Author's Note: Screw my effed up life. -_- I know I'm supposed to be studying for my exam in Anatomy but damn, as soon as I saw this particular site and read the ways on how to date a med student, I immediately thought of Sasuke and Sakura and how I haven't written anything for quite a while now. Now I'm just bursting with ideas and I have another exam the following week, too. Anyway, I might as well just post this seeing as how I already wasted my precious study time. :P Happy reading! :D
Written on: July 5, 2011
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters rightfully belong to Masashi Kishimoto. The tips mentioned in this story are based on 'How to Date a Med Student' by Fox News iMag and can be seen on this site: www (dot) yourtango (dot) com (slash) 200919756 (slash) tips-dating-med-student.
Warning(s): AU.
How to Date a Med Student
Chapter One
By Zagoorian Athena
1. Don't expect to see them. Ever.
Sasuke Uchiha prided himself in being the guy. The epitome of tall, dark and handsome, he knew exactly how devilishly handsome he was, and thought that any girl would be lucky enough to even receive a glance from his direction. He walked through the streets of Konoha as if it were his runway knowing full well that people were watching his every move. He turned heads wherever he went and pretended to not care about all those things with his cold yet mysterious demeanor that seemed to entice the women all the more. He was what every woman wanted and what every man wanted to be.
—Which is why he couldn't understand her at all!
How could Sakura Haruno, his girlfriend and thereby the luckiest woman in the entire universe, not fathom how extremely fortunate she was to be the object of his hard-to-get love and affection?
There he was, waiting for her for the past 2 hours in the fancy restaurant she had all but begged him to take her to and yet there was no sign of pink hair—not even a single strand of it—anywhere within a five-kilometer radius of said restaurant. To make matters worse, all his calls kept going to voice mail, the recorded message telling him she was 'busy at the moment'.
"Damn it," he cursed under his breath. Uchihas didn't wait—Sakura had known that rather pompous fact ever since they started dating, but that's exactly what she was making him do! Eventually, though, realization that she wouldn't be arriving anytime soon dawned upon him and with an exasperated sigh, he got up and practically dragged himself to where he knew she would probably be at this hour.
'Dystrophin connects F-actin to the two members of the dystroglycan (DG) complex, and these in turn connect to the merosin subunit of laminin 211 in the extracellular matrix. The sarcoglycan…' (1)
It was around three o' clock in the afternoon when Sakura resumed studying for her upcoming exam in one of her many difficult classes and she was so intent on the textbook in front of her that she had gotten lost in the sea of muscle physiology and totally lost track of time. By the time she resurfaced from her intense studying it had gotten significantly dark outside and she wondered what time it was since her tummy had started feeling a bit empty. A few moments of contemplating whether to continue studying or getting up to grab a bite to eat later, the doorbell to her apartment rang and she got up, stretching her back after being seated for a long period of time, before making her way to the door and opening it to reveal a very grumpy and very scary-looking Uchiha.
"Hey Sasuke-kun!" she greeted with a bright smile. "What are you—" she began to ask but stopped mid-question when she realized what day and time it was, and why the dark-haired man was standing in front of her, staring her down with the infamous Uchiha glare. "Oh crap! Oh crapcrapcrapcrapcrap…" she cried out, the happy look on her face suddenly transforming into a look of fear and worry.
"Oh crap is right," he darkly replied before stepping in and closing the door behind him with an eerie calmness.
A deafening silence filled the small living room as Sakura quietly contemplated what she had to do to make him forgive her this time. Yes, it wasn't the first time Sakura stood him up—but it's not like she meant to do it all those times, really! She honestly loved Sasuke with all her heart and she wouldn't even dream of letting an opportunity to spend time with him pass by; but ever since she started med school, her priorities sort of got shuffled a bit and she was either too busy or too tired to do anything not related to school every time he asked her out. And just when she thought she finally had a weekend free (well, relatively free when compared to her other weekends), her professor announced that he'd be moving the exam in Physiology a week early and in the state of panic she was in, she quickly holed herself up for the weekend, neglecting to call Sasuke and tell him she couldn't make it to their date.
Sakura opened her mouth to speak, ready to bombard him with an eternal rain of apologies but was cut off with a sigh—not a frustrated one, but an understanding one—from her boyfriend who held up a bag of what she assumed was dinner. Blinking her emerald eyes in surprise a few times, she then smiled sheepishly up at him and tucked a strand of pink hair behind her ear before drawing closer to the man she loved so much and encased him in a 'sorry' hug who quickly returned it with an 'I forgive you' embrace.
(1) Barrett, K. B. (2010). Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology. McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
A/N: This is going to be a multi-chapter fic, by the way. Just don't expect me to update as frequently as I did with my other multi-chaptered stories because quite like Sakura, I'm also busy with school. :D Whether this'll be a series of drabbles or a continuous story with the chapters related with one another, I'm not so sure yet. :)) Just know that it's all gonna be about SasuSaku, naturally. ;) Send me a review, okay? :)