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Sakura: ...just...get on with it...

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Chapter 2

"The Encounter"

Sakura, Ino, and Naruto sprinted towards the school after already wasting so much time gathering themselves.

Flashback

As Sakura was walking in front of the two cowering blondes, she stopped suddenly in realization.

"Ano…maybe it would be better if one of you led the way considering the fact that I have absolutely no idea where I'm going."

Ino swetdropped and Naruto just raised his hand in the air like a little school kid. "Hai! I'll lead the way!"

Sakura smiled at the boy. "I never got to actually thank you for saving me from that motorcycle."

'Even though I could have dodged it myself…' Sakura mentally added in her head. But she continued smiling.

"You are so brave to do that," Sakura said flatteringly, "I don't know how to thank you!"

Naruto blushed and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Oh there's no need to thank me. Just doin' my job as the #1 hyperactive knucklehead student!"

Still continuing to wear that smile, Sakura realized she still didn't know the boy's name. "I remember Ino mentioning your name but I don't think that I caught it. What's your name?

"Uzumaki Naru-"

"Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura. Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto." Ino cut off, being very annoyed by the delay. "Now that we've finally and formerly introduced ourselves, can we please get going?"

But Sakura just ignored the loud girl and held out her hand to Naruto. "Well it's nice to meet you, Naruto." Naruto looked down at the hand she held out and back to her face a couple times, scrutinizing them.

"Oh no need for formalities!" He finally said, crushing Sakura in a giant bear hug. Taken a little off guard, a tint of pink formed on Sakura's face. After he put her down, Sakura cleared her throat.

"Anyways, shall we get going-"

"FINAL-FUCKING-LY," Ino yelled as she grabbed both of their hands and ran off to the front door, dust flying behind her.

End Flashback

Finally inside the school, Sakura looked around the building in awe and said, "This place is HUGE!"

Ino shrugged. "Yeah yeah, I guess. It's a bit overrated if you ask me. Or maybe I've just gotten used to it. Who knows. Believe it or not but it used to be bigger. Tsunade-sama had to take down a big section of the school because of some explosion." Ino said.

Sakura continued to look around the school like a overwhelmed little puppy in a new home. "Tsunade-sama? Explosion?" she questioned.

"Yeah, that's the principle! I think she must be an alcoholic because she always smells of sake" Ino said, pinching her nose. "And as for the explosion, well all I really know is that Sasuke was apparently the only person there when it happened. The police thought it might have been him who caused it, but he got injured when it happened, so of course it wasn't him. I don't know any more than that though, the teachers refuse to tell us and brush it off as a science experiment gone wrong. It's some big secret." Ino explained, bringing it down to a whisper.

"Why-" Sakura started but bumped into someone, causing her books to fall onto the floor.

'What a jerk!' She thought angrily, but acted otherwise.

"Oh I'm so sorry! I should watch where I'm going next time. How clumsy of me" she said, bending down to pick up her belongings. As her hand reached for one of her books, a different hand was placed on top of hers.

"No, allow me. It was my fault." An unfamiliar voice said. Sakura looked up and her jaw almost dropped – almost. She looked into a pair of pearly white eyes and at one hell of a good-looking guy.

He had a brown t-shirt on and an off-white jacket over it, with a pair of jeans that had rips along the way down. His hair flowed down his back and was tied off at the very bottom. The hand that was on hers was rough, but had a gentle touch.

'Maybe Ino was right…I WAS missing out being homeschooled' Sakura thought to herself. But Sakura was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard someone clear their throat. She shook her head to see that he books were being held out in front of her face by the guy who was now standing up. Sakura had been daydreaming so much that she was still kneeling on the floor. His same, rough hand was held out towards her while the other was holding her books. She took it as he helped her off the ground.

Sakura wasn't quite sure of what to do, so she went with her usual act of smiling again. "Thank you." she said as she took the books from him.

All the boy did was smirk at her and say "See you around" and then turn around and leave.

Sakura turned her head to look at his retreating figure – a sexy retreating figure, might she add. But then she just shrugged and turned back around to face Naruto and Ino. Now they had their jaws dropped. Sakura raised her eyebrow at their strange behavior.

"What's the matter? Do you guys need to go to nurse or something?" She joked, and continued to walk to class.

"Do you realize what just happened?" Ino asked.

"DO YOU REALIZE WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Naruto repeated, earning him a bump on the head from Ino's fist.

"Baka I just said that! But yea, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Ino said once again.

Sakura's eyebrow twitched. 'Well are you going to fucking tell me or what?' she thought, but maintained her smile.

"No, what happened?"

"Hyuuga Neji."

"Yes…?"

"Hyuuga Neji. Just helped you with your books. And offered to help you up. And said more than two words to you." Ino said as if she were traumatized – in a good way, though.

"And this is so important whyyy?" Sakura asked, getting impatient with the girl.

"BECAUSE!" Naruto yelled while flailing his arms. "THIS IS HYUUGA NEJI. WHO BARELY EVER TALKS TO ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THAT GIRL TENTEN."

"Sou desu ka? (is that so)" Sakura replied, obviously a bit more than unimpressed.

"Maybe it's because you're so hot," Ino said, "I mean every guy has been staring at you like you're some new piece of fresh meat."

"Yea yea, now that I think about it…" Naruto started, placing his hand on his chin and looking Sakura up and down, causing her to shift uncomfortably. "Now that I finally get a good look at you, for a new girl, you're extremely cute Sakura-chan!" he said with a big fox-like grin.

Acting like she was embarrassed, Sakura looked down and played with her skirt. "Iie, you're the cute one, Naruto!" She said with a flirty smile.

Naruto, not catching the act, blushed like crazy and turned around towards the lockers and started talking to himself. "Oh my God Sakura-chan just called me cute. No one has ever called me cute before. What do I do WHAT DO I DO. It's ok just play it cool, you can do this. Who am I kidding I can't do this! I've never even kissed a girl before!" And so on.

Ino sweatdropped and Sakura just rolled her eyes (so that no one could see).

"Even though I don't have a lot of experience, I could think of soo many things I'd do to you Sakura-chan if I was your boyfr-OW!" Naruto shouted as he was on the ground with yet another bump on his head with Ino standing over him, her giant textbook in hand. "Itai..." Naruto mumbled, rubbing his bruised head while tears ran down his face.

"Hentai! Stop being so gross. Or do you need me to beat it into you some more?" Ino threatened with an evil glint in her eye.

"No no I'll be good I swear!" Naruto defended and then shrunk into chibi form and backed into a corner. "Please don't hurt me!"

"Hmph, that's more like it. No more hitting on my new friend, got it? Otherwise you'll scare her away with your grossness, and she just got here." Ino said.

"Hey, she's my friend too now! Right Sakura-chan?" Naruto said, looking at Sakura expectantly.

"Of course Naruto" Sakura replied with a smile.

"YAYYYY" Naruto said as he got up and starting singing and dancing around the hall. "Sakura-chan said I was her frienddd, Sakura-chan liiikes meee! Yay yay yay yay"

Ino slapped her forehead, "She's only saying that because she feels bad for you, baka."

"Nu-uh!" Naruto said, getting in Ino's face.

"Yea-huh!" Ino retaliated.

"NU-UH"

"YEA-HUH"

Then they both stuck their tongues out like they were 5 years old. A vein popped in Sakura's head and before she gave into the very tempting option of kicking their asses, a voice spoke.

"Dobe."

The two blondes were frozen with both of their tongues out, and their eyes followed the voice behind Sakura. Sakura turned around to face the new-comer.

The boy took off his motorcycle helmet to reveal the most beautiful thing Sakura had ever seen. He had angelic features: a chiseled face with a strong jaw; onyx eyes that smoldered oh so sexily; a toned body that showed through the thin fabric of his navy blue t-shirt that he wore under his leather jacket. He was clean cut but had an I-look-this-good-without-even-trying attitude which slightly pissed Sakura off. And he held himself with a posture that gave off an air of authority and intimidation, daring anyone to cross his path. Sakura was practically drooling, but thank KAMI no one noticed.

"Teme!" Naruto yelled, running over and hugging his leg. "Help me, that evil witch is bullying me!" But the boy just kicked his leg and shook Naruto off and sent him flying to who knows where.

Ino marched up to him and shoved her index finger in his face. "YOU!"

The boy just smirked and raised his eyebrow. "Me?"

"You almost ran over Sakura this morning with your stupidass motorcycle!"

His smirk grew. "I did?"

"UGH! Uchiha Sasuke, apologize to her this instant!" Ino yelled, stomping her foot, shaking the whole school, and motioning towards Sakura. The boy – or Sasuke – eyed Sakura, but said nothing.

Sakura stared at him as her eye twitched. 'What a cocky bastard! Who the hell does he think he is?'

"Sakura!" Ino said, "this is the asshole that almost killed you! Aren't you going to say something?"

'Yea, give him a piece of your – I mean our – mind!' Inner Sakura said, who was a part of Sakura's consciousness and came out every once in a while.

'Of course I will! There's no way I can let such an arrogant person get away with this' Sakura thought. But ultimately, Sakura put on that same smile.

"Oh Ino, it's no problem! He probably just didn't see me! I'm sure it was just a mistake. There's no need to apologize! He wasn't that close to running me over anyways" Sakura said in a voice covered in honey. She walked over towards Sasuke and placed her hand on his chest. "I think we just got off on the wrong foot. My name's Haruno Sakura, don't wear it out" she said while winking at him.

But Sasuke just looked at her. "Hn. What happened to that girl on the road? She was more interesting. But you're annoying." He stated as he smirked and started walking past her without another word, leaving her shocked at his lack of testosterone and at his reply.

So that was it. Sakura couldn't take it anymore and she snapped. "AW HELL NO" she said as she grabbed his arm and forced him to turn around and face her. "You think you and your chicken-haired dumbass can just almost run me over, not apologize, act like a total jerk off, and call me annoying all in a matter of an hour? Oh no no no no. You son of a bit-"

"Sorry." Sasuke said bluntly.

Sakura just stared at him and blinked dumbly, not knowing what to say now that she was interrupted in the middle of her rant.

"DID I JUST HEAR WHAT I THINK I DID?" a voice that sounded suspiciously like Naruto's said from all the way down the hall. A blur of orange sped towards the three and stopped one inch away from Sasuke's face, inspecting it with squinted eyes.

But Sasuke just rolled his eyes. "Tch, Dobe."

"Wait you gotta say it again Teme. I gotta get it on tape this time, for evidence later" Naruto said as he whipped a camera out of nowhere. Sasuke fully death glared Naruto and his camera, causing the camera to shatter in a million pieces and Naruto to start crying. "Mou, finee. You didn't have to go and break my camera though...and now I think I have to go change my pants cuz I think I peed a little..." Naruto mumbled as he walked away hunched over and depressed.

Ino just rolled her eyes at the scene and said "Well an apology wouldn't mean anything if she were DEAD now would it, PUNK? Come on Sakura, you can finish telling him off and hopefully he won't rudely interrupt you with his "apology"."

But Sakura slightly widened her eyes in realization. 'Shit. Was I telling him off? Dammit I can't be so careless with the way I act around people.'

"No that's ok, he already apologized!" Sakura started with another smile, "but it's getting late Ino, and I still need to get my schedule! Come on!" she said as she grabbed Ino's wrist and started pulling her away from the scene.

"But-"

"Come on! Bye Sasuke-kun nice meeting you!" Sakura yelled behind her as she and Ino disappeared into the hallway of people.

After they were gone, Sasuke faintly narrowed his eyes as the place where Sakura once stood, confused at her strange behavior. Naruto reappeared with a new pair of pants on – he always keeps an extra pair in his locker (lol) – and a smirk of his own on his face.

"You liiike her Teme."

"Urusai, Dobe. I don't even know her." Sasuke said as he walked away, annoyed.

"Ok but I'm still keepin' my eye on you! Naruto replied, pointing at his own eye and getting in Sasuke's face, resulting in another bump to his head as Sasuke punched him into the lockers…

With Sakura and Ino

"Holy shit. HOLY SHIT." Ino said.

"What is it now?" Sakura replied.

"I don't get it! I really just don't get it! What is it with you and all of these hot, cold, bastards?" Ino complained out loud, mostly to herself.

"What?" Sakura asked, getting impatient.

"Uchiha Sasuke just said sorry. To the new girl. He just apologized! Just like that! I don't think he has never even come close to even THINKING of the word "sorry" before!" Ino yelled, freaking out. "Jeez Sakura, you're already going to have the whole school worshipping you, and it's only your first day!" Ino said, patting Sakura on the back.

Sakura acted shy and flushed. "Oh no Ino, stop it!"

"What! First it's Neji, and now it's Sasuke who likes you! You can't tell me that you're not seeing a pattern here. Talk about déjà vu."

"Oh yeah Ino. That's why he almost ran me over and got me killed this morning, to confess his undying love for me. It's SO romantic!" Sakura said sarcastically, while pretending to look all dreamy and in love.

They both laughed and stopped at the entrance to the main office. "Well anyways, the principal's office is right down this hallway so I'll just wait for you out here while you get your schedule." Ino said, motioning towards the door.

Sakura thanked Ino and walked down the hallway, around a corner, and continued until she saw a sign that said "Principal's Office," or resembled something that said that, anyway. The word "Principal" was crossed out with a sharpie and replaced with "Most Awesome Person Alive's." Sakura didn't think much of it and knocked lightly on the door.

"…" No answer.

She tried again. "Hello?"

"…"Again, no answer.

Sakura, thinking that no one was actually in there, banged on the door loudly, "HELLO?"

"WHAT! WHAT! COME IN WILL YA!" A voice finally replied from the other side.

'Oops.' Sakura thought as she quickly entered.

"State your puurrpose." The principal slurred.

"Ohayou gozaimasu (good morning) Tsunade-sama," Sakura said while bowing. "I am the new student Haruno Sakura. And I just wanted to thank you so much for the opportunity of letting me come to this wonderful school-"

"Haiii hai" Tsunade interrupted, waving her hand at Sakura. "Don't bore me with your little act, child."

Sakura sweatdropped. 'She can see through me that easily?' she thought. 'Or maybe she's just so drunk that her headache is terrible right now…'

"Wakarimashita…(I understand)" Sakura said slowly, standing up.

"Here's your schedule-wait, it was just here!" Tsunade said, frantically searching through drawers and moving papers and old Sake bottles aside. "AHA! Found it!" She said triumphantly as she handed Sakura her schedule all crippled and wet, smelling of Sake. "Sorry it's a little damp, ya see, I was playin' "stranded island" and I thought that I could use it for a treasure map, so I put it inside a bottle to let it attract help and other treasure hunters, but then I was attacked by pirates and…"

Oh yeah, she was definitely drunk. "Arigatou gozaimasu!" Sakura cut off as she ran out of the room and slammed the door behind her.

"OIII! I wasn't done with my story!" Tsunade called after her. But by that time, Sakura was already looooong gone…"Haruno Sakura eh? I think I'll like this girl…" She said before she passed out…again.

With Sakura and Ino

"Hmmmm let's see…" Ino said as she took the schedule from Sakura's hand. "Ew Sakura, it smells like sake," Ino said while pinching her nose. Sakura just sighed and looked at the schedule with Ino.

Schedule for HARUNO SAKURA:

1st: Calculus Room 235 – Yuhi Kurenei

2nd: US History Room 149 – Hatake Kakashi

3rd: Band Room 120 – Mitarashi Anko

4th: General P.E. Gym – Might Gai

LUNCH

5th: Chemistry Room 430– Orochimaru

6th: Home Economics Room 383 – Umino Iruka

7th: Literature Room 284 – Jiraiya

"Hey you have three classes with me! Chem, Band, and Calculus!" Ino said with excitement. Sakura smiled with equal excitement.

"Oi Sakura-chan!" a voice called from behind them. Both of them turned around to see Naruto walking towards them.

"Naruto! What are you doing here?" Sakura asked.

"Well I kinda got sent to the principal's office..." Naruto said, embarrassed.

"Again? Naruto, class hasn't even started yet!" Ino scolded.

"Well he can't help it," Sakura said, "he's just a bad boy" she finished, as she looked at Naruto and winked. Naruto's face turned completely red and steam came out of his ears as he fell over and passed out on the floor. Ino just rolled her eyes and put her foot on his face.

"Wake up, baka. Sakura got her schedule!" With that, Naruto jumped up and grabbed it from Ino.

"Sakura-chan! You have 3 classes with me! Home Ec, Literature, and US History!"

"And everyone has P.E. together so that means we have that one with all of us!" Ino said.

"Wow that's a lot of classes together. It must be a sign or something!" Sakura joked.

"No, you know what's a sign, Sakura-chan…?" Naruto slowly said, staring wide-eyed at her schedule.

"What is?" she replied.

"What is it baka? Move!" Ino said as she pushed Naruto out of the way and took the schedule from him. Her mouth opened in disbelief as she also stared at it like it was some message from aliens.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Why do you guys always do this to me? Will you just tell me what you're talking about?"

Both of them looked up at Sakura with wide eyes and said at the same time "…You have every class with Sasuke."

End of Chapter

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