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The Mask to Play
Chapter four: The Play Starts
Sakura walked down the hall, she knew Amaya would be there, somewhere.
A brunette stood talking animatedly to her red headed companion, both giggling. As Sakura neared them the brunette stopped and shooed the red head away, the red head in response stomped away with her nose pointed high. The brunette sighed and began striding towards Sakura. They met, Sakura quickly hurried to the brunette's side and brunette giggled and occasionally let out the phrase"no way!" or "she did not". Sakura finished her little talk and looked at the brunette's face, Amaya was beyond speechless; disbelief was written on her face.
"W-wow, that's just…really…unexpected" Amaya stated Sakura nodded, a fake smile on her face, her nose scrunched up in distaste but fortunately Amaya hadn't noticed. Sakura nodded at random intervals during Amaya's gossip, still preoccupied about what had previously happened in the girls' bathroom.
Did I come out too strong? Did I hurt their feelings? Or maybe I should have left them to figure it out themselves. Sakura pondered. Still wondering what had happened when she left the girls' washroom.
Sakura quickly snapped out of her dream like state and waved good-bye to Amaya who had disappeared around a corner. Her tight plaid miniskirt willowing in the slight breeze coming from the open exit door, where thousands of fangirls were screaming outside awaiting the four heartthrobs to come out.
Sakura quickly power walked to her locker and gathered her books and homework. Then her locker door was forced shut by a well-manicured hand.
Sakura turned around and was met with a group of year eleven fangirls. Pissed off fangirls might I add.
A hand gently caressed Sakura's right cheek. Sakura inwardly cringed from her touch and started to slowly back away from the hand. But the hand was resistant and latched itself onto her cheek. Those well-manicured nails slowly scratched its way down Sakura's cheek, drawing out a crimson red substance.
The hand disappeared and it shook off the blood onto the floor. A disgusted hiss was heard.
"Ugh look at what I have!" a high-pitched voice screamed out.
"Oh but look at her hair, it's pink" a voice sneered
"Having pink hair is better than being a slut.," a voice said from behind Sakura.
Sakura turned around and was met with a dirty blond girl striding towards her with two other boys by her sides. They stopped and stood beside Sakura glaring down the fangirls.
"Well look what we have here. A stupid blond slut." One of the fangirls said, her long black hair flowing down her back.
"Yea Keiko, if I'm a slut what are you? A whore or maybe a prostitute?" the dirty blond shot back.
Keiko lunged at the blond, her nails digging through air. She was held back by her other three fellow fangirls who had each grabbed a limb to prevent her from ripping the blond, piece by piece. Keiko gave a feral snarl and struggled to free herself. She lashed at her fellow fangirls, each receiving a long bloody slash on an arm. They let her go. She staggered to her feet and gave a slight smirk as she slowly advanced to the dirty blond by Sakura's side.
The blond stood casually, hands folded across her chest. Her fishnet shirt showed some skin but was covered with a thin black open vest. Her legs were stanced slightly apart, her posture showed self defense, her hair was up in four pigtails which gave her a bold look. Her face was emotionless, she glanced to her right where a red headed boy stood stoic.
His face emitted no emotions; there was the word 'love' written in kanji on his forehead, his tousled hair shaded the tattoo. His arms were stiff at his sides; he wore a plain white polo with a red t-shirt over top. He wore black pants, his feet clad in black Nike shoes. He emitted a cool, scary aura. The red head seemed younger than the girl next to him but seemed more serious than the latter. The other boy stood next to him, not seeming to know what was going on.
His back stood straight as he watched with weary eyes. He seemed used to what was happening. He wore all black, purple markings adorned his face, which gave a serious edge, but a bit playful seeing as it was facial paint.
Keiko walked on and then stopped two steps away from the dirty blond, a slight grin etched onto her face, she raised her hand and it curled into a fist. She flung her fist out, and as Sakura blinked, it seemed like everything was put into high speed.
A pale hand stopped the fist, Sakura looked to the owner of the hand and saw the red head standing in front of the dirty blond, his companion by his side. He flung the fist away and glared with cold eyes. Keiko flinched and slowly retreated, her eyes still trained on the blond. The red head caught her stare and gave a low hollow chuckle.
"You won't be able to land a punch on her" he said icily, his voice cool and smooth.
Keiko and her fangirls ran back down the hallway, Keiko turned and looked behind her shoulder and shot a glare to the blond. The blond answered with a devious grin. Keiko mouthed the words 'You won't be lucky next time, bitch' to both the girls and ran off. The blond shook her head at the words and turned towards Sakura, a small smile on her face.
"Um hi." The blond said.
"Hello." Sakura answered, her eyes still fixed on the retreating backs of the fangirls.
"You don't have to worry about them anymore…hopefully. They just come up to a lot of girls who seem to know about their heartthrobs and 'attempt' to snatch them away from the fangirls ." The blond said, her eyes directed to the scratch on Sakura's cheek.
"Oh, well thanks a lot for what you did."
"Actually it's nothing really, we come down this hallway a lot and when you see the new girl with fangirls you know you have to come over."
"Mm, oh the name's Sakura, Haruno Sakura."
"Subaku Temari and these are my younger brothers Gaara and Kankuro" the blond said and she pointed to the red head first who nodded and then the one clad in black.
"Hi" Sakura said
Gaara nodded and Kankuro looked her up and down and smirked in response.
"Gaara's not much of a talker and the other one…is a real pervert." Temari said, glaring at Kankero.
Sakura gave a slight look of disgust at Kankuro then turned back to Temari.
"Do you know why those fangirls were just here?" Sakura asked
"Probably because you spoke foul to them in your introduction in class" a smooth baritone voice said. Sakura turned to Gaara.
"Oh right…I guess I was kinda out of line"
"Oh please. Those girls got what was comin' to them. You got guts doing that kid." Temari said grinning at Sakura.
"And a damn fine body too" Kankuro added, a perverted grin on his face. Temari started beating him up at that comment. Sakura watched with amusement then turned to Gaara.
"You're in my class?"
"Hn, yeah. I'm in Year eleven with Kankeuo and Temari's in year twelve. I skipped year ten"
"Impressive."
Gaara shrugged and continued to watch his sister pummel his brother to a pulp.
"Shouldn't you stop them?"
Gaara shrugged and said" When it gets too far"
"Is it too far now?
"…"
"Now?"
"Hn"
"Now?"
"Hn"
"He's bleeding now dammit!"
"Hn"
"It's turning really gruesome now. Shouldn't you stop it now Gaara?"
"No"
Several minutes later
"Gaara's definition of 'too far' is when his brother is like a great big red mush" Sakura thought as she departed from the Subaku siblings and headed to her new dorm room.
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With Hinata and Tenten
Tenten led the way down the hallway, Hinata closely following. Their destination: find the guys who were nowhere in sight. After a few minutes of following her friend, Hinata began to notice something.
"T-Tenten-chan? W-We've be-been d-down t-this h-hallway b-bef-fore"
"Really? O-oh…"
"I-I th-think w-we're l-lost"
"Seriously? We've been at this school for like what? Three years? I can't believe we don't know these hallways!"
"…"
"Hina-chan? Is it really that bad?"
"Y-yes T-Tenten-chan"
"So… Do you know where we should go?"
"C-c'mon T-Tenten-chan"
So then Hinata began leading the way, Tenten following after. Then, suddenly they stopped. Tenten crashed into Hinata and fell to the floor.
"Ow! What's up Hina?"
Tenten peered around Hinata's form and…
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With Ino
Ino walked away from the girls' washroom, feeling relieved that she had finally got out of her spoiled habits…for the time being.
She walked to her locker and opened it, out came a note
"Yamanaka Ino, you will regret this"
Ino scanned the note, and began rummaging through her locker for the note she had previously received that morning.
"Total BS, that note obviously means that it's from a slutty fangirl that 'tried' to impersonate Shikamaru" Ino thought, then quickly piled her homework into her shoulder bag with ease. With her hand still clutching the fangirl's notes, Ino slammed her locker shut and strutted to go find the rest of her friends before going to her dorm.
Ino rounded the corner and…
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With the guys
Sasuke slowly turned his head in the direction of the unknown voice and was indeed calm to see whom it was. Neji, Shikamaru and Naruto followed their leader's action and turned. The rest of the guys took a glance behind their shoulders, clearly amused at the current situation.
There stood four fangirls who looked pretty smug.
"Shika-kunnnnnn, you're soooo smartttt for figuring that out." a bleach- blond fangirl stated, her squeaky voice rising a pitch when she saw everyones' eyes staring at her. She obviously thought they were staring at her because of her beauty…or so she thought.
"Hey! It wasn't Shika-kun who figured it out. I bet Sasuke-kun already knew. He's so smarttttt and totally hot and and … I just love him" a brunette stated as she fawned over Sasuke's looks. Sasuke raised his eyebrows at her, apparently not impressed with her declaration.
"N-no! Naru-chan already knew. Look he's so calm and collected which means he already knew. So he's not surprised by our wonderful appearance at all." a red –head stated, and her gaze drifted to where Naruto stood, still trying to figure everything out.
"Those are all lies! Neji-kun already knew because he's so sophisticated and…cool." a black haired fangirl stated, flipping her long hair over her shoulder as she stared at Neji. Neji stood there stoic and wary, clearly bored.
"No! Naru-chan knew it!" the red head, Misa screamed
"No Shika-kun knew it so shut up!"the brunette, Ren yelled
"No! Neji-kun knew and that is all!" the black haired, Minako shrieked
"Sasuke-kun is smarter than all of you!!!" the brunette, Hana screamed and pushed everyone barricading her way to her beloved Sasuke-kun. "Right Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke looked at her deadpanned, then Naruto spoke up.
"What's your name again…I forgot."
Hana screeched which sounded like an irritated banshee and thrashed over to Naruto.
"My-name-is-Ha-na." she said and with every syllable bonked Naruto on the head with her tiny fist.
"Don't hit him!" Misa yelled and pushed Hana away.
"Don't push me, he was asking for it. He's just so stupid!"
Misa glared and pounced onto Hana, causing them to tumble to the floor. Shouts and screams were heard as the two fangirls fought at each other, there was hair pulling, bitch slaps, clothes ripping and much, much more.
"He's not stupid…he's just…a bit slow." Misa stated and flung herself at Hana again.
"Gah! Get off me you bitch!"
"Well…anyways. Hi Shika-kun, you wanna go on a date with me?" Ren asked, trying desperately to avoid the fangirls on the floor.
"Zzzz…"
"Shika-kun?"
"…"
"Shika-kun?"
"…"
"Shika-kunnnn! Answer mee!"
"What, you troublesome woman?"
"Eek! I'm not troublesome!"
"What a drag…"
"Shika-kunnnnn."
"…"
"Shika-kun?"
"Zzzz…"
"Are you going to answer my question?"
"…"
"Wahhhhh! Shika-kun's ignoring me!"
"." Neji stated, his left eye twitching
"Then make him answer my question." Ren retorted. Neji sighed.
"Oi Nara! Wake, Up. Answer. Question."
"Fine Hyuuga. What was your question again?"
"Ahhh! Just say yes or no!" Ren said frustrated
"Um…no?"
"Noooooo!!! My Shika-kun doesn't want to go out with me!"
"So troublesome…"
"Thank you." Neji said, closing his eyes, trying to turn everything off around him
"Neji-channnnn?" Minako asked
"…"
"Neji-channnn."
"Hn"
"Neji-chan, are you single?"
"No."
"I love you."
"Hn"
"I love you."
"Hn"
"Neji-chan, you're hot."
"I know."
"Neji-channnn."
"Hn"
"Neji-channnn."
"Hn"
"Will you go out with me?"
"No"
"Why?"
"Because."
"Because of what?"
"None of your business you slut, now ."
"But Neji-channnnn."
"Hn"
"Humph."
Neji smirked and watched as the fangirls on the floor started wrestling again. Sasuke leaned against the wall opposite of him, lazily watching Naruto rub the bruise on his head over and over again. It was turning a nasty purple just from a couple hits from a fangirl.
Shikamaru lay asleep on the floor, occasionally being poked in the head by Ren.
Minako stood by Neji, dreamily watching his every movement. Which annoyed Neji to no end.
"Leave me alone" he said deadpanned
"No"
"Now"
"Why?"
"You're bothering me"
"Make me"
"Just leave"
"Make me"
Neji sighed,"What do you want"
"I want you to go out with me"
"I'm taken"
"I don't care"
"No"
"But I want to"
"And I don't"
"I won't leave then"
"Hn"
"Neji-channnn?"
"Hn"
"I'll leave if you tell me the name of your girlfriend"
"Why?"
"Just do it, then I'll leave you alone"
"Fine, it's Tenten"
"Wonderful"
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing'" Minako said and with that she left, a smirk clear on her face. Neji watched her with a questioning gaze, considering the possibilities of why she had that smirk on.
Had he done nothing wrong?
Had he said something that would benefit Minako?
Somehow, he knew it was the latter and that would not turn out pleasant.
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