Love Letter

Chapter 3: Sakura's Decision

Sakura walked on the corridors, frustrated.

'That bastard Itachi tricked her! And now they were…PARTNERS,' She bitterly thought as she came across her locker, slamming her black shoes inside while hastily throwing her white shoes on the floor while a loud TUG. The other students around her, who were staring at the whole ordeal were scared and gave way as she walked pass them. Ino, not far behind her, stared at her best friend and the parting crowd with questioning eyes. When she caught up with her, she looked at her best friend, who was spacing out with a scary look on her face.

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"Sakura, what's with you today?" Ino asked, concerned.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked, her face becoming unreadable.

"You practically scared everyone today, especially the boys!" Ino gasped at the horror of her best friend scaring away boys.

"Who cares?" Sakura muttered.

"You've been like that ever since the announcement for the pairing in the competition for the whole year has been announced." Ino suspiciously said.

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Sakura eyes twitched. Her best friend might be overly flirtatious with boys (especially when it comes to Sasuke) and acts like an air head at times, but she can be good at sensing out of the ordinary things…which is probably why she's good at gossiping.

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"Ah! You twitched! I got it right!" Ino pointed out, smirking.

"Uh…the classes are about to start so we better hurry!" Sakura nervously blabbered as she started to walk away.

Ino grabbed her shoulder and said, "But it's not even near 8:30. It's still 7:30."

"Really? I-I mean…So? It's good to be punctual." Sakura reasoned out, starting to walk away.

"But we won't attend today's morning classes remember? We have to study hard with our partners for the upcoming competition." Ino raised a brow, amused by Sakura's weird demeanor.

"I haven't excused myself yet so that means I have to go to the classroom." Sakura insisted.

"So why can't you just excuse yourself right now while classes aren't starting?" Ino smirked, her grin widening.

"Students aren't allowed to go inside the faculty during the morning."

"But we're not only students. We're competitors, remember? Besides, the competition is one of the honor student's requirements."

"Err…"

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"You did WHAT?!" Ino shrieked, looking at Sakura, startled.

Sakura bit her lip and nodded. "I accidentally gave my love letter to Itachi-senpai, Ok?! Don't make me repeat my sad story." She muttered.

"And you're stuck with him for the whole year." Ino absentmindedly said.

"Don't rub it in too much." Sakura warned Ino.

"Don't worry! Sasuke and I will make sure that you two are not alone…but it's more like me doing the job because he doesn't know anything." Ino chirped, trying to comfort Sakura.

"Right and Itachi decides to humiliate me in front of his brother." Sakura muttered, rolling her eyes.

"Come on, you know that I'm just trying to help you out in your dilemma." Ino smiled weakly.

"I know. I'm sorry if I'm being such a sour gummy bear today." Sakura apologetically replied, hugging Ino.

"It's alright! Just remember, I'll be here for you when you have problems." Ino hugged back.

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After their conversation, the bell rang and it commenced the start of the intensive review for the first part of the competition. Just as Ino promised, she followed Sakura and Itachi, dragging poor Sasuke along with her.

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"Sakura~~ Wait for me!" Ino called out for the nth time during the last 2 hours.

Sakura looked at Ino with a weary look and nodded. Itachi, who was looking at the situation with a positive attitude, smirked amusedly at Ino's antics to guard them.

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Sakura glared at the older man and hissed, "It's not funny."

"I'm not laughing, little girl." Itachi coolly replied.

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When Sakura turned her back on him with a muted "Hmph!", he raised a brow and a smile tugged at the corners of his usually stoic face. 'This little girl,' He thought, 'Seems to be more interesting than what she looks on the outside.'

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Sakura crossed her arms while waiting the pair stumble towards them. She smiled to herself and murmured, "I won't lose to you, Itachi. I definitely won't!"

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Patzy: It's been a while since I've uploaded a chapter! I hope you guys will also like this too! :3 I'll try to upload the next chapter quickly.