Cheerleader's Tutor: Chapter 3: The Night Of The Game

“Lee!” Ino cried as she ran up to him after school in the school’s hallway. She was wearing her cheer uniform and she looked very pretty with her hair down and in beach waves, with a bow to top it all off.

            Lee looked at her and blushed at the sight of her and all of her beauty. She was gripping a paper and she shoved it in his face when she finally caught up with him. Lee took it from her grasp and looked it over. He saw the big red A- on it and he looked to Ino and smiled.

            “I got an A! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Ino exclaimed as she wrapped her arms around Lee in a sloppy hug. Lee patted her back lightly, in shock that the cheerleader hugged the nerd.

            “Will you come over at four today? I need some quick tutoring before I have to leave for the game at five thirty,” Ino quickly asked Rock Lee, realizing that she had to find her friends.

            “Yes, absolutely,” Rock Lee politely answered.

            Ino looked at the nerd and smiled a big smile, “Thanks so much! See you then!” she called over her shoulder as she already started on the trek to find her friends in the sea of people.

            Rock Lee stared after her and smiled, he knew that the nerd never got the cheerleader, but it still was a nice thought to think about.

            Rock Lee once again walked to the Yamanaka’s house carrying his notebook and textbook. He knocked on the door once and was promptly greeted by Ino.

            “Hey Rock Lee!” she beamed up at him. Rock Lee nodded in greeting and she led him inside the house.

            “So I think that I just need a little reinforcement on quadratic equations, then do a few problems and we should be okay,” Ino informed him as she led him to her kitchen table.

            “Hi Rock Lee,” Mrs. Yamanaka greeted, looking up from her laptop while she sat on the couch.

            “Hello Mrs. Yamanaka,” Lee returned the friendly greeting. Mrs. Yamanaka smiled in pleasure at the boy’s politeness. Both Ino and Lee walked to the kitchen table to begin their hour long study time.

            “Do you feel okay about this now, Ino?” Lee asked with genuine concern for the cheerleader’s grade.

            Ino looked at the textbook and studied it for a while before finally nodding. “I think that I understand now, if I have anymore questions then I’ll ask you,”

            Ino broke her gaze from the textbook and flashed the boy a smile, “Do you have a phone that I can text you on? It’d be a lot easier than finding you in the halls everyday!” Ino innocently asked.

            “Yes I do, would you like it?” Lee informed the blonde as he whipped out his old phone. It was a flip phone, one that was hard to text on and was a hand me down from his father.

            Lee felt embarrassed when he saw Ino pull the newest make of the iPhone out of her pocket and start clicking on it. The two exchanged phone numbers and Ino informed him that she had to get ready to cheer at the game later on.

            “Lee, will you come to the game?” Ino seemingly innocently asked. She was trying to be polite, but she didn’t know that this had different meaning to the boy.

            Lee turned a light shade of pink and he gaped at Ino, who was still holding a friendly smile, “Uh—“ Lee stammered. Then he regained his composure and he cleared his throat, “Of course I’ll go and support you,” Lee unsurely said.

            Ino’s smile brightened and she thanked the boy in a giddy cheerleader voice. She led him out and thanked him for helping her, then she went to change into her uniform.

            “Yeah! Go Konoha!” the girls cheered as they chanted their school’s fight song, which served as a victory song whenever the team won a game. All six of the cheerleaders ran off of the field and went straight to the bleachers, to continue spreading school spirit.

            Temari and Karin were standing next to Ino as Ino frantically searched the audience for Sasuke.

            “Looking for Sasuke?” Temari mused. Karin shot Ino a dirty look and Ino quickly nodded to Temari.

            Temari sighed, “I don’t know what you girls see in that guy, he’s a jerk,” Temari complained, rolling her eyes.

            “Hey! Sasuke is amazing and he’s strong, he’s the star tight end for our football team you know,” Karin retorted with her hands on her hips. She looked very angry at Temari’s remarks. Temari just shrugged and rolled her eyes.

            Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata approached the three girls. Tenten, Sakura and Hinata were off at the other end of the stands spreading school spirit there, but they came to rejoin their friends after a while of being apart.

            “Hey guys, I feel like we really got the crowd going tonight!” Tenten chirped happily as she shook one of her pompoms in the air.

            “Yeah we had a really good game tonight, the defensive line was especially strong tonight,” Sakura commented.

            “Yeah, agreed,” Hinata chimed in. She was the quietest of the six cheerleaders, but she still liked to get her two cents in sometimes.

            “Hey, there’s Sasuke!” Sakura eagerly pointed it. Karin and Ino turned their heads in his direction quickly. Sasuke shot the three admirers an award winning smile which made all of them swoon.

            “Hey Ino,” Sasuke slurred with a sound that made it sound like his tongue was smooth. Once again, all of the girls swooned.

            “H-Hey Sasuke,” she managed to get out. Sasuke walked over to Ino’s side and started talking about the game.

            But much to the cheerleaders’ and the football player’s demise, Lee walked up and greeted Ino with friendliness.

            “Ew,” Temari leered as she looked Lee up and down. “I thought that this was a loser free zone,” she taunted.

            Temari’s remark stopped Ino and Sasuke’s conversation and the four other cheerleaders’ that were bantering happily back and forth with each other.

            “Oh… H-hi Lee…” Ino nervously trailed off. Lee gave Ino a confused stare; after all, she did ask him to come.

            Sasuke glared at Lee and moved to put his arm around Ino. The blonde could barely contain herself, the Sasuke Uchiha had his arm around her!

            “She’s with me loser,” Sasuke growled. Ino blushed as Sasuke pulled her closer and became very defensive of her.

            “Cool people over here only. This includes cheerleaders and football players and excludes kiss ups like you,” Karin quipped. Everyone laughed except for Ino, who looked uneasy and almost guilty.

            Lee was at the end of his rope, he was hurt and angry. He looked from Ino to Sasuke then back to Ino. He looked like he was about to burst into tears. With a stomp of his foot, which rattled the bleachers, Lee angrily walked away from Ino and the stadium. Everyone called Lee a loser and he was sick of it, he just wanted to be cool for once.

            “We sure showed that loser,” Sasuke denoted. Then he turned to Ino and smiled a sexy and mischievous smile at her.

            “Are you still coming to my party?” Sasuke wondered. Ino looked at him blankly for a second, then nodded her head quickly.

            As happy as Ino was to be under the arm of the hottest guy in school, she still felt bad for the way that she allowed her friends to treat Lee. She wondered if he’d still be her friend.