuse me for a –cough- minute?" She left before waiting for an answer.
Diverting her attention away from the retreating woman, Sakura glared coldly at the blone. "Ino-pig! That was a one time only thing, a bazillion years ago, for a DARE, I barely even knew the guy. Beside you're talking about the wrong Uchiha."
"Yeah we all just WISH we could make out with the Fire Country's #1 bachelor." Onp sighed dreamily and kissed the picture of the older Uchiha she kept on her necklace.
"I'm telling you, obsessed"
'I'll agree with that'
"Anyways, guess what?!"
"What?" Sakura replied lazily. She swore she would never be able to be as peppy as her blonde friend, especially in current circumstances.
"You and I aren't the only one's that failed." She said in a sing-song voice.
This caught the pink-haired girl's attention. "Really? Who else?"
The cheerleader grinned even wider (if the that's even possible) "Girls! Over here!"
"Ino! You're louder than the dam' intercom!" an irritated voice called back.
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(1)- Yeah that's me.
(2)- That's actually Kayla, but her name will never appear in the actual story. I don't like it when OC's become too important in fanfictions. That's what Quizilla is for. Think of us as the puppeteers that control the story.. well Me as the puppeteer, she's just another puppet… (Kayla: -glare-)
(3)- This has NOTHING to do with the story, but this scene kinda reminds me of one of those blond, brunette, and red-head jokes!
(4)- In order to understand that you need to read my other story, where OC's are important, that would be on Quizilla… although I haven't exactly put it up yet.
nightDREAMERms- That was a pretty good-sized chapter. Thanx for readin'
Next Chapter- "Why Tenten hates momentum"
