Okay, second draft on this. Though you don't remember, I thank Spifftastic Ino, for actually commenting on the idea of this. Okay. -Rosepetal...(Also known as Blue Tiger-chan)
Standard Disclaimer Applied.
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My name is Sakura. Haruno Sakura. I'm an aspiring photographer. I live in Milan, my parents are gazillionaires, I'm heir to be princess of Inyourdreams Land!
Okay, start over. My name is Sakura Haruno. I am an aspiring photographer. I live in Konoha. My parents are…nerds. I'm heir to be CEO of Haruno Advertising, with my dork father. Okay. So my dad is awesome, but he is a nerd. Making me eat the same kind of cereal, only in a different box, the taste isn't changing, dad.
"Come onnn Sakura, be a good daughter and eat the Choco Choco Chip Crunch, and we'll go to school!"
I picked up my backpack and headed for my door.
"Dad, if I want to catch the bus, I have to leave now."
"Now?"
"…Now."
"How about after school?"
"How about no? Sorry, dad, I'm heading to Hinata's after school, in fact, I was planning on sleeping over. Is it okay with you dad?"
"Sure, Hun, go ahead and do what you want, have fun, enjoy your wild childhood…" Dad (pretended?) to choke a tear back.
"Thanks, and, your guilt trip isn't going to work on me." I waved at him and left him in my odd wake.
"…You really are your mother's daughter…" I heard as I leaped onto the bus.
Alright, bus set up. Okay, so in the front today is, Girly Guy and Pineapple Man. Tsuki and Luna, Oh, there's Ino.
Oh yeah, Ino, my best friend.
I dive-bombed into the seat.
"Hey Ino." I muttered.
"Uh-huh." She answered blankly and fixed something on her MP3.
"Just for the record…the weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of A, indifference or B, disinterest in what the critics say…" She hummed the rest of the Panic at The Disco song.
I rapped on her head.
"Hey Ino, heard anything interesting about the Misora Karu Dance?" I asked. (A/N: Sadie Hawkins Dance.)
"No, except that Sasuke's still up for grabs. Like anyone has the guts to ask him, I sure don't." She glanced at me.
"What about Shikamaru?"
"What about him? Listen Sakura, just because our parents are best friends doesn't mean I'm marrying that lazy ass."
"Ohh, I see… and it was a clone who was eyeing him earlier this week."
"The clone was not eyeing, the clone was sizing her prey up."
"What are you, an Amazon Queen?"
"Nah, but I scare him with my tiger imitation in math." She clawed at the air and bared her teeth at Shikamaru. He tried scooting away from Ino's general direction, but he ended moving into Neji, the guy next to him, and after a while Neji muttered something about 'Not being gay…get off of me stupid…you're not a genius sometimes…'
At school, I had watched Hinata faint in front Naruto, the school photography club leader. Though I'd be better.
I had whipped out my Polaroid and shot the scene.
Hinata's face was half dead, and half alive. Naruto had the 'Holy Schnitzel! I killed her!' face. And Ino, Ino was in the library.
Also, I got a picture of Luna and Tsuki doing a tap dance in the lunchroom.
Shortly after, Tsuki tripped on applesauce and tripped in the middle of a Drawback Cincinnati Combo (Don't ask. But it looks fun to do!). (A/N: I'm a dancer. I couldn't resist either.)
A picture of a crushed Orange Soda can on a playground. My feelings on the MKD.
A documented picture of Ino staring dreamily at Shikamaru, then another one of Ino glancing at his butt. Ew. But Sweet Holy Hell, it's documented! Blackmail should be a sin, but since it isn't, I'm doing it.
My life is very odd as you can tell. I am very odd. I am a nerd, just like my father.
Later that night I hung out with Ino and Hinata at Hinata's house. Quite fun, because all we do is say stupid things and laugh. And we NEVER play truth or dare. That would be bad for all of us. But what I'd like to focus on is now. Today. So here we go.
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"Okay plea-" Dad tried.
"Not today…" I sighed.
His hand drooped and the cereal bowl slowly clattered to the floor. But he didn't look sad, more like thoughtful yet melancholy.
"I wanted to ask if you wanted to go camping with the Yamanakas… Okay Hun, have a nice day." Is, after extensive research, what he said.
As I got on the bus, Ino had the same face as dad on. Only with a dash of glee.
"What's up Sakura-chan?" Ino drawled the A in 'What'
"Nothing, what about you?" I asked.
"Uh, well my parents are making me date Shikamaru, and I hate adults now, so, nothing much."
By Ino's furious look, I decided to not crack a joke about Shikamaru and Ino…or how I have that picture.
"Uh, how so?"
"I don't know!"
"Huh?"
"It's that, they have some stupid adult…reason…to make Shikamaru and I get married or something! I can't do anything about it." By now she had started moving her arms around.
"Uh…well…at least your kids will be pretty?" I tried.
"Listen Sakura, I DO NOT WANT SHIKAMARU NARA'S KIDS!" Ino screeched.
Shikamaru whipped his head around.
"Yeah, well, it's not like we're old enough for…that, anyway…" He frowned.
"We will be in a few years! And it looks like you haven't hit puberty yet!"
Is that possible?
"For your information, I have hit puberty…but it is possible to hit puberty when you're 18." Shikamaru drawled.
Okay, never mind.
"Ew. Then that must be how old my neighbor is…" Ino cringed.
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This girl is so hard to find for someone with pink fricking hair.
But after forty hours, I've spotted her.
How to attract her attention… Oh here we go…this rock…her head, this is FLAWLESS, people. Freaking FLAWLESS.
Now aim. Prepare…then Shoot at Will!
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…And it's off! Right at 'er, too.
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"Ow, Ino, why'd you hit me?"
"Huh, I didn't touch you."
"Okay…See you at lunch then."
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Hoo ha. (A/N: my school's catch phrase.)
Now all I have to do is get her attention.
"Hey! Hey! Come on, girl! Uh…Sakura. Sakura! Sakuraaaaa! Haruno? Listen to me!" I shouted.
"Huh?" She looked up.
"Listen to me. This is your conscience. You need to go to the bathroom. NOW."
"No I don't." She murmured.
"You will though. Now up." Apparently she is quite persistent. Nothing some Dragon Scale Dust won't fix. I loaded it into a dart, put it in my peashooter, and blew into it.
Her eyes flashed silver. Good, good.
Now all I have to do is the incantation.
"Virgo, dauto ona kongyeh, dauto ona Deus, subsequor ego, functus sicut ego commodo. Functus sicut thoku Drassoonae narro."
Oh and, that was Half Latin, and Half- Fairy. You're supposed to use one or the other, but it works better if you use both. The translation is: "Girl, daughter of a king, daughter of a god, to follow after I, do as I say. Do as the Dragon says." And now she's under my control for five minutes.
Only, the commands have to be Latin or Fairish.
"Uthe, deinde, watkon, vado ut thoku vamothuusa." (Up from that place, go to the foul place…) We don't have a word for bathroom…alright!?
Blankly she stood up and trudged zombie like to the teacher's desk. "Uh…Unus quidnam ducuis! Moiset ego vado ut vamothuusa?" (Uh, one who teaches, may I go to the bathroom?)
"Uh sure, Sakura."
"Makeasoi tu." (Thank you)
"Thank you."
"Watkon ieiunium." (Walk fast (er))
Oh no. I can feel her soul pulling away now. Hurry, hurry…
"Vado thruti ille illa illud, dorne." (Go through that door.)
She pushed the door open.
"Vado inna ille illa illud strona." (Go in that stall…)
She opened the stall.
"Sennu, loranae thoku ut dorne." (Sit, lock the door.)
"Renegorse; solara perifikato!" (Reverse; soul purification!)
Cool. I feel so…cool doing that.
"Wha?" Pinky groaned. …Was it Sakura…yes, yes?
"Okay, listen. When you see me, don't swat at me. Okay?" I pointed at her.
"Uh, okay."
Snapping my fingers, I suddenly appeared in front of Sakura's face.
"Yo, girlie." I shouted.
"Hmm? Ohmygod!" Unsurprisingly, she swatted wildly at me. I'm trained though.
"Stop, STOP!" I screeched.
"Oh, I'm sorry but, why the hell am I in a bathroom stall, why do you have wings, and why, no how'd I get here?" She sputtered.
"No time for questions, need time for the intro. My name's Tenten. I'm a fairy. Specifically a wishing fairy. A tough-bred, mountain-wishing fairy. I'm not a wimp. I'm not a woodland fairy who prances around makin' daisy chains to put on handsome young men. I am not your friend, I'm here to do a job. Usually, I'd go into the spiel about not falling in love but that shouldn't happen. Instead I'll cut to the chase. You get one wish. ONE. And you can use the 'More wishes' thing. It's cool with me…'cause I get your soul and your place as a human, and you get my job. (Pinky gulped.) Back to wishes. You get one wish. In the following categories. Academics, meaning you get to be a genius. Romance, meaning you force a person to love you, the wonderful Potpourri wish.-"
"Potpourri?" Sakura inquired.
"Ahem. Potpourri, the wish with no topic. Pick what you want, it usually turns on you sickly, darkly, horribly, randomly, immediately, and/or quietly. And the Artistic Talent Wish. Self-explanatory. I've got four weeks with you. No more no less. If you can't come up with your wish by then, I go poof, then go back to home before someone else needs me. I'm your Godfather-type of person you know. Okay, lastly, you know absolutely nothing about my past, my future, or me. I am immortal, YES, I've met Shakespeare, and he's a DORK. …Don't fall asleep I'm almost finished... When I meet my true love, I will be freed from this body, into a human one and whoop-de-do, I'm a lovesick human. No matter as much as you try, I will not warm up to you. Eh, good? Good."
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Holy crap. That thing is really beautiful for someone so…evil.
She had a nice shapely figure. Her legs were gracefully carved, her arms the same. A not-too-small-not-too-big bust, the eyes that say, back off bitch, I'll melt your puny heart, chocolaty brown. Y'know, those girls who are oddly seductive, but think that they're tough? Navy blue wings, think butterfly/angel/hawk hybrid. She wore a very short dress, but had Bermuda shorts under. (A/N: Not explaining Bermuda shorts, look it up, if you don't know.) The neckline plunged about two inches. That's a lot on her. I'm sure she was wearing something under though. I hope.
"Alright. Aright. Let me out."
"I wasn't controlling you or anything, get out yourself." The fairy deadpanned.
"Right, okay, what happens now?"
"I follow you around everywhere within reason."
"Within reason?"
"Listen, I'm not watching you shower, got it? I made a horrible mistake of watching Christopher Columbus bathe, I was never the same again, and that's probably why I don't like men."
"Ew. Did he have chest hair?"
"Yeah. I'd like not remembering."
"Okay…so can anyone else see you?"
"Yes, but I've invisibility spells out the kazoos."
"Isn't the term 'wazoo'?"
"Uh, sure, whatever."
"And spells? Are you a witch or something?"
"You're an inquisitive one aren't you? Well before I became a wishing fairy, I was a Lupinaekrosetkofrie."
"Lupinacrosetsofre?"
"No, pronounce it with me. Loo-pin-a-cro-set-ko-free. They're as fierce as wolves. It does mean 'The wolf within the fairy' I sort of killed bounty hunters, an elf, and many other things…but I had to kill a dragon, and I loved dragons, so I threw away my life of excitement for this." Her face was incredibly apathetic, like she had told a million people that story a million times.
"What a great choice."
"Shut up."
Nothing happened as I bustled through the halls with everyone to the lunchroom. Only questions as Tenten picked up random bits of information.
"Who the heck is 'Misora Karu'?"
"Misora Karu...She's in a comic strip where one day, the unmarried girls got to pick boys and marry them."
"…"
"Who's Shikamaru?"
"A dork."
"Like you?"
"…Yes. Only worse." No point in denying the truth.
"Who's Sasuke?"
"…The greatest male figure in the school. He's cool, sophisticated, and cold. All the girls are swooning over him. Including me. Belonging to the oh-so-prestigious Uchiha clan."
"Okay, so he's a stuck-up ass who has very bad taste in hair." Tenten deadpanned, stretching her neck to see him.
"You should be murdered for saying that. Hey, I'm not popular, but someone could beat me up if they think I said that." I hissed.
"Who's the girl next to him?"
"That's not a girl…"
"Ohh, uh, so what is it?"
"That my friend is Neji. The second most important person in this school. He hangs out with Shikamaru, but no one challenges him."
"Why?"
"He beat up an ex-con who tried to sexually assault his cousin. But wow, it was so funny. Like he was all wham, smash, thwack! Then he picked up a chair and literally crushed the dude's skull."
"And he wasn't sent to the underwo-uh…prison for the crime?"
"Yeah…uh…I kinda ran away after I was hit by a chalk eraser."
"You're hopeless."
"You know nothing about my history with chalk erasers." I frowned.
By now we had apparently sat down next to Ino and Hinata.
"Oh…hey guys. What's up?"
Ino's eyebrow arched. "You were just talking to yourself."
Hinata nodded furiously.
"Oh…sorry. I, uh…"
"Okay, don't worry! We all do it…" Ino trailed off, giving the vibe that she never talks to herself.
"Right, did you ask anyone to the dance yet, Ino, Hinata?"
Ino swallowed a part of her pear, then glanced thoughtfully at the ceiling. "Y'know, in my intense fury for the male/adult population, I totally forgot. Not like anyone likes me. And I don't want to even go. But we all know my parents will make me."
This is a glorious opening. I started digging in my messenger bag and whipped out my newly developed photos.
"Shabbat! Look here!" I whipped out the photo of Ino looking at Shikamaru's butt.
"Sakura! How'd you get that!?" Ino's eyes flamed.
"I took it myself! You know you love him!" I screamed.
"What's happening?" Tenten fluttered crazily toward Hinata.
"Waaaah! Giant horsefly!" Hinata squealed.
"I am not a horsefly, calm down!"
"I don't love him!"
Shikamaru, had been walking by, and after hearing everything, dived under a table.
"Give me the picture!"
"Reach for it!"
And so is the first day with Tenten. Ino almost killed me, but I still have the picture! What in everything weird will happen next?
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I'm enjoying this more than you. I shouldn't be doing this. I've got a few stories to do now. If you don't review, I'll update anyway. If you do, suggestions are welcome.
Whoop-de-do. –Get fresh- Rosepetal.