A/N: Holy crap, I've finally done it. I've finally started writing THAT pairing, the pairing that I've been obsessed with for about a year now but never had the courage to write for. I've mostly had writer's block lately, so the fact that I could write this piece of crap is a miracle. Please don't shoot me for this level of crappy writing that I am producing.

"Come on, Pig, I know you're hiding something about what happened when I was gone!" a pink haired girl with emerald eyes shouting, glaring at Yamanaka Ino, her best friend.

"I told you, I'm not hiding anything!" the girl with long, platinum blonde hair replied, starting to get defensive. "And I really wish you would stop asking!"

"I'm not going to stop asking until you tell me what happened when I was away," Haruno Sakura said stubbornly, determined to find out what her blue eyed companion was keeping from her. She had been visiting family all summer and knew that something had happened to her best friend during that time.

"It's nothing, okay?" the soon-to-be senior said, turning away before she got angry and did something she would later regret.

"If it's nothing, then why can't you tell me? Oh, wait, wait!" Realization dawned on the pinkette. "You had a boyfriend, didn't you? Oh my God, you did! Tell me about him, what did he look like, did he break up with you, did you break up with him, what was his name?"

"Sakura, shut up!" Ino suddenly snapped, glaring at her. "Nothing happened and I don't want to talk about it, alright?"

What she couldn't tell her, what she couldn't tell anyone, was that she had indeed met someone and hit it off right away with them. What she couldn't tell anyone was that she had fallen in love for the first time and had come very close to losing her virginity.

What she couldn't tell anyone was that he was an adult and that when he had really stopped to think about how old she was, he dumped her flat and left her alone and naked, in a hotel room, broken hearted. She didn't know how or why something like this had happened to her, but she wanted so much to forget this summer fling that refused to leave her memories, there to taunt her everyday and remind her that she was never really anything to him, even if he had been so much to her.

She had decided, not long after he had left her, that she would not, could not let this ruin her life. She would be strong and she would make this school year the best one of her life, no matter how much the memory of her first love haunted her. He was gone and he was never coming back, so there was no point in dwelling on the past.

Maybe this year, after knowing how much it hurt to love someone, she would stop giggling over every cute boy she saw and focus more on her schoolwork like she should have a long time ago. And at least she had English to look forward to…

English had always been one of her favorite classes even if she pretended as though ever single class was just a waste of time for her. She hated to admit it, but she actually really enjoyed that class.

Of course, she had absolutely no idea what sort of mishaps would take place that year just because of that class.

~X~

Senshi Jiraiya had been an English teacher for a few years, and enjoyed the job, more or less, but if there was one thing he could change, he wouldn't be teaching seniors. After all, who wanted to teach people who, halfway through the year, decided that they had a good enough education already and quit trying? Though he had once been guilty of that very crime, it got kind of annoying and he felt sorry for every teacher he had ever had.

Long story short, he wasn't exactly looking forward to work that year, more so than usual, simply because after all these year, teaching the same thing to seven different classes, then repeating it the next year got pretty mundane, so much so that he almost wondered why he didn't study and change to a different subject, but knew he never would. He loved English and had decided to teach it because of this.

Still, something about this year gave him a bad feeling, though he couldn't quite put his finger on why.

~X~

First day of school, a day that no one wants to come, yet everyone secretly gets excited for, if only to find out what that year will really be like, to find out if all the rumors they heard were true.

Ino was no exception and throughout the day, she longed to go home and catch up on the sleep she had to miss due to getting up early that morning, but kept her eye on each teacher, making mental notes on each and every one of them.

It didn't seem like her last hour class was going to be anything special, but as most people already know, nothing's ever as it seems. Still, it was the quite the surprise when her English teacher walked into the room…

And instantly attracted her. She didn't know what it was about him…he had a handsome face, long white hair, and opal eyes, however, he wasn't a drop dead gorgeous, idol type of person. Still, one look at him and she couldn't forget him.

~X~

A sick feeling had set into her stomach, her heart wouldn't stop beating so quickly even though it had been doing so for hours, she felt so hot, almost feverish, and she seemed to be outside of her own body, barely aware of anything going on around her. All the symptoms of developing a crush on an English teacher.

So it's no wonder she attempted to skip school the next day. After all, that was the only cure; spend some time away from him and realize that he really wasn't what she wanted in a man and move on, all in one day. However, her mother would have none of it.

"Ino, you were fine yesterday and it's only your second day of school!" Yamanaka Anko said. "Get your ass out of bed!"

"No, no, I'm sick," Ino argued, burying her face in her pillow.

"She's no sicker than either of us," Hibari, Ino's little sister, said. "Unless…unless she's love sick."

"You…shut up!"
"Ino's got a boyfriend!" the younger girl chanted.

"Oh, grow up! You're in junior high, aren't you? Act like it!" Ino shouted, jumping out of bed and chasing Hibari around the house.

"You look perfectly healthy to me," Anko said, glaring at her oldest daughter. "Looks like you're going to school today."

"Rats."

A/N: I don't know why, but I like using the last name Senshi for Jiraiya…anyway, don't flame because you dislike the pairing, mmkay? I'm getting sick of all the hate I get for this, which doesn't make sense at all. This is dedicated to the members of my lovely FC! My dad recently had some issues, so I'm surprised I was able to write this.

Note: Hibari actually is a very, very minor character. She was one of the children who was in Konohamaru's class in chapter 94, the one who asked who the fifth Hokage would be. She was also in one of the fillers, in a squad under Neji, though the name Jin was used for her in this episode.