Here's Chapter 7 ENJOY. Sorry it took a long time. Don't forget to read and review.
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Chapter 7: The School and the Beast
"So, where are we going?" asked Sasuke, closing the door with one hand, and holding he skateboard in the other.
"First, we'll go to the school, to get your team's uniform and schedule," answered Hiruka, "than we'll go and eat lunch." The other two nodded their heads in agreement, than the three friends started their walk to the school.
"So, Sasuke,"began Sakura, "I still don't get how you knew how to ride a skateboard. I know that you can't be using chakra to keep yourself on top of the board, since we have no chakra."
"Hn"
"C'mon Sasuke tell me," whined Sakura, clinging on Sasuke's arm.
"Fine, fine," said an annoyed Sasuke, trying to get Sakura off of him, "I used my sharingan while we were watching the movie."
"Really," said Sakura, surprised.
"Yes, of course I did," lied Sasuke, rolling his eyes.
"Wow," said Sakura, staring at Sasuke with amazement. Hiruka silently giggle, at how dumb Sakura was acting.
"How about the movie, did you enjoy it?" asked Sakura.
"No, the ending was horrible," said Sasuke, with no emotion.
"Right," said Hiruka sarcastically, "your just saying that because deep inside you actually liked it!" Both girls fell on the ground laughing as hard as they could.
"I...can't...breath," laughed Sakura. But all the laughter stopped when they heard rustling in the near by bush. Sakura and Hiruka both stood up and looked at the rustling bush. Sasuke was also staring at the bush, but after a few seconds he started walking towards the bush with curiosity.
"Sasuke, be careful," whispered Sakura, while walking behind Sasuke. Hiruka was walking behind Sakura, not as scared. When Sasuke was a few inches from the bush, he stopped walking and reached out his hand to look at what was behind the bush. With each passing second Sakura started shaking with fear. Than when Sasuke opened the bush a strange, giant animal jumped out of the bush, and ran towards Sakura, causing her to scream as loud as possible, than fainting on the ground with the animal on top of her.
"What is that?" asked Sasuke, walking towards the animal. It was a 3 foot tall animal, with brown fur, black eyes, long tail, a head that looks like a saber- tooth tiger, it stood on four legs, when it opens its mouth, flaps from the side opens up too revealing the inside of its mouth, and it had sharp teeth both top and bottom. The tongue was as red as a polished tomato.
"It's called a kaijuu," answered Hiruka, bending down to pet it, "but don't worry its perfectly harmless."
"Heh, try telling Sakura that," joked Sasuke, "speaking of Sakura, let's play a trick on her. It's not something I usually, but just this once I feel like doing it."
"Ok, what do we do first,"
"Here's what we do."
First, Sasuke removed the kaijuu from on top of Sakura, and led it a few feet away from the girls. Than, he put his skateboard on the ground faced down, before he laid on the ground faced down. After that, Hiruka made the kaijuu sit on top of Sasuke with his mouth wide open in front of Sasuke's face. Finally, Hiruka woke Sakura up from her slumber.
"Huh," said Sakura, as she opened her eyes. Sakura only saw Hiruka, and wondered where Sasuke and the strange animal went to. "Um, Hiruka, where's Sasuke and that weird dog?" asked Sakura, while getting into a sitting position.
"Well, when you fainted after," began Hiruka, looking down, "Sasuke, well he smacked the dog off of you, than the dog ran after him, but Sasuke wasn't fast enough so now...now the dog." Hiruka pretended to sob to trick Sakura, and Sakura fell for it.
"What, what happened," said Sakura, with tears forming in her eyes. Hiruka didn't say anything, but instead pointed at the direction where Sasuke was on the ground being "eaten" by the kaijuu.
When Sakura saw where Hiruka was pointing, she quickly ran towards Sasuke with tears quickly forming and sliding down to her cheeks, making her eyes red and puffy.
"S-Sasuke p-please don't d-die," cried Sakura, "I-I'll carry you out of the v-village s-so I can heal you," Sakura looked at the kaijuu and without hesitation she pushed the kaijuu off of Sasuke with all her might, but when the kaijuu landed on the ground it was followed by a thick, gooey, smelly drool, instead of blood.
"W-what? Where's the b-blood?" asked a confused Sakura. Than Sakura heard someone behind her laughing, Sakura turned around and saw Hiruka laughing on the ground as hard as she could, while clutching her stomach.
"What are you laughing about," asked Sakura getting even more confused. Hiruka didn't reply instead she pointed back at Sasuke. Sakura again turned around to look at Sasuke, who apparently was sitting on the ground snickering to himself, while his face was covered in disgusting drool.
"Huh? I-I don't get it. W-why aren't you hurt?"
Hiruka stopped laughing and walked over to Sakura, while Sasuke used his shirt to wipe the gross drool off of his face.
"Sakura that thing, you call a dog, is actually a kaijuu," explained Hiruka, "it's completely harmless. It was all a joke." Sasuke finished wiping his face, than grabbed his skateboard and walked over to the girls.
"SO, YOU MADE ME WASTE MY TEARS ON A STUPID JOKE," yelled Sakura, pointing at Hiruka, "THIS WAS ALL YOUR IDEA WASN'T IT!"
"W-wait no it was all S-Sasuke's idea,"stuttered Hiruka, getting scared of Sakura.
"HOW CAN IT BE SASUKE'S IDEA WHEN HE DOESN'T PLAY JOKES ON PEOPLE!"
Behind them Sasuke was smirking, knowing that Sakura would think it was all Hiruka's idea.
"See look at him smirking behind your back," said Hiruka in her defense, pointing at Sasuke.
But by the time Sakura turned around to look at Sasuke he was in his usually self, an emotionless face.
"Our we going to the school or what," said Sasuke.
"Y-yeah that's a great idea," answered Hiruka, quickly trying to get away from Sakura as fast as possible.
"Fine, all right," replied Sakura, still angry at Hiruka.
After 15 minutes of a long silent walk, Sakura decided to break the silence with another question.
"Sasuke, how come you took part in Hiruka's joke," asked Sakura.
"BECAUSE, IT WAS ALL HIS IDEA!" blurted Hiruka.
"SHUT UP! I ALREADY KNOW IT WASN'T HIM," argued Sakura.
"Might as well tell the truth so both of you can being so annoying," said Sasuke, "Sakura, Hiruka's right, it was all my idea."
"Oh," said Sakura, kinda upset, "why'd you do it?"
"Because I thought it'd be kinda funny watching you get upset and blame Hiruka, on something I did," answered Sasuke.
"HEY!" yelled Hiruka, "that isn't funny, but watching Sakura get confuse was funny." Hiruka giggled after remembering how totally confuse Sakura was about the kaijuu, but it earned Hiruka a giant bruise on the head given by non other than Sakura.
"And," said Sasuke, "I wanted to see how you'd react if I died."
"Oh," said Sakura, "does that mean you...um...have feelings for..me" Sakura started blushing.
"No, I just wanted to see how you'd react,"
"Oh, I actually thought he'd admit it," thought Sakura.
"Well of course he wouldn't admit it," said inner Sakura, "do you think he'd actually admit he likes you in front of Hiruka?"
"Grr, Hiruka ruined it."
While they were walking the three friends all noticed that lots of animals where coming out of hiding. Animals were everywhere, up on trees, on the road, and even in people's porches. Sakura looked at them in amazement, even Sasuke showed a liking to seeing the animals.
"This is why we call this place the Land of Beast," said Hiruka.
"Than how come we didn't see any animals last night?" asked Sakura.
"It's because non of the animals here are nocturnal. They all come out only in the day," explained Hiruka, "also sometimes people keep them as pets."
"So, technically the Land of Beast is a giant pet store," said Sasuke.
"Exactly"
-In the School Grounds-
"Here we are Ikimono Middle School," said Hiruka.
"Middle school, but aren't you twelve?" said a confused Sakura, "aren't twelve year olds suppose to be only in sixth year elementary school?"
"True, but Koji and I were both the smartest people in Yajuu elementary, that they made us skip a grade," explained Hiruka.
"So your in seventh grade?" asked Sasuke.
"Yup, exactly," said Hiruka proudly, "c'mon let's go inside and get your uniform and schedule." Hiruka ran inside, but Sasuke and Sakura stayed outside for a little while.
"Seventh grade," said Sakura worriedly, "how are we gonna pass this? How's Naruto gonna pass this?"
"Don't worry Sakura. Your one of the smartest people in our group so you'll do fine," comforted Sasuke, "ans beside were not here to stay in school until eight grade, remember all we have to do is protect them. While staying here and doing fine, except for Naruto, who'll probably fail every class."
"Thanks Sasuke," said Sakura, hugging Sasuke, "I'm sure you'll be great too." Than Sakura ran inside to follow Hiruka. Sasuke smiled a little, when Sakura turned her back, and than followed Sakura. When he got inside Hiruka led both of them in the principal's office. Luckily, the school wasn't close on a Sunday. The secretary had short brown hair, brown eyes. She wore a plain yellow shirt with a name tag that said 'Mai', and black high heels.
"Excuse me," said Hiruka walking over to the secretary's desk, while the other two sat down on the bench near the door to the principal's office, "were here to see the principal."
"Huh, but how can you all have detention when it's not even a school day?" asked Mai.
"Oh, were not here about detention," answered Hiruka, "were here to get this my friends enrolled in this school."
"Oh, all right," said Mai, "go on in. And by the way the detention thing, it was just a joke."
"Oh, right," said Hiruka, giving a fake laughed, than walking in the principal's door.
"That joke made it looked like Naruto's joke were one the worlds greatest jokes," said Sasuke.
Sakura silently giggled, while walking to the office. When they got there, the principal was behind the desk already talking to Hiruka, she seemed like she was in a bad mood. The principal had long blond hair, blue eyes. She wore a black suit with a name tag saying 'Tsuki', and black heels. Once the Tsuki finished talking to Hiruka she looked up and stared right into bought Sakura's and Sasuke's eyes.
"YOU want me to have him go to OUR SCHOOL!" yelled Tsuki at Hiruka, "WE ALREADY HAVE FIVE SKATERS IN THIS SCHOOL, THAT SCARES THE HECK OUT OF EVERYONE! I can't have another one joining there group and tormenting everyone in this school." Tsuki hit her desk with her fist causing some of her pencils and papers to fall.
"But he's not here to join there group," argued Hiruka, "he's here to protect us from them, everyone in school saw him fought the leader of Ijimeru last night. Even though he lost, he and the Ijimeru leader, Tsuiji, are now bitter rivals."
"Really, no one in this village has ever stood up against them," said Tsuki, "all right I'll let your friends join, but if he gets seriously injured fighting Tsuiji, I'm not responsible for it."
"Hmph, that's fine with me," said Sasuke, walking towards Tsuki, "I won't lose to him again,"
"I'm glad there's people here who has the courage to stand up to them," said Tsuki, staring at Sasuke, "Well anyway here are your uniforms, tomorrow come by my office to get your schedules." Tsuki handed Sasuke one boy's uniform, and one girl's uniform to Sakura.
"Um, can we have one more boy's uniform?"asked Hiruka.
"Why Hiruka, are you planning to be a...well,"said Tsuki, making an awkward face. SAkura began laughing, while Sasuke snickered.
"NO, OF COURSE NOT!" yelled Hiruka.
"It was just a joke, geez," said Tsuki, giving Hiruka another boy's uniform, "but might I ask why you need one, is it for Koji?"
"No, it's for my other friend, who couldn't come, because the doctor told him to rest," answered Hiruka, grabbing the uniform.
"What happened to him?"
"He tried skateboarding and kept falling, and after his millionth try he got into an accident," answered Sasuke.
"No, AFTER you yelled HIS name, than he got into an accident," continued Sakura.
"Whatever."
"C'mon guys lets go," ordered Hiruka, opening the door.
"Ok, see you all tomorrow," said Tsuki, "What are your names by the way?"
"I'm Sakura Haruno"
"Sasuke Uchiha"
"Are you guys...an item?" asked Tsuki, holding up her pinky
Sasuke sighed, "I wished we were."
"Oh, that's too bad," said Tsuki, "you guys would make a great, and funny couple. Anyway bye."
The three friends left the office, but stayed inside for a while.
"Wow, your principal, is so cool!" said Sakura, "she even wanted Sasuke and I to be together. Why can't you see that we were meant to be Sasuke."
"Uh huh, Sakura who are you talking to," said Hiruka.
"No one, just talking to myself," replied Sakura.
"Sasuke, looks like someone's gone coo coo," said Hiruka, making a circular motion with her finger on her head. Sasuke snickered.
"C'mon let's go," ordered Sasuke.
Sasuke and the girls walked out the school grounds peacefully, until Sasuke sensed something coming towards Sakura. Sasuke quickly pushed Sakura out of the way causing the thing coming towards Sakura to miss her, but instead it hit Sasuke. Now Sasuke was on the ground face to face with a 2 foot tall spider. It's fangs were about to hit Sasuke, but luckily Sasuke was holding on to it, and pushing it upwards.
"SASUKE!" yelled the girls.
"Well, well, well look who we have here," said a voice from a distance, "looks like my pet spider has found lunch."
"WHAT! WHO ARE YOU SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARD!" yelled Sakura.
"I'm no coward. I'm right here," said the voice.
"No, not you." said Hiruka.
Naruto: How come I didn't get a part in this?
Sakura: Because your in the house 'resting' from your incident
Sasuke: I can't believe you forgot about that
Sakura: Sorry but in this chapter we don't have a lot to say. So take it away Sasuke.
Sasuke: DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW
Naruto: Yeah, don't be lazy like SHIKAMARU
Shikamaru: I'm not even in this fanfic, and yet you...ah this drag arguing with you
Naruto: -whispers- see what I mean
Sakura: I have an idea. Who ever reviews firstget's to get a sneak preview of the next chapter, and comes up with the chapter title. Other people who reviews can alsohave a sneak peek, but can't make the title
Naruto: ooo Can I review?
Sakura: No
Naruto: why not?
Sakura: Cause your not a reader
Naruto:Yes I am
Sakura: No your not
Sasuke: This is gonna take a while, see ya in the next chapter.
-In the background Sakura and Naruto arguing-
-SPECIAL NEWS REPORT- 3/19/08
Naruto: Here's our special news today, that we didn't get to say yesterday.
Sasuke: We'd like to congratulate Sasusaku0129 for being the first to review, and she will get to name the next chapter and get to get a sneak preview of the next chapter.
Sakura: We also would like to announce that the scene for chapter one has been uploaded.
Naruto: But don't forget other reviewers can also have a chance to have a sneak preview of the next chapter.
Sasuke: And don't forget to review