The classroom was almost empty. The ones sitting on the back were already lost in a dream land and drooling on their sleeves. The teacher held his attention to the blackboard while no one paid attention to his wise words. Detention was surely an alternative universe located in a random classroom of a high school.
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Her emerald eyes were lazily opened as she observed how oddly a high school student could be when confined against his wish. There were the ones who would simply sleep, not caring about the teacher nor the fact that it was around three in the afternoon. There were others who would be traveling around the world by the view of the large window located on the opposite side from where she was sitting. There were even those painting their nails. Yes, People were weird, she thought, but there was one boy in special and one annoying noise that caught her attention.
The said boy had blonde spiked hair and the most stunning blue eyes she had ever seen. The pinkette remembered about him from when they had met briefly during her trip to the Uchiha's class. Naruto was his name and he was, definitely, an enthusiastic person. He was sitting two chairs in front of hers, yet, she had a complete view of his desk since the one between them was already trapped in a sweet illusion. The boy was excitingly drawing and writing some things she just couldn't see due to his dark sleeve covering the white paper. The noise made by his pencil was, somehow, incredibly loud in her ears. And that definitely was the one thing that drove the short tempered girl to do something about that.
In a straight shot, the Haruno girl threw a lost rubber she had found on the top of that random table. The strength used was enough to make the object produce a sound never heard before in a classroom, which caused everyone to leave their vegetative state and laugh at the pain caused by a school material. It probably had created a whole in that empty head of the blonde but all she could think was that she had been lucky for the teacher to have, conveniently, ignored the happening.
After screaming in pain, Naruto turned around to see the criminal that had thrown the identified flying object at his blind spot. The blonde imagined that the miscreant would be hiding or simply avoiding eye contact as the coward he probably was, but, instead of a hiding face, his sapphires spotted two emeralds piercing through him and a victorious smirk playing on small pink lips. He knew that smirk. He knew that girl from that day, and it would be better not to mess with her, yet, if the boy simply let it pass, his manly pride would be ruined forever.
" hey, why did you do this?"
" because you were doing that stupid noise with the pencil! Hn, everyone was almost doing the same."
" Tch, you surely are Sasuke's friend..."
" I'm not his friend! I just teach him biology! And by the way, what do you have to do with this?"
" hn, he's my best friend... Actually, I wanted to talk to you..."
" uh? To me? I don't even know you..."
" well, if we are intending to share that grumpy, we will have to know each other..."
" share? No no... You can have him for yourself..."
" stop being so boring, Sakura-chan! We still have one and a half hour to kill while we are in here..."
Before the short tempered girl could even answer to that statement, the blonde, with a foxy grin, brought his chair closer to hers and sat by her side. Naruto kept smiling at her in a try of being polite and welcoming to a future new friend.
Drifting her eyes from his bright smile to the paper on his desk, Sakura was quite intrigued about the meaning of all those scribbles and circles mixed in what seemed to be the school map. It seemed to have been drawn by someone before and Naruto was just finishing the route. What was that about?
" oh, you're looking at this?"
" what exactly is this?"
" don't tell anyone but... I'm planning a great escape through the boys' bathroom window."
" a great escape? From detention? Are you insane? What if the teacher gets you?"
" but what if he doesn't? It's gonna be awesome! Just imagine how epic it would be!"
"... Saying like this... Yeah, it would be something nice..."
His blue sapphires shone in excitement as the pinkette fell into the oldest trick of his book. She had fallen for his wise words and by that need of adventure that everyone at their age suffers from. Sakura just needed a little push.
Leaning closer to her and furtively looking at the teacher, Naruto smirked at the pinkette and whispered in her ear.
" hey, Sakura-chan... Let's do this... You and me..."
" what?! Are you crazy? I'm not going with you."
" what?! Why not?"
" because it's wrong... And I would have to get in the boy's restroom."
" hn, if you were to be afraid of doing the wrong things, you wouldn't be here, right?"
" ...but that's different..."
" in what way? Come on! It will be fun! It's a chance for us to know each other... to make a good memory!"
" share a moment?! And who said I want to share anything?"
" of course you do! Let's do it already! I didn't know you were a C-O-W-A-R-D."
And so, something hit her from inside. Her pride was hurt, her eyes were widened and her mouth was about to open so she could give her final answer. She didn't know if it would be the right one nor if she would regret it later. Sakura Haruno simply said the first thing that came to her mind as soon as she heard him calling her coward.
" let's do this..."
" good girl..."
End of the Chapter
