Note that I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. All that belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Previously

When we finally made it to the gym, Ino suddenly let me go and I fell flat on my face.

"Are you ok?" a voice asked. When I looked up I saw a beautiful brunette with her hair put into two buns that reminded me of a panda. She also had brown eyes that looked joyous. "Hi my name is Tenten. Are you signing up for the badminton team?"

Chapter 2

"Yeah we are. My name is Sakura by the way and this is Ino. Nice to meet you," I said as I pointed to Ino.

"Well I could have introduced myself thank you," said Ino. "Anyways, nice to meet you too. By the way can you please show us where we can sign up Tenten-sempai?" Ino said.

"Sure but aren't you two eager?" Tenten said smiling. "Also don't be so formal or I'll kill you," she continued in a deadly voice that surprised the two of us.

"Hai."

As they walked toward the office they signed the club book for the new team members. "Here you go! And you could go look around before you come and play for a while. Oh by the way some of the lead members are going to come by later to practice. So I'll see you later. Bye."

"See you later."

When we finished we walked around the school and got our uniforms as well. We also got our schedules and everything. When we were done we headed for the gym again.

"I'm gonna change first!" I chimed before rushing to the only girls' bathroom to change into my Teiko jersey. It was a light blue and white yonex collared shirt with my name and TEIKO under it. This jersey and other Teiko uniform represent my time as a starting member in my school.

When I came out I tagged Ino to tell her it was her turn. As I waited for her to come out I stretched to get ready to play. By the time Ino got out she told me she stretched already and was ready.

We got our rackets and started to stroke. Ino's jersey was similar only it didn't have her name on it. Showing that she wasn't a lead but a reserved player. We were so engaged in our play that we didn't notice the people that entered. Ino and I were already playing our regularly singles match that we already know that I was going to win. But we still played. When Ino finally got a point from our long rally, we heard clapping from our side. We turned to look only to find Tenten standing there with four other people.

"See Sasuke they're the ones that already joined the club. Don't they look good? But I didn't know they were from Teiko," Tenten said to a boy that had jet black hair with a tint of blue and onyx eyes. In the end even handsome didn't describe him. He was beyond that. "Ne Sakura, Ino are you two lead players from Teiko?"

Before we got to answer a boy with messy blond hair and cerulean blue eyes spoke, "Of course they are didn't you see their jersey's it had the words Teiko on it!"

"Well sorry but I didn't notice! Besides I don't look at people's jersey I look at their skills dumbass!"

"What! Dumbass?!" he yelled. "Besides you did see their jersey or how else would you know they're from Teiko."

"Cause I saw those big letters and besides just because it says TEIKO on it doesn't mean she's a leading player."

"Et-o…" Ino began.

The two bickering people turned red in embarrassment as the slowly turned towards us.

"I didn't know you were a lead player in this school Ten-chan."

"Ehehe, I guess that makes us even. Let's reintroduce ourselves shall we not," she said as she scratched the back of her head.

"Hehehe, I thought you'd never ask," smiled a very pleased Ino.

"I have no idea what you're so proud of, Pig," I mumbled under my breath. Luckily for me she didn't hear. But it turns out some one else heard me. And it turns out Sasuke heard me since he chuckled under his breath.

"Teiko middle's badminton team, reserved 3rd seat. Ino Yamanaka," she stated proudly.

"Eh really that means you played in games for Teiko right?" the blond boy asked amazed.

"Mhm," Ino chimed. That was it. I dead panned at the stupidity of both blondes. To be honest in Teiko that was a very low rank considering the entirely different levels of the weakest lead player and the strongest reserved player. "Hey! I know what you're thinking Saki! And we're NOT stupid! 3rd seat reserved is pretty good!"

"What not you too freshman! Ino's right we're not stupid! It's not like you can do any better, 3rd seat reserved is pretty hard to get into too if it's Teiko we're talking about Pinky!" He shouted.

And that ticked me even more. And don't get me wrong, he was right Teiko had high expectations and 3rd seat reserved was hard to get into but that was still nothing if we're talking about Teiko. The reserved seat's level was those of lead players of normal schools. And our school wasn't normal.

"Hmph. Teiko middle's badminton team, starting player 2nd seat. Sakura Haruno. NOT PINKY!" I said angrily for my nickname. "I hate being called pinky," I growled glaring at the blond.

But instead of saying something like I expected, he looked at me shocked like the others. But I didn't blame them after all; they must have been thinking: what's a starting player doing here and a 2nd seat at that.

"…Se-second s-seat?" he asked shocked.

"That's right… 2nd seat." I said bluntly.