Hi! Ok guys if you have not voted this is the last time you may vote before I go and close the polls. As of now the top five guys are: Gaara, Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, and Sai (order does not matter). So if you're favorite guy is not in the running, get him in there! The next chapter will mostly be the top five guys making their move or finding out they like Sakura too. I just read my whole story over and I was so embarrassed at all the mistakes I made. Enjoy this chapter!
Previous Chapter 9:
"OH MY GOSH!" Sakura yelled at the top of her lungs. She pulled out a basketball jersey signed by her favorite basketball player.
"This is the best birthday present ever!" Sakura giggled hugging the life out of Rock Lee. She ran up to her room to try it on.
Rock Lee blushed as he watched her run up the steps. He then heard growling and people cracking their knuckles.
"Can't we all be friends?" Rock Lee shrieked as Itachi grabbed the collar of his shirt.
"Let's take him outside," Sasuke suggested the fire inside his eyes burning.
Sakura came back down stairs to thank everyone for coming and wished them all a good night.
"That was a very nice present that boy gave you," Sakura's dad smiled.
"Yeah, it was," Sakura grinned.
"Goodnight dad," Sakura called climbing the steps.
"Goodnight Sakura," he dad called back heading towards his room.
Meanwhile
Rock Lee was tied to a tree, his pants stolen. He sighed as he heard a dog howl at the full moon.
"Well, at least she hugged me," Rock Lee grinned thinking about Sakura.
"Ok, time to do survival tip 82," he said to himself working on the ropes.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, just to let you know.
Chapter 10: School Spirit and Sakura's Lips
"I cannot believe a whole month of school is finally over," Kiba cheered with joy.
"I know, it went so fast," Sakura smiled as they all walked to their homeroom.
"And we're going to go to a pep rally today," Naruto grinned. "I heard they're selling ramen at the concession stand.
"Who wants to eat ramen at a pep rally?" Gaara wondered.
"Tons of people," Naruto snapped as they walked into the room. "Everybody loves ramen."
"I don't," Neji stated as he walked by.
"Thanks a lot, you just ruined my point," Naruto announced loudly to the class.
"Don't worry about him," Kiba said. "Wait to we see those CHEERLEADERS!" Kiba sang.
"I heard that their skirts are shorter than last year," Shino said.
"Shino," Sakura gasped. "I'm very surprised at you; I thought you weren't a pervert."
"I'm not," Shino stated. "I'm just saying because that is the only reason they are so happy."
Sakura patted Shino's head. "You're my good boy," Sakura implied rubbing his head.
"Hey what about me?" Gaara pointed to himself.
"Remember the stripper," Sakura glared.
"That's not fair, I didn't ask to see her boobs," Gaara said defensively.
"But you didn't close your eyes," Sakura added.
"What about me?" Shikamaru asked lazily.
"Umm…I guess you're not a pervert too," Sakura thought walking over to him and giving him a back massage.
"That is totally unfair," Naruto gasped. "I saw Shikamaru looking up your skirt."
"When?" Shika stated.
"Umm…like…last…day..no..week," Naruto said weakly.
"You have no proof," Shikamaru said smugly. "I wouldn't do that anyway."
Itachi walked into homeroom and saw Sakura massaging the boy with the pineapple hair. He decided to investigate.
"So am I next?" Itachi smirked looking at Sakura.
"She is only rewarding people who aren't perverted and apparently I'm a pervert," Gaara said icily.
"And you fail badly," Kiba informed Itachi.
"I'm not a pervert," Neji replied as he took a seat next to Sakura.
"Please when I sat next to you in Geometry, you fell asleep and I heard you whispering about you and Sakura, handcuffs, chocolate syrup and a whip," Naruto blurted out pointing his fingers.
"Ah that was a good dream," Neji blushed looking away.
"What exactly was I doing in this dream?" Sakura asked rubbing Shika's neck who was now asleep on his desk.
"Oh you had handcuffed me to a pole, you whipped me with the whip and told me to roar like a lion, then you took the handcuffs off of me and told me to lick the chocolate sauce off your body," Neji explained.
Everyone then took three steps back. Kakashi decided to poof in to share with the class one of his lame excuses for why he was late.
"Anyway," Naruto started. "I can't wait for that pep rally," he smiled rubbing his hands together.
"I don't like that face you're making; you're up to something," Sakura glared at him.
"I am innocent until proven guilty," Naruto insisted holding his hand up.
"He's got something planned," Gaara stated as everyone glanced at him.
"It's always the dumb ones," Neji chuckled.
"I'm not dumb," Naruto snapped. "I'm smarter then you.
"Please if you were smarter, I still would be better looking than you," Neji smirked.
"I am a hunk," Naruto said flexing his muscles. "And Sakura would pick me any day over you."
"Oh really," Neji smirked. He slid closer to Sakura. "So baby, who would you rather date me or loudly over there?"
"Do not pull me into this," Sakura warned them.
"Come on Sakura, Neji or me," Naruto whined.
"Umm….well…"
Brrrriiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg!
"Oh look it's time for geometry," Sakura said grabbing her stuff and heading out the door.
"Hey hot stuff, yeah," Deidara grinned, passing her in the hallway.
"Hot stuff," Sakura muttered to herself.
Gaara was the last person to come to the lunch table. He set his food down on the table and took his seat. He took a bite of his burger before Sakura popped the question.
"Gaara, do you think I'm hot?" Sakura asked
Gaara then begin to choke on his burger. Naruto came over and beat him on his back.
"I saved your life that will be five bucks," Naruto teased holding his hand out.
"Shut up, dobe," Gaara struggled to say as he took a sip of milk.
"Well," Sakura said anxiously waiting for an answer.
"Well…er…you're a very…attractive girl," Gaara said staring at his tray playing with his fries.
"Attractive," Kiba snorted. "Sakura is beautiful."
"She's hottie with a body," Naruto added.
"Excuse me?" Sakura hissed.
"Well," Naruto said staring at her chest. "You must be a C-cup."
Sakura blushed and covered her chest from view.
"You sure know how to be blunt," Shikamaru said irritated he was woken from his nap.
"What?" Naruto said innocently.
"If can guess the size of them that means you have been looking at them pretty hard," Shino pointed out.
Naruto blushed. "I was just investigating."
"What's with the sudden question?" Gaara wondered.
"Oh I was just wondering since everybody keeps saying it and I don't know why," Sakura informed them.
"So you don't think you're hot?" Kiba wanted to know.
"No," Sakura answered honestly. "Just average."
"Well you're wrong," Shino said angrily.
"Totally wrong," Naruto protested.
"Thanks guys but you don't have to lie to me," Sakura smiled picking the pepperonis off her pizza and eating them.
"We're not lying Sakura," Shika assured her.
"YEAH I WOULD TOTALLY KISS YOU RIGHT NOW!" Naruto howled standing on top of the table in front of her.
The cafeteria went silent as everyone looked at Naruto hovering over Sakura.
"Get off the table now before I kill you," Sakura whispered harshly yanking his pants leg. Naruto sat down quickly and started his tenth cup of ramen. Everyone went back to what they were doing as Sakura glared at Naruto for the rest of lunch.
Sakura strolled on to history class when Itachi popped up. "So you are going to sit next to me during the pep rally?" Itachi said.
"Aren't you a senior?" Sakura pointed out.
"Yeah," Itachi answered.
"Then shouldn't you stay on the senior side?" Sakura reminded him.
"I can sneak you over," Itachi encouraged.
"No thanks," Sakura replied walking into their class.
"You don't like me?" Itachi said slowly.
"Look I just don't want to sit by you okay," Sakura said annoyed.
"But you didn't say you didn't like me," Itachi teased.
"I don't like you," Sakura said bitterly sitting down at their table.
Itachi smirked. "I think you're lying."
"Who is lying?" Tobi wanted to know as he came over.
"She says she doesn't like me," Itachi announced.
"Of course she doesn't like you, she like me," Tobi declared to everyone.
Sasori walked in and took his seat next to Sakura. "She doesn't like any of you so will you just leave her alone and let us all get some peace."
"Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Tobi mumbled under his breath.
Asuma-sensei walked into the classroom. "Okay we are going to head to the pep rally for 5th and 6th so make sure you take all your stuff with you," he commanded as the students hurried out to the gym.
"So are you going to sit with me?" Itachi asked again.
"No she's going to sit by me," Tobi corrected linking arms with Sakura.
Kin grabbed Itachi and pulled him away. "You can sit by me," she giggled fluttering her eyelashes. Itachi was then grabbed by his other fan girls and pulled away.
"See we have nothing to worry about," Tobi smirked moving his arm to wrap around her waist. At the exact moment Tobi's fan girls came and dragged him away but not before glaring at Sakura.
Sakura spotted Naruto and Gaara with Ino linked onto his arm. "Hey guys…Ino," Sakura greeted them.
"Whatever," Ino muttered staring at Gaara. Sakura fell back to talk to Naruto.
"Why is Ino holding onto Gaara?"
"She wouldn't let go so Gaara said if she held onto him for the entire pep rally she would have to leave him alone for an entire month," Naruto replied filling her in.
"And she agreed to this," Sakura said.
"Yeah she said she would admire him from afar," Naruto said quoting Ino's words.
"Interesting," Sakura said hesitantly. She didn't know why but she didn't like Ino holding onto Gaara like that.
They walked inside the gym to find it decorated with streamers and banners. The bleachers were pulled out; the band set up and of course the cheerleaders stretching on the mat their skirts riding up.
"They're trying to kill us," Kiba stated as he walked in.
"I know Sakura should have been a cheerleader," Naruto replied.
"That would be hot," Kiba agreed looking at her.
Sakura was paying them no attention because she was looking at Rock Lee dressed as a ninja in really super tight black leggings.
Rock Lee jogged over and planted himself in front of her. "I'm the school mascot," he grinned. "I bring the youthful cheer to everyone.
"Right," Sakura said disgusted wondering how he was able to squeeze in those little things.
"Well I'm going to go sit down," Sakura said backing away slowly.
"Okay don't forget to scream as loud as you can," Rock Lee suggested putting his mask on.
Sakura went up the bleachers and saw Naruto and Kiba had saved her a seat in between them. She headed for her spot when someone yanked her. Deidara was holding onto her upper arm.
"What do you want?" Sakura snapped.
"Feisty," Deidara teased.
"I'm just tired of everybody pulling me around," Sakura said bitterly.
"I'm sorry," Deidara whispered his expression softened. He lowered his head down and kissed on the cheek.
Sakura blushed a deep red as he grinned and walked away. Sakura glanced at his butt as he left. She blushed even more.
"What is wrong with me?" Sakura whispered to herself. She moved out of the way and squished in between Naruto and Kiba, her thigh rubbing against Kiba's leg.
Lady Tsuande the principal walked out into the middle of the gym.
"Hello everybody! As you all know, I am your Principal, Lady Tsuande. We're going to have a great pep rally. But first, let's give it up for our mascot, Rock Lee!" She stepped off to the side to let Rock Lee run by clapping with the other administrators and teachers.
As soon as Rock Lee came on the scene, yelling stuff about youth, everybody started booing him and threw their food at him.
"Ahhhhhh!" Rock Lee screamed as a box of nachos hit him the face and a soda landed in his hair. "Why must youth be treated this way?" he questioned. He then ran off.
Naruto stood up, a bowl of ramen in his hand. "Boo, you suck!" And he threw his ramen at Rock Lee. Then Naruto suddenly realized that he just threw his favorite thing in the world.
"NOOOOOO, MY RAMEN!" Naruto yelled. He then started to go down the steps of the bleachers and down to the gym floor. He then scooped up the ramen of the floor and put in back in the bowl with the other noodles that had miraculously managed to stay in the bowl. He then started to eat it on the spot.
"Hmmmm," he said in a dreamy voice, closing his eyes. "It's still good."
Of course everybody saw and gave Naruto disgusted looks.
The cheerleaders on the floor backed away from him "Ewwwwww! That's disguising!"
"What a weirdo," the captain said the best looking girl on the team. All the other girls agreed.
Naruto having heard their comments turned to look at them and gasped.
"You don't like me?"
"We don't like weird guys," the captain stated
"WHY!" Naruto yelled. Tsuande glared at Naruto and he ran back to his seat in the bleachers. Everyone stared at Naruto for a moment or two then turned away.
Naruto sniffed. "They don't like me."
"Now I can have a chance with them. No competition," Kiba grinned. "As if there was any before," he smirked looking at Naruto.
Naruto glared at him, and continued to eat his ramen.
"Kiba be nice." Sakura scolded.
"Fine." Kiba muttered hypnotized by the short skirts the cheerleaders were wearing.
Lady Tsuande was annoyed by this whole fiasco, the attack from the audience on Rock Lee and Naruto interrupting the pep rally with the ramen disaster.
"Moving along," she said, glaring at the students giving an extra glare to Naruto who quivered in his seat, "the cheerleaders will now start of the pep rally."
The cheerleaders stood up and grabbed their pom-poms. Some of them did a little bit more stretching. One of them bent over and a lot of the guys started whistling and then the girls got into position.
"Geez, they're a lot of perverts at our school." Sakura said to herself.
Lady Tsuande gave the guys a look and the whistling ceased.
"Let's give it up for our cheerleaders!" Everyone started clapping. Some of the guys stood up and cheered and whistled. Kiba and Naruto did the same. Sakura shot them a dirty look and they sat back down quickly.
Lady Tsuande gave another glare and the whistling stopped and they sat back down.
The music started and the girls started doing their routine. Every now and then a guy would whistle and Lady Tsunade would scan the crowds, searching for the culprit.
Finally the routine came to an end and everybody clapped and cheered especially the guys, who were the loudest.
"THAT WAS NOTHING, SAKURA CAN DO A SPLIT, SHE'S VERY FLEXIBLE" Naruto yelled for the whole school to hear.
"You are going to die a slow and painful death," Sakura growled yanking Naruto back into his seat.
"And now put your hands together for our student body president, Itachi Uchiha!"
Itachi sauntered out to the middle of the gym floor and smiled at the audience. The gym then became loud with the squeals and shouts of his many fan girls.
"Marry me, Itachi!" a random girl screamed out.
Sakura stared at Itachi in disbelief. "W-w-w-what?" She stuttered. "Itachi's the president? This is rigged! I mean seriously, what has the world come too?"
When the screaming had died down, Itachi then started talking about a fundraiser/ competition between the freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
"I know what you mean Sakura. I mean who would want him, when they can have me?" Kiba asked.
"Kiba you can't run for president." Sakura rolled her eyes.
"Yet," he smirked.
"Please," Naruto started. "Who would want to vote for you when they can have me?"
"The only reason someone you would get a vote for is if a) you bribed them with something good. I mean if you're going against this," Kiba pointed to himself, "you have to give them something really good. Or b) they checked the wrong name on the ballot.
And then they were at it Naruto and Kiba arguing about who would be a better president.
"You guys, quit it!" Sakura snapped.
Naruto and Kiba stopped arguing. They then gave each other a dirty look before turning back to Itachi.
"…reach our goal, thank you," he finished.
Tsuande came back out onto the gym floor to introduce the football team. All the players came out dress in their black pants and neckties.
Sakura's mouth fell open. "Sasuke is on the football team," she shrieked. "This is unbelievable,"
The pep rally continued with more boring speeches that Sakura sat through and the band playing music. When the pep rally ended they were to head to their 7th period.
Sakura sat down in her chair as she waited for the other students to enter.
When everyone was seated their teacher, Baki announced that they would be working on a group project today. Since Sakura was the only girl in the class, every guy wanted her to be in their group. Soon she was being yanked back and forth.
"She's going to work with us," a boy named Axel said pulling on her left arm.
"No she's with us," growled another boy pulling on her right.
"Okay I'm not stretchable," Sakura said irritated. "You have 3 seconds to let go of my arms or you're going to be in a world of pain."
The boys dropped her arms like they were on fire and backed away.
"I will be assigning your groups," Baki clarified for everyone.
"Awwwww come on," the guys cried.
Baki glared at the students. "Deidara, Sai, you will be working with Sakura," he commanded. He then started assigning the other groups.
"Isn't this great?" Deidara chuckled.
"Not really," Sakura and Sai said in union.
"Hag," Sai smirked.
Sakura sat silently in her seat glaring at Sai.
"What, can't think of a good comeback?" Sai teased.
"Well I would say something but I was taught if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all and I really don't want to see you crying," Sakura corrected him.
"You want-"
"Hey will you stop flirting with her, yeah" Deidara snarled.
"Flirting?" Sai choked. "Why would I want to flirt with ugly?"
"If you like a girl, you always pick on her and call her names," Deidara pointed out.
"Boys do that in elementary," Sai stated.
"Well you're not very mature so what can you except," Deidara snorted.
Sai got up in Deidara's face. "Do you want to fig-"
Sakura jumped in the middle. "Hey let's break it up," Sakura suggested pushing them apart. Baki walked over to their table and placed a digital camera on the desk.
"Okay you will be taking pictures of each other and forming it into some type of collage," Baki enlightened them. "You have until the end of class."
Deidara picked up the camera and took a picture of Sakura. "What are you doing?"
"I just took a picture of your lips," he declared looking at the camera.
"Why?" Sakura asked confused.
"You have really nice lips, yeah" Deidara smiled. "There so pink and full."
"And there really soft," Sai added in.
"WHAT?" Deidara bawled.
"Remember I gave her CPR at Itachi's party last month," Sai informed him.
"Oh I remember now," Deidara sighed.
"They tasted just like strawberries," Sai laughed looking at Sakura.
"Can we talk about something else?" Sakura requested of them.
"And I love how her bottom lip is slightly bigger than her top lip," Deidara told.
"Seriously, we need to talk about something else," Sakura pressed this time.
"And ugly wears just the right amount of lip gloss, not too much but not too little," Sai replied.
"Yeah and she-"
"Okay that's enough about my lips," Sakura complained. She then snapped a photo of Sai and passed the camera on. The group finished the project, turned it in and packed up their things. While Sakura was stuffing her book bag, Deidara asked her if she was going to the Halloween party.
"What Halloween party?" Sakura asked curiously.
"Halloween's in two weeks and Neji's going to have a party," Deidara answered.
"Neji?" Sakura frowned.
"Yeah he held the party last year and I know he is a pervert but it was a great party, yeah" Deidara hooted.
"I'll think about it," Sakura told him.
"So what are you going to be?" Deidara asked hesitantly hoping for something good.
"I don't know," Sakura said.
"I think you should be a cheerleader, yeah," Deidara suggested.
Sakura glared at him.
"I think you make a hot cheerleader," Deidara smirked walking down the hallway.
"Boys," Sakura muttered to herself.
Sakura saw friends in the parking lot and went to go join them. A body then stepped in front of her cutting her off.
"So you can go on a date with Itachi but not me?" Sasuke frowned.
"Who said I was going on a date with Itachi?" Sakura groaned wondering who was spreading rumors.
"Itachi did and he told me if I didn't believe him to ask you," Sasuke clarified.
"Well it's not true," Sakura admitted trying to get away.
Sasuke stepped closer to her. "What's the hurry?"
"I have to leave," Sakura snarled glaring at him. "Don't you have anything better to do, football practice or something?"
"No I don't have practice-" Sasuke froze in mid sentence.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"He tricked me, that new flat screen television is coming today," Sasuke growled. "And by talking to you he can get home faster and have it installed in his room."
Sasuke glanced down at her like he was going to do something, but changed his mind. "I got to go," Sasuke breathed as he ran off quickly.
Sakura watched as he got in a limo and drove off. She headed towards her friends.
"Where's your girlfriend?" Sakura asked Gaara glancing around.
Gaara glared at her hard. "Very funny," Gaara scowled. "Do you know she tried to follow me into the restroom?"
"She is obsessed," Kiba grinned.
"Did you guys know there is going to be a Halloween party at Wedgie boy's house?" Naruto blurted out.
"Yeah I heard about it," Sakura admitted.
"I'm going to be Batman," Naruto smiled putting his hands on his waist.
"You're going to look stupid," Gaara smirked.
"I'm going as a fireman with no shirt," Kiba beamed taking off his shirt at that moment. Sakura looked as the newly formed six-pack Kiba had gotten and blushed deeply.
"What are you going to be Shika?" Sakura asked Shika trying to distract herself from looking at Kiba's chest.
"I," he answered.
"You're no fun," Naruto whined.
"What about you Shino…Shino?"
They all gazed at Shino helping a bug that had two missing legs.
"Anyway I think you should be a cheerleader Sakura," Kiba grinned.
"You too," Sakura complained.
"No I think you would make an excellent stripper and give lap dances," Naruto grinned.
Naruto was on the ground in two seconds flat. Sakura's dad pulled up and she headed for the car.
"Bye guys, see you later," she waved as she headed for the car. "Don't forget to wake up Naruto."
Gaara, Shino, Kiba and Shikamaru left to go home leaving Naruto knocked out in the school parking lot.
I'm sorry this chapter is short and maybe uninteresting; I'm have been busy with school and writing my new story. The next chapter will be two weeks in advanced, the day of the Halloween party. I don't have a clue what to dress Sakura as, so if you have any ideas tell my in your reviews. Thank you to everyone who reviewed I was so happy. If I could I would share my piece of strawberry cake with you guys, but you can't send food through the computer. (That would be so cool) Until next time! :)
