Hinata was left with no choice and she had to sit next to the blonde for better or worse. She blushed slightly and looked at the table in front of her. Sakura immediately noticed what was going on with Hinata and she grinned knowingly at Ino. Ino grinned back and ordered a bowl of miso-flavored ramen for each of them. After a short time the food came and they started. Again and again during the meal the blue-haired one looked at the Uzumaki and when their eyes met she just turned bright red and looked away.The blonde just looked at her in astonishment and went back to his bowl of ramen.

When Ino and Sakura were done they looked at each other briefly and Sakura whispered something in her ear. Ino just grinned and looked at the Hyuga. "We're done, we're going ahead ...", with these words they took the house key from Hinata and went towards the apartment.

"Wait!", Hinata called after them.
But they were already gone. Hinata gave a resigned sigh and went back to her ramen. She took some noodles on her chopsticks and brought them to her mouth. But in the middle of the movement she stopped.
// Hmm ... did you just leave me here alone with him? //, she wondered, looking over at the person sitting next to her. // Ok Hinata calm down! //, she encouraged herself not to turn redder. She looked at her bowl again and thought about it.

// Good if the two of them left you alone with Naruto then you have to take the chance and ask him out on a date //She sighed. Easier said than done.
// ARGHH! Ok i do it! //, she gathered up all her courage and turned back to Naruto.

"Naruto I ...", she started and paused ... There was no more Naruto.
She looked around in amazement and then looked at the ramen seller.
"Excuse me, do you know where the boy went who was just sitting here?", She asked, still slightly amazed and a little pissed off at herself.
"No, I'm sorry, I just know that he just got up ..." he said and went back to his work.

//Great! What is this Baka actually imagining ... You finally want to do something you've never dared to do before and he just runs away ... ", Hinata snorted angrily, slammed the money on the counter and disappeared.

A short time later, Naruto came out of the toilet and looked around.
//Hm? Where did she go? I told her that I was only on the toilet ... She could still have waited! //, pouting, he put the money on the counter and went home in the other direction.When Hinata got angry into her apartment, she slammed the door behind her and came into the living room. There were already two broadly grinning girls who looked at her expectantly.
"And ...?" Ino wanted to know.

"Nothing and! This idiot just left me sitting and didn't even say goodbye to me ..." Hinata shouted pissed off and fell down next to her friends on the sofa. //Men! //, each of them went through their heads and they sighed at the same time.

The rest of the day they spent lounging on the sofa and watching sappy Daly soaps on the television.
In the evening they went to bed at 11 o'clock because Sakura had school the next day and had to sleep on the sofa. Hinata slept in her bed and Ino slept on a folding bed in Hinata's bedroom.

Today Sakura's parents hadn't called a single time, which worried them a little because her mother in particular was a bit convicting and was always worried.Maybe Sakura's call had something to do with it ?!
The pink-haired one was awake for a long time, which was largely due to the uncomfortable couch. She would definitely not be able to stay on the old 'thing' one more night.
But at some point she was so tired that she had a sharp spring in her back.


The next day, Sakura woke up with Hinata's alarm clock ringing, which Hinata had kindly given her, since she and Ino only had class in the second class.
sleepy Sakura felt with one hand on the small glass table and wanted to turn off the nerve-killing sound of the alarm clock. Since Sakura had never used an alarm clock but was always woken up by the maid, it took a while until she found the switch and turned off the alarm clock.

Tired, she got up and sat upright on the couch.
Everything hurt her and she could only drag herself with difficulty towards the bathroom.
Hinata had kindly laid out her last evening, since Sakura didn't have any of her own clothes with her.For better or worse, she had to go shopping today or tomorrow. She couldn't always wear Hinata's clothes.
She quickly washed and dressed. Then she brushed her teeth and combed her pink hair and tied it in a loose braid.
When she came out of the bathroom Ino was already sitting at the kitchen table and having a coffee. Sakura sat down next to her and looked at her.

"Before you ask: I couldn't sleep very well, that's why I'm already awake."
Sakura just nodded and poured coffee into a cup as well.
When she looked at her watch she stopped dead. it was already 5 to 8 o'clock!
So she only had a quarter of an hour until she had to be in her class.
"Oh holy sh ...", Sakura shouted and jumped up. She quickly took another apple and put it in her mouth. Then she ran back into the living room and took a bag from Hinata in which she had previously put a pad and something to write on. That's why she didn't want to go home again.She would probably have to buy new school books too. She sighed and called Ino a "See you then" before running out of the house.

When she got outside she looked around for the bus stop.
"It must be here somewhere ..." she thought desperately.
Hinata and Ino had explained the way to Sakura's school from here the previous evening. All she had to do was find the bus stop and drive 7 stops to the school.
After a short time in which she thought she would never get to school on time, she spotted the bus and ran to the bus stop. She got on the bus just in time and got on. Exhausted, she sat down on one of the seats and just stubbornly looked out of the window while driving.

"Hey, Haruno! How long have you been riding the bus like only mortals do?", A high-pitched voice tore her from her thoughts.
Sakura turned in the direction from which this nerve-killing voice came and took a closer look at the person opposite.It was Akira, an annoying chick from her class with long light green hair who always dressed much too freely.
"I don't know what that has to do with YOU!", Said Sakura and demonsrtatively turned back to the window.

Akira was a conceited chick that almost nobody could stand. She snuck up with every teacher to get a better grade and had slept with almost every boy at school. She had a small fan club of 3 girls who agreed with her every time and did her homework for her or the same. Sometimes Sakura had the feeling that the green-haired one was jealous of her because Sakura had a lot more money than Akira and Akira hated Sakura because of it. But that didn't bother Haruno very much, since they just ignored them anyway.

"Pah!", Akira said, threw back her long hair and disappeared back to her `friends´.
At some point the bus stopped at the bus stop where Sakura had to get off.As she got off the stuffy bus she stretched for the first time, but then heard something that made her pause in the middle of the movement. The school bell.

"Damn it!" She shouted hysterically and ran across the empty school yard as if stung by a tarantula. That she always had to have such bad luck. Everyone is probably already in their classes except her.
As she rushed through the school building to get to her classroom, she wondered who she had now.
Suddenly she stopped abruptly in front of her class. She had remembered who she had now: Kakashi Hatake.

Sakura sighed in relief. So why was your class teacher always late? She smiled and opened the door after she had calmed her breathing again.
When she stepped in, her blood froze in her veins. That just could not be the case. Her teacher was standing at the front of the blackboard, which was strange enough at this time of day.

But there was another person standing next to him. A person she knew only too well.She just looked at the boy next to her teacher in shock. And he too looked surprised at first because he would not have expected her here, but then he grinned and she just looked at the boy with the jet-black hair and the onyx-colored eyes who hadn't gotten out of her head in the last two days nor did she expect to see him again.

That must be fate.

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Next chapter: The New Classmate