17-year-old Kyōraku Sakura had just stepped inside her homeroom when the bell rang. She sighed – she thought she would be late.
"Just made it Sakura-chan," her sensei called. He was very laid-back and would've let her in if she had been a minute late – especially since it was the first day of the school year. The principal outside the room, however, would not have – no one liked him or his pedophile laugh.
She sat down in her desk and smoothed out her short brown hair, it had gotten a little frizzy in her mad dash to class, but she tamed it rather quickly. Looking around she spotted her friend Renji by his bright red hair, after making sure her books wouldn't slide off of the desk, she went up and hugged him from behind, startling him.
"Hey! What the –?" he cried, and then he saw the brown hair and sighed, "Oh, it's only you, Sakura. How are you?" He was grinning.
She let go of him, smiling brightly – "I'm doing great, Renji! I get to see my friends again!"
"You mean awesome friends like me?"
"Renji~, you know you're my best guy friend – who else can compare?"
He laughed and hugged her, lifting her off of the floor a couple of inches due to their height difference – he was really tall, she was pretty short. She hugged him back, laughing. The red-head set the brunette back down.
"So…how's Ichigo?" she teased. "I haven't seen him since you two were at that café…"
Blushing, he replied, "He's fine. I think you two have fifth period math together."
"Good," she grinned, "You know how I suck at math."
"You do not suck at math, Sakura – it just isn't a strong point."
"Don't bullshit a bullshitter Renji – I suck at math."
The argument went on even in the hallway as they headed to their first class which (unfortunately for the teacher) they shared.
Time flew by so fast. Sakura and Ichigo caught up during fifth period math, and then she, Ichigo, Renji, Toshirō, Rangiku, Rukia, Chad, Orihime, Ikkaku, and Yumichika sat together and were easily the loudest group at lunch. When Renji – whose mood was going south rapidly – snapped at Yumichika, telling him that he wasn't as half as beautiful as Ichigo (at which the strawberry blushed), Yumichika started insulting both him and Ichigo – effectively pissing the couple off and starting a fight. It took the combined power of Toshiro, Rangiku, Rukia, Chad, Orihime, and Sakura to pull Yumichika, Renji, Ikkaku, and Ichigo apart. Once they had all calmed down, Sakura loosened her grip on Renji and slid off of his back where she had been clinging like a spider monkey.
Sighing and fixing her hair again, she said, "Now everyone here is beautiful and I, for one, would like to finish eating my equally beautiful lunch. How about you guys?" Not waiting for a reply, she sat back down and resumed emptying her bento. The rest of lunch went by uneventfully.