Ch.2: What Are You Staring At?

The bell rang signaling the end of block G, and start of break, Sasuke as diving the mac & cheese into two containers.

"Ne, Sasuke…. You can have all of it." Sakura said.

"It's okay… actually, I don't want it either…" said Sasuke.

"Hontou ni? (Really?) Then… may I have it?" asked Sakura.

"Uhh… sure." said Sasuke. "But didn't she say she didn't want it before?" Sasuke thought, while watching Sakura take the bowl of mac & cheese and carried it over to Naruto.

"Ne, Naruto. You want our mac & cheese? Seeing that you were really looking forward to eating it today," said Sakura.

"You mean it, Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto happily. Sakura nodded.

'Ne, Hinata-chan. You want some?" offered Naruto.

"I-it's okay." stuttered Hinata, Naruto's home-ec partner.

"Well, more for me then!" exclaimed Naruto, while his partner just blushed furiously."E, Hinata-chan. Are you feeling alright?"

Hinata backed away as Naruto moved in close to her, with his right hand stretched outward, reaching for her forehead to see if she was having a fever.

"Um…." Hinata shut her eyes tightly as Naruto pressed his hand on her forehead, flattening her bangs.

"Ne, Sakura-chan. I just noticed how nice your skin tone are, how do you clean your face?" asked a girl with a high-held blond ponytail, the one whom asked Sakura how she treated her hair earlier in science class.

"Hm… every time after I go back home from outside, I wash my face with just clean water."

"Hontou ni?" gasped the blond hair girl. Sakura nodded her head."You just got to tell me more how you treat your skin, and hair! Let's go while you tell me all about it," chirped the girl, while looping her arm with Sakura and dragging her away."By the way, I'm Yamanaka Ino." Sasuke heard Ino introduce.

By the locker area, where everyone was either leaning against the lockers, with arms crossed or sitting on the floor, with legs crossed – were all talking peacefully or thinking with the eyes closed. (Guess you all should know who the people with arms crossed, leaning on lockers, eyes closed thinking, are.) This peaceful atmosphere was broken by screeches of,

"YOU! You must go shopping with me this weekend!"

"Ino…" a brunette with the Chinese style sighed.

"Kon'nichiwa minna-san! (Hey guys! Translation minna-san is friends)" greeted Ino.

"Hey, who's your new friend?" asked the same girl who sighed Ino's name.

"This is Sakura Haruno." Ino introduced. "Sakura, this is Tenten."

"Ohayo." said Sakura."Oh wow! Your top is so cute." Sakrua pointed to Tenten's top.

Tenten blushed while rubbing her head."Hehe… thank-you"

"Ne, Sakura… you met Hinata right?" asked Ino.

Sakura nodded,"Yup, she's in our home-ec class right?"

"Y-yeah. I-it's nice to m-meet you Sakura-san. Thank you for o-offering your mac and cheese with m-me and N-Naruto-kun." Hinata blushed after saying Naruto's name. Sakura noticed this and giggled with her hand covering her mouth.

"Do itashimashite (You're welcome) And please, don't be so formal with me. (Sakura said that because Hinata referred her with the suffix "-san")" said Sakura,"looks like someone have a cruu-uush" sand Sakura inside her head, while seeing Hinata who was nervously stealing glances at Naruto, whom seem to not have notice.

"Ne, Sakura-chan… this is Neji." said Tenten, who did a hand-gesture to one of the boys who were leaning against the locker. (You all should know how Neji looks like, so I won't describe his appearance) Sakura bowed a little to Neji, to show respect. Obviously, Neji is older than her. Neji nodded just simply nodded his head.

"So Sakura, what class you have next?" asked Ino.

"Hm… let's see…." said Sakura while scanning down her schedule. "Social Studies with Kurenei-sensei,"

"Sou ke… (I see)" said Tenten."Hey, you have same class with Ino and them."

"Hontou ni? (Really?) Then what about you Tenten-chan?" Sakura was curious.

"I'm in a year ahead of you guys. Same with Neji." Informed Tenten.

"Oh…"

"But, we do have same gym class on the same block. Different teachers, though they always put us gr. 10 and 11s together –"

Just then, the bell rang… cutting of what Tenten was saying.

"Well, see you guys at lunch. Ja ne. (Bye)" bided Tenten, with Neji following behind her… hands in his pocket.

"Ikuso (let's go) Sakura." said Ino while pulling on Sakura's arm.

Block H went by very slowly. Luckily, it finally ended, as soon as the bell rang, everyone got up from their seat and walked to their locker.

"Sakura, let's go get a table in the lounge/cafeteria before it's all taken." said Ino.

"Gomen ne (sorry) Ino, I kind of want to eat somewhere else, and I just wanted to think a bit."

"Are you feeling alright?" Ino was worried about her new friend.

"Yeah, just… want a bit of fresh air. You know if students are allowed up in the rooftop?" (You know the top floor of a building? That's what I mean, if that place isn't called a rooftop…)

"Sure, Sasuke-kun always eats there."

"Oh… then… I shouldn't disturb him right? He doesn't seem to want much company around him besides you guys." Sakura looked down.

Ino shook her head,"He's always like that. When we all first met him, we felt the way. But later when he gets used to you…. You won't think that way." Sakura looked up."But just be careful that none of the girls catches you eating lunch near him. The girls in this school had made a club that's all about Sasuke-kun."

"…." Sakura was silent… she was now not sure if she wanted to go up to eat on the rooftop.

"Well, see you later Sakura!" shouted Ino while running down the hallway.

"Matte! (Wait!)," Sakura let out a sigh as she headed the opposite direction, up the stairs leading to the rooftop.

Once Sakura had pushed open the heavy door, she noticed not one person is sight. She looked both ways like crossing the street to double check. Silently she closed her eyes and breathed out. When she opened her eyes again, she was startled. She let out a small yelp and dropped her bento (lunch box). She was staring into the handsome dark eyes of the poker faced Sasuke. Sasuke bent down and picked up Sakura's bento and hand it over back to her.

"Thanks." said Sakura.

"Sorry about that." Sasuke said quietly. Sakura looked at him."So, what brings you here? I thought you would be hanging out with Ino and the others in the lounge."

"Oh, I just wanted some quiet time, and just to think about… some stuff."

"Oh really, I hope you won't mind having me as a company then." said Sasuke while walking over to the railings and leaned against it. He patted the spot next to him, and Sakura was on cue to seat her self next to him.

"Oh, I don't mind, really… I was kind of expecting to see you here." Sasuke looked at her quizzically."I mean, Ino told me you would be here, since I told her I was coming up here." Sakura chuckled nervously.

Sasuke looked at her, and that's when it hit him. He couldn't take his eyes off of her. Sakura stopped laughing, and stared back into those mesmerizing eyes of Sasuke. She blinked, blinked again…

"Sa-Sasuke-kun… ne, is there something on my face or something?" Sasuke didn't answer. In fact, he didn't even seem to have heard her. Sasuke was watching at how Sakura thought something was on her face, as she had her hand ran all around her face trying to rub off whatever it was on her face. Sakura was getting annoyed.

"Hm…. Sasuke-kun… just what exactly are you staring at!" Sakura closed her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest. Sakura peer an eye open to see Sasuke. Sasuke now has one hand supporting his chin, while his elbow was placed on his lap. Sasuke had his infamous smirk on as he said,"You."

Sakura suddenly felt her heart beat strong, and feeling that her face was flushing. Sakura now has a tinge of pink on both her cheeks.

"Ne, stop kidding around, what were you staring at?"

"Okay fine, I was staring at your forehead." Sakura froze."I just realized how wide it was." He smirked, as Sakura's temper was rising. The blush across the bridge of her nose spread.

"My forehead isn't that big. It's NORMAL size. It's only that my bangs are held back that made it seems like it's larger than normal." Sakura huffed."I'll show you." and Sakura had her hand over her forehead. Her palm completely covers her forehead.

"See?" asked Sakura. Then she leaned over to Sasuke whom was starting to blush while leaning back against the railings as Sakura had her palm clasped against Sasuke's forehead."Your forehead is the same as mine-"

SNAP

Suddenly, something struck Sakura. Then, a mischievous grin was shown on her face.

"So… what were you doing… staring at me?" Her eyes narrowed.

"I told you… you're forehead attracted my attention." Sasuke replied.

"But… if you hadn't looked at me, how would you have noticed how large my forehead is. Hm…?"

Sasuke was silence. He couldn't think of an answer for that one. So he changed the topic."So… what class you have next?" he asked.

"P.e" Sakura had decided that she would drop the subject… for now.

Sasuke got up, and headed towards the door."Where are you going?" Sakura got up, straightening her skirt.

"Class is starting soon. I assumed you don't know where the gym is do you?" Sakura shook her head."I have p.e next block as well."

Sasuke pushed open the heavy door, and held it open for Sakura to go in first.

a/n: ignore the snap thing. You'll know what it is later on in the story. Please review and give me some suggestions. Thank-you.