Disclaimer - Again, I'm in tears that I don't own Naruto... Now if only Masashi Kishimoto -- The creator of Naurto -- made Sasuke and Sakura fall in love! Everyone! Charge! Onward to black mail! Tie him up to a chair if needed until he makes those two together! D:

(A/N:) Yay! 1st chapter to 'Its a promise' as promised! Haha... I'm bad at jokes, I know, don't rub it in. ;-;

Sasuke and Sakura finally meet in this chapter. And no, this fic doesn't have anything to do with being a ninja and stuff like that. This fic will take place in a regular school, students don't know how to jump from tree to tree and breathe fire. Hope you enjoy. I'll try to get a chapter up every 3-4 days. But since school starts after this weekend, I can't promise anything,

Thank you - sakurasage272, sasusaku4life, and sakurasage272 for the reviews!

Bold Text - Sakura's Thoughts

Chapter 1 - Its nice to meet you too

Its a Promise

The class was silent as they waited for their teacher to continue.

"Each table has enough seats for up to 3 students. And so, as you can see there is a number to the right side of each table." Iruka explained. What? Number? Where?

Sakura poked Ino on the shoulder, quietly asking and trying to create actions, mentioning for Ino to look for their groups table number. Ino nodded as she bent to the right, a few moments after she held up 6 fingers. Table 6?

"Please pick up your things and make your way to the front of the class." Iruka said.

The class started moving, one by one each student made a single line in the front of the class. "Now, when I read out your name and number please find the correct table and sit down," he said before he started calling out the names.

"Ino Yamanaka, table 10 please," Iruka said. "Hai!" Ino made her way to table 10. "Sakura … Table 7." A few giggles were scattered throughout the room. "H-hai!" She replied in embarrassment as she made her way up to table 7. Sakura was blushing, her cheeks flared up a pretty pink color. She had just noticed she had forgotten to write her last name. No wonder why sensei paused after saying my first name. Sakura continued to mumble as she continuously hit her head on the table. Baka, hit baka, hit baka. Just before she was about to bump her head on her desk, something interrupted her.

"You're going to end up hurting yourself if you keep doing that" a smoothing voice chuckled.

Sakura jumped as she slowly brought her head up. Almost everyone was seated, the only person left was the blond boy that she had caught staring at her.

I really need to learn the names of these people…

Ino sat with 2 other boys, one that had spiky black hair and the other that was… rounded.

Hinata sat beside a boy with a dog toy in front of him as well as another boy that wore black shades. Wait? Shades? We're inside, shouldn't he take those off?

Sakura noticed she was talking to herself again as she slowly turned her attention to the person beside me; the person that interrupted her from hitting her head on the desk.

"Um… it's nice to meet you." Sakura quietly greeted. "My name is-"

"Sakura, I know," the raven haired boy cut her off.

"What do you mean you didn't know?!" cried the last person to take a seat. The blond boy was still standing in the front of the class, causing a commotion. Everyone else was seated.

"Well there was an extra piece of paper here, but it didn't have a name. I didn't know whose it was. So I used process of elimination," Iruka calmly replied.

"I wrote my name!" The blond shouted as he took the piece of paper and pointed to it. "See?"

Iruka had a confused expression on his face, but it quickly turned into an annoyed one. "The great one is not your name," Iruka said in an annoyed tone.

"Ha! But it should be!" The boy laughed.

"Just get to your seat, please Naruto," Iruka begged.

"Fine, fine!" The boy said as he turned around. Both his hands were on top of his head as he came closer.

Wait! Hold on! Closer? Don't tell me-

"Hey!" Sakura turned my gaze to the left side.

Too late…

"My name's Naruto! But you can call me the great one!"

She forced a smile, "Heh… N-i-c-e to meet you," she managed to choke out. He grinned. "Hey! Teme! We're in the same table again!" They call each other using swear words? I went back to banging my head on the table. Please don't tell me, please don't tell me I'm in the same group as Naru-

"The group of three is now your new groups for the year." Iruka concluded.

No! I banged my head hard against the desk, causing a echo throughout the quiet class. BANG! – Bang! – bang!...—bang…

Eyes quickly turned towards me. Sakura closed her eyes, wishing she was invisible. She was too afraid of everyone staring at her. So little Sakura kept her head down the whole class while Iruka explained the classroom rules.

Ring!

"Already?" Iruka questioned, looking at the clock. "Alright class, its break time. You'll be going outside for recess, which ends in 20 minutes."

Sakura went to Ino who was beside Hinata. The two were currently talking, although it sounded like poor Hinata didn't even get a chance to talk since Ino kept blabbering. "Sakura! You're so lucky! You're in the same group as him! Ino exclaimed. Sakura gave Ino a nervous laugh as a sweat drop appeared on her forehead.

Speaking of him I don't even know his name yet.

"Come! Lets get a ball!" Ino said as she ran to the teacher. Hinata and Sakura followed.

The three girls went back to the normal spot, the spot where they had first met before the bell rang. It was a small spot near the end of the play ground. The area was surrounded by trees, which provided more then enough shade for the three girls.

The girls went back to playing the game they played before school started; catch. However, not one of the girls were actually able to catch the ball, let alone throw it a far enough distance…

"Oi… Sakura. Why don't you ask him to play with us?" Ino asked pointing innocently to the left.

Sakura glanced to the left, and took a step closer to see who it was. Squinting her eyes, black hair, black eyes…

"Eh? Are you kidding! No way! Why me?" She asked.

"Because, you're in his group" Ino winked.

Sakura pouted, even though she had only known Ino for a day, she knew there was no questioning her. Sakura gulped as she slowly walked closer to the sitting boy.

The coral haired girl had stopped just a few feet in front of the raven haired boy and gave a small cough. What a weak attempt to get his attention.

"Hi there… Y-you looked bored… So, I-I was wondering, w-would you like to p-play ball with us?" She asked quietly to the sitting boy. Avoiding eye contact, she put her head down while she held a small red ball in front of her, waiting for his answer while her cheeks flared up. (A.N: Kind of like what a girl usually does when they hand a guy they like a love/confession letter xD They just stick the letter in front of their face and look down.)

"Hmm?" He replied, not taking his black eyes off of his book.

Sakura gathered some courage as she ever so slightly tilted her head up, catching a glimpse of the boys face. Suddenly she had notice he was staring back, quickly Sakura looked down on the floor again and repeated her sentence. "W-would you like to-"

The bell rang. Yes! Saved by the bell!

The boy sighed as slowly closed his book and stood up. "Maybe next time," he said as he walked away.

"Oh," he stopped walking to turn his head over his shoulder. "My name is Sasuke." He smirked, turning his head back as he continued to walk back to class.

Sasuke? Sakura thought to herself.

"Hurry up or you'll be late!" He remarked.

"Oh! Hey wait up!" She shouted as she ran towards him.

She giggled, earning a stare from him. "What's so funny?" He asked. "Oh nothing..." She replied with a sweet smile.

I can't wait to become friends with you,

Sasuke-kun…

(A.N: Ta-dah! Fluffly? xD No not really. Please remember to review! ) I'm hoping to get one more chapter up before school starts! But I can't promise anything, I still need to do my homework. Heh.. I'm a bad girl
Next time on 'It's a Promise'

Chapter 2 - Unwanted Attention

"Good morning!" Sakura happily sang. It was a new day of school, and Sakura wanted to spend it getting to know her new table mates. "Good morning," Sasuke mumbled. Sakura smiled taking her seat beside him. "SAKURA-CHAN!" a loud voiced called. "Say good morning to me too!"

Oh yeah... he's in the group too, She thought. Sakura titled her chair away from him, leaning closer to Sasuke as she balanced on the chair's one leg. She let out a sigh. "Good morn-AH!"

Everyone in class turned their eyes to face table 7.