Thanks once again, for those that read and left comments. So since the last chapter was kind of cut short I'm going to go ahead and post this one up now. :P Like before I still might have some editing and spell checks so please bare with me.
UPDATE: Sorry its taking long but chapter 12 will either be posted later on 11/10 or 11/11 since its my bday today i will be a little busy but once i get off of work I'll try my best to update the story
Treat: Thank you :P hope you like this chapter.
DiizGiirlJess: Sorry this one is a short chapter too :(...but i did update sooner ;)
Azu-susi-chan: lol I can't wait for you to see what i have planned.
XBakaNinGyoX I'm not going to lie, I'm up in the air myself on which team I'm on. That's why i love the comments they totally change my mind on how I should develop the story.
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Team Akira: 3 Team Sasuke:4
Chapter 11
Once Sakura finally left the classroom, after her encounter with Akira; she found herself little by little place an unsure hand on her chest; as she still felt her heart was going to jump out of her chest; due to his earlier actions.
Flashback
"You're a girl... it's not the end of the world," Akira said while turning back around to leave the room.
"Wait..." Sakura said once more as she held out a hand to stop him. "What is it now?" Akira replied while tossing his head back to where some of his locks covered one of his eyes.
"I well... I" Sakura tried to explain before she noticed Akira walk over to her and placed a hand under her chin.
"Actually I'm kind of glad you're a girl, I was starting to wonder if I had changed teams." Akira commented while lowering his face close to hers.
End Flashback
As she continued to replay what had happened over in her mind; while she made her way to her locker. Sakura quickly got her second surprise of the day, when she found herself running into Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun" she almost yelled before she had to stop herself from sounding too much like her normal self.
"Oh sorry I didn't see you there you scared me." she quickly responded, before being stopped by his random gesture. Without saying a word, Sakura looked up once she felt Sasuke place a hand on her forehead, before he leaned in close to look at her face.
"Uh" was all she could let out, as her face started to change back to its habitually red state. "You seem pretty red... are you feeling sick again?" he asked next after tilting his head to the side as he continued to examine her.
"No… I'm fine." Sakura replied as she was surprised by the odd concern over her little cold.
"That's good... Look Sakura there is something that we need to talk about." Sasuke said quietly next after placing his hand back into his pocket and giving her a serious look.
Sakura hearing and seeing the seriousness in his tone and face, quickly nodded her head to his comment, however before she could ask why. The pair and the rest of the student body, stopped when they all heard a voice come over the intercom.
INTERCOM ANNOUNCEMENT:
"ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS... ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS. THIS IS YOUR PRINCIPAL SPEAKING, NOW I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE ALREADY HEARD THE NEWS OF THE RECENT PASSING OF ONE OF OUR BELOVED EDUCATIONAL PROVIDERS. WHICH DOES SADDEN US ALL GREATLY.
HOWEVER THOUGH GRIEF MAY LINGER WE MUST CARRY ON. WITH THAT BEING SAID, I MUST INFORM YOU THAT ALL, IT HAS COME TO THAT TIME AGAIN FOR YOUR PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS TO VISIT THE SCHOOL AND SPEAK WITH YOUR TEACHERS AND CHECK YOUR PROGRESS.
WHICH MEANS, THAT FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS, NO ONE WILL BE LEAVING IMMEDIATELY AFTER CLASSES ...STARTING TODAY, WE WILL ALL BE STAYING BEHIND, HELPING IN PREPARATION TO CLEAN AND DECORATE THE SCHOOL FOR THIS ANNUAL VISIT... NEEDLESS TO SAY ANY STUDENT NOT ADHERING TO THIS WILL BE FINDING THEMSELVES A NEW SCHOOL TO ATTEND... THAT IS ALL..."
After the announcement was finished with everyone letting out angry and annoyed moans. A random pair of students let out their frustration as they walked by Sasuke and Sakura. "Man I hate these meetings, what a drag."
Sakura looking back at Sasuke after watching the students walk by; was going to ask her earlier question, before once again finding herself being interrupted. When Naruto randomly came up to the pair.
"Ah man did you hear that? I'm really hating this school more and more, we need to finish this mission and get out of here," Naruto commented while huffing in irritation.
"Eh? Naruto... you speak to freely… Baka" Sakura thought, as she couldn't help but want to clobber him over the head for his tactless comment.
Naruto noticing Sakura's upset face, quickly perked up, as he found himself blushing after he retorted his statement. "Did I say mission I mean… Semester and I didn't mean that about the school, it's not that bad hee hee… oh by the way we haven't been properly introduced... I'm Uzumaki Naruto what's your name?" he asked after holding out a hand towards Sakura.
Sakura and Sasuke both looking at Naruto, had extremely strained looks on their faces; as both of them couldn't believe he hadn't figured out by now, it was Sakura in disguise that he was talking to and not some random student.
"HEYYYY Naruto KUN, where are you? ... You were supposed to wait for me." a voice called out from afar in the crowd full of students.
Naruto finding a chill run down his spine, at hearing his name being called; quickly started to panic, "EEEEhhhh damn he found me..." he almost shrieked while jumping behind Sasuke in an instant.
Sakura having a mystified look on her face, noticed a flamboyant boy making his way through the crowd; while actively searching for Naruto. "Huh who is he?" she voiced while looking back at Naruto.
"My roommate Toichi" he replied while holding on to Sasuke's shoulders. However, Sasuke not wanting to get involved or be his shield; found this a perfect time to seek his vengeance on Naruto, for locking him out of his room earlier; by stepping to the side allowing Naruto's position to be exposed.
Naruto surprised by Sasuke suddenly moving away, found himself fall to the ground as he had put most of his weight on Sasuke's shoulders.
"Naaaruto " Toichi said next after watching him fall to the ground, "Damn you Sasuke..." Naruto cursed out before he turned around to run away from his roommate.
"Hey wait Naruto come back" Toichi said while running after him with his fist up turned, in a strange manner.
Sakura and Sasuke watching them take off; both simultaneously placed hands on their faces at there never seeming to be a dull moment when Naruto was around.
However, hearing the warning bell go off and needing to get to their next destinations; Sakura looking back at Sasuke finally got to reply to his earlier comment.
"Sasuke-kun, sorry I have to get to class...why don't we talk later back at the dorm room okay" she asked. "Fine after class then," Sasuke commented before the two split up.
Elsewhere not very far away, Yui watching Sakura and Sasuke separate, found himself clicking his teeth, before hearing his cell phone loudly vibrate in his pocket. Looking at the calling number cautiously; Yui quickly makes his way into an empty classroom in order to take the call.
Click
"Yui?" a male voice said after he answered the phone.
"Yes sir it's me." Yui replied nervously in response. "Were you able to find it?" The voice asked immediately.
Yui lowering the phone took a deep breath before, putting it back up to his ear to reply. "No sir, it's gone... someone took it... I'm sorry" he reluctantly said while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Idiot... How many times have I told you to be careful and now look what you've done; you are so useless." The voice yelled back causing Yui to place a frustrated hand on the back of his neck.
"I'm sorry okay...I didn't know until I checked my pockets please give me another chance." he asked in a pleading manner.
Hearing nothing but silence in the background, Yui starts walking in circles as he continued to beg for forgiveness. "Please what do you want me to do now?"
"...Nothing lay low for a bit; I'll take care of it, but for now go back to your dorm room and stay there until I call for you that's all."
CLICK
After the voice abruptly hung up the phone, Yui looking at his phone; found himself grip it hard before angrily kicking over a nearby desk "Damn it" he cursed.
TRACK FIELD
While the rest of the day seemed to go by more normally than earlier for Sakura, finding it already time for field once again; she proceeded to get changed in the bathroom stall, before heading out to track.
However once she made it to the field, she noticed the coach waive her over immediately.
"Sakurai come here for a moment" he yelled the moment she got closer.
"Yeah coach? sorry about the other day." Sakura said after looking down thinking that was the reason he wanted to speak to her.
"So I heard from someone that you're still sick from yesterday; normally I'd make you suck it up and run it off, but since it's too close to parent's day... I can't afford having you get sicker. So sorry kid I got to bench you today take a seat." the coach said while pointing to the bench.
Sakura partially surprised by him sitting her out, noticed Akira from behind the coach; eying her while he stretched his legs.
Finding herself irritated by his interference, Sakura had no choice but to make her way over to the bench as she watched everyone start to run and carry on without her.
When class was finally over and everyone started to grab towels and water, before heading to the locker room; Sakura getting up from the bench, noticed Akira come up beside her as he proceeded to dry himself off with a towel.
"Man you missed a good run," he commented once everyone had headed off for the locker room to take their showers.
Sakura grabbing her unused towel threw it over her shoulder before replying to the comment. "You didn't have to tell him that I was still sick, I might have been yesterday but I'm fine now and if you're doing it just because you think I'm a weak girl then you're wrong I'm a lot tougher than you think." Sakura said with a little sass in her voice.
Akira finding himself chuckle, drank some water before looking back at Sakura."Yeah I can tell you're a fighter, I just figured I spare you from having to come up with an excuse on not having to shower with a bunch of guys." Akira winked back before turning to leave.
Sakura flabbergasted by his comment, watched him head towards the lockers as she couldn't help a smirk that came over her face; at how much of a smart ass he was.
END OF CLASS
Once the last bell went off for the day; initiating the end of all classes. Instead of everyone going home per the normal schedule, all the students of the school gathered together outside. While a few instructors and teachers stood in front of them.
Principle Yamada, standing in the middle of the row of teachers, waited until everyone seemed to be there; before he took a step out to speak loudly on a megaphone.
"Okay now that everyone is here, we only have two days before your parents and family members come to visit. So you'll all be placed in separate groups with your own assigned duties and tasks. I need one person from each group to be the self assigned leader, this person needs to check everyone's work and report to me; once you're done with a task understood." Yamada paused while eying the male students whom all seemed to nod in forced agreeance.
"Good, now we have two hours to do as much work as possible. So once I call out your names, I need you to calmly and quickly get into your assigned groups so we can keep this simple... The first group will be known as Team A and they will consist of these students...Shoji...Troy ...Sakurai..."
Sakura hearing her name so soon; slowly made her way over to where the other two boys stood. While she continued to watch on as unknown students filled the group.
"Okay next is...Naruto... Toichi.." Yamada said before turning over the list of names.
Sakura watching the two walk over to the group, felt somewhat relieved to have at least Naruto on her team; so at least she knew someone.
"And finally the last three Hibiki... Akira... and Sasuke this concludes all of team A you all will be in charge of booths and decorations for the school... Okay next team B," Yamada added as he continued on to the next set of names.
Sakura looking over her team, felt rightfully conflicted having Sasuke and Akira in the same group; since she thought about the complications they had the last time they both had interacted with one another.
"So who wants to be leader? I don't." A student from Team A said openly while some of the others seemed to scratch their heads at not wanting to do it either.
Sakura realizing Hibiki was in her group, and relatively good at being a leader type based on how he interacted with his friends, since they always seemed to follow him around.
Made her way over to him to voice her idea, "Hey Hibiki why don't you be the leader, I think it's a good opportunity for you" Sakura whispered low enough for just the two of them to hear.
However, Hibiki turning his head away from her didn't respond as he continued to give her the cold shoulder.
Sakura bothered at him ignoring her still; had no idea why he could be mad at her, since Akira didn't reveal her secret like she assumed earlier.
"Come on someone has to be leader." Another boy voiced after no one seemed to raise a hand.
Sakura finding herself getting frustrated over Hibiki's attitude, raised her hand up to temporarily ease everyone's concern. "Why don't we get our supplies first before we pick a leader, once we grab everything we'll need then we should decide. Plus it will give everyone a chance to think it over a bit." she commented while keeping an eye on Hibiki.
"Sure sounds good to me, let's go to the art room for paints," One boy said to another.
As the team started to disperse, while everyone seemed to be busy, with getting supplies. Sakura using the opportunity quickly grabbed a hold of Hibiki's ear as she dragged him off to the side almost violently.
"Oww Hey Sakurai..." he yelped as she kept pulling on his ear, until they were in a more secluded area.
"Okay talk what's up with you why are you ignoring me?... what did I do to you?" Sakura asked after throwing him up against the wall before she crossed her arms angrily.
"I see you've only been friends with the enemy two days and you're already acting like him and picking on me." Hibiki said with resentment in his voice; after rubbing his sore ear.
Sakura looking back at him dumbfounded by his comment; found her arms uncrossed once, she finally started to realize why he was so upset with her.
"Hibiki… I'm not turning into him... I'm sorry if I made you feel that way I never meant to ..." Sakura said while looking down,
"Don't worry it happens, we nerds lift you up and then you get popular and ignore the little guy. I get it just don't patronize me" he added before trying to leave.
Sakura feeling bad about that fact that she hadn't spoken to him or the others once; since she said she would be Akira's friend grabbed Hibiki's hand as she stopped him from going.
"That's not it at all; I haven't forgotten how painful it felt to be bullied. But me being friends with Akira has nothing to do with being popular... Trust me I haven't forgotten you guys, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have been able to stay... you helped me out a lot that day."
Flashback
Huh? I can't take this" Sakura said after trying to give back a clean blazer to Hibiki.
"Don't worry I have another spare and looks like we are about the same size, besides I always keep an extra for when Akira or one of his buddies decides to mess with me." Hibiki said with a smile.
Sakura taking the blazer held on to it for a moment. "Thanks but I think maybe I bit off more than I can chew." Sakura said under her breath, but loud enough for him to hear.
"What do you mean Sakurai?" Hibiki asked next after not understanding her meaning.
"Sorry I just mean I think this isn't the right school for me," she quickly said after looking up at him with a grim face.
"No you can't leave." Hibiki said while pushing the uniform closer to her chest.
"You are the only one that can show Akira up; no one has been able to come close to him when it came to his grades or skills. Except for you he's obviously threatened by you… We've actually been watching you, hoping you would take him down a notch or two." Hibiki preached.
"Yeah and if you leave now, Akira will just be winning, like he always does… please stay." Ryo interjected putting in his two cents.
Sakura not replying to the comments continued to look down, at the uniform as she clutched it in between unsure hands.
Hibiki watching Sakura's face placed a hand over his comrade's shoulders,"Come on guys classes will be starting back up we better get going ." He paused before turning to face Sakura.
"Sakurai we'll leave you alone now... " Hibiki said while turning to leave. "Hey wait... What about the blazer?" Sakura asked next after trying to hand it back.
"Huh? Don't worry about it you keep it besides...I hope you do decide to stay I think you could really make a difference at this school." Hibiki said after heading towards the door.
End Flashback
Sakura remembering her first meeting with Hibiki, and watching him not looking back at her. Quickly realized that her simple explanation wasn't going to help him see she wasn't the bad person he thought she was.
"Look if I tell you something will you keep it just between me and you," Sakura said while glancing around.
Elsewhere while everyone got to work on putting their materials together and setting up working areas; Akira taking off his jacket, helps some other boys carry out some wood in order to start building booths.
However, catching Sakura and Hibiki come back from seemingly out of nowhere together; Akira instantly felt intrigued as he walked up to the pair. "You two okay?" he asked while eying Hibiki in particular.
Hibiki looking back at Sakura, smiled at her before turning his attention back to Akira. "Yep just fine, actually I'm better than fine … Attention everyone; I have decided to take over the role as leader of Team A." he declared as most of the group let out sighs of relief over it not being one of them.
Two Hours later:
Shortly after the two hours seemingly flew by, Sakura and her group; quickly noticed the principle walking by checking there progress; before picking up his megaphone and making another announcement. "Okay everyone five more minutes and you can go for today."
While everyone tried to wrap things up; Naruto working on finishing up his own booth, looked over at Sasuke's progress; since he was working on a booth of his own.
However seeing that he was already completely finished with his. Naruto couldn't help but feel a little annoyed looking at his well built masterpiece.
Looking back at his own unfinished work in comparrison, Naruto tilted his head since he didn't feel his looked that bad. And despite Sasuke's being more polished; he still felt his had more character, especially since he didn't need to follow directions. Given that he felt that was something for amateurs.
Sakura working on finishing up some posters with Toichi, happened to check over at Naruto's progress; once she noticed him stepping back several times. Finding herself tilting her own head in an attempt to see what he was building.
Sakura couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be, until she noticed Sasuke's already finished booth nearby. Realising that Naruto's was supposed to be the same as Sasuke's. Sakura found herself get annoyed that he had obviously not been following directions and creating a mess more than anything else.
"Hey you know some pieces are backwards right?" Sakura finally said after Naruto had stood back once again while looking at his project almost upside down.
"Huh?... What no way." he said in disbelief while scratching his head.
"Sorry Naruto but as the leader of the group, that's not going to work. You're going to have to do it all over again tomorrow." Hibiki said after looking at his attempt as well with a puzzled face.
Naruto dropping his head, at the bad news sighed out loud as he couldn't believe all the work he had done was all for not.
"It's okay Naruto-kun I think you're such a wonderful builder." Toichi commented after getting close to him and holding up his hands praising him.
"Oi Baka stop saying that stuff…" Naruto yelled after hitting him on the head yet again and holding up an angry fist at him. "Naruto-kun sorry" Toichi replied after rubbing the growing bump on his head.
Sakura picking up their finished posters to put them away; found herself laughing at the two fight, before she felt her laugh instantly change; once she pulled her finger back after cutting it on one of the sharp corners of the paper. "Ouch." she said instantly after dropping the posters on the ground.
After holding her finger and watching the tiny cut start to fill with blood. Sakura staring at her finger, was quickly going to put it in her mouth. Until she watched Akira make his way over to her, grabbing her hurt finger next before shockingly sticking it into his own mouth.
Naruto watching the action, as well as everyone else; felt he was going to barf at seeing two male students acting somewhat intimate; while his roommate, on the other hand had goo-goo eyes at the gesture.
Sasuke watching this as well found his eyes lower, as his locks started to cover one of them; as he angrily kept his eyes on Akira.
Sakura looking at Akira's eyes locked on her; found herself gulp once she noticed him slowly take her finger out of his mouth. "There better?" he commented with a strange smirk while pulling back some of his hair that had gotten in the way.
Sakura finding herself blushing madly, at feeling the heat his mouth, nodded her head as she was left speechless. "Good" Akira commented While he walked back over to the area he was working on.
Sakura still speechless looked down at her finger, before quickly turning her attention back to Sasuke; as she immediately thought about him once she had realized he was in the area.
Sasuke noticing Sakura stare back at him, quickly looked down while he pretended to go do some work. Sakura seeing this, quickly bent down to pick up the posters off of the ground before turning her attention back to him. However, seeing that he had walked off somewhere; Sakura found herself looking down as she felt concerned of what he could be thinking about.
Okay so that's it for that chapter I still planning on posting another one soon so hopefully i get done with it fast. There will be a lot more of Sasuke Sakura interaction in the next chapter. :P
