Disclaimer: First chapter
AN: I noticed people found it creepy, which is fine by my standards.
Also, this chapter is dedicated to Miss Kanji Babe for giving me an idea. Thanks for your help.
AN: (This is the last note) This will be SasuSaku, fully.
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Our Bloody Mark
Chapter 1: Conflicts in the Past Affect Her Future
"SAKURA!"
Haruno Sakura rolled her eyes as she pretended not to hear the screeching sounds coming from her best friend, and walked forward, placing her ponytail to her side and moving the bangs out of her eye. She quickly fixed her white mini skirt, worn over a pair of faded jeans, and ran closer to the entrance of the large school, her shows making soft crunches on the lush grass.
Of course, nothing went Sakura's way.
Ever.
Running faster, Yamanaka Ino caught up to her best friend, Sakura, and holding her shoulder from behind her, and turned Sakura around before the pink-hair girl could even decipher what was going on.
Sakura suppressed the urge to roll her eyes at her friend's rude behavior (although she would have done the same thing and deny it anyway) and placed a fake (cough, forced) smile on her face, directed to Ino, who just happened to have an angry look on her face. (Again, Sakura didn't blame her.)
She was used to this routine last year, Ino just happened do perform this "ritual", as she liked to call it, every day, so any minute now, Ino would scream something insulting to Sakura's face, careful not to spit on the girl's face, oh no, Ino was too perfect for that.
Five, four, three, two...
"Hey forehead girl!"
Ah, there it was.
"Listen to me when I talk to you, got it?" Sakura rolled her eyes again, not caring that Ino was watching this time. It was a bad habit that tended to get her into major trouble with anyone, whether it be a teacher, or Ino, or someone popular.
Now, any minute, Sakura herself would insult Ino, who a.) would then again insult her and it would lead into a big cat fight, or b.) if Ino had good news (and Sakura prayed she did) she would ignore Sakura completely and just tell her the news by screeching it into the heavens.
"Sorry Ino-pig." You could hear the sarcasm resting in her voice. "Now, please, tell me why you insist on pestering me to no end on the first damn day of school?"
Sakura was cranky, and she wasn't the right person to talk to when she was.
Ino, ignoring the rudeness in Sakura's response (which Sakura took as a sign of boring news that appealed to her and not Sakura) only clapped her hands gleefully and pursed her lips together, and said,
"There's a totally hot new guy in our school this year Sakura! You should have seen him, I mean, he's a God, dammit! No one knows his name since he refuses to talk to someone... but by God, he is gorgeous! And I mean gorgeous! And I was able to kiss the ground he walked on, and everything, and it was wonderful...although I would have liked to kiss his luscious lips..."
Sakura stopped listening, knowing she would get nothing out of this except for some hearing aid in the near future. She turned around, for Ino tended to move around and close her eyes when she talked, and left for her new homeroom (and this wasn't the first time, mind you).
Ino, who finally noticed Sakura walking away in the corridors of the high school, ignoring the other students in their senior year (which led her to receive many shouts directed to her) and caught up to her again.
"Ya know", Ino started, walking side by side next to an uncaring Sakura, "That attitude is what is going to let you die single, and a virgin, unless you become a prostitute, even though you don't seem like the kind of girl who would, but seeing the circumstances..."
"INO!" Sakura, who had enough of Ino's ramblings, she always tended to go on and on about one topic, and really didn't really like the "prostitute" comment but let it pass. "Please stop. I won't die single. I have gone on dates before, you never really let me say anything... but I'm not ready for a boyfriend..." Her voice was slowly loosing the volume it had from the beginning. Sakura turned away from Ino abruptly and paced quickly away from Ino.
Ino, on the other hand, had a sorrowful look on her face, knowing she brought back a few memories. She ran towards Sakura, ready to apologize to her best friend, guilty of what she said.
"Sak, I'm so sorry." Sakura didn't hear her, she only kept mumbling to herself; Ino caught some like "After what he did to me... I'm not ready for someone else..."
"Sak, look at me... my face isn't near the girl's bathroom, look at me, good." After getting Sakura's attention, she calmed down, ready to console her. "Forget him. He's long gone, probably rotting where we left him, so give some other lucky guy a chance, k?" Sakura, after a few moments of silence, Sakura nodded, and smiled to Ino, reassuring her that she would be all right.
Ino looked at her watch, and her eyes widened when she saw that they had five, no four, minutes left for class.
"OH MY FUCKIN' GOSH, WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"
Laughing, Sakura ran with her friend, happier than she was a few minutes ago.
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Please forgive me for the completely boring chapter, sorry, but it just gives Sakura a conflict in her past that will eventually bother her in the future.
Sasuke's in the next chapter, just so you know. I'm not sure if there will be other pairings, such as Ino/Shika, or TenTen/Neji, or Naruto/Hinata, we'll see. Maybe, but they might/might not be involved in the whole plot. But they will be there.
I hope.
If anyone saw Ino bashing, forgive me, she's not with Shikamaru yet, so she's single.
If you people need to know who the new kid is, I pray for you. (Joking)
Please review, or I will refuse to update.
(Dead serious, by the way)