I found out that it was kinda hard handling 3 relationships at once so I turned my other fic into SasxSakxGaa and NejixTen. And not to mention that I'm HORRIBLE at romance. I always get distracted by humor! Well, Here's my SECOND attempt at romance. GaaraxSakura pairing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I never will. I.. I...I NEVER WILL OWN NARUTO OKAY? (cries waterfalls )DON'T MAKE ME ALL DEPRESSED BY FORCING ME TO SAY IT! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (bawls)
Chapter 1
Light poured through the bedroom window, signifying that it was the beginning of a new day. Sakura groaned as she felt unwelcomed light pound on her eyelids, almost forcing her to get up from her comfortable sleep. She had been dreaming again..Of a mysterious red haired boy. It was strange but he was always the center of her dreams. She wondered where she had met him but just couldn't put her finger on it.
Slowly opening her eyes, She rose from bed and shoved her sheets to the side before sliding her feet from her mattress and onto the cold carpeted floor. Yawning, she lazily walked into her bathroom and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Messy bubble gum pink hair. Green eyes. Light pink lips. Pale white skin. Yup, That was her. Haruno Sakura. The strange girl with pink hair. She wasn't popular, She wasn't super pretty, She was just your average teenage girl.
She turned on the faucet, got her toothbrush and cup, squeezed a bit of bubble gum toothpaste and started brushing her teeth lazily. You could tell she wasn't much of an morning person. Her eyes started drooping, but before she could completely fall asleep, she started choking on her toothpaste. Yeah. She was that stupid. Well, No, She was just a bit clumsy.
Rinsing her mouth with water, She finished brushing, washed her face, took a quick shower, combed her hair and got dressed. Her school had a uniform. It consisted of a short pink skirt that reached mid thigh, Which was probably Principle Jiraiya's idea, That old perv, and a white blouse with the Konoha high emblem. After putting on her socks, She walked down the stairs and sat down at the kitchen table. Breakfast had already been laid out by her mom, which was bacon and toast followed by a glass of orange juice. She ate up her bacon, gulped down the juice and shoved the toast into her mouth before getting up and waving bye to her mom. Sakura grabbed her school bag and headed out the door.
'Great..The first day of school...Just what I need,' She thought sarcastically as she walked down the sidewalk to her new school. On her way there, Sakura slowed her pace to watch small cherry blossom petals fall to the ground around her. Not watching where she was going, she turned a corner and felt herself bump into someone or something, and ended up falling onto the cold, hard, rocky ground.
"Ouch...", She mumbled while rubbing her back and looked up to who or what exactly she bumped into.
Sakura froze as she noticed who it was. A red haired boy with piercing cyan eyes gazed down at her. He had a tattoo on his forehead that read, "Love" in chinese/japanese lettering. Dark bags caused by lack of sleep surrounded his eyes which made him look quite creepy. But then she realized... Wasn't this the guy from her dreams?
The boy grunted and held out a hand to help her up. She merely stared at it as if it was an alien with four eyes and nine mouths. Then a voice intruded her from her thoughts.
"Do you want my help or not? 'Cause I'm not going to stay here all day to watch you act like an idiot."
Snapping out of her trance, She glared at the boy but took his hand anyways. As soon as she got up and steadied herself, The boy immediately let go of her hand as if it was a pile of burning hot coal. "Thanks...What's your name?"
The boy just looked at her for a few seconds before replying, "Gaara."
"Thank you, Gaara," Sakura smiled politely and continued,"I'm Sakura. Nice to meet you."
Gaara did nothing except stare at her some more before turning around after saying,"Hn" and then continued walking down the road.
'What's up with him? Geez, I just said thanks,' She thought, Glaring at his form that had soon disappeared as he turned a corner.
She then remembered that he was wearing the same uniform as her. 'He goes to the same school! Great, That means I have more chances to try to befriend him. I mean, He is kinda cute...' Sakura mused as she followed after him, since they were after all taking the same route and going to the same school. Humming a tune, She found herself catch up to him. Gaara took no notice of her at all and continued walking.
"Hey Gaara!", She said in a happy tone.
No answer.
"Gaara?"
Still no answer.
"Gaara!", Sakura said for the last time before poking him in the back.
Immediately, he whipped around and grabbed her wrist. "DON'T touch me," he hissed. Taken aback by this, She tried to suppress the shiver that was going down her spine but found that she couldn't. Sakura gulped and nodded meekly.
Satisfied with her answer, He let go of her wrist and turned around once more. She sighed as she rubbed her wrist that had been in his tight grip. It had kinda hurt.
Sakura walked up beside him once more. "Hey, Gaara..We're going to the same school, ne?"
"Yes.,"He replied after studying her uniform that was similar to his. But his consisted of black pants and a white shirt with the same emblem.
"So..Do you have your schedule with you..?", She continued, placing her arms infront of her and clasped her hands together.
He nodded without a word and took the schedule out of his bag before handing it to her.
Sakura took it and studied it before gasping,"Cool! We have almost all of our classes together!" She handed him back the schedule.
Gaara sighed and stuffed the schedule back in his backpack. Why did this girl have to pester him so much? Normally, People would back away in fear at a mere glance of his scary, threatening eyes and his whole bad boy look. He was a good example of someone not to mess with. Though secretly in his heart, he appreciated her company for some unknown reason. Usually people wouldn't even give him a second glance after deciding that he was someone dangerous. But wait, Why did he feel as if he met this girl somewhere? Like he had known her a long time ago..
The two walked in silence for a while before finally reaching school.
Sakura turned towards Gaara, with a smile on her face before saying,"Anyways, I have to get to class now. It was nice walking with you! Ja ne!" And with that,she gave him a peck on the cheek, and ran off to her locker, leaving him in a daze. Had she just kissed him...? Gaara blushed slightly but then shook his head, reminding himself that emotions were not something he liked to deal with, and continued his way to class.
As she arrived at her assigned locker, she spun the code and pulled her locker open. ... Or she tried to.
"Grr..Why won't this darn locker open!", She screamed as she continued pulling, banging, and cursing at the locker infront of her, attracting alot of unwanted attention.
As someone tapped her on the shoulder, Sakura turned around in frustration and gave an annoyed, "What?" but had made it sound more like a growl.
The boy who had dared disturb her during her rantings backed away with wide eyes, slightly frightened. "Um..I was just going to tell you that you forgot to take the lock OFF the locker..." He said quietly before running off, screaming in fear. All eyes turned to her before looking away after they saw that she caught them staring. An angry Sakura was not a pretty sight. Truly frightening to be exact.
Sakura sighed and proceeded to take the lock off. 'How stupid of me...' She thought as she put her books into the locker and took out necessary ones.
Turning around, She bumped into a person, causing both of them to drop their books. "Ah, Gomen nasai!", Sakura apologized as she quickly picked up both her and the stranger's books. Looking up, She stared into pale violet eyes that belonged to a shy looking raven haired girl. The girl smiled at her nervously before also picking up some books and handing the ones that weren't hers to Sakura. Sakura did the same.
"I-it's okay...M-my name's Hinata b-by the w-way..." The girl shyly stammered as she gave Sakura a weak smile.
"Oh, I'm Sakura. Nice to meet you, Hinata-san!" Sakura smiled back and shook the girl's hand."By the way, What class are you going to?"
"E-english.." Hinata replied softly.
Sakura gasped and said,"That's great! We're in the same class! Come on, Let's go together!" And so she linked her arm around Hinata's and dragged her off to their first lesson.
Plopping down onto her seat, followed by Hinata who sat to the right of her, she took out a book as she waited for the teacher to arrive. Soon enough, After 10 minutes, The door slid open to reveal her new silver haired sensei. He was, of course, Wearing his mask that covered half his face and carrying his ever so famous and perverted, "Icha Icha Paradise" book. He hardly noticed the class at all as he sat down at his own seat, with a hint of blush on his cheeks as he continued reading his naughty book.
Sakura watched, tapping her pencil in impatience as Kakashi totally ignored the class. Until a certain student raised their hand and decided to try to get his attention.
"Kakashi-sensei..."
"Hm?"
"You're supposed to be teaching us..."
"Oh?"
"Yeah..."
"Is that so?"
" ... YES."
"Really now?"
"YES!"
"Then why don't we get started?"
"That's what I was wondering.."
"Okay, Well, Your first assignment is..."
"Yeah?"
"...Go do your own crap."
And that ended the useless conversation. So everyone decided to have free time! Woot!
Sakura laid back on her seat, Rocking back and forth, staring outside the classroom window. She watched as a bird flew- and smacked straight into a tree. Raising an eyebrow, She felt pity for the bird as it slid down the tree trunk. Shaking her head out of the weird thoughts, She looked over at Hinata who was occasionally glancing at a certain blonde haired boy while tapping the tip of her forefingers together out of shyness. Sakura followed Hinata's gaze as it landed on the loud mouthed blonde.
"Hey Kakashi-sensei!"
"Yes, Naruto?"
"Do you have SARS?"
Pause.
"Why do you ask that, Naruto?"
"Cause you're always wearing that mask..."
"Now why would I have SARS?"
"Well..I dunno..."
"And do you think I do?"
"Probably not.."
"And that answers your question."
End of another pointless conversation.
Sakura chuckled lightly at Naruto's bluntness and then her gaze traveled around the room, trying to find something interesting. She was surprised to see that Gaara was in the same class as her. She should've walked with him to class, She thought but then shrugged thinking that he probably had his own things to do.
As class time finally ended, They all scurried out of the classroom, Leaving Kakashi alone with his dirty book once more.
"Next class...History." Sakura looked around to find the next class. Spotting the room, She headed over and sat down at a desk. The teacher was already there and soon the class was filled up with students.
"Good morning class, My name is Kurenai and I will be your history teacher for the year. I will be SURE to teach you ALOT more than that lazy Kakashi. Ahem. Anyways, We will be learning about the history of ancient japan. When there were ninjas, wars, their weapons and whatnot. Do you have any questions?"
A student raised his hand.
"Yes?"
"Why are we learning about ninjas?"
Kurenai paused. Thought for a minute. And then asked, "Do you have any problems with that?" A dark aura immediately clouded over her, as she glared at the poor student with her creepy glowing red eyes from under the shadows of her bangs.
"N-no, Kurenai-sensei..." He replied weakly, sweat pouring down his back. The whole class bristled at their sensei's sudden change.
Kurenai turned back to her normal calm self and smiled as if nothing ever happened. "Good. Now, We will first be learning about the nine hidden villages that inhabited ninjas of all sorts within the five strongest countries."
She pulled a string from the cieling and brought down a map that indicated where they used to be. Grabbing a ruler, She indicated each and every village.
"This, is the Hidden Leaf village of the Fire Country." And so she pointed with her ruler at the Leaf symbol on the map.
"Hidden rain. Hidden sound. Hidden waterfall. Hidden sand. Hidden grass. Hidden rock. Hidden cloud. And finally, Hidden mist," She pointed at each and every symbol that indicated where the villages were as she said this.
She continued on to explain the weapons that were used and left half the class interested, and half trying to not fall asleep.
Sakura could feel her eyes droop as her sensei continued on about poisonous senbon needles and then the different types of ninjas.
Ninja...Ninja...Ninja, That's all she could hear. It seemed like some kind of messed up lullaby.
And soon enough, She was out like a light.
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And that's the end of this chapter. Please tell me if you would like me to continue or not.
The difference between this and the other story is that this one is slightly more...Real life like and less crack fic-y. And the other one, I started off a bit unlike how I wanted it to end up so I'm writing a new SakuraxGaara high school fic. Also, This one won't be as funny as the other one I'm guessing and if you want to know why they both seem to recognize eachother, You probably could figure it out by using your imagination or you'll just have to wait for later chapters. Please give me ideas on what should happen for I do not know myself. Sadly, Once again, I feel like this story isn't as good as I hoped it would turn out to be but maybe you would think otherwise? Review and tell me what you think! Thanks.
P.S. Ninjas do not exist in the future of my story so they have turned into something of the past.
