"Twisted" – prequel to Touched
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
A/N This story has some OOCness, so watch out! Sasuke and Itachi's relationship here are not as that of the original story. And not to mention this is an AU story. The Naruto gang is studying, but I started this story during the near end of their vacation, so schooldays are near again. They're entering 4th year in their upcoming school year. –That's all! I just want to clear off some things! -
Chapter 3: Intersect
She stretched her worn muscles and exercised her body getting ready for the start of the day.
She went to the bathroom and took off her clothes and looked at herself in front of the mirror and examined herself. First day of school… How would my day be? I should look good and smell good today! She went inside the tub and started soaping her hair and her whole body. The whole bathroom smelled like flowers because of her soap and shampoo.
She got dressed and she tidied her neat and ironed uniform. She had butterflies in her stomach right away as the thought of entering the last school year of high school; soon she will graduate and go to college!
She quickly went to school; she didn't mind that it was still early. Her feet won't let her stay put inside the apartment! It was still an hour to go for the classes to start and hopefully the school opens early.
She skipped down the hallway seeing it was almost empty except for some of the students who were already there before she came. Her stomach was tied in a knot when she neared the bulletin board for the posting of sections for the students of fourth year. She was very nervous, like a little child would be during the first day of school.
Oh, I'm so silly! She giggled to herself and proceeded to the closer to the bulletin board. And saw an announcement it was too visible to miss and it stated that:
The school committee has come up with an uncalled for decision. All fourth year students will not remain in the same classes anymore. Due to many transferees and exchange students, it is best to rumble all students for you to know each other more and make new acquaintances.
Thus this will be a good use to all. Hope you all have a nice school year and the committee advices you to study well. And prays you all to have a good future,
By:
The principal
And
School Committee
So, they rearranged us all in different classrooms. This year would be quite different than I had expected! Sakura grinned; she looked towards the lists of students. God, these are all the students entering the fourth year? And there are 20 new students including the exchange students.
The new transferees are listed first for them to find their classrooms easier. She searched until she found her name. IV-3 huh… she smiled. She walked through the hallway, not bothering to see who are her classmates. Hopefully the fourth year classrooms are only on the ground floor. They don't have to carry their bags all the way upstairs for their classrooms, especially with bags that have many heavy books in it.
Her classroom was easy to find. It was the third room on the left when you enter the hallway towards their area. She went inside the classroom expecting to see at least some classmates but unfortunately none. The classroom was empty, the white walls are visibly clean, and the tables are newly painted and there is not even one single dust in the blackboard. Sakura went to the row nearest to the windows, she just love sitting beside the windows so she can just stare outside whenever she wanted to. She picked the second to the last seat, which is the place she was used to seating since elementary. She left her bag and slowly became restless. No one's here except me. This is so lonely.
She went outside the room and walked dumbly as she stared at her fellow students meeting their friends, laughing excitedly. She soon found herself in front of a door; she recognized it as the door leads to the rooftop. She had never been to the rooftop before. Sakura turned the doorknob and came face to face with the bright sunny blue sky. It felt so pleasant, standing there and feeling the cold breeze kiss her face and brush against her body.
Sasuke walked towards his classroom expecting to see his classmates and her, but no one. There's only a bag. He eyed the bag closely; it was definitely a lady's bag. He put his bag on the seat after the seat of the unknown owner's bag and went out side the classroom.
Sakura was enjoying the view over the rooftop. She can see the cars speeding, many students entering the school. Friends meeting each other; teachers coming to school with equal happiness as the students evident in the face. Today is going to be a nice day.
He walked to his usual place to relax and have for peace to himself. But it seems like someone was there beforehand, the door creaked open, the sunlight stung his eyes, as he came contact with the cool breeze of the morning. He could hardly see due to the brightness but he could make out that someone was there and it was a girl. Suddenly he saw a flash of pink. Pink? He looked again focusing his eyes.
Yes, it was pink, pink hair. Wait… there's no one here that has pink hair, except…. He inwardly smiled for the coincidence. He walked towards her; she didn't take notice of him, she was too preoccupied in enjoying the view ahead of them.
He bent down slightly so their heads were level, that's when he noticed that she was almost a head shorter than him! He slowly leaned in and whispered her name in her ears.
"Sakura" he whispered, more like purred. Her name came out quite right in his tongue, he gave her name such sweet sound. At the moment he whispered, she immediately whirled around to see the intruder of her thoughts was. But as soon as she turned she met face to face with a guy! Her eyes widen and her breath was shallow and fast. Their faces were merely inches away and noses were almost touching! She looked at his onyx eyes; they locked gazes. That's when she realized who the intruder was.
"Sa-Sasuke-kun?" she somewhat choked out. He rearranged his position and started chuckling to himself, which didn't go unnoticed by the girl that he surprised.
"You –" he started chuckling more, now Sakura was blushing like mad! How could Sasuke joke around her like that! But still she couldn't get her rage to fire up when she saw Sasuke's face. He was absolutely gorgeous when he was smiling and chuckling. No wonder there was a fan club of his. But she never saw him smile like this before, he always look so serious, like an enigma.
"You should have seen your face! It was priceless! Are you really that easy to get scared?" he stopped himself from chuckling. Sakura pouted. "I'm sorry…" and smiled again but still preventing the chuckle to escape his lips once more. Sakura didn't answer. Now it was the time to stop. "Sakura? Are you mad?" Sasuke asked with uncertainty in his voice looking somewhat worried.
"Listen, it was just a joke. Please don't get mad." He pleaded; Sakura still didn't look at him, her head turned downwards as her bangs prevented him from seeing her eyes. It looks like she was going to cry, which made Sasuke concerned more.
"Please?"
"Oh, Sasuke. -Haha- you should have seen your face too! -Hahaha- I didn't know you look adorable when you're pleading! –Hahaha-" Sakura suddenly turned and laughed. Sasuke was surprised. She tricked him? He couldn't help but laugh along with her, laughing at himself.
"Now, we're even!" Sakura beamed and stuck a tongue out at him.
"Yeah…" Sasuke said looking at her with a gentle smile gracing his features. After the laughter they shared came a sound of silence surrounding them, but it was still a comfortable silence. Both of them have a smile plastered in their faces. Never did they notice that someone was watching the whole thing and eyeing them with jealousy, more like jealousy towards Sakura. The person just turned around and walked away.
"Hey, it's getting late. We should go back to our classroom, Naruto might be waiting for us." Sasuke stated and looked at Sakura.
"What do you mean waiting for us?"
"I saw your name on the bulletin and we're on the same classes."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I'm dead sure." Sasuke smiled. "Come on, or maybe you want a bad record for the very first day of school."
"Okay okay, I'm coming." Sakura never thought such warm, friendly gesture was coming from Sasuke and she inwardly smiled. They walked down the stairs as silence following them once again. It's always like that, wherever Sasuke goes, silence follows. Sakura watched Sasuke's back as he walked in front, she observed him quietly. He's really handsome and attractive with that well-built body and that gorgeous face.
Oh, how I wish I could have someone like him as my boyfriend…Remember, you were hurt once… you were mistaken once… inner Sakura retorted.
Yea, I know…You want to risk yourself getting hurt all over again?
No…Boys like that… Are often like "him"…
I know that, but he's a lot more different.
How can you be so sure? You've only known him when you're still in kindergarten. People change. And now, you can't be so sure that he's the same Sasuke-kun you knew.
But I can feel that he's different… a whole lot different from "him".
That's what you said before, and look at what happened to you.
"…" Sakura was silent, knowing inner Sakura was right. She was hurt once, deeply hurt.
Remember what he did to you? What he said to you?
How could I forget? He was my first.
Either you want to go through a whole lot pain again or be cautious in picking a guy.
You're right. But if he's the one, I'm willing to risk everything all over again…Sakura was so lost in thought that she didn't realize that Sasuke was looking at her, he had sensed something was bothering her. She took slow steps downward and suddenly tripped. A strong arm caught her, and luckily she landed on something solid but not painful. She looked up and blushed three shades of red! She was in the arms of Uchiha Sasuke! Her arms were around his neck and his left arm was around her back, supporting her. Her heartbeat was beating fast; it felt like her ribcage was to explode."You, okay?" Sasuke's voice shot her out of her stance and blushed even more.
"I-I…. I'm okay." She stuttered, looking downwards. She stood upright, still blushing hard.
"Come on, we're going to be late…" Sasuke muttered and pulled her along with him as they went down the stairs. Sakura was still blushing, screaming at herself for being such a klutz. They were walking towards their room; other students were looking at them in the hallway and started to murmur. She looked at them confusingly, and noticed they were slightly looking downward. They're looking downward? What's there to look at? She looked down herself and gasped!
"Sasuke-kun!" she hissed.
"What?" Sasuke turned around to see Sakura slightly fidgeting.
"You can let go of me now." Sasuke blushed too this time not noticing he was holding her hand all the time. He let go and go on walking with Sakura trailing behind; both blushing.
They walked in to classroom to find their circle of friends there. They looked at each other again before sitting and both gave off a slight chuckle that has gone unnoticed to others except for one person.
"Oi, Sakura-chan! Where did you go? Are you with that bastard?" Naruto asked. That question was caught off guard for Sakura, who looked at Naruto slightly wide eyed, with a pink hue tainted in her cheeks.
"O-oh, I-we… ummm…. We just bumped into each other at the rooftop."
"I see." Naruto muttered, with a tone of suspicion. Ino eyed them. She was Sakura's best friend and were classmates with Sasuke for a long time. She desperately wanted to catch Sasuke's attention but failed every time. Now, Ino thought it would be fun to have her best friend, Sakura to be her classmate but it seemed like it was all too wrong. She couldn't catch the attention of Sasuke, but Sakura can. She had seen their interaction and the feeling of jealousy was burning inside her. She doesn't want to have her best friend as her rival, but she can't help it. She hated someone who will compete with her in getting Sasuke's attention.
She watched Sakura getting introduced to Hinata, Kiba and Shikamaru by Naruto. And Sasuke…. He just watches Sakura with that rare smile in his face. What does she have? She only gave them her smiles! Nothing special! Then why can't I get Sasuke's attention! I had been a classmate with Sasuke for so long, every one including me had wanted to get his attention but no one succeeded. But Sakura, she seems like she didn't even did anything. Those thoughts made Ino slightly angry.
KRRIIING!
The bell rang through out the school. It was time for the lessons to start. Teachers went to their respective classrooms and students prepared for their first lesson in their first day of school.
Sasuke just sat behind Sakura. He can smell the scent of her glossy hair. It was sweet vanilla; he was enjoying the smell. He stared outside the window and his mind crept to his actions earlier. He was surprised at himself, what possessed him to do such thing? He asked himself that question. He hadn't been that way to any other person. Not to mention a girl. But he felt comfortable wit her around, she has this friendly, loving nature aura that makes him attracted to her more. She always has a smile in her face whenever he would see her, like she has no problems at all. But at their first encounter at the bar, he can sense that she was shy; she only put up a friendly façade on her face. She really is different among other girls he'd known. She really is fascinating. She…
The door slid open, coming in was their first subject teacher, Umino Iruka.
…Really did intrigue him. He smiled to himself.
A/N: sorry for the long wait. It took me many days to write this chapter. I really want to make this story to have a good flow. The sequence of events should be properly arranged and no jump scenes, like a wave y'know? I think this chapter will make up my long absence for updating! I hope you all like this chapter.
P.S. I'm really finding it hard to concentrate right now, cuz my brain seems not to be working properly… ; please give me ideas okay? If I like them I might write them in my next chapters but I won't promise that the ideas given to me will be published right in the next chapter I will be writing okay? I need the right flow of things that will be happening here. J
That's all!
Oh yea. Thanks to:
Crystal Gail
Saki-kun
Hyzenthlay-shine dew fur/ Dark Phoenix Saga – thank you for reviewing in both of my last two chapters! I really appreciate it!
and many others! …
