yumikinechan:

Her forehead

“Are we really doing this?” Asked eight year old Sasuke as he watched Iruka

sensei talk with a group of his classmates at the front of the class.

He was in the middle of assigning them with their partners. Among them being that orange haired kid who sometimes sat alone in the playground near the academy. His big blue eyes were full of excitement at the chance to get to work with someone.

Unlike his partner.

Sakura Haruno, a girl he got a little annoyed at because she was so jumpy all the time, sat petrified beside him. She’d been like that ever since their teacher put them together for the day’s project. It was about measuring height distances and he and Sakura was meant to measure each other and record their heights on their scrolls.

To him, however, that was looking near impossible. He sneaked a look over at her now, noticing how she fidgeted underneath the table and looked straight ahead.

He heard himself sigh exasperateldy when she didn’t answer his earlier question.

“Did you hear me?” Sasuke growled at her. She should really pay more attention to him.

The pink-haired girl finally turned to him then, her green eyes wide with panic.

“S-sorry, Sasuke-kun. I was just thinking about how we would measure each other.”

“With rulers obviously,” answered Sasuke with a slight frown, remembering the focus of today’s lesson was about the counting tools. However, Sasuke knew Sakura was one of the smartest students in his class and felt her comment a little strange.

“You should have known that.”

“I did!” Sakura said quickly, looking flustered. Then she averted her gaze. “It’s just…”

“Alright everyone!” Called out Iruka sensei.

Sasuke forgot about Sakura for a bit to listen to their teacher, seeing that the group before him had dispersed back to their respective places.

“Iruka sensei smiled. “The tallest partner goes first.”

That meant Sasuke was to stand. He grabbed the roll of measurement on their shared table and turned to Sakura.

“I’m going to start with your head.” Said Sasuke as he stood to hover over his classmate.

The pink-haired girl didn’t move, frozen like a statue.

Tch, what a weirdo, Sasuke thought in irratation as he wrapped the measurement around her head twice.

She squeezed her eyes shut tight as he worked, blushing furiously. He stopped reading the numbers on the measurement to glare down at her.

“Why are you being so weird!?” He blurted angrily.

She almost jumped out of her chair, and opened her eyes to look up at him. The green color looked stark with the tears overlapping them.

Sasuke was surprised. “Why are you-”

“You think it’s too wide, don’t you?”

“What?”

Sakura pointed at where his finger marked the measuring tape on her forehead.

“I know how much it is, it’s too big, isn’t it?”

The devastated look in her eyes made Sasuke scowl. “Who cares? So what if it’s big? Its not a big deal.”

He wasn’t trying too cheer her up really, but he must have said something right because her whole face lit up at his words.

It did something to his heart.

“Really!?” Asked Sakura with the first bright smile he’d seen on her.

Sasuke was frozen for two seconds just staring at her before he caught himself and nodded. He blushed in embarrassment.

“Uh, yeah,” he said. Then he mumbled in an effort to save face for his sudden behavior. Not necessarily to spite her, “duh…”

Sakura didn’t hear him anyway. “Ok!” She clapped happily. “Then let’s finish so we can measure you too, Sasuke-kun!”

Sasuke wanted to feel annoyance at this suddenly bubbily girl before him, but all he did was blush a second time.

He looked away from her. “Whatever…”