Title: She [was] perfect
Summary: She was prefect. At least, until she became Uchiha Sasuke's latest obsession.
Dedication: To Ritas for not hiring me even though my interview was flawless.
Notes: Sakura's POV for this chapter.
She was perfect.
Her name was Haruno Sakura and she was the queen bee of Konoha High.
And she hated all of it.
She [was] perfect
Chapter One
"I know we, live fast and break it all!
Break it all!
California, waitin' for ya!"
"Thank you for coming out here tonight! We are A Skylit Drive, goodnight!" Michael Jagmin, the lead singer shouted into the mic and gave one last final wave, before leaving the stage with his other band mates.
"Oh my gosh, that was the best show ever!" A hot girl with bright red hair and black glasses screamed over the audience as it roared with conversation and screams all over.
"Well, Karin, there is still one more band that has to play." A brunette haired girl said loudly.
"Yeah! I cannot wait for Sleeping with Sirens to come on! They're my absolute favorite band! Kellin Quinn is so hot!" A beautiful rosette screamed along with the crowd. I looked around for a minute then looked at the other two girls she was here with. "Hey, where are Gaara and Temari? I don't see them."
All three of us looked around for their other two friends but came up short.
"Hey, Sak, why don't you just call Temari and ask?" Karin asked. I nodded and grabbed my white iPhone from within my white and black ripped skinny jeans. I dialed her number and let it ring.
Temari picked up on the third ring. "Hello?"
"Yo, Temi, where are you and Gaara?"
"We had to piss." I laughed at that. "Hey, are you guys still front row?"
"Yep. Good luck getting back up here!" With that, both of us hung up. Karin and Tenten both looked at me. "They had to piss."
They both nodded. Not long after that, Temari and Gaara were back at the front with them.
"How did you get back up here? I can never do that!"
"Sak, you're too nice for your own good. You have to push your way through, girl. Push!" They all laughed.
All five of us kept talking to each other and before long, somebody appeared at the mic. The audience screamed and cheered, as Kellin Quinn appeared onstage.
"Hey, everybody! How you all doing?" Screaming was heard from all around and he smirked. "Well, how about we start off with a song I know that most of you know."
Music started and everybody recognized it and screamed even louder as Kellin started to sing.
"True friends lie underneath,
These witty words I don't believe,
Can't believe a damn thing they say,
Anymore…"
"That was awesome! I can't wait to see them perform again! I LOVE SLEEPING WITH SIRENS!" I screamed. All five of us had left Crocodile Rock and were walking towards Temari's car and mine.
They all laughed at my words and soon we were next to my convertible and Temari's black mustang.
"I still can't believe that he pulled you on stage, Sak. I would have killed to have been in your position!" Karin said. I laughed and blushed.
"And then he kissed you on the cheek too!" At this, Gaara growled.
"Oh, lighten up Gaara. You can be over-protective to all of us later. Just, how did it feel?" Four pairs of eyes turned to look at me.
"It was… amazing. Then we met him after the show to get pictures!" I gushed. All of us were thinking back just a few minutes ago to where we met and got pictures with Sleeping With Sirens.
"I got a signed guitar pick!" We all laughed.
"Okay, guys. I need to head home now. See you guys later!" I hopped into my car and was about to drive off when Tenten yelled after me.
"Don't forget! A Day To Remember's playing soon!"
Then I was off towards home.
I know what you're thinking.
The queen bee of Konoha High. The princess, listening to post-hardcore music? Bet you guys thought I would've been listening to Rihanna instead. Everybody at Konoha High thinks I do at least. No, I actually really hate pop music. Half of the time, the lyrics are just useless. They mean absolutely nothing. Just there to make a quick buck.
See, I've been living two lives I guess you could say.
At school, I'm perfect. I'm a saint, an angel, whatever. The point is, is that at school, I never curse, never loud (unless required to do so), and I'm always that nice girl that anybody can talk to. The girl who has all of the latest girly girl fashion on.
When I'm at shows though, I'm a totally different story. I'm loud, obnoxious, curse my heart out, but I'm still one of those girls that anybody can talk to. I crowd surf, scream my heart out to lyrics, and occasionally flip the middle finger. When I go to shows, I wear ripped skinny jeans with just t-shirts. None of that fancy shit that costs two hundred dollars. Just send me to Hot Topic with a gift card and I'm happy.
The reason why I live a double life? Oh, that's simple.
I moved to Konoha when I was a freshman in high school. I was able to take that school over in a little over three months. After that, nobody asked whom the fuck Haruno Sakura was.
And because my dad might finally acknowledge me.
See, I hate being the queen bee. It annoys me with having so much attention on me. I hate it. But I'll keep up this charade so long that my dad is somewhat happy with me.
So, when I got back to my house, it was close to one in the morning. The house was completely dark.
I live in the rich area of Konoha. My house is kind of like a mansion. It's really big. I don't know why we didn't just get a normal town house considering the house only houses two people and my kitten. There's a lot of room in there. I mean, it doesn't even feel like home. Just somewhere I'm temporarily residing in. Nothing permanent.
Don't get me wrong though, I love the house. It just feels… I don't know. Empty, I guess. Even though I live in this really big and extravagant house, none of my friends have ever been here.
I just never wanted them to meet my dad. Not like that would be a problem, seeing as how he's always at work or traveling. I rarely see him. Might be a good thing.
You might be confused as to the reason why I act differently. Well, at school (or near my dad) I'm the good girl, always does what's right and blah blah blah. I go to shows and act like a total idiot and punk because that's who I am. If I could, I would go to school like that but I can't. The punk me is the real me. The prissy good girl is not. I don't give a rats ass about what party you went to or who is hooking up with who. I just don't give a fuck.
Especially since all of these people in school who I have never talked to once in my life consider me their friend.
Bitch, I don't even know your name.
I don't even think that my "friends" at school would even want to associate with me if they actually knew me.
I'm the punk girl because like I said, that's who I really am and that's what keeps me sane. It's just so hard to live a double life. Especially when you hate one of them.
Walking into the house, I flicked on the lights and walked upstairs to my room. On the way there, I stopped by dad's room to see the door open. He wasn't home.
I pushed the door to my room open and just stood in the doorway; taking the sight in.
My room was rather large what with my bed being a king sized with a plasma screen on the wall opposite of the bed. The sheets were a deep blood red and were very silky. The walls were painted beige. Most of my furniture was either red, or a beige color. I walked over towards my rather large walk-in closet and flicked on the lights. I walked over to the bench (my walk-in closet was pretty damn big) that was in there and sat down. My eyes flickered around the room as I got changed into my pajamas and then walked out of my closet and towards my bed.
My pajamas consisted of a light purple tank top with white and black paramore booty shorts. God, I love those shorts.
I hopped in bed and flicked on the plasma across from me.
"Just in time for Family Guy!" I squealed, excitedly. What? I love that show…
"Sakura! Over here!"
I glanced over and found Ino waving at me excitedly with the group. It was Monday morning and I already could not wait for this day to be over and school didn't even start yet!
I strode over towards them in my new black booties. I was wearing all of the newest clothes again that weren't even on the market yet. My outfit consisted of a black button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to my elbows and the first few buttons undone to show off some cleavage but not enough to be considered sluttish. Black skinny jeans adorned my legs that went inside the booties so that you couldn't see the ends. My pink hair was pulled up into a high ponytail that was curled into big ringlets at the ends. I gave my eyes a smoky kind of look with black and gray and white. My earrings were big and black feathers that just barely touched my shoulders.
"Sakura," Ino exclaimed when I reached the group, "you look fantastic! God, you just have to let me borrow your clothes! Oh, that reminds me, when am I ever going to get my red shirt back?"
"Oh, sorry. It's been kind of crazy lately. I'll give you back your shirt tomorrow, kay?"
"M'kay," She nodded and then turned towards the group.
"So, anyway. Sasuke's gonna have a party over at his house Friday. Everybody's invited." Naruto yelled. Ino smacked him over the head with her binder. "OW! GOD DAMNIT WOMAN, YOUR BINDER HURTS!" Hinata giggled over next to Naruto. I rolled my eyes.
"Naruto, keep screaming like that and none of us will be able to hear by the time we're all graduated high school." I muttered.
"You say that like Naruto's actually going to graduate high school." Sasuke said as he glanced over at me.
I stared at him and saw an emotion that I couldn't identify flash over his face for just a second before it became his usual stoic expression as always. I mentally sighed. Just where I thought we were getting somewhere with him acting human for once too…
"Sasuke-teme! That was totally not called for!" Naruto shouted in his ear only to be socked in the face by Sasuke.
"What self-respecting guy says totally anymore?" Ami smirked as Naruto's face went bright red.
"H-Hey! I'm a very… er… what was that word you used before?"
Everybody laughed unless you were Sasuke or Neji. They just kind of looked around at everybody's faces with a smirk.
I looked at my iPhone and clicked my tongue. "I'm going to trig. The bell's about to ring." Then I walked away with a little wave at everybody as Ino followed.
"Yeah, hey Sakura! Did you do the homework for trig or English?" She asked. I shook my head at her and chuckled.
"Didn't do your homework last night? What was it this time, raging bull tore through your house?" She shook her head. "Or maybe you're going old school with the whole, 'the dog ate my homework' stuff?"
"Sakura! C'mon… be a doll… please? I'll never ask for homework ever again!"
"Yeah, that's what you said last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that, and even the time before that. It seems like you never do your homework. What happens when it comes down to test time? Simple. You're going to fail."
"I know, I know. God, what are you, my mom? 'Cause you sound just like her." She huffed, crossed her arms and walked into the classroom for first block.
I sighed and adjusted my very uncomfortable top. Why do people wear these really tight button ups? I mean, it barely fit past my boobs, it was ridiculously uncomfortable, and if you weren't 'model skinny', then it bunched up and made it seem like you were fat. Thank god it didn't do that for me.
I walked into class while mentally preparing myself for the rest of the day.
The cafeteria was bustling with movement everywhere. I was already sitting down at my usual table with my friends. My tray held a bright red apple, vitamin water, and pasta salad. As usual, there were people trying to sit down at our table.
"Why won't these people just cut it out? They're so damn annoying!" Shouted Ami as she glared at yet another person trying to sit right beside me. "FIND YOUR OWN SEATS!"
"Uhm, yeah. Ouch." Ino made pointed to her ear. "I'm going deaf, already! I'm to pretty to be deaf!"
I shook my head. Ino was really vain sometimes. It pissed me off a little bit whenever we would go shopping and she would comment on how she looked good in everything she tried on. I stopped going shopping with her a long time ago.
"Why are these people even trying to sit with us?" Neji asked with his eyes closed as he rubbed his temples.
"It's 'cause we have Sakura sitting with us."
"Ew, Naruto! Don't talk with your mouth full of ramen! That's disgusting!"
"Stop whining, Ami. You know it's sexy!" Naruto fired back. Ami just examined her nails and huffed in Naruto's direction. He glared at her and muttered under his breath a few profanities. Hinata's face turned bright red and she giggled nervously at Naruto's words as she could hear him loud and clear because they sat right next to each other. Neji turned and glared ferociously at Naruto.
I mentally sighed. I hated lunch so much and it wasn't just because of the people that tried to sit with me. No, it was that and the people already sitting with me. Don't get me wrong; they tend to grow on you. They just get really, really, annoying.
Everybody (with the exception of Hinata, Shikamaru, and Naruto) at the table was all stuck up and vain, especially Ino and Ami. They were the worst out of them all. Even when Sai tends to call me ugly, I can still tolerate him better.
I love them dearly, though. But, I would never hang out with them. They're more like school buddies. You don't really take them home to meet the parents or to have sleepovers. They always insist on sleepovers though.
No she's daddy's little girl,
She wasn't meant to be anoth-
Shit! I forgot to put my phone on silent! Fuck!
They watched me all pull out my iPhone 4 from my left back pocket and glance down at the screen as Asking Alexandria for my ringtone went off very loudly.
"Hey, Sakura? What was that playing?" I looked up and had to do a double take as I watched Ino's face scrunch up in disgust at the music that had finally stopped playing.
Took long enough.
But by now, everybody was looking at me for an answer.
"Oh," Shit, have to think fast for this one, "one of my cousins came over last weekend and I let her borrow my phone. She must've changed my ringtone on me." I giggled quietly. Damn, I'm good at lying.
"Well, okay. So, hey! What was your ringtone before your cousin changed it to that sorry excuse for music?" My eyes drifted over towards Ami as she smirked at me.
"Only girl in the world." I lied smoothly. Ami's smirk was wiped off her face as a slight frown marred her face.
Ino squealed from right beside me. She started wiggling in her seat like she was dancing. "I love Rihanna! Like, ohemgee! That song is amazing!" A fake smile slid into place as I watched Ino flail like a crazy fan girl in her seat.
I giggled quietly at her childish antics and then looked down at my phone.
I unlocked the phone and there it said (1) Missed Call on the screen. It was from Karin. Figures.
"I'm sorry, but I have to make a quick phone call. Be right back." I drawled slowly and cautiously before getting up from my seat and walking out of the cafeteria. From there, my feet carried me outside and into the courtyard where some of the kids were eating their lunch. This place was for the kids who didn't have anywhere to sit in the cafeteria. In other words, they were loners and losers. What I would kill to eat out here instead of in the cafeteria with my so-called 'friends'.
I pushed some buttons on the screen and brought it up to my ear as I heard Sleeping with Sirens fill my ears.
"Yo bitch! Why you hangin' up on yo girl now!?"
"I'm sorry Karin," I glanced around to make sure that nobody could hear me talking. I chose a spot by this huge tree that just hung out by the main entrance to the school. It was really pretty over here. Definitely would not mind eating out here. "but I was with the SP."
SP was just an acronym for School People seeing as though I didn't want to say the names of the people in the cafeteria. Just as a way to not raise suspicion as to whom I'm talking to. I don't know why anybody would actually care, but apparently a lot of people do.
Ch, those people have no lives if they think that they need to monitor mine twenty-four fucking seven.
"Oh… still hanging out with those freaks?" I heard a deep sigh on the other end. "Sak, why don't you just switch to our school? You have tons of friends here. Friends that actually give a shit about you. And you don't have to live a double life! You can just be plain old Sakura! We love that person!"
Swishing and rustles were heard from Karin's line as Temari and Tenten came on.
"YEAH! WE LOVE YOU! DITCH THOSE ASSHOLES AND LIVE WITH US! WE CAN INVITE THOSE FREAKISHLY HOT GUYS THAT WE MET AT THE LAST SHOW FOR A GROUP ORGY! IT'LL BE FUN!"
I snorted. "Are you serious? Well," I glanced around again, "now that I think about it, that does sound pretty awesome. I don't know."
"Oh, c'mon! We love you Sak just the way you are!"
"My dad doesn't." Silence met my ears. I rubbed at my eyes tiredly with my free hand and waited for a response that I knew would come. Or I could just hang up on that note.
I was never one to hang up with my best friends, though.
"Well, fuck him." Temari seethed over the line. Then Tenten came on.
"Yeah, you can come live with me! Just pack your necessities and lots and lots of money. Oh, the money. I miss all that shit."
"Uhm… Karin just tackled Tenten to the grou-"
"NO! SAKURA IS LIVING WITH HER SECRET LESBIAN LOVER, WHICH JUST SO HAPPENS TO ME SO SHUT YOUR BIG ASS MOUTH, TENNIE. SHE DESERVS LOVE AND SEX. Oh, lots and lots of sex."
"With you?"
"Damn straight with me! Although," At this point, I imagined Karin actually sitting on Tenten's back on the ground when I heard her yell repeatedly in the background to get the fuck off of her. "we can still have that group orgy with those insanely hot guys. I swear that it should be a crime to be that hot if you're not dating one of us."
"Can I have a rain check on that one?" The bell was going to ring soon and my lunch wasn't even halfway finished. Knowing my luck, Naruto probably ate most of it by now. "Listen, I gotta go. I'll text you guys later, okay?" I heard one huge bye from the other end of the phone and ended the call.
"Naruto, you're really starting to piss me off now. Can you just shut up? For like, the rest of the day? Or better yet, the rest of the year?"
"You would like that, wouldn't you, Ino?"
"Ino's right, dobe. You're annoying me now."
"Yeah," Naruto glared at Sasuke, "but everybody annoys you, prick!"
Sai interjected, "Where's Ugly?"
The others looked around for me.
"She's been gone a while." Neji forked some peas into his mouth and chewed. "Wonder who she was talking to."
"Oh, probably just her mom or something."
"Speaking of which, has anybody met her parents?" Asked Ino absentmindedly.
"I've never even been to her house."
"W-Well, maybe she j-just doesn't wan-want us to meet he-her parents and s-see her hou-house?" Hinata stuttered with her head down. She was fiddling with her thumbs nervously when everybody's gaze went onto her.
"Why would she not want us to meet her parents though? If they're anything like Sakura, they're probably the nicest people in the universe." Ino twirled her hair. Shikamaru was asleep on her shoulder. She cooed at him quietly because it was just so cute!
"Sasuke," Said boy looked up and over towards Sai, "you've been quieter than usual. Is there anything wrong?"
Sasuke shook his head and then got up to dump his tray of half-finished foods. He glanced out the glass doors to see that I was walking back towards the cafeteria. He walked back over towards the table.
"She's coming back." He grunted.
"Oh, goodie! I need to fix my make up so we can hit the bathroom." Ino squealed. There was a big shocker.
Hey, Sakura," Sasuke asked when I was just sitting down in front of my lunch tray. Yup, Naruto ate almost all of it, that fatass. I looked up at him with a surprised face. I think everybody was. It was rare when Sasuke actually asked somebody a question, "who were you talking to just now?"
What the fuck did I do today to deserve so many questions? I was pretty good last year for Christmas.
"Oh, that was nobody. Don't worry about it." I casually brushed off the conversation then got up to dump my tray. Damn it. I was hungry today, too!
Screw you Karma, you bitch.
"So, hey. We never met yo-" The bell cut off Ami. I dumped my tray and practically ran out of the cafeteria. I already knew what she was going to ask me and I didn't like it. Not one bit.
"Okay class, remember to study pages 385 through 390 in your text books. We have a test coming up Friday so I want to finish up this chapter by Wednesday so we can review Thursday for your test on Friday."
"Is it just me," I asked Hinata as we were walking out of the last class of the day to go home, "or did what she just say remind you of the song Friday by Rebecca Black?" I got a blank look from her. "Y'know, where she said, 'I want you to finish up this chapter by Wednesday so we can review Thursday for your test on Friday'? I'm pretty sure we can figure out when the review and test come. We're not first graders anymore."
Hinata giggled and shook her head. "I'm not sure but I have to go. Father is picking Neji and I up r-right after school and he doesn't like to wa-wait." We waved bye and headed off in different directions.
After I got all of my shit from my locker, I hopped into my convertible and peeled away because if I had to spend another minute near that building, I was going to go insane. This day has just gone from bad to horrible at lunch. What was it, question Sakura day?
By the time I was pulling in my driveway, (after I stopped at the local starbucks because I'm in love with that coffee place) it was almost four o'clock. I sure knew how to spend my time there.
Then I remembered that dad had wanted me back at the house as soon as school ended. I was more then an hour late. Shit.
I turned off the car, grabbed my purse and books, and hauled ass into the house. The door slammed behind me as I frantically looked around for any sight of my dad. I finally found him sitting in the living room. His very expensive right shoe was tapping steadily on the ground. I nervously gulped and felt his calculating stare on my form because I refused to meet his judging gaze.
Huh. The hard wood floor looked different. Looked newer if that was even possible seeing as how they get cleaned once a month.
Then I heard his gruff voice. "An hour and twenty-three minutes and eighty… six seconds. You're late by an hour and twenty-three minutes and eighty six seconds. That's how long you made me wait after I specifically told you that I needed to speak with you as soon as school lets out. Seeing as how it should take you no longer then fifteen minutes – twenty tops – to get home and you made me wait over an hour for you, I am greatly disappointed in you. I guess that's what I should expect from you though."
"I'm sorry. I forgot that I was supposed to be here right after school. I'm very sorry that I ma-"
Father interrupted me. "I can see how important I am to you. I can only imagine what your mother would've thought if she were here to see this." I closed my eyes and waited for his next words. "She would be greatly disappointed in you." I winced and I knew he saw that because his voice sounded… I don't know… amused. "She would be frowning at you. She wouldn't reprimand you like she should. She wouldn't even want to deal with you. She would just send you to your room. Well, I'm not going to d-"
"I'm sorry." I grit out. "I promise not to do that again just please, stop talking about her."
A deep grunt. "Go to your room. I don't want to see your face again tonight."
I didn't dare look up at his face as I ran to my room, shut and locked the door, and then proceed to curl up on my bed with my head on my knees as I tucked my legs up to my chest because I already knew what would be on his face, looking like it belonged there.
A smirk.
Notes: A little insight into the Sakura-Dad relationship. Hope you enjoyed. And the POV's are going to vary so be sure to watch out for that.