Lucky Charm
by EikoDoll
Chapter Five: Witness the Impossible
Neji refused to believe what he was seeing. His eyes were clearly deceiving him.
Stupid, stupid eyes!
"Is that..." his stupid eyes widened with skepticism. "...Naruto Uzumaki?"
NO. It can't be!
"He's holding hands with-"
"DON'T YOU SPEAK BLASPHEMY!" shouted Kiba in defense. "It's a joke. It's all a joke." he tried to assure himself.
They watched as the so called Naruto Uzumaki walked passed them, hand in hand with the hottest girl in school...
Sakura Haruno.
This was definitely something big, HUGE.
Even Chouji stopped eating to gape stupidly.
"Poor Sakura-san!" Lee jumped out of nowhere. "She's being blackmailed! That's the only reasonable explanation! We must save her!"
Shikamaru carefully examined Sakura's expression, and then Naruto's. "I don't know. By the look on Uzumaki's face, you'd think HE was the one being blackmailed." He noticed the strain on the whiskered boy's face, while Sakura looked like she had won something.
Man, this was so troublesome.
With a frown, Neji turned his gaze to the 'couple' and watched them stop in front of Kakashi's classroom. He noticed they both looked a little nervous for some odd reason.
"So, this means they're dating, right?" Shino questioned with a stoic expression.
Kiba wanted to strangle his bug-loving friend; he was very offended. "That's impossible! Why would Sakura, possibly the sexiest girl in the world, want to date loser-face-Uzumaki? If anybody, it should be me!" he nudged his chest with his thumb.
Nobody wanted to crush his dreams and tell him that was impossible.
"I thought you liked Hinata?" Chouji was unable to clearly think.
The dog-boy snorted. "Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Tenten - I'll happily take any one of them!"
Well, nobody could argue with that.
"Come on, guys. Let's get to class before the bell rings." Shikamaru lazily pulled himself up.
All of a sudden, the group of six boy stopped frozen in their tracks when they all happened to see something very disturbing.
It was very quiet, until the bell had finally rung.
"D-Did Sakura-san just..." Lee sobbed.
This was definitely the weirdest day of their lives.
Sakura Haruno just kissed Naruto Uzumaki!
IN PUBLIC!
It was official...they had just witnessed the impossible.
As soon as the 'couple' arrived at the door of Sakura's first class, they stopped and looked at each other uncomfortably.
"Uh," Naruto rubbed his head nervously. "you really think you're gonna have a test today?"
Sakura shrugged, also feeling the unbearable nerve deep in her gut. "I'm not sure. You know how Kakashi-sensei is. Always trying to ambush us with pop quizzes."
"Yeah. That's true."
It was a very awkward moment.
"Sooooooo."
"Sooooooo."
Sakura flushed and slightly turned her head to the side.
Seeing her blush made Naruto blush, so he preoccupied himself by kicking imaginary dirty on the cold, hard ground. Without warning, Sakura slowly began closing in on him. Naruto noticed this and out of instinct, abruptly forced himself back. "W-We're going to do this now?"
"Of course. Class is going to start any second." Sakura was immediately irritated when Naruto pulled back.
"Can't we...like...go somewhere private?"
This was SO embarrassing.
"The whole point of doing this is so everyone will know!" Sakura loudly reminded him. "So just fuckin' kiss me already."
He still hesitated. "I'm...I'm not ready!" he argued.
"We've kissed millions of times already!"
"No, you attacked me millions of times already!"
Sakura growled impatiently at him. "Okay, here's what you're going to do. Pretend I'm, oh, I don't know, Megan Fox." the name popped into her head. "Guys have the hots for her, right? Just pretend you're kissing her, goddammit!" she pressured him.
Naruto still didn't make a move. Honestly, he thought Sakura was prettier than Megan Fox...
But there was no way in hell he was going to tell her that!
"Fine. Let's just get this over with." Naruto muttered distressingly. When he felt Sakura's smooth hands cup his face, he immediately tensed. His blue eyes were closed shut, impatiently waiting for the familiar, and very painful impact of Sakura's lips.
As soon as her glossy lips touched his, he suddenly melted. Her lips were perfectly soft and plump, not to mention absolutely delicious. This was very different than what he had been fearfully waiting for...
Sakura finally ended the kiss and slowly pulled away. For some reason, she looked a little disturbed. She kissed him longer than she intended to...
she couldn't breath.
"Cherries again." Naruto mumbled.
Sakura forced herself to exhale the breath she had been holding. "What?"
Naruto instantly snapped out of his thoughts. He smiled at her sheepishly. "Nothing! It's just..." he paused for a moment. "the first time we kissed, you tasted like cherries."
"..." The blush on Sakura's face was clearly evident.
"I love cherries." he stated as a fact.
Oh, god. She felt her face currently burn out of control.
"Y-You should go or you'll be late for class." she quickly turned her heel and basically sprinted into Kakashi's classroom, slamming the door behind her.
Naruto stood there silently confused by her actions. He slowly walked to his own class, thinking about her lips...
However, just know this: Naruto Uzumaki will NEVER EVER EVER be interested in Sakura Haruno. He promised himself that long ago, and intends to keep it.
He just wish he had the willpower to stop thinking about her damn lips!
Sakura was at ease.
Fortunately, there was no pop quiz in Kakashi's class.
'Ha! So I kissed Naruto for nothing.' Oddly, she wasn't disturbed by that. 'Whoa wait. Kissing Naruto for nothing should've disturbed me. Why am I not disturbed!'
She was disturbed for not being disturbed!
Shaking out of her thoughts, the emerald eyed girl focused her attention on Kurenai-sensei's chalkboard. As soon as first period with Kakashi-sensei was over, she headed straight to her second period class: Spanish.
"Grammar 28 quiz today..." she silently read with a bored look on her face.
It just hit her.
"OH FUCK!"
Everyone in class abruptly turned their attention to the dirty-mouth pink haired girl and stared at her questionably. However the boys didn't particularly care; they just had an excuse to stare at her breasts.
Sakura sat there sheepishly.
"Is something wrong, Sakura?" Kurenai eyed her.
"Uhhhh..." she nervously shifted in her chair. "I need to use the bathroom."
"I'm about to start the qui-"
"It's an emergency." Sakura looked like she was about to burst.
Kurenai assumed it was because she really had to pee. "Fine, but make it quick. I want to start as soon as possible." the crimson eyed teacher warned.
"Thanks." Sakura hastily ran out the door.
Now, the number one most important thing to find out: Naruto's second period class.
Shizune examined a certain pink haired girl search frivolously through important papers in the filing cabinet. The girl wasn't even aware Shizune had been standing behind her watching with severe eyes
"Sakura, what are you doing?"
The girl jumped with a gasp. Slowly turning around, she saw a woman with short, black hair frowning at her. "Oh, hi." Sakura said innocently. "I like your perfume, Shizune. You smell, er, wonderful." she immediately tried to change the subject to avoid getting in trouble by the hands of Tsunade's right hand lady.
Shizune frowned deeper. "I don't use perfume."
Shoot.
"I absolutely loooove your new outfit."
Again, she frowned continued to deepen. "I've worn the same outfit for about a year now."
Sakura was at a loss. "Hey, did you recently get a haircut?"
"Why, yes I did!" the woman's eyes brightened.
Haha! Lucky guess. Sakura actually couldn't see the difference in Shizune's hair at all. "Well, it's beautiful. I can totally see the difference." the girl lied through her teeth.
Shizune was absolutely thrilled. "Thank you, Sakura. I appreciate that. Whenever I get a haircut, nobody ever notices!"
No shock there,
"Yup. I definitely noticed..."
and more with the lies!
Turning her smile upside down, Shizune finally realized why she was down here in the first place. "That's right! Tsunade-sama wants her coffee."
"Oh, you better get movin', Shizune. You know what happens when Tsunade doesn't get her coffee." Sakura warned her.
The secretary shivered. "Don't remind me. Okay, I'll see you later, Sakura - WAIT A MINUTE!"
Aw, shucks...
"What are you doing out of class? And why were you going through these files?" Shizune threw her a strict look. "And did you mean what you said about my haircut?" all of a sudden she turned absolutely fierce.
Dammit! Almost got away with it!
"Fine. Since I trust you, I'll tell you the truth." Sakura sighed. "I'm actually dating someone right now." she was, well, sorta truthful.
Shizune gasped. "Don't tell me the rumors are true! You're dating..."
Sakura nodded. "That's right. Naruto Uzumaki."
The second gasp was louder.
Sakura ignored the crazy look on Shizune's face and continued. "The reason I'm looking through the student files is because I wanted to look up my boyfriend."
Her superior was still confused. "Why?"
"Because I don't know where his second period class is!" Sakura looked extremely stressed.
Shizune still didn't quite get it. "Just ask him when you see him again."
"Okay, I'm just gonna say it." Sakura sighed, motioning the black haired woman to come closer. Shizune leaned in curiously. "You see, I need Naruto. He's the most important thing in my life right now." well, that was true.
Shizune was profoundly astonished.
"And I can't live through this day without kissing him. His kiss gives me the hope to live on." Sakura looked away dramatically. "Dontcha want me to live, Shizune?"
There were no words to describe Shizune's shock.
"Wow." she replied. "I just can't believe it's Naruto Uzumaki of all people." even she knew the difference in their leagues. She often found herself eavesdropping on student gossip, and it was a well known fact throughout the student body that Naruto was the king of all outcasts. Honestly, she couldn't see why he was an outcast at all. He seemed like a pretty groovy kid to her. "Well, I always thought he was cute." she shrugged.
Sakura threw her a bored look. "You don't understand. He's more than cute, he's my god." she inwardly rolled her eyes at her own statement. "So will you let me off the hook and possibly NOT mention this to Tsunade?"
For a moment, it didn't look like the woman was going to take the bait.
"Oh, all right."
Sakura didn't show it, but she was slightly surprised. It bothered her a little knowing Shizune actually believed she was obsessed with Naruto Uzumaki...
"But I'll only allow this once! It's not right (and a little weird) for a student to skip class just to kiss her boyfriend." Shizune eyed her disappointingly. "Promise me that this will be the last time."
"Yes, of course."
"Good." Shizune picked up the coffee cup and made her way to the Principal's office. "Oh, by the way," she stopped and smiled at Sakura. "Naruto's second period class is gym, with Gai."
Sakura blinked. "How do you know that?"
Suddenly, the secretary's face looked very exhausted. "You have no idea how many times a day his teachers, and I mean ALL of them, come to me and complain about him." Sakura could imagine. "I know them personally now, which means I know every class he should be in."
Sakura wasted no time. "Thanks, I owe you one!" she hurried past Shizune and ran in the direction of the gym.
Shizune smiled and watched as the pink blur ran out of sight. "Naruto Uzumaki, huh?" she said quietly to herself.
What a shockingly...cute couple.
It wasn't much of a surprise to see Naruto stretching in gym class. In fact, gym was the only class he particularly excelled in. Getting the A's was easy as baking a cake (and Naruto can bake a pretty mean triple layer chocolate cake), but that wasn't the reason why he usually showed up in this particular class. Actually, that wasn't the reason at all.
He continued to stretch while carefully eyeing Sasuke Uchiha behind his back.
Their 'friendly' competition began in the first grade. It all started when Naruto just so happened to hear Sakura conversing with her friends about the new CUTE student in class. At first, he thought that new cute student was himself. He was ecstatic! But then he heard the name 'Sasuke Uchiha' squeal out of her lips, and she was completely hyped about him sharing the same class as her. The blue eyed boy was crushed, but he had to fight for Sakura's affection, and if that meant fighting Sasuke Uchiha (the other new student), then he would do it. His sneak attacks always proved useless, because for some reason, Sasuke always saw it coming and would quickly beat him to the ground. Kids thought that was cool, and Naruto only realized he was HELPING Sasuke win Sakura's heart even more!
The day Sakura accused Naruto of stealing her lucky charm and branded him an outcast was the day he thought his rivalry with Sasuke was over.
But that just wasn't the case. Everyone thought Uchiha was the definition of perfection, and Naruto hated that. So the rivalry continued, and to this day...
Naruto knew there was no way he could beat Sasuke educationally,
absolutely nooooo way.
So he figured the only way to win against the Uchiha prodigy was by physical means.
Even Gai-sensei encouraged this. Everyday, at the start of second period, he'd set up a race between Naruto and Sasuke (by Naruto's request) and whoever lost had to run around the gym half the period. Gai also encouraged gambling; he was secretly a compulsive gambler, but claimed it was the youthful thing to do.
Sometimes, Tsunade would join in too...
"Don't you just love the smell of competitive youth! Everybody cheer as Sasuke and Naruto run for the spirit of youthfulness!" Gai was the only one who cheered.
Oh, and Lee too.
Sasuke complained under his breath, but didn't dare say what he had on his mind out loud. The last time he did, Gai lectured an hour about something along the lines of taking his youth for granted and blah blah blah. Sasuke never listened to whatever Gai had to say. Not only is the man stupid, he LOOKS stupid too. Instead of listening to Gai's lectures, Sasuke simply took that time to stare at the man's overly-bushy eyebrows.
It transfixed the Uchiha prodigy.
However, the bigger pain in his ass (yes, even larger than Gai) was Naruto Uzumaki, the boy who started the competition in the first place. A lot of guys in this dreadful school wanted to punch Sasuke's guts out, but this particular one looked like he wanted to on a whole different level.
"I hate you!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke for everyone to hear, set on making an obvious point.
Okay, weird. But that just proves it.
All the raven haired boy could do was stare back at Naruto, bored out of his mind. He had to admit though, he admired the idiot's bravery. Guys who outwardly hate Sasuke were basically hated by the entire female population. So no one in their right mind would insult him like Naruto obviously just did. The least boys could do was think it.
"Ready to get your ass kicked today, Uchiha?" Naruto smirked as they readied themselves at the starting line.
"Like how you 'kicked my ass' yesterday, Uzumaki?" Sasuke smirked back when he saw his rival's smirk fade.
"That was a fluke and you know it. That branch came flying and tripped me out of nowhere." he muttered bitterly.
"Nobody saw a branch-"
"Well it was there!"
"Ready!" Gai exclaimed.
They got into their positions.
"Set!"
Sasuke really didn't feel like running around the gym, so he slapped his game face on.
"Go-"
"WAIT!"
The two boys nearly fell when they heard the cry of a female voice.
Actually, Naruto was a little relieved
...he forgot to tie his shoe laces.
"Oh, it's Sakura-san!" Lee was enraptured.
Naruto's head snapped up to see a pink haired girl staring directly at him.
Great, what does she want now?
"Gai-sensei, my precious cherry blossom has finally acknowledged my presence and has come to see me train in the spirit of vigorous youth!" the bushy-browed boy cried actual tears.
Gai cried with him. "That's great, Lee!" they hugged, which basically freaked everyone out. "Sakura, I'm so glad you finally recognized my precious student!"
Sakura stood there, a little embarrassed for witnessing this. "Um, no." she cleared her throat. "That's not why I'm here."
"What nonsense do you speak of! Of course you're here for Lee, don't be silly!" Gai realized Lee suddenly fell into dismay.
"Actually, I came to see my boyfriend..." she stared at her shoes, even more embarrassed.
Naruto blushed.
"Oh." Gai looked disappointingly at her. "All right, then. Sasuke go ahead." he grunted and gave Sasuke a wave of approval.
Sasuke threw Sakura a pathetic look. He couldn't believe she STILL thought they were going out.
"Um, no." Sakura retorted again, not even bothering to look at Sasuke (which surprised him greatly). "I meant...Naruto..."
The entire gym was filled with silence.
Eyes widened.
Jaws dropped.
Boys and girls alike pinched themselves, realizing it was not a nightmare.
This was definitely real.
And apparently it was the biggest shock (and disappointment, for the guys) of the century.
Even Sasuke couldn't believe what he was hearing. He stared at Sakura with confusion in his eyes, then at Naruto, and back at Sakura.
"Do you mind?" she asked Gai.
Even Gai couldn't believe it! And more surprisingly, he was at a loss for words!
Without receiving his teacher's approval, Naruto pulled himself up and walked nervously toward Sakura.
"What are you doing here?" he whispered, leaning closer to her sweet smelling-
"We were supposed to meet in front of Kakashi's after first period so you could walk me to Kurenai's class and kiss me!" she whispered in a hurry.
"You didn't tell me that!"
"You should've known!"
"Exactly how long were you waiting for me?"
Sakura was about to make a smart retort, but sighed in defeat.
"That's what I thought."
"Just kiss me now and get it over with! I have to take a Spanish quiz as soon as I get to class."
"Fine!"
Without hesitation, Sakura quickly pressed her lips against Naruto's, and this time, the entire gym was watching. They tried to ignore the gasps and cries of the students around them, but they found it a little difficult. The kiss ended up being very awkward and embarrassing, so Sakura finally ended it and pulled away.
"Okay."
"Yeah."
"So, I guess I'll see you in Asuma's class?"
"Uh huh." Naruto rubbed the back of his head, glancing at the shock-stricken faces around him.
Sakura cleared her throat. "Well, bye."
"See ya."
Sakura clumsily turned around and walked away. Naruto watched her, forgetting all about his race with Sasuke.
Speaking of Sasuke...
'What the hell just happened?' it didn't seem like it on the outside, but on the inside, Sasuke Uchiha was experiencing a complete and mental break down. 'This doesn't make sense. Why would Sakura...' he just couldn't think.
THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE COULDN'T THINK.
He also watched as Sakura nearly trip over smooth ground after the kiss she shared with that Uzumaki-loser.
This just wasn't possible.
A/N: Hmmm I'm beginning to think I'm starting the hiatus at a weird time...
I wanna leave you guys hanging with a CLIFFHANGER! bwahahaha. Cliffhanger + Hiatus = Misery
So after I update chapter seven...bwaha the REAL hiatus begins...