I do not own Naruto.
Kiba looked up from the table and noticed Ino and Sakura walking over to them. He waved at them, trying to make them come quicker.
"Ino-chan! Sakura-san! Come on! We saved you two seats!" Kiba called. Sakura's smile only widened at Ino's faint blush.
Sakura moved over next to Naruto and sat down between him and Sasuke. The dark haired boy smirked lightly at her, and she had to suppress the shudder that went down her spine.
"Ah Sakura-chan! Meet Sasuke-teme." Naruto smiled one of his biggest smiles at her.
"We've meet." The two of them answered at the same time, causing them to look at each other. Sakura quickly added, "I know you don't remember but we have English together, and Sasuke-san and I sit next to each other in that subject." Sakura told Naruto.
"And we also have Art together, right Sakura-san?" Sasuke smirked at her. 'Thank god that he didn't say 'Blossom', that would have made me go crazy!' Sakura thought to herself, as she took a bite of the apple that she just bought.
"Oh yeah I remember! Well I just wanted to introduce you two again, seeing that you are both two of my oldest and best friends! Teme, meet Sakura-chan, the girl who I want to protect like a sister. And Sakura-chan, meet Teme, who was my best friend before he had to move away. He's like the brother that I never had. I hope that we will all be good friends!" Sakura couldn't help but smile at Naruto. He was so cute, when he was like this.
"Of course Naruto. Anything for you" Sakura said with a wink, "and now, tell me about your summer vacation! I hate the fact that I didn't get to spend any time with you at all." Sakura finished with a pout.
"Well I asked Hina-chan out! And she said yes without fainting! Isn't that right Hinata-chan?" Naruto smiled at his girlfriend. She blushed and nodded.
"Aha! So that was why you blushed like mad, when I asked you about your summer!" Sakura giggled. Hinata was beginning to look rather uncomfortable. "Don't worry Hinata-chan, I'll drop it now, because your boyfriend's here, but just wait!" Sakura winked at the pale eyed girl.
"So, I'm thinking about holding a welcome back party this Friday." Temari told everybody at the table. Her brothers turned to look at her. "Don't worry, I've already talked about it with mom and dad. Everybody's welcome to come. It's going to be awesome!" She said while clapping her hand together.
"That is a really good idea." Sakura smiled at the older girl, "and of course, Hinata, Ino, Tenten and I will help you." The other girls nodded conforming what Sakura said.
"Uhh this will be so much fun! And then we will also have to go shopping for food, drinks and oh! New clothes!" Sakura just tuned Ino out as she blabbered on about shopping. Instead she turned to look at Sasuke, who she found already staring back at her.
She offered him a small smile, and got a wider smirk back. Sakura, noticing nobody was paying attention to her and Sasuke, decided to ask him a few questions.
"So how can it be that I have never seen you before to the social gatherings, Sasuke-san?" At the weird question Sasuke ached an eyebrow.
"And how come you're so sure that you've never seen me before?"
"Because I like to observe things and see which people are present at the gatherings. Plus I'm sure I would have noticed you at one of them, if you were there. It's not like you don't stand out of the crowd." Only after she had said this, she understood what she had said. She quickly clasped a hand over her mouth, but Sasuke had already heard what she had said.
"Oh? I'll take that as a compliment." Sasuke chuckled, "but yes, you are right. I have not been to the gatherings for a really long time. You see, I've been studying abroad for a few years. But now my mother thought it was better if I came home."
"Really? How cool! Though I'm not sure if I would be able to live without my mom and dad. Or the gang." Sakura smiled at the gang, though none of them were looking at her. "I really like spending time with them. It makes me like I'm part of something. I'm not very fond of though of being alone. These guys have really saved me from a lot of thing." Sakura finished with a very Naruto like grin.
"Can't say I feel the same way. I enjoy spending time alone. It's so relaxing. And so quiet. It's not very often I have a moment of peace. Not with all these fan-girls." He let out a low growl, while Sakura laughed. "Because of them, I have a very hard time trusting people. That's probably why I'm so 'anti-social'.
But once I find someone I really like, it's not very likely that I let go of them again. Take Naruto. Allthough I was one the other side of the world, and we haven't seen each other for a long time, we are still best friends. I'll never say this to his face, but I care about him a lot."
The soft expression on Sasuke's face made Sakura smile. Though there was one thing she didn't understand. If he had a hard time trusting people, why was he so open towards her?
She couldn't help but voice her question. Sasuke let out a chuckle.
"That's a good question. But I guess it's because I hope that one day, you will be one of the few I trust?" His eyes locked with hers, and Sakura had a hard time breathing as he moved closer to her and leaned into her ear. "Somehow it's just so easy to be myself with you." He finished with a small smile and a small nip at her ear.
Sakura was about to say something back to the raven-haired boy, when a very loud voice interrupted her. A voice that made her wince in her seat.
"Sakura-chan! My beautiful flower of youth! How was your summer my sweet? Did you survive without me? Cause I had a hard time without you!" A boy with thick black eyebrows, wearing a green spandex was standing beside Sakura. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the knelling boy.
"Eh, hi Lee. And my summer was fine, thank you. And how are you?"
Her friends often wondered why she was so nice to Lee. Sometimes she didn't even now why herself. But somehow, she just couldn't be mean to him. He had followed her since 5th grade, where they first met.
"Much better now I've seen you!" Naruto made a gagging noise in the background, "Gai-sensei is talking about making me train even harder! He thinks that if I can run around the school 2000 times and then do 150 sit-ups, then you'll confess your love to me! Yosh!" Everybody sweat dropped at the clueless boy.
Sasuke coughed. First noticing the silent boy next to Sakura now, Lee turned his attention to him.
"Oh! I'm sorry! May I ask who you are?" Lee asked, while seeing how close Sasuke was sitting next to Sakura.
The raven-haired boy smirked, and stood. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I just moved to this school." His smirk widened as Lee's eyes grew.
"Uc-uchiha?! As in the sports wonder Uchiha?" Sasuke nodded, "I've heard that you're a genius at material arts! I must try fighting you once!" Lee had stars in his eyes, while Sasuke muttered "Trust me, that chance will come very very soon." Though it didn't look like Lee heard him. The others chuckle and giggled.
"Uhm, I'm sorry Lee, but I'm gonna have to steal Sakura now. We have P.E." Temari said as she and the other girls stood up.
"Of course Temari-san! I have P.E. now as well! Oh Gai-sensei! I'm coming!" And then he left the others gapping after him.
"He never grows up." Neji said while shaking his head, while Ten-ten giggled. They had known Lee before they others. The three of them had grown up together, just like Shikamaru, Ino and Chouji.
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"So Sakura, tell me what were you and Sasuke-san talking about?" Tenten asked while re-doing her hair buns. The other girls turned to face the pink-haired girl who was pulling her P.E. shirt over her head.
Sakura flinched. She didn't think anybody noticed her and Sasuke. "We just talked about how he had been studying abroad for a couple of years. And friend-ship in general." She still didn't understand why he was being so open with her. But she couldn't help but feel flat
"Friend-ship? What a weird thing to talk about. Well do you like him?" Ino asked as she fixed her makeup.
"Like him? Ino I just met him! Well I do find him attractive, but come on! I, unlike you, don't think about boys 24-7!" Tying her shoes Sakura and the others walked out of the locker room, "But don't you think there's something mysterious about him?"
"Other than the fact he's kind of anti-social? Haven't really thought about that." Temari shrugged.
"Oh look! We're playing volleyball today! How lucky! Do you remember the look on Karin's face last year when we won over her team? That was unforgettable! I hope we get to make our own team just like la-" Tenten was interrupted by a loud shriek.
The girls turned towards the loud sound and found a group of girls by the boys locker room door. You could clearly see a flaming red-haired schoolgirl shoving her way though the mass.
"Sigh. Karin again? When will she ever grow up, and get her act together?" Sakura could only pity the girl. But then she noticed the boy who was clouding her mind walk out of the door, and trying intensely to get the fan-girls away from him. Her eyes narrowed at the sight.
Sakura quickly shook her head making her pink locks of hair sway. Why should she care if other girls, even if it was Karin, liked Sasuke? With his looks he was bound to have fan-girls no matter where he was. Still she couldn't keep her eyes off him. His pale skin, and dark deep eyes just fascinated her. And his hair was just begging to have her fingers run trough it, to tame it (if that was even possible!).
Deciding to have one last look at the boy, Sakura found Sasuke already looking her way. Immediately hiding the shock in her eyes, she gave him one long flirty look, and turned to walk over to the gang taken aback by her own moves.
Soon Anko, who was coaching the girls, blew her whistle signalling the females in the gym to gather around her, while Gai was talking to the boys.
"Most of you have probably already noticed what we are going to be doing to day. Volleyball is a good team sport, and I want only clean games. If I see anyone playing dirty or trying to hurt anybody on purpose, they will get in trouble. Do you all understand me?" Pushing a lock of purple hair behind her ear, Anko glanced at all the girls with a stern look, her eyes lingering on some girl longer than others.
"Understood Sensei." Was heard from the girls.
"Sensei?" After a nod from Anko, Tenten continued her question. " Are we allowed to form our own teams?"
"Yes of course. But no more than five players on a team. I don't want anybody on the bench. And consider this a tournament." With that the girls began.
Sakura's team steadily fought their way though the tournament, winning game after game against teams who didn't even try to hit the ball, and who were to afraid of breaking a nail.
When Anko finally blew her whistle signalling a water break, they only had one game left. And of course it was against the schools biggest fan-girl and slut, Karin and her team.
"So Blossom, I see that you're rather good at sports, mhmm? Or are you just good at everything?" The husky whisper came right behind her.
Sakura tried to hide her smile.
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"Karin-chan, look over there! By the water fountain!" Karin turned and looked at the water fountain, and at once her fake smile twisted to a grim scowl. Why the hell was Sasuke standing so close to that pink haired freak? And what was he saying that caused her to blush like that?
"She should know better than to mess with me! And how dare she talk to him!" Suddenly a plan started forming in her head. "Hmm, she should watch her back in our next game. We would hate if something happened to our favourite pink haired freak."
A frown could no longer be seen. Only an evil smirk.
So I'm back xD Well kinda ^^'
I haven't really felt like writing for a long time, and I only write if I feel like it o.O Or else I don't like it xD I'm sorry but I don't wanna feel 'forced' to write :3
And before anybody starts trying to tell me that there is usually SIX players on a volley team, I already know! :D But I don't a big fan of OC's so it was better for my story if there was only FIVE on a team ^0^
And remember people! Reviews make a writer happy! And A happy writer means more writing, and that means more fanfiction for you! : D
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