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A/N:I would like to thank those who read and reviewed the previous chapters, I'm glad that you are liking my story so far. I think this is the longest chapter I have written so far. I hope you like reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it.

Chapter 9 – Love?!

When Sakura went back to class, after spending about a quarter of an hour in the bathroom trying to compose herself after her meeting with Sasuke, she found out that Kakashi-sensei, her math teacher, was already in class. He was a very strange looking man, with silver hair and black eyes, or at least one was since the other was covered.

When she went in, everybody started whispering to each other. Sakura knew that they were talking about her, but she pretended that she wasn't aware of it. She started looking around slowly and saw that Tenten and Hinata were sitting next to each other in the middle row of the class.

While scanning the room she also noticed that Sasuke still wasn't there and she sighed with relief. Now that she was thinking about it, none of the members of the band Eclipse were present in class and if she remembered correctly, Tenten told her that the entire band had nearly the same time table as theirs.

While looking around she also saw a girl, with long blond hair and blue eyes, who was sitting in the corner, at the back of the class. She was staring at her, definitely not in a friendly manner. Sakura decided to ignore her.

Kakashi-sensei introduced her briefly to the class, avoiding her the inconvenience to do so herself and she secretly thanked him from the bottom of her heart. Anyway, they probably knew everything there was to know about her from the media.

He told her to sit down in the back of the class, where there were two empty seats near the window. She assumed that the other one was occupied by another student, who was either sick or was one of the members of the band.

Considering her luck and the way the blonde girl was trying to kill her with her stare, Sakura came to the conclusion that Sasuke was the one occupying the seat next to her.

Half the lesson was already over and still there was no sign of Sasuke and the other members of the band, when suddenly there was a knock on the door and Sasuke appeared followed by the others. He was so handsome, tall, with raven hair and eyes. You could tell he was the leader of the band by the way the others looked up at him.

The moment he entered the room, he started looking around as if looking for someone. Then his gaze stopped on her. He was looking for her, and that thought made her blush.

Sasuke couldn't believe his luck. When he entered the room, he saw that Sakura took the seat next to him. Math was his least favourite subject, but now that Sakura would be sitting next to him, it made it his favourite.

He went to his seat and he immediately noticed that she was blushing and he knew that the reason must be him. He couldn't help feeling happy knowing that he had this effect on her, and thought that she was even more beautiful when she blushed.

She wasn't looking at him; she was too embarrassed to do so after their bumpy meeting that morning. That day was the best day of his life, in which he had already met Sakura twice, a girl he would have never imagined he would meet in person, because to him she used to be unreachable and both moments will be always cherished by him.

Sakura, the girl who managed to enter his heart like no other girl has ever done, in one day. He had deep feelings for Sakura, but could it be love?

No, it couldn't be already love. They had only met twice, that day, once in the theatre, in which they just stared at each other and in the corridor afterwards, in which they talked a little; she couldn't have effected him that much in such a short period of time, right?

From the first time they met, he immediately felt a strong connection between them, but how could someone fall in love with a person whom he'd known just for a couple of hours? Could he have fallen in love with this breath taking beautiful girl? Or was it just an infatuation, like every other guy had for a celebrity?

All he knew was he didn't want to let Sakura go; he wanted to spend every minute he had with her from now on. Unfortunately, that day they wouldn't be spending anymore time together. In a meeting they had with Tsunade-sama, before class, the band found out that after their first lesson they would be rehearsing the whole day, thus they would be skipping all the lessons for the rest of the day.

Suddenly, she looked at him. Her emerald eyes were mesmerizing. They were looking into each other's eyes and they stayed liked that for the rest of the lesson, not enough time for him, he wanted to stay like that forever. It was the same connection they had in the theatre, which gave him the sensation that it was just them and no one else.

This magical moment between them was interrupted by the bell that rang, which meant that the lesson was over. During the time they stared into each other's eyes and even now, his heart was beating uncontrollably. Was this a signal that he had already fallen for her?

Sasuke heard Naruto calling him, and he turned around to see what he wanted. The guys were already heading to the theatre. Then he turned around again and told Sakura,

"I have to go, we have rehearsals all day today."

"I see, well I guess that I'll see you tomorrow than…"

"Yes, but if you want to come to watch our rehearsals with Tenten and Hinata, you're welcome."

"Thank you, but I don't think I will have the time to do so."

"Okay than, see you tomorrow. Sakura, it was a pleasure meeting you."

"It was a pleasure meeting you too, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke's heart gave a leap when he heard her say his name. He turned away and started heading towards the door, and in the bottom of his heart he hoped that Sakura would change her mind and go watch their rehearsals.

What he didn't see was the evil look, Ino Yamanaka, Sasuke's self proclaimed girlfriend was giving to Sakura, which only meant trouble for Sakura.

Sakura watched Sasuke as he left the class. Her heart was still beating fast and many questions arose in her, how could Sasuke make her feel that way? As if there was only them and no one else existed.

Every time she was around him that morning, that's how she felt. Apart from her heart beating uncontrollably, she also felt butterflies in her stomach. Oh no, she heard about these two symptoms from her girlfriends in America, was she in love?

No, it was impossible and irrational. No one could ever fall in love with someone they didn't know. She didn't know him, they had only met twice that morning, even though she felt as if she had known him for all of her life, and in those two encounters they had, he made her feel emotions she had never felt for anyone else before.

Could he possibly have effected her that much, in such a short period of time? Yes, he had. In the little time they had spent together that morning, Sasuke made her feel happy, something she hadn't felt since her brother died. Yes, maybe she had fallen in love with this complete stranger after all.

She couldn't go watch Eclipse's rehearsal. She moved to Japan to forget that she ever had a musical career and to focus on her studies, but what had she done? On her first day of school, she had already met and fallen in love with the most popular guy of the school who is nonetheless, the leader of the most popular band in Japan.

Maybe avoiding him wasn't a bad idea after all. What was she going to do? The first thing that came into her mind was not going to Eclipse's rehearsal, because if just being with him made her feel that way, what would hear him sing do to her?

Going to their rehearsal was definitely out of question, so she would avoid it, even though she wished to go wherever Sasuke went. Then, she saw Tenten and Hinata approaching her and Tenten told her,

"Did you here the latest news? Eclipse will be rehearsing all day today!"

"Yes I know, Sasuke told me."

"Oh yeah, we saw you two staring at each other and talking. Did I say you were staring at each other?"

Tenten gave Hinata a sheepish smile and then Sakura said,

"What?!"

"Is there something going on between you two?"

"No, not at all, we just met this morning!"

"Okay, if you say so, but for your information, the way you two looked at each other was so romantic, it was as if only you two existed in you own little world and that made Ino very angry."

"Who?"

"Ino Yamanaka, Sasuke's self proclaimed girlfriend. She's a pain in the neck, Sasuke's worst nightmare. She can be very vindictive, so watch out on how you behave yourself when you are near Sasuke when she's around, because trust me, you two looked as if you were madly in love with each other, but it's impossible, as you said, you just met this morning."

Was it so apparent that there was a deep connection between her and Sasuke? Whatever, Ino was another reason she should stay away from Sasuke, she didn't want any trouble on her first day of school, but would she be able to do that, since she was attracted to him like a magnet?

She put her math books in her satchel, even though she didn't use them at all during the lesson, she didn't even know what the lesson was about, algebra maybe but she wasn't sure, she was too occupied staring into Sasuke's eyes.

She was heading out of the class with Tenten and Hinata, when they found out that the rest of the lessons were cancelled. Then Tenten said,

"It's always like this when Eclipse make a full day rehearsal. Tsunade-sama thinks that the students would be too occupied trying to spy on them rather than following the lessons, that's why she cancels them."

"Than we're free to go home?"

"Yes, but Sakura don't go, stay with us. We do have the permission to go watch Eclipse's rehearsal."

"Yes, I know, Sasuke invited me too, but I can't, I still have a lot of things to unpack at home."

"Okay than, you know were to find us if you change your mind."

"Yes I know, in the theatre, but that won't happen. It was nice meeting you both, I feel so lucky that I have met two great people like you two on my first day of school."

"Oh, you have no idea of how flattered we are that we became your friends. So I guess that we'll see you tomorrow than?"

"Yes, see you tomorrow. Goodbye Tenten, goodbye Hinata."

Tenten and Hinata waved Sakura goodbye and then headed towards the theatre. Sakura called Joseph to come and pick her up. While waiting for Joseph, she had to stop herself a couple of times from running to Sasuke; she couldn't go to him for a lot of reasons.

Joseph came to pick her up and took her home. At home, she continued to unpack some things but then got fed up and sat on her bed, until she fell asleep hoping that she would dream about Sasuke, because if she could not have him in reality, she would have him in her dreams.

A/N: What do you think? I hope you liked it! If you can please review, as I said before, I would really appreciate it.