Disclaimer: Go away! I have no money! Don't sue me! *bats lawyers away with a stick* Back Simba! Back!
Note: In the previous chapter, Naruto was acting a little . . . ahem . . . strange. Also, Sasuke and Naruto were a little bit friendlier than they actually are. Sorry 'bout that! This is my first Naruto fic after all, so plz be kind.
Notice: Words in italics are thoughts. How many times do I have to say that? But also, sometimes they are used to emphasize words. I dunno. Use your head peeps.
Also, takes for all the reviews. I love you guys! That's for sticking with me.
Warning: There will some extreme out of character-ness because I'm getting allot of reviews saying that they want Sakura to get revenge. So just prepare for allot of weirdness.
Extreme out of character-ness dead ahead!
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Chapter Four
A plan
Sakura ran home crying. Mud was dripping down from her hair. People turned their heads and watched her as she fleeted to home. The sighed and muttered 'Tsk tsk tsk. Poor little girl. I wonder what happened to her?'
Sakura dashed into her house, took off her shoes, and darted up stairs. She walked into the bathroom and slammed the door shut behind her. Her parents weren't there and wouldn't be back for a few days. They were off on vacation and had refused to take Sakura along (since a shinobi's vacation came much later in the year.)
Sakura turned the water on and took off her muddy clothes. She sat in the water, bringing her knees up to her chin and started wailing. Mud slowly dripped off her hair and into the water. Stream rose off the hot water and formed fog on the mirror in her bathroom.
Sakura cried until her eyes were sore. By that time, the water in the tub was nearly overflowing! Sakura gasped and quickly turned the faucet off. Then she laid back and sunk into the now slightly muddy water.
Sasuke . . . I confessed my love for you. You told me you loved me too, but it was all a lie. Now it feels as if a big part of my heart has been torn out. There is an empty spot were my love for you was. I used to love you . . . b-but now . . .
Sakura came back up to the surface. ((Japanese bathtubs are supposed to be a lot deeper than American ones.)) Her sadness disappeared and was replaced by anger.
"BUT NOW I ABSOLUTLY HATE YOU!" she screamed loud enough for all of her neighbors to hear. Then she broke down again and started crying once more.
-At the ramen shop.
Hinata looked around the ramen shop. She had been waiting for 3 hours for Sakura to show up. It was 5 minutes to closing time and the place was deserted except for her and the man who ran the ramen shop.
Hinata looked out the window for the 176th time that day, but no sign of Sakura. She should be back by now. I wonder if something happened at practice . . .
Hinata walked up to the counter where the man who ran the shop was scrubbing the counters. "Um, excuse me . . ." The man looked up.
"H-have you seen a girl with pink hair around here?" Hinata asked shyly.
"Sorry miss, I have never seen someone like that," he said.
"Oh," Hinata lowered her head in disappointment.
"Listen girl, it's almost closing time. Why don't you go home? Besides, its raining and you better get out of here before it starts lightening out." The man told her.
Hinata nodded and pulled up the hood of her jacket. She knew that it was going to be a mad dash to Sakura's house, but she had to know what happened. If Sakura let her, maybe she could spend the night so she wouldn't have to go back into the storm.
I hope everything is all right . . . Hinata thought as she sped out into the rain.
-At Sakura's house
Sakura had finally come out of the bathtub. She had a pink bathrobe on with white pajamas underneath. Fuzzy rabbit slippers covered her feet and she had a towel in her hair.
Sakura walked into her room. She looked down at her hair dryer and sighed. She didn't feel like drying her hair at the moment. She was tired and mentally exhausted from the day before. But wait. If I don't dry my hair, my hair won't look good for Sasu- oh . . . she began to think but quickly erased that thought.
She looked out the window of her room. Dang, its raining again. Didn't it rain enough yesterday?
Sakura sniffed back the urge to start sobbing uncontrollably. I hate rain . . .
Sakura pulled the towel away from her head. Short pink locks fell lightly down to her chin. Her hair was a bit stringy from being towel dried and it lacked allot of its luster than what it had before training.
Sakura didn't feel any better. She was still crying, but the tears came one at a time. Slowly they dripped from her eyes and down to chin and fell off, quietly splashing against the ground.
I hate you Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi . . . I hate you all.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a ringing doorbell. Who would be out there in this storm? She thought was lightening crashed through the sky. It was followed by thunder's loud roar.
Sakura marched downstairs. She came to the front door and reached out to the doorknob. She stopped half way. She started to break into a cold sweat. What if it's them? Sakura's hand retreated back to her side.
"Who's there?" Sakura said in a loud forceful tone to the person on the other side of the wooden barrier.
"Sakura, is that you? It's me, Hinata. Can I please come in? I'm wet and I'm freezing . . ." Hinata didn't have to say more. In a blink of an eye, Sakura opened the door and pulled Hinata inside by her wrist.
"Ouch! Sakura, that hurt," Hinata blew on her wrist, which had a slight red-ish color to it. "Why didn't you meet me at the ramen shop?" Hinata asked, not looking up.
"I-I-I . . . "Sakura stuttered. It was then Hinata got a real good look at her.
"Oh my god, Sakura, what happened to you?!" She gaped, open mouth, at Sakura. Her hair was limp and stringy. Her face was red and stained by many hours of non-stop crying. Her eyes were puffy and red outlined the whites of her eyes. She was a mess.
Then Sakura couldn't hold it any longer. She fell to her knees and starting crying worse than she had in the shower.
"It was so bad Hinata! We were out t-training and I-I . . .," She told Hinata the whole story. It was a bit hard to understand her, between sobs, sniffs, and stutters, but Hinata was still able to make out the key words.
She was shocked that Naruto would help them do such a thing. Naruto, who had been her object of innocence, joy, and beauty, helped trap Sakura and break her heart. The thought made her . . . angry with Naruto.
"I'm so sorry Sakura. Let's go up into your room," Hinata managed to drag a still wailing Sakura up the stairs and into Sakura's room.
It took about another 30 minutes for Sakura to stop crying completely. Hinata sat by her the whole time, just as a good friend should. Sakura was very grateful for that.
"I'm sorry I didn't meet you at the ramen shop, Hinata." Sakura whispered. Her throat was raw from screaming and crying all day.
"It's ok. Don't worry about it," Hinata smiled her normal kind smile.
"It's just that I'm so upset at my team. They took my emotions, messed with them, and then dropped me in the mud! They're so stupid sometimes. I swear, if I wasn't on their team, they'd probably be dead by now because of all the stupid mistakes they make!" Sakura huffed. She sounded like a mad mother hollering at her kids.
Hinata giggled. "I know how you feel. Kiba is so arrogant and stupid to know left from right and Shino's always talking to his "Bee-chan" or staring at bugs to focus on the mission. Without me, we would never get our assignments done!" Hinata's voice took on a new bolder air like Sakura's.
Sakura made a victory pose, pointing her finger to the air at nothing at all and laughed. "We don't need men! Men are stupid!"
Hinata posed the same. "That's right! We were fools to ever have crushes on those lunk heads!"
"Now," Sakura screamed in delight, "Let's laugh like over confident maniacal idiots!"
"Yeah!"
And they did just that, throwing their head up in the air and laughed like a crazy killer preparing to stab a cornered girl. ((Just like in the movies!)) "MWYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
Suddenly their maniacal laughter was hushed by a loud 'ka-pok' that came from outside Sakura's window. It sounded like a knife being stabbed into wood.
Hinata walked over to the window and opened it. It was pitch black outside and the only light there was came from a random lighting bolt every now and then. There was no sign of what had made the noise.
"That's strange . . . nothings there!" Hinata said, still starring out the window.
"Must have been a branch scraping the window," Sakura suggested as Hinata left the window.
A flash of lightening eliminated the dark room and a mysterious figure became visible in the corner. Sakura and Hinata screamed out of shock as the figure came into full view. Hinata let out a gasp. "Kurenai-sensei?!"
The female Jounin nodded. Sakura started fuming. "How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough to hear you giving up on Sasuke," she said, giving an evil smile.
"I don't know about that . . .," Sakura said, blushing a bit.
The teacher glared at the pink haired Genin. "You really should give up on him! Don't you remember all the times Sasuke has treated you like dirt?"
Sakura's eyes widened. Now that Kurenai has mentioned it, Sasuke was a little mean to her. Not to mention he had the personality of a rusted nail, and certainly do not bring up the fact that he called her annoying all the time. But Sakura loved him anyway, and she just might decide to forgive her team.
"Well they are just idiots. Who can blame them?" Hinata asked, feeling worried that all this talk about her friend's team will make her start crying again.
"Hinata!" Kurenai boomed. "Aren't you ever tired of giving Naruto all those hints that you like him, but he never ever notices?!"
"And you!" She shot a murderous glance at Sakura. "Don't you ever get so mad at Kakashi reading his 'Make Out Paradise' all the time that you feel that the author of it should be hung up by their toenails and tortured slowly with flaming toothpicks?!"
Sakura and Hinata exchanged glances. "Well maybe not the toothpick part . . . but . . ." Sakura paused and then continued, "Yes!"
The two girls nodded and the Jounin grinned.
"Good. Now listen up girls, we're going to pull the dirtiest trick there ever was in the history of Konohagakure!"
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Sorry for making everyone so out of character minna! I just couldn't resist the maniacal laughter part. I thought I would add more stupid humor in the story and add it to my long long long list of jokes that aren't even funny. This is a result of watching too many movies starring Jim Carry. ((Wah! I wanted to see Bruce Almighty!))
If you can guess what kind of trick they're gonna pull on a certain doomed boys, I'll give you a cookie ((chocolate chip!))