Perplexed

By: PikABoo.LOVE

Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I own the plot and well that's about it… The Songs are owned by the singers/bands, and you own the reviews.

A.N: Read And Review :) Or I will steal your cupcakes.

Advice: Friends And Family Always Come First.

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FRIENDS

I sat up from my bed and looked outside the window. The sun was beginning to set so I guessed that I must have fell asleep after I ate dinner. I turned my attention towards my alarm clock "6:33pm". Lovely I still had a good 3 hours before I would hit the sack.

I looked outside again and saw how the sun was setting in the horizon. The orange and pink mixing together was one of the most beautiful things I have ever saw. The way the colors collided with one another to make something so…un real. It look more like a painting than a real life show. I smiled and stretched my arms upwards. They dropped to my sides and I took out a little black book from my drawer, and stared at the blank pages.

I grabbed a pen from the top of my computer and clicked on its end. I began tapping the end of my pen to the book and finally it came to me.

I had been writing a story for quite a while and I was really getting into it. I was at my 14th chapter now and I wanted to finish it before, well before I died.

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Dear Diary,

Have you ever had that feeling that you are being left out? You are the leader for one moment and the next you are in the sidelines, a meaningless by stander who barely gets noticed. Well its how I feel. My two best friends are the greatest but they are getting all the attention. My bestest friend for 10 years now has won her award and is getting ready to go off to college, I wont be seeing her for a long time. The other, you know…the one who lost their dad has really gotten involved with guys. She had a few boyfriends and now is pregnant, I tell her time and time again that she should really think about what she is doing, but she says I don't understand what she is going through. She has no idea. I really am in a mess now, I was the one who used to be needing the advice, I was the one who was always talked about but now im just the girl who is friends with the pregnant hot girl. The label alone hurts so much.

I want to tell her how much she is hurting herself, and me. I want to tell the other to at least try and keep contact with me, instead of just leaving me in the shadows. I haven't always been the most amazing person in the world, but the stories I have to tell. Is more shocking than any death or pregnancy.

The world seems so small when you are around the people who care about you and love you for who you are. But is so much bigger when you are actually alone.

Jesus, Please save my dying soul. From this place I call home, its not what I wanted it to be. I feel worthless and I don't need this. Please. Kill me now and take this misery away from me.

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Perfect. Simply perfect, I loved how I wrote that diary entry for my character in my book. If I keep the rate I am at with writing this book, I think It would be a bestseller and maybe I will be a world known author. Oh how that is my dream.

I sighed and looked at my computer monitor, I wanted to talk to Ekusas and put a smile to my face, but the chance of him being online at this time was next to nothing. I stood up from my bed and began walking down stairs, stole an apple from the fruit basket and went to the backyard.

There it was…

My sunset.

Beautiful it was most definitely. Sometimes I wish Ekusas and I could meet and get to really know each other. Long walks through the park, our dinner dates, the way he would hold me tight if I cried.

I bet if he would propose to me, it would be the most extravagant thing in the entire world. He would probably take me to the movies, look really nervous and fidget every second I looked at him. We would take a small walk to the restaurant where we would have dinner. He would tell the chef to put the ring in the cake; I would take a bite and start choking on it. He would feel really embarrassed and save my life, and while im still catching my breath he doesn't bother, but ask me if he could have my hand in marriage anyway. I would be shocked jump up and down hug him, kiss his cheek and say yes.

Squeals! That would be just amazing. And I mean Amazing! I sighed and took the last bite of my apple, walked back inside and went up to my room.

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I ran full speed to school, Sasuke wanted to take me to class today because I was hopelessly lost yesterday. I was a good 3 minutes late and I knew he would think so lowly of me if I show up late. I wanted to start off the school year with having a guy friend, not some guy who was sorry for making me black out.

I ran past the schools front gates and skid across the dirt path and made it to the front of the school, and there he was. Sitting on the rocks reading his book again, sitting there so perfectly with his sunglasses covering his eyes.

I bet Ekusas looks twice as hot as Sasuke.

I smiled to myself, and repeating to myself in my head. 'Ekusas will help you through this.' I nodded to myself and walked right up to Sasuke he finished off the last sentence of his book and slammed it closed, I could see his eyebrows close in on each other. Lovely he was angry.

"What shoes are those?"

"Huh what?" I looked down at my flats and lifted a eyebrow wondering what was wrong with them.

"Where are your converse?"

"Oh. I don't like Chuck Taylors look."

The minute I said those words he looked up at me and judging by how high his eyebrows lifted he was surprised. Oh no, don't tell me he was going to get mad at me about my choice of footwear. This was not what I wanted.

"You know what forget it." He stood up and smirked to me, how I wished I could see those eyes of his to go along with that smirk. "Grapefruit."

"Hey!"

"Good Morning"

"No I mean-"

"Alright fine, don't say good morning. Jeesh I was just TRYING to be polite"

"No. Bu-"

"So what you don't like polite? Fine."

"Oh Shutup!" We both laughed at how childish we were acting, he was a hilarious guy. He was totally messing with my head.

He smirked at me and pulled the books out of my hands. He took a quick glance at my papers and nodded. "Mathematics. Mr. Hatake he is an awesome teacher. But if he doesn't satisfy you there is always me. You and I have 2 classes together. Chemistry and Mathematics."

I grinned and was very happy. Awesome I was with Sasuke for 2 classes, at least that is half of my first semester, finding friends problem fixed.

"Alright. Well lets get you to class and ill show you the art room on your way up."

"Art?"

"Yes Art. You have art after mathematics. You are pretty slow for a girl"

"Why thank you."

"Anytime. Anyway how's that head of yours?"

There he goes changing topics again, at least he wasn't like most guys who just stared at your chest, and thought if they asked you out they have a chance with you in bed. "I have mild headaches now and again, but other than that its fine. Thanks"

"When I told my brother what happened at school, he nearly pissed his pants from laughter." He looked off to the side in a sort of embarrassed look. I only could laugh at his expression; he looked like such a kid.

"Your so lucky. I wish I had siblings, but my mom said she is blessed, and only wants one angel." Ping. That hit hard at my heart, I loved my mom but sometimes when she said things like that it sounded as if she wasn't going to be around long, and I couldn't imagine a life without my mother.

"Your mom is religious?"

"Very. So am I, but she knows the bible back to front and I will never be as good as her with reminding people of the verses from the bible."

"Well I think that is an awesome connection you must have with your mom. My mother passed away some time ago, and my dad doesn't really care about me. My brother and me always have each others backs, but I would love to have one more glance of my mom, and let her say what your mom says to you." He looked at me in a very caring gesture. That came from the heart, and it must have hurt so much to say that out loud.

"Well you must have loved your mom a lot. And my mom always says the dearly departed are actually the bright stars above. Sure you can't see them now in the day time, but they are still there. Im sure you mom is looking down at you right now and is smiling." I smiled at him, this was the sort of discussion I enjoyed. The words that were being spoken were from the heart and were true.

"Very True. All right here it is. Mathematics!"

"Wow. How incredible, the day I see a high school mathematics room. What a experience."

"How very true, anyway ill be back in a few minutes I have to meet up with a couple of people, just keep yourself busy. Here" he pulled out his book from his bag and handed it to me. "Its really good, keep it until you finish. Its one of my favorites so don't lose it."

"All right thank you Sasuke."

He nodded and began walking the opposite direction. I smiled, watched him walk for a few moments and walked into the classroom. And made sure no one was going to come out and scare me. Nope clear, and I was all alone.

I took a seat second row to the front and opened the books Sasuke gave me. A piece of paper fell out, I scurried to get it but saw some writing, I looked left and right and wanted to make a quick peek at what he wrote.

'I had my fears, you let them out.'

'Is he your everything?.'

'Love is all around you, your universe is full.'

I stared at the page and…I didn't get it. What was it? A poem? A story? Or just some random writing? I shook my head and placed the paper back at the back of the book. I went to the front and looked at the writing.

'The Promise'

I smiled and began reading the book, it looked like a very good book, just from the summary at the back of the book.

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Here came the class. There was a range of people, jocks, cheerleaders, emo's, punks and the occasional foreign exchange students. And there was Sasuke. But this time he was surrounded by people.

A whole group…

"Sasuke!" I looked at the blonde girl who grabbed Sasuke from behind him and gave him a big hug, she was pretty but she looked like a real blonde. "Pleeeeaassee! Go out with me! Forget about that other girl, im ten times hotter I bet and im actually near by!"

"Oh Ino just shut up your being a pain"

"What would you know Shikamaru!"

"More than you Ino"

"Shut up Mr. Bright Orange Jumpsuit!"

"Would you guys just shut up. Seriously. Ino, I told you I don't want to go out with you. Shikamaru just ask Ino out we all know you like her, and Naruto you're an idiot"

"Hey! Shut up teme what would you know!"

"More than you, ramen freak"

"Your Just Jealous that I don't get fat when I eat so much ramen!" Sasuke hit the boy in the head but I just couldn't help but stare. There was that blonde girl, A boy who looked really lazy and bored black hair in a pony tail, a blonde boy who looked like a real moron, and Sasuke.

"Right. Sakura why are you sitting all the way there?"

I looked at him wide eyed as well as everyone, the attention was nerve racking I didn't like how the whole class had their attention towards me.

"hello…Sakura? Why are you all the way over there?"

"Huh? What? Oh Sasuke…umm well I just thought it was my place." I looked left and right and the stares I was getting from people made me feel as if I had three heads.

"Oh Sasuke! Is she the girl who you love!?!?!?!"

"What? No. She's Sakura the girl I accidentally knocked out."

"Oh! That's her! You poor thing" they all came around and surrounded me.

"So Sasuke if you don't like her she's single right? Hey sweet thang, if you say yes to me ill treat you and that gorgeous pink hair like a princess." He winked at me and gave me a goofy grin; all I could do was turn bright red.

"Im sorry, but I have my heart set on someone else."

"Damnit! Why are all the hot girls taken!" The blonde boy stomped his foot on the ground and snapped his fingers.

"Hey Naruto maybe if you weren't so blind you would notice Hinata has the hots for you."

"What really?" He looked so clueless it was adorable.

They all sighed heavily and screamed "YES YOU IDIOT!" He grinned and just began laughing. What a group of friends, they looked very tight. One Lazy guy, One Idiotic Guy, One Caring Guy, and one peppy girl.

I smiled at them and closed the book Sasuke let me borrow. I threw it into my backpack as the others took a seat next to me.

"So Sakura was it? We better introduce ourselves. My name is Ino Yamanaka, The Lazy Guy Is Shikamaru Nara, The Idiot is Naruto Uzumaki, and you must know Sasuke Uchiha." She smiled at me and hugged me. "You are part of the team now!"

"What?"

"Well since you and Sasuke are obviously getting along quite nicely I have decided that you can hang out with us from now on!"

"erm…not to be rude but wouldn't that be a group decision?"

"In her world no. If we don't do as she say's we will never hear the end of it" Said the lazy guy who leaned back in his chair and stared up at the ceiling.

"That's not true Shikamaru! It is just that I am always right!"

"Always right my ass, this coming from the girl who thinks cows are going to dominate the world…"

"They are!"

"That highly illogical"

"Smartass"

"Pain in the ass"

I couldn't hold it much longer. I began laughing like there was no tomorrow. They were just so hilarious; I didn't imagine people who were so close could be so catastrophic.

"Good Morning Class!" The teacher walked into the class holding up an orange book covering his face.

"Sorry im late but this book is just so good!"

"Sensei!"

"yes?"

"Isn't that porn?"

"No, of course not. Its an R rated information book with porn within it"

I looked at him like he was smoking some crack. What was wrong with him? if any of my middle school teachers read pornography or even told the class they did, we would all freak out and think he was a rapist. But this guy talked as if it were going out of season.

"But apart from that lets get started with math, and ill use small words so you can understand"

No comment.

"In Math. We use amazing things called numbers! Numbers are your friends! Numbers make the world go around, and without numbers I wouldn't have a job and I would never see all the hot teachers in this high school."

Eww. Horny high school teachers, all of my high school dreams have come true. Remind myself to put that on my list of things I never want to hear again.

Math class was interesting. Mr. Hatake hated his last name and told us to call him, Kakashi-sensei. He wanted his name to sound more cool, and he wanted to be like a ninja and have a wicked awesome name.

Nutcase…

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"Hey Sakura!"

I turned around and saw that blonde boy running up towards me grinning like there was a snow day.

"Hey Sakura are you that girl Sasuke likes?"

"What?"

"Well Sasuke likes this girl, but we don't know who she is. And he just told me about her when summer was half over, I think he met her during the summer. And I was wondering maybe if that girl was you?"

"Im sorry Naruto, but that girl isn't me."

"Sasuke likes some girl. You have your heart set on someone else. Weird huh?"

"Yeah…heh…weird."

I looked at my watch and excused myself from Naruto and began walking to art class. That was weird…maybe he was, nah couldn't be. Besides he is nothing like him. He doesn't say his oh so famous lines and Sasuke doesn't seem like the person to be in love. Especially with a person like me.

I rushed into the art room and there in front of the class was a teacher standing. Her chest was HUGE! I mean she either put two milk bags in her bra, or she back when she was a teenager she had puberty over load.

I took a seat at the back of the class and a canvas was standing in front of me. Her name was written on the board.

"Tsunade"

That was a pretty name. I smiled and she began coming around the room, she had a jar with a bunch if slips of paper in the jar.

"Hello class, my name is Tsunade and I am coming around with this jar, pick out a piece of paper and that is what you are going to draw for this semester. Everything you do must relate to whatever is written on this piece of paper, I don't care if you cry trying to think of something. I want to see passion, hate, anger, love, sorrow, sadness, everything in your art."

She came up to me and I pulled out a slip of paper, I braced for what I was going to pull out and I opened the slip and looked at what was written on my sheet of paper.

"L.O.V.E."

Love? She must be joking…this must have been some coincidence because this was not what I needed to pull out. I thought maybe I would pull out like a circle, or a flower or something simple. But no I had to get the feeling that could conquer a person until their very soul was aching from it.

"Whatever you picked out is what you have. No exchanging it, no losing it and saying you never received on this day. This is your item like it or not."

I sighed and looked at my little piece of paper once again.

What.

A.

Drag.

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Art was over. Thank goodness I couldn't take another minute in that room. I went to my locker and grabbed my things and bolted.

I would have loved to stay and chat but I had a life outside of school. Besides I had promised my mom I would do the grocery shopping for her when school was finished.

I slung my back pack over my shoulder and went straight to the grocery store.

There was a list of things, so I just went down the aisle's hoping I would find everything the first time around. I hated being in a new place, you had to learn things all over again.

I got all my things and went to cashier 7. And there was standing. NARUTO!

Wow. Of all people in this entire world I never knew Naruto would be the person who would be working at the grocery store.

"Hey Naruto" I smiled and began un packing my things onto the table.

"Sakura! I know I know, why is a handsome devil like myself working at a grocery store? But a guy needs money and when Naruto has all these ladies lining up for his good looks and charm he needs some of the green stuff." I laughed at how cocky he was and began packing the plastic bags back into my cart.

"So Naruto how was last class? Mine was just terrible"

"Neh. I had Gym with teme himself. He's just too good for his own good, the minute they announce he is the basket ball teams captain, he is suddenly the king of the courts."

'oh so he can play'

"So is he good?"

"Are you kidding me! He's awesome for all the years I have known him he has beaten me at every sport known to man. Except for ramen eating! I beat him each time!"

"That's just wonderful Naruto"

"Yea, $106.38 is your total for today." He came closer and whispered "and can you give me a spare 10 for the bus. I kind of forgot my wallet."

"No problem Naruto" I smiled and handed him the bill.

"Thanks Sakura-Chan! Sasuke closed down on me with lending me money, he says im too irresponsible for my own good and I should learn. I cant help it that im so stupid."

"You are not stupid Naruto, your just dim witted is all" There it was again his goofy grin. I could really talk to Naruto. He seemed like the type of person to be so stupid most of the time, but says the right things when it's needed.

He looks like the type of person you could really talk to when you needed to have a good laugh, but have a somewhat quite and meaningful conversation with.

I paid him for the grocery's and left the store. I grabbed the plastic bags and began walking home.

I arrived home and dropped the bags on the kitchen counter. I unpacked and re-packed. Made myself a quick sandwich and went upstairs. I pulled out the math sheet Kakashi-sensei gave to us today.

Fractions.

My favorite. Continue to write, continue to write and im finished. I slid my papers into my binder switched on my monitor and Ekusas was online. Wonderful! I really needed to talk to him.

From: Ekusas

To: Chemical Pink

Subject: Interesting

Hello. Haven't heard from you since yesterday…where were you? School was interesting, the girls are all over me as usual and I beat my best friend yet again at another game of basket-ball. He thinks he can beat me. I think not.

:) How are you doing?

SEND.

From: Chemical Pink

To: Ekusas

Subject: REPLY. Interesting

Oh I fell asleep after dinner. Sorry. School is interesting I met new people and made two no three new friends. I just came back from the grocery store, and finished my math homework but I started this new book today and it is awesome.

SEND.

From: Ekusas

To: Chemical Pink

Subject: REPLY. Interesting

Oh that's okay. Guess the first day of school does tire you out. I mean being your first year in high school. Grocery store eh? So you can cook? Oh and a book? Which one is it, maybe I have read it.

SEND.

From: Chemical Pink

To: Ekusas

Subject: REPLY. Interesting

Sure does tire you out. Yes the grocery store, and yes I can cook. My mom says a lady must know how to cook, that's how you keep a man. Corny right?

Oh the book is 'The Promise' Its good so far. A friend of mine let me borrow it until I finish it, hopefully that will be today or tomorrow.

SEND.

From: Ekusas

To: Chemical Pink

Subject: REPLY. Interesting

Haha XD Well when I see you, you better cook me up a storm. I eat a lot.

'The Promise' ? That is a fantastic book! (It really is) I just love how the two love birds finally meet up with one another, you think your true love is gone but then everything goes back to normal in the end. That friend of yours must be pretty awesome to give you that book, matter of fact I gave some girl my book as well. Anyway, politics class was fun but you get a tone of homework. Talk to ya later. Mmkay?

SEND. READ.

SHUTDOWN.

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Once my computer switched off I went straight to the book Sasuke lent to me.

The Promise

By: Danielle Steel

I turned the book to the back and wanted to read the summary again, it was so good it really wanted you to read more of the book each time you read it.

'Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mothers disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy- Perhaps forever. Each purses a new life- Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing- and no one- can keep them apart as they keep their vow to never say goodbye.'

The way Danielle just wrote the summary was incredible. I really wanted to finish this book as fast as humanly possible. I went right to where I was, and began reading.

Eating my sandwich, sitting on my bed, reading a book, and falling in love with a man I have never seen before. This was not how I pictured my life to be.

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Thank you to my very few reviewers. I hope I will get this story up and running and I will actually get more reviews than my last story successes.

Next Update. 12/18/07

Yup two chapters in one day! Im sick I have all the time in the world.

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Perplexed – End