Chapter 8

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NEW CHAPTER 8...at least the edited version at the start and added content toward the end of it that will flow better into chapter 9 where the plot starts to get going -coughs- ...Sorry about this and the wait; being sick made me a bit lacking I think with my writing.

If there was one thing Sasuke Uchiha couldn't stand it was the pressing compact air against his personal space. It started as a pet peeve from his father when the man felt that reminding his youngest son of the passed-down ways of the Uchiha clan were something to be upheld and reproduced even though such times now no longer thought along the same lines as his father still did. It became a real annoyance for the teen when the man had started up the comparison between Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, and himself after his first marked grade that was below an A when he was 9 years old.

Now it was the annoying pressing presence of teenage girls.

"Wow, Uchiha, do you put on some kind of mating pheromone or whatever on everyday before leaving the house or what?" asked Suigetsu as he gazed out the window beside the desk seating the dark haired teen he was talking to. "It's like a hoard of horny bitches down there."

"Mouth, Suigetsu." came the half muttered and half stated tone from the bulky orange-reddish haired male seated in the desk right behind Sasuke's. "I'm not waiting for you after school again if you get detention for your choice of words."

"Whatever, Jugo." waved the silver haired teen distractedly. "Sasuke will wait up for me."

"Oh no he won't." entered a strong female voice that prickled with the tones of a claiming growl. "Sasuke's walking me to the bus stop after school then going home since Itachi is stopping by."

Suigetsu tossed a look over his shoulder at the red haired girl who just had to barge her way into the man trio last year. "Don't you find it creepy, Karin, that you know Sasuke's schedule?"

"Nope."

"Excuse me." Piped up a new female voice from the doorway of Kakashi's homeroom classroom. "This is Sasuke Uchiha's homeroom, right?"

Sasuke's dark eyes didn't even tilt faintly in the girl's direction. Instead they lifted away from the glowing screening of his mobile phone, where he had been having a texting conversation with his brother about ways to cut their dinner short with their father that night, to level a look at the silver haired man with their trademark doctor's mask on his face.

Getting the random and rare urge to save one of his darling cutie-pies, Kakashi spoke up from behind his desk. "It is, however you'll have to hold your chat with him until lunch or, if you can manage, between classes. We're about to start review, after all."

"Oh i'm sorry, I just wanted to apologize to him." The pink haired girl motioned to the space before her with two index fingers waving in opposite directions of one another as if the space was Sasuke.

"Oh?" Kakashi tilted his head, mismatched eyes slanting to Sasuke's desk for a second before a his personalized odd smile formed. "In that case, go ahead cupcake."

The glare sent to the teacher went completely ignored by the man as he pulled up his porno reading material once more as well as by the visiting girl as she made her way over to where Sasuke sat.

It wasn't hard for Sakura to recall what the boy looked despite the handful of whip-cream vodka soaked twizzlers she had that night. "Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno, we met at the party last weekend."

There was a moment of silence as Sasuke finished off the text message before bothering to reply to the girl who seemed a bit more intelligent enough to figure out a way to speak with him than just waiting at certain times to pounce and bark his ear off. However it didn't mean he had to give the girl his whole attention. "Education is rather important, wouldn't you agree?" came the toneless question.

Sakura blinked at that response. "Oh um, yes of course, Sasuke."

There was a twitch to the raven's lips in a downward tilt at the sound of his name. He really didn't like it when people he did not even know spoke his name with the lying air of actually knowing him. "Then if you would not mind hurrying up, I'd like to keep my grade prestine."

Sakura offered a smile, shifting a bit on her feet. "Right, sorry. Anyways um, Naruto wanted me to apologize on his behalf to you for that night. And that he won't bother you again." Her green eyes shifted over the boy's face to the healing split lip, swollen jaw and the sliced arch of their brow.

"Naruto?" Sasuke asked with some twinge of feeling to his tone finally.

"Oh that's right, you might not of gotten his name. The blonde who um punched you and stuff.." She motioned to her own face somewhat distractedly while looking at Sasuke's. "His name's Naruto Uzumaki."

"Why are you doing it then?"

Sakura swallowed down a cough. "Pride and er, he thinks you're an uh…"

"A what?"

"An asshole." came the semi whispered response.

"I see." Sasuke replied smoothly while ignoring the light snickers coming from his shark obsessed friend. He glanced to the teacher once more who was more than peering over the pages of their smut book to watch the scene as the raven expected when dealing with the teacher's odd quirks.

Taking the cue for what it was, Kakashi cleared his throat. "Sakura, is it?"

"Yes sir?"

"I believe homeroom is about to end soon so you should get going cupcake."

With that said the man took out an extending pointer rod and tapped the red rubbered end onto the whiteboard behind him; mainly on the name chart the man had prewritten to take up a column length of space on the right side of the whiteboard behind him. "This is is a list of your adorable names, obviously, and under each name is a mini box that I will check off over the course of this week like you were my little kiddies in preschool. Yes, I said it. Each mark will show a full completed assignment and by the end of this week whoever has the most is excused from both of my subject quizzes; since I am oh-so-lucky to have all of you at least twice a day."

Sakura flushed in embarrassment as the teacher just continued as if she wasn't there. Never had she felt more of an intruder than right then. Turning back to Sasuke she gave a smile of thanks, which went ignored as the raven haired boy was already looking back at his phone, and left the room while attempting to ignore all the stares drilled into her back.

As soon as the door shut behind her she released a breath. She hadn't expected Sasuke to be such a tense person; maybe that was why Naruto didn't like him? After all the blonde was rather out-going and free acting in a sense and Sasuke seemed more formal and well, just the complete opposite really.

"Maybe some space than time together later on would cure that block…" The pinked haired girl mumbled as she made her way down the hallway, to the stairs, and back onto the floor of her own homeroom.

She smiled at Yamato who glanced her way mid sentence and nodded. Sakura took up her claimed seat beside Naruto's desk from the first day of term and got her planner out.

"And just why are you late?"

"Mind your own businesses, Naruto."

"I think you're blushing…" Naruto leaned in closer to get a better look. His eyes widened then narrowed at the pink haired girl suspiciously. "Yeah, you are. What's that face for?"

"If you must know, I was talking to Kakashi." She brushed her bangs to the side and curled them over her right ear the best she could with angled cut bangs.

The blonde raised a brow at that. "Kakashi? As in perverted wanna-be doctor Kakashi?"

Sakura shot him a scolding look but nodded just the same. "Yes. He was currently giving out a goal plan to his homeroom class. Whoever keeps up the best work gets to be excluded from two of his test quizzes."

"Sooo...you're telling me he treats his homeroom students like a bunch of 1st graders?" Naruto muffled a chuckle somewhat but the growing grin was more than making up for the lacking sound. "Oh man, that is rich, Sakura. Wait til I tell Kiba during science."

Green eyes took on an uneasy gaze as they shifted away from the amused blonde to look at the classroom door and beyond it to the floor above and three rooms down from the left of the staircase landing. Sakura couldn't help but suddenly feel that maybe she should've kept that information to herself. Breathing out a sigh as the bell rang for first period, she quickly stood up and moved out of the room. It was a good thing Naruto didn't know that Sasuke was in Kakashi's homeroom and he seemed to have been completely serious when he spoke of just wanting to forget about last weekend.

Life at KHS was rolling smooth as any day to day time would when spending 8 hours of the day in a school building forced to take in new information or redressing old ones. A month had passed, entering in the colder weather of October and the annoying need to layer up only to take off those layers when the season chill suddenly felt like taking on a spring heat out of seemly nowhere on some days. It was bearable though. Like school.

But boredom was passed setting in as the freshness of a new year left and was replaced by regular repeated days of everyday life.

"I know the weekend is nearly here but that doesn't mean you can slack off because today is friday." Yamato stated as he swept his dark brown eyes over his homeroom class that barely looked to be paying him attention. He honestly couldn't blame them. He hadn't been ready for the year to start either and once it got going it was a pain to keep up with assignments and his planned out schedule. More so since some of his students, mainly those under senior year, pretended jetlag when it came to his class's homework assignments or projects. "If it helps sparks your engines to last til after fourth period, today will not be a full day."

"Why's that?"

"The headmaster has called for an assembly in the gym that will take place after your fourth period class. However you will not have lunch since you will be released directly after the-"

"AH SHIT, SERIOUSLY?" Naruto sat up in his seat for once, his blue eyes staring at Yamato with the same look he'd get when a bowl of ramen from the Ramen Shop would be set before him.

Sakura rolled her eyes and Sai merely hummed as he continued to work on the rough sketch of Naruto from where the blonde sat in the desk before him; his pencil drawing in the light outlines of the classroom and starting to draw Yamato's seated forming looking at Naruto.

"Langue Uzumaki, and yes, seriously." The man refocused his attention onto his class a full. "So remember to get all your assignments from your teachers before you make your way to the gym."

The day couldn't of ended fast enough despite knowing it'd be a short day.

Naruto sat between the edge of the bleacher and Sai; the later having took up the spot beside Kiba who had his other side filled by some kid neither of them knew. The blonde's form was hunched over, elbows resting upon his knees and his chin propped up upon his entwined fingers that currently formed a giant fist. His blue eyes tired as they watched the indoor gym room steadily fill with students and staff alike. It was hard to stay awake without the enjoyable break of lunch to restore his energy with.

The indoor room was on par with a professional one with its clean glossy state, gleaming wooden floors with the colored marks of the basketball court and school symbol of an all black dressed ninja slicing through a green veined leaf. Both entrances to the spacious room were crowded by the attending students still making their way to the steal silver bleachers that weren't taken already.

The only ones to remain standing a little ways away from the front row was Kakashi, Iruka, Orochimaru and principal Sarutobi along with the aged man's assistant who, if rumors were to be true about the woman, might be fired by the end of this year thanks to the mess she made of graduation for last year's seniors where the student council president had to take over just to smooth everything over. It was a shame she was getting so frizzled at her job since her body was quite the view for the male student body.

A sight Naruto and a few of his year had quickly taken notice of.

"Hey Naruto, think you could slid over so I can sit?"

The blonde lifted his gaze from the assistant's breasts to Sakura's face. His eyes dipped down to her chest then back to her face when he noticed she was as flat as when they first met. He shook his head in answer while sitting back some; mindful of the legs behind him.

"No?" Sakura looked confused, her slender brows furrowing to form the expression as she looked down at her friend. "Why not?"

"Cause you can sit here." He tugged her onto his lap, mentally noting Sakura was the kinda girl who had more ass than breast. "And don't complain cause you really have nowhere else to sit that's close by your friends."

"I do too have other friends than you, Kiba and Sai, Naruto." Snapped the girl as she wiggled in the blonde's grip holding her in place before he finally gave and let her go. "Jerk."

Naruto smirked at her; she was just too easy to mess with. "I know you mean love."

Before she could reply though the voice of their principal spoke up causing nearly everyone to quiet down. She sent a look at the blonde but stayed seated as there really was no point in moving now since it was starting.

"If some of you haven't guessed by now, I am the headmaster of this school, Sarutobi Hiruzen. Welcome to KHS even if I might be a few days late in saying so." The man gave a small laugh before continuing. "Now, as we are entering the second month and everyone has had the time to settle in and go with the motions of being back in school, club activities will be starting."

The talks of what the activities would be and so forth filled the gym room with an annoying reverberations that made a few people's ears ring oddly. Teachers hushed down the students, doing a rather good job of it too as none had to move from their spots. Mainly Orochimaru with his creepy smile landing on any rambunctious student followed in second by Kakashi and the man's teaching stick which was promptly taken away by Iruka with a scolding look.

"Now, the student council president will inform you of the clubs and then read off the new amendments and privileges." The old man motioned for someone within the stands to come forth.

A boy who looked no older than Sakura with sandy hair and faded grey eyes blue eyes that looked more like a pale purple in certain lighting, stepped down from one of the bleacher seats and came to stand beside the man. "My is Yagura Sanbi, junior year and elected student council president. I welcome you as well to KHS for those of you who are new to the school. I will continue to start with a list of rules set down upon agreement of the staff and seniors of last year's already departed class..."

The bell for lunch sounded just after the headmaster finished speaking about sports games played against other schools and what was expected of KHS during such events. Those interested in the topic had bothered to turn their attention away from their mobile device or mp3s; one of those being Naruto.

"Hey Kiba, what you think, man?" asked the blonde while pressing his arm against Sai's chest to push the teen back some while leaning over him a bit to get his voice better directed at the brunette. "Basketball this year?"

"Naruto, stop that." came Sakura's annoyed voice.

The blonde glanced to her with a raised brow. "Stop what?"

"Sai."

Naruto looked to the dark haired teen and stared a moment. Not connecting the issue Sakura seemed to have. "Yeah?"

"Wow. Just, never mind. Sai you wanna come with?" Sakura asked while standing up from the blonde's lap. "I wanna talk to Anko about something before we leave."

"Sure, I can pick up the other drawing pad I left in her classroom."

Naruto was then forced to lean back as Sai stood up and moved passed him to leave with Sakura. He watched them go before standing up himself and scratching his stomach through his red hoodie with an orange fox on it; a bit at a loss on what happened and how he was the cause of it.

"Damn man, you really are a blonde."

"Shut up Kiba." Naruto slung his arm over his friend's shoulders and the two walked off the silver seating to step down the stairs to the gym floor.

However a hard bump of the shoulders had the blonde pausing mid word and turning to look at the one who caused the contact. He caught sight of the back of someone's head with the most oddest hairstyle he ever did see. It looked like the back of a duck's ass; only black. Sending a glare at them he faced forward only to blink at the sudden appearance of a red-haired girl with pale skin in a pale purple leather looking kind of jacket that split off into two sides of some sort at the waist.

"Uh, sup?"

Kiba snorted lightly in amusement at the blonde's greeting.

"I remember seeing you at the party held at the start of the term, so I was wondering if you'd be interested to attend another? It's for this weekend."

The two boys exchanged a look before the darker haired of the pair shrugged and Naruto finally nodded. "Sure, what day and time?"

"Great! It's going to be real exciting, so bring your friends too and the info is on the back of this." She pulled out a card the same size as one a business person would have on them. "Just say my name, Karin, at the door and you won't have to pay the $10 bucks to get in."

"Isn't it a house party?" asked Kiba taking the card when another was offered to him.

Karin nodded. "It is, but how else do you think we pay for all the booze refills?"

Naruto nodded. Girl had a point. Kiba 'Aha' ed in reply. The girl offered them a wave before moving to another group of students and striking up a conversation with them too. The two boys left the gym for their lockers to exchange what they needed for the weekend and what not.

"Think we should tell Sakura about it?" Kiba asked as he flipped the white card over.

"Why not?"

"After the last one, I feel like she's gonna be more of a mother hen than a friend."

Naruto hummed at that, seeing his friend's point. He slipped his hands into his pants pockets after shaking his shoulders to make his backpack more centered as he walked out of the school building the dog-lover. "Sakura will probably find out and get more mad that we went and didn't tell her."

"Went where and didn't tell me what?"

Naruto nearly tripped over his own feet at her sudden voice. Jerking to look over his shoulder, he glared at her. "If you do that again I won't tell."

"Always so rude, Naruto." Sakura said with roll of her green eyes. "So what was it?"

"We got invited to this party this weekend. It's for saturday night around 9 til whenever I think." Kiba answered while handing over the card to Sakura; Sai looking over her slender shoulder to read the information printed there too. "Would you guys wanna join us?"

"Sure." Sakura answered with a smooth shrug of her left shoulder.

Sai however shook his head some. "I will have to decline. Denzo wanted me to help assist in his art gallery this weekend for a showing on sunday afternoon."

Naruto tilted his head some. "Putting up pictures takes a whole weekend?"

"There is more than that to a gallery event, my friend. However if you wish to stop by that wouldn't be awful." Sai replied coolly, a simple smile already formed on his face when those blue eyes landed upon him.

"Er, yeah ok. We'll see."

"Actually Naruto, I was wondering if you could help me re-dye my hair tonight?" the girl of their group asked while tugging on a few stands of the more dimly colored pink hair. "It's fading out and I don't want to go to the party looking dull."

Kiba snorted some. "Cause having pink hair is just so dull."

"Shut up, Inuzuka." Sakura huffed with a quick stick out of her tongue.

"Yeah I guess, didn't have anything else planned thanks to Kiba here promising his mom to help at the kennel." Naruto shot his best friend a look that got a shoulder shove in response.

"I told you man, she tricked me!" Kiba stated with a few motions of his hands as if that would help anything. "Although I rather help with the dogs than do Sakura's hair. So you two have fun!"

After some nagging and a bribe to have take out ramen from the Ramen Shop for dinner, Sakura managed to get Naruto to help her with her hair. They decided to do the dying process in the guest room where the blonde had taken to staying whenever he slept over on those now rare and few times as Sakura's mother no longer allowed them to sleep in the same room like when they were kids. Sakura's hair was wrapped up in a plastic bag, which the blonde's couldn't help but burst into laughter at and try to take a picture course that wasn't approved of and he was banished downstairs until the 30 minutes were up and a shower was taken to wash out the stuff.

"Alright jerk, you can come back up!" shouted Sakura's voice from upstairs.

Naruto heaved a dramatic sigh that went unseen and heard by anyone else but himself and stood up from his laid out pose upon the tanned couch. He had fond memories of this couch. The best one being the mega dog pile him, Sakura and Kiba had back when they were still in middle school.

Shaking his head some, he ruffled the back of his head and made his way upstairs. He paused at the guest room, checking to see if she was still in there without any luck, and went further down the hallway.

He paused in the doorway to Sakura's bedroom.

A room Naruto had been in so many times there was no point to even keep track. Hell, he had even slept over inside this pink decorated bedroom many times when they were younger and their parents had still found it cute to do so. So he was kinda thrown by the foreign feeling he was now getting just by looking into the room.

"Naruto? Why are you just standing there?"

And the blonde was thrown again. Sakura walked out of the bathroom in just an oversized red tank-top Naruto recalled seeing her father wear a summer ago and a pair of white ankle socks with seemly nothing else. He was startled to find his eyes drifting over her frame, gaze darting to the exposed creamy skin shown through the empty sleeve sockets of the tank-top that showed her bare slender arm and a good side portion of her upper ribcage. He was surprised when he caught sight of her breasts, she wasn't completely flat chested just smaller than the girls he had taken to noticing in their school. But they looked just as enticing as those girls. And he was at an utter loss on what to say.

"Naruto?" came Sakura's soft voice again; the tone more worried than questioning this time.

Naruto licked his lips quickly to remove the sudden dryness and offered a smile before walking into the room as if he hadn't just came to the previously escaping fact that Sakura was a girl and a rather pretty one at that with soft looking breasts . "Yeah, sorry, forgot how disgustingly pink your room was." He chuckled as he swiftly invaded the tossed teddy bear aimed for his head.

Sakura rolled her eyes, clearly not at all offended by the comment, and moved to take up a seat upon her bed, sitting cross-legged so the hem of her shirt slid up to reveal the bottom of hem of a pair of white sleeping shorts. Something Naruto found himself being half disappointed over and half relieved at. Either or wasn't something he wanted to linger on. They relaxed in a small silence, Naruto taking a seat upon the floor facing the bed and Sakura in turn; eyes dutifully trained on the girl's face.

"Thanks for the help. So did you call the place already?"

"Yeah, you took forever so I had to do something to pass the boredom."

Sakura picked up the remote to the t.v mounted upon her wall. "Well sorry-ee...anyways, wanna watch some Myth Busters?" She waved the remote at him with a growing smile. "I know you like watching it."

The sing song voice was a tad annoying but Naruto nodded. He did like the show after all. Sakura beamed at him, making him turn his head to cough into his shoulder for some reason, and shoved all her pillows onto the space of the floor directly at the end of her bed; ignoring Naruto's grunt when one smacked him in the face. Together they made the floor comfy to sit on like they did over the summer the last time Naruto had helped with the hair-dying and they watched a mins of the show before it was interrupted by the food getting there.

"You know the rule, no slurping noodles, Naruto." Sakura stated before passing over the blonde's ordered ramen to-go bowl and a set of chopsticks. "That last mess was killer to get out."

Naruto shot her a look while opening up his dinner. "I was only 11, let it go already."

"True...anyways, you and Kiba really going to another party?"

"Yeah. Why you asking, aren't you going?"

She shrugged some while digging into her own food. "I am. I'm just worried about a repeat. I didn't take you for the violent drunk type, you know."

Choking sounds could be heard in response.

With some help, Naruto was able to finally swallow safely. He set his gaze off the t.v screen onto Sakura's somewhat surprised face. "I am not a violent drunk. I don't get into fights much, just with Kiba and those don't really count."

"Fine, okay. That was the first time you drank anyways...but, can you promise not to get into any fights tomorrow night?"

"I definitely won't go looking for one."

"Hm, good enough I guess."

The two went back to watching the show. Sharing a well timed laugh when the scene called for it and just enjoyed the starting weekend night.

A/N: THE NEW CHAPTER 8 Sorry to those of you had to read the previous chapter 8 then this one. For that I will have chapter 9 completed along with chapter 10 hopefully. Don't quote me on that though since my cold is getting really heavy. SORRY FOR THE DELAYS!

If I missed any spelling mistakes, let me know, or don't, I'm good with either order. I will go through this chapter again for any myself later on, so they won't linger for long!

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