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Opening Thingystar wars opening music plays
Welcome to…
Cherry Blossoms and Lotus PetalsAll of you: "What! ANOTHER High School fic!"
Eheh. I couldn't resist. High school fics are my thing.
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Summary: New students, new teachers, new friends. Old students, old teachers, old rivalries…new romance? Love, Gossip, Angst, Nosebleeds, and some Surprising Twists! Just your typical High School fic! (NOT)
Pairings(definite): SasuSaku, NejiTen, NaruHina. (ShikaTem also, if anybody wants it.)
Warnings of stuff: Ok, you all know this is an AU fic. There are some OC's, but don't worry, I won't make their parts big. Also OOCness, but nothing really severe and character-ruining…NO yaoi, NO yuri! I have some religious issues with them, but I'm not homo-phobic or whatever. C'mon, I even have gay friends! Ok, enough rambling. Let's get on with the SHOW! (err, fanfic…)
Prologue: The Haruno Family HistoryWe now introduce the main characters of this story. Be prepared.
I should start with the beautiful, oddly pink-haired Haruno Sakura. Let's begin…from the beginning of her life.
Haruno Sasaki, Sakura's mother, died in childbirth. As soon as her little girl came wailing out of her body, Haruno Sasaki smiled lightly upon her daughter's face, even though the doctor said she lost too much blood and "there wasn't much time left". The worst thing you can hear from a doctor. With her last dying breath, she spoke her child's name.
"You are…S-Sakura…after my favorite tree…I love you, darling…"
Sakura's woeful father, Haruno Nobutaro, went into a depressive slump for two years after his wife had died. During that time, he hired a young widow named Mingmei Hua Lien to look after his daughter. Hua Lien had a daughter named Tenten, a tomboyish brunette even at three, and often brought her over to the Haruno house to play with Sakura. The two instantly became friends and were often seen playing together.
One night, the 29-year-old Haruno Nobutaro was about to commit suicide. As he held the knife to his throat, prepared to end his life, none other than Hua Lien came rushing through the front door, saying she had forgotten something and she was so sorry that—
"H-Haruno-san! What are you doing?" she gasped, "Stop! Think about your daughter!"
Nobutaro lowered the knife at Hua Lien's words. The woman stared at him with great fear and concern.
"Hua Lien…" he said simply. "You…"
"Please, Haruno-san," she said, "How do you think Sakura would feel if her only living parent died as well? Do you want to make your daughter an orphan?"
Nobutaro stared at her for a while. He slowly nodded his head from left to right.
"So, Haruno-san…please put down the knife. I can help you--I can help you get back on your feet again…I also want the best for Sakura…she's like my second daughter…"
There was a moment's silence. Then, Haruno Nobutaro dropped the knife to the floor and fell to his knees, hands in his face. Hua Lien walked over to him, consoling the greiving man.
Twelve months later, Mingmei Hua Lien became Haruno Hua Lien.
It was a happy marriage of two kindred souls. Each lost a loved one early in their first marriage. Sakura and Tenten couldn't be more delighted.
Then, there came the issue of school. Sakura and Tenten attended the same school, in the same class in both pre-school and kindergarten.
Being short on money at the time after kindergarten, and Hua Lien having a teaching degree, the parents decided to homeschool their daughters. It was a bonus because the girls spent all their time at home, and were not exposed to the "dangers", Nobutaro called it, of public school. And the two girls had no problem with it. All they needed was each other.
Unexposed to the world of pop music, celebrities, and fashion, the two grew up cultured and artistic, thanks to their parents' guidance.
Sakura LOVED to read. She started reading children's books alone at age five. When she was seven, she entered a cute little short story into a contest competing with private-school children, and won first prize. This delighted her parents, and they commented that she could be a great writer someday. After some deep thinking for a seven-year-old, Sakura decided that she would be a writer. She would be a novelist and a poet. Her parents loved the idea. From then on, she always carried around a green notebook and blue fountain pen, just in case inspiration struck.
On the other hand, TentenCOULDN'T STOPdrawing. From the age of five as well, she could draw a lotus flower from the pondin great detail. She entered a painting in a contest at age seven, and won first prize like her sister. Her parents encouraged her talent, and said it would be magnificent if they had an artist in the family, as well as a writer. There was always a pencil in her hand and a sheet of paper within 2 feet of her. Tenten carried around a leaf-green tote bag with the chinese symbols for success embroidered on it. It had all of her pencils, pens, sketches, etc. inside of it.
But the two prodigies didn't stop there. Pleasing their parents more, they both took up music. Sakura loved to play classic guitar, and Tenten was a natural at the piano. Every night, they played pieces by the greatest composers for their parents. They even wrote a few of their own songs.
One day, the tomboyish Tenten discovered karate.
When she was six, she saw an article in the newspaper about a ten-year-old boy winning the national karate tournament. Puzzled by the picture of a boy in a white outfit looking tough, she asked her father, who was in the room, about it. There was also a picture of the boy kicking an older man in the stomach, while the man looked to be in great pain.
"Otou-san! Otou-san!" she said, "What is this? Isn't fighting a bad thing?"
Looking over at the article, Nobutaro laughed. "No, Tenten, not in this case. These people train their bodies to do extraordinary things. They are able to defend those they care about by learning fighting techniques in the Martial Arts."
Hearing the word "arts" and learning that this kind of fighting was ok, Tenten's face lightened. "Oooh! I wanna do that! Can I?"
Surprised to hear this, but also thinking that Martial Arts was a good form of discipline for his child, Nobutaro signed Tenten up for classes in the nearest academy.
Two weeks later, Tenten taught the neighborhood bully a lesson.
"That's what you get for making fun of my sister!" she yelled after the boy. All she really did was show off a few beginner kicks and strikes, not even hitting anything. However, as soon as the boy saw them, along with hearing her yells of "hyaa!", he ran off crying.
Sakura stared up at her sister and decided to take karate, too. She became almost as good as her sister was. They were now, at age 16, almost ready to obtain their black belts.
So…we now have here two young girls, both beautiful, intelligent, creative, and talented. They both play music and can defend themselves readily in combat. They were both home-schooled most of their lives. They are the moon and sun and sheer pride of their parents' lives.
Perfect life?
…
not anymore!
Author Note-ness
Woot! Prologue finished! Don't worry, I'll get to the actual High School in the next few chapters. I do need an introduction!
Don't you just HATE Sakura and Tenten right now? They are like, tooo perfect, haha. It'll get better(and more realistic), I promise!
I wont expect lots of reviews, of course, this is only the prologue. Chapter One will be up in at most a day! Ok? Tenk yuu!
Preview of 1st Chapter:
Cherry blossoms fall
Softly, silently
Upon the lotus pond
Mixing in with the white flowers
And crystal waters
Tsune