Sakura sat down in her seat after Ino told her too. Iruka-sensei explained what was going to happen to them now. She did not want to be teamed up with Naruto but she knew Sasuke would be happy to team up with him, and if Sasuke was happy then she was happy, what type of lover would she be if Sasuke would be unhappy loving her?
"The teams will be, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto." Sakura could feel her heart sink into her chest. She began to curse under her breath. Sasuke turned to glance at her and he seemed annoyed. But she pushed the thought of her mind. There was no way Sasuke was annoyed with her. He loved her, he was just shy. Her shy bad boy.
She turned her attention back to her sensei and wondered who her third teammate would be. For the love of god please don't let it be Ino. Just do me that favor sky daddy. I think I'll kill myself if you put me on a team with both of them. "And Uchiha Sasuke!" It took a moment for those words to settle in Sakura's brain but once they did she leaped up with her fists in the air and exclaimed "Oh yeah!" Thank you so much man!
"Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto huh?" said a boy behind her. "My father told me that there usually aren't enough girls so they always put one girl and two boys and the boys always fight over the girl. I don't think that's going to happen here." This boy was Shikamaru.
"Why not?" asked a random girl. Shikamaru simply sighed and didn't answer. But Sakura herself wondered as well. Why did Shikamaru say that?
"Master Iruka!" cried Naruto. "What were you thinking of, saddling a most excellent shinobi like myself with that loser!?" Naruto's finger pointed directly toward Sakura. Iruka-sensei put the backs of his hands on his hips and spoke, "Of the twenty-seven of you, Sakura has the best grades other than Sasuke. That's why you're here, Naruto. You're filler for the most part, like 40%."
"I'm filler!?"
"Just leave it Naruto," grumbled Sasuke. He glanced at Sakura again, looking more annoyed. He's annoyed at Naruto right? Not at me. He couldn't be angry at me…right?
More exposition happens that if you like to see…go read the manga.
Sakura was sitting alone on a rock. She picked at her knee. It was becoming a bit of a habit for her to do this when she was stressed. Her mother was always telling her she should twirl her hair or do girly things to relive it. But that wasn't her. She wasn't like other girl-okay let's not finish that. The point is Sakura wasn't into makeup or jewelry like Ino was. She was simply not girly. Why did everyone have such an issue? And people were always commenting on her chest, or rather her lack of it. Her mother used to be a very popular prostitute in Konoha and her father did something in an office, but that was how they met. The only man to truly love her for her.
Sakura had expected from a young age to deal with the back problems and rashes her mother had and they would bond over that. She was twelve, her mother was d cup by now. Ino had just started getting boobs. Heck, even Choji had bigger tits than her! Speaking of Ino actually, she was currently walking up to her. She wore revealing clothing and swung her small tits back and forth like she knew how attractive she was. "Sakura, if you're going to beat the rumors about you being a lesbian you need to stop staring at other girls' chests. If you are, I don't care but now people are starting to ask if I'm dating you." Gah! I didn't even realize she stopped.
"People think I'm gay?"
"You are a pink haired, flat-chested, tomboy. Of course people think you're gay! Wake up sweetie."
"But I'm Sasuke's number one fan?! How could people think…?"
"It's called overcompensating Sakura. Think about how this looks: a 'supposed' lesbian simping over a 'gay' guy." She put air quotes on the words supposed and gay.
"Wait? You mean Sasuke? How could he-." She paused and genuinely gave it thought for a couple seconds. "Yeah, no. That makes sense. Is it too late to fix him?"
"Well you can try, but I doubt you're going to be able to do anything without ending up with a sexual assault charge. Anyway, that's not what I'm here to talk to you about. You need to call off your fight with Naruto, the poor kid's been through enough."
"So have I! If anything my shit's worse!" Ino scoffed.
"You really believe that huh? You've been so sheltered and it's my fault you're like this. Go fuck youself Sakura. This feud of ours is so dumb." Ino walked away. Sakura went back to picking at her knee until eventually she drew blood. She went to the bathroom and headed over toward the sink to wash her knee.
"I really don't like when you kiss other people," said Sasuke. Sakura lifted her head up so fast she almost got whiplash. Sasuke! It sounds like they're outside.
"You know it was an accident," said Naruto. "And why does it bother you so much? I do whatever I want. Wait…do you have a crush on Sakura?!"
"I don't want Sakura," grumbled Sasuke.
"Then what do you want?" Sasuke groaned and this was when Sakura could feel water dripping on her leg. She looked down to find the sink had flooded. "Oh shit!" she exclaimed. She turned it off. The door opened.
"Ahh! Don't come in here! It's the girls bathroom!"
"What are you talking about Haruno!? It's the boys bathroom! Can't you see the fucking urinals!" Sasuke gestured to the row of urinals Sakura had missed on her way here.
"About what you were going to say?" asked Naruto. He seemed to be avoiding making eye contact or even looking at Sakura.
"That's not important right now Naruto! Sakura bleeding!"
"Oh no! It's fine Sasuke!" Sasuke rushed over and used Sakura's dress as a band-aid. He worked so fast Sakura barely had time to say stop. The entire time though, the guy looked super scared. His hands were shaking and he looked like he was about to cry.
"Sasuke…" said Naruto. "You don't have to…" He sighed and waited until Sasuke was done to continue.
"Are you good now?" asked Sasuke.
"Yeah," Sakura sounded like her mother when she talked to some of her old clients, her voice breathy and shocked.
"Good." His voice broke.
"Hey are you okay-."
"You've done enough." Naruto said this like it was an order. Sasuke walked away with Naruto and Naruto turned around to glare at her.
"What…did…I…do?" One of the stall doors opened.
"Now you know how I feel," said Tobio as he went to wash his hands in the sink.
Author note, this story is originally being published on ao3. There are more chapters there and I will be publishing there first always so if you'd like to see more of this story look it up there.
