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Haha, So I started writing this ages ago, this chapter, but I've just been sooooooo busy lately and tired that I just didn't have the time and energy (CUE: aww) but now that I've finished with the School Musical (Oliver!) I have lots more time to write this and have lots of updates for you... I think... I should be revising for my GCSE's.AHH only like 3 months! -Shock face- Hmm...Ah well!
So yeah, here's the long awaited chapter! Hope you like it, even though it's a bit crappy!
Chapter 3-
"Pst. That's the girl who hates Sasuke-kun!"
"Hates Sasuke-kun? Never!"
"She must be a lesbian!"
Whispers followed Sakura the next couple of days, but she didn't care. Why should she? After all, she didn't see what the fascination of Sasuke to the world was! It wasn't as if he was funny, or had a decent personality whom everyone could get along with, no, his personality was far from 'decent' and he defiantly wasn't funny. In fact, Sakura couldn't even see how people would find him attractive! Though she supposed he would look a great deal better without the look of pure disgust on his face as he strutted around the school with his posse.
His friends! Gah! She didn't know when she liked Sasuke less, when the two bumped into each other after school (which happened fairly frequently for some strange apparent reason) or when he was with his friends. She didn't not like any of them, as such, she just didn't know them. She had at first presumed them all to be like mini robot clones of Sasuke, but she had been very wrong indeed. They all seemed so different, it was a mystery how they all came about being friends. There was Sasuke, the arrogant bastard himself. Neji, Hinata's cousin, silent but with emotional range of a tea-spoon. Shikamaru, the quiet, laid back guy who thinks everything is too 'troublesome'. And -
"Hey! Sakura-chan!" A voice boomed into her ear causing her heart to skip a beat from fright.
"Naruto!" She growled, this happening for the fourth time today. He had a tendency to jump out and scream randomly at her, not in an unpleasant way, no, on the contrary, he seemed rather fond of her, himself. Though flattered at first, having no one like her remotely in that way before, but now, after only a couple of days of him shortening her life considerably from fright, she was sick of it.
"Hey! Hey! Sakura-chan!" He grinned toothily, his tanned skin crinkling around his cerulean eyes as he ran a hand through his blonde, spiky hair. "Sakura-chan! Want to eat lunch with me today?"
"No thanks, Naruto, I'd like to eat my today," She muttered moving on quickly, avoiding any more questions from Naruto. She had seen his diet. She called it the Seafood diet. See food. Eat it. (A/N; Lame joke huh? Aha!) She shuddered, remembering her sight of him eating at the very table Sasuke had shunned her from. It indeed, seemed to be claimed as his table, as each lunchtime they would all be found, ignoring the stares from girls across the hall.
Sakura found herself entering the hall for lunch, after spending an hour of her free period alone in her room, to her own thoughts. She made her way over to Ino and Hinata who sat together on a free table.
"Hey, Sakura!" Ino smiled as Sakura joined her. "Where were you today, in free period? You weren't in the courtyard."
"No, I felt like being inside today," She shrugged. The truth was she couldn't be bothered to hear Ino continuous love smoosh on Sasuke. The only reason she had come down for lunch was because of the hunger pains taunting her.
"Oh, well, you should have said, me and Hinata would have joined you," She smiled, getting a reassuring nod from Hinata herself, who smiled politely.
"I'm going to get some food," She smiled politely before weaving in between the tables up to the counters displaying the food. She looked along the rows of baguettes lined up beside each other before putting her hand out to reach the last roast chicken baguette; one problem – there was already a hand reaching out for it.
"Hey, that's mine!" Sakura cried as the baguette slipped through her fingers.
"To bad pinky," A voice said, noting her pink hair. Her head snapped round so fast, she could have cried out in whiplash – but she didn't.
She glared daggers into his own coal eyes. "Sasuke." She growled. "That's my fu-"
"Oi, listen here!" Tsunade's voice filled the room and she stood from the teacher's table. "It is time to announce the teams for this year's exams." Oooing and ahhing filled the room as friends all turned to grin at one and other. "Please make your way to the assembly hall for the selection."
"Hn."
It took almost 15 minutes for everyone to be seated in the hall and for hush to fall among the crowd before the process could begin.
"This year, instead of the traditional three man teams, this year's exams are going to be taken in pairs for the first part. After that, teams will be combined and split to make the traditional teams of three, but until then these are the pairs and once your name is called please make your way through through your respective doors." She pointed to the 4 doors leading off from the main hall, each indicating which year group should pass. "Now, on with the pairs..."
After 10 minutes of pairing until a familiar name was announced and Sakura's ears picked up.
"Sakura Haruno and Shikamaru Nara."
Sakura turned to find the guy who had also stood upon the calling of his name. Yeah, she knew him, through sight only. She smiled weakly towards him before heading through the respecting door.
The room was long and thin, with a couple of other pairs from their year group talking amongst themselves. Sakura made her way to a couple of chairs at the end of the room and took a seat before facing Shikamaru to find him just sitting there staring at her.
"Erm... soo?" She said awkwardly, she didn't like people staring at her, especially people who she didn't know.
He blinked. She didn't know what to say having never spoken to the boy before. After a few moments silence he finally answered.
"I'm just wondering why Sasuke's got such a problem with you," He shrugged, averting his eyes to the ceiling before sighing to himself and looking back towards Sakura.
She raised an eyebrow. "Why? It's none of your business. It's between me and the pompous git."
A slight chuckle left the boy's lips, as he smirked into her emerald eyes.
"I see."
"You see what?" She asked, not understanding what he was quite getting at.
"Nothing," he shrugged once again, his eyes not leaving hers. The smirk still twitching at the corners of his mouth.
"Hmph, could've expected this from one of Sasuke's friends," She sighed, folding her arms around her bust.
"Troublesome." He muttered, still smirking into her eyes.
Small talk was exchanged whilst a few more couple entered the room, vacating the available chairs and soon people had to stand. Sakura looked around nervously, spotting Hinata sat somewhere amongst a crowd of couples. She smiled weakly back at Sakura who could sense her awkwardness from the other side of the room. She was just about to call Hinata over to save her from the crowd, but her attention was caught elsewhere.
"Sakura Haruno, Shikamaru Nara please return to the main hall," Sakura recognised as Anko said from the door way.
The pair glanced at each other in confusion, before hauling themselves off their chairs and casually making their way through the door to find -
"Ino?" Sakura gasped upon looking at the sight before her.
Ino lay, face as red as the brightest tomato on earth, screaming in the arms of a teacher, a look of pure ecstasy bulged from her eyes as she struggled desperately in reach for – for sasuke?
"LEMME AT HIM!" She squealed in a high pitched tone, unlike her normal self. "HE'S MINE! HAHAHA MINE!"
"Sakura-chan, there seems to be a, erm, complication with the pairings, and it is seeming that this pair cannot work with each other like this-"
"SASUKE-KUN! HELP ME!"
"-it is just impossible to work together when one is pouncing or hyperventilating over the other-"
"SASUKE-KUN IS MINE!"
"-So we have come to the decision-"
"SASUKE-KUNNNN!"
"-You will swap partners with Ino Yamanaka-"
"SASU- what?" Ino's voice drowned in reality. Her face grew pale and the blood withdrew, leaving her corps-like as she stared towards Tsunade.
"That's right, Miss Yamanaka. You will now be partnered with Shikamaru," Tsunade said, seemingly un-phased by the previous events. "Sakura, you will now be partnered with Sasuke."
"WHAT?" The two girls cried in unison.
"Tsunade-sama, not him please! Anyone but him!" Sakura pleaded through her teeth, not even taking one glance at Sasuke himself.
"TSUNADE-SA-SA-MA, P-P-PLEASEEE! DON'T TAKE A-AWAY MY S-SASUKE-KUN!" Ino burst into a fit of hysterical tears, holding Tsunade tight, begging for her to take back her last comment.
"Miss Yamanaka, please remove yourself from me. This is not up for discussion. If one cannot behave appropriately then one shall be removed. End of conversation. Please take your places in the other room." She stated sternly, eyes penetrating death glares at the four youths before her. The four stood staring at her for a mere second before strolling half heartedly towards the left door.
"Troublesome."
Shikamaru followed the snivelling Ino out the room, soon followed by Sasuke. Sakura hung back a little before turning to face Tsunade again who just smiled sweetly back.
"You'll get over it," She said, resulting in a sharp look from Sakura.
"Hmph," Sakura muttered. "What's with all this 'if one cannot' business anyways?"
"I thought it gave me authority," Her smile grew.
"Yeah, whatever, crazy lady," Sakura muttered inaudibly.
"What was that?" Tsunade's grin quickly grew into that stern sharp look, Sakura knew oh so well.
"Nothing, Tsunade-sama! Bye!" Sakura grinned herself before hurrying out of the room to join the others and her new found team mate – Uchiha Sasuke.
So there we go! I hope you liked it! Bit suckish yeah?
Hopefully I'll get up another chapter in a week or so, but I've got another show (yes people, ANOTHER show) in just over 2 weeks time that I have to learn dances slash words slash EVERYTHING for, so yeah. I'm a busy person. eek!
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