Notes: Helloooo~! I updated :DDD This is a shorter chapter, and Kim doesn't appears ;) There's another OC now, the Ami girl. She's not important, she'll appear just in this chapter, I guess. Anyways, I was thinking about adding some GaaMatsu and ItaIno, what do you think? :3 OMG I didn't know how to name this chapter D: 'Worries' was the less lame idea I had ¬¬
Disclaimer: I own your soul, but I don't own Naruto. ):
Chapter 8
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Worries
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Temari fell asleep after her friends left. She was glad to be inside her body again, but also worried. Kim had discovered she used the Keeping Promise Spell on her and said that she wouldn't let them use it again. Although the fairy didn't cause problems in Temari's life, her friends were in danger, because they couldn't bewitch the fairy anymore. She was also worried about Karin trying to 'destroy' Sakura's life; they didn't know what she was going to do but they knew she was capable to do anything to get what she wants.
Temari had a lot of things in her mind, but she forgot about everything as she slept. She calmed herself dreaming about her Shikamaru. Oh, how much I miss him, she thought, I can't wait to see him tomorrow.
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The next day, when Temari arrived to school, she immediately saw Shikamaru as she got out of her car. She ran to him without even saying goodbye to her brothers. Shikamaru was entering the building and didn't see her, but when she called his name, he turned around.
"Shikamaru!" Temari exclaimed smiling. She reached for him as he stopped walking. "Hi," she said as she stood in front of him.
"Hi…" Shikamaru replied, forcing a smile. Temari frowned; he seemed awkward.
"Is something wrong?" she asked confused.
Shikamaru looked down at his feet, sighing. "I wanted to ask you the same thing."
His girlfriend raised an eyebrow. "Nothing's wrong. Not with me, of course. Why?"
"It seems like you're okay today," the boy said, still staring at his feet. "But yesterday you were different." Temari hold her breath; what did Kim do? "You see, I tried to talk to you, but you kept avoiding me. You were running away from me and I can't understand why. I mean… did I do something to upset you or something like that?"
Temari bit her lower lip. He seemed sad and embarrassed. She was so upset, but not with him; she was upset with Kim, with herself, and with the whole situation! No matter how much she tried to stop Kim from hurting him, she still hurt him emotionally. But Temari knew she had the fault; she should have expected it to happen. Kim wasn't a bitch yesterday, but she was angry and she avoided everybody, even Shikamaru, and he had the right to be confused.
"Shikamaru…" Temari whispered, staring at him with sadness. "You… you didn't do anything wrong. I just… had a bad day… that's all. I'm so sorry I ignored you; it's just that I… I needed to be alone."
Shikamaru raised his head and smirked. "Is it something you girls usually suffer?"
She blinked. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, Hinata had a similar problem a month ago, Naruto told me about it. She was like, having a bad day and took it out with him."
"Oh. Oh, yeah, I remember." She smirked. "How can I forget the show she made in the cafeteria?"
"Yeah… So, what is your excuse?"
"Huh?"
"For being weird. Hinata's was that she had problems with her father. What's yours?"
"Ah… Um, well, it's something hard to confess…" Temari looked away. She didn't have an excuse! She had to think quickly, but she wasn't so good at it. Shikamaru is going to suspect because of my hesitation, she thought desperately.
"You can tell me, Temari." Shikamaru grabbed her hand. "You know you can trust me." His tone was sweet and Temari suddenly felt confident of herself. Whenever he supported her like that, she felt better.
"I know," she sighed, looking him in the eyes again, smiling. "Okay, you'll see… I had… Shikamaru, this is very intimate." When her boyfriend nodded, she continued. "I had… PMS."
"PMS?" he asked surprised.
"Yes." The blonde blushed and looked away. Was that the best excuse she could think of? PMS?! However, it seemed like Shikamaru believed it.
"Well, it's okay. I mean, you're a woman, you can't do anything. I'm sorry I made you feel… uncomfortable."
"It's fine. I should have explained it to you before."
Shikamaru leaned forward and kissed her. They entered the school holding hands.
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Karin was waiting in the entrance of Konohagakure High School. She had her arms folded across her chest and was taping the floor with her foot impatiently. A frown adorned her face as she looked to the other side of the fence.
A car stopped at the other side of the street. Karin watched as a red haired young man got out of it and walked to where she was. Karin sighed when he stopped in front of her, at the other side of the fence.
"You're late!" she barked.
"I'm sorry," Sasori responded, smirking. He looked so handsome when he did that… Karin rolled her eyes and controlled herself before she started drooling.
"Whatever," she muttered. "Listen, it's closed, so can you jump the fence?"
"…Are you serious?"
Karin raised an eyebrow. "Do I look like I'm kidding?"
Sasori took a deep breath and rolled his eyes. He looked up and checked how tall the fence was. He had climbed taller fences before. He climbed the fence and 5 seconds later, he was at the other side, beside Karin.
"So, where is she?" he asked.
Karin smirked. This was so going to work. "Follow me."
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Sakura was putting her books inside her locker. After that, she was going to go to the cafeteria to meet with her friends and discuss about their plan to discover what Karin's plan was. When she was about to close her locker, something fell from inside of it. Sakura raised an eyebrow to the little paper in the floor. What is that, she thought. She didn't remember to have any papers there, just books.
She picked it up and read it.
Sakura,
I have to talk to you about something important. Meet me in the garden,
-Sasuke.
Sakura blinked. About what would he want to talk? Sasuke wasn't the type of person that writes something instead of telling it face to face. If he wants to tell me something, he would have come and talk to me, she thought. But, if I don't go, he may get mad at me; I know how he much hates unpunctual people.
Sakura decided lunch time could wait. She went to the garden and searched for her boyfriend everywhere. She was about to give up, because she couldn't find him, until she heard some people talking behind a tree. There was no one else around. She heared a deep male's voice and she guessed it could be Sasuke, so she started walking to where the voices were coming from.
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"So, she's coming here now?" Sasori asked.
"Yes, she is. Remember, she has short pink hair, bright green eyes and a huge forehead," Karin answered.
"Okay, got it."
"Remember to tell her she's pretty. Right now you just need to be her friend, don't try to flirt too much, but make clear that you are attracted to her."
"And what if I think she's ugly?"
The red haired girl rolled her eyes. "Then at least lie and make her feel better. Remember it's just a little favor and that if you don't like her then you won't have to see her again." Sasori nodded. "Okay, so I'm gonna leave now. Bye and good luck!"
Karin ran away, leaving him there, alone. Was that really a good idea? He didn't know. He didn't even know why he accepted to do that. Perhaps he could like the girl but she was at least three or four years younger than him. If he just wanted to have fun, wasn't playing with a girl a wrong way?
Before he could even answer that mental question, he heard someone walking to where he was.
"Sasuke?" a feminine voice said.
And then he saw her, coming from behind a tree. She was exactly as Karin described her, but she never said how pretty she really was. How can she have a low self-esteem? Is she blind or something? Sasori wondered. He didn't realize he was staring at her until she stared back at him, with those bright, big emerald eyes.
"Um, sorry," she muttered. "I thought you were someone else." She turned around, ready to leave.
"Hey, wait!" Sasori called her. She stopped and turned around. "Were… were you looking for someone?"
"Yes," she replied. "But he's not here…" She made a pause, looking around suspiciously. "Hey, weren't you talking with someone else?"
"Huh? Um… yeah, but she already left."
Sakura nodded slowly. She examined the guy: red spiky hair, brown eyes, athletic body, and very good looking. Yes, she had a boyfriend, but not just because of that she couldn't just check other guys out, right? She wasn't cheating on Sasuke or anything. Sakura also noticed the guy wasn't wearing the school uniform and that he seemed even older than the 12th grade boys.
"You're not from this school…" she said, frowning. "What are you doing here?"
"I…" Sasori hesitated for a second, trying to think of an excuse. "I came to deliver something to my sister. It was an emergency so I had to come."
"How did you get in?"
He smirked. "I jumped the fence." Sakura nodded slowly. "Excuse me… May I say you're very beautiful?"
Sakura gave him a what-the-hell look before she started laughing. "Are you high?"
So she really thinks she's ugly… "No, I'm not. I'm just honest. Do you have a boyfriend?"
Sakura laughed again. "Yeah, I do. I was actually looking for him."
"Well, he's very lucky. I hope he values you as you disserve."
Smiling, Sakura gave her an incredulous look. "Are you flirting with me?"
Sasori smirked and shrugged. "Not exactly, I just like to tell pretty ladies how beautiful they are. Sometimes girls underestimate themselves, you know? Their insecurities don't let them realize how gorgeous they are and that's wrong."
"So you tell pretty ladies how pretty they are to make them feel good?" Sasori nodded. "And… then you have sex with them?"
Sasori's eyes widened. "No, that wasn't what I meant, you're misunderstanding."
"Yeah, right." She smirked and turned around, not even paying attention to the guy pleading her to wait. What an asshole, she thought
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Ino was rolling on the floor of the cafeteria at lunch time. She was laughing so hard, that she had tears on her eyes. People stared at her, but she didn't care.
"It's not that funny, Ino," Temari hissed, glaring at the blonde girl in the floor.
"But it is funny!" TenTen said, responding for her friend, who was laughing too hard to talk.
Ino stood up from the floor, wiping away the tears in her eyes. She sat beside TenTen, and when her laughs stopped, she sighed. "Okay, I'm done laughing."
"Thank God," Temari murmured, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, guys," Sakura greeted, taking a sit beside Ino.
"Where were you, Forehead?" Ino asked, frowning.
"Ugh, I got a note from Sasuke saying he'll meet me in the garden to tell me something important, but I couldn't find him. Instead, I found some guy and he started flirting with me."
"Uhh! Was he hot?"
"Um, kind of… But he wasn't even from the school! Besides, I have a boyfriend, and you have one, too, Ino. Can't you stop being a slut for a moment?" Sakura smirked as Ino stuck the tongue out at her. "So, what did I miss?"
"Temari was telling us Kim ignored Shikamaru yesterday and that he was hurt," Hinata explained. "So she had to tell him she had…" she snickered, "PMS, and that that was why she was so weird."
Sakura started laughing. "Oh, my god, are you serious? At least he believed you, right?" Temari nodded. "But, really, couldn't you think of another excuse less… embarrassing?" And she continued laughing.
Temari glared at her lap. Sakura was right. She could have said she was having problems with her family, or that she fought with one of her friends… but she decided to say she was having Premenstrual Syndrome. Well, she wasn't a spontaneous girl, but at least her excuse worked!
"Okay so now that you shared with us that interesting success," Sakura said, smirking, "we have to deal with something very important: Ami."
"Ami…" TenTen repeated. "Oh, right! We have to find her - alone."
"I used to talk to her," Hinata commented. "She was on my Math class last year and she was very good with algebra. I once asked her to explain me something and we were kind of friends, but I don't talk to her anymore."
"Maybe you can be the one that talks with her," Temari proposed. "I mean, you're the only one of us that knows her a little. You can go and start chatting with her and then suddenly make her confess what Karin's plans are."
"You mean… pretend to be her friend again and use her? Isn't that wrong?"
"You don't have to put it that way, Hinata. I know you hate dishonesty, but we have to help Sakura. You don't want Karin to hurt her, do you?" The Hyuga shook her head. "You just have to talk with her, like if you want to know how she is; act friendly and then mention Karin."
"You can say something like: 'Oh, do you really consider her your friend?'" Ino suggested. "And she will say: 'Um… not exactly. She's a bitch sometimes.' And you'll say: 'Really? And why don't you like her?' And then she'll tell you her reason and she may mention what she wants to do to Sakura and you'll be like: 'Oh, gosh!' and you can leave the rest to us."
"Yeah, you can do that," Sakura said. "But, if you don't really want to do it, it's going to be fine, Hinata. We can find another way, so don't be worried. We don't wanna force you."
Hinata thought for a minute. "No," she said, smiling at Sakura, "I'll do it… for you."
Sakura smiled. "Aw, Hinata, thank you!"
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Hinata was walking to her next class after lunch. She was kind of nervous because she remembered Ami was in that class too, which meant that it was when she had to carry out her mission. She entered the classroom just as the bell rang.
She searched with the look Ami's orange hair. When she saw her, sitting at the back of the classroom, she ran to sit down in the empty seat beside her.
"Hi!" Hinata greeted smiling. "Do you remember me?"
"Hi," Ami responded, blinking. "Um, yeah, I remember you… Hinata, right?" The blue haired girl nodded. Ami smiled friendly. "How have you been?"
"Great! We haven't talk in a long time."
"Yeah… I guess."
In that moment, the teacher arrived to the classroom and the class started.
"Good morning, people," the teacher said. "Today we're going to make an exam." The students moaned and groaned in disagree. "Hey, don't be so pessimistic! It's going to be a different kind of exam, and it's going to be fun! You're going to work with a partner; one will name a country and the other will say what is its capital, the language people speak in there or in which continent it is localized. I'll give you the sheets and you'll have to answer them. As soon as you have your exam, you may start. You have until the class is over to finish."
The teacher started giving out the exams to everyone. Hinata suddenly had an idea. They were allowed to talk during the exam, so if she was teamed with Ami, she could carry out her mission easily.
"Hey, Ami?" Hinata asked to the girl beside her. "Do you want to be my partner?"
"Um, sure, why not," she responded, shrugging.
They started with the exam. Hinata knew most of the answers, but Ami had it difficult. It seemed like being popular didn't mean to be smart too. When they were about to finish, and it was Hinata's turn to ask, she decided it was time to change the subject.
"So… are you still Karin's friend?" Ami nodded in response. "Ohh… um, this may sound rude, but… do you really like her? I mean, why are you her friend?"
Ami chuckled. "I know people say she's a bitch and everything but she's not that bad."
"Ami…" Hinata whispered, frowning, "She is bad. We all know she's cruel and arrogant. Don't lie to me."
Ami stared at Hinata with surprise. After a moment, she pursued her lips and sighed, staring at her lap. "I'm sorry… But I don't want to tell you the reason I'm her friend. It's something very personal."
At that moment, Hinata didn't really care about knowing about Karin's plan against Sakura. Ami seemed disturbed, and Hinata was worried. She always worried about persons and had the need to help them, and this wasn't going to be an exception.
She put a hand over her shoulder. "Listen… You can talk to me, Ami. I know we're not that close, but I guess we were kind of friends once, even if we just talked about algebra. You seem upset about something, and I would like to hear you… and I'll do my best to help you. If you could just trust me…"
Ami didn't respond for a moment, until she raised her head and looked at Hinata in the eyes. "I… I don't know… But I really need someone to hear me and an advice. Karin and the others are not that kind of friends, the ones you can trust; they just talk about parties, and boys, and make up, and gossip…"
"But I am a friend you can trust," Hinata smiled sweetly.
After hesitating for a moment, Ami sighed. "Okay, I guess you really seem a nice friend, Hinata…
"You see, I was new in town two years ago. When I arrived to this school, I met Karin, and I… I admired her. She was everything I wasn't: popular, pretty, rich, had a lot of friends, the boys wanted her, the girls envied her… I had always wanted to be like that. In my other school, I was the typical nerd girl with no friends, but when I made friends with Karin, everything changed. I was popular, not as much as her, of course, but it was something new to me, and my dream was coming true. I was so close to be like her.
"My desire grew when she started dating Sasuke Uchiha. When I first saw him, I totally liked him – I mean, he's super handsome. That was when I joined the club of Sasuke's fangirls. I was so jealous, because Karin and Sasuke were perfect and they made a perfect couple. I wanted to make a perfect couple with him someday, so I wished to be like Karin even more."
"So…" Hinata said, when Ami finished talking, "you're her friend just because you want to be like her, because you admire her?" Ami nodded. Hinata sighed. "Listen, Ami, Karin is not as perfect as you think…"
"I know that." Hinata raised an eyebrow at her. "She's selfish, shallow and pathetic. You really thought I didn't realize before?" Ami chuckled. "I did, Hinata. But I don't want to be like her in that way; I just want to have what she has."
Hinata blinked. "But, Ami… you can get that with just being yourself. You don't have to imitate anyone. The best thing you can do is to be original."
"Be myself?" Ami repeated incredulously. "Hah, I don't think so. The real Ami would never be popular. The real Ami likes reading and studying and more nerd stuff. The capital of Germany," she pointed her exam, "I got it wrong, but I knew the right answer. I am smart but I can't let people know that because a popular girl doesn't get straight A's, right? "
"Why do you lie to yourself?" Hinata asked, frowning. "Does that make you happy?"
"Yes, because I'm doing what I want and I do what I think it's the best for me," she responded. "You may think I'm wrong, and if you're right, I'll find out by myself, but neither of us knows that. I have to believe, Hinata, I have to try."
"I guess you're right in that," Hinata sighed. Suddenly, she remembered what she had to do. She decided to go back to Karin. "Um… and I'm curious about something, Ami."
"About what?"
"Well, you said you already knew Karin wasn't perfect; you said she was selfish, shallow and pathetic. How did you discover that?"
"Well, at first I really believed she was perfect. But as the time past, I realized she's insecure in the inside. You remember when she was dating Sasuke, how jealous she was? She kept keeping the fangirls away from him because she was afraid Sasuke would leave her for one of us. If she dated her, who used to be a fangirl before that, why wouldn't he date another? That was my first realization. Then when he left her for this girl, - what was her name? Oh, right, Sakura - she was so angry and now she's planning to take revenge on her for stealing her boyfriend. I mean, isn't that kind of pathetic?"
"Yeah…" Hinata murmured. Ami had finally mentioned what she wanted to hear and she was getting nervous. "I mean, she should get over it, right? Why would she want vengeance? He won't come back with her, anyways."
"That's exactly what I thought!" Ami exclaimed. "She thinks that if some other guy flirts with Skura she's going to leave Sasuke? Really, how stupid is that?" She laughed.
"Another guy?" Hinata asked surprised. She quickly hid her commotion. "Uh, I mean, really? How stupid! Ha, ha."
"Yeah… I actually told her it wouldn't work, you know? She almost killed me," she laughed again. "But she said a stupid excuse of 'maybe Sasuke would see them, get jealous and broke up with her'. But, really, the guy loves her - no matter how much I hate that, I have to accept it. But in the end I had to be in favor of the idea."
"Uh, yeah… I agree, her plan isn't very smart…"
"I know," she chuckled. "Anyways, let's stop talking about that. I heard you're Naruto's girlfriend?"
"Uh, oh, yeah," Hinata replied, blushing.
They started talking about other things and finished their exams. The bell rang and they left.
"See you later, Hinata," Ami said, waving goodbye. Hinata smiled and waved goodbye too. Ami left the classroom but she stayed there for a minute, still shocked. Now she knew what Karin was planning, and Sakura wouldn't like it.
Notes: LALALALALA~! I love to write notes, it's just so stupid, JUST LIKE ME! :DDD But I have a recomendation for you, my lovely reader! D: Read the manga 'Midnight Secretary' if you love SasuSaku and think of the characters as Sasuke and Sakura ;D That's what I've been doing lately, and it's the less stupid way to loose your time :) Also listen to Chiodos! They're awesome :B ...You'll leave me a review, right? :3