(AN)--Sorry I havent updated in such a long time! Its just with the new school year (Even though its not all too new NOW lol) here finally I've been kinda short on time….and lazy. My apologies! I'm too lazy for my own good. D:
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This is about 1 or 2 weeks after the last chapter.
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Sakura opened her eyes only to be blinded by rays of sunlight that poured out of her open window. She reluctantly sat up straight and looked around her room as a certain thought just entered her mind. It was Saturday! She jumped out of bed , took off her pajamas and put on some clothes and sandles. She put up her long hair in a ponytail as she walked out of her room to go to the kitchen to eat breakfast. Humming happily to herself she opened the drawer that contained her favorite cereal, pulled it out and into the bowl of milk she had already gotten out.
" Hey look who's finally up."
"Well Umi, seeing how its Saturday and all I suppose I can sleep in as late as I want." Sakura replied. Umi was smiling her usual goofy smile as she took the discarded cereal box and prepared to make herself breakfast. " Hey I thought you said I got up late!" Sakura said, curiously watching Umi pour the milk into her own bowl. If it was so late why hadn't she already eaten?
"Yeah well that doesn't mean I didn't either!" Umi laughed
"Ha…and here I really thought I got up late." Sakura said rolling her eyes, as she began to eat her cereal. She looked outside the back door from where she sat at the table, admiring how nice it was outside today. A small bird flew by the glass door.
"Nice day, huh?" Umi said, looking away from the glass door.
"Yeah it--"
THUMP! Sakura and Umi looked back over to the door. There was a bird laying on the ground. What an uncoordinated bird…
"I think that this is a sign." Umi said, looking at Sakura.
"How could that be a sign?"
"It's a sign that you need to go out and do something today."
"What the fu--"
"You hear that!?"
"Hear what--"
" Hush!" Umi put her hand over Sakura's mouth with a suddenly scared look on her face. "Wait here!" And with that ran out of the kitchen leaving a very confused and harassed looking Sakura standing by herself.
'I knew I shouldn't have showed her to my secret stash of candy'Sakura thought with a slightly irritated look on her face.
"Sakura!" Sakura screamed and turned around.
" Umi! How the hell did you--" Umi shoved a back purse in Sakura's hands. " Hey my purse! What--" but she was rudely interrupted yet again by Umi shoving her over to the back door. "UMI WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DO--"
SLAM.
Sakura turned around to see the face of Umi on the other side of the glass door. " HEY! WHAT THE HELL UMI!?" Sakura said as she tried to open the newly locked door.
" Eh, you need to get out of the house more. Your dressed and you have your purse. Enjoy." And with that she closed the blinds behind the glass door leaving Sakura to glare angrily at the innocent blinds.
"Damn you Umi…" She walked away from the door and over to the backyard gate while passing a red headed new maid Sakura couldn't really say that she recognized. The maid gave her a peculiar look as she caught a few words the pink haired girl were mumbling about. And she was pretty sure they were "…fucking…", "..just wait until..", and "I swear I 'm buying a chainsaw…".
Sakura could have sworn she heard someone gasp but when she turned around all she seen was the red headed maid running away like she seen a psychotic person. She looked to her left and right. I don't see anyone here…geeze whats her problem…?
Sakura walked to the driveway and to her own car, which was a silver Jaguar. " Well my day just completely opened up…well…now what." She sighed and drove the car down the driveway. " Well I could go to that game store in town…I heard they're releasing some cool new games today…" Sakura loved videogames. In the malls arcade half the games have Sakura's name in the top scores. Well what else was there to do? Paint the grass and watch it grow? Not that she hadn't tried that yet, its just her ADHD started to kick in within the first 5 minutes, then she was off trying to shoot butterflies with a paintball gun. Yes, Haruno Sakura was a very fun person to be around. That is of course if psychotic and fun have the same meaning. But then again when haven't they?
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"Geeze how the hell is it dark already?" Sakura had just gotten back in her car and was on her way home. "Time flies when your having fun I guess…" After about 10 minutes she pulled into her driveway. "Oh and I still have to hunt down Umi and kill her for locking me out of my own damn house." She opened the front door and headed up to her room. Umi was sometimes upstairs using her computer so Sakura would go there first. Where are her usual hiding places…?
Running up the steps Sakura went to turn a corner and ran into something and fell backwards on her bottom. "Ouch!" She looked up to see her father very mad looking.
"Watch where your going girl."
"Dad I didn't--" A foot had collided into her side sending her flying backwards until she rolled into the main staircase. Sakura rolled painfully down the steps with loud thumps each time her body made contact with the uneven floor. On instinct she reached out a hand and grabbed onto the side of the wooden railing.
"Watch next time." Sakura didn't even look up at him. She could hear footsteps as her father walked the opposite direction she had been coming from. Breathing heavily from shock she lifted herself off the floor and walked up the stairs to continue to her room. Sakura opened her door, looked up and saw Umi sitting at her computer stand looking at her with worry.
"Hey Sakura whats wrong?" Sakura shifted her weight under Umi's gaze.
"Nothing!" She gave a bright smile toward the plum-haired girl." Don't get me wrong though…I'm going to kill you for locking me out today!"
"Uh yeeeeah about that…"
"Five…"
"Is this really necessary?" Umi laughed nervously.
"Four…"
"Oh snap!" Umi ran faster than Sakura had ever seen her run before. She listened to her run down the hall Sakura herself had just came from.I'll give her a head start this time. Sounds like she's going down to the kitchen.
"Three…" Sakura couldn't hear Umi's footsteps anymore. "two…one." Sakura looked both ways down the hall. " Lets see now… where oh where could she have gone." Sakura ran to the way she had came earlier which lead away from the dead end hallways. She felt something wet drop on her arm. Looking down she stared closely for a second trying to figure out what the red liquid was. Blood. Sakura reached up to touch her forehead where she felt a small gash that she hadn't noticed before. Taking a moment to think she looked at her arms and her legs that had bruises up and down them. Some were new enough to be from when she had been pushed down the stairs…others where healing and where only barley noticeable.
"I…I've got to stop this…" Without realizing it a tear silently rolled down her cheek and onto the floor. She sighed. It couldn't go on like this forever could it? Hiding the marks wouldn't work forever would it? Someone was bound to figure out what was going on; it was only a matter of time…
A loud bang echoed causing Sakura's head to jerk up. " W-What the heck was that!?" She looked around her trying to figure out which direction the sound had come from. "It sounded like it came from…the kitchen!" She sprinted down the hall and down the steps as fast as she could. Horrible pictures swam through her head on what the loud noise had been…What if it was…no…No that's impossible! How could I even think such a thing!? I mean he didn't look very happy but… Sakura continued to run. She ran past all the dark, shadowy halls and rooms that only added to how insanely large her house was. Don't think like that…
She shook those ideas out of her head as she stopped abruptly on the slippery kitchen tile. There weren't any lights on and the only reason she could see at all was because of the moonlight streaming through the screened windows and door. Not that it helped too much. Cautiously stepping forward Sakura looked around the empty kitchen for anything that could have caused such a loud bang. She could feel her heart beating in her chest as she tried to listen for any sounds other than her own heavy breathing. Sakura went to take another step forward with intentions of turning on the light so she could see properly (and it wouldn't be so scary, even though she refused to admit to herself that she was scared) when her bare foot stepped in something wet. Wet and warm.
Oh my god… If her heart was beating fast before, it was a miracle in itself that it hadn't jumped out of her chest now. Her eyes were wide and stared horrified at the spot she was looking at when she felt the wet substance under her bare foot. She couldn't bring herself to look down, afraid of what she might see if she did…
"Sakura what are you doing?" The lights turned on. Sakura spun her head around so fast she almost got whiplash.
"Umi! You ok!" Sakura ran over to Umi and tackled her to the ground on the spot.
"Sakura--what the--why wouldn't I be..?" Both Sakura and Umi looked up at the kitchen. It was a mess. If possible worse. There were cereal all over the counters and still pouring from the boxes they came from, The coffee maker was laying shattered in over five different places on the floor by the table, There was a linked chain of paper towels all over the room even hanging from the ceiling fan. To put it short it looked like something exploded.
"But then what did I step in on the floor…" Sakura looked down at a puddle of milk that was on the floor and the new footprints that led from there to where she and Umi where picking themselves off of the floor. A small blush of embarrassment spread across her face. Under the table the glass of milk she had drank at breakfast that morning was now shattered.
"What in the world happened in here!?" Umi screamed. "And more importantly WHO is going to clean all this up!?"
Sakura sweat dropped. Just then something flew behind Umi in the shadows. "UMI LOOK OUT!"
"What!?"
"Theres something over there!"
"WHAT!?" Umi jumped up and was now hugging Sakura's arm.
" Look! There it is again!" A blur of brown flew past the girls heads. (You could practically hear the Jaws music)
"Oh my god what is it!?" It went quiet…
"…"
"…"
"Is it…is it gone..?" A ball of fuzz shot out from the shadows behind the microwave, going the speed of light--
"HOLY--" The small ball collided with Sakura's face so hard it knocked her backwards.
"Whoa…." Umi looked down at the pink headed girl who seemed to still be in shock from the impact. Umi looked around the destroyed kitchen and found a rolling pin. She cautiously walked over to where Sakura laid and slowly, oh so slowly moved the pin closer and closer to her face to poke the ball of fuzz that had yet to move.
"WHAT THE HELL IS ON MY FACE--" Sakura shot up…straight into the rolling pin. "OUCH!"
"Oh my gosh I didn't mean--hey where did it go?!" Umi looked over Sakura's face, that no longer had any trace that a brown killer tennis ball had ever been there.
"I don't know!" Sakura tuned her head.
"ITS ON YOUR HEAD!"
"Wha--GET IT OFF!" Sakura jumped up off the floor and ran around the kitchen as though she was being burnt by invisible fire. Her hand darted to the brown ball, capturing it in her hand. "Got it!"
"Whatis it?" Umi asked looking into Sakura's palm to get a better look.
"It's a…a…squirrel?" And sure enough the 'vicious' little ball of fuzz untangled its little legs and bushy tail to reveal itself as a cute little harmless squirrel. Well…not so harmless to where it couldn't destroy a whole kitchen.
"Awww!!!" Unison squeals echoed the halls.
"Its so cute!"
"We'reso keeping it!"
"What should its name be?"
"Look how little it is!"
"I always wanted a pet squirrel…"
"You also wanted a pet dinosaur…"
"Yeah well look where it got me! I am now the proud owner of a squirrel, so HA!"
"Oh shut it.."
The little squirrel just sat back in Sakura's hand and watched the two girls swoon over him.
"His name shall be…Scope." Sakura said in a topic-is-not-up-for-discussion tone.
"…Scope…? Eh I could think of better…"
"Hey who's face did he land on?!"
"…Yours…?"
"Exactly."
"Dude what does that have to do with anything?"
"Oh geeze its already midnight! Wow I'm pooped I think me and Scope are gonna hit the hay! Oh by the way Umi the 409 is under the sink!"
"I know where the cleaning stuff is--"
"Good night!" Sakura's voice echoed from the room connected to the kitchen.
"…WAIT! I DON'T WANNA CLEAN ALL THIS UP!"
"Umi that's what we pay you for."
"Oh yeah…" Umi huffed. "…I hate cleaning…"
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"I wonder how such a little thing could cause so much…destruction! I mean the whole kitchen was a wreck!…I think we'll get along just fine!" Sakura giggled, the little animal sitting on her bed. It simply crooked its head to the side and continued to watch her. "You seem pretty tame if you ask me…you must be a smart little guy aren't you?"
Heavy footsteps could be heard down the hall getting closer to Sakura's room. " Oh crap! My dad will never let me have you! Hide!" And the little squirrel jumped up and slid under the covers of her bed.What the…could he understand me--
"Sakura."
"Yes?" Sakura looked up from where she sat on her bed to where her father stood just inside the doorway.
"I'm fucking tired of all your damn friends calling you at every hour of the fucking day!"
"Well don't pick up my phone." Sakura said icily.
"Watch your mouth!" He threw her neon blue phone at her, narrowly missing her head. It shattered her bedside lamp to pieces that fell all over the floor and the side of the bed.
"Well If you don't like it don't pick up my phone!"
"They call the damn house phone too! And I'm tired of it! I've told you before to not have them call here."
"No you haven't." Sakura glared across the room at the man that made her life hell.
"That's it. Your not going to that damn school anymore."
"WHAT!? You cant do that!"
"I've already done it. You start Konoha High Monday morning."
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Haha cliffy! I'm so evil. :)
Hey I don't think it's THAT bad though so just bear with me! I tried to make the chapter longer than the previous two so I hope I managed that this time. I'm sorry for such a long wait but I hope your satisfied a little now! Sorry if you thought I may have rushed the story a little, but this is just how I write I suppose…
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