Chapter 9
It was time for the Harry, Sakura and Naruto's detention. They were in Umbridge's office, sitting around a little table, waiting for her to say something.
" I believe, you all know why you're here." she said in her girly voice. " But I know, that once we're over here you won't dare to disobey a teacher's order."
" What do we have to do? " asked Harry and rolled his eyes, which caused the frog-like woman to narrow her eyes.
" You'll write." she said and the three teens sighed in relief, since it was not something bothersome. ''Here you go..." the teacher gave each of them a quill and a piece of parchment.
" What do we write?" asked Sakura oddly.
" Mister Potter, you will write 'I will no say lies' and both of you will write ' I will follow orders given from teachers'. Are we clear?" she said and sat on her pink chair behind her desk.
" What about ink?" Harry raised his head.
" Oh, you won't need ink for those quills." said the woman with an evil smirk. Harry had a really bad feeling about this, but he placed the quill on the parchment and started writing, along with Naruto and Sakura. He let out a gasp of pain. The words had appeared on the parchment in what appeared to be shining red ink. At the same time, the words had appeared on the back of Harry's right hand, cut into his skin as though traced there by a scalpel - yet even as he stared at the shining cut, the skin healed over again, leaving the place where it had been slightly redder than before but quite smooth...He looked back at the parchment, placed the quill upon it once more, wrote I must not tell lies, and felt the searing pain on the back of his hand for a second time; once again, the words had been cut into his skin, once again they healed over seconds later. And on it went. Again and again Harry wrote the words on the parchment in what he soon came to realize was not ink, but his own blood. And again and again the words were cut into the back of his hand, healed, and then reappeared the next time he set quill to parchment. Naruto and Sakura had the same shocked expressions on their faces. Of course, that didn't hurt them too much, they were ninja after all, they had suffered much worse. They only looked at each other, then at Harry, who was obviously in much more pain than they expected. Sakura cursed under her breath. It was their duty to protect the boy and now he was here, losing his blood because of a stupid quill. The rosette glanced at the teacher with gaze, full of hatred and disgust.
" What is it?" asked the woman in an innocent voice.
" Nothing..." growled the kunoichi and the old toad smirked, as the girl continued writing.
The only sound to be heard was the stretching of the quills upon the parchment. At some moment, Umbridge stood up and took Harry's hand, observing the now deep wound.
" That's enough for today."
" For today?!" repeated Sakura in a husky voice.
" Yes, you will have detention until the end of the week." nodded Umbridge . " You can go now."
After sending some killing intents the shinobi left the pink office after Harry, who was holding his hand tight.
" Let me have a look at it. " said Sakura calmly and reached for his hand. Harry gave it to her, because Harmione had told them everything the kunoichi told her. So he knew the girl in front of him was a medic.
She covered his wound with her hands and green light appeared around them. Harry's hand felt warm waves, that were tickling his skin. It was nice. Once Sakura moved away from him, his skin was smooth again, without a trace of the words, only the blood dripping from his fists. As Harry was staring at his hand wordlessly, Sakura healed her own hand and after that she turned to Naruto, only to find out, that his hand is already back to normal. She smirked and took some pills out of her haori, hidden under the robes.
" Eat them. They'll restore the lost blood." Naruto and Sakura took the pill they were already used to, but Harry was still watching his hand in disbelief. Finally, he managed to take the pill, which had no taste.
" It's amazing...how you do magic without a wand...And.. why the hell do you even have those blood pills?!" asked Harry, lost between amuse and suspect.
" I'm a medic. And we already told you, we train for close combat, we are injured pretty often, so i have to bring these pills with me." Sakura smiled. There were hardly any people in the hallways, it was already too late for them to be outside. That's why they hurried to the common room.
Once they entered, their friends started bombarding them with questions. They recounted them all. At the end of their story, the wizards looked angry, disgusted and ready to kill the old hag. The ninja were mystified from the punishment, but nothing more.
" You should have taken one of those quills for Ibiki." commented Ino, as she knew the Head of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force better than anybody in here.
" They won't be useful against shinobi." Sakura shook her head, causing her locks to fall before her eyes. " We barely felt anything."
She was smiling, trying to ignore the attitude of the raven haired guy. It didn't work for her and her smile twitched, she was about to cry again and her eyes were still red and puffed from the previous night.
" Sakura, can you help me out with those books?" asked Hermione after a while, pointing a huge pile of books. The rosette just nodded briefly, under Sasuke's gaze. She took almost all of the books, leaving two or three for Hermione. " Hey, wait, I can take more!" said the witch, but Sakura was already walking towards the girls' dormitories.
" What is it, Sakura?" asked Hermione, as they returned to their room. The muggleborn was really concerned. Her new friend from Japan had never been like this till the new guys arrived. She's seen how Sakura was watching Sasuke from a distant. And she'd seen Sasuke do the same. Only, they never said anything to each pink-haired girl faked a smile.
" Nothing, really."
" Oh, 'nothing' my ass!" said Ino, as she entered followed by Hinata. Hermione smiled at the girls. They were so different, yet so close to each other. But the voice of the blonde caught her attention. " You should really get over that, Sakura, it's been three years!"
" I was getting over it, since he decided to appear again! Why?! I was doing fine!" growled Sakura at her friend, her eyes wet from the coming tears.
" D-don't cry, Sakura, please!" said Hinata and rushed to embrace the rosette. Ino's face was sad.
" I-I was doing fine..." repeated the girl and wiped her tears before she continued. " Yes, it was tough, but I somehow managed to forget him...And now he's back...WHY is he back? After all he has done to us...to me! Back then I begged him to stay, I begged him...And he left...I-I don't know what I'm supposed to do now, when he's back. In these three years, that passed I tried everything to forget what I felt, but now that he's back, I just..."
The girl couldn't handle it anymore and let the tears fall down her cheeks. Hinata tightened her embrace, when Hermione fidgeted.
" It's him, right? The boy who was with you, Naruto and Kakashi in a team after the academy. Is the boy you are talking about Sasuke?"
Ino and Hinata stared at Hermione for a second, before Sakura nodded. Hermione bit her lip and after a wile, she took Sakura's hand.
" I know how you feel, or, at least I can imagine. There's a boy I like since I met him. And...he sees me as nothing more than a friend. "
" It's Ronald, right? " asked Ino droningly. Hermione turned bright red and she started stuttering.
" N-no...I mean, y-yes, but...Oh, for Merlin's sake, don't tell him! P-please!" Ino smiled and Hinata chuckled.
" You're even worse than Hinata, the boy likes you a lot! You should do something about it, Hermione!" said Ino in with a wide grin all over her face.
" W-worse than me? " asked Hinata, still embracing the sobbing, yet laughing Sakura.
" Oh, come on, Hinata, Naruto's not going to wait forever, you know? You should do something about that too, if you really like him, which is as obvious as the fact, that Kurenai and Asuma are together!" Saura smiled at her blonde friend's words. " You know what? I bet Kurenai's pregnant, but she won't tell of course..."
They all started talking about their senseis' relationships and Hermione was telling them about the possible romance between Dumbledore and McGonagall. Hours passed, Sakura knew what Ino and Hinata were trying to do, but she was just acting. The whole time she was thinking of her former teammate, who was now on the lower floor.
" It was so awesome, it was coming through her skin, surrounding my hand, the green light!" Harry was trying to explain to Ron and his siblings the way Sakura healed him. The ninja were around them, knowing what he meant. Sasuke tensed and felt jealous of Harry, of the fact, that he touched his priceless flower, his beautiful cherry blossom. No, he thought sadly after a while, not mine..
"That's cause Sakura's a medic, we don't know how to do this kind of magic." explained Shikamaru. Sakura had told all of them what she explained Hermione about their 'magic'. He knew what he was supposed to lie now. "She is the best medic in our village, after her teacher, of course. Ino's now learning, too."
" So you have different wizards, what about you, what kind of a wizard are you?" asked Ron.
" He's a strategist. This big head of his is full with brains actually!" said Naruto and poked Shikamaru's cheek.
" Cool, and the others?" asked Fred, probably, the twins were identical, even the ninja had trouble recognising them.
" Sai's an art type, Neji and Lee are close combat types, Kiba is a tracking type, as well as Hinata. I am a strategist, Ino is a mind type. And Naruto and Sasuke are... I guess they're from the most powerful type, the elements type."
Naruto and Sasuke looked up to Shikamaru in surprise. He had almost revealed the truth about their abilities. And he hadn't mentioned the clans' powers of the Nara, Inuzuka, Hyuga, Uchiha and Yamanaka.
" So both of you are the strongest?" asked the other twin, glaring at Naruto in amusement.
" I said they were from the most powerful type, but not that they are the strongest, every one of us has basic knowledge in everything we do, so we are all pretty powerful." Shikamaru sighed, as he was trying to explain the actual differences between the shinobi in a way, that wouldn't reveal their true nature.
" That's too complicated for me!" laughed Fred and pulled George. They left the common room.
" You're really fascinating, all of you...just... look at yourselves!" said Ginny somehow amazed. " You are so much different than us, your world in Japan. I wish we were like you, using no wands, and not to mention your bodies..." the girl said with a smirk.
" Our...bodies?" repeated Kiba and exchanged glances with Sai.
" Just take a look at yourselves! You all look like supermodels!So attractive... Especially the girls..." said Ginny in a dreamy voice, no trace of jealousy.
The shinobi exchanged glances, they were surprised by the girl's words. Attractive? That wasn't something important in the ninja world. The only one who ignored the Weasley's comment was Sasuke, who simply snorted. He was used to all the attention he received from the fangirls, wherever he was going, because of his body and was the same thing here. A few hours earlier, when Dumbledore introduced the new 'transfers' at dinner, everybody started talking about him...again. Sasuke sighed. He was tired of all of this, of the new atmosphere, of the new people, of the new Sasuke-fangroup, of the fact that he hasn't even exchanged a word with his former teammate.
" I'm going to bed." he announced and turned around to walk away.
" Good night, Sasuke!" sounded the girl's voice. Sasuke snorted. As if he was going to even care to answer her, and the other ninja knew that and simply shook their heads. Sasuke left, leaving the wizards an impression that he's not just rude, but a total jerk.
It was really late in the night, or more like, really, really early in the morning. Everybody was sleeping, except for him, as he tried to close his eyes, the smell of cherry blossoms reached his nose, the face of the rosette appeared in his mind, the feeling of loneliness crept into his heart, the emptiness - in his soul.
He turned to the other side, where Naruto was muttering 'Hinata' in his sleep. Sasuke smiled, sure that no one would notice. After all this time, nothing has changed...well, almost. His smile faded away as the image of Sakura emerged in his mind again. He sighed. It was obvious, that there wouldn't be any sleep for him tonight, so he stood up, tied the haori to his right leg and took a last glance at his roommates before he went out on a walk around the castle. He smiled, he was happy to be here with them...
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