Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto; the credit goes to Masashi Kishimoto.
'Inner Sakura'
Stressed/emphasized words
"Talking"
'Thoughts' and 'Outer Sakura'
-This is the rewritten version-
For julene, happy, and sweetangel823 the anonymous reviewers, thank you! For the signed reviewers, I will send a reply as thanks. Sorry for the late update, huge writers block and tests.
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Chapter Three
Auditorium
After lunchtime, there will be an announcement about the second try of the first test, so everyone gathered in the auditorium.
"Okay, now I'm going to explain the second try. It's dance and singing! Simply put, you've got to dance and sing. The songs you can dance is listed in this paper, there are five in total. You must choose one of them, and one song can only be danced by one girl." Tsunade explained, showing the little piece of paper that lists the name of songs they can dance. Finished explaining, she descended down the stage and gave each girl the list of songs.
"Any questions?"
"Are there any rules?" Rika asked.
"No, there aren't."
"Thank you."
"Any other questions?"
"Umm… when we're going to dance, do we use our own clothing or clothes you prepare?" Sakura asked.
"Your own clothing is fine, but if you want to use a cloth from us, that's fine too."
"Thank you."
"More questions?"
All stayed silent, so Tsunade called it off. "Okay, now please think about a song you wish to dance. We'll give you five minutes."
The list is:
One Winged Angel by Nobuo Uematsu
Sorry by Madonna
Objection (Tango) by Shakira
Car Wash by Missy Elliott
Dirrty by Christina Aguilera
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"So, all of you have decided on which song you're going to perform?"
"I choose Dirrty!" Sakiko said eagerly.
"I choose Sorry!" Mitsuru said.
"I choose Objection." Rika calmly said.
"I choose Car Wash." Rinka said.
"Well, that leaves Sakura with One Winged Angel. Sakura?" Tsunade asked, diverting her gaze to Sakura.
Sakura didn't even hear her. She was still looking at the paper, thinking of what should she perform, sweating madly.
She once had a terrible experience on her prom while on the dance, and that gives her a trauma.
"Sakura?" Tsunade asked, confused.
"E-Eh? Yes?"
"Everybody has made up their minds and you are left with the song One Winged Angel."
"Oh… y-yeah… sure." She stammered.
"Okay then, here are the cassettes." Tsunade said, handing the cassettes to the girls.
"It's up to you if you want to train from now, but if you want to train tomorrow, that's also fine. You will perform two days later anyways. Okay, now you're free to do anything today. If you want to train, or whatever it's up to you."
The girls nodded and left the room. Before leaving, Itachi told his slave to massage his back later. She just nodded, not really listening to him. She had something else in mind.
Unknown to everyone, Sakura has this problem at dancing.
Singing is not a problem to her, because she had performed several times during school days and many praised her for her voice.
But… dancing. She really liked dancing when she was small but one accident that humiliated her on her debut as a ballet dancer totally eliminated her interest in dancing, and plus, she got a trauma.
'No way, I've got to dance… this is a total nightmare… Nooo…' Sakura thought.
'Gosh… if only you and I could switch, there will be no problem…' Inner Sakura said to her outer self.
'Yeah, if only some miracle like that can happen now… I really don't want to do that in front of people… it reminds me.' Outer Sakura said.
'I know. Now, to lighten our moods, let's watch a movie created by me… Itachi and Me!' Inner Sakura squealed happily.
Outer Sakura's face turned blue, seeing at the video made by Inner Sakura's drawings, scanned to a computer and made into a video.
'EWWW… What kind of video is that?' Outer Sakura muttered, disgusted with the scenes.
'Isn't it romantic? I love romantic scenes! Because I am just an inner self, I can make my own imaginations come true with this! Oh how wonderful! He is so totally cool!' Inner Sakura shrieked.
'Fine, fine…' Outer Sakura sighed.
Now, back into the subject of the second try. What will she do? First thing she does now is going to her master's room… or her temporary room.
"You're so late. Now come here and massage my back." Itachi said as soon as she entered the room.
A vein popped on Sakura's forehead and her eyes widened, but obeyed his orders eventually, because she can't be angry now at the thoughts of dancing filling her head.
"Fine."
She blushed slightly when she stepped closer to the bed. He was shirtless.
'Puberty sucks… now I'm getting the thoughts of him…' Sakura thought.
'$$$#$$$!!!' Inner Sakura shrieked.
"Why don't you ask the maids to do it?" Sakura protested before massaging his back.
"Why ask them when I have a personal one?" Itachi said, smirking.
POP (sound of vein popping from Sakura's forehead)
"Bah." She said, and then massaged his back.
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Training Room Rika & Rinka"Where's Sakura?" Rika asked Rinka after listening to her song.
"I don't know." Rinka replied, still listening to her cassette.
"She looked rather strange back then while we're choosing our songs." Rika remembered.
"Strange?"
"It's like she's staring at the paper so seriously, like it's some kind of death note…"
"Eh?"
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"Don't you have any energy in you body?" Itachi protested.
"Well, sorry if I am too weak, Master." She replied sarcastically.
"Are you so stupid you need an example for a correct massage?"
"It's just your body that's too hard!"
"Well, not exactly that. Normal maids can even massage me correctly without any massaging education. Very unlike a certain someone." He said smirking.
POP
"Is that so? So, this is the time to get serious!" She said, falling to his taunt.
After the taunt, she was massaging him too hard and she gets even more protests.
"Are you really a woman?" He said bitterly, rubbing his painful back.
"You said that it was too weak, so I gave it all I've got!"
"Don't you know how to control your own powers? I can't believe I've picked such a slave."
POP
POP
"Fine then!" she said, not wanting to be called stupid, being a genius she always was when in school.
'Have I really met someone this impolite before? I didn't remember knowing someone like this! GRRR!' She growled inside her mind.
She managed to control her anger and did a good massage. Itachi just chuckled after she finished massaging. She knew she had just been fooled, but she doesn't want further arguments so she just kept it to herself.
Finished massaging, a thought appeared.
Devil Inner Sakura says:
'Ask him to teach you! Isn't it wonderful to be tutored by such a charming man? YOU HAVE TO ASK HIM! A DANCING DATE!'
Angelic Inner Sakura says:
'We should train by ourselves! Not only it can make us try to overcome our fear, it's a test to show what can you do!'
DIS (Devil Inner Sakura) and AIS (Angelic Inner Sakura)
DIS: 'Why care? It's better to go with the easy way!'
AIS: 'There's not always easy way! We have to avoid asking help as we can! It's true we need help, but we have to do it ourselves if we can!'
DIS: 'Would you let a chance to dance and date with a VERY DAMN HOT guy go? You're so stupid.'
AIS: 'You're the one who's stupid! I can't believe I have such an egoistical other side!'
DIS: 'And I also can't believe I have such an angelic oh-so-kind other side like YOU!'
AIS: 'That's not true! We should have positive feelings not negative!'
DIS: 'Who cares? Negative is what people always have! My population is much more bigger than yours!'
AIS: 'Population doesn't matter!'
DIS: 'It does matter!'
AIS: 'No it doesn't!'
DIS: 'Yes it does you stupid!'
AIS: 'I'm not stupid! You're the one who's stupid!'
Sweatdrop.
'I can't believe I have those things inside me. First, my inner self, and now she divided herself into this…' Sakura thought.
She thought, she has to impress him; it's unfair if she asks help from him, so she decided to train herself.
"Now, wash my body, slave."
"Eh? What?" she asked, unsure of what he had just said.
"I don't like repeating. Just do your work, slave."
POP
'Damn him! Maybe I shouldn't have made that doll on the first place…' Sakura thought bitterly.
'I wish I were you…' Inner Sakura looked at her outer self with jealousy.
'I would change myself into you if I can!' Sakura said.
She took a towel and changed herself in the room, and then went inside the bathroom. Lucky for her, Itachi had finished changing and put on a towel on his waist, while Inner Sakura cursed.
He sat on the tub filled with hot water and Sakura followed, half-heartedly.
"Hey, I thought you said 'wash your body'?"
He smirked and approached her. "No need to hurry. If you want to train for the try there's still tomorrow…"
"It's not that!" she said, slightly blushing.
"Why are you doing this anyway?" she asked.
"You want to know why?"
"This has something to do with your past."
"What? My past? Why?"
"I'll tell you later. Now wash my body." He said as he got out of the tub and sat on a short plastic chair so that she can wash him.
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After finished washing, she quickly ran out of the bathroom to change.
Itachi just smirked. "What an innocent girl… just like what he had told me…"
And then he changed himself before going to his room.
Sakura held her tomato cheeks, still can't believe what had just happened in the bathroom. Her towel fell.
Flashback
After she finished washing, she stood up and sighed. Suddenly her towel fell and he turned to her. What a coincidence.
"KYAAAA!!!"
She ran like lightning to the room and quickly wore her clothes.
End of Flashback
'I can't believe he just 'saw' me!' Sakura mentally wept.
"That was a nice show." Itachi said smirking.
"Oh shut up! That was a totally unexpected!"
He just chuckled and lied on his bed.
Her cheeks puffed like a balloon and then lied on the bed.
'His bed is so fluffy… hey, inner self—' Sakura thought.
'YES! MY NEW VIDEO IS COMPLETE!' Inner Sakura yelled.
Outer Sakura jumped in surprise and narrowed her eyes when she saw a new video, the same kind of video as before.
'Sigh… I think I better try to dance… rather than to talk to my inner self…' Sakura said to herself and exited Itachi's room.
'Did you say something?' Inner Sakura asked, hearing the word inner self. She didn't actually hear the whole sentence though.
'Nothing!'
When she got out Rinka was on her way back to her room.
"Ah-hey Rinka-chan!"
"Umm… hi." She said, forcing a smile.
'Why is she coming out from Itachi's room? I wonder…' Rinka thought.
"Have you trained?"
"Yes, I just have."
"Oh I see. Well, I'll see you later! Gotta go to the training room!"
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Sakura listened to the music. It lasted for about three minutes. (I halved the original seven minutes because it's as long as 7 minutes because the lyrics is sang twice)
After listening to the music twice, she stood up and prepared the choreograph… but she sat again…
'I just couldn't do it!' Sakura mentally screamed.
'Oh come on you stupid! Just ignore your selfish thoughts and start training!' Inner Sakura lectured her outer self.
'My inner self…' Sakura said; feeling touched that this is the first time her inner self cheered for her.
'What will Itachi think of us if you fail the second try! You already messed up in the first!' Inner Sakura wept fake tears.
Sakura narrowed her eyes.
'You're just thinking for yourself!' Sakura retorted.
Knowing that her inner self will babble useless things again, she decided to try dancing according to the rhythm.
A set of choreographic thoughts hit her mind, so she tried to practice it. Lucky for her no one's around because all of them had finished training.
After a long time of thinking, she decided.
First, when the music says Estuans interius ira vehementi, she will make her hands look like an X and left hand touching right arm, and vice versa, and when the song says Sephiroth, she'll fall down. When the song says Sors immanis, et inanis she will place one hand on her heart and one like reaching for the sky. During the veni, veni, venias, ne me mori facias she will dance freestyle according to the rhythm and music, and when the Gloriosa, generosa part she will also freestyle dancing.
(A/N: Too simple… I'm not really good at explaining that kind of things, and if only I saw my sis' performance I'd make it like that… --")
Okay, choreograph of the dance is already in her mind and she memorized it instantly. Problem is she needs courage.
Performing alone might not be a problem, but in front of many people is a no.
'Courage… come on, come to meeeee…' Sakura mentally screamed.
'If you need cheering, let your inner self help!' Inner Sakura said, appearing with many mini Inner Sakuras in cheerleader suit and pompoms.
'Don't make noises… you're going to make me experience a thousand years of headache—' Sakura said.
'GO! GO! Let's make our Itachi-sama impressed! We can do it! GO! GO! Let's make our Itachi-sama impressed! We can do it! GO! GO! —' Inner Sakura and mini Inner Sakuras exclaimed zealously, ignoring Outer Sakura.
'QUIET! And change the words! I'm not doing this for him!' Outer Sakura shouted.
'GO! GO! Let's make our Itachi-sama impressed! We can do it! GO! GO! Let's make our Itachi-sama impressed! We can do it! GO! GO!' Inner Sakura continued.
Sakura shuddered and started training. After she started the music, she waited until the words came out and danced.
After the music ended, it turned out quite good, maybe she will practice it later and make some more improvisations from the basic choreograph she has in mind.
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Dinner Time
Sakura sighed heavily as she sat on the chair.
"Did something happen, Sakura-chan?" Rinka asked.
"No, nothing bad. It's just I'm rather tired from the dance training."
"I see."
"How about your training?"
"Good."
"Can we practice together tomorrow?"
"S-Sure!"
"Alright maids, serve the dinner!" Tsunade suddenly exclaimed.
The maids nodded and put the meal for every person.
There are no announcements, so after dinner the girls either train again or come back to their rooms to rest. Sakura wanted to take a bath so she came back to her temporary room.
When she got into the bathroom she filled the tub with hot water and waited until it fills up.
"I wonder if I can do it…" she mumbled to herself, while waiting for the tub to fill up.
The tub fills quite quickly, and she undressed herself before submerging into the hot water.
"It feels so warm… Hmm…" she mumbled weakly.
She washed her hair first, and then her body. After that, she enjoyed soaking herself with the warm water.
After a long while, she looked at her watch, time had been flying for thirty minutes, so she climbed out of the tub and started wearing her shorts and white tank top.
Back in the room, she found her master reading a book. Bored, she bombed him with questions.
"What are you reading?"
"None of your business slave."
"I HAVE A NAME!!" she replied angrily, she wanted to be nice but was rewarded bitterly.
"Yeah, yeah. Just don't disturb me again."
"But I'm bored!"
"Hn." He replied eyes still at the book.
"Let's do something!"
No reply.
"HEY!"
"What?" He replied annoyed.
"Come on, let's do something! I'm bored!"
"You're disturbing me only for this?" He said in a low voice, staring at her with pure anger.
Innocent Sakura did not understand what low voice meant, she kept on babbling.
"Yeah!" she smiled cheerfully.
"Go away." He said nonchalantly, averting his eyes back to the book.
"SUPER MEANIE." She whined.
He stayed silent, and ignored Sakura's continuing babbles asking him to do something with her, play something, or whatever to relieve her boredom.
'Man, she sure is not giving up. How am I gonna read if she keeps on disturbing?' Itachi thought angrily.
"You want a punishment?" He threatened, eyes giving her a deadly death glare.
"No." she said innocently.
"Then sleep."
"GRRMBL… Fine, fine… You're such a boring man."
"And what if I am?"
POP
She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and then go to sleep. She had tried her best to endure his nonchalant attitude, yet he still did not give up.
She brushed her teeth fast and hard, as a release to all the anger she had kept. Also, another result of the kept anger, when she closed the door, the door captured her sweet finger.
"OUCHHHH!" she yelped in pain as her finger starts to spill blood out.
"What a fool."
"SHUT UP!"
He went to his drawers and picked a bandage and took her hand to bandage her injured finger.
"I can do it myself—" she said, struggling to break free from his hold.
"Don't move."
"Done."
"Thank you." She said softly.
"Hn." He said as he went back to bed to read.
"Sigh… I guess the best option now is to sleep." She said in a giving up tone.
She pulled the covers as she lied on the fluffy bed, and slept facing the opposite from Itachi. It only took her a few minutes before she slept soundly.
Itachi only smirked as he saw her peaceful sleeping form.
Unknown by both inhabitants in the room, someone had put a hidden and invisible taper. The taper tapes both sound and picture. It was a girl, one of the contestants here who put it. She learned about tapers from her personal bodyguards that are used to doing these kinds of missions.
The girl just cursed 'F& her!' at the sleeping form she saw through the taper.
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Now it's ten pages… because maybe I'll write one day one chapter this might be long. But that may work on only some chapters, because usually I am very eager about new stuffs, but after quite a long time, I may get bored and use the simplest way to finish. Cheater me, eh? HAHAHA…
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