Warnings: foul language. And sorry if characters are ooc!
Pairings: slight SasuSaku and ItaSaku and (imaginary) SasuSai
AN: thoughts in italics and this chapter takes place on Monday again only from Sakura's point of view.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that's copyrighted
Chapter 7: Sakura's Disillusion
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Sunday proved to be as dull for Sakura as it was for Sasuke. After waking up around ten, she spent her day finishing Lord of the Flies, cleaning her room, and then browsing through her television for something… anything… to watch, but to no avail. She tried calling Ino, but she was busy working at her family's flower shop. She tried calling Hinata, but she was taking care of family matters. Tenten had already gone out shopping, Temari was still trying to play family with Gaara, and Karin wanted one more day of rest from her cold.
All and all, she really regretted giving Sasuke the day off.
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As Monday rolled around Sakura had already made up her mind to hang out with Sasuke after school. She called Ino over to pick her up in the morning, claiming her car was low on gas and she didn't have the money to fill it up at the time. This way, she'd have an excuse to get a ride from Sasuke later.
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"I hope you'll be able to find a ride home, I have to work right after school so I can't drop you back off," Ino said as Sakura got into her car.
"I'm already planning on asking Sasuke to drive me home," Sakura answered with a smile.
Ino ignored her and they drove to the school without conversation, listening to the radio play light pop music. They parked in the high school parking lot and met with their friends outside the building.
"How was your shopping trip?" Sakura asked Tenten when they had caught up with their friends.
"It was great! I bought a set of shuriken!" Tenten grinned. The girls never figured out why, but Tenten had always loved collecting weapons, she even knew how to use a good amount of them.
"And you Hinata? How was your Sunday?" Sakura asked, looking over to Hinata.
Hinata blushed, "Oh, um, it was alright. Neji and I had to help my father entertain some relatives who are visiting."
Sakura was about to reply but was interrupted by Temari, "you know, I'm surprised by you Sakura."
"Oh, why's that?" Sakura asked as she spun around to face Temari.
"I'm just saying that if I was dating Sasuke I wouldn't let Karin near him, ever," Temari said with a sly smile.
"What are you even talking about?" Sakura asked. Temari casually pointed to Karin, Sasuke, and Naruto several yards away. "When did she get over there?" Sakura scowled. She watched as Karin climbed off Sasuke's back and ran in front of him. Frustrated, Sakura left her friends and headed for Sasuke.
When she was a little closer she called out to him saying, "Sasu…ke!" before sprinting the rest of the way over to him. "Didn't you hear the morning bell ring? We've got to hurry if you plan on walking me to class!" she cooed as she gripped his hand and led him to the school before turning her head and saying, "bye Naruto!" She smirked a little when she looked at Karin, "Karin!" she added as way of goodbye.
She inwardly cheered at how angry Karin seemed over Sakura's new prize.
Once Sasuke and Sakura entered the school Sasuke shook off Sakura's arm. "Well that wasn't very boyfriend like," she frowned, she was going to have to teach Sasuke the proper way to treat her.
Sasuke sighed, "Sakura, I'd love to walk you to your class but I'm running late as it is and I still have to get to my locker."
'At least he has a decent reason… I guess…' She leaned forward and kissed him quickly before heading down a different hallway to her locker.
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Her schedule goes like this:
1st hour: Reading/Writing – Jiraiya (?)
2nd hour: World History – Yamato Tenzō
3rd hour: Biology – Kisame Hoshigaki
4th hour: Chemistry – Kisame Hoshigaki
LUNCH
5th hour: T.A. – Front Office
6th hour: Math II – Baki (?)
7th hour: P.E. – Might Guy
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Sakura dropped some of her books off at her locker but kept the ones she would need for her first four classes. As she entered Jiraiya's classroom she noticed Tsunade, one of the school's principals, standing at the front of the class.
"Hello Tsunade-sensei," she said walking up to her. "What are you doing here?"
"I have to stand in while Jiraiya teaches, just a mandatory checkup," Tsunade sighed, clearly not wanting to be there, probably because of all the looks Jiraiya kept giving her. Sakura gave her an encouraging smile before taking her seat at the front of the class as the bell rang.
Jiraiya shuffled from behind his desk to the front of the class, "first we're going to be taking a pop quiz on the Lord of the Flies chapters I asked you to read over the weekend." He said as he handed out some papers and the students groaned but started their quiz. After they were finished the class had a discussion over the chapters. "Now then," Jiraiya started once the discussion was done, "who here read chapter 23 of my newly published book Mike&Ike Tactics?" He looked around the room eagerly as Tsunade gave him a puzzled look. "You've got to be kidding me! None of you read it?" Jiraiya complained in shock.
Sakura raised her hand, "Jiraiya-sensei, you didn't require us to read it, remember?"
"Well I know that Sakura, but this is good literature! That and the fact that chapter 23 is the only chapter I'm allowed to ask you to read. Well I suppose if you didn't read it I'm just gonna have to read it for you." He went back to his desk and grabbed his Mike&Ike Tactics book. He grinned widely and started blushing as he flipped through the pages before coming across the one he wanted. "Ahem," he started, clearing his throat, all of a sudden becoming serious. "Mike took his shirt off…" his voice grew deeper as he said, "'are you ready for me Ike?' Ike batted her long eyelashes, 'oh M-Mike, take me.. please…" Jiraiya said softening his voice somewhat as he started to play the parts.
The class groaned in unison as Tsunade walked over to Jiraiya. She gave him a quick glare before she grabbed the book out of his hand, and then proceeded to hit him upside the head with it. "Why the hell would you think it was okay to read this filth, and to a class of freshmen no less?" She hollered as she stormed out of the classroom, the book still in her hand.
Jiraiya turned to the class, "I bet ya she's gonna read it herself," he grinned as he chased after her, the bell signaling the end of class ringing in his wake.
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In her World History class, Sakura sat on Sasuke's right, Ino sat behind Sakura, and Karin sat on Sasuke's left. While Yamto lectured about the first Great World War the girls passed notes to Sasuke, though he ignored Ino's and Karin's.
One note he got from Karin read, 'you really should date me instead of that prude' which Sasuke had to mentally laugh at.
A note that he received from Ino said, 'Sasuke, you know you can tlk to me about anything does Sakura have something on you?' which made Sasuke frown, he was going to have to be careful around Ino if he didn't want her to find out his secret, she seemed to catch on to things too quickly for his liking.
The first note he got from Sakura said, 'What r u doin after school?'
He replied with, 'probably going to the skatepark or something, y?'
To which she answered, 'we're going to hang out together'
He was about to give her some excuse to not hang out but Yamato had noticed them. "Do my lectures bore you that much Uchiha?" He asked, his face sinking as his eyes widened and bored into Sasuke's, not searching but forcing out an answer.
"Please, if they bored me you'd think I wouldn't have an A in this class," Sasuke said, earning a glare from Yamato. Yamato snorted at Sasuke's answer before turning back to his lecture.
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Upon arrival to her Biology course, Sakura was taken away by the power that Itachi held over her third hour class. She was in complete awe by how professional he seemed. She wanted to show him how smart she was, and she wanted a reason to get closer to him too, so when he asked for a volunteer she was quick to raise her hand, anything to get his attention.
While she approached the white board she felt a strange tension growing between them. He stared into her eyes, wondering what she would do. Had the tension really been growing or had it been there from the start? As she started to write she felt the tension slowly melt away and noticed Itachi relax against the wall, staring at her inquisitively. Was he looking at her like that because he was impressed by how easily she was solving the problem on the board or was he interested in her and was staring at her out of desire?
She had to do something to figure out what he was interested in, if she knew what he felt about her she'd be able to use it to her advantage, but she was almost done solving the problem. As soon as the problem was solved she'd have to sit back down and wait for another opportunity to arrive. Thinking off the top of her head she dropped the marker and bent down to get it, "oops, my bad," she giggled as she made sure Itachi got a good shot of her cleavage.
As she grabbed the marker she looked at Itachi and found his eyes exactly where she wanted them. He realized she was looking at him and their eyes met for a second before he turned his head and avoided her gaze, repressing a light blush from forming on his cheeks.
Proud of her new discovery, Sakura finished the problem quickly and rushed back to Sasuke's side, playing the 'unavailable' card by cuddling into his arm, and to further play her game she teased Itachi by licking her pen or pencil whenever he looked at her until the end of class.
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As the students began heading for their 4th hour classes Sakura left Sasuke's side to go talk to Itachi, giving Sasuke a wave as he left the room. "So what was the deal with looking at me all hour?" she asked as she walked up to Itachi.
"I was probably scanning the room to see if anyone had questions while working on the assignment," Itachi answered matter-of-factly, never looking away from the papers he was organizing.
"Do you really think I needed help after how well I did that problem on the board? And you know as well as I do that Sasuke doesn't need help in this class either," Sakura smirked, she had Itachi trapped for sure, he'd have to admit he liked her.
"Sakura, you're going to be late for your next class if you don't hurry," Itachi said, changing the subject, he had indeed been looking at her and couldn't come up with a good excuse in such a short amount of time outside of just being curious.
"Not at all Tachi-kun," Sakura smiled seductively as she leaned closer to Itachi, "I have chemistry next hour, in this classroom."
Itachi took a calming breath and placed his hand on Sakura's shoulder, lightly pushing her away as students began flooding into the classroom. "You should take your seat now," he said as he turned away from her. He was starting to wish he had never agreed to sub for Kisame as Sakura continued doing small suggestive things throughout the class, barely noticed by her classmates since the majority of them were intent on staring at him the whole hour.
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Itachi was quick to escape the classroom, and Sakura, once the bell signaling the start of lunch sounded. Sakura sighed but wasn't hurt by his sudden departure, she was being a little strong in her chase today but at least she was starting to see where Itachi's thoughts were… she hoped. She went to her locker, quick to rid herself of her books, and then headed for the Cafeteria to grab something to eat.
After grabbing a ham sandwich and some milk she wondered outside and found her friends sitting under the shade of a tree. "Hope you don't mind but I'm going to go sit with my boyfriend," she said, pointing towards Sasuke's table, once she had made her way over to them.
"You can't be serious, there's barely any room at his table," Tenten complained. Sakura shrugged and left for Sasuke, quickly being followed by her friends who wanted to sit near him too or didn't want to be left out.
Sakura noticed the lack of space at the table as she sat down in between Naruto and Sasuke. "So why aren't you sitting with your creepy brother?" she asked Temari.
Temari scoffed at Sakura's question, "stop calling him 'creepy' and I tried sitting next to him but he told me to go away."
Sakura continued, trying to guilt trip Temari into leaving so that the table could have at least a little more room, "but even Kankurō isn't with him."
"He didn't want him near him either," Temari answered, a sad expression forming on her face as she slowly nibbled on some fries.
Sakura was starting to feel sorry for Temari and decided not to push the subject further. She heard Ino whisper something to her about Sai walking over and then noticed Sasuke choke on his juice for a second as he caught wind of what she said as well.
She turned to look at Sai approaching and noticed that he was already at the table standing unusually close behind Sasuke, Sasuke's turned head just inches from Sai's bare stomach. As Sakura stared at the site in front of her she never noticed the pleading look Sasuke gave her because she was trying frantically not to imagine Sasuke running his tongue against Sai's torso.
Before she could snap out of her short fantasy Sasuke started to stand. She looked at him in confusion as he made his way towards Temari's brother, Sai following him close behind like a lost puppy.
She was prepared to follow him over to Gaara's table too but Naruto grabbed her arm as she started to stand up. He gently pushed her back onto the bench and mumbled, "It's best if you don't follow him, it's dangerous over there," while giving her a concerned look.
She began to protest that Sasuke would protect her from anything but was cut off when the bell started ringing. He would have protected her though, right?
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As the rest of her peers headed for their fifth hour classes, Sakura, being a teacher's assistant, headed for the office. "Hello Sakura, how was your lunch?" Kotestu, a man who worked in the high school office, chimed as she walked into the room.
"Same as always," Sakura smiled, "so what work do you have for me today?"
"I just need you to make some copies and then run them down to Kisame's classroom for the substitute. Feel free to help him with anything, todays been pretty boring so there isn't much to do," he sighed as he leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling.
"Sure thing boss," Sakura said, she took the piles of paper and headed for the copy room. After making the correct amount of copies, with a smile, she headed for Kisame's classroom.
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"Why hello Itachi," she said as she tapped lightly on the door and then entered the empty classroom, "where's your class?"
"Kisame doesn't have class anymore because he teaches at the college too. I'm just waiting for next hour because I offered to sub for someone else before I head home," Itachi answered, looking up at her from his desk. "Why aren't you in class?"
"I'm a T.A. I have your copies by the way," Sakura said, walking further into the room and handing the papers to Itachi. "The office told me that I can help you…," she continued, walking around the desk to stand next to Itachi before sitting in front of him on the desk itself, "…with whatever you want." She leaned forward and slung her arms around Itachi's neck. "What is it you want, Tachi-kun?" She asked, her lips close to his.
Itachi wrapped his arms around Sakura, pulling her into his chest. "You really want to know?" He asked, whispering into her ear.
"Y-yes!" She said startled by Itachi's sudden closeness.
"I want…" he began, his lips brushing her ear, his warm breath tickling it causing her body to tingle, "…to know why my younger brother's girlfriend keeps hitting on me." He pulled back to stare at her. She gaped at him, lost in words, not knowing what to say. "I actually don't need anything so you can head back to the office now," he smiled and stood from his seat at Kisame's desk, making his way to the back room with the copies in his hand.
Sakura continued to sit on the desk in stunned silence. 'It doesn't mean anything! If anything he was only rejecting me because he has morals! I am Sasuke's girlfriend of course.' She was so embarrassed it was hard to even stand. She felt like she was going to throw up. She thought she had him playing in her hand but he turned the game on her. 'Damnit!' she mentally screamed at herself, 'he probably thinks I'm a slut or something!' She had managed to climb off the desk but couldn't stand without supporting herself against the desk. 'Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!'
She gasped when she felt a hand on her back. She turned her head to see Itachi kneeling by her side, looking at her with concern. 'When did I crouch to the floor?' she asked herself as she looked at Itachi. He brought his hand to her face and rubbed his thumb under her eye, collecting fresh tears off her skin. 'When did I start crying?'
"Sakura, there's no reason to cry," Itachi said calmly as he rubbed her back. He leaned over to her and kissed her lightly on the side of her head, "It's alright, just take a deep breath." She did and he helped her stand back up. "Do you need me to walk you back to the office?" he asked as he finished drying off her tears. She shook her head and he gave her a small smile before heading back to the back room.
Sakura took another deep breath, collecting herself, and then left the room, heading to the girls bathroom instead of the office.
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During the passing time between 5th hour and 6th hour Sakura went to her locker to grab her Math II text book. During the 1st Semester of the school year the teachers had noticed how much she excelled at math and moved her out of the freshman math class and into the junior math class. Of course, she kept this information from Sasuke since she knew he was already angry that she was so good in their science and health classes.
Throughout sixth hour, and later seventh hour, Sakura tried to think up different ways to act around Itachi. What should she say? What should she do? It was easy enough to be distracted during math because she did the problems correctly even when she wasn't paying attention, but she lost track of what she was doing so many times during her gym class that Guy made her redo different things over and over saying, "use your youth to the max! You must keep trying until you get it 110% right!" By the time 7th hour was over Sakura had worked up a pretty decent, and disgusting, sweat.
She would've taken a shower before she left the locker room but she had a feeling that Sasuke was going to leave the school as fast as he could, hoping to avoid her. So she changed as fast as she could, cursing Guy for keeping them late just because they were his last class, and raced out of the school and to where she saw Naruto park his motorcycle. She reached them right as Sasuke was about to take off.
"Did you forget what we talked about during 2nd hour?" She asked, still out of breath from P.E.
Sasuke gave her an exasperated look, but played along for his secrets sake, "Oh yeah, sorry, a lot on my mind, climb on." She smirked at him and got on his bike. He nodded to Naruto and pulled out of the parking lot. Once they hit a nearby stop light he asked, "so where am I taking you?"
"Your house, I need a shower," Sakura answered. If it hadn't been for the light changing green he would've spun around to see if she had been joking or not. They sped towards his house and he showed her to the bathroom he shared with Itachi. He grabbed her a towel and left her to her business while he went into his room for a short after school nap.
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While Sakura washed her hair she heard someone walk into the bathroom, 'Maybe Sasuke forgot something?' she wondered, until she heard the someone start relieving themselves in the toilet. 'What the hell? Can't whoever that is hear me taking an obvious shower in here?' she asked herself. She was getting ready to ask them what their problem was, starting with a "who th-" before slipping on a forgotten bar of soap and falling down.
"You okay in there otouto?" She heard a voice ask but was to dizzy to respond. "otouto?" the voice asked again, taking a look into the bathtubs contents.
"Itachi?" Sakura wondered, looking up and seeing a very red Itachi looking back at her.
"Sa-Sakura?" Itachi stuttered. She let out a short scream of shock as he spun around and closed the bathroom curtain.
"What the hell was that Itachi?" Madara asked as he came running up the stairs.
Itachi ignored his question and walked out of the bathroom saying, "don't go in there." He opened Sasuke's bedroom door and walked over to him, ripping his headphones out of his ears.
"What?" Sasuke asked, taken aback by Itachi's sudden forcefulness.
"Go see what's wrong with Sakura," Itachi ordered.
He and Sasuke walked back to the bathroom, as Sasuke walked inside Itachi started to leave. "Where are you going?" Sasuke asked.
"Madara and I are going to go drinking," Itachi said as he grabbed Madara by the wrist and started to drag him away. "It's a school night so I don't want guests here past seven," he called over his shoulder.
Sasuke stared after him for a few seconds before walking to the bathtub. "Are you alright Sakura?"
"I could use some aspirin to be honest," she answered.
"Wanna explain what happened?" Sasuke asked.
"I slipped on some soap and hit my head, Itachi looked inside to see if you were alright but saw me instead," Sakura mumbled.
"You're such a klutz," Sasuke joked, "I'll go get you that aspirin," he added as he left the bathroom.
Sakura stood back up to finish taking her shower. 'Itachi… the first boy to see me naked… did you like what you saw?'
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AN: So because there was so little Sakura in the last chapter I wanted everyone to see the day from her p.o.v. I hope you enjoyed it X3