A/N: Just some basic information. This is an AU, and it takes place in our world. Teams 7, 8, and 10 are all freshmen, Team Gai all are sophomore, with the sensei's as mentors. Temari is a senior, Kankuro is a sophomore, and Gaara is a freshman. The Akatsuki, with the exception of Pein and Konan, are all Seniors. Pein and Konan are mentors as well as teachers.

My first Naruto fanfic as well, if that has any importance to anyone out there...

This fic will probably not have any couples really important to the plot in any way. Just one-sided Sasuke/Sakura. Still, if there's a couple you want a sentence or two about, feel free to propose it. It may end up here.

Fifty Reasons Why Uchiha Sasuke Must Never Fall in Love with Haruno Sakura

Haruno Sakura was not stupid.

And when she said 'not stupid', she meant in all regards. People seemed to often confuse this, much to her displeasure. After all, such a smart girl would not be chasing after a man who didn't even give her the time of day, that man being Uchiha Sasuke.

This, of course, was where they were mistaken. Sakura, in all honesty, did not want Sasuke chasing after her in the slightest. In fact, Sakura only had one goal when it came to making Sasuke have any opinion on her what-so-ever.

Uchiha Sasuke must not, by any circumstances, fall in love with her.

And frankly, chasing after him all through elementary school did what Sakura thought was the trick. Sasuke liked girls with long hair? Sakura took the first opportunity she had to cut her waist length pink hair to her shoulders (The particular incident being a planned cat-fight between herself and a certain Yamanaka Ino, which reminded her, she still owed the blond girl a favor from oh so many years ago).

Her biggest success was becoming a complete and utter fangirl for him during grades one through five. In middle school, she had to admit, she had relaxed a little on the who "Make Uchiha Sasuke Never Fall in Love with Me" plan, all emphasized with capital letters, as Sakura was sure it was important enough for.

In middle school was also when things started to go downhill on her planning.

In middle school, their school had a program in it than ran through the joint high school. Students, in pods of three, were given a mentor teacher to help them organize their school lives and, in high school, prepare for college.

Sakura was fine ogling Sasuke from a far ways away, and squealing whenever he got near, so long as she was never in the same class as him. This meant she didn't have to keep her act on every single minute of every single day. In elementary school, Sakura got lucky, and she admitted it. It was very unlikely that she would never be placed in the same class as him.

In middle school, Sakura was placed into the same guidance group as Sasuke under the mentor Hatake Kakashi.

This, of course, meant she pretty much had to embarrass herself in front of the teacher she would, in all likelihood, have to keep through her entire middle school and high school career, on a daily basis, having to keep up an 'I love Sasuke' persona. At the same time, she had to explain to her close male friend, Naruto, why exactly she had to pretend to dislike him and find him annoying. Naruto understood, but Sakura still felt quite guilty about treating him so badly in front of Kakashi and Sasuke. She bought him a lot of ramen for coping the way he did.

Eventually, though, sometime between grade six and eight, Sakura stopped having the energy to fangirl over Sasuke, and eventually, the black haired boy began to tolerate her more and more. She even treated Naruto normally in front of Kakashi and Sasuke again. In fact, she began caring less and less about the Uchiha as days went by.

And now that she was going into the second half of her freshman year of high school, she had received some rather disturbing news. Apperently, the very man she had spent so many years trying desperately to make never fall in love with her, had done just that. Uchiha Sasuke had fallen in love with Haruno Sakura.

Now, this would've normally been good news for any girl. Any normal girl, at any rate. Sasuke was considered one of the school's 'hottest guys', but Sakura knew better than that. She'd known better than that since she was in kindergarten.

There were fifty good reasons why Uchiha Sasuke must never fall in love with Haruno Sakura.

Reason One: His Brother

Sakura closed her locker with a satisfying clink as the lock went into the locked position. She sighed, tucking her books to her chest. Ino would be here in about a minute or so to walk with her to English class. She sighed and rubbed her hands against her temples. She wished she had been given lockers closer to her friends, but instead she managed to get the locker the farthest away from anything and anyone.

Well, she was closer to the senior hallway than anyone else, but she didn't care too much about that. Apparently there was some gang around there. A-Cat-Sauce or whatever, Sakura couldn't remember. She did know that they were bad news, and that if they caught a freshman like her in senior hallway, they wouldn't hesitate to beat her up to within an inch of her life. Or at least, that's what they did to the last guy they caught around there. In truth, she wasn't quite sure what they'd do to a girl. On that same note, she didn't want to find out.

She looked up from her books to see everyone around her staring at something, or someone, standing in the middle of the hallway. She followed her gaze to see a man who looked suspiciously like Sasuke, only with longer hair standing beside a man with blue skin (A disorder?) and blue hair. They both appeared focused as they looked around the hallway.

Finally, Sasuke-lookalike spoke, "Which one of you is Sakura?" Sakura raised her hand slowly and both seniors approached the girl. The blue skinned one appeared uninterested and was looking around the remainder of the hallway. "I'm Itachi, and this is Kisame." He gestured to the blue skinned man. Sakura blinked, and then nearly whacked her head from her stupidity. Of course the Sasuke-lookalike would be Sasuke's brother! How she didn't figure this out earlier was beyond her.

She held out her hand, "I'm Sakura." She said.

"Yes. I know." And with that, Itachi stared at her.

Sakura nervously twiddled her thumbs. "Uh... Is there anything you need?" She asked hesitantly.

Itachi blinked, "Your hair is pink."

She sighed, "Yes."

And with that, Itachi and Kisame left the confused Sakura to return to, where Sakura assumed was, class.

'What just happened?'

---

Sakura couldn't shake the feeling that she just might be being watched.

In science class, she could've sworn she saw the bush outside the window move more than once. It wouldn't have normally been all too strange, but there was not enough wind to blow the leaves the sheer amount that they were. "Billboard Brow?" Ino poked her, "You've spaced out all class, are you all right?"

Sakura nodded, noticing the bush twitching yet again. She looked up, "I'm fine."

---

Similar things happened all morning to the 'Bush Incident'. In gym class it was the mats twitching. In English it was something in the shadows. Every class seemed to have something suspicious in it.

Thankfully, lunch arrived, which meant one thing in Konoha High, meetings with the mentors.

So here she sat, in Kakashi's office, with Naruto and Sasuke, waiting for their always late teacher to arrive.

She sat there fiddling nervously. She was sure someone was watching her, there had to be someone.

Naruto gave her a strange look, "Sakura? You all right?"

Sakura nearly jumped out of her seat, they had all been silent up to that point. "I'm fine... Really... Hey, do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?"

Naruto gave her a strange look and shook his head. "Are you sure you're all right?" He asked, laughing.

Before the pink haired girl got a chance to reply the door opened, revealing Ms. Shizune, the principal's assistant. "Er... Sasuke?"

He cocked an eyebrow, slouching onto his chair, "Your brother hasn't shown up for any classes today, but he hasn't been called in absent. Was he ill this morning?"

This being revealed would cause Sakura to want to whack herself in the head for stupidity for the second time in the day. Of course. Itachi had to be the one following her. Though why he was was a whole different story, one which Sakura would have to ask him about, if he showed himself at any time.

---

The rest of the day went about normally. Still, Sakura could practically sense Itachi following her around. The ball rang, indicating the end of class. Sakura rushed out of the classroom, hoping to catch Itachi before he managed to escape to stalk her from a new location.

Thankfully, she managed to run right into his chest.

He just stood there, Kisame right behind him a couple of steps. "I approve of you. Father will be happy to meet you." And with that, he walked away.

Sakura blinked. He stalked her all day just to approve of her?

She rubbed her temples. She could never date Sasuke, his brother was too psychotic.

A/N: So... It's done. Leave a review if interested, I suppose. Thanks for reading. Chapter two will hopefully be out soon?\

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, any character associated, and I make no money from my writings.