ベリーと死神の2
Of Berries and Shinigami 2
Sakura woke up and sat on the bed noticing Ichigo hugging the strawberry plushie she had gotten him. She stood up and changed into her new school uniform that her father had gotten last night from one of Ichigo's friends who was about her size. She slid over to their shared desk and packed up her school bag before turning to her twin with her phone. She'd recorded a very useful alarm once before she'd left for three years and was planning on using it as a wakeup call. She used it on herself before so she knew it was effective.
"GOOD MORNING ICHIGO!" she looked at her phone, she hadn't even pressed play yet. Her eyes widened as soon as she realized, and ran over to her side of the room to get away from the chaos. Her goat-faced father flew in through the window just as Ichigo scrambled out of bed and managed to get his upper body out before their dad jumped on the bed and kicked Ichigo in the face.
"WHAT KINDA WAKE UP CALL IS THAT!?" he shouted as Sakura walked over and helped him up.
"The kind of wake up call you should be used to by now." she muttered. He grunted in response only to receive a punch in the shoulder. He winced, she smiled innocently. She dragged their father down the stairs to begin making breakfast before the girls got up.
"Oh well", she sighed as she saw yuzu in the kitchen hovering over the stove as if she were doing ten million things. She sweat dropped as she reached the table and reluctantly sat down where Yuzu saw her and shouted, "AH SAKU- NEE! I-Im sorry Im just so used to cooking now ..." she trailed off and watched sakura shrug as she drank a cup of coffee.
"It's alright lil' Yuzu is just growin' up!" she smiled, "keep this up and you might make a great wife someday," she raised her finger to her chin and tapped it in thought, " I think you're old enough to learn moms recipes"
Her eyes widened, "r-really?" she stuttered in excitement. Sakura nodded as Ichigo bounded down the stairs and took sakura's toast and promptly took a bite out of it. He looked at the TV ignoring sakura's whines. She soon shrugged it off once she saw the time. "PAPA!" she shouted as she ran to the door slipped her shoes on and ran outside only to find her father already in the car waiting for her. She got in and watched as Ichigo stepped out the door and leisurely walked towards school.
Sakura sat in the office with a bored look on her face, she just wanted to get to her newly assigned classes and bother Ichigo. Her father walked away from the receptionist and smiled as he handed her schedule and slip of paper with her locker and a change of shoes. She looked at them for a second before remembering, ' ah that's how the schools here are.' She told herself as she waved goodbye to her dad and headed off towards the lockers.
She quickly made her way to classroom 1B which was to be her homeroom. She lightly knocked on the door and waited for it to slide open. Her newly appointed homeroom teacher opened the door, she smiled and handed the teacher the paper and watched her nod as she led her in.
The class quieted down as soon as the small knock on the door caught their attention. They watched the door, curious to find out who was on the other side. A pale hand reached out and handed their teacher a paper before she had to be coaxed in. Slowly the pale hand turned into a skinny arm, then into a petite weird hair colored girl- a weird shade of strawberry blonde with pink tones in it. She silently made her way towards the front of the class room and began writing her name on the black board while the teacher spoke.
"Class, this is our new student who just came back from overseas." The choking sound of a certain ginger didn't go unheard from the back of the classroom.
Sakura finished writing her name on the board and took a deep breath before she turned and gazed upon the twenty-five or so students in the classroom. She did a quick bow before staring straight at the class, " Hi, My name is Kurosaki Sakura my birthday is July 15 and I am 15 years old. I spent 3 years studying abroad in Canada in a boarding school to study martial arts through an exchange program. I speak English, French, German. Some of my likes are soccer, baseball, basketball, kendo, and gymnastics. My dislikes are those who disrespect others," she smiled and bowed once more, " please take care of me." She looked over to her homeroom teacher who pointed out her seat, right next to Ichigo.
Sakura sat beside her brother, glancing over at him with a nervous smile. She really hoped she could make it through the day.
Cupping her chin she began dozing off, it was math -the class before lunch- and sighed, academics had always come easy to her, it was her thing, it just all came easily to her. She had begun to finally doze off when Ichigo began tapping her shoulder trying to wake her up.
Nada.
He gave up when he saw the teacher aiming at her head with the white chalk. She flicked it and Ichigo habitually flinched at the far away memory of an annoyed sakura... It was nothing like her reprimanding lectures, her wagging fingers or her deadly frying pan attacks of doom. The piece of chalk hit her in the forehead. Her eyes fluttered open as the chalk fell onto her barren desk and broke in half. She looked over at Ichigo with a confused look, he let out a sigh of relief on the account that she didn't freak out.
He pointed up at the front of the room and saw the expectant teacher tapping a problem on the black board. She sighed and stood up, and took the chalk from the teacher. She looked over at the problem and wrote down the steps and answer before walking back to her desk. The teachers' eyes grew wide at the answer; she literally solved the problem by glancing at it.
"...It...-it's correct!" he gasped in surprise. Just then the bell rang ending class and signifying the start of their 2 hour lunch break. She stood up before rummaging through her bag and pulled out 2 big bento boxes she smiled at him and he responded.
"Let's eat here." he said.
She pouted, "come on it's been three years Strawberry-nii-i!" she whined. Ichigo whipped his head so fast it gave it could have possibly given the surrounding people whiplash.
"We agreed to never call each other by our nicknames in public!" he hissed. She smiled.
"Fine,Fraise-nii!" she whined.
"No other languages either sakura!"
"Ichigo, come on you two can have lunch with us on the roof," She looked behind Ichigo to see a gaudy goofy looking brown haired boy, "That way you could introduce everyone to your sister."
"And you are?" she asked handing Ichigo his lunch and began filing out of the room as she followed Ichigo towards the roof.
"I'm keigo. One of Ichigo's friends. Though we met this year."
"Oh how'd you meet?!" she asked trying to make conversation.
"Oh at the beginning of the year. Of course you know 'bout his reputation," She shook her head and Ichigo glared at keigo but he kept talking anyways, "He's known as a punk, we met because he jumped out a closed window with Chad and beat up some gangsters." Sakura's eye twitched at the news, the thought of her brother being considered a punk due to his natural yet unnatural hair color was uncalled for, that had happened to her before…then again; her brother was ruthlessly beating people up. She turned towards him and he blanched.
"Thanks a lot keigo!" He shouted as he ran through the door leading to the roof and shut it behind him making sure to lock it from his side. He ran towards Chad who was sitting with Orihime and Tatsuki, "HELP!" he whispered hiding behind Chad and pointing at the shaking and rattling door. Tatsuki, Orihime and Chad stared intently at the door wondering what beast stood behind it and wondered why it made Ichigo, the one who beats up gangsters, so scared.
The door ripped open and its hinges became unusable. There stood and angry girl of about 4'8" stature, standard school uniform, white thigh length socks, with pink-blonde hair and green eyes, behind her stood a shocked keigo.
"I-CHI-GO!" she shouted as she ran towards him at full speed. He jumped away from chad hoping to get away from her in time so he wouldn't get caught up in the beating. He ran towards the fence hoping to get back through the door to a safe place where he knew she wouldn't destroy. 'The nurses office sounds safe' he thought as he dodged a kick. He tucked and rolled, quickly stood up and mentally shouted in his head from joy of almost reaching the door.
Well he ALMOST made it.
Right as he was about half a foot away from the door Sakura managed to launch herself and kick him in the face with both feet planted firmly. He fell backwards and before he could even get up she flipped him on his stomach and pulled his legs back.
"What kind of reputation have you been building for yourself HUH?" all you could hear were Ichigo's cries of help and pain as Sakura continued talking to herself, "I'M GONE THREE YEARS AND THIS SHIT HAPPENS?"
Tatsuki, Orihime, chad and a cowering keigo watched in awe as they watched the strawberry get beat up... by his short, delicate looking, younger twin sister. Ichigo shouted strained I'm sorrys. Chad glanced over at Tatsuki, "Should we help him?"
"Should we?" She questioned, she just didn't wanna get caught in the beating. "Wait where'd she get that frying pan fr- ooooouch," she winced at the sound of the pan hitting his head. Finally satisfied sakura got off his back and let him get up. Wincing in pain every timed he took a step. She sat down with a thump next to Tatsuki and her expression changed to one who just got justice to one of a reminiscing teenage girl.
"TATSUKI-CHAN!" she smiled.
"It's been a long time sakura!" she hugged the pinkette.
"I know! Oh and I noticed Ichigo doesn't practice karate anymore..." she pouted.
"Yea he stopped around the time you left; he finally beat me and stopped." Sakura pouted and turned to Ichigo.
"No wonder dad beats you up; you're out of practice... I should train you."
Ichigo choked on an egg roll. He knew what kind of training she put herself through. Everyone laughed at his expense. Orihime turned towards her and smiled, "Orihime Inoue, Im Ichigo and Tatsuki's friend. Nice to meet you!" Sakura set her bento box aside and took her hand, "The names Sakura but you can call me Sakura-chan !"
"Ah then Sakura-chan it is then!"
She looked back a Tatsuki, " We should spar sometime I wanna see how good you got."
Tatsuki sweat dropped after seeing the display the twins just did she wanted no part in sparring with the petite pink devil , "H-how 'bout sometime other time?" Sakura nodded as she finished her lunch.
She was walking home alone because Ichigo got stuck with cleanup duty. She looked at the time on her phone and sighed; 5:00 she saw the little light on her phone blink telling her she had a new message.
"Saku-nee could you pick up some rice, rice wine, tea and wood polisher? And anything else you think we might need to make hamburgers."
She stopped her walking and responded.
"Sure I'll get them, tell me what we have so I can buy them."
She waited for Yuzu's reply when she got a text from Ichigo.
"hey Im on my way home where are you now?"
She sighed.
"Near the park on the hill, if you're gonna walk home with me hurry up Yuzu wants me to buy some stuff.'
She leaned against a wall and waited for him.
"ok I'm on my way I took the bike this morning."
She shut her phone and looked up when she saw something blur past from the corner of her eye only to see a girl in a black kimono standing on a pole.
"HEY!" She called out, "HEY! Get down from there you're gonna get hurt!" The girl didn't look and simply jumped off getting lost between the twilight and roofs.
"Sakura? What are you looking at?" she looked over her shoulder at Ichigo- she must have been staring up like an idiot for a while now for her to not notice he was there- then looked back at the pole, shook her head and went to sit on the back of the bike, " It's nothing..." she said and pointed at the road, "Let's go to the market." She looked off over the roofs and watched the twilight merge into darkness.
A/N: I've decided that I'm going to edit and rewrite some paragraphs so it fits the story later on. Aha yea, um also the way I tried to explain Sakura's hair is sorta weird isn't it? OK well here, It's a strawberry blonde with a pink tone. Nothing like her actual canon hair color from Naruto and there's a reason for that.
The only way I can clearly explain it is if I show you this picture: {{ }}
{Edit: 12/18/13}