Prompt: First Love
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: SasuSaku
Rating: K
Summary: Sakura never wanted to be noticed. She would rather blend quietly into the background, but when a kind boy turns her awful day around, suddenly she doesn’t mind being noticed so much after all. (Academy era)A/N: Koi No Yukan is the Japanese term for the sense one can have upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love. It differs from “love at first sight” as it does not imply that the feeling of love exists, only the knowledge that a future love is inevitable.
This is my first foray back into writing fan fiction in five years and my first SasuSaku piece. Unbeta-ed. [ao3] [fanfic]
Sakura Haruno had always been aware of Sasuke Uchiha the same way she was aware of all the kids in her class. He was somewhere in her periphery while she tried to keep her head down and avoid being noticed any more than absolutely necessary. He was lumped into the group of people she never made eye contact with, somewhere on the spectrum between the bullies she avoided at all costs and Ino who made her feel safe. The day she truly became aware of him though, he was given a category all to himself.
It was a day Ino missed school. Sakura remembered, because she always dreaded those days. Ami and her friends always used it as an excuse to pick on her. She knew that she should fight back and say something, just like Ino, but every times tried, she froze. All she could do was stand there and let her hair cover her eyes so they couldn’t see her cry. Harsh words of, “You’ve got no one to hide behind now, do you Sa-ku-ra?” “I think her forehead’s getting bigger,” and “Why are you trying to look nicer, Forehead Girl? It’ll never work,” still rung in her head from the last time they’d caught her alone.
Koi No Yokan
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