The next day was the same with Mr. Hatake taking the attendance and giving them assignments while he himself was reading his orange coloured smut book. Sasuke solved the questions in the first 15 minutes of his class and was looking at the video of the other students. Most of them were scribbling their answers on their notebooks. On seeing Naruto, he found out that instead of doing the assignment, he was probably playing Temple Run on his mobile. He saw Sakura had finished her assignment too and was reading some book. She lifted her head to her laptop and leaned forward to type something.
Ding
Sasuke's laptop blinked when it received a message. He checked out to see that it was Sakura's message.
Sakura Haruno (privately):
Hey
Sasuke Uchiha (privately):
Hi
Sakura Haruno (privately):
We need to discuss about the Chemistry project later.
Sasuke Uchiha (privately):
Yes
Sakura released an exasperated sigh on realizing the conversational skills of Sasuke. She continued typing a message on the laptop.
Sakura Haruno (privately):
So can we discuss it after the lecture? I want to finish it asap.
Sasuke Uchiha (privately):
Hn
Seeing Sakura's confused expression on his response, or lack thereof, Sasuke smirked at her expense. From the other side of screen, Sakura looked at his reply. What was Hn? How can someone even type a grunt? It was not even a word. She sighed for the millionth time and typed again.
Sakura Haruno (privately):
Wtf is Hn?
Please don't joke around.
I need to finish the assignment asap.
Sasuke Uchiha (privately):
Yeah okay.
Sakura Haruno (privately):
So, after the class ends, please send me a meeting id on my email-sxkurxhxruno
Sasuke Uchiha (privately):
usasuke
Okay.
Sasuke saw Sakura beaming at the screen and took a smug satisfaction in the fact that it was directed at him. Soon, the class ended and Mr Hatake ended the meeting. Sasuke ran his hands through his hair and realized that his hair had grown longer. He needed to ask his mother to trim it to an adjustable length. He adjusted his hair a bit, not bothering to straighten the unruly spikes at the back of his head. He made a Zoom meeting ID and sent it to Sakura's email.
After waiting for Sakura for 5 mintues, she finally joined the meeting. He thought that the yellow short sleeved sundress she was wearing would clash horribly against her carnation coloured hair but it was looking nice on her. Wait. When did Sasuke Uchiha even bother to check out someone's clothes? He shook his head and thought it must be the result of playing Valorant till late in night.
Interrupting his mental conversations, Sakura waved her hand from her side and said a "hello".
Sasuke focused his eyes on her video and blurted out, "Is your hair naturally pink?" Sasuke bit the inside of his mouth to prevent from cursing himself. If his mother was beside him, she would surely reprimand her 'dear little Sasu-chan' for his disrespect.
"Umm...yeah? Why do you ask?" Sakura had a puzzled expression on her face.
"I haven't seen pink hair", Sasuke pointed out.
"Yeah. Me neither. Actually my mom has red hair and my dad has blonde hair so the end result of my hair colour is pink." She shrugged as if was nothing. She had to explain the logic to many people so now she didn't bother to take the comments in a rude manner. She loved her candyfloss coloured hair and that was all she knew.
"Oh. Okay. So lets discuss about the project."
From the other side of his screen, Sakura's phone started ringing. She turned her video off with a polite "Excuse me" but forgot to turn off the audio. She received her call on speaker and soon someone shouted, "Hey Forehead, whatsup? You know, Shikamaru is so smart but so lazy. I asked him to type the assignment and he said it was too troublesome."
Before Ino could rant about her project partner, Sakura interrupted her, "Ino, I will call you later. I am discussing about the project with Sasuke. I will text you later for our movie date with the girls."
"Oh, you are doing the project discussion with the hottie. Have a nice time. Bye bye."
From the other side of her screen, Sasuke heard their entire conversation and smirked inwardly knowing that Sakura called him a hottie. He would never speak about this to her though. Soon, Sakura turned her video and audio and started the discussion of Chemistry assignment.
For the next one hour, they discussed about the Chemistry assignment. Sasuke and Sakura were both thankful that they got partners having the same intellect. Both of them came up with good ideas and Sakura noted down their ideas immediately. They decided to start the assignment after the discussion would be over. Sasuke took the responsibility of typing the collected information and Sakura would look for the information and the appropriate pictures needed. They ended the Zoom meeting with pleasantries. They exchanged their phone numbers for future reference. Sakura and Sasuke collectively released breaths of relief after the meeting ended.
Sasuke took out his phone and searched for Sakura on Instagram. He found her account as chxrryblossom2803 which had 35 posts and 1.1k followers. They had 3 mutuals with each other. He was shocked to see Itachi as one of their mutuals. He would ask his brother later, er no, not him but maybe Sakura. He didn't want to be on the receiving end of his brother's endless teasing. He stalked her profile and found her pictures quite...cute? 'Well atleast she doesn't pout in her pictures'. As soon as he thought this, he saw that her next picture was of her pouting with a blonde haired girl. 'Uhh nevermind, she pouts cutely'. He saw her graduation pictures and found out that she studied in one of the only-girls schools near his own school. She also knew Hinata Hyuuga, Naruto's project partner from her high school. He wanted to follow her but if she didn't follow him back, it would be a blow to his reputation. Yes, Sasuke Uchiha was afraid of not being followed back on Instagram. Despite his inner turmoil, he sent her a follow request.
When Sakura was scrolling through kitten pictures on Pinterest, her phone dinged with a new follow notification from her Instagram. She checked to find out it was sharingansasuke who followed her 2 minutes back. Would it be too soon to follow him back or would he think that she was being desperate? What if she follows him back later and find that he unfollowed her? She followed him 5 minutes later. Sasuke checked his iPhone and saw that Sakura followed him back. Both of them had identical happy grins on their faces.
Continued~