Chapter 3: In Which Sakura Remembers Fondly
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"Did you just get in trouble?!"
Turning, Sakura noted Naruto's blonde-haired head poking out from the classroom, tanned face split in his ever-present grin.
"As if," she said with a scoff as she pushed him back inside the classroom roughly, but with a smile on her face as well. No matter what, Naruto always had the odd ability of making her feel better and to bounce back from any downtrodden feelings.
Naruto (like Ino) had grown up in her neighborhood and Sakura had known him nearly her entire life. She had gone to the same middle school as him, and had been matched up in the same class for every year. Back then he confessed to her daily and had been the definition of annoying. But slowly, through years of his cheery attitude and idiotic antics, he wore Sakura down.
Honestly, at first she had only seen Naruto as a ways to get to Sasuke, since the moody boy was the only other person Naruto hung onto more than Sakura. But now the blond interested Sakura just by himself. Even though his jokes were never funny and he had a fascination with toads, which apparently stemmed from his uncle.
"Kakashi-sensei is kinda cool, isn't he?" he asked as he followed Sakura back to her desk.
"And why is that?" Sakura asked with a disbelieving huff of laughter.
"Well, he has silver hair like Jiraiya."
"The one who told you to put a toad in my shoebox for valentines day, and so you did. And then it peed all over me when I opened it."
"That's the one!" Naruto said brightly, and then sobered a moment later to say: "Oh. Point taken. Remember how you didn't talk to me for three weeks after that?"
"Oh yeah," Sakura remembered with a laugh.
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Word Count: 300
Posted: 10.23.2014