Chapter 5
"NARUTO YOU LITTLE PUNK!"
Tsunade yelled as she slammed the door open, "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO KEEP QUIET IN MY HOSPITAL!-?"
She tapped her foot patiently waiting for an explanation. She was making her afternoon rounds around Sakura's floor and was annoyed by the sounds of 'oohing' and 'awing' in Sakura's room, followed by yells of disbelief and shock.
"Okaa-sama," Sakura smiled from her place in the bed a yellow blanket covering her lower half. "Good afternoon."
"Sakura," She smiled back. "Now, will you please tell me why the hell Naruto here was so noisy?" She mentioned motioning towards the blonde who was furiously scribbling down notes.
"YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT BAA-CHAN!" Naruto exclaimed slamming the book down. "Sakura-chan answered all of my homework and they were all right! Even the ones that we haven't even studied!"
Tsunade stopped and looked at the pile of books scattered around the bed along with some pens and paper.
Sakura blushed. "It's not that impressive, Naruto—"
"Well you were always the child genius, sakura." Tsunade smirked. "Or maybe Naruto's just that stupid."
"Hey! I'm not stupid!" He pouted, "I just hate math that's all! I mean seriously!" Naruto slammed the book open to some random page.
"Why do we even have to study about triangles!-?"
Sakura giggled and patted him on the head. "It's okay Naruto you'll get it."
He blushed and pouted once more. "Come on Sakura-chan don't treat me like a little kid anymore! I'm a High school student not that dinky little elementary student you used to know!"
"Hai, hai." She smiled and pinched his whiskered cheek. "I know."
"Mou, Sakura-chan…"
"AH!" they both turned towards Tsunade who looked like she was about to be hit by a bus. "I just remembered something!"
"What?" The two said together.
"Hey, Naruto." She grinned. "How's my old sensei, Hiruzen doing?"
"DAMNIT! NARUTO'S A REAL IDIOT!" Kiba yelled as he slammed his fist down the table, students around him cringed as the table began to buckle. "He goes off challenging all these gangs then he goes somewhere to goof off and leaves us to fend for ourselves!" He growled kicking a chair down.
A tan brunette with his hair tied up which made him slightly resemble a pineapple, His name is Shikamaru.
Shikamaru yawned and laid his head down on his desk. "Troublesome… you could always back down when they come."
"DAMNIT SHIKAMARU!" He yelled. "YOU KNOW WE CAN'T DO THAT!"
A brown haired fa—err chubby boy who was stuffing his face with potato chips frowned and asked "Why not?"
"AAARRGGH!" Kiba flipped the desk over and kicked the chair aside. "ARE YOU GUYS THAT DENSE!"
The two brunettes gave him blank stares as he continued to kick the desk around.
"KONOHA IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TOUGHEST GANGS HERE IN THIS DISTRICT! IF WE GO AROUND REFUSING FIGHTS PEOPLE WILL THINK OF US AS WIMPS!" He yelled.
"And that's bad . . . why?"
"SHIKAMARU YOU –"
"Okay Kiba I think that's enough, you've already terrorized half of the class" The class all turn to see their silver headed sensei; Kakashi Hatake enter the room with his usual bored slouch and orange book in hand.
"Kakashi" He growled. "You're late!"
"That's Kakashi-sensei to you, Inuzuka." Kakashi glared as he made his way to the front of the class. "And besides I have a valid reason for being late today."
Shikamaru yawned but urged him to continue. "And what would that be?"
"Traffic."
"What? *munch* that's it?" Chouji frowned as he took his seat near his three friends. "No old ladies? Cats? Dogs?"
"I said that I had one, but that didn't meant it was a good one—wait a minute." His lone black eye scanned the room. "Where's the idiot?"
The whole class was silent as they glanced around each other quietly asking around.
"N-no one h-has seen him s-since yesterday, H-Hatake-sensei." A meek raven haired girl stuttered out, Hinata Hyuuga.
"Oh? I haven't seen Uchiha as well, but that's normal." Kakashi sighed as he took out a log book for morning attendance. "Well everyone settles down so I can—"
"I'M HERE!" The door slammed open revealing a heavily panting Naruto with his hair and uniform tussled up his book bag-bags thrown over his shoulder.
"I made it!" He took a deep breath in. "I'm not late."
"Ohayo Naruto," Kakashi gave him his eye-crinkle of a smile. "I'm glad that you could make it today, and you are in fact late."
"OH COME ON!" He threw the bags down. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT OLD MAN HIRUZEN WANTED TO TALK TO ME!-!"
Kakashi raised his perfect silver brow in confusion. "And why would Sarutobi-sama be talking to you? Did you do something stupid again?"
"NO! I didn't do anything!" He pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. "I was just supposed to show Sa—"
"NARUTO!" Kiba yelled as he stomped over to the pouting blonde. "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!-? DO YOU KNOW WHAT BIG PAIN IN THE ASS THOSE OTO PUNKS HAVE BEEN TO US IN THE PAST WEEK BECAUSE YOU WERE OFF SOMEWHERE SEEING YOUR IMAGINARY GIRL!-?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IMAGINARY!-?"
"OH PLEASE!" Kiba snorted. "AS IF SOME GIRL WOULD ACTUALLY BE INTERESTED IN A FAG LIKE YOU!"
"LIKE YOU'RE ONE TO TALK DOG-BOY!"
"HEY CHICKS HAPPEN TO DIG DOGS!"
"IN WHAT PLANET!-?"
"WELL—! AT LEAST I'M NOT A DUMB BLONDE!" He yelled out but completely regretting it after he heard a rather high pitch squeal.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY KIBA!-?" Ino screeched as she stomped over to the two bickering boys, "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT BLONDES!-?"
BAM!
"That's enough." Kakashi glared at the three which immediately silenced the whole class. "Everyone back to your seats, and Naruto?"
"Y-yes Kaka-sensei?" Naruto stammered as he took in his teacher's angry state.
Kakashi sighed, "Just who were you showing around?"
"Oh!" He smiled brightly as he scratched the back off his neck in a sheepish manner a small blush making its way on his cheeks. "Actually I was showing my childhood friend around, she's gonna be attending here soon so old man Sarutobi thought it would be okay if I show her around before class but we went to stop from ramen, miso ramen actually but I wanted beef but sakura-chan wanted miso so I also got miso but I still wanted to eat beef ramen so I bought another—"
"Naruto!"
"Yeah?"
"Enough about the ramen!" Kakashi massaged his temples in a poor way to settle his stressed nerves, "What about your childhood friend?"
"I almost forgot! Haha!" He laughed. "Sorry 'bout that Kakashi-sensei, as I was saying I was showing sakura-chan around, that's why I was late!"
"Naruto?"
"Hmm?"
"Where is this 'Sakura-chan'?"
"What are you talking about she's right he—" He paused and looked at the empty space behind him.
"…"
"…"
"-CHAAAAAAAAAAAN!" Naruto yelled out as he bolted out the door dropping the bags he was previously holding.
Kakashi stared out the open door and sighed. 'That boy will never learn…'
"Okay, shall we get started?" He smiled. "Open your books to pages…"
"Where are you Naruto?" Sakura pouted as she took a seat in one of the park benches in the empty school grounds, it had been precisely 50 minutes after Naruto had ran off leaving her in the wake of his dust.
"I swear that boy never changes…" She smiled a small smile as she looked at the big oak tree in the middle of the court yard, its leaves dancing along with the wind.
She stood up and slowly made her way towards the tree humming her little lullaby, she placed her hand on the bark loving the rough texture of the wood beneath her fingers. Smiling she turned around allowing the bark to touch her back as she slid down and took a seat beneath the shade of the tree. Still humming she leaned back and allowed the soft breeze to sweep her long pink tresses, getting lost in her own little world.
"Sakura . . .chan?"
Opening her eyes, she met cold and dark onyx.
"Sasuke. . ."
re-written: 10/31/11