Heartbreak-Succubus: Here's chapter 3 everyone. Hope you enjoy.
*****Chapter 3*****
***New Teammates***
Sasuke went to go after her, but Tenten stopped him. She shook her head at him, and then followed her best friend.
She finally caught up to her when she was at the front entrance to the school building. "Sakura. Where are you going?" she asked breathlessly as Sakura sunk to the ground and held her knees to her chest.
"I don't know, anywhere but here. Now that they know, they won't want anything to do with me. They'll tell their other friends, and pretty soon the whole school will know," she sobbed as Tenten slid down next to her, and draped an arm around her shoulders.
"Sakura," she sighed, "How do you know that if you don't give them a chance?" she asked. Sakura looked up while wiping her tears away.
"What do you mean, Tenten?"
"How do you know what they're gonna do? Last time I checked, seeing the future was Hinata's power," she said flicking Sakura's forehead in a big sister kind of way. Sakura's eyes lit up as she smiled and looked at Tenten who got a bad feeling in her gut.
"Thanks Panda-Chan. I owe you one!" she yelled as she sped down the hall toward Hinata and Ino's class. Tenten took off after her.
"Sakura! Stop!" she whisper-yelled as Sakura knocked on the door to their classroom. She opened it as she heard a man holler for her to come in.
"Hi, the principal would like to see Hinata, please." Tenten heard her say, and watched as she and Hinata walked from the class.
"The principal doesn't really want me, does she?" Hinata asked as she saw Tenten standing there giving Sakura dirty looks.
"Uh, no. I need you to use your future seeing thingy to tell me how everyone's going to react to my little condition."
"Well, I can answer that. Depending on who all knows, of course."
"Um, well, the whole class saw me pass out. But, the only people who actually physically heard me say what it was called are Sasuke, Neji, the nurse, the teacher, and the principal. The last four, I'm not worried about. It's mainly the first one," she said; a pink blush tinting her, already rosy, cheeks.
Hinata smiled smugly. "Sakura, I don't need to see the future to know that he won't care. He's probably worried out of his mind right now, but other than that, I don't think he cares if you have something wrong with you. Hell, he probably wouldn't care if you had three heads, and webbed feet with the way he looks at you. Do you realize that he hasn't left your side since that thing with Neji happened this morning?" she asked, as Sakura's head shot up.
"I hadn't thought of it that way. And now that you mention it, he's been holding my hand an awful lot, too," she said as her blush deepened. "Thanks Hinata-Chan. Come on Panda-Chan. We have to get back to class."
As the words left her mouth, the dismissal bell rang, and students started filing out of their classrooms.
"Or not," she added as they started walking back toward the class to get their things. Everyone in the class was gone, except for Sasuke and Neji. Even the teacher was nowhere to be found.
"Uh, hey guys." said Tenten, as they walked over to where the guys stood. They looked up at the sound of her voice. Sasuke looked at Sakura.
"Feeling better?" he asked as she turned pink again.
"Y- Ye-Achoo! Yeah." she said as he handed her another tissue. She smiled and blew her nose softly. "Thanks. So, you guys aren't going to treat me like an alien?"
Sasuke looked stunned. "No, why would we?"
"Maybe, I don't know, because of her... thingy? I don't know what to call it," said Tenten as Neji rolled his eyes.
"So what? Her condition doesn't make her any less human, does it?"
Sakura and Tenten shook their heads. "Exactly," added Sasuke. "So, there would be no point in treating her differently. She's still just a person." he said matter-of-factly.
Sakura looked down, fighting the tears that were threatening to fall. "Thank you Sasuke." she said softly.
"Come on. Let's get out of here." said Neji, as Sasuke grabbed Sakura's hand, making her blush, and walking with her toward the door.
"What do you mean?" asked Tenten, "We can't go anywhere. We still have to go to our other classes." Neji had already grabbed her hand and was pulling her after Sasuke and Sakura. He chuckled while still pulling her after him.
"You guys came on a good day," said Sasuke looking back at Tenten and Neji before turning his attention back to Sakura.
"We only have a half day today," added Neji. "We go to first and second hour, but we can leave after second hour and do whatever we want for the rest of the day."
"Really?" asked Sakura as Sasuke watched her beautiful Emerald eyes light up in excitement. "Come on Panda-Chan! Lighten up. This is so awesome!" she exclaimed as she ran the rest of the way out of the school, dragging Sasuke with her.
"Sakura! I told you not to call me that in public!" she said, blushing ten shades of red. Neji raised an eyebrow at her.
"Panda-Chan?" he asked. Tenten blushed harder.
"Yea. It's a nickname that the other girls came up with for me. My favorite animal is a panda bear." she explained as he nodded in understanding.
"Hurry up Panda-Chan! Let's go!" yelled Sakura as she turned around and looked at Neji and Tenten. Tenten growled softly.
"We're coming Sakura! Jeez. Hold your horses would you?" she said aggravated. By this time, they had reached the doors of the school and found Hinata and Ino waiting outside under an old weeping willow (A/N: Sorry. I think that people use a cherry blossom tree way too much. So I put in a weeping willow. :]) with Naruto and Shikamaru.
Heartbreak-Succubus: That's it for chapter 3. Chapter 4 is next.
