A rival? Ai, Sasuke and Sakura
Ai was standing in front of a mirror humming. She wasn't wearing her bandana any more and there was a small pig tail that took it's place. She put was putting her forehead protector on. She put a finger to her face and winked. "Alright I look adorable and I'm all set to go." Just then her door opened and a small girl with blond hair in low pigtails and violet eyes opened the door.
"Nee-chan you're going to be late." She said then exiting the room.
"Alright, Alright I'm going." Ai said walking out of her room.
We then join her at Sakura's house. "Hey Sakura-chan let's walk together." She said to her pink haired friend.
"Alright Ai-chan," They walked down the rood together Sakura was in deep thought the whole time. 'Yes I am no longer a student of the academy I am one of Konoha's Kunoichi, Haruno Sakura.' They then heard a voice.
"I'm going," The girl with blond hair and light blue eyes stepped out of the building. She then looked over to the two. "Good morning, Sakura." She then looked at Ai "Hi Ai-chan." She said in a friendlier tone.
"Good morning, Ino." Said in the same non friendly tone.
"Good morning Ino-chan." Ai said in a peppy tone. All three of them were walking together now Ino and Sakura were talking together and Ai wasn't paying much attention.
"I can't believe you graduated." Ino said to Sakura.
"The past doesn't matter anymore. Starting today, all of us are ninjas." She said then looking at Ai and her eyes lowered a bit to see that she didn't hear any thing she said. She then looked back at Ino "I'm not going to lose to you anymore, Ino." She then walked a bit ahead and Ino then walked next to her. Ai had a question mark over her head but walked up to them. Sakura then glared at Ino and walked ahead again and so did Ino. And it kept going in that pattern until they were shoulder to shoulder and they were running so fast a cloud of dust was behind them.
Ai's eyes went wide and she yelled after them "Wait for me!" She said running as fast as they were going trying to catch up.
At the Academy
Naruto was sitting down and grinning. The boy from two days ago (Shikamaru) walked down to were Naruto was sitting. "Why are you here? Today's explanatory meeting is only for those who graduated."
Naruto pointed to his forehead protector "Hey, can you not see this forehead protector? Starting today, I'm also a ninja." Naruto explained. The boy looked at him with disbelieving eyes. "How should I say this… This looks really good on me, eh?"
The camera then zoomed out to the girl with the bluish hair 'Naruto-kun was able to graduate…' We then go to Ino and Sakura who were running down the hall with dust behind them both shoving each other. They opened the door and pushed and shoved.
Until finally they both entered at the same time and spread there arms out and explained "Goal!" And they both painted until they heard another voice.
"WAITTT" Ai then rushed in and bumped into both of them and they all went crashing to the ground. Ino and Sakura just stood back up though to continue there argument.
"I win again, Sakura." Ino said to Sakura
"What are you talking about? My toe entered the class before yours by a centimeter." Sakura said back.
Ai stood up with swirls in her eyes "Thanks for caring." She said sarcastically.
"Are you blind?" Ino asked as the camera went back to Naruto.
He was slightly blushing 'Its Sakura-chan... .' Sakura then turned around She then looked in Naruto's direction 'Sakura-chan's looking at me.' Sakura then smiled and rushed over to were Naruto was sitting.
Ino called after her "Hey Sakura!"
Naruto then stood up "Good morning, Sakura-chan."
Sakura just pushed him out of the way, "Get out my way!" Sakura then stared at Sasuke "Good morning, Sasuke-kun" Sasuke just stared a her "Can I sit next to you?" Sakura asked. Ino then walked down and grabbed Sakura's arm.
"Hey! I'm going to sit next to him." Ino yelled
Sakura just glared back at her "First come first serve. Ai was standing on the other side of Sakura looking at Naruto for a few seconds and then looked back at the other two.
"I came into the class room before you!" Ino yelled. Then Ai put up her hands.
"Hey let's not fight it's just a seat." Ai said sweat dropping at the evil glares Inner Ai then popped up "Sasuke you're going to pay for this." Inner Ai said making a fist.
Looking back at Ino after glaring at Ai she yelled "I did." Then some other girls came into it.
"Hey if that's the case, I did." One of the other girls said.
Then all the others started to yell "I was first." Or "I'm going to sit next to Sasuke-kun"
Sasuke just closed his eyes and went back to his smug position 'How annoying.' He thought silently.
The Hokage was looking through a glass ball which showed him Sasuke and Ai. "So is that them the two top rookies, Uchiha Sasuke and Hoshino Ai?" Someone asked
"That's right." The Hokage answered
"He's a survivor of the Uchiha clan, and she's one of the last descendents of the Hoshino clan." A woman stated.
The ball then went over to where the girls were and Naruto the man with the pointy silver hair asked "Uzumaki Naruto, eh?"
Back to were Naruto was sitting he got a pissed look on his face. Naruto was then in a crouching position in front of Sasuke. The glared at each other.
Sakura then yelled "Naruto! Stop staring at Sasuke-kun!" Naruto looks over to her.
'Sakura-chan…' He thinks 'Everyone is so obsessed with Sasuke… What's so good about him any way?' They both glared at each other and sparks were coming out of there eyes.
The girls were yelling "Sasuke-kun beat him up." Ai was just standing with a question mark over her head 'Why do I have the feeling something bad is going to happen.' She thought.
And sure enough someone hit the back of Naruto with his elbow. All the girls then stood with wide eyes "Eh…" Sakura started. The two of them accidentally kissed.
Sakura then yelled and in the back ground there was an explosion. Ai just stood there with wide eyes "Ai-chan are you alright?" Ino asked waving a hand over her face. "I think she fainted with her eyes open. Ai-chan snap out of it." Ino began shaking her but no avail.
Inner Sakura was yelling during that "Damn it! I was supposed to get Sasuke-kun's first kiss" Inner Sakura said pumping her fist. The two then pulled apart both of them had there tongs out and holding there necks.
"Naruto I'm going to kill you…" Sasuke said as they were both holding there necks.
"My mouth's going to rot..." Naruto said after Sasuke the bay that pushed him then asked.
"Is it my fault?" As he stared with wide eyes.
"I sense danger." Naruto said opening his eyes he then looked over sweating all the girls stood there glaring at him.
"Naruto… you…" Sakura began Naruto then tried to defend himself.
"It was an accident." He said then he put his hands up and said it again "It was an accident." Sakura then began to crack her knuckles.
"Your annoying." Sakura said with a really pissed off face. Naruto then was scared about what was going to happen.
We then go back to the Hokage all the people looking with odd eyes. "As usual, Naruto's being the center of trouble." The Hokage said.
And we go back to the class room with Iruka at the front "Starting today, you are all official ninjas, but…You are all still new Genins. It's going to be harder from here." Naruto was all beat up with bumps and bruises on him. "You all will be in a group of four, where you will accomplish missions under a Jounin teacher." Naruto then opened his eye as much as he could and the girls all had a shocked looks.
'A group of four.' They thought. "I wonder who's going to be in Sasuke-kun's team." Ino said to Sakura.
"I don't know." Sakura replied. Sakura glared at Ino Inner Sakura then popped up with fire in her back ground "Damn it, I'm the one who's going to team up with him of course."
Sasuke then thought 'A group of four? That's only going to burden me.'
Ai was thinking 'Please don't pair me up with Sasuke all the other girls will hate me I don't even like him.' Ai had her hands clasped together.
And Naruto was thinking 'First, Sakura-chan, then the others will be… I can live with anyone else as long as it's not Sasuke.'
"We've arranged the groups such that overall abilities are equivalent. I will now announce them." Iruka said.
A wile later "Next, 7th group." Iruka began to announce "Uzumaki Naruto." Camera goes to Naruto "Haruno Sakura." The shows Sakura
There was a few moments of silence and then Naruto then stood up and shouted "Yatta!" Sakura then put her head down.
'I'm with Naruto…?' She thought
"Uchiha Sasuke." Then it was Sakura's turn to get up and shout which she did "And Hoshino Ai." Sakura then screamed Yatta again.
Ai just looked away for a moment to think 'Huh didn't Iruka-sensei say that he was going to balance the teams but could that mean?' She looked over at Sakura and Naruto 'Are they really that weak?'
Naruto had his head down 'I'm with Sasuke…?' He thought
Then we go over to the girl with blue hair again 'So I'm in a different group than Naruto-kun and Ai-chan.'
"Next, 8th group." Iruka began "Hyuuga Hinata." It stayed on the girl.
"Y-yes." She stuttered
"Inuzaka Kiba." We then flashed to a boy who was wearing a jacket and his hood over his head he also had purple lines going down his face. "Aburame Shino." We now go to a boy he wore black shades and had wild brown hair and a shirt that covered his face. "Tori Kigali." We now see a girl brown hair that was in a braid and the hair in the front were held together in two red beads she had hazel eyes..
Sakura was busy making a victory sign to Ino who was getting pissed "Why do you get to be with him!" She asked Sakura You could hear Iruka say Next, 9th group in the background. Wile Sakura's inner personality popped up "Alright love prevails!"
The boy with the spiky pig tail then asked "Why do girls like such a guy anyway?"
"Don't even know that, Shikamaru?" Ino asked
"I'm not a girl." Shikamaru stated
Ino stared at him and sighed "That's why you're not popular. I wouldn't want to team up with a guy like you."
"10th group, Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru." Ino then had a shocked look on her face.
"Looks like you have to team up with me." Shikamaru said sending a smug look.
"Akimichi Chouji." We then go to the chubby guy who's eating potato chips."
Ino then put her hands on her head 'And a fatty.'
"And… Nekogami Kisa." We then see a girl with orange hair green eyes that seem to look like cat eyes.
Ino's face got even more worried 'And the creepy cat eyed girl'
"That's it for the groups." Naruto then stood up and pointed a finger at Sasuke.
"Iruka-sensei" Naruto yelled "Why do I have to get paired up with this guy?"
"Sasuke graduated with the highest scores and you had the worst scores This happened because we want to evenly divide abilities between the groups."
"Don't pull my leg, blockhead." Sasuke said to Naruto Ai then looked over to Sasuke.
"What did you say." Naruto yelled at him.
"You want to fight blockhead." Sasuke asked
"Blockhead1? Why you…"
"Hey guys calm down there's no point in fighting about this." Ai said trying to calm them down.
"I'm going to introduce the Jounin teachers in the afternoon. Meeting adjourned till then."
Sakura then walked outside looking around "Sasuke-kun!" She yelled "Were did he go?" She said looking around some more "I wanted to eat together since we're in the same group now."
Naruto then came up behind her "Sakura-chan! Let's eat lunch together since we're in the same group now!" Naruto yelled
"Why do I have to eat lunch with you?" Sakura asked
"But, but were in the same group so…"
"Your annoying." Sakura simply stated and then began to walk away calling out "Sasuke-kun where are you?" Naruto then put out his hand.
"Naruto-kun, Sakura-chan I over packed my lunch and…." Ai was carrying a large lunch box she then looked out from behind it and saw that no one was there "Eh I could have… have I become invisible and not know it?" Ai asked herself.
Ino's team had just finished their talk with some complaints from Kisa. Then we Ai comes in. "Well at least some people enjoy my cocking" Ai said looking over at Team 10 who she had given the food to.
"I don't see who wouldn't your food is even better then my mom's." Ino said chewing down on the food. Ino then looked up "You were depressed again weren't you so what was it this time?" Ai then had a gloomy look.
"Uh oh." Shikamaru said looking at her.
Kisa then sneered "Looks like boy problems again." Ai then stood up
"I'm going to go find my team." They all waved good bye. The team then saw Naruto go in and attacked Sasuke. And after that scene Kisa then asked.
"You know wasn't Ai just looking for them?" Kisa asked. They all nodded "Well at least we got a free lunch thanks to them." Kisa said smiling.
We then go to Sakura and 'Sasuke' sitting on a bench together. 'Sasuke' just asked "What do you think of Naruto?"
"He's become accustom to interfering with my love. He's having fun looking at me having trouble. Naruto knows nothing about me. He's just annoying. I just want you to accept me, Sasuke-kun."
"Just for me to accept you?" 'Sasuke' Asked
"I'll do anything…" Sakura then lent in towards him.
Ai was now walking down a hall way she then heard a noise from inside a room and she opened the door and looked down to see Sasuke tied up "Eh? Sasuke-kun why are you tied up?" She asked untying the ropes. "Damn there tied tight."
Annnnddd we go back to Sakura and Sasuke/Naruto "I'm desperate." She mumbles
Naruto's thinking 'I finally know why… I like Sakura-chan so much.' The his stomach had a turning he then got up and ran away.
"What's wrong?" Sakura called after him
"I'll be right back." Naruto/Sasuke said
"Sasuke-kun is such a shy guy." Sakura said still blushing she put a finger to her mouth "I wonder if he needs time to settle his feelings?"
Back to Sasuke and Ai "Aha I finally united it." Sasuke then sat up.
"Ug I'm going to kill him." Sasuke then jumped out of the window.
"Hey wait a second." Ai then put her arms on her hips "A thank you would have been nice." Ai said glaring.
We now go to Sakura and the real Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun your back," Sakura cried happily
"Where's Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"Changing the subject again? Forget about Naruto. All he does is pick quarrels with you. It's probably because he's such an irregular childhood. Oh yeah, you know how he doesn't have parents, right?" Sakura said.
Sasuke then sent her a cold glare. As Sakura continued "He's always doing selfish things. My parents would scold at me if I do such those things. If your alone, your parents wouldn't get mad at you. That's why he's so selfish."
"The solitude…" Sasuke spoke Sakura asked "What?" "You can't even compare it to the level of were your parents get mad at you." Sakura pulled her hand up "What's the matter?" Sasuke then turned his head toward her "You're annoying." Sakura just stood stunned as Sasuke walked away.
After awhile Sakura was still sitting there 'You're annoying hu?' Sakura thought 'I see Naruto must have felt the same way. "Maybe I can be nicer now."
"Hey Sakura-chan why are you talking to your self?" Ai asked "You know all of you have been avoiding me today and I don't know if I like it." Ai said annoyed
"Oh I'm sorry Ai-chan I didn't mean to I'll make it up to you somehow." Sakura with her hands together.
"It's alright I found a way to occupy my self." Ai said sitting down. "All you missed out on was the lunch I made."
Sakura's face went pale and she lowered her head 'Aww man she makes the best octopus balls.'
"Aww don't get upset." Ai said with her hands up "Hu? Oh hey there's Naruto-kun." Ai said
Sakura then stood up waving "Let's go back to the class room Naruto."
"Sakura-chan?" Odd thoughts were going through Naruto's head and he thought Sasuke transformed into Sakura to get him back. Naruto's stomic the made a grumble sound again and then he ran off to the bathroom.
Ai looked after him "What's up with him." She then looked back at Sakura who had a mad face on.
"NARUTO YOU IDIOT!" Sakura yelled
"Ehhh Sakura-chan why are you mad all of a sudden?" Ai asked
And fade out
Sailor Mint: You all better Appreciate this do you know how many times I had to watch this episode to make sure I got all the words right let's just say a lot and this is 9 freaken pages long.
Ai: You should calm down
Sailor Mint: Ohhh I'll calm down when I get a good review Now I want you all to think realy hard about what you think of this chapter
Sasuke: Someone please clam her down with some reviews.