"Speech"
'Inner Sakura or other's thoughts'
"Sakura's thoughts"
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"Bye forehead girl!" Ino screamed by the gate of Konoha High, "You better come back soon!"
"Bye bye, Sakura-chan," Hinata shyly waved her hand in front of her.
"Bye Sakura! We'll be waiting for you!" Tenten waved wildly and Temari the same, but not as rowdily. Tsunade also stood aside with them, just giving the pink haired girl a smirk.
"See you guys!" Sakura smiled and turned to head back to the other High school.
Chapter 13: Sabaku no Gaara
Kurenai took a sip of tea from her cup. Setting it back down on the table, she looked at the silver haired man, Kakashi, "So, you know?"
"Yep, It's not that hard to find out,"
"I guess so, with your sharingan and all…" Kakashi let out a small laugh and looked out the window.
"Look, here he comes right now" Kurenai stood from her chair and scurried her way through to the window only to see the pink haired boy climb through the school gates. Kurenai sighed and smiled.
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'I wish you luck that you don't get caught doing this' Inner Sakura mentioned as Sakura climbed the gates.
"We're just lucky we don't have balls, or else this would be so much harder…" Sakura noted. Inner Sakura shrugged. Sakura jumped from the top of the gates and landed perfectly on her feet like a cat. "Yay! Now let's go!" She darted forward into the school and crept in quietly. Before she entered the room, she clasped her hands together and heard a small poof on the other side of the door. She has just erased her boy copy sleeping in bed. She grabbed the knob of the door and slowly turned it and opened the door. A small creek escaped, but thank god to Naruto's snores, Sakura perfectly accomplished her mission of coming back inside to her dorm room. She let out a quick sigh and brushed the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand. Then suddenly, the blond, who was supposedly asleep, rose from his bed.
"Hey Sakumo, what the hell are you doing?" He asked sleepily. Sakura froze, wide eyed. She was about to reply back, but Naruto cut her off, "Stop protecting Sakura-chan will you? I'm only going to ask her out for ramen, yeesh… mumble mumble…"
Sakura cocked one eyebrow up, "What is he talking about?"
"Mufufufu… Sakura-chaaaann, matte kurettebayo… afufufu… rammmeeeennn… zzz" Naruto dropped back down on his head with a silly smile across his face.
"Was he sleep talking…?"
'I hope he was. Man, he scared the hell out of me!' Inner Sakura motioned her hand into a fist, making Sakura to calm her inner self down. Sakura crept around her room quietly and stuffed her clothes back into her wardrobe. When she was done, she looked at the clock. 5:04 am. It was still way too early. She has a lot of time in her hands, noting that it was Sunday and everybody won't be waking up until 10… Sakura sighed. Maybe she could ask Kurenai sensei if she can use the shower. …But ask her this early? …Myeh, she'll try it anyways.
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Knock knock.
A woman opens the door, "Oh hi Saku-" And suddenly Sakura cuts her off with placing her hand onto Kurenai's mouth.
"Ah, eheheh, hello KAKASHI SENSEI" Sakura greeted, glaring at Kurenai Sensei when she slowly said 'Kakashi Sensei'
"Hey there, Sakumo" He lazily raised a hand and smiled through his mask. Kurenai rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Sakura, it's okay-"
"You mean, Sakumo, Sensei, SA-KU-MO"
"No, really, it's okay. He knows" Sakura's jaw opened slightly.
"HE KNOWS? YOU TOLD HIM?" She screeched like a little girl fighting for clothes at a 30 off shopping spree, "I-I can't believe it! You're the one who I trusted the most! You're the one I-"
"He found out by himself. I never said anything" Kurenai placed her hands on her hips, averting her eyes from Sakura to Kakashi, "Right, Kakashi?"
"Right," The man smiled once again and pulled his hitaiate out from his eye. Sakura widened her eyes. Sharingan, "See, I can easily tell who you are with just this, Sakura" He covered his eye back with the piece of cloth.
Sakura turned back to Kurenai with a worried face, "Uh, um, sorry Kurenai sensei…"
"Apology accepted. Now, what did you come here for?"
"I want to take a shower, if that's okay…"
"Sure! You know where the stuff is!" Sakura still frowned, slowly peeking at Kakashi Sensei with an uncomfortable face. Kurenai noticed and wondered a bit, then she realized and laughed, "Kakashi, could you excuse us for… an hour or so?" Kakashi chuckled and left with a good-bye. Sakura looked over at the time, 5:38. She better make haste, or she's not going to make it in time to go back to her room before any of her friends wake up. She grabbed a towel from a cabinet and closed the door behind her in the bathroom. She turned on the shower and immediately started to feel clean once droplets of water hit her fair skin. While all that, Kurenai poured another cup of tea and brought out a scroll to read.
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30 minutes later, Sakura was still in the shower, done with her hair and cleaning her body. All was good until a sudden bang was heard from out the bathroom.
"SENSEI! SENSEI! NARUTO IS HURT! HE SEEMED TO TWIST HIS ANKLE!" Sasuke's voice yelled out.
"Naruto? Sasuke? But it's only 6 o'clock or something! What are they doing up so early!" Sakura panicked, confused at all this, "Maybe I've been in the shower longer than I thought? Maybe it's already 10 o'clock?"
"What's wrong with him? What happened?" Kurenai asked, Sakura can hear another person coming in.
"Well… uhhh… I rather not say"
"………Just tell me"
"I don't think you want to know, Sensei" Sasuke's voice started to get softer.
"I won't treat him until I know, Sasuke" Kurenai's voice started to deepen, showing anger within it.
"Well… um, we… went to the onsen and… you know how Naruto is… he had this oh-so-brilliant idea of… looking into the wome-"
"Ugh, say no more. I'll treat him… you little perverted bastard…" Kurenai grunted as (what it sounded like) she carried Naruto into the next room. Naruto squeaked. Sakura thought it might be because Kurenai was carrying him roughly. She might have been mad about whatever Naruto has done…
"Ow! OWW! Kurenai Sensei! Itaittebayo-!" The blond whined like a dog as Kurenai was treating him. Meanwhile, as Sasuke and the other person who came in watched Kurenai treat Naruto rather violently, Sasuke noticed the sound of water being used. He looked around for what it was, his eyes lead to the bathroom. He stared at it for a while until he asked, "Hey, Sensei, did you leave the water on in the bathroom or something?"
Kurenai twitched at hearing Sasuke say that. She panicked, "Uh, uh, n-no. No water is on, Sasuke!" She nervously laughed, not noticing that she was treating Naruto even more horribly.
"Are you sure? Maybe I should go check?" By this time, the other boy noticed the sound of water. Sasuke's footsteps were heard from the other side of the bathroom. Sakura was alarmed of his footsteps creeping up closer and closer and fright started to overcome her soaking body.
"Oh god, somebody is coming closer! What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO?"
'I don't know' Inner Sakura shrugged as Sakura cried out angry, yet terrorized tears. She then heard the knob turn on the door panicked. She pulled her hands together to make a few signs, "H-Henge!" A poof of smoke concealed her and just at the right time, Sasuke entered. He was immediately breathless when what he thought was steam covered his face. He coughed a bit and squinted his eyes to see through the thick steam.
"S-Sensei! Your shower is on!" He spoke through the smoke and tried to reach for the knob to turn the shower off. Since he could barely see anything, he couldn't see Sakura. She saw the hand place it self on the knob and turned it. The water stopped and Sasuke immediately left, leaving the door open for the steam to escape.
"Sensei, did you leave the shower without turning the water off…?" The boy asked.
Kurenai nervously laughed and put her hand on the back of her head, "Ahahaha, sorry Sasuke. I guess I forgot…" Sasuke and the other boy looked at their Sensei weirdly, "Um, uh, anyways, Naruto is okay now. Just don't let him do any physical stuff for about… 3 days or so, okay?" Before the boys could do anything, Kurenai was already pushing them out the door, "Okay then! See you guys in math class! BYE!" She closed the door, leaving them confused. Kurenai ran to the bathroom and found Sakura plopped on the bathroom floor with a towel wrapped around her body. Kurenai let out a sigh of relief and helped Sakura up to her feet. She could tell her student was still a bit in shock, and she could feel her pulse as she lifted her up, "Are you okay?"
"Y-yeah… I guess. Thank you Kurenai Sensei…" Sakura grabbed her clothes and started to change once Kurenai left her alone. Her head hurt like hell. "That… was too close…"
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"Hey Sakumo! Where you been all this time?" Naruto grinned widely at his bed as Sakura entered the room.
"Um, just walking around…" She saw only Naruto and Sasuke in the room, whoever that other boy was, he wasn't in here, "What… happened to you ankle, Naruto?"
"Oh, haha I peeked into the girl's onsen and then I fell and twisted it"
"Stupid, really… He deserves it anyways" Sasuke said.
"GUUUU! NANDATO-! KORA---!"
"Huh… so that's what happened… You really are a perverted bastard…" Sakura noted, remembering what Kurenai Sensei has said to him.
"What did you say Sakumo?"
"Nothing… Nothing at all" She raised her hands in front of her and wildly waved it. Naruto was left confused and Sasuke shook his head. Sakumo walked over to Naruto and examined the foot with her eyes until a door slam interrupted her.
"Hey Naruto! I heard you twisted you ankle!" Inuzuka Kiba. He walked over to Naruto's side and grinned, which made Sakura blush a little. Right, that night… They… kissed… right? "So what did you do this time? You peeked into the onna onsen again?"
"Shut up, Kiba" Naruto huffed and turned his head away from dog boy, which made Kiba laugh. Sakura's heart began to beat faster and her face started to darken. She dunk her head low and stared at the floor, so no one would notice her. Unfortunately, Naruto noticed, "Hey Sakumo, what's up? Or… down…?"
"That's low Naruto…" Sasuke mumbled.
"Nothing's wrong, I'm okay…" Sakura put on a fake smile, "Um, I'm going to go talk to… Kakashi Sensei about my… um… homework……" She left the room and rested her body against the door. Another long day was coming her way…
"Oh shit, I have some homework to do…" Naruto slapped his hand to his face, "Ohh, maybe I'll get excused for my twisted ankle?"
"You don't write with your feet, usuratonnkachi"
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"Kakashi Sensei. Sensei, are you here?" Sakura knocked on the door countless times and finally, since no answer came from the other side of the door, she decided to just open it. She slid the door open and found an empty room, "Kakashi Senseeeeiii, I need to talk with yooouuuu…" She wished somehow her teacher would just appear out of nowhere right now.
"He's not here"
Sakura spun to face the voice, "Oh, hey Gaara!" The boy didn't greet back, instead he stood still with his arms crossed, "Um… yeah… hi… uh, do you know where Kakashi Sensei might be?" She smiled but soon turned into a frown when he wouldn't answer back, "Uh, okay… I'll just go talk to Asuma Sensei or somebody then…" She was about to walk out of the door when the door abruptly slammed shut in her face. Surprised, she looked down and saw grains of sand holding onto the door. She cocked one eyebrow up and turned to face Gaara. He was still in the same spot, "Uh, it would be nice if you would let me through… please…?" No answer, "Come on now, I reaaaaalllyyy need to talk to a teacher" She put half of her strength on opening the door, but it wouldn't budge, "I need to talk to a teacher RIGHT NOW, Gaara!" This time she put all her strength onto the door. It started to move slowly, but once Sakura felt Gaara's eyes piercing to her back, the sand started to move the door back. "Why… are you doing this……!"
"Dammit he's too strong! The sand won't freaking……"
She finally gave up and let go of the door, causing it to slam even harder than before. She turned to face the red with a frown. "Okay, if I can't open the door, then I guess I have to beat you down first!"
'YEAH! SHANNAROU!' Inner Sakura merged with Sakura and fierce amount of chakra started to form within her. 'Nobody doesn't get away from Inner Sakura without a fight!'
Sakura darted forward for a punch, but in the nick of time, Gaara captured her hand in his, "I don't want to fight you, but… if you're going to be that way then…" Sand started to escape from his gourd and surround the floor, "I guess I have be this way too…" Sakura gave a quick glare before retreating back. She set foot on where there was no sand.
"I'm being this way because you're not opening the door! If you would just open the door, this would have never happened!" Gaara just stared, "Will you let me go now? And then we wouldn't have to fight?" She was hoping for him to say yes, since his ability of controlling sand might be too much for her to handle.
Gaara didn't say anything. Instead, his sand started to move towards Sakura and bind one of her foot, "Ah, shannarou…" With Gaara, once sand catches you, you can never escape… "Let…… go of… me………"
"I saw you"
"Huh?" Sakura raised her pink head.
"I saw you"
"Saw me?" Looking puzzled, Sakura forgot all about the sand for a moment, "Saw me what?"
"I saw you with him"
'God, can't this guy speak in details?' Inner Sakura screamed. "I don't know who him is, Gaara…"
"Kiba"
That's all he needed to say, all enough for Sakura's heart to skip a beat, "I-I don't know what you're talking about…" She rotated her head, eyes off from those jaded eyes.
"You kissed him, yesterday"
"S-So? What do you care?" 'Yeah, say it Sakura! You may be weak compared to him, but you might win at back talking!' "A-and what are you doing spying on me and my life? Don't you know anything about privacy?"
"I guess not"
"Chg…" Sakura flinched. She wanted to scream out loud and curse him with several words, but of course, that might just cause an even bigger problem… So in its place, she let Inner Sakura scream from the inside. Next thing she noticed, the sand that binded her leg started to scratch on her skin. "!" It felt like her skin was ripping off, leaving the muscles to expose.
Before anything else could happen, Kakashi appeared with his Icha Icha Tactics book in his hand. He looked up from his book and noticed what was happening, "…… What are you guys doing…?" He looked at Gaara then to Sakura and her injured leg, "……… Gaara, I order you to let go of Sakumo right now" Without a sound, Gaara instructed his sand to come back into his gourd. As the sand released Sakura's leg, blood was already concealing around it. The kunoichi felt more pain as little grains of sand escaped within her wounds. She fell back on her butt and breathed hard.
Kakashi walked up to Sakura to check on her injuries. He shook his head, and made a copy of himself from kagebunshin. The copy ran to the nurse's office to get Kurenai as the original stayed with Sakura. Just in case Gaara doesn't do anything else to her.
"I'm here I'm here!" Kurenai bumped her body on the near by wall and breathed heavily as she took a quick rest to catch her breath, "Okay, so, what happened?"
"Must she always ask what happened…?" Sakura kept silent as she lowered her head. Gaara didn't speak either. Kurenai rolled her eyes, why won't anybody tell her what the hell happened?
"I guess they were fighting and… things got out of hand and… yeah. Sakumo's leg is injured. Treat him, Kurenai" The red-eyed woman nodded and bent down on her knees to look at the wounds.
As she wrapped bandages around the leg, she asked, "Wouldn't it be wiser if you've called Asuma? He is the teacher of the medical class… And he's the doctor of the school, I'm only a nurse"
"Asuma's not here, he went out on a mission"
"Hmph…" She finished tying the bandages and helped the girl up slowly back on to her feet. Sakura carefully placed her wounded leg and just like that, it felt like fire crawling up her legs. Sakura squealed in pain. She would have landed back on her butt if it wasn't for Kurenai holding onto her. With Kakashi's help, Sakura was sent to the nurse's office. Kakashi gave Gaara a look. It wasn't an angry look, a terrified look, nor a sad look. It was just an emotionless eye that told Gaara not to mess with her again.
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"Owwwwww, dammit Gaaraaaa!" She cried out as Kurenai took a closer look at the injury.
"Shh, he didn't do brutal damage. It will stop hurting in about 2 days or so. The cuts may stay for some weeks, but other than that, nothing eternal"
All this time Kurenai was talking, Sakura wasn't listening, instead, she was planning how to get revenge back on Gaara. "Grr, I'll give him some fists full of punches and several kicks and and…"
'And cannons and rifles, and and and…'
"'A WORLD FULL OF PAIN!'" Both Inner Sakura and Sakura yelled in unison, raising their hands together, punching the air.
Kurenai heard some evil chuckles escape from the girl's lips and sweat dropped, 'This is not good…' She thought.
Back into reality, Sakura felt another shot of pain go through her leg, "AAAAAGGGHHHH! WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS ANYWAYS?"
"He's Sabaku no Gaara. He thinks of himself as a monster. Well, the thing is gone now, and he's better than before, but… he still has that little urge inside of him that might explode on him to go on a killing spree…"
"…… A monster…?" This is the first time she heard of this.
"Yes, just like Naruto"
"Naruto? What do you mean?"
"… You don't know? Gaara used to have Shukaku in him, as Naruto has the Kyuubi in him" Kurenai was surprised that the girl hasn't heard of the news yet that made All Boys Konoha High stand out so much. Sakura gaped, she knew of that some two people had monsters inside of them, but she would have never guessed Naruto nor Gaara would be those people.
"Oh my god!"
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A/N: ……To tell the truth, I didn't like this chapter… at all. It just… didn't have a good story plot into it. I could have thought up a better chapter… Oh well…