Just Can't Seem to Get It Right Today

Let's start with the disclaimer, shall we?

Naruto: (pops right in front of computer screen) OHAYO READERS OF NARUTO FANFICS! IT IS I, THE ONE AND ONLY SOON TO BE 6TH HOKA-

Sakura: (pulls Naruto back and punches him) Baka! Stop scaring them away and just do the credits! Yeesh, you're not even the main character in this thing…

Sasuke: Hn. Dobe.

Naruto: SASUKE-TEME!! But because Sakura-chan asked me to, I will just finish. clears throat The author doesn't own Naruto; if she did, there would be cake.

Sakura: (rolls eyes) Finally! Oh yeah, and the author doesn't own the Twilight Series either, just in case this is too much like that, which it probably will be.

Sasuke: This is probably so illegal. Oh well.

All right then, I hope you enjoy. Reviews are appreciated of course , but whatevs. --Author

Chapter One: Introductions

7:30

Sakura awoke to the sound of something beeping, namely her worst enemy: the alarm clock. She hated having to get at the break of day, and today of course was no exception. If anything actually, it was a day when she would least want to get out of the safe, warm, blanketed comfort in which she was wrapped at that moment.

Today was, in fact, her first day at her new school.

Sakura was 15 and a half, the ripe age of a sophomore in high school (coughcough Shipuuden version basically coughcough). She had decided to transfer schools when she was accepted into an academy of less financial burden that was incidentally closer to her house anyway.

The pink-haired girl thought that she had been at least somewhat excited for the new experience; however she now realized she was more nervous than anything.

Sighing as she lazily staggered out from under the blankets, Sakura stretched and looked out of her window. Guess it's time to face my fears then she thought in a sort of complaining way, still wishing she could get out of it.

7:50

After the last few preparations of the morning, Sakura was packed and ready to go. She was now in the kitchen (she had to pack her lunch) and had washed an apple for breakfast.

As she sat down glanced at the clock, she realized she would have to eat her meal on the road.

Damn it… I'm going to be late!

8:05

Hurrying over to the academy building, the female teen was surprised by just how small the academy really was. The whole place looked like it only fit about 400 people or so, barely one class size at her old school!

At least it will be easy to find my way around…

Considering you got lost every other day at your old school.

Yeah, yeah she retorted to her inner self. Having conversations with yourself wasn't weird, was it?

Sakura walked across a parking lot and into the main edifice and looked for the first class room her schedule told her to be in.

Let's see… homeroom/precalc/physics… how small is this school anyway?!

Maybe coming wasn't such a good idea.

Well, it does say the tuition is cheaper here…

After walking a few paces down the hallway, which no one else was in yet, Sakura found what she was looking for. (I know, she thought she was going to be late. But she has that 15 minutes early is the right time to be places policy. Plus she left a half hour early that day because she didn't want to get lost and be late.) She opened the wooden door with one hand while holding her small brown backpack with the other and peered into the classroom.

No one was in there either.

Sakura sighed and sat down, propping her head up with her arm that was on the table. A clock on the wall was ticking slowly and seemed to echo loudly and methodically in the room. After about 30 seconds of that, she was out like a light.

8:25

"Hey… hey you! Wake up," a muffled female voice chimed.

Sakura felt a nudge on her shoulder and groaned quietly. Remembering where she was and that her first class was very soon, she shot up from her vulnerable sleep and began to panic.

"What time is it," she yelled, hoping that she hadn't been drooling, or that the whole first day was already over and she slept through it.

The person who woke her jumped. "You don't have to yell, I'm right here! Besides, there's nothing to worry about; Kakashi-sensei's not here yet anyway."

Halfway through the sentence, Sakura looked over at who she was speaking with. It was a blonde haired girl of similar stature to herself; tall and lean. The girl smiled cheerily at her, and Sakura took a deep sigh of relief knowing she hadn't messed up already.

"You must be the new kid here."

Sakura looked surprised. "How did you know?"

The blonde laughed. "News travels around pretty fast in this school. You can know anything about anyone, even if you don't want to!"

Sakura laughed as well. "That must be…erm…nice."

"Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't," the other girl replied. "Well, if you're the new kid your name must be Haruno Sakura."

"Yep, that's me. What's your name?"

"Yamanaka Ino. It's very nice to meet you, Sakura-chan!"

As the two small talked for a while, they concluded they would sit together at lunch and that the blonde would chauffer her around to her different classes. During the middle of their conversation, a man with silver-gray hair and a mask that covered his face walked into the room.

"Sorry I'm late class… an old lady needed me to take her cat out of a tree and-"

"LIAR!" the class retorted all at once, as if it was something that happened every day.

Sakura was going to find out that it did.

Sweat-dropping and laughing nervously, the 20-some year old hit the bottom of his right fist into the palm of his left hand.

"Now I remember what Tsunade-sama told me…" he said in an 'a-ha!' way. He cleared his throat. "Class, in case you haven't heard, which you'd have to be living under a rock not to, we have a new student this year. Haruno Sakura, if you would please stand at your desk."

Sakura looked over at Ino, who smiled and urged her to obey. Pushing out her chair and nervously hovering over her desk, she gave a small wave to no one in particular. The class responded with the generic 'Ohayo, Sakura-san.'

Well, almost.

"Kakashi-sensei! You never told me the new student was a super hot chick like her!"

"Naruto, sit down," a husky and low (and extremely sexy) voice commanded from the loudmouth's right.

"Sasuke-teme! What makes you think you can tell me what to do?!"

Sakura curiously looked over to see exactly who this 'Sasuke-teme' was.

When she looked over, she saw who she thought was the most handsome young man on the planet. The boy had a lean and muscular figure, with dark piercing eyes and perfectly chiseled features. He was more of a work of art than a person, black hair neatly arranged and posture impeccable. He looked back at her while she was staring at him.

And her heart stopped... but not in a good way.

He was glaring.

And not just glaring... he was death glaring, eyes aflare with intense disdain, even though they had only been within a 10 foot radius of each other for about 15 minutes, half of which she didn't even know he was there for. He then turned his head back in the direction of the teacher with his brow still furrowed, clenching his desk sides with both hands, knuckles visibly turning white.

The pink haired girl began to feel herself grow red, both from being ogled by Naruto and being hated on to the max by the hottest guy she had ever laid eyes on.

Unsure of what to do in the situation, she sat back down, not wanting to make a scene before their first class was even out yet. What did I ever do to him? However she noticed that the blonde haired boy was still staring at her, only now it was a little lower than her eyes and, well, not in an appropriate place.

Sakura felt a vein visibly pop out of her temple. Who the heck does that guy think he is?! I'll show him something to stare at... she schemed, imagining herself throwing large, quite deathly boulders at the perverted teen.

"Oh, don't worry about him Sakura; he's fairly harmless," the teacher attempted to soothe as he straightened out the edges of the papers by tapping the sides on the top of his desk.

"More like fairly retarded…" Sakura heard Ino mutter, with which she now semi-agreed.

The teacher, who was now sitting and holding the school orientation news and subjects, issued the order to be silent. Surprisingly, the students actually listened.

"Okay class, now that we have introduced the newest student, we can start the day's first few announcements. Hey you," he pointed to a girl sitting in the front of the room. "Pass these out will ya?"

Everyone got some fliers about the school's improvements and advancements, new enrichments it had to offer, so on and so forth. Sakura didn't really look at anything in detail; she knew she would probably find out about it later. News travels fast in a small school, right?

End of the First Class

The teach was finally done talking and the bell rang throughout the hallways, signaling there was one less class to worry about that day. However, Sakura had other things on her mind, like why the heck the black-haired teen had death glared at her half an hour or so ago.

The questions she tried to answer weren't helped when the same boy darted out into the school's halls immediately after the bell rung, not giving her the light of day to ask about it.

What's his problem anyway... she wondered perplexed, standing up and following after Ino to their next classroom, watching as the male teen briskly strutted in the opposite direction, and bulldozed through any people who hadn't already steered clear of his way.