Chapter Twelve: Backfired Plans Make Great Bonding Experiences!
I DON'T OWN NARUTO! MASASHI KISHIMOTO DOES! YOU CAN'T SUE ME!
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Sakura groaned as her phone rang at the unholy hour of six am (in her opinion). "What the fuck do you want?" She growled into the phone. "I wouldn't come to school today if I were you." Sai said quietly. Sakura sat up and the hidden fury in her friend's voice. "What's wrong?" She asked. "It's disgusting what he's done in his stupid jealousy. Please just call in sick today or something. You shouldn't have to see this." Sai replied pleadingly. "I can't. I have to take tests just like you guys do." Sakura said. "I warned you ok?" Sai said. "Ok." Sakura agreed. She hung up and got ready for school since she was up.
Sakura's eyes widened in horror and shock as she walked through the doors of the school after parking her car. There were explicit photos of her and several of her friends that she knew for a fact were fake. "Who knew you were hiding such a hot body under all those layers." A boy with purple eyes catcalled. Sakura decked him out of reflex, unable to take her eyes off the pictures. Slowly, as if in a trance, Sakura began to take the pictures off the walls, moving like a robot, unable to process what she was seeing. Twin shadows fell over her and Sakura looked up to see Kisame and Hidan helping with the pictures too high for her to reach and she couldn't even smile at them. "He's gone too fucking far this time. It's one thing to fucking talk shit about someone but to go behind their back and do something this fucking despicable? Itachi, Madara, and Sai really need to fucking talk to that little emo bitch." Hidan cursed up a storm as he helped her take those pictures down.
By the time the bell for home room rang, they had a majority of the pictures taken down and stored in Sakura's messenger bag. The pink haired girl had remained eerily silent as the entire Akatsuki and their normal friends came to help her remove them. Tenten was very worried about her friend, not knowing what she would do if she saw Sasuke today. Gaara wasn't due back to school until the day after tomorrow so thankfully he hadn't seen any of those pictures. "Sakura I didn't know anything about this. If I had, I wouldn't have let him do this to you." Sai said worriedly as he observed the silent girl. "What the hell did I do to him to deserve such torment?" Sakura asked quietly. "You did the one thing no one has ever done to him before. You've taken attention from him just by being you." Sai replied gravely.
Sakura felt sick as she heard the catcalls, loud whispers, and even spoken insults and slurs directed toward her, her friends, and her personal life. She refused to hang her head because she hadn't done anything wrong so she walked with her head held high and ignored the rest of the school as much as she could. Sakura refused to cry about this and give these trolls the satisfaction of seeing just how much this incident hurt her. "Good girl. Don't let them see you hurt." Pein said quietly as he and Konan stood behind her in line. Sakura's hands were shaking from a combination of rage, hurt, and humiliation. "I feel like I've been raped and the pictures have been posted everywhere so everyone in the world knew what happened." She said quietly. "We are always on your side. Never forget that we know the truth." Pein intoned. "Go sit down. I'll buy your lunch today. If we trusted you to get it yourself, you'd end up dropping it everywhere." Shino said quietly. Sakura obeyed numbly, still unable to show any outward emotion about this ordeal she was forced to endure. "Maybe I should have just let my dad kill me. It seems like it would hurt a lot less than living this nightmare." She said quietly as she stared down at the table. "Don't say that. You have as much of a right to live as your mom and brother did." Tenten retorted. "Do I? I was supposed to be in the car with them that day. I was only spared because I wasn't feeling good and didn't want to go. I whined and bitched and moaned until my dad relented and talked my mom out of taking me along. If not for that little intervention, I'd be dead too. And I wouldn't have to suffer the indignity of being tormented just by existing." Sakura sneered. "You should go see Doc Orochi if you feel this strongly. It's not a good sign of your mental health." Tenten said gently, refusing to rise to the bait her friend was laying out for her. Sakura put her face in her hands. "I should have listened and called in sick today. I didn't think it would be this bad but apparently Sasuke truly hates me." She mumbled.
Lunch was a tense affair, no one wanting to talk about anything for fear that everything would just erupt into chaos. "This isn't doing any of us any good. We're acting like a bunch of frightened animals waiting for slaughter." Sakura said after a few minutes. "Sasuke did not listen to reason. He is being completely foolish and unreasonable. He is not operating at full mental capacity." Itachi mumbled. Sakura snorted lightly. "Is that a fancy, genius way of saying that Sasuke's not playing with a full deck of cards?" She asked. Itachi nodded. "He's a few onigiri short of a full bento." Sai offered. Sakura laughed outright this time and the tension broke. Conversation sparked at their table and for a little while, everyone present could pretend that the day hadn't started as a complete and utter disaster.
Sasuke couldn't believe what he was seeing and hearing. Not only were his brothers not abandoning her but they were all happy and laughing! Fury erupted inside him and he snapped his chopsticks in half angrily. "What the hell does she have that I don't?! I'm Uchiha fucking Sasuke! That bitch should be like the others, falling all over herself to be near me! Why does she resist the natural order of things?! Why can't she fall in line like everyone else! She's destroying my life!" He seethed. "The pictures were brilliant Sasuke-kun. The entire school is shunning her except those criminals and the few freaks of the school. Who cares about the few? The many still know their place!" Ino soothed. "I don't care about the many you moron! I want thing to return to the way they were! She's the reason I can no longer claim ties to the Akatsuki! She's the reason my family doesn't eat meals together anymore! It's all her fault! Everything is going wrong because of her!" Sasuke snapped at the blonde. Ino glared at him, miffed. "Don't take your anger out on me Sasuke. I'm not just some stupid lackey. Don't forget that if it weren't for my help, you wouldn't be as popular as you are now." She warned. Sasuke sighed. "You're right. I'm sorry. I'm just so angry that one stupid little uwakionna is ruining everything we worked so hard for." He said. Ino smiled slightly. "Is she really? Your brothers already barely tolerated your existence. What's the harm of keeping them preoccupied with a new toy while you do what you've always done? Unless...you fell in love with her or something." She replied. Sasuke sneered. "Don't be stupid. I detest and loathe that bitch. I don't give a shit what kind of life she's had. She's still scum beneath my feet. Even if her fortune were greater than the entire Uchiha fortune, she'd still be nothing more than low-life trash." He said with conviction. Naruto rolled his eyes as he started on his seventh hamburger. "You don't even know her Teme and you're already so sure you're right. Figures you'd be this way though. You've always been a jackass but don't you think this is going too far? She's not purposely undermining you. I've talked to her a few times in class. She's naturally the way she is. Sakura can't help it. She's just like her mother." He said as soon as his mouth was empty. "I bet her mother was a whore too." Sasuke sneered. "Her mother was almost an Uchiha." Naruto replied. "What?!" Sasuke turned his head to stare at his best friend/rival. "Yeah. I did some digging on her because I was curious. Her mother almost married into your clan." Naruto nodded. "Why didn't she? At least then Sakura would have the redeeming factor of being family." Sasuke asked. "Apparently the Uchiha in question was a mega-prick. Like you only worse. Anyway he went a little nuts and tried to kill her while she was pregnant with Sakura. After she left the hospital, Sakura's mother publicly shamed him for what he had done and left him." Naruto replied boredly as if he didn't care. "Wait...you said she left the Uchiha while she was pregnant with Sakura." Ino pointed out. "Yeah I know what I said." Naruto replied. "So that would indicate that she either cheated or that Sakura is an Uchiha if only in genetics." Ino continued. "I didn't dig into the mother's past. Only Sakura's." Naruto pointed out. "Well dig into the mother's past too. We need to know if Sakura is related to the Uchiha or if Sasuke-kun is right and Sakura's mother was nothing but a whore." Ino ordered. "I'll see what I can dig up." Naruto sighed. 'Man what a bothersome day this is going to be. I was looking forward to hanging out with Hinata-chan today.' He thought morosely.
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