Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Kishimoto does.
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The Forgotten:
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Fading Away
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Chapter 2
Sakura froze in the entrance of the building.
What the-? she thought before she controlled herself. She stared at the madness happening in the hallway.
There were booths all over the place with long lines of people. The booths were for the students that couldn't get their schedule in the summer. It seemed to Sakura that almost everyone forgot to come to the orientation in the summer. It was simply chaotic. The teachers helping with the booths looked like they were getting harassed by the students. Thankfully she remembered and the orientation had gotten her schedule.
While she was getting her schedule, she had also met some of her teachers. So far they had all liked her, and were overjoyed to have her in their classes. She was a model student. Her teachers heard her old middle and elementary school teachers' high praises and were delighted to see she was as polite and helpful as they had say.
Sakura sighed as she looked for her locker.
666 eh? she thought as she walked to the third floor. She tilted her head. She never knew this school had so much lockers. Then frowned.
Isn't that the devil's number or something?
She shivered. She had a bad feeling about this year. She hoped she was wrong.
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Sakura smiled happily as she found her locker. She had almost gotten lost twice and had to backtrack most of the time. This school was too huge for its own good.
Sighing quietly in content, she started her combination on her locker.
16-26-36, she said to herself nervously. This is starting to freak her out a little, but she pushed it to the back of her mind.
Maybe it was just a coincidence…
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Sakura stared at the commotion caused by a group of girls at the entrance of her new English class. Quietly she sighed. She was sitting on a desk that was located in the middle of the classroom. There was a total of forty desks in this class meaning there would be forty students. She hoped she wasn't stuck in a class that had more boys than girls. She grimaced as she remembered in the seventh grade that her English class only had about nine or ten girls and the rest were boys. That was the most hectic year she ever had.
She glanced up as she heard the group of girls giggle. For some reason, when Sakura walked through the door, all the girls were gossiping about something then decided to block the doors to greet someone.
Hmmm, she thought. I'm betting it's a guy.
She grimaced as she heard them shriek and scream.
A very hot guy then, she thought rolling her eyes.
"They're pathetic aren't they?" someone said next to her. She jumped in her seat. She whipped around to look at the person that had snuck up on her. It was beautiful girl with short uneven fiery red hair on the right side of her head and long silky red hair on the left, with matching red orbs hidden behind brown glasses. Sakura scanned her appearance. The girl was wearing tight black skinny jeans with a low cut t-shirt with the words "I know I'm hot so stop staring."
All in all, Sakura thought her appearance seemed cocky. It's not that she judges people on appearances, it's just that Sakura had read enough self-help books to tell what someone is feeling or what their attitude might be, by how they act and dress.
She mentally thanked her step mother for making her read those type of books, since most of the time it helped her stay away from the people who get into the most trouble. Like her step sister Yuki. She's the head cheerleader with all the connections in this school, since she is a year older than Sakura. For some reason, Yuki and her mother disliked Sakura the moment they met. It wasn't the same for her though. For Sakura, she was confused on why they don't like her, but she decided to shrug it off.
Sakura quickly went back down to earth when she realize the girl next to her was waving her hand in front of Sakura's face.
"Ummm," Sakura said as the girl in front of her sighed.
"I said," the girl said annoyed.
"My name's Karin. What's yours?"
"Sakura," she said shyly.
"For real?" Karin asked. Karin looked over Sakura carefully. She had light pastel pink hair and bright emerald eyes. She was wearing dark blue flare jeans with black Nikes. Her huge black hoodie fell to her knees, covering her figure. Karin raised a light shaded eyebrow.
This girl practically screams nerd, Karin thought.
"Did they name you Sakura because of your hair and stuff?" she asked in astonishment.
Sakura nodded hesitantly, averting her eyes from Karin's. Karin looked at her in disbelief.
"Did they dye your hair so they can call you that?" she asked. Sakura shook her head.
"No," she answered as she tugged on her bangs.
"It's natural."
Karin just stared at her.
This girl is way to shy, Karin thought to herself.
"No way is that natural!" she exclaimed.
Before Sakura could say anything back, she heard the girls in the front of the class giggle and screech. Sakura winced while Karin rolled her eyes.
"It must be Sasuke Uchiha," Karin said.
"Sasuke Uchiha?" Sakura asked tilting her head.
"Who's he?"
Karin stared at her in shock.
"You don't know who Sasuke Uchiha is?' she exclaimed.
"Should I?" Sakura said raising an eyebrow.
"He is the most gorgeous guy in the entire world," Karin said dreamily.
"He couldn't be that cute," Sakura sighed.
"Girls, girls," someone said suddenly.
"There's no need to crowd the door way. What about the other students?"
Sakura turned her attention to the voice then furrowed her eyebrows. The person in the door way was a dark haired male. He had charcoal dark eyes that matched his dark colored skinny jeans and a navy blue hoodie. Sakura tilted her head. He looked familiar for some reason…
"Why does he have a chicken's ass on his head?" she asked innocently to Karin.
Karin laughed at her.
"I don't know why," she said.
"Why don't you ask him?"
"I'd rather not," Sakura admitted.
"He looks a little scary…."
More like a playboy, Sakura thought as she watched him. He was smirking at the girls causing them to swoon and giggle. Sakura turned to Karin, who rolled her eyes and made puking sounds.
"I thought you liked him?" Sakura asked Karin. Karin's face turned a light shade of red.
"Ha ha ha!" Karin laughed nervously.
"What gave you that idea?"
Sakura stared at her for a few minutes before she sighed. It was obvious to Sakura that her new friend-she thinks that Karin wanted to be friends, she seemed a little bipolar-liked this Sasuke. Sakura though, thought he was just some pretty boy that just bribes or seduces teachers for good grades, since he's still flirting with the girls at the front.
"Hmmm," she heard his murmured.
"The bells about to ring ladies, why don't we all get inside before the teacher finds us?"
Giggles were heard from the front and soon the girls were back in their seats.
Sakura smiled politely at Karin as the bell rang and she went back to her seat.
The teacher came into the classroom, and first period began.
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Sakura sighed as she went to lunch. So far, all of her teachers talked about the rules and regulations of her school. It got annoying and learning that she had a test on it this Friday didn't help her mood.
At least I manage to make some friends, she thought.
In first period, she met Karin and found out she also had the same third period class. Karin had dragged Sakura with her, and met up with two other people. Jugo and Suigetsu.
Jugo was tall. He was almost seven feet tall and had spiky orange hair. She was only five foot two and compared to him, she felt like a dwarf. He looked kind of scary, but she found out that he was the calmest and nicest of the trio.
Suigetsu had white hair with a blue tint to it and purple eyes. Sakura felt comforted that there was other people in the world that had strange otherworldly features. It's not everyday that someone had pink hair and green eyes. He was loud and spoke his mind. He and Karin seemed to argue a lot. Sakura was convinced he liked Karin, but covered it up. She could see it in his eyes when he talked to her. But it was barely there. It felt as if he was hiding something from her. Actually, she felt as if all of them were hiding something from her. She didn't know what it was, but she was sure she'll find out when they want to tell her.
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Sakura looked around. All she could see on both sides of her were doors. Doors to the left. Doors to the right.
I'm lost already? she thought to herself. She sighed. She really should've seen this coming. She turned around-
Oof!
-only to hit something hard. Sakura felled to the ground with a stunned expression on
her face. She rubbed her cheek and looked up.
To stared right at the face of Sasuke Uchiha.
Oh, shit.
"I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed before she started a frantic search for her things. Sasuke stared at her for a second, before looking her over. Sasuke swore he saw her somewhere, before he remembered.
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Sasuke stared out the window as his English teacher assigned the seats. He didn't care who sat next to him. As long as he played his part, he could leave this wretched place by the end of the school year. If his mission was successful that is. He glared at the wet trails that pelted the window next to him. He hated rain. It brought back bittersweet memories he wished he never had to experience. He shoved those thought aside as he heard the chair next to him move gently.
He glanced next to him and was shocked to see a girl with light pastel pink hair and clear shimmering emerald eyes quietly sat next to him. He waited a few seconds, anticipating the usual reactions he got from girls. Glance. Stare. Drool. Blush. Wink.
It was always the same routine. And he always had to smirk back. It surprised him that all she did was glance at him, then went back to listening to Mr. Hatake, his English teacher.
He returned back to staring out he window, and watched her reflection.
Sakura Haruno was scrawled elegantly across her paper.
He smirked. Maybe he'll have some fun this year.
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Sakura Haruno.
Sasuke observed her for a moment. He noticed that she was in Algebra 2.
Smart, but clumsy, he thought. He noted her baggy appearance and concluded that she didn't like having any attention on herself. Very odd since it is high school.
Isn't high school about being on top? he asked himself. He never went to school before since he's been home school his entire life. The only time Sasuke was aloud to go and interact with humans, was when he was on missions. And this mission, would be the hardest of them all. Though he doesn't know it yet.
"Hn," he grunted before stepping over her belongings and walked into a classroom. He heard a curse fly out of her mouth before he closed the door.
I was right, he thought smugly. This year might actually be interesting.
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Sakura glared at the closed door Sasuke walked into.
Room 666
Sakura froze.
666? she thought in shock. Quickly, she took her things and sprinted into another hallways not caring wither or not she's going the wrong way or not. That room made her skin crawl and had such a freighting feeling, that just screamed go away. Add that to the fact it had the devil's number. More creepy.
Sakura shivered and realized something. This school only had about 400 rooms and each had a letter representing North South East and West. She was in the North wing of the school and it only went up to a hundred. Except for the lockers. There were about 1000 lockers in each wing because of all the students.
She stopped in her tracks, but didn't turn around.
Then how?… she thought to herself. She walked back into the four way intersection that lead to each wing. She looked around before she looked through her binder. She flipped a few pages before she found the map of the school hidden in the back of her binder. Since she was in the middle of the school, and the cafeteria was located near the South wing of the school, all she had to do is take the south hallway and she'll end up in the cafeteria one way or another.
She sighed in happiness. At least she'll be able to get some lunch.
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A/N And there it is! The second chapter of the Forgotten. I hope it's good. There's not much action, but I had to get this out. Tell me what was good and what wasn't and I'll try to make it better! It took me a while since I have a lot more homework than last year and I do have a life you know. Anyway, there might be some action in the next chapter, since it is lunch. I also have no idea what to write in that chapter though.
Any ideas?