"Hi. Sumiko-sensei asked me to help you out during Kunoichi lessons since you're new."
Sakura blinked. "Who are you?" She blankly asked.
The girl in front of her frowned. "Ino Yamanaka, one of your classmates, remember?"
"Nope." Sakura casually admitted.
"Oh...well, now you know."
"..."
Ino awkwardly held out her hand. "I hope we can be friends Sakura-chan."
Sakura looked at the hand mulling over Rio's (?) request.
She brought her own hand up and then slapped the girl's hand. The sound echoed through the girls only class making everyone pause to look at the scene.
"No thanks."
"...huh?"
"Ask someone else to be your friend Rio-san." Sakura indifferently said brushing past Ino towards the classroom door.
Only to be blocked by a purple haired girl.
"What?" Sakura flatly asked. Kiba was waiting for her after all.
The girl smirked. "You're interesting."
Sakura blinked, about to just push the girl aside. She wasn't keen on playing friends with 'stupid fangirls' as Kiba called every girl in their class.
"For someone with an ugly forehead at least."
Sakura paused and looked into the girl's brown eyes. She concluded that the girl in front of her was bully and for a moment the brown eyes faded into purple.
"You have a fucking big forehead, you know? It's so fucking big."
Sakura made her decision then and there.
"I'm Sakura." She nodded to the girl and lifted her hand up.
The girl slapped it. Hard.
Sakura almost made a pleased noise, it didn't hurt as much as when Hidan used to spar with her, but she's missed the sensation of being hurt emotionally and physically.
"I don't know where your filthy hands has been Megahead."
"..."
"I'm Ami. From now on you're my toy."
Out of the corner of her eyes Sakura saw that Ino was going to intervene.
"Alright." She said before the blonde girl could ruin things for her.
Ami sent a shocked Ino a smug smile before turning to look at an emotionless Sakura.
By "toy" Ami usually meant a new victim for her to bully. She's never seen any of her previous victims accepting their position before.
But Ami had a penchant for breaking toys.
She started off by simply yanking Sakura's hair.
"Does it hurt?" She asked.
"...no." Sakura flatly answered.
Ami huffed and pulled harder, feeling the hair almost being ripped out of the girl's scalp. "How about now?"
In response Sakura gave a pained yelp making Ami smirk.
"Who has pink hair anyways?" She taunted.
"It's so fucking weird. You're probably a bastard child, ain't you? You don't look like your parents at all. In fact you look fucking dumb. And those eyes of yours, they look like green shit."
Sakura bit her lips, holding back the pleased sound.
Yes. She wanted Ami to make her hurt more and more.
(So she can remember more and more.)
'Hidan...'
One day she'll find him.
She'll make him hurt, because he likes it too.
She'll let him hurt her, because she likes it best when he hurts her.
She'll glue herself to his side forever.
As Ami pushed her down and made her fall down a dazed Sakura looked at the ceiling.
'I'll follow you Jashin, just like Hi-kun does.'
"Stop, you're hurting her!" She distantly heard Rio yell.
"Hmph."
'Oh, and Purple Brat will be my first offering to you.'
.o0o..o0o
"Did the teacher force you to stay yesterday?" Kiba asked.
"Nope."
"So you ditched me?"
Sakura didn't even pause in her motion of petting a sleeping Akamaru. "Yeah."
"Why?" Kiba looked slightly hurt.
"Because Ami was bullying her!" Ino piped in taking a stand next to them.
Sakura's eye twitched. She didn't really want Kiba knowing, but oh well.
"What?!" Kiba exploded in childish anger causing Akamaru to wake up.
"Don't worry. I told the teacher." Ino proudly said.
Sakura kicked her in the shin. "Oops, sorry Rio-san. I lost my footing because of yesterday's fall." She lied.
Ino smiled despite the pain, trying to come off as reassuring. "It's Ino."
However Sakura was no longer paying attention to her and instead turned back to a fuming Kiba. "Ami isn't unpleasant."
Kiba gave her a look.
"Well. She's rough, but I like that."
The innocent statement was followed with a shrug.
"So you made a new friend?" Kiba asked.
"In a manner of way." Sakura nodded.
"So you don't mind me being friends with Naruto?"
"Be my guest."
Kiba stood up. "See you at lunch then!" He waved with a grin as he took a seat next to Naruto who startled in surprise.
Sakura ushered Akamaru to go with Kiba just as Ami sat next to her.
"Hi Ugly."
"Good morning Ami."
Before Ami could say anything, probably insult her more and more, Iruka stepped in.
"Morning class!"
With a smile Ami stabbed Sakura's thigh with her pencil with enough force to make it sting, but not enough to pierce her flesh and alert Iruka to what was going on.
Sakura bit her lips as she wrote down notes that Ami would later rip into pieces in front of her and force her to eat.
Aside from that Sakura found out that Ami was, just as Kiba had said, a fangirl.
Just like every other girls she was pinning after Sasuke Uchiha.
.o0o.o0o.
Sakura didn't bother going into her fighting stance as she stood a few feet in front of Hinata Hyuga.
Iruka stood at the sides along with the rest of their classmates.
"You look weak." Sakura commented, loud enough for everyone to hear.
The girl flinched at her words.
Sakura liked the pleasant feeling she got from making the girl flinch.
"Meek too."
Another flinch.
"Sakura!" Iruka sharply said, not tolerating blatant bullying.
Sakura barely spared him a glance.
Iruka sighed before calling for the match to begin. Maybe Hinata would teach Sakura not to underestimate people.
"I doubt you'll even become a ninja."
Sakura raised an eyebrow in interest as an almost defying look appeared in Hinata's stance as the girl went into a fighting stance.
'Hyuga.' She absently noted finally recognizing the white eyes.
However Sakura made no move to charge first and absently reminded herself that she had to fight 'fair' or Iruka would declare the match over.
(No throwing dirt in her opponent's eyes, no using her nails, no grabbing hair. Nothing that could be considered a cheapshot.)
Sakura briefly wondered if Konoha mistakes being a ninja to being a samurai because that would make perfect sense to her.
She ducked just as Hinata's palm was mere inches away from her face and elbowed Hinata's stomach.
"That was weak." She taunted as Hinata jumped away to create some distance.
This time it was Sakura who charged in with a flurry of well timed kicks and punches.
Hinata stuck to deflecting and dodging.
It was obvious that Sakura was pressuring Hinata to slip up which happened in a mere forty seconds.
"Pathetic!" Sakura hissed low enough for only Hinata to hear and tripped the girl.
She watched as Hinata started to fall down and rammed her heel into Hinata's back causing the girl to cry out in pain.
For a moment she saw herself laying down with a heel pressing against her back.
What did Hidan tell her again?
Oh right.
"Are you just going to give up? Just because this is training doesn't mean shit. If I was an enemy would you let me kill you without any fucking struggle? Are you that fucking weak?" She didn't bother to edit out the swear words as she pressed harder, just like Hidan had done to her.
Hinata bit her lips.
(She had bit her lips. "Weak." Hidan taunted and in response she twisted awkwardly and threw a rock at his eye before biting his leg.)
"Enough! Sakura wins!"
Sakura walked off without another word ignoring how Iruka yelled at her to do a seal of friendship or whatever it's called.
However that was the start of the many beatdowns she would give the Hyuga heiress. And the many detentions she would get for doing so.
She found her sadistic release in Hinata and her masochistic release by Ami.
The only real difference?
'Maybe I should let her use me as a punching bag one day?' Was her thoughts on Hinata.
'Fuck her.' Was her thoughts on Ami.
It's a good thing almost no one knew how disturbed Sakura Haruno was.
.o0o.o0o.
"I'll become Hokage one day." Naruto found himself admitting to his new friends.
You heard him right.
His new friends.
Kiba, Sakura, Choji and Shikamau. He had gained those four as friends much to Iruka and the Sandaime-sama's shock. He could barely believe it himself.
But apparently it had something to do with Sakura-chan calling the other three idiots. Which she calls him too, but Naruto saw it as more of a term of endearment.
Kiba was definitely his best friend though. Simply because their personalities matched.
Sakura...ehh. He wasn't sure what to think considering the girl was very mean to her opponents during spars but was being bullied by Ami. She was also honest to a fault yet somehow thoughtful to her friends. He also didn't know anything about her.
Choji was a good enough friend. Nice, considerate and filled with compassion. Not to mention how the chubby kid could beat him in an eating contest.
Shikamaru was a lazy guy, but smart as Naruto found out by Shikamaru's briliant plans to escape from detention, which he and all of his friends had a penchant for getting.
"Hokage? Sounds interesting. How about a bet? I'll become Hokage before you do!" Kiba was the first to yell.
"One of you troublesome idiots as Hokage?" Shikamaru groaned. "Better than Sasuke at least..."
"Good luck." Choji smiled at them.
"Hmm, Orange-chan as Hokage? Sounds interesting." Sakura noted earning a pleased grin from Naruto.
"Oi, what about me?" Kiba asked.
"Focus on being the heir of your clan first." Sakura flatly said.