Broken Youth
(Life of Konoha Academy Teens)
CH2.5: Distance III

When Sasuke left the group:
He slowly walked through the halls, thinking about what Naruto and Sai had told him earlier. "Do a really say weird things when I'm around Sakura?" he whispered to himself. Sasuke tried to go back through his memory but all he could remember was Sakura's smiling face.
He kept thinking and then he halted his steps. "I hate to admit it but those two idiots are right about something though, I am a jerk to her." he said as he clenched his fist. After a moment Sasuke abruptly slammed his fist against the lockers to his right. The whole row of lockers shook and rattled at the sudden force. "It's just that I can't help myself and I hate it. I inflict all my anger of not being able to surpass Itachi, to the people I care about the most. Once I'm aware of doing it it's already to late." he lectured himself. Sasuke took a long deep breath and continued walking.
'It's very difficult for me to tell when I upset Sakura for she always has a smile on her face, but sometimes a can catch a speck of sadness in her eyes. Why couldn't she be as easy to read as the fan girls, it drives me nuts not being able to know what she's thinking or feeling. What am I saying? I don't want her to be like a fan girl, one of the reasons I like her in the first place is because she is different from them and actually has a mind of her own. It's still a bit funny how the only girl I really care about is one of the only ones that does not seem to show any interest in me. Naruto once told me that all she wanted from me was my acknowledgment, and I can't even show her that (I'm such an idiot). I wouldn't be surprised if she hates me.' thought Sasuke as he reached his locker.
"Why am I getting all sentimental, over my stupid thoughts?" Sasuke said as he turned the dial. "I shouldn't let myself get all worked up over what happens inside my overactive mind."
Sasuke opened his locker and soon began exchanging items from his locker to his bag. As he did that he would occasionally looked over at a locker not far from his. Once Sasuke finished his transaction of materials he closed his locker door. His eyes closed and he sighed as he put his hand into one of his pockets.
From his pocket he took out a white envelope. He then began walking to the locker he was gazing at beforehand. "I am personally not strong enough to show her my affection face-to-face. So until I work my way there I'll slowly show her my devotion little by little in small ways," began Sasuke.
Sasuke looked from side to side as he placed the envelope in one of the slits of the the locker. Sasuke then began to walk away. "I leave an anonymous note and extra gift that compares her divine beauty. I hope she likes it even though she doesn't know that it was I who gave it to her. I know am being selfish because I can see how she reacts to my actions but I can't even step up and show her my face. I guess I'm more than selfish, I'm a coward that the only thing he fears is getting rejected. " Sasuke rotated his head one last time to look at his secret little gift before he turned the corner and disappeared.

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After Sasuke left, a face started to emerge from one of the lockers next to Sakura's. The face soon turned into a full body. The person that came out of the locker was a guy with black and white skin. His skin was split into the two colors with perfect symmetry. The left side of the body was white while right was black. Other then his skin color another thing that stood out was his green hair and yellow eyes.
The figure began to chuckle as he said "I guess we just found out a dirty little secret, and that is that Uchiha-san has a little crush on the flower girl. I was beginning to think he didn't even have a heart."
"Don't say Uchiha-san you make it sound like we're talking about Itachi-san, and her name is Sakura-san not flower girl."said the same figure.
"Whatever,You know who we're talking about and at least I was close with the girls name, but it's not like I have to remember everybody's name," said the first.
"How would you feel if people forgot to call us Zetsu?" said the second.
"I don't care it's not like anyone talks about us anyway, or you have already forgotten that we're nobody. Let's at least try to stay on the same subject, okay?"said his white side.
"Oh,okay," said the black side.
"So, what should we do about the little secret we uncovered about Sasuke-san? Should we expose it to the whole school?"said the white.
"No, we can't to that, it would be cruel and besides I don't want to die once he found out it was us who told everyone," said the black.
"What should we do with it? Keep it a secret?"
"Well, yes, we don't want to spread rumors now or do we? "
"Man, you're no fun and very boring, it was you're idea to watch this mushiness instead of some action."
"Don't complain it was my turn to choose what to watch and in any case watching to much violence is not good for you."
"You are starting to get too soft on me."
"And you're too tough."
"I hate you sometimes!"
"Ha ha. You hate yourself," black Zetsu said in a mocking voice.
"Ag! Sometimes I wish I wasn't connected to you!" yelled white Zetsu.
"Hey, that really hurts my feelings," he said in an almost crying tone.
"I'm Sorry, I didn't really mean it."
"Ha! You fell for it. I was faking your words mean nothing to me!"
"Now I'm going to kill you!"
"If you do that, you'll be killing yourself."
"I don't care I can't stand you anymore."
Black Zetsu stayed quiet.
"What's wrong? You got quiet all of a sudden. Did you actually believe me?"
"No it's just that we should leave now someone's coming this way."
"Yes! Now we can go see some action!" With that said Zetsu began to merge back into the lockers.
"Hey, do you think that Sasuke-san will get the girl?"
"How should I know?"
"I bet you 20 bucks that he will."
"I'll take you up on that bet!"
Zetsu faded away just before three figures rushed by.

End of 2.5 and Chapter 2.