Apathetic Silence: Happy birthday to... me? Well, here in the Philippines it's already the twenty-fifth of May. And... yeah, I'm aware that V-Day is on February, but like I said, these one-shots are random ideas.

ICE BREAKER CHRONICLES
"Dividing Fence"

"Teme!"

Black leather shoes halt in their tracks as a tall male figure slightly turns to the source of the voice.

"Teme!"

And once obsidian eyes meet a pair of azure ones, a shorter boy had collided with the taller one, causing both to fall to the floor.

A grunt escapes from the lips of the dark-eyed raven-haired student, and he narrows his eyes at the mop of blond spiky locks in his view.

"What do you want this time? Ch." He sits up and forces the idiotic male off of him.

"It's..." he grins at him like a goofball in love. "Valentine's day!"

"...Aa. Your point?"

"The girls will be arriving soon." He grins some more.

"Hn. And?"

"...Aren't you excited to see a certain someone from the other school?"

He sighs at this and gets up from the floor, dusting dirt off of his pants and then giving his companion a pointed look.

"No."

And he turns to walk away from the gaping blond.

"LIKE HELL I'D BELIEVE THAT YOU BASTARD!"

He just continues to walk off, sighing softly and ignoring the conversation some of his other schoolmates are having.

Everyone is apparently excited for today, but he isn't – at least, not as much as the rest of the guys are.

And no, he is not gay.

He just happens to dislike how the female variety pay a whole lot of attention to him when he doesn't even want it. So after much pleading from his part, his father agreed to enroll him in the exclusive all-boys school the Fire country has. However, he did not know that an all-girls school would be located across it – right on the other side of the tall fence that divided their campus from the girls' alma matter.

As the guys rush out of the building and towards the fence to meet and greet the female students, he merely walks at a leisure pace and does not spare the wired fence a glance, even if the girls from the other side had loudly mentioned his name.

"Damn them." He thought with a snort, lifting a finger up to loosen his red tie a bit and pocketing that hand back in his slacks. The school's blazer flapped behind him as he kept it unbuttoned, its shade of red darker than the tie around his neck.

"Sasu-chan!"

He freezes upon hearing the dreaded nickname his mother had come up with and shared to a select few people, and one of them being her.

"I know you heard me! Don't make me say it again!"

With a scowl on his face, he turns to the left and approaches the green-eyed girl who is a head shorted than him, wearing the same uniform as the rest of the girls are, pretty much like his except they're in skirts. Aside from that, she had her coat buttoned down unlike him.

"I told you not to bother." He tells her upon reaching her, the wired fence the only thing keeping them apart.

"And I told you that it's none of your business if I do this or not." She said in a matter of fact tone, ignoring the other girls next to her and those behind her who also pines for his attention while waving small pieces of wrapped chocolates that could fit the holes of the fence.

"Hn. Make this quick then, 'less you want them to crush you."

"I deal with them every single day because of you."

"So I keep telling you not to bother whenever this time of the year comes."

"Really Sasuke? You're really going to bring that up again?"

"Hn."

She sends him a bright and heart-warming smile. "Well, I'm unable to hand you your gift right now, since it wouldn't fit in the holes anyway." She placed a hand over the fence, her fingers grasping onto the wires for emphasis. "So I'll just give you this."

He raises a brow at her when she beckoned him to draw nearer, so he does by lowering his head a bit, only to be taken a back when her lips pressed against his lightly.

"What..."

She smiles at him amidst the screaming and yelling fans of his. "Don't forget to pick me up later, Sasu-chan." She winks before turning around to take her leave, not affected at how the girls are trying to kill her with their glares.

Hey, she's a close friend to the Uchiha family, and is a distant relative to the headmistress of the school too – so she's basically untouchable.

Sasuke somehow figures she knows that as she watches her merrily skip away and back to her group of friends who were all looking at him and then back at her. He stares at them and sees how they all squeal and grab her, as if congratulating her for what she had done earlier.

Despite the many girls who tried to grab his attention, his eyes remained on her and how she was laughing and shaking her head at something the female version of Naruto said, and he ends up smiling slightly and turning away to spend the remainder of his lunch break in silence. "Annoying."

He wonders briefly just what it is about her that makes him follow her every demand no matter how petty they seem. For one thing, he could just walk away right now and spare himself from the girls who are crowding him and thrusting their pink and red colored gifts at him. He even twitched at the sight of a stuffed bear at the color of bright pink with a red ribbon around its neck and a heart-shaped pillow in its small paws.

"Fuck off already!" He yells at them, and they are silent at his outburst. He merely keeps his glare and refuses to lower his crossed arms, hoping that his tantrum had given them the idea that he is not interested. However, they ended up squealing even louder by claiming that he is affected by their presence, and he merely slaps a hand on his forehead and sighs heavily.

For now, he'll agree with Nara Shikamaru's view on these women – they are troublesome.

"Sorry girls, but I believe that our friend has already made a date with the male heartthrob of Leaf High."

He looks up at the new voice, and spots one of Sakura's friends pushing her way through the group with a help of one of the blond girls who has a crush on the Nara genius – Temari, was it?

"Sakura's over there with Ino and Hinata."

He lowers his gaze to the hazel-eyed girl, trying hard to recall the name of this student whom Sakura has told him had a crush on Hyuuga Neji.

"Tenten, right?"

Her eyes widen as she gives a big smile and a nod. "I'm surprised you know my name."

He turns from her and looks at Sakura, seeing her smiling at him and giving a small wave. "Hyuuga likes talking about you." He murmurs, and then walks over to Sakura, leaving behind a blushing Tenten and a smirking Temari.

"Happy Valentine's Day Sasuke-nii."

He looks over at Neji's cousin, the girl he saw as a younger sister. "Hinata." He nodded his thanks and took the thin and small box.

"It's safe, don't worry." She tells him. "I made sure I bought it without Naruto seeing it."

He gives a tiny smirk at that, and then turns to Sakura. "Ready?"

"Yeah."

He nods back at Hinata and... Yamanaka Ino, before walking off with Sakura next to him.

Despite how loud the protests they both received from the girls who had been invading his personal space earlier on, he still refused to acknowledge them. Yet upon hearing a quick insult from someone, he tensed up and sharply turned to the teenager who uttered such words.

"What was that?"

The girl shrinks back at the intimidating glare the young Uchiha is sending her.

"N-Nothing..."

"I distinctly heard you say something about Sakura." He seethed.

"Sasuke," the pink-haired girl hugs his arm at this, making him turn his attention back to her. His gaze automatically softens when he sees her head lower and brows furrow. "Stop it."

He stands his ground for a few moments, before giving a warning look to the student and then nudging Sakura a bit. She loosens her hold on him and he lightly places an arm around her shoulder and leads her away from the now silent crowd.

His eyes turn back to her, watching how she has one hand over her arm while looking away.

"Don't believe it."

"Huh?"

He stops walking and faces her, lifting both hands up to cup her face. "What that girl said, don't believe it – not even for a second."

She blinks at him, and then averts her eyes to the side. "Well, I do have a wide forehead."

"It's... cute." He murmurs, cheeks turning a light shade of pink as he looks away when her glossy eyes are on him. "...Hn."

"And... really, it's because you're my friend that... you're nice to me."

"That's a factor." He admits. "But then, I could have just left you."

"But you're Sasuke." She says with a small smile. "You do what you want to do, regardless of what people tell you."

"Exactly." He nods. "But I still waited for you."

She ends up smiling even more.

"Hn." He draws back his hands and pockets them. "So... your gift."

"Oh!" She quickly lifts her messenger bag and rummages through it, beaming when she found what she was looking for. "Close your eyes."

"...Sakura."

"Please?"

He sighs and obeys.

"Hold out your hand."

He pulls out his right hand from his pocket and offers it to her.

"Okay!" She places something soft on his palm – and it was bigger than the size of his hand. "Open your eyes."

He does and looks at the object, eyes widening a bit when he saw white rabbit ears sewn on a mop of pink... hair made from felt paper, perhaps. His eyes lowered to the round and plump face that was stuffed with beads of some sort, and he sees black beads as eyes of the miniature Sakura.

"...Rabbit-eared."

She tilts her head and smiles at him. "Wanna know yours?"

He looks at her with a raised brow, and she shows him a plush doll version of him – only with cat ears.

"Cat..?"

"Your family loves them – don't deny it."

He gives a small smile, barely noticeable to the untrained eye.

"And..." she looks at his doll version. "You're like a cat, at least when you're asleep."

"Hn." He looks at the rabbit-eared Sakura. "And you're about as hyper as a bunny."

"Not true!"

"So why the rabbit ears?"

"You called me a rabbit before."

"...Because you're as hyper as one."

She pouts at him. "No I'm not."

"Okay, you're as cute as one."

And she immediately smiles, causing him to snort and smirk.

His scowl was enough to send off the fan girls that had dared to approach them.

"Calm down Sasuke."

He turns his glare at her from behind the wired fence. "They disrespected your dignity."

"Verbally."

"It's still a fucking insult."

"They're just... words."

"Don't hide the hurt you're feeling." He says while pressing his hand against the wired fence while his fingers curl over them. "What they said about you..."

She forces a small smile. "Well, rabbits are always in heat anyway."

"But to compare you to one..." he gritted his teeth. "That's crossing the line."

"They're just guys Sasuke." She lifts her own hand and lightly grazes his fingers. "Come on, you often have perverted thoughts too."

He manages to calm down upon the feel of her fingers intertwining with his. "But they still... shouldn't have said such things."

"Your opinion is what matters to me." She tells him with a smile. "So... am I really as cute as a rabbit?"

He looks at her, seeing that same smile that makes him forget everything else. "...Aa."

"Then that's all I need to know." She presses her forehead against the wires, and he leans in and captures her lips in a quick kiss, pulling away just as fast as he came.

Her eyes widen in surprise at what he did, and he gives a small smirk. "Payback."

She meets his eyes and refuses to look anywhere else. "Shouldn't you be ahead?"

His smirk fades as he raises a brow.

"We're... even now. You... you're not content with that, right?"

He gets her point, but it does not make him blush, rather, it only encourages him to lean down once more. His eyes slowly close just as hers immediately shuts, and they soon feel their lips touch.

The warning bell of the school signaled that lunch break would be over in five minutes, and that forced them to pull back.

"Well, we better get going then." She says with a small smile.

"Aa..."

She pulls her hand away and steps back. "I'll... see you later." She lifts a hand and waves at him, afterwards, turns around to head back to her school.

"Sakura."

She stops upon hearing her name, and she looks back – her eyes widening when he swiftly climbs and jumps over the fence. A few students who were still lingering on both sides had witnessed the scene, and they are as shocked as the pink-haired girl whose lips have been captured once more by the spiky-haired Uchiha.

Her mind goes blank as her heart beats faster, and she slowly processes how his hands held her arms in order to pull her to him, and how soft his lips really do feel.

He slowly pulls back, but only enough so that they could breath. She can still feel his forehead on hers, as well as his nose touching the tip of hers.

"You're a rabbit..." He whispers lightly, and then opens his eyes and looks at her. "Because I prefer rabbits over cats."

She does not care about the bell ringing and informing every student that lunch is over, but rather, she only focuses on a pair of dark colored irises that are intensely looking into her green orbs.

"I... love cats." She says. "Ever since I was eight."

He lets out a small and short laugh. "That long."

"Yeah..."

"Sorry for keeping you waiting then." He leans in once more to kiss her.

"Why... would you jump over a fence to kiss a girl and risk being late?"

He looks at the blue-eyed blond idiot who is also known as his best friend, and then looks back outside the window of the classroom.

"Teme?"

"A rabbit is helpless and lonely when behind a fence." He smirks and closes his eyes. "But a cat can jump over it and keep the rabbit happy."

"...What?"

Sasuke looks down at his blazer's pocket and pulls out the Sakura doll he got yesterday. He smiles at it lightly and looks at Naruto. "Nothing."