I slammed my locker shut and was greeted by Sasuke. What did he want now?
"Hey tutor," he smiled charmingly. "When are we going to meet up?"
"How about never?" I suggest, turning around. "You're history grade is a 98. I don't think you need tutoring." I did my research on his history grades, and I think the scheming principal of ours just wants Sasuke to stay out of trouble. That's probably why he came to this school. Because he got in some kind of trouble, and our principal wanted me to help him not stay out of trouble. How can I do that exactly? I wasn't given a manual to handle gang members.
"Ah, so you're breaking orders," Sasuke gave me a wicked smile, "I like that." I did not want to do anything that Sasuke liked intentionally.
"For your information, I just need to keep an eye on you," I say, clearing my throat when I saw a glimpse of Kiba. Why did I have to see him almost every day? He was a constant reminder of my heart break. A guy that I thought I loved.
"Hey babe," Sai, doing his fake act of a boyfriend, went beside me, and put his arm around me. "Missed you, even though I saw you a minute ago."
I muster up my most fake smile. "Me too," I say, looking up at Sai, and willing myself not to laugh.
Sasuke is looking at Sai, like guys do to other guys, and even though Sai is a little taller than Sasuke, Sasuke is way more built than Sai. Sai is scrawny with chicken legs.
Suddenly, it got really awkward.
"Well Sakura," Sasuke says, looking at Sai, and not me. "Remember our deal when I win the basketball game next Friday."
How can I forget? I've been praying they lose.
He walks in the same direction I'm walking, which is gym class.
"Deal? You never said you made a deal with the new hunk," Sai looks at me.
"It's nothing. Not like he's going to win-" I enter, and see a crowd surrounding Sasuke, who's in the end of the basketball court while holding a basketball and aiming it at the opposite end of the court. He shoots. And doesn't miss. Then he's handed another ball and shows off by doing a dunk. The crowd goes crazy, and I look at Sai.
"He's not going to win?" Sai laughs. "Okay, we'll see."
I leave Sai at the gym door and make my way to where the gym teacher, Killer Bee, is. He tells us our partners for the exercise. "Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha, yo," he shouts. I want to be sucked in a hole. I look up and see Sasuke's intense onyx eyes already looking at me. He gives me a megawatt grin, and I heat up, looking away.
"So can you play basketball?" Sasuke walks out of the gym, going to the outside court.
Not in the least. "Yeah, of course," I lie. I've touched a basketball…two times in my life. One was to hand it back to a person. The other was in elementary school when I had no choice but to play basketball for the day.
Why out of all fifty students in the class, did I have to get paired up with Sasuke? I just had bad luck.
He passes me the ball. "Can you dunk it?" he challenges me.
I'll show him.
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I did not see her tripping down. It was funny because I did not see her as the clumsy type. I tried to stifle my laughter but she only scowled at me, sitting on the ground, looking really adorable there. And the way her face turns red is so cute.
"Sorry, sorry," I put my hand down to help her, but she doesn't take it and gets up herself, and I can't say I'm surprised. "Are you okay?" I look at her with all seriousness.
"My knee isn't," she says, looking down, and I wince when I see blood. I'm not laughing anymore, and want to help her.
"You can come to-"
"I'll be leaving now," she says, making my heart drop a little. Her whole demeanor screams for me to not even try to help when she makes her way to the locker room.
"Feel better," I call out to her. She doesn't look back though.
"Hey! Uchiha!" Kiba comes to me and scowls, looking at the direction Sakura went. "Was that Haruno?"
"Yeah," I am still looking at where she left.
"Dude, don't even try to be with her," Kiba said. "She's not worth it. And besides, there are plenty of girls in the gang that think you're a looker. You should see if you're interested. You know, keep your options open. All of them are hot, trust me." I glance over at him, a little curious about how it panned out with him and Sakura. It did seem like they had some history together, and I wondered how Sakura could like Kiba when she shows no interest in anyone. Except Sai. How could she go from a total bad boy to a total wimpy geeky guy like Sai? Maybe I needed to show her my geeky side.
"Nah," I say, dribbling the ball. I was only interested in one pink haired feisty girl who probably couldn't stand me.
"Okay…weirdo," Kiba looks at me like I am retarded and shakes his head. "There's going to be a gang fight tonight." Rumbles* were messy especially when the police came. I didn't need to get myself involved with the authorities again.
Tonight I also heard Sakura was going to be at the beach. "Not interested," I say as I shoot the basketball perfectly into the hoop and I love the swish sound.
"You're good," Kiba comments at my shooting. "What about your fighting?"
I grab another basketball and couldn't help but smile. Fighting was one thing that was second nature to me. Once, back when Itachi was still in his gang ways, he left me to get beaten up by seven guys from another gang. I don't know why he left me. But that day, I was banged up really badly that my mom completely freaked out and I couldn't go out- even though at night I did when she didn't know. I could never forget my mom's face when she saw me, bleeding and barely breathing. Ever since I got beaten up by a pulp, and learned the hard way of fighting from Itachi, I fought all the time. With everyone. Almost every single day. Now that I think about it, I was pretty hot headed and stupid, like Itachi was. I wanted to stay away from fighting as much as I can now. There was no need to make my mom upset again. And now since Itachi got out of the Akatsuki gang, he hated to fight too. But that was the funny thing- I looked up to him when he was a gang member, and a very admirable one at that. Everyone in the gang loved him. He was the best, and I remember I always wanted to be like Itachi. Join the gang and be a fighter like him.
Funny how things changed so fast for Itachi and for me.
XX
After school, I get to my house with Sai, and I log into my Facebook and am surprised that I got a friend request from Sasuke. Sai leans in next to me and claps. "Add him!" Sai exclaims, making a beeline for the mouse and clicking add. I glare at him. That was not what I wanted.
"What did you do that for? Now he'll think that I think that he's considered some sort of friend," I cry, "which we are so not."
"Oh please. Sasuke is the definition of hot. Oh -look! He wrote on your wall!" Sai took total control over the mouse and read it. "'How is your knee?' Aww, he is so sweet." Sai clapped his hand.
"No, he is not," I say. "The reason why I even got my knee hurt was because of him."
"What should I put?" Sai muses.
"Tell him-" but Sai was already typing away and would not let me look.
"There. Done." Sai looks up at me and grins. "You'll thank me later." I look at what I- or, in reality Sai, commented and he wrote:
Why don't you come over and kiss it?
I want to scream. I want to jump off a window. I want to throw the computer at the wall. I want to punch Sai in the face.
"DELETE IT!" I yell at him frantically, waving my arms as if the comment would suddenly disappear.
"Too late he probably already read it," Sai shrugs like it's no big deal. When it is. The last thing I need is for Sasuke getting any ideas about us. Because there was no us. At all. None. Zilch. Nada.
I rub my temples. On the bright side, he just might take it as a stupid little joke. Because that was what is was. A dumb little joke. Hopefully he saw it that way.
"So are we going to the beach or not?" Sai asks me.
"I don't think I have another choice in the matter," I say.
"Don't you know it," Sai smiles and looks at my closet. "What are you going to wear?"
By the time Sai tries to pick an outfit for me, an hour passes and we arrive at the beach, where people are already there, having a big bonfire.
I greet Hinata, who is in my history class. She's nice but real quiet. "H-hi," Hinata says. She glances at someone and I see it's no other than the idiot class clown of ours in history, Naruto. Who didn't know who the first president was. He smiles at Hinata and I see her turn beet red, and I see her actually swaying.
"Ack!" I catch her just in time before she falls. What the heck was that? Did Naruto actually have some power over her to make her freaking faint? Man, she had it bad for him. I wonder what Naruto possessed that made Hinata like him. I know for a fact that they barely talk.
"Sakura! What- oh, what happened to her?" Sai looks at Hinata's limp body. "It's always the quiet ones that party the hardest."
"No, she didn't faint because of that," I correct, handing her to Sai. "Take her to her cousin." I gesture to Neji, who was sitting down, and he seemed like he was meditating.
"On it," Sai leaves with Hinata, and I'm standing there alone. Ino was acting weird and more flirty from a distance, but when I saw why, I groaned inwardly. Sasuke Uchiha decided to come here too. And Ino was trying to show off.
He was standing over by the cooler when Ino comes up to him and nudges him with her elbow to move him aside. Purposely, he cuts back in front of her and she pushes at him jokingly, and they keep tussling for space in front of the cooler, laughing and saying things I can't hear.
Not that I really cared. I turned away, looking away from them when I hear a voice. "Hey," Sasuke comes over to me. Just what I didn't need.
"Hi," I look for an exit, but then he does something that I never in my lifetime imagined he would do. He slides down towards my feet, looks up at me with his deep, intense eyes, leans down and kisses my band aid. "Does that feel better?"
My heart stills for a second. He did read the stupid comment. "Not really," I say, knowing I totally killed the moment, stepping back. Why did I think that was even hot? It wasn't. Or so I keep telling myself. But why was I red and flustered? How comes this guy had an effect on me?
He laughs and gets up. "Worth a shot," he grins at me. No, it was not worth a shot. Who would even do that? It was just some silly thing that I-or Sai- put.
"W-whatever," I stammer, my face still heating up. I need to get away from him. I stop cold when I see Kiba walking our way, and it is a reminder of why I don't like Sasuke, or can't like him. Sasuke was just like Kiba- a gang member. Sasuke turns around and sees what I'm looking at.
"Yo Sasuke, are you going or not?" Kiba asks. Sasuke glances at me and I don't even want to know what they're talking about.
"Actually," Sasuke tells Kiba, "I am." He looks at me for a split second before stepping towards Kiba, and walking away with him. For some reason, I feel a little hollow, and I feel I should stop him.
From doing whatever he is about to do.
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*Rumble= slang term for a gang fight.