Sakura stood in front of her mirror, getting ready for school. It was a week since she'd slept at the Uchiha's and she was in a really good mood this morning.

She packed her bag and tennis clothes, since she had a private tennis match with Yamanaka Ino just after school, and grabbed an apple before getting out to the school bus waiting outside her house.

When she got inside the bus, she looked around for her friends. She spotted Tenten sitting alone by a window behind some older students. She walked over to her and sat down beside her with a 'goodmorning' and the two of them immediately began chatting away about the new math teacher who should start at the school later that day.

"They say he's really handsome." Tenten sighted. "He graduated from our school just a few years ago, so he's still very young!"

"That means there'll be a lot of fighting because of him in the next couple of days." Sakura said. "So troublesome."

Tenten laughed at her pink haired friend. "Sounds like you've been hanging too much out with Shika." Just when the words escaped her mouth, the bus arrived at the school gates. "Let's go!"

They got out and began walking the last fifty meters up to the school. They met a blushing Hinata halfway there in company with Naruto, who was crawling around on the ground, collecting books. Apparently, she'd dropped all of her books and he was helping her getting them up again. She thanked him and the three girls walked the last few meters to the school together, giggling.

"So," Said Sakura when she was sure Naruto couldn't hear them anymore. "What was that about?"

"Uhm.. what do you mean, Sakura-chan?" Hinata asked with her eyes at the ground.

"You know what I mean!" She stopped talking when they turned around a corner and saw some older students walking in the opposite direction of them. "What's up with you and Naruto? You've been acting wierd around him lately. Could it be that you have a crush on him?"

Hinata immediately blushed and looked away from her friend's courious glace. "I don't know what you are talking about." She answered in a weak voice.

"Awww Hinata, it's okay!I mean, you two would be so perfect together! And there's nothing wrong with being in love, just look at Tenten and Neji!"

"Sakura!" Tenten bursted out. I told you not to tell that to anybody!"

"C'mon Tenten. Everybody knows. Geez, you can tell just seeing the way you act when you are around each other!"

"Sakura!"

Sakura hadn't seen Sai nor Sasuke the whole day, so she became a bit surprised when one of the handsome dark haired twins came over to their lunchtable. "Sai-kun!" She burst out, a slightly pink blush on her face. She and her friends had been in the middle of a dicussion about who Sakura might be crushing on. (Tenten and Hinata had discussed. Sakura had tryed to tell them that she wasn't crushing on anybody, but they kept saying that she'd been acting wierd the whole week.) Said friends now looked at each other with the same understanding look. "Tenten! Hinata!" Sakura yelled at her friends, now blushing a stronger shade of pink.

"It's okay, Sakura!" Tenten said, laughing. "We'll talk about this later." She winked at Sakura, which made Sakura send her a very evil glare in return, before she turned to the boy beside her. "Uhm.. what is it, Sai-kun?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to go for a walk outside? it's a bit.. crowded in here. But if you want to sit with your friends, it's okay. We can talk another time."

"No! I mean.. it's okay. I was done eating, anyway. Shall we go?" She got her plate, sent a last evil glare to the brunette who still had a big smile at her face and turned to Sai.

"Okay."

When the couple where out of hearrange, Tenten turned to Hinata with her eyebows raised. "Now, what do you think that was about?"

At a nearby table by the window Sasuke sat, looking outside at his brother and the pink haired girl walk. Even though they were over twenty meters away from the window, it was impossible for him not to see the blush at her face. Why did he have such a strong urge to go outside and break them apart? He shouldn't care about who Sai was dating. Yet, he couldn't help but to wish that he was the one outside, standing beside her. His attention was brought back to the table when Narutos arm collided with his coke, causing the brow liquid to spill all over the table, their food included. He rolled his eyes before helping Naruto clean the soda up.

After lunch break Sakura had art, then science and then math at last. She felt like she had a big, light bubble inside of her chest that made it possible for her to do anything. Sakura hadn't said much to Sai, she'd felt very shy, so it'd mostly been Sai who'd done the talking. She couldn't quite remember what they'd been talking about, but somehow that fact didn't really matter to her. She was just so happy that she'd gotten to talk to him. They'd parted at the doors since Sai had P.E. and the dressing rooms were in another building. On her way to the art room, she saw Sasuke. She'd forgotten he'd science together with her, which wasn't like her at all, to forget such a thing. She slowed her path so she came to walk behind him. His long, dark, spicy hair was so different from Sais. He wore a different kind of clothes, too. Now that she thought about it, there were so many differences between the two of them. Their appearance, their way of acting, their looks... Her stream of thoughts stopped when she stepped inside the classroom.

The art classroom was different from the other classrooms. Insted of sitting with their front to the blackboard, the kids sat at long tables, facing each other. At the end of the tables the blackbord were placed so that everyone could see it. One of the walls was filled with cabinets with all kids of tools and materials from pencils and knives to clay and paper; all sorted in boxes. Sakura found a seat at the second table from the window and sat down, waiting for the teacher to arrive. She didn't really know anybody in her class beside Sasuke, but that didn't matter to her. She really liked art and could spend hours in the big room just sitting and drawing.

The teacher walked in and the last kids sat down. Today, they were to paint a potrait of the person in front of them, which would be easy since the person sitting in front of her was Shino. The guy always wore sunglasses and his jacket reached up over his mouth, so he didn't show too much skin. None of the girls at the entire school had ever seen his whole face, at least not his eyes. Sakura got the colors she needed and were just about to bring her pencil down to the paper when the smell of paint reached her nosethrils. She felt the nausea roll in over her and had to put down the pencil and wait until the dizyness was gone. When she felt okay again, she walked over to the wash and drank some water. She got back to the table, she saw that the pencil had made a big, fat line at her paper when she'd dropped it, so she got a new one after telling Kurenai that she was alright and she didn't ned to go to the nurse's office.

She felt a bit ill when the smell of paint reached her again, but it was not as strong this time. She was prepared for it and hold her breath.

She finished her painting of Shino halfway through the lesson and showed it to Kurenai, who praised her, and walked back to her seat, wondering what to draw next. She got an idea and began painting again, but this time she put much more effort into it than before. When the lesson ended, she stored the paper down in her bag to the other books and walked to science.

They should only take notes that day, but suddenly, in the middle of the lesson, Naruto pushed to a bottle filled with some nasty green stuff. In fell down on the floor and the glass shattered into a thousand pieces. Orochimaru became very angry and made Naruto clean it all up again. Sakura walked over to help, but when she bowed down to get the green, unknown stuff up, she smelled a horrible smell. It smelled like rotten eggs mixed with slime and cheese. The smell was overwhelming, she couldn't breathe. Suddenly, her stomach couldn't take it anymore. The last thing she knew was that she fell down into darkness.

"Sakura-san? Can you hear me? Please Sakura-san."

The voice was no more than a whisper, yet Sakura heard a strenght in it, a streght she clinged to with all her willpower. She tried to move, but found out she could't.

"Sakura-san?" This time the voice was closer. She could feel someone's cold breath on her face and finally managed to open her eyes, and after blinking several times, she recnognized the familiar face just a few inches above her head.

"Sai-kun!" She exclaimed, feeling her cheecks grow hot when she noticed the small distance between them. He smiled and, to her great discomfort, moved his face away from hers. She pouted mentally, but didn't let it show on the outside. Sai didn't need to think that she was a wierdo. Instead she asked: "How long have I been unconcious?"

"The lesson is almost over."

"Okay. I just need some water and-" She sat up, pushing of the sheets, but he stopped her.

"The nurse said, that you should go home when you felt better. She wont allow you to go back to class today."

"But I'm fine! I just felt a bit nauseous, that's all!" She got out af the bed, but fell back down when the room started to spin. She looked at Sai, who looked at her with a 'I told you so'-look. She sighted, knowing that she had lost. "Fine, I'll go home for today." She got up again, but kept a hold on the bed this time, when the room started spinning again.

"This is no good." he said, frowning. "Wait a minute, I'll take you home."

"You don't need to! I'm totally fine now. I can drive by myself!"

"I'm not so sure." He said. "Wait here while I go down to ask permission to take you home."

"Fine." she muttered. 'Geeh, lost again.'

So, what did you think? This chapter haven't been corrected yet, since I wanted to update before the new year, yes xD

But fear not, I'll send it to my awesome beta reader soon enough!!

Sorry for the late update and please review, thanks.

-Lostish