Sasuke jumped up

Chapter 3

Mushroomheads

Sasuke jumped up.

What happened? How did she-

He quickly sat back down again, remembering that Uchihas NEVER jump up for anything. What the heck, even if his house was on fire, Sasuke was supposed to calmly stand up, calmly walk to the door, and calmly evacuate.

Asuma had a worried look on his face. "Neji, Shikamaru, take her to the infirmary. She needs to be hospitalized."

The two nodded and each took one of her arms before throwing them over their shoulders. They then proceeded to drag her across the room.

Asuma shook his head. "What in the world are you doing! You-"

Sasuke calmly stood up, walked over to Sakura, and picked her up bridal-style. He disappeared out of the room.

There was a deathly silence before Asuma chuckled nervously and said, "Now we shall resume our roll call … Hin-"

PING!

"Presenting, Konoha's Beautiful Green Beast!"

An enthusiastic, bowl-cut mushroom-head with huge, thick eyebrows wearing a green spandex suit (I'm sure you can guess who) hopped in through the window. He turned to Asuma and bowed.

"My apologies for being late. Konoha's Green Beast is NEVER late!"

Asuma narrowed his eyes. "So then why are you late?"

The "unusual-looking" mushroom-head just grinned. "My ever-so-youthful teacher, Gai-sensei, has this lost turtle! I could not bear his howls of anguish, so I searched for 4 hours straight in the forest-"

"What kind of turtle was it?" a random guy asked.

"Dark green, about as big as my thumb!" He PINGED again.

"Did you find it?" Asuma muttered, not believing that he was actually interested.

"No, so I gotta go!"

"Wait. You can't skip school, especially not for some dumb turtle-"

"No." He shook his head. "I made a promise to keep looking for it until I find it! When I do I'll be back!" He did a thumbs-up sign and bounded back out the window.

"That Rock Lee..."

Sakura groaned. She sat up slowly.

"What happened?" she muttered weakly.

"Three words. You fainted. The end."

A familiar person was sitting with his arms crossed in a chair across from the bed Sakura was sitting on. She looked up in surprise.

"You? What are you doing here? And by the way, that was six words," she snapped.

"I was waiting for you to wake up. Why did you faint?"

Sakura shuddered. "I saw a mushroom-head with a bowl-cut and humongous eyebrows- and believe me, they were really scary." She paused, looked around, and sighed with relief. "It was wearing a green spandex suit, too. You wouldn't believe me, would you?"

Sasuke stifled a short laugh. Suddenly aware of what he had just done, he quickly clapped a hand over his mouth. Sasuke Uchiha didn't laugh. Such weird things were happening on the same day a pink-haired girl arrived at school. Something was wrong.

He knocked on his head a couple of times. To him, it sounded empty. Sasuke sighed. That must be the reason. No one was home, so he couldn't think straight. Yeah, that seemed right. He glanced at Sakura to see if she had noticed. She hadn't.

Instead she was staring at a certain thick-browed green spandex suit-wearer.

"EEK!" she screeched.

"Hello, my beloved! I have come to save you from the darkness! I found the turtle, so I have spare time!" it cried.

"Cut it out, Lee," Sasuke grumbled. It was so annoying.

"Me? Cut what out? No paper or scissors here," he said cheerfully. "And, I never was introduced to this lovely – er, pink person."

Sakura flared up. "Don't you say a thing about my hair! It's perfectly fine. What's wrong with it? My hair's naturally pink, okay? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?"

Lee backed up, shaking his head. "N-no, not at all. Now, i-if you'll p-please excuse me, I-I have to get to class…"

He swiftly turned heel and shot out the door. Sasuke could hear his rapidly retreating footsteps.

He shifted his weight and spoke to Sakura without facing her. "He's right, we'd better get back to class."

Sakura had a strange look on her face. "What was all that talk about turtles?"

"Probably something to do with youth," he said. "Come on, we're late. Asuma is going to freak out. Once, when someone freaking coughed, he went nuts…"

Sakura smirked. "Wow, you sure have a whole lot to say."

Sasuke blushed slightly. He quickly turned away so Sakura couldn't see.

"Hn, let's go."

"Yeah, what time is it?"

Sasuke looked at his watch. "History is almost over, so we have break next. I'll have to show you around."

She stuck her tongue out. "You didn't answer my question …"

He snorted. Sometimes she was annoying, too.

"Let's go."

Sakura stood up, pranced over to the raven-haired boy and locked arms with him. Sasuke stared at her. She smiled sweetly.

"Well, let's go. Oh, and thanks for waiting."

Sasuke was confused, but he shook it off. Suddenly aware of her arm around his, he pulled away. Sakura had a slightly surprised and sad look on her face.

"Um, I don't really like close contact…" he shuddered in remembrance of the times his stupid fangirls had smothered him with their bodies…

"Oh, I see." She really didn't.

He sighed. "You're doing this only to stall. We have a class to go to."

She had a hurt look on her face, but followed him out the door. I guess Sasuke isn't as I'd thought he was. Oh well – a girl can dream.