Chapter two: Now go stand in a corner and think about what you did
The first day of school was not particularly a good one for Sakura. She had walked into her math classroom and found Ami sitting in her desk, next to Sasuke. She fought the urge to vomit as she took the seat as far away from Ami as she could manage. She felt Sasuke's eyes follow her to the desk and sighed to herself. He'd tried calling her all week, but she'd been unable to find the strength to answer. Instead she spent her time imagining how it had happened, and convincing herself he'd fallen in love with Ami.
Naruto and Ino came and sat beside her, blocking the purple haired girl from her line of sight and eased the tension in the room. Sakura was grateful for the comfort, and she now understood what had made Naruto so sad before. Neither of them knew who Ami was to her though. And she hoped they never would, but there was no telling if the witch would keep her mouth shut. If she was smart, she would, because she'd end up revealing to the whole school that Sakura was the rightful heir to everything she used to make people like her.
Sakura sat in her publisher's office flipping through a magazine, looking bored, despite the roller coaster of emotions rolling and twisting beneath her skin. The door opened and she looked up, flashing a half assed grin at the silver haired man. "Jiraiya you're late. What were you doing?" She drawled out in amusement as he took his seat in front of her. "I was with an important client." He said casually, and she laughed. "Of course. Well, pervert, here's the new transcript. And I have an idea for my next book already." She tossed a large booklet of papers towards him, which he caught with practiced ease.
"You're always one step ahead, aren't you Haruno?" He chuckled, glancing at the title of her latest masterpiece. "I want you to put your picture on this one." He said quickly, trying to catch her off guard. She was not amused at his attempted trick and stood with a scowl. "You know that's not going to happen, just work your magic and tell me when it'll be in stores." She walked out of his office without another word, but smiling none the less. He always made her feel better without even trying.
The first month of the school year dragged out brutally slow for Sakura as she watched Ami's plot unfold. It hadn't been even a week before both of her brothers, twins in the eight grade, had transferred into the school. Sakura had contacted the police station, but they informed her that the judge had ruled her family was allowed to move back to Konoha due to the impending marriage. The pinkette was furious, but relieved that none of her so called family tried to contact her. That meant they still had no idea where she lived, or what she did.
She was sitting on the roof of the school one day, typing madly away on her laptop, creating another steamy master piece, when she heard some voices coming from a classroom on the top floor. She recognized the horrible voice of Ami, as it moaned, and the raspy voice of the science teacher, Mr. Orochimaru. She stopped typing and tried to focus on the sounds until she realised what she was hearing. Ami was fucking the science teacher. She slammed her laptop shut and bolted off the roof as fast as she could. She took the stairs two at a time as she tried to find Ino.
As she reached the ground floor and left the stair well, she walked right into the only person in the school she didn't want to see, Sasuke. "Sorry," she muttered, trying to go around him and escape, but he grabbed her wrist and held her in place. "Sakura, we need to talk." His tone was much softer than she could ever remember it being before, and out of shock she allowed him to pull her into an empty classroom. He shut the door behind them and pulled her away from the single window in the room. "Sakura, I know you're probably mad at me." He kept his grip on her wrist tight enough to keep her where she was without hurting her, keeping his own eyes focused on hers. She felt her knees turn to jelly as he spoke and swallowed hard. "It's not what you think. My father signed me up for an arranged marriage, I didn't have a choice."
She bit her lip as he finished his plea, "Sasuke...I...you can't marry her!" She knew she couldn't tell him about their relation, because then he would think her objection was selfish. But that didn't mean she couldn't tell him about the science teacher. "I was on the roof just now, and I could hear her and-" she was cut off by the classroom door slamming open to reveal Ami. "Sasuke-kun! Is she forcing herself on you!" The shrill accusation brought a lot of unwanted attention to the room as Sakura tried to pull her hand out of his grip. The last thing she needed was Ami to start spreading nasty lies around the school. "No." Sasuke said calmly, not relenting his grip, "I was just asking her for help in history." He shot Sakura an apologetic look and released her wrist, making his way over to Ami, whom threw her arms around his neck and gave him a sloppy kiss.
Sakura cursed her half sister and left the room quickly, resuming her hunt for Ino. She really needed the blonde's company now. When she found Ino she cursed. The blond was flirting with the captain of the chess team, Shikamaru. If she interrupted that, Ino would KILL her. So, downcast, Sakura started looking around for Naruto instead. She found him outside under a tree with Hinata, Neji and Tenten. Great. She wasn't about to go make their number odd either. She would hate to ruin their double-lunch date. "Well fuck. I'm going home." She grumbled, heading back to her locker to fetch her bag. She was not going to spend all day staring at couples in class, and she wasn't sure she ever wanted to go back up to the roof top again.
And Chapter two, short I know. But this isn't going to be one of those stories with the insanely long chapters. Might drag it out more than five, if I can think of anything to add.
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