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Tsukiko: Heeeere you go! XD The chapter with the, mwahahah, kiss!
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♥ Chapter IV: Aishiteru! Confessions ♥
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"So, Sakura, how's it going in school? You've been there for a week now", Cecilia asked as she sipped her coffee calmly, expecting Sakura to moan and talk about how horrible it was.
"Ah, excellent!" Sakura smiled. "I've some friends already, and everybody's so kind."
Cecilia blinked in surprise. "Nani? You don't think it's a rotten hell?"
"No, of course not!" Sakura looked just as dumbfounded back. "It's a fantastic school! I'm loving it. It reminds me of my own at home."
"Really? Was your school that bad in Tokyo?"
"No, not at all! I've always loved it." She sighed and stared dreamily out of the window. "I miss it a little. I can't deny I miss my friends, my family and Tokyo. But after all, I'm having lots of fun here, so I shouldn't sit here and reminisce – ah! I've got to go, aunt Cecilia! Ja ne!"
Sakura waved before walking out of the apartment, her schoolbag in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
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"Sakura-chan! You're late!" Kari held her Nike umbrella in one hand, twirling it with an impatient smile on her lips as she greeted her pink-haired friend, whom was panting for breath. "We're going to miss everybody if we're too late! I was thinking of introducing you to my other friends today", she winked. "I think they'll appreciate you – and they're really nice! I can see you know Naruto already, so it's no need to introduce you two to each other. And I saw you talking with Ino – not like she's my friend really, but we know each other."
At this, Kari frowned. Sakura didn't bother to answer; instead she panted a 'gomen' and followed Kari into the school building. As they approached Sakura's locker, Sakura caught sight of Sasuke whom stood at his, right to hers.
"Ah… ohayou, Sasuke-kun", she smiled. He looked up from the book he had been reading in and gave her a blank stare, but as he opened his mouth to answer, Ino tackleglomped him.
"Saaaaasuke-kun!" she chirped. "Where've you been? I've missed you!"
Sasuke-kun mumbled something that nobody could hear, as Kari walked up to him, blushing furiously. "Eh… Sasuke-kun… I wonder if you've any time this afternoon?... Maybe we can study together…" She smiled embarrassedly. "And I've also a gift for you…"
"No, I don't have any time!" Sasuke snarled and pushed off Ino, walking off towards his friends. Kari looked pretty down, whilst Sakura cheered her up.
"Kari-chan, I'm sure he was just busy today… maybe he'll accept your offer next time, ne? Ah… Naruto-kun!"
"Ohayou, Sakura-chan, Kari-chan", Naruto beamed. "And by the way, Sakura-chan, remove the '-kun' suffix, will you? I don't like it."
"Ah… hai." Sakura smiled back.
"Yo! Naruto! If you want to come along you better hurry up!" a guy with pale blue eyes and long, black hair shouted to Naruto as he walked beside the quiet Sasuke.
"Comin', Neji!" Naruto grinned at the two girls. "I've gotta go, ja ne!"
"He's pretty cute, isn't he?" a voice said from behind Kari and Sakura, making both of them twirl around in surprise. A girl with dark-brown hair in two buns and hazel eyes smiled at them. "Ohayou, Kari-chan. That's your new friend you've been babbling about all night while I was having a cold?"
"Hai!" Kari-chan grinned. "Sakura, this is Tenten, one of my good friends – Tenten, Sakura."
"Konnichiwa", Tenten greeted her with a warm smile. "I've heard much about you… especially your pink hair", she giggled. "No offence, I like it."
"Eh… arigatou?" Sakura sweatdropped, unsure what to answer.
"And… Hinata-chan!" Kari burst out. "I've been looking for you everywhere, you were sick yesterday too, right? Sakura, this is Hinata. Hinata, this is Sakura."
"K-konnichiwa, Sakura-san", the girl named Hinata replied with a faint flush on her cheeks. "Nice to meet you." (A/N: What does Hinata call Sakura? >> Sakura-chan, Sakura or Sakura-san? I think it's Sakura-san so that's why I wrote it.)
"Nice to meet you too", Sakura answered happily. "So, what're waiting for? Let's go to class!"
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"C'mon, let's see the boys' PE!" Kari suggested while they were eating lunch. Sakura looked, astounded, at her.
"Don't we have PE ourselves?" she asked doubtfully.
"Nope, it's cancelled today. She is ill", Tenten grimaced. "Boy, am I glad."
"Is our PE teacher that horrible?" Sakura wondered in amusement.
"You can bet. She's the most horrible teacher in the entire school."
"And who is she?"
"Kurenai-sensei isn't horrible!" Hinata protested. "She's just being strict."
"Call it whatever you want, but I don't like her at all", Tenten said, rolling her eyes.
"Kurenai-sensei? Ah, I've met her! She's kind", Sakura smiled.
"Kind? You won't think so after PE", Kari moaned. "Only a few of her students actually appreciate her. She's so strict! But she does seem have a weak point when it comes to Kakashi-sensei… I've seen her blush once when he came a bit… hrm, too close."
"Yeah, I saw him help her in her parents' bookstore, too", Sakura added thoughtfully. "I almost thought they were a couple."
"Is anyone up for playing Cupid?" Kari asked with a wicked grin.
"Me!" Tenten and Sakura exclaimed in chorus. Hinata blushed.
"B-b-but won't she get mad with us?" she stuttered. "I mean…"
"Hinata-chan! Tenten-chan! Sakura-chan! Kari-chan!" they heard Naruto say behind them. "May we join you?"
The four girls looked up to see Naruto, Sasuke and Neji standing behind them. "Oh, hi, boys", Tenten greeted them, grinning. "So how will PE be after lunch?"
"Don't taunt us, Tenten", Neji moaned as they settled down by the table. "Just because you girls' PE is cancelled doesn't mean you've the right to tease us."
Tenten giggled. "Have fun, guys."
"At least we have Gai as teacher – he's better than Kurenai", Neji protested.
"Who's Gai?" Sakura asked curiously.
"He's the one with thick eyebrows and black hair. Have you seen Rock Lee? Gai looks like an older version of him", Naruto explained.
"Well, I haven't, but I will, since we'll be going to your PE class, right, girls?" she grinned at the others. Kari nodded dumbly, too occupied with watching Sasuke, while Tenten exclaimed 'Hell yeah!' and Hinata nodded, smiling with a faint tint of red on her cheeks.
"What's with you, Hinata?" Neji asked, raising an eyebrow. "Every time Naruto is around, you blush. Something going on, huh?" he added teasingly. "OUCH!"
Tenten had appeared behind him in a flash and whacked him with her notebook. "If you don't want to die just yet, Hyuuga Neji, then you better watch your mouth", she commented triumphantly, while Hinata just tried to explain in a stammering manner.
"Neji and Hinata are cousins", Kari explained to the confused Sakura. "They've known each other since they were kids."
"OK, I'll watch my mouth if you kiss me", Neji said teasingly to Tenten as he protected his head with his hands. This made Tenten's face go bright red as she whacked him several times even harder. "Ow! Ow! Ow! I was just kidding!"
"Can you stop watching me? I'm not a TV, for hell's sake!" Sasuke snapped in irritation at Kari. "Go and look at someone else!"
"Ah… ah… g-g-gomen, S-S-Sasuke-kun!" Kari stuttered, blushing just as much as Hinata did at this point.
"Hey, hey, hey… be a bit more easy on her, will ya, Sasuke-teme?" Naruto told him. "She's just having a crush on you."
Kari's face turned even redder as Sasuke uttered a snort. "I don't care whether or not she has a crush on me or not. But I'm not a freakin' TV, and if she's going to continue stare at me, then I'll move!"
"Do you've a problem with people looking at you?" Sakura suddenly asked. "I mean, what if everyone had been like you and said that? Then we'd have nowhere to look! This place is crowded with people, we've gotta have our eyes somewhere, and it just happens to be that she had her eyes on you!"
"Do you have a problem?" Sasuke growled in return. "Would you like someone staring at you all the time while you're eating?"
"Hey, Sasuke…", Naruto began warningly. Sasuke shot him a death glare before snorting again and falling into silence.
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"Neji no baka", Tenten kept whispering under her breath dangerously, as the four girls approached the gym where PE was held. Sakura sweatdropped.
"Hey, Tenten-chan, Neji-kun can't be that bad… right?" she asked nervously, as Tenten shot her a death glare.
"Neji-san is kind", Hinata smiled in response to Sakura's question, "But Tenten-chan and Neji-san always argue."
"They've done that since they were kids", Kari explained. "Anyhow, we're here!"
As they entered the gym (the doors were wide open, so anyone who wanted to see could come in), Kari guided them to where the guys were (it was easy to locate it since Sasuke's fanclub was shouting as hell), and walked through the doors towards the stands.
"Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun! Saaaasuke-kun!" the enormous fanclub shouted in chorus. If Sakura hadn't known who Sasuke was, she'd have thought he was a celebrity. Which he kind of was, at least in the school.
"They're so noisy", Tenten said under her breath as they tried to walk past them, but was stopped by Ino.
"Hey, Tenten, Hinata, Sakura!" (She didn't say Kari's name, just look at her in disgust before continuing.) "Don't you wanna join us?"
"No thanks", Tenten smiled back. "A bit busy. Where's Temari, by the way?"
"Temari?" Ino repeated, looking slightly disapproving. "Oh. I think she's with Shikamaru."
"Again?" Tenten grinned.
"Who's Temari?" Sakura asked Kari and Hinata in a whisper (quite loud whisper though, since the noise from the fanclub was earsplitting.
"Temari is Gaara's older sister", Kari informed her helpfully. "See him over there?" She gestured at a boy with crimson hair and the word 'ai' tattooed on his forehead in blood-red. "That's Gaara."
Sakura gazed in surprise at him. Gaara seemed very alone; they were now dividing in teams of two and two, and Gaara just stood there, while all the boys ignored him. "He seems lonely… why?"
"He's just weird", Ino answered, making them look back at her. "Gaara has always been like that, y'know? He's an exchange student. From… the States, I think. Good in everything, but he's not that handsome. He can actually beat Sasuke-kun in sports, but Sasuke-kun is much more good-looking… and cool." Ino sighed dreamily. "Gaara is just downright shy."
"Then somebody ought to talk with him, so he can open up", Sakura decided firmly.
"That's true. Maybe I should invite him next time I've a party", Ino suggested, shrugging. "So why don't you join us?"
"Sorry. Ain't a fan of Sasuke's", Tenten replied jokingly, and then explaining to Sakura: "Ino is the president of the SUFC – Sasuke Uchiha Fan Club, that is."
"But sometimes I call it 'Sucky Unhealthily Fanatic Club'", Kari grimaced.
"Hikari, I warn you…" Ino's eyebrow twitched dangerously. Sakura sweatdropped again.
"Um, shall we continue?" she laughed anxiously.
"Okay, sure. See ya later, Ino", Tenten winked, as they proceeded farther away from the now screeching fanclub since Sasuke had made a goal in the basketball game the boys were playing.
"So let's see, which guys don't you know?" Tenten said thoughtfully as she looked at the boys. "There's Naruto…" At this, Hinata's face turned a deep tint of red – "… and you know Sasuke too from before. Shouji, you know him?"
"Yeah. And Shikamaru-san, too", Sakura added.
"Shikamaru", Tenten grimaced. "I don't see what Temari sees in him. He keeps skipping classes – just because his IQ is 200. Genius. And he says 'troublesome' way too much. Besides…" She had an evil sparkle in her eye – "… I think Ino has a got a crush on him without knowing it. You should see her face when he's with Temari. But then again, she's all over Sasuke. Ah, whatever." Tenten shrugged. "And Gaara… we talked about him just a minute ago. Shino and Kiba, they're in Hinata's crew. Kinda weird, both animal-lovers – Shino is like, an insect expert and Kiba is a doglover. He always has his dog, Akamaru, around – see him? Akamaru is sitting on that bench."
Tenten gestured at a bench on the other end of the room, and then Kari continued: "And there's Rock Lee. He's next to Gai – they look so alike, huh?"
"Yeah, really." Sakura made a grimace. Both of them had hugely thick eyebrows – something she absolutely detested. "Who's that guy?" She pointed at a handsome boy out of curiosity that the girls hadn't introduced yet. He had golden hair in a very neat hairstyle, and deep blue eyes, along with shining white teeth and was wearing clothes that fitted him perfectly.
"Oh, you mean James?" Tenten groaned. "He's handsome, don't you think? But he's a total bastard. I hate him. Keeps calling me Tenten-chan – it's not like I dislike it, but he says it in such a disgusting way I just want to punch him."
"Don't be so hard on all guys, Tenten-chan", they heard a familiar voice say behind them, and as they looked around, they saw the grinning Neji behind. A vein popped on Tenten's head as she immediately attacked him, chasing him around while the other three girls giggled.
"Seems like everything is as usual", a beautiful voice sighed beside Sakura. Sakura turned her head again to see a girl who was taller than her, with pale blonde hair and small, obsidian eyes, wearing a pale blue dress. "Hi, Hinata – Tenten – Kari… and who's this?" She looked curiously at Sakura, who smiled back.
"Ohayou. My name is Sakura."
"Aha. Hi to you too – my name is Temari. And you're the new girl, I assume?" She looked meaningfully at Shikamaru. Just then, somebody appeared behind them and hit Shikamaru hard on the head.
"Ow!" Shikamaru said, as Ino stood, fuming, in front of him. "Don't be so troublesome, Ino! What's with you?"
"I should ask what's with you", Ino snapped. "Didn't we just say we'd study on the break since our homework's not done? And who ran off with a girl with half of our homework, totally ruining it all? I should say you!"
"All groups receive their homework together, so you've to co-work if you don't want bad grades", Temari explained to the confounded Sakura.
"I see. But what if somebody's sick?" she wondered.
"Well, then the other two has to do it all. Kinda hard, I can tell you", Temari sighed. "I'm actually older than you girls, but me and my brother – Kankoro are actually in the same group as Gaara. He's my younger brother, so it's all three of us. Exchange students from US. But we work individually since we're in different classes, meaning we've different homework."
"Did somebody talk about me? Ohayou, Temari", Gaara smiled. Sakura couldn't help but flush – he looked so cute in closeup view! (A/N: I'm not a GaaSaku fan, and I know this was kind of OOC, but… xD I couldn't resist! Gaara is cute!)
"Ohayou, Gaara", Temari beamed back. "So how was PE?"
"Great. Basketball isn't my thing, but…" Gaara shrugged. "I think it worked fine anyway."
"So finally you dragged your lazy ass all the way here", Sasuke said annoyingly to Shikamaru. "Where the hell were you when we needed you? You're good at basketball!"
"Didn't wanna play, kinda full after the superb lunch we had today", Shikamaru grinned back.
Naruto groaned. "You're hopeless, Shikamaru."
"N-N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata exclaimed in chorus with Kari, just that she instead stuttered: "S-S-Sasuke-kun!"
"Hi, Sasuke-kun." Sakura smiled at him again, while Sasuke raised an eyebrow. As he once again opened his mouth to speak -
"SASUKE-KUN! I'VE MISSED YOU!" Ino squealed before tackleglomping Sasuke again from behind.
"Ouch! Geroff me!" Sasuke hissed.
"Why do you always say you miss him when you've just met him?" Kari asked sarcastically.
"At least I don't begin my welcome speech by stammering 'S-S-Sasuke-kun'", Ino snarled.
"Uh… hey… Kari-chan, Ino-chan…", Sakura sweatdropped.
"DON'T INTERFERE!" the two of them shrieked back in reply, as Sakura blinked in mere surprise.
"Eh… okay…", she sweatdropped again as Ino and Kari got into a wild catfight (apparently, Ino had scrambled off Sasuke's back at this point). (A/N: They do sweatdrop a lot oO)
Meanwhile, Tenten and Neji… "COME BACK, YOU BAKA!" Tenten screeched, while Neji yelped (yes, yelped) 'Help!' a few hundred times each time she lunged at him with her heavy notebook, making everybody sweatdrop except Ino and Kari who were still fighting.
"Hey, Neji, didn't you say your leg was in pain?" Naruto shouted at him with a smirk.
"YES, IT DAMN IS, THEREFORE I DON'T WANT TO HAVE MORE PAIN – OW!" Neji shouted back from the other end of the room as Tenten finally managed to land a hit on him, but at his leg. Deciding that he was tired of running, Neji did a backflip in midair, landing behind Tenten swiftly and then carrying her (bridal-style XD) back to the stands, preventing Tenten from hitting him since she was just way too embarrassed to do anything else than blush. Unfortunately for Neji though, as soon as he had put her down, she immediately began to chase him again, this time with a tomato-red face…
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"Um, Naruto, Sasuke-kun… the homework", Sakura began shyly on their way to the ice-cream store with the rest of the extremely noisy gang, excluding the fanclub which had been stalking Sasuke during lunch-break, so they hadn't had any lunch and were now going to have it. "Do you want it to do it after school in the library?"
"Hn", was Sasuke's answer.
"Yeah!" Naruto beamed at her.
Sakura smiled. She took both the response as 'yes'. "Great! What homework do we have?"
"Eh… Sasuke-teme?" Naruto questioned Sasuke with an apologetic smile. "Sorry, Sakura-chan, I usually don't know what homework we've got."
"Physics", Sasuke grunted. "Maths. I prefer PE, but since we can't have homework in that…"
"Ugh, no! The worst subjects ever", Naruto moaned as though he was on the verge of death.
"Really? I think French is worse, my French sucks. It was just my mom's idea I'd come here", Sakura replied with a grin.
"Your mom? Hey, you said Cecilia was your aunt, right? Your mom's sister?"
"Yup. Older sister. She has got an older brother too", Sakura responded, but at this Sasuke twitched. "Eh? Sasuke-kun? Is there something wrong?"
"Hn."
"Is that a yes or no?"
"…"
"Sasuke-kun?"
"…"
"Sasuke-kun?"
"IT'S A NO, DAMMIT!" Sasuke yelled. Sakura blinked a couple of times, and then smiled.
"Aha, okay. Well, it's always good to know."
Does this girl never get mad? Sasuke thought, raising an eyebrow again. "Hey, you… eh… pinkhead." What was her name again?
"Eh? You mean me?" Sakura asked in surprise. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"No, I mean Naruto."
"Really?"
"I MEAN YOU, DAMMIT!"
"Ah, alright. What, Sasuke-kun?"
"Don't you ever get ma –"
"SAAAASUKE-KUN! I'VE MISSED YOU!" Ino pounced Sasuke from behind again.
"Didn't you just see him?" Naruto sweatdropped.
"No, not for the last five seconds", Ino replied innocently as she got off the pissed Sasuke's back and took the ice cream cone Tenten handed her. "Thanks, Tenten."
"No problem", Tenten replied happily as she ate her own, which was mint-flavored with chocolate pieces. Then she shot a glare at Neji that made him gulp. "I'll wait with your death penalty until I'm done with the ice cream… be glad that you can live for that long", she hissed threateningly.
"Eh? Sasuke-kun, what were you saying? I didn't hear it", Sakura asked in confusion.
"Yeah. I was asking, don't you ever –"
"Sasuke-kun!" Ino gasped, looking hurt. "Why don't you talk with me? I'm being jealous here, you know!"
"Like I care anyway!" Sasuke snapped. "It isn't like you're my girlfriend or something."
… Dead silence.
"WAAAAH! I'M NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND! I'VE THOUGHT THAT THE LAST FEW YEARS! WAAAAAAAAH!" Ino began to cry loudly, sitting down on the ground like a baby and crying floods.
"Eh… Ino...", Tenten started hesitantly.
"WAAAAAH!"
"Ino-chan…", Hinata tried, but was interrupted.
"WAAAAAAH!"
"Yo, Ino", Shikamaru attempted, but was like Tenten and Hinata interrupted.
"WAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAH! MY WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!"
"SHUT UP, CRYBABY!" Ino received a big kick on her head from Kari, making her fall over in surprise, and stopping her deafening sobbing for a few seconds. "LIKE YOU WERE HIS GIRLFRIEND ANYWAY, HE HAS NEVER LIKED YOU!"
"YOU SHUT UP, YOU –" Ino took a deep breath and overwhelmed the gang with a bunch of unpleasant words that wouldn't look too good in this fic – "AND GO AND DIE IN HELL!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"ARE YOU DEAF TOO?"
"WELL WE'RE AT LEAST NOT DEAF SO BE QUIET BEFORE I EXPLODE AND KILL EVERYBODY AND BLOW UP THIS CRAPPY WORLD GET IT!" Tenten shrieked, looking at them in wrath. As the two fighters stopped, Tenten took a deep breath and smiled. "Good. I'll spare your poor lives this time."
That made everyone sweatdrop. Big sweatdrops too.
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"… And X and Y must then be… 10+1?" Sakura groaned. "This is not getting anywhere!"
"Can't we just go and eat ramen now?" Naruto pleaded. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Shut up, dobe. You're making me hungry."
"Ugh… I'm actually hungry too", Sakura grimaced.
"Let's go eat, then!" Naruto insisted eagerly.
"Can't we get this done, first?" Sakura pleaded. "Then we can relax."
"Hn."
"Okay, then", Naruto sighed disappointedly. "But we can eat ramen afterwards, right?"
"Oooh… so here we've got Sarcasm Guy and Stupid Guy", somebody taunted from behind.
"Hahaha, very funny, Shikamaru", Naruto replied ironically just to turn his head to see – "You", he hissed, narrowing his eyes.
Sakura looked up from the maths book in astonishment, to see the guy from the PE class earlier. "Eh?"
"And who's here? The new girl? What a pleasure to meet you, Sakura-chan", he commented, taking her hand and kissing it, making Sakura's cheeks go pink. "You're very beautiful. Aishiteru."
Sakura stared at him in disbelief, withdrawing her hand quickly.
"What're you doing here?" Naruto asked with a tint of threat in his voice.
"Me? Just relaxing", James laughed and leaned towards the seemingly uneasy Sakura. "Ah, your lips seem so soft – let me kiss – OUCH!"
"Get off her", Sasuke growled, standing behind James with a notebook."You just want to copy our homework."
"And since when did you become so protective?" James retorted, rubbing his sore head. "I thought you didn't care for girls?"
"I don't. But I dislike people who copy my homework", Sasuke snarled, "So get out of here quick before I need to kick your ass in public."
"Yeah, okay, okay. Go a bit easy on me, will ya?" James muttered as he reached the library's exit. But before he opened the door to leave, he shouted: "Don't think I did that because of the homework, Sakura-chan! Daisuki!" He threw a hearttowards her before going out. (A/N: When I write 'throw a heart', I mean the way Rock Lee did back at the Chuunin exams when they first met.)
Tsukiko: I hope you guys didn't get disappointed that Sasuke-kun wasn't the one who was kissing her hand XD But I promise more SasuSaku moments are coming soon! And... if you want to see when I'm going to update next time, go to my the top of my profile - I've written it all there:D Ja ne!
Inner Tsukiko: You forgot to say -
Tsukiko: Yeah, right, I totally forgot to say that next chapter contains... minor KakaKure, minor SasuSaku and minor NejiTen! XD Sorry, the ShikaIno won't appear before further on in the story.. -.-
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"SAKURA HARUNO! YOU'RE NOT JUST A LITTLE RUDE, ARE YOU!" Ino exploded in her face as she stomped down to Sakura's seat. "HOW DARE YOU SLEEP WITH MY SASUKE-KUN!"
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"You babble even when you're not mad", Sasuke interrupted her, still wearing his infamous smirk. "But it's not like I care, it's pretty cute, actually."