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It struck her as sudden as the gates shutting on her, that she was alone.
With a bunch of kids her age.
She turned around to look wild-eyed at the man who was leaving her, his attention on the next family near the gates.
A young blond couple and a girl with blue eyes. The girl stood between them as her parents talked to the gate person. As if feeling eyes on her, she turned her head and saw Sakura.
She smiled a little at Sakura's shocked expression at getting caught, and the girl gave a short wave.
Another ninja, Sakura thought, turning quickly away from her. It wasn't that Sakura disliked ninjas or anything, no, she was pretty fascinated by them. But, it was like they were celebrities to regular people like her. How could she go to the same school with them?
"Hey," spoke a voice behind her, disrupting her nervous thoughts.
Sakura turned to the voice, eyes widening ever more.
The girl was orange-haired and wearing a simple black shirt and jeans.
And she spoke to her.
She looked Sakura up and down, assessing her stricken form. Then gave her a predatory smile that made Sakura's heart flip flop in fear.
"Your forehead is so big." she said simply.
This shocked Sakura, and she reached up to touch her forehead. "Huh?"
The girl smirked. "Your forehead. And your hair is weird, too. What? Is it supposed to be dyed?"
Before Sakura could answer to that, the girl looked behind her. "Hey, girls!" she shouted to her friends across the yard.
Sakura's gut clenched as she watched five girls stand from a corner near the school and walk over to them. They had seemed to be surrounding something, even looking a bit glum as they came forward.
When they saw Sakura, however, their eyes lit up as mischievously as the other girl's.
Sakura gulped.
"Look at her forehead, have you ever seen something so big before?" The orange haired girl laughed, prompting the others to follow.
"Eww, is that, like, a thing for you clanless villagers or something?" said another girl. They continued to laugh.
Sakura, in tears, began to back away from them.
"I-I'm sorry, I-"
"Sasuke!" They squealed, startling Sakura so bad, she jumped back into someone's arms.
The girls gasped, drowning out her own as she quickly beelined out of the embrace, and tripped.
She would have fallen flat on her face if someone's arm hadn't caught her just in time.
She felt her hair fall past her face, and looked up between the strands of pink to see her saviour.
It was a boy with dark hair and a seriously annoyed face. He glared cooly at Sakura,her body pressed to his.
Uh oh...
"You're in my way," he said, seeming like he didn't care one way or another.
"S-sorry!" she yelped, staring at him with a little fear.
Will he pick on her too?
But, instead of continuing his conversation, he let her go and started to walk to the steps of the academy. He passed the tree in the front yard, a large swing on it empty of anyone.
Sakura suddenly wished she was like that invisible person on the swing when the girls near her suddenly changed their attitude.
Now their eyes spelled hate.
Sakura shivered and moved quickly toward the academy steps, too.
She felt it was best if she stood near the doors, away from everyone.
Unfortunately she wasn't paying attention to where she was going,her eyes on the angry girls, and tripped against a step.
Oh no, not again!
"Watch out!"
"What the-"
She felt the air rush up in her face as she fell, and smashed into the person who tried to speak in front of her.
The place quickly became silent.
Sakura had her eyes closed, so she couldn't see what was going on, but she felt her lips pressed against someone else's and the owners heartbeat running as fast against her own.
Oh...crap.
Sakura yanked herself up as if her life depended on it, and scrambled off of the person with a bunch of incomprehensible words.
She was busy staring at the ground and blushing when the boy spoke up.
"Gods, will you be quiet. It was an accident."
Sakura looked up then, surprised at the voice, and saw that it was the same boy she had stepped into earlier.
"Sa-Sasuke!?"
She just embarrassed him twice! Briefly she wondered why he didn't go inside the building like he seemed to be doing when she bumped into him the first time, then realized the doors were locked.
Oh yeah, even I was planning to sit on the steps earlier. I'm so stupid for thinking that!
Or rather, she was rattled into forgetting. You don't just go around accidentally kissing people and not be shaken.
The crowd around them all talked at once about the spectacle, the girls who bullied her being the loudest, but Sasuke only rubbed his lips and looked annoyed.
Sakura wanted to die, this was really turning into a nightmare!
"Hey, new girl!" shouted the orange-haired girl who first spoke to her.
Sakura flinched, her blush deepening, and turned fearfully to look at her.
She wished she hadn't.
The girl was holding a kunai knife in her hand, brandished in front of her like she wanted to fight. Most of the kids had moved out of the way, forming a half circle around her and the academy so the adults behind the gates couldn't see.
"Come and fight me, village girl!"
The crowd grinned eagerly, ready to see some action, but mindful enough of the adults ten feet away to keep quiet.
Hah!?
"Wait, wait, wait!" screeched Sakura as someone grabbed her arm and shoved her in front of the angry girl.
"This is for stealing my first kiss with Sasuke!" she battle-cried, and ran for her.
Sakura was struck dumb. She was really going to kill her with that thing? B-but, Sakura didn't know how to fight! How was she supposed to-
Ding!
The crowd let out a gasp as a surprised squeal split Sakura's ears.
Eyes squeezed shut, she finally peeled them open to see Sasuke's back, a red and white fan she vaguely familiarized with glared at her from the dark fabric. The kunai that was meant for her was embedded safely in the ground next to his feet.
However, Sakura's eyes were on the person in front of him, to the girl with blue eyes holding the other girl in a headlock.
"Now, say you're sorry, Martina!" the girl shouted loudly, squeezing her squirming form. "Now!"
"Ack, alright! Stop choking me!"
"Not until I hear you say it!"
The girl, Martina, spit at the ground. "Sorry!" she angrily shouted at Sakura. "Now let me go, Ino!"
She did, with a triumphant smile on her lips. "Go back to your little puppy followers, lover girl. Sasuke don't want you, and neither does she," she pointed at Sakura, who was still on the ground, mouth wide open.
Sasuke perked at his name being mentioned, whom moved from his position in front of Sakura a long time ago, and glowered at the blond haired girl.
"Don't speak for me," he said with an annoyed look.
The girl only laughed.
"Why did you guys have to butt in like that," whined a boy from the crowd. "It was getting to the good part!"
Ino glared at him, then at all the other people who were watching.
Her face said shame on you all, and turned to Martina. The orange haired girl glared up with hate in her eyes as she rubbed her neck.
"I can't believe you're in the same grade as me. I hope we never see each other in the classrooms."
"Better watch out with that one, Martina," Ino chuckled darkly. "It just might happen!"
As they were bickering, Sakura got the feeling someone was watching her, and turned her head to see Sasuke's eyes on her.
She suddenly rememered the kiss out of nowhere, and blushed an embarrassed red.
"I-I'm sorry for- kiss-you-helping me-kunai..." she trailed off when she realized she was talking gibberish and the girls had stopped talking to watch her. "Ahh,"
Sasuke held out his hand silently, looking away. Startled, Sakura realized she was still sitting, and grabbed his hand quickly to stand up. As soon as their hands touched, Sasuke turned to her with a quick, but surprised look.
Their point of contact made a shock between them.
Sakura yanked her hand to the sky to break their contact, as if raising her hand for a teacher, her face crimson red.
"S-sorry!"
Sasuke just gave her another annoyed look. "For what? I only helped you up."
"But, I-"
"Alright, kids!" yelled a woman who seemed to come out of nowhere. She stood at the steps, brown eyes hard on them all.
Sakura was instantly frightened of her.
Was all ninja teachers going to be like that?
"Everyone line up single file so we can go into the building," she said over the kids groaning. Some, mostly the girls, were glaring openly at Sakura.
"This year is going to be the best year yet. We have so many talented ninjas here who come from equally talented clans. And we hope all of you will succeed in protecting your home one day. Any questions?"
No one raised their hands.
Scooting inconspicuously away from her peers, she took the back of the line, as nearly every girl, including Ino to Sakura's surprise, tried to get closer to Sasuke. It created a big knot in the "line".
The woman on the steps got angry.
"I said a line, people!"
Sakura sighed heavily in her mind. What a start to her first day at school!