You (effin) Belong With Me

"You belong with me Sasuke, not with that four-eyed whore." Lots of catfights, confrontations, plenty of "murderous" attempts and a so-called happy ending. SasuSaku set in a high school background.

All characters are sixteen/seventeen year olds. Personalities of Sakura and Sasuke are slightly changed to portray their characters well. More talk, less emo-ish-ness.

Important NOTE: As you can see, the antagonist in this FF is Karin. However, I'd like to make it clear that I hold NO ill will towards that female character in Naruto, whatsoever. I just plainly used her name, and some of her attributes to portray the slutty girlfriend.

Also, I don't attempt to offend any of the high school sluts out there, but seriously, in my opinion, get a decent life. You're beautiful, talented and you can do greater things besides being popular, going out with that varsity guy or sleeping with all of them. You're only 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 year olds for Kami's sake. Anyone can change. Get a good life. Good luck.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. Nor the books or authors mentioned below. No copyright infringement intended whatsoever.

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When the lover walks in, where does the best friend go?

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FLASHBACK

"Sakura. Realize that Karin IS the girl friend and you are ONLY the best friend. The ONLY role you play is support me in any way and you have absolutely no right to say that to me." Sasuke told Sakura without a care whatsoever.

"All right. Thanks for the push back to reality, Sasuke." Sakura replied to her ex-best friend.

"That's good." Sasuke muttered before storming away.

"Hey! What happened?!" Ino's voice called out from behind.

"Sakura-chan!"

"Hey, Sakura."

"Haruno."

Sakura did not answer any of their questions. She just simply looked at what's-his-name from a distance kissing his redhead girlfriend. Even if there was a whole crowd infront of her, eating, talking, laughing and even if her group of friends were calling out to her, Sakura just couldn't stop staring at what's-his-name and that redhead who stole everything away.

For all that she know, she felt alone and she had found out her best friend was no more than a bastard who broke her heart.

But everything is bound to change. A change that will make the group complete again.

She hoped so.

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PART o2: Everything We Had

AT THE CAFETERIA

"So, that's what happened?" Ino asked, taking a bite of her wheat bread.

"Yes. We both lost our tempers and he was such, such, an effin prick." Sakura said, her hands shaping on the Coca Cola can.

"But…Sakura-chan, you and Sasuke'll be all right once again, right?" Naruto asked between bites of the noodles of his legendary Ra-Men.

"Do you think that's gonna happen, Naruto?" Tenten said, raising a brow at him.

"For all we know, Sasuke went below the belt, and in circumstances like those, even if the two will forgive each other, both won't be the same ever again." Neji shared a thought, finally.

"Neji, why do you call us "the two?" It's as if I am not here. Hello!" Sakura rolled her eyes and waved her hand in front of Neji's face from across the table.

"Sakura-chan, is that true?" Naruto asked.

"Oh, well. Maybe…I don't know. But, I'm sure we'll be in good terms again. But guys, don't expect to see Sasuke with us anytime again soon." Sakura said.

"We know that, you know." Ino said, throwing the sandwich wrapper to the bin behind her without even looking.

And it hit Nara Shikamaru.

"Ino, I think you missed the trash can." Sakura said.

"What the heck, Ino? Mendokuse." Shikamaru replied and threw the sandwich wrapper in the bin.

"Sorry, Shikamaru." Ino said, without even turning around and looking at him.

"Hai…Hai…Troublesome…" Shikamaru said, before leaving.

"Ino! That was…rude?" Sakura said.

"Why? We've known each other since we were friggin' THREE YEAR OLDS, guys! It's not like I need to see his face every time." Ino scoffed.

"Huh? Since you were three?" Tenten asked.

"The Nara and Yamanaka family are close friends since. So, we spend a lot of time together…trips, dinners, outings, reunions, marriages, baptisms and whatnot. My aunt is married to Shikamaru's uncle, in fact." Ino said, nonchalantly.

"So you and Shikamaru have a bigger chance of getting together?!" Naruto turned into his gossip mode.

"What the hell? I am not a least bit interested at him. He's only a best friend and we'll never have that kind of relationship. I don't plan to, nor does he." Ino said.

"Isn't that…" Tenten started.

"Isn't that the plot of 'Love, Rosie' ?" Sakura said.

"I'm not a big fan of books, Forehead." Ino said.

"No. Isn't that what you call…denial?" Tenten smirked. The rosette and the brunette exchanged high-fives from across the table.

"Ugh. Puh-lease." Ino said. "Besides, he and Temari are pretty close too, you know. They always flirt when their seats are close to each other and they always reminisce about a friggin something, like that. Psh. Whatever."

"And that's a mouth that says, 'I am jealous.'" Neji said before he walked to put his tray to the dishwasher's sink.

Ino rolled her eyes. "Whatever…Whatever. Let's get going." Ino said as she stood up.

"But, why doesn't Shikamaru eats lunch with you?" Sakura said.

"WHAT THE HELL, SAKURA!?" Ino asked. "We shared tables once, but he always left early to spend the remaining thirty minutes to sleep on the rooftop."

"All righty." Sakura said, raising her hand in truce.

As the five friends waited inside their home rooms for a class of Literature at 1:15 PM with Kurenai-sensei, rain began to pour outside.

"It's raining." Sakura muttered from her seat beside the window, remembering Sasuke's words before lunch. Um, I just remembered that Karin told me that we'll have lunch at Figaro today.

"Hey, Sakura. I'll just go to the…um…restroom." Ino muttered quickly before rushing off, holding an umbrella in her hands.

Where is she gonna go? Sakura thought, and then she remembered the blonde's words. "We shared tables once, but he always left early to spend the remaining thirty minutes to sleep on the rooftop."

Sakura smiled knowing where Ino's going to go. Their school has only one building with a rooftop. And that rooftop of their school is at the other building across them.

Figaro's at least half a kilometer or one from the school. And Sasuke never brings umbrellas, let alone Karin. And, the students' cars aren't allowed out of the school till 5PM. Oh well, they can just run, it's near anyway. Way to go for being posh, Sasuke. Idiot.

But then, adrenaline got the better of the rosette.

And before she knew it, she was rushing outside the campus' doors. She even caught a glimpse of a blonde from the other building's rooftop giving a certain pony-tailed man a good shouting.

"Idiot! This is the result of your laziness!" Ino's shout bellowed from below.

As Sakura reached the campus's gates, giving her I.D. to the guard who knew her.

"Where are you going, Sakura-san?" the gurad asked her.

"I'll just bring an umbrella to my 'friend' who's at Figaro." Sakura explained.

"Okay. Don't run, it's slippery. You still have twenty minutes left!" the guard called before her.

"Hai!" Sakura said, but as she turned round the corner, she began scurrying off.

After eight or ten minutes, she saw Figaro's café. Sakura took a deep breath and opened the posh glass doors of Figaro.

And at the corner of the café, she met the eyes of a certain raven haired boy. Or shall we say, man? At the same time, red eyes from a certain redhead widened in surprise as she saw her there.

Sakura walked to their corner and kind of slammed the extra umbrella she was holding in her left hand at their table. Once again, she met the eyes of her so-called other "best friend," Uchiha Sasuke.

"Hey, Haruno---" Karin started but before she finished, Sakura was already out of the café, clutching the handle of her umbrella tightly.

After five minutes, (because she was running) she reached the campus's gates and got her I.D. from the kind guard who told her, "You made it!"

Before she entered the school's doors, she caught a glimpse of Sasuke and Karin walking towards the campus's gates.

1:10 PM. The big clock in the hallway before her classroom read.

Phew. Saved.

As Sakura opened the door of their class room, she saw that her classmates were still talking animatedly with each other and Tenten was looking at her.

Her hair and shoes were wet, and her uniform was smeared with droplets of rain. F*ckety f*ck, She thought.

"Hey, where have you been?" Tenten asked, giving her a small towel—which she always carried—and a comb and mirror.

"Right. Explain to you later. Thanks." Sakura said, as she dried her slightly dripping her and combed it.

"Ino, can I borrow a hair tie?" Sakura asked.

"Sure thing." Ino said, reaching into her pockets and produced a black hair tie.

Sakura got the hair tie from Ino and arranged her shoulder length hair into a side ponytail.

Tenten was giggling. "You sure work fast, Sakura. Youu can use the towel to wipe your almighty shoes, I won't use it anyway."

"Thanks a whole, whole lot, Hyuuga-chan." Sakura said, as she wiped her mud-icky shoes with the towel.

"Pardon?" Tenten asked threateningly.

"Nothing, dear." Sakura said, as she handedthe mud-icky towel to her friend.

"Gross." Tenten muttered before she put it in a plastic bag.

"You are such a Girl Scout, Tenten." Sakura told her. Tenten winked.

"Look, there's Karin and Sasuke." Ino said.

"State the obvious, Ino." Shikamaru said, from behind her.

(A/N: All right! Ino's very fond of stating the obvious. See 'P.S. I Love You, Pinky' ;] )

Since their seats during Literature are arranged by their sensei from students with the highest grades (in front) and the lowest grades (at the back) Sakura happened to be in front. The very, very front. Yep, she was a genius in Literature and English and a sucker at Math. But Literature made her very exposed. Very, very exposed.

And second best to her was Sasuke. That means they share a table together. Hell yeah.

Or in this situation…Hell no?

(A/N: Their seats at the classroom are arranged with two students occupying a semi-broad desk together.)

RRRRIIIIINNNGGG!

The bell sounded, signaling that all students should go back to their respective classes since class is about to start.

Sasuke took the second seat beside her, his hair dripping down due to the rain which gave him a wet look. .God.

Sakura realized she was staring---no, ogling—and she looked the other way instead.

"Here, Sakura." Sasuke said, beside her. He was handing the umbrella back to her. She took it and silence fell between them. Again.

The door burst open and the class greeted Kurenai as she entered the room.

"Okay, we're finished with The Tempest by William Shakespeare, right?" Kurenai said.

"Hai."

"So, good news, we're gonna take a break from ye olde times---" Kurenai started as the class bellowed with cheers.

"---and now, we're going to proceed to investigate true stories written by teenagers like you." Kurenai started.

"Okay, here are your hand-outs." Kurenai sais motioning for Sasuke and Sakura to help her give the handouts. Hah. Teacher's pets.

After everyone got their hand-outs, Naruto suddenly bellowed in laughter from the back.

"What's the matter, Uzumaki-san?" Kurenai asked.

Naruto looked at her. "Oh. Nothing, Kurenai-sensei. I just like today's story, that's all."

"That's a first. Naruto." Kiba said.

"Okay. That's good, Naruto. This story was taken from a literature book from our library." Kurenai explained. "Now, as usual, we'll read it first then we'll do silent reading."

"Unfortunately for me, but lucky for you, our class will end at 1:45 PM due to the monthly teacher's conference. That means all your classes after this will be suspended and you'll get an early dismissal." Kurenai smiled.

"YAY!!" The class bellowed again.

"Okay. Stop it. Let's start this one." Kurenai said.

Oh god. Please. Not today. Start the reading at the back! The BACK!!! Sakura thought.

"Haruno-san. Please start the story. Two paragraphs at a time as usual class. Begin." Kurenai said.

What the Hell?!! Sakura coughed. "Okay. The title for today's story is---Everything We Had."

Naruto tried to suppress his laughter.

Sakura glared at him and started. "EVERYTHING WE HAD, by Melissa Drew."

Dear Stephen,

Hey there. I am writing you a letter because if I have to say this to your face, I would probably punch you. What happened to us? I used to feel so close to you but it's as if there are miles between us. I don't talk to you anymore. I don't see you anymore. I don't know you anymore. I have always believed that friends come before girlfriends or boyfriends, because friends stay with you forever. I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the push back to reality, Stephen.

I know that what you and (slutty) Beth share is something special and is something that both you and I will never probably have. But, we share something special too, Stephen. We're best friends. Or does the best friend just walk away when you've found a special someone? If being your best friend isn't possible, at least be a friend to me, Stephen. At least be that to me. I am sorry that we have had a falling out and everything that we had was simply erased in a matter of time. But I want you to know that I will still be here when (and if) you need me. I will miss you, you idiot.

Melissa

After Sakura read the two paragraphs, she felt that Ino's, Naruto's, Tenten's, Neji's and even Shikamaru's eyes are drilling through her back. Before she took her seat, she looked at them and they were all smirking at her.

After everyone read their part, Kurenai assigned them to read it silently and assigned a homework to them about the story. It consisted of these questions:

1.) What was the overall plot of the story?

2.) Can you relate something that happened to the story with your life?

3.) If you can talk to the author (Melissa Drew) right now, what advice will you give to her?

4.)If you can talk to the other protagonist, Stephen, what will you say to him?

5.) With a partner of the opposite sex, prepare a class discussion about Melissa and Stephen's broken friendship—the cause and the effect. During the discussion, pretend to be Melissa and Stephen and have a talk or debate about the cause and effect of the broken friendship.

After Kurenai wrote this at the black board, the class got ready to choose their partners. But, Kurenai is a teacher that doesn't like too much ruckus with partnering students with one another.

"Okay. Stop that. We don't have much time, since a table has a girl and boy each, your seat mate will be your partner. Class dismissed." Kurenai said, before she exited the classroom.

Sakura's jaw dropped open.

"Sakura, I'll just prepare a discussion about Stephen's part and you can do the same to Melissa's. We'll just put it together on Monday." Sasuke said.

"G-got it." Sakura said before she rushed off from her seat. She can't stand a second longer breathing in Sasuke's scent.

"Sakura, we'll go to the mall! Come with us?" Ino said.

"Um, o---" Sakura's phone beeped before she got to answer.

CALLING: Mom

SAKURA: Hello, Mom?

SAKURA'S MOM: Sakura, come home as soon as you can, okay?

SAKURA: Huh? Why?

SAKURA'S MOM: Did you forget? It's your Aunt Mikoto's birthday.

SAKURA: AUNT? Since when did she become my aunt?!

SAKURA'S MOM: Sakura, you've been friends with Sasuke for as long as I remember. And you know how the Uchiha family and Haruno family are close since. Why the sudden anger, Sakura?

SAKURA: Um…Nothing. So, will Sasuke be there?

SAKURA'S MOM: THAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING YOU'VE ASKED ME YOUR WHOLE LIFE, HARUNO SAKURA! Of course, he'll be there. It is his Mom's birthday you idiot.

XD

SAKURA: Oh… yeah…So, who else will come?

SAKURA'S MOM: Mikoto will officially celebrate her birthday tomorrow, Saturday, so that fellow socialites have time to go. Tonight, it'll be just the Haruno and Uchiha household.

SAKURA: WTF?!

SAKURA'S MOM: What was it, young lady!? Now get your bum here and get ready for the reunion!

SAKURA: Yes, Mom. And I AM DEFINITELY NOT WEARING THAT BLACK COCKTAIL DRESS, Mom.

SAKURA'S MOM: Says who? We are all going to wear dresses, Sakura. Bye.

(click)

"WHAT IN THE WORLD?!!!" Sakura was stomping her feet and almost everyone left inside the room was staring at her.

"Hey, Sakura, are you mad?!" Tenten said.

"No…no…I'm not. Ino, I can't go to the mall." Sakura said.

"WHAT!?"

"Why?" Ino was pouting.

"I am going to the reunion of the Uchiha and Haruno household."

-----------T.B.C---------

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When the lover walks in, where does the best friend go?

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ALL RIGHT! CHAPTER TWO, FINISHED!

Will Sasuke and Sakura make up?

Let's hope!

That's what true friends are, people.

No matter how much you hurt them, they'll still, and always be up for another round.

So, treasure them, okay?

Girlfriends/boyfriends will come and go but friends will stay with you forever and ever and ever..and whatever comes after that.

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