Disclaimer: Sir or Madam, 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: (Laughs) Now that was fun, and I was quite entertained by everyone's reactions in their reviews. Sorry if I hurt anyone with the author's note prank. But I don't regret it. No one had ever done that, so I decided to be the first. But anyway, for an apology, here's an update! Um, well, that might have been expected, but just have a good read.

Chapter Seven

Awkwardness of Family Reunions

The entire classroom took a good look at the glass plate which held a giant white jawbreaker which was burned black and melting in a small puddle. The sugary wetness that surrounded the poor candy had almost made the microwave jawbreaker look like a rotten bird's egg with wisps of gray smoke matched that of stink gas. While their science teacher was making a call for the clean up and repairman, Haku and Kiba, the two troublemaking morons, bent over another lab table and poked the not so edible explosive with their gloved fingers, careful not to let it react devastatingly again.

"Well, it looks we can't eat it," Haku confirmed, lifting up the molten ball to the side.

"Affirmative," Kiba nodded, nuzzling over Akamaru's soft neck hair.

Temari slammed her forehead on the tabletop, "You two are retards," she muttered.

"You think?" the male blond directed the angry question to his friends, "You two scared the entire classroom and pissed off Onee-chan in a way I'd never seen her to be," Naruto growled, he was still a little worried about Hinata.

Haku ran his/her fingers through the long tendrils of his/her dark braid, moaning, "My dad is going to kill me for sure."

"Bah, my mom would beat me to death, then find some way to bring me back to life, and then beat me again," Kiba muttered, his fangs showed through the snarling lips. Sakura grimaced, knowing it was no place to laugh about this.

"I'm sure Shizume-sensei would be able to forgive the dumbasses," Ino whispered, folding her arms across her chest, "Too bad, we can't do our experiment. I was really into it."

"Yes, who would have thought a jawbreaker would turn into an explosive?" Temari murmured inwardly.

"I guess," Tenten agreed, who sat herself in their table when the class had filed in. She leaned in urgently, her voice lowered to get their attention, "You should have seen the other teachers who heard the explosion, though, and some of them were gossiping to one another about Shizume-sensei— I know she's a nice teacher, plus she's brand new to the staff, but I don't doubt some of the teachers are a little tipsy about her methods. I mean, they seen her let students sleep through her class, talking back to her, and one even ate ramen on her first day…"

She cast two skeptical brown eyes at a nervously grinning Naruto, scratching the back of his neck.

Ino rolled her eyes, "Well, Shikamaru always sleeps in his classes and some do it when lectures get boring, many dickheads talk back to teachers, and Naruto always eats ramen, so what how does change anything?"

The table looked back at the new teacher who stood around near the phone. Shizume frustratingly slammed back the gray phone on the receiver, and walked quickly out of the classroom when she wasn't able to get a hold on the janitor. The entire class began to murmur questionably until it the atmosphere had changed almost animatedly when the volume had pumped up, bringing everyone to talk loudly and throw crumpled paper balls and airplanes at each other, so there was no need for the others, in the second row near the window, to speak so low.

Haku fluttered his/her lashes in exasperation, "You're right,

Sakura tilted her head, letting her green eyes look over the ruined jawbreaker, "Hmm…we should go see Hinata-san…"

Everyone else at the table nodded simultaneously, waited eagerly for the bell to ring. After the class had ended, with quite a few of the students were anxious to leave, and only a small group of people went to visit Hinata in the nurse's office. Kiba had kept the microwave jawbreaker in a plastic zip-lock bag and swung it with his limp arms when he began to animatedly speak to both Naruto and Haku about the dumbest things. Temari hugged her arms around herself while she whispered to the girls, though Sakura wasn't exactly listening and just curling her limbs around her books closer to her chest as she stride in her white tennis shoes and itty bitty pleated maroon skirt.

Back and forth Naruto bitched with Ino, who both had proved to be very stubborn in their opinions, had walked quickly up to the green-eyed young woman. They struck fingers at each other, yelling at her for approval.

"He's wrong!"

"She's wrong!"

And before she could say anymore, someone jabbed her painfully in the upper small of her back with the hard slap of their hand. The new girl could have almost hit herself silly on the edge of the beige lockers, making her eyes wide and her mouth open to let out a gasp. She spotted panicky of a dark shadow that covered her and where her head was short inches away from being smacked on the steel plate of the locker doors. The others looked and stared at the person behind her, then doubling back shocked when they saw who was really standing over Sakura.

Even the brash Naruto was struck dumb, cold sweat were making its way under his armpits.

The emerald-eyed girl twisted around hastily, looking into two tactical brown eyes looking on her with a stern mouth, a head covered with long red-orange hair and wearing a brown beanie that let only a clump of red bangs to show in between the scary eyes. The uniform was worn harshly, having buttons buttoned to the wrong holes and showed a large triangle of her white camisole underneath, with her red school tie wrapped tightly around her trim waist and blouse like a belt to the side, her pleated maroon skirt was pulled to her upper thighs and she worn skin tight biker black shorts to cover any unnecessary candid scenes.

Sakura had seen herself being dwelled in the likeness of dark and terror when she looked up into those frightening brown eyes, the sharp edges of the person's dark lashes had created a scary face when her tight-lipped mouth had snarled from impatience.

"Girl! Stop harassing her!" one guy had called out, from a faraway corner of the hallway, "You're going to get into trouble!"

"Yes! Listen to Sakon!" another guy exclaimed, "She's obviously not the person who you think she is!"

The terrifying redhead child growled, gritting her teeth, "Fuck off, you damn trash!" she barked back at them. She twisted her evil face back at a trembling Sakura who gripped the front of her skirt desperately, to do anything, wanting to runaway but she couldn't when those brown eyes stayed with her green ones.

"Hey! Hey! What's the meaning of this?" Temari was the first to find the words in her throat, glaring dangerously with the other girl, "Sakura had done nothing to you! You should stop it with picking on the new kids!"

"Tayuya! You're going to get yourself in deep shit!" yet another guy, who was clearly one of the redhead's friends, cried out urgently.

"We thought your habit had stopped by eleventh grade!" Ino spoke too, though obviously not wanting any part of her.

Tayuya didn't even acknowledge her, but had analyzed every part of Sakura.

She nodded slowly, smirking, "She's different."

"How can she be different than every one of those new kids you bullied? She does have feelings!" Temari stood up shouting, but both a panicky Haku and fidgety Kiba held her back. Luckily not one teacher was in the linoleum hallways, though there were many students there but none of them were willing to tell on her nor would they leave until they see the first punch.

Tayuya shrugged, cocking her head towards the new girl, "Your name is Haruno Sakura right?" she smiled warmly, something everyone was stunned to see such a one-in-a-million moment in front of their naked eyes. That smile had graced her lips, taking away her mean exterior which gave Sakura to squint her eyes slightly, remembering something.

"Whoa! Jiroubou would be shocked to see that!"

"I know! And he'd been training his fat ass off to make her look more lady-like!"

And upon hearing that last word, Tayuya blew into flames and horns began to sprout on her red head, with her hair changing from straight strands to sharp ringlets, casting off a halo of flames, "FUCK YOU KIDOUMARU! God-fucking-damn it! I don't need to fucking impress some fucking fat ass just because he's fucking used to fucking stereotypical crap you fuckers had fucking read off the whatever fucking magazine you fuckers had fucking read!"

Sakura could see that half of the people, who were standing behind her, had widened their eyes and inched their feet away quickly from the devil woman. To be truthful, she had never heard a girl swear so much, which had marred the redhead's good looks into something crazy. She wondered why in real life there were no censoring 'beeps' to keep small children from hearing so many curse words coming out of that insane girl's jabbering human hose mouth. Man, all those years she had trained herself not to swear at all had absolutely obliterated when someone had taken free speech to a new level of self expression.

The young woman turned back to Sakura, with that same scary, yet warm smile on her face, "So, is your name Haruno Sakura?"

"Y-Yes," she chirped, her mouth moved without the function of her frozen brain.

That scary warm smile had grown into something so horrifyingly—nice…?

"I FUCKING KNEW IT!" With all her mustered strength (which was a lot!), the Tayuya girl had threw her fierce arms around Sakura's body and rocked her body side to side into some twisted illusion of a stringed marionette that moved with the wooden joints of its terribly flexible, limp ornamental body. It was only hope, that Sakura had survived the bear hug.

"I KNEW YOU WERE SAKURA! I fucking knew it!" Tayuya dropped the poor girl, throwing one arm around her small shoulders and paraded her around the hallway in a happy cheery mood, "This is Haruno Sakura folks!" people widened their eyes upon hearing that last name, "Welcome her to this fucking school, and if you fucking mess with my COUSIN—I'll fucking kick your head in!"

Like everyone, Sakura choked on her own spit.

To Be Continued

It's too short, but I hope everyone enjoyed it. I'm a bit tired, so I'll work on the next chapter tomorrow. I had thought for a long time that Tayuya and Sakura had looked very similar with each other, so I decided to make them relatives (Shrug). I can bet Tayuya fans are giving each other high-fives and swearing to their hearts' content.

Anyway! You have just read the seventh chapter! CONGRATULATIONS!

Now wait patiently and behold your prize, for the EIGHTH CHAPTER that has yet to be typed! WOO!

REVIEWER RESPONSES: (Only able to answer a few!)

To purerandomness: 'The boy who cried wolf?' Of course I heard it! That guy is pure genius! Until, you know, all his sheep were killed senselessly by the wolf who actually did come and all the villagers were ignoring him when he cried day and night, while counting sheep to go to sleep but only to wake up and cry again when he found out he had no sheep. I actually enjoyed reading your review! Thank you for reading!

To Diamond Skye: For future references, I'm sorry I yelled. I KNOW ITS SPELLED S-H-I-Z-U-N-E! BUT I LIKE S-H-I-Z-U-M-E BECAUSE IT SOUNDS PRETTIER AND I'D BEEN TYPING HER NAME THAT WAY FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME! SINCE I DON'T KNOW THEIR LAST NAMES, I HAD DECIDED TO USE 'SABAKU' AS A LAST NAME INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING THEM ALL 'SABAKU no'! I'm glad you like Haku in this story! I always thought of him as a cute character, and he's very sweet in Naruto. I actually like adding spice to character's personalities and since we only knew Haku for such a short time, I had thought of creating him into a phenomenal character, aside from the noted 'perfection' which I had found that characters being Mary-Sues or Mardy-Sams are stupid, and so I like to make him into this stylish suave japery person. Anyway, thank you for pointing those out!

To Kiyoko-San: (Authoress jumps up and down) Oh! I'm so glad you're one of those awesome readers/reviewers who don't care about the pairings! It actually makes my job (though I don't get paid in this site) a lot easier! Don't worry about the whole 'Shizume' fiasco everyone's poking me about, I never got used to typing 'Shizune'. Sorry I can't answer to your manga-team-up question! NUH-UH! That was not a SHORTIE! But thank you anyway for taking your time to review!

To kouzumi 4eva: Then, you're the first (Laughs). I am also a fan of kouzumi, I think they're so cute together. Thank you for boosting up my confidence, big help I'd say! Thank you for reviewing!

To Purple.Cherry.Blossoms: Well, people do tend to squeal and faint when they read fanfiction stories, I have to say it's a symptom of some kind. I'm glad you thought it was hilarious! I didn't think it was, so I decided to add the prank author's note to make everyone jumpy—I swear I won't do that again.

To AnimeSenko: Whoa, not what you expect from a reviewer. But thank you for freaking out!

To Snickerdoodles4u: I like your penname, its funny! I'm so happy there's another person who likes Tayuya, I sure do, I really love her swearing, rough edge, tough exterior, and have Jiroubou scold her like a child. I really think she's pretty whenever she's her flute, and she's strong as hell. Too bad she died when Temari went Big Bad Wolf on her. Hope this chapter had done you good! Don't worry about beating me up if I ever try that again, this site conjures total anonymous identity. Thank you for being the first to review on the last chapter!

AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE FOR READING, REVIEWING, FLAMING, AND HATING ME!