-Runs in- AHHH, I'm SO sorry for THE LONG update guys! Braindead, school, writer's block, it was TRULY horrible! Anyway, again, VERY sorry! I hope you enjoy this chapter! I had a fun time writing it X3 So yeah, enjoy the story and what not! Time for disclaimer now!
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, NOT me! The song also belongs to Metallica!
"Blah"- Speech
'Blah'- Thought/Flashbacks
'Blah'- Innerselves
'Blah'- Sasuke's Thoughts/Song Lyrics
'Blah'- Song Lyrics
"So…" Sarutobi Asuma muttered out, as he looked at his 5th period class. Apparently it was his AP Reading class, and by the looks of it, they didn't really seem like they looked the part… Half the class was already napping and it was barely five to six minutes into the period. An already half way done cigarette hung off the corner of his mouth as he gave out a sigh. Working with a class that seemed to have ADD wasn't going to be easy. His other periods were way more cooperative. They actually listened, while this class snoozed and did absolutely nothing. He ran a hand through his dark brunette colored hair before re-adjusting his crimson colored tie. Quickly, he straightened out his blue and white pin striped buttoned up top while smoothing out his khaki slacks.
While Asuma was attending to more 'fashionable' matters, Sakura was just twizzling around her pencil. A sigh escaped the salmon haired beauty. Boy was this class already boring. It seems only half or a quarter of the class was still up. The rest was in Snoozeville already, population half the class of Sarutobi Asuma. Her emerald colored hues wandered off to her side, looking at her partner who sat next to her. She had a light cinnamon colored hair, and paled nut meg colored skin. Her eyes were the shade of a honey brown, or well, that's what Sakura thought they were. Apparently she was also part of the Snoozeville's gang too. Her clothing was simple, light green cargos, black basketball shoes, a pale pink tank top with Chinese designs and two black wrist bands. From her looks, she looked like an easy going, down to earth kind of girl. Now if only Sakura would remember her name…
"Tenten…" came a whisper from above. Sakura's eyes widened slightly before cocking her head over her shoulder. Her eyes met with bug eye type eyes. Charcoal colored eyes looking into Emerald eyes. Sakura blinked daintily before giving off a look of confusion. The guy wore forest green muscle shirt, with a white collared button up shirt. The shirt wasn't fully buttoned, but it didn't strike as he was showing off. His khaki colored slacks and black running shoes weren't show, due to the fact that a desk was in front of him. His hair was the same color as his eyes- charcoal. Except, his hair was in a bowl shape kind of style, while as described before, his eyes resembled bug eyes. But that wasn't the kicker, oh no, the real kicker was his eyebrows. They were fuzzy, not disgusting fuzzy, but an adorable type fuzzy. Kinda resembling caterpillars- ebony colored caterpillars. He gave Sakura a soft smile before pointing at Sakura's sleeping partner. "Would you please wake her up for me, Sakura-san?" he asked gently, a soft and gentle glow radiating off of him as he smiled. Sakura smiled back at him before turning to her partner. Swiftfully, she gave Tenten a slight nudge. The Chinese looking girl stirred a bit before groggily opening her eyes. A quiet yawn escaped her lips as she began to stretch out her limbs.
"Eh?..." Tenten muttered out after stretching. Quickly, Sakura pointed to the bug eyed boy behind her, who was staring at Tenten the whole time. Tenten quickly smiled at the bug eyed boy before asking: "What is it Lee?"
Lee gulped before blushing slightly. He rubbed the back of his neck while shutting his eyes, giving him an embarrassed look. "Ah, sorry Tenten…Just that I wanted to know if we were still on for Friday…Neji told me that your mother had some objections to it since school just started…" he muttered out to the girl. Tenten tilted her head while continuing to smile at him.
"Ah, well my mom said it's fine. My dad convinced her to let me go out with you Lee.." she said while having a light corral colored blush adoring her cheeks. The whole time the coupled chatted, Sakura had a look of confusion. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. DUH! Why did she remember EARLIER?! Ugh, she swore she was going to smack herself for her stupidity. Why didn't she remember Tenten and Lee?! I mean, come ON! It was so EASY to remember them, but no her mind had to go to jello over the summer, making her almost forget everyone she knew from her sophomore year. Alright, well the story on Lee and Tenten is this:
Rock Lee, the famous quarter back of Kohona high, not to mention one of the best point guards on the basketball team, star runner of the track team and leading batter of the baseball team. He was pretty much an athletic genius, as was Tenten. Tenten was and still is captain of the junior varsity volleyball, and basketball team. Both had been friends since the 5th grade when they first met. Obviously it continued on, and then some by the looks of it. Word had spread around last year that someone had caught them in a tongue war under the football bleachers after football practice. Of course a lot of people thought it was true, especially since they always spent their time together and helped each other out with their leading sports. And they were right, it was true- Tenten and Rock Lee were going out. They soon became the power couple of the school, everyone who met or knew them knew they would probably get married later on in life and stay close friends.
As the sweet talking and flirting continued on between Lee and Tenten, Sakura stared dully at the white board that Asuma had yet to write on. He was opening his mouth and talking, but Sakura heard nothing. She was good at that- tuning people out. It came after she met Naruto and discovered how much of a loud mouth blonde he was. She rested her chin on her hand as her elbow rested on the desk. A sigh escaped her lips, letting her mind wander off to two certain prodigies…
This couldn't be their English teacher…This had to be a HUGE MISTAKE!!!1 Oh but no, no mistake there was. Sasuke and Naruto just had to accept that their English teacher was a bit on the…Weird side? Okay well, weird was an understatement. As Naruto would put it 'He's a freak with fuzzy brows that rival Lee!'. Sasuke had to silently agree with Naruto. Their English teacher- Maito Gai WAS a freak. But I guess in a cool way? Er…No, not really…Not even CLOSE.
"Class…My wonderfully youthful 5th period class!" Gai exclaimed while giving them his 'good guy' pose. The whole class sweatdropped at their teacher's behavior. Boy, Gai-sensei sure loved to call the class youthful…Anyway; Gai started ranting to them about the project they were going to do for the first week. It was pretty much the same thing as he gave out his other classes, except since this was a regulars class, he'd shorten it down to only 5 good and bad things. Once everyone began to work on their projects, Sasuke's mind began to drift off into Lala Land…
Hey kid! Oh god it's you again… Sasuke said to his inner self with a mental scowl. Why did HE have to SHOW UP?! His inner self just gave a pout before sticking his tongue out. Bleh! You big baby! Why do you have to be so mean? I wouldn't be like this…If it wasn't for you causing me to go mad! Oh sure, blame it on the little voice inside your head for making you go mad! What's next, gonna blame your heart for admitting your feelings for Sakura-chan?! Just shut up…I'm busy trying to think of what I want to even put down on this troublesome project that Gai-sensei assigned to us… Boy kid, you're starting to sound like that lazy-ass genius Shikamaru by every passing second…Gosh, you need to lighten up, especially since WE have Sakura-chan as an awesome best friend, besides ramen boy, Naruto! Exclaimed the inner Sasuke with a huge grin plastered on his face. Sasuke could only muster up a sigh. This inner voice was going to be the end of him…
Naruto on the other hand was scribbling down some ideas for his project. He was writing down how he met Sakura and Sasuke-teme, when he first tried ramen, and how Iruka had adopted him when he was only 5. Though, he also wrote about the bad things, like how his father had died in a car crash, how he almost drowned at 6 and really anything else he could think of. He stopped writing and let a sigh out. Who knew writing would for like, ten minutes make his already clear mind even clearer? Eh, oh well, he'll just find or try to think of some more things that's happen to him. Hopefully. Now onto our favorite er well, second favorite Uchiha…
Sasuke was still in his old little world. Just staring out into space, not bothering to listen or anything, just staring. It felt good, just spacing out once in a while. He never took the chance to actually do this before, just sit and stare out into nothing. A sigh escaped his lips as he kept on staring out into nothingness, occasionally looking at Naruto's paper, but then looking back at the wall. His hand reached into the left side of his pocket revealing- dun dun dun, an iPod!
It was like Sakura's, but instead of pink, it was black. He knew Gai wouldn't mind, hell he was sure none of his teachers would. Though, he especially knew Gai wouldn't since he was at his desk reading a book titled 'Chicken Soup for the English Teacher's Soul'. A light smirk spread across his lips before he looked down at the small technological item. Scanning through his songs, he quickly clicked one and set his ear phones into its proper place- his ears. Soft rock beat music began to blast through the teen's ear phones, soft drum melodies accompanied by slight strumming of a bass and acoustic guitar. A grungy, but rock accustomed voice entered into the instrumentals. The voice alluring Sasuke into a trance of rhythm, tapping his pencil against his desk as he kept beat with the song.
New blood
joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
through constant
pain disgrace
the young boy learns their rules
with time the
child draws in
this whipping boy done wrong
deprived of all
his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
a
vow unto his own
that never from this day
his will they'll
take away
A hum going into the tune of the song escaped Sasuke's lips, unknown to even him! I guess he gets too caught up into Metallica songs. The rock melody never left tempo as it continued on, continuing it saddening, and sorrowful ballad.
what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been
what
I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've
shown
never free
never me
so I dub thee unforgiven
they
dedicate their lives
to running all of his
he tries to please
them all
this bitter man he is
throughout his life the same
he's battled constantly
this fight he cannot win
a tired
man they see no longer cares
the old man then prepares
to die
regretfully
that old man here is me
As Sasuke kept on listening on, he felt in tune with the song. Not vocally, but emotionally tuned into it as well. He was always struggling on with life, never being as noticed as his other older brother. He never shined when it came to his talents he was gifted with. He tried to please his whole family by trying to be like his brother, but no avail. He was always battling a battle he knew he might not ever win. As silly as it sounds, he felt like singing this song- putting all the emotion he felt for all the pleasing and struggles he's felt into it. He kept on drumming to the song, still never missing a beat as it continued on.
what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been
what
I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've
shown
never free
never me
so I dub thee unforgiven
you
labeled me
I'll label you
so I dub thee unforgiven…
"So I dub thee unforgiven…" Sasuke mumbled out as he took out his ear pieces, wrapping them around his iPod before tucking it back away in his pants pocket. The last line of the ballad rung in his head, never stopping or going away.
You labeled me, I'll label you, so I dub thee unforgiven…
A frown was on his lips as he looked down at the ground, gathering his thoughts. Unknown to him, his blonde haired friend was watching him the whole time- a look of sympathy spreading across his face as he gazed at the younger Uchiha. He felt sorry for his friend, always being compared to his prodigy of a brother Itachi. He knew that Sasuke cared for his brother, but he never liked being compared to him. It always upsetted him so much that he would break his punching back from frustration.
Time seemed to go by fast, before the friends or the class knew it, the bell rang instantly as Sasuke was about to pick up his pencil. His infamous scowl appeared on his face as he gathered up his items, as did Naruto too. Soon both boys walked off to meet their favorite person- Sakura. All three right now had aide duty. Sakura with Tsunade, Naruto with Jiraiya and Sasuke with Mich- I mean Orochimaru… Anyway, the boys met up with Sakura, who was walking next to Neji while laughing. Both boys felt a pang of jealous as they watched their friend laughing at something the Hyuuga prodigy told her.
Sakura turned to say goodbye to Neji before giving him a slight hug. She quickly ran off to where Naruto and Sasuke were, leaving behind a very shocked and flustered Hyuuga. Her million dollar smile appeared on her face as she hugged her two favorite men in her life. Both boys grinned, or well Naruto did while Sasuke let his unemotional face run him while on the inside his inner self was having a party.
"So guys what's up?" Sakura asked the two boys after hugging them. They both shrugged and replied with "Nothing much, just aide duty now." She nodded at them before discussing with them who had who for aide duty. They replied with the answer of they had Jiraiya and Orochimaru. Sakura told them she had Tsunade. Since Tsunade was the principal and Jiraiya the vice that meant Sakura and Naruto could walk together to their aide job.
Both teens began to walk off, Naruto looking back at the Uchiha with a look of accomplishment and glee. Sasuke just rolled his eyes and scowled at the blonde Uzumaki before turning his heel off to the snake's classroom. He twitched as he began to think about how lucky he thought Naruto and Neji and even his brother were. They were pretty close to the strawberry haired girl. He was too, just that he always shut off his emotions to her. He had no clue why, he just did…While Naruto, Neji and Itachi on the other hand seem to have opened up to her more. Of course he knew Naruto would, Naruto was pretty much in love with the girl and always told her what was on his mind or anything. Neji, even though he wasn't as close as Naruto and Sasuke were to Sakura, he seemed to already have invaded her thoughts and emotions. Now Itachi…Itachi seemed to have baffled Sasuke at how open he was with Sakura. Itachi always seemed to be a nice guy, but had a layer of coating over him, shielding him and blocking him off to getting close to anyone, but apparently Sakura had been the one to break his shield and have him open up to her.
"How…" Don't say it kid! Oh it's just you… Oh it's just me, eh?! WELL IT'S ME, YOU KID! Right… Shut up kid…Anyway, I can't believe you're letting those guys take a whack at Sakura like that! If I could, I would totally go over to Sakura, stare her in the eyes and plant one on those cherry lips of hers! … And then I woul- Oh god you're almost as worst as Jiraiya… HEY! I'm not AS perverted as THAT man! I'm a lesser pervert, ya hear, A LESSER! Oh sure, A LESSER pervert! And does that make me a micro pervert compared to you then? Uh sure why not? Sasuke's inner self said with a grin. Sasuke could only twitch at his inner self's actions. God was this so bothering…
Now onto Sakura and Naruto!
Sakura while currently laughing at a joke that Naruto had told her, while he was just grinning away, enjoying every moment of her beautiful, angelic laughter. Oh how Naruto wished he could rub this in Sasuke-teme's face right now. He could picture it now…
"Ohhhh Naruto-kun!" Sakura exclaimed as she wrapped her slender, peach colored arms around the blonde haired junior. He could only grin while he wrapped his muscular arms around her slender wait. Out in the corner was the youngest Uchiha, crying out loud.
"WHY KAMI-SAMA WHY?! Why let that dobe get Sakura-chan and leave me with NO ONE?!" he cried out as his face was stained with tears. Naruto snickered at the older teen's behavior as he held the very clingy like Sakura. She gave off a giggle and snuggled into him more. She kissed his cheek and nuzzled his collar bone area while purring out: "Ohhhh…Naruto-kun..."
Naruto kept up his grin while a light blush came onto his face. Oh how he felt so great…"Ne, Sakura-chan…" he huskily said to the strawberry haired girl.
Back to the real world, Naruto was giggling like a school girl while murmuring "Mmm…Sakura-channnnnn…Ne, ne….Ehehehehe…" Sakura looked at him with a bewilder look as if 'What-the-hell-is-WRONG-with-you?!' She began to poke him in the shoulder, hoping to gain his attention. Alas, no avail. However, an idea struck her. She leaned in to his ear area and purred out "Oh…Naruto-kun! You're so…Sexy…Make me scream!"
Naruto quickly snapped out of his perverted daydream and gave off a light blush.
"Neeeeee, Sakura-channnnnn? You want me to touch you therreee?" he dumbly said out loud. Sakura only frowned before whacking him on the back of the head.
"Ero-san!" she screamed out while Naruto regained his mental state of correct…ness? Quickly, he shrieked in pain as Sakura continued to beat him across the head, running across the hall. What they didn't see was that they were right by the Principal's office and their principal, Tsunade, was coming right out with a stack of perfectly signatured papers. She gave off a sigh of happiness as she walked out, going out to deliver the papers to her assistant, Shizune. Her office was right across the hall way from Tsunade's. Anyway, as she was walking, she failed to notice the shrieking blonde haired boy and angry ass strawberry haired girl. The last thing Tsunade heard before she got hit by them was "NARUTOOOO!!!!!!" "A-A!!! MATTE SAKURA-CHANNNNNNN!"
BAM!
"Oh god damn…" Tsunade moaned out as she sat up, her hair messy and her papers scattered all over the floor. Sakura and Naruto were the same, except they had no papers that were scattered, just their binders. Tsunade twitched in annoyance when the teens began to fight again. She stood up, regained her 'I'm-the-BOSS-of-you-BITCH' posture and glared down at them. She roared out "SHUT UP YOU STUPID KIDS! LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY NEWLY SIGNED PAPERS!!!!!"
Naruto and Sakura's eyes were as wide as dinner plates. My god, they were getting in trouble by the principal herself! Sakura quickly stood up and bowed her head down in shame.
"Ah, gomen, gomen!! I didn't mean for you to get hurt nor have your papers thrown across the floor, Tsunade-sama!" Sakura said to the big chested woman with an apologetic voice. Naruto only nodded his head dumbly, agreeing with his best friend.
"Yeah, what she said!" Naruto peeped out, afraid of what Tsunade might do if he yelled it out loud. Tsunade just continued to glare at them before sighing. She bent down, along with Sakura and Naruto to pick up the papers. Minutes passed and they were all collected. Tsunade gave a sigh as she wiped off what little sweat she had on her forehead. She looked at the teens and gave a somewhat cocky grin. The teens looked at each other before looking back to her.
"I'm assuming you are Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto, ne?" she said while having her grin remain. Both teens nodded to the older woman while she waved her arm, indicating for them to follow her into her office. Her Stiletto heels clicked against the tiled floor as she walked into her office. It was HUGE! It had two desks, one with a name tag saying 'Tsunade' and on another desk it had one that said 'Jiraiya'. She adjusted her black almost mini skirt and her buttoned up white shirt, which was almost about to give out from how enormous her breasts were. Thank god for the black dress jacket she had on…
"Ne, I'm Tsunade, principal of Kohona High as you both know." Tsunade said calmly as she walked to her desk area. She sat herself down on the top of her mahogany wood desk, her hands on her lap as she stared at them. "Sakura, you're my student aide, as you know. Naruto is going to be Jiraiya's student aide." Tsunade pronounced in an almost professional manner. As if on cue, a tall man with a white but silver tinted hair, wearing a brown colored dress suit came into the room. He rubbed the side of his head while mumbling something about the girls needing to lighten up about a little ol' peek. His head shot up as he saw Sakura, a perverted grin graced his face as he stared at her. He quickly ran up to her and began to circle around her, the perverted grin never faltering away from his face.
Beads of sweat began to form on Sakura's forehead as he kept on circling her. My god, this guy was so weird! He seemed so familiar but, Kami-sama he was scaring the crap out of her! She heard him mumbling 'Good legs…Hips are absolutely beautiful…Height, nice…Torso area…Ehehe, amazing…Breasts…. Rival Tsunade's…Face…Perfect…She's an absolute goddess!'
Disgust appeared on Sakura's face before she pulled back her hand and slapped Jiraiya across the face. She screamed out "ERO!"
People in classrooms could hear the force of the sound from her slap and her scream. God, it gave them the shivers.
Itachi, who was currently walking by the office, heard the noise and saw that Tsunade's door was ajar. He let his curiosity take over as he peeked in. He began to twitch in annoyance when he saw that Jiraiya was pretty much scoring on HIS- er I mean…SAKURA! He did a boldful thing that moment. He kicked opened the door and hissed
"LEAVE MY SAKURA ALONE!"
Boy did that scene look funny. You should have seen the looks on their faces that moment. It was priceless.
Hehehe, Daki couldn't help but make Itachi seem so possessive X3 Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter! WORKING ON THE NEXT ONE: Oh yeah, and voting for pairings now! I'll give down the votes as the following:
Sakura and Itachi:
Sakura and Neji:
Sakura and Sasuke:
Sakura and Naruto:
Anyway, those are the polls! I already thought of other pairings! More characters will be introduced soon! Anyway, ta ta for now!
-Dakishimeru
