The Nobodies Club

Summary: In Konoha Kasai High, there's a club called 'The Nobodies Club'. It's made up of outcasts who were never given a chance in this school. Shunned by society and pitied by teachers. So what happens when the new girl, a somebody, wants to join them?

Standard Disclaimer applies.

Claimer applies to the plot of this story.

Rating: M for some sexual content, language, usage of drugs, and some fighting scenes.

Couples: SasuSaku, NaruSaku, much later NejiSaku , LeeTenTen, TemShikaIno, KibaHinaShino, later NaruHina, one-sided ChoIno, hints of LeeSaku, hints of friendship HinaSaku

Important Note: Whoo. This fic isn't doing well, but hey, it's going to be the one I'll focus on the most. ALSO, I am going to put SOME HINASAKU in here. If any of you know Gentleman's Alliance (AKAShinsei Doumei), it's how Ushio likes Haine except less.

Chapter Four:

Threatening the Threat-ful

When one sends offending threats to her, send offending threats TEN TIMES WORSE back.

"Hey, wake up-" Gaara froze in the doorway at the sight. He hissed threateningly through gritted teeth, "UCHIHA."

"Huh?! What?! Huh?!" Sakura shot up as she looked right, then left, right, then left…

Her red haired brother sighed in relief that she was fully clothed. He grinned manically and cracked his knuckles. "What was Uchiha doing in your bed?"

Sakura raised an eyebrow and looked down next to her to see a cutely sleeping Uchiha. "Oh! Sasuke-kun!" She smiled softly as she shook him slightly. "Wakey, wakey, sleepy head."

The Uchiha grumbled something and pulled the Haruno down, muttering, "Five more minutes, pillow." Gaara got ready to march over there and pull the Uchiha off his sister only to be stopped by a flustered Sakura. "Sasuke-kun" She chimed up. Her eyes met his. "Wakey-"

"WAKEY!"

She pushed the Genius off her bed and grinned triumphantly.

"Gah- What the f-" Sasuke got up shakily and looked around. "…Hn?"

"…Temari's attempting to cook again." Sakura then stated, causing Gaara to jump and run out of the room. Sasuke sent her a look. "What was that about?" "No, she's really cooking." "Aa…"

"…"

"Want to escape through the window?" "Sure."

She laughed while he smirked.

"In our pajamas?" Sasuke had a thoughtful look when she said that. A pillow was thrown at his head. "You pervert."

xXxXxXx

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Smash.

Naruto sluggishly got up from bed and stared at the broken alarm clock. He gave a sigh. "Bah, I should just stop buying alarm clocks." He muttered to himself as he sat up and stretched.

The blonde took a quick shower, not really putting on any shampoo or conditioner.

He put his black cloth around his forehead, like a headband. He then put on his white uniform shirt and black uniform pants. Over that, he wore the black gang leader coat that had 'Yellow Lightning' on it's shoulder. He grinned in the mirror as he picked something from his teeth.

"Hahaha!" The blonde laughed at himself as he put a piece of toast in his mouth and shot out the door.

He ran back, making sure to lock it.

"Hehehe! I can't wait to see everyone!" He muttered excitedly to himself. He couldn't believe he was so excited for school.

But suddenly he felt someone grab his collar.

"What the-" His eyes widened.

"Nice to see you again, U-zu-ma-ki Narutard."

xXxXxXx

Sakura and Sasuke walked into the classroom, thankful that only Neji and Hinata was the only students there.

"Hey." Neji greeted as Sasuke nodded in return as a sign of acknowledgement. The Uchiha took a seat in the second row before the back. He motion Sakura to sit beside him. Neji sat on the other side of her and Hinata behind Neji.

"Why can't we sit in the back with Hinata?" Sakura asked. Hinata gave a silent sad sigh.

"In the classroom, there's a certain 'territory' rule we must follow." Neji stated. He suddenly said, "Shikamaru, get out of the closet."

The Nara gave a reluctant sigh as he stepped out of the closet, grumbling, "But it's comfy…" "So is being under a bed, but Gaara-onee-chan says Sasuke-kun's weight might break the bed and crush my tiny body." Sakura stated. Neji snickered and said to the already knowing Sasuke, "He called you fat." "Shut it, Hyuuga."

"Anyway, explain the 'territory' crap." Sakura stated as she crossed her arms. Something told her she probably wasn't going to like the idea.

Sasuke leaned back, causing the other two men to sigh. They knew the Uchiha never liked explaining things.

"Okay, there are 'territories'." Neji said. Sakura sent a, 'Uh DUH' look. "Populars sit in the front. Geniuses in the middle. Nobodies in the back."

"…That's retarded."

Sakura looked surprisingly at Hinata who was sketching something in her sketchbook. Neji turned around and watched his cousin draw. "She curses like that once in a while." Hinata looked up at him and snorted, "Pervert."

The Haruno gasped. She held up a fist and then put it down on her flat palm. "Ah! Hinata-chan, is it THAT time of the month?" The Hyuuga girl, who wanted to be nice to Sakura despite her period, nodded stiffly.

"Ah. So it's your period-"

BONK!

The Nara fell to the floor with a thud with a sketchbook imprint on his face.

Hinata quietly sat back down and took out a handkerchief, wiping off some 'blood' that managed to get on the actually hard sketchbook.

xXxXxXx

Huff. Huff. Huff. Huff.

"Lee, are" huff "we" huff "done" huff "yet?" Tenten managed to wheeze out between gasps. She leaned on her knees to catch her breath.

"Almost done, Tenten!" Lee said as he waited near the brunette. What got even MORE annoyed was that he was still jogging. In PLACE.

"Gah! Who's stupid idea was it to jog a hundred laps around the school every morning?!" Tenten growled as she suddenly started running to get at least a head start of the enthusiastic boy.

xXxXxXx

Naruto wiped the blood from his cheek.

"Stupid ass Dosu and Zaku." The blonde grumbled with a sigh as he put his backpack back over his shoulder. "Do they think THAT'S gonna impress Kin?"

He shook his head as he made his way to school. Maybe he should just tell Hinata he ran into a pole.

Nah. That would make him seem stupid.

xXxXxXx

"Ha! I beat you for once!" Tenten gasped as she leaned on the doorway for support. "Whoo! Ahaha. That was fun." Lee sweat dropped when his brunette friend gave out a content sigh. "But, Tenten! You were just complaining about it before-" "Shut up, Lee." What made it scarier was that she was smiling.

Neji shook his head as he returned to listening to his iPod. Shikamaru lay asleep, his head under a text book. Hinata was staring blankly at the blank sketchbook. She probably had no idea what to draw. Sakura continued to look at the pictures of Neji and Sasuke's photo album. Sasuke was reading a comic, using Sakura to lean on.

Tenten walked over and took a seat next to Hinata's right side. "Whoo. Hey, Hinata, what'cha drawing?" Lee took a seat next to Tenten. Hinata looked up, her eyes resembling a pissed-off Neji. The brunette rolled her eyes. "That time of the month, Hinata?" Once again, the Hyuuga girl nodded stiffly.

"Hey."

All eyes shifted to the door when they heard the leader of the Nobodies's voice.

"Hey, Naruto-"

Hinata's eyebrows scrunched up when she had seen Naruto's state.

"Wh-what happened?" She managed to get out without gritted her teeth. Damn, this idiot ALWAYS seems to get hurt!. She shook her head to stop the cursing being caused by her menstruation. The way those bruises were looked awfully familiar. The blonde just laughed and scratched the back of his head.

"I just ran into a pole."

"Stop lying."

All the eyes in the room turned to see Sasuke, his arms crossed and his feet on the table.

Fzzt. Fzzzzzt.

"What's wrong, Sakura?" Sasuke said as he pushed Sakura's bangs up to show a bruise. She just smiled and shook her head.

"Oh, nothing, Sasuke-kun. Just fell down the stairs today." She forced a laugh, causing Sasuke to look at her suspiciously.

Fzzt. Fzzzzt. Fzzt.

Sasuke stared at Sakura but she continued to read the comic as if it was nothing. When she looked at him, he looked away, causing Sakura to raise an eyebrow.

Neji sighed and shook his head. "It was Zaku and Dosu, huh?" Naruto gulped. He then saw Hinata getting ready to go into her backpack for the medic kit, he waved his hands. "No, no! I'm fine-" He was cut off when a whistling Tenten poked him in the stomach, his reaction? He toppled over. "Ugh…"

"Zaku and Dosu?" Sakura echoed in a low whisper. They sounded familiar. Sasuke took the pink haired girl's manga and flipped through it as he explained, "Bullies to Naruto since high school." He then smirked as he softly hit Sakura on the head with it. "Shojo manga, Sakura?" She turned red and quickly took it back from. "Urusai." She huffed as she continued to read.

"Zaku and Dosu are 'henchmen' of Kin." Her emerald eyes narrowed. She pretended not to know the name. "Kin, huh." She murmured. Her nose twitched, almost as if she smelt something disgusting.

xXxXxXx

"Okay, so, the answer to this problem is-"

"Kakashi-sensei, can we open a window? I can't breathe." Tenten sighed as she fanned herself. Kakashi stayed silent because of the fact he was interrupted but nonetheless nodded. She walked over to the window and opened it.

"Does it feel nice to feel the breeze between your knees?" She heard her blonde fellow Nobody mutter. The brunette growled and picked up Kiba's desk, ready to throw it at him.

The silver haired teacher rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh…Kids, violence is not the answer."

Naruto, who forgot the desk was still aimed at him, slammed his hand on the table and shouted, "What j'yoo talking about, fool?! Violence is ALWAYS the answer!" His comment made his friends burst out laughing. Well, the ones who weren't emotionless, anyway.

Sakura slowly stopped laughing. She shivered. "Ooo, it's cold." She took the sweater she wrapped around her chair and put it over her head. When she slid her arm it-

"Ouch!" Sakura winced, causing some eyes to look at her. Her emerald eyes stared at her sweater arm. The end was stapled close. She then felt a pin on her back. "Ack!" Oldest tricks in the bully book. She took off her sweater again and put it back on her seat. Sasuke sent Neji a look. Shikamaru glanced behind him.

The Haruno sighed, already used to Bully tactics.

"Okay, well, going back to what we were doing…" Kakashi coughed as he flipped through the teacher's textbook. "Open your notebook to a clean page, put today's date, and then turned to page one hundred and eighteen in your textbook."

A wave of murmurs echoed throughout the classroom but they did it anyway.

She flipped to the next page, causing her eyes to widen and her teeth to clench.

Sakura's right eye twitched. She had turned to the next clean page to see it not clean at all. In big, bloody red words, it told her to die. She turned to the next. Same thing.

The next, the next, the next, the next, THE NEXT, THE NEXT-

She picked her notebooks up and threw it across the room, frightening the Populars and causing the Nobodies and Geniuses to narrow their eyes.

Sakura ignored Kakashi's pitiful look as she marched up to the nearest Popular and grabbed her collar.

"Why don't YOU DIE?!" Sakura hissed out as she tightened her grip, causing the Popular to cough. "HUH, INO?"

The blonde girl said nothing as tears started to cloud her vision. Then something remarkable caught Sakura's eye that made everything forgotten. Ino had mouthed,

'I'm sorry…'

Sakura then felt something hug her from the back and some wetness towards the middle.

"It's okay, Sakura-chan…"

The said girl relaxed.

"…I know, Hinata-chan." Sakura smiled. "I know."

And Sakura broke out from her morbid state, slumping down to the floor.

Kakashi shook his head.

"Since when was this drama club?"

Wrong move, Kakashi. He suddenly had the whole class glaring at him for ruining the serious atmosphere.

xXxXxXx

"…"

"…"

Sasuke stared at Neji and Hinata who were staring back. It almost seemed like glaring contest.

"…This is all your fault." Hinata grumbled as she glared at Sasuke.

"MY fault?" Sasuke retorted as his glare hardened.

"Hmn. You're stupid fan girls fault." Neji stated as he crossed his arms. The Uchiha snorted.

"I'm pretty sure almost half of the Populars like you." He said as he threw his head back. The Hyuuga smirked. "And the rest like you."

"Shut your trap, Hyuuga-"

"Now, now, stop fighting. Sakura is sleeping."

All eyes turned to the door. There, leaning on the doorframe in all his glory, stood junior Uchiha Itachi.

"…Hmph. Itachi." Sasuke said as he switched his glare from the two Hyuugas to his brother. The said man waved his right hand.

"Now, now, I came to back you up." Sasuke inwardly relaxed. He seriously didn't like the fact that two Hyuugas were ganging up on him. Especially staring him with those weird eyes.

…Creepy.

Snoooooore.

Itachi chuckled when he saw Sakura lying tossing and turning in the sheets.

"Mm. Mental breakdown?" His younger brother nodded, causing the older to sigh. "Again, eh."

"I've come to realize that the fact that Sakura is bullied is usually because of both us families." Hinata theorized as she crossed her legs and put her hands on her lap. Itachi smirked. "Yes, well, that may be true, but do not talk as if the Uchiha are at the lower ranks with Hyuuga."

Lightning crackled in the background and the atmosphere seemed to be threatening the nurse, Shizune, who quickly excused herself. She was probably being called by Tsunade.

Neji smirked. "So nostalgic." Hinata smiled a devious smile, close to a smirk. "Yes. I recall always fighting over Sakura with you two brothers."

Sasuke smirked, too. "Yeah. We always won." The male Hyuuga's eyes narrowed. "I do not recall that." Itachi fake smiled. "Well, I guess you just don't have a good memory like we do."

Rivalry glares were being thrown at each other.

"Stop fighting"

All the sets of eyes in the room rested on the sleep talking Sakura. Sasuke got up and brushed a bang from her face. "Aa. Fine."

They all exited the room, assuming she will probably wake up the next period.

"…Sakura is with the Uchiha Brothers." Itachi called out with a small smirk as he walked towards the stairs. Sasuke nodded, causing Neji to snort and Hinata to frown. The usually quiet Hinata put her pointer fingers on her cheeks and said, "Beep! Wrong!" Neji shoved a hand in his pocket. "Sakura is with the Hyuuga Cousins." The Uchiha rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right."

Meanwhile, in the nurses office…

"ACHOO! ACHOO!…ACHOO!" Sakura sneezed as she rubbed her nose. She sighed in relief. "All done…NO WAIT- ACHOO!" The pink haired girl shook her head and muttered to herself. "Ah, Kami damn it."

xXxXxXx

"So, this is what ticked Sakura off." Tenten said as she flipped through the notebook. She winced at the site of all the writings that looked like they were written in blood. "Shit, I'd be ticked, too, if this happened to me." The brunette put a new notebook in Sakura's backpack along with the old one.

"Ah. So she'll wake up next period?" Naruto asked. Sasuke shrugged. "Probably." Shikamaru snorted and slung his backpack over his shoulder in a slouched position. "But, knowing her, she'll probably seem for at least a couple of hours."

Hinata held up the rather heavy backpack. "Ah, who's going to carry the backpack?" Neji took it, his arm slightly shaking from how heavy it was. "Ah. Shikamaru, can you?" "How troublesome. You're going to skip, aren't you." Neji and Sasuke shrugged, which translated to an 'Aa.'

Naruto looked at the two weirdly. "You skip classes? Why?" Sasuke snorted. "We already know all this crap. We could've even skipped a grade." Neji looked at the blonde Nobody straight in the eye. "The only reason we are here is because of Sakura. That's it."

The two walked away, causing Kiba to sigh. "You want to follow, huh, leader." Naruto said nothing at first but then grinned and nodded. "Always the curious type, eh, Uzumaki. But remember. Curiosity killed the cat."

xXxXxXx

Sakura sat up as she stared at the clock, humming quietly to herself.

"You are my precious bird" She sang quietly as she tilted side to side. "Fly, fly away You are my precious bird, sighing every day Though I know you can't stay by me forever But you will always be my little treasure"

xXxXxXx

Sasuke sat in front of the Nurse's door, listening to the song he had heard ever since they were little.

You are my precious bird,

Fly, fly away…

You are my precious bird,

Sighing every day….

Though I know you can't stay by me

Forever….

You will always be my little treasure….

"I got the cigs." Sasuke looked up to see Neji holding up to packets of cigarettes. "Aa. Arigato." The Uchiha said as he caught the pack thrown at him. The Hyuuga smiled lightly. "She singing again?" Sasuke smiled slightly, too. "Yeah."

"Come on. This stress is killing me." Sasuke groaned as he rubbed his neck. Neji smirked. "Want to get out of school?" Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Wish. To get all this pent up rage out. But I can't abandon Sakura." Neji snorted. "Well, neither can I."

xXxXxXx

Sakura smiled. When she finally heard the footsteps echo quietly away she softly stepped outside and went on her knees, placing her hands on the spot right in front of the door. Her smiled a bit more even more.

"It's warm…"

xXxXxXx

Smack!

Thud.

"Gah! It's Uchiha Itachi!"

"You. Boyfriends of those shitty Populars." Itachi hissed as he shoved his hands into his pocket and threw his head back to look down at them, much like his younger brother. He added a kick, making the sound of a crack resound through the hallway.

"Gurk…" One of them spat blood on the floor.

"Stay. Away. From. Sakura."

xXxXxXx

"Sasuke."

"Hn?"

They were both leaning against the hard brick wall, a cigarette in hand.

"Is Itachi living with you?"

Sasuke gave a puff and shook his head.

"Right now?" He snorted. "No."

"You on bad terms or something?"

"Nah. Nothing like that." Sasuke said as he shook his head. He took another puff. "Something about wanting become famous with him. But becoming famous does something to your head." He added a poke to the side of his own head.

"Ah. So the thing that happened to his head was…"

"He's like a doting older brother to Sakura."

xXxXxXx

Itachi stared at the puppy.

"I forgot what she likes better. Cats or dogs."

Arf!

"No, no, I think it was cats."

Arf! Arf!

"No offense, mister puppy. Maybe I'll get you for my brother next time."

Arf!

"But he's not a big animal lover so-"

Whimper.

"Yeah, he's mean, I know."

"Um, sir, are you going to buy the puppy?"

"Shut up, mortal, I'm trying to think."

Some other customers flinched back, wondering if the Uchiha was from this world.

But they didn't know that guy was Itachi. He WAS wearing suspicious looking clothing, after all. You know, paparazzi and crap.

Itachi bit handkerchief and growled through fake tears,

"Damn paparazzi."

He suddenly felt his glasses drop on the floor and his hood fall back.

"Oh shi-"

"Hey, I think that's Uchiha Itachi!"

"Think again, commoners."

xXxXxXx

Rustle. Rustle.

Neji and Sasuke looked up to see the bushes rustling.

The Hyuuga shook his head. This guy just wasn't good at hiding, was he. Sasuke glanced at him and motioned for him to check it out.

"I'm gonna go take a dump over here." Neji pointed at the bush that had flinched visibly.

"No! Wait! White flag! WHITE FLAG!"

"Tch. Dobe. What are you, a stalker?" Sasuke said as he kicked the blonde covered in twigs. Naruto coughed out a leaf. "Pfft! Of course not!" Neji raised an eyebrow. "So why were you hiding in the bushes?" "Oh well, you see-" "Shut it, mini-Kakashi." Naruto pouted and crossed his arms. Now he knew how his sensei felt.

"Seriously, though, why are you here?" The Uchiha asked as he took his place back at leaning on the wall. The blonde scrunched his nose. "You smoke?" Sasuke snorted. "That's a stupid question. What am I doing now, you idiot?" "Smoking…?" "So there. I smoke." The raven haired teen said as he brushed a hand through his hair with the cigarette in between his teeth.

The Nobody plopped down on the floor onto his back and stared up at the two Geniuses.

"Sakura wouldn't be too happy to hear that."

There was an awkward silence but Naruto just continued to stare right into their eyes.

"She really wouldn't."

Neji and Sasuke looked away and spat the cigarettes out. Sasuke stepped on his, making sure it went out. He then leaned down to look closely at Naruto.

"She'll be happy as long as she doesn't know."

"Who doesn't know what?"

The three teens looked to see the pink haired girl, her hair slightly disheveled.

Naruto grinned and jumped up. He skipped towards Sakura and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "I don't know algebra, Sakura-chan? Can you explain a few things to me?" The blonde swiftly said as he laughed nervously, hoping she'd buy it. Sakura glanced at Naruto, then back to her two childhood friends, and then back at Naruto. She brushed his off her shoulder and smiled a weird looking smile.

"Maybe some other time, Naruto."

She wobbled back to the direction she came back from. But before she had reached around the door, she turned around and mouthed a, "I'm not stupid." to Sasuke with a vein popping out on her cheek.

Naruto raised an eyebrow before glancing at Sasuke who was looking at the floor. The Uchiha then looked up at the sky and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Ugh. My head hurts." He muttered which was then followed by a sigh. He glanced at his watch. "Five minutes to switching time." He shoved his hands in his pocket and walked back into the school. Naruto shot Neji a glance. "Hey, what's-"

"It's not like this is the first time this happened." Neji stated as if already knowing the blonde's question. He earned a questioning look.

"What do you mean?"

Neji shrugged. "It's confidential information." And he followed Sasuke, leaving a thoughtful Naruto who had taken a seat on the floor to think for a while.

"Hm." The Nobody looked at the school's brick wall that separated them from the town. He grinned.

xXxXxXx

Sakura stared emotionlessly at the mirror as she yawned. Behind her was Hinata, who was coming Sakura's hair like a mother.

"Hinata, all I asked was if I could borrow a comb." The pink haired girl grumbled as her best friend smiled with a slight blush. "You didn't have to go and give me a makeover."

"Nonsense!" Hinata said as she used her mouth to hold the hair ties.

Bring!! Bring!!

"Ah. Next class." Sakura said as she picked her stuff off from the bathroom counter. She was about to open the door until she was stopped by Hinata.

"Sakura."

The said girl slowly turned around and looked directly into her friend's white, pearl eyes.

"Don't let this bother you, again." She said as she walked over to Sakura and tugged her sleeve. Sakura just grinned and nodded.

"Of course! It never bothered me in the first place!"

And she opened the door and left, leaving a sad Hinata who had let out a sigh.

"You were always a horrible liar, Sakura."

She mumbled as she, too, picked up her backpack and left the room.

When the coast was clear, a bathroom stall opened to reveal a teary eyed Ino. She walked over to the bathroom sink and leaned on it while staring into the mirror. She watched the mascara carefully run down her cheeks and gave a sigh.

"I'm sorry, Sakura." She choked out as she began to throw up into the sink. "Gahk…"

xXxXxXx

Sakura sighed as she buried her head into arms.

"It's not even lunch, yet, and I want to go home." Sakura groaned as she slammed her head onto her desk again.

….

"Didn't that hurt?" Tenten asked, sweat dropping while watching the girl sob and rub her forehead. "Owie…"

"Sakura." Sakura shot up to see Sasuke looking directly at her. "Are you sure you don't want to go home." The girl stayed silent for a minute for giving a small laugh and waving her hand. "It's okay. I can't miss any notes or anything."

Crack.

The group turned to the noise. There Hinata was, her bangs covering her eyes and a broken sketch pencil in her hand. She slowly began to shake.

"Wh-"

"Eh? Hinata?" Lee asked as he slowly backed away from the scary-looking Hyuuga girl.

"Wh-where's Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked as (fake) tears threatened to spill from her cheeks. Tenten patted her friend's back. "It's okay. He's probably taking a large dump in the bathroom like he usually does." The brunette reasoned causing the petite Hyuuga to nod.

"Actually, now that you mentioned it, I haven't seen the dobe since the beginning of class." Sasuke said as he leaned back in the chair and put his feet on his desk. Chouji gulped down a handful of chips before saying, "Naruto never misses lunch. He'll be here by then."

xXxXxXx

"Here's your lunch, Sakura." Gaara said as his hand shot out to show a handkerchief-wrapped bento box. Sakura smiled and took it. "Arigato, onee-chan." Gaara rolled his eyes at the fact she stilled called him a big sister.

"Did Temari-onee-chan make this?" Sakura questioned as she unwrapped the bento. He shook his head and pointed at himself. Sakura's mouth went into a long 'o' as she eagerly opened the bento box and squealed.

"Yes! Curry bread, salmon onigiri, and my favorite, chocolate cover strawberries!" She wrapped her arms around Gaara's neck. "You always know what I like." Gaara gave a tiny, almost invisible, smile. Until Gaara grew slightly tired, he gave a sigh and grumbled, "Come on, Sakura, you aren't little anymore. I can't carry you anymore." Sakura pouted. "Well, whatever. See you later." Gaara nodded before turning around to find a spot under a tree outside.

Sakura's smile slowly faded away as she took a seat at the table, earning worried stares.

"I'm okay." Was all she said, causing the group to slowly, but unsurely, return to eating. Sasuke, who was seated next to her, glanced at her and then back at her chocolate covered strawberries.

Sakura sighed and when she looked down at her food, she realized that one of her strawberries were missing. "EH-" She turned to looked at Sasuke who had half a strawberry sticking out his mouth. "GASP!" Yeah, she said gasp. "YOU STRAWBERRY STEALER." Sasuke only spared her glance before gulping down the strawberry. "GAH. NO."

Sasuke smirked as Sakura started to playfully hit him on his shoulder. Neji rolled his eyes as he continued to eat his chicken BLT. Shikamaru just sighed and took a bite out of his banana.

Chouji sighed after he gulped down that last of his cheeseburger from the day before. "Man, Naruto isn't back yet." All looked at Chouji before wondering where the blonde could've gone.

"LUNCH!!"

Naruto had burst through the cafeteria doors with a box in one hand. He then shot to the table, placed the box in front of Sakura before stumbling into a chair next to Shikamaru.

"Ehehe! Do you know how much trouble I went through to get this?" Naruto said with a laugh as he pushed the box towards Sakura. "So you better be grateful."

The pink haired girl looked at Naruto then back the box. She pulled the red ribbon effortless, making the cardboard walls to fall in different directions, revealing a bowl of strawberry shaved ice and a perfect strawberry shortcake.

"This is…"

Naruto grinned. "You better thank Sasuke, too. He's the one that dropped the note in the first place." He held up the note that had on the front, "Do me a favor."

Neji glanced at Sasuke. 'I wonder why I couldn't see it.'

Sakura grinned as she took a bite of the cold chocolate strawberry. "Thank you, guys."

The Nobody's and Geniuses couldn't help but smile, all except for a few who didn't do it for their pride/ego, and nodded, even though some didn't know what's going on.

"Hey, what was the thing with Ino anyway?" Tenten asked as she took a sip of her orange juice. Sakura spat the leaf of the strawberry and gulped the rest. She then wiped her mouth and said, "I'll explain later."

Suddenly, the sound of plates and trays falling occurred.

"Ino!"

The group looked startled as they turned to the Populars to see Ino on her knees with her hand covering her mouth.

"I don't feel so good." Ino said, her hand still over her mouth, as she got up and wobbly ran through the cafeteria doors. Ami got up and followed while Karin sat back at the table with the rest of the Populars in silence. Karin gave a sigh before snapping her fingers.

"Juugo."

"H-hai." Juugo muttered as he bent down to pick up the tray and garbage.

"Ah, I'll do that." Juugo looked up to see a man that oddly resembled Shikamaru. "Sh-Shikamaru-san?" The man sighed as he lifted his janitor cap. "Nah. His dad."

Sakura gave a snort. "You're dad works here?" Shikamaru sighed. "Well, mother did want him to get a job. He just thought it was too troublesome to look for an energy-consuming one." Naruto rolled his eyes as he leaned on the table with his right hand. "That sounds familiar." "Hey, I'm not looking for a job."

"Oi, Shikamaru." The said boy looked up to see his father towering over him. "No lollygagging today." Naruto whispered to Kiba, "Lollygagging? Who says that?" Shikamaru slapped his forehead, his face slightly pink from embarrassment.

xXxXxXx

"Hey."

Sakura looked up as she had half-way zipped closed her backpack.

"Ino…san."

Ino had winced invisibly as she forced a snort while rubbing her neck.

'I have to say it or else I'll-'

"My neck still smarts."

Sakura looked blankly at the blonde before strongly stuffing the stuff before her backpack and then roughly throwing it over her shoulder.

"So? Why should I care?"

The girl had immediately lost her cool as she grabbed Sakura's vest and pulled her towards her.

"You're my friend, aren't you? You aren't supposed to do stuff like that?'

"Friend?"

"…Huh?"

"Friend?" Sakura slammed her hand on the desk, causing it to give an after sting. "Friend?! I'm your FRIEND?! Well, THANKS FOR THE NEWSFLASH, because I DIDN'T KNOW THAT."

Her head was hurting.

Her eyes were getting blurry.

She didn't want the tears to crawl out of her eyes.

"Sakura-"

"You're so immature."

Was all Sakura said before exiting the classroom.

And all that Ino heard was the scary echoes of the footsteps her ex-friend were making.

She somehow wanted to hear those footsteps come back.

And that's when she felt she had made the wrong choice.

xXxXxXx

Sakura hummed happily as she sipped her ice coffee.

Sasuke sighed as took a sip of his hot cocoa before returning to his book.

Shikamaru sat, leg over other, as he played his DS. What? College-kids can't play their DS?

"That's it."

The three heads shot towards Neji's direction.

"If those idiots do not come here within a three second period, I'm going to-"

"Sorry we're late!" Naruto said as he, once again, tried to regain his breath. Hinata sighed, "Y-you've been late a-ah lot lately." Kiba gave an exhausted groan as he sat on the floor, not caring at the weird stares people sent him. But those people slowly began to resume going back to daily routine. "Man, I TOLD you that walking would be faster but NO you people had to be lazy and take the dumb bus! Today equals TRAFFIC. Do you understand?!"

Tenten wiped some sweat off her brow before dusting some dirt off her clothes. She then gave a sigh and then explained, "Lee went to go visit Gai-sensei at the hospitable." She grumbled as she mashed a few buttons on her cell, showing that she was text-ing. "He said hi. But, then again, it's not like Gai-sensei got into a car accident or something."

Naruto pulled a chair over and took a seat next to Sakura. "Hey, so what should we do today?" Sakura shrugged at the same time sipping more iced coffee through her straw. "Uhm…I don't know." Shikamaru glanced at Neji, causing a string of events. Neji glanced at Sakura and then at Sasuke, making Sasuke glance at Sakura then Naruto, causing Naruto to make a confused look.

"Huh? What? What do you want me to do?"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes and Neji slapped his forehead. God, why did they have such a clueless friend?

"God's not here at the moment, please leave a message after the tone-" Sakura giggled as if reading their minds. "-Beeeep."

Sasuke closed his book and shoved it back in his messenger bag. "Are we going to sit here all day or what?" The pink haired girl looked at him and shrugged again. He sighed and grabbed her arm, not so gently pulling her out of the café.

The Nara closed his DS while the Hyuuga boy slapped some dollars on the table before shoving their hands in their pockets and following their two childhood friends. Naruto looked at their backs and then back at the Nobodies.

"Uh, are we supposed to follow or something?" Tenten slapped her forehead before she roughly grabbed his ear and dragged him out of the café, too. Hinata sighed and Kiba grinned, opening the door and muttering a, "Ladies first." then bowing.

As they exited the cashier smiled and waved, "Thank you, come again."

xXxXxXx

"Hey. Where are we going again?" Naruto asked with a yawn. Tenten slapped him at the back of the head and whispered not so quietly into his ear. "We're trying to cheer up Sakura, remember?" "Oh yeah…" Hinata shook her head. "P-please l-lower your voices…"

"Sasuke-kun, where are we going?" Sakura asked as she began to walk his pace. She gave a sigh, probably thinking he didn't hear her, and repeated, "Where are we go-"

"To the mall."

Sakura halted, causing Neji and Shikamaru to stop, and then the Nobodies skidded into a stop.

"But you hate the mall." The Haruno stated as she pulled her arm out of his hand. She then crossed them. Shikamaru sighed and scratched his scalp. "Yeah, and we also have a bigger chance of meeting a Popular slash fan girl." Neji nodded. "And that means the bigger chance of getting into a fight."

Naruto punched the air above him. "Hell yeah! How about we fight?" Tenten grinned as she started to jump up and down, earning some stares from people passing by. "I'll definitely agree to that! That will definitely take the stress away!" She turned and put a hand on the Haruno's shoulder, a big smile plastered on her face. "I want to see some of your karate moves, Sakura-chan!"

"I don't want to fight."

Everyone immediately shut up and looked at the blank faced Sakura who's head was down.

"I don't want to fight the Populars."

"Why not?" Naruto asked with a frown as he placed his hands behind his head. "I mean, for all we know, they're planning your demise right now just 'cause you're hanging out with Sasuke-teme."

Neji nodded. "Yes. Do you ever wonder what they would do to if they found out where you lived?" Shikamaru snorted. "Heck, they wouldn't go near that place considered it's where Sasuke lives. I bet you they haven't even thought she'd live there." Kiba smirked. "I bet you they hardly think at all." The boys of the group chuckled at their own joke but the girls remained impassive.

Hinata turned to Tenten and whispered, "You'll keep quiet about where Sakura lives, right?" The brunette smiled and pointed at herself. "On a Yakuza princess's life!" She joked, causing Hinata to smile at her friend's trustworthy-ness.

Sasuke paused. "Then let's head to the park. Then, Sakura, you can-"

"Then I'll tell you the story once we reach the mall." Sakura stated/finished as she pointed at the red ribbon that adorned her hair. "I'll tell you how my once best friend, Ino, became a Popular."

To Be Continued in Chapter 5...

Authoress' Note: This chapter is eighteen pages long on ten font. Holy. Crap. I amaze myself sometimes. But the next chapter might not be as long, I'm not sure. Anyway, my goal for this chapter is to get 100 reviews for this story. I'm already pretty close, so… Anyway, LYRICS of the song Sakura was singing BELONG to ME. I don't know, I just made it up.

Chapter 5 Preview: First Week Gone, A Lot More To Go! The Recipe for REVENGE!

Chapter Title may be changed.

"I'm not sure if I want to go with this plan, Karin…" Ino said as she inched away from them slowly. Ami smirked. "What are you, chicken?" She cooed as she made wing motions and chicken noises. "Stop being immature, Ami." Karin ordered, causing Ami to immediately stop her motions but not her snickering.

"Ino, no one ever said plans that involve revenge are FAIR."