Hello my readers! Thank you again for reviewing! It makes me happy that a lot of people enjoy reading this fic! -does happy dance- I decided to reply to the comments one by one again because paragraphs take too much effort. Lol Though that doesn't make much sense. But oh well, I don't really make sense most of the time anyways.
Anyone watch the Olympic figure skating? That fall by the Zhang team was so horrible! That must've hurt so bad! But yay, they made second! The Russian team was so good too! I loved the background music. Didn't you? -grin-
To all the people regarding the ItaSaku pairing: I'm so sorry! But I just had to ad that in. It was bugging the heck out of me. Lol -gets bricked-
Magical Mystic Path Ways: Lol Thank you for the warning. I'm sorry for keeping people waiting, but I have other work to do. -dies-
Kurenai Chinoumi: Aha that made me laugh. Get run over by a car? One day my math teacher didn't show up and everyone was happy. Nearing the end of class, he still hadn't shown up. I said that I hope he gets run over by a truck. My friend heard me and started to laugh. I know it's mean but meh, he was an annoying teacher. Lol
joekool: She gets pelted by never ending cookies! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA -cough- I just had to say that. XD I still love you Sakura!
Akkirako Chikuro: I know eh? I love that one too!
AekaAnime: For the sake of cheesecake! Little children DON'T READ THE MEANING! YOUR EVER LOVELY VIRGIN EYES WILL BE BURRRNNNNNED! Now that's over with. 'OMFGWTFBBQ' means: Oh my fucking god, what the fuck BBQ (BBQ as in barbeque) I'm sorry if this offends anyone!
4ever2belove: To answer your question, note that I'm Canadian. American and Canadian Thanksgiving dates are different. The American one comes AFTER Halloween and the Canadian Thanksgiving comes BEFORE Halloween. Don't know why the heck it's different but meh. I hope that explains it.
Kacijo12: Aww! Thank you so much! -gives you a cookie-
thatsbecause i got it liket...: Yeah I think I should that some characters was OOC. Sasuke was pissing me off on how to write him because he always has this 7foot poll stuck up his ass. I really want to smack his face. But then Sakura won't let me.
Sakura: Damn straight!
Me: Yeah, yeah whatever.
But anyways, I'll keep that in mind for future chapters. Though I think if I change him now, it might be too late. xD So, for my other fics I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for your criticism! I really appreciate it…though was that criticism? I suck at English. XD
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Sasuke would have already appeared in his almighty Uchiha fanned boxers. xD
Love is in the Air Part II End
Recap
Sakura's eyes widened even bigger.
My first kiss…
With that, Itachi pressed his lips again on hers but this time harder. (Ahh ItaSaku lovee!) His kiss was hard and bruising. The girl he was ravaging didn't know what to do. But she felt like melting into his arms even though it was wrong.
His tongue swept across her bottom lip, wanting access into her mouth. Sakura kept her mouth shut, but only opened it when she felt him bite on her bottom lip. His tongue entered her mouth in a swift motion. It explored the walls of her cavern (I couldn't think of anything besides mouth…T.T) and played around until he pulled away letting her breathe.
Again he smirked. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was heavy.
"I presume you liked that?" he whispered in her ear.
"Don't touch her you bastard!" the younger Uchiha seethed.
"Let's just pretend it never happened."
"Dance with me. I've already requested a song."
"I don't dance."
"But Neji! Please? It's only once a year! Besides no one can see you dance, it's so dark!" she pouted cutely.
Don't look at her eyes. Don't look at her eyes. DON'T LOOK AT HER EYES!
All of them were looking at the pair with interest.
"I give him two seconds."
"Nah, not even."
Silence…
"AGGHHH I LOOKED IN HER EYES DAMMIT!"
"Wait a minute? GRAB HER ASS?"
OMFGWTFBBQ? NO ONE DOES THAT TO INO!
Like a speeding bullet he whisked away through the floor towards the ass grabbing freako.
While Shikamaru was doing that Ino was having a great time with the guy…until…
"Hey what are you doing?"
"Very soft…"
Her blue eyes widened and then turned into slits.
"Why you…" As she was about to punch him away, another fist made it there first.
"GET AWAY FROM HER YOU FREAK!"
"Look at that little bitch, flirting with our Sasuke!" exclaimed one girl.
"God, look at her. What a stupid slut!" agreed another.
"She's a witch I tell you."
"She cast a spell on him."
"I bet you she blackmailed him on doing this."
The three sneered and continued cursing and bashing the girl as if she had done them wrong.
"Yes, not only that. Why don't we ruin her night."
"Good. Then it's settled."
"We'll get that little bitch for good."
Hey pass the popcorn! It's starting! It's starting!
SHADDUP! WE'RE TRYING TO LISTEN!
Oh the three girls were just having such a hard time trying to ambush the cherry blossom haired girl. They almost had her once, but she got away. In fact she got away from every one of their sad attempts.
"That girl is so annoying!" the first girl screeched. Her face was going all red and steam was coming out of her ears. Her blonde hair was beginning to fray out and come out of the pony tail from frustration.
The second girl flipped her long black hair away from her face and scrunched up her nose.
"Calm down Mizuki." the third one said, waving her hand as if not caring.
"What do you know Haruka!" the blonde girl screeched again.
The girl Haruka covered her ears in annoyance.
"Jeez, you guys just shut up!" the second girl said to them.
"Akane, shut your stupid mouth unless you have something good to say!" Mizuki hissed.
Yeesh, don't you feel the love between these three friends?
Haruka shook her head and her long brown braids bounced along.
"Mi.zu.ki. Don't be so mean to her! God, when it comes to Sasuke, you're always like this!"
Mizuki sighed and looked at them with soft eyes.
"I'm sorry, but it's just that I'm really frustrated! Nothing's working!"
Every time they seemed to get close to Sakura, she seemed to get dragged away from those bastard friends of hers. If only they had the chance of getting her alone!
Akane smirked.
"Heh, you know why don't we just wait until she goes to the bathroom or something and then go in after her and then…" she whispered the rest out to the now interested girls.
"Why didn't I think of that?" Mizuki thought out loud.
"Because you're too dimwitted to, stupid." Haruka answered for her.
Mizuki narrowed her eyes on the brown haired girl.
"SHUT-UP BITCH!"
Akane rolled her eyes.
Why do I put up with these freaks?
Sasuke smirked while the girl in front of him was trying to untangle herself from the ribbons that were bound around her body. Ino and Tenten had snuck up behind her with a rather large roll of red ribbon and proceeded to tie her up as a little joke of theirs. When they were done, poor Sakura couldn't move from her chair except scream and curse. Who knows where they got the ribbon.
"Stupid piece of crap." He heard her mutter.
"Sakura,"
She looked up at him with a slight scowl on her face.
"What?" she snapped.
He sighed and got up. Sakura looked at him with puzzled eyes.
What the heck is he doing?
"Let me help you." he said to her quietly.
He closed the gap that was between them both and put his arms around her. She was in shock to do anything except stand there like a statue. His hands were finding the ends of the ribbon and then slowly brought his arms out, weaving them around her.
His scent came into her nose. It was much different from his brother's. Both smelled nice and she couldn't pick which one. But she settled for Sasuke since he didn't try and force himself on her. She would've chosen Sasuke anyway because well, he was Sasuke. Not that she'd admit it though.
"There."
Sakura stood there still dazed.
"Huh?"
"You're untangled."
"Whaa?"
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Oh..OH! Untangled..yeah..Thanks Sasuke!" she smiled brightly.
The music in the background kept on going loud. It wasn't until a few seconds after her response did it slow down.
"Alright you guys, it's Valentine's day and I hope you're special someone is with you tonight! Let's tone it down a bit with this slow number…"
Sasuke looked at Sakura a bit at the first few seconds of the song. He offered her his hand but she looked at him in confusion.
"Dance with me."
She looked at him.
"Is that a command?"
He rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Do you want to dance Sakura?" he said with slight exaggeration.
Sakura grinned and took his outstretched hand.
"Of course."
Hand in hand they walked onto the gym floor. Both hesitated a bit before they closed the space between themselves. Sakura's arms were around his neck, Sasuke's around her waist hugging her close to him. He took in a deep breath and the scent of strawberries and vanilla (Did I put what she smelled like? I don't remember…) overwhelmed his senses. (Does that smell good? XD)
Meanwhile else where…
"I told you they look good together." smirked Ino triumphantly.
"I never said if they looked good together or not. You just kept on insisting it." Shikamaru said to her shaking his head side to side.
"Yeah, well you have to admit they do."
"Admit what?" Tenten's cheery voice filled their ears.
"That Sasuke and Sakura look good together!"
"See! That's what I keep telling Neji but he doesn't agree!"
"I never said if they looked good together or not!" an exasperated Neji sighed.
"Women." Shikamaru muttered.
"Agreed." Neji nodded.
Tenten and Ino's ears perked up.
"What." Ino grit out.
"Did." Tenten growled.
"You."
"Say?" both yelled out in unison.
Both their loud voices caused people to look at them and inch away from the flame surrounded girls.
"Nothing! Nothing!" Shikamaru squeaked out. His voice had gone high and girlish like from being scared of what would become of him after this.
"Y-you're b-both imagining t-things!" Neji stuttered backing away with his hands out in front of him in defense.
"You'd better be right or else!" Tenten hissed out as she and Ino cracked their knuckles.
"Hey isn't that you're cousin?" Ino asked Neji, her anger disappearing after seeing the pearl eyed girl. Talk about short attention span.
"Is that Naruto with her?" Tenten excitedly asked as she jumped up and down to get a look but to no avail since her boyfriend was in the way.
"What's he doing so close to her?" Shikamaru now interested, inquired.
"Oh! Look! Her face is going red!"
"NARUTO! GO FOR THE GOLD!" Tenten yelled out as she finally squeezed out between Neji and Shikamaru.
"What did she mean by "Go for the gold"?" Neji barked.
"Kiss her duh." Ino told him as if he was stupid.
"Oh helll no!"
"Look! He's doing it!"
"Neji! Don't kill him!"
"Come back!"
"Shikamaru stop him!"
"Too troublesome."
"Everything's troublesome!"
"Go and save your friend!"
While they're arguing, let's go to Hinata and Naruto.
"H-Hinata…" Naruto said nervously.
"Y-yeah?"
He gulped. Man, this was going to be hard. He didn't get to do this after the countdown to new year's when he had the chance. He just chickened out. But this was in his new year's resolution after he backed out of his little plan/idea. Uzumaki Naruto was going to do this on Valentine's Day! Proclaim his love to his dear Hinata! To give her the best present ever! To get out of this alive before Neji pulverized him!
"I-I just want to say that-"
Hinata nodded, eager to find out what he was going to say.
"I-I lo-"
"W-what i-is it?"
I can do this! I know I can! Think of the little engine going up the hill! I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. Chuga chuga woo woo!
Chuga chuga woo woo? Um…what in the world…
"I just wanted to tell you that I Uzumaki Naruto lo-"
His face was getting incredibly close to hers. Hinata was flaring up at the closeness.
"NARUTO!"
The ruckus between Tenten, Ino and Shikamaru was paused as all three stood there ridged watching the whole thing unfold.
"I-Ino," Shikamaru gasped out.
"Shut-up! I'm trying to listen!"
"There's nothing to listen to! You're just watching!"
"Shut-up!"
"You're on my foot!" he groaned out.
"Stop whining and both of you shut-up!" Tenten hissed at them.
"Show some compassion woman and get your over weight body off my foot!"
"Shi.Ka. Ino growled menacingly with each part of his name she said.
Well, we just hope there will be enough of his remains for a funeral.
Again, turning to Naruto and Hinata…
The blonde boy whipped his head to the side seeing a charging Neji like a mad bull heading towards him puffing out smoke from his nose with his nose ring flipping up and down. Naruto's eyes widened and he turned back to the red faced girl.
"HinataIloveyouandIhopeIgetoutofthisaliveafterthis.Bye!" with that he gave a quick peck on her lips and ran off like a mad man fearing for his life.
Hinata made a "eep" sound and turned fire truck red. Naruto had just kissed her. On the lips! The very thought just made her turn into a pile of mushy goo.
"Hinata!"
"Wh-whaa?" her eyes were swirling around. (Anime swirly eyes)
"Where'd he go?"
Without thinking, she led Naruto to his death…
"God! Look at her!" Mizuki exclaimed as if she were poisoned.
"My eyes! My beautiful virgin eyes!" Akane shouted as she ran around in circles like a chicken with its head cut off.
"You never had any beautiful or virgin eyes Akane!" Haruka yelled at her as she smacked her "friend" in the head.
"Both of you shut you're stupid faces! Look! The song's over and she's going to the washroom!"
"Let the plan begin." they smirked.
When the both of them broke apart it was apparent that their faces were flushed. But Sasuke quickly hid it so the girl in front of him couldn't see it, though he hid it too slow because she caught a glimpse.
"Are you blushing?" she teased.
"Uchiha's don't blush."
"Aw come on! Admit it!"
"I didn't blush." he insisted.
Sakura pouted, "You're no fun."
He smiled a bit at her and patted her head.
"Hey! Don't do that!"
He chuckled and ruffled her hair.
"Ehh! Sasuke!"
"What?" he asked innocently.
"Great, my hairs messed up. I'll be back okay?"
"Where are you going?"
"Washroom."
"Okay. Be careful though."
"Don't worry mother." she laughed as she emphasized the word mother.
"Do I look like a woman?"
Sakura laughed again as she walked away from the scowling boy.
She hummed to herself as she fixed her hair in front of the bathroom mirror. The bubblegum haired girl smoothed out the wrinkles from her red sleeved shirt and her grey flare jeans.
The door of the washroom swung open as a black, blonde, and brown haired girl walked in. Not minding them, Sakura proceeded to wash her hands.
The girl with blonde hair immediately walked up to Sakura.
"Oh, I just love what you're wearing!" she exclaimed, her voice coated with sugar.
"Um, thank you?"
"Haruka, isn't her hair just beautiful?" Akane cooed.
"Er…" Sakura was quite speechless. Who were these girls, and why were they touching her? They were practically in front of her face touching her hair, examining her clothes. Something just wasn't right.
"Her eyes, green. Odd." the black haired girl said looking Sakura up and down.
"It would be such a shame if your clothes were," Mizuki said as she whipped out a small knife. "Ruined."
With a quick movement her hand grazed the sleeves of Sakura's shirt and whipped it across her chest tearing and cutting both cloth and some skin.
Sakura gasped and winced in pain as she felt a bit of blood trickle down her arm.
"Her hair. What about her hair?" Haruka said quietly.
"What are you doing?" Sakura demanded as she gripped her left arm, trying to stop the bleeding.
"Nothing much." smirked Akane.
"Just teaching you a lesson." Mizuki smiled with sweetness.
"It's out own little way of saying, stay away from Sasuke." Haruka said.
"What does Sasuke have to do with it!"
"We know what you've been doing. Hypnotizing our Sasuke, trying to seduce him!"
"What! I haven't!"
"Don't lie!"
With each word, Mizuki cut her more. With each cut, Sakura cried out in pain. Tears were streaming down her soft cheeks, blood was staining her arms.
(Wow..that is soo…cutting her?)
"What the hell does he see in you, you whore!" Akane yelled at her.
"He takes pity in you. Look at you, how ugly. You're forehead oversized. It's like it's mutated." Mizuki cackled.
"Stop it! Please!" Sakura screamed out.
Haruka (For some reason, I can't really write her to hurt Sakura….) raised her hand and struck the girl across her face. A red mark was appearing onto her pale cheek.
"We know some things about you Sakura." she hissed out. "Why you actually moved here anyways."
"It wasn't just because of your father's job. It was because you were weak."
"Too weak to even protect yourself!"
"Sasuke doesn't like girls that are weak. We aren't like you. We're stronger than you."
"Look at you, allowing us to do this to you."
Sakura just stood there, shocked. These girls were hurting her, taunting her, lashing out on her just because of Sasuke. She's being cut and bleeding just because of him.
"God! Do something!"
Flashback
"Hey look at billboard brow go!"
"Holy crap! It's so big it's blocking the light!"
"It's big enough to give shade!"
"Holy frick! It's covering her face!"
End of Flashback
"I-I..."
"What beautiful hair you have."
"Such a shame if it was cut."
Haruka snatched the small knife away from Mizuki and harshly began to cut her hair. Before long, her once waist length hair was cropped to short and uneven ends. Sakura's hands shot up to her head, sucking in air as the pain from her arms stung.
"Sasuke likes girls with long hair."
"Our hair's long but what about yours?"
"It's ugly and short!" Mizuki sneered.
"Everything was perfect until you came!"
"Sasuke was fine until you ruined everything!"
"Why did you have to go to our school when you could've chosen another!"
"All of us hate you. Everyone hates you."
Hate me…hate me…hate me…Just like…
Tears poured down her face.
"Just go back where you came from! You don't belong here!" Akane shouted.
They began to beat her again, creating bruises over her delicate skin. Sakura sunk down to the floor, absorbing what they were saying to her. She covered her head with her bloodied arms and clamped her eyes shut just wishing this would be over.
What did I do to deserve this?
"What did I do wrong?" she whispered.
"Everything! You changed everything! You're just a worthless piece of trash that just loves to ruin things for people!" screamed Mizuki as she continued to beat the bruised girl.
"Akane! Mizuki! You're going to kill her if you continue!"
"I.Don't.Care!" Mizuki shrieked with anger.
"Akane! Stop it! She's getting hurt. Badly!"
Akane stopped for a brief second and took a glance at the girl on the floor. Haruka was right; she was going to die if they continued this.
"Mizuki! Stop! Look at her!"
"No! She's a witch! Casting a spell on everyone. They all love her! Why! It used to be me! What's so special about her!"
"Mizuki! You're jealousy is getting the better of you!" Haruka shouted at the blonde girl who was starting to shed her own tears.
Akane quickly grabbed Mizuki by the arms and pulled her back.
"Let me go! Let me kill her! She ruined everything for me! Everything! It used to be me! I used to be like her! Until she came I was just like her!" the girl sobbed out as she flailed her arms around trying to get out of Akane's grip. Haruka turned and punched the girl in the stomach, making her eyes go wide and then slump unconscious.
"Come on let's go."
Akane nodded.
"Just remember girl. If you ever try to touch him again, you will be killed." Haruka said, giving Sakura a warning. But she couldn't hear them. They were all drowned out with nothing but her own thoughts.
She didn't hear Haruka help her struggling friend with Mizuki out to washroom. She didn't hear the faint music coming from the outside. Not even her own sobs.
Ruin everything…just like before…they hate me…
The small little wall she had built around her heart had now shattered into tiny little pieces. She felt like she was beyond repair and that the past was now repeating itself. Slowly she got up shakily, holding onto the edge of the counter for support and walked out of the area. Sakura didn't know what to do. Should she go back, or should she just leave? If she went back, they would interrogate her on why she was like this and who had done it. If she left, then she wouldn't be questioned. She could just clean herself up and act as if nothing had happened. Then she could probably convince her parents to move again.
With that final thought, she ran out of the school building, unknown to her that someone was watching.
"Hey Sasuke, where's Sakura?"
"In the washroom."
"Oh yeah! I saw her go in a while ago. She's gone for quite sometime you know. Do you think she ditched you?" Naruto laughed.
Sasuke glared at the boy and frowned. It was true; she was gone for quite sometime. Maybe she did ditch him and go somewhere else. But then out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw something pink flash about. Quickly he turned his towards the pink and saw someone running out to door.
"Sakura?"
That was odd. She was leaving the dance? She was leaving them? She was leaving him? But there was something there that he couldn't point out. Something about her.
"Naruto, I'm going out for some air."
"Yeah, okay whatever."
Naruto watched his friend walk out of the room ignoring the many hollers of asking him to dance.
"Hey Naruto, what happened to you?"
The said boy looked up with his black eye, scratched face, and grinned toothlessly at Shikamaru who very well knew what had happened to him. Oh and when I meant toothless, I really meant it. His teeth were literally knocked out.
"I kissed Hinata and Neji came and knocked me out."
Shikamaru sweat dropped. Neji was way too protective of his cousin.
Sakura ran and ran until she reached what looked like a small park. She had stopped crying a while ago and her wounds had stopped bleeding. Slowly, she walked over to a small bench and sat herself down. Little clouds of smoke appeared in front of her face as she breathed in and out.
A gust of wind blew by and it was then she noticed how cold it really was outside. The girl shivered and hugged herself, replaying in her mind what had just happened. Fresh tears started to roll down her cheeks.
"I really am useless. Look at me; I couldn't even defend myself."
Her hair hung low as she lowered her head as if in shame. Tiny droplets fell from her face and onto her cold hands.
"Sakura?"
She looked up.
"Sa-Sasuke…?"
He looked at her. She was cut up, clothes torn, hair cut into jagged ends. Her face was tear stained; her eyes were red and puffy. She was a mess. Sasuke rushed over to her trembling form.
"What happened?" he demanded.
She shook her head.
"Sakura, what happened?"
She looked at him and smiled a bit.
"Nothing happened."
But her eyes told something different. They were hurt, in pain, and dull.
"Don't lie to me."
"I told you, nothing happened!" she choked out, more tears coming down.
Sasuke looked at her in shock. Sakura had never really yelled at him like that before. Why now?
As Sakura got up to leave, Sasuke sat there wide eyed. When she was walking away, he took a look at her and ran after her. Reaching out his hand, he grabbed hers. The girl turned around and jerked her hand away as if scalded.
"Please, just leave me alone."
"Not until you tell me what happened."
She hiccoughed.
"Can't you tell what happened by looking at me?" she snapped.
He was getting frustrated. Why won't this girl tell him?
"Look Sakura, it's obvious you were hurt. Not just physically, but emotionally too. But I don't know why you're hurt! Why don't you just tell me!"
"There's no point!"
"What do you mean!"
"You all hate me, you all don't like me. Why would you care?"
"What the…What does that have to do with it?"
"They told me. They said to me."
Flashback
"All of us hate you. Everyone hates you."
End of Flashback
It began to snow. Small delicate flakes began to fall. The crystals fell onto their hair, eyes and slowly fluttered to the ground. The ground slowly began to turn white from the carpet of snow. Both were panting from what they said previously.
"Who are they?"
"Mizu-"
Before she could finish Sasuke cut in.
"Her! She did this?"
Sakura could only nod. He looked angry. Sasuke clenched and unclenched his hands.
"You believed them?"
Her eyes widened.
I believed them…
"You took in every word they said?"
He's blaming me now…
"You just let them?"
"Stop it!"
He froze.
"I-I don't know. It kept coming. They broke it. They shattered it. That barrier I carefully created."
He looked at her with an unreadable expression. Sasuke walked over to her and engulfed her in his arms. She was shaking. From the cold or from crying, he didn't know. Maybe it was both.
"They kept saying how you hated me. You took pity on me." she sobbed out yelling out every word.
He held her closer and tighter stroking her hair.
"It's not true." he said to her quietly. Sakura had stopped shaking. He assumed that she had stopped crying as well. Her breathing was slowly and heavy, her eyes were closed. The snow kept falling. Falling down, surrounding them. Flakes fell onto her cheeks, melting from the heat and slid down her face.
"Please don't lie." she whispered.
"We love you."
"Please tell the truth…"
"I am."
Wow…I'm a sap. Lol Sorry about the extreme lateness of the chapter. Blame it on work. I was about half way through this chapter until teachers dumped a shit load of work on us. Two English papers, two labs, one flip book, three tests, two quizzes and it goes on. Yeesh I hope you liked this chapter. I kind of do. Lol More about the girls will be explained next chapter and yeah. But that will be their last appearance. Rachel really wants to wrap this up soon.
Talking in third person. xD It makes me laugh. Expect the next chapter to be out on Friday. If not, Saturday. Thanks for all your patience!
Rachel
