Thank you so much for the ones who review. Extra thanks for the ones who give their ideas. Btw, could anyone tell me what are Sasuke's mom and dad's name?

I'm still waiting for your ideas. Or you could support others' ideas. Oh, and in this fic, Hinata will call Neji "Neji-san" 'coz they're in the same age. Neji will still call her "Hinata-sama" though.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

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Chapter 7: When Things Are Getting Worse

Sakura stood in front of the school gate, staring in horror. A band of her fan boys gathered in front of her, in tears, led by Rock Lee.

"Sakura-san…" Lee said, sniffing, "sniffAre you happy sniff to be with sniff Uchiha sniff?"

"Please tell us, Sakura-chan! Why do you choose Uchiha over us all?"

"Yeah, what does Uchiha have that we don't?"

Before Sakura could response, another band of fan girls (Sasuke's) came and shouted something like, "of course money, wealth, handsome face, coolness, genius, and so on."

Sakura felt like she had been driven into craziness. She was surrounded by Sasuke's fan girls, who were insulting her and worshipping Sasuke, and her fan boys, who were insulting Sasuke and worshipping her. She wanted to make them shut up but with all off the noise, no one would hear her.

The tension got higher and higher. Sakura had enough. She tried to sneak up and leave them, but then she bumped into someone. She looked at him. Uchiha Sasuke.

"KYAAAA- umph," Sakura shouted but Sasuke quickly covered her mouth.

"Idiot," Sasuke hissed, "They'll got us!"

"U-uchiha-kun, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked, after Sasuke released her.

"I wanted to enter the school gate when I found that the entrance was blocked by them," Sasuke answered coldly, looking at another direction to hide a little shade of pink at his face, after realizing that he and Sakura had been too close, unconsciously. Then a few seconds later he realized what he had done. He blinked a while.

'Wait, did I just blushed?'

"So how could you -?"

"I jumped over the wall," Sasuke quickly answered before Sakura could finish her question. Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Alright Mr. Genius, now could you help me get out of here?" Now it was Sasuke's turn to roll his eyes. He noticed soon that it wasn't the right time to argue so he nodded.

Sasuke pulled Sakura until they got out of the crowd. But what's waiting them were out of question. More fan boys/girls, the one who didn't believe Lee, could be sighted quitting the school. It seemed that they heard the argument and decided to help. They all stopped at the view. Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura were holding hands. Well, actually Sasuke grabbed Sakura's wrist to help her get out of the crowd, but who would believe them was another story.

"Shit," Sasuke muttered under his breath.

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"Sasuke-kun and Sakura-chan are late…" Ino mumbled.

"Yeah, it's not like them to be late anyway," Tenten added.

"Maybe they are in trouble. Or they aren't feeling well," Hinata joined.

"Oh, that's too bad. We have PE today," Tenten said.

"Tenten-chan, only you and the boys love PE."

Suddenly, the door opened. An upset Neji entered the classroom.

"Yo, Neji!" Naruto greeted but he received no response. But it was the Hyuuga Ice Block; Naruto would tremble in fear if Neji replied in the same manner as him. Naruto just added, "Looking forward to beat you in PE!"

Neji stopped. "I pass," he said, taking a seat. Naruto's eyebrow knit. Did Neji just say that he wasn't looking forward for PE?

"Hey, it's rare to see you don't show any interest in PE," Tenten greeted him. Neji looked at her by the corner of his eyes, "you will feel the same. After knowing who our teacher is."

"Huh?" Tenten looked at him, confused, "How do you know who our teacher is after all?"

"Lee told me."

Tenten thought for a while, "if it's Lee, then…" Suddenly she looked like as if she had been struck by lightning, "don't tell me it's him!"

Neji nodded.

"Oh no!" Tenten gasped.

"W-what is it, Tenten-chan?" Ino was surprised at Tenten sudden change of attitude.

"NO, I don't want to talk about it right now. Oh my Kamisama, why don't you let me have a nice memorable school life?" Everyone sweat dropped at the freaking Tenten.

Hinata approached Neji, "Umm, Neji-san, who is this teacher?"

Neji shook his head; "it would be better if you don't know, Hinata-sama."

"Umm, but…"

"Ino-san!" Suddenly a member of Sasuke's fans club burst in, "emergency!"

"Our members had a fight with Haruno's fans club!" Another one burst in.

"And… and…" Another one came, looking shocked.

"When we went out to help them…"

"We… uh…"

"What is it? Split it out!" Naruto who had been interested, asked curiously.

"Stop that, Naruto! You're scaring them!" Ino scolded him and then turned to them, asking sweetly, "so, what is it?"

The three looked at each other, nodding. They took a deep breath before saying, "WE SAW HARUNO AND SASUKE-KUN HOLDING HANDS."

Long silence.

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Some minutes later, Sasuke and Sakura were huffing heavily in front of the class.

"Ugh, managed to get here safely."

"We aren't safe yet. The others probably have heard of 'that'"

Sakura's face reddened as Sasuke mentioned the incident when he held her hands. She quickly dismissed the thought and asked, "How could you be so sure?"

"Your friend, that Ino, is the president of my so-called fans club. She must have got the word from other annoying bitches."

"WHA- you! I've told you before not to insult my friends!"

"And I've told you before not to get in my way," Sasuke said in a sly tone and went past Sakura to enter the classroom, leaving her trembling.

When Sasuke entered the classroom, he felt the atmosphere was a bit different, although his friends and Ino greeted him as usual. He found them a bit hesitated and always avoiding his stare.

Just after he reached his seat, Neji approached him. Sasuke reflexively sent his what-do-you-want-leave-me-alone glare; still upset of Neji saying he was interested in Sakura. The other reason was because he had the feelings Neji would talk about the incident today that he had been wanted to delete from his mind.

"So, I think he won, huh?" Neji smirked at the sight of his weary rival.

Sasuke looked at him from the corner of his eyes, "go away, Hyuuga." From his tone, it's obvious that he felt annoyed. Neji smirked even more. The only moment he called Neji by his surname was when he was upset with him or he wanted to have a super important and serious and not to mention private conversation. And judging from the situation, it was the first option.

Neji sat at Sakura's seat. Sakura hadn't entered the class. Well, actually, her friends found her outside and began to interrogate her, but we'll look at the interrogation later.

"Uchiha, I really meant it." And before I forgot, the surname condition applies to Neji as well. It was the second option though. "Seems 'cause until then, no girl has ever stood up against you this much."

"Doesn't mean I'll fall for her," Sasuke's short reply came in.

"But there is a possibility. After all, when you fall in love, it means that you're interested in that person. I've read several quotes about that."

'God, this guy reads too much psychology,' Sasuke's mind sighed.

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Sakura was sitting on a bench. Beside her were Hinata, Tenten, and Ino.

"So, then they saw you guys holding hands." Sakura nodded.

"Really Sakura, if we hadn't known you for long, that may be the most pathetic excuse," Tenten said, staring at the ceiling.

"Umm, Tenten-chan, that's not nice."

"It's okay, Hinata-chan. Tenten-chan always talks like that," Sakura smiled.

"So, I think case closed, huh?" Tenten looked at Ino, "Ino-chan, could you sort things out?"

Ino, who looked like after she had been zoning out, answered, "uhm, okay." She had been thinking about this lately. Sakura seemed to have affection towards Sasuke, though she always denied it. Ino felt bad. On one hand, she didn't want to lose Sasuke. On the other hand, she wanted to believe her best friend. Things seemed to get worse when Sasuke seemed to also have affection towards Sakura.

'Your friend or your crush. You have to choose on, Ino…'

The sound of the bell got Ino back from her dreamland. She walked to the class with a lot of things in her mind. And just like the day before, Kakashi was late again. So, the girls regrouped again and chatted.

"Nee, Ino-chan."

"Yes, what is it, Hinata-chan?"

"You don't look so well. Are you alright?" Ino smiled at Hinata's concerned face and nodded. Then she noticed something. Tenten was looking at the boys, staring blankly. She looked at the group, trying to guess who she had been staring at. However, since there are too many of them, she couldn't found out which.

So she decided to ask Tenten. After all they were her friends, why should she hide it from her. Ino giggled at herself, silently easing her mind…

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Tbc

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