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Ahaha! Here's chapter six! I hope you enjoy it as much as you have the others! I think this one will be good...well, I hope this chapter will be good!
I really don't have that much more to say...
But, enjoy. (I think I've said that too much...)
Play My Song
Chapter Six: In Which A Number Is A Name
Haruno Sakura was sleepy.
Very sleepy.
The pink haired girl walked slowly toward her first hour class, slightly slouching, looking very much like the lecherous science teacher that she loathed. Weary green eyes shut for a moment, thinking she could get away with just a little eye-rest while walking.
She couldn't.
For, once she closed her eyes, she ran smack into the chest of someone. She had no idea who it was, but she knew one thing.
This dude was BUILT!
Then the force of her impact caused her to lose her balance and almost fall over, but a strong, muscular arm wrapped itself around her slender form and brought her close to his chest. "You need to be more careful, klutz."
Sakura's eyes popped open as she slapped the man in his face, causing him to fall to the ground, "I'm not clumsy!"
The stunned body of Neji looked up at the pink haired girl who had assaulted him, "Yeesh! I saved your life, ya know!"
"Only from me falling!" Sakura defended, glaring down at the Hyuuga boy.
A perverted smirk formed on Neji's masculine features, "Oi, Sakura..."
A vein popped out on her forehead as she glared menacingly down at the brown haired boy who dared to call her clumsy, "What?" She snarled.
"Nice panties..."
Sakura then realized the he had a pretty good view up her skirt from where he was sitting, and kicked him a few feet away from her, "Perv!"
And thus began her day, and something told her that it was going to be a very interesting day to say the least.
Sakura entered the class a few minutes later, only to be greeted with a squealing Ino, who held her by her shoulders and shook her, "Sakura, guess what?"
"What, Ino?" Sakura decided to play along, although she was getting more and more sick with the rapidly increasing shakes from her best friend.
"Look, look, look!" The ecstatic blonde pointed a finger to the head of the class, where a brunette woman stood beside Kurenai, obviously waiting for the entire class to settle down.
"And who is that?" Sakura asked, meeting cerulean with emerald.
"Tenten?" The familiar voice of Neji rang in her ears, pointing to the girl in a very non-discrete way.
The brown haired girl gave a look in his direction, smirked a little, then turned back to Kurenai, who was trying to tell her something.
The gaping white eyed man then took his seat, and Sakura and Ino soon followed suit. They were the last people to sit down, so after they did so, Kurenai opened her mouth to speak, "This is yet another new student to come to Konoha High. This is Tenten, you might know her as a singer."
Tenten had dark, chocolate brown hair that was pulled up into two buns adorning the sides of her head. Her caramel tinted brown eyes gazed out into the crowd of students. Sighing, she smoothed down the front of her uniform skirt, like everyone else at Konoha High were supposed to wear.
"Don't you have a last name?" Naruto piped up in an obnoxious tone.
"They just call me by my first name - Tenten." The brunette girl said, "You know, like Madonna, Cher, and so on..."
Neji smirked a little.
Sakura looked at Neji, who seemed to know this one-named wonder. She then looked at Ino, who was completely star struck for the second time this week. Her eyebrows knit together in thought as Tenten proceeded to talk about her fabulous recording career.
Some of her words caught her ear, " - and I am supposed to be recording a duet with Neji over there - "
Emerald orbs widened in concern, for what Sakura did not know, but she turned around to look at Neji, who winked at Tenten in agreement, while all of the fans of the two 'ahh-ed' at the news of it.
The carnation haired girl pushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear and swallowed deeply, Are they...togetherShe shook her head, causing her hair to fly about her face, No! Why am I worried about that of all things?
Neji, most likely curious about her strange movements, turned his head to look at her, "Are you alright, Sakura?"
Sakura jolted and sat at attention, before looking at the brunette man and saying, "I'm fine."
"Okay, just wondering."
That exchange between the two made Tenten look at the unknown pink haired girl in a strange manner, What is Neji doing talking to that girl? She thought, a slight hinge of jealousy tinted with sadness in her thoughts. I thought we had something going on. Well, it wasn't official...but... A sudden, sad look crossed her pretty features. Dammit.
"Alright...now, Tenten, would you please take a seat by...hm..." Kurenai looked deep in thought, with her finger to her chin, "Sit behind Kankuro..."
Kankuro was asleep at this moment, his face buried in his arms, which were laid on the desk in a sloppy manner.
Oh great... Tenten thought, looking at the boy she had to sit behind. Her caramel pools glanced across from him, about two rows, and there was Neji, looking at her with that indifference that made him so popular in the spotlight. She focused her eyes back to the empty desk behind this slobbish looking person. With great courage (anything less before sitting behind this apparent slacker/weirdo would have been suicide), she sat down in the seat in a very definitive manner, as if she were here to stay and nothing could deter her from leaving...
There was an odd sound and a smell wafted through her nostrils.
...except that!
Tenten shot up and looked at the boy in front of her with disgust. "Move me, sensei!"
"What happened?" Kurenai asked, her curious red orbs glancing at Tenten's own, crazed brown ones.
The girl looked downright frightened as she extended her hand to point at the flatulent young man. "He - He - !"
Kankuro sat up and started to laugh. He laughed with so much fervor that his whole being was shaking. Kiba and Shikamaru were bursting with laughter in their seats beside him.
"What did he do, Tenten?"
"He...he...RELIEVED HIS GASSY THINGS!"
Kurenai had to suppress a snicker, but the whole of the class was erupting in laughter.
"I am not sitting by a fart bag, Kurenai-sensei!"
Wow, these famous people must be brilliant actors in the limelight, because she and Neji are complete spazzes in real life... Sakura thought, amused.
"Um, Tenten..." A timid voice perked up.
The brunette spun around, loose strands of hair flying into her face from her frenzied attack on personal cleanliness, "What?!"
Hinata slightly jumped, not expecting that reaction. The Hyuuga girl was sitting right behind Tenten and pointed to her seat in an obvious manner, "Kankuro didn't fart...it was that..."
A whoopee cushion - a deflated one - sat on the very seat where Tenten sat.
"Oh. My. God." Tenten clenched a fist.
Kankuro had not stopped laughing.
Sakura burst into a fit of laughter at hearing the timid navy haired girl say fart. She rolled her head back and laughed as hard as Kankuro, Kiba, and Shikamaru did when they heard Tenten's reaction. "Haha, whew...holy shit..."
Neji looked at Sakura, his ivory eyes curious, and yet laughing with her, "Heh, you dork..."
"I'm not a dork!"
The brown haired pop star gave a chuckle at the Haruno girl's outburst. Which he shouldn't have found so amusing, for she had thousands each day because of his actions.
"Then where did that raunchy smell come from?!" Tenten screamed.
Kankuro held up a can, "Heh, this..."
Tenten read what the can said, "Deer in heat urine in a spray can?" The brunette woman went off, "What in the holy name of crap are you doing with that?!"
"I use it when I play pranks of people like you."
"What do you mean, people like me?!"
"I dunno...but it sure as hell was funny."
Tenten threw her head back and sighed, "Oh...god..."
"Alright, class," Kurenai said, wanting to go back to the world that didn't revolve around fart bags and whoopee cushions. "Let's get started on todays assignment."
The class collectively groaned.
The brunette girl, target of Kankuro's prank, kicked the used whoopee cushion off her desk and sat down, What the hell have I gotten myself into?
Fourth period: Home Economics.
The teaching of cooking, cleaning, and other un-masculine things to mostly girls, and a couple guys who were smart enough to take the class due to the enormous amount of girls in said class.
Other guys who took it...well, they were either in touch with their feminine sides or...just damn unlucky.
Neji was one of the damn unlucky guys.
"Ugh..." Neji moaned, running a hand through his long, chestnut locks. "I am so damn unlucky."
Sakura walked past Neji, shoving one of the cookies she baked herself into his open, pouting mouth, "Ah, quit your groaning and just cook."
The cookie, well at least what Sakura said was a cookie, was terrible! It was brittle, hard as a brick, and tasted...oh, Neji didn't know what other horrible adjective to describe what the cookie from hell tasted like, but all he knew was that it tasted bad.
The pink haired girl just stood in front of him, watching the music star try and down that cookie that she had crammed down his throat. She cocked her head to one side, her eyes blinking in confusion. "Um...do you like it, Neko?"
Neji looked as if he were spasming out of control.
The Haruno girl took that as a resounding no.
The brunette was now on his knees in a posture of utter pain, grasping his hair in handfuls as he still tried to chomp down on the cookie for reasons unknown to him. With great agony, he swallowed, the hard, jagged pieces of the cookie scraping the inside of his throat as he did so. His tongue hanging out of his mouth almost as if the cookie had burned him, he shouted, "What the hell was that?!"
Emerald orbs narrowed at the Hyuuga, "So you didn't like it."
"Well, what would've made you think that?!"
"You nodded your head yes when I asked you if you liked it, you dumbass!"
Neji looked at her, eyes almost incredulous to her statement, "I was gagging! Trying to rid my system of that foul cookie you attacked me with!"
"But you nodded!"
"I was about to puke my guts out, dammit!"
"Why don't you like them?" Sakura demanded, stomping over to Neji and placing her slender hands on her hips in a 'why-the-hell-don't-you-like-my-cookies-you-dumb-bastard' pose.
"Because, Sakura," Neji began as calmly as he could, "they tasted like an animal defecated on them!"
Sakura stopped for a second, her brow furrowing at the new word. She placed a single finger to her chin in thought as the crowd around her and the Hyuuga boy looked on in curiosity.
Naruto realized she had no idea what defecated meant, so he walked closer to the girl. He whispered delicately into her ear, "It basically means shit, Sakura-chan."
A vein immediately made itself known on Sakura's forehead.
She stretched her hand out and pointed dramatically to Neji, "You liar!"
Everyone in the class sweatdropped.
"This truly is the fight of the idiots..." The normally silent Gaara spoke up.
Everyone else looked at Gaara as if he had sprouted wings and was about to capture one of them and fly away with them before eating their brain.
"I'm not an idiot!" Both Neji and Sakura shouted in unison.
"So you say..." The red haired boy shrugged as if he could care less.
Sakura clenched her fist. "Fine!"
It was silent for a bit afterward.
"Fine what?" Neji asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'll prove I'm not an idiot by challenging you to a BAKING CONTEST!" Sakura shouted, her temper at its peak, "And I'll win!"
It was silent once more.
"That just proves that you're an idiot, Sakura." Gaara said in an obvious manner, "What does a baking contest have to do with proving that you're not an idiot?"
Sakura's face fell.
Gaara smiled slightly, which made the other classmates very uncomfortable.
It was silent for an even longer amount of time...until...
"I ACCEPT!"
The carnation haired girl looked up at the Hyuuga with wondering eyes, "W-What?"
The chestnut haired man stood, smiling, "I accept your challenge of a bake off, Haruno Sakura!" He raised his fist and moved it in front of Sakura's face, "And I will prove once and for all that you are, in fact, an idiot who cannot cook!"
Her emerald eyes were blazing.
"You're on, Hyuuga Neji!"
Sakura raised her fist and lightly punched Neji's outstretched one, as if it were a means to seal the deal.
"YOSH!" Lee and the Home Ec teacher, Maito Gai, exclaimed together, and the elder man gave a smile, which his 'disciple' replicated.
"Ah, the almighty power of YOUTH!"
Tenten was just stood there, watching the scene unfold, and she sweatdropped.
What kind of school is this?!
The brunette girl would come to find that this was only a sample of the craziness that was to come.
End Chapter Six.
Alright, here's the sixth chapter! I hope you liked it somewhat! It kinda got a little crazy there toward the end, but I hope you realize that this fic is for fun and that it shouldn't be taken too seriously. But it will have its serious moments, let me tell ya.
And Tenten appeared this chapter! Mwaha! And, no, I am not going to be bashing her. Because apparently, a couple of people think that I've bashed her when she hasn't even been in the fic yet! Jesus... Oh, and she'll be paired with Kankuro. Yeah, yeah! I just like that pairing...but if you don't, please don't stop reading. Cuz it's just ONE pair that isn't to your liking. (Oh, and I'm sorry that Tenten wasn't involved in this chapter much. Next chapter is gonna focus on her more...so, yeah!)
Alright, that's all I got to say about that.
So, R & R!