Disclaimer: No, I do not own Naruto.
Hello everyone! ' This is my first try in Naruto fan fiction, so please be gentle with me. I'm a very new fan in the Naruto anime...hehe '
Oh, this fic is also AU, so it doesn't really have much to do with the series itself......At least right now it doesn't.....
Another note, on this fan fiction, Sasuke, Sakura and the others don't know each other yet like they do in the series, they meet in the high school, so they're a bit older in this story then they are in the actual anime. ((But, Naruto and Sakura do know each other though, but their just friends.))
It's Saku/Sasu pairing, and maybe some Naruto/Hinata pairing here and there....ShikaIno...If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask. Thank you! I hope you like the story! Please review, it really helps!
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'There it is.' She thought, pulling her hair back slowly when the wind blew it into her face. 'Fukagawa Highschool. Am I really in the right place?' She looked around the area, hoping to find some students but no one was to be found.
After scanning the place from left to right she looked down at her watch. '6:59' Sakura shrugged. 'I suppose I did come a little early.' She headed to the school doors, clutching her book bag as she creaked it open heading down the stairs.
"There! The locker room!" She said, looking for her locker number. When she found it, she pulled off her book bag to get ready to put her books in. She pulled on the locker handle but it wouldn't budge. Sakura sighed, and continued to pull. After minutes of no success her face became distorted in anger, and she was now yanking at the door to open.
"Stupid locker!! OPEN UP!!"
"What are you doing?" Said a voice behind her, with a low, calm voice.
Sakura jumped, and now wore a shocked look on her face. She turned to see a handsome young boy with spiked black hair about a few inches taller in front of her. She blushed and looked down at her feet.
"Uhm.......My locker's stuck...." She said, looking down at her feet blushing some more, "I just got down here and—"
The boy didn't even wait for her to finish when he headed to her locker. He looked at the handle a bit and pulled on it softly, when he saw it wouldn't open he kicked the locker with extreme force.
-BAM-
Sakura looked on as her locker creaked open. "Thank you."
He didn't answer. He just took off his book bag and ready to put his books into his locker; which coincidently was right next to Sakura's.
"Uhm......I'm Sakura, what's your name?" She said, trying to get a conversation going.
"Sasuke." He said emotionless, without even looking up at her once. Sakura smiled at him when she finished putting her books back into her locker.
"So...uhm...."
"SAAAKUURRAAAA-CHAAANNNNN!! HEYYY!!!!" Yelled a blonde boy running down the stairs. "Wow! You're here early!" He yelled, coming down the stairs, it was now 7:40, and people were beginning to come down.
She glared at him. 'Naruto....' She thought looking at him annoyed. Naruto however, didn't even notice.
"So how've you been?!" He asked, running to her.
"Uhm, I'm okay I guess."
"That's good!" He said smiling at her. "Well uhm, I'm gonna go find my locker, so.....see ya later if we have any classes together!" He said, running off.
Sakura sighed. "Sorry about tha----"She blinked. 'Where'd he go?' She thought looking for the boy she just met at the locker.
Right at that moment, the bell rung signaling that they had five minutes to get into class. She pulled up her bag and rushed up the stairs.
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'Room 306....' She thought, looking around. 'There!'She walked in quietly, looking around at the students in her class. She stopped suddenly when she found Sasuke was in that same class. She blushed again, trying not to look at him and headed to the front of the class to find out where she sat. 'Why am I liking him already?'
The desks were set in twos, and there were four rows. She continued to look for her name, and there it was, 'Haruno Sakura'
"There!" She said softly, moving her finger to the name next to hers to see who she sat next too. 'Uchiha Sasuke.' Her eyes widened and her cheeks began to color. She took a deep breath and headed over to her seat.
"Uhm.....hello!!! I guess I sit next to you!" She said smiling, as she pulled her book bag down and sat in her seat. Sasuke nodded without looking up, "Aa."
'....A little quiet isn't he?' She thought grimly putting her head on her desk. 'Oh well...' She thought smiling; it didn't change how happy she felt just to sit next to him.
Sasuke looked over at her, seeing her smile at herself as her cheeks reddened as she stared at the bored with a dreamy look in her eyes. 'Eh?' He thought raising an eye, as she continued to smile.
"Alright class!" The teacher said, turning around, "I'm Mr. Akera, your math teacher and today—"
A boy ran into class. "I'm sorry I'm late!" The teacher nodded and pointed at his desk.
"Since you are all new I won't be very tough on you all about being on time this week. But by the 2nd week of school, I expect you all to be here on time. Is that clear?"
The class answered with a "Yes," and the teacher began to write a lesson on the board.
Sakura looked up at the equation the teacher wrote on the board. '....I don't think I'm going to like highschool....I wish I was still on vacation. Oh well,' she smiled, 'At least I get to sit next to him.'
"So if you remember how to use the quadratic formula....."
Sakura began doodling on her paper, bored with what the teacher was saying. 'I don't even remember this stuff,' She thought, listening to his lectures. But within a few minutes, she understood the concept, as did everyone else in the class.
"...and then x is equal too......"
After the second class, it was time for a ten minute break. So far, Sakura shared the same classes with Sasuke, and was sitting next to him in each one.
She headed back into the locker room to get her books for the next classes. She sighed, and pulled on her locker. This time, it opened. She pulled out her books and walked around the area. She found Naruto shoving papers and books in his locker.
She looked at him shocked. 'First day of school and he's getting disorganized already....'
"Good morning, Naruto." She said, tapping him on the shoulder.
"Hey Sakura-chan! Enjoy school so far?" He said, pushing the papers back into his locker.
She shrugged, "What class do you have next?"
"Math. You?"
"English. Well, I'm gonna head upstairs right now."
Naruto nodded as she left to go up the stairs and continued to shove things into his locker.
Sakura walked into class slowly, again, there was Sasuke. 'I must have all my classes with him...' She thought, looking for her seat, finding again, it was next to him.
'Heh. This is the 3rd class in a row I have with that girl,' Sasuke thought trying not smile, 'Why do I feel so weird around her?' He thought, surprised he wasn't annoyed, when he usually was in situations like this.
"Uhm, HELLO AGAIN!" Sakura said, hoping he'd answer with more then an 'Aa' this time. 'This is getting to be a little embarrassing....I'm all standing here trying to talk to him......he barely even answers back......'
"Hey Sakura," Sasuke replied looking up to her eyes.
'He talked to me!! He even said my name!'
"Sitting next to me in this class too?" He said without much enthusiasm.
"YEAH!!"
"Oh yay." He said, in a sarcastic, low tone.
"Eheheh...."
'I guess he doesn't like me.' She thought grimly, sitting in her seat. 'I guess I'll try and change his mind by getting to know him.....'
"Hello class!!! I'm Mr. Ihara. Now I know you all just got back from summer vacation, but I decided to have a nice little project to get you all working."
As if on queue the whole class sighed. The teacher looked up at the students through his glasses. "Come on now, liven up, it's the first day of school!"
"This project will be worth about six test grades for you all."
'Six test grades?!' Sakura thought, 'That must be a huge project!'
"Since it is a big project, you will all have assigned partners, which I will announce after I explain the project. Each of you will have partner and will be working in twos." He held up a paper in his hand, "You will all choose a book on this list to write about." He put the paper back down on his desk and continued to explain the project.
"You are to make a scrapbook of that book with information, visuals explaining the plot......basically everything about the book. The scrapbook should be at least 30 pages, I expect them done neatly and edited for mistakes. I will not be grading very easy, this is an advanced class. So do your best. Here are the groups I have chosen for all of you."
"Aizawa Asako and Daishi Gihei"
"Fuchida Motoki and Genda Sachi."
Sakura laid her head on her desk. This was going to take a while. She looked out the window, the breeze was still pretty strong and it was cloudy and lowered her eyes. 'I wanna go back to bed...' She thought, shoving her head into her arms.
"Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura."
"Wha...?" She whispered looking up. She grinned excitedly, looking over at Sasuke.
'I'm with her in everything.' Sasuke thought arrogantly, crossing his arms and closing his eyes.
She frowned. 'He doesn't look very excited.'
"So uhm, do you wanna meet somewhere after school to work on this project?" She said, grinning at him, forcing herself not to blush.
Sasuke nodded, "Sure."
'Why is he so quiet?' She thought, as her hopes shot down again.
"My place or yours?"
Sasuke shrugged. "Any."
"Do you mind if we meet at my place today? I have lots of books and it may have lots of information on the place we're doing our project on."
He nodded and raised his head. "Where do you live?"
Sakura blushed. "Uhm...." She took out a piece of paper and scribbled her address onto it. She handed it back to him. Satisfied, he folded the paper and placed it in his pocket.
"I'll be there around 5 if that's alright." He said quietly.
"Alright!! Anything's fine!!" She said excitedly, 'WOW I CAN'T WAIT!' She thought, clenching her fists.
"Enough of that...." The teacher said, finishing the list of partners. "The rest of the period is free so all of you can discuss your projects."
The students all gathered into their groups, discussing the place they received. The class was filled with talk, except there wasn't much conversation with Sakura and Sasuke.
Sakura sighed for the one-hundredth time that day bored as can be. She wasn't expecting Sasuke to talk to her, by now she realized he wasn't very talkative. She propped her elbows onto her desk closing her eyes when she heard some girls giggling not far from her.
"He's really cute isn't he? Rumor has it he's already getting popular with everyone!!" Said one of the girls smiling, covering her giggles by putting a hand over her mouth.
"Yeah, he's really cute! Why don't we go talk to him?"
"What was his name? The teacher said it before..."
"I think it was Sasuke!" She whispered, Sasuke directed his gaze at the girls with a straight face when he heard his name. They all tried to hide from his gaze.
"So uhm, about this project!"
Sakura rolled her eyes feeling jealousy already creeping up into her mind. 'What am I thinking...? It's not like he's my boyfriend of anything...'
She looked up, there was a girl in front of her and Sasuke. "Uhm.....Sasuke is it?" She said, playing with her hair, "I'm Yumi, you wanna hang out sometime after school?" She said, giving him a smile.
"Heh." Sasuke said, looking out the window. The girl frowned. "Was that a yes?"
Sasuke didn't answer and so the girl the girl continued to pry at him.
"Was it?"
Sasuke crossed his arms, closing his eyes. "Leave me alone. I don't want to see you again." He said, rather coldly.
The girl frowned, upset by his answer. Sakura was overjoyed with his answer, as a small smile creaked around the corners of her face.
"He said no?" The girls said, trying to get an answer from Yumi. Yumi pretended not to be hurt and made up a random excuse. "I just decided not to go out with him."
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After lunch, Sakura headed down the across the hallway, up the stairs. 'What a day........I wonder why Sasuke's cold to everyone......He has to have a reason for it!' She thought, walking into Art Class.
"Hey Sakura-chan!" Naruto waved from his desk. Sakura nodded, "Hi, this your class now?"
"Yup!"
The desks in the art room were set in fours. Two desks on both sides, both facing each other.
"You're seats over here!" Naruto said, pointing to the seat in front of him. She headed down to her seat and quietly put her books down. She was now sitting next to Naruto, a shy girl with purplish hair....and Sasuke. Again.
"Hi!" Sakura smiled, at the girl, "I'm Sakura."
The girl smiled shyly, looking down at her desk and quietly stated her name. "I'm Hinata."
"Nice to meet you!" She smiled.
"I'm Naruto everyone!" Naruto said, getting up to stand proudly. Hinata smiled and laughed to herself quietly. Sasuke remained quiet and gave Naruto no recognition at all.
"Hey who are you?" Naruto asked, pointing at him.
"That's Sasuke-kun." Sakura said, coming into the conversation. "We share all the same classes together so far."
Naruto nodded. "Cool!" He said, putting a hand out to greet Sasuke. Sasuke looked at his hand for a moment, then turned, without taking the time to shake it.
"What's his problem?" Naruto asked as he stood confused.
"NARUTO!!" Sakura said, glaring at him.
"What?"
"Don't be rude! Sorry about that Sasuke-kun!"
He didn't respond again, but Sakura didn't mind, she was already getting used to the way he acted.
"Do you know what we're doing in class today?" She asked, changing the subject.
Everyone but Sasuke shook their heads. "Alrighty."
"Class! Please be seated!"
--Rinnnggggg---
"School's out!! Finally!!" Sakura yelled, running out the school. "I can't wait to get home!"
Naruto followed, "I'm not that excited, I have tons of homework to do." He whined.
"Yeah me too, I have this huge English project..."
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, well, my homework can wait! I'm headed to the Ramen shop! You coming?"
"Uh...." Sakura sweat-dropped. 'Naruto and his ramen...'
"No thanks, I'll pass."
Naruto shrugged. "Alrighty, I'll see ya tomorrow then!"
Sakura nodded. 'I better get home, Sasuke-kun will be over in just a few hours.....'
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END OF CHAPTER ONE! Ok....I promise it's going to be more interesting in the next chapter, I have this story planned out, so! I hope you liked this chapter! Please review!! ..x.X...I'd appreciate it!