Disclaimer: Baby, I don't need to own Naruto to write fanfiction.
Penname: LiveLoveLaugh
Fanfiction Story: Teenage Rhapsody
Summary: AU She was new at Konoha High. But she didn't have a dark secret. She wasn't social. She wasn't very attractive. She wasn't very popular or very geeky. Hell, she was always alone. Now that Sakura became a senior, things start to mix up a bit.
AN: Okay, another update. Unlike my many other stories, I hope this one would continue for more than just two chapters.
Chapter Two
Good Morning Radio Station 1.2
"Did she just do what I think she just did…?" Temari gaped, running a shaking hand through her parted golden bangs.
"If she did, then she was the first," Ino whispered, disbelievingly.
"What the heck did her old school do? Hug losers? Knock down popular guys?" Tenten asked, almost fainting but luckily Lee caught her from behind.
"Oh come on, girls, snap out of it…" Rock Lee chuckled, bringing the brunette to her feet, "I think she's pretty cool."
"Pshh!" Temari scoffed, stabbing a manicured finger on his chest, "It's only because you're a dork!"
Lee sighed, looking uncomfortably at her, "Sabaku-kun, I really feel like I lost all hope in the human race."
"Good," the older blonde rolled her cerulean eyes, looking at the new girl, "Because I'm officially speechless."
"Testing…testing…Is this piece of metal crap working?"
"Yes, Kin, but I think the whole school heard you swear…"
"Shut up Dosu…ANYWAY! It's the Konohagakure High School Radio Station one 'point' two, Good morning everyone! And welcome back from spring break, it was a blast from the past as so everyone is gossiping about. Let's hope everyone else got drunk on booze and did it with a bunch of fat guys! How was your day, Dosu?"
"Kin! That's not part of the speech!"
"Well…it's a stupid speech…ANYWAY! This is the Kin Tsuchi, the sexy school station reporter—"
(Cough!)
"…you have something to say, funny boy?"
"No, nope! Not at all! Continue!"
"—speaking. And that's just my anchor partner Dosu Kinuta the Jesting Jackass. ANYWAY! Good Morning everyone—"
"You just said 'good morning everyone'…can you just stick to the speech?"
"Go burn in hell, baka…ANYWAY! We hope to have many of our students participate in many of our exciting activities to show school-wide spirit of the Konoha Burning Leaves! The basketball tryouts for boys and girls will be held in the upper and lower gym, upper for girls, lower for boys. And today's cafeteria luncheon menu is Special Meatloaf Day! Yummy! Pick up your forks, peel off the msg layer, and dig in! And—Dosu, what are you doing?"
"KIN! Could you stop procrastinating and just READ the speech!"
"Yeah, but you're playing around with your matchbox, that's not allowed at school…"
"KIN!"
"Okay, okay, just don't get caught over the microphone...ANYWAY! We hope you all have a wonderful first day back in school, we also hope you had a good spring vacation, yessiree! Oh from our gossip response of the day, from a lovely very reliable source of Sabaku Temari, we just had updates that in the First Corridor, a new girl—which we welcome with open arms to our wonderful home of Konoha High—hello there, Haruno Sakura! And gossip goes that she knocked down two of the hottest guys Hyuuga Neji and Uchiha Sasuke-kun—I LOVE YOU SASUKE-KUN! Well, anyway, she knocked down two of them, and runs and hugged a DORK! Unbelievable news, is it not, Dosu?"
"Kin, you're not allowed to tell gossip over the microphone or scream 'I love you Sasuke-kun!' like a moron."
"We're not!"
"No, just—"
"I can do whatever I want, you bastard. And to the rest of the school, students, please treat the learning grounds like your own kitchen, but if our kitchen is dirty just don't dirty your school! Please don't litter or damage any school property—Feh! Like that's not going to happen…"
"They heard that…"
"Dosu, can you not see that I'm talking right now…? Stop being such a bastard and stop annoying the fricking hell out of me! YOU GOT THAT! Now…where am I? Oh yes, and just have a heck of a day! Cut and out!"
"You sounded like a whore over the radio…"
"Go jump off a building, dick..."
"Bitch."
"Jackass."
"Whiney Pig!"
"Slimy eel!"
"OW! KIN YOU MOTHER—"
(Beep…….)
Iruka sweat-dropped in his empty class, "What a great learning environment we provide for the kids…"
(Earlier in the day)
Uzumaki Naruto trudged along the long hallway, with his navy school jacket unzipped all the way, showing off a bohemian Hawaiian shirt with splashes of yellow and orange tropical floral patterns in place of a white undershirt and his red tie was left hanging around his upturned collar. Naruto had a lot of books and junk balancing in his hands, he quickly twirled the combinations and then he grabbed the little annoying metal handle to open the locker. But it remained closed.
He shifted the books in his arms, then used his free hand to smack the locker open once. Then twice when it didn't work. He scrunched up his sleeves angrily punched the locker door. Then he dropped all the books on the floor, spat out the history notebook between his teeth, and fiercely began to attack it without badly landed kicks and punches.
"OPEN UP YOU STUPID RETARDED DOOR! OPEN UP! OPEN UP! OPEN UP!" he hit the door until it creaked open.
Naruto had on a shit-eating grin, and popped open his locker door, and held the lock handle in his lips. He stuffed all the books and shit into his locker, looked at his handy-dandy work. But suddenly the stuffed locker began to quake. And immediately, as if in a second, it had erupted all his crammed books, paperwork, spare change, sports duffel bag, smelly unwashed gym socks, a hot water canteen, Chinese chopsticks, packets of his precious ramen noodle bowls, and all the crap he really didn't need.
Every single item fell on the floor, and he was flipping and doing cartwheels of frustration.
"YOU FUCKING DAMN LOCKER! GOD DAMN YOU AND YOUR CHEAP BEIGE PAINT!" Naruto exclaimed, his hands ruffling up his hair, "WHY WON'T YOU WORK WITH ME!" He catapult more books into the locker, already drooling with ramen bowls and flying papers.
He didn't notice his two friends blinking and sweat-dropping at his animal behavior.
Momochi Haku was a fairly tall boy with nice feminine looks, with long dark hair that was all twisted into a messy bun with origami hair sticks poking right through them. Two chunks of long bangs had left his high forehead naked, and layered the sides of his cheeks down to his chest. Though he could pass for a girl, he almost acted like a gay guy you would see on that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy show, with his gray lipstick and stylish light traditional make-up. He wore his navy jacket tied around his shoulders, showing off a white long-sleeved buttoned undershirt (white enough to be presented for a wet t-shirt contest) and his pants bottoms rolled up to his calves.
Inuzuka Kiba had an appointment in a body art shop, having two dark red scars on his cheeks to match his canine-like features ever since Naruto had suggested him to do so. And he didn't look half bad too. He had messy locks of dark brown, his eyes were like split pupils. He was rather good-looking, in a solid rough jagged way. Kiba stayed taller than Naruto but shorter than Haku, with a predatorily look on his face whenever he sees a pretty girl walk by. He wore his uniform casually, only his navy jacket was unzipped because of the heat.
Kiba had always bought his damn dog Akamaru to school, since not one teacher seem to be disapproving of it.
Haku looked at his frothing mouth, "Probably because you keep putting so much junk in it." He picked up a yellow fly swatter and a two-week old half finished power bar off the floor helpfully. Their other friend wasn't even close to helping the poor loud boy.
"What an idiot…arguing with a school locker, no less," Kiba snorted, stuffing his hands into his pants pockets, "You know, you should at least clean out your locker, try not to put so much shit you don't even need." He reached up his hand into his hair which sat a small white dog and petted it affectionately that it barked cutely.
"So, what? I should put the shit I need in the locker instead?" Naruto laughed, "Yeah, right…that's a laugh, thanks for cheering me up mutt face!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT YOU DEAD LAST!" Kiba went into a full mode of rapid dog, his dark red tattoos brought more effect to his sharp white teeth. Akamaru, his dog, barked in agreement. But when he sniffed something weird, he coughed gutturally and slapped two hands on his face when Momochi picked something up.
Haku slipped on some gloves he snatched out of no where and picked up a spilling awful-smelling white mystery formula that inherited and stuck around the sides of a baseball cap. He looked as if he swallowed something rancid, and both he and Kiba pinched their noses drastically, "What the hell is that!" he cried, disgustedly, "Gah! It has a smell of decaying carcass!"
"Oh god, is that yogurt?" Kiba exclaimed peering into the bubbling substance, the undesirable smell already made an animated green fog in the air. Akamaru, on his head, had buried its sensitive nose into his dark tresses as it whined.
Naruto peered into the cap, and laughed nervously, "Oh I can explain about that, it used to be milk but it—"
"OH GROSS! FUCKING DISGUSTING MAN!" Haku and Kiba threw away that 'thing' into the trash instantly, thought it left a skinny trail of chunky rotten milk which had a graying color of blue cheese when it was spilt.
"Ah heh, heh," Naruto chuckled fretfully, "Thanks for throwing that away."
"Dude! Call the exterminator!" Haku barked, using the fly swatter rapidly to avoid any invisible flies.
"Quit exaggerating man,"
"How does Jiraiya-sama stand living with you, man!" Kiba shouted at his blond friend, who shrugged indifferently.
"Hey! I'm not that bad! Ero-Sennin just stays at one part of the house, I stay at the other," Naruto grinned, picking up his books and papers, "Come on, help me you losers, I actually did my homework during the break."
Kiba blinked, surprised, "Wow, that's a start."
"Hm, I wondering why you didn't call me over the week to copy my math answers," Haku replied thoughtfully, his big brown eyes sparkled with curiosity, "So where did you go this spring break?"
"Well, I didn't drink booze or sleep with any fat guys," Naruto grinned, stuffing more junk into his locker, "But I did get to ride in Jiraiya's Lamborghini—it was so sweet—and spend time with my older friends Obaa-san, Onee-chan, and this cute girl—"
"Cute girl? I had to clean out the excrement in the animal shelter and you actually got to see girls!" Kiba yelled, jealously, "Lucky idiot."
"Do you talk to girls with that mouth?" Naruto asked, smiling at the mention joking of bodily secretions.
"So who is she? Uh, 'Obaa-sans' daughter or something?"
"Nah, nothing like that, Haku. She's too ugly and old to get pregnant, but she's the caretaker of the girl so I got to spend time with someone my own age. Actually, now that I think about it, she was a very old friend of mine. We went to elementary school together until, you know, her rich parents got some promotion or—YES! I DID IT!" Naruto cried and pumped up his fist in celebration when everything was crammed in his already tight locker, and he pushed the door to close roughly and snapped the handle of the lock shut.
He switched back to his nonchalant voice, "She is quite nice, a little shy, but she's a great person to be around."
"What's the girl's name—"
Before Kiba got his question out, someone behind him began to yell 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' The trio turned their heads to the commotion, a gathering of the students in the hallways began to block the sights of the famous assholes Uchiha-teme and Hyuuga-teme. Haku shook his head shamefully, "I really hope they stop doing that, it's getting really annoying."
"I know, it's like cut right out from some cheap bad high school movie," Kiba tossed back the messy bangs from his split eyes, his face retorted into irritation and obvious deep dislike for either of the popular guys. And in a blinking of the school skylights, it flashed pieces of bright emerald hues from far away, beyond the usual faces of people they saw almost every fucking day, it came to the point when all they saw was a girl's eyes on them. Or someone standing right next to them.
"Naruto, why is that girl staring at you?" Haku asked nervously.
Her green eyes were piercing.
"I think I know her," Naruto squint his blue eyes (they were standing pretty far away from her), he clicked his tongue in confusion, "I swear I'd seen her somewhere…"
"What is it? Winter or something?" Kiba remarked rudely, aiming to criticize her stupid gray hat that covered all of her hair and all of her forehead, leaving only a pale face with intense teal eyes. Everyone watched her feet shift.
And a referee gun was shot.
"SAKURA!" a new teacher yelled, but the girl bolted towards. It was in a flash when people were pushed aside, and Neji and Sasuke were thrown off each other with their backs knocking into other people, and Naruto was completely knocked out by two arms that clasped onto him like the pincers of an annoying giant crab that jumped out of its tank.
His middle was highly invaded, and he was thrust side to side when the crazy girl had held him. His arms flailed side to side, with his legs dangling limply when the new girl lifted him up with amazing strength and she giggled with a blush on her cheeks. She had taken the prize while leaving everyone in the hallway of all clichés and species in shock, and whilst gossip was thrown in the air like money to the poor. Never in their lives had they ever seen this sight, as if Sakura had her head in an opened mouth of a mighty circus lion, his breath on her ski cap.
"NARUTO!" she shouted in happiness, joy, all sorts of these silly emotions.
She threw him off her and punched her hand playfully on his shoulder (if 'playfully' meant an almost dislocated arm), "Why the hell didn't you tell me you were going to this school?" she asked eagerly, her eyes glimmering with interest, "And I thought I was going to be alone in the damn school!"
Naruto looked at her weirdly, "Who…are you…?"
"Gah! You have the worst memory! I'm Haruno Sakura, remember!" She smiled prettily, which made both Haku and Kiba blush.
"Haruno Sakura?" Then realization had landed, "HARUNO SAKURA? SAKURA-CHAN? No way!"
"Yeah! Finally!" Sakura said, relieved.
"Man, I can't believe you're still wearing that hat! I almost didn't recognize you!" Naruto laughed, smiling.
"I know," she nodded.
"Then why don't you take it off?"
"I-I, um…" Sakura bit her lip, and shuffled into her blouse pocket, pulling out her folded schedule, "What class number is your homeroom?" she changed the subject.
"Uh, room one-forty-six," Naruto replied back, dumbly, "I got Hayate-sensei."
"Really? Me too!" she cried, giggling. In another turning event, she reached out and grabbed his hand. Stunned looks all around.
Sakura was saying all sorts of things, while Naruto was answering back in the same velocity, her hand connected to his wrist as she pulled him to their homeroom. Haku and Kiba (and Akamaru) made a point of following them with confused looks. Everyone began to gather and gossip fiercely with wonder about this strange weirdo. And when Sakura walked past Neji and Sasuke, she then ignored them like they were nothing which really got their attentions. Naruto was quite surprised too, and very impressed.
Then the bell rung. School was starting.
Temari and Tenten were still in utter shock, a few boys like Rock Lee thought better of the new girl, and Ino was curious of her, too. Shizume smiled, remembering Naruto very well as she scooped up Tonton in her arms and went a floor up to her classroom. Neji had scoffed and walked to his homeroom with his best friends, while Sasuke had walked not far behind. It was something weird, whether it were full moon or not.
"You know what, Haku?"
"Yeah Kiba?"
"Had you actually wondered if there were a girl out there who thinks Naruto is interesting?"
They burst into laughter and ran after Naruto. And while the crowd became to lessen in the First Corridor, only a person stood with a downcast look on her face. She looked sadly to herself, a bit envious of Sakura but far from jealousy. She turned around with slumped shoulders, her white eyes half-lidded, "There's more than one…" she depressingly murmured, and disappeared to her class before the late bell could ring.
School was in session.
To Be Continued
I was in a roll with updates, so I decided to update a second chapter.
I hope everyone are getting amused by it, thank you for reviewing the last chapter!