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Chapter 2: Day 1- The Project
Dull chatter rounded the classroom. Idly, Sasuke wondered why he even bothered coming to school on time. His teacher didn't and usually came in two hours later than the other teachers, placing him forty minutes late for an hour-long class. The lock clicked as the door opened.
'Speak of the devil…'
"Hello class," greeted the thirty-year old teacher. You'd never figure he was thirty with his grey hair, but he was thirty, though he looked twenty under that mask of his. How did he know that? He'd seen his teacher's face after a kid ran into him and knocked it off. He was the only kid to ever see his teacher's face.
Now that Sasuke thought of it, his teacher seemed more like twenty-something. He certainly acted like it. He didn't really do much in class, his clothes were always a bit sloppy, and his hair was always unkempt. His teacher says it was because it was too much trouble to do otherwise. Sasuke would to like think it was because his teacher gets laid before he comes to school, which would also explain how he was always late to school. What did that man and his wife do together, honestly?
"Uchiha Sasuke. Are you here? Last time I'm asking."
"Here sensei," he said with a slight raise of his arm. Honestly, there was no real point in him being in this class. He got A's all the time, and even if he didn't study for a test and spent the entire night playing video games, he'd still get an A on a test. The sixteen-yr-old sighed. His teacher began talking.
"Alright class, I'm assigning partner projects. Choose one aspect of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and write a report." Whines of 'Awww,' and 'No fair, Kakashi-sensei!' were echoed in the room, but he merely pressed forward as if no one had talked. "Be prepared to give a presentation to the class and please be creative. Use your textbooks for ideas and research it online. The report is to be five pages with a bibliography. Go choose your topics and partners. Also for homework, read up on the Edo period. We're covering that after we finish with this."
And the class began moving like one entity, rising as one and shifting around desks as papers were shuffled and the chairs were scraped against the floor. Sasuke sat stoically on his chair. Normally when given these projects, he'd automatically get the dobe since that's how things went. He paired up with dobe because he'd rather kill himself than be paired with that Hyuuga Neji kid. Besides, the long-haired boy was always with that Tenten girl (Why didn't they just start dating already? They were always together, anyway) or if she was doing the project with that Rock Lee kid, he'd pick Nara, the other genius of the class aside from him and Hyuuga.
A pencil fell and absentmindedly, he bent down to pick it up before handing it in the general direction it came from. "Here," he muttered.
"Thanks," the person replied and he nodded vacantly before pausing. He had heard that voice before.
Turning his head, he saw a familiar head of pink hair. It was placed in a claw, the ends no longer brushing the undersides of her shoulder blades, but higher, brushing against her neck and shoulders. She was talking with Hyuuga's cousin, Hinata. She was a quiet girl and sat in the back of the room. She was so shy, it was almost a shame. Strange that they would be seen talking to each other, but more importantly, why was she here?
'Sakura's in my history class? How come I never knew this?' he wondered before mentally slapping himself. If he was going to see if she could really make a guy fall in love with her in 30 days, he needed to start soon, and this project was his ticket to do so.
"Haruno."
"Yes?" she asked, green eyes staring at him from a startled expression. Peering closer, her eyes were more of an emerald color than he originally thought.
"You're going to be my partner for the project."
"But I already have a partner for the project," she replied. Hinata just stayed off to the side sending nervous glances between the two of them.
"I don't care. You're going to be my project partner." And where most girls would crumble and abandon their partners without a care for their feelings, Haruno Sakura did the unthinkable. She turned her back on him.
And Sasuke stared at her back in shock, Hinata blushing and staring at the floor as Sakura continued to keep her back to him. To add insult to injury, she stuck out her tongue and made a face at him. That was what brought Sasuke out of his stupor.
'This is going to be easy,' he thought to himself as Naruto ran up to him with plans of a samurai sword fight. There was no way he would fall for a girl like her. She wasn't that pretty, she was quiet and forgettable, and she had pink hair, and Sasuke would never let himself be attributed to anything with the color pink. Even with all that against her, he would admit it. She was interesting.