Philophobia
A/N: Okay well, this my first time actually publishing something for others to see and I guess I'm pretty excited. This is a SasuSaku fanfic that one day just came to mind while I was browsing fanfiction. I realized that there aren't that many A/U High School fanfics out there where Sasuke is actually the nerd instead of the drop-dead sexy jock. I wanted to make him shy and kind of self conscious about his looks for a change. Please review and let me know what you think and if I should continue!
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, i do not own Naruto. The characters all belong to Kishimoto :3
Chapter One: I don't want to be in love
Uchiha Sasuke woke up with a start. Nightmares have been plaguing his mind for a while now. It was always the same reoccurring, messed up dream. His elder brother, Uchiha Itachi, massacring their parents in the middle of the night. He had no idea where these horrible nightmares were coming from, his brother was a perfectly sane individual who loved both their parents. In fact, he was a total mothers boy.
He wiped the sweat off his brow and shook off his thoughts while slowly getting up from his bed seeing that it was only 5:30 AM, and school started at 7:15. Today was the first day of Junior year in high school and he couldn't really say that he was exited about the fact. Sasuke had never really fit in at school, he was much to antisocial and shy to ever start up a conversation with anyone. He was known as the class geek that no one ever really cared about or paid attention to.
His best friend, Uzumaki Naruto, was the complete opposite. He was the lovable class clown; the prankster. Overly confident and always getting into trouble that in the end Sasuke had to get him out of. Some people wondered how the odd duo ever managed to become best friends.
Sasuke walked to his bathroom and took a quick shower. Once he was done, he stood in front of the mirror to study his appearance.
Onyx eyes, pale white skin, jet black hair that would tint dark blue in the sun. He sighed. He always did have a problem with how he looked like. He splashed some water from the sink onto the back of his hair to style his naturally made spikes. He walked to his closet and grabbed his school uniform which his mother had so kindly ironed yesterday. He put on his black pants, white dress shirt and red tie in less than 5 minutes. he grabbed his glasses from his nightstand and placed them over his eyes while putting on his black high top converse. He looked at his phone and saw it was only 6:30 therefore, still giving him time for a quick breakfast.
He raced downstairs and into the kitchen where his mother had already placed a bowl of his favorite cereal and a full cup of orange juice on the table.
"Thanks, mom." He mumbled and sat down trying to quickly scarf down his food.
"Sasuke-chan, slow down. You remember what happened to your father that one time." she reminded him.
He playfully rolled his eyes and stifled a laugh at the memory of his usually composed father choking on his half eaten omelet because he was late. He finished his breakfast and went up to his mother to give her a goodbye kiss.
"Bye honey, have a good day at school!" she cheerfully told him. He almost laughed at the thought of actually having a good day at school. He picked up his book bag and walked out of the house. Thankfully, school was only a 10 minute walk from his house. He groaned at the thought of having to go through another year of the dreaded Konoha High.
When he arrived, he noticed there was barely anyone at the school doors. He picked up the pace and sat at one of the benches while looking at his phone. 6:50. Not bad. He looked around to see if he spotted anyone he knew and surely, he found the one person that made school worth it. The person that made the hours of boredom pass by faster, as well as the bullying.
Haruno Sakura.
She was sitting at the bench right across from him with Naruto's girlfriend, Hyuuga Hinata. She had lived all her life in Konoha but had moved away at the young age of 8 due to her fathers job. Since the Uchiha family moved to Konoha around the time of her departure, Sasuke never had the chance to meet her. When she came back last year everyone immediately remembered her. Her milky white skin looking as soft as ever, her long pale pink waist length hair glistening from the suns rays, and lets not forget those eyes. Large piercing green emeralds with beautiful long black lashes that would delicately kiss her cheeks when they closed. She was a beauty, and he wasn't the only one that thought so. Sakura had many admirers. She was beautiful, kind, and smart. She was perfect in Sasukes eyes. He was always day dreaming about her. The only problem was that he had never truly had a conversation with her that didn't consist of only 'hi, how are you?' and 'bye'. It was pathetic really, but Sasuke didn't have the guts to truly talk to her. He knew many things about her to make up for their lack of conversation though. Her favorite color, favorite music, even her major. It was nursing. Now that was the beginning of new fantasies for Sasuke.
He continued observing her and suddenly realized that his favorite green orbs were gazing right back at him. He was completely speechless when she suddenly smiled sweetly at him. He quickly looked down and let his bangs shield his reddening cheeks. His heart was going a hundred miles an hour. What if she thought he was a freak for staring at her so much? he timidly looked through his bangs and saw her facing Hinata and laughing at something the other had said. He let out a breath he had been subconsciously holding and started to play a random game on his phone.
"MORNING bastard!" He flinched at his best friends booming voice. The boy really didn't have an inside voice, and if he did, he never used it.
"Hn, morning dobe." He mumbled halfheartedly while Naruto took a seat next to him.
"Whats got you so beat up? its the first day of school, meaning: The new adventures and dangers of Uzumaki Naruto!" He exclaimed with enthusiasm.
"…That Sasuke always has to clean up after." Sasuke added on with a glare.
"Aww, come on bastard, you know you have fun with me. Don't be shy about admitting it, Sasuke-Chan." he cooed.
Sasuke glared at his so called 'best friend' when he spoke his mothers nickname for him.
"Don't call me that you ass." He sneered at Naruto.
Right when Naruto opened his mouth to most likely say some other stupid remark, the bell rang. Sasuke quickly got up and started heeding to the doors that lead to his personal hell. He looked back to see where Naruto was and saw him giving a chaste kiss to his girlfriend Hinata. He noticed Sakura taking a quick picture on her phone of the too and both Hinata and Naruto immediately became as red as Sasuke's precious tomatoes while she laughed at their embaressment. He turned around before she could spot him watching her again. Wouldn't want to embarrass himself a second time before school even started.
He walked over to the board in the middle of the hallway that would tell him where his new homeroom was. His gaze zeroed in on his teacher for the year. Hatake Kakashi. He groaned knowing from experience that Kakashi was always late to his classes. He made his way over to his locker and left the books he knew he wouldn't need for the day. He carried the Math text book and a few papers that would be needed for the class, already knowing that Kakashi taught math and how he went about with teaching his class. He shut his locker and walked along the hallway keeping his gaze on the floor in front of him until someone randomly bumped into him making him drop his things.
"Watch were you're going, dumbass." A voice he knew all to well stated with much arrogance and annoyance.
"kiba." Sasuke calmly greeted him. Though inside, he was a ball of nerves knowing that Kiba absolutely got a kick out of teasing him.
"Nerd." Kiba said wanting to taunt him. He gave him one last annoyed look, roughly shoved him with his shoulder and continued walking, leaving Sasuke with his stuff on the floor. People still hanging around their lockers lightly snickered at the encounter between the popular jock and the school nerd. Even if things like this had been happening for as long as he had been at Konoha, he never got used to it. Sasuke was shy and easily embarrassed, so Kiba just loved publicly humiliating him every chance he got.
Sasuke didn't dare look up to see who had witnessed Kiba's taunting and silently bent down to retrieve his things.
No one ever really gave a damn or bothered helping him, he was all to used to this treatment. Right when he was about to pick up his final dropped item, which was his text book, a small and thin feminine hand beat him to it.