Sorry I haven't updated in a while! School was really overwhelming. I don't like my grades so far! Two A's. Two C's. And one D. RAWR! Senior year is so hard! Well anyways, enjoy the story.
Sakura Kiss
I took a deep breath as I walked to my first class. Naruto and Shino had walked behind me. Unfortunately for me, I was in the way of the girls' idols.
"Shino-sama! Naruto-sama!" The girls screamed. My eyes widened as I was immediately pushed away bumping into someone's chest.
"I'm sorry" I quickly said as I looked up to see this man in his late 20's. He had long brown hair that went up to his shoulders. He was chewing on a long toothpick. He must be Genma-sensei, I figured.
"It's okay. I can't be mad at a beautiful girl like you. You must be Sakura Haruno, the honor student, right?" Genma smiled at me. "It's nice to see a new face around here. We barely get any new transfers. Word is that you're also the newest member of the Student Council"
"Um, yes" I said as I blushed. He called me beautiful!
"S-Sakura-chan!" Someone called out. I looked to see Hinata in my class.
"Hinata-chan!" I smiled as I hugged her.
"So you two know each other?" Genma asked.
Hinata nodded. "S-She's my best friend"
"Since I'm feeling nice today, I'll let everyone sit where they want" Genma announced to the class. I immediately pulled Hinata to seats in the back. I chose to get the one next to the window.
"Hey Hinata-chan" Kiba greeted her as he entered the classroom. He soon looked at me and smiled. "Hello Sakura"
"Hey Kiba" Hinata and I replied as he chose the seat in front of me.
"I want to sit next to Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined as he and Shino went to find seats. Most of the girls glared at me as some found it sweet. I sighed. I didn't need haters on my first day of school.
"Is she your girlfriend or something?" one of the guys joked in class. Everyone waited to see what Naruto had to say to that.
"Of course not!" Naruto said turning pink. "She's my friend. My best friend!"
I felt the glaring stop as the girls smiled at me and Naruto. How ABSOLUTELY SCARY! But I felt warm inside. Naruto didn't just think of me as a mother. He thinks of me as a best friend. Shino had chosen the seat to the right of the Kiba. Naruto soon chose to sit next to Hinata who turned red.
"Are you okay Hinata?" Naruto asked.
"I-I-I-"Hinata began to stutter. I heard Kiba mutter about how stupid Naruto was if he couldn't tell that Hinata liked him. I giggled. I had a feeling in time Naruto will realize his feelings for Hinata.
"She's fine, Naruto" I told him as I watched everyone find their seats.
"I happen to see familiar faces here in my class" Genma said as he began to write were everyone sat. "The seat you have chosen will be your seats from now on until I say otherwise. As you guys know, this is physiology. We will be talking about the body and its functions. We will be dissecting things as well. The paper I'm passing out right now will be signed by your parents saying its okay for you to do my labs. If your parents don't want you to, I'll find something for you to do." Genma said as the people in the front row passed the papers back. "Now, since this is the first day of school, you guys can kick back and relax until class is over."
People immediately got out of their seats and went to talk to their friends. I watched as people went to talk to Hinata, Naruto, Shino, and Kiba. Honestly, I felt left out. I was the new person who came out of nowhere. Everyone had history with each other.
The bell rang as everyone gathered their things. It seemed that Naruto and Hinata had the next class together as they both bid goodbye to me and left. Kiba already left the classroom. I had to find the next class by myself I guess. As I went to the door, I saw Shino waiting for me.
"Ready for our next class?" He asked me.
I smiled as I nodded my head. Shino held my hand as he led us to the next class. I shouldn't be feeling down. I was acting so selfish. Of course the others had other friends to talk to as well. But I was still important to them as well. I was their best friend and family.
Shino and I made it to our second period class which was AP Statistics. I could see Sasuke and Shikamaru sitting down in their seats as fan girls were trying to talk to them, well more like talk to Sasuke since Shikamaru had fallen asleep. Sasuke was just looking out the window ignoring the girls.
"It's the newest member of the student council!" I heard people beginning to say.
"Hello Sakura-sama" some of the girls greeted. I raised an eyebrow at them. Sama?
"Hello everyone" I smiled awkwardly.
"Omg! She said 'hi' and smiled at me!" One girl said as she blushed.
"She's so nice!" her friend said as they jumped up and down.
"Her smile is so cute!" a guy said.
"More like cool and spicy!" another guy said. "She talked back to the Secretary of the Student Council. She's not like the others girls in the school."
"Yeah! Sakura-sama is cool and spicy!" The whole class agreed.
I turned red as I walked towards Shikamaru and Sasuke. I looked to see that Shikamaru had awakened from his little and nap and was looking at me as he waved. I soon remembered the almost kiss moment earlier this morning. My face turned pink as I went to the seat between him and Sasuke. Shino followed me as he went to sit behind me. Shikamaru turned around in his chair to talk to Shino so I looked at Sasuke. I could see the corner of his lips moving upward.
"Cool and spicy?" He asked as he chuckled quietly. "Where do they come up with these things?"
My eyes widened. This was the first time I've seen Sasuke this close to laughing. I smiled as I shook my head. "Tell me about it!" I soon looked back at Shikamaru to see him looking at Sasuke with a surprised look.
"What's wrong?" I asked Shikamaru.
"It's nothing" Shikamaru said as he smiled at me. "How was your first class?"
"It was okay. Genma-sensei seems nice. Like I said before, Naruto exaggerated about him. Hinata-chan is in my class as well" I grinned.
"That's good" Shikamaru said. "Hey, I need to talk to you after class"
I looked at him confused. His cheeks were turning pink. "Okay" I told him as I saw a teacher come into the class room. She had wavy raven hair that went to her hips. She had blood red orbs. She was really pretty.
"Hello everyone. It's nice to see you all again this year. I hoped everyone enjoyed their summer. I see a lot of familiar faces and a few new ones. I'm Kurenai Sarutobi. As you guys know, this is AP Statistics. Today will be a chill day. I want to know why you guys wanted to take this class. Hm…Shikamaru, let's start off with you. You can then take a nap after" The class laughed.
"How troublesome" Shikamaru muttered. "I'm taking this class because I finished Calculus BC back in 8th grade and Tsunade-sama wouldn't let me graduate if I didn't take this class senior year."
I heard people talking about how smart he was. I was surprised. He took Calculus BC in 8th grade? Shikamaru was so cool!
"Okay. Sasuke, you're next" Kurenai said.
"Hn." I heard the fan girls sigh. BLEH!
"Um…okay. Shino?"
"I like math" Was all he said.
Kurenai sighed. "Alright, ooh, a new face! Sakura Haruno, is it? Why are you taking this class?"
"Well, I want to become a doctor when I graduate and train under my idol Tsunade-sama. I believe this class will help me in the future" I smiled.
Kurenai smiled back at me. "What a lovely reason." She said. She soon asked random kids. Some of the responses were that this was the last math level at this school, this class would help them in the future, and that they didn't want to take Calculus. We were soon given time to talk after she handed out papers to get signed.
"Sakura, I heard about your situation from the Principal" Kurenai whispered to me. "So you don't have to worry about getting the papers signed for your class."
"Thank you" I told her as the bell rang for break. Remembering that Shikamaru was going to talk to me after class, I told Sasuke and Shino to go ahead without us because Shikamaru was going to show me around the school.
The two nodded as they left the class. Kurenai noticed that Shikamaru and I were still in class as she was heading out for break.
"I'm going to lock you guys in. Just close the door when you guys are done here" Kurenai said as she left. I heard the click of the door as I sat on top of one of the desks. I wonder what Shikamaru wanted to talk to me about.
"What did you want to talk about Shika-kun?" I asked him. I watched as he walked up to me as he put his hands on both sides of the table, keeping me between his arms.
"Sakura" Shikamaru said. "About this morning…"
"…it was an accident Shika-kun." I said smiling at him.
"Yeah, an accident" He said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "It was just bugging me a bit this morning. I thought it would push you away from me. You seemed really afraid of me when I fell on top of you"
My eyes widened. "Oh no! I wasn't afraid of you. I was actually just thinking about-"I stopped myself from saying Ino's name. I wonder how Shikamaru felt about her.
"Let's head out. Everyone is waiting for us" I said as we walked out of the classroom.
"Let me show you where the student council is" Shikamaru said as he led me outside of the building and towards the green house. It was really beautiful. We walked inside as I saw a blur of yellow and white run towards me. I quickly moved away as Naruto hit the ground.
"Idiot" Sasuke muttered.
"Go and take a look around Hag" Sai said as I walked around the green house. There was a large fountain in the middle of the building. Plants were all over the place and it really complimented the place. Further ahead, there was an elegant cream gazebo. There was a matching table and chairs around it.
"Do you like it Sakura-san?" Shino asked me.
"This place is so beautiful!" I said.
"Minato got the Principal before him to make this place." Naruto grinned. "Did you know Minato was the president of the school council when he came here?"
"Really?!" I said as my eyes widened. I never knew that. Soon the bell rang for third period as I went to see Sai was waiting for me at the exit.
"Where are the other two?" I asked him as we linked arms.
"They went to class early" Sai said. I nodded as we headed off to English with Kakashi.
When we arrived, I saw Karin and Ami trying to talk to Sasuke who in turn was ignoring them. Shino was talking to Kiba. I was immediately pushed away again by the crazy fangirls.
"Sai-kun!" I heard Kasumi purr as other girls were screaming to have Sai look at them.
Before I could fall to the ground, someone caught me which caused everyone to stop what they were doing and look at us.
"What do we have here?" a voice said. I looked up to see a boy who had shoulder length white hair with blue tints at the end. His purple eyes stared at me surprised. He looked up to see Kasumi smirking at me as she had her arms wrapped around Sai's. Sasuke had gotten up from his seat and watch as the boy helped me back on my feet.
"Great it's shark boy" Karin muttered and Ami frowned at me for taking Sasuke's attention from them.
'News Flash honey, he wasn't even looking at you two.' My inner shouted.
"Shut up lava-girl! Tell your little bitch here to control herself. She could have hurt her" He said. Kasumi's mouth dropped for being called a bitch.
Karin growled. "Suigetsu, you little-ARG!!"
Suigetsu smirked. "You okay?" He asked me.
"I'm fine. Thanks. I'm Sakura Haruno" I introduced myself.
"I know who you are" He smirked. "The name is Suigetsu Houzuki. Hm, why is it that Sasuke seemed worried when you got pushed? Are you his girlfriend or something?"
I blushed as I shook my head. "Oh no! We're nothing like that. We're just friends"
"Interesting" Suigetsu said. "I'd like to get to know you better"
"She's not interested!" Karin sneered. "Stop hitting on every girl you set your eyes on!"
I raised an eyebrow at the two. Karin seemed like she likes Suigetsu.
"Don't be jealous because I don't hit on you" Suigetsu grinned as he wrapped his arms around my waist. "Besides, Sakura here is a really cutie"
Karin blushed as she fixed her glasses. "I am not jealous"
"Let go of her now" A deadly voice said. I looked behind Suigetsu to see Gaara glaring at him.
"Gaara-kun!" I grinned as I went to hug him.
"Forehead-girl! I finally have a class with you" Ino said as she went to hug me. Behind her was Chouji.
"Hey Sakura" Chouji greeted me.
"Hello Chouji!" I said as I hugged him.
"Wow! Not only do we have Billboard Brows as a classmate, we get Ino-pig as well" Ami sneered. "Brings back memories, doesn't it girls?"
She was really pissing me off. Grabbing a pencil from a desk, I threw it at her. The whole class stood silent as the pencil embedded itself into the wall behind Ami. The impact was so hard, that the wall began to crack around the pencil.
"Piss me off again and I won't miss next time" I growled. Ami seemed to have gotten the message as she went to her seat. Karin went with her.
I heard Suigetsu whistle as he put an arm around my shoulders. "I like her!" He said looking at Sasuke. "You can sit next to me anytime!"
"Hn" Sasuke said. "She's sitting with m-"
"With me" Sai cut Sasuke off as he pulled me to a desk with him. Sasuke glared at Sai who smirked back.
Ino raised an eyebrow at me as if asking me to tell her details later. Ino chose to sit on my other side.
"Where's Kakashi?" I asked.
"Don't worry about him" Kiba said as he sat down in front of me. "He's always late for class"
"Really?" I asked surprised.
The door soon opened to reveal someone walking in.
"Sorry I'm late everyone, I had to help this lady find her contacts" Kakashi said walking in.
"LIAR!" the whole class shouted.
"Yes, yes! Well, here are papers I need your parents to sign and bring back tomorrow for 10 points. Tomorrow, we'll be getting your books so don't forget to bring your ID card." Kakashi said as he passed out the papers. When he was done, he came up to me.
"Sakura, I need to talk to you outside" Kakashi smiled at me. Kakashi noticed the glare Sai was giving him. "Don't worry Sai" Kakashi ruffled his hair. "I won't do anything to your mommy" He whispered. Sai blushed but didn't say anything.
I followed Kakashi out of the classroom as he closed the door behind him.
"I'm here to give you your next goal to finish. Motherly goal number four is to give Shikamaru a good birthday present. His is on September 22. Oh, and you can't buy anything. You have to hand-make it yourself" Kakashi grinned.
Making something for my son's birthday? It didn't seem bad. In fact, it seemed fun.
After a few minutes of talking, the bell ran as people exited their classes. I found Sai and Shino looking for me. We walked to our art class as I saw a familiar teacher.
"Iruka-sensei!" I said as I went to hug him.
His eyes widened as he looked at me. "Sakura Haruno? My, have you grown! I remember when you were still this small" Iruka said as he lowered his hand to his thigh. "Why didn't you tell me you were going back to school instead of being homeschooled?"
"I didn't know you taught here until I saw you at orientation." I smiled.
"We'll catch up later, go find a seat." Iruka smiled as I decided to sit next to Sai. Looking at the people entering the class, I saw Kasumi entering as if she was royalty. She glared at me as she noticed I had chosen a seat next to Sai. Heading to the next available seat, she was stopped when Hinata came and stole the seat. Steaming, she chose the seat next to me. Shino had chosen a seat next to Hinata. Just great, I told myself. What a way to start a new school year huh?
Like the rest of teachers, Iruka began to talk about the class and what was expected of us. He soon passed out papers for us to sign.
"Well, this whole week, I'm going to be going through the green sheets and rules for this class. So for the rest of the class, you can chit chat amongst yourselves" Iruka said as he sat down in his desk and did paperwork.
I looked over at Sai to see him staring at the artwork around the room. I saw him staring at a particular one.
"Sai-kun?" I called out to him. Looking at the picture he was looking at, I noticed the art work was done by no other than him and Raiko. The painting must have brought back hurtful memories to him.
"Sai-kun?" I called out again. I poked him on the shoulder as he still didn't react. Weird. I poked him a few more times, before he looked at me.
"What?" He asked stoically.
"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked him in my most gently voice.
"There's nothing to talk about because you don't know anything" Sai raised his voice at me. I winced at the tone of his voice. It sent shivers down my spine. Sai was soon hit in the head by Shino.
"If you haven't forgotten…"Shino said in a volume only the three of us could hear. "…she's our mother. You have to respect her as one. That means no yelling at her"
Sai seemed to have forgotten that I was his mother as he frowned and left the class early.
"Man, just when I thought I was getting closer to him." I said sadly as I could feel myself leaning. "Iruka-sensei, I'm leaving early."
Iruka-sensei must have witnessed what happened as he nodded. I soon began to walk down the large hall as I slowly tried to walk to Asuma-sensei's class. Some people that had a free period were walking around the hall as they watch my miserable walk. I had this leaning feeling.
"Isn't that Sakura Haruno?" One of them said.
"You mean the Student Council's bodyguard?" his friend asked.
"Yeah, that's her. Look at her" the first guy said.
"Oh my, is she leaning?" the girl in the group asked.
"She's actually leaning while she's walking" the second guy said.
"Someone is approaching her!"
I saw someone crouch down so I can go on his back.
"Gaara-kun" I said as I went on his back. When I was always sad, Gaara would give me a piggyback as he would listen to my problems. It was like he had Sakura-senses!
"What happened?" He asked as he headed towards Asuma's class.
"It's nothing" I said as I tightened my grip around his neck.
"I know you better than that. Someone made you sad, am I right? You don't want to tell me so I won't have to kill them" Gaara said.
"It's Sai" I said. "He got mad at me when he was thinking about a sad memory."
"If he's acting like an ass, he doesn't deserve you caring about him." Gaara said as we finally made it to Asuma's class before the bell rang. I slowly got off from Gaara as I thanked him. He nodded as he went to his next class.
The bell rang as people began to exit their classes.
"Forehead-girl?" Ino asked as she exited Asuma's class.
"Hey" I said as I entered the class.
"Are you okay?" She asked me.
"I'm fine. Just go to class before you're late" I said wanting to drop the conversation.
"If you say so" Ino said as she left the class.
I looked to see a teacher smoking in class! Are you kidding me?
"Smoking is bad for you Asuma-sensei" I told him as I chose a seat way in the back next to the window.
He smirked as he stopped. "Looking at your hair, you must be Sakura Haruno, the bodyguard of the Student Council" He said.
"Yeah, what about it?" I asked.
"I'm just surprised they let you in, especially since you're a girl" He said. I raised an eyebrow. Was Asuma-sensei sexist?
As if reading my mind, he shook his head. "I'm not being sexist if that's what you're thinking. It's just that ever since freshman year there had never been a new member to join the current group, even with Neji graduating. It's even more surprising they let a girl join the group, with their crazy fangirls and all. It makes me and the other teachers wonder about it. We were actually talking about it during break"
"I wasn't expecting to be part of it. Naruto just came and announced it out of the blue" I honestly said as I rested my head on the desk.
Asuma just chuckled as he looked at the teacher picture he had hanging on the wall.
"Just what are you planning Minato?" Asuma whispered.
I watched as people began to enter the classroom. I saw Shino walking in worried about me. I told him I was fine as he sat next to me. Shikamaru and Sasuke soon came in as they went and sat around me. Shikamaru was behind me as Sasuke was in front. So it was like I was surrounded.
"SASUKE-KUN!" A voice said.
I frowned. Great I had Karin in another class of mine. She attempted to flirt and get Sasuke's attention, but it wasn't working. Sasuke just looked out the window like i did.
And that's how the class went throughout the whole day. Sasuke and the others seemed to have noticed how quiet I was in class, but they didn't say anything. The bell rang as the others went to their last class. Shino and I had a free period so we began to walk around.
"Do you want to go the Student Council building? I'll make us some lemonade if you'd like" Shino said. I thanked him as I followed him there.
Like he said, he made lemonade as he poured me a glass.
"Are you still sad about Sai's actions?" Shino asked me slowly as he watched my actions.
"It doesn't matter." I said as I rested my head on the cool table while waiting for the Student Council Meeting to start.
"Well, you two should talk it out or just forget about it. That's how Sai is. He doesn't know what it's like to be truly cared for by a girl. He's never known what having a mother felt like, remember that."
I closed my eyes as I thought about what Shino said.
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Poor Sakura. Don't give up. How did you guys like the chapter. I had to add Suigetsu and Karin into this story. They make it fun! I wonder who else I should add into the story. If you guys have any ideas, don't be afraid to tell me.
-Kumiko