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So another chapter and all...so..man IDK what to say here so meh.

REDemption Love and Lies: Thanks for taking an interest on my fic. :) And know I kinda think about it Vampire Knight was one of the inspirations but obviously not the vampire concept :P


Chapter 3: Am I Going to Win This?

"Neji-sama for president!"

"He's graceful and perfect!"

"He's the best!"

Sakura's eye twitched rather violently from all these statements while at the same time people were giving her glares. She sighed at all the words coming from the other students.

"That human is either brave or stupid to go against Neji at elections.

"She'll lose in a heartbeat."

"What's a human doing here anyway?"

The last statement felt a pin cushion within her. She too wondered why she was at this particular school. She could have gone to highschool with her peers back at middle school and it would have been the same for the next few years. When she entered this she was hoping to be different not only her herself but for her new friends as well.

"I got people actually wanting to good friends with me, they want to know a lot about me. I-I'm glad I came to this school." she smiled to herself as the noises were drowned out.

She still can't believe why her competitiveness got to her to challenge Neji but nonetheless it is definitely worth a challenge and on the bright side her friends are supporting her campaign. Another bright fact is how they're getting their friends to support Sakura as well. She turned to her side as she fell into a pool of deep red eyes.

"Not gonna scream vampire?" wondered Sasuke with a blank look.

"Well you are scaring anyone that wants to mess with me so nope." Sakura shook her head with a smile. "Anyways Sasuke who's this group that keeps on following you, not your fangirls."

Sasuke sighed at the human due to the question. He didn't have a personal problem against the so called group Sakura pointed out but it's just their antics that crept him out, though he will never admit it. Ignoring their obsessions or questionable hobbies they were fiercely loyal to Sasuke: sometime he would take advantage of it, sometimes he would ignore them and sometimes he just didn't care at all. Such as this situation.

"You stupid girls vote Sasuke for Vice Pres. You hear me!" a red headed girl with glasses screamed at the crowd surrounding the duo.

As the students dispersed, Sakura had a good look at the girl. The only thing unusual about her were the fox tails and ears but she wondered who the girl was.

"Karin, thanks." Sasuke said simple.

The girl with the frown suddenly swooned towards him with glee. "Anything for you Sasuke!"

Sakura back away a couple inches from the sudden movement, the girl simply creepe her out.

"So you must that human my cousin keeps babbling about huh?" asked Karin as she approached Sakura.

"Cousin?" wondered Sakura, she was staring at the fox ears and tails. Her mouth was opening for the answer. "Naruto!"

"Yup." nodded Karin as she suddenly glared at her. "I'm only helping you because Sasuke asked me to got it?!"

"Y-Yeah thanks." responded Sakura.

The girl smirked to herself as she waved at Sasuke as she disappeared into the hallways. Sakura had a confused look as she stared at Sasuke.

"I met Karin when she stayed at Naruto's house last summer." the Uchiha started.

"Is she like one of your fangirls or something?" asked Sakura.

Karin's swooning made her look like one of the fangirls but something was off from the girl. The girl could be a descent person if Sasuke wasn't close by, unfortunately the first meeting wasn't the best.

"She's Sasuke-sexual." Sasuke answered simple.

Laughter came from the human as she clutched her sides. If Sasuke never knew her it would have been noise to him but this unique human, this unique girl made it sound like music to him. He didn't know why but he wanted Sakura to keep that smile and laughter he wouldn't mind listening to her laughing just a little longer.

"Naruto came up with the name and we just went on with it." Sasuke shrugged off.

Sakura laughed out even more then she was trying to catch her breath. "Oh man Naruto would say something like that."

The mimic kept the blank expression but the inside he was smiling. Sasuke was glad to make the girl's day from bad to good with just a sentence or two.

"C'mon let me set those up while you make your speech."


Sakura approached the school yard to let her thoughts wonder, or at least inspire her to write her speech. She took note of Ino arguing with a couple of other ghost and angel students.

"What you can't do that!" Ino glared at an angel.

"Sorry Ino but you have missed too many practices already." the angel informed so calmly. "You are out of the chorus group."

"If it was Hinata you'd warn her." Ino muttered keeping her glare on.

"How dare you mock Hinata, she's the true voice of the Leaf Academy's choir!" one of the ghost screamed at the back.

Ino had no problem with the Hyuuga girl at all, but simply comparing her and Hinata is like comparing night and day. The banshee girl was the reason Hinata started to sing and it suddenly became the shy girl's passion, which Ino supported wholeheartedly.

"Oh man a club arguing, now we wouldn't want them to be separated from one argument." a white haired boy with shark teeth approached them.

"Suigetsu, what are you doing here?" wondered Ino.

"Sasuke is calling in favors and man does he demand it." the boy complained though he grinned at everyone. "Hey mind if you all vote for this human chick, what's her name Sakeri?"

Sakrua couldn't help but sweatdrop.

"Sakura you damn shark brain!" corrected Ino with a glare. "Stupid water demons do have water for their brains."

"Right that human girl so it would be pretty swell if the choir did vote for it then no problems, which means no plan B." Suigetsu grinned showing off his fangs, ignoring Ino's last statement.

Sakura then heard the complaints from the group. She was glad her friends were helping her out but it seemed so sad to them fighting with their other friends.

"Then plan B then." the shark demon sighed as he gestured someone over.

Around the corner came Hinata with a look of determination. Sakura gasped at the sight as she never seen her angel friend look so seriously. Most of the time she seemed so sweet and very friendly, but this Hinata's eyes screamed ruler. What happened?

"You will vote for Sakura." Hinata commanded with a sharp look. It didn't help her powerful look was scaring the group, though Sakura, Ino and Suigetsu were unfazed.

"B-But!" one of the angels whined.

"No buts!" Hinata demanded as she glared at the group even more.

Sakura heard the group's complaints as they walked away defeated, though they did decide to vote for her. Sakura couldn't help but silently thank all of her new friends' supports. They were going great lengths just to help her win, she looked up to the setting sun with a carefree smile. Her thoughts were interrupted by an interesting sight.

"Hina that was awesome!" Naruto screamed in delight as he grinned at the girl.

It was like a 180 turn for Hinata as her confidence faded in a matter of second since she reverted back to her usual shy self.

"Y-You s-saw t-that N-N-Naruto?" she stammered even more as her legs shook from the nervousness.

"Oh so she could be aggressive but Naruto is one factor that turned her back into the Hinata I know and love, but what other causes make her shy." her Sakura's inner thoughts as she walked away.

The pinkette is grateful for all the help her friends were giving her, she felt obliged to even work harder for the election.


"...appeal to the crowd, appeal to the crowd..."

It was the weekend and Sakura stared at a blank sheet of paper. She finished her speech and had it proofread by her teachers throughout the academy. She felt even more grateful due to the other friends she got to meet.

"Hello my name is Sai and I like art. Wow you're pretty flat. Your punches won't affect me since I'm an ink demon." Sai was really an odd one. Honest but blunt Sai doesn't seemed to understand reactions and other people's thoughts. Still he drew some nice looking posters about her.

"Oh by the way Sakura, Neji is having his band perform after his speech." Ino's head phased through a wall with a grin.

"So what would out perform a concert?" wondered Sakura as she tapped her pen continuously.

If it's a concert from her age group, it probably contains current generation music. A band, Sakura wouldn't be surprised if Neji's voice is very good. Plus he is popular at school and many people love him, she's at a huge disadvantage.

"Man I remember doing this musical with all the other banshees. It was to die for!" Ino sighed nostalgically. "Then they all got jealous of me."

She knew Ino was trying to give out ideas but it just wasn't clicking enough. She twirled the pen as she stared outside the empty schoolyard.

"Hey Ino we're allowed to go in the main building even in weekends right?" asked Sakura.

"Yeah but everyone's out at the nearest town which unfortunately is a human town so the school is probably dead quiet." shrugged Ino.

"So this place is like what at the middle of all the realms or something?" wondered Sakura.

"Pretty much, so you know, no favorable and biased stuff happening." nodded Ino.

Sakura never was interested in politics but she understand enough about territorial tensions. She didn't want to knowa war started just because some angel cried about a demon showing off his wings. She sighed to herself as she opened the door.

"Kssk!"

The human held her laughter as she stared at the sight.

"What?" Sasuke asked keeping a serious face.

"W-What's w-with the cape?" she snickered.

Sasuke stood still as he assessed the current situation. He licked around his teeth to feel the morphed teeth. He decided to grin showing off his 'fangs'.

"Vampire." he said simply as his eyes turned red.

She stopped her laughing as she stared at Sasuke. Another giggle came out as she clutched her side. She told him. "I-I can't believe what I'm seeing but it's happening right now!"

It was hard to catch her breath from the sight as Sasuke threw away the cape with a hateful glare.

"Come with me I want to show you something."


"I never saw that building!"

Both Sakura and Sasuke were at the outskirts of the school yard. It was a nice place since it was connected to the nearby courtyard. The human was staring at a lone building surrounded by trees.

"It's a special dorm." Sasuke said.

"Like special special?" asked Sakura not wanting to be rude or blunt.

"This academy doesn't have any of that." Sasuke shook his head. "It's a dorm for members of the student council. It's always emptied at the end of the year so it could be kept clean till the aftermath of the next election."

Sakura knew Sasuke was smart but informative at the same time? He looked so disinterested majority of the time but there was one question bothering her now.

"And how do you know this?" Sakura asked another question suddenly. "We first years shouldn't know about this, should we?"

"My brother he was president when he was still here." explained Sasuke with slight bitterness.

He loved his brother but there will always be that competitive edge between the two of them. Itachi accomplished so much more in his first year that Sasuke felt like the shadow of his brother surrounding him.

"Ah." nodded Sakura. "So I win this and I get a room there, what's so special about it?"

"First of all it's co-ed dorm." Sasuke started.

Sakura's face quickly brightened up. She wasn't used to boys living in the same building as her. She could think of the many things that would possibly happen. Her face turned redder as she twirled her fingers. She wondered. "Anything else?"

"Well all members of the student council must live there. There are no cafeterias but there's a kitchen for everyone's use. When my brother was there he told me how one of his pals would cook and have amazing meals. Plus each room is custom made for each person." explained Sasuke.

"So when you mean all members you also mean just the regular members right?" asked Sakura as an image was popping into her mind.

"From what Itachi told me, it's up to the president to decide." Sasuke recalled.

"I can see it now! Waking up opening my door and seeing Ino across from me. Then as we head down the kitchen for some breakfast I would see Hinata and Naruto chatting so cutely to each other! Then Sasuke comes out and bring us take out! Then..." Sakura's thought's kept on chaining into random events as she smiled at the dorm.

Sasuke's eyes widened as he stared at the girl's smile. A part of him fluttered as he tightened his fists. He smirked to himself as he glanced at the dorm. She heard her again.

"What's the name of the dorm?"

"The Omni Hall: Home of the Best and Strangest Students."


She was at the library staring at one particular book. She was turning the pages intently as she looked for the picture year she wanted. Her friends reassured her, she was working too hard for the election.

"This is Neji we are talking about, no such thing as too hard for him. Still seeing all the previous residents of Omni Hall is pretty interesting. I wonder what Sasuke meant with 'Best and Strangest', is everyone unique or something?" her were current thoughts.

She finally turned to the page she wanted to see. "Wow Sasuke your brother does have a great resemblance."

The black haired teen at the picture seemed so calm and pleasant. He looked like a descent fellow, then Sakura took note of the rest of the picture.

"Akatsuki?" she read the name below outloud.

Surrounding Sasuke brother was a group of very interesting group. A blonde, and red head glaring at each other wholeheartedly, a blue skin grinning, a white haired man getting pushed away by a hooded man that was sighing, and an orange haired man and blue haired woman staring disinterested.

"W-What a group for that student council." Sakura told herself baffled by the sight. "Yup 'Strangest' all right."

"At the same time..." Sakura trailed off as she turned the next page, she took note that both the orange haired teen and blue haired woman were gone. Everyone else was there but there were two new memebers: one had a strange orange mask with one hole at the right eye, while the other one was literary half white and black. "They all seemed like really good and close friends."

She sighed with jealously, Sakura already knew plenty of people from the school but she could still feel that strong gap. She wanted to know them more in a personal level, to share secrets with them, to do the dumbest things with them and just laugh with everyone. She noticed a wet mark on the page.

"I-I want to be close to everyone."


She was staring at everyone with a nervous look. She took a deep breath and looked onto all the people around her. The words coming out of her mouth felt natural and not forced. She was smiling as well wanting people to feel welcomed.

Sakura was practicing her speech in front of her new friends with determination. Though they were all in front of her there was a large group of clones right behind them.

"Fox Demons are masters of illusions so Naruto can make you believe there's an audience in front of you." she remembered Sasuke's explanation

She finished her speech as she bowed down to everyone still keeping that smile.

"That was awesome Sakura!" Naruto grinned at her.

She could feel and honesty from him, as he smiled at her. Though she did feel Hinata's glare, she found it cute how the two of them looked together like when she found the two at the cafeteria.

"Hn I never thought you could actually match Neji with speeches." Sasuke analyzed.

Sasuke spent the most time with her and despite his blank look, Sakura could tell what he's feeling from his eyes. Right now she felt his eyes were smirking at her, giving her his approval.

"Not troublesome enough to make me fall asleep unlike Neji's." shrugged Shikamaru.

Shikamaru was very hard to analyzed but his usual troublesome comments told her he preferred her over Hinata's cousin. He was dozing off soon after, Sakura wasn't surprised by the lazy bum.

"Shika means it's good." Ino smacked the shadow demon at the head.

Sakura could tell he and Ino were friends for a very long time. Despite how the two treat each other, she could feel that odd wall between the two of them. She knew Ino has her support all the way.

"V-Very nice." Hinata gave her opinion with a smile.

Hinata was conflicted but in the end she chose Sakura since she was so king to her. Sakura could feel the disdained relation between the two angels. After the school elections she promised herself she would help mend the relationship between the cousins.

"Thanks guys." she thanked all of them.

As most of them left to finish up whatever role they had at Sakura's campaign, Ino stared intently at the human, who was looking at the sunset. She could feel the girl's desire to be closer to her but at the same time her hesitance. The banshee took out a PSVita and sat at a nearby bench.

"You coming back to the dorm Ino?" asked Sakura.

"Why not stick here for a bit?" offered Ino as she patted an empty spot next to her.

There was supposed to be silence but Ino's Vita is playing music.

"So what do you think of this place?" asked Ino.

Sakura was shocked by the sudden question. She hasn't stayed here long enough to actually know all the good and bad aspects of the place but she had something in her mind. "This place is interesting, and if I'm a normal human I would think this place would be whack."

"Ditto." giggled Ino as she started to swipe at the touchscreen. "My dad told me how the Celestial Realm and Undead Realm are sworn enemies and all but look I'm best buds with cute Hinata!"

"Really?" wondered Sakura.

"Well Celestials are all about light and holiness and that crap but us Undeads are kinda the opposite." Ino explained.

"I wish I have close friends." Sakura whispered to herself.

"I've known Shika, Naruto and Sasuke for most of my life. Meeting Hinata at the dorms for the first time made me so happy to have a female friend that could be really close to you. I know she felt the same, she didn't care I was from the Undead Realm, she just wanted a friend. And then there's you the human girl you're making this place interesting." Ino took a deep breath. "I'm hearing from our sempais that they were interested at why a human girl is here, and thought it would be an exciting school year."

"Like the school elections?" asked Sakura.

"Yup it would be interesting to see the first human school president at Leaf Academy." nodded Ino. "Let's see Sasuke is running for VP, Naruto is public relations, Shikamaru is treasurer, Hinata will be an adorable secretary."

"I'm still surprised they're letting first years actually get a position." Sakura told Ino. "In human schools you need to at least be a second year to be able to run for most of the positions."

"Pfft humans schuman, it's not about age for us Undeads, it's about guts to do whatever you need to accomplish." Ino grinned as there was some victory fanfare playing.

"So whatcha playing?" asked Sakura as she took a glance at the screen.

"Oh some good old Persona 4!" Ino grinned though she pouted quickly. "I wish I can pick the gender since you can only be a guy."

Sakura's eyebrow raised from the gamer...banshee. She could tell Ino really did love her video games but she didn't seemed to show it off towards her other friends. Sakura decided to ask another question. "So does anyone else know you love video games?"

"Pfft no only you and Hinata." Ino pouted. "All the other girls are jealous of my looks, my grades, and my popularity. They tend to try to be nice to me but I could tell they just want to take advantage of me."

Sakura stared at the girl in disbelief. Already a few weeks in this school and Ino seemed like one of the nicest and outgoing members of the school. Whenever she walked with Ino throughout the hallways, she heard meany people greeting the blonde while she smiled back and waved back. Sakura didn't even notice Ino staring into her game very intently

"Never thought of it that way." Sakura told herself. "C'mon Ino we gotta practice our performance."

"Dammit they found my weakness! FUUU-"


-UUUUU-"

"I-Ino n-no cursing p-please." begged Hinata as Ino pouted at her not falling gracefully. The blonde stopped her cursing when she felt Hinata's gaze was over her.

Sakura was able to gather Hinata, Ino, Sasuke, Naruto and Shikamaru to perform. Sakura was mostly set, speech, confidence, and her natural looks. She asked everyone for some sort dance routine while they play some popular current music.

"Dammit I didn't want to fall like that!" Ino whined. "I wanted to fall on my tip toes not my entire foot, it would dive out a more beautiful end!"

"Troublesome banshee is too damn competitive." sighed Shikamaru.

"Hey we're not gonna have problems with Sasuke being your partner, Sakura?" wondered Naruto as he grabbed Hinata's hand. The angel was almost fainting from the distance between them.

"You better not hold me back." smirked Sasuke.

"Just make sure I don't fall!" whined Sakura.

She loved dancing, people from middle school would gawk at her moves. Though Sakura never was one that would do coordinating dancing she was more into the making it up as she goes. Still having a dance partner felt odd but yet enjoyable.

"So this is what it's like to have someone actually dance with me. Most guys never caught on, though it was odd when I found them knocked out for some reason." Sakura thought as she recalled the many times, a boy is on the floor dizzy.

She felt Sasuke's arms around her, the human couldn't help but blush at the contact. She felt safe as he held her waist. Sakura was starting to worry about her current position. She was fascinated by the footwork of the dance they were doing.

"Look up." said Sasuke. "It's disrespectful to not look at your partner at the eye."

"S-Sorry." Sakura apologized as she attempted to look up.

She then realized her mistake as she stared into the most blood red eyes she ever seen throughout her life.

"VAMPIRE!" she jumped away. The girl now realized her heart was beating at a significant rate. She blushed as everyone was staring right at her.

"You gotta stop calling poor Sasu, he hates it." giggled Ino.

"Aww poor bastard being called a blood sucker." Naruto laughed uncontrollably.

For some reason his tails were twirling in a rapid rate. Hinata was caught in between Naruto's many tails.

"N-Naruto!" she blushed from all the fluffiness around her.

"So troublesome." sighed Shikamaru.

Sasuke simply glared at her. Though he would never admit it, he found it amusing for Sakura to keep on freaking out like that. He poked her forehead as he took a break from all the practice.

"This is gonna be such a long day." complained Sakura as she followed Sasuke.


She never realized how tiny she looked compared to the audience that was staring right into her. She could feel the gazes judging her, yet she felt her friends's eyes comforting her.

"You got this Sakura." she reassured herself

The human heard all of Neji's speech, which was amazing and charming, at the same time he tried to break her with his speech, but it only made her more confident, more daring. She'll admit Neji's band is very good, plus the angel's singing voice was just hypnotizing. She swore she saw a couple of guys blushing at their seats, heck even Naruto was blushing and took note of Hinata pouting at him.

"Just have fun." Sakura convinced herself.

She was walking gently towards the podium as she felt every step was a stairway heading towards her new life. The pink haired girl stared towards the audience with a smile, since she would have no problem with this at all.

"Hello my name is Haruno Sakura, just your typical human..."


So this chapter revealed a bit of Sakura. Like the library scene she already has friends but not really close friends. That's what she wants to be able to have people to depend on and to depend on her at the same time. She's getting there but remember she's just human so she'll have to deal with all the crazy stuff her new friends tend to do.

BTW...CLIFFHANGER FTW Muhahahaha, alright stopping evil laugh.

So also you could tell from the timeskips, right? This chapter in storywise consisted in a few weeks, so Sakura would probably in Leaf Academy for a month now.

BTW ever heard of the anime The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, despite having just 24 episodes it really is such an enjoyable anime to watch. I'd recommend it if you're in that high school, love triangle anime mood. So many episodes end with that warm fluffy feeling inside. In my opinion one of the bests.