Never Forgotten
Chapter 11: Just Another Day Prt.1
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.X. Recap .X.
Moments before Ino fell asleep she thought to herself, 'This is a new start for you Sakura and this time with your friends by your side.' Ino thought to herself with a smile. Soon enough everyone was fast asleep except for Sasuke who was staring at the canvas before him. He slowly dipped the end of his brush onto a pallet and began to paint his project. A couple of hours later he was done and put everything away and went to sleep.
Pale rays of sunlight filtered itself in between the drapes in the girl's room in the Uchiha mansion and rested itself on Sakura's pale relaxed face. The pinkette began to stir, her internal clock telling her to wake up and get on with the day. She sat up slowly, warily blinking her eyes ridding it of any sleep and clumsily got out of bed and out the door, trying to find the washroom. Her eyes snapped open when she realized that this wasn't her house. She released a terrified scream from the hallway as she sunk to the carpet.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Her screams echoed throughout the whole mansion waking up all of the occupants. All those who were asleep were now on the ground, groaning and complaining about the early morning call. Ino was the first to recover as she realized that her best friend was missing from the room.
'Awwww. Shoot. I forgot that this is the first time Sakura was at Sasuke's house. She must have gotten lost or something.' She jumped up and raced outside, trying to locate her friend, but she suddenly tripped over an object slumped over on the ground and landed on top of the thing.
"Owwww…" The object whined. "Why does this always happen to me?"
Ino looked down and saw her best friend rubbing the back of her head in pain and panicked.
"AHH! Sakura! Sorry about that. I heard you screaming and I thought that you got lost or something." Ino rambled.
Just then two doors opened down the hall, with three figures emerging them rubbing their eyes groggily.
"W-what happened Ino?" Sasuke asked as he stifled a yawn with the back of his hand.
Sakura pushed Ino off of her and stood up quickly and bowed to the three.
"Gomen! I forgot that I was staying here for the night and I kind of panicked thinking I was kidnapped or something. Gomen!" Sakura apologized to the three.
"Ahhh. So this was who you were talking about Sasuke-chan." The female said with a happy glint in her eyes. "You never mentioned that she was so adorable! Pardon my manners. I am Uchiha Mikoto, Sasuke's mother. And this – she points to the man beside her – is my husband, Uchiha Fugaku." She introduced.
Sakura's eyes widened when she heard the name of the stern looking male beside the beautiful women with long raven hair.
"U-Uchiha F-Fugaku?" She stuttered out of shock.
The man who was dozing off against the door's frame jolted awake when he heard his name being called and turn his attention to the one who called him. He stared at her for a few seconds before he registered the colour of her hair and eyes, he nearly fell over when he recognized her.
"K-kuu-chan?" Sakura said hesitantly, as she stumbled forward from shock.
"Haruno Sakura!?" He asked, as he took a few steps towards the girl.
Sakura nodded vigorously and launched herself into his outstretched arms and began to bawl her eyes out, seeing one of her protectors as a child. Ino and Sasuke just stared at the pair with shock looks on their faces. Mikoto realized that this was the young girl that her husband was talking about a few years back when he came home with a saddened look on his face. He had told her about Sakura's past and her family and her heart went out to the small girl.
'How do they know each other?' The two teenagers thought to themselves.
"Sakura! How are you!? Are you okay? When did you get back to Konoha?! How do you know Sasuke!?" He shot off questions one after the other as he continued to console the girl.
"I'm fine. I'm fine. I got back about a week ago. I know him from school." She answered in order, before giggling and sniffling at the man's expression.
'I have never seen otou-sama that lively in the morning before.' Sasuke thought in awe, as he stared at them.
"Otou-sama…how do you know Sakura?" Sasuke asked after a couple minutes. The two students leaned in, eager to know the bond that the two share.
Fugaku looked at Sakura as if asking for Sakura's permission to answer his son's question in front of everyone. Sakura looked at the elder man and gave him a genuine smile, a smile that no one has ever seen for the past eleven years. "Fugaku-san…you can tell them. They already know…" She trailed off.
Fugaku nodded and was happy to see a real smile, not the fake kind she always had on her face. "I knew Sakura since she was four years old because I was the one who had questioned her and her brother when her parents were…murdered. And I saw her be taken to the hospital after that night." He said struggling for the right words.
He looked down at Sakura with happiness in his eyes. He hasn't seen her since the day she left for Suna with her surrogate mother and sister and the little pink pig of theirs. He sighed as he let go of Sakura and stood up. Sakura stood up as well with a content smile on her face seeing one of the people who were kind to her earlier in her life. She looked around and saw Ino and Sasuke with a shocked expression on their faces as they look from her to the elder male and back again. Mikoto was just smiling at the scene and began to giggle at her son's expression.
'Yare, yare. I've never seen Sasuke so close to a female before…' She thought with a sly tone.
Sakura looked around and realized that the blonde male wasn't with them.
"Uhh…Where's Naruto?" She asked the two of them. "I thought that he would have woken up with my scream." She said rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.
Everyone looked around for the ramen–lover but couldn't spot him anywhere. Just then the five of them heard a noise coming from down the hall and looked at one another with a mischievous look on their faces.
"Wei!" Sasuke yelled down the stairs.
The butler walked calmly up with a maid behind him, both holding two buckets each of ice cold water. Sasuke and Ino smirked sadistically knowing what was going to happen to the blonde. Sakura just looked confused and tilted her head to the side unaware of the plans running through her friend's heads. Fugaku and Mikoto were smiling knowing that the blonde would have an unwanted morning call. Wei and the young maid handed the buckets of water over to Sasuke, Ino and Sakura carefully, not wanting to spill the clear liquid onto the ground. They slowly walked towards the noise coming from the room with fox-like stealth, slowly opening the door to find a lump on the bed. Sasuke and Ino looked at each other with a knowing look.
Their expressions stating that Naruto was on the far side of the bed, probably sleeping. They tip toed in softly with Sakura trailing behind struggling with the bucket of water. As they reached the bed they saw a mop of blonde hair peeking out from underneath the covers, moving up and down in rhythm with his breathing. Sakura just stood there with two buckets sitting innocently beside her foot as she stared at the sleeping blonde with interest. Ino and Sasuke took their positions on either side of the sleeping boy; Sakura standing at the foot of the bed and nodded to each other.
'Three.'
'Two.'
'ONE!'
The two of them took their buckets and dumped it on the blonde in sync, showering him with the icy water.
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Naruto, graceful as a rat, jumped out of the bed. He got tangled in the comforter and fell face first into one of the bucket beside Sakura. Sakura jumped out of the way to avoid the water from splashing onto her, while Ino was laughing her head off and Sasuke was grinning in amusement. The three of them watched as Naruto struggled to remove the bucket from his head while colourfully cursing every word you could think of. Sakura taking pity on the poor boy stepped forward to help him remove the contraption.
"Naruto. Hold on. I'll help you take this off." Sakura said, while giggling.
As she reached for the bucket on his head, she slipped on the excess water on the ground and hit the other bucket of water. It flung itself into the air and landed on Sasuke's head, not before spraying some water on Ino's head.
"AHHHHHH!" Ino screamed as the water got into her eyes.
Sakura got the bucket off of Naruto's head and he glomped her into a big hug.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He ranted.
Naruto looked over Sakura's shoulder and saw the bucket overtop of Sasuke's head and began laughing his head off.
"Hahahaha! The bastard has the bucket over his head too! Ahahahaha." Naruto laughed.
Ino and Sakura looked over to where Sasuke stood, his shoulders trembling slightly beneath the rim of the bucket. If Sakura and Ino weren't scared of Sasuke right now they would be laughing their heads off as well. The trembling was now accompanied by a dark aura, slowly increasing. The two girls backed away slowly and edged towards the door while Naruto was still on the ground laughing at Sasuke's predicament.
"Uz-U-Ma-Ki Na-Ru-To! I'm…going to…kill you." Sasuke growled murderously at him.
He brought his hands on either side of his head and slowly pulled the bucket up and over his head. He bowed his head to hide his furious eyes. He suddenly snapped his head up and his eyes were glinting dangerously, flickering from his onyx to red and back. Naruto finally felt the dark aura and abruptly halted his laughing episode and turned towards the Uchiha heir with a scared look on his face.
"Te-teme. W-what a-are you d-doing?" The blonde stuttered from the ground, slowly backing away from the advancing raven-head.
"Why nothing Naruto. I'm just walking up to you…so I can kill you!" Sasuke said as he pounced on the scared boy, pulling him into a head-lock none too gently.
"Ack. Sas-Sasuke!" Naruto chocked out, trying to free himself from the death like hold around his neck. "Itai! It hurts. Let me go teme!"
Ino and Sakura watched from around the door frame as Sasuke attacked Naruto with playful punches here and there with his free arm. All you could hear was Naruto crying for his girlfriend to save his life.
"Hinata-chan! Save me from teme! Kami-sama, what have I done to offend you? Yamete Sasuke-teme!"
His cries echoed throughout the Uchiha mansion, alerting the inhabitants that he was being tortured by his best friend. By then, Mikoto and Fugaku had joined the two girls in watching the small brawl happening inside the room. All they could see was a cloud of smoke with the two boy's silhouette every so often and grunts of pain, courtesy of the blonde.
"Itai! Itai Sasuke-teme! Yamete!" Naruto screeched at the top of his lungs.
"Ne, Sasuke…you're going to kill Naruto if you don't let go of him. His face is turning blue." Ino teased.
Sasuke looked down at the prisoner blonde and saw that what Ino said was true. Naruto's face was turning blue. He released the blonde quickly and stepped away. Naruto just slumped to the ground, trying to regain his breath. Sakura just looked at the two with amusements showing in her eyes.
'This is just like Temari-nee-chan and Kankuro-nii-chan.' She mused to herself with a smile. 'But this is so much more amusing.'
Sakura began to softly giggle at her new friend's childish antics. She was joined by everyone afterwards except Sasuke. He was just standing their scowling at how they can laugh at his expense of being cold and wet.
"What's so funny?" He bit out, grumpy that he was soaked to the bone with ice cold water and his hair was flattened.
"Nothing, nothing. It's just it seems you look like a sulking cat." Sakura replied through breaths.
"Ha ha. Funny." He retorted.
"Now now children. You mustn't fight and bicker this early in morning. Everyone get dried off and get ready for breakfast and then off to school for you four." Mikoto chided from the doorway with a smile on her face.
The four of them grumbled about not wanting to go to school and deal with Gai ranting about their 'unyouthfulness' in skipping gym yesterday. They all sighed and went to freshen themselves up in separate bathrooms for each gender.
"Ne, Sakura-chan. How exactly do you know Fugaku-san?" Ino asked as they began to brush their teeth and whatnot.
"Well…he was the investigator for our parent's case and Sai's case…" Sakura said vaguely.
"Ahh…I see." Ino replied as she wiped her face and began to put on light make up while Sakura was brushing her long hair and tied it up with a red ribbon. The two got ready in their washed uniforms courtesy of the Uchiha maids and walked out of the room to see the guys walking out of theirs. The group walked towards the stairs and entered the dining room area where the Uchiha patriarch and his wife were seated next to each other, waiting for their arrival.
"Now that everyone is here, we can finally have breakfast." Mikoto said from her husband's side. "Please eat as much as you want. The chef went a bit overboard with the cooking when they heard Naruto-kun was here."
Naruto's tanned face turned a hot pink colour as the rest of his company began to laugh or chuckle at his expense.
"Yare, yare. I never knew Naruto had such a reputation here at the Uchiha household when it came to food…" Sakura said, her eyes squinting at him in a teasing matter.
"Saakuuraaa!" Naruto whined from his seat. "That was mean."
"Demo, Naruto-kun, on the contrary, it is very funny." Ino retorted, mischief evident in her eyes as she leant over the table and ruffled Naruto's sun kissed hair.
Sasuke just smirked at Naruto's expression as he was continuously being insulted and teased by the girls. The elders watched the four of them interact with soft eyes, knowing that the pink hair girl had something to do with changing their son's personality.
"Everyone, start eating. You guys have half an hour until school starts." Fugaku told them.
The teenagers began to eat their breakfast with the adults and mingling with one another at the same time. When they were done they began to parade outside to the garage where they got into Sasuke's car and drove off towards the school. Sasuke parked his car into the school's parking lot and carefully scanned his surroundings being wary of his fan club. He could see many girls scouring the parking lot looking for his profile. He stealthily crouched down and began to slowly make his way to his locker inside the school. Naruto opened the car door and began to scream for his shy girlfriend, at the top of his lungs. Almost all of the female population's heads snapped towards the blonde's voice. They began to prowl about looking for Sasuke, knowing that Naruto and he always come to school together.
'Damn stupid Dobe. Now they all know I'm here.' Sasuke mentally scowled.
"THERE HE IS!" Ami yelled, when she saw her love interest crouching down near a red car.
"Fuck." Sasuke muttered. He stood up quickly and ran towards the school with almost all of the girls chasing after him, yelling and confessing their love for him.
"STOP SASUKE-KUN! WE LOVE YOU! PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME! YOU'RE SO HOT!"
'Kuso. I'm gonna murder the dobe and send him to the ninth level of hell!' He cursed as he ran towards the boy's bathroom, his only sanctuary, the only thing that would protect him from the fan-crazed girls who try to rape him every single day. He threw the door open and walked over to the sink to wash his face, trying to cool himself down from all of the running and hiding.
'Must this happen every single day?' He cried mentally in his head, gripping at the edge of the sink.
He sighed. He began to walk towards the door and it swung open revealing Naruto with a grin on his face when he saw his best friend.
"Ahahahaha teme! I knew you would be here! It seems you made it through the morning without getting hurt too bad." Naruto taunted.
Sasuke glared at his best friend intensely as if he was burning a hole through him with his glare continuing to walk towards the exit. He brush past Naruto without a second glance, but at the last second he pulled his hand back and punched Naruto's head, hard.
"Itai! Teme what was that for?" Naruto complained as he rubbed the back of his head.
Sasuke just walked out of the washroom and made his way towards homeroom, avoiding the fangirls on the way there.
--- x --- When Sakura Exited the Car --- x ---
Sakura watched as Sasuke ran towards the school with a horde of screeching banshees trailing behind him.
'Wow. I feel sorry for the guy. He just had to be popular with the girls.' Inner Sakura said, shaking her head with pity for the raven head.
Sakura mentally giggled.
'I wonder why they like him so much. He seems to ignore them and he glares at them with such malice.'
'Maybe they are just too stupid to realize what the glares mean. 'Oh Sasuke-kun. You're so hot. Please go out with me. Bare my children.' How stupid can they get?' Inner imitated in a falsetto voice, batting her lush lashes at an imaginary Sasuke.
'Makes me wonder if they have a brain at all.' Sakura thought as she laughed at her inners cheap imitation of the fangirls.
Sakura slowly opened the door as she continued to chat mindlessly with her inner persona. As soon as she took a step out of the car she was knocked over by a blur of black and blonde.
"SAKURAAAAAAA‼‼" A voice shrieked from above the dazed girl.
"Huh?" Sakura replied hesitantly, as she tried to clear her head from the sudden impact.
"Sakura! Are you feeling better now? Do they know? Are they okay with it? Did Sasuke and Naruto treat you okay? If they didn't I'll freaking castrate them into oblivion!" The sandy blonde screeched, from above Sakura.
Temari was hugging the poor girl until her face turned blue from lack of oxygen, not knowing about the embarrassing position that they were in. Sakura just sat there; completely still, unable to move due to the extra weight on her torso. Ino watched the scene play out from the other side of the parked car with a huge grin on her face, silently laughing at Sakura's futile struggle to free herself.
"Te-Tema-ri! Get o-off of me!" Sakura choked out the best she could.
But the blonde didn't pay any attention to the suffocating pinkette and continued on ranting about killing a certain pair of boys for traumatizing her surrogate sister. Sakura just gave up on trying free herself from the frantic blonde and played dead. Her body became limp and she closed eyes after winking towards Ino and began taking slow and subtle breaths to trick her sister. Ino saw the wink and got the hint. She began to act scared and screeched at the other blonde.
"TEMARI YOU MORON! LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID TO SAKURA!" Ino screeched.
Temari pulled away from the deathly blue-face Sakura and blinked slowly, trying to comprehend what just happened. The stunned blonde began to drastically pale as the colour drained from her face.
"Sak-Sakura?" Temari began to shake the girl furiously trying to get her to wake up. "Sakura? Wake up!"
"It might help if you got off of her." Ino said forcefully.
Temari jumped off the girl and knelt by her side trying to wake her sister up.
"Sakura. Sakura. Wake up!"
Sakura's eyes snapped open and she pounced on the panicking blonde.
"Ack! Mou Sakura. That wasn't funny. I thought you passed out or something. I was so scared. Never do that ever again!" Temari screeched.
Sakura backed off of Temari, her bangs covering her viridian coloured eyes.
"Fine. I'm sorry I scared you, and I'll never do that again." Sakura said.
"Promise?"
"Yes. I promise. Cross my heart and hope to die." The blossom replied.
"Uhhh…this is touching and all, BUT WE NEED TO GET TO CLASS!" Ino yelled from the sidelines.
"Hai, hai!" The cheerful cherry head replied, smiling to her blonde friend.
---X--- Math Class ---X---
"Oi! Teme!! How do you do this!! It's too complicating! I think we should help each other!! Ne ne?!" Naruto tried to wait patiently wait for his cool, calm friend to reply.
But the dark navy haired boy just sat there ignoring his blonde friend.
"Oi!! Oiiii!! TEME!!!!
Sasuke hissed at Naruto "WHAT DO YOU WANT DOBE!?"
"Help meeeeeee!!!!" The fox boy whined.
"Go ask someone ELSE! I have no time for you."
"Fine!! Next time YOU need help I won't help you!!"
"Tsk! I wouldn't even need your help!"
The Pinkette couldn't help but eavesdrop considering she was sitting next to them and wanted to end the conflict.
"Naruto! Do you want some help with your math?" The pink girl smiled at her troubled friend.
"Would I ever!! Arigato Sakura-chan!! AT LEAST SHE'S NICE TEME!!"
Sasuke glared at the yellow tainted hair boy and turned to Sakura.
"Arigatou."
"For what?" the confused blossom head asked.
"For getting rid of this annoying pest."
Naruto's smile turned into a scowl. 'Stupid Teme.' He thought to himself as he glared at his best friend. 'Always so mean to me.'
"Naruto! If you want me to help you, at least pay attention to what I'm saying to you." Sakura reprimanded.
Hearing Sakura's stern voice, Naruto snapped back to reality.
"Gomen Sakura-chan." Naruto said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"It's fine. But you have to pay attention. Okay? As I was saying, if you have…" Sakura explained, slowly. "Do you understand it now Naruto?"
Naruto looked up from the sheet he was staring at began to backtrack the steps she had just taught him
"GAH! Sakura-chan! You are a genius! I understand what we have to do now! Thanks a lot!" Naruto yelled, grinning from ear to ear.
Sakura giggled at Naruto's antics and said 'No problem' and turned back to doing her own work. Sasuke was watching her from the corner of his eye and his lips quirked a bit the corners, hinting a very small smile.
'Only she has the patience to teach the dobe.'
Briing! Briing!
"Okay you guys, since you all worked so nicely today, no homework today. Enjoy the rest of your day." Kakashi chimed from behind his book.
"Yatta! No homework!" Naruto cheered as he walked out of the classroom.
~ Skips to Period Three aka. MUSIC! ;D ~
"Everyone please take your seats. Today we will be working on our pieces for the Spring Festival. So you guys can either choose to sing or play an instrument or both as a band. Just think of it and come talk to me about it so I can approve of it. Alright?"
"Hai."
"Alright then get to work. I want everyone's part by the end of the period."
Sakura walked up to the front of the classroom and stood in front of the teacher.
"Ano…Kurenai-sensei…when do you think we can start with our private lessons? I think Ino-chan and the others want to play as a band for the festival." Sakura asked hesitantly.
Kurenai looked up from her work and looked at her shy student. "How about at lunch today, if you aren't too busy, you might as well stay when the period ends. Is that okay with you?"
Sakura thought for a bit and nodded her head. "Okay."
"Alright then. You should go and ask Ms. Yamanaka about the band idea first so I can fit your solo and your group performance into the show."
"Okay."
Sakura walked away from the teacher's desk and turned to where her friends were situated. Unaware of the foot in her path she walked towards it and tripped over it, falling down the flight of stairs. Sakura shut her eyes waiting for her impending doom and a whole world of pain…
To Be Continued… Please review ;]
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