Sakura sighed as she looked at the medals and trophies in her room. She saw all her academic awards for being on the all A honor roll, one for taking the SATs in seventh grade and getting a good grade on it, and one for reading the most books in a book contest in fourth grade.

People always told her that she was smart because she always got perfect scores on tests and quizzes.

They also told her that they hated her for getting such good grades. She laughed at that.

She had all these things telling her that she was smart, but was she really smart? I mean actually smart? She always wondered if good grades and all that really made her smart.

She hadn't got a single B in middle school but did that even mean anything? And now she was starting High School. She wondered what high school would be like.

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Sakura walked to Fiery Leaf Academy for her first day of high school.

When she got to the school she saw the school's mascot a fox, or really a guy dressed up in a fox suit welcoming all the freshmen to the school. Sakura scowled. The fox was creeping her out so she snuck by it unnoticed.

When she found her classroom she saw that the teacher wasn't there.

She found a seat in the fourth row, one row from the back and one seat away from the window.

She looked around at the other people. Not many people were here yet so she must have gotten here pretty early.

She was bored so she starting doodling on a scrap sheet of notebook paper.

As time past by more and more students showed up but the teacher still hadn't shown up. She was really curious to where he was.

Then she overheard some kids talking about the teacher, "We are so lucky! We got Kakashi Hatake as our teacher! My brother told me that he is always late and his class usually misses most of class, so we get to do what we want until he gets here because there's no teacher watching us!"

"Awesome!" The kids he was talking to said.

'You'd think that by now that Hatake would have been fired long ago.' Sakura thought.

By now most of the seats were taken. So one another person showed up he took the last seat by the window, the seat right next to Sakura.

The guy put his stuff in the desk and then automatically fell asleep on the desk.

Sakura sweatdropped. 'What a weirdo' She thought.

A half hour after class started. The teacher finally showed up.

"Gomen, class. I got lost on the road of life." He said.

"Liar!" The blonde kid in front of Sakura shouted at him.

"Well anyways, I'm Kakashi Hakate. You can call me Kakashi!" He smiled underneath the mask he was wearing.

'Why does he wear a mask? What does it matter if we can see his face or not? Actually the only thing we can see of his face is one of his eyes because the other one is covered by that bandana he's wearing on his head. I wonder why he was late? Maybe it was because it took him too long to get his hair to stick up like that.' She smiled to herself.

She then spotted a boy with hair like a chicken's ass sitting next to her. 'Maybe they are related. They both have hair that looks like it takes hours of hair spray to gel to get right.' She thought.

Sakura looked at her schedule as the teacher continued talking.

Kakashi-English/Language Arts

Asuma-Math

Kurenai-History

Ibiki-Science

Anko-Gym

Free period

Her schedule also told her that the school nurse was Shizune and the principal was someone named Tsunade.

Then she heard the teacher's ruler make contact with a desk. She thought it might be her's since she wasn't paying attention but it was on the desk next to her.

"Shikamaru, I'd like it if you didn't sleep in my class. Pay attention." Kakashi told him.

"Hai." the boy (Shikamaru) said lazily.

The teacher headed back up to the front of the class leaving the boy grumbling.

Soon the class was over.

She headed to math.

It was boring, of course. Sakura was good at math but she hated it.

And she was about ready to rip the teacher's head off for smoking. He could be giving his students second hand smoke and Sakura hated the smell.

God, her first teacher always comes late, and this teacher smokes. What was wrong with the teachers at this school?

She was too busy glaring a hole through the teacher's head that she didn't notice that class had ended.

Next was History.

She loved History it was her favorite subject and her teacher was really nice, even if her outfit was really weird, and even if she was married to the smoking math teacher.

Next was Science.

The teacher was really weird. Sakura thought he would do better at Police Interrogation than teaching.

Next was Gym.

The teacher was scary. She reminded Sakura of the blonde boy who sat in front of her in Kakashi's class.

Also she was making them run laps the whole period blowing an annoying whistle at them. Sakura wanted to strangle her with it.

The teacher then walked over to a boy sleeping against a tree. She blew the whistle right by his ear.

The kid woke up automatically. Sakura thought that she wouldn't be surprised if the poor kid had gone deaf. Sakura then recognized the kid. It was the boy who sat next to her in Kakashi's class. Shikamaru was it?

Anko forced him to run with all the other kids for the rest of the period and Sakura could have sworn she heard him say 'Troublesome.'

Next was the free period.

Sakura didn't see the point of having a free period as the last period of the day. I mean she didn't need to wait for dismissal she could walk home.

So she left school early. She went to an area not that far from the school. No one was around. It had a bench surrounded by trees and flowers on one side and it had a perfect view of the sky.

So Sakura went to it and sat down on the bench and did her homework. Once she finished she looked at her watch. For people who were still at school, school would end soon. She thought of heading home but decided against it.

Her parents were long dead. She lived alone. So it didn't matter what time she got home.

She decided to draw the clouds.

Once she was done she hated it. So she ripped the picture out of her sketchbook, crumpled it up and threw it down on the ground.

She sighed and looked at the clouds.

Then she heard someone sit down next to her on the bench.

It was Shikamaru, he was holding her drawing, and he had obviously uncrumpled it. He was looking at it.

"Why do you have that?" Sakura asked.

"It would be a shame to leave it on the ground and let it stay as litter." Shikamaru stated blankly. "Did you draw this?" he asked.

"Yes and it sucks. Throw it away." Sakura said as she put her stuff away in my book bag.

Sakura threw her bag over her shoulder, stood up and said, "Goodbye Shikamaru." Then she left.

"How do you know my name?" Shikamaru asked.

"Kakashi said your name in his class. Good bye." She stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Once she was gone Shikamaru said,

"I actually thought it was pretty good. Troublesome woman."


A/N: So did you like it? Is it a good introduction to a story? This is my first high school fanfic. And it's my second ShikaSaku fanfic. I'm starting to think that out of all my favorite pairings that ShikaSaku maybe my most favorite out of all of them. But with this story it does have much of a plot yet. The next chapter will make the plot line clearer.

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