"I've got to stop doing that" I decided. Every time I had an encounter with the 'New Kid'; excuse me "Sasuke-Kun" , as every girl was calling him, I was left barely able to breath and late for my next class. This was too much. Sasuke was in two of my class, and nine out of ten chances, said that I would see him at lunch.
My next class was P.E.; something I wasn't sure I could handle. Not only am I not the greatest athlete, but I'd just had two encounters in a row with the boy who had set my life on fire and left me breathless with my tail in between my legs. Not a good feeling.
I shuffled my jelly legs across the gym floor and sat down on a random spot near against the wall. I wrinkled my nose at the profuse smell of funk in the gym. I scoped my surroundings and noticed a few familiar faces. There was the snotty click, Temari and a few of her girls. I noticed Ino in the crowd but she's not really snotty. She just likes to talk as much as they do. Then there was Gaara in the back. He was a cool loner who isn't social and doesn't give anyone problems. But talked to him once and found out he was pretty cool to talk to. So I shuffled over to him.
He greeted me with a blank stare.
"Hey Gaara, How was you're summer?"
He shrugged. "Okay I guess. Didn't do much. You?"
It's strange the way he speaks. A fire could be burning around him and I guarantee you his expression wouldn't change.
"Yeah it was pretty cool. I uh, I got a summer job."
"Yeah?"
"Yup." I sat down next to him. He didn't say much more. He probably wasn't in much of a talking mood, and I get bored easily.
Luckily, my boredom wasn't sustained as the Gym teacher entered the hall.
"Okay! Everyone front and center on the free-throw line!"
Of course half the people in the room didn't know what that was. So I waltzed over to the free-throw line, and everyone who had half a noodle followed me.
That wasn't too many people. But once everyone was assembled the teacher barked his name and started on some ground rules.
"My name, is Gai-Sensei. You can refer to me as Gai-Sensei, or coach, or dude; whatever you kids call each other theses days, ah ha ha ha. Uh, yeah. So starting tomorrow, I want to see sweats and sneakers for a fitness test. Now some of the rules of the gym are, no gum chewing; no-"
You already know about my short attention span. Bored with Gai -Sensei's drone, my mind floated to more important things, like exactly who Sasuke is and where he came from. But thought of Physics class made me sick to my stomach. I felt a jab to my ribcage and turned to see Ino. Funny; I hadn't realized she was next to me. She giggled
" Hey, who does Gai-sensei look like to you?"
"Huh?"
"Ugh, why are you so spaced out all the time? I said, who does Gai-sensei remind you of?"
"oh, umm…" I squinted at Gai. Huh. Bowl shaped head; wicked eyebrows, oh yeah.
"Lee right?"
She giggled again.
"Excuse me?" Uh-oh "Am I boring you two over here, or what?"
"Oh" he was pretty close to my face. Close enough to count ever eyebrow hair on is eyebrows."
"Oh what? It's the first day and you're already spacing out miss-"he checked the roster.
"-Haruno?" I nodded and turned my head to my left. Gaara was staring. My face felt slightly warmer.
"Well Ms. Haruno, I don't want anymore interruptions today or for the rest of the semester while I'm up here reciting one of my brilliant speeches to you, understood?"
I mumbled a yes. At that moment the bell rung and I was saved of any further embarrassment.
I scuttled out of the sweaty gym. I checked my program. Great; English on the fourth floor next. Guess who I saw walking through the hallway on the way to the staircase? This new kid just couldn't get enough of me I tell ya.
I stopped abruptly to turn around and in my rush crashed in to some jock walking right behind me.
"Aw shit" I swore through gritted teeth. I was caught at the wrist by something icy. I my head snap towards my rescuer. To my displeasure, it was Sasuke staring back at me with cold eyes. At that moment there was a red flash and everything…froze. An odd sensation ripped through my body as if my heart stopped beating. It suffocated me. I got a good look at his eyes. They weren't the usual black. They were very glassy and I swore I saw a red glint to them.
"It's you." His lips quivered with such small movement I almost wasn't sure it was him. I could only tell from his rolling voice.
"What?" My voice came in a desperate whisper. His grip tightened and a smile flashed across his face. He laughed once and everything rolled back the way it was like a recording; just like that.
"Huh?"
I could barely feel the rest of the day. Lunch with Naruto was okay I guess. I don't remember what he said but he was pretty excited about it. When he asked me if I was okay, I nodded and walked away. That was pretty much the best reaction you got out of me for the rest of the day.
After the final bell of the day rung everyone scuttled out the school including me. The mellow sun was already setting; its rays melting on the playground set up for elementary students. It played reds and oranges and shadows everywhere.
I used a stick to play a rhythmic 'tip' tip' on the gates as I walked home. A childish thing to do but, whatever.
"I've never been so happy to be home in my life!" I yelled as I walked through the door.
"Sakura?" damn it; happy feeling gone.
My mother walked through the kitchen to greet me. "Is everything okay?" there she goes again with that unbelievable amount of concern in her voice again.
"Yes mother I'm fine" I said stressing every syllable in that sentence.\
She frowned " Well, you sound pretty stressed out for the first day of school."
"Yeah, well there's some new kid at school and he's freaking me out." I started up the spiral stair case to my room.
"Oh? Is it a boy?" I knew she was smiling.
"Yeah, what of it?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"Nothing."
"I thought so." I stomped upstairs to my room and flopped onto my bed. Geat now mom thinks I have a crush on Sasuke.
But I couldn't get that idiot Sasuke out of my head. What did he mean "It's you".
"Fuck it." I kicked off my shoes and sat up to change.
As I did that a drop tapped my nose. Followed by a few more.
"Ugh, rain." I struggled to shut the creaky window, but it finally shut. I just hoped I would have to open it again for a while.
I rolled over on my side and listened to the music of the rain.
Thunder rolled by. Yeah that's what Sasuke's voice reminded me of the rolling waves, or thunder. And I swore through the storm I heard the thunder say "It's you", but I was too tired to care.
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