Chapter 3 is out, peeps! And chapter 4 is in the oven, almost ready to be served to all you hungy readers! If you can't tell, I'm hungry...so anyway, like I always say, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Naruto...and I can't wait for the Itachi/Sasuke fight in Chapter 367!
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Sakura woke up the next morning as the rising sun shown through her open window. She sat up, rubbed her right eye and looked around the room she was in. On the single bed on the other side of the room was the slowly waking figure of her roommate, Ino. Her other roommate, Hinata, was pulling her outfit out of her drawers. Her hair was wet and she had a lavender towel wrapped around her small body.
Sakura climbed off her top bunk and pulled her towel, shampoo, soap and conditioner out of her bag, which was sitting at the foot of her bed. Her towel was pink, along with her shampoo, which smelt like strawberries.
"G-good morning, Sakura," Hinata stuttered. Her voice was still quiet and she was blushing slightly.
"Good morning, Hinata." Sakura smiled at her. "The showers are down there, right?" She pointed to the right side of the room.
"Yes, at the end of the hallway."
"Thanks, I'll be back." Sakura left the room and walked to the wall at the end of the hall. She turned right and then turned right again. She entered the large, white tiled bathroom. She took off her pajamas, went into an empty shower and pulled the curtain closed. The water was warm and felt good on her still tired body. She stood under the water and listened to the few people coming in and out of the bathroom. After what seemed like forever, she turned off the water and started drying herself off. She started back out to her room and realized that all she had on was a towel and the boy's dorm was right down the hall. She peeked around the corner where the bathroom was and saw a long black curtain over the doorway that she had never noticed before. It blocked all view into and out of the boy's side of the dorm. Sakura sighed and walked towards her room.
Ino wasn't in the room when Sakura went inside. Hinata was sitting on her bed and was putting things into her dark purple backpack for the day. She muttered something about Ino being in the shower and Sakura started getting dressed. She put on a white, button-up woman's dress shirt, which was only buttoned until it reached lightly above her chest. The were sleeves rolled up to about an inch above her elbows and a black and red plaid skirt. She slipped on her black shoes over her knee-high white socks.
"You l-look nice," Hinata complimented her. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a light purple shirt with dark purple butterfly outlines going from her left shoulder to the bottom of the right side of the shirt. White shoes showed from under her jeans.
"So do you, Hinata." Sakura picked up her red backpack and some books, notebooks, a pencil case and a few other items. "Can I sit down here?" She pointed to the corner of the bottom of Hinata's bed. Hinata nodded and went back to her things. Sakura sat down on Hinata's bed and began putting her things inside just as Hinata was doing. Ino came in and got dressed in a white tennis skirt and shoes with a white polo shirt. She put her hair in a high ponytail and admired herself in the tall mirror then picked up her pink backpack.
"Come on, you guys," Ino said. "Let's go get breakfast." The three girls left their room and were met by a drenched Tenten and a smirking Temari.
"Come on, ask," Tenten said. "I dare ya."
"What happened?" Sakura asked cautiously.
"That stupid senior, Zetsu! Watch out for him. He loves pulling pranks." The sophomores disappeared into their room so Tenten could change into dry clothes. The freshmen exchanged glances, moved the black curtain and went down to the cafeteria which they ate in the night before. The food was self serve this time, so Sakura got in line for breakfast. There were many different options to eat, but Sakura saw a good looking blueberry bagel in a square basket, but the only bad thing was that it was the last one. She reached for it, but her hand collided into someone else's hand. She looked at the hand and followed it up to the arm, then to the shoulder, then to the face. The hand she was still touching belonged to Sasuke Uchiha.
Sakura pulled her hand away quickly. "Go ahead and take it," she said, blushing slightly.
Sasuke answered with an "hn" and walked away to the cereal bar. Sakura wore a confused look on her face and took the bagel and put it on her plate which was on her tray. She went to the same table she sat at last time and took her bagel apart. She took a bite out of one of the sections and glanced next to her as someone sat in the empty chair.
"Is it good?" the voice asked from the chair next to her. Sakura pulled the bagel out of her mouth and nodded to Sasuke.
"Y-yes, it's very good. Would you like some?" She held up the uneaten half of her food.
"No." Sasuke ate his cereal in silence after that. Ino and Hinata soon sat down at the table and Naruto and Choji joined them too. Shikamaru and Kiba sat down and Gaara came after everyone was close to finishing. At the table behind them, they heard Tenten yelling at someone at her table. All the freshmen turned around and watched the small show.
Tenten was standing up on one side of the table and was pointing at Kankuro on the other side of the table. He was also on his feet and was ready to yell at Tenten. Temari, who was next to Tenten, was trying to calm them both down while Lee was watching them and Neji was eating his food.
"How the hell could you say that?!" Tenten screeched.
"With my mouth, Panda!" Kankuro pointed to his mouth as he yelled. "How else would I say it?"
"Don't be a smartass!"
"I can say whatever I want and you can't do a thing about it!"
They continued to bicker until Kurenai-sensei came behind Kankuro. They both stopped yelling and sat down, not saying another word. She left, but the two were still glaring at each other. The rest of breakfast was pretty quiet. After the freshmen were done eating, they were sent to their homeroom. Many of the people in their dorm were in their homeroom, including many of the seniors. Blue and Itachi came over to the area of the room where the freshmen were sitting in their desks.
"Do you know where all your classes are?" Blue asked them. They all nodded.
"Not that we care at all," Itachi said. "We just have to ask you guys."
"Thanks for caring," Naruto said sarcastically.
"Welcome," Itachi responded. They both walked away and went back to their group in the back of the room.
"He's a joy, isn't he," Tenten said. She sat down in a desk next to Sakura with Temari on her other side.
"Has Itachi always been the head of the dorm?" Sakura asked. She set her backpack down on her desk and turned to Tenten.
"Nah, he only became the head this year when last year's head graduated. I think they could have picked a better head, but that wasn't up to us. Blue's pretty good, though."
A teacher walked into the classroom and told everyone to sit in a seat. He had brown hair that was up in a high ponytail and a scratch across his nose. He put a notebook down on the desk in front of him and looked around the class.
"Aw man, we have Iruka again," Tenten complained. She turned around slightly to talk to the boy behind her. "Hey Neji, do you think we can pull a better prank then we did last year?" He smirked in response and put his Ipod back in his backpack, which was open towards him on his desk. He propped his head on his hand and kept his eyes glued to the blackboard behind the teacher.
"Good morning, everyone," the teacher said. "I'm glad to see the group of new faces in here and to see that the old students didn't get arrested over the summer." He looked towards the group of juniors that were in the corner of the room across from the seniors. They smiled and laughed as some of them waved to the teacher. He smirked and opened his notebook. "To all the new students, I'm Iruka, your homeroom teacher for the rest of the year. And possibly next year. Now let's see who's here, shall we?" He ran his finger down a list of student's names. He looked around for someone and said "Pein…oh, there you are."
An orange-haired senior in the back of the room with his whole face almost covered in piercings. His head hit the desk with a 'thud' which caused a few people to turn around and look at him. The rest of the seniors chuckled and snorted while Blue patted the boy on his back a little then glared at a boy with skin that was tainted slightly blue. His teeth were more pointed than normal people's teeth. He was smiling at Blue and was trying to stop laughing.
Iruka continued looking through the list and said a few names of the freshmen that he didn't recognize. When he finished that, everyone started talking again. The freshmen made sure they knew where all their classes were and then left the room when the bell rang. The halls filled with students flooding out from the classrooms.
"We'll see you at lunch, Sakura!" Tenten shouted then ran down the hall with Neji and Lee.
"What's your first class Sakura?" Ino asked her as she caught up to her.
"Um…History." She put the paper with her classes back in her front right pocket.
"I-I have history, too," Hinata said. It was very hard to hear her in the loud hallway. The three of them made their way to the first floor for their class. Ino sat in a seat on one side of Sasuke, and Sakura sat on the other side. Hinata was behind Sakura and next to Naruto. The teacher came in and stood behind his desk.
"I'm Asuma-sensei, and I'll be your history teacher. Now, I know how most of you feel about history, and I felt the same way. You think it's a boring subject and it shouldn't need to be taught in schools. Well let me tell you, I will try to make this as fun as possible. But for today, let's just take it easy. Talk amongst yourselves, but if it gets too loud, then you'll all have to shut up." Asuma sat down in his chair and pulled out some papers he had to work on.
Ino turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke, who are you going to ask to the dance this year?"
"No one," he said. He looked down at his black note book and began writing in it. He didn't seem to be writing anything in particular, but he just didn't want people to bother him, so he made it look like whatever he was writing was important. Sakura glanced over to his notebook, hoping to get a glance at what he was writing.
"Why aren't you going with anyone?" Ino continued to push the question on him. Sasuke answered with an "hm" and ignored her for the rest of the class period. Sakura continued to watch the pencil moving across the page. By the end of class, the whole page will full of small doodles and short paragraphs. Sakura's next class was across the school, so she had to fast walk to get there on time.
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Next is second period or art class. And Sakura meets the student who blew up the science lab last year...take a guess who that is...