My Dear People

Here's a new story for you guys! Hope you enjoy it, here's the facts!

Inspiration: My outrageous, and completely irresponsible, HP Chemistry class

Music: Clumsy by Fergie, Give it up to me by Shakira, A Bird's Song by Ingrid Michaelson

Main Pairing: Sasuke and Sakura

Summary: Signing up for HP Chemistry, I expected uncontrollable stress and cruel amounts of homework. However, what I didn't expect was gaining three best friends, one-on-one time with my long-time crush, Sasuke, and the misplaced but frequent outbursts of random stupidity and idiocy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chemistry 101

Prologue

This. Was. Impossible.

I walked to the seat assigned to me according to the plastic sheet posted on the wall. Dropping my bag on the table, I sat down and proceeded to rub my temples in hopes of relieving some anger. In the small and uncomfortably cramp desk, I looked around to see my fellow classmates for fifth period, but that only caused me to become more unsettled.

Someone please explain to me, how the hell Naruto Uzumaki got in this class?

Or Kiba Inuzuka? Or Ino Yamanaka? Or Tenten, Rock Lee and Choji?

This is an HONORS PLACEMENT class! If this class follows the reputation it upholds, they will be begging to get transferred into normal chemistry after a week. I belonged there, being one spot away from Valedictorian. Sasuke Uchiha, currently in first, belonged there. Along with that, I'm sure if Shikamaru, Shino, Hinata, Neji, and Sai put some effort in it they could pull it off.

But still, this class was already too...lenient, for me...I knew I should have taken AP.

Shifting in my seat, I heard the bell ring before our teacher walked in reading an orange book. After a while of the students just staring at him, he decided to put away his book and face the class.

"Uh..." He hopped over the counter in the front of the classroom and now stood directly in front of the class, who was remarkably quiet.

"Hi." He continued to stare at us until Naruto, the class clown, decided to inject with his own little piece of mind.

"Hey!" The instructor's eye crinkled due to what I could assume was a smile (he wore a mask over his face for some unknown reason) and scratched the back of his silver hair.

"Well...I'm your teacher, Mr. Hatake. As you can tell, I'm kind of awkward at the 'first day' thing." Huh, you got that right.

"So, we'll being going over the basics you will need to learn and guidelines to take this course." He grabbed a piece of paper in front of him.

"To start off with, you don't ever need to bring your book; I'm glad to see the majority of you didn't." I did. Curse myself for being such an overachieving nerd.

"I want to go around the room very quickly with everyone introducing themselves. All you have to say is your name and what you think of when I say chemistry." He gestured to the far left side of the room.

"Starting with the blond kid who actually answered me when I greeted you guys." Naruto stood up from his seat and puffed his chest out.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! And when I think of chemistry, I think of me eating ramen!" Kiba just snickered and spoke to the class in a false whisper.

"Everything makes you think of eating ramen." The majority of class laughed at Kiba's remark, and when Naruto retorted with a quiet 'so' people laughed even harder. Smiling at his joke, Kiba took his turn to introduce himself to the class.

"I'm Kiba Inuzuka, and when I think of chemistry I think of love." The females in the class giggled at his actions, thinking they were talking about them. It was no secret how much of a dog Kiba is. Behind Kiba sat Shikamaru, one of my only friends. He shrugged himself out of his desk and leaned on the wall next to him.

"Shikamaru Nara. When I think of chemistry, I think of how boring and what a drag this is going to turn out to be." That's him, the lazy genius. It was unfair how he had such unsurpassable amounts of knowledge yet used it to do absolutely nothing.

We continued down the line with the rest of the class members, a majority of them saying either a joke or nothing (e.g. Sasuke and Neji). Finally, it was my turn to introduce myself. As I motioned to stand up though, I was halted by Mr. Hatake's voice resonating off the aged and slightly disgusting classroom walls.

"Well, I guess that's everyone, right?" Of course. I was about to interject, saying that I hadn't been introduced yet, but I changed my mind.

After all, how can anyone be expected to notice a nobody?

Silently adjusting myself in my seat again, I thought to myself about my current situations. I promised myself last year to change that, but it was obviously all empty words. It doesn't matter. I didn't expect myself to keep that promise anyway.

In the back of my mind, I silently repeated what I was going to say for my introduction. I grabbed a pen from my pencil pouch and begin to scribble down some thoughts and phrases on my desk that I was sure meant nothing to anybody besides myself.

My name is Sakura Haruno, and when I think of chemistry I think of how I should have taken the AP class so I wouldn't be stuck with all these idiots... And Newton. I think of him too.

Looking down at the neatly written message, I mused that by tomorrow it would be smudged, illegible, and unnoticed. I released a sigh before I turned my attention back to our teacher, who was teaching us how to smell chemicals without burning our nasal factories.

Just another year of cliques, reputations and social damnation.

It'll get funny later on. I promise! This is just plot development right now.

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(I sound like Lee.)