A New Life

Chapter 4

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Life was going great for Sakura. She had lots of great friends, good grades, a great allowance, and , Life was going great.

When Sasuke and Sakura were walking down the hallway talking and joking around when they ran into Ino. She joined in for a little while before saying she needed to talk to Sakura and shooed Sasuke off.

"Sakura, what's between you and Sasuke?" Ino asked as she pulled Sakura to the side of the hall.

"What do you mean?" Sakura was confused.

"I mean, do you like him?"

"Like like like?"

"Yeah, Like like like."

"No, I like him as a friend." Sakura shrugged, looking away.

"You sure about that, forehead girl?" Ino crossed her arms across her chest.

"Yeah. He's really cool and I think he's amazing and one of my best guy friends." Ino continued to look at Sakura skeptically. "Ino! I don't like him that way! Ok?"

"All right, if you say so..."

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During English, the class had been buzzing with the news of a new girl. Kiba, Ino, and Sakura were just talking about hanging out after school when their teacher, Asuma, entered.

"Ok everyone, calm down. Pull out you notebooks and start writing." Asuma put an overhead on and sat at his desk, playing Shogi on his computer when a girl walked in.

"Sorry, I got lost." She explained to the teacher, her black eyes scanning the classroom.

"It's fine, just go sit nest to Uchiha, next to the pink haired girl, Haruno." He pointed in their direction and the black haired girl's eyes fastened onto Sasuke. Seductively sliding into the seat next to him, She took off her glasses and batted her eyes at him.

"Hi. I'm Karin. what's your name?" Sakura's eye twitched at this, but she didn't look and kept her attention on the notes.

"Sasuke."

"Nice. What are we doing?" Karin took the opportunity to rest her head on his shoulder as she looked at his notes.

"Taking notes."

"Oh." Karin got out a sheet of paper and started copying the overhead.

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"Heh, really? Poor Naruto!" Sasuke had just told Sakura one of Naruto's most embarrassing moments against the blonde's will. Sakura comforted her best friends by patting him on the shoulder, laughing about his red face.

"Sasuke-kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun! There you are! I've been wondering where you'd gotten to!" Sakura gritted her teeth as Karin latched onto her friend's arm. he rolled his eyes, but didn't bother trying to retrieve his limb from her suction grip. That would be mission impossible.

"I need to talk to you! So C'mon!" Sasuke didn't have any time to say anything as he was whisked away from his friends. The pink haired girl standing next to Naruto glowered after them.

"I Hate her." The furious girl with flaming jade eyes stormed off, a worried Naruto following her.

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"What do you want?" Sasuke hated being in her presence, but knew what would happen to him if he ignored her- endless annoyance.

"To go out with you." Karin slid her arms around his neck. Sasuke immediately removed them and started to walk away.

"No."

"Then what if we make a bet?"

"No."

"If I can beat you in Daihinmin, you'll go out with me. if not..."

"You don't talk or touch me at all." Sasuke was liking the sound of this.

"Fine!" Without looking back at her, he walked away.

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"Does anyone else want to play Daihinmin?" Karin advertised her deck of cards during their free time in Study Hall.

"Count me in!"

"I won the last game, so I'm Daifugo!" Karin turned from the 3 people that had offered to play to look knowingly at Sasuke. He sighed and got up to walk to the table where this was going on.

"I'll play." He was reluctant, but wanted her off of his back.

"I kick ass at Daihinmin. Karin, I'll play." Sakura acknowledged her rival.

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"Kakumei!" a classmate pulled a revolution with a grin.

"Kaidan!" Karin smirked as she laid down her hand.

"Eight Enders, and I'm out!" Sakura put down her remaining cards, ending her part in the game and winning.

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"The Daihinmin is Kagu, The Hinmin is Hasu, Sasuke is the Heimin, Karin is Fugo, and Sakura is the Daifugo!" Sai announced. Karin smirked and Sasuke glowered at the floor, wondering why he had taken Karin up on such a stupid bet. The bell rang, signaling the end of the day and the classroom was empty in 5 minutes. Karin grabbed her bag and skipped up to where Sasuke was putting his stuff away. When he finished, Karin threaded her arm through Sasuke's and lead him to the door, not letting him wait for his friends. Sakura glared at the back of the black haired girl as they walked out of sight. Quickly buckling her bag closed, she left the room in a rush.

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"Sakura! Wait up!" The pink haired girl stopped while her blond friend caught up to her. "Sakura, are you ok? you seem pissed off."

"I'm fine, Naruto." She sighed and started walking again, with Naruto on her side.

"You sure it isn't how Karin's all over Sasuke and he's acting like her slave?"

"...You know me too well."

"I guess I'm a fast learner!" Naruto chuckled, his ego growing.

"Hey! What's that? Oh my god, It's a flying pig!" Sakura pointed to the sky, acting amazed.

"That wasn't nice, Sakura-chan!" He complained.

"What? I could swear I saw one!"

"Sakura-chaaaan..."

"Naruto-kuuuuun..."

"So why do you think he's letting her treat him like that?" Naruto gave up on trying to get an apology out of Sakura.

"I don't know. You've known him longer." Sakura shrugged.

"Yeah, but he's never let a girl do that to him. You're the closest a girl has ever gotten to him."

"Meh. I don't know. See you later!" Sakura gave Naruto a hug that was meant to be quick, but he held her comfortingly for a little, then let her go.

"Feel better! Bye!" He waved as they walked separate directions.

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"Hi Sasuke!" Karin skipped up to him and hugged, but his arms stayed at his sides.

"..." The girl sighed and pushed her glasses up with a finger as she stepped back.

"Sasuke-kun, we've talked about this before. we even went over it. Time to stick to your side of the deal." Sakura, Naruto, Ino, and Temari watched warily from where they were standing. Sasuke sighed and hugged her.

"You look beautiful this morning." He said in a monotone as he kissed her forehead. Karin giggled against his chest. '1 more week of this shit...'

Ino sighed and grabbed Sakura's hand, leading her away from the scene.

"So, forehead girl, are you going to the Christmas dance?" Ino asked.

"I guess. Are you?"

"Yep! Sai asked me already! I can't wait for this weekend!"

"Shikamaru's going with me. he emailed me, he's too lazy to tell me to my face." Temari sighed, shaking her head.

"I'm going to ask Hinata at lunch today!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Naruto, you're getting dance lessons, then!" Sakura decided for him. "Come over to my place tomorrow and I'll teach you." Naruto's eyes grew huge.

"Sakura-chan's going to be my teacher?"

"Yes. bring lots of band-aids." Ino suggested wisely.

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Gomenasai for the uber long wait!!!!! I've been really busy, then i had writer's block! Gomenasai! Gomenasai! Now bai bai, i need to have my ramen dinner now!