A?N: mhm, wow, this ended up longer then I had expected! almost twice as big as the first chap... I had massive writers block so when I was able to write again It ended up being ALOT more then expected. Oh well, I got to the point in the story that I wanted to, so I'm happy ^___^
I hope you all enjoy! ^___^
Disclaimer: Same as first chap, I don't own Naruto and never shall I!! :(
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What Sakura did next surprised several people, most of all Sasuke. She turned back to Kakashi, "Can I sit somewhere else?" she asked. That was the lastthing Sasuke expected to hear come out of her mouth. He was used to girls falling all over him. After all, she observed, there were a few other empty desks other than the one next to him.
"No can do Sakura, I already wrote your name next to Sasuke's on the seating chart/attendance sheet and it's in pen," Kakashi said pointing to the paper in front of him. Okay, this was pissing her off.
"You could scribble it out!" she growled trying to keep her self from yelling at his childishness. He just shook his head 'no' and pointed to the seat next to Sasuke. "I'm probably going to get murdered by his fan girls before I even get to the seat..., " she mumbled under her breath, glaring at anyone who dared to stare at her. The desks were more like tables, that each seat two people. She noticed that Sasuke wasn't sitting in the window seat, all the better for her.
"All right class, since everyone is here and this is homeroom, plus the first day... you all can do whatever you please, just don't get up and wander around. It makes me dizzy." Kakashi says before sitting down and pulling out a book of.. smut?? 'He is such a perv... ' her irritation with the man continued to mount when she saw that.
Tossing her bag on her side of the desk, Sakura sat down and began to rummage through it. When she finally found her pen, her special pen, at the very bottom of her bag, she then pulled a sketchbook hastily, while she began to scribble whatever her heart desired. All the while trying to ignore the 'your crazy' look that she could feel Sasuke was giving her. When she was done, she leaned back in her chair and mused over what she had 'created' with her frustration. Then she tossed the sketchbook in the window sill and placed her head down on the desk. 'I think that I can officially cross off art as far as letting go of frustration, that just made me feel worse.' she thought. Then came the question she really didn't feel like answering to anyone.
"What happened?" Sasuke said, sounding just as monotone with a slight amount of arrogance as she expected. She flinched slightly, she knew exactly what he was talking about; her bandaged hand. 'He really should learn to mind his own buisness,' she thought. 'Didn't he listen to her introduction at all?? Having to sit by him pissed her off enough because he was in her personal space and now he was talking on top of it!!' The young girls just glared at the infuriating boy and went back to ignoring him.
Now that she had been interrupted from her previous thoughts, she was open to hear people whispering about her. She had to admit though, some were actually smart to pick up on the fact that it would be wise to leave her alone. There was one guy in particular that didn't seem to get it, The Blond from earlier. Him and the Shy Girl sat in the same row as her, but second to the front. Bun Girl and Stoic Guy sat in the desks in front of them. He wasn't being too quiet with the questions he was asking to his friends about her. They weren't the usual insensitive things but she still didn't like it, so she glared at him. He was making her feel like a specimen in a lab. Bun Girl just hit him in the back of the head and said something along the lines of not being so rude and loud.
The quiet that the boy next to her displayed didn't last too long, for he eventually asked again, "What happened?" He didn't bother specifying because he must have saw her flinch, she deduced, witch indicated that she knew exactly what he was asking about.
She folded her arms, effectively hiding her hand, keeping her eyes on her desk, she growled, "it's none of your business." He obviously didn't like this answer for he sort of 'humph'ed and turned away muttering something about her being screwed up and needing a therapist under his breath. At hearing this she gritted her teeth and clenched her fist. He had no idea that he was messing with a smoldering fire.
They say that if you play with fire, your going to get burned. "So," he said turning back to face her, "are you going to tell me?" Oh, oh, no.. he just had to push her.
Sakura stood up abruptly causing her chair to fall over backwards, snatching up her pen and sketchbook and shoved them in her bag, she slammed her left, uninjured hand down on the desk in front of Sasuke, leaning in towards his face she growled "I told you, It's none of your business!" And with that, she turned around and stormed out of the class room. By now the whole class had fallen silent and had watched the scene go down. Sasuke just stared at the door were she left out of for a few moments before getting up himself.
"Miss. Sakur- !" Kakashi was cut off, because she was gone before he could say anything. "Great, a new troublemaker.. I'll have to deal with her next block. Now class- " he was going to continued but was cut off when he saw Sasuke getting up to leave as well. "Where do you think your going?"
When he walked past The Blond he heard,"Teme! What did you do to her?!" he was obviously mad he upset her.
"Helping, dobe" was all he said in response before exiting the class room. Kakashi was peeved, both of his new students had walked out of class, the first class on there first day.
The young teen stormed down the hallway, she had no specific destination in mind. All she knew was that she need to get away, from what she wasn't quite sure yet, she assumed it was people like usual. There was something wrong with that though, she was currently alone and she wasn't satisfied with it. So instead she concluded that it was herself she needed to escape from, but since that was improbable to happen anytime soon, she settled for the next best thing in her mind, breaking things. She stared at the lockers as she walked by, and stopped at one she deemed worthy to be her victim. Just when she was going to start breaking it with her fist, she heard footsteps round the corner.
She could literally feel the smugness radiating from them, she knew who it was instantly. That bastard just had to follow her! "Leave me alone!" she yelled, not looking his way but rather punching the locker as hard as she could causing a sharp pain to shoot up her arm, and leaving a pretty big dent in the locker. Shaking out her hand, she watched as fresh blood seeped through the bandages. He continued to walk toward her only stopping when he reached her, still not saying a word. This was just to much stress to be dealing with right now.
"Why?" Sasuke finaly spoke, looking at her plainly.
"How many times do I have to tell you, its my business not yours!" she said, yelling the last part. Then backing up from the locker slightly, she raised her leg and kicked the locker as hard as she could, making a notably larger dent in then middle of the locker, compared to the last. "Just leave me alone!!" He made no move to stop her, rather he allowed her to take her anger out on the locker.
Just then someone cleared there throat. There at the end of the hallway was a stern looking blond lady with a large bust. She had her hands on her on her hips and just looked at them before walking down the hallway towards them. Sakura's head shot up and the sound of someone coming down the hallway, she knew right away after looking that this lady held a lot of authority. And immediately she wished they'd been caught by a teacher, this lady was no teacher.
"Im Tsunade, school phychologist and principal," Yeah, this sucked. "I got a call down in my office from a teacher about a disturbance down here, they said it sounded like a physical fight and rather than alert the perpatraitors by opening a door to stop them themselves they called me. But it seems as though neither of you have any injuries that would suggest that." Then she looked at the locker.
"I can pay for that." Sakura said before Tsunade could say anything about it. Tsunade then looked down at her hand and put two and two together.
"Well you two are coming with me, but first were going to the nurses office and getting that fixed up." She said then turned on her heel and began down the hallway, Sasuke immediately followed, but stopped when he noticed that Sakura hadn't moved. Looking back at her, she sighed defeated.
"I can fix up my own hand.." she mumbled under her breath while starting after Tsunade, Sasuke started walking only once he was sure she was following. While walking she allowed herself to get lost in thought. 'Huh.. I thought it was a little weird, with all the classrooms around and such that no teacher had come out and stopped them sooner. Smart policy though, I mean there was all ways a chance the ones causing the trouble would flee the moment they saw a teacher. But with this system it allowed the person of authority to sneak up on the perpatrators. Way less chance for people to break the rules and get away with it.' She mused over that last part. 'Well that certainly sucks.. ' Then she realised that the had came to a stop outside of the main office.
She watched as Tsunade opened the door and called, "Shizune!" then Sakura saw the the brunette from earlier looke up at them.
"Tsunade-sama?" she asked, seemingly confused. "Why do you have both the new transfer students with you?"
"I need you to take Haruno and fix up her hand while I talk to Uchiha here. I'll explain when you bring her back to my office." Tsunade replied with a sigh. "Uchiha follow me, Haruno follow Shizune." She then began to walk toward the door behind the desk labeled 'Principal's office', Sasuke following without so much as a glance in her direction. It would be stupid for him to be mad at her about this, didn't he realise that he didn't have to have follow her when she stormed out? Sakura stood by the door waiting for Shizune to get out from behind her desk. Shizune just smiled at her and when she passed through the door, the pink haired teen followed. She was lead down the hallway and lead into a room, the door labeled 'Nurses office'.
"You can take seat right over there," Shizune said, pointing to a chair situated next to a very sanitary looking white desk. "I know you might be a little confused, but I am the schools nurse as well as Tsunade's assistant.," She sat down in a rolling chair and moved over to were Sakura sat. "May I see your hand?" she asked rather than stated.
She appreciated this but was still peeved about not being allowed to fix her own hand, she had the supplies in her bag! That and everything else that got her to were she was right now. "Sure," she mumbled, placing her arm on the table. Shizune frowned when she looked at her hand, that blood hadn't been there earlier..
"If you don't mind me asking, what happened?" 'How many people were going to ask me this today? Well she was bound to find out about her ruining the locker.'
"I took out some aggression on a locker." she said plainly, while Shizune took her hand in hers and began to unravel the gauze.
".. And before that?" Sakura tensed up at that.
"I don't want to talk about it," She said trying to keep her anger in check. "Although that bastard who followed me doesn't seem to get that." sighing, she flinched when the gauze was being removed, the dried on blood hurt when it ripped at her wounds, the what would have soon been scabs were now nonexistent. Shizune flinched when she saw her hand. The cuts looked like they were made by glass, but she wasn't going to force the issue.
"I'm going to need to stitch these up," Sakura nodded and looked over her hand once Shizune put it down and went to get what she needed. She was going to do all this once she got home, but this way it saved her supplies. Shizune came back with all the things she would need. She put a pair of medical gloves on and opened a bottle of disinfectant, dabbing a cotton ball in it. "This may sting a bit.," She placed the cotton balls on the wounds, Sakura didn't so much as flinch. This didn't sit so well with Shizune, she seemed all to used to this.
When she was all done she wrapped her hand in fresh gauze, then they headed back to Tsunade's office. Immediately after entering Sakura was displeased with what she saw, Sasuke was still there. She'd been hoping that he'd have been sent back to class before she'd gotten there, that and she didn't like the closeness of the chairs in front of Tsunade's desk, one of witch Sasuke was sitting in and he would be in her personal space if she sat down. To solve this problem she walked over picked up the chair and moved it about three feet to the left and sat down.
When she saw the confused and questioning looks on everyone's face, she replied irritatedly like it was the most obvious think in the world, "That bastard," she pointed to Sasuke "thinks every time hes in my personal space he can talk to me." Then she crossed her arms and waited for Tsunade's reply. Tsunade was a bit confused at her actions but did not object, she really was different. Sasuke did nothing to deny the alligations made by Sakura, but rather just stayed sitting plainly with no real anger toward what she said. A few more moments passed with Tsunade looking back and forth between the teens before she spoke.
"Allright, well has told me his side of the what happened, so now I'm hoping to get your side," She said, then Shizune walked toward her and wispered something in her ear, she replied with a slight "I see." Then she looked toward Sakura, "Would you mind filling me in on what went down?"
The teen rolled her eyes out of irritation, 'couldn't they just except what that bastard said and let her leave?' "Fine, I'll let you know what happened. I was late getting to school, so when I went to class I was a half hour late. Kakashi had me sit next to this bastard even though there was other empty desks, he was being childish with the fact that my was written in pen on his stupid chart thing!" her voice raised slightly as her anger from that incident was remembered "Then when I sat down I took out a pen and sketchbook and took my irritation out on it. It didn't help" Then she turned to Sasuke "Then this bastard decided to try to pry into my business by asking me about my hand, It pissed me off but ignored him. Eventually he asked again and I replied that it was none of your business, making my anger very evident. Then he still had the nerve to ask me," She glared at him "if I was gonna tell him, as if he didn't realised I was very verypissed off at his prying!" Then she sighed, "and that's when I stormed out of the class making sure I told him once again that it was none of his business. And as I had found a locker that I was gonna take my aggression out on, Bastard showed up and was quiet at first I yelled him to leave me alone and I punched the locker as hard as I could. That Bastard obviously doesn't know the meaning of the words 'leave me alone!' or 'It's none of your buisness!' because a few moments later he asked why, that pushed me off the edge and I kicked the locker harder then I punched it, not before asking him how many times do I have to tell you, it's my buisiness not yours!." By this point she was feeling just as pissed off as she was when the encounter took place. Tsunade was just watching her with interest and listening intently to what she had to say. "I swear if you hadn't shown up when you did and Bastard decided to pry further into my business and open his mouth one more time, I was going to throw him against the locker."
When she was done she allowed her emotions to dissipate to empty nothingness, this left her slightly nauseous the stress ebbed away. Tsunade just watched her for a few more moments before replying. "I see, well then now I understand. Well now that we got that out there, would you like to tell me about your hand?" Ohh.. she just had to ask. She really did appreciate the sincerness from her and Shizune, but she wasn't about to go and let Sasuke know about that, she hadn't changed her mined about the issue, it was still none of his business.
"Not if that bastard is still around, I'm not about to satisfy his misplaced curiosity just because he happens to be here." Tsunade looked from Sakura back to Sasuke, she wasn't going to force him out of her office just so she could get the answer to that question. As she observed him, he didn't seem the least bit offended by what she said, just like he'd been the whole time he'd been there.
Then he stood up and walked toward the door, "I'll go stand out in the hallway."
"You don't have to leave Uchiha," Tsunade said, asking to see if he was doing so because he felt she wanted him out or if it was because he was honoring Sakura's request, though she doubted Sakura really wanted to talk about her hand to anyone. When he nodded and opened the door she guessed it was the second. "alright Shizune, you accompany him out in the hallway so no teachers come by and make him go back to class." Then something happened that she would have never thought would happen in that moment.
"Thank you." It was a quiet, honest and sincere statement. Sakura had directed it toward Sasuke, not Tsunade, without turning to face him.
"Your welcome." Came an equally honest and sincere reply from Sasuke. He paused in his steps a moment and glanced at Sakura before exiting completely.
Tsunade just watched confused at what had just happened. It was such a drastically different interaction than anything she had been told had happened between the two so far, she did not know what to think of it. She mused over the fact that there brains must work differently then most. All logic points to that that shouldn't haven't have went down without some anger radiating from there voices. Either way, she made a mental note to note it on paper.
When she was sure Sasuke was out in the hallway she spoke, "I guess since he actually left I'm gonna have to talk, huh?" she had a hard time suppressing the anger that threaten to surface and ruin her attempt to not care about the situation. '.. This is still my business...!' she mused over why this was becoming such a struggle. Tsunade looked over Sakura and could tell there was an internal conflict going on before she continued. "I punched through a window this morning." 'There I said it! Though I doubt the tone of my voice helped me from seeming as though this was bothering me. I failed miserably..'
"..And was this a window in your home?" Tsunade questioned.
"That would be dumb... See then I'd have to pay to replace it and I could get kicked out of the place if I went around and did that when every time I got angry! besides I extreme dislike for having to use the money at my disposal when I don't find it absolutely necessary. So that's a no."
Writing this down on her little note sheet on her desk, she questioned further, "Then if this window wasn't in your home were was it?"
"It was in an alley way." she replied plainly.
"Care to elaborate further?"
"It was a discarded window resting on top a garbage can, if that's what you meant. It wasn't attached to a building, I'd have to payfor that!" 'God!' Sakura couldn't quite place it but something about retelling this to someone and having to hear herself say it was starting to piss her off. 'I really need to get out of here, I don't know what I'll do if she ask what made me want to punch the window.' The thing is, she found that she wasn't in the least mad at Tsunade, though she could easily blame it on that, she was never one to lie to herself with internal situations, no matter how much the truth hurt her. No, the one she would place the blame, the source was.. herself, she deduced in the silence that ensued after she answered. In reality barely any time passed before the next question came but when your spend that little time within your mind it can seem like an eternity.
"Would you mind letting me know what, exactly, made you wanna punch through the window..?" There was the question she had been dreading. She got herself into this mess, she could have said no when asked to tell about her hand. 'Ugh! How was I supposed to know that he'd actually listen to what I told him?! Everything before that made it seem as if he wouldn't comply. Why the hell did he listen to her now!?!' Tsunade noticed that Sakura had visibly tensed up at this question. This is were it got sensitive, and she doubted that Sakura would say much more.
Sakura was quiet for a long while before she even decide whether she was gonna give a reply or wait it out to be let out. Though, eventually she took a chance that the only way out before she exploded would to say something, anything. "It was pent up frustration at everything and everyone around combined with lack of sleep." She had said it through gritted teeth, but said it none the less. There, she decided, was were she was gonna drop the conversation. Tsunade seemed to understand, because she didn't ask anymore questions. For that Sakura silently thanked her.
Suddenly the bell rang signaling the end of 1st block, Tsunade made glace at the clock on the wall before pulling a book of green slips from her desk. Writing on one she began to speak. "Sakura, you take this and have Sasuke go wit you back to class, you both have Kakashi for English next. Tell him you were with me in my office. Oh and here take this and give this to him as well," Tsunade wrote down on a slip of white paper, "I would like to meet with you during this time every other day starting Wednesday." Handing the papers to Sakura she didn't refuse the white paper. She just seemed to have a steely cool facade that from this one meeting, she could tell hid a smoldering fire. Sakura gave a slight nod toward Tsunade before exiting her office.
Tsunade knew that ultimately it would be up to Sakura whether or not she would actually give Kakashi the white slip. She seemed that she was willingly excepting the meetings but it very well may have been a rouse so she could throw away the paper once in the hallway.
When Sakura came out of the office she was more cold toward Sasuke then when she was first ignoring him, she just flashed him the pass and started down the hallway. Seeing it he turned toward Shizune gave a curt nod and a 'thank you' before following after Sakura. Now she needed to deal with her inner turmoil while ignoring everyone and everything around her. That was only way that she would make it through the rest of the day.
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A/N: muahahah!!! there it is, the chapter... got to see a little bit into the personality of Sakura and how she deals with others, what a joy it would be to know her j/k ^___^ anyways, like always, comments are appreciated but not demanded.
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