Rayne Says: I am soooooo happy for the quick responses and reviews for the last chapter. It gave me muse and helped me write the requested story for Kichijoten. I could only think of this story through AU High School, so that's what it is. I hope you like it! Please, review and request!

Chocolate Admirer

MelloXSakura

.:Sakura's P.O.V:.

Sakura woke up excited. Not just jittery excited, but full-blown-mass-explosion-genocide excited. She leapt out of her bed and immediately tripped on her cat, Hershey. Normally, she would have yelled at him for tripping her, but today she was in too much of a rush to care.

She ran into the bathroom and brushed her teeth and combed her hair as carefully and thoroughly as she could. What should she do with hair? Should it be up or down? Straight or curly? Ponytail or pigtails? Her mind pondered the thoughts for almost thirty seconds before she grabbed her hair curler and gently curled her hair. She applied some light eyeshadow to her lids and some cherry chapstick to her lips. She gave a hundred-watt smile to her reflection and blew a kiss.

She didn't have much of a choice in what she wore, seeing as how uniforms were required. She liked her uniform enough to not be bothered by it. She shrugged on the white blouse and blue skirt that she wore everyday. Since it was February, it was cold enough to make her wear the itchy jacket she didn't like as much. She pulled on her loafers and grabbed some stray textbooks and put them into her bag.

She patted Hershey on the head, grabbed a small wrapped package, and ran out of the door. She only had to walk a small while alone before another girl in a similar uniform joined her. This girl, however, had blonde hair and blue eyes instead of pink hair and green eyes, and was more beautiful (in the eyes of Sakura and most of the male population).

"Morning, Forehead," Ino greeted.

"Morning, Pig," Sakura replied.

Since Sakura and Ino had become friends and were no longer rivals, their old taunts had become nicknames and no longer bothered either of them.

"Are you ready for today?" Ino asked.

"I guess so."

"You guess so? You know so! Trust me, today is going to be a V-Day to remember!"

"For you maybe, but not for me. The only cards I ever receive are from you, Hinata, and Lee. It's been that way for the past two years," Sakura stated.

"Maybe today will be different."

"I doubt it."

"Then what's that package you're holding in your arms?"

"Nothing!"

"It doesn't look like nothing. It looks like a confession of love!"

"It's not!"

"Who's it for?"

"I'm not telling you," Sakura argued, although she knew that Ino would bother her all day long until she found out.

"Please?"

"Maybe later?" Sakura pleaded.

"I'm going to hold that to you!"

Just then, Hinata strolled up the adjoining sidewalk and greeted them.

"G-Good Morning," she said quietly.

"Good morning, Hinata!" Ino said happily.

"Hello," Sakura answered.

"What are you holding?" Ino asked; focusing her attention on a small, heart-shaped box nestled in Hinata's arms.

"C-Chocolates," Hinata stuttered honestly.

"For who?" Ino asked even thought she already knew.

"T-They're for-"

"Hinata! Sakura! Ino!" someone yelled, their voice quickly approaching. Hinata's face turned a shade of violent red, but it didn't mean that she was angry. Her feet tottered a bit, but she regained her footing, only to be crashed into by an orange blur.

"Hinata! Happy Valentine's Day!" Naruto screamed happily, holding a limp Hinata in his arms. "Huh? Hinata, what's wrong?"

"N-Nothing, Naruto," she said, standing up.

"You should let her go before she dies of air loss," Sakura instructed.

"Oh," Naruto said, letting go of Hinata and stepping away as if she were a leper.

"N-Naruto?" Hinata's timid voice squeaked.

"Yeah?"

"Um… these are for y-you," she said, handing him the box of chocolates.

"Wow! Thanks Hinata!" he yelled, grabbing the box and opening it. "Did you make all these? They look amazing! Oh, I didn't get you anything."

"That's o-okay."

"No it's not. I'll have to make it up to you somehow! Maybe… Hinata would you like to go to dinner with me tonight?" he asked.

Hinata promptly fainted.

"Not again," Ino muttered under her breath.

Sakura picked up Hinata, who couldn't hear Naruto's profuse apologies, and managed to lean her on her shoulder. Her other male friend, Lee, chose then to stroll up and greet them.

"Hello, youthful companions! Isn't today a youthful day? We should run all the way to school so that we may be in top form for a youthful day of learning!"

"Lee, if you say "youth" in any form for the rest of the day, I will personally make sure that you end up with your foot in your mouth," Ino said darkly.

"Y-Yes," Lee stuttered.

"Good."

Lee reached into his backpack and devotedly delivered four packages of sweets to his friends. Sakura smiled sweetly at his inscription of "The Youthful Blossom Blooms Twice! Love, Lee" and gave him a hug. He was one of her closest friends, and he'd even confessed his love to her on several occasions, but he'd gradually accepted her mainly plutonic love.

She put the sweets in her bag and together the five-some walked to their school. They went their separate ways to their lockers and Sakura traded some of her books and put her bag away. She did, however, hold on tightly to the package in her arms. It wouldn't do to have her drop it and someone else find it. She took a different route then usual down to the Junior Hall. Being as how, Sakura was a sophomore, she wasn't necessarily supposed to be in this hall, but it wasn't an officially written rule.

She walked until she reached a locker with the number 361 on it before stopping. She looked to the side, but no one seemed to see her. She offered a small smile to no one before gently relinquishing her package.

It wasn't necessarily a big package, but it wasn't too small. It was small enough to fit through one of the slots in the locker. She doubled checked that the package was in a good enough condition to be delivered before dropping it into the locker. She let out a sigh, knowing what she had just done couldn't be undone. She walked out of the hall and searched for her friends. She found them and they hung out and enjoyed the typical merriment of a partial-holiday.

By third period, Sakura was just a tiny bit depressed. It wasn't a huge case of depression where she would go home, eat ice-cream, watch soap operas just so she could feel sorry for fictional people, all the while crying and ruining her ice-cream because everyone knows that salty ice-cream isn't very good to eat, but it was still enough to make her continuous smile fade a little.

Anyway… Sakura walked back to her locker to put her books away for lunch. As she was doing so, however, a small package dropped down onto the floor. Sakura stared at it dumbly for several moments before picking it up and looking at it. It was a box of candy with a small notebook paper stapled to it. The note read simply, "Thought these matched your personality- I hope that doesn't offend you! I like that about you! Um… anyway, Happy Valentine's Day. Dearly, Your Chocolate Admirer."

She didn't really understand what it meant by "Chocolate Admirer". Lots of people liked chocolate; it could be anybody. She glanced at the box of candy and was glad that she'd read the note before looking. The box of candy turned out to be a box of SweeTarts. She almost felt like laughing at his reference to her personality. She put the box of candy and the note in her pocket and walked off to meet her friends.

She didn't tell anyone about the package because she knew that Ino would make it her Hell-bent mission to find whoever had sent it. Sakura didn't wish to incur her wrath on anybody. Ino talked most of lunch about how many presents she'd gotten already. She said she would need a moving truck to get them all home. Hinata had regained consciousness, but was suffering from a constant blush. Lee was having "youth" withdrawals. Naruto was… Naruto.

Sakura filed into her last class the day. She took her seat in the back of the room and kept looking at her desk. It wasn't that she wasn't interested in math, she was, but it was the fact that he was in this class.

He meant Mello.

Sakura had had a crush on him since the beginning of last year when they'd had two classes together. Even though he was sophomore, Sakura had some of his classes because of the fact that she was a freak: a smart freak- but a freak nonetheless.

She stared up as she felt someone looking at her and caught the gaze of dark-brown eyes. She blushed and returned her gaze to the desk. She smelled a slight scent of chocolate in the air and allowed herself to sneak a peek. There he was, sitting at his desk, eating the chocolate that she had given him. She felt as though she were going to faint.

Class passed quickly and too soon the bell rang as usual. She gathered her things slowly, wanting to savor every moment with him she had. After all, this was the only time of day she saw him. She started to walk down the aisle of desks. All of a sudden, he stood up, and Sakura ran into him. She didn't think she hit him too hard, but apparently she caught him off guard. They both fell to the ground of the classroom, knocking desks down along the way.

The irony of it being the fact they landed in a little perverse position.

Sakura had landed on top of Mello, and she groaned from the pain of landing on something not made for landing on.

"I-I'm sorry," she said, standing up and brushing off her skirt. She offered him a hand and he took it, standing up. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, that was quite a fall we had, wasn't it?"

She almost melted. "I guess so. I'm sorry for making you fall."

"No, it's my fault," he answered.

"It's mine," she argued, her stubborn side showing up.

"Mine," he said, smiling.

"Can we agree that it's both of our faults?" she asked.

"Yeah, but I have to make it up to you."

"No you don't."

"Please let me?"

"What do you have in mind?"

"Dinner and a walk?"

"That's all?"

"Do you want diamonds too?"

"No, it's just I didn't figure you to be the "dinner and a walk" kind of guy."

"I'm a man of mystery."

"Yes you are. So what time should I expect you?"

"Around eight-ish."

"Thanks."

"For what?" Mello asked.

"Um… inviting me, I guess."

"Well it is Valentine's Day."

"You're right. I have to go. My friends are waiting for me."

"See you later and Happy V-Day."

"Happy Valentine's Day," she replied. Sakura made it to the door before his voice interrupted her melting.

"One more thing: Do you like SweeTarts?"

"Actually I do, why?"

He walked past her through the doorway and down the hall, but she could swear she heard his voice carried on an invisible wind.

"I thought you would, it's why I got them for you…"

Not very fluffy but I think it was cute. What do you think? Remember to review and request!