Pyramids Power

SunnyBurst30

Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Naruto. T-T… Also the reason why this took so long to update was because it was my old brother's birthday, and I had lost a dear pet of mine; she was a yellow lab named Maggie. I had her for 13 years, and it really hit me hard when I had to put her down. But I know that she is in a better place now. Thanks for understanding.

Big Shout Outs!

Another Big Hooha (sorry Veterans Day thing) shouts outs to my first three subscribers from the second chapter "Entering a Pink Rush": crazymel2008, CurlyHairRocksXD17, and MyiatheEarthninja. And if you read down to the Authors Note I will comment on your review.

Summary

"Your way of putting everyone on Levels and Ranks puts bullying to a whole new level," her voice loud and serious as she stared down at the boy her age. "How dare you say that to the King!" the high voices screamed at the girl with pink hair. His black eyes stared into her emerald ones. "If you don't like it," he paused to sit up straight from he relaxed position. "Then change it."

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Ranks? Levels? And a Line Cutting King!

The room was quiet with the occasional cough and whisper as Ms. Yuhi wrote down things unknown in a teacher's journal looking up once in a while with her red eyes. When they landed on Sakura her red orbs slightly widened while her eyebrows rose with them. She looked down at her journal and then back at the confused pinkette.

"I assume that you're Haruno Sakura the new student I've been hearing about?" a small smile placed on her ruby painted lips. But there also seemed to be sympathy in her eyes for some reason as well.

"Hai," Sakura's answer was simple and short, but didn't sound rude by any means.

"Ah, good it's nice to meet you. My name is Kunenai Yuhi and I will be teaching you English this year," it was the last thing she said towards Sakura as she turned to face the board. "As some of you might have heard of from upper classmen I do a certain project every year," she turned to face the class after she wrote in large letters "Understanding New People". In this project you will be assigned partners, randomly from my top-hat, and will need to write a five paragraph biography on your partner based off the information you learn from him or her," she said grabbing purple papers from her desk and handing them to the front row asking them to pass them back.

"This assignment will be due the following week, and there are a few things you must have in the biography; they are listed on the paper I am giving you," Kurenai said glancing at everyone to make sure they had a paper in front of them. "Any questions before I pull out the top-hat?" And of course the ever so loud blonde Sakura had in both her classes raised his hand or more like shouted.

"Ya! Why can't we pick our partners? You've always let us before," the loudness of his voice earned a few glares but not long enough to set effect.

"Naruto, I decide what goes on in my class no matter what the circumstances are," she seemed to stare at the dark haired boy named Sasuke for a second longer than what would seem to be just a glance. "And besides we have a new student and I don't want her to feel left out when all we do is pick our friends," that was a big mistake that she made right there.

Sakura could feel the glares burning into her back as she kept looking towards the front, taking Shino's advice to this class as well. It wasn't her fault she, didn't decide that the partners would be random! She felt something hit her back just enough for her to notice. When she looked down by her chair she saw a crumpled piece of paper. And it seemed the boy next to her noticed too.

The girl with the pink hair didn't know his name but he looked nice enough, and she knew this might have sounded mean but… he was so chubby with those tinny sparkling eyes that she just wants to give him a bear hug! Was that so wrong? "So what is your name?" Sakura asked picking up the paper that had been thrown at her.

"Akimichi Choji," his eyes sparkled with kindness when he looked at Sakura. "I take it you're Sakura Haruno if I heard correctly from Ms. Yuhi," Choji said with a smile on his chubby face. Sakura returned the smile as she started to unfold the crumpled piece of line paper. She also notices how Choji's face turn to a small frown as she did so. Sakura read the note with a frown forming.

"You're dead Dog Chow!

Now I can't be with MY Sasuke-kun!"

Sakura looked back for once ignoring Shino's advice. She saw the red head with glasses from early glaring at her full out, not caring if the pink haired girl saw it or not. She wasn't alone though in the glaring she could feel a dark aura coming off more than half the girls in her class. The pinkette didn't know what she did wrong to make there girls so angry it wasn't like she was trying to take "their" so called "Sasuke-Kun". What made the dark haired boy so special anyway?

Sakura's attention along with the rest of the class's returned to the charming looking female teacher. "Now once I call you will pick a number from the top-hat; everyone has gotten a number you will find your partner with the same number," mostly everyone nodded. "The left side left side of the class can now come to get a number," Ms. Yuhi held out the hat filled with folded up small pieces of paper keeping the number on the inside from one's eyes.

Sakura looked at Choji as they both stood up along with the rest of the left siders. She hoped with all her might that she would be paired up with him, and not some angry girl, especially the red head. Once she had reached the hat that was held up by Ms. Yuhi herself she made eye contact with her warm red eyes for just a few brief seconds. She noticed that her scarlet eyes held so many emotions; kindest, love, warmth, but there was also worry and sadness.

Sakura had always been good at reading people if she made long enough eye contact.

Emerald eyes looked away from red as she selected a piece of paper from the black velvet hat. She decided not to open it until she reached her seat once again, not wanting to be in the way of some of the other girls head her away towards the hat, including the untamed red head. As Sakura passed her she heard her whisper "Can't wait to see you cry Fake Pink," her voice was evil and the smirk she held on her lips added to it. But Sakura just ignored it only growing angry when she said 'Fake Pink'.

Sakura sat back in her seat by Choji who had gotten into his seat before her. She watched as he made eye contact with another boy in the class with his hair pulled back into a high, tight, short, and pony tail; giving his head the impression of a pineapple. Choji watched as the pineapple boy sat down in the very back near the loud blonde named Naruto and the raven haired on named Sasuke. His eyes were sad with his dark caramel colored eyebrows pointing down with a hint of anger. She kept watching until Choji faced her again with his facial expression now in a smile as his eyes glance as the right side of the room went to get there piece of paper.

"What number do you have? I have 3," the boy with puff yet spikey dark caramel hair asked all sadness gone. As the pinkette looked into his pin point black eyes she noticed that they held sadness but also forgiveness. When she noticed that she was stalling she looked back at the piece of paper she had selected from Ms. Yuhi's top hat.

She opened it to see her number, "I have the number 9," Sakura looked down diappointed; she really had hoped that Choji was her partner. Especially since Lee was a senior and even though Shino was what seemed very anti-social she had "talked" to him to know that he was a good guy, but he wasn't in this class.

"Aww, I was hoping that we could have been partners," Choji said with a small smile of disappointment.

"Ya, me too. I just really hope I don't have to be the red head back there or the other girls that won't let up from glaring at me," Sakura said in a whisper towards Choji while pointing a thumb to the back just low enough for only herself and the boy next to her to see.

"… They aren't the only ones who you have to worry about," Choji's voice could hardly reach Sakura's ears.

"What's that about? What does he mean by not the only ones?" Sakura thought turning back to Ms. Yuhi when her voice broke her through her train of thought.

"Okay I want everyone with and odd number to come the front in order from least to greatest, while the evens go to the back in order as well," Kurenai said with a firm voice watching as everyone got up once again from their seats.

Sakura got up along with Choji as they both went up in the front, but separated when Choji went near the windows and Sakura near the door. The pink haired one made a small sigh of relief as she noted red haired girl was in the back and not in the front like her signaling she would not be her partner. Thank Kami! Though, she gained nervousness as she noted that the dark eyes boy was heading her way towards the door. Glares increased from the girls of the class, but there were the few eyes of pity. Two pairs of those eyes came from Choji and Ms. Yuhi.

Choji had watched when Sasuke came down the stairs with his hands in his pockets and eyes closed in the process, giving him the lean and relaxed impression. As he turned left towards the door he heart clenched in pity at the thought of Sakura having to be around him, let alone his partner for the assignment. She didn't deserve to have to be ridiculed as a Dog Chow like him. To him, Sakura was kind and a friendly person to talk too; he had found that out in the little talking they had done between themselves. For Kami sake! She was a new student on her first day; he could make her school life a living hell in just one day. He didn't even have to do anything physically. Choji would have traded partners with her, he had a Level Five as his partner named Sai, but Kurenai was very strict when it came to trading partners always saying "How would you like it if someone traded you like some slave?" That's why most of the time you got to pick your partner in Kurenai's class.

"Baka! Baka! Baka! I'm such an idiot!" Kurenai cursed herself as she had watched as the Uchiha kid come down the stairs from the top row. "Of all people for the poor girl to be partnered with it just had to be him! Might as well help her commit suicide at the rate I'm going! Stupid, un-lucky top-hat! I should have just let them pick partners like I do every other time. Sweet-heart Choji would have just made her his partner! Kami I'm a Baka!"

Sakura froze as Sasuke stood right next to her, not once making eye contact with him. He seemed so relaxed like he didn't have a care in the world. "He probably doesn't," Sakura thought to herself as she looked at his clothes at the corner of her eye. He wore the male school uniform rebelliously; his white short-sleeved shirt wasn't tucked in and the first two buttons were undone, school conduct said that the shirt must be tucked in and the buttons done (she had read the rule book two days ago). She noticed that his silver watch that he was wearing was a Patek Philippe, probably coasting more than $35,000 easily. She only allowed going to look at his neck no higher. He wore a pure silver chain around his neck and what seemed to be a red and white fan on it. Clearly this boy was Mr. Richy Rich, so there was no way he didn't get everything he wanted. "Spoiled brat," Sakura thought to herself as she waited for Kurenai to speak.

Kurenai was silent making almost everyone uncomfortable with the silence. "All right, you should have at least an idea who your partner for this assignment is by who is standing by you, and since we only have a few minutes left of class I just want you to figure out when you both will meet up to complete the assignment," she looked towards Sakura as she spoke; but only for a second.

Sakura could feel eyes burning the side of her. She finally faced the boy to ask if he had the same number, "hey, do you have the same number as me? I have 9," Sakura voice sounded call and bored even though she was freaked out how those eyes could burn her skin. His stared at her with utter boredom and seemed to not have heard at all when he didn't answer. "Hey! Didn't you hear me? I said-

"9…" it was probably the bluntest answer Sakura had heard.

Even bunter than Shinos'.

It took Sakura a few seconds to make her brain rejesture that he had answer just a while ago. She looked up at him just quick enough to notice him advert his eyes away from her. "Okay, so I guess we're partners?" Sakura said, actually shocked that she could say so much to him; when, knowing full and well, that all the girls were glaring at she with fire in their eyes. "So when should we-

Riiing!

Sakura didn't even have a chance to finish her sentence after the interruption, but Sasuke had already had taken off towards the stairs and to receive his belonging and leave from the upper door. "Rude much, jeez who does he think he is?" Sakura asked herself as she moved to go back to her seat where Choji was socializing with a VERY pale boy with matching short ink colored flat hair. "Hey Choji, who is this?" the pinkette asked as she grabbed her bag with everything inside.

"Sakura this is Sai, Sai this is Sakura. Sai's my partner or the assignment," Choji said with a small smile and so did Sai, but his seem more fake than anything. "Sai and I were just discussing when we should complete the assignment," the caramel boy said turning to face Sai. "So is Friday good?"

"Ya, it's okay. See you then," Sai turned to Sakura. "See you around… Ugly," turning around with his things he left a shocked Choji and an eruptive Sakura to themselves.

"O-okay, bye Sa-

"WHAT THE HECK DO YOU MEAN UGLY!?" Sakura literally screamed cause the remaining students and Ms. Yuhi to look her way. "Great job Sakura, now everyone will think you're a freak," Sakura said to herself as she walked out of the door along with Choji. "Then again I do have pink hair…"

"Sakura-San, Choji-kun please wait!" Rock Lee said as he walked quickly towards the two while respecting the no running in the halls rule. "How was class, I hope you two sat together," Lee said now right in front of them.

"It was fine," Sakura said while glancing at Choji and then back at Lee. "Do you guys have lunch at this time?" She hoped the answer was yes for at least one of them. She didn't want to have go through finding a place to sit.

"Ya," they both said at the same time. Sakura smiled at that as she made her way following them towards two double doors. When they walked in Sakura notice that there was bright red tape taped on white tile floors of the cafeteria; the tape also seemed to section off the tables.

"What's with the tape?" Sakura asked both Choji and Lee as they grabbed their tray at the back of the line about twelve people away from the actual food.

"We'll tell you once he sat down," Lee said as he moved forward by one. "You won't like it though," he and Choji thought mentally.

Sakura looked ahead and noticed that there were now only two more people ahead of them. The one that was now having his tray filled with some sort of soup and roles with bean paste had glasses and uncombed dirty blonde hair. The second on looked as though his super thin legs couldn't hold up his own weigh. Suddenly the door swung open to reveal: the loud obnoxious bright blonde with whisker like birthmarks she saw in Ms. Yuhi's class and the dark raven haired boy with stoic ink eyes. There was also that one tan boy with the pineapple shaped hair that Choji had glanced at sadly in class. But what they did was horrible, at least in Sakura's emerald eyes.

They cut right in front of the dirty blonde boy! Completely ignoring the line that had started in the back of the room which, for some reason seemed to be with only the scrawny teens with glasses or a lot of acne, and the lunch ladies let them. The poor dirty blonde just moved aside giving them room at the front as everyone, including Sakura, Lee, and Choji, to move back. "Hey," she gained both Choji's and Lee's attention. "Why the heck do they get to just cut in front of everyone?" she asked in a whispered, after all they were only a few feet away.

"Eh… well we'll also tell you later. Okay?" Choji said with a small smile that seemed to hardly ever leave his chubby face.

"Ya, sure…" Sakura answered back finally receiving her portion of the schools lunch; which seemed to be much less than what other people received around the cafeteria. But it seemed the scrawny blonde got the same amount as well. The girl with pastel pink hair looked at the ugly/fat lunch lady who had a huge mole on her neck with three hairs sticking out with a look saying 'Are you serious?' Now Sakura knew that schools had a budget, but that didn't mean to give more to those and less to others. The lunch lady just looked at Lee who was next in line, ignoring Sakura's look.

As Sakura paid or her meal she made her feet and legs head over to the direction of an empty table in the very middle of the room. Though once she reached the red tape she still had no idea about she was pulled back by a slight tug at her pink hair. "Ow," Sakura grumbled as she looked at the person who tugged at her hair, surprisingly it was overly gentleman like Lee! She gave him a weird look as to say 'WHY DID YOU PULL MY HAIR?!'

"Sorry Sakura-san it's just that we can't sit there, and when I saw you heading that way I had to do something," Lee looked down at his tray as in an apologetic look for doing something so un-youthful as pulling a girl's hair. Sakura gave another look as Choji appeared at their side.

"Why not?" it was a simple question, but, just like her other previous questions, it was answered the same way.

"We'll tell you when we sit down okay," Lee smiled a huge grin of reinsurance showing of his pure white teeth that could blind a man. He made his way to the very back of where the kitchen was near the entrance doors, in the far left corner, but as he did this he made sure to follow the red lines never once getting out of order. They sat down at an old looking round table that seemed slightly broken with ugly yellow chairs that seemed too small for a high schooler. They sat down anyways giving Choji the chance to dig into his small portion of food. How that kid wasn't thin she didn't know. It was silent until with the constant crunch of Choji's eating.

It finally became too much for Sakura," so do you mind answering my questions now?" She was getting tired of them just getting postponed. They looked at her avoiding her eyes for a second until Lee gave the courage of looking at the pink pastel girl. His bug eyes staring at her, unblinking.

"What question would you like to be answer first?" Lee asked wondering I they should even tell her this information this soon. After all I she found out she would definitely want to move to a higher Level, after hearing what Level he and Choji were on.

Sakura put her thumb under her hand in thought, wondering what question is more aportant to be answered first. "How about why there is tape on the floor and I couldn't sit where I wanted," it was an innocent answer. It took a minute for Choji and Lee to think of an answer.

"Well," Lee paused for a second. "The reason we can't sit where we want is because of the tape. The red tape was a special purpose in this school and if you break it you can get in trouble with other students," he finished answering the first question. Choji nodded in agreement.

"What's the purpose?" once again curiosity took ahold of the pink haired girl.

This time Choji spoke.

"It's because of the Ranks and Levels," it was an honest answer, but he noticed that Sakura looked even more confused.

"What are Ranks and Levels?" she didn't understand what that had to do with other things she had asked.

"How about we finish our lunch first and then well show you," Lee said as he took a bit of his roll.

"Ya, sure," Sakura agreed to the terms and conditions.

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"So where are you taking me?" Sakura asked. It had been about five minutes since they had finished eating; after all there really had not been a large amount of food to keep her busy. Now they were in the school hall way heading somewhere unknown to her.

"We're taking to where your question will be answered," Choji smiled a small smile over his shoulder towards her as Lee lead the way.

"Alright," she smiled back.

It took another two minutes to finally reach their destination. Sakura looked up to a literally huge white poster with black printing, some bolded some not. The paper seemed to cover the whole wall, and the writing made it seem as a pyramid of words. They stared at it for some time; not reading the words but more just taking in the size of it.

"So what is this exactly?" another question left her pink, pouty lips. If it was this size it had to be an important thing in this school.

"It's called the "Pyramid of Power"," Lee answered, for once his voice held no feeling in it, giving it the blunt, dark feeling. Sakura also noted that his bug eyes went down along with his huge, black eyebrows. "It's a horrible thing really especially now."

"What does it mean?" Sakura asked now looking at Choji not liking the way Mr. Youth Lee was looking.

"It doesn't really mean anything, but what Rank and Level you have," Choji answered sadly.

"What are Ranks and Levels?" Sakura asked another question. It had to be her one billionth today.

"Well… a rank has to do with your Level. A Level is where you're on the Pyramid; Lee and I are on Level Six, the lowest level," his tiny eyes saddened. "That Level is called Dog Chow, it mostly consists of people like us, nerds, geeks, banders, and new students. Level Fives are called Frowns; they're usually Goths, emos, and crazy girls. Sai's a Left Over," Choji stopped from all the talking deciding that gelled black hair, big eyed friend should take over.

"Level Fours are called Left Overs, they are usually people who think they are all that like jocks who sit on the side lines, preps from semi rich families, and punks that have some looks to them. Level Threes are a called Wishers and Wannas, they are students who think they are "up there" with Level Twos and the Level One," he paused from explaining so much letting the emerald eyed girl take in all the information. "Then there are the Level Twos called Second Powers, they are the close friends of the Level One; don't mess with them Sakura," he seemed very serious. "Finally we have the Level One, this person is called the King or Queen. This student has full power over everyone in this school, and can make your years as a student a living Hell. Never interact with this student 'ever' unless you have special business with him or her. Right now we have a King."

"Okay I get it I guess I get," Sakura replied still taking in all the information as she looked back at the pyramid poster. "What are the Ranks then?"

This time Choji talked, "Ranks are what your popularity status is; Lee and I are in the 400 hundreds since we are on Level Six. You can look on this poster to see everyone's Ranks and Levels. It gets lower as you go up the Levels. Also the higher Rank you have including your Level decides how much power you have over others. True if you're in a lower Level like Six, Five, and most Fours you don't really have any power. If you have a lot power then you can just pretty much get away with anything. The only way you can go up in Ranks and Levels is by the friends you have, but it all determines on the King though," Choji stopped looking down at the ground with a very visible frown on his chubby face. "Many times you'll lose a friend in the process no matter how close you were," His face no became angry, turning red while his knuckles turned white. Lee put a hand on his shoulder in a comforting way.

Sakura eyes saddened at the way Choji seemed to be acting. Did he lose a friend to this Pyramids Power? Her knuckles also turned white as she then glared at the ground when she thought that all his sadness lead to the one person who could've done it. "Who's the King?" that was going to be her last question she hoped for a while. It seemed that Choji wouldn't be able to answer anymore and Lee just seemed to want to comfort Choji.

"Who is the King?" she needed to know who she could blame on for the sadness of her new friend. It seemed weird though, she was getting so intense about the whole situation even though it was her first day. Heck! It was only about half way over maybe not even that, and she still didn't have a locker!

Both males were silent for a while until Lee muttered in a low tone.

"Uchiha Sasuke"

A/N: I'm not the best at cliffys but I try my hardest. I think that an ending part in a tense moment is pretty cool. Yay! It was just slightly longer if you want to count every single word from the last Chapter to this one. IF YOU DO I WILL AND YOU TELL ME EXACTLY HOW MANY WORDS I WILL DEDICATE THE NEXT CHAPTER TO YOU! AND IF YOU WANT I WILL ADD A CHARACTER OF YOUR CHOICE TOO EVEN MAKE AN OC FOR YOU! WE CAN JUST PRIVATE CHAT AND YOU CAN EAITHER TELL ME WHAT CHARACTER YOU WANT OR DESCRIBE YOUR OWN PERSONAL OC! GAME ON! XD

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To crazymel2008,

You There! Yes you! You wonderful minding reading person over the computer! I agree completely with what you want! I believe a girl should be head strong and have guys fallen to their knees kissing their shoes! (JK kidding about kissing their shoes thing… mostly).

To CurlyHairRocksXD17,

Thank you! Thank you! For being loyal to reviewing every chapter so far. Yes, I do think Lee is a bit weird, but he is also a gentleman who I like very much! Also I told my friend about you and she said that she already liked you very much! She kept going on about Curlys Unite! All day, and I do hope you go up to the challenge above along with everyone else.

To MyiatheEarthninja,

Before anything else… I LOVE YOUR PROFILE PIC! SO CUTE! And I shall try my hardest to make you proud! I shall try very hard for you and everyone else who reads this! But please do not burst I will miss you if you die! T-T

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