Chapter 2
The Jamaican Sakura meeting Team 7
Dang it. Do you know the best way to make a day worst for yourself? Get your mother pissed off, that's how. Now she won't let me write as a way of communicating just because of a few lousy grapes! Granted, the grapes tasted really good, but that's not the point! My point is that I can't be quiet any more! Man! It was just a few grapes! I didn't even finish all of the grapes…okay; maybe I would have if I was given the time, but still! That's got to count for something!
Feh. Stupid grapes.
I found this mythology book though! Ain't that awesome?
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When I got to the classroom, the teacher wasn't there yet, and a kid with pineapple hair was talking to the Uzumaki boy. They were talking about someone having to have passed the exam? Maybe the boy re-took the exam or got extra credit or something. Oh well, none of my business, that's for sure. I'm in enough trouble as is.
Today is just turning out to be a very unique day, isn't it? The Uzumaki boy and this dark haired child kissed and the Uzumaki boy got beat up by the girls with hearts in their eyes, the poor dear. Next time, if you're going to glare at someone, don't do it while squatting on their desk okay? That way you won't kiss them.
I sat in the same seat as I did yesterday, and this time I didn't read while the teacher talked. Hopefully this time I won't have random sharp and pointy objects thrown at me by angry teachers, or at least not from this one. Maybe he was having a bad day yesterday and that's why he threw the thing at me? Who knows?
He started talking about separating the students in teams of three and assigning them to Jou-nin teachers and said stuff like…
"Team 1…Team 2…Team 3…"
Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to the names. In case you haven't noticed, I don't know anyone in this whole place, and I don't give a flying rat's ass about any of them. I'll start caring when I know who they are, at least.
Maybe that's why I was so surprised when my name was called out…
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"Ha! Forehead-girl, I am so going to be in Sasuke's team!"
No reaction from Sakura.
That's odd.
"Forehead-girl, I'm talking to you!"
It was still the same reaction from Sakura.
None.
She was so angry at being ignored that she stomped down the seats and grabbed her shoulder.
Sakura did nothing but slap her hand away. "Forehead-girl!" She practically screamed in Sakura's ear. Sakura just put a finger in her ear. "Oh. I'm Forehead-girl?" Sakura finally turned around and looked at the girl who was talking to her.
"Sorry, I didn't know you were talking to me. Were you saying something? Preferably something important?"
A vein throbbed on the blonde girl's forehead.
"I said that I'll be Sasuke's team!"
"And…Am I suppose to care?" Her face was totally bored, just like a certain pineapple haired male, but her eyes were much bigger.
"The bored face doesn't look good on you, Forehead-girl. Get rid of it."
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever Goldilocks."
"Team 7, Haruno Sakura…"
'What? Who? Me?'
Sakura looked left and right, and pointed at herself.
Ino just smirked.
"Ha, you'll probably get fatso and lazy boy, Forehead-girl!"
"Uzumaki Naruto…" A whoop could be heard in the class.
'Uzumaki Naruto…? Why does that sound so familiar?'
"And Uchiha Sasuke."
For some odd reason, Sakura had the strangest urge to say 'Love wins'. 'What love? Huh?'
"Team 10, Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji."
"That's so wrong!" Ino says in her incredulity to the news.
Sakura just rolled her eyes. "What's wrong Goldilocks? That prophesy of yours came true right? Shouldn't you be happy?"
Ino just humph at Sakura and sat down at her desk, sulking.
Naruto speaks, but we do not pay attention. He's just whining anyway about him being in the same team as the boy he had kissed earlier. Boring!
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Goldilocks is an embarrassment to the blondes worldwide, especially the one in Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde II. Reese Witherspoon was hilarious and very cool. Naïve she might have been, but at least she was witty, creative and passionate. I may not have known Goldilocks for long, but she definitely needs to read up on her comebacks. I mean, really. She is nowherenear Reese's drollery.
Apparently we can go eat before meeting these Jou-nin people. Not that it matters, even though I'm hungry, I can always skip a lunch, wouldn't be the first time, not for me anyway. Hey look, that dark haired boy that Uzumaki kissed is coming my way. I wonder why?
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"Hello Sakura."
The pink haired girl raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Um…hi? Don't hate me, but who are you?"
He laughed. "I could never hate you, Sakura."
"Okay...," she gave him a sideways glance. "But you didn't answer my question. What's your name?"
"Don't you remember? It's me, Sasuke."
"I have some kind of wacko amnesia. It causes me to forget my life up before yesterday but lets me remember how to do a jutsu. So, no, I don't remember you…Oh wait, are you the one that Goldilocks was complaining that should have been on her team?"
He tilted his head to the side.
"Goldilocks?"
"Um… I mean the girl with long blond hair up on a ponytail and purple outfit."
"Oh! You mean Ino!"
"That's her name?"
"Yeah!"
"Okay. Ino then."
"Hmph. Everyone always goes after Sasuke."
She looked at him like he was crazy. He, on the other hand, had a pout on his face and his hands were folded on his chest.
"Aren't you Sasuke?"
His eyes widened. "No! I mean, yes, yes I am."
She gave him the same expression as before, like he was a mental hospital patient. "You wouldn't be doing some kind of jutsu that lets you look like someone else would you? The transforming one?"
"Uh…"
"You're not Sasuke then. Who are you really?"
"I…uh…"
She just shook her head.
"Well, bye, person-I-don't-know."
She started to walk away, waving her hand in a farewell gesture.
"Sakura wait!"
She turned her head to look at him.
"I'll show you who I really am if you answer one question."
"Yeah?"
"What do you think of Naruto?"
"Um…"
She put a fist underneath her chin.
"The Uzumaki child?"
He nodded his head.
"I think he's just hilarious. I like people that make me laugh."
He had a really bright smile on his face when he heard that. She had no idea why, that is, until he changed in a poof. He turned into a blond haired, blue eyed boy in a blindingly bright tangerine outfit.
"Oh. You're the Uzumaki child. Well that certainly explains a lot."
He was pleasantly surprised that Sakura wasn't hitting him for deceiving her, not that he was complaining of course.
"Is that all you wanted from me? To learn what I thought of you?"
"Nuh-uh. Would you go out with me, Sakura-chan?"
Hey, if his luck holds maybe she'll actually say yes.
"We are far too young to get into such an intimate relationship. Neither of us is anywhere near mature enough for one. Ask me when we turn 20, okay?"
She had a serious look on her face while she said those words so he guessed that she really meant it. Eight years, aw man.
"We can be friends though. What do you say to that?"
"Yeah!"
He pumped his fist in the air in excitement. If he can't be her boyfriend, then a normal friend would do just fine. It'll be a lot better than before, or at least he hopes it will be at least. Maybe she'll stop hitting him…A guy can dream can't he?
She smiled. Then her face lit up in recognition.
"Oh, are we in the same team, Uzumaki?"
He nodded.
"Cool. Then that means we'll have more time to talk. So, Uzumaki…"
"Call me Naruto, Sakura-chan. Or even Naruto-kun!"
Still he had that smile on his face. She found it to be too adorable.
"Race ya to the classroom Naruto-kun!"
Running to the direction of the Academy, she left Naruto in the dust. He smiled, and then noticed that she was very far away.
"Hey, wait for me!"
He ran right after her.
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"Yeah! I win!" Said Naruto as he punched his fist in the air. Everyone in the classroom looked at him, most of them thinking that he was being an idiot again. He didn't even notice.
Sakura came in right after, panting, and narrowed her eyes at Naruto. Then she pointed a finger at him while she cried,
"You meanie! You totally cheated, ya!"
"No I didn't."
"You jumped up on the rooftops!"
"You didn't say I couldn't."
"Dang it. You're right, I didn't."
She stuck out her tongue at him in retaliation. Wrapping her arm around his shoulders, she looked around the classroom, trying to remember something that she thought she had paid attention to.
"So, Naruto-kun, who's our other teammate again?"
"Hmph. That stupid Sasuke-teme."
"Oh. He's our teammate?"
"Yeah."
He said with a big frown on his face.
She pointed out a boy with hair that strangely resembles a duck's behind. He looked at her like she was little more than a pest. Which was incidentally what he was thinking, but she didn't know that. She thought he looked like he ate a lemon or something equally sour.
"He's Uchiha Sasuke, right Naruto-kun?"
"I don't understand how you can forget your former crush and still remember how to do jutsu, Sakura." Iruka pointed out.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
Iruka just shrugged, not knowing how to answer the question. On one hand she might be less annoying; on the other hand she's acting like a completely different person.
Sakura sat down with Naruto.
They waited for their Jounin instructors to come, and one by one an adult came and went with three recently graduated students. When everyone left Sakura took out a book to read, while Naruto impatiently looked out the door, several times by the way, to see if their instructor came yet. Sasuke was just thinking things that we don't know. The author has attempted, (read: tried but failed), to read his mind, but all she saw was red and black, specifically, a red moon and a black night. When said author started to see corpses, she decided that reading his mind was hazardous to her health and left.
"Man! Whoever our teacher is going to be is taking forever!"
Sakura looked up from her book.
"I'm sure there's a good reason, Naruto-kun. Now please sit down and be patient."
"But everyone's already left! Even Iruka-sensei isn't here anymore!"
"I have perfectly functioning eyes Naruto. I can see that. Calm down. Whoever it may be will be here soon, I'm sure."
Silence reigned, for a few moments, until Naruto became fed up with it, which was less in than 5 minutes actually.
"That does it!"
He took an eraser from the board and a chair. Sakura eyed him suspiciously.
"What are you going to do with those, Naruto-kun?"
She said slowly, hoping that he wasn't going to do what she thought he was going to do. If he was, then they might be in trouble.
"I'm going to prank whoever the sensei will be!"
"Dobe, a Jounin won't fall for something that stupid."
"I wouldn't know whether Uchiha is right, but I don't believe that the sensei will appreciate having a prank pulled on him Naruto-kun."
They were too late. He already put the eraser on the slightly opened door, standing back, and they all saw a hand and a masked face entered, which resulted with a silver haired man having dust and an eraser on his head.
Naruto was laughing boisterously, while Sakura just shook her head and Sasuke just thought that his new instructor would not be enough to help him in his goal.
"See here what you've done Naruto-kun. Now he'll quite possibly have abhorrence to us now."
She took her book with her and went to the teacher.
She took off the eraser from his head and pulled him up. Surprisingly the man was rather light, lighter than two bags of rice actually.
"A thousand apologies, sir, but Naruto-kun is a really impatient person. I hope you won't hate us for this."
The new teacher just stared at her.
'What an odd way to speak,' he thought.
He just shrugged and motioned for the three of them to follow him. They walked up the stairway, all climbed to the roof of the building.
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The three students were sitting on the concrete, with Naruto at the left, Sakura in the middle and Sasuke at the right, while their new teacher was leaning on the railing.
"Introduce yourselves."
"Hey, hey, why don't you introduce yourself to us first?"
"Yeah…You look suspicious."
Sasuke didn't even deem it important enough to say a word.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi."
They waited for him to say a bit more of himself.
"I have no desire to tell you guys my likes and dislikes, dreams for the future…hmm….Well, I have lots of hobbies."
Sakura rolled her eyes.
'One of them wouldn't have anything to do with that bulge that's shaped like a book in your pocket, would it?'
"That was so informative."
Ah, sarcasm. You gotta love it.
Kakashi said,
"You, the one in orange, introduce yourself."
"YOSH!"
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I like cup ramen!! What I like even more is the ramen that Iruka-sensei buys me. What I dislike is waiting 3 minutes to wait for the cup ramen to cook."
Kakashi thought that Naruto thought about very little except ramen.
"My dream is to one day surpass all the Hokage!! And then…have all the people of this village acknowledge my existence!!"
Sakura looked at Naruto with a hand over her heart and a hurt look on her face as she said, "I acknowledge your existence, Naruto-kun! What am I to you then, chopped liver?!" Punctuating the words 'chopped liver' with her left hand as a board and her right handing chopping imaginary liver afterwards putting her palms up with her fingertips pointing at him, her mouth gaping in outrage.
"No, no! I don't think you're chopped liver!" Naruto put his hands in front of his face and waved them in his defense. She laughed at his confused and anxious face.
"I kid. So, what's your hobby then?"
"Oh. Hobbies…Pranks, I guess."
Kakashi was just thinking how interesting his team was going to be.
"Next."
"I am Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like a lot of things and I hate many things. And I don't use the word "dream", but I have an ambition to resurrect my clan and to kill a certain man."
A moment of silence reigned.
Kakashi thought that this was typical for the boy, after what happened to him when he was younger. Sakura elbowed Naruto lightly.
"That is extremely creepy."
Naruto just nodded.
'I hope he doesn't mean me.'
Kakashi just shook his head.
"Pinky-"
"Hey!"
"You're up."
She gave him a smile.
"Hiya! Nice to meet ya! I'm Ja-" she stopped, almost saying her name out of habit. "I'm Haruno Sakura. I like to read, write, sing, dance, draw and paint. I also like Naruto-kun." She wrapped her arm around his shoulder again and beamed at him, which he returned with a grin of his own. "I don't like people with big egos and idiots that make fun of me and/or my loved ones. My dream is to one day travel the world."
"Well, now that those introductions are done and over with, we can talk about the Survival Training."
"Huh?"
A very intelligent reply from Naruto ensues.
"Hadn't we already passed it?" asked Sakura.
Sasuke just stared at Kakashi with a questioning look in his eyes.
Giggling sounds came from behind Kakashi's mask.
"What's so funny?"
He just giggled some more.
"Then! Then! What is it?"
"No…Well…It's just that…When I tell you this, you guys are definitely going to flip."
"Flip? Huh?"
"Of the 27 graduates, only 9 will be chosen as Genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. This is a super difficult exam with a failure rate of over 66."
'That's not funny.' She thought as she stared at him in vexation.
"Ha ha! I told you you'd flip."
"What the hell?! But we worked so hard…Then what was the point of graduating?!"
"Oh…That? That was just to see who had a chance to become Genin."
"Uh…What?!"
"Anyway, tomorrow you will be graded on the training field. Bring all your shinobi tools. Oh, and skip breakfast, you'll throw up."
"Say what?!" That was not Naruto, by the way. That was Sakura.
"The details can be read on this printout. Don't be late tomorrow."
Everyone left the building, each thinking their own thoughts. Let's hear them, shall we?
'Yeah! I'll become Genin for sure!' - Naruto
'I wonder if these three will graduate.' - Kakashi
'Like hell I'll skip breakfast! That's the most important meal of the day! As a teacher, he ought to know that too. But just in case the other two are stupid enough to do as he says, I'll bring them some food. He said to skip breakfast; he didn't say not to have snacks.' – Sakura (?)
'…' -…Most of Sasuke's thoughts center about revenge, so you wouldn't really want to know. I know I don't.
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( Author's note: Fine then, don't review. I'll just upload this whenever I feel like it.
I still haven't figured out where I am, but I did recognize Naruto's name. I won't be figuring anything out until a bit later, so hang in there. When I do, though, things will change. Not much, but it will change. Not with me becoming super powered, geez, that wouldn't even be possible, more like my feeling being conflicted about whether if any of this is for real or a dream. I used some dialogue from the Naruto manga, because I was just too damn lazy to think up my own lines. And I'll be starting on Book 2 after the Chuunin Exam, ought to be interesting to see how well Sakura's been coping in our world, wouldn't it? )