When you're fifteen in high school falling in love sounds like the greatest thing that could happen to you. Being able to walk through the halls, hand in hand, showing everyone how strong your feelings for each other really were. That's exactly how loved sounded to Sakura Haruno, as she walked down the halls with her friends and saw all the couples. The year had only just begun and already she was making plans to get a boyfriend. He would be strong, handsome, cool, and above all only have eyes for her. The perfect guy and he would be all hers…now she just needed to find him.
A sigh had escaped from her lips as she thought of this. "Yeah right, how am I supposed to find a guy like that in this school?" Her mind made a quick list of every guy in the school and came up empty on any possible guys that would be willing to date her.
"You need to cheer up Sakura," Ino Yamanaka, her best friend for as long as she could remember flicked her forehead. "If you keep frowning your forehead will get wrinkles before your face does." She gave the frowning pink haired girl a cheeky grin, knowing full well that she was annoying her and enjoying it.
Growing up Sakura was teased by others because of her overly-large forehead. Ino was her first friend and scared all the bullies away. She is the only person Sakura will let make fun of her forehead and not punch them in the face. "Shut up, Ino. I'm not in the mood today." she grumbled, making a beeline for her locker. She really didn't want to listen to Ino try and cheer her up…again. Last time Ino tried cheering her up she refused to leave her room for three days.
"Would you relax, I'm just trying to help you out," She didn't like being so moody around Ino but sometimes she can just become so annoying and today was one of those days. "Look, I'm just warning you, if you don't start taking action now you'll never get a boyfriend."
"Take action?" She looked at her best friend in confusion, locker shut as she got everything ready for her first period gym class. "You make it sound like I'm going into battle."
"You are!" Ino jumped at her, getting closer then Sakura wanted her too. "Getting a guy is all about planning your battle and how strong you're willing to fight. You have a lot of competition out there Sakura, I want to make sure you're prepared." She had her hands on her hips, and looking at Sakura like training her in the art of flirting was her life mission.
"Ino, don't you think you're over exaggerating just a little bit?" Sakura was beginning to wonder if she was watching one to many soap operas.
"I'm serious, Sakura!" She was once again acting like this talk was a life and death moment. "It's not like a guy will just come out of nowhere, wrap you in his arms and confess his undying love for you."
"Not unless Lee got out of the hospital," she muttered thinking of the bushy brow guy that has been in love with her since grade school. He's the only guy she knows that isn't freaked out by her super strength, well a few others but none of them are boyfriend material.
"Sakura, I'm serious. You have to…Oh my god!" Suddenly her attention was off the pink haired teenager and to something that was behind her. Her eyes became glazed over, cheeks turned pink, and she got a goofy grin on her.
It took a lot to get Ino to stop talking once she was on a roll and Sakura wanted to know what had caught her attention so much. "Ino? Are you ok?" she got my answer when two pairs of arms sneak their way around her waist and shoulders and her back pushed up against a strong chest.
"Good morning, ladies." She should have known what had taken Ino's attention off of her, it was always the same thing.
"Inuzuka-sensei, let go of me." Sakura sighed, sadly she was used to being hugged by the teacher.
Kiba Inuzuka, the school's chemistry teacher and youngest in the whole school. He was only twenty-seven and every girl in school had a monster crush on the guy. Sakura had to admit to having a small crush on the man herself, but it starts to wear off when you get hugged by the guy everyday and later deal with the crazy jealous fan girls.
"Hmm…I don't wanna." He may be a teacher but he always liked a little kid whenever she sees him. Being a young girl in high school she knew all about teacher's sexual harassments to students but Inuzuka-sensei had never gone that far as to touch her. Besides, the guy is more like a hyper active puppy then a guy that would touch his students.
"Inuzuka-sensei!" Her hands were already balled into fists, ready to hit this guy off of her and punch away that cheeky grin he always wears.
"Hey, I said call me Kiba. Calling me Inuzuka-sensei makes me sound like an old man." His cheeks were pressed against hers, and she could see the red outlines of his two upside down triangles. There was a bet going around that they were actually tattoos instead of birthmarks like he told us. She didn't know why but she believed they're birthmarks like he told them.
"Not happening," She scoffed and turned her head away. Now if only turning her head would be enough to get him to let go. Instead Kiba just placed his chin on top of her head and held on tighter, another grin was on his face, she could feel it. "You're annoying, you know that." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
"Love you too, sweetheart." He only snuggled closer. Sometimes Sakura really hated that the school made them wear uniforms. If she didn't have to wear a skirt she could have kicked him so far he would go all the way up to the roof. He had her arms trapped and using her legs would only reveal to everyone what color underwear she had decided on wearing today, so fighting down the urge to hit him, Sakura just ignored the man. Or tried too.
"Kiba-sensei!" She had almost forgotten Ino was here but was so happy that she was. Maybe she could get his attention off of her and hopefully his arms off her body. "It's so good to see you this morning."
Sakura groaned, of course Ino wouldn't notice that she was in need of help. Her main focus was to get the man's eyes on her.
"It's nice to see you too, Miss Yamanaka." He gave her a small wave, only one arm holding her and Sakura tried to escape but his grip was too strong as he pulled her back to him.
"Damn it. I forgot how strong this guy was." Even though he was their chemistry teacher, he would also help out Gai-sensei during gym. Every time he did Sakura would always face off against him no matter what they played. Basketball, volleyball, dodge ball, tennis, track, she played against him in all and every damn time he would always beat her! She don't know how but his physical strength was one that she couldn't overcome and that annoyed her.
"Please, call me Ino." She giggled, flipping her hair to try and give him one of her flirting smiles that she swears makes any boy drool.
"I would like too but I can't get to close to my student, don't want the school board thinking I'm doing stuff I'm not supposed to do." He rubbed his cheek down on Sakura's head and gave it a kiss.
"Yeah right," She rolled my eyes at this action, having been used to all of it by now and looked up at the teacher. "If you really were worried, you wouldn't be hugging me like this. Which reminds me, let me go!" she tried once again to get away but this man was a lot stronger then she was, surprisingly. Usually her brute strength was enough to get ten guys off her, not that any other guy than Inuzuka-sensei had touched her.
"But Sakura, you're special! How can I not want to be close to my favorite student?" She really wanted to hit this man and she was very tempted to. He was talking so loud that everyone who wasn't watching before was watching now.
"Great, as if there aren't enough rumors going around about me and this guy." Ever since the first day, Kiba Inuzuka had been hugging her, kissing her head, and giving Sakura little gifts. All of this causing everyone to believe that they were a couple. This guy was the main reason why she couldn't get a boyfriend, no boy in school wanted to deal with an angry Kiba Inuzuka so they all just stayed away from Sakura.
Not wanting to deal with anymore rumors or angry fan girls, she fought to get free. "I'm serious, Inuzuka -"
"Kiba." He put his cheek back on her head and snuggled down into her pink hair, like he was about to take a nap in it.
"Fine, Kiba…" Her cheeks turned pink at this, it felt a little strange to call her teacher by his first name but if it got him to let go then she would forget any embarrassment and say it. "I'm going to be late for gym class if you don't let go and I don't feel like dealing with Gai-sensei's wrath or your fan girls." she could already imagine the kinds of torture that Gai-sensei or the crazy girls would have in store for her.
"Actually you're not going to gym today, Sakura." He took her gym bag with one hand and threw it inside her locker. "I need you in class with me."
"How did you know my combination?" Now she was getting a little worried about her teacher. It was one thing to be a stupid idiot and another to be a crazy stalker.
"Cause you wrote it on your notebook," He pulled out a small pocket sized notebook from his lab coat pocket and put it in front of her face. "Found it last week under your desk,"
She reached for the notebook but he took out of her reach. "You better not have read any of it." she had a lot of personal information in that notebook, information that she did not need to be spread around the school.
"Relax, I only looked at the front page to see who it belonged too. All I read was your personal information. Like…" He opened to the first page and read out loud to her and Ino everything she had written down when she first got the notebook.
Name: Sakura Haruno
Age: 15
Birthdate: March 28
Weight: 45.4 kg
Blood type: O
Eye color: Green
Hair: Bright Pink
She gave a small sigh of relief when she learned that that was all he read from the notebook.
"Of course I added in my own stuff too." Her sigh of relief was sucked right back in when he said those words.
"What?"
"Yep! I added in a few things that I thought should be there…" He read what he put down.
Cuteness: 100
Temper: On a scale of 1 to 10….50
Smarts: Smarter than me
Sexiness: Mine
Favorite Teacher: Kiba Inuzuka, as if there could be any other choice. Kiba Inuzuka is my favorite teacher and I will love him forever
Her right eye was twitching at the end of all that. "I am so going to hit this guy once he let go of me." For now she would keep her calm and wait for the bell to ring and than she would smack him. "Inuzuka-sensei…!"
"Sensei!" Ino jumped in before Sakura could make a move.
"Yes?" He looked at her, putting the notebook back into his pocket.
"The bell rang and I was wondering if you could give me a pass to gym class. I know you said you needed Sakura but I was wondering if you could write me one too, today's not a good day for me to sweat." She gave him a sweet smile, well as sweet as she could make it but to Sakura it looked somewhat creepy.
"Sure!" Of course he would say yes, he always does whenever a student asks him to ditch a class. He would always write a slip saying he needed the student for an experiment and get them out of class. "Now take that to Gai and then hide out somewhere because I really do need to see Sakura in my classroom." She groaned when he mentioned that again. Last time he had to see she was because he wanted her to look at a bunch of vacation brochures asking which one she would like to join him on this spring break. She circled down the most expensive one, along with a few others that she thought would be nice to experience on a ship, and then made it into a paper airplane and threw it out the window. Of course instead of getting mad at her like a normal person would he only smiled and said he had memorized everything she had chosen.
"Ok, I'll leave you two alone," Ino gave us another bright smile that looked innocent to most but Sakura could see the sinister smile that it was hiding. "Have fun you two but not too much, I can't have to two getting caught before I have proof of your love." She waved them off and ran down to gym class where she would sit out and probably comb her hair the whole period.
Sakura watched Ino leave her in the arms of the one teacher that knew how to fight and always managed to beat her no matter how many times she tried to fight him off. "Alright, let's get this over with." She waited for another one of his flirty replies, something along the lines of "Anything for you baby" or "Why rush? As lovers we should take our time." She had a feeling it would be the second one and waited to see if she was right.
She waited but it never came, no flirty reply, not another kiss to the head, or even a tighter hug, instead he was standing there as if he was frozen in his spot and forgotten how to move. "Sensei?" she was worried now, having never seen the usually happy and excited teacher like this before. Her hand went up to one of his, wanting to check if he had maybe a fever or stroke or something, anything that would explain his weird behavior.
Her hand touched his and in a flash he grabbed hold of her hand, releasing her from his monster bear hug and pulled Sakura down the empty halls of the school. He was silent the whole way, his body was stiff too, he was acting nothing like he usually does and it was really starting to worry her. "Sensei, maybe you should go to the nurse? You're acting strange and I'm starting to get worried." She told him her worries for him and half expecting for him to snap back and attack her in another hug.
"You're always like this…always having concern for others even when they annoy you." He spoke in such a low turn that she almost hadn't heard him.
"Sensei…?" He really had her worried now. She has never heard him talk like that before. Sure she was used to him giving her compliments, the day she cut her hair short he wouldn't stop talking about it or stop touching it, she was so ready to buy a wig and just wait for her hair to grow out again, but that was how Kiba was. He was a really weird, fun loving, honest guy. This time however he was so different, a complement like that was foreign to her, it was one that didn't involve her looks or body, but her personality instead.
She was thinking of just dragging him down to the infirmary when they finally reached his classroom and he pushed her inside. Sakura stumbled a little from being thrown harder than expected to be and looked around, the room that was normally so bright was suddenly filled with darkness. There were blinds hanging over the window, only a little bit of light was sneaking in and it wasn't much. She could just barely see that she was standing in front of his desk, hands touching the cold wooden table that held a black projector in the center of it.
"We're watching a film today, I needed to cover the windows or else we couldn't see the screen," Well that answered one question that was on her mind now for the other. She turned around to face him, ready to ask him why he was acting so strange today but her voice was lost when she noticed that he was so close.
She thought he would be at the door or at least near it but he was so close to her, all she had to do was lean forward and she would be back in his arms again. She could hear his breathing, smell his cologne, and look so clearly into his eyes that she could understand everything that they were trying to hide. "Sensei? Are you-" Just as her voice came back he silenced her with a kiss.
Her eyes were wide when she finally took notice of what had just happened between them. She didn't even see his hand grab her own until he pulled her forward and his lips made contact with her gasping ones. His strong arms that held her before were once again embracing her, but this time it was entirely different. Unlike the last times when he would hug her for fun or to just annoy her; this hug was so full of love and passion that her body was frozen by it. His lips moved on top of hers, tongue making its way into her mouth and dancing with hers. She shut her eyes and let out a groan from the passion of this kiss, it was her first one and it was nothing like she thought it would be.
Finally she pushed his mouth off, the need for air had given her enough strength to get him off but his arms refused to let go. They held tight and keeping her body close, so close to his that she was having trouble figuring out whose heart was beating so hard, hers or his? Her lungs filled themselves with air as she stared into his eyes once more, eyes that were so sharp they seemed to stare right at her and see everything that she kept hidden from the world. It was strange to see eyes like this, usually his eyes only hold playfulness like a puppy that wanted to play a game of fetch but these eyes now seemed more like a wolf than a puppy.
She wanted to say something, anything that would make this situation make sense but she couldn't think of anything. She knew Kiba liked to flirt, he did it everyday with her but it never went beyond the limit that was set up on the first day he did it. He would always hug her from behind, enough to keep hold of her so that she wouldn't punch him in the face. He never held her in the front where his arms were wrapped around her waist where her body could feel every part of his. He would always kiss the top of her head, making her turn red and scream from how stupid he was acting. Never before did he ever kiss her on the lips or with his tongue dancing around hers. She didn't understand any of this, he was her teacher that just liked to flirt and play games with her. He didn't - couldn't have feelings for her!
"Stop it," He spoke before she could and he seemed angry. "Stop trying to decipherer this like its some kind of puzzle. It's not, this is the real me. Not the one that was flirting like a stupid hormonal boy that doesn't know how to talk to a girl. This me now is a man expressing himself to the woman he loves." He eyes were staring straight into hers, foreheads touching, and they were nose to nose.
"L-Love?" She finally spoke and it came out as a stutter.
He only nodded and kissed her forehead. "I love you." He whispered his confession into the top of her head and went back down to give her yet another passion filled kiss. Sakura's eyes shut again as she fell into the kiss, hands grabbing his shirt in desperation as these actions took place. It was really happening, this was no dream or fantasy that Ino always said she had about the two of them. Kiba Inuzuka, her chemistry teacher just confessed to being in love with her.
