Melody (Konoha School Of Arts)

41. Divide and scatter

Sakura continued to sit with the recuperative girls every lunch. They'd become quite close— at least close to the extent of revealing to each other the boys they liked. It was no secret that Sakura liked Sasuke and fortunately for her none of the other girls were into dark broody princes.

"I like Gaara-su." Fuu dropped the words so suddenly that the girls at the table almost didn't hear her. But they did and they were really surprised.

"Oh wow, that was fast!" Karui exclaimed while the others nodded their agreements.

Fuu placed her elbows on the table and rested her cheek in her open palms. "Who wouldn't like Gaara? He's just so...perfect!" She sighed dreamily. The other girls who had known the redhead since his violent phase didn't think so but they didn't want to burst her bubble. Not so harshly.

"I can't relate, sorry." Sakura voiced first.

"What?! Why?!" Fuu balked at the fact that there was somebody who didn't think Gaara was perfect.

"Shouldn't you be happy that nobody has eyes for your man?" Tenten drawled tonelessly but Fuu wasn't listening.

"Honestly Gaara-kun still scares me. He's calmed now but there's no telling when he'll go all violent and crazy again." Sakura spoke as she swirled her soda can in her hand.

"I refuse to believe that Gaara could get violent." Fuu huffed, Sakura shrugged and the conversation died there.

"So what about you Tenten?" Matsuri asked with a teasing eye wag. The other girls caught on to it and started prodding Tenten with their own teasing questions.

"That's right! When are you and Mr Handsome King going to announce your relationship?" Karui, who was sitting next to her, gave her a suggestive nudge. Tenten swatted her elbow.

"Stop that! And I'm not in any relationship with anybody." She argued.

"Riiight." Tamaki dragged the word the way people did when they didn't believe somebody. "Like you and Neji aren't dating."

"Wait what?! They're dating?!" Fuu asked, surprised.

"We're not!" Tenten yelled.

"I don't see you denying anything else though." Yukata pointed out much to the class Rep's detriment. "Maybe you like him." She added.

"Not maybe, she likes him!" Matsuri buttressed. "I mean, I understand why." She gave a sly wink that had Tenten flushing despite how angry she wanted to be.

"Hurry up, marry the king and become the queen!" Tamaki squealed and the others joined in.

"Alright, alright stop!" Tenten screamed in despair but the girls weren't about to stop. The continued teasing her about Neji being the king and she, the queen until Sakura (bless her soul) stopped the commotion before it got rowdier.

"Let's stop now. The poor girl is overheating."

"I am not!" Tenten shot back immediately despite how clearly red her face was. Sakura decided to let her have that one and branched of to another topic instead.

"So guys, I have an outing on Saturday with my friend from another school. He's going to bring his friends along and I don't want to go alone. Who would go with me?" Sakura asked.

"He?" Tamaki pointed out. "I thought you liked Sasuke?"

"I do. He's just a friend who wants to know how KSA girls look like. Come on guys, aren't you curious to know how boys from other schools look like?" The pinkette pleaded. There was a decisive silence until ...

"Coming from you, that sounds creepy as hell." Tenten blurted. "What?! It's true!" She insisted upon the looks the other girls gave her. She just didn't think that somebody as infatuated with Sasuke as Sakura was would arbitrarily want to 'see' how other boys looked like.