Chapter two
Edited by Innelle
Day one, the first war
Sakura woke up in the morning without her alarm clock doing its job. It was still early; the girl looked outside her window the sun was rising, and she could feel the warm heat coming from the beautiful sight. Sakura slowly got out of her bed and changed into her uniform, she did her usual routine; it was still early so she watched a little TV. Somehow, the girl couldn't get over the fact that war was going to start today with her and Uchiha Sasuke for real. She was worried, but also excited, it was only her second day at school and she has already got something to look forward to, but she won't admit it. Knowing that the boy would pull some kind of pranks on her, she put a few things ready to go in her bag. She was determined to win no matter what happens. Someone was going to have to teach that boy a lesson and that would be her, since everyone was so scared of him.
Sakura walked through the streets enjoying the light breeze of the morning air, it wasn't a cold day, it was one of those days when the temperatures are just right. She crossed the road without some driver smashing her, in other words she had a peaceful walk to school without running her ass off or getting really mad.
Konoha private college
Class room 2-4
Sakura slowly walked down the corridor towards her locker, she put her bag inside and took out her books, the girl slowly walked to her classroom. There were loud noises coming out from the classroom, Sakura opened the door when suddenly a large crowd of boys approached her with fast speed, they surrounded her, the girl had nowhere to run. An extremely large sweat drop appeared behind Sakura's head, she had a feeling that this was going to happen.
"Sakura-chan, war is on today, we'll be cheering on for you" a dark haired boy told her. A few other males agreed with him, they gave a loud 'YEAH'.
"Yeah, go Sakura-chan, by the way, would you like to go on a date with me?" Once of the boys asked.
"No! Why would she want to go with you, she would rather go with me!" another boy yelled out. The large crowd of boys started an argument over who Sakura would go out with.
Sakura's sweat drop grew even bigger, it was almost at its exploding limit, she could almost do anything to get out of this situation, but she was surrounded, Sakura felt a large amount of air loss as the crowd closed in on her. When Ino saw the poor girl, she rushed through the large crowd, consisting of only males, and pulled Sakura out.
"Sakura-chan are you okay?" asked Ino, Sakura grinned at the girl and answered.
"Yeah, thanks Ino-chan" Sakura breathed heavily, and Ino gave a kind smile.
"Well, let me introduce you to everyone" Ino looked at the group who was behind her. Sakura noticed that none of the boys in the group were in the crowd that was surrounding her when she came in. One of them was a boy who had his hair all tied up and also had a bored expression on his face. Another was a shy girl with peal white eyes and dark blue hair. Next to her was a boy with dark black hair and sunglasses, and next to him was a boy with a puppy on top of his head, 'do they allow that in school?' Inner Sakura wondered.
"Shikamaru, Hinata, Shino and Kiba meet Sakura"
"Hi everyone" Sakura gave them one of her trademark smiles that was often took on photos and published on magazines. A blonde boy blushed, most of the boys just gave her a nod or a smile, Hinata gave Sakura a little wave, and Sakura waved back, the shy girl sat next to A blonde kid whom nobody talked to. The school bell rang.
"I'll introduce you to the others later" Ino went and took a seat next to Shikamaru, it seemed that he was her seatmate. Every one in the class slowly went back to their seats, Sakura did the same. The young Uchiha was already there, he was sitting with his eyes closed, arms folded under his chest, he opened his eyes as he sensed Sakura by her dainty steps. The girl took a seat next to him and didn't say anything at all, there were silence, and so far no pranks have been played yet.
Recess
Sakura was accompanied by Ino this time; they were walking outside the school towards a tall cherry blossom tree, all the people that Ino has just introduced to Sakura were there except for three that she did not know.
"Hi guys, sempai meet Sakura, she's our new classmate"
Sakura looked at three. One of them had the same pearl eyes as Hinata, and long chocolate brown hair that was kept tied at the back neatly, his face was flawless, Sakura could almost mistaken him as a girl without his male school uniform. Another was a pretty girl, she sat next to the boy with chocolate brown hair, she also had chocolate brown hair, but hers was tied up in two Chinese buns, she seemed pretty close to the boy with the pearl eyes.
The other was a weird looking one, his hair was in a short-bowl-cut style, it was shinny black, so shinny that Sakura thought she could see herself in there, he had strange round eyes and some large under lashes, Sakura shivered at his look. The three upperclassmen greeted her with a smile and nodded just like the others. Ino and Sakura took a seat in the circle under the tall tree. A few of the boys were having their own conversation.
"Sakura-chan this is Neji-sempai, Tenten-sempai and Lee-sempai." Sakura bowed her head at the seniors, the three did the same.
"So Sakura-san do you have a boyfriend yet?" Lee asked the girl, a puzzled look appeared on her face.
"How troublesome" Said Shikamaru, he turned his head the other way and joined the other boys that were having their own conversation.
"Oh no, not again" said Tenten, she put her hands on her forehead; a sweat drop appeared the side of her face.
"Um, no, why?" asked Sakura.
"Really, then let's go out, I'll protect you until I die" the boy winked at Sakura, which terrified her even more.
"N.o .w.a.y" answered Sakura; she was hopping that this group of people wouldn't have any one of those fan boys.
"Why?" asked the confused yet shocked upperclassman.
"You're lame" Answered Sakura blankly.
"So this is Uchiha's new target, a pretty tough one I have to admit, it's strange for him to have a girl target though." Neji examined the girl ever since she got to the tree. His freaky eyes made it even more freaky as she made contact with them.
"Hey thick brow-sempai, STOP FLIRTIN' WITH SAKURA, you're terrifying the girl" Kiba was screaming at the peak of his voice. Sakura mentally thanked Kiba; she then quickly tried to change the subject.
"So, uh, Neji-sempai, you were saying something about it being strange that the jerk is having a girl as a target?" Sakura turned over to Neji.
"All of Uchiha's targets have been male up until now." Neji answered her, he closed his pearl eyes and folded his arms, Sakura thought that his behavior was a lot like the jerk that she knows, a lot alike. Same cool freaky tone, same cool personality.
"What's so weird about that?" Asked Sakura
"Nothing" answered Neji.
"Don't mind Neji, he's like that. He likes to think that he knows everything when he doesn't" Tenten smiled at her, Neji shot her a glare.
"So has that bastard done anything to you yet?" Asked Shikamaru
"No nothing yet" Answered Sakura, she thought that it was strange too; he's the one who started the war.
"That's strange for that bastard; he would usually have started by now" Shikamaru put his hands under his chin trying to think. Sakura thought that he looked adorable like that.
"Well you better watch out, he's planning something big" warned Neji, but something in his pearl eyes told Sakura that it would be more then big.
"Yeah, thanks for the concern sempai" Sakura smiled. Ino's face saddened, something's up Sakura knew it, she decided to ask her new friend.
"Ino-chan, what's wrong"
"Sasuke-kun…he was never like that" answered Ino sadly.
"Really, that cold blooded jerk?" Asked Sakura
"Yeah, he was once like us just normal, until one day." Ino stopped, her face turned pale.
"What happened, Ino-chan" Sakura was concerned about her blonde friend; the looks on the blonde girl's face didn't look so good.
"His farther forced him into an arranged marriage with one of their business partners and forced him to go overseas for an overboard study, but he refused to go, he liked his life here, back then Sasuke was happy, so his parents and brother just left him and went overseas for business, Sasuke-kun have been living alone this whole time. Slowly he began hating his life; he isolated himself from everyone else and started to act like an arrogant jerk." Tears were forming in Ino's eyes, Sakura rubbed her back softly, and the others listened in pain, a few of the boys that were having their own conversation stopped to listen.
"I never knew that, I guess me and him are alike" Sakura tone was bitter, she then continued.
"But that doesn't mean he can go and start acting like a stuck up jerk" The recess bell rang and the quiet group went to class slowly; none of them said a word.
Classroom 2-4
Sakura was walking in front of everyone as she opened the door; a chalkboard duster fell on her head leaving her hair with many different colors of dust.
"Ah, WHO THE HELL SET UP THE STUPID TRAP" screeched Sakura, the girl spotted the young Uchiha sitting his desk with a smirk on his face.
"YOU"
The girl quickly dashed towards the smirking Uchiha not realizing that he had another trap under his sleeve, the girl slipped, there was oil on the floor when she was about half a meter away from the boy, he knew from the beginning what her reactions were. As the girl slipped, she fell on top of Sasuke making his chair fall back because of the large amount of weight. They were both on the floor, Sakura was practically on top of her enemy, when a large crowd formed around them. Every one in the class was looking.
"GET OFF SASUKE-KUN, YOU UGLY FOREHEAD GIRL."
Screeched Reyka and a few other girls in their horrible high pitched voices, Shikamaru was in the crowd, he covered his ears and said something about women being troublesome, Ino just had a worry look on her face, but there was a glint of jealousy in her eyes for a second. The other females in the classroom were giving Sakura the evil glare.
While the males were giving Sasuke the evil glare, Sakura was practically on top of him on the floor, meaning that her breasts were pressing against his chest really hard. The young Uchiha suddenly felt as if there was a lack of oxygen in the class room, he couldn't breathe, the boy was allergic to dust and the dust on Sakura's hair was enough to make it hard for him to breathe, also having an extremely attractive girl on top of you while her breasts are pressing on to you isn't a making it easier.
"GET OFF ME YOU CRAZY- FOREHEAD - WOMAN" yelled Sasuke. Sakura slowly got up, she was silent, the girl took a seat ignoring the evil glares. The classroom door opened as the teacher came in. Sakura slowly got up and sat beside Sakura, the two were silent. The teacher started the lesson, Sakura whispered to her arch enemy.
"I thought you would have done better"
"That was only the opening act, there's more, if you think that that was my best then you better watch out, you should give up before it's too late" Sasuke whispered back.
"Care to share Uchiha" Asuma-sensei caught the Uchiha whispering, Sakura smirked at the Uchiha who had just got in trouble.
"I heard you whispering to him too Haruno, OUT BOTH OF YOU" Asuma yelled at the two. They slowly got out of their seats and walked out of the class room.
"I'll be out there in a sec" The teacher yelled out at the two students.
Out side the classroom
"You stupid jerk, you shouldn't have said anything at all" Sakura blamed the boy; she frowned at the flawless face that so many girls were so crazy about.
"You're the one who started talking to me first, it's clearly your fault, stupid forehead-girl" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Don't.call.me.that" Sakura had a scary look on her face, she always got offended when people called her 'forehead girl', it's not exactly a good thing to tease the girl about.
"Oh, so that's your weak spot, forehead girl, it suites you" Sasuke smirked.
"Your one mean bastard, you're only taking your anger out on others" Sakura muttered. The smirk on Sasuke's face disappeared from his face.
"What do you know anyway" Sasuke's tone darkened, Sakura sure did hit his spot.
"Taking your anger out on others is a bad way to face your problems; I know more then you think" Sakura told the boy in a cold tone.
"Who said I have problems?" asked Sasuke.
"Your face tells it all, it's not easy to hide it, you're afraid of getting close to people, that's why you isolate yourself. You're jealous when you see people being happy, you wonder why you're not like them… After all no one can defeat loneliness, you're just a confused child, and it's time to grow up." Sakura ended her sentence, she told him in a pained voice, she knew that she had said too much, but it was the truth, she saw right through this person when she first saw him, the darkness in his eyes told her that. But most of the words that she told him were what she told herself many times, they were more alike then they thought.
"You sound like an arrogant bitch, stop talking as though you know everything about me, what do you know about loneliness anyways, you live in that happy little world of yours" Sasuke's face darkened he hid away his eyes with his dark hair his head turned the other way.
"You're annoying" muttered Sasuke.
At that moment Sasuke felt a large smack across his cheek; he could feel it burning in pain, Sakura had slapped him once again.
"What do you know about me anyways?"
Sasuke was speechless. The two stood outside the class room with silence, Sakura clearly won the first war through talking.
The whole day ended up without any pranks, Sakura didn't tell anyone about her talk with Sasuke, it was something that she thought shouldn't be gossiped around. She didn't talk to the Uchiha at all for that day; he was occupied in his thoughts.
Sakura went home by herself, she had a peaceful walk just like in the morning, the girl didn't spot any dark blue sports cars passing. Somehow Sakura felt as if though something was missing in her. That night Sakura received a call from her mother.
"Hello?" Sakura picked up the phone.
"Honey, its me mom, I'm just calling to see how you are doing."
"Oh, I'm just fine mom" Sakura lied she was worried about Sasuke, she knew that she had said too much.
"Honey, you seem sad what's wrong? Don't lie to me, I know you"
"Nothing really mom" Sakura lied she put on her happy tone, that always seamed to do the trick.
"Okay then, how were the other kids treating you?"
"Oh, just fine mom, I made quite a few friends." Sakura answered.
"That's great to hear honey, well; I got bad news for you" Sakura's mother paused.
"I can't come to Tokyo this weekend, my schedule is booked with meetings and treaties between companies to companies, and I won't be free until next month…I think"
"That's okay mom, hey I'm going to sleep now okay, bye" Sakura really didn't want to talk anymore, she was looking forward to seeing her mom, and now she had to wait another month, today wasn't her good luck day, it seemed like winning the first war wasn't a good luck thing after all.
"Okay then honey, sweet dreams, I got a meeting to attend, take care"
"Yes I will mom, bye"
Sakura hung up the phone and went straight to sleep forgetting to switch her alarm clock on. Dreaming of the outcome of the next war, she sleep in peace smilling.
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