All right! Chapter 5 is finally done! I apologize for the delay, I wanted to deliver this chapter as best as I could, and I hope I have succeeded! I hope you like it and remember to review the chapter! :) pretty please!


CHAPTER 5

Getting To Know You

Naruto, confused, kept looking back and forth between Sakura and Sasuke. She just stood there, wide eyed, frozen and mouth slightly agape while looking at Sasuke, and he in turned directed his onyx eyes at her, completely ignoring the blond. She was able to shake the embarrassment off when Sasuke abruptly stood up and started walking towards them. Slightly panicking, she stuttered trying to greet him, but stopped when he stood in front of her with his right hand stretched out to her. She looked down to see that he was returning the towel she gave him no less than an hour ago.

"Thank you." He handed her the towel and walked back to his seat. Now, Sasuke might be antisocial, among other things, but he was never impolite. After drying his clothes and hair he made his way to his classroom, still thinking on how to find the pink haired girl. He worried it would be harder than expected because her hair might be exotic, but this place was the size of a university campus. The moment he saw her enter the room he seized the opportunity to give it back. Sasuke nonchalantly walked back to his seat and replaced his earphones. The two other students in the room shared a glance and took a seat beside the window, in front of their quiet dark haired classmate. Naruto and Sakura quietly chatted the remaining time before the bell rang. Students slowly started entering and accommodating with their friends throughout the class room, bringing exciting energy with them. Sasuke silently sighed in disappointment when the silence ended.

A few minutes after the warning bell rang and all the students entered the classroom, a middle aged man-no older than 30- walked into the room. His very presence silenced the previously loud and excited students. Sakura wondered if what quieted them was his strong presence or his equally strong appearance. Frankly she didn't know what to expect from the tall, lean and masked figure in front of them. His dark eyes scanned the room, making eye contact with each and every one of the students. He walked to his desk in the left corner of the front, never looking away from the students, who in turn looked back at him attentively, nervously, expectantly. He dropped his leather case on top of the desk, making a loud thud when the bag made contact with the desk's wood. The silence was thick, and Naruto vaguely wondered if he could hear a pin drop.

"My name is Kakashi Hatake and I will be your homeroom and Literature teacher from today on." the silver haired man said in a deep, low and mysterious voice. He watched his students closely as they leaned in to hear him as he lowered his voice more with every word that came out of his covered lips. "Now we will start this semester…" the students leaned in more "by…" they were almost out of their seats, he could see their nervous eyes and tensed shoulders. They were intimidated, just the way he liked it before he-"breaking the ice with some nice reading!" he finished, his once dark voice changing completely. He chuckled and his eye crinkled at his students surprised, confused and perplexed faces. He laughed a little louder and relaxed his stiff posture, waving a hand at them. "Ah I'm sorry class, I couldn't let the opportunity to mess with you pass me by!" the students relaxed and laughed a little, some still a little skeptical about the odd professor.

Naruto raised his hand before speaking. "Then, is the goofy mask part of it too?" Kakashi was in front of him in an instant, eyes blazing and aura threatening. Naruto "eeped" and shrunk in his seat. "Never insult the mask. If there's something real here, it's the mask. The mask is everything!" he said, slowly and threateningly before settling back into an easygoing mood. Naruto gulped and made a mental note to be careful around the moody homeroom teacher. "Sheesh he's just like Alfred." He thought. Sakura laughed a little at their exchange and continued to pay attention to their teacher as he explained what they would be studying throughout the year. As homeroom period ended, he dedicated the next hour and thirty minutes to his literature class.

"I will be dividing all of you into pairs. Each pair will receive a scene from either a play or a novel that you will re-enact with your partner in front of the class. Don't pay attention to the time gaps between pieces, since every scene I'll be handing out is from a different works, authors and time." Kakashi explained. As the students began to protest, he clarified that they would receive points for the activity, and that it was his way to "break the ice" and familiarize the class with each other. "Or would you rather come up here and tell us all a boring auto-biography instead?" with that, the class settled. "Excellent! Since we will be doing this activity in pairs and all, you will choose where you want to do it, depending on your piece, of course. You can pick between the class room, the library, the theater, the courtyard, the rooftop, the cafeteria and the fifth floor from the faculty building."

"But, isn't the fifth floor empty?" a student asked. Kakashi gave her a wink "precisely!" He then proceeded to divide the class into pairs. He explained that every student would work with the person sitting behind him or her. Naruto smiled triumphantly and turned to work with Sakura, but just then, a boy with spiky brown hair and his clothes and hair messy entered the room.

"I'm so sorry! I overslept and then I got lost!" he said as he quickly sat down in the only seat available; in front of Naruto. "Aw man!" Naruto whined. He then started explaining to the other boy what was happening when he saw his confused expression. At seeing this, Sakura turned to whoever was sitting behind her and gave a friendly smile to start off. When she looked up, she remembered that she was sitting in front of Sasuke. Eyes wide and somewhat nervous, she pulled her desk a little closer to Sasuke's. "Calm down Sakura, he's just a boy for Christ's sake! You have nothing to be nervous about" she looked at him and he nodded her way, letting her know he wasn't ignoring her. She watched as Sasuke pulled out his earphones and put his Ipod away before nodding in her direction again and looking towards the teacher. "Good. This will be good" she thought before relaxing and also looking at Kakashi.

Kakashi started walking through the rows, handing papers randomly at each pair. When Sakura and Sasuke got theirs, they looked at the tittle. "The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe" she read aloud. She glanced at the boy beside her and watched as his eyes sparked with interest. "Kind of a dark one, huh?" she said. Sasuke turned to her, mildly surprised. "You know Poe?"

"Oh yeah," she nodded "I love his work, and this is actually one of my favorites. But I honestly wasn't expecting something like this to "break the ice"" she said, smiling sheepishly. "By the way, I never got your name" "It's Sasuke, and you?" "Sakura. Nice to meet you." In the remaining time, Sasuke and Sakura talked about some of Poe's works and which were their favorites and why. Also, they planned on how they would do the re-inaction and where.

"I think we should do it in the fifth floor" Sasuke said "Since it's empty, and has been for a couple of years, I'm sure its dusty and dark enough to resemble the catacombs" Sakura nods and agrees with him. The fifth floor would be perfect for the scene. The class period ended and they both picked up their things. Kakashi had just left after reminding them to be ready by Wednesday. "Where are you headed now Sasuke?" she asked while turning to him. "I've got Math." "Oh, I've got history. Oh well, I guess I'll be seeing you" she smiled at him and waved. Sasuke nodded at her direction and watched as she walked to join Naruto. She might be a little odd looking, but Sasuke didn't find her as annoying as he thought he would. When he realized Sakura would be his partner he was dreading every minute he would have to tolerate her empty headedness, but he was surprised to find she was quite smart and was interested in Poe. Sasuke walked out the room and headed for his next class, his earphones back in place as he sauntered through the crowded hallway effortlessly.


"Say, Naruto, do you know anything about Sasuke?" Sakura asked her blond friend as they walked through the door to the history class room. Because the students have ten minutes to switch between classrooms and their class had been released three minutes early, the room was empty. They walked to the back right corner of the room and seated themselves beside the glass window.

"Not really. He doesn't talk much. We were in some classes last semester so all I know is that he's smart and pretty much keeps to himself" said Naruto, shrugging his shoulders in a casual manner as he placed his orange backpack on his desk and took out a strange looking frog shaped wallet. Sakura giggled silently while watching him sigh in disappointment at finding his wallet empty. She turned to the window and leaned her head in her hand. The last thing she heard her blond classmate say before she resulted to daydreaming was a grumpy complaint about having to ask his "old man" for money during lunch period.


The bell signaling that lunch period had begun rang loudly through the school hallways. A determined glint shone in Ten-ten's brown eyes as she stood quickly and exited her Algebra class. Her stride was swift as she passed countless people and dodged random things being thrown from one side of the hall to the other. None of these distractions mattered to the brunette, for she was too focused on getting to the school cafeteria as soon as she could. With a fiery light in her eyes, she sped walked through what seemed like a sea of people and entered through the double doors of the cafeteria. In all her haste, she failed to notice the pink haired girl she passed right in front of, with her mouth hanging open and a shock, slightly confused look in her green eyes. Sakura soon followed after the brunette and crossed the double doors. When she entered, she was surprised her name was being called.

"Sakura! Over here!" Ten-ten shouted, waving her hand to her from a table with a triumphant grin painted on her face.

"Tennie! What's the matter? You almost run over me in the hall!" she said as she sat across from Ten-ten. She in turn laughed embarrassedly and apologized. "It's just that I love the cheese Danish they sell here and they're the first to go out!" she explained. Sakura rose an eyebrow at her. "You mean those disgusting, greasy looking things in a bag?" "No silly! Those are the consolation prize for the losers who don't manage to get here on time!" she says as she pulls out a beautifully prepared cheese Danish, delicately glazed with cream cheese icing and carefully packed.

"These little devils are the stuff they bake every morning! That's why the halls always smell sweet during early hours!"

"Huh, I didn't even know they baked here" Sakura said, not bothering to hide her surprise. She took a bite of the cheese Danish Ten-ten had bought for her.

"Yeah, it's supposed to be a secret. Say, where's your blond friend? I saw you two walking down the hall a while back"

"Oh! That's Naruto, I met him this morning. He made plans with his other friends, I guess." The two continued to eat in silence due to the students pouring in the cafeteria, their booming voices drowning their conversation. They were about to leave before the sudden cheer of the students stopped Sakura from walking away. Ten-ten was in front of her and kept walking until she was a few steps away and noticed Sakura was not following. She turned to her and saw as Sakura's face changed completely from her usually cheerful self. Her skin had paled; her fists had clenched and were shaking, her mouth transformed into a disgusted and somewhat intimidating snarl and her eyes were blazing with anger, a rage so piercing and intense that for a moment Ten-ten couldn't recognize her. Ten-ten followed her gaze and saw her eyes were focused on a crowd cheering. She took off after a stomping Sakura but stopped when she saw what was happening. The crowd was encircling a chubby boy who was looking down silently as two guys and a girl threw his lunch to the ground and scattered all of his belongings. They were laughing and insulting the poor kid, calling him names for his body shape and looks. When Ten-ten directed her eyes towards the girl insulting him, she was incredibly shocked. If she were just standing there, quietly, Ten-ten could have mistaken her for an angel.

Long strawberry blond hair flowed down to the small of her back, her fair skin looked smooth and perfect in the sunlight pooling through the huge windows of the cafeteria, and her eyes shone an icy blue when the sunlight hit. Her laugh broke Ten-ten out of her stupor and she gasped as the blonde took the boy's milkshake and hovered it above his head, about to pour it on his light brown hair. As her hand turned, slowly, to pour the drink Ten-ten's eyes widened at the equally pale hand that shot out from the crowd and stopped her. The crowd grew quiet as the girl angrily looked at the person interrupting her fun and she was met with a pair of green eyes blazing with anger.

"I don't even care to know what the hell you think you're doing" Sakura says, her voice so low and threatening that the girl flinched "If you so much as pour a single drop on him, you'll regret it." The blonde huffed, livid and shocked "And just WHO do you think YOU are to tell me what to do?" Sakura's grip on her wrist tightened and with a shriek the girl dropped the milkshake. The glass made a soft clattering sound as it hit the ground and its contents spilled in the white tile, sprinkling all who were close enough. "You little BITCH! Do you know how much these shoes cost?!" she is livid as icy blue eyes meet equally angry emerald ones. "I don't really care! They could be worth my house and I wouldn't care! All I care about right now is for you to apologize to him and promise not to do it again!" the rosette shouted while squeezing the blonde's wrist even tighter.

"Are you crazy?! Do you even know who I am!?"

"I just told you-" the rude blonde cut her off

"I am Ino Yamanaka! Niece of the school principal and I could have you kicked out of here with a snaps of my fingers!" she shouted again. The whole cafeteria was silent, waiting to hear Sakura's response.

A single phrase was heard, coming from Ten-ten "Oh shit".


This is the end of chapter five XD I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review! I will start working on chapter six soon X3

-Aiiro Hart