Author's Note: :D Haha, I find it so funny how I got from 5 reviews on chapter one, then 8 on chapter two, and now 5 again on chapter three! Watch how I get 8 again ;) (wink, wink) Thanks so much for the support and reviews!
This Chapter is Dedicated to…
Daisherz365 – for being my FIRST non-anonymous reviewer for this story :3
Starlight – for being my special anonymous reviewer for BOTH of my stories and for every story and chapter :D
Beautifully Ugly
Quote of the Day
"D'OH!" – Homer Simpson, The Simpons
Chapter 4 – Understand
Bellowing could be heard from down the halls of Konoha High, but of course, it was the surprised and upset looking knuckle headed student, only he wasn't upset about his cold ramen this time, it was with Sakura. "B-But Sakura-chan! Why in the world would you go with that bastard Itachi? You KNOW Sasuke-teme hates his brother…" Naruto complained, rubbing the large bump forming on the top of his head from the vicious pink haired girl's thunderous punch.
Sasuke couldn't help but glower at Sakura either, "Hn." Wonderful, the infamous Uchiha language again, and this time, it translated something among the lines of, "Yeah! Why the hell would you go out to the Fuyu Seisoku Odori with my BROTHER?" She sweat dropped and just turned around, her back facing them and sighed.
"You want to know my reasons?" They both stood still, silent and waited for Sakura's reasons, and hoping they better be good reasons too. She sucked in breath and sighed, "One: Naruto picks terrible people on the blind date. Two: I know Itachi well. Three: He offered me first if I didn't already have a date. Four: I didn't have a date. Five: He's nice. There, see?" She grinned, holding all five fingers up for each reason. "I gave you five reasons." Turning around she squealed as she almost bumped into a tall figure with a black shirt on. She saw on the side was the Akatsuki's red and white cloud stitched onto one of the straps of the backpack and knew immediately it was Itachi. She looked up and she had guess righted, a small smile plastered on her porcelain skin.
From behind, Sasuke couldn't help but glower at Itachi fiercely; his onyx deep eyes almost looked as if they turned red from anger, "Itachi…" He muttered a low growl. Naruto glared at the man, but managed to drag the youngest Uchiha away before any real damage could be done.
"Hey Itachi-san!" Sakura smiled, stepping back so she gave them both some room, and so she could look up at him without having to tilt her head all the way back. She was surprised that he had even bothered to come and find her in this large crowd of students: freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors all alike and chattering away.
The weasel just gave her a quick faint smile, "I know that the day you join the Akatsuki is the day you die, but how about we just hang out? We're not as bad as you think we are… Most of us are well-behaved." He gave a fairly good reason.
Sakura raised an elegant pink eyebrow, "'Most'?" She repeated, chuckling and just nodded, "I guess… The first few times I met them was a bit chaotic…" She shrugged and followed Itachi over to a large group of seniors, at least two juniors. She noticed most of them didn't blend in well with the crowd besides Itachi and Sasori, the maroon haired short senior who always had a knack for world history and trigonometry.
"-chaaaaaan! Tobi misses you!" Soon enough, she was tackled with a hug by the ever-so-loving junior named Tobi. He usually wore an extremely baggy sweater he NEVER takes off in school, hood always up and covered his face. Most people made fun of him by calling him Kenny from that popular cartoon South Park, always yelling out, 'Why don't you go on and die poor kid?' or made muffling noises. It was when the Akatsuki noticed and took him under their protection and trust.
Sakura smiled and hesitantly hugged back, "Yeah… You could've always just said hi to me in the hall ways Tobi, you didn't have to wait for me to come up to you to say hi." She laughed, patting his hooded head.
"So the bitch is fucking back?" Hidan scoffed, rolling his bright pinkish lavender eyes and ran a hand through his silvery gray slicked back short hair. "Who would've fucking known that a motherfucking heathen like you would come back to bad asses like us?" He smirked, it was his own special welcome-back language and was actually considered 'nice'.
Sakura sweat dropped, "It's, uh, nice to see you again Hidan…" She noticed he still had his rosary, the metal necklace with an upside down triangle within a circle, a sign that he was a Jashinist. She's never even heard of that ridiculously violent religion up until she met him. He usually got into so much trouble, that they even nearly expelled him once. Luckily the Akatsuki took him, and even managed to let him do rebellious acts while keeping it non-reckless.
"Pay up," Kakuzu muttered over his black and gray scarf that was always around half of his face, from the bridge of his nose down. He was extremely greedy, probably greedier each passing day. "You lose the bet, you said she'd never come back." He evidently still remembered the bet from the first week of school up to now. He originally came from a poor family until the Akatsuki helped his father find a better job and so now, he cherished money, becoming the Akatsuki's treasurer from prank items to graffiti and toilet paper to T.P. houses.
Deidara scoffed, putting both hands in his pockets to find some loose change, "Fine, fine…" He had long yellow-blonde hair, long bangs covering one of his sky blue eyes that reminded Sakura so much of Naruto's cerulean ones. He was always made fun of at school from being called 'gay' to 'hippy' to 'girl'. It ended with him joining the Akatsuki for the very same reason as Tobi. He knew the school feared the Akatsuki. He groaned, "Danna, do you have money?" He begged, turning towards Sasori.
The red haired rolled his hazel eyes, "No. Why don't you Zetsu?" Sasori was called a freak for playing with dolls when they were puppets, his grandmother being a ventriloquist had taught him many techniques and so it eventually became extremely useful to the organization.
Zetsu was probably the most quiet out of all of them, his eyes naturally yellow and had odd grass green hair with a mixture of either dark or pale skin (A/N: ^_^' I'm trying soooo hard to make them as humanly as possible—despite the hair colors and eye colors! Bear with me readers :D). He shook his head, a sign of no money on him right now.
Kisame snickered, "By now you should know that most of us are nearly broke." His skin was a very light blue-ish color—probably from the chlorine—and he was on the top of the high school swim team. It wasn't very surprising that his favorite color was blue due to his messy spiked blue hair and beady fish-like eyes.
Konan scoffed, "Some of us DO have fucking money." (A/N: -explanation for Konan's absurd language and OOC is at the end of the chapter!) "You guys just don't fucking save them!" She grinned, her pastel blue hair put up in its usual bun, a white paper flower held most of her bangs back and held a silver piercing right under the lower lip.
Pein heaved a sigh, his same many piercings in place, spiky orange hair the same as ever, "You all need a lesson on how to save money and to NOT gamble." He narrowed his eyes at Deidara and Kakuzu both. Of course, they both stiffened under his hard gaze.
Sakura just stood there and gave a small smile, "Uhm… Hello?" She still stood in the circle of the large team, "I have left over change from lunch if you'd like it Deidara-san." She handed the blonde a dime and two quarters, but before he knew it, the greedy treasurer had already grabbed the coins from the cherry blossom's hands. "You're… Welcome…" She sweat dropped.
As always, Kiyoura stood between Sasori and Pein, short compared to everyone else in the entire group, including Sakura. While everyone else rambled on and on about prank after prank, and teacher after teacher, the cherry blossom decided to start a conversation with the timid or anti-social girl, "Hey, you're Kiyoura, right?" She smiled, her green eyes sparkling. The girl just stiffened and gulped, nodding, but stood her ground. Sakura saw something that caught her eye as she muttered loud enough so Kiyoura could hear, "You have a white hair… You a little stressed?"
In a flash, the girl was running down the hall, seemingly upset. Sasori turned, surprised but then to Sakura, narrowing his eyes, "It may not seem like so, but she's in your grade. She's really self-conscious about her appearance…"
Sakura raised an eyebrow, "Why?" Why would someone like her be self-conscious?
Pein joined in the conversation, whispering to Sakura, "Kiyoura was born an albino, white hair, pale skin, and red eyes. The very first day she was teased and made fun of, and the next day, she came to school with her hair dyed black. She hasn't said anything about it since. You should head off class, the bell's going to ring soon." Pein gently pushed Sakura away from the group and nodded saying that the girl would be fine.
As the cherry blossom slowly walked away, she couldn't help but notice how everyone seemed so… normal… They had normal hair, normal eyes, maybe she was just like Kiyoura. Sakura was the only girl with pink hair and lime green eyes in Konoha High anyways. Maybe she should dye her hair too? Should she wear contacts too?
Without looking, she had accidentally bumped in Kiyoura who stared at her hard in the eye. Sakura couldn't help but notice her hood was up. Surprisingly, for the very time, she talked, "It's not worth it." And just walked off quickly.
Sakura was beyond confused and surprised, the words repeated in her thoughts… What's not worth it? Was she not worth it? Or, was it something entirely different? Sakura bit her lip and sighed, muttering, "I just don't understand…"
Inner Sakura's Corner
Inner Sakura: SHANNARO! My girl Saku-chan shouldn't be so self-conscious! She hasn't got it THAT bad!
Author: Exactly.
Inner Sakura: Albino huh...? Isn't that Near kid from Death Note an albino?
Author: … Not necessarily, because being albino has something to do with color pigment in the body and since Near's eyes are dark, he's not really an albino since albino's have red eyes because of the missing pigment and—
Inner Sakura: I get it, I get it -_-
Konan's OOCness EXPLANATION
Oookay, so if you've ever heard of an author called "Black Karasu" or "xXFallenSakuraXx" or something like that, I'm that very same person and back then, Konan was mentioned, but never really shown with a few images coming up on google image, so none of use knew her personality as well. In many of my stories I added Konan with her own special cursing charisma because I feel like it somewhat fit her appearance! So, I've sort of adjusted to my old habits of her OOCness, but rest a sure! My new fanfiction called A Teacher's Pet will be a bit more dark than this fanfiction so she's not going to have this same personality as she does here and in my other old fanfictions on my older accounts. Peace~
Author's Note: Hey all! I'm sorry I couldn't update for a while! I was busy packing my things so I'll be having a small trip down to LA with my friend :D I'll be back soon though~ When I'm back I wish to see more reviews!
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