Author's Note: Yes, this is my third Naruto fanfic. I'm a huge fan of Naruto and there's so many pairings I love! I just kept on wanting to write fanfics about them. In this fanfic, the main pairing is Sasuke and Sakura!

Just like my other two Naruto fanfics, the story is based on modern Japan so none of the characters have ninjutsu.

I'm listening to Naruto theme songs as I write.

Never mind me, enjoy reading!

Chapter 1: The Executive Secretaries

Sakura's POV

Ring! Ring!

"Who in the world is calling so early in the morning?"

I grabbed one of my pillows and covered my ears. The sun was just rising and I didn't want anything to bother my sleep.

Ring! Ring!

"Can't my stupid phone just shut up?!"

I'm getting pissed.

Really pissed.

When my phone continued ringing for like the hundredth time, I gave up and allowed my temper to take control of me.

I grabbed my phone and shouted at the person disturbing my beauty sleep, "What the hell do you want from me?! Do you have any idea what time is it?!"

Despite my very sleepy state, I could sense that the person on the other side of the phone was rather pissed as well.

"Sakura. You forgot that we need to arrive at school earlier, didn't you?"

And yes, I recognize the voice as well. It was Sasuke Uchiha.

When I was slowly regaining more consciousness, I began thinking about what the Uchiha just said.

"Uchiha." I tried to sound calm. "What day is today?"

"Monday, Haruno."

"Shoots! We're supposed to have an early student council meeting today!"

I panicked and started getting ready for school. Our school is having our annual festival soon and there were so many things to do. As one of the executive members of the student council, we were extra busy and need to make good use of our time. That is why we decided to have a morning meeting on Monday to discuss very important things regarding the festival.

I heard Sasuke said he will pick me up and I quickly threw my phone onto my bed after hanging up.

"How could I forget to set my alarm?!" I scolded myself for own stupid mistakes.

Sasuke's POV

I rolled my eyes as I put my phone back into my pocket.

"Can't believe that idiot almost forgot about the meeting." I thought as I stood up from my bed. I was just about to get my backpack when my older brother entered my room, looking ready to leave.

"Are you leaving for school with me?" Itachi asked while fixing his tie.

My older brother, Itachi Uchiha, was in his final year while I'm in my first year of high school. We both attend the same school, Konoha High School, along with Sakura. Itachi was our school's student council president. Needless to say, he was intelligent, responsible and very popular among the students.

Am I a proud brother? Maybe, but I will never admit that to his face. He would become more arrogant than he already was.

As for Sakura, she was my childhood friend. We grew up together since our families were very close to each other. Sakura and I didn't exactly get along all the time but we still consider ourselves as best friends.

Anyways, Itachi was the one who suggested having the morning student council meeting to prepare for the annual festival. The meeting which Sakura almost missed.

"She was out with Ino Yamanaka last night so I was sure she would forget to set her alarm." I sighed again before getting back to my brother.

"I'll go pick Sakura up so you can go to school without me, nii-san."

"Alright then. It's a good thing you managed to wake her up."

I blinked in confusion, "How did you know I was the one who woke her up?"

Itachi was looking at his phone as he answered, "Some of my friends saw Sakura at the club last night. I assumed she would forget to set her alarm for today or something."

I got more confused, "Why did your friends tell you they saw Sakura?" It was rather weird, wasn't it?

Itachi smirked, "Well, maybe because she looked really hot? You know how popular she is. Anyway, see you later. Don't be late."

After Itachi left, I took my backpack and was about to leave as well.

"Itachi made sense actually. Sakura is really popular at school, even among the seniors. And I've got to admit she is hot." I mentally scolded myself for the thought that came up to my mind as I walked down the spiral staircase. I walked down to the garage and realized that the usual black Mercedez sports car I drove wasn't there.

One of the butlers came to me and said, "Sasuke-sama, Itachi-sama's car is currently under repair so he drove your car earlier."

"Damn you, Itachi. Can't you use other cars? That one is my favourite." I scolded him in my mind. I bid goodbye to the butler and drove a white Audi sports car instead.

I arrived in front of Sakura's house within ten minutes. Her house wasn't that far from mine so I often drive her to school or bring her back home. That was also why I'm close to her family as well since I sometimes stay for meals with Sakura's family.

The door opened and was slammed back by Sakura who obviously looked like she was in a hurry. Well, she would be late for the meeting if she didn't. Sakura and I attended Konoha High for just a month but were popular and respected enough to be chosen as external and internal secretaries through an election. I'm the external secretary while Sakura is the internal secretary. Both of us were mainly in charge of overseeing the members of the student council, making sure that everything was going smoothly. We were active in terms of communicating with the school and people from outside of Konoha High as well. We were known as Konoha High's executive secretaries.

Sakura opened the car door and was trying to catch her breath when she was sitting on the passenger's seat. She didn't tie her hair up today and her long pink hair reached few inches above her waist.

"Good afternoon, Sakura." I said in a teasing tone.

Sakura rolled her eyes, "Good morning, Sasuke." Emphasizing on 'morning'.

Sakura obviously realized I was teasing her for being late. I smirked before driving towards Konoha High.

We made it in time and the meeting went smoothly. There was three weeks left before the annual festival and there were still things which weren't done yet. Fortunately, the meeting was effective and we managed to solve most of the problems at hand.

My older brother was capable after all and he had many dependable members in the executive committee. The vice president was Kisame Hoshigaki, who happened to be Itachi's best friend as well. He looked rather unusual and scary but was surprisingly popular as well.

Maybe because Kisame was a humorous guy.

Anyway, another important member of our executive committee was Shikamaru Nara. He was in the same batch as Sakura and I. Itachi found out that Shikamaru was a genius with IQ over 200. He recruited Shikamaru to become the executive committee's strategist. Despite his lazy personality, Shikamaru always did his job very well.

In the executive committee, Sakura and I had members working under us too. I had Temari, Kankuro and Gaara working under me. The three of them were siblings and are very responsible. As for Sakura, she had Neji, Deidara and Hidan working under her. Both Gaara and Neji were first year students too but due to their intelligence and popularity, they got into the executive committee easily. Both Deidara and Hidan were the playful types though, but Sakura had no problems controlling them.

She could be rather scary, after all.

"Alright. Most of the major problems are solved. There are some details that need to be elaborated though. Kisame, Shikamaru, Sasuke and Sakura, meet me at 3.30 PM after school. You can all go now."

After Itachi ended the meeting, I walked to the class with Sakura, Neji and Shikamaru, since the four of us were in the same class. Gaara was actually in the same batch as us but he was in another class. The four of us had Kakashi-sensei as our homeroom teacher while Gaara had Kurenai-sensei.

"This annual Konoha High festival is more troublesome than I thought." Shikamaru mumbled, as if talking to himself.

"There sure are a lot of things that needs to be done." Sakura said and gave out a sigh.

I had to admit that being a part of the student council's executive committee wasn't easy. Not only were there a lot of things to do, our principal wasn't someone who was easily pleased.

Our principal, Tsunade-san, was quite a perfectionist. It made things difficult for us but at the same time, allowed us to bring out the best results.

"By the way, Sakura, were you with Ino last night?" Shikamaru asked suddenly.

Sakura nodded. "Why?"

Shikamaru put his hands into his pockets and said, "Nothing. She called me at 2 AM and talked a bunch of nonsense. What a troublesome woman."

I saw Neji smirked and Sakura couldn't control her laughter.

"That pig was a little bit drunk last night." Sakura sounded amused.

Sakura and Shikamaru spent the last few minutes of the walk insulting Ino Yamanaka. Shikamaru and Ino were childhood best friends but it didn't prevent Shikamaru to find her troublesome.

I opened the door to our classroom and as usual, Kakashi-sensei wasn't there yet. I didn't worry about getting to homeroom late because Kakashi-sensei was never on time anyway.

Sakura and I were seatmates and we were guessing what lame excuses Kakashi-sensei will say this time. Not too far from us, I could hear Shikamaru calling his seatmate a troublesome woman and was getting mad at her for calling him at 2 AM.

Sakura's POV

"Maybe Kakashi-sensei will say a meteor fell on him or something." I said in a mocking tone.

I heard Sasuke smirk, "Or he will use his usual lame excuse, saying he was rescuing a cat."

"To make things different and more ridiculous, maybe he will say he was saving a fish from drowning."

I actually heard Sasuke laughed a little, "That sounded so stupid he might actually say that."

The both of us continued our senseless conversation until the door opened. Kakashi-sensei came in, looking apologetic for being late for almost 20 minutes.

"Sorry guys." He spoke while scratching his head. "I met a drowning cat on my way here and had to save it."

Sasuke and I almost burst out laughing. I whispered, "We kind of guessed correctly."

Kakashi continued, "Anyway, let's get to the point. As all of you may have known already, the annual Konoha festival is in three weeks. Each class should come up with what they want to do and the homeroom teachers are supposed to inform the principal about it no later than tomorrow afternoon. I suggest we should start brainstorming now."

There was suddenly an enthusiastic atmosphere in the class. Most students are excited about the annual Konoha High festival. Our high school was known to have the fest festivals throughout Tokyo. We sure had a great reputation.

I saw Ino jumping up from her seat, earning an eye roll from Shikamaru who was beside her, "Kakashi-sensei, let me lead the discussion!"

Ino walked to the white board and started writing stuffs on it. She turned back to the class and said, "Alright, anyone has any idea?!"

"Ino is way too energetic." I laughed at my own thoughts and watched as my classmates actively brainstormed.

It was lunch time and I was chatting with Ino, Hinata and Tenten, who were all my closest female friends. Sasuke and Shikamaru went to meet Itachi for some urgent matters which I wasn't so sure about. The two boys were in too much of a hurry to tell me what it was about.

Hinata and Tenten were from another class but they often came over to mine and Ino's class during lunch. What do we do? Well, usual girls stuffs.

"Guys!" Ino said in a cheerful but soft voice, as if not wanting people to hear her too clearly. "Guess who flirted with Sakura at the club yesterday."

I rolled my eyes while Hinata and Tenten looked very interested.

"Who?!" Tenten was also trying to control the volume of her voice. "Spit it out Ino!"

Ino was giggling as Tenten forced her to tell what happened, "It was Obito."

"O-Obita Uchiha?" Hinata asked. I didn't even understand why Hinata was blushing.

"That's right!" Ino said and I rolled my eyes again.

"Isn't Obito Uchiha in the same gang as Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, Deidara, Hidan and some others?" Tenten asked, giving off her usual curious expression.

Ino nodded, "Yeah, they call themselves the Akatsuki. Something like that. Anyway, he was flirting with Sakura all night but forehead totally ignored him!"

"I wasn't interested." I replied, glaring at Ino.

"But he is rather good looking! He isn't as hot as Itachi but he still is kind of hot!"

I ignored Ino and went back to reading the magazine in my hands.

"Isn't Obito Uchiha a college student in Konoha University?" Hinata asked.

"He is." Ino answered. "He is also a close friend of Kakashi-sensei."

"Wow, Sakura. Even mature guys are interested in you." Tenten said in a rather teasing tone.

"Shut up, guys. Let me repeat myself. I'm not interested in that guy."

I have to admit, Obito Uchiha was both good looking and smart. But I am just not interested.

"Whatever, forehead." Ino said before going back to her own seat.

Lunch time was over so Hinata and Tenten walked back to their classroom.

Sasuke and Shikamaru came back just in time for Mathematics class, which was taught by Asuma-sensei.

"What happened?" I asked Sasuke when he came back to his seat.

"There were some problems regarding the performance during the festival. It's all fixed now so no worries."

I nodded and went back to focusing on the lesson.

Sasuke's POV

Homeroom started at 2.30 PM but Kakashi-sensei was late again. Not wanting to waste time, Ino decided to start the discussion regarding the festival without waiting for him.

After 15 minutes, our class decided to open a café for the festival.

"So mainstream." I thought.

It's understandable though, in a way.

That's because every year, the class which was the most popular during the festival will be awarded. Everyone was after the award, which was known to be rather great. Everyone decided to open a café because there were a lot of popular people in our class.

I am not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed, but I'm one of those 'popular' ones.

The other popular people included Sakura, Ino, Neji and surprisingly, Shikamaru.

"I still don't understand why Shikamaru is so popular." I said to Sakura.

She laughed before answering, "A lot of girls find him hot, you know."

"Do you?" I asked casually.

There was a short silence before Sakura spoke again, "Kind of. He is good looking."

"Weird. Girls are so weird." I thought as Ino ended the discussion.

Sakura, Shikamaru and I were on our way to meet Itachi and Kisame for the meeting after Ino finalized the results of the class discussion.

"Kakashi-sensei didn't even attend the meeting just now. What is wrong with that guy?" Sakura complained. It was then when Sakura's phone had a notification and she took her phone out from her pocket.

She looked pissed off when she saw what it was and put her phone back into her pocket.

"What was that?" I asked casually.

"A WhatsApp message from someone I don't want to have anything to do with." Sakura answered in an annoyed tone.

"Is it Obito Uchiha?" Shikamaru said.

"H-How do you know?" Sakura looked startled.

"Ino said something about that when she called at 2 AM." Shikamaru still looked rather pissed off about that call.

"Why in the world is my cousin messaging you?" I asked.

"I don't know." Sakura answered. "It's not like I will reply anyway."

Shikamaru and I shrugged the issue off and soon reached the classroom where we were going to have the meeting.

The meeting's main goal was to solve the problem regarding the basketball tournament which was part of the festival every year. Apparently, starting this year, there will be both male and female basketball tournaments. Usually it was just the guys playing.

This idea was actually suggested by Tsunade-san, our 'beloved' principal.

"Since this is the first time Konoha High is holding a female basketball competition, there isn't a female basketball team from Konoha High." Itachi explained. "It isn't too much of a problem but it is better to have a team from our own school to take part in the tournament. It'll make things are interesting as well."

"It's just three weeks away from the festival, is it even possible to form a team?" Kisame said, sounding rather frustrated.

"Why does Tsunade-san likes to come up with troublesome ideas at the last minute?" Shikamaru said.

"That's how she is." Itachi answered. "We have no choice but to form a female basketball team as soon as possible."

Itachi called out to Sakura, "Can I put you in charge of this, Sakura?"

Putting Sakura in charge was actually a good idea. Sakura was really good in sports, especially basketball. I often played with her ever since we were kids.

"Sure." Sakura replied. "I will start looking for other girls who would be interested. Once the team is formed, I'll start practice as soon as possible. I will al-"

Sakura was cut off by another notification from her phone. She looked at her phone and had the same annoyed expression like she did just now.

Shikamaru smirked, "Obito again?"

Sakura rolled her eyes and ignored both her phone and Shikamaru.

Itachi raised an eyebrow, "Why is my cousin messaging you?"

"No idea. I don't wish to know either." Sakura replied coldly.

I saw Kisame smirking, looking as if he was interested to know what was going on. Itachi just shrugged it off, looking like he wasn't that interested to know what was in the mind of that older cousin of ours.

"Anyway, as I was saying, I will find the team a coach as well. I'll try my best to do this as fast as possible." Sakura sounded as dependent as usual.

"Thanks, Sakura. Inform me once the team is formed. Sasuke and Shikamaru, don't forget that we have basketball practice after this."

Itachi was the basketball team's captain since he was in second year of high school. Shikamaru and I were part of the team as well. Itachi was a strict captain but was a very good one as well.

"You guys still have basketball practice after this?" Sakura turned to Shikamaru and I.

"Hn." I responded. Sakura used to hate it whenever I respond that way but she got used to it. Either that or she gave up trying to make me stop doing that.

"Well, good luck, guys. I'll go home first then."

Sakura bid goodbye and left while the rest of us were about to go to the gym for practice.

Except for Kisame, who was saying something about going for Karaoke with some pretty girls from another school.

Sounded like one of Kisame's usual 'extra-curricular activities' indeed.

Author's Note: Hope you guys like the story! I would really appreciate it if you guys would review. Thanks a lot for reading!