Okay all here's chapter seven. Thanks to anyone who reviewed and so on and so forth. Enjoy the chapter.
To my anonymous reviewer, too lazy to log in, thanks loads for reviewing. I'm extremely appreciative. Also I am NOT turning Sakura into a girly girl. Of course she is a girl, and there are certain points where her acting like a girl is unavoidable, but I don't intend to change her personality in this fic at all. Oh and in answer to your question, this isn't going to be a multisaku fic. But I do hope that doesn't stop you from enjoying the fic as a whole. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
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This Really, REALLY Sucks!
Chapter Seven – The Back To School Dance.
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Later that evening, Sakura remembered something that had seemed odd to her at the time.
"Naruto, how comes that jerk called you Uzumaki? Isn't your surname Umino?" Sakura asked. Naruto blinked and then smiled softly.
"Well if you want to be technical, Iruka isn't my Dad by blood. My Mother was his cousin and she died giving birth to me. My Father died in a car crash trying to get to the hospital..." Naruto trailed off. Sakura looked down at the ground not wanting to say anything to offend Naruto.
"Since Iruka was my Mother's only relative they asked him if he'd take care of me and he said yes. I grew up calling him Dad. Besides, by my standards he is my Dad. He raised me and looked after me. It is hard sometimes not knowing what my parents were like though." Naruto carried on softly. Sakura placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"I didn't mean to say anything to hurt your feelings Naruto." Sakura said softly.
"I know. It's just a natural question. Nobody asks around here because everybody knows everybody around here so I guess there wasn't a need. Grandpa Sarutobi knew my parents too. Apparently my Father was going to take over as the Head teacher at the school, and Grandpa was going to retire. But it didn't work out that way." Naruto replied.
"If you..." Sakura wasn't sure how to say what she wanted to say. She had lost a father and it had hurt deeply.
"If you want to talk about them to me then I'll listen and I won't mock you." Sakura got out. Naruto smiled.
"Thanks Sakura. If you want to talk about your Dad you can talk to me too." Naruto answered. Both teens smiled as they went about doing their own things at home.
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It was the last week of the summer holidays. In that time, Ten Ten and Sakura had both made friends within Naruto's little group and they had spent a lot of time learning about the sights and places to hang out in Konoha. Now it was extremely close to going back to school. Apparently, according to Naruto, there was a back to school dance every year. Neji had already invited Ten Ten on a 'not date' to the dance, seeing as Ten Ten and Sakura were going to be students. Naruto had told Sakura that she needed to go and get to meet all the other students. After all, he didn't know what her schedule was going to be like, so he didn't know if any of them would be in her classes. Sakura agreed, mainly because Naruto said there wasn't a specific code of dress, so Sakura was quite happy to just go and hang out with her friends.
The back to school dance arrived pretty quickly and Sakura found herself being led to the school building. It seemed a lot bigger then Sakura had imagined it to be. Sakura was wearing a spaghetti strapped, red dress that came down to just past her knees, and a pair of leather, lace-up, knee-high boots. Ten Ten was wearing a similar dress but hers was rose pink and slightly lower cut, and she wore rose pink shoes on her feet. Naruto was wearing a casual, royal blue shirt and a pair of jeans, along with his orange converse. They'd come to the school with Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, Neji, Hinata, Ino and Deidara. Ino wore a purple dress that came to about mid thigh, Temari wore a little black mini dress, Hinata wore a pale blue dress that seemed to be shin length, and had short sleeves. Gaara wore a red shirt and black jeans, Kankuro wore a black, short sleeved shirt and stone wash jeans, Neji wore a white shirt and black slacks, and Deidara wore a black, long sleeved shirt with black jeans. All in all everyone in their group was dressed smart casual.
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The party was in full swing when Sakura took note that Uroih was there. She glared as he came towards her.
"What do you want?" Sakura asked coldly.
"I just wanted to offer you some lemonade. I feel a little guilty about being so nasty to you. After all you are a new student." Uroih said. Sakura eyed the drink suspiciously before taking it. She wasn't sure whether or not to trust Uroih or whether to throw the drink in his face. However the logical part of her mind said that everyone deserved a second chance, so she took a sip of the drink.
"This tastes like really odd lemonade." Sakura quipped, before she started feeling dizzy. Before she knew what was happening she was being led out of the school hall and into the parking lot. She tried to push whoever was leading her off, but she was too dizzy and her pushes were ineffectual.
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Naruto was talking to Hinata when a red haired girl, Naruto knew her as Karin, came up to them.
"Do you know that pink haired girl?" She asked Naruto.
"She's my stepsister." Naruto replied.
"I'd watch out for her. Uroih was taking her towards the parking lot and she looked really out of it." Karin said softly. Then she left Naruto and Hinata to it.
"Give me a few minutes Hinata-Chan." Naruto stated before running off.
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Sakura felt herself being pushed onto the grass near the parked cars and saw Uroih's face above hers. She felt a hand trying to make its way up her skirt.
"Get off of me." Sakura tried to yell, but it came out as a slurred grumble.
"No way Sakura. After all, you ruined my fun the other day. It's time to teach you a lesson." The nasty bully stated coldly. Sakura tried to struggle but her struggles were weak. She was terrified as she felt the skirt of her dress being hoisted up.
That was when Uroih disappeared from over Sakura. Sakura tried to shake the dizziness from her head, and she sat up to see Naruto holding on to Uroih by his throat.
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Naruto ran out into the parking lot and looked around frantically. He'd heard about other boys doing such things, drugging unsuspecting girls and taking them to the parking lot to have their way with them. Naruto stopped near Uroih's car to see him straddling someone, who was weakly struggling. Naruto heard Sakura's mumbled voice, and then Uroih's comment, then he saw red. He grabbed the back of Uroih's scruffy shirt and yanked him off of Sakura. The other boy looked thoroughly confused as he came face to face with Naruto. Naruto grabbed the male by his throat.
"What the fuck do you think you were trying to pull with my sister?" Naruto hissed.
"It's not my fault that she's easy." Uroih replied. That was when Naruto started squeezing Uroih's throat with one hand, and started punching him in the face with his other fist.
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Sakura saw Naruto start beating the crap out of Uroih and found she couldn't actually stand up. Her legs wouldn't carry her weight at the moment. She could only watch as Naruto carried on punching the evil boy, and hoped that Naruto wouldn't kill him.
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Sasuke Uchiha had just come back from a holiday with his family in the Land of Waves. He'd been bored out of his mind, but he had got to spend some quality time with his older brother, and Sasuke felt that this made up for his boredom a little bit. He walked towards the school and came into the parking lot. He'd promised to meet his friends at the back to school dance, and although he had only gotten back to Konoha this afternoon, he had unpacked, got a shower and got dressed and walked over to the school. That was when he caught sight of one of his oldest friends, beating the living daylights out of someone else. Sasuke ran over and pulled Naruto off of the heavily bleeding Uroih.
"Naruto what are you doing? Whatever the fuck that bastard did he's not worth going to jail for!" Sasuke exclaimed. Sasuke had never known Naruto to be especially violent. He always tried not to fight his way out of a situation. Of course if it couldn't be helped, Naruto was a powerful fighter, but Sasuke had never actually seen Naruto pin someone down and hit them continuously. Naruto seemed to calm down a little, and looked at Sasuke.
"He tried to rape my stepsister." Naruto quipped. Sasuke glared at Uroih, who was huddled on the ground, trying to stop his nose bleeding. Then Sasuke gave him a good kick.
"Fucking bastard, I should've left Naruto to finish you off." Sasuke hissed. Naruto turned around and walked over to a girl, who had pink hair and seemed unsteady on her feet, when Naruto helped her up. She looked spaced out and Sasuke looked at Naruto quizzically.
"She's not usually like this. I think he spiked her drink." Naruto replied to the unanswered question. Then Naruto looked at Sakura.
"Sakura have you had anything to drink?" Naruto asked gently. The pink haired girl nodded.
"He said it was lemonade and he said he was trying to be nice. It made me feel funny. I didn't want to come out here." She slurred. Naruto nodded and Sasuke helped Naruto get Sakura back into the school hall.
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When Ten Ten saw Sakura, slumped in Naruto's arms, with Naruto and another boy either side of her, she ran over to see what was wrong immediately.
"We need to call Dad and get him to come and get us. Sakura isn't going to be able to travel like this. She's been spiked." Naruto told Ten Ten softly. Ten quickly pulled out her mobile phone and dialled Iruka's number. In the circumstances, the rest of the group had insisted that they were going home, and all of them made Naruto promise to text them or call them, to let them know what was going on. None of them were very happy to find out that Uroih was responsible. But there wasn't much that any of them could do about it really. All they could do was try to make sure that Sakura was alright in the morning.
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Later that night, after Iruka had panicked and taken Sakura to the hospital and brought her back home again, Sakura was curled up on the sofa drinking some water. She looked at Naruto and Ten Ten who were sat either side of her. Her mother had run to the hospital as soon as Iruka had called her, but now that Sakura was fine, she had insisted that Iruka and her mother go and get some sleep. It was the last week of the summer holidays for them but she knew her Mother and Iruka both had to go and work. Iruka had to go and start writing teaching plans, and Kimiko worked in a flower shop that had just opened up in Konoha. Apparently it was run by Ino's Mother and Father, who had hired Kimiko before they had even known that she had married Iruka.
"I'm never going to any of those dances again." Sakura said morosely. Her head was pounding and the hospital had made her throw up. She wasn't best pleased with the night's events. Naruto gave Sakura a reassuring smile.
"It'll be alright Sakura. Just don't go near that creep again." Naruto stated firmly.
"Thank you Naruto." Sakura said softly.
"For what?" Naruto asked.
"That bastard would've raped me if you hadn't come along when you did. Thanks for... I don't know... saving me I guess." Sakura said. Naruto shook his head.
"You don't need to thank me for that. We're family. That's what a family does." Naruto replied. The trio of teens curled up on the sofa and soon they had fallen asleep, not really thinking about what tomorrow might bring, but hoping it would bring something good.
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Okay all that's the end of this chapter. I hope you all like it. I'll update as soon as I can. Please R&R and let me know what you all think, it would be very much appreciated. See you when I update people.