Chemical Reaction: Chapter 02

It wasn't as though falling on your butt in front of your class was such a bad thing. But it was the fact that it had happened on her first day of school that made it so dreadful. Sakura quickly got up and stuffed her books that had fallen out back into her backpack.

Sakura had turned to apologize to the teacher when she had noticed that there was no teacher. She raised an eyebrow. It was already 10 minutes late.

A blonde boy had noticed her confusion, and tapped her shoulder. "Kakashi-sensei's never on time." He explained.

"Oh." Was all Sakura could say. It wasn't like her to be so shy, but she was afraid that these rich kids would be highly critical of her.

"That was a nasty fall. My fault, sorry" The blonde boy said sheepishly. "Oh hey my name is Naruto by the way!" He held out his hand.

"Uh...Sakura" She said, and reached out her hand as well. The "Naruto" boy was remarkably strong and their handshake shook her whole self. "Err…nice to meet you too."

Naruto grinned. "Sasuke-teme! Isn't she beautiful?" Naruto stated, pointing to Sakura.

"Hn…"

Sakura leaned to see the source of the voice, and stifled a gasp when she recognized the guy on the motorcycle earlier. He didn't move. How can he remain emotionless for so long? She pondered.

Trying to make conversation, Sakura said, "Err…so, when's the teacher coming?"

As if on cue, a grey-haired man who Sakura assumed was the teacher walked in lazily and sat down. He didn't seem to have noticed Sakura there.

"Excuse me, I'm new here."

He was reading an orange book, and hadn't heard her.

"EXCUSE ME!"

He looked up. "Hey, you seem to be new."

"Yeah, that's what I was trying to—"

"You should've said something." He said. Sakura sweat-dropped internally.

"Uhh…Right…" Sakura said. "I don't have a seat."

The teacher scanned the room. "You could sit there, in front of Sasuke and behind Tenten." He pointed to an empty seat between the motorcycle guy and a girl with hair tied up into buns.

Sakura quickly got to her seat and sat down. She detected a slight alcoholic odor from behind, but ignored it.

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Her first two classes went well. She had Naruto, Sasuke, and Tenten in both of them. These were the only people who she knew so far. She and Tenten had gotten along quite well, and you might even say they were friends now.

"Hurry up." Tenten poked Sakura. "How long does it take to get your lunch from your locker?"

Sakura giggled. "You know it is my first day here. I never had time to organize my locker yet." Tenten raised an eyebrow.

"Neat freak," she muttered. She got a poke in the ribs as Sakura said laughing, "I heard that!"

Along, side-by-side, Tenten led Sakura into the cafeteria. Sakura examined the room.

"Kind of small for a rich school, isn't it?" She observed.

Tenten shrugged. "Our gym is more impressive."

Two other girls had spotted Tenten, and made their way over to them.

"Hey," said a blonde. "And this is…?" She pointed to Sakura. Sakura introduced herself.

She found out that the blonde was named Ino, and the other girl, one with black hair, was named Hinata.

Hinata smiled. "N-nice to m-meet you," she said in a quiet voice. Shy, much? Thought Sakura.

Sakura grinned. After they made their way to a nearby table, Sakura unpacked her lunch and started eating as the four (Not so much Hinata) chattered. This was the beginning of a wonderful friendship.

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Sakura had two more classes after lunch. All of the classes were with Sasuke and Naruto. Weird coincidence, she thought.

Without her new friends there, Sakura made conversation with Naruto instead. She found out that even though he was such an idiot at time, he had good intentions.

Sasuke, on the other hand, had remained silent the whole time. He had completed his work at top speed, and rested his chin on the back of his hands for the remainder of the class. Even Naruto's loud protests couldn't make him budge.

Even though this was a supposedly wealthier community, the people were equally as friendly as they were at the school she attended previously.

oxoxoxoxo

After a quick goodbye to her new friends, Sakura grabbed her backpack and made her way out of the school. As she opened the door, she had sensed that someone was there.

She turned her head and found herself looking at Uchiha Sasuke, leaning against a wall outside the school. He had alcohol in his hands. Such a waste of brains, she thought.

Being the healthy person that she is, Sakura couldn't help but make a comment.

"You're slowly killing yourself, you know that." She said.

He only looked at her, as if he was unaware of her presence until now.

"The alcohol." She started. "About 40 out of 100,000 people die from it."

Sasuke glared at her, but did nothing more. Sakura was beginning to be frustrated. This led her to do what she had done next. She grabbed the bottle from his hand and threw it into the trash bin.

It took her a few seconds to process what she had done. Oh my gosh…Why am I so stubborn?

"What the fuck was that for?" he yelled. Sakura gasped. This was the first time she had heard him say something other than "Hn".

"I…I'm so sorry." Sakura said frantically. "But you know, you're only harming yourself."

"Who the fuck gave you the right to tell me what to do with my life?!" he shouted. Then, as if realizing that he had snapped, Sasuke shook his head and walked away.

Sakura bit her bottom lip. Such a scary guy…

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Author's Note: I'm going to be having updating swings here. (Kind of like mood swings, I suppose, but with updating) I'll be updating really sparsely, and at other times I'll be updating every other day. I'm sorry that their relationship is progressing slowly, but I figured this was better than rushing everything, you know? Thanks again for everyone's support. Until next time!