Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the song Don't Stand So Close To Me.
Chapter One:
Young teacher the subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking she's so close now
This girl is half his age.
Sakura raised her hand high above her head; a slight squeal of anticipation escaping her lips as she nearly pulled herself upright with the stretching of her raised arm.
"Yes Sakura?" said her English teacher, Kakashi Hatake.
Sakura lowered her hand slowly, nervously. She then rose from her chair and approached his desk with an uneasy stride. She licked her pink lips and spoke.
"Mr. Hatake, I um…I had a question on today's reading assignment. Would you mind if I stayed after and…"
"Not at all, Sakura, see me after class." He said briskly as he returned to grading papers. Her face flushed slightly at his reaction but she returned to her seat.
The bell rang moments later and Sakura's heart jumped into her throat at the sound of it. As all the other students rushed into the halls to head home, Sakura lingered, slowly rising from her seat to approach the desk of her teacher.
"Now, what was it you were having trouble with Sakura?" he said, smiling beneath the odd black mask he wore which began at the bridge of his nose and ended somewhere along his clavicle, accompanied by a black headband that covered his left eye.
Sakura could always tell when he was smiling despite the mask, for his visible eye always crinkled sweetly when he did. The sight of him smiling relaxed her considerably and she found her voice again.
"On page 886, I was wondering about the last part of that poem. From the part where he says 'But thy eternal summer shall not fade, nor lose possession of that fair thou owest…' to the end, what does he mean?"
Kakashi smiled again, more discreetly and pulled a poetry textbook from under a pile of papers. He turned to the page and pointed to the poem Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. He read the ending aloud from where she had begun and as he did, he felt a slight pressure alight on his shoulder, almost like a bird had perched there. He turned ever so slightly to see Sakura's hand resting lightly on his shoulder. She didn't notice him looking for she was studying the literature on the desk, trying to make it clear of the mud that covered its meaning in her mind.
Kakashi looked back at the book and marked the page before closing it.
"All it means is that because he described her beauty on paper, as long as men are able to read, she will be immortal." He looked up at her face and only then did he realize exactly how close she had gotten to him over the past few moments.
Sakura's eyes were a deep turquoise that seemed to glow from up close, and Kakashi could account for it fully by this time. He was nearly blinded by their brightness, but he noticed something beneath the glow. It was a painful longing, almost a sadness that plagued them, and it only deepened the longer he held her gaze. He lowered his eye slowly to her trembling mouth and for a God-forsaken split second, he seriously considered kissing her.
Somewhere in his deep thoughts, however, an alarm went off that signaled the final straw. He had to get away from her somehow or that straw would snap and he would lose his resolve.
"Don't stand so close to me!" he said crassly. Sakura jumped back a step, surprised and slightly stung. Kakashi instantly felt horrible for inflicting that upon her, but he hadn't had a choice.
"I think that was all I needed," Said Sakura as she backed slowly away from his desk. Kakashi tried to apologize with his eye, but she was still slightly stung. "I understand it now. Thank you Mr. Hatake."
She then turned quickly and snatched up her bag, heading for the door. She didn't say anything as she looked back one more time, and neither did he.
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