A/n: Mwarhar. I told you people I'll post two chapters, yay I'm so good . Anyways, umm I have nothing to say, but writing these notes are really fun. This is my fourth chapter and I actually had a hard time to think of a nice chapter title, and I can't think of any, I know the title sucks. Just enjoy...Love you guys LOL
Chapter 4: Peace?
"A-ano..Sakura-chan" Hinata called weakly to Sakura, a one way to start a good lunch time in Konoha Leaf Academy. She had been aware of the recent news that quickly spread to the corridors, the classrooms, the flash news, and the small homes of the little creatures in school.
Sakura's emerald eyes darted to the girl as she smiled her normal way, "What is it Hinata-chan?"
"A-are the rumors true?" Hinata asked nervously, doubtful if she asked a good question or not.
Sakura took a sip from her iced tea, "I haven't even talked to that Sasuke guy in a serious matter,"
"B-but…Sakura-chan, even a short encounter means a lot already" Hinata replied with her hands almost covering her mouth
"And take note, only a few people gets a chance to at least experience that 'short encounter'" Ino said while eating her burger.
"Hmmm.." Sakura rested her jaw at her the palm of her hands, "Maybe for the majority, it's a big encounter, the one I call as a big encounter is when I get to know of what they like, or what they dislike…that's a big encounter right?"
"Ya, probably for you" Ten-ten said as she looked around the lunch area catching some students looking at them, "But just look around, it looks like we got a celebrity here-"
"You're Sakura Haruno, right?" A girl with a very thick make up cut off Ten-ten's sentence.
"What do you want?" Ten-ten retorted annoyed by the girl's rudeness
"I'm not talking to you" The girl replied in a bratty voice as the two other girls at her sides repeated what she said…gosh, mean girls.
Sakura blinked at them while finishing her tea
"Our Sasuke-sama ordered us to give something to you," she crossed her arms as she eyed her, "And we won't even do it if Sasuke-kun did not give us a special offer"
Inside the 4 girls' heads, "So what?"
"Bubbles! Bring the drink" The leader of the group commanded as the Bubbles girl showed a drink at her hand. And did they mention the name of their group? Umm..Powerpuff Girls? And they're composed of the leader, Blossom, along with Bubbles and Buttercup?
Bubbles put the drink at the table and proceeded back to Blossom's side
"Sasuke-sama wants you to drink that..he wants you to know that.. 'he's sorry for what he did yesterday'" Blossom scoffed with the two girls; "Probably to get rid of you as soon as possible" they laughed in a mean way as they exit the cafeteria.
The girls looked at the group's table, all of them with a sad expression like someone stole their credit cards and they would be kicked out of school the next day.
"I don't trust those faces" Ten-ten said with a Isnt'-it-obvious-they're-planning-something-evil aura
"But..maybe they're telling the truth?" Sakura doubtfully said looking through the glass of coke they gave her.
"But, they're known for their pranks..are you sure Sakura-chan?" Hinata asked with a worried look.
"Well," Ino rested her jaw at her palm, "Why don't you let them try it?" Ino looked at the guys, who are all dead silent at their seat.
"But..if Sasuke's really sorry, don't you think that it will hurt if I'll reject what he's offering?" Sakura again, doubtfully asked.
"You're so positive Sakura, you just have no idea what's up on their sleeves" Ten-ten remarked
"I'll just try it, I'm positive enough that if this is not a prank..it won't kill me anyway" Sakura gulped as she breath heavily.
In a slow motion, she raised the glass as everyone watched her.
3..
2..
1..
PPPPPUUUUKKKKKEEE!!
"SA-SAKURA?!!" Ten-ten shouted in fright of what suddenly happened as she moved from her seat to support Sakura.
Sakura's face was turned to deep red after she drank the 'coke' which was actually a root beer with chili sauce and wasabi.
"S-sakura-san?!" Hinata panicked
A laughter from the group's table echoed in the whole cafeteria..from 1st to 3rd floor.
"Th-those idiots!!" Ino shouted in irritation
Sakura stood up from her seat while covering her mouth and run to the direction of the bathroom.
Sakura laid her hands at the wall for support while making her way to the sink; she washed her mouth and wiped it with her handkerchief.
Wait, rewind.. As Sakura opened her bag to look for her handkerchief, she noticed something black moving but she ignored it and got her handkerchief out.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Sakura shrieked as she stepped back in surprise. 5 rats are enjoying the place they're currently in, none other than, Sakura's bag.
Sakura clutched her fists in anger as she kneeled and gently removed the rats from her bag. She stood up and marched on her way to the locker room.
Back at the cafeteria..
"Hoy!" Ten-ten solidly called the group's attention as she crossed her arms and looked at thme with disdain.
"What's up tomboy?" Neji smirked looking at her with his silver cold eyes.
"I'm not talking to you, bitch!" Ten-ten retorted to shut him up, and that did it.
"Haven't you got any manners left?" Ten-ten said with Ino and Hinata locking both of her arms as Ten-ten tries to straggle.
"No" Sasuke replied plainly
"Hoy, Sasuke-kun" Naruto butt in as he nervously grinned, "I think, what you did is not manly, you're being a teme"
Sasuke hardly glared at him as Naruto silenced himself.
"Don't you lay your finger on Sakura, I swear, Demon God will get you"
"What's up with that pink head…she's just another fan girl of mine" Sasuke smirked arrogantly
"You-!" Ten-ten pointed a finger at him as Hinata and Ino held Ten-ten's arms tighter, "Your ugly face is what Sakura can see, Idiot!!"
"Hoy, Neji, can you get your woman, she's getting kinda annoying" Sasuke lazily looked at Neji
"Can't help it" Neji replied as they watched Ino and Hinata drag Ten-ten away
Sasuke closed his eyes and thought of what he just did…meditation time maybe?
'What the hell did I just say?' Sasuke thought as flashbacks of what happened entered his head..
Of all the years, one group stands among the others in the society. Feared by their power, idolized by their popularity, worshipped for their over-all personality, Heaven's Fire's 4 burning flames have it all.
Of all the years, nobody registered as a living human in this world ever confronted or acted dumb in front of the worshipped group, not even the strongest person in the world hindered them. But as the start of his senior year, the most feared, Sasuke Uchiha, found his challenger that happened to be.. a girl.
A girl..which exists to bring luck to men, to be respected by men, and to serve as a root of existence of men.
For Sasuke Uchiha, that girl.. is a great SHOCK
Sasuke opened his eyes, "Sai" he called plainly without looking at the person he was talking to.
"What?" Sai retorted in the same manner Sasuke addressed him, his eyes plainly looking at him.
Then out of nowhere.
"What's our next subject?" Sasuke asked irrelevantly without showing any emotions.
"Why do you ask?"
"What's wrong with my question?"
"Ahh, Teme, so that's the deep thing you're thinking about the whole time?" Naruto innocently asked seeing his teme in a stupid attitude.
"Math" Sai plainly said
Naruto raised an eyebrow as he smiled sinisterly while rubbing his chin with his thumb and point finger, "You guilty huh? A cold-ass bastard, guilty for bullying a girl?"
"Shut up" Sasuke stood up and left the table
"What the hell's wrong with that guy?"
He really doesn't know what suddenly come up to him of leaving the cafeteria without the guys and finding himself walking out of nowhere. It really caused him trouble of walking carelessly around the school only for his fan girls to squeal, attempt to kiss, hug, glomp or whatever him. Until he found himself in the locker area without signs of any being present in the area except for the pink haired girl.
Sasuke rested the side of his arm at the lockers as he said "Hey" as if he was so innocent and goody-good.
Sakura stared at him plainly for a second then resumed in getting her stuffs out from the locker.
Sakura closed her bag and closed her locker, ready to leave. She walked pass Sasuke not minding his presence.
Sasuke stood up straight alarmed by what just happened, "Oi, Oi" Sasuke tugged her arm, "No one ever does that to me—" then he got it
Sasuke was thrown into the ground from the sudden punch that met him at the time that he tugged the girl's arm.
And Sasuke again was..SHOCKed
The punch is too hard that was unexpected for a girl to do. Normally, if Sasuke ever tugged a girl, it was to be expected that the girl, would faint or seduce him, or smile brightly/shyly at him..but meeting a punch from a girl was anticipated.
"..You don't know me…so you better not mess with me," she walked away with a victory smile traced on her lips. While inside her head..a chibi Sakura wearing boxing gloves, stepping over Sasuke's chicken haired head with a victory banner as a background and a gigantic peace sign formed at Sakura's hand.
Sasuke froze right on the spot still looking at Sakura's retreating figure. Funny of how the image turned out, Sasuke was holding onto his punched, reddened cheek.
Sasuke fixed himself from the embarrassment moment he just came across but as he was about to stand up, he noticed something reflecting his eyes from the ground, a silver cross necklace.
Sasuke quirked an eyebrow like a kid and murmured, "Who the hell is she? A nun?"
For unknown reasons, he decided to keep it, not sure of what will happen after he'll keep the object of the girl that challenged him.
Want to join the Music Club this year? We're
accepting anyone who wants to join the club.
If you're interested, please go to the Music room after classes at 4:00 pm
-Yuuhi Kurenai, music teacher
'Mom, do you think this will be the start?' Sakura's eyes twinkled in excitement. Weirdly as it is, she recovered easily from the bullying that happened.
Sakura's girl friends are watching them from behind wondering of the sudden change of her mood.
"Sakura-san," Ino called her from behind giving her a worried look with a mix of what-the-hell-are-you-really-feeling-now—really?
"Ino-san, what's with that look?" Sakura noticed the inexplicable face her friend's showing..that also made her worry
"Sakura..are you okay?"
Sakura nodded with a chibi smile and bubbles background
"Are you sure Sakura-san?" Hinata asked still unconvinced of Sakura's reply
"Yeah, I'm okay" Sakura replied with a childish cute voice with a thumb up
"Ahh..fine..if that's what you said" Ten-ten said with a twitching eyebrow
"So, you're planning to go in that club?" Ino asked with a small smile on her face
"Yes, it's what I've been waiting for," Sakura said in a cute voice with her eyes twinkling
"Hmm I know, we'll watch you later, I wanna hear you sing again,"
Sakura rubbed her temples and smiled "Okay"
"You can sing Sakura-san?" Ten-ten and Hinata said in unison
"Yes! She sings nicely!" Ino cheerfully said, proud of having a friend that has a good talent
"Oh! We also want to hear!" they said and Sakura just sweat dropped
"Anyways, we must join two clubs right?" Ino asked "One for academic and one for sports," she then answered it
"Yeah, I'm planning to join archery and maybe broadcasting," Ten-ten said
"I'll join flower arranging club and tennis," Ino said
"I'll join Home maker's club and badminton," Hinata said
"Then me...umm maybe I'll just join volleyball," Sakura said
"Okay then good luck to us" Ten-ten said as they went to their next class
Naruto eyed Sasuke's red cheek in a 75 view, then to 80, then 100, before he bursted out laughing.
Sasuke looked at him with a frown as he put down the ice bag he's holding
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU??!!" Naruto in between the crazy laugh he's doing
"Shut up, will you?" Sasuke glowered at him as he again put the ice bag against his cheek
"And who's the lucky guy this time," Neji said arrogantly
"It's a girl" Sasuke replied plainly ignoring the embarassment
"WHAT?!" Naruto said aloud as he rolled on the floor laughing
A root popped out from Sasuke's head as he threw the ice bag at Naruto, "I told you to shut up"
Sai observed Sasuke carefully as if he can see right through Sasuke's brain cells and after some minutes of analyzing, a conclusion was made, "It's that girl that punched you?..the girl with a weirdo pink hair?" Sai commented with a plain look on his face
"How did you come up to that?" Neji asked while playing with the monkey head pen
"Ohhh..Sakura-chan!" Naruto said
"That girl's really starting to get annoying" Sasuke murmured audibly and, something pink caught his attention. He turned his head to the 4 girls that just entered the classroom.
"HINATA-CHAN!" Naruto called Hinata getting her attention as Hinata shyly smiled at him.
BRRRRIIIING!! School bell
The 4 guys sit at their favorite seats and as the lesson started, their attention was only for studying at the moment, except for one..
'Damn it; stop getting curious over that girl' Sasuke thought as he's resting his jaw at his palm and looking at Sakura in the corner of his eyes.
Right at the moment, there's a big amount of disturbance from Sasuke's inner XYZ dimension. XYZ, nobody knows where in the Sasuke's world is that. It's like a new dimension that existed since the pink weirdo sprouted out from nowhere. Nothing can just explain what dimension is that, just nothing.
Sasuke gritted his teeth, for a reason that he won't like to admit; part of that dimension is the guilt and frustration that he never felt before. Knowing him, he's just a guy with an inhuman emotion; Never caring of how he would hurt someone, how he would destroy someone's life just to achieve his goal, how he would betray someone for the successiveness of whatever plan runs inside his head, Well, that's what he thinks.
But it's just not fair for him to feel so..weak
Sasuke tore a piece of paper from his note and wrote something on it. He crumpled it and threw towards Sakura's direction and ended up landing at her desk.
Sakura eyed the paper then to Sasuke with a 'What's-this-look'
Sasuke then mouthed 'Read it'
Sakura put down her pen and read the message on the paper
I'll talk to you after this class whether you like it or not
Sakura looked at Sasuke who is currently paying attention to the lesson, 'I guess there's nothing wrong this time' she kept the paper under her notebook.
30 minutes...
10 minutes…
1 minute...
30 seconds...
1 second...
The school bell rang...
"Guys, I'll go ahead" Sakura took her bag and hurriedly walked away for Music Club, completely forgetting about the letter and Sasuke. But the pursuer would always pursue after his target and Sasuke came grabbing her arm from behind, turning her back...
"I said that we'll talk whether you like it or not" Sasuke said in an angry tone. He didn't give her a chance to retort when he just dragged her to the rose garden, a really long dragging session
"What do you want?!" Sakura said in a bit of mad voice and after a while, realized that she also did something that would make the genius mad, "Oh, I'm sorry, I really forgot"
Sasuke released his tug at Sakura's arm making her face him
"Hey" Sasuke said in a serious voice as he inserted his hands inside his pockets
Sakura tried to look under his bangs to see if he's okay. He can't even look at her straight, that's a bigissue.
"Oi, if you're mad at me.." Sasuke finally looked up at meet her face
"…" Sakura waited for the continuation of his sentence
2 seconds..
"...then let's spar here" he continued with a stupid continuation
"Huh?" Sakura's face went blank, just what is that kind of sentence?, "That's it?"
"Here, about earlier" Sasuke looked at her emerald eyes, "Forget it, that's just something stupid that happened"
"That's fine.." Sakura replied, 'I'm just happy to have released my anger at you, I think that's fine'
Sasuke held both of her shoulders and looked down, covering his face from Sakura's view, as Sakura jumped up in surprise
"Just, forget it"
Now what was that suppose to mean?
Sakura remembered how the bastard that bullied her looked by that moment. A guy who is in deep regret of something. A look that would convince anyone that the person's asking for an apology. A look that would never escape a human's head and forever feel awe at the portrait.
'That's just..strange' Sakura thought while walking at the school corridor. Suddenly, a sudden feeling entered her 'Wait! I forgot something!' Sakura look at her watch saying 4:10 pm. She ran quickly along the empty corridor on the way to the Music Room.
She reached the room and found Ino, Ten-ten, and Hinata outside the room searching for her through the glass window. The girls found her as they pulled her arm and pushed her inside the room.
"Go Sakura-san!" Ino whispered
Everyone inside the room look at her, there are only 10-20 members.
Sakura looked at the students until someone called her attention, "And you are…?" the music teacher with a black hair and red eyes asked her.
"I'm Haruno, Sakura, senior" Sakura replied as she bowed down
"I'm Kurenai-sensei, and because you're late, you're going to do vocals for today" she smiled, happy to have found a student to lead the class in vocals.
"!" Sakura was shocked by the sudden assignment of her assignment for the day "Ah...okay" she took her seat in front of the piano
"So you see, this club's equipped with all the musical instruments…there are only 8 of you, but it's much better 'cause I knew that all of you are really talented…For this club, we need to participate in all activities, I mean we're going to perform.. For today, we'll just play one song, so that I'll know which side you're good at and like what I said, our vocalist for today is Haruno Sakura…I'll distribute the piece to everyone. All of you except Sakura will play an instrument…So, is it okay for all of you?"
"Hai (Yes)" they all answered as they shifted their positions at their seats waiting for the piece
"So start studying the piece" Kurenai ordered
Sakura look at the piece "Only Hope" she whispered, 'That sounds familiar' she studied the notes and at the same time humming it.
After 15 minutes……
"Are you guys ready?" Kurenai asked everyone as she herself was also getting prepared to conduct the class.
"Hai" all of them answered after all the tunning of the instruments and also studying the piece.
"Sakura-chan, are you ready?" Kurenai asked smiling
"Hai-sensei" Sakura replied with a slightly nervous tone
"Okay then we'll start. Everyone! Look at cue" she started to beat as the piano entered…
Sakura cleared her throat and started singing the song..
There's a song that's inside of my soul.
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again.
"Hm?" Sasuke stopped walking when he heard that voice. He felt some kind of relief when he heard that person's voice singing, which made him curious of the person singing.
"Hey, who's that?" Naruto asked as he also noticed the mysterious voice.
"Who knows? I haven't heard that voice before" Neji said again ignoring the world.
I'm awake in
the infinite cold, but you sing to me over and over and over again.
Sasuke started to walk slowly in the direction of the voice not expecting Naruto, Neji, and Sai to follow him, but they still followed him.
So I lay my head back down,
and I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours.
I know now you're my
only hope.
They reached the room and found the girls watching outside with impressed looks on their faces.
"Hinata-chan" Naruto whispered aloud and he went beside her "What's in here? What are you watching?"
"Sakura-san, she sings nicely" Hinata whispered back
Naruto look at the source of her attention and his eyes widened seeing the girl Sasuke's pranking, singing like an angel.
I give you my destiny.
I'm giving you all of me.
I want your symphony.
Singing in all that I am.
At the top of my lungs,
I'm giving it back.
"I can't believe that she possesed that kind of voice" Neji whispered watching
So I lay my head back down,
and I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours.
I pray to be only yours.
I know now you're my
only hope.
Sakura sighed and then resumed back to her normal self.
"Good job Sakura-chan, and also to all of you, all of you did an excellent job" she said as she fixed the music notebook she's holding, "And now..," she smiled as she clapped her hands once "Class dismissed!"
Everyone started to exit the room but before they do that, they'll congratulate Sakura for her nice performance...
"Hey! Nice voice" a guy said then left
"Good job Sakura-san!" a girl said then left
"Keep up that nice voice!" a girl said then left
She then, can't reply anymore and just manage to flash them a smile and reply thank you.
"Let's go" Sasuke said coolly and walked away followed by his group
"I can't explain it, her voice left me speechless!" Naruto said still surprised
"..You're quiet Sasuke" Sai looked at him coldly
"Hn" Sasuke replied
"…"
"There's nothing for me to say"
"Oi, Sakura-chan, you made us worry earlier, where have you been?" Ino asked as she walked with the 4 girls going out of school.
"I'm sorry, it's just a small talk with Sasuke" Sakura replied and she bit the cookie she's holding.
"A small talk? Sasuke never asks someone's time just for a small talk?" Ten-ten asked as she pinched from Sakura's cookie.
"What did you and Sasuke-san talked about then?" Hinata asked
"Umm..he said.." Sakura looked up thinking of a way to state what Sasuke said, "He..said to forget what happened between us"
"Just that?" the 3 asked in unison making Sakura quite alarmed and confused whether she stated her sentence correctly or not.
"Ah. Just that"
"Isn't that like he's apologizing or something? I mean he would not ask you to talk to him if it's just the forget thing"
Sasuke held both of her shoulders and looked down, covering his face from Sakura's view, "Just, forget it"
"…I think, it's like that" she nodded in agreement with what she just said.
"He..did?" Ten-ten asked surprised by her reply
"Sasuke-san??" Hinata asked..surprised like her from her reply
"Ah." Sakura nodded once
"Why?" Sakura asked with a lot of question marks surrounding her head and her finger on her chin wondering about the girls' sudden reaction.
"Sasuke never said sorry to anyone before even to his relative, his ex girlfriends or his friends" Ten-ten said
"…"
"He's starting to change now" Hinata said
"..Then I'm happy to hear that..if that's the case" she formed a childish smile. It would have been fun that someone really appreciated a person who can change some traits to that person or more of guide and support that person.
'I hope that I really helped him...I'll be happy if I really did' she stared at her ceiling '..Making a person happy is the smallest thing that I can give…then…what if I'll change a person?...' she smiled and giggled childishly 'Then it would make me happier!' she reached for her necklace but instead of her necklace, she found nothing..
She quickly sat up and looked around her bed but the necklace is not there
"Where's my necklace?"
A/N: Chapter 4 done!!!!! Thanks for those people who're still supporting my fan fic!!! Thanks for the reviews!!! I wanna glomp you all!!! After reading this please submit a review!!!..For the next chapter, it still deals with Sakura looking for her necklace, but not by herself, she's with someone who actually has her necklace nod See you guys!!! Ja ne!!