with a bit of luck..

...he might just be able to find a way to get that annoying girl to leave him alone.


01

About ninety seven percent of Uchiha Sasuke's problems wouldn't exist if that annoying, loud girl with the ridiculous pink hair didn't step—no, barge—into his supposedly peaceful world.

"Huh...? What do you mean?" Sasuke looked up at Iruka-sensei, genuinely confused.

"Sorry Sasuke," Iruka-sensei leaned down and patted his head, "It seems like someone else got the number one spot. Don't feel bad, okay? There's always next year,"

Sasuke blinked once, twice, thrice. What?

Someone else got the number one spot? In his grade? Who else could it be but him? He mentally went through a list in his head of the possible candidates that could possibly oust him from his position as number one.

The first one in his list was Ino Yamanaka. Yes. Ino Yamanaka, it could possibly be her. She excelled in all of their subjects, had excellent moral character (according to the teachers, though he couldn't say the same thing) and was a dedicated athlete. Really, that girl once hit a ball during baseball practice so hard that it flew right across to the separate field where the boys were playing and almost annihilated Inuzuka Kiba.

Then there was Hyuga Hinata. Not very athletic, but extremely hardworking and excelled in academic subjects a lot. She was also very meek and quiet and never gets into trouble with anybody.

But it was none of them.

The list of top students came out that afternoon, and there it was. His name. His wonderful, flawless name sitting right beside a stinking rank 2 mark.

And guess whose name was beside the rank one mark? It was somebody he didn't know.

Haruno Sakura.

Sasuke curled his lip in disgust. If it were Hyuga, he would have taken it better, but this? This? A kid whose name he didn't even recognize? A kid who wasn't even a part of an elite family?

A commoner?

How awful. How humiliating. A common urchin beat him?

"Oh,"

He turned to the source of the sound and saw a short, very skinny girl with ridiculous pink hair and large green eyes. She wore a dull gray sweater over dark blue pants and jagged strands of hair fell over her forehead. She looked up at him from beneath her crooked bangs and gave him a tentative smile.

"H-Hello, Sasuke-kun,"

Oh. So she knew him.

"Congratulations," She said, offering him a handshake with her skinny hands.

He looked her up and down, taking in her dull clothes and awful hair. With a scornful sniff, he ignored her outstretched hand, turned the other way, and left.


TBC

A/N: this is going to be a he said/she said sort of story, like each chapter will be alternately be through sasuke's or sakura's view.

edit: forget it! xD it's going to be in sasuke's point of view all throughout, xD I will occasionally put up special chapters in sakura's point of view though for fun :P