7/5/15

First day of Term Two! Down le drain! (woo-hoo!) Sakura is getting her stuff this afternoon, it's gonna be weird living with somebody, like, for a whole year it's been me, just me.

We had more pep-talks of 'YOUR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE IS SOON!' yeah, soon, two WHOLE TERMS AWAY! It's horrible! I feel sick to le stomach just thinking about it! Gaara seems fine.

I didn't talk to Sasuke, I said hi to Naruto though, and that he should tell Sasuke I won't come to work this arvo. I said 'family matters' of course, not like he could say I should be fired, I knew Naruto would never talk to him ever again.

We had a mutually-agreed silence, I knew we would be friends again, but our argument still stained both our faces with sour looks when we even so much as thought of each other. Naruto just sighed and dealt with the bitching from both sides and shrugged, he didn't care as long as in the long run we were all be(a)sties again.

Going back to school, it's like everything I left behind for the holidays comes flying back into me, but this time I'm refreshed and ready to tackle it, not tired and on my last legs from running away. This time I'm facing whatever this stupid year throws at me.

Aka, Shikamaru, he hasn't improved. I can tell, infact if anything he's gotten worse. It's like, well, if it's possible he's THINNER, but we did a quiz and he got 14/20, THIS IS SHIKAMARU, he is SUPER-BRAIN! Not semi-brain, SUPER-brain!

Sakura re-joined her old group of skanks, but she seemed happy there, she needs a world where she can pretend she's happy, and the mega-skanks are just that. I think she fits there because of that, because she can be whoever she wants to be and nobody will notice the absolute faking of it all. Mainly because half the group are too stupid to notice.

"Glad to be back?" I ask Gaara as we sat next to each other in english and pretended to listen to the sub's (Iruka caught le Flu in le holidays, we have a creepy Sub.) ranting on how punctuation is necessary for success.

"You have no idea how many intelligent students don't use proper punctuation, some even forget to use comma's! COMMA'S!" she yelled hysterically. "Those are the people who you must never trust, if you see somebody writing and they don't use comma's then make sure you correct them. Because comma's are one of life's most important things, if we don't master the use of comma's, who will?"

"Not with her teaching." Gaara replied.

"I think she thinks she's giving us an inspirational speech on grammar and punctuation…" I say slowly.

"It's not working." He replied, looking as worried as I was over the crazy teacher.

"I'm off work this arvo, let's go get chips." I say, it was getting colder and colder as the days went on, getting closer to winter every day.

"Sure, if I can get away from Temari, she wants to do Pre-winter cleaning." He says.

"Pre-winter cleaning?"

"Yep."

"I worry about her, let's buy her an ice-cream."

"Let's not."

"Fine, I am."

Gaara rolls his eyes and sighs. "Yep, glad to be back."

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8:36

We got chips, and I brought some back for sakura, who I found fast asleep on the doorstep. Damnit! I forgot to give her the house key, I think I should get another one cut. Poor girl. I kick her a bit, and she wakes up.

"Did you bring food?" she asks, half-asleep.

"Yes, now get up hobo girl!" I snap, opening the door. "Gosh, first stray cats, now stray children." I shake my head. "What is the world coming too these days?"

Sakura looks as if she could cry, I think she took me seriously. I roll my eyes. "Joking lovie, joking." She seems to let out a breath of relief, and smiled weakly.

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Tuesday 8/5/15 – well, normal routine again….

Missed the bus again, Sakura seemed surprised. "Why don't you just drive?" she asked, "I wish I could drive…"

"Because petrol costs a lot these days." I answer, sighing as we begin our walk to school. "And I don't have 'a lot'."

"Oh." She said. "Should I get a job?"

I thought about this for a moment. "Yep… and I know just where." I grin. "Leave it to me."

That day I approached Sasuke for the first time since our fight. "Hey buddy." I say lightly. He shuts his locker and looks at me.

"What'd you want?"

"Can you, my awesomely awesome friend, give sakura a job by any chance?" I ask sweetly.

"No."

"Aw, come on! Pl-eeeeeease?"

"No."

"Come on! You owe me, we'll be even if you do this!"

Sasuke considered this. "No."

"Fine, you've forced me to do this." I walk off in Naruto's direction, muttering darkly, I have to avoid a few big scary year seven-ers who are threatening to run me over, but I just duck to the side and avoid their evil-year-seven-er-ness.

I find Naruto later In Blodge, we talk about how the days gone and joke for a while until I pick a good moment. "You know, sakura is staying at my house now."

"What!? Why!?" he asked, shocked.

"Family problems." I say quietly.

"Oh god, really?"

I nod. "But there's a problem…"

"What? Can I help?"

"I can't pay for both of us," I say. "And I'm trying to find her a job."

"Sasuke'll give her one."

"I tried." I say sadly. "He said no."

"What!?"

I nod. "Yeah, he told me to find somebody else."

"Even after we dragged you around all holidays!?"

"Yeah…" I look sad. "But I guess it's fair, I mean, he doesn't really like her…"
"And you didn't really like planes, he still dragged you on one! I'll talk to him!" he says firmly. "Don't worry." He smiles, I smiles back.

…. Excellent….

By the look Sasuke gave me in VA (visual arts) today, I think I won. Eheheh… I an brilliant. We're starting work on our School Certificate piece, and I'm trying to brainstorm. TRYING. It's not working though.

I tap my pencil on the desk as people around me start to draft their idea's. Tsnuade-sensei approached me. "Anything wrong kiddo?" she asked. "You seem lost."

"Probably am." I reply. "I can't think of anything."

"Well, when I'm lost, I paint." She said. "So go get a piece of paper and some nice colours."

"What?"

"I paint." She repeated. "Now go and do what I said."

I obey, and soon I find myself with the familiar feeling of a brush in my hands, the smooth motion of paint over paper. "I like canvas better." I mutter as I slide the brush over the paper and grimace as it starts to crinkle as it dries.

Tsnuade-sensei came over. "What? No, no, no. no brush."

"Wha?" I ask.

"Use your hands. It's better for thinking." She takes the brush out of my hands and washes it, then puts it back with the others. I comply and make a blue handprint in the middle of the paper. Then red. Then green. Then yellow. It mixes together and makes a really bad colour of brown, but it was fun, and then tension that I'd been battling with went away.

Tsnuade caught me smiling and smirked. "Told you it helped."

The smudges of red and black reminded me of Gaara, the dark navy blue screamed 'Sasuke', and the bright bubbly blue and yellow seemed to hint Naruto. I smile at the colours, I know that sounds insane, but I did.

After VA, we have Science, in which Kakashi sits and tells us that if we don't study we fail. He's strait to the point, isn't he?

"Your School Certificate is more important to some of you then others, depending on whether you choose to complete year 11 and 12. most of you here, I assume, will." He started. "And for those who won't, I suggest you buckle down as soon as I tell you what to study and devote yourself to getting a good mark. All of you should. And as the top-band year 10 students, I expect you to be the top of the year."

We all swallow hard. I send a note to Gaara. 'Pressure's on.' It reads, he nods in agreement, and I'm kinda glad to see he is as pale as I am. It's gonna be a hard year.

"Term one was easy stuff, a warm-up. This term we'll be working until you will wish you hadn't come to school."

"That isn't going to happen until you start turning up on time." A voice snickered. The class concealed laughter, and Kakashi-sensei purposefully ignored that comment.

"So, this lesson we'll be taking notes on the In-Class-Prac-Project you did. What were the steps taken?"

We groan, and people hit the loud-mouth who had said the previous comment. "Idiot." We whisper angrily, and get out our pens as he starts writing.

The crazy Punctuation-Lady was still our English sub, today she was emphasising on the importance of Inverted comma's. "YOU MUST USE INVERTED COMMA'S BEFORE A PERSON SPEAKS OR YOU WILL FAIL! AAHHHHHH!! FAAAIIILLL!!!" If it's possible, she is getting even more insane.

Me and Gaara shuffled our chairs back a bit, trading worried looks. "I miss Iruka-Sensei." I say.

"Me too." Gaara agrees.

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After Work – 11:03

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! Job for Sakura: SECURED! Sasuke came to me at the beginning of work and handed me a résumé. Excellent…

I've given it to Sakura, who is filling it out now.

Work was pretty boring, nothing happened, a new Delivery person has come up, (aka, sakura) so I can finally kick back and relax in my counter-job, which I much prefer. Because hardly anyone comes in and I can relax in the store-room on my favourite grain bag.

When I saw Naruto come in, I hugged him. "I love you SO MUCH right now!" I said.

"Damn right!" he said, grinning. I laugh and we retreat to the Bat-Cave to sit and devise ways to make Sasuke happy again.

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Thursday 10/5/15

Sorry, didn't write yesterday, I had to write a short story based on Stimulus (aka, a picture of an old boot. WHO DOES THAT? Writes about an old boot. Gosh.) Anyway, I had enough of writing so I just fell asleep.

Nothing interesting happened today, Shikamaru was away, and the crazy English sub is still here. This time she was on about brackets.

"IF YOU DON'T PUT STUFF IN BRACKET'S YOU'LL FAIL! AND THEN YOU'LL GET A CRAP JOB AND DIE A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE DEATH IN THE COLD WINTER!"

I think her predicaments are getting more and more depressing.

Hmm… just out of curiosity….

'We all went to the lobby then Jim forgot to pay for his popcorn he didn't have a wallet with him so he said I know! Ill go and get it from the car!'

I'm not dying a horrible, horrible death from not using brackets or comma's (inverted or no). Yet… dundundun!

Hehehe, anyway, Sakura had her first shift today at work, she likes the driving, and the Hanuro Household is off her list (I made sure of that). Sasuke spoke to me, he said. "You have a customer."

Me and Naruto high-fived, I think he thought it was because I had a customer, well, it was really because he spoke to me. Heheh… he shall never know…

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