Melting the Human Ice Cube (SasuSaku)

Chapter 4

Sakura sat in her Calculus class, drumming her fingers on the desk. It was the 9th day of school, Thursday and the class was waiting for their teacher, again. The whole last week and the previous 3 days Kakashi was late to class. No teachers had given any big homework assignments yet, but Sakura and all of her friends were still so busy from all the work of school and clubs.

Hinata and Temari were talking about something, and Sakura was listening, but she wasn't really paying attention.

It had been 15 minutes since class had started and Kakashi was late yet again. Sakura turned to Sasuke who was behind her and said, "Do you know why Kakashi is late every day? He makes up an excuse, but he is obviously lying."

"He has been like that forever. I had him for homeroom last year and he never showed up," Sasuke answered.

Sakura and Sasuke had gotten closer over the days. Of course he wasn't talking freely with her, but she received more than a one-word answer or a grunt most of the time.

Sakura sighed, turned around and slumped in her seat. Five minutes later, Kakashi finally came in.

"SENSEI!" A chorus of shouts came.

Kakashi looked up from his book and laughed nervously. "Um...I saw a black cat cross my path so I had to go ALL the way around town."

There was shouts of "liar," "yeah, right" and other things. Kakashi just handed them all a sheet of paper with hard calculus problems on it and said, "Do this worksheet today and if you don't finish it, do it for homework. This is your first homework grade of the school year."

Groans were heard and some boy said, "We only have like 20 minutes left! How are we supposed to finish 30 problems in that much time?!"

Kakashi glared at him. "Do you want me to give you more?"

The boy gulped and shook his head. When everyone started working, Kakashi went back to his book.

About 15 minutes later, Sakura and Sasuke finished at around the same time and stood up to hand their papers in. Since they both stood up at the same time, they looked at each other in surprise. Sakura had been among the smartest at her previous school and Sasuke was the top scorer on all his exams, along with Shikamaru.

Sasuke just smirked and Sakura smiled in response. They both went to Kakashi's desk and put their papers on it. Karin, who turned out to be in this class too, stuck out her foot when Sakura was about to return to her desk and Sakura being oblivious and clumsy as she is, tripped. She was about to fall when she grabbed instinctively on Sasuke's shirt, who was in front of her.

Sasuke stopped and then turned around, making sure she was stable.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

Sakura nodded in response, getting her balance again.

Sasuke then left to go to his seat. Karin growled at Sakura since she had just made contact with her precious Sasuke-kun.

Sakura headed back to her seat.

Karin had non-stop annoyed Sakura since Monday. She had put bugs in Sakura's locker, poured juice on Sakura during lunch, tripped her numerous times, spread lies and dirty rumors about her and much more.

It had only been 9 days! Sakura knew that the rest of the year was going to be torture. But, surprisingly, Sasuke glared at Karin most of the time and that was enough to scare her off for a while.

Sakura had developed fanboys over the course of days as well, which Sasuke always saved her from, by pulling her away and giving the boys death glares. Sakura could always beat them up, but Sasuke never let her have the chance.