MILTON HILL SCHOOL

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Summary: Sakura Haruno, Head of Leaf, academically strong and gifted in Hockey had a pleasant school life. That was until a certain raven haired boy turned up and everything all of a sudden seemed to become complicated, leaving Sakura to think twice before she uttered a word.

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters apart from , Kenji, Namaka. All others are copyright to their respective creators. No profits are made from publishing this story on FanFiction.

This story is going to be based on a typical school life in London. Hence their will be terms which certain readers may not understand. I have placed notes in such areas to aid readers.

Enjoy and please review at this crucial stage of the story.

M x

Chapter 1

Come on! This is ridiculous! The sound of a frustrated sigh and the tap of a forehead hitting a steering wheel were barely heard over the loud hustle and bustle of congested cars. Redmond Road was notorious for its morning hellish traffic as parents driving four-by-four range rovers insisted on dropping their incredibly blessed children right in front of one of the two school's small entrances.

Sakura lifted her head with droopy eyes at the sound of yet another honking noise and cursed these parents for their inappropriate driving manoeuvres which unsurprisingly clogged up the entire road. Redmond Road was a wide road, but with double parking and its convenient connection to the Turner Dual Carriage Way, it seemed to be as wide as Paris Hilton's hips.

I wish she'd put some weight on, Sakura said, trying to humour herself through, quite possibly, the most annoying part to her very typical day.

Although, Sakura couldn't really blame the entire situation on the lorry- pardon, 4x4 drivers. If she really wished, she could have just left her apartment just 5 minutes earlier, and she would have missed all this congestion, for a fact.

But, she never did leave earlier, and she never did voice her frustrations out loud.

As she lifted her cultch pedal and eased on to the accelerator Sakura inched her way forward along with the rest of the traffic in her Silver Mazda 3 Sport. As she reached her turning in the road she turned right onto the bumpy entrance of Milton Hill School's student car park.

Stopping at the black gates she lowered her window and stretched over to enter a 4 digit pin code which in turn opened the gates and allowed Sakura to drive through and park her car.

She securely stopped the car and removed her seat belt. Straightening her sued brown suit jacket she quickly glanced in her rear view mirror to make sure her concealer hadn't melted in the time period of driving to school.

Exiting the car she squinted into the sunlight. It was unusually hot for today, and she soon found herself wishing to remove her suit jacket and applauding herself for wearing a skirt.

As she shut her door and collected her shoulder bag from her boot she locked her car and proceeded to her house.

Milton Hill School was divided into sub groups called 'houses'. In total there were 3 different houses; Leaf, Sound and Mist. Sakura Haruno was proudly the Head of Leaf House. The principle of the housing system was not to divide the school but to strengthen the bonds between those who were in the same houses and to teach the meaning of teamwork.

As she neared her house and also entered a 6 digit code to enter, she nodded in greeting to fellow students and members of staff. She opened the door and didn't fail to make a note to bring in some workers to oil the hinges of the creaking door.

She stepped in and passed by all the different rooms of students in different years. (AN: in the UK the word 'Grade' is not used, but instead 'Year' I.e. Grade 13 Year 13)

The Lower years beamed happily as she passed by, many with clear respect for Haruno shinning through their relatively young and innocent eyes.

As she progressed through the hallways she reached her small office and placed her papers and bag on her desk. Shutting her door behind herself she sighed and opened her eyes. The sound of talking from her year next door room passed through.

Sakura's Office was like her safe haven. It wasn't too small, as it managed to hold all her study and extra curricular work as well.

It was decorated by Sakura herself over the most recent summer holiday were she was chosen to become the next Head of Leaf. She came in during August and created a scheme of colours and interior design she wished to create. After one and a half weeks, she completed her office's decoration. It as painted a pale yellow colour with patterns of white and black sprouting from certain corners of the walls, which she created using stencils. The majority of the ceiling remained white with a few horizontal stripes of yellow across it.

She smiled as she picked up the green folder slipped under her door and walked over to her window and raised her blinds to look over to the rest of the school. It was indeed a breath taking sight. Milton Hill School was renowned for its large grounds and excellent range of extra curricular activities offered.

Lifting her window she proceeded to sit down and look through her timetable for the day, and what duties she had to do.

Hmm…Looks like I have Lunch Duty from 12:35 till 1:00. Not too bad…ooh! Is that all? Great!

Smirking she shut her green duty folder which was updated every week. She slipped it into her bag so she could go and drop it off at reception and confirm she had no prior duties.

She removed her silver VIAO laptop from her case and plugged it into the school networking system to see if there were any updates on the School's Hockey Matches. Sakura Haruno was also on the Hockey Team and was expecting some sort of match listings for the up coming Inter-House Hockey competition. Mental note, I need to draw up a team for the house.

Talented in both sports and education, it was hard to see what was wrong with her life. Her future prospects for university were high and her natural ability for leadership seemed impossible to match.

She studied in three main subjects; Physics, Maths and Business Studies. However during her progression through Milton Hill she was begged by other staff members for her to study their own subjects. This unfortunately was not an option. With her extra curricular activities taking up a lot of time she would not have the capacity to do any more A-Levels! (AN: A Level is the in depth study of 3 or more subjects.)

As she looked through her mail, replying to the odd one, she drafted a list of things to do and proceed to leave her office and head over to her year's lounge room.

"Sakura!" Yelled Naruto as he waved and grinned.

Sakura was shocked in the least, "Naruto are you actually early?" She wasn't faking her surprise. The number times she has issued him a late detention was reaching Milton Hill records!

"Yep! Proud or what? Only thing is I'm so hungry now! And I've got triple English! I can't do it Sakura!"

Sakura's eye thinned, "Naruto you have always had triple English, you just never turned up on time for the first lesson…"

Naruto seemed to truthfully not listen and continued, "My life is so cruel!"

The sound of approximately 5 pillows hitting him square on the face could be head. As well as the muffled noises of a barely conscious Naruto.

She proceeded to sit next to him in their little circle of friends. On her other side Kenji joined her with a breath taking white pearly smile and a deep gaze from his chocolate coloured eyes.

Kenji was indeed very handsome. He had chestnut hair which seemed to stick out form the wildest of directions along with dark brown eyes with the odd stroke of haze within them. He was very good looking. That's for sure, he is well built, polite, smart…well built! Oh wait, I mentioned that…

And the best or worst part was that he seemed to have a crush on Sakura which began about 3 months ago. Ever since he saw her play with such determination in a hockey match, to say he was impressed was an understatement. Kenji himself was the captain of the Boy's hockey team and had his fair share of admirers. Both boys and girls.

However his affection was hardly unrequited. Sakura at times found her heart flutter at affectionate compliments he would say to her, or during the odd brush of hands, which seemed to be happening more and more often.

As he sat next to her he allowed his arm to outstretch behind her and brush past her shoulder as he did so, all the while engaging in a conversation over the newly appointed Prefects. (AN: Prefects are people who help with school duties. They are one step below Head's of houses)

Sakura shivered and looked to him briefly and smiled. She wasn't entirely sure how she felt about Kenji, but she knew she probably had a small crush on him as well. But actually dating him was a step she was actually too frightened to make. This Kenji noticed, and had decided to take things rather slowly until she was comfortable. After that he didn't really know what he would do, but he'd cross that bridge some other time.

Sooner than Sakura would have liked she headed to her Physics and Business lessons. Sakura and Kenji were in some lessons together. Although they both shared two common subjects, Business and Maths, she was only in the same class for business and of course, she sat with Kenji. Naruto's moaned disturbed her thoughts as he continued to let everyone know how 'unfair' his life was as he dragged himself to triple English.

And so the day progressed, with her typical lessons and occasional free periods were she could relax or choose to complete her work so she could relax when she went home.

Before she realised she was off to her Lunch Time Duty outside the main dining hall and it was approximately 12:35.

Her job was to make sure the lunch queue was orderly and that pupil's dress was smart. Of course the younger of the students wouldn't always happily comply to 'tuck your shirt in', 'roll down your skirt' or 'raise your trousers, you're not in the toilet' but nevertheless Sakura did what she could.

The queue had died down and her fellow Prefect helpers had come over for a little chat.

The sound of the glass doors opening from the main hallway was heard and Sakura turned with little interest to see who it was.

She immediately straightened herself to see the Headmaster with a young man. She walked over to the Headmaster to greet him as her friend Namaka took over her duty for a while.

She smiled and walked to the Headmaster, , and shook his hand firmly.

"Sir, good to see you. I hope you and the family are well." Sakura started, in simple formal greetings. She wasn't a teachers pet, but she was polite and respecting. Mr. Kilala had joined Miltion Hill about 3 years ago and had being doing an excellent job at being the head. She did respect him greatly and almost looked to him as the father figure she missed dearly.

Sakura's father had passed away when she was young, leaving her and her mother emotionally distressed. Her mother had been quick to pick the pieces of their life together and then enrolled Sakura into Milton High at around Year 9. She was quiet a start, still emotionally distressed, but thanks to her good friends Naruto, Tenten and Namaka it didn't take her long to learn how to be the bright and shinning girl she used to be.

Nearing Year 12 her mother and her discussed the idea of Sakura leading her own life. Well, Sakura talked and her mother disagreed but soon they both agreed she was no little girl anymore and she wanted to live her own life. She wasn't cutting her mother out, merely trying to get a taste of adulthood as soon as possible. She was also trying to give her mother the time she lost whilst putting the pieces of their lives together again. Her mother was currently travelling around Europe and living in Italy teaching as a college professor in a prestigious university. Sakura would get the odd letter or phone call and they would share quite emotional conversations. Sakura was happy, and grateful. Her life could have been so much worse, and yet it managed to stay on the straight course which seemed to only be going higher and higher.

"Ah Miss Haruno the family are well thank you. I trust you are still coping with the busy life of Head of Leaf! If you couldn't I doubt there would be a soul that could!" He laughed, and Sakura politely grinned and chuckled. He continued.

"Sakura, I'm afraid I will have to ask you of one more favour to do. Apologies for not sending you an email through the network, however the young man beside me underestimated the traffic on the Redmond and found himself 20 minutes late!"

Sakura grinned and turned to the dark raven haired man. "Don't worry about it; I think everyone does that everyday what with our record of late appearances!"

He merely made eye contact with Sakura and if she hadn't looked carefully, you would have missed the shrug he gave indifferently. Sakura however didn't fail to notice this, nor the impolite gesture. Geez, he is new here and he acts all superior! Talk about rude!

Sakura however also didn't fail to notice how handsome the young man was. She could easily see a fan club arising for this young fellow. She could also see a hater club arising from the jealously of other young men and the pessimistic of the women. At the moment, she was considering joining the haters…

Sakura chose to ignore his impolite gesture and turned to the Head. Before she could say anything he cut in. "…this favour I must ask of you Sakura is to show Sasuke Uchiha here around the school and welcome him to the Leaf as this is the house he has been assigned to."

O fantastic…this brooder will never fit into Leaf! Guess I'm going to have to help out there as well…

"Ah! Well Sasuke-sama it's a pleasure to meet a new Leaf, my name is Sakura Haruno and if you haven't gathered I am the Head of Leaf House." She paused for slight dramatic affect and turned to the Head. She bowed and stated, "Don't worry Head my duty is pretty much over and Namaka is taking over. I'll be sure to show Sasuke-sama around."

"Thank you Sakura, well I'm afraid I must leave. Sakura, one more thing, at the end of school the Heads are gathering to go over budgets for each house. I trust you are able to still attend the meeting?"

In truth Sakura had actually forgotten but merely nodded. "Of course Sir. Good Day"

"Good Day Sakura."

The Head turned and left. Sakura then faced Sasuke and began the tour.

"Shall we begin Sasuke-sama?"

He nodded and in silence they headed past the dining hall towards the exit. As Sakura passed she glance over to Namaka to make sure she was alright. However when she did so Namaka had somehow managed to get hold of a bold marker pen and a larger banner with the words, 'He is hot Sakura, GO FOR IT!"

Sakura immediately blushed and was about to lifted her hand to motion for Namaka to remove the banner when Sasuke noticed her discomfort and turned his head uninterestedly to see what was happening behind him. Thankfully Namaka had reaction skills which got her into the Hockey Team as well and threw the banner into the dinning hall. She waved at the Uchiha like a complete idiot and Sasuke turned without a single emotion written over his face.

The sound of loud clatter and broken china however didn't go a miss from the dining hall.

Sakura proceed to walk faster outside, glad that Sasuke matched her pace.

o – O – o – O - o – O – o

Well that is the first chapter over.

Its purpose was really to give you a sense of the environment and responsibilities Sakura has.

Sasuke has only just made a brief entrance, but as you have probably guessed, you will be seeing much more of him, and Kenji.

If you are wondering why I didn't sue more naruto characters it is because I don't want you all to have a set image in your minds. Namaka and Kenji are fictional and I hope you will begin to see the importance of not including Ino or Shikamaru.

(This is only a SasukexSakura fanfic!)

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I need to know if this fiction is worth continuing :) thank you.

Have a fantastic day!

M x