(A/N): "You're curious... about the Akatsuki.. about me. I like curious. Don't be so naïve... But I like naive, I like it... a lot" , is what Sasori told Sakura in the last chapter, and I put in pieces in apostrophes meaning that what he said is flashing through Sakura's mind. I hope it's not too confusing.
'= People's thoughts, Inner, or as mentioned above ^ (Having problems with bold, sorry)
Suggestions & Reviews are always welcome! Thank you for all the reviews ect. I appreciate them :) . Currently working on the next chapter. This chapter was sp rushed, eh,sorry .
'You're curious...'
Sakura sighed as she slammed her locker shut with a little too much force, making her wince. She massaged her temples with another drawn out sigh.
'about the Akatsuki..'
Clutching her books to her shaky chest she began her slow paced trek down the seemingly endless hallway, stopping halfway when she heard familiar voices.
"He can't be fucking serious. She has more forehead than fucking chest!"
Twitch, twitch...
'What a freaking prick!' Sakura fumed, eyebrow twitching.
'Let's kick his stupid jerk face in and clean his mouth out with soap!' Inner added.
"Hidan, you idiot!"
SMACK!
The blue haired girl from earlier, Konan, smacked the silver haired teen on the back of the head with a scolding glare. The potty mouth boy muttered something along the lines of "hormonal women", but quieted down nonetheless.
"It's not like she's going to be around for long, so stop being such a big baby" Konan retorted slamming her locker.
'Oh really?' Sakura thought slyly, pushing up her glasses with a small smirk. Before Hidan could reply to Konan's statement Sakura quickly wiped away her smirk and continued down the hall, looking down the other hall at the bickering duo.
Hidan promptly flicked her off, sticking out his long creepy looking tongue in a taunting manner making the pinkette's skin crawl. Sakura forced a blush and stumbled with her books, startled, or at least that's what they thought.
"Hey Sakurai!" Konan chirped, very fake if Sakura might add, considering her comment from two seconds ago.
She had to admit, the blue haired girl had fooled her earlier with her friendly facade, but now she could see right though her little charade. She could be a Hidan number two for all she knew, she really hoped not, but one couldn't expect much from a member of the Akatsuki.
"H-hello" Sakura called out, giving a quick wave with red cheeks pretending to ignore Hidans vulgarity... And the way Konan purposely messed up her name.
'You're curious... about the Akatsuki.. about me'
Sakura didn't know why, but before she pushed the clamorous, dull double doors open she found her gaze shifting to a deep burgundy locker to her left. The owner of the locker having occupied her thoughts all day. She couldn't explain why, but she almost felt a bit disappointed that she hasn't seen said boy all day, yet a bit frightened that she felt this way about someone she just met. Besides, it's all just a game anyway... Right?
'Duh! Of course! He's using you! Well, he's going to try, but we'll beat him to the punch, ne?' Inner reminded.
'I like curious'
'Right' Sakura nodded, impetuously to herself.
"I never thought i'd say this, but maybe Hidan is right" Deidara muttered as if it were the most shocking thing in the world, which in his case it was.
"Man, what the fuck is the world coming to?" Kisame spoke in a distracted tone, flopping his head in his hand, elbows digging into the table.
"Fucking cunts that's what-"
"Shut up Hidan, who cares? it's Sasori's doings not ours. Besides it's no biggy if we have to deal with Haruno for three months... Three long, hard, horrible, disastrous-"
"OKAY!"
"Hehe, sorry" Konan blushed, tugging at the back of her collar sheepishly.
"But seriously, what is it about Haruno that's got Sasori wanting to keep her around longer than usual?-" Deidara pondered pushing his straw around in his milkshake in a bored fashion, raking his hand through his matted ponytail.
"I thought I'd have a little extra fun with this one-"
Deidara jumped knocking his milkshake over, the white contents spilling all over the silver haired boy sitting across from him. All eyes shifted to the arrival of the redhead. Sasori strolled over to the booth and pulled up a chair next to Deidara with a small smirk.
"Ahh, the man of the hour has arrived! Whats up Sasori?" Kisame grinned clapping said boy on the back nearly knocking him out of his seat, before excusing himself to go to the restroom.
"Alright, what the fuck is up with you and that pink haired bitch?"
"Nothing, she's …. A special one, that's all. I have something big planned for her. The whole make them fall in love with me, screw them, and leave thing gets a little boring, so I decided I'm gonna spice it up a little, ya know? I've gotta make it convincing, take it nice and slow, make it that I have a little crush on her like she has on me, not that I'm just attracted to her. I want her to think this genuine. I want her to fall for me... I will make her fall for me"
Deidara burst into a fit of laughter. "Danna, you are a fucking genius."
"How cruel" Konan shook her head despite smirking nonetheless.
"Sweet, I can't fucking wait!" Hidan fist pumped grinning eagerly, having already forgot about the milkshake ruining his favorite gray hoodie.
"We have to make her feel wanted, make her feel like one of us" Deidara added.
"For fucks sake, this is gonna be harder than I thought" Hidan whined, groaning dramatically.
"Oh suck it up Hidan, at least your not the girl in the situation. That means I have to around her twenty-four seven-"
"Speaking of the bitchy devil-"
The dinging of the door alarm at the front of the cafe caught their attention as the pink haired girl in question came sauntering in. They watched intently, but not too noticeable, as she plopped in a table in the farthest corner of the tiny cafe, ordered, then pulled a book out of her bag and began reading intently.
"Tche, what a dork" Deidara scoffed flipping his bang back, earning a noise of agreement from Konan, who scrunched her nose up in disapproval of the oblivious girl.
"Just look at her. Heh, this is going to be too much fun" Hidan's grin deepened revealing his shark like teeth as he rubbed his hands together deviously.
Sakura Haruno doesn't know why, but lately things have been different. Ever since she bumped into that stupid red head it's like her brain jumped into second gear. She can't stop thinking about him and it's freaking her out! She just met him for crying out loud!
To make matters worse she actually went out and purchased a book on, "How to be a player". Now here she is on a Thursday afternoon when she should be studying, but instead she's in the closest cafe she could find reading a book on how to break peoples hearts.
'Jeesh, you're really taking this serious aren't you?' Inner spoke up.
'Well yeah... We don't want to get embarrassed, do we?' Sakura pondered.
Inner did not respond making the conflicted girl groan. The sound of approaching footsteps caught her attention and she looked up expecting a waitor.
"Konnichiwa Utsukushii"
'Suprise, suprise …' Sakura thought wryly.
"Uh... K-konnichiwa Sasori-...San" She greeted with forced nervousness, making sure to stutter slightly for effectiveness, but the blush was completely genuine as much as she wished it wasn't.
"What are you reading?" Sasori asked motioning toward the book clutched tightly to her chest with the nod of his head, all the while pulling up a chair and sitting on it backwards in what Sakura called "Boyish Style".
'Shit!' Sakura mentally freaked.
"Oh this? It's nothing!" She squeaked stuffing the book back into her bag in shaky desperation, hoping the boy across from her hadn't gotten a peek of the title.
Said boy smirked deviously at her back turned to him. If she wanted to fool him, she had to be a little more faster. He had long since read the title, he just wanted to see her reaction, and as expected; she freaked out. By the looks of it she already caught on to his intentions early, a little bit too early in his opinion...
'Oh well, it will just be all the more fun cracking her' Sasori relented plastering his soft, "genuine smile" back on his face as she turned once more to face him.
"Sorry about that" The Haruno girl offered an apologetic smile cheeks tinged pink.
"Heh, you're so cute" His smirk deepened as her cheeks went from a slight pink to a deep cherry red.
'I wish he would stop doing that!'
'Oh you know you like it' Inner cooed.
A silence began to hang over the pair, and Sakura found it suffocating.
Not that she minded silence, heck she often found she preferred it! It was more of how the boy across from her was staring intently at her, but in the most nonchalant of ways. To anyone else it would seem as if he was glancing at her so often, but she knew better, she saw the way his eyes swept over her. He was trying to read her, so she tried to appear less nervous than she seemed.
'I like curious.'
"So, what are you doing here?.. In the cafe I mean. This doesn't seem like a place you would spend your Thursday afternoon." Sakura spoke up in a poor attempt to start a conversation, because the enveloping silence was killing her.
"Hmm, where should I be spending my Thursday afternoon then?" He retorted.
"W-what? Oh no, I meant you don't seem like the sort to-"
"Well,what kind of sort am I?"
"No, it's just I meant. I thought you'd be with your friends do-"
"Doing what? What do we do?" His shit eating smirk became more prominent at her flustered state.
"Well, you know..-"
"No I don't, enlighten me"
'What an asshole!' Sakura fumed silently. It was like he has challenging her on purpose, to anger her, and dammit it was working! Outside she appeared a flushed, stuttering mess, but inside she was fuming.
'Don't give him the satisfaction of seeing us lose our cool. Remember, we're dorky and timid' Inner, surprisingly calm, spoke up in an advising tone.
"Well, I don't know ..."
"But you do"
"Something dangerous or wild, without care, typical teenage things"
"Heh, you could say that. Tell me Sakura-Chan, have you ever done anything dangerous or wild, without care? Have you ever done typical teenage things?" He leaned in closer, shiny brown eyes sparkling in anticipation for her answer.
"Well... No" She admitted, lamely.
"Ahh, answer me this; Have you ever wanted to forget?"
"Forget?"
"Your worries, have you ever wanted to forget them, your stress and your problems? Have you ever wanted to feel ….. Alive?"
'Alive?' Sakura repeated
Most of her life she spent with her nose in books. She hadn't felt "alive" in so long, not since she lost most of her friends. A little bit of excitement couldn't hurt, right?
"... Yes, yes I have, Yes I do. I want to feel alive." She spoke breathlessly, in anticipation or excitement Sasori couldn't tell.
"What if I gave you that opportunity, would you take it?"
"What? What do you mean?"
"I'm offering to give you an an opportunity to feel alive. I can make you feel alive, even if it kills you"
"Even if it kills me?" Pink eyebrows knitted in confusion.
"That's the motto of the Akatsuki, to feel alive even if it kills you"
"So what if you die?" She questioned, making the red head chuckle.
'His laugh is so sexy' Inner drooled.
"Haha, no casualties so far. No need to worry death is ninety percent not guaranteed"
"Ninety percent? Geesh, that makes me feel so much better" She deadpanned earning another hearty chuckle.
Then he fell silent as if giving her time to consider the offer, but she didn't need to time, she needed him to answer her questions.
"How exactly are you going to make me feel 'alive'?" She asked putting air quotes around "alive".
"I'm going to make you one of us, one of them" He shrugged nodding at a booth across the room.
'How did I not notice them before?'
'Especially with all of the commotion they're making!' Inner added.
Commotion was not the word to describe Sasori's companion's actions.
Sakura's eyes widened at their actions. The blue haired girl, Konan, had the silver haired boy, Hidan, in a headline as he let out a string of curse words she wouldn't dare think about repeating. All the while Kisame and some blond boy were picking up food and drinks, mostly milkshakes, from other customer's tables and having something akin to a food fight, if food fights involved actual fighting! Their booth a was a complete wreck, the area was covered in crap.
Sasori smirked shaking his head at his friend's antics as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
Turning back to the noisy group the pinkette watched intently as the assistant manager told the group they had to leave, albeit his shaking hands and frightened doe eyes. Sakura held back a gasp as they pushed the poor boy around, before Konan promptly flicked him off and stomped off joined by the rest of the group, but not before Deidara kicked him square in his family jewels and Kisame pantsed him.
'Geesh, poor guy' Sakura thought before turning her attention back to the red head across form her, who was already staring back at her, as if gauging her reaction the whole time.
"There's are party tomorrow night at 11, I'll be waiting for you in the school parking lot. See ya then Utsukushii"
He rose with a wink making Sakura look away to conceal her blush. By the time she had gotten over her burning cheeks and looked up, the red head and his friends were long gone.
Sakura sat for a while and watched in amusement as a waiter tried to clean up the milkshake mess in a panic only to keep slipping in the sticky mess, all the while getting yelled at by the short, plump balding manager.
The pinkette shook her head giggling slightly and reached in her bag to pull out her book. She had a lot of reading to do before tomorrow night.
'But I like naive, I like it... a lot'
(A/N): Single line breaks won't work for some odd reason -_-
The next chapter is Sakura's "Initiation"