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Maple Story
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Chapter TEN
"Okay, everyone, we're here! Kakashi's advisory, please stand up, get your luggage, and follow Mr. Kakashi to your cabins!" Called out Mrs. Kurenai. A few cheers were heard in the back of the bus in response to her message.
Sakura scooted out of her seat and followed her advisory out of the charter bus to get her luggage. Hopefully her luggage wasn't too girly compared to the others. Just a plain black piece of luggage… She hoisted it out of the bottom of the bus and dragged it to her place in line. When they arrived at the beach, she was way too tired to care much. Too tired to notice a familiar black mini van pass by the charter bus. She was also very sore from sitting down for three hours straight and all she wanted to do was to lie down and rest…
"Oi! Katsu-chann, look at that!" Naruto pointed to a large cluster of trees surrounding the beach. There was a rocky hill behind the woods. "I heard that we're gonna have fun night and we're gonna have to go in there or something…"
Sakura glanced up, mumbled something incoherent, and kept walking. The sun was burning hot and Sakura wished that she had not chosen to wear a black t-shirt and black jeans. Finally, they reached cabins 10 and 11.
"Alright, everyone," Kakashi yelled, so everyone could hear him. "We're gonna split into two groups, okay? One group will be in cabin 10 and the other one will be in cabin 11. So cabin 10 will be: Katsu, Naruto, Chouji, Gaara, and Neji. Cabin 11 will be: Shen, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Shino. Dinner is in two hours at 6:30 at the cafeteria in the large cabin next to the woods. Well, have fun everyone!" He waved at them and then trudged through the sand to the teacher cabins.
Everyone departed to their cabins. Sakura stumbled inside Cabin 10 with her luggage, mumbling about looking for a place to dump all her stuff. Everyone else cried out in joy. When Sakura looked up after brushing off some sand on her jeans, she could see why everyone was amazed.
The two story cabin was huge. They were all standing on a glossy, wooden floor that looked perfect and new. There was a huge space in front of them—two couches on a red, soft-looking rug surrounding a circular glass coffee table. A large T.V. was placed against the wall, in front of the couches. There were three rooms on the first floor, and three rooms upstairs, as far as they could tell. The whole main room was illuminated by the hot afternoon sun shining through the tall windows, but they couldn't feel the heat—the cabin was air conditioned. After taking in the awesomeness of the whole cabin, they decided to take off their shoes since the floor was clean and such. They found a closet right next to them, and it had a bunch of hangers and a small shoe rack in the corner.
Sakura grabbed her stuff and then marched through the first door she saw. "This room's mine!" She yelled, dragging her stuff into the room. It turned out to be a simple bedroom—there was a wooden work desk in the top left corner of the room, a small, comfortable looking bed with navy blue comforters was placed against the right wall, and drawers at the foot of the bed. She dumped her stuff next to the work desk and proceeded to open the two windows, because it was way too quiet. The sound of the call of seagulls and people playing and laughing on the beach drifted into her room. After she unpacked all her stuff and put them into the drawers (which were, unsurprisingly very clean), she stuffed all her female products into a plastic bag and buried it under all her guy clothes in the drawer.
"Katsu-chan!! This place is so awesome!" Naruto said as he walked into her bedroom. "The T.V. in the main room place actually works and all the bathrooms are soo clean and this place has two floors, and it's—"
"Naruto. Please learn to not come into my room at random times, lest I be changing or doing other things that you are not permitted by me to see."
"Eh?" He scratched his head, confused.
"…Nevermind." Sakura sighed, and then turned around to admire her organized, neat bedroom.
"Whatever, c'mon Katsu-chan, let's go swim!!"
"Naruto, are you stupid?"
"Uh, no?"
"I can't swim because I, um…" She trailed off when her three other cabin mates stepped into her room. Neji smirked at her.
"Well, Katsu? You can't swim 'cause… what, you're scared?"
"No!" Sakura yelled, throwing her hands in the air. "Of course I can swim and I'm not scared! In fact I'm going swimming right now!"
"Hm," said Neji, "We'll meet you at the beach in 5 minutes, then."
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Donned with a grey t-shirt and her black swimming trunks that Sasuke picked out for her, Sakura ran out of Cabin 10 to the beach, knowing that she would regret swimming with so many people around. One little slip of her really loose t-shirt in the water would probably give everything away. But she wasn't scared of the water at all—she's show that stuck up bastard who was better.
And she regretted her decision even more when she saw the tons and tons of fangirls in skimpy bikinis out on the beach, most of them surrounding a topless Sasuke. A topless Sasuke—Sakura couldn't help but notice that he had an extremely nice body. But, of course, Sakura wasn't going to think about that, especially since so many people were there.
"Katsu-kun! Katsu-kun!" called a girl behind her. Sakura instantly recognized the voice as one girl from the Katsu fanclub… Not wanting to be mean, Sakura turned around and gave her a weak smile. A bunch of her other fangirls were there as well.
"Katsu-kuuun, take off your shirt! It's sooo hot out here, isn't it?" one girl avidly suggested. They all nodded in agreement. Not knowing what to do, Sakura just stood there, looking for some sign that God would help her soon or something.
Nope. Nothing.
Suddenly, she felt someone grab her hand and drag her toward the water. Stumbling behind her savior, she looked up.
It was Sasuke.
"Do you realize that I am perfectly capable of walking by myself?" She asked politely. He didn't let go. Instead, he said, "Do you realize that you were really stupid to come out here? What, do you want to swim or something or get raped by girls?"
"How can you get raped by girls…?" She mumbled. He didn't answer. "So, uhm, are we going swimming now?"
Sasuke looked at her like she was retarded, and then nodded. He let go of her hand when they were ankle-deep in the water. The smell of the ocean was salty, but nice. She could feel the water drift forward and then backward on the sand, cooling off her burning legs and feet. Sakura looked up at Sasuke's usually emotionless face… Wait… Was he smiling?
And then he pushed her in.
"Fuck!" She shouted as she fell, and she reached out to grab anything, something to keep her up—She grabbed Sasuke's wrist and pulled… And he came down with her into the shallow water, yelling out in surprise. They fell in with a loud splash. She flailed about, her arms and legs punching and kicking water into the air. Sasuke was still on her.
"Mmmmphh… Sasuke, get off, you're fucking drowning me." She helped him get off by pushing him off of her. She immediately stood up, removing clumps of wet sand from her hair and spitting salt water filled saliva into the sand.
"Peh. Gross. That was gross. And that was mean. Never ever ever do that again even though it's funny to push people randomly into water."
"…Hn."
"Whatever. Just DO NOT do it again, 'cause you need to learn some manners."
"…Hn." Sasuke waded deeper into the water. Sakura waded in after him.
"Really, Sasuke, when are you gonna learn some new words?"
"…Aa."
"Sasuke."
"…"
"Sasuke-kuuun." Sakura suddenly said in a sing-song voice. She enjoyed the fact that he twitched when she added that dreaded suffix to his name.
"…"
"Saaasuke-kuuuun."
"…What."
"Oh my God, you learned a new word." She smiled sweetly at him.
"…"
"Oi! Oi Sakura! I meant Katsu!" Yelled Naruto, who was standing on the hot burning sand, setting up a volleyball net. "Let's all play some beach volleyball! Boys against girls!" Many other girls stood around him, squealing in delight.
"Okay, Naruto! Let's go, Sasuke." Sakura didn't wait for him to respond and swam back to shore. Sasuke was right behind her.
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Sakura dumped a slab of lasagna, a small pile of mashed potatoes, and a piece of garlic bread onto her tray. Sliding her tray to the left, she grabbed a glass cup from the cup tray and filled it with Dr. Pepper. She took her tray and walked through the white swinging doors from the quiet cafeteria kitchen into the noisy dining hall. She made her way through the wooden dining tables to the table with Sasuke and Naruto and all her other guy friends.
"Hey guys." Sakura said as she set her tray down next to Naruto.
"Katsu-chan! Hey! I didn't know you could play volleyball so well."
"Yeah, Katsu. It's like you trained or something." Shikamaru said.
"Nooo, of course I didn't," She replied quickly. "Why would I ever want to practice volleyball?"
"Cause you're gay?" Suggested Neji.
"I am not gay!" She snapped back as she reached over to the silverware holder to get a fork and knife. "God."
"Only girls say "God". So you must be gay."
Sakura sighed. "Yeah, sure, whatever. Just shut up." She jabbed her fork into her lasagna.
They ate and talked about how excited they were about the trip. And then Naruto mentioned the woods to them.
"They say that the woods are really scary, especially at night."
"All woods are scary at night, dumbass." Sasuke said.
"Oeii, shut up, teme. Anyway, they're gonna have a fun night thing there and I bet we're gonna have to go in there and stuff—"
"May I have your attention please?" Called out Ms. Tsunade, who was standing at the front of the dining hall with a microphone in her hand. "Okay. This is very important. We just received the news that earlier today, a killer broke out of jail. Hush, every, please, remain seated and calm down," She raised her hand to silence the murmurs that broke out among the students. "We advise everyone to please stay in your cabins after seven thirty, and no later than that! We do not want to lose a student. The jail the killer broke out of is a very near the beach, so we will need to take as many precautions as we can. And I want everyone to travel in groups of at least three—we cannot allow anyone to wander alone outside."
Sakura sent everyone at her table a worried glance.
"Okay, well… It's 7:10 right now, and you should be almost finished with dinner. So please hurry and head back to your cabins. Lights out at ten." Tsunade handed the microphone to Kakashi, who took it away.
Almost everyone in the dining hall stood up at once to put their trays away. There was fear in the air as everyone walked outside, meeting the crisp cool air. The sun was setting, casting a orange purplish glow on the clouds. Sakura stayed with her cabin mates, and they promised each other to be travel buddies for the rest of the trip—until the killer was caught.
"Naruto, this is kinda scary. Oh, my God, if I don't come back alive, my mom's gonna bitch. But I dunno who she's gonna bitch at. She's probably gonna go through my AIM chat logs and find my chat with you and she's gonna hunt you down and bitch at you and then kill you."
"Uh, Sakura-chan, calm down…" He said in a hushed whisper.
"I'm just really scared…"
They finally reached their cabin after an agitating three minutes of walking outside. The sun was almost gone—there were still bright beams of light fading away into the ocean.
They all stayed in the main room, playing cards and sipping mugs of hot cocoa. They had found packs of them in the small kitchen next to the main room. Then, near nine thirty, they decided to follow the rules this time and get ready for bed. Once they finished cleaning up in the bathrooms and getting dressed in their pajamas, they all met in the main room once more to talk about what might happen in the next few days. At nine fifty five, there was a knock on their door…
Everyone paused.
"Guys? It's Kakashi. Are you all ready for bed?"
"Yes." They half-shouted back, making sure he could hear them.
"Good!" They heard him walk away. Sakura stood up from the couch.
"Alright, g'night, guys. See you tomorrow…hopefully."
"Don't be so pessimistic." Neji said. They gave each other weak smiles and departed to their bedrooms.
Sakura shut her door quietly and climbed into bed. Her room was cool and her bed was really comfortable. She seemed so sleepy, but she couldn't fall asleep. Her mind was on the killer. What if he really came to the beach? Did he know there were two grades full of students sleeping in cabins on the beach, unaware of his existence? Her eyelids drooped after a few minutes, and she dozed off.
Thump.
Sakura drowsily opened her eyes. What was that? She looked at her clock.
11:03… the red numbers glowed brightly in the dark.
She could sense that there was another presence in her room. She closed her eyes, her breath hitched in her throat. Her heart beat was faster and louder then ever. It was the only sound in the room she could hear other than the shuffling of the feet of the killer. Could he or she hear her heart? Or would they stop it from beating…
Don't move… Don't move… Don't move… Don't breath… Don't breath… Sakura repeated over and over in her head. The killer was in her room? How?
Oh yeah. Fuck. She left the windows open.
She almost hit herself on the head because of her stupidity, but decided not to.
Take as many precautions as you can, Ms. Tsunade had told them, and she forgot to fucking close her windows.
The killer walked around her room. Did he have a knife? She didn't know. She didn't want to know. Suddenly, she felt like screaming. Yes, to warn her cabin mates that there was a killer in their cabin. That seemed like a good idea.
She couldn't handle it anymore and she opened her eyes.
After a few seconds, she let her breath out, relieved.
She wanted to scream, but with glee and happiness and jubilee and all other sorts of synonyms of happy.
Because icy blue eyes stared down at her.
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Author's Note: This was probably THE most intense chapter I've ever written.
It's not that intense…
But still. And really sorry about the delay. Maple Story… Yeah, whatever. I think I liked this chapter the most, actually. I had a lot of fun writing it.
'kay—leave a review and I'll love you some more. :D
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