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+The Crisis of a Cherry Blossom+

Chapter 21

Narrator: ...summer's over and now it's autumn. The cherry blossom's journey won't be so lonely anymore...a warm rainbow of leaves also make their way to the ground...

"New term, new classes, new teachers no wait, the same teachers, same lack of friends, the same prejudice, everything's the same. There's just new classes." Sakura thought as she walked down the corridor.

Students still made faces of disgust on seeing her, showing they still didn't welcome her into the school. Sakura sighed and continued walking towards her locker to empty her new rental list.

"Sakura!" a voice called out that made the girl jump. She turned around to see, Karin?

"Hey there Sakura-chan!" Suigetsu said and stepped out from behind Karin with his famous shark grin.

"Uh, hey?" Sakura answered cautiously. She didn't know what was going on but she didn't think it was going to be good.

"You don't have to act so scared we're not going to hurt you...yet." Karin said sweetly with a smile that made the pink-haired girl cringe. Suigetsu gave her a disappointed look and she said 'what?' in response.

"Ignore this woman Sakura. I still haven't tamed her yet-"

"Excuse me?"

"We're actually here to tell you that since you and Sasuke-kun are now an item you should start hanging out with us more so the school can see it's official." Suigetsu continued, ignoring Karin's outburst.

Sakura blinked her eyes twice, her expression blank. She was trying to process the information she had just received. Accepted? By Sasuke? AND Suigetsu? AND KARIN?

"WHAT! NO WAY! NO WAY IN HELL WILL I BEHIND THIS THING!" Karin shouted out and Sakura's jaw dropped, totally offended.

"Thing! How DARE you! I'm just as much a human being as YOU claim to be." Sakura retaliated. Karin scoffed repeatedly, trying to make a comeback.

An argument spewed between the two once Karin found something to say: Karin shouting loudly, as if volume could make her win; and Sakura, answering with witty remarks, temporarily winning until Karin thought of something again.

Suigetsu sighed and looked to the right, praying for some form of relief. Fortunately, Sasuke happened to walk through the doors at that exact moment. "Wow...he really is a demigod...he answered my prayers!" Suigetsu said in awe, tears welling up in his eyes.

Suigetsu took Sakura's hand and proceeded to walk down the corridor and said aloud, "Let's go!" As he walked past Karin he put a hand around her waist which she pulled off just as smoothly. As the three walked Suigetsu kept trying to put his hand around Karin's waist but failing.

"Sasuke-kun!" Suigetsu called out and frolicked towards the Uchiha before Karin could slap him for the last time he tried and grabbed her butt. Sasuke turned his head from his locker and easily dodged Suigetsu's glomp. The boy face planted his locker door.

He rubbed his face in pain, "So mean~"

Karin then began to skip a little as she walked towards him. Sakura stood there wondering if Karin would also hit the locker and a bit nervous about approaching the Uchiha. Sasuke noticed Sakura right when Karin was about to wrap her arms around him. He ducked and walked around the red-head.

"Sakura. How was your summer?" Sasuke asked, walking towards her. As Sasuke ducked and walked past Karin, the red-head ended up hugging Suigetsu. The boy raised his eyebrows twice at Karin when she looked up at him from her hug. The girl's expression immediately changed to nausea and the girl quickly let go and started for the bathroom, screaming. Suigetsu ran after shouting, "Oh come on it wasn't that bad! It's not like I have cooties~!" he teased as he chased her.

"Sakura this is all your fault! I'm going to get you back for this! But I can't attack her directly because everyone thinks MY Sasuke-kun and HER are together! I hate it!" Karin thought as she sprinted down the corridor away from the shark boy behind her.

On her journey to the safe haven known as the bathroom she encountered a black haired boy.

The two exchanged greetings as they past each other.

"Ketchup-head."

"Flirt."

"That guy is so stupid. My hair is no shade close to that tomato based thing!...!If I use Itachi to get hurt Sakura indirectly then it's perfect! MY Sasuke-kun will finally ignore her for caring for that guy more than her and then I'll have him all for myself! Plus! MY Sasuke-kun doesn't like him either." Karin smiled to herself as she saw the girls' bathroom door and rammed into it. It pushed open and recoiled, slamming Suigetsu in the face.

"The face again~?" the boy moaned in pain.

[IN THE HALL]

"So..." Sakura started.

"What do you have first?" Sasuke asked.

"Chemistry." Sakura said sadly.

"I'll walk you there." the Uchiha said with a smile.

Sakura blushed and nodded and the two strolled to the Chemistry lab.

[AT THE BATHROOM cuz sasusaku is boring and we all luv Suigetsu :p]

"~" Suigetsu called out. He was sitting on the floor and leaning against the door.

"Go away!" Karin shouted out from inside.

"Class is going to start soon and I know you don't want to be late on your first day!" he called out into the empty hallway again.

Karin sighed to herself. He was right. She was known for her perfect attendance and she wanted to keep it that way.

"I personally wouldn't mind spending a detention with you but-" the door suddenly opened and Suigetsu fell back against a pair of legs. It was Karin's, but when he looked up he didn't see her face. Well, he could but he wasn't looking there.

"PERVERT!" Karin screamed out and slammed the door back. It whacked Suigetsu on the head like a bat. "OOOWWWWWWWWWWW~! AGAIN! WHAT IS IT 'WHACK SUIGETSU ON THE HEAD DAY!" the boy shouted out, rubbing his head.

Someone who overheard him shout went up to him and whacked him on the head for the heck of it, then quickly ran of giggling. Suigetsu whipped around to murder the boy but he was already gone.

After the pain subsided he got up and looked at the door. "Oh come on!" he shouted out when he realized she was back inside and everyone was going to class.

He looked at his watch and saw there was only 5 minutes left till class. He looked around and saw an empty hallway.

"Hey Karin, is anyone in there apart from you?" he asked the door.

"No it's just me, why?' the door replied.

Suigetsu kicked the door open, "Okay let's go!" he entered the room. From behind the closed door the sounds Karin made as Suigetsu tried to get her out made the poor , unfortunate student walking past think she was being raped.

Suigetsu lifted Karin up caveman style - on one shoulder. She kicked her legs and beat his back with her fists in an attempt to get down but it was useless. Suigetsu walked casually out of the bathroom and down the corridor with the girl on his shoulder.

"Ooh nice legs~" Suigetsu teased and grinned when Karin screamed in frustration but she went silent suddenly when she felt something wet on her leg.

"Yum."

"...!

SAKURA I DON'T CARE HOW BUT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Karin shouted out in the empty hallway.

[LUNCH]

As Sakura got her lunch she left the cafeteria to have her lunch under the tree outside under which so many memories were made. As she reached the tree someone waved at her with a grin.

"It's Sakura-chan!" Suigetsu called out.

Sakura smiled, "Why am I seeing these people so much? I don't really want to have lunch with Karin, but the trek here was long and tedious...and I really can't bother go back now." she thought as she kneeled and placed her drink on the ground beside her, her sandwich in hand. Shortly after Sasuke joined the group. However as soon as he sat Suigetsu jumped up, "Oh! I just remembered! Come Karin!" he said and pulled the girl up, running off towards the cafeteria.

There was an awkward silence between the two. Sakura took a bite of her food to occupy herself with.

"Sakura." Sasuke said seriously.

"Hmm?" she sounded, mouth full of bread and ham.

"I know it might not be anything but, I noticed that last year, and even on the trip, you spent most of your time with my brother...do you like him more than me?" Sasuke asked, showing a sincere expression as he looked at the puffy cheeked girl.

Said girl almost choked on her food. She beat her chest several times and held a finger up for him to hold on while she swallowed the large glob of food in her mouth. After clearing her throat and coughing a bit she spoke up,

"It's not like that at all!"

"What is it then?" Sasuke said, his eyebrows furrowed as if he cared.

"Itachi is the one who always appears out of nowhere and ends up occupying my attention for some reason."

"So I'm boring then?" The Uchiha asked, as any man would in a drama.

"Huh? No! Of course not! That's not what I was trying to say! It's just that, um, we're just friends!"

"Really?"

"Really. You should trust me more you know..."

Sasuke's eyes widened. He brought his head up sharply, "Yes. I should."

"You should?" Sakura repeated, confused at the sudden submission.

"Of course. It'd be horrible of me to assume you were lying every time I asked you something. Giving you a chance to prove yourself innocent is something expected of me, right?" the boy said as if he swatted it out of a book.

"Right..." Sakura replied slowly.

Before anything more could be said a loud shriek sounded from the nearest building and Karin burst through the doors of the cafeteria. Suigetsu was not far behind.

As she reached to the tree she practically collapsed into Sasuke's lap. She gripped his shirt and tried to bury herself in it, "Sasuke-kun save me!" was the muffled shout that came from the red-head.

Uncomfortable with a slightly sweaty girl in his lap and thick, sticky hair in his face Sasuke asked, "From what?"

"That!" she shouted out and whipped her head around to point at Suigetsu, whacking Sasuke in the face with her hair. "Oh how rude! I'm not a 'that'." Suigetsu said, offended. He crossed his arms over his chest. On seeing the black spikes of a chicken butt he opened his mouth once more,

"And get off of Sasuke you're suffocating the poor boy." as he pulled Karin off.

"Oh my god are you okay Sasuke-kun I'm so sorry!"

Said boy coughed a bit and removed a strand of red hair from his mouth. After inspecting and identifying it's owner he spat on the ground and wiped his mouth before standing up, ready to leave.

"I washed my hair this morning so its clean Sasuke-kun! You didn't have to spit..." Karin mumbled the last part. Suigetsu patted her head, "Even though you abuse me and call me that, I think your hair is wonderful all the time."

Sasuke quickly excused himself and Karin soon followed after, feeling humiliated. She kept a distance between Sasuke and herself as they walked in the same direction.

Suigetsu sighed a plopped on the ground beside Sakura. He then turned his back to her and lay back, resting his head in her lap.

"Hey!" Sakura reacted, giving the boy a what-the-hell-do-you-think-you're-doing look. She was about to push his head off but she paused when he cringed dramatically, "Please don't hit my head everyone's been doing that all day! Not you too!"

She didn't know how to respond to that, so she just sighed. When he felt her body relax he stopped cringing and made himself comfortable.

"Thank you, " Suigetsu said, "why can't Karin be like you sometimes?" he said more to himself than to Sakura.

"What do you see in her?" Sakura said in reflex and covered her mouth as soon as she said it. She then began to apologize, "I'm sooooo sorry I didn't mean it like that I just-"

"It's okay I know," Suigetsu cut her off, "She really is a handful and it's obvious that she's trying really hard to not give me the time of day, but, hmm..."Suigetsu trailed off.

After a few seconds of silence passed before Suigetsu came to the sudden conclusion, "You know...I really DON'T know..." Suigetsu said thoughtfully. Even thought he emphasized on the 'don't' he didn't mean it in a bad way at all. He just really DIDN'T know.

"Have you ever tried looking at other girls?" Sakura attempted to offer advice. She looked around to see if anyone was going to start a rumour about her and the boy in her lap.

"Not really...I guess the main reason is that she's going to need someone to be there for her the day Sasuke finally gets fed up with her and tells her off. She clings to him like crazy; prevents any other girl from approaching him; and declares her love for him so loudly everyday and moment she can. It's kinda hard not to notice. One day I think he's just going to snap and she'll be so mortified she won't know what to do with herself. But instead of committing suicide because she feels like there's no point to her life anymore, I'm trying to get her to look away from him before it's too late."

"...Wow." was all Sakura could say. The wind blew the hair of the two. Suigetsu looked at the leaves of the tree dancing above him.

"See? Guys can be thoughtful too." he said with a grin. Sakura scoffed, "Yeah right the day Itachi shows consideration not just pigs but elephants will fly too."

"He's already started to change. Haven't you realized?" Suigetsu said as he sat up and fixed his hair with one hand.

"Changed? What do you mean?" Sakura asked, bewildered at the previous statement. "As far as I'm concerned, he's still the same idiot I met on my first day." she said as she stood up and brushed the dirt off her skirt.

Suigetsu passed her empty bottle that was on the ground. "Well, the bell is about to ring soon so I'm going to head to class. Talk to you some other time maybe!" Sakura called out as she walked towards the classrooms.

"You too! Hurry up and choose! It's not fair to drag things out you know!" Suigetsu shouted in reply. Sakura stopped and turned around, "What?" she called out, slightly freaked at how that sentence applied to her life so perfectly.

However, Suigetsu only waved in response before laying back onto the grass once more, his hands behind his head, eyes closed.

She took a step to ask him what he meant but the bell rang before she could even put her foot down. She sighed in slight frustration from being unable to interpret what he meant. Sakura stared at him for a few seconds, wishing she could join him and for once, forget everything that happened to her since entering high school, then turned around and headed to class.

[YES THIS STORY HAS NOT BEEN ABANDONED, ONLY POSTPONED ;)]

HEY GUYS THANKS TO EXAMS I GOT NO HOMEWORK TODAY SO I GOT TO WRITE UP A CHAPTER WOOT! But, unfortunately, exams start next week and don't end until, like 5 days before Christmas - no wait, *takes out calendar* - are you flipping serious my holiday actually starts FIVE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS?

WHAT KIND OF FLIPNESS! XO!

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH O

Well, until then, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'll be trying really hard in my exams so wish me luck! Your reward for wishing me luck will definitely be a new chapter! And just to increase the suspense, Karin's plot involves a pool, and itasaku pairing, and the reason I decided to write this entire story in the first place XD