Chapter 4.
Sakura sighed. It had been a few weeks since she has gotten here, and nothing but boringness, if that was a word, came with it. Her and Matsuri's relationship had sky-rocketed, them becoming best friends over the course of two weeks. Sakura had even introduced her to her other friends, Ino and them. They all happily accepted her within their group, and even though they never saw her, they said they liked her very much.
They were planning to Skype today after school, but since it was storming out the wifi was terrible. My poor wifi.. Sakura sobbed, shutting her lap top. Maybe it would come on after school, though. She walked out into the living room, her school clothes already on, and to Konan.
Her relationship with Konan had also somewhat sky-rocketed. Konan was, in a way, like the older sister she never had.
Sakura stopped her thoughts right there. She had an older sister. An older brother, too. And they both shared her looks. Not only that, but they shared the same birthday.
They just went to college.
The reason Sakura wasn't with them was because Sakura was held back in first grade for ripping of doll's heads and stuffing them in her teacher's pockets and filling said heads with glue because the teacher, in Sakura's opinion, was a grumpy, mean old hag.
It was a stupid reason to get held back! Inner Sakura howled. Sakura could practically feel the steam coming off of her in waves. Because of those stupid... teacher things, we can't even match up to them right now.
Sakura frowned and picked up her phone, going into her gallery of pictures, scrolling way back. Photos imported from her old lap top even, and looked at the only picture of their full family she had.
Tosaka, her older brother by a minute, had long orangeish-pink hair that was short and choppy in the back; almost like her old best friend Sasuke's only much shorter. Bangs almost covered his quite dark green eyes, side bangs falling to the middle of his neck. He was pale, and from the picture you could tell he was tall for his age. He wore a black turtle neck shirt, and then black biker gloves and cuffed bracelets. His right ear was pierced, the ear ring being a cross. For pants, he wore black sweatpants and regular black tennis shoes.
To his left was Sakura's other sister, Mako. Her hair was almost the same shade of her brother's, only a little more orange. It was held in a sloppy bun, bangs falling in front of her brownish green eyes. Her skin had an olive tone, and she wore a white turtle neck and black jeans wth converse. She had no special features anyone would remember her by. She wasn't anything special in Sakura's eyes, just like Sakura wasn't any special in her sister's eyes. That was how it was. She just didn't understand how her parents even liked the witch.
The witch always took her damn spot light whenever she was around. It was 'Mako' this and 'Mako' that, and 'Oh Mako-chan is going to be the best doctor!' when that witch knew Sakura wanted to be one first!
That's right honey, let it out! Inner Sakura cheered. Inner Sakura very much agreed with outer. Mako was a little bitch and always was one. Even took one of her boyfriends- Sakura really loved him, too..
Kei...
Now even though Kei was an almost emotionless bastard, she still loved him, and she definitely saw the love in his eyes that he held for her.
Until he finally met her witch of a sister.
Sakura saw admiration in his eyes that she had never seen before. Okay, so Mako was a little beautiful. She was.. almost down right gorgeous. Sakura knew that if she wasn't dressed up and her sister was, then her sister would win a 'who looks the best' contest. Her sister won in almost everything anyway.
Now the real rivalry started between Tosaka and Mako, but when Sakura realized the two were being so aggressive towards each other, Sakura wanted in. She wanted to prove herself to her parents like her siblings did. The three of them wanted to be their parents favorite. The star child. The one that would leave an example for the others.
But Sakura, since she had been held back, she got teased by her older siblings. She's always been teased by them for that reason and they wouldn't stop. Now they're in college, but Sakura knew they'd come up with her parents to "see how she's doing."
Now when she says "see how she's doing," she literally means that they would come up here, check out her friends, see if they're 'worthy' of being their friends, take them away if they are, and leave a lasting impression that they are so much better than her. The only problem was...
Sakura didn't know when they were coming.
She honestly didn't know. But Sakura did know that her mother would call before they left.
Sakura shook her head, eyes sliding over the image of herself, off to the left of them, arms crossed and eyes tightened into a glare off into the distance. Tosaka and Mako had smirks covering over their faces, Mako's hands on her hips and only one of Tosaka's hands on his hip as well. Their parents stood beside the three, peace signs up with grins, unknowing of the sibling rivalry until they saw Sakura in the picture. Sakura had later refused taking another picture with them.
"Idiots.." Muttered Sakura. All she really wanted was their attention- no, their acceptance. But they were busy with Tosaka and Mako, and always comparing them to her.
"Tosaka and Mako don't act like this! Sakura, what has gotten into you?!"
"Who are these new girls you're hanging out with? Tosaka definitely doesn't have friends like that."
"Neither does MaKo. Who's example are you following?"
"My own!"
Yes, that was indeed the first day Sakura even stood up for herself. She was tired of getting scolded for no reason by her parents. Were they even thankful for her? That she was born?
Why couldn't she just learn things her way? Why couldn't she take learning slowly like everyone else? Not that she didn't love the knowledge that was given to her, but she wanted a normal family. One who didn't judge her because she didn't sip her tea with her pinky up, or one who didn't get on her because a few things were misplaced in her room. Sakura wanted a family that understood how she felt.
Sakura clicked home on her phone, not wanting to look at the photo anymore.
Wow, apparently she had totally spaced out. She was almost late to class! Quickly she gathered her things and ran out the door and down the steps of the building, having absolutely zero time to wait for the elevator. Quickly she ran out the building and into the school, and needless to say, she wished she would have stayed home.
Nothing had really even happened that day. Nothing, but.. on the middle of her forehead, she had to keep itching at her skin. There was a bump too, when she ghosted her fingers over it. She went to the nurse, but they didn't feel anything, or so they said. But it hurt, and it gave her a headache.
Ignoring the dull throbbing in her head, she picked her phone up from off her chest and dialed her friend, head resting on a couch pillow. A few rings later, her friend had finally picked up. "Forehead!" Ino yelped. Sakura held the phone as far away from her ear as she could, before returning it.
"Pig, try not to be so loud right now. I have a headache. Anyway, what's up?" Sakura asked, watching the door open up to reveal a tall blue haired woman. Sakura flashed a smile at the woman, to which the woman returned.
"Hello, Sakura." She whispered, before walking into her room with her things. Sakura returned her attention to Ino, her hog of a friend.
"So what's been going on, Sak'?" Asked the blonde. Sakura glanced at her filed nails, prettily cut into rounded edges.
"I'm bored, is all. Been having a throbbing feeling in the middle of my forehead, though. It's weird, it hurts." Replied the pinkette, her thumb rubbing on the rounded edges of her index finger's nail.
"It'll get better soon. Anyway, I have some shocking news to tell you." Sakura could tell immediately that the news was shocking because of the underlying, worried tone in her voice. Furrowing her eyebrows, Sakura paused her actions and stared at the wall.
"What is it?" Sakura muttered, concern laced in her voice. She heard Ino sigh from the other side of the phone line.
"I know it's.. a little overdue to tell you this, but.. not only does Sasuke have a new girlfriend, who is, let me tell you, a total s-l-u-t, but Kei told us that he'll be transferring to your school in a few months.." Sakura stopped, eyes widened. Tears started pricking at the edges of her eyes. "Sakura?"
Kei. Kei was coming to her school, and her old love had a new girlfriend. Okay, so Sakura never truly got over hers and Sasuke's break up. Inner Sakura had even managed to block the whole thing off from Sakura thinking about it at all. And Sakura liked it that way.
Clenching the bridge of her nose with her index finger and thumb, she stopped her thoughts. No more thinking about Sasuke. No more thinking about any of them. They aren't important now. Of course, they were still her friends but none of them are important at the moment. She couldn't think about them right now; nobody cares. She didn't care. In fact, she was kind of upset with Ino for even telling her about it.
"Ino, I don't care about them anymore." It stung to say that, since it was an outrageous lie, but it had to be said. She couldn't waste her thoughts on the past, she had to smile and move on.. even though she didn't do much smiling. At least, not around here. Not at this school.
"I just wanted to inform you.." Ino mumbled, and Sakura could feel her frown. Sakura knew Ino just wanted to keep her updated with her old life, but this is her new life now. She had to try and start over, even though she didn't know what she was doing that was so wrong, but it had to be done.
"I know, Ino-chan. I just don't want to be bothered with those types of things now.. Anything that involves Kei, his girlfriend, Sasuke and his girlfriend- or dating with them in general, I just don't wanna' know.. Okay?" Sakura smiled a tired one, her eyebrows furrowing slightly. Nobody could really blame her either.
"Okay, Sakura-chan. Sorry. I'll talk to you later, okay? Bye bye."
"Bye."
Sakura hung up the phone, her brain filled with smoke-like thoughts that clogged her senses up and burned her eyes. Covering them with her hands, she let her hands soak up her tears as much as they could. Now that Ino couldn't hear her, she could at least cry some, and in peace, alone. The throbbing in the middle of her forehead didn't get any better, because whenever she cried, she'd get a nice, lovely headache.
"Great," came her sorrow-filled moan. Tears leaked down her milky, though quickly turning pink skin. She heard a knock at the door, but with her headache she didn't bother to answer. Unfortunately for her, the knocking got louder and louder, worsening her headache.
She got up and wiped her eyes to the best of her ability, and knowing that the redness in her eyes weren't going to go down in less than a minute, she ruffled her hair up and pretended she just woke up.
Walking to the door, she opened it, eyes closed as she 'yawned' and they quirked a brow as she looked up. It was none other than Pein, her student adviser, and also the vice principal of her school. She was a little embarrassed of him seeing her like this, but it was better than him seeing her crying. "Hello, Kyoto-sensei. How are you?" I asked, straightening my stance a little bit. He nodded, eyes closed for a second.
"Fine, thank you Haruno-san. May I come in?" He asked. The pinkette nodded and opened the door, moving out of the way so he could step in. He did so, and the girl led him over to the couch.
"Is there anything that you would like to eat or drink?" Sakura asked. He nodded, a leg lazily crossed over his other like men usually do, ankle on top of knee.
"I'm sure Konan has Green tea in there. That would be nice." Nodding once again, she walked into the kitchen and quickly made the Green tea, stirring it and then bringing it back to him on a mug of Konan's.
"Here," Muttered Sakura, before sitting down on the lavender recliner Konan had brought in from her home a few days back. She sat on the edge, legs tucked in, and hands clasped and on her lap. She waited for him to speak.
"The nurses have told me of your condition, and I am a little concerned." Sakura's eyes widened slightly. Why did they tell him of her condition? It wasn't like she was that important. In fact, if anything she wasn't important to anyone at all. She was her. -Well, maybe besides Matsuri and her old friends. They were her friends, and she were theirs.
"..Yes, there's a bump in the middle of my forehead that only I can feel, and the throbbing hasn't quit since I first noticed it." She muttered. He nodded, stood up and walked over to her. He brushed his thumb over her forehead, and he could feel it. He knew what that was.
"I don't feel anything, but I'm sure you aren't lying. Just put some ice on it, if there's some swelling, then it'll go down. After that, lay a hot rag on your forehead. I'll tell Konan for you just in case you forget." And he didn't lie. After he'd left and seemingly two hours later, Konan came back with a worried expression worn on her tired face. It must have been a long day for her, and she probably just made her day even worse.
"How are you feeling?" Konan asked. Sakura smiled some, shaking her head.
"I'm fine, but look at yourself! You look tired. Go get some rest," Sakura offered. Konan smiled and set her things down, also taking off her shoes. She walked into the bathroom and wet a rag with hot water before she laid it on the pinkette's forehead.
"You need to take better care of yourself," Konan muttered, before standing. "Go ahead and get to bed, you have school in the morning."
"Speak for yourself, Konan-san. Good night." Sakura smiled and got up, rag held to her forehead as she walked into her bedroom. She changed into her PJ's and then plopped on her bed, rag still held to her head as she entered dream land.
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