"SAKURA! WHY DO YOU HAVE BRUISES ON YOUR NECK?" Naruto cried.

Sakura blushed. Ino knew they weren't bruises, they were hickies. "Hinata! Shikamaru!" Ino cried, ignoring her best friends neck for the moment. Hinata and Shikamaru walked up to them, both of them noticing Sakura's neck.

"Hey, Sakura, why is your nec-" Ino hit Shikamaru over the head before he could say anymore. "SHIKAMARU!"

Hinata stayed quiet.

No one noticed the pink tint on Sasuke's face. Ino smirked over at Sasuke, knowing he was the one who caused it. "SAKURA! HOW'D YOU GET THOSE BRUISES?" Naruto asked again. "I… uh… you know how clumsy I am Naruto…" Sakura laughed nervously and sweat dropped, scratching the back of her head.

Naruto shrugged it off.

Shikamaru didn't really care enough to ask, and Hinata was too shy. But Ino? She was fuming. She couldn't believe her best friend just made out with the hottest boy in school and didn't even tell her!

"Hello, students. I see we have a youthful new student today! I'm Gai! " a man in a green jumpsuit cried.

HE'S OUR TEACHER? inner Sakura cried.

"Yes we do! She is very youthful! And very, very hot!" a boy who looked like the teacher's clone said. He jumped in front of Sakura and winked. "I am Rock Lee! Allow me to be your boyfriend, and I will protect you with my life!"

Sakura stared wide-eyed at the very strange boy.

"Um…" she stuttered. She noticed Sasuke glaring at Lee and Sakura decided to have a little fun.

As the rest of the class began their activities, Sasuke was watching Sakura and Lee, jealous out of his mind.

How dare he even think about touching my cherry blossom! Sasuke thought.

Sakura noticed Sasuke watching them. "Hmm… I don't know, Lee…" Sakura said seductively. "Maybe… maybe I'll think about it…" she moved closer to Lee. She saw Sasuke's fists clench.

Closer…

Closer

Closer

Until Lee kissed Sakura!

"What the hell!" Sakura cried as she separated from Lee. But before he could do anything, Sasuke grabbed Lee by the back of his shirt and through him against the bleachers. "SASUKE!" Sakura cried.

Oooooh! Sasuke is SO sexy when he's jealous! Inner Sakura purred.

"Sasuke, don't kill him!" Sakura cried, grabbing Sasuke's arm before he was able to punch Lee again. That didn't stop him.

She hugged him from behind. "STOP! PLEASE STOP!" she cried into his back, and Gai finally paid attention and ran over to his favorite student and his now least favorite one. "SASUKE UCHIHA! TO PRINCIPAL TSUNADE! NOW!" Gai yelled. "Gai-sensei… I'm sorry I couldn't stop him… I-I'm just not… strong enough…" Sakura felt herself start to cry.

Gai told her not to worry.

This is all my fault… I had to play with Lee just to see if Sasuke would get jealous… And now… and now Lee looks terrible! Sakura thought.

Sasuke was sitting in Tsunade's office, which didn't smell very good. He was sentenced to detention after school.

"I can't," he told Tsunade. "And why can you not?" she asked him, and he sighed. "I-I have a date." "A date?" Tsunade didn't look amused. "You think I'd get you out of detention just because Konoha High School's heartthrob, Sasuke Uchiha, has a date?"

"Tsunade… This girl… is amazing. She's beautiful and I think I've found the one I truly want to be with…" Sasuke explained. Tsunade looked surprised to see the Uchiha boy tell him about this girl.

"Oh, really? And what is this girl's name?" she asked.

"Sakura… Haruno…"

Tsunade looked shocked.

"What?"

"Sakura Haruno? The new girl?" Tsunade asked, grinding her teeth.

"Yeah…?" Sasuke asked, confused.

"MY NIECE?"

Oh shit.

It wasn't that Tsunade was angry that Sasuke liked her niece, or that her niece liked Sasuke, but what bothered her was that she knew how Sasuke was with girls. She knew he was cold, and liked his personal space.

"She's your niece?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes… Her father was my brother…" she told him, and he noticed something.

"What do you mean by 'was'?"

Tsunade froze.

"He… died… when Sakura was very young. She never really met her dad. She has no memory of him and whenever he is mentioned she bursts into tears…" Tsunade explained. "But… she has a mom… right?"

Tsunade looked away.

"Yes… she does have a mother… but… Sakura doesn't know this… don't tell her, or I swear you'll be kicked out of this school… Her mother… has cancer."

"Why doesn't she want Sakura to know?" Sasuke exclaimed, jumping up from his seat. "Because… Sasuke… her mother is dying…" Tsunade didn't want to tell him, but if he was going to be in a serious relationship with Sakura, she wanted him to know.

"What?" Sasuke asked, flabbergasted.

"She only has a little time to live… Six months at the latest…" Tsunade said sadly. Sasuke couldn't believe his ears. It was almost as if his parents were being killed all over again.

"What's going to happen to Sakura?" he asked, and Tsunade sighed. "I can't take her in… so right now I'm not sure… She might go back to Suna and live with her old friends there…"

"No!" Sasuke cried, not meaning to. He couldn't be separated from his beautiful, wonderful cherry blossom!

Can you believe they only met today?

"Why can't she stay with you?" Tsunade looked down. "… Personal… reasons…"

Sasuke realized what the bad smell was. Sake.

"You're an alcoholic, aren't you?"

Tsunade kept quiet.

"Tsunade-" "Fine! I am!" Tsunade screamed. "She can't live with me, alright?"

Sasuke was confused. "If you're an alcoholic how are you running the school? How are you running the school so well?"

Tsunade shrugged. "I usually only drink at night… but I just got back from the hospital with Sakura's mother…"

Sasuke stared at his principal as she said:

"She's getting worse."

"Sakura can stay with me!" Sasuke cried. "I live alone, she can stay with me as long as she wants!"

"You live alone, Sasuke…" Tsunade told him. "That's the problem. Two teenage lovebirds living together? Do you know the rumors that would go around? What people will think?"

"I don't care, as long as Sakura-" "Sakura is the one I'm worried about! She just got to this school, she doesn't need any bad rumors going around… Alright?"

Sasuke looked down. "Alright."

"You still have to serve your detention, but after that you're free to go…"

Sasuke didn't say anything as he walked out, head down, to third period.