School

"C'mon Sakura!" Sasuke called. "We're going to be late!"

"I'm coming!" Sakura grabbed her red ribbon and tied it into her hair. She rushed out out of the house and started running to school with Sasuke.

It was a hard couple of days for Sasuke but gradually he became less gloomy and a little more energetic.

As they were running Sakura looked at one of the clocks they passed by. "8:55. Sasuke we've got five minutes left!"

"Run faster!" Sasuke sped up ahead of Sakura. As they turned at a corner, they soon came into view of the school, where kids were heading inside. When all of those kids were in a man with white hair took hold of the handles and started to close the doors

"Mizuki sensei!" Sasuke and Sakura called in unison. " Wait for us!"

Mizuki looked at them and dodged as Sasuke came in first followed by Sakura who crashed into his back and made them both topple over.

Their teacher crouched down and said " And with only two minutes to spare." He smiled at their groans of annoyance as he helped them up and took them to their class.

" Iruka, you can mark Sakura and Sasuke present if you are already doing attendance." said Mizuki.

"Oh it's all right," the man Iruka said, " I was in fact, I was just starting attendance. But I will mark them present anyway," he went through his list and checked the two off. " There you go. Now both of you take your seats please." The two took sat down in their far apart seats and waited as Iruka continued on with his long list of students.

When he was done, he did the announcements for the class and gave them a new seating order. He placed Sasuke and Sakura next to each other near the door. Sakura got many death glares thrown at her by other girls.

I don't like the look on their faces, Sakura thought. " Don't worry about them," Sasuke whispered in her ear. " They can't hurt you if I'm here. And try not to look at them."

"'kay." she said. Sakura took hold of her pencil and started to take notes on their current lesson. After a while the class heard a bang on their window. When the looked up, there was a mud ball splattered right on there.

"I better go check it out," Iruka mumbled. "Class I want you to finish the worksheet the worksheet I handed out to you while I look at the commotion. And no getting out of their seats to talk with anybody." he left the room.

While Iruka was out, and the class working on their classwork, Sasuke broke his pencil tip. As he got up, many girls began to devise a plan. When he was at the sharpener, a group of girls came up to Sakura. "Well hello Sakura," one of them said slyly.

" Oh. Hello," Sakura said quietly. Why are they lingering over me like that? Sakura thought. "Is there something I can do for you?"

"Well since you ask, here's something you can do for me," the girl grabbed Sakura's collar and started to choke her. Sakura struggled to loosen the hold on her but it was no use. She could hear the other kids chanting " Fight! Fight! Fight!"

"What you can do for me is to stay away from my Sas-"

"Is there a problem here?"

The girls all spun around to see their sensei Mizuki staring down at them.

The girl holding Sakura let her go and started to think up and excuse for her actions. "There's no problem sensei. I-I was just asking for Sakura's help that's all."

"Are you sure?" Sasuke spoke. " Because it looked to me like you wanted to strangle her."

"No no no no no no!" she stuttered. "I was just um...um..."

"Going back to your seats," Iruka interrupted. "I thought I told you guys no getting out of your seats to talk with your friends. Next time I want you to follow those instructions. Now go back to your seats."

"Right," the girl and her group left Sakura and sat in their seats.

" Thank you sensei," Sakura said, rubbing neck.

" It's okay. I was lucky enough for Mizuki to stop the fight." Iruka thanked. "By the way, was she really asking for help?"

"No," Sakura replied quietly.

"Well at least I'm back. Now you and the rest of the class can get back to work." Mizuki shouted the last part. All the students stopped looking at them and started scribbling the answers on their paper.

Sasuke and Sakura nodded seeing that the message was also directed at them and started to work. Iruka went back out and brought Naruto in after a small talk. He sat him down at the front where he pouted all through class.

After the morning half of their lessons, they had lunch break. Since the day was sunny and warm the class was aloud to eat outside.

"We can sit here," Sakura pointed to a picnic table by one of the trees. She went over to the table and set her lunch box down. Sasuke followed and took out his lunch and his homework.

"Why did you bring homework?" Sakura asked.

"Well I wasn't planning on doing it until later but their was one problem that has me really confused."

Really? Which one?"

"This," Sasuke handed Sakura the paper and pointed out the problem.

"'When faced with an opponent how can you make the surroundings to your advantage?'" she set the paper down and tapped her chin. "' How to make the surroundings become your advantage'"

" What I think they mean is fighting with what is out there. I think," Sasuke said

" Yeah I think so to. So probably what they are asking for is one example. Maybe using the wood as a weapon is one example."

"Maybe," then Sasuke wrote the answer down and ate his lunch.

" I"m gonna get a drink of water," said Sakura. She got off of her seat and headed for the nearest drinking fountain. As she was getting a drink of water the girls from earlier came up behind.

"Forehead-freak!" one of them called.

Sakura looked up at the girls in fright. She back away from them but was stopped when she was stopped by one of them. " Where are you going Sakura? We just wanted to sat hi." the one behind said.

" Yeah and also give you a message from us," already now they were all forming a circle around her.

"What are you going to do to me?" she was pushed to the ground by the girl from earlier

" Just tell you something that's all." Then she cracked her knuckles and raised her fist. Sakura closed her eyes and waited for the impact of the fist. Instead she felt a kick to her side. Then the punch from the girl. That girl removed her ribbon and tied it to Sakura's eyes. Sakura imagined the girl raising her leg as she was about to kick her in the face.

"Do you have a problem with my friend?" A surge of relief rushed through her as she recognized the voice of Sasuke. Sakura took the ribbon off of her eyes. The girl was facing the other direction and rubbing the back of her neck nervously.

"Your friend? No! I would never hurt any of your friends!"

Sasuke walked towards them. He looked at the girl in anger. "Liar. Get out of here."The group took off. A little scared and confused after they heard Sasuke used the word friend as a title for Sakura.

Sasuke helped Sakura up on her feet and picked up her ribbon.

"Thanks Sasuke," she retied the ribbon so that it accented her face as always.

" People really need to stop bugging you." said Sasuke.

"It has happened before," she replied. Then the bell rang signaling the end of lunch.

"Come on. Let's go back," Sasuke took hold of Sakura's hand and they both went back to school.

Watching them both was a women hidden in the shadows. She said to herself "Sakura," and left her hiding place as she watched Sakura leave with Sasuke.

You are probably wondering who that woman is. Well your going to have to wait until the next chapter ( is i can think it up). And the girl. Don't know her name and don't care.

My writing style...sounds like it has gone back to being not as descriptive as in my other story. But you tell me what you think (please!).