K.L.K- Ooh, I get to help someone out on here! (cheers) YAYness! alright, I'm going to help a friend of mine, NarutoChic100! alrighty, NarutoChic100 has this awesome fanfic called Tomboy Sakura is Konoha High's New Student. I freaking LOVE it, even though I dislike SasuSaku, it's still a good fanfic. I promised I would help anyone I could out on , so if you have a favour to ask, ask away and I'll see what I can do! (smiles) Please go read it! I Reccomended it, and I don't usually reccomend fanfictions!
Sakura- yup, she might wear black and keep a apathetic face on during most classes, but she is quite helpful. She was probably "Most Helpful" in many classes... damn popularity contests...
K.L.K- (nods) yup, I don't mind. I'm pretty laid back... except for my few pet-peeves... but that's about it. so yup! orochimaru-loves-sasuke, or as I call her Kitsune-chan, this is for you and NarutoChic100!
Inner Sakura- so please review, you two! we wanna know what you think about it! as well as everyone else! CHA!
K.L.K- hai! Onegai! (attention turns to the Television screen in her room) OOH Good Eats is on! (is watching with rapt attention) OMJ you can make Pea-burgers! O.O woooooooooaaaaah! they look GOOD!
Sakura- Hey! get to the fanfic!
K.L.K- but-! ...but-! I want to watch it! it's how to make peas good to eat while being good for you! Also, Field Peas are full of flavour, (and nuitrients) so you should try a recipe for split-pea soup for them. I don't doubt that it's good!
Sakura- Ooh really!?
Inner Sakura- HEY! Tape it and get to the fanfic, SHANNARO!
K.L.K- (pouts) fine, fine. Yare Yare, this is troublesome. anywho, I don't own Food Network.... which I watch alot.....or ANYTHING else in here, okay? to chapter six! ONWARD CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE! (points toward the chapter heroically.)...I'm done...(sits down on bed to type)
Be-BEEP! Be-BEEP! Be-BEEP! Be-BEEeeep! BOOP.....
...silence once more.
Sakura yawned. she'd managed to not punch the alarm clock off the side-table, but she had hit the snooze button on her abused alarm clock- which had had to be fixed with a jutsu the rosette now in her arsenal, thanks to Mikoto-san. she still didn't call her with a '-chan' honorific, because she didn't feel that she deserved to. Every time she tried to call her that, her throat closed up and she started choking. it usually subsided a few moments later, but she had a feeling something in her mind did that.
anyway, Mikoto came bounding into the room, a bit happy to see the pinkette whom she felt a mother-daughter bond with ever since she'd seen the girl. "Good Morning, Sakura-chan! how are you?" the woman smiled as Sakura got out of her bed.
"Ohayo. I'm fine, Mikoto-san, that's the best sleep I feel that I've ever gotten. Daijobou?" the small girl smiled, and then went over to her closet. the Uchiha woman would be taking her...shopping. for some reason the word sent a shiver down her spine and ominous music to play in her mind, courtesy of Inner.
"well, after Academy you can walk with the boys here, and we'll go shopping afterwards since the boys are getting takeout tonight." the black-eyed woman spoke as the small girl pulled a outfit from her pack, and the girl gave a slight but noticeable nod before she went into the bathroom. soon the shower could be heard running, and Mikoto sat down on the bed in the room.
she was worried for Sakura. the little girl had, in a space of a month, lost all her clan, lost all her memories, came all by herself from Mist to Leaf, been put in the boy's classes, and moved in with them. so much change all at once, and the small onna didn't seem phazed in the least. well, a bit, but she seemed almost normal for a young kunoichi. although her insecurities regaurding her face and her body were troubling... all you could see was a bit of her face and her hands and toes! after all, most of the young kunoichi wore regular civillian clothes, and didn't have much gear; yet she did. she had a feeling she had been trained brutally by whoever her family had been, and she was grateful that she could make new memories with the Haruno girl, to replace the others, as selfish as that may seem. the girl seemed to have gotten the shorter end of the stick with her life so far, and Mikoto wished to turn that around.
the shower noises stopped and the girl came out already dressed, her hair slightly dampened. "ah, wait a second, Mikoto-san." she held up a finger and then she combed her fingers through the short and tousled hair, drying it with a quick hum of her chakra.
a black eyebrow rose. "that is a useful trick."
Fugaku walked into the room, and Sakura bowed her head in slight respect.
"Fugaku-sama." she muttered in acknowledgment.
"Haruno-san." he nodded lightly back.
Mikoto looked between the two and groaned inwardly. so much tension between the two! it aggravated her so. Ever since they had started training and Fugaku had very nearly been beaten by the pinkette in her swordmanship, they'd been terse with each other.
"Mikoto, the boys want thier breakfast soon, after morning training." he spoke shortly, and then he exited the room.
the ravenette sighed, and then waved to Sakura as she exited.
the rosette kunoichi-in-training looked into the mirror, pulling her mask up. she tied all of her gear on, and made sure her shoes were clean.
she then exited the room, locking it with the key she had been provided with, and then headed down to the kitchen, where the Uchiha main family was. she took a seat across from Sasuke, where she knew she should sit according to her intense manners she had unoubtedly learned, and Itachi sat at the other end of the western-styled table where they all sat, next to Sakura and opposite from Fugaku, with Mikoto at his side.
Itachi caught the girl's attention. "Sakura-san?" he said quietly, as the girl finished off her bite of breakfast.
"Hai, Itachi-san?" she asked just as quietly as he had, noticing the two adults speaking at the other end of the table.
"I want you to meet me in a training ground at six p.m, the seventh one... I want to know the new person who I will be hanging around with now." he whispered, and she nodded and smiled.
"I'll be there." she murmured back. then as soon as she was finished with her food, she took her plate into the kitchen to clean it, and then trudged out the door as she pulled up her mask, letting a few of the younger Uchiha boys see her. one came over to her and grinned, reminding her of that boy, Naruto. He looked to be Itachi's age...
"Yo! Umm...what's your name?" he grinned, the goggles on his eyes making the obsidian greenish and the blush on his cheeks apparent.
she gave him an icy look. she knew what he was thinking. "I am Haruno Sakura, and that's all you'll ever know about me..." she raised her eyebrow, then recalled Itachi hanging out with him. and his name. "Aa...Obito, was it?" he nodded hyperly.
"Oh. Well, Obito-san, I regret to inform you that our first impression will be cut short. I must get to Academy, after all." her eyebrow went back and she turned on her heel, then walked out of the compound with her hands in her pocket, cursing the clothes she wore that day.
she had on a loose black tanktop, a thinner, black mask, and a pair of skintight shorts under a short black buckle-up skirt. Mikoto-san had taught her how to use the eyeliner and mascara, and she quite liked the look of them, so she applied chakra to the cosmetics so they wouldn't smear or go away until she used chakra to remove them. as Fugaku had called her trick with her hair- the one she based the eyeliner trick off of- it was useful.
her black sandals made almost inauidible clicks, her back held in a proper posture as she walked through the streets to the Academy. she'd requested to go alone today. It was Friday. in fact, she'd left really early, so she'd get to meet up with Naruto. She enjoyed talking to the boy, but he seemed to have a nasty habit of forgetting things after he'd been injured. she'd saved him twice already that week. she shook her head.
'He needs to learn how to fight- what am I saying, I have no idea how I know how to fight!' her hand clenched into a fist inside her kunai holster, which held kunai as well as a small box of strawberry pocky sticks. she snacked on them to keep her stomach going, as it had a problem with grumbling sometimes in class.
her eyes lazily traced the buildings, and then something impacted the back of her head, the cold, slimy goo covering some of the shaggy-looking strands. "what the...?" she murmured, then turned to see a rotting fish at her feet. a man scowled at her- the man who she'd sent running about two weeks prior. 'it's amazing he didn't succumb to alchohol poisoning, not to mention remember me.' she remarked in her mind, then dodged a rock with a fliud sidestep.
"Go away back to the hole from hell you came from, Demon Girl! this town already has a monster; we don't need two!" he shouted at her, causing the merchants who were setting up shop to look at her.
"Sir, I haven't the slightest idea what you were talking about." she told the ruddy-faced man calmly and carefully, analyzing his movements like the kunoichi she was training to be.
"Of course you do!" he shouted, then took a step towards her. "My buddy's talking soprano and is in the hospital because of you!"
she raised her eyebrow. "Once again, Sir, I will ask you to stop this tomfoolery. I have done no such thing, I assure you." out of the corner of her eye, she saw a few merchants exchanging bets on who would win a fight- her or the man. apparently the bets were on the man.
"You little monster, he's going to have to have his nuts cut off!" he dove for her, and she dodged, her face emotionless.
"Sir, that is unfortunate for your friend, but I have done no such thing." Oh, Kami, she hated lying... but sometimes it had to be done. "I do not want to engage in violence, Sir. please stand down." he grabbed her arm. "You initiated the contact, so do not blame this all on me."
she sent a kick straight up into his red face, sending him tumbling head over heels.
the merchants were gaping and whispering, she could both sense it and hear it. and they were placing bets on her now.
"Bitch!" the man growled, and he dove for her again, and she simply used a uppercut with her fist, sending it into his jaw and throwing him wildly off his course. he got up, spitting bood from where he bit his cheek deeply. she silently swept his legs out from under him and then stood on his hand, making him cringe.
"Do not use such degradatory terms for one such as I, imbicile. I am a kunoichi in training, and I will not hesitate to use my knowledge to take out such scum as the likes of you." she stepped off his hand after whispering the message in his ear, and she gave a blank, tundra-cold stare to the merchants, who stilled. she just then broke thier gazes and kept walking, head held high.
she soon near the Academy, when she remembered the rotten fish slime that scumball had gotten on the back of her head. that would cause a odd odor and not to mention it was unsanitary. she looked to a water fountain, and supposed it would work. she held the button in and wetted the back of her head, and then dried her hair quickly with her chakra.
she then swiftly made her way to the Academy's playground. she saw Naruto, swinging himself on the swing quietly. sadly, almost. she padded her way over to him- and knew he didn't notice her- so she stepped behind him silently. "Ohayo Naruto-san." she spoke into his ear, and he fell off the swing sideways.
"OOF! Sakura-chan! stop doing that!" he pointed at her, rubbing the bump on the back of his head.
she rolled her eyes. "Whatever..." she plopped herself down beside him, her legs crossed. "So how are you?" she casually put a glowing green hand onto his forearm, where she'd healed a slight fracture in his bone the day before. damn those drunkard thugs.
"I'm great, Sakura-chan! But Sasuke-teme is still bugging me." he looked to the grass, pulling at it with his free hand.
"Oh, Sasuke-chan doesn't mean it, Naruto. He's just a little scared of how loud and friendly you are." she gave a soft smile, hidden by the mask. The people who were around her more knew she was smiling, due to the movement of the mask and crinkling of the skin under her eye.
he grinned back. "It's okay, I'm used to it."
her face suddenly snapped back to it's blank look. "But... if you need for him to stop, say so, and I will hold a conversation with him."
he nodded. "Of course, Sakura-chan."
Sasuke started to come over to them, but he hid behind Itachi when he saw Naruto. the rosette smiled at that, and then hoisted the blonde boy up. "Come on, let's go introduce you two properly."
she dragged him over to Itachi. "Sasuke-chan, come out from behind Itachi-san, I have someone for you to meet." when his little brother didn't come out, the elder Uchiha sibling pushed him in front of his legs. "Now that you aren't hiding like a scared little ninny, this is Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto held out his hand for Sasuke to shake, but the black-haired boy just stared at the extended appendage. "What's wrong, teybayo?" he asked, smiling.
the black-haired boy took the hand tentatively, and gave it a tiny shake before letting go. "I'm Uchiha Sasuke." he spoke in a tiny voice.
"Sasuke-chan... Please do try to not be afraid of his loud side. he's a nice young gentleman." she turned her viridian orbs to him. "He has gained a tiny sliver of my trust, and so I expect you to treat him equally." she peered straight into his eyes, her cool gaze serious.
"H-Hai Saku-nee..." the younger Uchiha boy agreed reluctantly.
she gave a short nod. "Good. He's very friendly, and this will be good... For both of you."
he gave a nod, and the blonde pulled him over to the swing, and started yapping about nonsensical topics, whilst the little Uchiha started growing bolder, talking a little more.
"Ahh, at least they can be friends..." she sighed.
Itachi turned to her. "You haven't forgotten?" he asked- well, more like stated- and she gave a sly wink.
"I don't forget a lot of things unless I'm forced to, Itachi-san." her eyes then stayed cool, unemotional even. "I think that you would have realized that by now."
his eyes turned a tad softer. "I know that now, Sakura-san..." there was a moment of akward silence. "I suppose you three should socialize together... And I have a mission. Ja Ne, I will be at the seventh training ground at the appointed time."
she gave a nod, then started walking away. she paused in her walking, only to smirk. "Be careful, Itachi-san. Wouldn't want talent like yours wasted. Anything can go wrong, even on the smallest mission." then, with that somewhat odd message, she resumed at her languid pace.
she bonked Naruto swiftly on the head; softly as she could manage, because she didn't want to hurt the poor kid- but he still clutched the spot.
"ITAII!"
she sweatdropped slightly. "Naruto-san..." she sighed. Those two had been arguing. "Tomatoes are a fine, healthy fruit, but Ramen is also very delicious, and somewhat nuitritious, as it contains differed ingrediants. Please stop squabbling over this matter."
the two bowed thier heads. "Hai, Saku-nee." the young Uchiha apologized.
"Hai, Sakura-chan... Gomen." the blonde looked into her eyes, the blue so sorry looking she twitched.
"Naruto-san, for the last time, the 'Puppy pout' as called so by you- fails to pursuade me."
"...Kuso."
Pretty soon they were sitting in the Academy room, bored as hell. they then proceeded to poke the pinkette.
poke.
poke.
poke.
...
pokepokepokepo-
she caught both of thier hands. "Stop poking me. I have made it quite clear, I hate human contact."
...
poke.
her eyes opened, the pupil struggling against her will to turn to it's demonic slit, but she stubbornly refused to let it do so. "I said to STOP." she growled, and then they got scared looks. Sasuke had already told him what happened with her training with Fugaku. she just raised an eyebrow when they cowered and started spewing apologies. her eyebrow twitched, before a bark of laughter passed her lips. "Okay, okay! stop it, you two!" she half-giggled half mumbled. "I won't harm either of you, as long as I live. In fact, I'll protect you at all costs as long as I live." the two then looked shocked. "I promise on my honour."
Naruto looked wide-eyed at the rosette, who then returned his stare cooly, just before the Sensei entered the room, and she stood.
"Mizuki-sensei... I need to have a word with you, if it is alright." he smirked. they went out into the hallway, which was pretty much empty. "I must ask of you to stop with this treatment of me. Just because I am female, it does not mean I am strong. You will not force me from these classes, not even if you were to attack me physically."
his eyes darkened. "I treat you worse because this is a BOY'S class. You don't belong."
she gave a eye-crinkling smile. "Oh, I think you're very wrong about that, Mizuki-sensei. I, Haruno Sakura, refuse to let you become so consumed in getting me out of these classes, that it worsens the quality of the education the others are getting. Little Sasuke came to me one day, so I could teach him about the subject you had... discussed... with us, of the chakra types and so on, so forth. However, I was not pleased to see that you were only talking so quietly and so quickly, only to try and damage my "small, insignifigant" self-esteem. Yes, I heard you muttering to yourself the other day." she tacked on the last bit, a tiny explanation. "You were practically raving. So, I must ask of you, before I report you to Hokage-sama himself... Stop this. It's Sexist, unjust, and just quite frankly, you are being what others my age would elaborate as a 'Jerk'."
he blinked at her. then his eyes narrowed. "Well, listen, pinky," he spoke through gritted teeth. Obviously seething with outrage at her passive protesting of his attitude. "I refuse to let one as weak and docile as you order me around. shut up, get moving; You're going back to the girl's classes. I hate you little filths, always weak, screaming about boys; I'm finished with it!" he grabbed her shoulder, but she instantly whacked his wrist, right on the bone with the handle of a kunai.
"Do NOT touch me!" she growled, then leaned against the wall, feeling dizzy. She had a seething, sudden anger for this dolt, and she began to see red. her muscles locked into place, her breath becoming shallow, as she was plunged into snippets of memories, out of order, and without a unblurred image to accompany it.
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"you demon! OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
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"You abomination! I shall have you killed!"
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"It's alright, Sakura-tenshi. Your Hiroshi-Aniki is here... Take care of her, my boy..."
"H-Hai... Maaka-Obaachan. For the survival of the goodness in this clan. And of...Usui."
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She let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding. "what the hell was that...?" she murmured, feeling a bead of sweat make it's way down her spine, giving her the chills. she looked at Mizuki, who was moving- as if in slow motion, she couldn't comprehend why- but she dodged his wrist, and then brought her foot up into his gut. he snarled at her, swinging a kunai at her head, before she knocked it from his hand. The hallway was empty. It had been for awhile. Even before thier...Little talk... Ever occured.
"stop." she commanded, her voice overlayed with chakra.
"How about fuck no, you little bitch!" he snarled, completely insanely. He'd obviously been under too much stress, and she needed to know why. She was a healer. This man was broken. She wanted- no, she needed to fix him, to help him. So when he lunged towards her, she made handsigns she didn't know she actually knew, and caught his forehead as his arms fell short of her body.
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"Mizuki...Your mother...She's a slut... She's gone."
"Tousan, why?"
"She got killed. Now listen to me..."
"What, Tousan...?"
"Girls are too much trouble. all they are, are breeding machines, weak little things, docile creatures to be used for our pleasure. You hear me?"
"But...--!"
SLAP!
"..." Sob, cry, whimper.
"What do you say to me, Mizuki?"
"..."
Thud! he'd kicked his son. "WELL?!"
"H-Hai, Otousama!" The boy was now crying silently, a bruised heap on the floor.
"That's good, you little bastard."
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she sucked in a breath, feeling like she had hit the ground after being knocked down by a pudgy person. Hard. his eyes turned from blank, to shocked.
"W...What happened...?" he asked, letting go of her arm.
'Crud. did I wipe that memory?' she silently wondered. 'Nah. That would be harder than just going into someone's mind to observe.'
"I was just talking to you, wondering why your treatment of me was so.... terse." she explained, shortly, to the point.
"Well... It's just that...My mother wasn't the faithfullest of wives, especially to my abusive father. he killed her one day, finding her with another man, and then put a piece of his soul into this necklace before he killed himself." he tore off the necklace., beads flying everywhere, the glass amulet bursting into a million pieces. "...I apologize."
she shrugged. "It's nothing I haven't probably dealt with before. And thank you... you've helped me remember some bits of my past." she gave a short bow to him. "Mizuki-sensei... We'd better return to our normal positions. The classroom will be wild now."
his eyes widened, as he took off running. Little boys could be quite destructive, if left alone for too long.
she walked back to the classroom.
"Kiba! Get off the desk! Shino, put those insects away! Graaaah, Chouji! Stop eating other boys' lunches! Hey! Shikamaru, stop rewriting the textbook already!" the silver-haired teacher's voice drifted through the wall, and she gave a tiny smile.
At least classtime would be back on track.
K.L.K- ooookaaaay then... I just kinda pulled the whole Mizuki thing outta my ass... because he was a flat character in the series, used only for one event, then filler, I decided to give hi a little more backround. But He'll probably just be...THERE in this ficcy, because I don't really like nor use him all that often. I don't even think there's anything about his past really, and I guess Sakura helped him and that lady during the Mizuki-tiger-potion filler thing get together, somewhat.
Sakura-...Ewww...Fish slime...in my hair.
K.L.K- And you thought that was the last of those drunkards we'd see? Oh, nooo, I just had to bring them back. A little sub-plot, as it seems. They'll probably have a deeper part in the story- especially the "Buddy" the guy that got his arse handed back to him by Sakura was talking about.
Kiba-... why'd we all get yelled at?
Shino & Shikamaru- Yeah!
Chouji- (munch munch)...Yuuuummerrrrs, chiiiips...(munch)
K.L.K- Well, I wanted to convey that you all knew each other at a young age. Not to mention you all knew Mizuki. Soo yeah...That one's solved...
Mizuki- Okaaaay Well, what do we all do now?
K.L.K-...
Kakashi-...umm...
K.L.K- Blast! I forgot the new chapter of me and Steph's ficcy! (runs out of disclaimer room)
Kakashi-...what's that fanfic about...?
WilliamBandet- It's about her and her friend Stephanie's characters, in a fanfic together that will eventually end up a ScarSteph pairing.
Shino- (shocked)
Naruto- WTFH?! Did K.L.K suggest it?!
WilliamBandet-...No... Strangely enough... Stephanie did... something about thier characters being so close anyway...
Everyone- (akward silence)
Link- (appears in the flash of a Deku Nut)...
Everyone- O.O (jaws drop)
Link-...(holds up a sign that reads 'Review for the sixth chapter of 'Clanless Sakura'!)...(flashes off again)
Everyone- (blink blink)
WilliamBandet- What the hell?