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Let's have a night
Of pure bliss
Together in the bed of grass
Let's love
Pray to the Welkin Princess
To guide our love
This night this night
Let's forget our humanity
Surrender our fears
Make our dream reality
Pray to the Welkin Princess
For an everlasting love
But this is indecency
This is corruption
My Sweetheart
Heaven will abandon us
Angels will haunt us
Please
Pray to the Welkin Princess
My Sweetheart
And forget our tie
As one blood flowed in our veins
Forget our humanity
I'm not a person anymore
I am your lover
And don't call me
Brother
Sasuke winced at the lyrics of his song. This is sick. He crumpled the paper and threw it at the waste basket.
Later on, he bent down and retrieved it.
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the technology that brought the good news
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I.
Six fifteen AM, Konoha Prefectural High School. Tokyo.
Ten-Ten winced as the soccer ball flew past her.
Wham, and hit the goal.
Wahoo, cheered the bystanders.
"OY, Harukaze, Shimamura— RUN FASTER! RUN! RUN! Come on—SWEAT!" All-Girl's soccer team coach Momochi Zabuza shouted through his megaphone.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—
Ten-Ten shivered. Sakura had kicked three balls respectively. How the hell she did that was beyond Ten-ten's human comprehension. "YOU! Yes, you!" Zabuza-sensei yelled pointing at pale-haired Ikeda. "Stop worrying about your OH-So-Beautiful finger nails! WE'RE IN A MIDDLE OF THE PRACTICE—"
Wham, wham, wham—
All three of the soccer balls rocketed everywhere, hitting streetlamps and bleachers. Aaarrrgh, Ten-Ten dodged all of them. Her massive leg strength is horrible!
Swoosh, swoosh— Ten-Ten whirled around, just in time Sakura kicked two soccer balls. The goalkeeper bent her knees, her arms up, looking like an idiot. She really was a horse. A horse, I'm sure of it—
"OY YOU BETTER DO YOUR JOB, TEN-TEN! YOU'RE A GOALKEEPER —! DID YOU HEAR ME? DID YOU? DID YOU DID YOU DID YOU DID YOOOOU?"Zabuza-sensei shouted, at least five to seven veins throbbed all together in his temple.
Wham, wham—
This time, Ten-Ten rolled like a log before wiggling like a worm.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! MOOOOOVE…!" Zabuza-sensei hollered like a madman, flapping his arms. "Move move move move move move move mooooooove!"
"ARE YOU STUPID? I'M MOVING YOU IDIOT!" Ten-Ten yelled, now doing acrobatics to dodge the balls.
The rest of the soccer team grimaced horribly.
"Aw…" Temari winced as she watched the soccer balls (almost five of them) zigzagged through the field. Ten-Ten was now bending her knees and her body sideways, arms raised above her head.
"What's up with Haruno?" Harukaze Sumire asked, the All-Girl's Konoha Soccer Team captain. She had a stern pretty face, pin-straight black hair (the type you see in Pantene commercials) with even bangs above her eyes. The third year captain was popular but her cold attitude was a turn off among the males. But still, they liked her ice-blue eyes: the Ice Queen (or the Ice Bitch).
Ten-Ten was now running in circles as barrage of soccer balls attacked her. "She's… not pissed, is she?" Ikusawa Sayo, second year, asked, referring to Haruno who had a psychotic expression.
"It's amazing how Ten-Ten dodges…" Shinozaki Yuki said.
Swoosh, swoosh—
They watched Ten-Ten did a Matrix (bending backwards). "COOLNESS!" Bubbly blonde Hasunoue Kairi cheered.
"HASUNOUE!" Harukaze snapped.
Wham, wham—
One hit a lamp post nearby. One hit a passing sophomore in the head.
Wince.
"THIS IS NOT DODGE BALL, TEN-TEN!" Zabuza-sensei yelled as Ten-Ten ducked, swayed, twirled, jumped, somersaulted and did cartwheels.
"GO TEN-TEN!" Temari cheered. Wham! –cringe- Wham! –cringe- Wham! –cringe- Wham! Temari paled, grimacing. "Wow…" the dents on the bleachers and posts deepened.
"Make her stop." Harukaze-sempai paused. There were creaking sounds of metal being bent. She looked up to the posts that held up the scoreboard. "Before she destroys our field."
Hasunoue grinned. "It's like stopping a bullet train, Sumire-sempai."
A louder creak.
"Sakura-san maybe cute but she's a scary freshman." Shimamura Rika said. "In fact, she kicked the ball directly to Hyuuga's ass the other training day and she's not even—"
"OY! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT TIME TO CHIT-CHAT!"
Creak.
The girls winced upon hearing the shout. And instantly, they shuffled, panicking. "RUN FASTER! RUN AS IF THE WORLD IS SHAKING LIKE POPCORN! RUN!" Zabuza-sensei yelled. "AND YOU— OY HARUNO, HA-RU-NO— I'M TALKING TO YOU! AIM FOR THE GOAL—THE GOAL, GIRL! THE GOAL, PINKY!"But soccer balls remained zigzagging across the field; once, Zabuza-sensei was forced to duck as one ball swerved towards him.
Beside the coach, his assistant, Haku, the Team's manager, was killing his time by looking at his oblong-shaped mirror, murmuring, batting his lashes: "Mirror, Mirror who's the fairest of them all?"
Zabuza-sensei struck him with his megaphone on top of his head. "Quit obsessing with your mirror."
"Who's the fairest of them all?" asked Haku and shoved the mirror onto Zabuza-sensei's face. The coach backed away in fright. Haku raised his brow.
"What? Got scared of what you saw— owwww!"
"Shut up and do your paperwork!"Zabuza-sensei screamed.
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II.
Friday, seven fifteen AM; first floor, slipper/locker room:
"KIBA, yo!" feisty blond-haired Uzumaki Naruto called out loudly, raising a hand, a grin across his face.
Kiba frowned then eventually grinned. "YO, U-ZU-MA-KI!" What a loudmouth. He and that damned soccer girl really are friends. Both are loudmouths. He thought as he changed his footwear. Boys from different levels began to crowd inside the slipper room.
"Oy, Kiba, have you heard already?" Naruto asked excitedly.
The brown-haired boy raised a brow. "What?"
Naruto grinned. "Sakura-chan went to Love Love Disco Hall last night!"
Blink. Blink.
Thump
"Hey, Kiba! Oy!" Naruto shook Kiba. "You fine? Hey somebody, go and get a fire truuuuuuuck!" he yelled to the people around him.
"A what?" a sophomore asked.
"A fire truck, man! C'mon, a fire truck!" Naruto yelled, panicking. He looked down to Kiba's unmoving form lying to the ground with his eyes wide open.
Everyone sweat dropped.
"Call an ambulance." A random guy said.
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III.
Seven fifteen AM, in front of the Principal's Office:
"Oi, have you heard!" a brown-haired boy asked excitedly to Neji who walked with his eyes closed.
"Nani?" Hyuuga asked, opening one eye.
"Haruno went to Love Love Disco Hall last night!"
Blink.
Footsteps stopped.
Another footsteps.
A boy with dark shoulder-length hair suddenly popped out of thin air and said: "ALONE?"
"Yep!" the brown-haired replied.
"COOLNESS! She's been to HEAVEN, man!"
"Idiot." Neji growled.
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IV.
Seven twenty two AM, first floor hallway:
"Oi, have you heard!" Shikamaru lazily turned to face his classmate and childhood friend Chouji.
"What?"
Chouji grinned, and a chip fell. Nara had to hide a wince. "Inuzuka said Haruno went to Love Love Disco Hall last night!"
Shikamaru's jaw dropped.
Chouji fished huge pack of banana chips from his pocket. "And guess what!" he added, swallowing the whole contents of the pack.
Shikamaru didn't dare ask.
"She went there ALONE!"
He groaned. Rumormongers were troublesome. Shikamaru made a mental note to stuff a broom down Naruto's throat. Though, he sincerely hoped, Neji hadn't done it first.
"Oh man!" Chouji began to drool. "Love Love Disco Hall is the perfect place to watch kickass HORNY rockbands!"
Shikamaru cringed.
"Aw, it was such a good place to eat chips while making out with your honey pie!"
Another cringe. "You're sick." Shikamaru said.
"Oh by the way, can I copy your assignment about fractions?"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Troublesome,"
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V.
TO: Sasuke
FROM: Itachi
SUBJECT: (none)
I heard you got invited to join Forever Love. How does it feel like to be my replacement?
TO: Itachi
FROM: Sasuke
SUBJECT: Re: (none)
Damn you
TO: Sasuke
FROM: Itachi
SUBJECT: Re: (none)
Tsk such violence towards your favorite brother... that hurts
TO: Itachi
FROM: Sasuke
SUBJECT: GO AWAY
You're my ONLY brother, idiot
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You have an instant message from: ITACHI
Itachi: oh? Now that's some recognition from foolish little brother. To tell you the truth, I am touched
Sasuke: go away
Itachi: so did you join?
Sasuke: yes
Itachi: why?
Sasuke: I want to kill time with something for a change
Itachi: hn.
Itachi: don't screw it up
Sasuke: don't you dare compare me with yourself
Itachi: look after Mother, won't you foolish little brother
Sasuke: hmph as if you have to tell me that
Itachi: no beers, no drugs, no sex and no tears
Sasuke: JUST GO AWAY WON'T YOU?
Itachi: and oh, don't fall in love with her
Sasuke: her? Who is her?
Itachi has logged off
Sasuke: what the fuck does it mean?
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VI.
Eight fourteen AM, 2nd Floor Class 2-E:
"Oi Matsubara, have you heard?" A second year asked his friend who was reading the current volume of Icha Icha Paradise.
"What?"
"Uzumaki told Inuzuka who told Fujitaka who told Hajimaru who talked to Takaishi that Haruno went to Love Love Disco Hall last night!"
Matsubara stopped reading, his eyes rounding in excitement. "Really? Haruno the 1st year hellion with super tight ass and nice legs and boo—"
"IDIOT! Heard you talking about Sa-chan and her tight ass!" a voice shouted. The two males winced. It was Temari, another soccer player with blonde hair.
"Temari—" Matsubara groaned. He knew how dangerous this girl was. "Oh damn, get your foot off my… wow…" Matsubara whistled, looking down onto something… interesting: Temari's foot was pressed against his hip bone, causing her skirt to rise considerably, giving him a perfect view of—
"You idiots! So you're checking her out Matsubara! I'll kill you, pervert!"
Matsubara Keisuke perked up at being called pervert. "I'm NOT a pervert! I just know how to appreciate cute girls!"
Temari pressed her foot harder. "Idiot!"
Matsubara grinned. "Oh, by the way Temari-chan,"
Temari didn't like the glint in his eyes.
"…nice yellow polka-dot bikini—" WHAM! "WHOA!"
"PERVERT!" Temari screamed, blushing. So, he WAS staring down to her yellow polka-dot bikini which was given by Haruno last year as a Christmas present.
"OI! OI! Matsubara! MATSUBARA!" His friend shouted, calling after Matsubara who flew outside the window.
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VII.
Eight twenty-two AM, Love Love Disco Hall, Shibuya.
Sasuke sat down and unfastened his guitar pack.
Footsteps from the hallway, while, Sasuke was plugging his guitar, and he fingered the chords absent-mindedly.
The door swung open.
"UCHIHA-KUN!" Tokonatsu Seki greeted.
"SASU-CHAN!" Hayate Rei yelled.
"Idiots." Sasuke growled.
"LET'S ROLL, BABY!" Rei cried happily.
"Go roll yourself," Sasuke said.
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VIII.
Eight twenty five AM, five minutes before morning bell, 2nd Floor hallway:
"Ino-chan! INO-CHAN!"
The blonde girl raised her eyebrows at the sight of her friend Hyuuga Hinata rushing to her. "Hinata-chan, what's up? That's strange. You're shouting." The blonde girl said, grinning.
Hinata panted, stopping in front of the blonde. "Oh, Ino-chan, have you heard?"
"What?" the blonde frowned.
Hinata blushed. "Um…Sa… Sa… Sa… Saku… Sakura… chan…"
"Hinata-chan, please try to speak clearer." Ino instructed patiently.
The Hyuuga's blush reddened even more. "I… I… she… she… oh… err… um—"
"What?" Ino pressed, now irritated.
Hinata let out a loud frustrated sigh before saying loudly: "SAKURA-CHAN WENT TO LOVE LOVE DISCO HALL LAST NIGHT!"
Silence.
The entire floor went silent. Wind blew. Clouds rolled over. A single leaf fell from a tree. Only Hinata remained breathing. "Er— Ino? You OK? You ALL stopped breathing…" she stuttered confusingly.
Wind blew.
And then: "SAKURA WAS RAPED!"
Thump.
"Ino! INO!"
Hinata was… screaming?
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IX.
Nine thirty AM, Class 2-E:
The Class 2-E was bustling with noise: boys guffawing, girls giggling over new trends, boys, latest gossips, and cosmetics. Ten-Ten and Temari sat down at the back of the class. A group of boys chatted in front of them.
"Last night, man was PURE HEAVEN! She was… wow!" A boy with handsome face with burly figure said. His mates whistled.
He continued to tell his late night adventure. "Nice legs… nice tits… nice ass… wow, everything is so FRICKING NICE!"
They chortled noisily.
Ten-Ten grimaced.
"Did you use protection?" one of his friends asked.
Ten-Ten smirked.
The laughter died.
"OH FUCK!"
Ten-Ten shook her eyes and stared outside. "Smartass…"
"Where did Sachan go last night?" Temari asked.
"According to Naruto, she went to Ichiraku— no surprise—probably she stuffed her face with ramen— then Love Love Disco—" Ten-Ten jumped when she heard a crash. Temari was squatting on Ten-Ten's desk, eyes all wide.
"EXCUSE ME, Love Love Disco?" She hollered. Ten-Ten winced.
"Excuse ME but you're stepping on my desk." Ten-Ten pointed out sharply but Temari ignored her.
"ALONE?"
"Obviously," Ten-Ten said dryly.
Temari's jaw dropped. "But— but—"
"Hai," Ten-Ten stared outside the window. "Love Love Disco Hall is notorious. It is full of shit—drugs, alcohol, sex orgies—" at the last words, Temari flinched. "But it is the best spot of best rock music."
"What did she do in THERE?" the blonde girl demanded, still squatting on her desk, her underwear showing.
Ten-Ten sighed. Some people just didn't know what manners were. "Naruto said she watched a new band play. That's all. Besides, no one will dare touch her— she's so good at flying kicks— all sorts of kicks, actually, right? She's the girls' soccer team number one striker so no worries."
Temari finally went down from Ten-Ten's desk. "But still…"
"And oh," Ten-Ten grinned. "She visited Mitsubachi Ramen store to try mushroom ramen and watched Kabuki."
Temari raised a brow. "Kabuki…? Sachan is very strange."
The bun-haired girl made a face. "Of course, we're talking about Sakura here!"
"Why did she run away?" Temari sat down. The homeroom still hasn't begun. That damn Kakashi-Freak-Who-Got-Nice-Ass was late again.
"Her father wanted to marry his girlfriend."
"Wow, he's seeing someone?"
"Hai, unfortunately, little Sakura-chan objected."
Temari groaned. "Oh no."
Ten-Ten leaned back to her chair, still looking outside the window. "Sakura can be so selfish sometimes. Though she's naturally sweet, she's spoiled and immature. She doesn't know the loneliness of being alone."
Temari sighed.
Ten-Ten stared straight to Temari's eyes. "Haruno-san spoiled Sakura rotten. For so many years, he devoted his life ONLY to Sakura. He gave her everything so as to fill the void of Sakura not having a mother."
"I think Sakura believed that this woman will take her father away." Temari theorized.
"Yeah… knowing Sakura," Ten-Ten rolled her eyes. "She fears that one day Kenji-san will leave her just the way her mother left her. She felt her father abandoned her, choosing a woman over her."
"For a girl who had everything, it's a big shit to adjust." Temari said.
"Hai."
"Arrrgh, that's why her kicks this morning are—"
"Oh, shut up. I don't wanna remember HOW I dodge those balls. Sakura kicked like a demented rhinoceros." Ten-Ten groaned.
Temari grinned. "Haha, you wiggled like a worm."
"SHUT UP."
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XI.
Ten fifteen AM, Love Love Disco Hall, Shibuya.
"Nice lyrics, Uchiha." Tokonatsu said.
"Love the words," Hayate said, nodding and licking his lips. Tokonatsu nodded in agreement.
"You have ways in writing cool horny stuffs."
Sasuke glared. "It's not horny."
Hayate and Tokonatsu snickered.
"I bet you met some chick in nice dress." Shichikawa said. Sasuke blinked. He's… talking?
An image of a pretty girl in pink and green eyes flashed before his eyes.
Hayate and Tokonatsu snickered harder.
"Sexy girl, I hope?" Shichikawa continued, his lips began to stretch into a wide grin.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes and looked down, strumming the guitar mindlessly. He kept silent, believing that if he keeps quiet, the rest will follow.
But not with these guys.
"What? Not sexy?" Hayate said, mournfully.
Sasuke glared, still not looking up. "Idiot." He reached for a sheet of music, reading the notes. But his mind was elsewhere which bothered him. He wasn't the type of person who would let his mind wander.
She was… just a stranger.
However, she intrigued him truly.
A pretty girl with strange pink hair. Innocent. A beautiful face he saw in a crowded place.
He credited his curiosity to the weirdness of her hair color. And those vivid green eyes.
Who are you? Sasuke asked mentally, unconsciously.
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XII.
At the rooftop, Sakura looked up to the sky blankly.
"Father…"
Her expression shifted.
"…I don't want to be alone."
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XIII.
YOU HAVE 5 VOICE MESSAGES
"Hime-chan, I'm sorry for being selfish. For not telling you first before making a decision. It was very selfish of me not to think about your feelings and making decisions without caring about your reaction. I am very sorry. Please, just tell me you are fine, being fed, and you have clothes to wear."
"Sakura, I know you're obsessed with your voice messages, so obsessed that you kept them all the time, saving them and all that creepy stuff, so you better listen to me! I heard from Hinata-chan who shouted it to me— can you believe it?!— that you went to Love Love Disco Hall! ARE YOU INSANE? WERE YOU RAPED? I'm going to kill anyone who dared lay a hand on you, though my help is unnecessary! You can take care of yourself, I know but as of the moment, you are unstable. Tell me what's wrong. Tell me and I will listen. You are annoying, loud, violent, strange, high-tempered, selfish, greedy, and smart and beautiful and you have wide forehead but the most important thing is: you are my best friend. Talk to me. And don't you dare jump off the roof, you silly girl."
"You owe me. Treat me to lunch after making me look like a freak all the while trying to dodge the balls you kicked and trying to keep my head above my shoulders. You have a problem; solve it instead of running away and trying to kill your teammates. I know it's hard… but you're not a baby girl anymore. Your father deserves to be happy. Be there for him. No matter how difficult it was. You can get through this, not by running amok across the field, not by trying to kill me and the rest of the team and not by being selfish."
"Sakura-chan, I can't find you anywhere… Where are you? Ino-chan and Ten-ten had tried to call you several times but you would not answer. Let's eat lunch together."
"SAKURA-CHAN I KNOW YOU'RE UPSET! I'LL TREAT YOU TO RAMEN TONIGHT! NO MATTER HOW BROKE I AM, I'LL PAY FOR ALL YOUR RAMEN BOWLS TONIGHT! I'LL EVEN LOAN YOU MY ENTIRE INSTANT RAMEN CUPS— boy, won't I go hungry for a month? But it's for you so it's okay! If you want, I will marry you! Our wedding will be better than your father's, with more ramen than cakes, we'll wear orange and black and we'll live happily ever after in shining shimmering splendid castle atop the hill! I'll marry you even though you're scary and violent!"
Click.
NO MORE VOICE MESSAGES
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Standard Disclaimer Applied. Non-Naruto characters are fictional. No direct relation to actual persons and places.
