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Sighhh… This chapter came up pretty fast. Warning: EXTREMELY LONG PHONE AND AIM CONVERSATION IN HERE. Hehehe, anyway, enjoy.
Recap
She fell on her back, a body sprawled on top of hers. She could see from the lights glowing from his vest that he was on the green team, but she didn't know who he was. He pushed his body up from hers with his arms, her head in between his hands. His knees were jammed in between her legs, so he lifted them and rested them on either side of her legs. He peered down at her with his ice blue eyes. There was something very familiar about him…
"Hey man, sorry about that…Wait—You…"
He put his head closer to hers, making her blush, and squinted his eyes. His jaw dropped.
"Sakura?!"
Chapter Eight
And then it hit her.
"Sh-Shawn?" She stuttered out, incredulous, before she could stop herself. Oh, just wonderful, she told herself. She said his name and now he was sure it was her—Haruno Sakura. He pushed himself to his feet, standing up, and then offering his hand to her. She grabbed it and he pulled her up. Shawn was smiling like a maniac, but she could tell he was a bit confused. He immediately pulled her into a tight hug without saying anything, his soft black hair brushing her cheek. He let go of her, still smiling. She noticed that he had a lip ring, which was gleaming in the green light.
"Sakura-chan! I can't believe I'd see you again, especially here! I mean, I haven't seen you in forever…," Shawn paused, examining her hair, "…What happened to your long pink hair…?"
His hand stroked her somewhat messy dark brown hair, lost deep in thought… or memories, Sakura thought. She didn't have time to answer his question, since a moment later he was being shot by—Sakura turned around—Sasuke. Shawn grinned at her again.
"See ya later!" He said, before he turned and ran away. Sakura was also about to do the same, but Sasuke stopped her.
"Why didn't you shoot him?" Sasuke asked in an annoyed voice.
"I—I was about to." She lied. His eyes narrowed in anger, but maybe Sakura was imagining it—it was pretty hard to tell in the dark.
"Sure," He said, sarcasm evident in his voice, "when you're standing there in front of him for two whole minutes, letting him touch your hair."
"Whatever, Sasuke. It's none of your business," Sakura snapped, moving past him to reach the green base. Jesus, what was Sasuke's problem? What did it matter to him, anyway? Besides—she should be angry at him for interrupting such an important reunion between her and Shawn. Instead of looking for Shawn, she took out her anger on Ten Ten by making her Sakura's Victim for the rest of the game.
When the game ended, Sakura tried looking for Shawn, asking Shen to save her spot in the line for the second game. She quickly looked through the arcade section, the food court, and basically all of Main Event. After four minutes and her second search of the arcade section, she gave up and began to head back to the laser tag line, when she felt a light tap on her shoulder. She spun around, looking directly into the icy blue eyes of Shawn. What seemed like a friend of his stood next to him.
"Looking for me?" He asked, his smile wide, which showed his perfectly straight white teeth. Just then, Shen called her over to come back, since the game was just starting. Cursing very loudly, Sakura reached into her messenger bag, pulling out a pen and her math notebook. She scribbled down her cell phone number, tore off the paper, and stuffed it into Shawn's hands. Then she made a dash for the laser tag entrance, waving goodbye to him. Then she heard his friend snort.
"I thought you said she was a girl."
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Sakura was lying on a black leather couch, legs draped over the couch's arm, flipping through channels on the plasma TV in the theater room at Shen's place. Suddenly—
Paper bags and plastic hearts
All are belongings in shopping carts
It's goodbye
But we got one more night
Let's get drunk and drive around—
She pressed the 'off' button on the remote control and reached for her cell phone inside her messenger bag on the floor. Flipping it open, she answered it in an annoyed tone.
"Hello?"
"Hey."
"Shawn?" Sakura began to smile, the feeling of annoyance fading away.
"That's right! How are you?"
"Hey! I'm doing good. I was so surprised earlier… I didn't know you moved here!"
"Yeah, I moved here a year ago. Sakura, at first I didn't think it was you 'cause the long pink hair was missing and everything. But I still recognized you!"
"Well… That's what being best friends for three years is for." She heard Shawn laugh. Then there was silence… Sakura didn't know what to say.
"Sakura-chan… I missed you a lot when you moved."
"Same. You've changed a lot, too. Your hair used to be brown, not black and now you've got that awesome lip ring."
"Heh, yeah, I guess I've changed. What school do you go to now? Wait—that reminds me. You were wearing a school uniform at Main Event, weren't you?"
Sakura's heart beat got faster.
"Uhhh… Yeah."
"But that can't be, 'cause you were wearing a boy's uniform and it had that gold leaf crest on the breast pocket thing of your dress shirt… Which means you go to, uh, West Konoha Academy?"
"Yeah." Sakura wished he hadn't noticed. Then she heard Shawn laugh again.
"Right, right."
"No really, I go to an all boys school. You see, it's because…" And Sakura explained the whole boarding school thing and then Naruto's idea of going to West Konoha High. A few minutes later, she finished. "…and he found out because his insane-ass killer of a brother was talking too loud."
There was a long silence after she finished. She looked at her cell phone screen to see if he had hung up, but he didn't. She put the cell phone back to her ear.
"Hello? You still there?"
"Yeah… But… But… That's just so weird. You kissed a girl?! And you have a fanclub?!"
Sakura shuddered at the memories.
"Yep. It's all really… strange, I guess. I mean, she's my really good friend and everything from school. Well, from my old school. North Konoha High. It's West Konoha High's sister school. And the fan club thing is really annoying."
"So that's where you went… Wow, that's just amazing."
"Hey, what school do you go to?"
"Uh, Shepton High School."
She tried to remember where that was… Oh yeah, it was one of the private schools associated with the Konoha High schools.
"Cool. Oh, by the way… My boy name is Katsu. Last name is Akita. So whenever we hang out, just call me Katsu. None of that 'Sakura-chan' stuff, okay?"
"Okay, sure. Katsu. Got it."
"Well," Sakura glanced down at her watch, "I have to go eat dinner now, before Shen has to come searching for me in this huge ass mansion of his. I'll talk to you later—oh, and what's your screen name for AIM? We never really had screen names before I moved."
"Oh, it's Cean Chaffit—Gotta pen? It's Cean spelled c-e-a-n and Chaffit spelled c-h-a-f-f-i-t," He spelled it out as Sakura wrote down his screen name on the back of her hand with a black pen.
"'Kay, thanks! You'll know my screen name when you see it. Talk to you later, bye!"
"Bye."
She hung up with a satisfied smile on her face.
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"Okay… Cean Chaffit, here I come," Sakura said as she added his screen name to her buddy list.
Cean Chaffit has signed on.
She clicked on the little box that popped on the bottom right side of her screen.
SakKicksAss16: heyy
Cean Chaffit's Auto-Response: i'm eating dinner, be back at around 7:15
Disappointed, she frowned and looked at her watch. 7:00… Fifteen more minutes.
BlackSharingan91 has signed on.
"Hmmm," She said to herself. She clicked on his screen name.
SakKicksAss16: hi
BlackSharingan91: Hi.
SakKicksAss16: watsup??
BlackSharingan91: Homework.
SakKicksAss16: cool.
Sakura didn't know what to say after that, but a few seconds later…
BlackSharingan91: So it looked like you knew that guy from laser tag.
She bit her lip, feeling a bit uncomfortable bringing up Shawn around Sasuke. She didn't know why, though…
SakKicksAss16: yeah he's cool
SakKicksAss16: i've known him ever since i was seven.
SakKicksAss16: we were best friends for three years, but then i moved here and we sorta broke apart.
SakKicksAss16: you know, lack of communication.
BlackSharingan91: Oh. How did he know it was you, though?
SakKicksAss16: well, we were best friends!!
SakKicksAss16: of course he'd know it was me, even if i cut and dyed my hair.
SakKicksAss16: and…
SakKicksAss16: of course i'd know if it was him, too.
Sakura waited for a reply from Sasuke, but it didn't come. She sighed and leaned back into the fox fur covered chair, but then…
Vballgrl4ever: SAKURA!!!!!!!!
SakKicksAss16: INO!!!!
Vballgrl4ever: OMG I MISS U SO MUCH HOW IS BOARDING SCHOOL?
SakKicksAss16: uhh, not that great.
SakKicksAss16: i'm not learning that much
SakKicksAss16: lol
Vballgirl4ever: haha etiqette skewl isnt that much fun is it
SakKicksAss16: lol yeah.
Vballgirl4ever: omg btw this new kid moved in with shen
Vballgirl4ever: u know shen right?
SakKicksAss16: uh yeah … i think so
Vballgirl4ever: yeah the new kids name is katsu
SakKicksAss16: lol cool
Vballgirl4ever: omg and gess what else!!!!
SakKicksAss16: …what.
Vballgirl4ever: HE KISSED MY SASUKE-KUN!!!!!!!!
SakKicksAss16: ew… so is he gay or something?
Vballgirl4ever: no he says it was cuzz he was forced to or sumthin
SakKicksAss16: lol
SakKicksAss16: right
Vballgirl4ever: so any cool ppl at ur skewl?
SakKicksAss16: psh are you kidding me?!
SakKicksAss16: etiquette school is hell.
Vballgirl4ever: awww when u come back we're deff holding a party!
SakKicksAss16: haha thanks ino.
Vballgirl4ever: o g2g
Vballgirl4ever: dad makin me do dishes this time
SakKicksAss16: kk i'll ttyl
Vballgirl4ever has signed off. (19:09:32)
Just then, Sasuke replied.
BlackSharingan91: Where did you move from?
SakKicksAss16: uhh some small ass town called suna
BlackSharingan91: That's where Gaara is from.
SakKicksAss16: wow… you serious?
BlackSharingan91: I would not kid about something like that.
SakKicksAss16: right.
BlackSharingan91: You're name is Sakura?
SakKicksAss16: …yeah. stupid name, i know.
BlackSharingan91: It's not a stupid name.
SakKicksAss16: my parents only named me that name cuzz my hair was originally pink
BlackSharingan91: Pink?
SakKicksAss16: yeah… you know, that really light shade of red.
BlackSharingan91: I know what pink is.
SakKicksAss16: uh huh
BlackSharingan91: Was it really pink before you dyed it?
SakKicksAss16: yeah, i was born with PINK HAIR, okay?
BlackSharingan91: Okay. So can I call you… Pinky?
Sakura's fingers twitched. How dare he…
SakKicksAss16: HELL FUCKING NO!!!!!
BlackSharingan91: Okay, okay. I was kidding.
SakKicksAss16: if you call me pinky, i'm gonna kill you tomorrow….. wait……. i meant on monday.
BlackSharingan91: Well we're seeing each other tomorrow anyway. Naruto's dragging us all to Ichiraku.
SakKicksAss16: euughh… oh yeah… why does naruto NEVER tell me about going places
BlackSharingan91: I don't know.
SakKicksAss16: yeah, yeah, w/e.
SakKicksAss16: and i'll also forgive you for accusing me of being annoying
BlackSharingan91: What are you talking about?
SakKicksAss16: remember, at your sleepover?
SakKicksAss16: you were all 'oh, she's ino's friend, so she MUST be incredibly annoying'
BlackSharingan91: And I guessed right.
SakKicksAss16: HEYYY!!!!
Even though a comment like that would've made her mad, she was smiling.
BlackSharingan91: And Naruto had to tell me inconspicuously what your name was, because he promised to after I talked to him about you.
SakKicksAss16: oh… yeah, if he told you directly what my name was, people could overhear and stuff
BlackSharingan91: Precisely. But, of course, he's too much of a dobe to tell me on AIM.
SakKicksAss16: lol
Cean Chaffit has returned from away.
SakKicksAss16: hey, brb.
BlackSharingan91: Okay.
Sakura's smile widened and she clicked on Shawn's screen name.
SakKicksAss16: guess whoooo.
Cean Chaffit: hmmm I really don't know.
SakKicksAss16: aww c'monn
Cean Chaffit: okay, lets see.
Cean Chaffit: sak…kicks…ass…
SakKicksAss16: lol
Cean Chaffit: huh.
Cean Chaffit: no one has seemed to come to my mind so far.
SakKicksAss16: hahaha
Cean Chaffit: lol, jkjk
Cean Chaffit: hi saku
SakKicksAss16: heyyy
Cean Chaffit: doing anything tomorrow?
Sakura remembered that Naruto was taking them all to Ichiraku's, but she'd much rather spend the day with Shawn.
SakKicksAss16: sadly, yes.
SakKicksAss16: naruto's taking us to ichiraku's
Cean Chaffit: oh…
Cean Chaffit: its okay then
Cean Chaffit: who's going with you?
SakKicksAss16: uhh a bunch of people
SakKicksAss16: lets see…
SakKicksAss16: sasuke, neji, shen, gaara, chouji, and Shikamaru
SakKicksAss16: and some girls, too
Cean Chaffit: wait
Cean Chaffit: is Sasuke's last name Uchiha?
SakKicksAss16: yeah
An image of that gigantic golden "U" on Sasuke's fence thing appeared in her head.
Cean Chaffit: what? really?!
SakKicksAss16: yeah? you know him?
Cean Chaffit: are you insane?!
Cean Chaffit: everyone knows him!
Cean Chaffit: it's THE UCHIHA SASUKE.
SakKicksAss16: uhh…so?
Cean Chaffit: he's the son of Uchiha Fugaku!!
Cean Chaffit: founder of Uchiha Corp.!!!!!!!!
SakKicksAss16: what?!
SakKicksAss16: NO FUCKING WAY
No wonder they're so effing rich!, Sakura thought out loud. She knew about Uchiha Corp… And she knew Sasuke's last name was Uchiha, but she never put the two together… And that also meant that his mother was Uchiha Mikoto—one of the top models.
SakKicksAss16: omg i'm so stupid…
Cean Chaffit: wow…
SakKicksAss16: no wonder so many girls are after him.
Cean Chaffit: well, he is pretty hot.
SakKicksAss16: wtf
Cean Chaffit: lol jkjkk
SakKicksAss16: lol
Cean Chaffit: i gotta go, my mom's yelling at me to do my hw.
SakKicksAss16: oh—say hi to her for me!
SakKicksAss16: and to your dad
SakKicksAss16: :
Cean Chaffit: …okay, i will.
Cean Chaffit: bye
SakKicksAss16: byee
Cean Chaffit has signed off. (19:21:04)
"Okay, going back to Sasuke…"
She clicked on Sasuke's window.
SakKicksAss16: okay, back
BlackSharingan91: Hi.
BlackSharingan91: Katsu…
SakKicksAss16: yes?
BlackSharingan91: I want you to be careful around Shawn.
SakKicksAss16: what?
BlackSharingan91: Just be careful around him.
SakKicksAss16: why?
SakKicksAss16: he's my friend
SakKicksAss16: and i can do whatever i want with him
BlackSharingan91: I have to go.
SakKicksAss16: …bye.
BlackSharingan91: Bye.
BlackSharingan91 has signed off. (19:24:58)
"And," Sakura thought out loud once more, anger in her voice, "since when did I tell him Shawn's name…"
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Author's Note: Crappy chapter, sorry, BLEHHHHH.
Long ass AIM convo's.
And oooh, do I spy a somewhat jealous Sasuke?? Or maybe not. Hmmmmm… Wanna find out :D ??
Yeah, w/e.
Anyway—THANK YOU ALL FOR REVIEWING!!! I got this chappy up faster than I thought I would (although half this chapter consisted of AIM chats…) so yeah. Next chapter—ICHIRAKU'S!!! MUEHEHE!!
xoxotia
