Hey guys! Yes I'm still alive! Lol well this is my first SasuSaku so please bear with me. ok? Oh and major Karin bashing later on. I was also wondering can anyone be my Beta?

Ok well here goes! Hope you all like it! If you have any questions feel free to ask! No flames please, I'm easily flammable! Helpful Criticism welcome. AU. They maybe slightly ooc.

Sasuke: 22

Sakura 17

The hidden leaf village was the home to many strong and often times brilliant shinobi, and they were all trained in its elite schools.

In one such school was where seventeen year old Haruno Sakura was placed, and that was Uchiha Sasuke's ultimate undoing.

Their legacy would pass the halls as another forbidden whisper in the gossip mills of hormonal teenagers that couldn't get enough drama and angst.

She had but a few memorable events of the past, some that were trivial to her meager existence, others that weren't, but they were fine memories nonetheless.

In a family of three girls, Sakura was always overlooked. Akira was the oldest and she was also the smartest person Sakura had ever known. She remembered her father had once boasted to an uncle, "She's going to accomplish many a great goals one day!"

And her Uncle had nodded his head in agreement replying, "She'll bring our family a good name and a big fortune."

Mitsuko, her second oldest sister got the most attention because she was so beautiful, kind, generous and just about radiated with life that people, even, strangers seemed to be pulled in by her cheerful aura.

Then there was her. Quiet overlooked Sakura with her big forehead and small almost non-existent ego, that did as she was told and never got into any trouble. That is until the faithful day she realized she had the true potential of a kunoichi. She had finally found her voice.

It was the first day of her new so called "Life" and she was late…Again.

It wasn't her fault this time honest! How was she to know that the stupid pink alarm clock Ino had given her for her birthday ("It matches your hair, not to mention your wallpaper! Isn't it cute?") Would suddenly stop working the first day of school?

"Yep definitely not our fault! It's Ino's fault for giving us an easily breakable alarm clock! I mean who even gives clocks for birthday presents?"

"Shut up brain!" Sakura grumbled as she frantically washed and brushed and pulled and yanked until she was ready for just about anything.

"Bye Ma!"

"Have a nice day sweetheart!"

Sakura was now seventeen and the last one to leave the house. Her sister Mitsuki had graduated and was now considered a genius. She was head of Konoha's hospital. She was also married and pregnant with her first child.

Akira was now an Anbu captain, having recently taken place of a now retired Uchiha Sasuke one of the youngest and most powerful Anbu captains that had ever existed. A tragic life had driven him thus far allowing him to accomplish and set goals that one can only dream of…or so she said. Sakura honestly couldn't bring herself to care. It wasn't that she was selfish or even conceited, oh no nothing like that.

It was just that every time her sisters accomplished a new goal, Sakura found herself working harder to get out of the shadows of two former child prodigies. She just didn't have time to concern her self with other people's problems, or gossip for that matter.

It was a fine morning and Sakura forced herself to be a little more optimistic. After all this was her last year of training before she was ready to become better than her sisters in any field she wanted. That is if she ever got to school on time.

She was five minutes late when she entered her first class. Guiltily she looked up only to find that the teacher wasn't there.

"Fore-head girl!" Ino called out, "You're lucky the teachers late! I can't believe you over slept on the first day of school! That's sad even for you Billboard-Brow!"

"Shut up Ino-Pig! If it wasn't for your stupid alarm clock breaking down on me, I wouldn't have been late! And stop calling me fore-head girl Ino-Pig!"

"What did you call me?"

"You heard me!"

The teacher chose this time to enter the classroom, and one glare held everyone completely speechless, especially Sakura and Ino.

He was tall and looked too young to be a teacher. He looked like he could pass as a student. With striking black eyes and even darker hair that was flat on top and spiky in back, he immediately made the girls drool and the boys jealous. His "I'm a bad boy and I don't give a fuck" attitude helped too.

"He's freakin' gorgeous! How lucky are we to have a God for a teacher? Cha!!"

He set his notes onto the desk and held the gazes of every student in class all at once. Sakura couldn't bring herself to look away. It was as if he held the answers to her soul within the dark depths of his eyes. So alone. So painfully alone. Something about him, like a lost child that was screaming for help. For some odd and insane reason she just wanted to comfort and protect him.

"Damn girl you sound obsessed! Some bodies got a cr-uuuu-sh!!!" Her brain said smugly in a singsong voice.

Shut up brain or I'll force you to listen to Lee and Gai sensei's karaoke night!

"You wouldn't dare! We share the same brain! You'll suffer too!"

"I'm willing to sacrifice it for the greater good!"

"What greater good? We'll both go insane!"

"Uh hello? I have a voice in my head! I'm already there!"

The voice grumbled but stayed quiet. Sakura sighed in relief since the teacher was talking.

"I'm here to help you survive. I'm not your friend and I don't care about your problems. In this field you must learn two lessons in order to survive. One: Failure is not an option. Two: Death is an irreversible promise. My name is Uchiha Sasuke, but you may address me as Sensei."

Ino and Sakura were still standing like idiots having forgotten about their fight too captivated to think of anything else besides their gorgeous teacher, like sitting down for instance.

In the blink of an eye two kunai knives flew past Sakura and Ino. Ino shrieked and ducked while Sakura dodged, grabbed the end of the kunai directed at her, and flung it back to the Sensei with lightning speed.

It sliced off three of his hairs.

His eyes widened in surprise, only for a split second, before they went back to being arrogantly bored. If she wasn't paying such close attention to him she would have missed it all together.

Sakura grinned on the outside with quiet modesty while inner Sakura nearly suffocated from smugness. She was so proud of that move! It had taken her weeks to train herself and it was finally paying off!

"Hn, well at least you're not a total loss. Your abilities are somewhat average." With that Sasuke turned around and started writing on the board while Sakura twitched with barely controlled fury.

Average? AVERAGE? That had taken so much just to learn and he calls it AVERAGE!?

She was about to show him how average her fist could get until Ino yanked her down into her seat.

"Sit down idiot! Pick your battles!" She hissed.

So with that said Sakura just sat down, swallowing her own fury until her insides felt like they were on fire.

Oh she'd show him. Definitely.

The girl had surprised him. And Uchiha Sasuke was rarely surprises.

As soon as he had entered the classroom he had noticed her, what with her pink hair it would have nearly been impossible not to. But it was her eyes. The eyes of someone lost but determined to be found.

Maybe it was because she had so much hope, so much determination and life radiating off of her while he had none. For Sasuke was dead inside.

She wasn't beautiful by any standards and she was too young and innocent, but something about her…it was ridiculous. She was a mere child.

Sakura fidgeted slightly eager to go home. The last three minutes of class were always an agonizing wait it seemed.

"I want those reports on my desk by the end of the period tomorrow, no exceptions. Haruno stay, class dismissed."

Sakura jerked, surprised, he had known her name, not to mention the fact that he was forcing her to stay afterwards.

"Maybe he's going to apologize for earlier!"

"Cha, yeah right idiot he probably just wants to give you detention for showing off. You know that's forbidden right? Rule number 76: A shinobi must act to their fullest abilities with modesty and honor. And what did you do? Flung a sharp pointy knife at the flipin' teacher that's what!"

"Haruno?" Sasuke asked again, his patience dwindling.

Sakura nearly fainted in dismay. He was talking the whole time and she wasn't paying any attention!

"Yes Sensei?"

"Where did you learn to throw?" He asked abruptly.

She had no idea what he was talking about.

"Excuse me Sensei?"

"The knives-The kunai. Where did you learn to throw?"

"Uh…M-m-my Friends cousin's wife is a weapons mistress. She handles all sorts like Kunai and Katanas and…stuff. I've been doing errands for her in exchange for her…lessons." She finished lamely.

Sasuke nodded staring at her all the while, never once breaking eye contact.

"Sensei?"

"Reports due by the end of the period Haruno. Concentration is an important factor on missions. Lack there of is a dangerous weakness, Haruno. Remember that. You're dismissed."

He turned around and started clearing away his desk.

"Wait. Did he just call us weak?" Inner Sakura screamed.

"Oh my God! He just called us weak!" Sakura thought at the same time.

"Sensei I'm sorry but I think you misjudged my intelligence and/or my intentions as a ninja." Sakura replied angrily.

"That's the thing Haruno, you don't think."

"Excuse me? You don't even know me! We barely met you today! What right do you have to say something as preposterous as that load of bull?"

How wrong she was! He knew her. He knew her like nobody else ever would. She looked so cute when she was angry. He sudden;y had a strong desire to kiss her plump lips. That thought nearly drove him to madness.

'She's a child Uchiha! Keep it together!'

Converting his confusing desire into anger Sasuke snapped at Sakura.

"I tire of this incessant bickering. As for your question on my intelligence, before the beginning of class I analyze students' bio's reading their weak points as well as their strategies and signature moves. You come from a family of four. Mother, Father, two older sisters. Seems to suffer from slight sibling rivalry."

Sakura sat rigidly in her seat, frozen in shock.

"Field test incomplete due to refusal of enemy extermination. Shall we continue?"

Whoa

"In person I find that you're weak. You lack modesty and you're just annoying."

"Why that little mother fu-…!"

"Dismissed Haruno. Unlike you I tend to use my time wisely"

Sakura got up shakily from her desk not noticing the journal that fell from her still open bag, and nearly ran out the door. She felt as if she had been slapped over and over again.

She wanted to cry and yell and beat something up all at once. No, not something just someone, a certain black haired, snobby, cold, idiotic someone.

Instead she ran and ran and ran until she found herself in one of the old training grounds. There she climbed a tall sturdy tree and started to cry in the cover of leaves.