When I was younger, I started this A-Z x Sakura one shot challenge where I'd take a letter and find a matching love interest and vocab word (ex: Asuma and Abscond). Then I smash them together and hope for the best. I've been slowly working on cleaning it up and finishing it over on my Tumblr, but now that it's mostly done-I'm putting them on here. Most of these one-shots are romance-themed(ranging from crushes to more) but there are a few non-romance ones when I couldn't make it work.

Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters or world of Naruto they are the property of Masashi Kishimoto, and are not my intellectual property. There is no financial gain made from this nor will any be is for entertainment purposes only.

Abscond verb : run away and hide

"Sorry, I'm late guys," started Kakashi-sensei again, "you see there was this little old lady trying to cross the street and I just-"

"LIAR!" Sakura's shout rang in chorus with Naruto's automatically now. Team 7 had only officially been formed for a few months now, but some things had quickly become routine. Seriously, Kakashi-sensei had to be the laziest, most infuriating teacher in the whole village. He was late to every meeting and every mission and every everything. And he always had the worst excuses! The village wasn't that big, how many little old ladies could there be?

With a team like hers, Sakura was ready to rip her hair out. If Kakashi-sensei wasn't bad enough, she had to contend with Naruto too. The baka just didn't give up. Every other sentence was "I'm going to be Hokage, believe it!" or "Sakura-chan wanna get some ramen after practice?" She was starting to feel bad about constantly turning him down, but after one team outing to Ichiraku Ramen she was mentally scarred enough. Really, he didn't even chew! He was just like a black hole that never filled.

Not even being on the same team as Sasuke-kun was making it worth it anymore. He didn't pay any attention to her, not even when she changed up her hairstyle or flirted with him. Not that she was going to tell Ino-pig that any time soon. She'd never let her live it down.

Ino was so lucky with her team. She'd known Shikamaru and Choji since they were in diapers. They may not be as awesome as Sasuke-kun but they were her friends. Sakura felt pretty lonely most days with her team. Sasuke-kun wasn't one to talk and Naruto took any kind of communication as incentive to flirt with her. Moreover, there was no way she was talking to Kakashi-sensei.

He was just so weird! He always had his nose in that weird book of his and he tended to give off the weirdest, most un-manly giggle she had ever heard. From the sight of the warning label on the back of the book, she didn't even want to guess what that pervert was reading. She guessed that was another one in favor of Ino. Ino's sensei was actually cool…and he was kind of cute.

Sakura let out a small giggle as she leaned back on the railing of the old bridge of Team 7's usual meeting place. She took a minute to glance over at her team. Seeing that Naruto and Sasuke-kun were arguing again and that Kakashi-sensei was buried in his book again, she took a moment for herself and daydreamed some.

Asuma-sensei was tall, dark, and handsome to the bone. He looked just like some of her favorite movie stars! He had a full, dark head of hair and those warm chocolate eyes. Sakura mentally drooled. She loved a man with deep, dark eyes that you could just drown in. She felt a little guilty for thinking of someone other than her dear Sasuke-kun, but it wasn't her fault.

Sasuke-kun would grow up to be very handsome and manly, she was sure of it. She just needed a little something to boost her young fantasies till then. Thinking of Asuma-sensei was just the bolstering she needed, that's all. He was so handsome and so caring! A double-knockout, who could resist that?

She'd seen Ino's team around the village and Asuma-sensei was always on top of things. She bet Ino never had to wait two hours for her sensei to show up to practice. And Asuma-sensei seemed so attentive; Sakura would bet that Ino never got left on the sidelines during practice or on missions. Meanwhile Kakashi-sensei probably wouldn't notice if she dropped dead. Sakura let out a rather un-lady like snort at that idea.

"Yen for your thoughts?"

Sakura jumped at Kakashi-sensei's low drawl from beside her. Moving quickly, she took a step back from her sensei while turning to face him.

"Uh, sorry! It's nothing, Kakashi-sensei," stammered out Sakura. "Did you need something?"

"Just wondering when you would think it best to break up those two?" Kakashi gave a vague gesture to the still arguing Naruto and Sasuke.

"You're our sensei, shouldn't you do that?"

"Oh, but Sakura-chan, why would I do that when you're so much better at it?" said Kakashi-sensei giving his stupid eye crinkle.

Sakura gave a snort and made her way over to stop her teammates. Knowing her sensei, he was just being lazy again. She'd have to abscond with her thoughts of a tall, dark, and handsome sensei some other time until she was done dealing with a lazy, perverted sensei.

NOTE: Please do NOT make spin-offs, sequels, podfics, or similar works without my permission. Fan ART is the exception to this, feel free to make fan art of my work. I have no artistic talent so I'd love to see your's!

BIG THANK YOU to Black cherry 1236 for letting me know it had formatted wrong!

More letter's will be up as my schedule allows.
Thank you for Reading.