Ch.1: First Day.
New school means a new beginning. A new beginning means getting to know new people, making new friends; in other words—starting over…
It was a cool, silent atmosphere on the way to school for a certain jet-black haired boy. He was walking in silent, with a heavy jacket and a navy blue scarf wrapped warmly around his neck. He was staring at the ground as he walked, and walked until a voice broke his trance. He looked up.
"Mom, I'm off to school now!"
"Alright, just be careful." A voice replied.
The door to the house in which a girl with pink hair stepped out of, closed behind her. As soon as she was out on her porch, she felt the breeze hit her. She shuddered. She jumped down the rest of the steps, and started twirling round and round, and giggling to herself, she was so busy dancing that she hadn't even notice someone was watching her.
The boy with the black messy hair started at the girl in front of him, giggling to herself, with not a care in the world. The scene that was playing in front of his eyes at that moment was enchanting and memorizing. Just then, the girl felt a pair of eyes on her, as she turned around to face the black haired boy. She blush a little, hearing and seeing a small chuckle, and a smirk playing on the boy's face she turned around again and started walking as if nothing had happened. The boy with black hair, Uchiha Sasuke was smirking as he replayed what had just happened in his head. The scene where the girl turned around and blushed, so cute…. While the girl in front of him with the pink hair, Haruno Sakura, continue to blush furiously thinking how embarrassing that was.
"Don't look back… keep walking… don't look back. ARG! That was sooo embarrassing! URRRGGG!" Sakura thought, and she shut her eyes tight and re-opened them. Soon, the two of them came to a halt, and waited for the traffic light to turn green. Occasionally the two would steal glances at each other and quickly face forward again. Sasuke looked at the girl, and a small smile was tugging on his lips, while Sakura looked back still with a tinge of red across the bridge of her nose. They made eye contact and quickly looked up in time to see the red light changed into green.
The tall white building, Konohagakure High School soon came into view. They both step up the small steps and headed inside. Sakura turned right, and pushed open the door leading to the office while Sasuke kept going straight, then made a left turn towards his locker.
"Sumimasen, watashi wa Haruno Sakura, and I'm here to pick my schedule up." (Excuse me; I'm Haruno Sakura, blah blah blah.) Sakura informed the secretary with short black hair.
"Aaa—ohayo Sakura-san, here's your schedule." She pushed a piece of paper towards Sakura on the counter.
"Aaa, arigatou…." Sakura paused to read her name plate."Shizune-san"
Shizune smiled."Do itashimashite."(You're welcome.)
Just then, a man with silver hair walked in. Sakura started at the man, he had a cloth that masked half his face, and a bandana with the school's symbol hiding his left eye. The man landed his eyes on Sakura and smiled. Sakura was startled.
"Ah, gomen ne."(Ah, sorry.) Sakura quickly said.
"You must be my new student." The man smiled.
"Ahh, h-hai," (Ahh, y-yes.)
"I'm Hatake Kakashi, your block F, science teacher."
Sakura quickly scanned the piece of paper she was holding, and found that block F was today's first block. Sakura held her hand out, and introduced herself.
"Ohayo Kakashi-sensei, watashi wa Haruno Sakura." (Good morning Mr.Kakashi. I'm Haruno Sakura.)
Sasuke was seen inside the science class room, as a boy with messy blond hair walked towards him.
"Sasuke!" The boy cried out, patting Sasuke's back, while taking a seat next to him.
"Hm?" came Sasuke's reply.
"Soo…. What's new?" The blond asked.
"Nothing…" said Sasuke, as the scene of Sakura twirling, and turning back to realize someone was watching him played in his mind. Sasuke smirked.
"Nothing…? Are you sure? Hm….?" The blond continued to pester him. This is when Sasuke got a bit annoyed. Eye twitching…. And stress mark on his head….
"Hn… Naruto…" Sasuke growled.
"Okay, okay…. You didn't have to sound like a mad dog. GEEZ." Scoffed Naruto, arms crossed across his chest, as he leaned back on his chair; rocking it dangerously.
The door slide open and in came Kakashi with Sakura alongside him. Everyone in the classroom went silent. Sasuke's attention was caught when he saw the girl from his encounter while walking to school, where as Naruto fell off his chair complaining.
"Kakashi-sensei! But… you're early!" Naruto stood up pointing a finger at his teacher.
"No, I'm not early Naruto. I'm on time… class is about to start." Kakashi walked away from Naruto as he made his way towards the front of the class. Naruto started blinding into the air in disbelieve, as Sakura caught site of his reaction—she giggled while trying to hide the giggles with her fist.
Naruto heard the small giggle as he looked for the source of where it came from, and landed his eyes on the girl in front of him. Red started to surface across the bridge of his nose.
Just one word…"Kawaii…." Naruto thought.
"Ahem…Uzumaki, it isn't very nice to stare. Please return to your seat." Kakashi said. The class laughed a bit, Naruto blushing as he returned to the seat next to Sasuke quietly. Just then, Naruto notice that Sasuke was very focus onto the girl with pink hair. He saw Sasuke smirked at the girl and she replied it with a blush.
"Sasuke….smiling at a girl?" This confuses Naruto.
"Ne, Sasuke… you know this girl?" Naruto whispered.
"We met…" was Sasuke's reply.
"Watashi no namea wa Haruno Sakura desu." (My name is Haruno Sakura.) I'm pleased to meet you all." Sakura tilted her head a bit and smiled. Just then, a voice called out,
"Ne, can we ask a few questions?"
Sakura looked at her sensei for permission, as she saw Kakashi nodded and said in a low voice,"You can choose not to answer some questions if you do not wish to, and if inappropriate questions are called out, I'll stop them." Sakura nodded, to show her teacher that she understood.
"Hai?"
"Hehehe…" a random boy in the class chuckled nervously…. "Do you…. Have a… boyfriend?"
"Um… no."
"NE, then would you consider me?" another boy shouted.
"Ahem, raise your hand…." Kakashi reminded.
"Gomen nen sensei…" the boy said.
"Um…." Sakura looked uneasy, as she finally thought of a way to answer,"Depends…"
Depends… does that mean you already have your eyes on someone?" another called out.
"Ahem… show of hands…" Kakashi again reminded.
"No…." Sakura answered…"Just… not quite over someone yet…." Sakura said quietly to her self, unfortunately Sasuke caught the last part, seeing as he and Naruto sat in the front seat, on account of Naruto so that Kakashi may keep a close eye on them, preventing any wrong steps to experimenting.
"Ne, how did you get your hair so shiny and glossy?" this time, a girl called out the question.
"Ms. Yamanaka… hands…."
"Ms.Yamanaka" seems to have chosen to ignore her teacher as she was very eager to know Sakura's secret for glossy hair.
"Well, I usually don't add any unnecessary hair spray to it, because the more you use, it will turn out glossy yet un-natural. I just wash my hair, with shampoo and conditioner."
"Hontou ni?" (Really?)
"Mm…" Sakura nodded.
"Well, enough questions. Sakura, please sit um….." Kakashi searched the classroom for any empty seat, as his class erupted in complains of "wait-I-have-more-questions". Kakashi glared at them….
"Hands…" Kakashi reminded them once more."Geez, this class sure have real problems with blabbing their answers and questions without raising their hands… how hard is to just raise your hand!" Kakashi thought. Just then, his right eye caught site of a hand bobbing up and down.
"Yes Uzumaki?" Kakashi said with a bored voice while watching Naruto climbing back down to his seat from jumping up and down his chair.
"Ne, Sakura-chan could sit beside me."
Kakashi let out a sigh, looked over to Sakura who nodded.
"Why not."
"Yayyy!" boomed Naruto's voice, as he ran to the back of the classroom, and came back pushing a chair next to him.
"Okay, everybody… work on this project with the people in your table group. Test tubes are up here, and ingredients are up here as well. Write up a lab report and questions on page. 137." Instructed Kakashi. "And remember, wear safety goggles." added Kakashi.
"Ne, Sakura-chan. We haven't even had a chance to introduce ourselves. I'm Uzumaki Naruto! Number one genius and my specialty is science!" Naruto pointed to himself. Sasuke scoffed,
"Yeah right, Uzumaki Naruto, number one loud mouth and science is your worst subject…."
Sakura giggled,
"Heyy!" exclaimed Naruto."Don't listen to him, Sakura-chan. He's Uchiha Sasuke, number one idiot!"
"Naruto…." growled Sasuke.
Naruto hid himself behind Sakura.
"Correction, number one scariest." murmured Naruto.
In no time, they were making a chart on their paper, starting on the lab report.
"Ne, Sasuke-kun. You'd think you can grab me a new test tube?" asked Sakura. Sasuke made no answer as he handed her a new test tube."Arigatou."
Sasuke was watching Sakura from the corner of his eye. She looked so professional in the safety goggles, and looked really cute.
"Ne, Sakura…. So which is one is soluble and which is the solvent?" asked Naruto.
"Sugar is the soluble, water is the solvent." answered Sakura as Naruto quickly jotted down on the paper.
"So what kind of mixture is the sand and rock?"
"Mechanical" answered Sakura."Ne, Sasuke-kun. Can you hand me over the copper sulphate?" and Sasuke gave her the flask with the copper sulphate inside.
Block F ended and everybody soon made their way to block G. As for Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke, they headed their way to home-ec: cooking.
"New student right? I'm Ayame." The home-ec teacher introduced herself.
"Sakura Haruno." Sakura introduced.
"Well, you partner up with Uchiha Sasuke. He's on his own right now."
"Hai." and Sakura made her way to Sasuke.
"Ne, Sasuke-kun. Ayame-san had me be your partner." informed Sakura.
"Okay…" replied Sasuke.
Today they were making mac & cheese, and while Sakura was getting the utensils needed, Sasuke decided to start ahead.
"AHHH!" someone screamed.
Now everyone in the classroom/kitchen turned towards the source to where the voice came from."FIRE! IT BURNED! OUR BUTTER! IT'S BLACK NOW!"
"Na-Naruto-kun. P-please, calm down." cried a very timid voice.
Sasuke shook his head while muttering along the lines of,"Naruto…."
"Sasuke-kun!" A voice broke his trance.
"Nani?" (What?) Sasuke asked his partner.
"The butter's burned." informed Sakura.
Sasuke quickly looked at his pot and realized his butter turned brown. Sasuke stared at it…..
"….."
Cooking was definitely not his thing.
"Hehe, it's alright Sasuke-kun. We can start over." said Sakura quickly as she noticed Sasuke's expression.
Sasuke went to get a new piece of butter while Sakura went to get a new pot. Then Sakura preheated the pot and added he butter in which Sasuke gave to her just now, and everything went smoothly. 20 mins later, their mac & cheese were done.
Sasuke took the oven mitts and took the mac & cheese out of the oven.
"Looks good doesn't it?" asked Sakura. Sasuke nodded.
"Ahhh, Na-Naruto-kun. Get the mac & cheese. It-it's done." Naruto's partner informed.
"Yosh! Alright." And Naruto opened the oven and reached in to retrieve his mac & cheese.
"Ah! Naruto-k-kun.! You forgot-" his partner was just saying with panic in her voice, when Naruto cut her off with his yelps and shouts.
"AHHH! HOT, HOT, HOT!"
"Oven mitts….." Naruto quickly ran over to the sink and ran cool water to his hand, as his partner took the oven mitts, got the mac & cheese out and rushed over to Naruto's aid.
a/n: So what did you all think? This chapter is 6 pages, and right now it is 12:35 am, and I'm just spell/grammar checking everything over. This took me, a day to finish? Don't quite remember, anyway…. Don't think I'll type as much for the second because my eyes are killing me. Plus, I don't think I want to wear glasses. When I wear glasses, I look like a teacher. / Oh, and Happy Chinese New Year. (