Chapter Three

Haruno Sakura's eyes widened as she saw the same raven haired boy from yesterday staring back at her; what were the chances that their lockers were next to each other? Immediately she noticed that his fashion sense had stayed as bleak as ever, wearing a striped button-up shirt with a long-sleeved gray one underneath and very loose-fitting jeans. However, his face was still just as pretty as it was the day before, and seeing it made hers turn a dark crimson in response.

"Umm . . . Sasuke, right?" she asked, looking down a little and trying to pull some of her cotton candy colored hair behind her ear. It just came undone and fell on her face, something she half-expected. "So . . . how are you?"

At first he looked at her like she was crazy, then he turned and opened his locker, placing in old books from his late classes the day before and replacing them with ones he needed for the morning. At first, she thought he was going to be as rude as to not reply, but in an uninterested tone he said, "Fine."

'He said he was fine!' she thought to herself, almost hating how she was excited about such a small thing. Then again, it had always been this way with her. Whenever she talked to a boy whose features of absolute attractiveness lit up the room, her senses went wild. She giggled a little, too excited for words.

"Ow!"

She looked up and was distracted from her fantasies with boys when she saw Sasuke being shoved out of the way by a spiky, blonde haired boy with a wide, almost tacky smile. She remembered him as the new neighbor she vaguely talked to yesterday, and felt an small pit land in her stomach.

"Hola," he said, trying to sound sly and leaning his hands against Sasuke's locker, which he slammed closed. "Yo soy sexi."

"It's 'Tu eres'," Sasuke said in a nasty tone, clearly annoyed by his friend. "Dumbass."

"Ah ha!" Naruto whipped around, completely ignoring Sakura's flustered face, "So you do think she's hot!"

". . ."

"Uh . . . Sasuke, buddy, you don't have to be mad about it . . . eheheh . . ."

As if cowarding behind how incredibly infuriated his best friend seemed, he turned again and before Sakura could say anything he hid behind her, pushing her forward and gripping her shoulders like a shield.

"Save me!" he whispered in her ear, and although he sounded a little desperate, she noticed how he giggled a bit. Although just as irritated as Sasuke, she didn't really want to be involved in a fight either, especially on her first day.

"Ummm . . . Sasuke?" she said, putting up her hands a bit as if telling him to stop. "Could you . . . calm down please?"

For a moment it seemed like asking for a request like that so meagerly wouldn't work, but almost immediately he calmed down, as if he realized he just lost his cool in public. He ran his hands through the bangs of his hair, took a deep breath and looked past Sakura and straight to Naruto.

"Let's go," he said, and when she turned her head Naruto gave a thumbs up and smiled. Before she let him leave, she grabbed the clothing of his shoulder.

"Wait!" she said, and the blonde seemed to right away stop, pleased as if she was going to confess to him. "I don't know where my classes are, and . . ."

"Oh, no problem," he replied. She reached into a brown purse that was strapped around her shoulder and took out a small oblong piece of paper, complete with seven classes plus lunch. He scanned it for a moment, then he grinned widely. Sasuke, as if he could see his friends' face, turned a bit to look at the two curiously, though he didn't say anything.

"Would you look at that . . . You're in our first class!"

"What!"

Both the young lady and the stoic young man looked down at the same schedule. And of course, Naruto was right; reading at the first row was, 'Period One: AP Science.'

'AP?' Sakura thought, looking at the both of them and beginning to compare them. 'I guess Sasuke looks like a guy who would be okay with work, but the other guy . . .' She snorted a little as she thought, 'He looks dumber than a rock.'

"You must be really smart," Naruto went on, following down her schedule with wide eyes. "You're like Sasuke- All AP classes! I wish I were a genius; I only get in 'cause I copy off of him."

He pointed back to Sasuke, who glanced at him friend at the mention of his name for a moment then turned nonchalantly, trying to find interest in the ceiling. Sakura snorted again, this time doing it a little louder than intended so she covered her mouth politely. 'So that's why he's in such a high class!'

Naruto put him arm around her neck, ringing her around like she was a guy-friend instead of a delicate girl, which made her a bit angry. She didn't bother to say anything, as he was the only way to her first class. That, and Sasuke. As soon as the blonde boy started moving, partially jerking her along yet trying to sweetalk her at the same time with nothings that she wasn't particularly paying any attention to, the supplementary sophomore followed.

Sakura watched him through the hall they were strolled through as he seemed casually unaware of his surroundings, and she noticed that as he walked by, heads turned. Suddenly, she wasn't just amazed by his looks, but at how much presence he seemed to have just by going by someone. Of course, he's been at the school so people would know him, but even guys turned for him to say hello.

. . . Or maybe they were turning for Naruto?

'Yeah Right!' she thought. Sakura started to recall how the two of them had met:

It was just after she had been walking with Sasuke, whom she found to be as attractive and handsome as one could ever be. Her small feet clicked against the scrapy sidewalk a bit, but she wouldn't have noticed anything on her way home her mind was so filled. She was always a romantic like girl, and whenever she met someone she fancied she felt unusually giddy.

"Hey!"

She jumped she was so harshly petrified out of her thoughts when a blonde haired boy seemed to arrive out of nowhere before her. They were so close, their noses were almost touching, and she was face to face with wide, crystal sapphire eyes. When the figure drew back, she saw a wide smile as well, but a strange feature she noticed on this young man's face were three scars on both of his cheeks.

"What's up?" he asked, walking backwards until he was sitting down on the third row of steps to a house; she automatically assumed that it was his home. She watched him before speaking as he picked up a bowel of ramen from the step next to him and started to eat, slurping his food so loudly she kept turning her head to see if others were staring. Fortunately, no one was there to gape.

"I'm . . . good," Sakura replied, feeling a little uncomfortable watching him chow down like that. She was about to turn away inconspicuously, but she suddenly thought of a good questions to as him. She turned back around and smiled. "I'm good! Say, I have a question . . ."

"Yeah?"

"I just met this boy . . . and he's really cute! We were walking together and we didn't talk much, so . . ." she paused as if to try and find a way to make this sentence constructive. "By any chance do you know someone by the name of Uchiha Sasuke?"

Sakura noticed how surprised he seemed when Sasuke's name was mentioned, and he even put his bowl down. He smiled. "Yup, I know him!" A flutter of butterflies suddenly came about inside her. "Yeah, he is cute, isn't he? I tell him that every time we make out."

The butterflies were suddenly smashed by rocks.

"Just kidding!" he said, but even then she still felt unsettled. "I think if I paid Sasuke a million dollars he wouldn't make out with me. Then again, if he paid me a million dollars I wouldn't either! That's right . . ." he winked at her, making her rather disgusted since there was bits of ramen all over his cheeks, "I'm reserved for the ladies!"

"That's nice to know," she replied. 'About the idea of Sasuke being gay I mean!'

Sakura suddenly realized that while she was walking she had made it to her home. Right across the street from this boys' place was her own home, which looked just as unhealthy as the rest of them. She frowned a bit, looking at what she had now compared to what she had then. She smiled at the blonde and waved saying, "Sorry, I've gotta go . . ."

"'Kay," he said. He noticed how she was just staring at the house and smiled at his good fortune. "By the way, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Sasuke's best friend."

'You mean they're actually friends!' she thought, completely taken aback. 'So far, they were total oppisites . . .'

"Nice to meet you. I'm Haruno Sakura."

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Editing this, I realized I used the first and last names together a lot instead of just their first names. XD I like it this way.