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Song of the day- 1000 Times a Day by The Early November
I own nothing but the plot
Sakura P.O.V.
Stretching my arms above my head, I yawned tiredly, and slapped a hand over my, unbearably loud, alarm clock. Eye's still hazy with sleep, I swung my legs over the edge of the bed, shivering as my feet hit the cool, wooden floor.
Walking over to the closet, almost walking right into the unopened door (never was a morning person), I decided to get ready for the day.
Opting for a pair of black skinny jeans, a tight gray sweatshirt and red high tops, I put my pink hair into a high ponytail. I smiled as I walked over to my nightstand, and picked up a silver chain with a heart pendant on it.
I had been given it for my fourteenth birthday from all my friends back in Sauna. It already made me less home sick, the moment I placed it around my neck. With a smile now in place, I raced down the stairs and into the kitchen.
Grabbing an apple and my bag, I ran out the door. Jumping into my beat up car, that I was able to get really cheap back home, I pulled out of the driveway.
I sighed quietly to myself, as the engine backfired slightly. Maybe I should get a pet, or a roommate. The house is kind of empty and quiet, definitely the opposite of what it was like when living with Akira.
Pulling into Ino's driveway, I kept the engine running, afraid it might die on me if I cut it off, and honked the car horn. Yesterday, Ino said for me to pick her up on the way to school, and she will show me the way. I had been given my schedule in the mail, but I didn't have much time to actually go and find the school yesterday.
"Hey forehead!" Ino said, opening the passenger side door, and throwing hers and my backpacks into the back of the car.
"Hey pig. Don't you think you're dressed a little too… slutty for school?" I asked, trying to think of a kinder term for Ino's outfit. In my passenger seat, Ino sat wearing a black denim mini skirt, and a tight red halter-top shirt.
"Mmhmm!" Ino hummed happily, pulling out a compact and applying blush to her face, as I pulled out of the driveway and down the road. "I am teasing Shikamaru! I refuse to kiss him, or anything, because of the little stunt he pulled, inviting Sasuke to the party. Today will be fun."
Sakura smirked while shaking her head. Ino has the will of a monkey. There is no doubt that by the end of the day, she will be making out with her boyfriend behind the gym. "Where do I go from here?" She asked, pulling up to an intersection.
"When it turns green, take a left." Ino said, snapping her compact closed. A black truck pulled up on my side of the road and after a moment, the windows rolled down. A group of boys, probably senior's started calling cat whistles in our direction. I was about to roll up my window in disgust, before Ino leaned over and waved flirtatiously at them. Laughing joyously, the boys peeled out before the light turned green.
Looking at my friend in astonishment, I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Come on Sak! It's a new place, clean slate for you! Have a little fun!" Smirking at Ino, the two of us laughed as I turned the car left.
"I guess your right…you do realize that Shikamaru is going to have a fit when he sees you like that. That is if the teacher's don't yell at you first."
Ino laughed humorously at that before looking at me slyly out of the corner of her eye. "Exactly the reaction I am hoping for!"
Making our way to the school parking lot, blasting the radio (which of course only plays folk music) and singing along, we pulled up to the back of the lot, and parked in one of the empty spots.
Stepping out, I stretched my arms in front of me, ready for my first day of school. Catching the bag Ino tossed over the car roof at me, we walked side by side, up the front steps of the school.
"We all hang out in the courtyard in the morning before first bell." Ino said, leading the way past groups of students through the crowded hallways. Opening up the glass doors that led to the small outdoor patch in the middle of the school, we were greeted with kids laughing and talking, playing football, and just hanging out. "Come on."
We stopped once in front of a group of about ten teenagers. "Hey guys! You're here finally!" Tenten shouted once she saw the two of us.
"Yup, thanks to Ino here, I had no problems finding the place." I said, coming to stand beside her and Hinata. The three girls looked over to see Ino missing from the place she last stood. Glancing around the courtyard for her, they also noticed Shikamaru was go.
I continued to talk with my new friends, while they explained to me where my classrooms were. I opted to not worry about Ino, smirking silently, thinking she was getting an earful right now. "Hmm…" Hinata hummed, looking over my schedule. "Well, Naruto-kun is in your first class."
Hearing his name being called, Naruto turned from his conversation with Sasuke, "You have European Studies first too? Awesome! Can we walk together, please, please, please, please?!"
I sweat dropped, watching him bounce up and down around me. I silently wondered how just one teenage boy could have that much energy in the morning. "Of course Naruto-kun. I will need help finding it anyway." Everyone rolled his or her eyes, watching him leap joyously around the courtyard.
Looking back to where Naruto once stood, I saw a familiar spiky haired teen that was sitting in my kitchen just the other day. "Hey Sasuke." I said, holding my hand up in a small wave.
His eyes darted, almost unnoticeably, over to Naruto, before he looked my back in the eye. If I wasn't mistaken, it was almost a sly look. "Hey girly. How you doing?" He asked shoving his hands in his pockets.
Looking a little confused, I shook my head and answered, "Fine I suppose. But I am in school, and when is that ever fun?" Shrugging my shoulders, trying to create a light atmosphere.
"Hmm, I know what you mean. That's why I prefer to spend my time doing something more…productive. Like in the janitors closet. Would you like to join me? I have a free spot at noon today." He said, smirking while he walked foreword, grasping my chin in his hand.
I shook my head out of his grasp and took a few small steps back. "Sasuke what's going on? I thought we kind of agreed that you wouldn't do this." I glanced over to the rest of the group, all in intense conversation, not realizing my predicament.
"But you are just too tempting for me to stop." He said giving me a smirk, accompanied with a wink, and walked towards the glass door that led back into the school. "If you do want to make an…appointment, I will be on the roof all first class."
Just as I saw his figure disappear behind the thick door, a bell rang out through the school, signaling the start of first class. "Hey, are you ready to go?" Asked an over enthusiastic voice behind me. Turning to look behind me, I smiled lightly at the sun kissed blond.
"Yea." I said, not really paying attention to where he led me. What was up with Sasuke this morning? It was like I was meeting him all over again at the party, and that the silent agreement we made yesterday at my house never happened.
Maybe I should just listen to Ino. A playboy will never stop being a playboy, no matter how much I try and change him. From the first time I met him, all I wanted to do was make him into something he wasn't.
Naruto pulled me into a room full of students chatting, just as the bell rang. "This teachers Iruka-sensei. He's really cool, I think you'll like him." I nodded happily, before taking a seat next to him in the back of the room.
"Okay brats, sit down all of ya'." Came a lazy voice from the front of the room. There stood a tall, young teacher, with brown hair held up in a short ponytail. "So how were all of your summers?" He asked, getting a barrage of answers all at once.
I started to space a little, while leaning my head on my hand, back to what I was pondering in the hallways.
I know that he will never find a meaningful relationship if he acts like that and I wanted to knock him down a notch. I wanted him to realize that maybe he could get a girl by using his charm. I thought I might have made a break through yesterday, no matter how small, I felt like I got to him a little, trying to pull him away from "the dark side" as the pig refers to it as.
I glanced up at the front of the room, where the teacher known as Iruka-sensei, started writing a heading on the chalkboard. "I feel like it would be cruel to make you delve into the fascinating world of history-"
"Damn straight it would, and who ever thought it was fascinating?" Came a mumbled reply to my right. I laughed aloud, along with the rest of the class, when a chalkboard eraser came flying, and hit Naruto square in the forehead. Watching it fall limply into his lap, leaving a streak of yellow chalk above his eyes, Iruka-sensei glowered at him.
"I did! And, if you let me finish Naruto, I would have explained that all I wanted you to do today is to write your favorite historical character and what you like about them. But because of that," Iruka-sensei leaned foreword and flashed a vicious grin. "I want you, Naruto, to write a five page essay on Katō Kiyomasa and how he influenced Japanese history."
Looking at a complete loss of words, Naruto twitched in his seat next to me, before slinking down and pouting. Giggling in the seat next to him, I patted his shoulder lightly in comfort. "The rest of you may do my original plan. I just want to see what you are interested in, and make yearly plans revolve around that." Iruka-sensei sat back down on his chair in the front of the room, and started to fix up his paper piled desk.
I pulled out a piece of loose-leaf paper and wrote a heading down before starting to daydream once again. "You know what…" I thought putting my pencil down, frustrated. "I promised the girls that I would bring him down from that pedestal he thinks he sits so highly upon, and I will do just that." Pushing myself up in a standing position, I tuned to Naruto and mouthed the word "bathroom" before walking up to the front desk.
After getting permission, I grabbed a hall pass and ran out of the room. Spending about ten minutes trying to find the right door, I roamed the halls, and almost walked into a couple of occupied classrooms. Coming across a blue metallic door, labeled "roof" above it, I opened it up, sighing in relief, as there was no alarm set up on it.
Ascending the stairwell, the only sound echoing off of the walls was the clanking of my shoes hitting the aluminum floor. Coming across yet another doorway, this one held a small window, which I peered through, seeing a familiar face on the other side.
I slowly opened the door, trying to keep my presence slightly hidden, but sweat dropped when it made a fairly large creaking noise. Seeing as I was already given away, I walked up to him. He didn't turn to the noise, but he voiced his acknowledgement. "I can still pencil you in if that's why you're here."
His eyes flickered to mine as I came to stand next to him, his smirk prominent on his features. I scowled as I looked over the edge of the building and over to the Hokage Mountains that gleamed proudly in the morning sun. "Don't disgrace yourself in front of your superiors." I said, gesturing to the honorably carven faces. "Why are you being like this?"
His smirk faltered as his face suddenly became serious. "Look," He sighed, crossing his arms over his chest. He leaned his back on the chain link fence that I continued to peer out of. "I don't want to be this way. I want to become someone who will be proud to take home and meet their parents."
I chuckled dryly at this, still continuing to look off into the distance, my eyes never trailing once to his face. "Nice story, you tell it at parties?" I asked sarcastically. "Don't beat around the bush, come on tell me."
"No, I'm serious." He turned to look at me head on as I side glanced back at him. "I really have decided that I want to change." He lightly grasped my shoulder and turned me to look him in the eye. I continued to look him over specticaly, expecting him to reach out and grope me. "And I want your help. You're really the only girl who had bit my ear off a bit, and I respect you for that. I feel like I can be myself when around you. So can we at least be friends?"
He looked so sincere as he reached his hand out almost timidly in a formal handshake. I sighed and muttered to myself, loud enough for him to hear, "This better not be a joke." I rolled my eyes in amusement at his outstretched hand. I lifted my arms up in front of me and pulled him forward into a hug. I could feel his arms wrap around me almost hesitantly. I smirked and mumbled into his ear, "Yea, and now all I have to teach you is to keep those hands of yours on my back, and not on my ass.
He rumbled with laughter as he pulled back and offered to take me to class. Agreeing he led me back over to the stairwell door before stopping in his tracks. "Oh, wait right here. I left my bag back over my the ledge. I watched as he jogged back over while thinking to myself. "Even if this is a joke (which I wouldn't doubt) I will try with all my might to change him."
Sasuke P.O.V.
The moment my back was turned from the pink haired girl, as I went to go back to grab my bag, I couldn't contain my smirk. Only four words rang through my head at the moment, as I realized I was taking the first step at winning the bet.
"Hook, line, and sinker."
Wow, I am so sorry you people had to wait so long. It was just that (for some reason) this chapter was soooo boring to write, and the less fun I have writing it, the longer I take to post. I really hope that it isn't bad, despite it being boring to write, and if it was I am soo glad (and sorry) you took your time reading it! I appreciate it! =)