Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but then you already knew that. : )
Woo! danielie here in my seventh story—huzzah, the lucky number! Finally, a full-fledged SasuSaku story! (And all the other pairings too, but SasuSaku is the main… so there won't be too much of the others.) I'm going to start all the chapters with a song excerpt like this one… and here we go!

(.s.)
Who has to know
When we live such fragile lives
It's the best way we survive
I go around a time or two
Just to waste my time with you.
(.s.)

"Dammit," Sasuke said when he saw his locker. "They did it again."

Shikamaru, Neji and Naruto stood back as Sasuke approached his locker with caution. The door was bulging out three inches, and looked like it would burst open at any moment.

Sasuke wrenched it open quickly, and was instantly drowned in a flood of love letters.

"Why can't your fangirls just see that you're not destined to be together?" Neji asked.

"Yes; they sent you chocolate!" Naruto yelled. "I'm taking it!"

"Knock yourself out," Sasuke groaned as he threw the love letters into the trash.

"What a drag," Shikamaru sighed. "It must be annoying to have them on your case all the time."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What about yours?"

Naruto snickered. "We don't have them anymore!"

"Hn?" Sasuke said—for once it showed expression, and sounded a bit more like a question. "What did you do to them? Poison? Because I tried and—"

"Nothing like that!" Naruto grinned. "They just realized they can't have us!"

Sasuke began to get annoyed. "How?"

"We have the one thing you don't—a girlfriend!"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes as he looked at each of his friends in turn.

Naruto had that Hinata girl… Neji's cousin with the stuttering.

Neji had Tenten… that chick with the buns.

Shikamaru had Ino, who Sasuke personally thought to be more trouble than she was worth.

And he had…?

"I'm getting one, too," Sasuke said finally.

"You want a girlfriend?" Neji said perplexedly. "I thought you hated that kind of thing?"

"I do," Sasuke said. "But I'll do anything to get rid of these stupid fangirls."

"Are you crazy!?" Naruto yelled. "No girl is going to go out with you for a reason like that!"

"Don't be an idiot," Sasuke sneered. "She won't know."

Seeing the confused look on his friends' faces, Sasuke elaborated. "She'll love me… well do that stupid boyfriend-girlfriend thing… but I won't love her back. She'll be for fangirl-exterminating purposes only."

"No way." Neji said immediately.

"That sounds troublesome," said Shikamaru. "And besides, where are you going to find a—"

But Sasuke's eyes were already searching the halls for a suitable girl. Someone who was good-looking enough, and had a decent brain.

He didn't find many good results, but then his eyes stopped at the other end of the hall, where his friends' girlfriends were. That pink-haired girl was with them—Sakura Haruno. And… was she blushing at him?

Ino pointed at Sasuke, and whispered something to Sakura, who seemed to be holding a letter in her hand. A love letter, by the look of the envelope; which meant she already liked him.

Perfect. Easy catch.

"Sasuke, you CAN'T just—" Naruto started yelling, but Sasuke swiftly put a hand over his mouth and pushed him away as Sakura approached.

"Hi Sasuke," she said, fiddling with the uniform's blue tie. "I'm Sakura Haruno and um… I was wondering if maybe we could go out after school?"

She said the last part so fast that Sasuke almost missed it. Neji and Shikamaru watched the exchange anxiously, and Naruto looked frozen in his position on the floor.

"Sure," a reply came from Sasuke's lips. "Meet me at the school gates at 3."

Sakura blushed and smiled, elated, while Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji gaped at their friend.

"See you around," Sasuke whispered somewhat seductively as he put a hand on Sakura's shoulder. Then he walked around her, his hands in his pockets.

"Mission accomplished," he thought. If only Sasuke knew that this was far from over.

And there's the first Chapter—finally! (Those of you who keep up with my profile will know how long I've been struggling with this. XD) The song excerpt at the top is from 'Dirty Little Secret' by The All-American Rejects. Oh, and for updates… they're going to be on and off… but I'll update as soon as I can! Review please!