Never Forgotten Chapter 7: Musical Gifts, a naruto fanfic

Never Forgotten

Chapter 7: Musical Gifts

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"Okay class. Today I'm going to assign you all a group project that is going to be due in 2 weeks, and I get to choose your groups." He said with a smile behind his mask. "Sakura, please sit beside Gaara."

"Hai."

I made my way to Panda-chan and sat down with a smile. He looked at me with a blank stare and turned towards the window facing the cherry blossom garden. I sighed.

'This is going to be a long day.'

"Ahhh! Can you believe that Kakashi-sensei assigned us a project and it's only the second day of school?" Naruto whined as they were walking down the halls to their next class.

"Don't complain too much Naruto. You're just scared you're gonna fail math. Without Hina-chan here, you'd still be in elementary school." Ino teased with smirk planted on her face.

Everyone in the group sighed at the two bantering loudly throughout the halls. Every so often someone would glance their way giving them a weird look before making their own way to their class.

"Don't worry Naruto-kun. I'll help you with it." Hinata said smiling at her boyfriend.

"Thank you Hinata-chan!" Naruto yelled as he glomped the timid girl.

Neji glared at the blonde, his over protective side taking over him. Naruto turned around feeling a deadly aura behind him and his eyes met furious pale ones. Naruto's eyes widened in fear and cowered behind Hinata.

"Naruto, get your paws off of my cousin if you want to live. If not I suggest you run if you want your precious jewel to still be intact in the next 5 minutes." Neji threatened, veins bulging from the side of his eyes. "Remember, I can find you anywhere, with my eyes Naruto."

Naruto began to whimper like a lost dog behind Hinata. Neji advance slowly towards the couple with a murderous intent on hurting a certain blonde.

"Ahh! Hinata-chan…Neji-teme is going to kill me!" Naruto shrieked like a girl running away from Neji down the hallway. Neji darted after the boy for a couple of meters than stopped and regained his composure, then began to walk at the same pace as everyone else.

Sasuke looked at the timid pinked hair girl and began to ponder whether he should ask her where they should meet up for their project.

'Ne, Sasuke. Maybe you should ask her to come over to your house for project.'

'She's probably going to freak out on us or something. Might as well get this thing over with.'

"Oi, Haruno. My house afterschool. Math project. Uchiha mansion, on the corner of main. I'll drive us there." Sasuke said in his monotonous voice as he stared at the small girl.

Sakura looked up towards the boy and blinked, trying to comprehend what he just said. She just nodded and looked forward. Sasuke was surprised to see the girl look away from since he was use to seeing the female population drooling over his very existence. He laughed inside thinking of those revealing whorish things that call themselves humans. When Sasuke and Sakura reached the classroom they already saw Ten-Ten poking at a sleeping Shikamaru with a sharp pencil. He woke up with a start.

"Troublesome women, always poking at me. They never leave me alone." He muttered under his breath rubbing the red spots on his arms.

Ten-Ten laughed at his expense and misery. She saw Sakura and Sasuke walking in from the door and called them in to sit with them before Ibiki-sensei walks in the door to start the English lesson on the boring play Henry V by William Shakespeare.

"Hey Sakura-chan, Sasuke. How are you guys?" Ten-Ten asked poking at the Shikamaru who was sleeping away on his desk with a pile of drool forming on his desk.

Sakura looked at Ten-Ten and watched her poke at the sleeping boy with the pencil with some curiosity on why he didn't wake up and tell her to stop. Sasuke on the other hand looked at Shikamaru with disgust.

"Nothing really Ten-Ten-chan. Sasuke and I were just discussing our project for math before coming to class."

"Hn." Sasuke replied agreeing with what Sakura said.

Just then Ibiki walked through the door with a dark aura surrounding his demeanour.

"Everybody sit down and get out your novel on Henry V and read act 1. Be prepared for a test on it tomorrow. You may get into a group and act it out or you may sit and read silently. That would be all, and don't bother me unless you want to have detention." Ibiki said with a grin. He then sat down and began to do his paperwork for his Psychology class for 3rd period.

"Shikamaru wake up so we can act this thing out and be done with it already." Ten-Ten said with a touch of annoyance at the sleeping boy.

He woke up with a grunt and opened his eyes, slowly rubbing the sleep out of his eyes he glared at Ten-Ten for waking him up from his dreams on clouds.

"Now that sleep-head has woken up let's work on this thing, cause I don't want to fail this class."

Everyone agreed and began working on the Act I. They just sat down and read the lines to each other, stopping every once in a while to figure out what the scene was about. Soon the bell rang and everyone walked out of the class. Sasuke, Sakura and Ten-Ten walked towards their next class, music, talking a bit on the way. Well…Ten-Ten interrogating Sakura on what she likes and her hobbies and so on and so forth and Sasuke looking bored but listening in on the conversation. The three of them arrived at their class to be attacked by Ino with a hug.

Kurenai-sensei watched the scene with an amused expression. She hasn't seen any group of friends so different yet they seem perfect for one another in many ways. She decided to get the class started and began roll call. When she was done she told everyone to warm up on their instruments or their voices. Sakura not knowing which one she was assigned went to ask Kurenai-sensei what she should do.

"Ano…Kurenai-sensei what do I do? I wasn't here yesterday for class. Gomen for missing it yesterday." Sakura said bowing her head towards the teacher.

Kurenai not use to having a student bow to her with such respect was flustered and raised Sakura's head.

"Please don't bow to me. I'm not use to it." She said chuckling. "What can you do, Sakura-chan? Can you sing?...Perhaps you can play an instrument?"

Sakura began to ponder her choices. 'Should I sing or should I tell her that I can play the flute?'

"Ano, sensei? Can I sing you a part of a piece and play my instrument so you can decide what I should do?"

"Of course! That's an excellent idea! What song will you be singing for us?"

"Us?" Sakura asked confused with the plural word.

"Oh yes I forgot. When you are choosing what you are to play, you have to play or sing in front of the class, so I can see your abilities in performing in front of an audience, because we have a concert for the Spring Festival in April where everyone has to perform either individually or in a group or as a class."

Sakura's eyes widened at the thought of performing in front of her class, she was a nervous wreck just thinking about it. But in front of a live audience in a concert was just pushing it.

"Umm…okay. I'll sing first then play my flute. Is that okay sensei?"

"Of course. Everyone quiet down. We have to be polite and courteous to Sakura-chan as she performs her first piece in front of us." The ruby-eyed teacher called towards the class.

Everyone quieted down and sat at their respected seats.

Sakura stood in front of the class and fidgeted nervously playing around with her skirt thinking of what song to sing for them. She finally decided to sing 'Pocketful of Sunshine' by the English singing star Natasha Bedingfield. (A/N: I Don't own the song even though I wished I did…Totally love this song :))

Sakura started off a little bit shaky and soft but as she stared at her friends and looked back on why she loved this song so much, she wanted to forget everything that happened in her past and this song helped her get through it. As she sang her heart out, she closed her eyes and thought back to the days were she, Ino and Sai would always go into a forest of Sakura trees and sit there singing and playing around like the little kids they were. But then she remembered that Sai was gone, but still lived in her heart, so she sang the song out for him, to tell her brother that she was okay. Tears unconsciously rolled down her shut eyelids and ran down her face, streaking her face with watery veins. The class was entranced by her singing and some felt her pain.

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.
I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.
Oh, oh, oh.
Do what you want, but you're never gonna break me.
Sticks and stones are never gonna shake me.
Oh, oh, oh.

Take me away: A secret place.
A sweet escape: Take me away.
Take me away to better days.
Take me away: A higher place.

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.
I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.
Oh, oh, oh.
Wish that you could, but you ain't gonna own me.
Do anything you can to control me.
Oh, oh, oh.

Take me away: A secret place.
A sweet escape: Take me away.
Take me away to better days.
Take me away: A higher place.

There's a place that I go
But nobody knows.
Where the rivers flow
And I call it home.
And there's no more lies.
In the darkness, there's light.
And nobody cries.
There's only butterflies.

Take me away: A secret place.
A sweet escape: Take me away.
Take me away to better days.
Take me away: A higher place.

Take me away: A secret place.
To better days take me away.
Take me away to better days.
Take me away: A higher place.

The sun is on my side.
Take me for a ride.
I smile up to the sky.
I know I'll be all right.

When Sakura was done she opened her eyes to the class's awestruck expressions. The boys with hearts in their eyes and some of the girls were crying and rest were amazed to hear her have such an angelic voice. Everyone began clapping for her. Sakura, having all this unwanted attention on her looked down at the ground blushing. Some of the girls were envious of her singing talent and how she hung around their precious Sasuke-kun. (Disgusting .)

"Well done Sakura-chan! What a good performance." Kurenai said with her eyes sparkling with happiness that one of her students was an amazing singer, unlike some of the other girls that just sang to impress the Uchiha heir. "Are you ready to play your flute piece now?"

"Hai, Kurenai-sensei." Sakura replied with a glowing face, happy that the class enjoyed her singing.

Sakura got her flute ready and began to warm up with the scales and a few minor pieces. She once again walked to the front of the class, nervous again, but not as much as before. She raised the wind instrument to her mouth and began to blow. A soothing melody filled the silent room and washed over the class's ears. Sasuke's ears perked up hearing the same smooth melody he had hear her play this morning. He was intrigued on how she was so talented with the arts. After a couple more bars, Sakura was finished playing the piece and bowed towards the class. The class erupted in applauses and cheers for the small girl.

"Sakura-chan, I've decided that you will be doing both singing and playing the flute. You have a natural gift for both and I would like to help you expand on it, if you want me to." Kurenai said looking the girl in the eyes.

Sakura stared at Kurenai for a moment before closing her eyes pondering on what to do.

'You should do it! You know how much nii-chan use to love you play. He always said to work on it, but you stopped after…he passed. You should take it up again and make him proud.' Inner Sakura chimed through her thoughts.

"Okay, Kurenai-sensei. I will be happy and honoured if you helped me with my singing and flute." Sakura said bowing to the elder female.

"Sakura-chan, what did I say about bowing to me?" Kurenai said shaking her head at the girl.

Sakura immediately straightened up with an apologetic expression on her face.

"Okay you may go sit down with your friends. Everybody, the rest of the period is yours to do whatever you may wish. And girls, please do not bother Sasuke-san, if you do I will give you all detention. You may start on what you want." Their sensei said with a smile.

Sakura made her way back towards the group but she was stopped by Ami and her 'crew'.

"Listen up here, Forehead-girl. Remember Sasuke is ours and ours alone. So don't mess around with our chances with him. We will know if you do." Ami said with a dark expression on her face, making her look like the devil.

Sakura looked at Ami, and then walked around the group of girls, ignoring them and sat down with her friends.

"That bitch. She will feel my wrath. No one ever ignores me and walks away." Ami whispered to herself. "She will pay…dearly."

"Sakura that was AWESOME! I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD SING LIKE THAT!" Ino screeched.

Sakura looked taken aback by her friend's antics and smiled faintly, inwardly laughing at Ino's expression at the moment. Sasuke watched the scene unfold with Hinata, Ten-Ten and Gaara.

"You never asked…Ino-Pig." Sakura said winking before taking out her sketchbook.

"What did you say Forehead-girl?" Ino said, steam coming out of her ears.

"I'm just kidding Ino. Yes, I can sing. I stopped after Sai…" Sakura let the sentence drag out; knowing that both Gaara and Ino knew what she was going to say.

"Sorry Saku-chan." Ino apologized and gave her a hug.

Sakura returned the hug and smiled. "It's okay. I'm getting over it."

Sakura opened up her sketchbook and began to doodle, while thinking what to draw for the art project due tomorrow. As she was thinking, she began to draw a forest full of Sakura trees, with three kids sitting under one of them leaning on one another sharing a bento with instruments and papers scattered around them. Sasuke who was sitting beside Sakura looked at her sketching while she was thinking.

'Wow! She's a good artist. I wonder how she can draw without even thinking about it. She seems out of it since she mentions Sai.'

'Hey…that looks like Ino, Sakura and some other guy when they were smaller.'

'You're right! For once you're right.' Sasuke thought to his inner-self.

'Hey…that's mean.' Inner Sasuke said quietly sniffling.

'Hn. Stop being a cry baby.'

Briinggg!

The bell went and the students began to file out of the classroom like a swarm of ants out the door. The six of them made their way towards the cafeteria to meet up with their other friends.

"Konnichiwa everyone." Sakura greeted quietly.

The later decided to go outside and eat under the shady trees and talk for a bit. It started it started out a bit quiet, but then Naruto began to ramble on about his dreams of ramen taking over the world. Sakura giggled a bit about the thought of food taking over the world.

"Hey, Sakura-chan. Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself? Like your likes, dislikes, hobbies and stuff like that. So we can get to know each other better and we do the same so you can get to know us." Naruto suggested.

"Dobe. That might have been the smartest thing you have ever said in your whole entire life." Sasuke said smiling faintly.

"Urusai, teme. Why don't I start off first then? I'm Uzumaki Naruto…"

To Be Continued…

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