Sorry for the late update but my sleeping rhythm's been super messed up and so I've been exhausted. Plus most people didn't update their stories so I felt the need to procrastinate. So I'll thank Mustsleep for updating 'A complicated series of events' because it made me feel like writing again. ^_^
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"Well there was this one girl..."
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Onwards!
"A Girl? Woooowwwww!" Sakura widened her eyes comically in response to Itachi who seemed to have stumbled into a story telling mood. If only she knew how this might turn out for herself. He smirked to himself and played along knowing all the while that when the story would end the result would be very, very amusing to watch indeed. His normally monotonous voice took on a dramatic tone, never quite losing its strength however as he began to tell the tale.
"Once upon a time, when Sasuke was naught but a child in kindergarten, fighting with others over crayons and employing dastardly playground tactics, he met a girl. She was from Suna and was only stayed in their grade a few weeks because it soon became very clear to all that she was a very smart child, much smarter than they gave credit to.
And while all the other girls swooned over Sasuke she picked flowers with her blonde friend and didn't notice the raven haired boy who stared at her when he thought no one was looking."
Sakura at that point had become completely engrossed in Itachi's story and sat on the grass legs crossed at her ankles arms crossed over her drawn knees .Who knew the Uchiha heir had such a flair for story-telling?
"But of course while the girl remained oblivious to his affections, his fan girls were not. Even at that age their vindictive nature began to show and they grew exceeding jealous of the girl who had caught their precious Sasuke-kun's attention.
One day while the rest o the class was playing and the girl went picking flowers they cornered her knowing the blonde wasn't there to save her that day because of an illness. They shoved her around and taunted her mercilessly teasing her to the extent that the girl as strong as she was started crying."
Sakura frowned at this she herself knew quite well what it was to be teased by your peers at such a young age. In fact had it not been for Ino who had saved her many a time in their childhood she would have been a very different person today. Shaking her head gently she turned back to Itachi who was watching her reactions with a growing smirk as if he knew what she was thinking.
"Sasuke then came out of nowhere and as the fan girls tried to hide what they had been doing but failed miserably. As he continued to glare at them they ran away crying because their precious Sasuke-kun was mad at them. He turned back to the little girl to ask if she was okay but in the commotion of it all she had run away and he was left standing there all alone.
The next day she didn't come to school but her blonde friend did. And through teary eyes she thanked Sasuke for saving her friend from the bullies but that he wouldn't have to do so anymore. She was moving back to Suna because her father had been transferred again. But the friend managed to pass along a note of gratitude from.
She thanked him for saving her from the bullies because even though she knew she'd grow into her forehead and her pink hair, it still hurt her that people could be so hateful.
And so Sasuke lost his first love Sakura Haruno."
For once in her life Sakura wasn't thinking. Even her conscience (*coughinnercough*) didn't say a word. The almond eyes were so wide open Itachi had to wonder how they didn't hurt. After a few minutes of spluttering and flailing her arms around, Sakura was finally able to talk coherently.
"Ino." She muttered in a malicious tone that had Itachi shivering as she remembered the events from the day she got Sasuke as her assignment. (A/N Is it just me or do I use the word assignment a bit too much?)
She roughly started shoving the papers onto her desk. Every drawer she opened was closed with a slam and she was continually muttering curses under her breath. Letting out a deep sigh she cradled her head in her palm. It was not her day.
"Forehead girl stop making so much noise. I'm trying to get the venom from the snake over here and I need to hit the right notes. I can't do that with you acting like an elephant in an antique store."
Confused by every single word that came out of Ino's mouth that didn't demean her, Sakura peered over the wall of her cubicle to see Ino intensely attempting the Mission 2: The emperor's secret on the 39 clues website. (A/N I just managed to crack it, go me! Ahem carrying on), and failing miserably.
"DAMN YOU COBRA!" Ino yelled out as she failed to hit the right notes (just like she would in real life).That girl had issues that baffled even Sakura at times.
Having thus failed her mission for what seemed to be the 30th time this week, Ino turned to Sakura with a sigh.
"Alright spill."
"My assignment is Sasuke Uchiha."
Ino smiled at Sakura which thoroughly confused her. Why would the fact that she got the most asexual person on the planet as her matchmaking assignment make Ino happy Sakura mused.
"I officially believe in karma."
"Why?"
"Oh come on Forehead girl you do realise whom we're talking about?"
"The asexual Uchiha boy? The one with fan girls who scare me? The one whose hair looks like a duck has taken up permanent residence on his head?"Sakura started listing all the characteristics of Sasuke that were known to her.
"No silly! You...You don't remember do you?" Ino had that odd look on her face that people get sometimes where they smile with their lips but their eyebrows frown.
"Remember what?"
Ino looked at her for sometime as if trying to determine whether Sakura was lying, before a wicked smile that had warning bells ringing in Sakura's head grew upon her face.
"Never mind, you'll know soon enough." She said in an ambiguous tone that did nothing to appease Sakura's fears before walking out smug.
"Pig? What do you mean by that? PIG! Come back here, you wench!"
She knew all along, Sakura thought to herself while still wondering how everyone remembered more about her childhood than she did.
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"My Assignment that sucks Part très.
By Sakura Haruno.
This has been a rather odd day. I found out that Sasuke is the boy who saved me from the bullies on my last day in kindergarten, from those twits Ami and Karin. Incidentally they were some of the fan girls who were outside his window that day .You know the one where I lost you and Itachi saw me and I fell out of the tree.
Yeah.
That was really unexpected. I mean I fully expected that adorable guy in Kg to turn into this totally handsome, cute guy. I mean Sasuke's pretty cute too but...not as cute I would have expected him to be. Really they don't look alike at all. Apart from the hair you'd never guess that that kid grew up to be Sasuke.
It's actually kind of sad. But see that causes me to wonder a bit. If we find a person based on the fact that he used to like me when I was a kid then we have to take into consideration that he didn't really know me well back then. Not to mention if I could grow up to be such a different person then doesn't that also mean that Sasuke would have grown too and his type might have changed?
Plus there's a voice in me that says that it doesn't necessarily mean he was straight. I mean yeah so he showed some interest in me and I'm a girl, but it could be that being near my pink hair made him feel like he didn't have hide his flamboyant side that much.
Oh my God what if the fact that I was teased is the reason that he never came out of the closet?Maybe he got scared he would be bullied after seeing how I was treated and so he buried the fact that he was gay under years and years of frustration and pain?I MIGHT BE THE REASON SASUKE UCHIHA HASN'T COME OUT OF THE CLOSET!
Or he could be straight.
I need to find someone with a gaydar!
Well to be correct a gaydar that works. After Ino's Sai debacle (really even I knew that guy bats for the other team what with all the talk of penises) I don't trust her gaydar.
That's decided tomorrow I'm going to call him, I'm going to call... "
Dun dun dun dunnnnn
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