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Chapter 2 You learn the oddest things in Gym…
(Ino's Point of view; back in the detention room)
This is so utterly BORING! Why does a goddess like ME have to do something as utterly MUNDANE as DETENTION? It's Illogical, unreasonable, crazy and just plain STUPID! Ug, I mean, I JUST nearly strangled a girl for insulting Hinata-chan, but that was no reason to put me in detention! Jeez, that brat started it!
I groan for the umpteenth time, which got Tenten very mad. I felt something hit my head. A scrunched up piece of paper; oh how original. Just use telepathy! I sent my thought to her.
Oh Oops she responded sheepishly. We aren't supposed to use our powers in school though!
Guys… Sakura interrupted us. We are-
Not suppose to be using our powers in school, yeah I know Tenten and I intoned gravely. But it was getting so dull! I added whiningly. Sakura hates it when I wine and I feel rebellious right now.
Yeah I know She sighed back to my great surprise. Sakura the goody-goody hating detention? Yes I do hate Detention, thank you very much!
"What!" I yelled out loud, to my great embarrassment. Neji glared at me. "What?" I asked more innocently.
"That was extremely disruptive." Neji stated very simply.
"Well, if the people watching us weren't such pricks and I had just noticed that your," I emphasized the your by pointing at that spiky haired one sleeping, "fly is undone." I finished triumphantly. Ha, find a comeback to that loser.
"Feh, mendokuse, my pants don't have a fly," He drawled lazily, "besides why would you be looking at me there?"
"Oh shut up, your idiotic highness," I snapped back, thoroughly embarrassed.
Nice Tenten snickered through my thoughts.
Again, Shut up I snapped back.
Yeah, why would you want to look at him? Sakura added devilishly. The dark haired one is so much cuter.
They're all dark haired, FYI I growled at her. She and Tenten were suppressing giggles.
Yeah but the spiky haired one that you weren't just ogling at is FINE Sakura snorted.
Inner Sakura Tenten and I both said. But she always does always have a basis in truth Tenten snickered evilly.
Uh huh... So Saku, how long have you been crushing on him? I asked evilly
WHAT! She exclaimed. I'm going to KILL my inner conscience when detention is over!
So you admit it! A-hah! I smirked. I love teasing Sakura, it's so easy!
Be right back She growled and I could very distantly hear the screaming and sounds of rabid animals stampeding. Back She answered out of breath
What did you do? Tenten asked, torn between, laughter and worry.
Nothing permanent Sakura sighed Just brought out the rabid wolves and the blunt machetes. But all that aside, I found out the oddest thing that my inner conscience didn't tell me until I brought out the flame thrower.
And that would be..? I asked curiously.
Aphrodite and Hera came to visit me last night, and apparently, Pandora's Box, the 7 sins and foreboding are near is near, She responded casually.
Finally! I exclaimed we finally get some action!
Ino, we're facing the boss of the bosses, something we've been chasing all our lives! When this is done, we'll probably lose our powers, or at least most of them… Tenten trailed off rather sadly.
Let's just get these monster's beat and then we'll decide what to do. Sakura said decisively.
We need to tell Hinata-chan! Stupid Detention I grumbled.
"Girls?" I was startled out of my reverie by the long haired one.
"Wha?" I mumbled rather stupidly.
"You can go now, Detention's over." He said shortly.
"YES! Thank you Neji-san!" Tenten yawned, getting up. Sakura and I exchanged a look. OOooooh…
"Let's go find Hinata-chan!" I said and ran.
"INO!" Sakura yelled. "NO FAIR! YOU'RE THE FASTEST!" I grinned back over my shoulder and ran outside into the school yard. Like I said, so easy!
My eyes caught a rather sweet scene, though. It was Hinata, with a guy SNUGGLING UP to her! Now that's something you don't see every day! I skidded to a stop and motion for Sakura and Tenten to stop as well. "Look!" I pointed towards the cute couple. They both grinned as they saw the sight. "Let's go spy on them!" We crept up into some bushes nearby and listened in. Hinata was telling him her favorite myth, about Orpheus.
We crouched there listening for a few minutes until I noticed the guy's friends, the boys from detention started walking towards them. Not good, I want Hinata-chan to actually enjoy being with a guy! Not stuttering like crazy! So I ran towards the guys, trying to get them to listen to reason.
"Hey!" I shouted, trying to get their attention. They turned towards me. "Please, please, please don't get Naruto!" I begged.
"Why?" The long haired guy (I think his name was Neji) asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You see he's with my friend Hinata and they looks so cute and they're enjoying each other's company and we want her to get a boyfriend or at least a boy that's her friend so please don't disturb them!" I said this in one breath. "Please?"
"Hm…" The spiky haired one that didn't look like he was in bad mood said considering. "And what would be to our advantage if we left them alone? This would be perfect time for some pay back."
"Please, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura pulled out her puppy-eyes, which nobody could resist. Sasuke "feh"-ed
"Besides, if Hinata was hurt/humiliated/touched in the process, we would hunt you down," Tenten added casually, twirling a pen threateningly.
"Uh-huh," Sakura and I both nodded.
"Like you could beat me," Neji scoffed.
"Let's just say you might end up a lot worse than the girl we apprehended this morning," I said sweetly, too sweetly.
"I'm not that we-" Sasuke was cut off by the bell.
"Yes!" we cheered and walked away. I looked over my shoulder and winked as we left, "never mess with us!" And proceeded to our next class, grinning and ready to interrogate a certain water-demigoddess.
(Change Point of View to Shikamaru)
Feh, Women, How troublesome. That curly black haired one is especially troublesome. What was her name? Enna or something? Feh, Whatever.
"Let's go, we've got math next." I yawned to a rather shocked Sasuke and Neji. I've known them for too long, so I can tell when they're shocked. They nodded and followed, brooding while the fan girls started to flock around us.
"Neji-kun, Date me!"
"Sasuke-kun, you're so dreamy!"
"Shika-kun, Kiss me!"
I sighed, ticked off. When we finally got our books and into class, my ears were ringing. How troublesome.
Math class was boring as usual, the troublesome teacher droning on and on about something that I already knew; advanced algebra or something troublesome like that. I slept the whole class away, so I don't remember anything. Ah well, we have gym next.
Gym isn't nearly as troublesome as the other subjects, but it is tiring, and that's troublesome. But it's the only class Naruto shuts up in, so it works. I changed into my gym clothes and walked out yawning. We're doing weapons today, so it should be at least a little interesting.
"Hello class!" The female teacher exclaimed. "We're doing weapons today, so grab your weapons and go!"
"Yay!" The class cheered and split up into partners. I was with Sasuke, scythe against blade and we were just fighting back and forth until Anko, the gym teacher called.
"guys, come over here!" She exclaimed irritably. Naruto, Sasuke, Neji and I shuffled over. "I need to see how well the girls do with weapons." She pointed to the three girls from this morning and the girl Naruto was with a recess.
"Hi Hinata-chan!" He exclaimed. The shy girl blushed and smiled shyly back.
"Anyways, Sakura's skilled with swords, so Sasuke, test her please." She indicated.
"Which swords?" Sakura asked.
"You choose." Anko shrugged. Sakura went over and selected 2 kodachi while Sasuke picked up his favorite katana.
"Shikamaru, you're good with scythe and so is Hinata, so you'll test her abilities." She nodded and picked up a scythe from the storeroom.
"Ano… sensei, do you have another blade from a scythe I could use?" She asked shyly.
"Yeah, there should be some in the store room, why?" Anko asked slightly puzzled.
"I like double bladed scythes," Hinata answered picking out a blade and sticking it into the other end of her scythe.
"Fine," Anko shrugged. "Naruto, you'll be testing Ino because she fights with her fists," Naruto grinned as he put on his gloves. Ino made no move to o anything. "Ino, you have to put on the gear." Anko told her.
"My ribbons work fine." She said with a shrug, indicating the silver ribbons wrapped up her arms.
"Ok," Anko shrugged, "You're death, Neji, you'll be working with Tenten and Ino as well, because they both use long range weapons."
"I thought Ino was a fist fighter?" Neji inquired.
"Yes but apparently, her ribbons are weapons as well, so let's give them a try, shall we?" Anko replied smoothly. She turned to the Gym and yelled, "EVERYBODY CAN STOP NOW! WE HAVE A FEW MATCHES TO WATCH, SASUKE VERSES SAKURA, SHIKAMARU VERSES HINATA, NARUTO VERSES INO, NEJI VERSES INO, NEJI VERSES TENTEN! Get you butts to the stands NOW!" She ordered. Everybody complied and within a few minutes, Sasuke and Sakura's match was about to start.
Sakura grinned at Sasuke daringly as she got into her starting stance, her swords were crossed in front of her, one in front of her abdomen, the other pointing at his face. He just looked back at her expressionlessly, sword vertical. We nodded at each other, and at the whistle, neither of them moved. They gauged each others stances for a while until Sakura made the first move. She brought her swords around and swung at his abdomen, making wide slashing movements in the process. Sasuke dodged and slashed at her neck, she parried it easily and swung again with one sword, which Sasuke narrowly avoided,
"Stage one, Heradite's flame," Ino whispered in my ear.
"What?" I asked.
"Sakura's fighting style consists of 10 stages, they get more intense as they move along. Right now she's using stage 1, her simplest." Ino explained. I nodded, understanding. Sasuke changed his sword angle, cutting off the use of both her swords. She merely smirked and back flipped over his head, bringing her swords with her in the process.
"She's skipped straight to stage 5," Hinata murmured.
"uh huh," Tenten agreed. Sakura was pausing again, neither moving. The tension was so thick in the air, you could cut it with a knife. Not even those annoying fan girls were talking.
This time, Sasuke made the first move, lashing out straight at her. She dodged and forced him back a little when he stabbed at her again. They kept blocking each other shots, whenever Sakura got stuck; she flipped over Sasuke head and avoided him. She moved like she was dancing and Sasuke was her partner, each lashing out at each other. It continued like that for a few minutes until they picked it up. The moves became so fast that you could barely see them anymore and they were blurs bouncing all over the place.
"Level 7, she's not going to able to last anymore!" Hinata whispered horrified.
"She's going to collapse in 5. . . 4. . . 3. . . 2. . . 1. . ." Ino counted down. Sure enough, Sakura fell. TWEET! Anko blew her whistle. "That's it! Sasuke wins!" A cheer erupted from the stands. Sasuke looked slightly pleased with himself as beads of sweat poured down his face. "Sasuke, take her to the nurses office." He nodded and picked her up bridal style and exited the gym to the scowls of many of his fangirls.
Switch to Sakura's point of View
Urg. . . I woke up sleepily from a long nap. Blinking I looked around the room tiredly and grinned. There was a hottie leaning on the door frame. Time to have some fun. . . I grinned wickedly as I got up. "Hello.." I purred lightly.
He looked at me oddly. "Good, you're awake, let's go back to class." He made to turn around but I stopped him. He wasn't getting away that easily.
"Why were you here in the first place?" I giggled, "Did you save me?" I grinned coyly and got a little closer to him.
"Get away from me." He said bluntly.
"Aww but I haven't thanked you yet." I pouted slightly. I leaned in a little more but then-
"Is Miss Heradite awake yet?" The nurse came in, causing me to spin around. Shoot, she's back! Darn it!
My head feels a little dizzy. . . "What?" I asked the Nurse.
"um. . . I see you're awake. . ." The nurse stared at me. "Just remember the sick wing isn't a place to make-out, ok?" I got curious at her statemen. Make-out? Who else is here? Who would I make out with?
"It's ok, Nurse, I'm just helping her out," Sasuke replied. Wait, Sasuke was here? What happened?
I was about to kiss him before you came back but nooo, you just had to ruin the fun
You didn't!
I did! He saved you, remember? I had to thank him properly!
ARGH! I'm going to kill you! When the nurse left, I turned to him nervously. "Sorry about that, I'm schizophrenic." I explained embarrassed. Great, now he's gonna think I'm a freak!
"Hn," He mumbled. "Let's just get back to class." I nodded meekly and followed him out shyly.
A/N That's all for now! Sorry, I couldn't finished the other fights, but I wanted to get this up. You'll see a few fights in the next chapter and the one after that is where the action really begins! Until then hang tight for some more fluff and idle fight!
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Till next chapter. . .
