For a while neither girl moved. After what felt like an eternity, but was really only a few seconds, Tenten looked down sadly "I really don't want to move again. I like it here. For heaven's sake I just got on the basketball team,"
"I know," Sakura replied sadly. This really sucked, just when life was going good again. What she was really going to miss were the people they met here. Haku, Kira, Hilie, Healia, and especially Kiba. They shouldn't have to leave all of them just because of some psychotic vampires. That thought made her look up. Why should they leave? There were here, and here they would stay. They weren't going to move, not again. "You know what? We're not going to leave, we'll stay where we are."
Tenten looked up, surprise evident in her eyes, "Really?"
"Yeah," Sakura explained, "I mean think about it. They aren't worth leaving this place. And we can always fight back if they tried to take us."
Tenten slowly began to grin, "Yeah!" she threw a punch into the air, "We can so take them!"
They stood there grinning like idiots for a while until Tenten asked slowly, "Umm, what do you think we should do now?"
Sakura put on a thinking pose. She hadn't thought of that. "Umm, I guess it's getting kind of late. Go to sleep I guess."
So they went to sleep and surprisingly when they woke up they weren't faced with Sasuke and Neji. During the weekend they waited but still nothing happened. After a while decided to stop waiting and went to see a movie with Kiba, and Haku. Aside from that, nothing significant took place during their weekend.
Monday
Sakura and Tenten got up like usual. But right before they left Tenten motioned for Sakura to stop. "What is it?" Sakura asked with confusion.
Tenten grinned, "I was going to tell you at school but I couldn't hold it in any longer. At the movie Haku asked me out. We're dating now!"
Sakura squealed and hugged Tenten, "That's awesome!"
After the brief celebration they quickly skateboarded to school. Fortunately they lived rather close to the school so it didn't take them a long time. As they neared the school they went up to Kiba, Haku, Kira, Healia, and Hilie who were all near the far side of the school. They got off of their boards and walked over to them.
Sakura watched as Tenten walked over to Haku who blushed and shyly put his arm around her. So cute. Then she walked over beside Kiba, "Hey." she told everyone. Everyone either mumbled or spoke a "hi" back and she felt Kiba wrap an arm around her and bring her closer to him.
"Why hey there," she told him jokingly, placing her arm around his waist. He tried to lean in and kiss but she pulled away laughing, "Dude, PDA."
He looked down sadly at her and pouted, "aww."
Sakura sighed and kissed his cheek, "You know, one of these days that is not going to work."
Kiba grinned and planted a kiss on her lips, "And I shall be dreading that day, but for now, I'll take my chances."
"Here we go again," Kira sighed.
Sakura looked at her and laughed. She was about to comment, but Kiba beat her too it, "Just because you're jealous, does not mean you have to criticize."
Kira made a gagging noise and the bell rang. They all left to go to their separate classes. Sakura went over to her locker and casually put in her skateboard and took out her notes, not noticing that she was being watched.
She went over to the biology classroom and sat down beside Kiba, who was currently scuffing up Akamaru's fur. "Ready for the test today?" she asked him.
He stopped and looked at her with surprise in his eyes, "We have a test?"
She rolled her eyes. "I take that as a no." By now she was used to him acting like this.
Tsunade, the biology teacher, walked into the classroom, "Alright class today we have a test that will take up most of the class time we have for today. But before we get to that I want to inform you all that we have a new student today. Sasuke Uchiha."
Low and behold, Sasuke walked in the room. Sakura felt herself gasp. Oh god. She was not expecting this at all. If she wasn't already sitting down she would have fallen down. He stopped to look at her and looked like he was about to grin but as soon as he saw how close she was to Kiba he scowled and his eyes darkened. If she had looked over she would have seen that Kiba was pretty much growling at him. But she wasn't looking at him, she was looking at Sasuke. And all the strength she thought she had before had faded away.
Fortunately Tsunade spoke up, "Mister Uchiha, please find a seat." Sasuke seemed to regain his composure, then went and sat down next to a girl who looked more than happy with his choice of seats.
When Tsunade handed out the test she had a really hard time focusing on it. How could she focus on a test when the guy of her nightmares just walked through the door? But somehow, probably by instinct, she managed to get through it. When she put her pen down she saw that about half the class was already done. She was usually the first to be finished.
She glanced over towards Kiba. His pen was actually shaking in his hand and when she saw his eyes she saw rage. What the heck? Akamaru seemed restless as well; he was pacing around by Kiba's feet. She leaned over to touch him. When she did he snapped up and looked over, his eyes flashed and for a second, she thought he growled at her. However when he saw her, his eyes softened and he gave her a smile that was obviously forced.
"Kiba, please keep your eyes on your paper," Instructed Tsunade while walking up to her desk. He looked back down on his paper and didn't look back up until the test was over.
Sakura felt very grateful when the bell rang for her to go to her next class. She practically ran out the door to her history class. She was the first one in the room and she plopped down in her usual spot. Her head was kept down until she heard Hilie and Kira sit down beside her.
"You ok Sakura?" Hilie asked, her eyes filled with concern.
"Yeah you look horrible," Kira added.
Sakura fought the urge to groan and forced a smile at them, "I'm fine. Just…had a bad test,"
"You?" Hilie asked in disbelief. Then she shrugged and looked down to her textbook "I guess everyone has an off day." Kira didn't look nearly so convinced but fortunately the girl didn't speak up about it.
The rest of the class was one big blur. When the bell rang for lunch Sakura scurried out of the classroom. She needed to go see Tenten. Now. She didn't even bother to put her books away. She just went to the lunch room.
When she saw Tenten she walked over to her. Tenten looked rather rattled and kept her face down until she saw Sakura. "We need to go talk," both girls said at once. They left to go to the girl's washroom. When they got there they chose a stall, walked in inside of it, and locked it.
Sakura decided that she might as well start speaking. She looked over at Tenten, "Sasuke's back."
"So is Neji," Tenten replied sadly. She was looking down at the floor. "I was really freaked out about seeing him; I forgot about how determined I was to not let him get to me."
"I know the feeling," Sakura replied.
"So do you think we should still act like nothing's wrong? Like everything's normal?" Tenten asked.
Sakura thought for a moment, and then nodded. "Probably, I mean, what else can we do right now?"
Tenten looked at her, determination slowly coming into her eyes. "Alright, well, let's go back and act like everything is like it should be. After all, I got a hot guy waiting for me and I'm not about to let Neji spoil that."
Sakura laughed, "That's the spirit."
So the two girls left the washroom, ignoring anyone that might be watching them. They were now feeling confident (or at least more confident then they had felt before) about dealing with the problem ahead of them.
