Second love is Best

Partings

Narumi stared at the handsome black-haired teen, his voice coming from a great distance away. She loved him and she had believed that he loved her as well. She was wrong.

"I'm sorry Narumi, but we aren't working as a couple. I thought you could change and fit in but you don't; you are too old-fashioned and you don't understand what it is like to be my girlfriend, to live in My world."

She could not speak. She simply stared at Uchiha Sasuke. She had not liked him at first, believing him to be a rich pretty boy, but her opinion changed and softened over the months she went to Konoha Prep. Enough that she had agreed to go out on regular dates with him. The other girls had cursed and hated her but Narumi had ignored their vitriol. She wished she hadn't.

Her voice was slightly rusty as she spoke. "Then why did you ever want to go out with me Sasuke? You knew from the beginning that I'm an orphan and a scholarship student."

Sasuke shrugged. "You were more interesting than the other girls who chase me." Then he smirked. "But it was a drag being with you, you are so uptight and old fashioned with your feudal era mentality."

Narumi blinked back tears refusing to let him see her cry. Her voice was colder than the voids of space. "Very well Uchiha-san." She removed the class ring he had given her, a symbol of their status as a couple, and tossed it straight in his face. "Consider us as mere acquaintances."

Sasuke fumbled but managed to catch the heavy ring before it fell to the tiled floor. A slight pang stabbed his conscience as he watched the petite blonde girl walk away from him clad in the traditional green-pleated skirt and white sailor-collar blouse of a Konoha Prep female students uniform.

"Sasuke-kun! Do you know there is a special Students Council Meeting after school today?" Haruno Sakura squealed upon seeing the class ring that Sasuke always gave to his current girlfriend. That meant he had gotten rid of the Uzumaki-bitch! "Is that for me?" She asked in artistically hesitant tones.

Sasuke glared at his pink-haired classmate and stuffed the jewelry in his pants pocket. "No. Tell Neji I'll be there."

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A loud crash of a door slamming filled the apartment. Senju Tsunade looked up sharply from the copies of medical journals strewn all over the kitchen table. It would make more sense to do her reading in her study but the kitchen was more soothing to her nerves.

Concern hardened into worry when Tsunade saw her ward, her foster daughter stumble into the kitchen dropping her backpack without any care. The blonde hair was slightly knotted, blue eyes were bloodshot and the skin around them were swollen as though she had been crying very hard.

"Narumi-chan? What happened?"

"Sasuke broke up with me."

Maternal instincts surged to life. Tsunade got up and hurried over to hug the one who was the closest thing she had to a daughter.

"There there Narumi-chan!" The older woman murmured soothingly. "Are you sure it wasn't just a spat? I know Dan and I used to break-up and make-up on a regular basis when we were teenagers."

Narumi shook her head. "No Kaa-san. Sasuke was very calm and logical. I did not even suspect he felt like this. He just said that we weren't working, that I would never fit into his world because I was a no-name orphan." She choked on a sob. "That I was too old-fashioned! He said I was a drag; just because I didn't want to go all the way with him!"