Love and Lies

Summary: Teenage years, teenage problems, four girls, four boys, four different lives… what else? SasukeXOc, ShikamaruXOc, NarutoXHinata, NejiXOc.

Chapter 6: Explaining all.

"Stupid!" Blair yelled on top of her lungs as she jumped slightly, punching the punching bag in front of her angrily, her hands clenched into fists, her red hair lose and slightly damp because of the sweat. It had been two hours since she had come home from school. She was depressed but she wasn't like other girls who would start eating buckets of ice-creams in depression neither she was the one who would just lie on her bed and cry the whole day but her way of handling depression was totally different from anyone especially if compared to a normal girl. Her way was to punch and kick the punching bag in her room until she collapsed with hydration or got too tired to stand, which usually happened after six hours of releasing her anger to a certain punching bag.

There was a small knock on her door which she ignored and kept punching and kicking the bag which swung slightly.

There was another knock this time louder. A small voice entered.

"Umm… Blair, it's me. Er, can I come in?"

Blair at once stopped in tracks as she recognized the voice.

"Berry, I am not in a mood to talk to you," she said and slightly regretted it. She knew that Berry would just come in and like everyone else, ask her what was wrong and what had happened and Blair did not like attention at all.

"Blaire, I have a surprise for you," Berry chirped from behind the door as she tried to twist the handle but it was locked.

Blaire sighed and cursed herself for hugging her mother at the office and crying. It was so unlike her. She stretched her slightly tired muscles and opened the door, slightly curious for what the surprise was. She was at once embraced into a breathtaking hug by Berry. Blaire scowled and shut the door.

"What do you want?" she asked, crossly, pushing the red and black haired girl back. Berry took a step backward and smiled brightly.

"You won't believe what happened,"

Blair's scowl vanished and her eyes widened in shock and surprise as she scanned her new friend's face thoughtfully. She couldn't believe it. Usually people came over to her to ask her what was wrong or was she alright. She was so sick of those sentences that she didn't feel like talking at all. It was like people took pity on her because there was a huge gap in her family and her heart, which she had lost everything and now she was poor, weak and powerless. She hated pity.

But here was Berry, talking like never before like nothing had happened at all.

Blaire claimed her normal composure again and with a small smile, sat on her bed.

"What?" she asked now interested.

Berry came and sat next to her and cupped her hands under her chin as she looked at her in a cute adorable way, her eyes flashing like red lights.

"Do you like skateboarding?" she asked excitedly.

"Nice question," Blaire said sarcastically as she looked at the walls of her room. One side was covered with posters of animes and rock bands. The other wall was covered with world maps. And against the other wall was a shelf full of trophies.

Berry saw her looking across her shoulder and turned around happily and got up from the bed at once. Her short school skirt waving slightly, her hands cupped cutely under chin, her eyes shining like diamonds, her mouth slightly a gap, she stared at the huge glass shelf which was neatly lined with trophies of all shapes, sizes and colors. Carved in every shiny shield and trophy was Blair's name and her achievement below. And all of them were related to sports.

"This is amazing," Berry whispered slowly.

Blaire blushed a beautiful shade of red.

"Thanks," she muttered under her breathe.

Berry whipped around to look at her, her crimson eyes suddenly becoming serious as she studied the expression that on the red head's face. It was easy for her judge what she was probably thinking and going through, her face told her all. Her face was pale and tension lingered on it like oil on water, she was worried and depressed.

Blaire stared back at her in silence. She was confused and a bit tensed, first Berry was jumping like a kid and now she was staring blankly at her like she has seen a prey. She slightly shuddered because Berry's red crimson eyes looked like an animal's that was about to launch itself on a prey.

"I am sorry," Berry muttered slowly as she lowered head and closed her eyes. Her shoulders slumped lightly and her book bag became slightly loose on her petite shoulders.

Taken by surprise, Blaire raised her eyebrows.

"About what?" she asked.

Berry sighed.

"I know you want to be alone right now as it seems obvious that you are not in a good mood. Sorry if I disturbed you, I can get very annoying sometimes and considering that you only knew me for a day, you will probably wanting me to leave," she said as she edged towards the door.

Blaire slightly chuckled.

"I was actually enjoying your company,"

Berry stopped in her tracks as she looked at her.

"Really?"

"Yeah,"

They both smiled at each other, creating an invisible friendship bond.

The pink haired girl stretched her muscles and pressed her pink lip-glossed lips together, making a slightly ticking voice with her tongue as she flapped her big eye lids, hotly. She exhaled deeply and ran her hand through her long pink bangs. Her emerald eyes shone brightly as she looked at sky and walked in a beautiful pace, swaying her hips as she did.

She stopped and smiled a dazzling smile at a passing black limo as she put her hands on her hips. The passer-bys looked at her in a daze and almost stumbled as they walk their eyes on the beautiful teenage girl that stood dazzling in the middle of the sidewalk.

Suddenly to her surprise, the limo stopped in front of her and the door flung open. The girl's surprise expression was replaced by annoyance.

"Hi Sakura! Looking hot!" the long haired blond girl shouted loudly and motioned her to come in.

The girl named Sakura nodded, smiling attentively and slipped gracefully into the limo. She turned towards her friends and smiled at them all before shutting the car door.

"I thought it was Sasuke for a moment, looks like his head boy duties are keeping him late," Sakura said to the girl next to her who nodded.

"I can see your disappointment Sakura, I hardly saw Shikamaru today at all," the long haired blond girl said.

"And I did not see Neji," a brown haired girl muttered.

"And my dear Naruto," said another.

"Oh jade, TenTen and Ino, I think we should do something," Sakura said, worriedly.

"Like what?" Jade asked.

"Like going on a date with them," Ino said, smiling.

"Yeah," Sakura said.

"Have you seen the new student?" TenTen suddenly changed the topic, her eye brows furrowed.

"Yeah, she is so ugly and plain," Ino said, disgusted.

"And she got two months detention for trying to pick a fight with Sasuke," Jade commented after a small while.

Sakura narrowed her eyes dangerously and pointed her index finger at Jade threateningly. Everyone looked at Jade in utter horror and Jade's eyes widened in shock.

"Correct your mistake… NOW!" the pink haired girl shouted loudly.

Shaking slightly, Jade swallowed a huge knot in her throat.

"I am sorry Sakura, she was trying to pick up fight with your Sasuke," she babbled quickly.

Sakura expression cooled down.

"Wow, that's simply stupid… I think she doesn't know that Sasuke and his friends are black belted in martial arts," Ino said loudly.

Sakura looked out of the car's window and frowned slightly.

"Everything alright?" TenTen asked her.

Sakura looked at them in a serious expression.

"I think we have to something about the four losers that are ruining the school," she muttered darkly.

Jen Toucan smiled at herself as she skipped happily and entered the park. Her eyes lingered towards the bright blue cloudless sky. Blue cloudless skies represented peace and love. It also represented good. She spotted a few doves flew by and she knew that they represented harmony and peace too.

She walked towards the swing and her eyes still on the blue sky sat down on the empty one, pushing her sneakers in the sand.

She breathed in deeply and stretched her muscles and looked around at her surroundings which were empty. It was not surprising, the park was empty at this time as everyone would be heading to shopping malls or their homes and nobody bothered about the park. Jen simply adored the park and its privacy that was only available at that time.

She sighed slowly as she heard her cell phone vibrating in her book bag that was hung loosely on her shoulders. She got up and flung her bag in front of her as she tried to find her cell phone in her book bag, her blue bangs fell on her fair face.

She dig out her cell phone and was about to press the green button when she spotted a black butterfly sit on her nose.

"Oh no, bad luck," she thought as her eyes widened in shock. Suddenly scared that bad luck was on her, she started jumping frantically, waving her arms around in a mad way, trying to throw the butterfly off her nose and in such a panic that she was creating for herself, she stumbled upon a huge rock and fell down painfully on her buttocks, her book bag which was still open and was under her arm, slipped automatically and did a flip in the air and all her books, papers, pencils, pens, colors and other junk fell out of her bag and spread like a blanket on the ground. She groaned slowly as she looked at her hand to answer her cell phone but found it gone suddenly and it was lying a few meters away from her.

She sighed and took a deep breath, counting till ten and relaxing the sudden urge to yell out loud for some attention. She smiled to herself calmly.

"Think positively," her conscience told her "The black butterfly is not on you so your bad luck is probably gone,"

She was about to get up when her eyes widened in shock as the black butterfly fluttered again and sat on her nose. Her eyes furrowed and her complexion paled as her hands started to tremble.

"Bad luck,"

She was about to faint when slowly she felt the presence of someone near her but she didn't dare to look around because she was afraid that she would find another bad luck. A dark shadow loomed over her and the butterfly closed and shut its wings peacefully on her nose. She closed her eyes and allowed more bad luck to conquer her.

She heard a light chuckle in front of her face and she could sense something warm and lively in front of her face. She slowly opened her eyes and blushed a thousand shades of red as her eyes stared into a pair of warm lavender ones. For a second she thought she was staring at Hinata's eyes but at once rejected the thought because she knew that her best friend's eyes were full of warmth, kindness and purity but the pair of eyes that were staring at her also held hesitation, patronization, tension and nervousness. Her eyes lingered up to his smiling pale face and her heart skipped a beat or two when she felt the closeness. The only good thing about the situation was that she knew who it was but she didn't know why he was here.

Was he trying to hit on her? If he was, then it was certainly a bad day for her. Looming shadow, black butterflies, girl falling from the sky (Berry) and the whole fighting scene; yeah all scary.

She shivered again.

Neji looked at her blue eyes and her perfect features and tried to hold the urge to comment on her beautiful face that he easily used to do when he saw any hot girl but he knew that this was different… very different. Holding his composure again, Neji swallowed a knot in his throat and rose up his hand to touch her face.

Jen looked alarmed. Was he trying to hit her? Or touch her? A stranger touching her! THE BUTTERFLY WAS ENOUGH!

Though it wasn't anything except the boy again chuckled as he gently picked up the butterfly from its wings before looking at it and letting it go into mid-air, Jen watched it as it fluttered away from her sight and she let out a relieved sigh as she sensed Neji staring at her again.

She looked at him and tried to get up without touching him as he was sitting on his knees and was leaning to close to her and wasn't successful because eve though she did not wanted to admit it, the boy was slightly getting closer.

"Erm- thank you," she whispered as she tried to say something else.

Neji nodded and got up and then frowned when he heard another relieved sigh from the blue haired girl. His heart sank but his composure never did as he offered her his hand.

Jen stared at it like it was jinxed, as she was too afraid to touch it or she would get bad luck from it. Or maybe she might get cursed or like DIE! But that was of course morally, literally she might get kidnapped or he might flirt with her and she wouldn't be able to shake him off because she was bad at arguing. And then maybe he would take her silence as a yes and the next thing she knew that they were on a yacht having dinner when she notices the wild sea… and then the lavender eyed boy gets a personality makeover and throws her over the yacht and she might then die! Or she might find a sandy island where she would live on salt water, coconuts and her wishes to live!

Maybe she was exaggerating. Well she was but only a little.

It was after all possible.

Jen had no idea for how long she had been staring at his hands, probably giving him an impression that it was dirty or something (morally yes) or it was plain rude (well that was a good thing).

"Its not cursed," Neji muttered, annoyed as Jen jumped slightly suddenly ashamed of herself as she grabbed his tender hand and he pulled her up. She thanked him again as she tried to gather up her books, not making any eye contact with him.

Well the yacht thing didn't happen, she was thankful.

Apparently Neji helped which again bought a chain of suspicious thoughts in her head and totally embarrassed her because she kept zoning out and she knew that if she did that often, Neji will probably take her to the mental hospital accusing her that she had some kind of mental disorder or something.

Well that was certainly possible.

"Here, your stuff," Neji muttered, his voice bored. He had never expected the girl to be this shy. He wasn't going to do anything with her… yet. He was just trying to help like any boy passing a hot girl will do. Maybe she was scared or worst at an urge to faint. The other girls would probably crack themselves up with talking like idiots and making him think like hell that how their bodies did held so much energy to talk when they ate so little.

Though the next thing that happened took Neji by surprised.

Jen whipped around swiftly as if she had gotten an electric current and glared at him in such a way that reminded him of Sasuke getting dressed as a clown in Halloween and when the other person won't give him any candy for his costume.

Ok now he was exaggerating. Well he was but only a little.

It was after all possible and would probably a treat for him to see Sasuke's face covered in clown makeup.

He tried to control the urge of laughing because the situation had suddenly gotten serious. And if the girl was a fighter then, crucial.

"Why are you helping me?" she blurted out.

He stared at her in shock and tried to hide his blush. Was he helping her anyway? She was cute, hot and different but he can't really say that to her in her face. If she wasn't a fighter, she might get a makeover and suddenly be one and the next thing he knew that he would be in a bloody pile of bones.

Wow that sounded familiar… from where again? Oh yeah, from Sasuke and his book of sarcastic (and sometimes real) threats.

Neji concentrate.

"Er… it's a nice thing to help other people," he said. ARGH! STUPID! STUPID! STTUUUPPPIIDD!!! Neji… GET A LIFE!

Jen didn't seem to convince at all.

"You don't help at school… what do you want?" she asked all fired up.

Neji sighed and took a step towards her.

"I am just helping. You seemed to be in trouble when I saw you and I helped you. If I didn't help you, you would have been dead,"

"You are exaggerating,"

"Am I?"

Jen looked thoughtful for a second. Well, could a black butterfly take her life away and Neji was really her savior?

Jen shrugged at him and smiled.

"You are Hinata's cousin right?" she asked.

Neji flinched at his cousin's name and scowled. He hated her and he totally loathed her. His father despised his brother and his family and vice versa. He did not really know the reason but he remembered that it was something about his grandfather passing the will and all the property to Hinata's father.

But Neji was still richer than Hinata. Will always be… he will make sure of it.

"Yes," he replied coldly.

Jen looked at his eyes. Coldness, cruelness, patronization, hatred… all shown through his statue like composure.

Jen quietly picked up her heavy bag and walked towards the place where her cell phone was. She bent down and picked it up swiftly before staring at Neji who seemed to be lost into space.

"Neji?"

He looked at her in surprise.

"Your eyes tell a different story from what you have been showing," Jen said as she started to walk away.

"What do you mean?" Neji shouted at her back.

She stopped walking and turned her head towards him and smiled compassionately him.

"They say that a picture is worth a hundred words. Humans are more complicated than pictures and it take more time to study them. You are one example. Your face tells another story yet your eyes tell another. You are stuck in between two words. You hesitate at what you want to do and then hesitate again at what you are supposed to do. Neji, you cannot be described in words at all because even the dictionary is not enough for you. I certainly don't get you,"

And with that, she walked away leaving a very awe struck Neji behind her.

It's easy to fight in a war and die. But it's not easy to stand helpless and watch other people get killed.

By Ayesha Raees

Well hello people. I am back and i have a muse for this story again. This chapter was quite long and i hope you guys enjoyed it. Please read and review and tell me if anything if wrong with this chapter...

Your reviews always encourage me. So please do review! thank you.

I wanna tell you that the omens that Jen saw in the park, well i kinda made that up because i donot think that a black butterfly can be a bad omen... i didnt know of an insect that represented bad luck except for snakes except they arent insects neither they can sit on somebody's nose.

The thing about Jen is that she is very symbolic... she lives her life by judging her surruundings ... it kinda represents me as i am kind of a symolic person lol. Actually all of the characters represents me even Hinata because i blush like MAD when i meet new people! lol

so read and review.

Some naruhina in the next chapter... and some of the other gals too.

no promises made i guess. See ya guys soon!