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Bloody Snow
AiEiNoTenshi
Chapter 6: New Sensei
She suddenly stopped humming as she came back to her full senses. She faced him once again and bowed apologetically.
"Sorry. I'm not really pertaining to you. It's not you I'm talking about. It's another boy I saw one evening."
"A boy you saw one evening here?"
She nodded.
"And what are you doing here at such time?"
She hang her head lower, afraid to let him see the uneasiness through her eyes.
"I-I was…N-Nothing."
"Nothing? Really? That's kinda' weird."
Weird…
…I think that's what…
…I am.
"And where did you learn the tune you were humming a while ago?"
"I heard it from someone."
"Who?"
"Someone I don't know."
"From the boy you saw one evening?" 'So she saw me.'
"Y-yes."
"Ah." He was about to turn his back on her when she suddenly spoke.
"Who are you?"
"Huh?"
"W-What is your name?"
"Oh, yeah. Sorry."
Sorry….
…It seems …
…Familiar.
"I got your name before and I wasn't able to give you my name in return. How rude of me. I'm Uchiha Sasuke. I can't believe you do not know me. I thought every girl in the world knows me."
"E-Every girl in the world?"
"Yeah. I am quite popular especially to girls. Isn't it obvious why?" He inched his face closer to hers to emphasize his features. Actually, he expected her to blush from the sudden closeness but heck, her eyes remained blankly staring at him.
She moved her head to each side indicating an obvious 'no'.
He made a small huff and said, "You really are weird."
Then finally, he turned his back on her and walked out of the building. He walked out with an expression that was never seen upon his face before. It was like half a smile, half a smirk. He is really adorable today more than ever and it's all because of her.
"Uchiha Sasuke."
A name I now know…
… and will never…
…forget.
She then faced the window yet again seeing his figure walk out from the gates of their school. 'Why does he seem…familiar?
"Hurray! For a brand new day!" A blonde boy said aloud or more like shouted as he entered his classroom with a very big smile on his face. He walked towards his seat and immediately faced his seatmate and friend to greet him.
"Good morning Sasuke-teme!" He practically shouted in the boy's face.
A certain pink-haired girl was gotten out of her train of thoughts as she heard a familiar name. 'Teme?' Unfortunately for her and obviously, fortunately for him she haven't heard it fully. 'Sss-what teme?' She already knows that teme is her classmate but still she does not have an idea who among them is that teme.
"Shut up now dobe. I told you not to call me that way so don't." He gave the loudmouth blonde a glare that will surely hunt him for a few days and the blonde knows he should be careful now because his friend sure is not in a good mood.
"Hey, hey, chill Sasuke. Why are you so angry all of a sudden."
"You're irritating me dobe." So this time he didn't rant about his friend calling him a dobe.
"You're starting to spoil my day. I'm supposed to be in a good mood, you know?"
"You always are."
"That's not true!"
"Whatever."
"Oh, I should get away from you before I get your freakin' bad attitude." And with those words said, he went bouncing to a group of chit chattering students.
She started to look around and observe her surroundings. She noticed her classmates chattering with one another, some are bickering which she thinks will lead into a fight soon and some are just sitting quietly doing nothing and one of those is the boy who spoke to her a few days ago. 'Sasuke.'
"Good morning class." A tall man with gelled up, white, long hairs entered the classroom with a sly smile upon his face. He doesn't look like a nice guy with quite a big scar adorning his left eye. Everyone have a surprised expression upon their faces since they've never seen this man before except for two students I'm certain you know who.
Sakura never really cared about anybody else so she just kept her blank expression upon her pale face while Sasuke on the other hand had his eyes bulged almost out of its respected place but not for long since he doesn't want anybody to see him like that for he will surely be the talk of the whole school after. But still, how could he not be shocked? His…the person he treated as his father, the one he could say almost raised him up appeared in his school, in his classroom specifically. Why? How the heck will he know I mean he wouldn't be shocked a bit if he knows about this beforehand would he?
"Who is he?" Most of the students gossiped and so he informed them what they have to know.
"Uhm." He coughed to get the students' attention. "Good morning again. I know you're all wondering who I am and what am I doing here, right?" He received nods. "I'm Hatake Kakashi, you're new Science teacher."
Sakura's eyes widened beneath her thick bangs as she heard the name of the man. 'Kakashi?'
"It's late already. Kakashi might be looking for me."
"Kakashi might be looking for me."
"Kakashi…"
The name rang through her ears as she remembered the words of the boy she saw one evening. The one she is positive is the one writing to him with a name 'teme.'
"What? Why? Where's Miss Anko?" A red haired student asked quite bitterly.
"Good question. Actually I'm just about to tell you the reason for that so no questions please until I'm finished with my introduction." He said rather strictly that many of the students got a bad impression of him.
"Miss Anko is now on a maternal leave." Gasps. Loud gasps. Gossips began to be loud and unbearable for the man in front of the crowd. "Uhm." He coughed aloud and everyone was quiet again.
"You heard right. She is on a maternal leave which means that she's pregnant and I am here to replace her until she gave birth and regained her strength to teach you again. Now, questions?" Nobody dared to speak a word. "Good."
"What is happening here?" Sasuke asked the man in front of him; the man he dragged from their classroom to this seemingly empty corner as soon as the bell rang for break; the man who stood in front of their classroom to introduce himself early today and was able to scare and anger most of his classmates; the man which is their new sensei.
"I'm your sensei now Sasuke so you better be polite." He said rather in a soft, dearly voice. His face now is very different from when he was inside the classroom. He looks so stern before that you wouldn't even dare ask him for direction even if you're lost in the worst place you could be lost but now he looks so…kind and soft and dare to day it, fatherly.
"I'm not talking to you as a student Kakashi." Sasuke snapped at him with a rather annoyed voice.
He put on a small smile upon his now gentle face and looked softly into Sasuke's eyes as if to calm his rising temper and it sure is effective. Sasuke's face turned to blank again from the annoyed one.
"Sasuke-kun, you've grown up." He said as he ruffled his hair a little as if to disarray it more than it already was.
"Kakashi, I'm serious here. What happened to your job? Have you been fired? Why did you suddenly became a-" He spoke rapidly with an infuriated voice.
"I have not been fired. I resigned. You know I can never be fired. The management will never dare fire me because I'm the best compared to those other chemists in the lab."
"But why? Why did you resign? I thought you like your job?"
"I never liked my job, I love it. I love every single part of my job but I just had to quit it."
"Why?"
"Because I have an important responsibility, Sasuke."
"I never asked you to look after me in school. I told you I'll be fine by myself here."
"It's not about you Sasuke."
"Not about me? Then what is it all about?"
"It's about Anko."
"What's about Miss Anko? You said she's pregnant."
"Yes…and I'm the father."
Sasuke's eyes couldn't have widened more and his mouth couldn't have been drier. He was dead silent. He couldn't believe his ears. He gulped hard before he could finally talk.
"You never told me anything about her."
"I never had the chance to tell you about her. I thought you're quite busy and I was just about to tell you but-I'm sorry. Well, you see. We've been dating for about a few months now and I just thought she's the most wonderful woman I ever knew in this world and…I love her Sasuke."
I love her. I love her. I love her. I love her. I love her…
Those words echoed in his ears non-stop until he finally recovered from the shock and speak yet again.
"So what's you're plan now?"
"I'm moving out."
"Why the heck would you do that?"
"I think you wouldn't be fine with us at your house-"
"Our home." He corrected.
"I don't think you'll like us being there especially when the baby comes out."
"I'll be fine with it."
"No, I don't really think-"
"Lame excuse Kakashi. Tell me your reason straight."
"I need to be with my family alone Sasuke, please understand."
Something deep inside of him stung so hard that he winced in pain.
"Have you never considered me…a family?" He said ever so dryly, so painfully.
"Sasuke, I've taken care of you since you were a little boy and I treated you as if you are my own child but still, this is different. The child inside Anko is my real son I mean my blood runs through his veins."
"Are you sure it's yours?" Kakashi slapped his face right after he finished his question but his face remained blank as if he wasn't hurt at all.
"I never want to hear that from you again. You know it's a very stupid question to ask. She is a highly respectable woman and you're supposed to know that."
Sasuke didn't reply though. He didn't speak another word for the rest of the day despite Naruto bugging him with concerned questions like "What's the matter?" "What happened to you?" "Do you have any problem?" the whole day. He returned home with dull, sad eyes. He entered his decent home and wasn't shock to find himself alone. There was not a single cheerful greeting such as "Welcome home Sasuke-kun!" "Oh, you're home at last! How's school today?" He went upstairs and entered Kakashi's room or rather former room since it is now empty of his belongings except for a small picture frame on top of a side table which Sasuke held in his hands now. It is a picture of the two of them. A scowling little Sasuke with quite chubby cheeks and a grinning Kakashi with a funny red headband. Then both held up a hand with a peace sign. He took the picture out of the room and put it inside one of his room's built-in closet. He stared blankly at nothing in particular and his hand seemed to be moving on its own as it started to write something on a paper.
_Bloody Snow,
I bet now I could have the worst life story since the last person I have in this world just left me. He now has a family of his own and so he left me alone. Isn't it quite rude of him? After treating me so good and made himself close to me he'll just leave me like that? What did I do wrong for him to leave me? I told him they could live with me but he refused and said he have to be with his family alone and it hurts so much, too much because all along I thought I was the one he would call a family but I was wrong. It was very wrong and stupid of me to think someone will ever treat me as a family and now I'm totally alone. I want to cry but I think I forgot how to or maybe I never knew how to cry. They said crying can somehow make you feel better and I want to feel better so I want to cry. Could you…teach me how?
-teme-
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