Ino hurried to the kitchen and positioned herself so she could see who was coming up the stairs, while thinking, Was someone following me?
She strained her ears to hear anything out of the ordinary, but there were no other noises. It was completely quiet and eerie.
The blond girl was not a fool. She knew someone was here with her and she knew that it was most likely an enemy and not a friend. Her blue eyes scanned for every possible exit. Ino had already decided she was not waiting around for whoever followed her to make their appearance.
Ino smirked, "Ah, ha!" She half crawled, half ran to the window across the kitchen. It would make it so whoever was watching her could see her, but she bet that she could leave before the person got near her.
The window was stuck. "Damn it!" Ino screeched as she yanked it open and prepared to dive headfirst onto the fire escape outside. She stopped when she heard a voice.
"There's no need to run, Ino."
The loud-mouthed blond girl turned back to the stairs where she could now see the person who had followed her.
"I can't believe you're here." She said before she walked towards the nameless person.
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Sakura took more time to say goodbye to Naruto. They were both worried for different reasons about Sakura leaving with Sasuke alone. The Uchiha finally got impatient.
"Come on, Sakura! I don't have all day to waste!"
The pink haired girl swept her hair behind her ear and turned to her boyfriend. "Naruto needs to go with us! He has, uh, an appointment across town and his brother can't take him to it!"
The hyperactive blond boy was about to congratulate his crush on her 'lie;' Sasuke growled at them. "I don't have time for this! Go ask Neji or someone else for a ride, Naruto!"
"Geeze, Sasuke, what grumpy bug bit you on the butt?" Naruto asked as he moved out of the way of his best friends fists. "Relax, it was just a joke!" He called as Sasuke chased him through the halls.
Sakura followed the two at her own pace. She had been thinking about how Sasuke had been weird since Ino was been introduced to her. One point that the pink haired girl thought about was how Sasuke had opened himself to Sakura more, though it was in a negative way. She was glad that there was more to him than his grunts and glares. Another thought had been that most of his emotions or words were more negative and aggressive than she thought Sasuke was. The pink haired romantic had always thought that once the pretty boy showed more of his life to her that he would become a…she did not even remember the word for it anymore!
"Hey, Haruno, do you have the homework assignment!"
She stopped to give her classmates the assignment. That was what she got for being a bookworm.
Sakura walked along the hallways alone now. She did not know where Sasuke or Naruto had disappeared to and she did not like being left behind. The pink haired girl was starting to become angry.
"Sasuke? Naruto! Where are you two!?"
Her screams were never answered, so Sakura sighed and made her way back through the hallways to go to the parking lot.
"Maybe those idiots left without me…" Sakura's increasing depressing thoughts were not helping her at all.
"What are you pouting about, Sakura?" Tenten smiled at her as she approached the younger girl.
"Oh, nothing," Sakura sighed.
Tenten smirked at her, "I don't know about you, but we haven't had girls' night out for quite awhile. You want to round up Hinata and some others to go have some fun?"
"I don't know."
The brown haired girl tilted her head to the side. "If Sasuke is the problem, then I can ask him for you," The older girl gave Sakura a mischievous look, "you can tell him that I need someone to practice targets on."
Sakura was half amused and half horrified at Tenten. She was left speechless as Tenten ran off to her male friends, Lee and Neji. She waved back at her as the three left.
The pink haired girl's emerald eyes searched the hallway to see if anyone else was going to pop out to harass her, but there was no more. Sakura slowly walked to the main door. She opened it to find most of the students outside instead of on their ways home. They were huddled around some of the trees by the physical education building.
Out of curiosity, Sakura walked towards the crowd to see what was happening. She screamed in anger when she noticed that everyone was watching Naruto and Sasuke fighting.
"What immature idiots!"
Sakura forcefully pushed her way to the inner circle where she stomped into the middle of the fight. "What do you two think you are doing?"
The crowd was still yelling, 'FIGHT,' even though Sakura had entered the circle to break up their entertainment. She turned around to look at everyone, "SHUT UP!"
They became quiet for a few seconds before some idiot yelled, "Kick their asses, Sakura!" Everyone started cheering for Sakura to enter the fight.
Sakura turned to her boyfriend and her secret crush. Now she was angry and she was going to fight. The pink haired girl popped her knuckles and ran into the fight. She pulled back her fist, and then let it fly! Sakura hit Naruto on the cheek, which made him fly into Sasuke. Both boys slammed into the side of the building with a loud SMACK!
Everyone in the crowd was cheering for her, so Sakura turned around to smile and giggle at everyone. Who knew she would be so popular by hitting someone who was already in a fight?
One of the senseis was yelling at everyone. Sakura gasped. Am I going to get in trouble? The sensei was able to make everyone but Sasuke, Naruto, and her leave. It was Gai-sensei.
"That was some powerful punch, Sakura! Why don't you join my karate class next semester? The students could use your YOUTHFUL power as inspiration for them to grow stronger!"
"Thank you, Gai-sensei. I will think about it. Am I in trouble for fighting?" Sakura asked the teacher. She wanted to make sure that nothing would go onto her permanent record.
"Nah, I think I can let you off with a warning this time!" Gai smiled and his teeth gleamed brightly in the sun. "As for you two, the principal will be talking to your parents!"
Sakura smiled happily, as the energetic sensei ran off to join the track team to teach them about youth.
Naruto and Sasuke groaned. They used the side of the building to pull themselves to their feet. Sakura turned to them, still smiling.
"That's what you get for fighting on school property!"
"That's not fair!" Naruto shouted, "You fought too!"
"No, I was trying to stop you two from fighting, but you wouldn't listen!" Sakura screeched back at the hyperactive boy.
Sasuke sighed. He walked towards his car as the pink haired girl and the blond boy followed him. They were still arguing when they got in the car.
The pretty boy mumbled under his breath, "I don't know why I try to plan things. They just end up getting ruined by dead last or my brother."
Sakura and Naruto were still arguing as Sasuke pulled out of the parking lot and into traffic.
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