This chapter is incredibly short, and I'm sorry.

Fear and Panic!

Chapter 1

"Oh"

Sakura thought out loud as she skimmed her exam schedule, or more like, her wrinkled piece of paper in which she wrote her exam times down on as fast as she could when the principal had announced them.

That morning, Sakura had had her geography exam. It was geography for grade 11. And yes, Sakura was in grade 10. To make a long story short, the principal had originally assigned for her to have physical education for grade 10. But hell no, Sakura would rather take geography for the juniors.

And it wasn't a hard exam. She counted the number of cramps she had in her hand as she wrote down all her grueling answers in the exam booklet. Sometimes she would listen (for fun) for the sound of the pencil scratching on paper behind her. Behind her was an awfully behaved boy that she was unfamiliar with, but he was anti-social, and a little scary. She wouldn't have known his name was Gaara if she'd never taken this class, but she wouldn't have minded that. She'd snicker to herself when she didn't hear his pencil scratching for a long period of time, which meant he was absolutely stumped.

Exams can be fun if you make them.

And as she looked at her exam schedule, aka crumpled piece of paper, she realized that the next day she was free. And the day after was her Japanese exam. Lovely.

She sat back and decided to laze around for the day, because after all, there was no exam tomorrow. She shifted her computer mouse, watched the monitor screen come back on, and she decided to make her first stop Facebook.

An hour in, she was beginning to become irritated with how much Sasuke was talking to people. Oh, let me elaborate.

When Sakura first started liking Kakashi that time in grade 9, she thought it was awful that she'd be crushing on a married man, and a teacher no less. So in a desperate attempt to fall out of love, she decided to go out with someone to take her mind off of him, hopefully forever. That's when Sasuke came in. She doesn't remember how it really started, but they went out.

And then over the winter holidays, she had to leave for vacation with her family. She cheerfully told him goodbye and they pecked lips. Then upon checking her Facebook during the vacation, she found she'd received a message. From Sasuke.

"We shouldn't go out anymore"

It was a downward spiral from there, and since Sakura had gotten somewhat emotionally attached, she got quite angry. Why so sudden? And why? Do you not like me anymore?

She asked him too many questions in that short vacation, and Sasuke always answered, but they were never the truth. He dodged the questions with jokes, or he'd answer them with nonsensical answers that simply provoked Sakura more. It didn't make sense to her how he couldn't tell her the truth, because before she'd left for vacation, he'd been all over her. And now he wanted to split?

After coming back from her vacation, Sasuke acted awfully strange around her at school, or avoided her altogether. It got on her nerves to the point she just decided she'd stop talking to him. When people asked her things like "so I heard Sasuke dumped you", she'd shoot back "I dumped him". Sometimes when she entered a room with Sasuke, she'd hear his friends giggling like little retards about her. What a joke.

And so, immensely angry and at the same time embarrassed and feeling foolish, she decided this was not better than how she'd been before liking Kakashi. So one day, after school, she was so upset about her relationship with Sasuke she thoughtlessly stumbled into Kakashi's classroom.

Kakashi had looked up with a face of slight surprise, and Sakura as well, because she clearly hadn't been thinking clearly when she threw herself in the room. "Um, hi", Sakura said, smiling bashfully, pulling at the hem of her shirt in all nervousness. He blinked, "hi", and went back to his paperwork. She stood there unmoving, and remembered that he didn't like to make idle pratter when he had important work, and it was exam time. She took a seat and rested her head in her arms, staring lazily at Kakashi working.

She smiled, and realized that his classroom might just be her happy place.

Sasuke's a douche. No matter how hot and amazingly delicious-looking he is, he's a douche.