Before He Cheats

Summary- Sakura Haruno caught her boyfriend cheating and finds the perfect idea for revenge while reminiscing on their god times before she dumps him.

Inspired by Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood

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Sakura stood in the hallway of Konoha High, gathering her Geometry textbooks before the bell rang for third period. Just as she slammed her locker, her belongings slipped from her grasp and landed in a flurry of loose papers. It seemed like such Déjà vu.

The pinkette had a stormy expression on her face as she hastily exited the girl's bathroom. Karin had done it again; in some way, shape or form, she always managed to ruin Sakura's good mood. This time, she'd pushed the green eyed girl right into the school's resident charmer, Sasuke Uchiha.

Everyone knew of his preferences for the opposite sex. She had to be more than slightly attractive and a nice body was mandatory. He was practically every girl's fantasy; with his mysterious eyes, charming smirk and laidback attitude. He even had his own fan club, all had long hair –every girl did, since it was rumored that he loved girls with long hair.

With all of this said, you can imagine the reactions when Sakura had collided none too gently with the Uchiha. First of all were Karin's muffled snickers, followed by the angry shrieks of his stalk –I mean, fangirls, then came his friends' snide remarks. Surprisingly, Sasuke himself remained silent, only keeping eye contact with Sakura before rolling his eyes at her blush and stepping around her.

As he passed her, he muttered what she thought was 'annoying', yet it was him who later helped her pick up her books as they tumbled out of her locker as he was walking by.

Ever since then, they'd been dating, so that made it about… two months, and things had changed. Sakura was envied, more popular and finally recognized for her beauty. It seemed like the only thing that hadn't changed was Karin. The girl was still trying to ruin Sakura's life. She tried to embarrass her, and even tried separating her and Sasuke.

Sakura rolled her eyes as she stooped down to retrieve her stuff and was still on the ground when the warning bell rang; she had two minutes to get to class.

'I'll never make it! The math department is all the way across campus!'

She had only just stood up and, before she could even take a step, she saw Karin walk out of the stairwell that led to the Science department, straightening her appearance before proceeding in the opposite direction of her next class. Sakura didn't know whether to be thankful that she was oblivious to her presence or curious as to what the redhead had been doing.

"Ms. Haruno!" A voice snapped her out of her thoughts and she spun around to see Kurenai, her Chemistry teacher, looking at her questioningly. "You're late for class, Sakura; you might want to hurry up, today's lockout."

'Crap,' she swore before thanking the older woman and jogging to her building. 'I completely forgot.'

Just as she exited the double doors, the lockout announcement sounded.

"Teacher, forgive the interruption, but lockout has started. Please proceed to locking your doors."

'No, no, no…' It would not be good if she got caught in the halls during lockout. It would be an immediate detention. She was no goody two-shoes, but she couldn't say that she was badass, either.

Shifting into a full-out run, Sakura reached the door to her class room just as Kakashi was about to lock it. Seeing her, he held the door open and let her in before locking it.

He smiled. "Glad to see you made it, Sakura."

Glancing at the seat behind hers, she was disappointed to see that Sasuke wasn't there, but not only him. Naruto was missing, too…

Eyebrows furrowed, the pinkette sat down and turned to ask Shikamaru where her boyfriend was, but the genius, apparently, was very absorbed in his work.

'Today's lesson must be hard if Shika has to put that much effort into it.'

She just hoped that Sasuke wouldn't need an explanation to get his make-up work done…

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Shikamaru had never tried so hard on something, but he couldn't allow himself to snap. He didn't want to be the bearer of bad news; he didn't think he'd be able to stand Sakura's tears. It was hard enough not telling the rest of the guys…

He could feel her stare as she took her seat and turned to him, probably to ask if he knew where Sasuke was.

He grit his teeth. The lazy genius couldn't stand seeing his childhood friend walk around with her head in the clouds, thinking her boyfriend was oh-so-perfect while the jerk just… used her.

As his black eyes rolled to the clock, he realized he'd spent almost all of his time pondering the situation and there were only two minutes left of class –not that it mattered; he'd finished all of his work in the first twenty minutes.

'How am I supposed to avoid her when class is over?'

Shikamaru gripped the bridge of his nose with two fingers and sighed. This was troublesome.

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He watched their interactions from his corner of the classroom, noticing how the dark haired man only glanced up from his paper when the girl had turned away. It was obvious that he was avoiding talking to her by the way he relaxed when her attention turned elsewhere.

But why would he do that? Weren't they supposed to be friends? What was the reasoning for such distant behavior?

He would have to find out himself, very discreetly.

• End •

Sooo, I didn't say this last character's name, but you'll figure out who he is (if you haven't already ) fairly soon. He's actually pretty important in this story.

Well, what's going on? How could our precious Sasuke-kun be cheating on Sakura-chan (ugh, I hate those suffixes XD)? Lol, you'll see soon.

Review, and let me know who you think the mystery character is!

- xxAngelEyez01xx

A.K.A. Robyn-Alexis