These days I don't get to sleep in pace due to the constant fireworks or firecrackers 'explosions' around the neighborhood. It's Chinese New Year so, yeah... And the result of bad sleep is shoulder pain. _ These sounds really do sound like bombs, like WW3 is happening right now. _ ... Well, back to the story. XD


I woke up early in the morning, got prepared to go to school again. 'Oh what classes do I have again today?' I took out my timetable and unfortunately, this is the day that started off with the most disliked subject of all, moral studies. I frowned at the paper, thought that my feelings would have passed on to the lecturer herself.

-School hours-

I used to rush in to class if I were to be late. But after a few weeks I had started to pick up some bad habits from the seniors. I did not care much about being late for class so I just walked towards my classroom. Over here, nobody cares whether you come in late or you don't even come to class. It's rare to see everybody in class and come in or on time. This bad habit is part of this country's culture. Bad culture...

When I went into class, my friends were already there except Hinata. She was usually late because... Either Naruto asked her out until late night so she couldn't wake up, or Naruto couldn't wake up or make it in time to take her along to school.

- Hinata's Love Story: Side -

My first real friend in college was Hinata and we shared many things with each other. She had an overprotective father who would not allow any guy to get near her except for male family members. She had been asked out by many boys in her high school years. However Hinata did date a few guys behind her father's back. Naughty. Even though she was popular in her high school, she did not manage to have a romantic ending with her first love in high school. And how did she turn to Naruto? Well, Naruto said it was a love at first sight; whereas Hinata said he had been good to her and accompanied her all along when she needed someone to cry on. Now that is a tip to how guys get girls. *smirk* They started dating when Hinata accepted Naruto's confession on Valentine's Day. He gave her his iPad as usual but when Hinata flipped the cover open, there were neon words showing 'Will you be my Valentine? *rose*'. That was a mild-cheesy confession.

- Back to school hours-

"Sakura, we have new friends joining us here~" my friend, William announced excitedly.

I quirked one side of my eyebrow and looked around for new faces in our group. I saw two new guys sat beside Evangeline. One of them was the mystery guy on Chapter 2, Dean. I gave a polite smile to him and he smiled back. "Yo, Sakura," he greeted me. "Oh you two knew each other?" William got between us and looked back and forth from me to Dean. I nodded then I switched my focus to the other new guy.

"You again huh?" my sarcasm got me.

Sasuke lifted up his head up to meet my line of vision. "Hn." He then went back to tapping his touch screen phone.

"What was that suppose to mean?"

"..."

"Alright alright. Whatever..." I sat in front of him and continued talking to others. When Hinata came, it was around 0830. The lecturer stared at her but she didn't care. Even though the lecturer was in front of the class, nobody did really bother her because it was really boring, unless she could not take it anymore and asked us to be quiet a little. I bet if it wasn't compulsory for us to take this subject, no one would ever take it. Plus the credit hours for this would not be transferred to most universities in the US.

I turned to my back and talked to Evangeline. She was playing 'Cut the Rope' on Hinata's iPad (to be precise, it is Naruto's).

"You are good at this," I complimented her.

"Not really. I've been practicing and trying to think how to get over with this level. It's taking me too much time," she countered my compliment and got frustrated when the candy broke.

"I think it's supposed to be like this," commented William. He swiped on the screen to cut the rope but the candy broke again.

"No no! It's like this!" Tenten added. The candy didn't break but it didn't land into the green creature's mouth.

"Oh my! This frog is so cute!" I commented on the green creature at the bottom left corner of the screen. And there was an awkward silence among us.

"What?" I feel anxious.

"Erm... Sakura-chan... That isn't a frog... It's a creature named Om-Nom..." my friend sweat dropped.

"Eh? It looks like a frog to me..." I scratched my hair as an indication that I was confused.

"My dear! That isn't a frog!" they laughed out loud.

"We have a new nickname for you Sakura! We are gonna call you... Froggie!" Evangeline said between her laughter.

"EH?! NO!" I exclaimed.

I saw Sasuke smirked at the commotion we have caused in the class. And he silently said "stupid".

"Hey! I heard that!" I directed my words to him.

"Yeah and you heard the truth," his smirk doubled.

"You! How could you...?! You watch out... You better watch out!" he got on my nerves and I was at a lost of words to be angry with him.

"Yeah. I'll watch out for you so I won't get your stupidity transmitted to me," his vision on his laptop and he said it with a normal face.

"Argh! Karma! Karma will come!" I shouted to the sky.

In a glimpse, moral studies lesson was over and everyone went out of the classroom to their own destinations.

When I was outside with my friends deciding what to do next, the corner of my eye caught a vision of ebony. I turned to look at what it was. That was when Sasuke and I looked at each other for a second. Then we turned our focus back to what we were doing and ignored each others' presence.

However, we didn't know that this one look would bring us closer to each other in the future.


I realized every chapter I will end it with a sentence like this. _ I'll try to have a better chapter ending next time. =X

It is kinda hard to write an edited story of my campus life because I chose to write this major part of campus life and I need to change the characters into fictional characters. It takes a lot of mental strength to recall these memories too. Phew... But I still want to write it down here as this part of my life is very important to me. I don't wanna forget it as I grow old though. T_T