A/N: this is hella long. It's part 1 and three-fourths of part 2 combined

Ends when Lee asks her to the dance in gym.

THAT'S ALL.

Don't read it again if you already did.

I just fixed some errors I found all the way, and the whole past-tense-present-tense thing I was having trouble with in the beginning.

Konoha High

Chapter 1

Saying No

It was the pink-haired girl's first day of Konoha High. The brightness of the sun and its heat woke her up.

"RRRRRRAAAAAAWWWWWWWHHHHHH" she yawned loudly as she stretched her arms out wide. "What time is it?" she wondered. She was kind of curious because it was bright out, and her alarm didn't turn on yet.

She sat up and turned to her right and looked at her Hello Kitty Alarm Clock. It read 7:00 AM.

When she saw this, her eyes widened.

"OH SHITTTTT! I MUST'VE FORGOTTEN TO SET MY ALARM ON LAST NIGHT! I HAVE TWENTY MINUTES TO GET THERE! SNOWBELL WAKE UP!" she yelled as she flipped the sheets out of her way. She got up from her bed. Snowbell got up from the voice but then went back to sleep. Sakura headed to go to her closet and didn't really care about her loudness right now.

While on the way to her closet, she cursed at herself for not turning her alarm clock on.

"Shtuppid..." she said as she opened the said closet.

The pink-haired girl grabbed her prepared clothes from yesterday and closed it. She then headed off to the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth. She figured there was no time to take a shower because of the limited time she had left.

Sakura got back from the bathroom dressed. She had a tight, gray, low-cut shirt on top of a pink-laced tank top with tight jeans. She got her backpack at the side of her bed, which was already prepared with her books, notebooks, a pencil case, and her schedule list, which she had already memorized.

After getting the backpack she once again woke up Snowbell. "Snowbell, come downstairs for something to eat!"

As soon as Snowbell heard her voice, she got up and followed her master.

They rushed down the stairs and headed off to the kitchen. Sakura opened the cabinets and found Snowbell's cat food. She prepared the food and put it right on the floor and letting the cat eat. The pink-haired girl then got water and left it next to the cat food. Sakura herself had no time to eat. The school bell already rang about 10 minutes earlier. She really had to get there...and fast.

Sakura got her sneakers and left her apartment and her cat in a hurry. She rushed to go to her car. Although the school was nearby, she chose to drive there because she knew walking would even make her even more late. She drove as fast as she could, trying to get to the school without any more minutes passing by.

Sakura now was at the parking lot and got lucky. She found a parking space, not too far away from the school.

The girl walked in Konoha High and entered through one of the main doors.

Oh crapp I'm way late! Oh man and it's my first day! Damn this school's huge! I need a pass, she thought to herself.

In just her luck, she saw a student pass her by.

"Ummm excuse me, can you please tell me where the office is?" she asked politely. She stopped the person from walking past her even more.

The person turned at Sakura. "Uhh yeah. Right there on your far right," the student said. She pointed at the sign that said 'OFFICE'.

Sakura looked at the said direction and found the office sign. "Alright thanks!"

"Sure," the person replied, and then walked off

Sakura did likewise and headed off to the office. When she got there, the pink-haired girl stopped. She looked at a huge desk which was right in front of her and saw a lady writing something down, so she guessed it was the secretary.

She felt Sakura's presence, so the secretary looked up at the girl and stopped writing.

"Late?" she asked.

"Yes," Sakura replied.

"Sign here," she said, pointing at a late sheet clip board. Sakura did as told.

The person then opened the desk drawer beside her and took out a pad with a bunch of late passes.

"Name?"

"Sakura Haruno."

The secretary looked at the clock at the side of the office and then filled out the time and Sakura's name.

"Sensei?"

"Uhmm Ibiki Sensei."

The said secretary now wrote the sensei Sakura had. She then ripped the pass off from the pad and handed in to the pink-haired girl. "Here you go," she said while she reached out to Sakura.

"Thank you," Sakura said taking the pass from the lady's hand. She then walked out of the office, and the secretary went back to continue writing things down.

Sakura searched through the halls and after much exploration, she finally found her locker. She got her morning books and then headed off to her first class. She got lost a few times trying to find it, but she finally found the math room. Outside the classroom, she took a deep breath and sighed before entering. Now she was ready.

Knock Knock.

The knock got everyone's attention.

"Come in!" Ibiki Sensei yelled. Everyone anticipated who it was.

The door slowly opened and a person walked in. The whole class stared at the girl who interrupted the session, now examining her as she closed the door from behind and entered the classroom. They wondered who the student was because they've never seen her in the school before. Overall the students from the class thought she was beautiful. She had pink hair, which no one ever had in their town before, and a really nice physique along with her face.

Of course, Sakura too got a glance at the class when she closed the door. She examined that some of the students stared at her as well. Some of the girls gave her the eww-you-don't-belong-here-you're-disgusting-get-out glare, and some of the guys just looked at her with drooly faces. She tried ignoring the looks and walked straight to the sensei.

Sakura handed the pass to the math sensei and waited for further direction, and just stood there with the stares from other students still not ending.

"Ahh. I see. Alright then. Everyone, it's the student I was talking about two days ago," Ibiki Sensei said, turning to the class.

All of the students were now wide-eyed. Some people were happy she came, some were jealous, and others were irritated.

After five seconds in silence, Ibiki Sensei started to speak again. "Uhmm. Oh right...Introductions. Well my name is Ibiki Sensei. What's yours?" he said as he turned to the girl.

"Sakura Haruno," she replied.

"Okay. Well Sakura, you can sit between Sasuke Uchiha and Ino Yamanaka. Guys raise your hands so she knows where you are," he said. He turned to the said persons.

The two did so and followed the orders, but Sasuke's was way lower than Ino's hand raise. He wasn't that type of guy who was enthusiastic at times like this Actually, it was very rare to see him smile and get enthusiastic on something. On the other hand, Ino was glad she got to sit next to the new student.

As Sakura walked to Ino and Sasuke, she realized most of the girls, A.K.A. Sasuke's fans, gave her even more glares. But this time it wasn't an eww-you-don't-belong-here-you're-disgusting-get-out glare. It was worse. It was a death glare. She didn't realize this yet, but the reason they did was because she got to sit next to the hottest guy in school. They were really mad at her for sitting next to him.

"Sasuke-kun's mine," one girl whispered as the pink-haired girl passed her.

Okay...?

"Bitch, get away from him," whispered another.

OKAY calm down! Geez...

One even tried to trip her but she saw that coming. She simply walked over the girl's leg. She didn't want to say anything back to any of the comments she just heard because that would get her more attention that she wasn't planning to have. So, she just continued walking.

She finally reached her desk and was now putting the materials for other periods under it.

"Hey Sakura. Nice to meet you!" the girl to her right, Ino said, greeting her.

After she was done putting her stuff away, she sat back up and looked at the owner of the voice. "Oh hey Ino. Nice to meet you too," the pink-haired girl said with a smile.

She then turned to Sasuke on her left to say hi. Sasuke, seeing Sakura's glance from the corner of his eye, looked elsewhere, not really wanting to look back. He was now too 'busy' looking at the window on his left.

"Anywayy... So Sakura what do you have next period?" the math sensei said. He got back her attention and getting up from his seat. Getting up got everyone staring at him, except the Uchiha.

"Science," she simply stated.

Sasuke, after hearing this, now broke his gaze outside and looked at the sensei. He too had the same class.

"Aa," he said while walking to a gray file cabinet. He walked to the said cabinet and took out a red folder labeled 'SCHEDULES' in big, black letters. The sensei then went back to his desk and took the papers out from the said folder, laying them out in front of him.

Everyone in the classroom now well knew what the sensei was doing. The person with the same classes as the girl would have to walk her. Some of the students from the class were disgusted by this idea and others were happy to walk her. Sakura just hoped the person would be nice.

Continuing, Ibiki Sensei then picked out the ones that had science for the second period and put the rest of the schedules back in the folder. "Alright. Third?"

"Gym," she replied.

Sasuke now had full attention. He had this class likewise.

The sensei then eliminated the ones that didn't have gym on their third period and put it back to the said folder.

"Fourth?"

"Language Arts with Kurenai Sensei."

Sasuke was now wide-eyed. He had four periods in a row with her!

After much elimination, all the sensei got left was one schedule in his hand. He gave a big grin and looked up at the pink-haired girl.

"Well, it seems you're in luck, Sakura. We have one student who has all periods with you, at least until lunch," he stated.

Everyone in the class wondered who the said student was, except for of course, the Uchiha. He knew very well that the sensei was talking about him. He really didn't want to walk her to her classes and be in this position, but he didn't want to make an act either.

"So anyway, just for curiosity, what are your last two classes?" the sensei asked.

"I have Art and Theatre," Sakura replied.

Sasuke now sweat dropped. Including lunch, he had the first six periods with her. He really didn't want to be in this position.

"Alright. What's your locker number?"

"324."

The Ibiki Sensei looked up at the schedule at his hand to the section with the information of the person's locker number. It read 330.

Close enough, the math sensei thought to himself.

This caused a wide grin on his face to form. He looked back up to the class with a big smile showing.

Sasuke looked at the said sensei's face. He knew very well why the sensei was smiling. He knew very well what he was about to say and do.

Then the math sensei quickly then turned to the student at Sakura's left – the one and only Sasuke Uchiha.

"Sasuke, I want you to lead Sakura to the next three periods and the lunchroom. Then after lunch I want each of you to wait for each other. Then, Sasuke, you can lead her to Art. Uhmm at least for 2 days. That's an order," the math sensei instructed in a stern voice.

Everyone now looked at the Uchiha to see his reaction after hearing this. From the corner of the said person's eyes, he noticed almost everyone staring at him all at once. He had to admit he did he a little taken back by the sudden action.

As he looked at some of the fan girls from the corner of his eyes he notices that they were extremely jealous, and he knew that well. To his point of view, the fans also had really desperate faces. Heck, they were desperate to begin with. They needed to find someone else. In his view and many others', the said girls were losers and needed to get a life.

Trying really hard after seeing the looks of everyone, the said boy kept an unemotional face. He managed to act like he didn't care. But on the inside, he did care. He really didn't want to walk Sakura to her classes, but he knew Ibiki Sensei was serious. He didn't want to disagree and make a scene. The math sensei wasn't one to mess with.

Like I have a choice... he thought to himself. "Hn," he simply replied to the sensei, but didn't really need to.

Then everyone came silent. After the whole class hearing this, they were still at what the Uchiha said. Sasuke would never do something for someone like this. It was really a big surprise. Everyone was shocked. The fans especially had now fire in their eyes after they heard him agree. They wanted to kill the pink-haired girl.

"Great! Now does anyone have both Art and Theatre after lunch?" the sensei said, breaking the quietness. He didn't feel like going through all the schedules again, so he just asked.

"I do!" Ino yelled out from the silent crowd. "I'll lead her to the Theatre Room!"

"Thank you for volunteering!" the sensei said with a smile while looking at Ino.

I didn't even volunteer, the Uchiha thought to himself, inwardly rolling his eyes.

"Sure," Ino simply said back.

"Alright Sakura, so until tomorrow go to Sasuke until 6th period, and then follow Ino to 7th. Got that?" he said, just wanting to clear it up.

"Yes sensei," she replied.

The sensei placed the copy of Sasuke's schedule in the red folder with the others. He then took the folder with him and got up from his desk, now walking to the file cabinet. He put it back in place, closed the said cabinet, and walked back to his desk.

"Now, since we got that cleared up, Sakura I just want you to know that there's a dance coming up in two weeks. Dress appropriately," he said while he sat at his chair.

Beeeeeeeeeep. The bell rang and everyone headed off to their next period.

Sasuke stood outside the classroom, waiting outside for Sakura. After a few seconds, Sakura stood beside him. They just stood there.

"Uhmmm-"

"Let's go," he interrupted. He walked off and Sakura followed, trying to catch up to his speed.

They walked side by side and got stares from everyone. She looked back at Sasuke, who now gave death glares to everyone who looked at them. There was something extra special about this glare. It was more intimidating that no one else but him could make. He was too busy doing this to not notice her looking at him.

But, one guy didn't see the glare. He really didn't care about Sasuke right now so he suddenly walked up beside Sakura on her right and made the girl between the two guys.

What do you want, Lee? Sasuke thought to himself in a dark voice after noticing Lee walk beside Sakura. He didn't want to say this out loud because it was none of his business and it was also rude.

"Uhmm hey Sakura. I'm Lee. I was in your math class," he said in a friendly voice.

Ohhh I remember him. He kept staring at me all period! He's creepy...especially his hair and eyebrows! EWWW! the pink haired girl said to herself. PLEASE LEAVE!

She couldn't say this out loud because that would be plain mean. She's not that type of person.

"Oh hi Lee!" the pink-haired girl said. She turned to him and giving him a fake smile.

The said boy then looked at her too. They looked at each other and Sakura got even more creeped out when she saw his face. She thought he was even uglier up close. Sakura quickly turned back to the direction in front of her. She needed to stop looking at the guy.

Sasuke on the other hand, just kept walking and giving the famous death glare to people he passed, but listened in on their conversation.

"Uhmmm...I was just wondering if you would like to go to the dance with me," he said in a nervous tone.

THERE'S NO CHANCE IN HELL I'M GOING! HE'S SOOO UGLY! BUT I DON'T WANNA BE MEAN EITHER... the girl thought to herself.

Please say yes! Please say yes! Please say yes! the Green Beast of Konoha High, Lee, said to himself.

LMFAO! He's such a loser! the Uchiha thought to himself after just hearing what Bushybrows was saying.

"Well...ummmm..." Sakura said. She hesitated. She really didn't want to say no but she didn't want to go with him either.

"Yeah?" Lee asked, getting really anxious for an answer.

"Well uhh..." she said, not really looking forward to saying anything furthermore.

"Yeahh?" he asked, being restless.

"We're here," Sasuke said, stopping in front of the door and 'interrupting' their conversation.

Lee, you're disgusting...and desperate. It's obvious she said no, the Uchiha said to himself, but were really urging to say that out loud.

THANK GOD HE INTERRUPTED! THANK YOU SASUKE! the girl said to herself. She had a relieved look on her face.

"Wai-" the Greek Beast of Konoha High said and tried to reach out to her.

"Okay. Well bye Lee," Sakura said as she passed Sasuke and quickly ran to the classroom in a hurry.

Before Lee could stop her, he realized she was already inside.

Sasuke saw this sudden action and gave a smirk. He went inside likewise, leaving the guy outside the door.

LMFAO! YOU LOSER! the Uchiha once again said to himself while walking to his desk.

OH! IT'S ALRIGHT! I'LL JUST ASK HER IN GYM! Lee said to himself and tried to be positive.

He sighed and went to his own class.

At science class, Sakura stood next to the sensei's desk and waited to be seated.

"Aa. It seems we have the new student here. Sakura Haruno, am I right?" the sensei said as he looked at the girl.

"Yes," Sakura replied and looked at him likewise.

"Alright. My name's Jaraiya Sensei. Welcome to Science! Uhmm you can sit between-"

"ME AND SASUKE!" a voice yelled out and interrupted the said teacher.

"DOBE! SHUT UP!" the Uchiha said to himself, but really wanted to say that out loud. The guy really had a big mouth and annoyed basically everyone, mostly the Uchiha.

Everyone looked at the owner of the voice. It was of course, Naruto.

"Ummm...sure why not?" the science sensei said, agreeing. But he did have to admit he got scared by the sudden loud voice.

Sakura looked back at Sasuke. She wanted to know if he was okay with this. Noticing her stare from the corner of his eye, Sasuke looked back. He notices her 'worried face' and almost immediately gets what she's trying to say. Simply, he gave a nod.

Seeing this, Sakura sighed in relief and walked back to her desk. She ignored all the glares and comments she got from Sasuke's fan girls because she really didn't care.

She got to her desk and sat between the Uchiha and Naruto.

"Hey Sakura-chan! My name's Naruto Uzumaki!" he said turning to her while having a huge grin on his face.

After hearing this, Sakura turned to the guy. He had cerulean blue eyes and a long, yellow, spiky hair.

As for Sasuke, well, he rolled his eyes.

"H-hey Naruto," she said, giving a weak smile. Wow he's loud...

"Ohhhhh! And this is Hinata," he said, pointing to the girl on his left.

Naruto then turned to Hinata.

"Hinata say hi!" he said, poking her. The white-eyed girl blushed red even harder for every poke Naruto gave her.

Sakura leaned further up and looked at her left to see the girl. Hinata turned to her right. They looked at each other and Sakura notices her face deep red.

"Why's she blushing so hard? Must be that Naruto kid," she thought to herself.

"H-hey S-Sakura, W-welcome to K-Konoha High!" Hinata said, smiling.

"Hi Hinata! Thanks!" she replied, smiling in return.

Jaraiya sensei cleared his throat, getting everyone's attention. All faces turned straight to the said sensei.

"Okay. Well there's a project your classmates hopefully started yesterday. Sasuke- since you weren't here, you can partner up with Sakura," he said.

All eyes widened, except...the fan girls had fire in theirs. They were thinking that Sakura now needed to be killed.

Oh hell no, Sasuke said to himself.

I hope he's not mad... Sakura thought. She worried that Sasuke wasn't going to like this idea one bit.

"It's a project due in two days," Jaraiya said, continuing. "All you have to do is make a poster that explains things about the beach. Some ideas are how it got created, how the waves move, and some of the animals living there. Include any information you'd like. Extra credit will be bringing in things like seashells or other things you find interesting for the class to look at."

So...one of us is coming over to the other person's house, Sakura and Sasuke both thought to themselves.

I don't think he'll like that...the pink haired girl said to herself.

Crap, the Uchiha thought.

"Alright. So that explains about the project. Anyway today we're gonna learn about the reproductive system," the sensei said smiling.

Everyone that was immature groaned.

He ignored the 'enthusiasm' from everyone and got up from his desk. He then went to the board in front of the class. He started drawing chromosomes and whatnot, then explaining what they were supposed to mean. Everyone else sweat dropped.

In just their luck, after just five minutes of learning about the reproductive system, the bell rang.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Everyone hurried out, not wanting to hear anything more from the sensei.

This time, Sasuke and Sakura had left the classroom at the same time. They walked on their way to gym. The fan chicks didn't even bother to go near Sakura, or make those comments while they walked. Sasuke was there. They wouldn't want to make a fool out of themselves.

Luckily, Lee was no where to be seen when they walked the halls. But when they stepped foot in the gymnasium, their luck ended. They quickly put their books down on the floor same as everyone else, not really noticing Bushybrows nor anyone yet.

"SAKURA-CHAANNN!" Lee said as he ran up to Sakura from all the way to the other side of the gym.

He was there way before them and was running laps around the gym courtesy by the gym sensei himself. As soon as he saw the two from the corner of his eye, he ran straight to them.

The voice got both Sasuke and Sakura's attention, including a couple people who also heard the voice.

Oh God. Lee...Just get away, the two of them thought to themselves.

"Sasuke save me," Sakura whispered to him as Bushybrows came running. Hearing this, the Uchiha gave a smirk.

"No," he simply said. Her heart dropped.

"W-why not?" she said, looking at him.

"Not my business," he replied. He noticed the look from the pink-haired girl but didn't bother to return it. Instead, he just kept looking straight at the running Lee.

"PLEASEEE SASUKE!" she said desperately, now having puppy eyes. The Uchiha boy rolled his eyes.

"If you just keep making excuses to leave, that freak will keep asking," he said, trying to keep calm. Man this girl's annoying.

Sakura, after hearing this, admitted he was right. He'll just keep coming back and keep on asking until he gets an answer. He left Sakura speechless for a second, but the girl had more things to say.

"Did you have your fans ask you?" she asked, starting up another question.

Where is she going with this? Damn she needs to shut up.

"Duh," he said sighing. There was really no need to answer that question because it was really obvious. But he took the time to answer anyways.

"How'd you end it?"

Ohhh. Now I see.

"I yelled 'Fuck off'," he simply replied.

By the time Sakura and him could talk more, they found Lee right in front of them.

They sweat dropped. "Damn he's fast," they both thought.

"Hey Sakura-chan!" the guy said smiling and panting for air.

CRAPPPPPP! WHAT THE FUCK AM I GONNA SAY?!?!!? Sakura panicked, becoming really nervous.

Hah. Time to face the facts. There's no way in hell I'm missing this, the Uchiha said to himself, now having a smirk on his face. He just stood there aside and watched the two have their conversation.

"H-hey Lee!" she said. She hesitantly faced him and gave him a weak smile.

"So umm will you go to the dance with me? We got interrupted," Lee said, bringing up the conversation right away. He didn't want to wait another moment.

WHAT SHOULD I SAYY?!??!!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I CAN'T BE MEAN TO THE POOR GUY! After loss of words, she became silent.

Then she looked at Sasuke with a should-I-do-this?-face. He noticed her glance and looked at her likewise. Reading the girl like an open book, he gave her a nod.

"Uhmmm I'm...sorry. I just can't..." she said softly with her face pointing down. There was no way she could look at him right in the eye after saying that.

Good Sakura. That was a nice way to put it off, the Uchiha thought to himself.

"O-Ohkay. It's alright. I understand...Maybe I'll be lucky next time!" he said in a peppy voice, but obviously embarrassed. He walked away in shame and ran the laps more while thinking of the positives.

The pink-haired girl looked back up again, now seeing him leaving.

OH NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?! I GOT HIM TO BE SAD! IT'S LIKE I COULD SEE RIGHT THROUGH HIM! HE'S TRYING TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT HE GOT DUMPED, she cursed at herself. She felt extremely guilty for turning him down.

Sasuke looked at her to see her reaction of saying 'no' to Bushybrows. He saw her about to say something. Something nice. He realized this, and he quickly put his hand over her mouth.

'MMMMMMMM' was all she could say. She then realized someone covered her mouth. She looked at the owner, knowing it was Sasuke. She gave up 'talking' and Sasuke finally dropped his hand. "What was that for?" she said, wiping her mouth.

"Don't say anything you'll regret," he said simply.

This made her silent. He was right...again. She was about to say 'waiti'msorryi'llgowithyou!'

She now owed Sasuke...Big time.

"Thanks," she said looking at him.

"Hn."

The two just stood together in silence.