Out With the Old, In With the New
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, if I did it'll be a whole different story. This disclaimer goes for Chapter One too!
Chapter Two:
A very, very naked Sasuke. Her face burned a million shades of red when she realized she had accidentally walked into the boys changing room. What was worse, Uchiha Sasuke was now fully changing into his gym clothes. He had absolutely nothing on him! Sakura wasn't sure if this was a blessing or a curse but before she could fully decide Sasuke looked up and his eyes widened in surprise. "What the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke asked indifferently. How the hell could he say that so calmly? Then Sakura remembered how he had willingly went up to the roof with some random girl.
Without another word Sakura dashed out of the room. As soon as she got out she bumped into another person. She looked up to see Neji raising one of his eyebrows. She looked around her and saw the rest of the group ( TenTen too.). "T-t-t-t-t…. S-s-s-s… N-n-n-n" Sakura started to stutter still shocked by what she just saw. She looked up again and saw Ino, and TenTen trying to stiffle giggles, while Shikamaru and Neji were now smirking. Naruto had no idea what just happened was now working hard to figure out what the joke was, and Hinata was twiddling her fingers while blushing.
"Why didn't you stop me?" Sakura demanded finally able to find her voice.
"I guess it just slipped my mind." Ino said innocently while TenTen burst into laughter. "Oh and TenTen, I wouldn't be laughing if I were you. I remember two years ago same thing happened to you, except with Neji. Of course now, you probably see him like that everyday. I expect he is a lot bigger if you know what I mean."
TenTen immediately stopped laughing and blushed.
"And the silence is the proof that I am right." Ino said laughing.
"Yamanaka, shut it or else the whole school is going to know what you told me last night." TenTen said threateningly. Ino had a confused look on her face. Then after about five seconds a look of sheer horror took over her face. "Y-you wouldn't!" Ino said exasperatedly.
"Guess again." TenTen said with a mischievous look on her face.
"W-well let's go get changed." Ino said with slight pink covering her face now.
They bid farewell to the guys and headed across the gym, where, Sakura learned, was the real girls changing room. "I still can't believe you guys did that to me." Sakura muttered angrily as they changed.
"Oh get over it. Anyway, who did you see?" Ino said grinning. Gossip and blackmail for goody Sakura was too good to give up.
"Nobody important so just let it go." Sakura said a little too quickly.
"Heck no Haruno! I just want to know who it was. A little knowledge never did no harm." Ino said getting curious. If Sakura didn't want to say then it was obvious it wasn't just some random person. TenTen picked up on this too and looked up at Sakura. It was only 4th period so she couldn't have met that many guys by now. And she was out all 3rd so that lessoned those people. Between the time she got here and now the only guys Sakura have met are Neji, Shikamaru, Naruto, and Sasuke. The first three were outside at the time but Sasuke… "Was it… Sasuke-kun?" Ino asked knowingly.
Sakura stiffened and forced herself to say coolly, "So what if it was?" The girls squealed and began to ask Sakura question after question.
"How naked?"
"Is he hairy?"
"Does he have good muscles?"
"Is he big?"
The last question came as a shocker to all of them and they all shut up, waiting for Sakura to answer them. "Uh… in order: all the way, no, yes and the last…" Sakura blushed as she pictured the Uchiha's body perfectly, especially that area.
"Well spill it!" Ino said impatiently.
"He's… huge." The last word she said very quiet out of embarrassment that the girls asking the questions barely caught it.
"Well, we know who Sakura has her sights on this year." Ino said with a glint in her eye. "Though if you must go after him, don't make it all obvious."
"I'm not going after him! He's a jerk!" Sakura said defiantly looking at Ino. How could she even think that? After how she saw how he treated her!
"Whatever you say, forehead. Let's go before we're late Guy will have us running double laps today." Ino said heading towards the door leaving a fuming Sakura alone to ponder her thoughts. This was going to be an interesting year.
(With Sasuke)
"So, Uchiha, did you even notice that Sakura saw you completely naked?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yeah, and your point is?" Sasuke said putting on his shirt.
"Well, nevermind, you won't understand, and it's too troublesome to explain." Shikamaru said shaking his head.
"Hn."
"Sakura saw you naked?!" Naruto asked in shock. Everyone sweatdropped. Naruto was so clueless. What did Hinata see in him?
Sasuke remained silent. "TEME! I asked you a question!"
"And I obviously did not answer it." Sasuke said tartly. Naruto fumed, finished dressing and walked out the door followed by the other three guys.
Sakura ran hurriedly towards the ball before she bumped it over the net. Guy had the boys dress out and then run fifty laps around the fields while the girls started to play one on one volleyball, trying to impress the head captain, Ino.
"Mizuki run faster, if you plan to make it onto the team you have to move it!" Ino screeched at a girl who had just missed a ball. So far Ino had been to preoccupied by the other girls to really see Sakura but she turned around just as Sakura spiked the ball, winning her second game. "Good job Sakura! Since when did you play volleyball?" Ino asked.
"I played it at Suna." Sakura said briefly before she gulped down water from her water bottle.
"Okay, so that makes two wins for you. One more win and you might make the team. Let's see…" Ino said as she looked for another girl that was finished for Sakura to play. "Oh! Uh… you can play Ami! I guess…"
'Ami? Isn't that Sasuke's ex?' Sakura thought worriedly. 'Wait a minute why am I nervous? It's not like we're rivals or anything… Yeah! I have no worries whatsoever! Bring it on!'
"Ami was on last year's team, so she might be a challenge. She was pretty good." Ino said leading her towards a girl with red hair. Sakura almost gasped when she saw her. She had beautiful hazel eyes with dark red hair. Her figure was perfect and her skin was smooth. She was gorgeous! 'No wonder Sasuke liked her.' Sakura thought as the girl agreed to play her.
The two girls each went to the opposite sides of the net and got into their positions. Suddenly they heard the gym door open as some guys who had already finished their laps came in. Sasuke, Naruto, Neji, and Shikamaru were among them. "Hey, isn't that Ami playing Sakura?" Naruto said pointing towards the two girls who were about to play.
Sasuke's eyes flickered towards them interested but he looked forward soon afterwards. Shikamaru and Neji however kept their eyes on the girls. "Haruno knows how to play? Ino only pairs up girls with someone with the same level of skill and Ami was one of the top players last year." Neji asked.
"She must be good or Ino wouldn't have put her with Ami. What do you think Sasuke?" Shikamaru asked the emotionless boy as they sat down on the bleachers.
"Hn."
"Same response as always…."
"Hn." Sasuke said indifferently. Why should he care? If Haruno lost then that would be fine with him. If Ami lost then that would be fine with him. He didn't care either way, he just wanted to go home already, school was so boring.
Sakura struggled to remain focused as the audience in the gym increased. A lot of them were muttering about her game with Ami right now and how Ami was going to swipe the floor with Sakura. So far the scores were still zero but Ami looked as if she wasn't trying at all which unnerved Sakura even more than before. She wasn't happy that her game in particular was being watched by everyone in the gym. She ran up to the net and spiked as hard as she could towards the ground but Ami was already there and easily returned it with equal force. The audience wasn't kidding, Ami was a good player. Sakura hurriedly bumped it over the net as her opponent easily returned it. Sakura was getting very ticked off at the way Ami would smile at her innocently as she returned each one. Suddenly Ami spiked it. Not towards the ground but at Sakura's stomach! Sakura was knocked down painfully as the ball flew into her stomach.
"Ami! How many times have I told you not to do that! That was uncalled for! Sakura didn't do anything to you!" Ino screeched angrily. She had been keeping a close eye on the game and Ami. It was obvious Ami had done this more than once.
"Oops. Sorry, I guess my aim was a little bit off." Ami said as she checked to see if any of her nails had been broken.
" 'A little bit off' my ass! You knew Sakura would get hurt! Sakura are you okay?" Ino asked worriedly towards the girl who was still on the floor.
'Does it look like I'm okay!?' Inner Sakura yelled out angrily.
"Yeah… I'm alright. Ouch!!!" Sakura yelled as she tried to get up.
"I-it l-l-looks l-like y-you sprained y-you're a-ankle w-w-when y-you f-fell." Hinata stuttered as people started to crowd around them.
"What's going on here?" Guy asked as he neared the increasing crowd.
"Sakura sprained her ankle when she fell after Ami hit her with the volleyball. Now she can't get up." Ino explained looking at Ami angrily.
"This isn't good. Ami go to my office, I'll deal with you later. Uchiha!" Guy yelled at Sasuke was laying down on the bleachers with his eyes closed. Sasuke opened his eyes in response. "Since you look like you have nothing better to do, I want you to take Miss Haruno here to the nurse's office."
'What! No! I don't want to! Not by him!' Sakura thought. "Uh… it's okay. I can go myself."
"No, if you put any pressure on that ankle of yours the sprain will probably get worse, and I don't want that to happen. Uchiha will take you, right Uchiha?" Guy said looking steadily at Sasuke.
"Tch, whatever." Sasuke said as he proceeded to lift up a blushing Sakura and carry her bridal style to the nurse's office. As soon as the two left the gym Sasuke said, "Who's stupid enough to do that?"
'So much for him actually being nice for once.' Sakura thought. "Well excuse me, sorry that if fell down against my own will."
"Apology accepted." Sasuke said mockingly as he rounded another corner. Sakura tartly said, "Thanks you for accepting it, Your Greatness."
"No problem, peasant, but you should know if you going to address me it should be, Uchiha Lord of All" Sasuke replied, refusing to back down from the 'battle'.
"Of course, but don't you think it should be more like, oh I don't know, Uchiha Lord of Bull." Sakura said through gritted teeth. Sasuke was getting on her nerves and Inner Sakura wasn't exactly around to help her right now.
"We're here." Sasuke said in a steady voice ending the little game. "Stand up for a minute. I can't get the door."
Sasuke got the door open and took Sakura inside to find… that there was no one there. 'Great. Now what am I supposed to do?' Sakura thought irritably as Sasuke put her down on the nearest bed. "Well, it's obvious the nurse isn't here…" Sakura muttered.
"Here. Take it and shut up." Sasuke said as he pushed a bag of ice towards Sakura. "Don't worry about her not being here. Shizune is usually in the office tending to the principle's multiple hangovers." He explained before Sakura could ask any questions. He couldn't go back to the gym now since Guy would probably bombard him with questions on how Sakura was doing and he didn't feel like answering them. So instead he sat down on the bed next to Sakura and asked once again, "What do you know about Gaara?"
Sakura sighed audibly and asked, "Don't you get tired of asking that question?"
Sasuke shrugged, "Not really."
"Why do you keep asking about him? Is he someone important to you?" Sakura asked curious to know about Sasuke's relationship with Gaara.
"Hn."
"If you answer the question, I'll tell you all I know about him." Sakura said trying to negotiate a deal. She really wanted to know why he was so interested in Gaara.
Sasuke was silent for a few seconds. "I guess he is 'important' in my life… but not in a gay way!" he said as Sakura opened her mouth to comment on the reply. She giggled at his childish defiance. 'Why does she have to giggle that way?' Sasuke thought annoyed.
"Well, if that's all the info. your going to give me then all I can say is: He was also 'important' in my life." Sakura said. Sasuke gave her an annoyed glare. Did she expect him to tell her his life story or something?
"Tch. Fine, I want to know about him since I hardly know anything about him." Sasuke said. Sakura raised an eyebrow and gestured him to explain more in detail. "Since you lived in Suna for twelve years you should know that he is the star basketball player there." Sakura nodded. "Well every year we play them, but we always end up either tying or losing. We've never beaten them!" Sasuke said angrily.
"So you think knowing more about him will help you win?" Sakura asked. Sasuke nodded. "Okay, that's reasonable… I guess. Well, what's all this got to do with you?"
"I'm the captain of the basketball team. And ever since I became it…" Sasuke trailed off not wanting to say the rest. Sakura guessed that ever since he became captain that the team never could beat Suna, so he must've blamed himself for it.
"Oh. Okay, well since you told me what I wanted to know I guess it's only fair I tell you what I know... Well, Gaara is" Sakura got cut off suddenly as a woman barged through the door. "Wha? Who are you? What are you doing here?" the woman asked alarmingly.
Sakura pointed at her ankle which the ice she had put on it had started to melt already. "Oh! A sprain? Good you put ice on it. Uchiha thank you for bringing her here you can go back to class now."
"But…"
"Back to class now." The nurse said firmly pointing towards the door.
"Tch. Whatever." Sasuke said angrily as Shizune pushed him out. 'Haruno better tell me about him later.'
Sakura winced slightly as she walked to lunch. She had stayed at the nurse's office for the rest of 4th period and for homeroom so now she was to head straight towards lunch. She wondered where she was going to sit and where the others were going to say. Most of all she wondered what Sasuke was going to say to her.
As she approached the cafeteria she was once again hugged tightly by Ino. "Sakura!!! When Sasuke came back without you I feared the worst! Oh thank the heavens you can walk!" Ino said dramatically.
"Oh shut it. Yamanaka, it's not as if she were dying." Sasuke said as he approached Sakura with the rest of the group. It was obvious to Sakura that he wanted to talk to her but before he could get to TenTen and Ino pulled her away.
"Over here Sakura! This is where the girls sit. The guys sit over there." TenTen explained while pointing to a table across the cafeteria, well away from the guys' table. "The boys love to eavesdrop on us so we make it a point every year to sit as far away as possible from them."
"Yeah, and they also throw food everywhere so its not a very good idea to sit next to them. We can visit each other but we can never eat with each other." Ino explained, "Unless you want food in your hair as a result of a mini food fight."
The girls sat down and put down their stuff. "The only exception to that rule is Neji. Since he and TenTen are dating he can eat with us if he's in the mood to be close with TenTen but most of the time he won't. He's not the type of guy who expresses his feelings very well." Ino said as TenTen agreed.
"But I still love him. And as you'll probably figure out soon Hinata has this major crush on Naruto. It's no secret and everyone in the school knows except Naruto, which kinda defeats the point." TenTen explained to Sakura as they got in line to get their food.
Sakura nodded to show that she was listening. Then she remembered what Shikamarum had asked her earlier in the day. "Is Ino interested in anyone?"
Ino whipped around when Sakura asked this. TenTen laughed and said, "Now that you mention it, I do recall Ino telling me that she had feeling for… Oh come on Ino! Sakura won't tell anyone will you Sakura?" TenTen said as Ino told her to be quiet.
Sakura sweatdropped at the question. What was she going to say to Shikamaru? "Uh… at least not for a good reason." She said hastily.
"Good enough. Anyway she likes… Shikamaru." TenTen said. The last part was said in a whisper so Sakura barely caught it, but she smiled in happiness for her friend who now turned away from the girls and looked on ahead as if daring Sakura to object to her choice.
"I don't know the guy very well Ino, but he seems sweet. You made a good pick!" Sakura said in a congratulating tone. At this Ino turned around and said, " I know! He's really smart and handsome too. And I like how he always seem to not care but he, in fact, does. And I really like it when he says, 'troublsome'. It's so cute!!!"
"Great Sakura now you got her going. She'll go on like this for hours at a time. I should know." TenTen said rolling her eyes at Ino who now had a dreamy look in her eye. "All she talks about on the phone lately is how she wishes that he would ask her to the dance. Honestly, she's got it worse for him than she had it for Sasuke."
"Did someone mention me?" Sasuke said approaching them with his hands in his pockets.
"Nothing important. Anyway what are you doing here? Aren't you usually with one of your girlfriends right now?" TenTen asked casually. It was obvious everyone knew about Sasuke and his player antics.
"I had a reason to stay today." Sasuke said shrugging. Sakura knew the reason but right now she wanted to eat more than she wanted to talk to Sakura. The toast she ate for breakfast seemed so long ago now. The girls got their treys and sat down, but before Sakura could take a bite out of it TenTen stopped her. "Hold on Sakura! Check your food first! You don't know what the hell Naruto put in it this time."
"Awww…. TenTen I already told you I didn't put anything in it today! I promise!" Naruto said while sitting down next to a near fainting Hinata. Neji appeared along with Shikamaru and Sasuke.
"Tch. Well obviously she doesn't believe you, dobe." Sasuke said sitting down next to Sakura which raised more than one eyebrow.
"Shut up teme! Your just jealous!" Naruto said completely unaware of the fact that his friend had willingly sat down next to Sakura.
"Of what?" Sasuke said challengingly and looking at Naruto coolly.
This got Naruto. "Uh… Hinata! When did you get here?" Naruto said suddenly noticing the white-eyed girl next to him which caused her to blush even more.
"The boy has the intention span of a fish." Sasuke said annoyed. He really wanted to talk to Sakura and find out what she knew about Gaara but he wouldn't dare ask her in front of the whole gang. He would have to wait. Damn, today was turning out to be a really long day.
Lunch had finished without Sasuke asking Sakura more about Gaara to her surprise. She had Art with Kurenai next and almost panicked as she learned that most of the gang had different electives than that but sighed with relief when she saw that Hinata also had Art with her. She followed Hinata like a chick to it's mother towards the Art room.
"Here it is Sakura-chan." Hinata said softly. She had stopped stuttering towards Sakura during lunch time but her voice was still soft. She led Sakura towards the back and said, "You can sit next to me, if you don't mind of course."
"Of course I don't mind. Thanks for inviting me to sit here." Sakura said cheerfully. "How's the teacher?"
"Oh, Kurenai-sensei is a very kind person. She's tough but still kind towards us. She's a great artist and teacher too. We've been working with pastels lately so I think she's going to ask us to draw a picture using pastels today." Hinata said steadily getting out an extra pastel box for Sakura to use.
"Thank you. That's lucky, I'm pretty good with pastels but with paint I draw like a two year old!" Sakura said relieved that she was going to use only pastels. Hinata giggled but stopped as a woman with curly brown hair and red eyes entered the room. "That's Kurenai-sensei." Hinata murmured quietly.
"Okay class. I'll get straight to the point today. I want you all to draw me a picture of anything using pastels only. Begin."
Sakura got straight to working on her picture. Her hands stoked the pastels across the white paper board the teacher had provided them. Slowly but surely a picture of a beautiful landscape appeared with mountains dotting it. There was birds and a stream. Clouds drifted in the sky and a valley appeared below it. In the valley the grass was swaying in the wind. The sun was no where in sight, causing the picture to have dark shadows, destroying the happy landscape. Sakura stared at it. This was how she felt? Happiness everywhere but darkness overcame it. Sakura sighed. The picture wasn't really helping her mood right now…
Riiiiinnnnngggggggg!!!!!!!!!!
'Thank kami!' Sakura thought in relief as she got her stuff and ran out with Hinata straight behind her. She had a spare next so she had some time to explore the school. She said bye to Hinata who had her spare 4th period and walked off randomly to explore the school.
Soon Sakura found out that there was three floors to the school. On each floor were three sets of halls(100's, 200's 300's on 1st floor and so on.) and their were two bathrooms on each floor too.
She found that there was a stage on the second floor in between the 400's and 500's and that the teachers lounge was on the first floor next to the library. On the third floor were mostly empty classroom's full of computers and stuff and Sakura guessed that students went there for research assignments and stuff. Sakura continued down the third floor and found another door with no mini window on it. Curiosity got the better of her as she opened the door to find… an elevator!
'Cool. There wasn't an elevator at Suna! We had to take stairs to get to the roof.' Sakura thought.
'Go on already! I want to go to the roof!!!!' Inner Sakura yelled excitedly.
'Alright, I'm going.' Sakura thought/said as she pushed the button to the elevator. The doors opened and she stepped inside praying that it didn't break down on her. Fortunately it didn't and Sakura found herself minutes later on the roof of the school.
"Wow…" Sakura whispered in awe as she began to walk over the concrete roof. She wondered vaguely how many people knew how to get to the rooftop.
'Probably a lot since Sasuke makes it a regular routine to bring a girl up here.' Inner Sakura thought sarcastically.
Sakura rolled her eyes and bravely decided to go to the edge of the roof to look down. She was cautious since there were no bars or anything to prevent her from falling. Sakura peered down and yelled out. The way down was a long way down! 'My god woman! Have some pride! Your lucky we're alone on this roof or you would have embarrassed us for all eternity!' Inner Sakura exclaimed.
Sakura sighed heavily and hastily backed away from the edge only to bump into something or rather someone. "So your afraid of heights, huh?" A voice behind her asked.
Sakura turned around and, to her dismay, came face to face with a smirking Uchiha Sasuke. "S-so what if I am?" Sakura challenged, only stuttering out of surprise for a second.
Sasuke shrugged. "It doesn't matter, I just thought that even you wouldn't be such a wimp as to be afraid of heights." Sasuke said smirking.
Sakura's face flushed in anger. "What's not to be afraid of? It's a freaking long way down!"
"So technically you're not afraid of heights, your afraid of falling." Sasuke said mockingly.
Sakura opened her mouth to retort but couldn't think of anything to say so instead she said, "Whatever. What are you doing here anyways? Aren't you with one of your girlfriends right now?"
Sasuke ignored the last question and said, "I always come here on my spares."
'He has seventh period spare too? Joy…' Sakura thought dismayed as Inner Sakura was throwing a party in the background. "Oh. Well I guess you're pretty used to being alone up here, so I'll just go now." Sakura said quickly as she tried to walk past Sasuke. He, however, blocked her way and told her, "You haven't told me about Gaara, Haruno."
Sakura almost shrank in the glare she was receiving from Sasuke. "Uh, I haven't? Funny I thought I told you…"
"That's a bunch of bull and you know it. Tell me what you know now." Sasuke said in a threatening voice which made Sakura really nervous.
"Uh… well what do you want to know?" Sakura asked shakily.
"Everything."
"Everything?"
"Hn."
Sakura took that as a yes and thought, 'Man of many words, isn't he?'
"Uh… well how should I begin?" Sakura said timidly. God! Why was she so nervous?! She wasn't supposed to show him the weak side of her! Aarggh!
Sasuke sighed heavily and said, "Okay, since you're so godamn stupid, I'll go over it slowly with you. Why did Gaara postpone our match against them next week?"
Sakura wanted to slap the bastard then and there for calling her stupid but she forced herself to remain calm and said, "He was dealing with a lot of… changes, and he couldn't handle everything at once so he asked the coach if he could take the game against Konoha off. The coach wouldn't let him since it was a rivalry game and he was the key player so Suna pulled some strings to get the match postponed."
Sasuke looked as if he didn't believe her but asked, "What sort of changes?"
Sakura blushed but forced it down. "Uh… his father had recently died so he took over a lot of businesses and the town, although he wasn't ready for it…" Sakura explained looking at the ground.
"That all?" Sasuke said sharply, knowing there was more to it than that.
"Not quite." Sakura said in a small voice as she twiddled her fingers together behaving a lot like Hinata. 'What do I tell him?' she thought worriedly. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her meaning that she was to go on. "Well, he also recently… broke up with his girlfriend and I'm sure you can relate to that."
Sakura hands flew to her mouth as she realized what she just said. What had she been thinking? Now he was going to kill her! 'Oh kami! I repent for all I have done!' Sakura yelled in her mind.
However, Sakura realized after a few seconds that nothing happened. She opened her eyes and looked up at Sasuke, who was staring down at her with nothing on his face to show what he was thinking at the moment. "Uh… Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked without realizing she just called him –kun.
Sasuke flinched as Sakura lightly touched his arm to see if he was alive. "Don't touch me Haruno." Sasuke said coldly as he moved two feet away from Sakura. 'Sure he let's other girls make out with him but he doesn't want to be touched on the arm. What is his problem?' Sakura thought annoyed at his actions. Still, all Sakura said was, "Fine. Anyway I got to go. I have to go ask the principle about my next class. Goodbye."
Sasuke just narrowed his eyes and watched her go off without a word. "Hn." Everything about her somehow ticked him off. She was weak, clumsy, stupid, always laughing and she was always… happy. And for some reason it pissed him off beyond belief. 'Must be nice to have no worries. No melancholic feelings whatsoever. I hate Haruno.' Sasuke thought as he himself began to walk towards the elevator to go to his next class.
Sakura was confused. The secretary had told her that the bus to go to her next class could be found at the back of the school but so far she had not found any sign of it. Well maybe she could have found it if she knew where the back of the school was! She had carefully went to the front doors and started to go straight assuming that it led to the back of the school but there had been so many twists and turns that Sakura had somehow wound up outside the school but not at the back. 'Great. My little expedition around the school didn't even help me one bit! I have no clue where I am!' Sakura thought exasperatedly.
She considered for a moment to go back inside and ask for directions but when she tried to open the door Sakura found that they were locked from the outside. "What the hell!? How am I supposed to go to my next class if I can't get in!" Sakura yelled out loud.
"Well, for one thing you might want to push instead of pull." A voice said from behind her.
Sakura turned around and saw a boy with a brown eyes and hair. Sakura blushed. "Y-yes, uh, thank you."
The boy smiled. "You know, you're a new comer so you don't need to be embarrassed that you didn't know that. At least you have a reason that you didn't know. Some students have been coming here for three years and still don't know how to open the door. Lucky for them I'm usually here to help them out. I come here often in between classes to check on my dog, Akamaru, since he's not allowed in the school. I'm Kiba by the way." The boy explained as he walked up to Sakura followed by a medium sized white dog.
"I'm Sakura, nice to meet you, Kiba-san." Sakura said politely. "and I'm sorry to say that I don't believe you when you say that student who have been coming here for three years don't know how to open the door. You just said that to make me feel better."
"Guess you found me out, but there is one student here that doesn't know how to open the door and has been going here for three years. His name is Uzumaki Naruto. You probably already know him since I saw you with him at lunch." Kiba said. "Your pink hair attracts a lot of attention." He added before Sakura could pin him as a stalker.
Sakura giggled. "Yeah I know him and my pink hair is real if you were wondering." Sakura said as Kiba led her back into the school.
"What's your next class?" Kiba asked. It was obvious he was going to help her find it.
"Oh! I almost forgot! Uh… do you know where the back of the school is? I'm supposed to report there in order to take the bus to my next class, Medical Training." Sakura asked her new friend as she suddenly remembered where she was going to go.
"Medical Training?" Kiba echoed. "You're going to take that class?"
Sakura nodded. A friendly smile appeared on Kiba's face. "Yeah! I know where it is! Follow me! I'm in the Medical Training class too, by the way."
Sakura sighed in relief as she followed Kiba towards the back of the school. 'This is great! I made a new friend.' Sakura thought giddily.
'Yeah! And a hot one too!' Inner Sakura cooed, showing her support to go after him.
Sakura inwardly rolled her eyes. 'Hey! Don't think about him that way. He seems sweet but I don't want him as a boyfriend.' Sakura thought.
'Oh. Yeah. I forgot you're going after Sasuke.' Inner Sakura chimed.
'No I'm not! He's a jerk! Remember how he treated me up on the roof? I doubt he want to be friends with me, let alone a girlfriend!' Sakura thought defiantly challenging her inner self to object her but Inner Sakura was long gone. Sakura sighed. She hated it when her inner self randomly came and went. Oh, well…
Sakura realized that she was now outside. Suddenly curiosity got the best of her. "Kiba-kun?"
"Huh?" Kiba said as he continued leading her towards a group of teenagers a bit further away.
"Why are you taking a medical course? Is it something you want to be when you grow up?" Sakura asked.
"Oh! Well when I grow up I'm going to inherit a pet store as well as a vet facility. I already know how to heal animals but I decided to take this course to see if there are any better method of curing them." Kiba replied as they finally reached the group.
"Tsunade is late as usual…" Someone in the crowd murmured.
"Hello, Kiba-kun! And… Sakura-chan? I didn't know you were going to take this course!"
Sakura looked to see Hinata looking at her. "Oh! Hinata-chan! What a surprise! You're taking this course too?"
Kiba looked back and forth at each girl and smiled. "Good you two already know each other!"
"Y-yes. I'm going to inherit the Hyuuga businesses but I want to have a back up as a pharmacist. This medical course will help me learn how and why some medicines are used. I grow my own medicinal herbs back home but I still want to learn more about how to use them." Hinata explained to Sakura.
"Oh. I'm going to inherit some business too but I still want to work as a doctor when I grow up, so I decided to take this course." Sakura said. "So how does this class usually work?"
At Suna everybody who took a college course just walked next door since the high school was next to the college. Also, unless given permission by the professor, the students had to work individually so they could be credited fully.
"Oh. Well we usually wait out here for about five minutes waiting for Tsunade-sama to arrive, then we take the bus to the university. When we're there we go to the room then we separate into our assigned pairs. I'm Hinata-kun's partner by the way." Kiba explained proudly.
"Pairs?" Sakura echoed.
"Yes. We work in pairs at the university. When were done with the assignment we usually present it, telling the professor what we did and exactly how we did it so each of us proves we did our share of work. You're lucky to actually be accepted into this class since Tsunade only wants an even number of students. Last week a girl dropped out of the class, so that's probably the only reason you got in. Your partner will be … Uchiha-san." Kiba said.
Sakura felt as if her whole world was falling apart. 'Great! Everywhere I go he's always there! Now it got to put up with him for a godamn year! He'll probably leave me to do all the work too!!! Chyaa!'
'Good, your finally learning how to think! Though, come on, you get to hang out with a hottie for a whole year!' Inner Sakura cheered.
'It doesn't matter how hot he is! Inside he's full of shi- ..'
"Sakura-chan. It's time for us to go…" Hinata said timidly as she tried to get her spaced out friend's attention.
"Oh. Okay then let's go!" Sakura said cheerfully though inside she continued to have an argument about having Sasuke as a partner.
As Sakura bordered the bus she was stopped yet again. She looked up to see a woman with dirty blonde hair and HUGE breasts. 'Are those real…?' Inner Sakura thought dazed.
"Welcome to the Medical Training College Course. I am Tsunade. I'm your principle as well as your professor. Since you need a partner for the course, I will be putting you with Uchiha Sasuke. As well as being partners with Uchiha you will sit next to him on the bus on the way to the university. Uchiha Sasuke sits at the back. Good luck on this course for the remainder of the year." Tsunade said as she read off a piece of paper in her hand. Her words were slurred indicating that she was drunk, but Sakura didn't pay attention to that. She was more concerned over sitting next to Sasuke. Hinata and Kiba sat at the front so she would be all alone in the back… this was proving to be an interesting year.
Sasuke was currently looking carelessly out the window, not caring that there was a new student. He knew that the new student was to be his partner but he didn't really care much about that. He barely even glanced at the student as she sat down next to him. All he hoped was that the girl wouldn't cling to him like the last one. She paid so much attention to him than to the work causing her to fail and forced her to drop out. Finally when they had left the school grounds Sasuke turned to look at his new partner only to find that he already knew her. 'Haruno? Great, now I have a whiney wimpy girl for a partner. I'm looking forward to this year.' Sasuke thought sarcastically.
'What the…? He's not even going to talk to me! What kind of a friend is he?!' Sakura thought angrily.
'Uh… reminder:he's not our friend. Or maybe this is just you wanting him to be your friend.' Inner Sakura said evilly.
Sakura chose to ignore that last comment and instead preoccupied herself by looking outside the window. They passed so many houses on the way to the university… it was going to take her forever to learn where everything was! Oh,well…
"Move, Haruno."
Sakura snapped back to reality as Sasuke's bone chilling voice rang in her ears. She looked around and saw that they had arrived at the university and students were now getting out. 'Wow… real nice isn't he?' Sakura thought as she stepped out with Sasuke right behind her with an annoyed expression on his face.
As soon as she got out of the bus Kiba and Hinata ran to Sakura.
"Sakura-kun, since I doubt that Uchiha-san is going to show you the way around here, Hinata and I will be glad to help you out." Kiba offered politely as Sasuke stalked off alone. Sakura watched him go and was hurt by his uncaring attitude towards her, but she shook it off and put a well practiced fake smile on her face and said, "Okay!"
Hinata smiled and Kiba said, "Okay then! To get to the usual room we work in you go down that hallway and take two rights. To get to the lab just walk down this sidewalk and you'll come to a green building, go to the door on the left and that's the lab. Today we're working in the usual room, follow us."
Sakura trailed happily behind them as they brought her to a large room with one drunk professor at the head desk. "This is where you'll be sitting, Sakura-chan." Hinata said pointing to a desk. "I sit next to you and Kiba sits on the other side of me. On the other side of you is where Sasuke will sit." She explained softly as Sasuke sat down on the desk next to Sakura's.
"Thank you for explaining! I think we're supposed to sit down now." Sakura said in a grateful tone as she sat down.
Tsunade began the lesson and Sakura had to work hard all period to catch up on notes that Hinata lent to her. Sasuke was just there staring uncaringly towards the front with a bored expression on his face. 'Doesn't he have to take notes?' Sakura thought as she struggled to write down all of Hinata's notes. But Sasuke continued to look ahead, bored.
Finally it was time for them to go back to their campus. Sakura wasn't done with the notes and asked Hinata if she could borrow them to get them photocopied. Hinata replied yes and walked back to the bus with Sakura where they parted ways. Sakura sat down next to Sasuke and decided to look over the notes. It was a lot and she didn't know if she had the time to memorize all of it. She sighed heavily as Sasuke gave her an annoyed look. "What?" Sakura asked sharply. 'Is it a crime to be tired?' she thought.
"Hn."
'I'm overwhelmed by his vocabulary…' Sakura thought. Then she asked, "Hey, Sas…" She stopped suddenly when Sasuke intensely glared at her, showing he didn't want to be bothered. Sakura just mumbled an apology and continued to look at the notes. 'I wish I could just go straight home…' Sakura thought tired. Detention with Asuma didn't sound very fun, and she also had to tell Shikamaru that Ino like him and wanted him to ask her to the dance.
'Are you being a good friend telling him this?' Inner Sakura asked.
'How am I not being a good friend? Ino really seems to like the guy and I want to help them get together. Shikamaru may be counted as a genius but this is one problem he had no clue how to solve.' Sakura replied determinedly.
Sakura arose as the bus stopped in the parking lot of the school, just as the bell signaling the end of school rang. She got off and said bye to Kiba and Hinata and headed towards Asuma's classroom, hoping to find Shikamaru on the way. When she arrived at the classroom she had given up hope of finding him, but luckily he was already there waiting for her while talking to Sasuke.
As she approached the boys, Sasuke said, "Later…" and walked into the classroom before Sakura could say hi to him. Shikamaru looked at Sakura expectantly and Sakura almost laughed at the eagerness in his eyes.
"Well…" Shikamaru pressed.
"She does like someone…" Sakura trailed out as Shikamaru opened his mouth to ask who, but before he could she said, "You, bye!"
Sakura went into the room leaving a very happy Shikamaru behind. Playing Cupid wasn't exactly Sakura's thing but she could if she wanted to. Now it was up to Shikamaru to ask Ino to the dance. If he didn't the poor bastard would have to pay.
Sakura then noticed that Sasuke and her were the only ones in the room. On the board was a message that said, "I have a meeting. Stay till 5:00 then you can go."
She looked puzzled towards Sasuke, only to find that he was already sitting down with his head against the desk. 'He's probably used to this, but he probably is used to a girl being here so he can 'play' with her… 'Inner Sakura thought disgusted.
Sakura sighed and sat down at the closest desk. She got out all the notes that her friends had lent her and started to memorize them. She was about a quarter done when Sasuke suddenly spoke, "Haruno."
"Y-yes?" Sakura asked, a little surprised that he had spoke and to her of all people.
Sasuke rose up with annoyed that she had stuttered. "Asuma, usually checks up on the students that he sends out of class to see if they are there. If he sees one of them gone then he gives all the students there detention till 6:00, instead of 5:00. It says on the board till 5:00, but I went, what happened?" Sasuke demanded towards a shocked Sakura, who was surprised that he actually said something more than one word.
"I covered for you." Sakura said simply.
Sasuke just raised an eyebrow then sat back down, without even saying 'thank you'. 'Wait a minute! Did he just say all students?' Sakura thought.
'Yeah, he did!' Inner Sakura raged.
'So if I didn't cover for him… I would have had to stay till 6:00 too? Chyaa!' Sakura thought angrily. 'They nerve of the bastard!'
Sakura looked at the clock saw that if was five, gathered her stuff, and walked out the door angrily. Uchiha was really managing to get on her nerves!
When she got home, Sakura decided that she shouldn't be angry and what was done was done. Now she had to unpack all of her belongings… joy.
Yea… on this chapter you can flame me, cause I know I did sucky. Sasuke seemed OOC, he was too talkative… It didn't really show much and I know I made you all wait for a while. I promise the next'll be better and stuff. And I promise I'll have it no more than two weeks! BTW this chapter was short compared to the first… sorry. I'll make the next longer…This was sorta a filler chapter… and I feel real bad that nothing really happened… sorry T.T sniff okay 4 later chapters I need I have a lot of ideas but first I have questions: Do you think that for a while Sasuke should turn jealous of Kiba cuz he hanging out w/ Sakura?(SasuSakuKiba) or do you want NaruHinaKiba? Or both? GaaSakuSasu comes later of course. Also should I introduce Itachi as a mean dude who is trying to get Sakura for his own or a nice dude who helps play cupid w/ his mother? What r Sasuke's parents names? And plz. Give me ideas on how 2 put Sasuke liking Sakura without him seeming OOC. Sakura is already starting to like Sasuke, but only because he is hot, she'll like him 4 who he is later… Plz. Read and review! .