SasuSaku Month 2018 – Day 5: Height Difference Rating: T Context: A little non-canon compliant. A/N: This is a continuation ofDay 4. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it!
“Dr. Haruno, they need you in rooms 3 and 8,” a nurse called out to her as she rushed by.
She waved her hand in acknowledgment and made a slight detour to her office to drop off the piles of paperwork and folders in her arm. The hospital had been unusually busy all morning and with two nurses on vacation until tomorrow, she had been forced to pick up double shifts to help balance out everyone else’s workload. Tsunade had warned her not to pick up so many extra shifts, but she felt a sense of responsibility and ended up doing it anyway. She almost expected her mentor to come swooping down from her endless meetings with the medical ambassadors from the Allied Shinobi Forces and kick her out of the hospital. Literally.
Just as she was about to open the door to her office, she heard someone call her impatiently.
“Hey, Forehead!”
She turned and saw Ino practically running to her, a similar stack of papers in her own arms. The blonde looked worn out despite the warm smile she had on her face. Sakura made herself a mental note to treat her friend to a day at the hot springs as a thank you for all the work she had been doing alongside her and mostly without complaint.
“Hi, Ino-pig,” she greeted her and unlocked her office. Her arms were getting tired.
“You’re going to totally hate me, but Sasuke’s here and he needs a physical with a set of lab work that needs to be done by this afternoon,” replied Ino smiling apologetically. “Kakashi could care less when it’s done, but Tsunade insists it be done as soon as possible.”
Sakura let out a long sigh and dropped off her files on her already untidy desk. Despite the fact that Lady Tsunade was no longer Hokage, she still liked to boss people around.
“I’m swamped with rounds for the next couple of hours,” she frowned. “Why don’t one of the interns take care of it?”
She would actually be more than happy to do it. She hadn’t gotten a chance to see any of her teammates since they trained last week and it was killing her. Especially since Naruto convinced Sasuke that he should room with him for a while, so she definitely didn’t get to see him as often. She found herself with a strange fluttering in her chest whenever she had to stay away from Sasuke for too long. Not that she would ever admit it out loud. The very thought of it made her feel embarrassed at the barrage of emotions Sasuke invoked within her.
“See, everyone is still wary of Sasuke and they refuse to do it,” Ino said and plopped down on her couch. “I’d do it, but I have rounds in the kid’s wards today.”
Sakura groaned and banged her head on her desk. “Be a medic, they said.You’ll save life’s, they said.”
“Excuse me, Miss Haruno.” There was a small knock on her open door. She looked up at found one of the nurses looking hesitant and anxious.
“What is it, Aya?”
“Sasuke Uchiha is in the waiting room and wants to know if he can leave,” Aya answered.
“He wishes,” she mumbled before standing up straight and turned to Ino. “Can you check in on rooms 3 and 8 before you start your rounds?” She then turned to Aya, “Please send him to my office and I’ll take care of him, thank you.”
Aya nodded, looking relieved and left quickly.
“You so owe me for this,” Ino sighed and stood up too. However, she let out a wide grin. “There better be details later.”
“Oh Kami, out,” she ordered. She was lucky she didn’t start blushing at the implication.
“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.
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