All right! This chapter took a little longer than expected -sorry for that- but I wanted to shape the following events according to my plans *Evil laugh* well! enjoy! and please review! :)
CHAPTER 6
The Day We Fought
The only thing interrupting the silence in the heavy atmosphere was the constant ticking of the pendulum clock hung over her head as she calmly scanned the room. The four walls were a pale green, and the three she had on sight had abstract and colorful paintings placed in the middle of each wall. To her right, behind the girl currently glaring daggers at her, sat a bookshelf full with psychology books, encyclopedias and many types of intellectual literature. Across from her sat the school secretary, who was shifting nervous glances between the girls sat in front of her and the files in her desk. Sakura inwardly sighed. "How did we even end up here?" she leaned her head against the wall, careful not to damage herself any further, and closed her eyes; remembering the events that got them to the principal's office in the first place.
She saw red. She had just finished her lunch when she saw a beautiful blond girl accompanied by two boys came in. She and Ten-ten got up and threw their trash and were walking out of the cafeteria when she heard it.
"How's it going fatso? Still gorging like a pig, I see" a delicate voice coated with mockery caught Sakura's attention. She glanced to see the pretty blond she saw before approaching a brown haired boy sitting in the far corner of the cafeteria, pursing his lips and looking down nervously, as if silently praying he could be invisible. His face reddened and his eyes watered as she reached the table, leaned in and whispered something Sakura couldn't hear; though she was sure it was an insult when the tear fell from his eye. The boys behind the blond snickered and threw the smaller boy's things across the room, scattering his notebooks, papers and books.
"What's the matter? Mouth too busy chewing to even say hello?" with a cruel laugh, the girl took his glass and was about to pour it on his head. Sakura had her by the arm before she even noticed. She felt her mouth move, she felt herself catch her breath to keep speaking, but she was so angry she couldn't hear a thing but the wrath inside of her. She squeezed her arm until the blond dropped the glass. She finally bothered to listen to the seething blond when she saw her face turn red from the anger, and when she paid close attention to her words, she heard her say:
"You little BITCH! Do you know how much these shoes cost?!"Sakura scoffed. She was more worried about her shoes than the hurt he was causing this poor kid? "I don't really care! They could be worth my house and I wouldn't care! All I care about right now is for you to apologize to him and promise not to do it again!" Their argument continued as the blond yelled her name and introduced herself as the principal's daughter. Sakura doesn't like threats as much as she dislikes people being mistreated. The last thing she heard was Ten-ten muttering "Oh shit" before she was consumed in rage again.
Sakura lightly pushed Ino away from the boy. She looked at her with angry icy blue eyes and released a loud shriek before leaping towards her and yanking Sakura's pink locks. She in turn grabbed her hands and tried to break free from Ino's grip on her hair. The two stumbled against tables and each other, pulling and pushing each other while Ino yelled different ways on how she would get Sakura expelled. The crowd around the two was getting livelier as they kept yelling "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Ino managed to push Sakura against a table and pin her on top of it by throwing her weight on her. "Huh, clearly you're not such a great fighter, Miss Yamanaka!" Sakura said, throwing her a glare. She took advantage of the blonde's momentarily confused expression to twist herself quickly out of her grip and pulling her by her long hair and flinging her across the narrow path between tables. The students "oohed" as she was slammed face-first against the wall and a cracking sound emerged from the collision. Ino released tears and a blood-curling scream and fell on her knees, holding her now broken and bleeding nose.
"Sakura!" said girl turned at the sound of her friend's voice. She saw the brunette was unsuccessfully trying to reach her through the sea of bodies. She tried to push through and weasel her way to the front; to either aid Sakura or get her out, she wasn't sure. Ten-ten continued to fight her way through when she saw the blonde beauty, now with a bleeding nose, get up and grab the stricken boy's tray. Before she could warn her, Ino had struck Sakura with the plastic lunch tray in the back of the head. The pink haired girl fell to the floor with a thud, and for a moment, everyone was still. Quiet. Shocked. Expectant. Ten-ten felt her breath leave her when she saw her friend's blood start to ooze out of her head and tinting her hair a deep crimson. Ino's eyes widened in horror; thinking for a moment that she had killed the meddlesome girl. Before she could utter a word or even see if the pink haired girl was alive, she felt her feet leave the ground and a massive pain on her side. Ten-ten, after seeing Sakura's blood, didn't think twice before jumping into action. She cleared a path to the nearest table and jumped from it right into the blonde's side, tackling her to the ground and pinning her down. "I'll kill you!" she said as she started punching the pretty blonde's face. She punched Ino's already broken nose, her mouth, her cheeks and chin, making her head constantly collide with the floor.
The crowd gasped and the boys who were with Ino- until now just watching- jumped into the circle formed around the fighting girls. Each boy took Ten-ten by the arms and dragged her off and away from Ino, holding her with a bruising grip. She struggled against their iron grip as she watched Ino stand up and approach her. Ten-ten managed to land a swift kick on her stomach before being thrown and pressed into the ground by the boys holding her. She struggled to breathe with their weight in her back. She was lightheaded and slightly sore from the pressure the muscled boys were exerting on her, and she could feel herself starting to faint. She could also feel a headache forming when her head hit the cold tile and the side of her face was pinned with the rest of her body. Ten-ten couldn't move. She glanced at Sakura and saw that she was conscious, looking at her and mouthing "I got this" with a tired, pained smile. She figured Sakura was just as –if not more- dizzy than she was, considering the growing amount of blood dripping from her now completely red hair. The last thing Ten-ten heard before the dizziness took over was a strong, echoing voice yell "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!"
Sakura's thoughts were interrupted as the door leading to the principal's office opened and a tall blond woman came out. She leaned against the door frame and looked at each of the students seated in her waiting office. Sakura managed to identify the surprise in the woman's amber colored eyes before she steeled herself. She paid no attention to their current battered states and straightened up. Her strong and commanding voice broke the silence "All right, all of you, in my office NOW"
Tsunade wasn't having a good day. She was woken up by the sounds of knocking on her door. She opened her eyes and lifted her head, looking around the room and realizing that once again, she spent the night at the office. Her door opened to reveal her assistant and old friend Shizune walk through the door with a pill and glass of water in her hands and walked to her desk as if this occurrence, where Tsunade spent the night in the office, shifting between doing paper work and drinking, was something common. Her head was pounding and she was feeling nauseous and lightheaded; she glanced at Shizune when she noticed she was talking.
"Please shut the hell up. I just woke up from another all-nighter and I'm really not in the mood for your problems" Shizune shook her head, her moving short black hair momentarily distracting the hung-over blonde. Yes, as much as the very intellectual Tsunade hated to admit it, she was easily distracted.
"Well if you must know Tsunade, it's already twelve thirty; you've already slept through half the day. And even more importantly, there's been a huge fight in the cafeteria, and all the students involved are currently waiting for you in the waiting room. Now sober up and do your job" she said calmly, giving her blond friend a knowing look and handing her the pill. Tsunade took the painkiller and glass and waved Shizune off.
"Sure, sure, get me their files; I'll be out in a few". She walked to her door and looked in the mirror hanging on it. She fixed her disheveled strawberry blond hair into two low pigtails, wiped off her smudged make-up and changing her rumpled, wrinkled white shirt for an identical one stored in the cabinet in the far corner beside her desk. Giving herself one final look in the mirror, she turns the doorknob and leans in the doorway to see who the troublemakers were, to say she was surprised was an understatement. The students waiting for her were those who she thought she would never see in her office, or at least most of them. "What in the world happened while I was out cold? A civil war?" with slight disappointment of missing a good fight, and –of course- surprised at the almost impossible sight that greeted her, she decided to speak. Clearly, commanding and curt; just the way she liked it.
"All right, all of you, in my office, NOW!" The six students stood quietly and quickly scuttled into the office. They each took a seat in front of the mahogany desk as Tsunade walked to her chair while studying their faces carefully. The odd girl with pink hair was holding an ice pack against the back of her bandaged head, blood caked in her hair and skin; a brunette girl with a bruised cheek, and her niece with a broken nose and bruised cheeks. To say she was surprised was an understatement, though she would never admit to anyone but Shizune she almost laughed at Ino's embarrassed, enraged and humiliated expression. She turned to the remaining three; a blushing, nervous chubby boy, a slightly irritated blond with scratches on his cheeks, and another she thought she would never had to deal with directly. She glanced at each of their files before deciding to speak her mind.
"Well, out of all these surprising events" she said as she pulled out the chair "I would like YOU to explain how you could possibly be involved in all this" she said as she pointed at one of the students with a questioning look. Out of all of the students in Konoha High, the one she least expected to ever see in her office was this reserved boy. She had to blink a few times to make sure she wasn't dreaming or still under the influence of all the rum she consumed the previous night.
He sighed "Well, it's a long story" he cast an annoyed glance of the brown haired boy beside him, who in turn laughed nervously and offered a quick apology.
"Oh don't worry Mr. Uchiha, that's what we're here for. Please do tell me how you were involved in the cafeteria warfare" she said with a hint of dry humor.
And so, with another heavy sigh, Sasuke started to explain how he ended up in the middle of the cafeteria when Sakura confronted Ino.
End of the chapter! :D I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The next chapter will include Sasuke's side of the story and how he's involved in this mess ;D I hope you look forward to it!
-Aiiro Hart
