DISCLAIMER: (I have to keep doing this, don't I? (: ) I don't own any of the characters in Naruto~
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It was still dark and the dawn is yet to break. She checked her alarm clock and it was 5:03 am, it was typical for her to wake up right before her mom goes in to wake her at 5:30 every weekdays.
I had a dream…a vicious one.
She opened the lights and stared at the Casio keyboard she never dared to play before, she doesn't know how, that's why.
Why of all dreams…that?
Again, she checked the time, it was 5:07.
I wasted 4 minutes of my life thinking about that dream. What was that about? I can barely even remember.
Trying her best to get over the "dream" she had, the pink-haired emerald-eyed girl rubbed her eyes and shook her head then shouted "Fighting!"
And why she did that, nobody knew, it had become her habit for a little while now.
She opened a book and read it. What kind of book you might ask? Since she neither care about school and grades and is delighted knowing the fact that she passed (she never had a grade lower than A- though), so it was a shoujo manga, she's very fond of them. She never knew why but if old wives believe that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, she'd rather believe that a chapter a day does the trick.
Minutes passed, it was 5:15.
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And 10 more minutes passed.
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And the final 5 minutes.
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5:30 flat, knock knock
Someone knocked at her and her sister's room; she wouldn't wonder who it was even if she was just awoken by now. She stood up and walked through the door, and as expected it was their mother, about to wake up the two of them.
"Onee-chan still is not up," the pink-haired green-eyed girl told her middle-aged mother who seemed infuriated with what she said.
But that is the truth, it couldn't be helped. She sighed and showed a gesture of "excuse me" and went downstairs leaving her mother and sister behind.
She went straight to the kitchen and saw the breakfast prepared for them on the table, it was the usual servings –oatmeal, fresh milk, sunny-side up eggs, bread and cheese, fried rice and hotdogs. She can even guess what their packed lunch is—rice, bacon, orange juice and banana. It was the usual for each and everyday of her life.
She took a look around her; she was still alone in the ground floor where the receiving area, kitchen, dining room and bathroom are located. She looked around and she noticed the plain paint of the walls, why are they all in plain, lifeless colors? She thought as she continued to stare at them.
I guess my life's like that, plain and lifeless.
Hearing the two descriptive words, she remembered the happenings from yesterday. There were two words stuck in her mind that can battle the two adjectives to describe her life.
It was…
…"In love".
Right, being in love was the solution to her plain and lifeless, if not boring, life. And she was glad there was someone who attracted her for the time matter of growing up, thanks to the raven-haired, onyx-eyed man he met yesterday, Uchiha ITACHI.
And finally, the two women went downstairs, her sister looking ragged as usual because of studying (if she remembered it right, Sachiko slept at 3am) and her mother behind Sachiko kept nagging her as they went down.
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The bell rang and classes are about to start. Sakura stared out the sky like what she usually does; the clouds were stratus this time.
She was sitting for 10minutes already in her seat even before classes start, her classmates and friends were greeting her and all she sent back was a weak smile and continued on day dreaming.
The teacher finally entered for their first period, it was Kakashi-sensei, the gray-haired man who likes to wear masks and patches for some reason nobody knew.
This was unusual, everybody thought, because Hatake Kakashi was not their first period teacher, it was Ms. For Instance last time they checked.
"Good morning, class" the tall, deep-voiced man finally decided to speak, "I know I am not your first period Math teacher but Ms. Karino is not around so I will be taking over for a little while. The principal said she won't be around for a few more days and she actually filed a leave…" before the man can continue speaking there were murmuring voices who said "Thank goodness," or "This is the best day ever, am I gonna win a lottery too?" and he coughed to signal that he was still there with something to say, the students stayed still and all-ears on him.
"Well then, let's start it off with an introduction." He smiled a very warm and approachable smile that was never done by Ms. For Instance or any of the other senseis before.
And so the students one by one stood up and introduced themselves. Sakura hated these moments because her classmates seemed either dull or shy when introducing themselves, and Kakashi-sensei noticed it as well.
"Class, when introducing yourself, you all have to be confident. It's not like anyone's gonna go and eat you or shred you into pieces," he said.
The class was silent but the pink-haired, emerald eyes girl was unable to hold her laugh. By the time she was back to her normal self, she saw that the whole class was eyeing her and Kakashi-senpai looked at her with a sense of gratitude as if saying, "Thanks, you appreciated my joke when nobody else in this class did."
"Gomene," she bowed her head shyly, "please proceed."
"Nah, that was fine" but the man with gray hair just smiled at her with his right arm behind her head.
"He sure is colloquial," whispered a girl not far away from Sakura.
"More like a ghetto," replied the other.
"I think he's warm and approachable," argued Sakura.
"Well then, guys, is that ok if I call you guys instead of class?"
The students nodded in unison.
"OK guys, now I wanna know you more personally before getting on with our business with numbers."
The students wondered what he meant and it showed clearly on their faces.
"What I meant was, since you knew each other very well, I suppose, I want you all to get me through your circle as well."
It still seemed unclear.
"So, I want you all to share secrets with each other right here and right now."
The students gasped in shock.
"He, he. Don't worry, it's one simple question that I'm sure each and everyone of you can answer."
The students were now trembling with fear and a guy who said that it was his luckiest day ever took his statement back.
"What I want to know is," the gray-haired, dark-eyed man changed his warm face into a serious expression.
The atmosphere even got colder although the sun knocks down the wind on their battle once again.
"…who are your crushes? Each and one of you," his smiling face got back again, now even bigger and warmer.
The guys blushed and the girls blushed twice as much.
"Let's start with you!" he pointed a man who rather looked weird and bored.
Gaah, I'm gonna know Shikamaru's apple of the eye. Just wait till I crush you down on pieces. You can never beat me now! Haruno even thought of sticking out her tongue but it would be inappropriate knowing that Nara Shikamaru was not looking at her.
"…" was all the class ever heard of him after he stood up for like 10 seconds ago.
"Say something already, you baka!" Sakura shouted and broke down the silence like what she usually does.
"They started again," whispered Hinata to Ino, the blonde girl nodded in agreement.
Shikamaru glared at Sakura and made an evil smirk and faced Kakashi-sensei, "I'm sorry but," he blurted out "there's no one I like in particular, all I care for are my drawings."
"Oh we have a future Michael Angelo here, huh?" the gray haired man said, "BUT," he has a strong accent and voice when he stated the word and his face expression changed and became serious and scary again, "there has to be someone unless you want to stand there for a whole hour," he said and casted out an evil laugh that nobody thought he would do, and Sakura joined him in laughing at the now humiliated Shikamaru. (A/n: have you noticed the rhyme? LOL!)
"I really like you," Kakashi told Sakura.
"Me too, you're waaaay better than Ms. For instance…I mean Ms. Karino," Sakura replied, she really has a way of saying things that straightforward to whomever you are.
Shikamaru, being a lazy but intelligent man as he is, realized the humiliation Sakura, his worst enemy forever (or shall we say rival), is trying to imply. Therefore, for the last time he glanced at the pink-haired girl and looked at her emerald-eyes implying "OMG Sakura, you think I'm really that stupid? Teehee." So he suddenly spoke again and said, "Well then, it's Haruno Sakura."
"YOUUUUUUUUUUU….!!!" Sakura was now fuming with anger, she knew Shikamaru wouldn't like her even if she looked like Miley Cyrus (A/n: LOL xD) or Taylor Swift.
"Sensei, he's lying!" The girl with emerald eyes said turning into her puppy-dog eyes look.
"Well let him be, you'll never know, Sakura-chan," Kakashi-sensei said with tricky eyes as if teasing that it were true.
Like he would. I knew him longer…and in a more accurate way, I've been rivals with him since 2nd grade.
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"Big Pink(-haired) Piggyyyy…tenenenen" a young guy says in a sing-sang voice annoying a pink-haired girl in front of her.
"Tall Black(-haired) Nimrod…tenenenen!" the pink-haired girl sings even louder.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"You really piss me off!"
"And so do you!"
The two exchanged their words during break time, there were no teachers around and the class enjoyed their fight because they do this every now and then, as if it was to entertain their classmates.
"Well then, I challenge you!"
"Sure, to know who's greater among us, right?"
"HELL YES!"
"BRING IT ON!!!"
Nara Shikamaru was often labelled "lazy bones" and "super quiet" but when Sakura pisses him off like she usually does, the inner Shikamaru blurts out and never lets himself be defeated by Sakura. She thought that that was her magic afterall, to make Shikamaru's boring life a little fun.
They were second-graders namely Nara Shikamaru and Haruno Sakura. They competed in their favourite topic, Arts. Every Arts class is a challenge to be fought on who's greater.
There were weeks were,
"Big Pink(-haired) Piggy! Look I got A+ = 95% How did you do?"
"I got A+ = 96% BLEH!"
And vice-versa weeks where,
"Tall Black(-haired) Nimrod, I got A+ = 94% How did you do?"
"I got A+ = 96, thanks to you!"
People might see them fighting and challenging each and every day God made but they both knew deep inside they were best of friends and their friendship worked in a different way. It's just that pissing off each other has become a very sacred ritual that strengthens their "friendship".
And that was how it went on until nobody noticed it has become a habit for two years now.
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"Well then, very well said," Hatake Kakashi-sensei praised Nara Shikamaru.
The students shivered because it was a roll call and oh-so random.
"How about you , Miss?" he pointed at the pearl-eyed girl who looked rather shy.
"Uhm…ano, eto…" Hyuuga Hinata kept on fidgeting and trying to force her cracked voice to speak but all that had come out were, "ano…eto…"
"Go on, don't be shy. It's not like we all don't know each other," Kakashi-sensei made a Victory sign by using his thumb and index that it looked like a check mark then he winked.
He's like a shoujo girl, but it's cute. Hahahaha.
"…ano, it's…it's," she was still in a loss of words thinking twice whether she's gonna tell them or not but then she remembered his look when he said 'say it, or you'll stand for an hour', "IT'S UZUMAKI NARUTO-SAMA FROM CLASS 5B!" She finally blurted out and her face turned as red as a tomato.
"Sugoi, sugoi, now you can take your seat," He smiled from ear to ear.
He kept on torturing the students one by one by calling them randomly. And finally, he decided to call out the main character in this story. (A/n: Finally.)
"My favourite student so far, tell me who your apple of the eye is, please?"
Some students suspected the pink-haired girl will answer "You, Hatake Kakashi-sensei 3" and some expected her to answer Shikamaru to return the favour but she answered neither.
"I actually had feelings for this guy just yesterday," her best friends had a clue, Shikamaru smirked, she really has a way of saying awkward things so straightforwardly, "It's Uchiha-kun from…"
Many girls reacted even before she can finish what she's saying knowing the fact that half of the girls on their class adore Uchiha Sasuke like hell.
"Jeez, you dummies. Of course it was Uchiha Itachi from class 4B I'm talking about."
The girls were relieved and Haruno Sakura smiled back and showed some pride and casted the victory sign, "Peace!"
On the other hand, Nara Shikamaru was laughing secretly, it was not a simple one, but rather a horror, morbid kind of laugh. Seems like he has a plan, doesn't he?
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Aiya! (imitated from an anime character I forgot! X_X) 4th chapter is dooooooooone! Hahaha. It took awhile right? Kind of busy with anime. I'm now a certified otaku! Oh yeah! Haha. Anyway, can you notice that I decided to put on A/ns now? Just felt like it. And one more thing, can you notice that my chapter gets longer and longer each time I update? Haha. 'kay guys, till here, I needa read more manga. *o*