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Prolong

"He is not!" Sakura protested heatedly as she stared at her best friend for ten years.

"He is so. His boyfriend's name is Itachi." Ino stated with an expression of a smug cat.

"First off, Sasuke and Itachi are brothers. Second, just because he was never seen with a girl does not automatically make him gay. He is just waiting on the right girl…" Sakura said as she folded her arms across her chest. Right now Ino and Sakura were sitting in Sakura's room flipping through magazines before Ino brought up the subject.

"Oh yeah? Prove it." Ino said as she leaned closer to Sakura.

How am I supposed to do that? He is at a boy's school." Sakura said as she began sweating bullets.

"All you have to do is meet him, flirt, kiss, and get him to ask you out. If he shut's you off, you win and I will never bring up the subject again. If you lose you have to do my homework for a whole semester next year." Ino said as she calmly twirled her hair.

"I don't even have a way in the school. So, looks like I can't do it. Oh well." She said in mocked sadness.

"Don't worry. I have my ways," Ino said as she pulled out a cell phone and punched a number in. "Hey remember that time I helped you out at that situation and you said you owed me? Well time to pay up." She said into the phone as she gave Sakura a sideways glance.

'Me and my big mouth. I should have just agreed with Ino and let the subject dropped.' Sakura thought as she watched Ino close her phone.

Two weeks later

"Get out of the car, Sakura." Ino demanded as she pulled up to the pavement.

"No, I changed my mind. Don't make me do this." Sakura said as she shifted nervously.

"You better get your ass out. I went through a lot of trouble to get you in to this lame school. You're just lucky that I let you keep your hair long. You could have at least changed the color. Even if long hair is in, I am pretty sure the color pink isn't." Ino complained as she glared at Sakura's now tightly braided pink hair.

"At least it matches with my uniform." Sakura said lightly.

"You're wearing all black, of course it would match. It's like a beacon. It is saying, "Look at the new fresh meat." '

The top had a standing collar buttoning down from top-to-bottom. The buttons was decorated with the school emblem to show respect to the school and the pants were straight leg that was black with a pair of sneakers. Sakura's hair laid gently down her back in a spirally swirl.

"It's fine. No one is going to even notice me." Sakura stated as she shrugged in the seat.

"Know that's where you are wrong. When you were a girl, you were beautiful. Now that you're a guy, you are smoking hot. In fact, if I didn't know any better, I would so be on you right now." Ino said as she looked Sakura up and down.

With her slim figure and beautiful face, she very much looked like a pretty boy, and her bright pink hair made her look delicate while her eyes had that far away gaze look that could pierce you.

Just then the bell rang. "Go on, hurry up so I can win my prize, and remember, 'Act like a boy, think like a boy, dress like a boy.' Ino said as she drove off when Sakura's feet hit the pavement.

'Easier said than done.' Sakura thought as she looked at the formidable school. She walked up the steps as she received glances from her fellow students. Sakura then opened the school building and took a step inside just as someone bumped into her. She collapsed into a heap on the floor as her school bag came off her shoulder.

"Hey are you o.k.?" a voice asked from beside her. Sakura looked up to see a pair of cerulean blue eyes gaze at her thoughtfully. He had blond spiky hair and these marks on his face that looked like whiskers.

"Yeah… Fine. My bad." Sakura mumbled as she climbed to her feet while brushing off her school uniform.

"Hmm……" She heard him murmur as he continued to stare at her.

"What!" She snapped as she grew annoyed.

"Nothing, you're just might give baka a run for his money. My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and you are?"

"Saku, my name is Saku."