Gomen Ne! I am so sorry that this chapter took so long to upload. But I just didn't feel like finishing this chapter. Thing is, I was writing 8 different stories all at once, and they're all three quarters done. But I just didn't feel like finishing them.
Sakura: That's not true, you just didn't want me to meet with Neji and Shikamaru!
Merffles: Of course not!
INNER SAKURA: How dare you keep me from my soul mates! punches authoress in the face
Merffles: How dare you, keep this up and I'll make you lesbian and sick you with Ino-pig.
Sakura/INNER SAKURA: pouts
The truth is, Naruto started sucking, ever since after the Chunnin Exam, it started going downhill. The scenes were more dragged out and laggy, almost like Dragonball Z. So I got pretty fed up and moved on to Bleach and therefore not finishing this chapter. But then thanks to the prodding of my reviewers who kept on urging me to update here I am, finished another chapter and started on the next already.
Also to those people who flamed me, flames are given to my bodyguard Neji who used them to roast marshmallows, which me fed me of course. :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I owned Naruto, I would've turned Sasuke into a flamingo or perhaps a dodo and perhaps Orochimaru into a goldfish. Lol. How I wish I owned Naruto.
Just Get Back Up Chapter 3: Slipping and Sliding
By Merffles
Sakura groaned and flipped over and shoved her head under her pillow. Bright rays of light stung her eyes as she blinked rapidly when she sat up. Falling right back down onto her bed, she promptly rolled over and squinted at her alarm clock, 11:39 AM. Holy hell had Sakura slept in late. Usually she would wake up at 6 AM, Shower, eat breakfast, dress and be at the bridge by 7AM even though she always had to wait a couple hours for Kakashi sensei to arrive.
"I really should be preparing myself for training this afternoon with Tsunade-sama." Sakura thought, but her laziness overpowered her logic reasoning since her body refused to budge from the warm confinement of her bed.
"Get up, just move your body and get up." Sakura told her body. "Get the hell up!" and with that, in a haste to get up, she tripped on her covers and ended up with her face smashed to the ground and her legs tangled up in her covers on the bed.
Needless to say, this was turning out to be a bad morning of a supposedly extremely beautiful day.
Sakura swore, somewhat violently, it was a phrase she had picked up from her cranky old neighbor when she was doing target practice and one of her ill thrown kunais nearly sliced his ear off. Of course, after learning not to go near her neighbor again, she had also picked up that particularly useful phrase.
Sakura finally untangled herself from the mess of covers, bed sheets and assorted pillows and trudged herself to the bathroom feeling very pissed. She breathed out in bliss as water surged out of the showerhead and hit her full on, that's when she realized a, the water was a scalding hot and it burned her skin and b, she was still in her pajamas.
"Shit." and came out a whole bunch of other swear words generously donated by her neighbor who did not know that kids her age should not know what those phrases mean. If her mother heard him, he would be down on his knees begging for forgiveness a long time ago, that is, if she was still alive. A wave of nostalgia washed over Sakura, but she just shook it away.
She hurriedly turned the water off and stepped out of the bathtub, ignoring the puddles forming on the tiled floor. She looked at herself, her hair was messed, her skin was a flaming red and her tank top and pants with little clouds and penguins (YAY, go Davie! Coz penguins just rocks. Lol.) were soaked and sticking to her body.
Sakura growled and ripped off her clothes, and threw them into the laundry basket with force, stepped into the bathtub again, and turned on the knob that clearly said COLD. Water came gushing down again, at first it was a bit warm, but in less than five seconds, the water turned to its usual glacier coldness.
After soaking most of her anger away, Sakura stepped out of the shower. However, just as she stuck her foot out, she suddenly lost her balance and slipped, to fall right on her ass. Her head banged against the tub and she swore she saw Rock Lee with little angel wings flying around her head telling her that he'll make it alright again. Sakura snorted, fat chance of that happening.
"Ow" It didn't really hurt since Sakura was a ninja after all, and she's gotten way worse in missions or at training but her pride was wounded. She was a kunochi, one of the smartest over, she could rival Shikamaru's wit but here she is sitting on the bathroom floor because she tripped, like a common civilian. How utterly embarrassing.
Her head hurt even more when Inner Sakura screamed her outrage" You clumsy weasel girl! You're supposed to be a ninja! A ninja doesn't trip and fall, you pathetic turtle!"
"Kami-sama, what did I do to deserve this?" Sakura wondered miserably. She walked into her room and put on her new usual outfit, red mesh shirt with black cargos. She then carefully put on a star shaped charm an old fortuneteller had blessed for her. She would need all the luck she could get today.
Sakura's stomach grumbled, interrupting her thinking, and made her walk into the kitchen. The kitchen clock now read 12:47. Her meeting with Tsunade-sama was at 3. She had two hours to get ready. Plenty of time, before, it took her hours to put on all sorts of face cream and cosmetics, but not anymore, she got rid of all those junk,
There wasn't that much to do, she just had to make lunch, eat it, go to the weapons shop to pick up her Arakshi and a new star shuriken almost a meter high and wide and somehow force luck to go her way.
Taking out a box of instant lasagna, she put it into the microwave and put it on high for five minutes. As she waited, she turned on the tv and collapsed on to the couch, as if exhausted, but she couldn't be, she had just gotten up.
After hearing the ding, she took the plastic container to the coffee table and sat there eating while watching the latest episode of Gundam Seed, which happened to be the episode where Asuran self destructs his gundam to kill Kira because Kira killed Nicole. It was pretty sad.
So by the time Sakura finished eating her lunch, it was 1:12 PM. She hurriedly threw out the rest of her food and got ready for training. She checked for the four almost flat kunais hidden in her combat boots. She also attached the length of shuriken sheath to her skin and put the newly sharpened shurikens in them. She also clipped on two emergency scrolls in case she'll need them.
Sakura's been really tense ever since the Chunnin Exam. Not that you can blame her. First she meets Orochimaru who's not fit to be in normal society, and then an insomniac demon molests her. Poor girl, she really got phreaked out during the last Chunnin Exam.
As Sakura rushed out the door, she grumbled, the morning did not start off very well for her, but with luck training with Tsunade-sama would be better.
She headed towards the weapons shop; it was owned and operated by a man who was a friend of her mother's doing her teen years. The man was almost like an uncle to her, he had offered to take her in when her parents died, but Sakura who was feeling rather stubborn at the time declined the offer. She was 12 already.
Logically, if you think about it, if she was old enough to go on missions where you can get killed, then she was old enough to live alone. But her kind almost an uncle would come and check up on her. He would always be appalled at her lack of real healthy food, all the preservatives in her instant food really isn't good for her, not that Sakura really cares.
She neared the shop and walked up to the door, gently pushing the door open, the chimes on the door tinkled as they announced a costumer. She walked in and was instantly engulfed with the smell of newly forged weapons and cold sharp metal.
"I'm here to pick up the weapons I ordered a week ago." Sakura asked the person behind the counter.
"Ah it's Sakura-chan! We haven't see you for such a long time. Oh you cute little girl, all grown up." Squealed her almost aunt. She really reminded Sakura of Ino-pig.
Her almost aunt took out a long wrapped canvas package out, Sakura hastily opened it and could only gasp. Gleam of cold deadly steel, delicately carved runes and a sharp point that promised pain.
OK PAUSE! An arakshi is an actual weapon I've seen in a lot of Chinese Kung Fu movies and tv shows I don't have a English or Japanese name for it, so I just made something up. It looks like a z and it's reflection with the middle being long enough for two hands to hold it. You can swing it like a sword except it's double edged. Some of the ones I've seen can split apart in the middle, and have a long thin wire come out. Kind of like chakra strings I guess. Wow, it's really confusing. And the weapon isn't that big either since it folds up in the middle, about two feet long ish. I'm not making any sense am I? Well I just thought this was a really cool weapon and wanted to add it in there. BACK TO THE STORY!
This definitely raised Sakura's spirits by a couple notches. A new weapon for a ninja was like giving a baby a huge tasty lollipop. This morning's woes forgotten, Sakura face skipped her way to the Hokage's tower with a big grin on her face.
Skipping past Tsunade's secretary, asking Sakura to wake up the Godaime so she could have the new mission roosters sorted out. Past a couple chunnins carrying old musky scrolls of various jutsus and skipped right into her office...
To find Tsunade slumped over her desk, a couple sake bottles spread across her desk, some cracked, some still intact with sake in it. Sakura debated with herself whether she should drink some while the Hokage was passed out.
"Hell ya girl! Be a rebel and break those rules!" Inner Sakura cheered inside Sakura's head.
To hell with her rep, she grabbed one of the bottles and took a big swig. Apparently, no one has taught Sakura how to drink sake properly. Sake is about 70 alcohol, which is why people don't chug sake. Bad move on Sakura's part.
The fiery liquid burned down her throat. Her head spun for a second and then everything was brighter, sparkles showered from the sky and there was purple rabbits hopping at the corner of her eye. Sakura did not have a high tolerance for alcohol. She also lacked the common sense to drink alcohol properly. Even with one swallow, Haruno Sakura was drunk,
Sakura was a special girl, even when she's drunk, her common sense overruled the devil perched on her left shoulder. While the devil was trying to tell her to chug more of the sake down, the logic in her brain said that that was enough. Thank kami her common sense won in the end.
At that time, Tsunade woke up. Within a second, Sakura pulled back into the perfect smartass girl that everyone thinks she is. "Good afternoon Hokage-sama, did you get drunk and pass out again?" Ok, maybe not so perfect, but at least honest and to the point.
"Bleh? What's going on?" asked a very wasted looking Godaime. "Oh Sakura, right, I think I'm supposed to be training you."
"Ya think? You drunk good for nothing slut of a Hokage!" Screamed Inner Sakura, clearly pissed off that she was forgotten.
Sakura was annoyed as well, what kind of Hokage gets drunk in the middle of a working day, forgets their responsibility as a teacher and mentor and drools on important documents like a baby. Truly pathetic for a Hokage. If the stuffy old grouch Sadaime were still here, he'd have a stroke by now.
Tsunade just shrugged, "Go into that room and get The Hagane Scrolls I III and read them over. Official training starts tomorrow at 7 AM." Apparently, she still hasn't noticed Sakura's drunken state since she was wasted herself.
Rows upon rows of scrolls, leather bounded books and stacks of parchment. This place looks like The Great Alexandria Library before it was burned down. (A.k.a. The author's room cause that is exactly how my room looks.).
Looking at this, Sakura was thoroughly confused, "How the hell was she supposed to find 3 measly scrolls?"
There was a sudden bump, Sakura tensed. Slowly and silently she drew one of her kunais. There was a crash and then came a groan of pain. Sakura rushed towards the noise ready for battle.
Sakura was not scared, so not scared. This was in the middle of the Konoha Administration Building, one of the most secure buildings in all of Fire Country. There was no chance that an enemy or a missing nin could have slipped in here, right? So there was no reason for her to be this paranoid and scared.
This logic sounded fine in Sakura's head, but she just couldn't make herself and move towards what ever made that sound.
"Oh my god, this is so STUPID! I am brave, I'm a ninja. Not some kunochi straight out of the Academy, but someone who have endured more than a normal Gennin, so going to check out some random sounds in a safe, secure library is no problem for me." So with that thought, she barged in.
And saw the back of a girl, someone she couldn't place, but seemed eerily familiar to Sakura. I mean she didn't personally know her, but there was strange about the girl, something about her muscular components did not add up. But one thing was for sure, this person did not look like she had the authority to be here. Which explains what Sakura did next.
She jumped on the girl from the behind, jumped on her and tackled to the ground just like how a professional football player would. Somehow in the middle of the tackle, they both slipped and ended up with Sakura straddling the girl while lips were locked.
Have you ever experienced a moment when your brain freezes, you can't breath and you know everything will plummet straight down to hell? Now imagine if you were Haruno Sakura and Hyuuga Neji at that moment. Exactly.
Wow, I didn't really want to do a cliffy, But so many people wanted to read the next chapter of this fanfic and I'm really flattered too because I thought this was just going to turn out to be one of those crappy fanfics that gets one or two reviews. But don't worry because I already started on the next chapter. So keep on reviewing and prodding me to write more.
Well since the author's are not allowed to personally answer reviews in each of the chapters, I would like to write a BIG general thank you to everyone who read this story and reviewed. Also cookies to those who kept on prodding me to update, you know who you are and so thank you! I was so on the edge of giving up but then you guys all had comments like "Please update soon" and "You haven't updated in the LONGEST time" and I was so touched. So thank you.
By the way, nobody wants to beta for me, how sad is that?
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