High School Life!: Year 1

Chapter VII: Swimming?! Lessons?! Help, Sasuke-kun!

by Kikoru Sijan


Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters in Naruto.

"Regular speech"

'Inner thoughts' (sometimes sounds, like 'boom')

"Non-inner thoughts"


A/N: I got extremely lazy and started this chapter late, though I managed to publish a SasuSaku angst one-shot. It was completely random. And now, we're back to school (in the fanfic that is). Just to tell you guys, the sports festival is coming up! For the fanfic! Yay! On with the fanfic! Lols, that sounded kinda weird! I used fanfic a lot...You'll see inner Sakura here, I realized she hasn't has that much of a role for a while.


Sakura walked up to the school and sighed. The school was so big. Why couldn't they just let the teachers move around instead of the students, like any other Japanese school? But Konoha High was definitely not just another school…they had very…special teachers, truthfully. The real reason why was because Kakashi just somehow coughsharingancough manipulated the founder of the school when Kakashi himself was still in high school. Quite funny actually. "At least we don't have to carry an extreme amount of books…"

'You're kidding! They give us mountain high stacks of books for us to carry!' Sakura scowled. Her inner exaggerated way too much.

"Actually, the most we have is probably for biology…and we just have a thin binder and a textbook!"

'Oh yea?! What about the planner!?'

"What the hell! That doesn't count! I suppose you want to include the pencil case, too?!"

'Not a bad idea! See how much we have to carry now, idiot side of me?' Sakura's "sane" inner mind became flared.

"WHAT. DID. YOU. SAY?!!!"

'Are you so deaf that you can't even hear your own thoughts? I said, "Not a bad idea! See how much we have to carry now, idiot side of me?" Did you hear me this time?' Inner Sakura smirked. She managed to get the so called sane part of Sakura to get pissed. Sakura was about to retort to her inner when somebody tapped her on the shoulder.

"What?!" she snapped, turning the owner of the tap. The person arched an eyebrow.

"I thought you were a morning person. And why are you pulling you're hair out. Nobody even talked to you yet."

"S-sasuke-kun! Sorry, I was…in a bad mood…"

"Uhuh, it's your inner?" Sasuke asked. Sakura nodded before pausing when Sasuke smirked and said, "I knew it." Sakura's eyes widened.

"Wha? How'd you know I had an inner?!" Sakura exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger at Sasuke. "Only Ino knows, and that's because her family has a technique of entering other's minds! Not to mention my inner can kick her out! She's got some mental scars now!" Sasuke continued to smirk before shrugging.

"Only somebody with an inner self could be as crazy as you." Sakura nodded in agreement. Sasuke looked at Sakura, confusion written all over his face, the smug look wiped off.

"I suppose you're crazy too than, Sasu-chyaaaaaaan!" Sakura said in a sing-song voice, saying "chan" like Naruto said it when he called her name. Sasuke visibly twitched; it was Sakura's turn to smirk now. "I know you have an inner, too."

"H-how?!"

"My inner told me. Yes, she's very smart…"

'Thanks for the compliment, oh-so-kind master,' inner Sakura sneered, though she was clearly enjoying the praise from Sakura. Just then, a more devilish Sasuke popped up into the point of Sakura's mind where she couldn't see him, but her inner could. 'And who might you be?' Inner Sakura asked, eyebrows raised. Inner Sasuke plopped himself in one of the inner couches and smirked.

'Guess.'

'Inner Sasuke, and might I say, you're even sexier than your outer,' Inner Sakura complimented. Inner Sasuke's smirk widened.

'I know. You're a lot sexier than your outer.' Inner Sakura smirked.

Briiiiiiiiiiing The bell interrupted Sasuke and Sakura and their inners' conversation. 'Better be going back to Sasu-chan! I can't leave him in daze for too long.' With that, inner Sasuke disappeared from Sakura's mind.


"Ahhhhhh! We're going to be late!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura screamed. She ran, leaving Sasuke in his place. Being a fast runner, arrived on time, only to remember that her first period that day was history, taught by none other than the late teacher, Hatake Kakashi. Anyway, most of his lessons turned into free periods, especially Friday, where math was the last two periods.

"Hey, Sakura-chan, what's the hurry? Kakashi's not going to be here for at least another fifteen minutes," Naruto said. Ino nodded in agreement. The door slid open, and Sasuke came in walked leisurely. Fangirls squealed, with one particularly loud screech.

"Sasuke-kun, marry me!" Mitsuki cried. Sakura raised an eyebrow, surprised to see Mitsuki in her class.

"Wasn't she in a different class…1-1. Damn, she brought her little posse too…Wait, where are Hiroko, Akina, Kosuke, Hideki and Aoi? Weren't they in our class?" Ino shook her head. Shikamaru sighed.

"They were forced by Mitsuki to change classes with them…Damn that girl. She just happens to have connections or some shit like that. Acts like she's at the top of the world. Total bull," Ino said. Nearby, Sasuke finally brushed the fangirls off of him and joined the group.

"Why the hell is she here?!" Sasuke hissed through gritted teeth, pointing at the hazel eyed brunette.

"According to the others, she forced some of our past classmates to switch with her and her posse!" Sakura yelled angrily. "Stupid Mitsuki and her 'connections'," Sakura mumbled.

'Yea, what's her problem anyway, that Sasuke obsessed freak,' Inner Sakura commented. Sakura inwardly nodded. Kakashi slammed the door open twenty minutes late.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Over half the class screamed. Kakashi grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.

"I got lost on the road of l-"

"Kakashi, just stop lying to us and get on with the lesson," Sasuke said in a monotone voice. Kakashi nodded, but decided to speak again.

"Well, a few of our students have switched with some others from class 1-1. Yoshida Mitsuki, Watanabe Ami, Yukino Tsuki, Sawagashi Hikari, and Fujiwara Kiki, please come to the front so I can give you your proper seats." Most of the class groaned and thought, "Great! More fangirls! Damn that Uchiha!" The five giddy and slutty girls jumped up to the front of the room, making their shortened skirts and coats fly up while passing by some perverted boys. Ino, who just happened to be near that row, winced.

"Whores." The five girls went up to the front, and Kakashi pointed to each seat. Mitsuki was last.

"You can sit near Kaede. Would you please raise your hand?" Kaede raised her hand with some hesitation, but Mitsuki whined.

"Why can't I be next to Sasuke-kun?!" she shrieked in her ear-shattering voice. Everyone winced, including Kakashi.

"That seat is already taken."

"What slut would take that seat?!" Mitsuki screeched.

"I happen to be the one you're calling a 'slut', and I thought I already told you off, but apparently you want more. And if you're stupid enough to even want that seat and then call whoever sitting there a slut, you're calling yourself one if you get the seat. Not that I care, you're just saying the truth about yourself." Mitsuki turned to Sakura's direction.

"Haruno."

"Slut." Mitsuki screamed, pulling her hair out. Sakura smirked in satisfaction. Ino, Naruto, and Sasuke snickered.

"Sucker," they all thought.

"Now, Mitsuki, if you would sit there, next to Kaede? And I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Sakura there," Kakashi said. Mitsuki's eyes widened in surprise before stomping over to her seat, infuriated with Sakura and Kakashi. "Thank you. Now, since there's not much time left before you all go to science, I suppose you can just have free time." Whispers and gossip broke out through the room, and Kakashi continued to read his oh-so-precious Icha Icha Paradise.


With Mitsuki and the Sasuke Fanclub

"I can't believe that Haruno slut!" Mitsuki hissed, throwing her hands in the air. The vice president, Watanabe Ami, nodded in agreement, bold purple hair bouncing. Ami took the longest purple strand and began to twirl it.

"Don't worry president, we'll get her back someday…" The other fangirls nodded, but Mitsuki, being the spoiled brat she was, wasn't satisfied.

"Someday?! And when will that be?!" Ami frantically tried to calm Mitsuki down, fanning her with a book.

"President, give us some time. Please, Sasuke-kun might be in danger if we act too rashly. They're friends, therefore they hang out with each other, not to mention the others around them. Neji-san is there too, and he's very protective of his cousin, Hyuuga Hinata." Mitsuki sighed in annoyance and defeat.

"Fine. You have more time."


With Naruto and the Gang (excluding Tenten and Neji)

"Mitsuki is so easy to piss off," Sakura sighed happily, a small grin on her face. Ino nodded.

"Hmph, that girl seriously needs some anger management. If she doesn't get something, she freaks like it's the end of the world!" Ino said.

"M-mitsuki is really a s-slut," Hinata half-whispered half-stammered. Sasuke's head snapped to the sluts for a moment before quickly turning back and growling.

"They called Sakura a slut," Sasuke said, eyes flickering red into sharingan. Naruto and Shikamaru's eyes widened.

"Yo, Sasuke-teme, no need to get so mad!" Naruto held Sasuke down so he wouldn't jump up. Sakura gasped.

"Sasuke-kun, g-gomen! I made you mad! Sorry!" Sakura said, covering her face. Sasuke's eyes became its usual onyx color. He began to mumble incoherent words, though Shikamaru caught the words, "Stupid fangirls."

"Okay, everyone, off to science," Kakashi announced. The students groaned at their interrupted conversations, but left the room anyway.


Lunch (I skipped a few periods)

The eight are sitting under the cherry blossom tree, whose blossoms have already died because of its short life span.

"…Ino-pig…" Sakura mumbled between chews. Ino swallowed.

"What?" Ino popped a piece of rice in her mouth and began to chew.

"What class do we have next?" Ino swallowed again.

"Gym, but it's swimming today…" Sakura gasped. "What's wrong now, forehead-girl?"

"I…Ino! You know what's wrong!"

"Oh, yea…sorry I forgot for a moment," Ino said, smirking. Tenten managed to hear the conversation, and after scoffing down a large portion of her food she turned to everyone.

"Hey! We have swimming to, right Neji?" Neji nodded, eating calmly.

"Tenten, you should really eat a bit slower…"

"Hey! I can eat however I want!"

"Sure, if you want to choke and die…"

"Neji!!!!!!!"

"Hn…It's not like I'm going to let that happen anyway." Tenten blushed and Neji smirked.

"Uhm…y-yea…anyway, I really like swimming! Yay!"

"I k-kinda like d-diving…" Hinata stammered. Neji nodded.

"Hinata-san does very well at diving."

"Arigatou, Neji-niisan…" Hinata said, looking down at her food.

"Wow, Hinata-chan! You can probably swim really well, too!" Naruto exclaimed. Hinata blushed.

"I'm not b-bad…You can probably swim well too, Naruto-kun…"

"You bet!"

"That is, if you count doing a strange form of a doggy paddle swimming," Sasuke retorted. Naruto scowled.

"Hey, you know I'm not that bad, Sasuke-teme!"

"Actually, Naruto, you're swimming is that bad. No matter how troublesome it is, I think I can swim better than you, and I think swimming is too troublesome," Shikamaru said.

"Yea, well, can teme do any better?!" Sasuke smirked.

"Naruto, tsk, tsk, tsk…do you not remember?" Naruto looked thoughtful.

"Oh…right…fine, teme, you're actually good at swimming."

"Actually, Sasuke's swimming is above average skill level, and he doesn't even take those troublesome lessons." Sasuke smirked more. Naruto just turned away and pouted.

"Oh, we have to go now!" Tenten exclaimed. Everyone packed their lunch up, excluding the ones that didn't have lunch, and went inside. "Okay, guys, since you might not know where the girls' locker room is, follow me. And they sent you a bathing suit, right?" Ino, Sakura, and Hinata nodded. "Good. Here it is." The girls entered the locker room. It wasn't overly steamy and humid; the locker room's air was fresh. Some girls were changing and walking out to the pool.

"Hm…this locker room seems quite comfortable. I don't even feel like my clothes are sticking to me," Ino commented. Tenten smiled.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. When I first went swimming, I thought I'd have to change in a disgusting locker room." The four girls changed into the one-piece, dark blue bathing suits. Sakura was shaking with nervousness. She stuffed her school uniform into the locker and took her towel with her. Tenten led the way. After a few moments, the guys joined them. A teacher wearing a beige trench coat entered with a clipboard. She was a tough looking lady with purple hair. "That's Anko. She supervises swimming. She's one of the gym teachers along with Gai. You either get her or Gai."

"Hello, little people. I see some are new…well, you can do whatever you want in this period," Anko started. Sakura sighed in relief. But it was too early to relax, "but you must swim. Do I make myself clear?" Sakura anxious again.

"Hai!" the students boomed. Anko flashed a crooked smile.

"Good. You kill people, got it? Okay, now hit the pool!" Tenten ran into the pool. Hinata followed closely and executed a graceful dive. Ino was about to go when Sakura tugged at her wrist.

"Forehead girl! I can't teach you how to swim; you know that I don't have the temper. Hinata won't be forceful enough. Tenten doesn't seem like she'd want to be stuck teaching when she could swim freely. Shikamaru will just think it's too damn troublesome and Naruto hardly knows! Neji can't teach for his life, if I heard correctly from Tenten. So it only leaves Sasuke! Go find him and ask!" Sakura nodded slowly. Ino felt a bit sorry for yelling at her so she hugged her best friend. "It's okay, Sakura. Go ask him, okay?" Sakura nodded again and walked toward Sasuke. She stopped in front of him.

"Uh…Sasuke-kun, could you do me a favor?"

"It depends…what is it?"

"Um…well…well…" Sakura stuttered, fiddling with her fingers.

"You can't swim?" Sasuke finished for her, arching an eyebrow. Sakura smiled sheepishly.

"Uh…yea…"

"I guess I could teach you, since I got a clumsy person like you to dance…"

"Hey! Why are you so mean?!"

"You say that I'm mean when I'm going to teach you how to swim? I guess you don't want my help." Sasuke smirked. Sakura glared. Sasuke turned around.

"Come on, Sasuke-kun…please…" Sasuke turned back to Sakura. Her puppy dog eyes were on. Sasuke sighed, running a hand through his hair.

"Fine. Come with me." The walked to the edge of the pool Sasuke jumped in while Sakura put one delicate foot in before she withdrew.

"It's so cold." Sasuke sighed.

"This is near hopeless…"

"Come on…you can't learn if you won't even go inside water."

"Okay…" Sakura jumped in, shutting her eyes, bracing herself for the blast of cold water that was a come. She would've sunk if they weren't in the shallow area. Anyway, Sakura was a bit short, so she had to stand on her toes. "Argh! I hate being short!" Sasuke sweat dropped.

"Okay, I guess we have to start with breathing and timing…" Sakura nodded.

"Hai, Sasuke-sensei!" Sasuke glared.

"Don't call me sensei." Sakura smiled.

"Why not, Sasuke-sensei! You're teaching me aren't you?"

"Fine…Let's start now."


"Wow, Sakura actually got Sasuke to teach her?" Tenten said to Ino.

"Yes, and I'm not that surprised. It seems Sasuke has a soft spot for her. And he's overprotective of her, too. In the morning, when history was turned into free period," Ino started. Tenten rolled her eyes, saying something like, "Typical."

"When Kakashi turned it into free period, Sasuke overheard Mitsuki and her posse calling Sakura 'Haruno slut' and he blew his top," Ino said, using her arms to throw water in the air to add an effect.

"Wow, for real…quite overprotective…And he's less of an asshole when Sakura's around, isn't he? 'Cause when me and Neji first met them, Sasuke was all ice-cubeish. But when Sakura was around, he loosened up," Tenten recited. Ino nodded her head vigorously. "Hey, where's Hinata?" The two girls looked around and spotted Hinata trying to teach Naruto how to swim. Apparently, Naruto got the hang of it after Hinata taught him. He swam a lap and returned to Hinata, who seemed to have nodded in approval. Naruto then tackled Hinata with a bear hug, screaming, "Thank you, Hinata-chyaaaaaaaaaaan!" Hinata turned bright red in the face before suggesting to try another type of stroke.

"Wow. Hinata has so much patience. Now, let's see how forehead girl is doing," Ino said. They turned to where Sasuke and Sakura were. Sakura practiced kicking while holding a wall. Soon after, she started doing the arms.

"Uhm…Sakura, you can swim fine…" the two girls heard Sasuke say. Sakura just grinned in response.

"Wow, seriously…Sasuke-teme's a lot nicer than when he tried to teach me how to swim," Naruto commented. Tenten and Ino jumped in surprise.

"N-naruto no baka! How did you get here?!" Ino yelled. Naruto gave her a questioning look.

"I swam?" Naruto stated, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Hinata nodded.

"Man, Hinata taught you how to swim fast!" Tenten remarked. Naruto scratched his head sheepishly.

"Yea, Hinata-chan is a good teacher." Hinata flushed at this.

"A-actually, I'm not that good."

"Don't be so modest, Hinata. I've seen you swim before," Ino said.

"Thank you, Ino-chan," Hinata replied timidly.

"So, you guys were talking about how Sasuke-teme's teaching Sakura-chan, right?" Naruto said, changing the subject. Ino nodded. "I think Sasuke-teme might like Sakura-chan."

"……?!" Naruto nodded.

"Surprising isn't it? You can ask lazy-ass. I bet he'll say the same." Tenten turned to Shikamaru.

"So is it true?" she asked.

"What?...oh yea, about Sasuke being nicer to Sakura, yea, Naruto's right. Troublesome, now I can't sleep…" Shikamaru sighed in annoyance.

"I'm gonna go for a swim. Hm…maybe I'll get Neji or someone to race me…"and with that, Tenten was off.


"President! I've got some useful information on Haruno!" Watanabe Ami whispered, walking towards the Sasuke fanclub's president.

"Hm…what is it?" Mitsuki asked, raising an eyebrow. Her hazel eyes were half open. Ami took a deep breath.

"Haruno can't swim!" Mitsuki's eyes snapped open, an evil glint present in her eyes.

"Is that so…Ami come over here…" The rest was all whisperings.


"Thank you, Sasuke-sensei! I can finally swim a few laps!"

"Hn. And don't call me that."

"Is that all you want to say?!"

"Aa."

"Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura punched Sasuke. He winced.

"Ow! Fine…nice job…" Sakura grinned.

"Everyone," Anko called, "We're going to race! Get into groups of eight! Four on each side of the pool." The students assembled and, of course, Naruto, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Neji, Tenten, Sasuke, and Sakura were together. The girls were on one side, and the guys on the other. "Okay, so the first two will do breast stroke, next two will do backstroke, third pair will do butterfly, and the last will do freestyle."


"Sakura, you go last, since I think right now, you only know freestyle right?" Sakura nodded. "Hm…okay, Hinata, you go first, since your best stroke is breast stroke…Tenten, I'm not excellent at butterfly. Could you do it?" Tenten nodded enthusiastically.

"I love butterfly!"

"Wonderful. So I believe that we just swim to the side, and let one of the guys take over. When they get to our side, we switch off. Got it?" The other three nodded at Ino.

"I never knew you could be so smart and observant, Ino-pig." Ino grinned.

"You don't need a big forehead to be smart, you know!"


Shikamaru sighed. "You guys always come to me for the troublesome plans and formations. Okay…Naruto, it seems Hinata taught you breast stroke today, and you can actually swim now…and you're pretty fast, too. I'll do backstroke…anyway I want to enjoy the clouds for a bit…Sasuke, you do freestyle…you can catch up if one of the girls are falling behind…you can probably swim two times as fast when you do freestyle compared to other strokes and can finish the race quickly. Neji, do butterfly. I saw you swimming, and it seemed to be your best stroke. When you get to the other side, switch off with a girl, and when they get here, switch off again. Got it?" The guys nodded.

"Lazy-ass, how do you think of this?!"

"It's called 'troublesome observation'." Neji and Sasuke sweat dropped uncharacteristically.

"Okay! So is everyone ready to start?! Go!" Hinata started, diving in gracefully and swimming fast to the other side. She was the second out of all the groups to get there, and quickly tapped the wall. Naruto jumped in while Hinata quickly got out to the pool.

"Good luck, Naruto-kun."

Naruto swam quickly to the other side and managed to reach there fourth. He tapped the wall and Ino jumped in and pushed off the wall. She did a quick and effective backstroke before feeling the wall and getting out for Shikamaru to go. He started the same way as Ino, and though he was lazy, managed to get third. He tapped the wall and Tenten quickly jumped in, starting the butterfly instantaneously. She quickly reached the side second. Neji jumped in and did the butterfly quickly. Sakura mustered all her courage and jumped in. She swam as fast as she could, feeling the rush of cool water around her. While mid-way through, she felt somebody grab her leg. She sank downwards and looked at the hand. She trailed up the person's arm and saw Mitsuki smirking. Mitsuki pulled her down even more, while Sakura was struggling to get out of her grasp. Sakura's breath ran out and she sank down. Mitsuki smirked in satisfaction and went on with the race. What she didn't see was Sakura swimming back up, green eyes flashing with anger. Sakura reached the surface of the water and swam quickly past Mitsuki and a few others.

"What?!" Mitsuki cried. "I thought I dragged you down!"

"Well, you thought wrong, bitch!" Inner Sakura was taking over, unfortunately for Mitsuki. Sakura didn't ensue any violence, but she quickly swam to the other side and tapped the wall. She came in fourth because of Mitsuki's cheating, but Sasuke jumped in quickly, a look of worry and anger in his eyes. Sakura got out of the pool, gasping for air.

"Sakura!" Ino rushed over to her rose haired friend. Sakura began coughing furiously. She raised her head and looked at Sasuke, who was already in front of the other swimmers. He made a great comeback. Sakura smiled.

"That's Sasuke-sensei for you," Sakura thought, before she heard cheers coming from Tenten and fell unconscious in Ino's arms.


"Sakura!" Ino called again. She shook her best friend. Sasuke just got in first and won their race, but Sakura became unconscious. "Anko-sensei, Sakura…she's unconscious!"

"What?!" Anko ran over. "And Tsunade's going to blame it all on me! Do you know what happened to her?"

"I-"

"I know what happened." Anko looked up and saw a dripping wet Sasuke, red sharingan eyes flashing.

"Uchiha, what happened to her? And you didn't use the sharingan to cheat, did you?"

"No, I didn't."

"Teme, what happened to Sakura-chan?"

"Yoshida Mitsuki, aka president of my fanclub, seemed to have dragged her down. I turned on sharingan-yes I know I'm not supposed to-and I read Mitsuki's lips after Sakura resurfaced. She said, 'I thought I dragged you down.'"

"So Mitsuki dragged Sakura down…that bitch!" Ino yelled.

"I forgot to mention Sakura called her that also."

"This is bad…I think we need to get Sakura to Tsunade-sama. Sakura's lungs got filled with a lot of water. But I can't leave you all here. Someone take her there."

"I'll take her, just let me put my clothes on," Sasuke said.

"Hurry it up then, Uchiha." Sasuke disappeared in a second and came back with his normal eye color. He carried Sakura to the principal's office. 'Knock' 'Knock'

"Who is it?" a slurred voice said.

"Uchiha Sasuke." He heard cups being put down.

"Come in, then, Uchiha." He walked inside. Tsunade looked at the girl he was carrying.

"Haruno Sakura. What happened to her?"

"During swimming, Yoshida Mitsuki dragged her underwater for a period of time. Anko said her lungs were filled with some water, and that we couldn't just send her to Shizune."

"I see. Well, leave her here. I'll deal with her." Tsunade swished her hand and Sasuke walked out, closing the door behind him. He walked quickly down the semi-empty halls and back to the entrance of the locker room.


"Hey, teme," Naruto's voice called, a tint of melancholy in it. "What did Tsunade-obaa-chan say?"

"She said she'd take care of Sakura." Naruto examined his best friend and rival.

"Sasuke you care about her, don't you?" Sasuke turned to Naruto.

"I suppose so…" Naruto nodded. Sasuke looked at the ceiling.

"I just hope you'll be okay, Sakura…"


Next Chapter Preview: Still After Her?!Sakura! Sasuke-kun! More Fangirl Revenge

"Haruno, you look so pathetic," Mitsuki snarled. Sakura spat out some blood.

"And you don't happen to be pathetic?" Mitsuki flared. She turned to her four companions.

"Girls, execute the final part of the plan."


A/N: A longer chapter! In case you might get confused, Sasuke was the one who was thinking the last line, not Naruto. Yays! Huggles! Sorry, I couldn't update yesterday. I've been having a fever for the past few days, and I'm extremely sick. The tissues are piling up! Well, I worked on the chapter for part of the day, and I apologize for being a day late! Also, I'm sorry the preview's a little short. Gomen, minna-san! But you have to admit, the chapter's a bit longer, and less straight forward. Thank you all for reviewing! Also check out my angst one-shot! Ja ne!

Kikoru x3