By the end of the lunch break, Sakura knew more then she could possible ever want to know about her school and the people who attended it. She sighed as she thought about this; some of it was kind of gross and she wished Ino hadn't told her. Temari tried to censor Ino a bit, but Ino would have none of that and only got louder trying to dish as much gossip as possible. Fortunately for Sakura, Temari was finally able to take over the conversation, and as it so happens she had an eye for guys. After talking to Sakura for only half an hour about guys she was able to pin down what kind of guy Sakura was in to and could point out a couple of high quality matches. It was like going clothes shopping with Stacy London, but instead of clothes it was men. "Hey Temari, if you know so much about guys, does that mean you have a boyfriend?' Sakura jested. "Hu? I don't really know anything about guys I just have a keen eye for what makes a person tick." Temari said lightly, but then she sighed inwardly. What a waste of a talent… Ino nudged Temari out of her thoughts. "Ohhh, hey Temari," Ino bantered, "isn't that Shikamaru?" Ino winked and then laughed to herself. Temari blushed as she saw the boy, named Shikamaru, walk by. He was a little bit taller than Temari and he wore his dark brown hair in a ponytail. He wore a military style vest over a gray tee shirt and black pants. "You should go over and talk to him," Ino nudged Temari again. "Err... OK!" Temari turned and headed in the direction Shikumaru went. "Hey Shikamaru," the golden blond caught up with the taller boy and causal started a conversation with him. "Ok well, it's almost time for fourth so we should head back to our lockers to get our books." Ino glanced at her cell phone. "What about Temari?" Sakura looked over shoulder passively. "Eh? She's fine, now we should probably get going," Ino pulled Sakura by the elbow down the hall. At Sakura's locker (after trying to unlock it 4 times), Sakura managed to find her schedule at the bottom of her slowly enlarging pile of books. Civics ... "Great," Sakura enthused sarcastically. She grabbed an empty binder and her pencil case and headed up to the 2 floor for her last class. There was still a lot of commotion coming from everyone, especially in the staircases. Sakura almost lost her balance as her foot slipped off the step, but somebody caught her from behind and pushed back upright on the step. The noise of the crowed was even louder than before and everyone was pushing by and passing where she stood. Sakura then heard the voice of the guy behind her who had caught her, "Hey, come on Paris Hilton, there are people who want to get to class." Sakura snapped her head around to see Sasuke, who was following right behind her up the staircase; he was staring at her with his sarcastic smile and even colder eyes. She griped the edge of her books tighter as the crowded masses got even thicker. Sakura hadn't realized how long she had stood there after almost falling, but it was just long enough that people where starting to get annoyed and started shoving past, causing no personal space for anyone. Sakura was swept up the rest of the stairway in no time at all. Sasuke had said something else to her as they reached the top step, but she couldn't hear him. By the time Sakura had realized he had said something, he was pretending not to notice her, as the masses started going down the hall. The noise and the crowd slowly thinned out as it dispersed in to the classrooms and the other hallways. Sakura was poking along glancing at the numbers on the doors looking for hers, when all of the sudden she noticed someone only a foot behind her. "Quite following me," Sakura said forcefully to Sasuke. "Hum? Don't flatter yourself there girl. I wasn't fallowing you; my class is in this direction." He said coolly and then smirked again. "Then why don't you just go by, it's going to take me a couple minutes to find my class," Sakura replied shortly. "Why? I'm in no rush." Sakura could only clench her teeth and think to herself how impossibly annoying her new classmate was begging to be. She finally reached the door of her civics class with 1 minute to spare. She stood in the door way looking around for any familiar faces. "Are you going to go in?" The boy's voice came from behind her again. "What? Are you in this class, too?" Sakura spun around and looked up at Sasuke. "You're annoying," he said as he pushed past her into the class room. There were a couple seats in the middle of the room that were free, so Sakura took one closer to the black board. Sasuke took one of the reaming seats beside her in the next aisle. Sasuke and Sakura glanced up at each other and they both scowled. Why did he have to pick the seat next to me, of all places, Sakura groaned. The teacher got up to the front and clamed the class down. He was an odd looking teacher, because he had an eye patch over one eye and his hair was gray and all spiked up tall. He told them his name was Kakashi-sensei. Sakura thought about how all the teacher's at this school looked so odd and how the bio behind some of these teacher's where even stranger. Sakura wouldn't have been surprised if she found out her Civics teacher had been an assassin, if her principle had been an army general or if her bio teacher had been… Well she didn't want to think about the many possibilities Tsunade-sensei might have been. Just like every other class on the first day of school, Kakashi-sensei droned on about what projects they were going to do this year and what was expected of the students. Sakura leaned her head on her hand and started tapping her pencil gently on her binder. She made a couple of notes of impotent project dates in her agenda, but mostly she was spacing off again. Sasuke looked over at her, they made eye contact. Neither of them would bow out and break eye contact with the other. His eyes were so cold like ice, it made Sakura feel like she was drowning in the ocean. Finally Sasuke rolled his eyes and looked back down to his paper and continued to doodle. Sakura puffed a sigh of frustration and went back to paying attention to the teacher. "That's it for today, class. You're dismissed." Kakashi looked relived, plopped down in his chair behind the large desk at the front, and started reading a questionable looking book. Sakura looked around and then up at the clock. Done already? She happened to glance up at Sasuke as she was taking off her reading glasses. He was standing up behind his desk gathering his books. She saw him staring at her from the corner of his eye; he quickly turned and looked over to his friends who were now crowding around chattering about this and that. Her ears perked up when she heard the blond haired boy ask Sasuke about "The girl with the pink hair". "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me," Sasuke said plainly. Sakura felt her cheeks grow hot. She quietly gathered up the rest of her books and slipped out silently, with the rest of the class. She felt her speed pick up as she headed towards her locker. Why do I care what that jerk thinks? But she was only answered by a stream that came from the corners of her eyes. That jerk!