the Cherry Blossom of his Eye ch.1
This is my first story... so please review so I know how to continue with the plot!! I hope you all enjoy it, and yes... I gave Sakura glasses to further her geeky-ness! Well, enjoy!! ^-^
disclaimer: I do not own Naruto... if I did Naruto and Sakura would be together, there would be kissing scenes (besides Naruto and Sasuke's gay kiss (it was an accident!!)), and Naruto wouldn't be wearing an orange spandex jumpsuit.
Naruto carelessly flung his locker open only to hear a "OUCH!!" yelped from the other side. He quickly pulled the blue locker door back from his victim to see a girl with short pink hair doubled over holding her face.
"Shit, are you ok?!" he said, he usually wouldn't care so much if not for the fact that it was a girl. She looked up, her emerald eyes sparkling with tears behind her hot-pink rimmed glasses.
Oh great, it's Sakura Haruno, the honor role geek of the 11th grade….
"Oh, um, sorry Uzumaki-san! Ino-san and her gang kicked my books over here and I was about to bend down and get them!" She quickly squatted down to pick up the humongous stack of books from around his feet. Naruto smirked when he realized she was wearing the school uniform… nobody wore it! What a loser!!
"Yeah, whatever," he said nonchalantly. Then he added a rough edge to his voice, "now move so I can get my damn books!"
She was taken aback by the sudden harsh tone and use of bad language, "um, sorry…. I'll leave then." she said the last bit with a bit of an edge herself.
Naruto watched the pretty emerald eyes as they swept across the hall, then she hurried off.
Wait… did I just say pretty emerald eyes?!
He quickly shook his head and went off to his first class of the new school year.
Naruto rounded the corner of the mahogany doorway to see Sakura in the front row of the classroom.
Great, I'll be seeing her all year in History then….
Naruto saw his best friend, Sasuke Uchiha, sitting with Shikamaru, Neji, Kiba, Gaara, Kankuro, Ino, Temari, and Tenten in the back of the room. That was his destination then.
When he walked past Sakura he glared into the sparkling emerald again, and she glared into the vivid blue.
After he was gone she silently blushed to herself.
He has the most gorgeous eyes…. Damn it, why does my crush have to hate me all of a sudden….
Just then, Sakura's best friend, Hinata, came shuffling into the classroom. She looked at the ground and didn't look up until she was sitting next to Sakura and wasn't in front of the entire class. Hinata has extreme shyness problems and even talks in a shy whisper.
"Hi Sakura. How are you?" she whispered, straitening her school uniform while she said it.
"Good, how are you?" Sakura replied smiling at her quiet counterpart.
"Fine" Hinata whispered back.
Naruto walked up to his friends. Ino was wrapped around Sasuke, yakking in his ear. Tenten was sitting in Neji's lap, both seemed happy with this arrangement. Temari and Shikamaru where brutally making out with each other, though no one seemed to mind. Gaara and Kankuro silently watched their sister with her boyfriend, their expressions guarded. Kiba was alone…. Though he was staring dreamily at Hinata, the incredibly shy girl who was seated next to Sakura.
Naruto sat down between Sasuke and Kiba and hit Kiba in the face.
"WHAT, WHO?!" Kiba yelled in surprise.
Naruto chuckled and said, "dude, that's Hinata Hyuuga, Neji's cousin! And she never speaks to anyone except to Sakura! Why on Earth are you staring at her like that?!"
Neji looked up to see Kiba blush, "What, you were checking out my cousin? Why? She's just an extremely quiet disappointment…!"
Kiba looked at Neji with an angry expression on his face, but quickly hid it knowing that he shouldn't even try to explain, "yeah, sorry."
Naruto couldn't help but look at the pink haired girl sitting next to the shy one. She stuck out so much to him it was hard not to stare…
Wait, what am I thinking?
But he still couldn't look away. Then a hand hit him in the face, this time it was Sasuke's hand.
"Hey, why did you do that?!"
"dude, were you just staring at Sakura Haruno?!"
Everyone stopped and stared at Naruto, even Temari and Shikamaru stopped their make-out session to stare.
"uh, no… I was just zoning out."
Everyone seemed to accept this answer because conversation resumed and Shikamaru and Temari continued to smother each other.
Sakura had heard Naruto get upset when Sasuke had hit him in the face, though she didn't know why Sasuke had hit him. She carefully peeked over her shoulder to see Naruto secretly watching her. She blushed and faced the front before he could see.
"Hinata, Naruto is staring at me…!" Sakura looked up at Hinata to see she too was blushing. "Why are you so red?!" Sakura mused.
Hinata hid her eyes in her bangs. "B-b-because K-Kiba-kun is st-staring at me…!!" Hinata whispered nervously, looking up at Sakura with wide eyes.
Sakura, once again, looked over her shoulder to see Kiba Inuzuka staring dreamily at Hinata.
"He is! Wow, that's great! I know how long you've liked him!" Sakura said with a sly grin. Hinata became an unimaginable shade of red and looked down to hide her face in her hair. Sakura was about to say something when their teacher walked in.
"I'm Kakashi Hatake, your teacher. You may call me Kakashi Sensei, Hatake Sensei, Mr. Kakashi or Mr. Hatake. Any is fine." he said behind a dark blue mask that hid the bottom half of his face.
What he said startled Sakura. No other teacher wanted to be called by their first name. Why does he?!
"Now," Mr. Hatake said, walking towards the group at the back of the class, "one of my only rules, for obvious reasons, is to keep your hands to yourselves." He walked up to Shikamaru and Temari and pulled their faces away from eachother, both of them blushing. After that, Ino pulled her arms off of Sasuke, and Tenten slid off of Neji's lap and into the seat next to his.
Mr. Hatake smirked and Shino, Choji and Rock Lee, the 11th grade nerds, chuckled as Mr. Hatake walked back to the board.
Naruto chuckled softly as Kakashi Sensei began to yak again.
His friends glared at the teacher.
Naruto began to ignore the teacher and zone out like he always did during classes… but today he stared at Sakura as he zoned out.
Sakura paid attention the best she could, but it was pretty hard when she could feel Naruto's eyes on the back of her head.
When the bell finally rang, Naruto jumped. Sasuke snickered and Naruto hit him in the head.
As Naruto walked out of the classroom he dropped the ridiculously large stack of books. He bent down to pick them up and heard someone yelp. Then something hit him in the back.
Someone's falling.
Naruto briskly stuck out his arms and caught Sakura before she hit the ground. He sat there and stared into her eyes, and she stared into his. She then got very red, which caused Naruto to blush, but Sakura didn't see this because she had turned over onto her hands and knees to stand up.
"Um… thanks." Sakura said nervously as she scooped up her books and walked down the hallway.
What just happened? It felt like something fluttered in my stomach…
What Naruto didn't know was that they were butterflies… maybe a sign of first love…?