SOS
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II.
The horoscope today was right. Phones would be a bad omen for me.
I immediately hung up and turned away. But luckless as I was today, I accidentally hit the open door of the locker beside mine. The owner of the said locker was talking to his phone when he stared down at me angrily. And though Akado Yoroi wasn't as arrogant as Uchiha Sasuke, he belongs to a fraternity of vicious students to be feared that I instantly apologized.
And yes, the horoscope was once again right in predicting my destiny today.
"Are you blind or what!" Yoroi said heatedly, "You've just messed my call—! Hey, stop there!"
I was already running away from there that the last clear word I heard from Yoroi was 'shit'. I have a bigger thing to deal with than to stand there and soothe his fury.
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"WHAT! TO UCHIHA SASUKE!" Hinata and I immediately gestured Tenten in silence. "Sorry," Tenten apologized. Luckily, the bakeshop was free from any unwanted schoolmates "But how?"
"I think it fell when I was in detention" I paused thinking "I'm not sure but Naruto might have thought it slid from Sasuke's notebook and so... oh, hell, what if that was the very scene that happened!"
Tenten resumed slurping her drink then asked "Well, if Sasuke didn't know it was you, how'd he managed to call you?"
Silence. "Actually, I wrote my number at the bottom" I said awkwardly.
Hinata turned to me, "Why do you have to do that, Ino-chan? Suigetsu already knows your number"
Silence again. "Uhm, I have this new number"
Tenten laughed, she almost choked in happiness "Are you stupid? You think Suigetsu wouldn't know it came from you just because you got a different number?"
I always knew Tenten had a great potential to be a psychologist. Sometimes when we talk, she actually got this amazing talent to make me feel like I'm the most stupid person out of trillion people. At times like this do I feel the necessity of banging my head against a wall. "I didn't call you up to remind me how stupid I am! In case you're forgetting, you're here to help me" I said.
"I think you should just apologize" Hinata said.
"Believe me. Uchiha Sasuke wouldn't accept an apology. I suggest you do something to calm his anger" Tenten said.
"And do you have any idea what this 'something' could probably be?" I raised a brow.
Tenten smiled.
I don't feel like waking up today. Actually, I don't feel like waking up again. I always thought I was born lucky but now my perception had changed. When I arrived at school, there was something in the ambience that tells me today wouldn't be a great day. Of course, I knew why.
Just this morning, I made up my mind. I'll apologize to Sasuke as soon as I see him though deep inside, I wished 'the soonest I see him' would be two geological years from now. I realized an apology (though I don't know where it would lead me) would be better than to comply with Tenten's wild idea.
Many students have already littered the hallway; the locker area as I have always expected was crowded as ever. As I entered the lock code and opened my locker, I was surprised at how messy things were inside. Yeah, vestige of yesterday's chain curses. I pulled out some books and thought of other necessary things to get. Much to my dismay, my thoughts were still in chaos that I found my mind processing very slow.
Then suddenly, a very diabolic presence pricked every part of my skin that my back awkwardly straightened up. Without any doubt, I knew exactly who it was. Only one word ran like amok in my head.
Fuck.
"Hey, you" Behind the coolness of his voice do I perceive fury. With only those two words, I already felt his overflowing wrath.
God, what was I to do? My alter ego screamed. My blood was running. I was seeing roller coaster go wild in my sight. Still, I don't have the courage to turn around and face him.
Just say a goddamn sorry.
But before I could do or say something, there was a loud 'thud' that diverged my attention.
When I turned to my side to see what it was, I saw Yoroi on the floor. Uchiha Sasuke gave him a hard blow on the stomach sending him reeling against the locker which produced the loud sound.
Sasuke picked him up by the collar "You were talking in your phone here yesterday in your locker, weren't you?" Yoroi muttered a 'yeah', alarm obvious in his tone. I swallowed hard again. A big crowd had already formed around before I even knew it. And here I was beside them, staring in puzzlement.
"Who were you talking with, huh?"
"It was only my girlfriend, Sasuke"
Sasuke smirked before he gave him another blow over his face sending him back to the floor, "You got some guts to send me that letter. Now you play innocent" He spilled in anger. Sasuke then began kicking him.
It was funny to think that yesterday I feared Yoroi, now I pitied him. At that moment, I realized what was happening. I wanted to run to him, wanted to stop Sasuke. Guilt drowned me. I should be the one there on the floor. I should be the one whom everyone was staring at and sympathizing.
But something restrained me inside. I was afraid of the consequence if I decided to be a saint now.
The next thing I knew, teachers were dragging the violent Uchiha away. My last sight of the once feared frat leader, Akado Yoroi, was bleeding in pain and was left with battered body. I heard he dropped out from school the day after the incident. Later I realized that Uchiha used influence and money to sort things in school and to the Akado family.
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"Ino-chan, are you okay?"
Definitely no. But I flashed the biggest smile showing my canines to hide the fact that I'm as desperate as a widow left with fifteen children. Grabbing back my senses that I lost since that incident in the locker area that morning, I moaned a "Ya," to Hinata.
"Well, you don't look okay" Tenten, who sat on my other side, said matter-of-factly "You look like you'll collapse any moment"
It was hard to believe that six months ago, what Tenten had just described was the very description of her. That was our first day in freshman. Back then, Tenten look like she'll collapse any moment. When she asked me for an advice to calm herself, I told her "Close your eyes, pray and jump out the window" I received a piercing glare as a reply from her.
Tenten said she had a reason to feel small, uneasy and... well, small on her seat.
Konoha High is an exclusive school for extremely rich and well-known families and that it gave her the creeps to think that for the next years she have to sit with bunch of snobbish, spoiled and stuck-up teens. When I asked her why she then entered Konoha High when she had this inferiority complex, she simply dropped the question and instead, asked me if I know Hyuga Neji. I told her I don't have the slightest idea who he was.
Tenten said Hyuga Neji's family is a long chain of prestigious lawyers and that blah... blah... blah... I was on the verge of exclaiming "I don't give a damn" had she not been a close friend. My patience was really tested when after that she then shared her knowledge of Sabaku Gaara whose father belong to the circle of advisers of the country's prime minister.
Tenten informed me that I was close to being ignorant if I didn't know who Haruno Sakura is. I paused, and then said "Who the fuck is she?"
Tenten sighed.
Haruno Sakura is a covergirl of a famous teen magazine which I obviously don't know. She's very much aware of her beauty that she naturally sticks to her one-week-term-dump-the–boy relationship. Anyway guys weren't moved by that fact because suitors still came flooding at her feet. Tenten also told me that when she heard about Sakura's biography, she was so surprised of her high-profile life. But characteristically, I wasn't the bit surprised and to tell you the truth, I was more shocked when I realized later that Haruno Sakura had no connection to E.T and that her hair was naturally pink.
Uchiha Sasuke back then is unknown to everyone because he entered school late since his family is originally based in America. But when he arrived in Konoha High, he immediately became the most popular student.
A week crawled and Tenten's inferiority complex slowly passed on especially when we met another Hyuga. Even if Hinata had the more rights to be arrogant since she came from the main branch of her family, she is the very opposite of her cousin Neji who in turn is really one damn bastard and thinks the world only revolves around him and his superbrain books. Hinata is cheerful though extremely shy at certain conditions and these conditions include another student, my cousin Uzumaki Naruto.
Why am I even telling past events? I yawned and patted my lips. Looking at my watch, I realized my Algebra teacher was approximately twenty minutes late.
Hatake Kakashi, tall with bleached hair, seemed too young to be a teacher. He was good-looking, as my classmates observed, with broad shoulders, as I have personally noted, and half-lid dark eyes. And hell, when he spoke, it was with a nonsense manner. Also, he's the worst when talking about time.
Suddenly, footsteps vibrated outside the room and at the hint of our coming teacher, everyone jumped to their respective seats (save for us three who already sat on our chairs). Hundred years later, the goddamn teacher was finally coming.
Unfortunately, my prediction was wrong.
All eyes opened wider as he made his first step in the room. His second step incredibly made everyone fell in a dead stunned silence. Uchiha Sasuke stopped in front of the room.
Momentarily, the unusual silence turned into what is known as the female uproar. There were some giggles and snickers and few loud remarks of pleasing compliments to catch his attention. Half of the class was mesmerized by Sasuke's visit, the other half puzzled by his reason of interrupting the class (though there was nothing to be interrupted in the fist place).
"I'm looking for someone" He said and indeed seemed to look around until— fuck— his eyes found me.
Jesus Christ, I summoned. How I love to have a nervous breakdown.