Querencia
Chapter Two
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"What? No! She can't play with us." One of the middle schoolers retorted back as he pushed some of the boys to the side to get to the front. Wrinkling his nose in disgust, he said, "Boys only."
"Why not?" Sakura countered. So what if she was a girl, she can totally handle some roughness. It was tag football for crying out loud. But even if it was actual football, she had a right to play too.
"Because you can't," Jung huffed as he crossed his arms in front of him, "and because I said so."
Trying to hold back her cry of frustration, Sakura's hands balled up into tiny fists at her side. "You're not even team captain. And what are you so afraid of? That some pink haired girl is going to beat your butt in your own game?" Seeing how red the boy was in the face, she continued on, "Don't think you can handle playing with a girl? Still think girls have cooties? What are you five?"
"Shut up!" He marched right up into her face, spit flying with each word he shouted. "I said you can't play! So you can't play! Go away, Pinky." With his final words, Jung roughly shoved her to the ground, knocking the breath out of her lungs and leaving her wheezing heavily.
All around him, the boys began to shout at him hysterically. "Yo, dude, that was such a wrong move…"
"Are you crazy?" Another shouted. "She's a freaking girl! You didn't need to body slam her to the ground like that. Freaking Uchiha is going to murder yo ass."
Brushing it off like it was nothing, Jung said, "Pfft, what is Uchiha gonna do?"
The moment those words left his lips, he instantly regretted them. Moments bask in enjoyment of winning the battle were sucked out of the window as he turned around and found none other that Uchiha Sasuke's figure looming over him; steel eyes settled into a icy glare, with the intent to kill. Sure, all of the boys were slowly starting to have their growth spurt. But Uchiha was a good head or so above them all, which added to his intimidating aura. And he was already intimidating enough without the sudden added height to begin with.
Right behind him was Naruto, who wore the same look as Sasuke on his face. Brushing past Sasuke, he clapped Jung on the shoulders, hard. "So, you're the squirt that bothered Sakura."
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Handing her his water bottle, he wiped the sweat from his brow. "You could have just told me that you wanted to play tag football." Picking at the green grass, he mumbled, almost bashfully, "I would have played it with you."
Completely out of breath from the game that they had just played, Sakura quickly drowned down the water. "I didn't think they would make such a big deal out of it… If I had known, then I would have bothered you instead."
"Well, now you know, stupid."
"Yeah, now I know - wait! Who are you calling stupid?" She gaped, face flushed. Raising her fist to his shoulder, Sakura glared him down.
"You, dummy."
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"Shit, where's Ino when you need her…," Sakura mumbled under her breath. Rubbing her clammy hands against the material of her jeans, she gnawed on her bottom lip.
Nudging her shoe with his own to get her attention, he whispered, "You're solving an algebra problem, what do you need that blondie for?"
Sakura was so out of it that at Sasuke's sudden touch, she jumped in her seat, knocking her knees up against her desk. To which Sasuke raised a single brow at. Flustered beyond belief, she averted her eyes back down to her hands resting on her lap. Words barely above whisper, she said, "It's a girl thing…"
"Like?"
If it was even possible, Sasuke watched as she flushed an even darker shade of red; one that was close to rivaling the always blushing Hyuuga. Words stumbled out of her mouth in a jumbled mess, barely coherent. And the more she talked the less it made sense.
"Sakura," he began sternly, "what is even going on?"
"Well…umm…," Sakura wasn't sure how to put it to be honest. Especially to someone who's a guy. Sure, he was her closest and dearest best friend. But, he was still a guy. Lowering her voice down another notch, she mumbled, "I'm.. umm… on my period…"
"Yeah, and?" Sasuke really didn't understand what the big deal was. Being as close friends they were, he kind of already knew that a couple months back when Naruto thought that she was eating a bag of chips and not sharing it in the bathroom. Turned out, she was just opening a pad. To say the blond was stupid was an understatement. "What's the big deal with that? You took some ibuprofen earlier, didn't you? If you need some more, I have some."
Just as he was about to reach into his backpack to get some ibuprofen, she stopped him abruptly. "No, no. It's not that!" Leaning closer to him, she whispered, "I'm… ummm… I leaked…"
At her words, Sasuke looked over at her light denim jeans. Sighing deeply, he asked, "How bad?"
"I didn't think it would come this early but… yeah… I didn't even bring anything for it…"
Very bad apparently.
Digging into his backpack, he pulled out his football sweatshirt and tossed it to her. "Wear it. It'll cover it. And go to the nurse, dummy."
Sakura gratefully accepted the shirt and tugged it over her head without any complaints, not before flashing him a big smile.
{A/N}: And that's a wrap for the second chapter. A bit shorter but I hope you like this one just as much as the first! Will be updating again next Friday or Saturday. Also, I will be accepting prompts for this story if you have any. Feel free to PM them to me~ Other than that, don't forget to review!
Thank you to: Multiple guest anons, Emily da great, Yamora Love n Friendship, Larshapeach, SaYwHaT, and saisakurauchiha.