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Of this cross-over!!!!! I wanted to post it on here so bad... T.T

Anyway, the main pairing of this story will eventually become Masamune x Tenten. I decided on this because she has a technique that's called Soushouryuu (Twin Rising Dragons), and since Masamune's nickname is Dokuganryuu (One-eyed Dragon) I thought "hey, why the heck not?"

Several characters are OOC, like the ones I don't know (IE. Motonari/Motochika). Yukimura, however, is deliberately OOC. Villainous characters are also OOC.

That said, please enjoy! :)

Chapter 1: Excuse me, I haven't seen you before...

"Tenten!! Come on!"

Tenten rolled her eyes and hurried to catch up with Sakura, her maroon uniform skirt bouncing as she ran. She'd done her hair in it's usual buns, but the ribbons she had in them were longer than usual. She felt older. Her buns deserved more than the short little ribbons she'd originally had in them.

"Here I am, princess!"

"I told you not to call me princess!" Sakura exclaimed, attempting to whack Tenten on the head with her schoolbag. Tenten blocked it and latched onto Sakura's arm, nearly dragging the other girl down.

"Ah – ah! Tenten!"

"Oh come on, Sakura! You're the one who made me hurry over here. Lunch was great, by the way."

Sakura blushed at the comment and the two girls fell in step, Sakura swinging her bag back and forth, "well, thanks for paying. If you were a boy, Tenten," Sakura winked at her best friend, "I would totally be dating you, not Naruto."

Tenten laughed at the comment, "I know, Sakura. You have no idea how many times you've told me that on Facebook, through texts, through emails..." she let her words trail off. Sakura giggled and linked her arm around Tenten's.

'Sakura is such a sweetie. Glad I have her as a friend,' Tenten mused, looking Sakura over. Despite their uniform having a shade of red in it, the maroon didn't clash with Sakura's pink hair. The shirt of their uniform was white, the emblem red. The two girls went to Konoha High, and were currently on their way back to school from their lunch break for their fifth period class.

Tenten watched as Sakura tossed her head to get her long hair out of her face – the headband wasn't doing a very good job – and looked past Tenten at the café to her right. The pinkette stopped and stared. Tenten looked.

"What is it, Sakura?" she asked, on the defensive. Sakura was often targeted by men because she was cute, and even though she could pack a nasty punch of her own, assailants always had to go through Tenten first if they wanted to get to Sakura.

As Tenten scanned the café she saw nothing out of the ordinary. It was a typical café, the outside seating closest to the inside covered by an awning in case of bright sunshine – 'like today' – or rain. The tables that weren't under the awning were under umbrellas. There was a group of male students sitting at one outside table, laughing about something and a few other couples. Tenten did a double take.

'Sakura isn't eying those boys, right?' Tenten desperately hoped. They looked a bit like trouble, and occupied an unshaded table near a cement divider. The two sitting closest to them Tenten observed first.

One was wearing a strange purple thing around his head, probably some kind of eye patch. He grin was wide, his laugh so loud Tenten was sure it was disturbing the other customers. His silvery-white hair was mostly swept away from his face. From this distance his eyes – like almost all the other people she could see – looked gray. She squinted a bit, trying to see his uniform. The shirt looked to be a pale blue and his – like all the other guys, surprisingly – was unbuttoned at the top.

Across from him was a younger looking boy, and eager look to his face. Despite the distance she could easily tell his eyes were brown. He had a red sash – 'or should I call it a bandanna?' she wondered – tied around his forehead. His hair was like Naruto's, in a way, with the hair in front of his ears and the spiky-ness. As he leaned forward to tell the man across from him something she noticed that he had a ponytail. Tenten tilted her head and turned back to Sakura.

"Gee, Ten, that brunette sure is cute..."

"Sakura, you have a boyfriend," Tenten warned. If there was one thing that Tenten didn't like about Sakura it was her penchant for flirting with cute boys – or anyone who reminded her of Naruto. The brunette reminded Tenten a lot of Naruto, which meant Sakura obviously saw Naruto in him.

Tenten tugged on Sakura's arm, intending to pull her away when she noticed her friend's green eyes widen a bit with excitement.

'This can't be good,' Tenten looked over her shoulder to see that another boy had noticed Sakura staring. This boy had a purple X-shaped mask across his face. His hair was a light lavender, and looked like it had been permed, though Tenten was determined to believe that his hair was trying to decide whether it wanted to be curly or wavy. He was very pale and she worried about his health. When he went into a coughing fit she was tempted to approach and ask if he was alright. The biggest student she had ever seen in her life took notice of his coughing and quickly tried to help him subdue it. Tenten turned her attention back to the problem.

'Sakura you better not wave at them. For the love of all that is good do not wave,' Tenten prayed. She was ready to give them her cold, uninterested look.

Her previous assumption of the silvery-white haired characters eye patch was correct. It reached down to the top of his cheek bone. She decided she didn't like him. He was giving her a rather suggestive look. She unconsciously positioned herself in front of Sakura.

--

"That brunette. Doesn't like me, I think. Whaddya' think, Masa?"

"One, don't call me Masa. Two, I don't see why you give a shit."

Motochika gave Masamune a disapproving look. In response Masamune glared, making the other man cower. Hanbei went into a fit of laughter that quickly changed to a fit of coughing, causing both Keiji and Hideyoshi to stand up.

"Ah, ah, take it easy buddy," Keiji said, patting Hanbei lightly on the back, "we don't need you to start spewing blood. That wouldn't be, um, good."

"Of course it wouldn't be good!" Hideyoshi exclaimed, "did you take your medication or did you leave it at school?"

"Left it at school... by accident, honest!" Hanbei insisted at Hideyoshi's unimpressed look. Masamune elbowed Yukimura, "oi, what're you lookin' at huh?"

Yukimura turned his head, brown eyes mischievous, "the pink haired girl. She's cute. Her friend would be pretty if she didn't look like she was going to kill us."

Masamune was tempted to look, but he crossed his arm's over his chest and tossed his head, "hah! You and girls."

"Me and girls? You're the one who has a problem."

"Don't make me hurt you, Sanada."

Yukimura made a terrified face and looked back at the two girls. Masamune sighed; if Yukimura got into trouble, it would be better if he saw what the trouble was. He peeked past Yukimura's shoulders. His eyebrow went up.

One girl had soft pink hair down to at least her shoulder blades. Her eyes were big and expressive, but color was impossible to tell from this distance. She made the mistake of waving, which caused Motochika to comment, "oh, oh she's waving Yuki say something."

"Well what the heck do I say?"

"I – I dunno, call her pinky?"

Motochika leaned back as he received five glares. He put his hands up in surrender, "wah, I'm just sayin' guys. No need to get cranky."

Masamune kicked him under the table and turned his attention back to the girls. Their uniforms were red themed: white shirts, maroon skirts, red school emblem. On the sleeve of the shirt, he noticed.

'You should never wave at Yukimura. Makes him think he has a chance,' Masamune sighed, his eye flitting over to the other girl.

Now here was someone interesting, to him at least.

This was the girl that Yukimura must have been talking about when he stated that she would be " pretty if she didn't look like she was going to kill us". Masamune knew the look though, and it was a front. He admitted that she looked tough, boasting some well toned arms and legs. She was wearing Nike's too, not some leather shoes.

'Sports maybe?' he mused, half-glad that he was hidden by Yukimura. He wondered what she would look like with out her hair in buns, though the buns themselves were cute. The ribbon she had in them was yellow, a contrast the red scheme of her uniform.

Masamune itched to strangle Yukimura as he called out, "hey pinky."

--

"Hey pinky."

Tenten felt like a blood vessel in her head had just popped.

"... did he just call you pinky?" she demanded, aware that steam might be coming out of her head. Nobody called Sakura pinky except maybe Kisame. But he was Kisame, and Tenten happened to like him. She had no idea who this kid was, and he had the nerve to call her Sakura pinky.

Sakura was unaware of Tenten's inner conflict and she side stepped her, moving ahead, "hi."

The guy with silvery hair made like he was going to punch the brunette in the shoulder but he stopped himself and grinned, his head dropping to the table to rest on his arms. The brunette looked about to speak again and Tenten wondered if he was going to say something cheesy like "where have you been all my life". Instead she got a well-mannered response.

"I'd rather not call you pinky. I'm Sanada Yukimura, Yuki for short. What's your name?"

'Okay about a thousand percent more polite than I thought,' Tenten guiltily thought to herself as Sakura called back, "I'm Haruno Sakura."

Yukimura chuckled, "it fits. What school do you go to?" he glanced at his companions who looked curious at this point, "we haven't seen that uniform before."

Tenten was surprised, as was Sakura, 'then again, I haven't seen their uniform before either so...'

"We're from Konoha High," Sakura replied shyly. Tenten tried to get her attention, whispering, "Sakura, you're going into your flirtatious mood!"

"Oh hush I am feeling flirtatious," she whispered back, flipping her hair over her shoulder. Tenten's eyes glued themselves to Yukimura. He glanced at her, 'one wrong move buster and you are dead.'

"Konoha High? Is it that big building down that street?" he nodded his head in the general direction. Sakura took a few subtle steps forward, nodding her head, "mm-hm."

'I know she doesn't mean any harm but what if Yukimura gets the wrong idea?' Tenten worried over this thought when another struck her: what if Naruto showed up? The thought alone almost made her pale.

"You know, Sakura, you're pretty cute."

"You're pretty cute yourself."

"You think so?"

"I know so," Sakura purred, moving steadily closer. Tenten wanted to dance in her spot; she should have followed after Sakura more quickly. Swift movement now would draw attention, even if she was good with her arms and legs. Yukimura, despite his small frame, looked like he could pack a powerful punch. Out of his companions the one across from him, the one with the topknot and the one with the high tail were obvious well-muscled.

'Tenten stop it. You're over-thinking the entire situation. RELAX.'

She happened to look down a street while locking her hands behind her back and saw a bob of bright yellow. Her eyes widened, 'please god do not tell me that was Naruto. Please.'

She turned her attention back to the scene in front of her. Sakura was clearly interested in Yukimura by her body language, and if his subtly looking over her was anything to go by he was interested in her. But he glanced at Tenten, looked back at Sakura, and glanced at Tenten again, as if he expected her to do something. She gnawed on her lower lip, eyes going back to the street, 'what should I do?'

To her surprise Yukimura had looked down the street when she did.

'So he's being cautious... that's... interesting...'

Tenten took her chance in their lag of speech; she quickly stepped up to Sakura's side and elbowed her lightly, informing Yukimura shyly, "sorry to ruin the fun, but she's taken," a quick look at the other boys and she added, "so am I."

Yukimura didn't respond how she thought he would to this information. He smiled at her and said, "oh I'm just harmlessly flirting, that's all."

A fist rose in the air behind him and bonked him on the head.

"Ow! What was that for?" he complained to whoever had hit him.

"You never harmlessly flirt, Sanada."

That voice perked Tenten's interest. There was a certain sound to it that just made her shiver. She shook her head. She shouldn't be thinking like that when she had Neji.

Yukimura laughed, "well, she talks like a girl with a boyfriend anyway."

Tenten was taken aback, and Naruto's approach was forgotten, "what? You knew from the start?"

"Uh-huh. That's why I said I was harmlessly flirting – and don't you hit me again – because she talks like someone who's taken," he crossed his arm's over the cement divider, burying his chin in them and wiggling his eyebrows, "though I do have the skills to steal, my dears."

As Sakura giggled and Tenten tried not to, he received another whack on the head to which he exclaimed, "my brain cells!"

"Sakura..."

Tenten's blood was covered with frost. She turned her head to look at Naruto while Sakura greeted him cheerfully, "hey Naruto!"

His electric blue eyes were fixed on Yukimura, "who's he?"

Tenten was sure Sakura had just cracked in two and gone pale as a ghost so she tried to cover, "oh, we just met him. We were walking by and he and his friends caught our attention."

She bit her lip. It wasn't entirely true, because Yukimura had caught Sakura's eye, but Tenten would rather include herself in the equation and keep Sakura from getting into trouble. Mister silver hair looked like he was going to say something when the guy with the X-mask attempted to clamber onto his head, shutting him up.

'He's... helping me cover? How sweet...' Tenten tried not to let it cloud over that there may be monsters hiding in them.

To her dismay Naruto wasn't convinced.

"If they had caught both of your attention, you'd be more interested, Tenten," he nearly growled, walking toward them. Yukimura tensed and Tenten wished Naruto was still as dense as he used to be. Sakura intervened.

"H-hey Naruto. You're right um... they caught my attention. I just haven't seen them before and the uniform... so I was curious that's all," she'd grabbed one of his arms. Naruto was still intent on Yukimura, who was also staring at him. The air was starting to get tense and Tenten fidgeted. She didn't really know what to do now, but she shuffled closer to Sakura.

Naruto half whirled on Sakura, "you were flirting with him weren't you?!"

'She's screwed.'

"Ah..."

Naruto grabbed both her biceps, "Sakura I told you -"

Tenten tried to disengage him from Sakura, "Naruto calm down, please!"

"Mind your own business, Tenten!"

She clenched her teeth and glared at him. How dare he? She was ready to punch him in the face when Yukimura was suddenly next to Sakura.

"Hey lay off, man," he said neutrally, easily plucking Naruto's hands off of Sakura's arms. Naruto looked like he was going to go feral. Sakura recoiled toward Tenten.

'Wow. That Yukimura is tall,' Tenten observed. He was almost a head taller than Naruto. Tenten chanced a glance that their table to see that one of the guys had his back to her. He must have been the one who'd hit Yukimura on the head. She scowled lightly, 'I really want to know who he is...'

He was currently talking to a waitress while the silver haired character was leaning against his knuckles on the barrier, eyes switching between Yukimura and Naruto. The X-mask boy was sitting on said barrier, watching closely. Tenten tugged Sakura back.

"Look, I started it. Don't go getting mad at her."

Naruto jerked back, glaring up at Yukimura, "don't act familiar!"

Yukimura's eyes narrowed and he crossed his arms, "I certainly hope you're not her boyfriend."

Naruto snarled at the comment and threw a punch at Yukimura; the taller boy dodged. However there was a glint in his eye that Tenten didn't like. To her relief the X-mask boy noticed as well. He was on his feet and next to Yukimura in a second, his arm's looped around Yukimura's bicep in an arm-lock. Silver hair came up on Yukimura's other side to rest a restraining hand on his shoulder.

Thankfully Sasuke and Lee happened to be on their way by, and noticed the commotion. They rushed over to hold back Naruto who tried to lunge at Yukimura. His friend's jerked him back.

"Naruto, stop it!" Sakura pleaded, pushing against his chest, "it was nothing serious I swear!"

"You shouldn't of replied to him in the first place!" he roared, trying to get at Yukimura. Tenten assisted in holding him back.

"Hey don't go blaming her for something she didn't start!" Yukimura growled back, pulling against his friend's restraining hands. They continued to glare at each other until the man with the high tail stepped right in between them. He looked like a mediator of sorts. Tenten looked over Lee's shoulder – he was holding onto Naruto's right side – and saw that other students from her school were showing up, including Neji. He went straight to her.

"What's going on?"

"Honestly? Naruto's kind of blown his top over nothing."

Neji frowned and the man in-between the two hostile bodies spoke, "hey, hey come on guys. Our school's haven't even interacted until now. Cool your lids. Simmer down," he looked Naruto in the eye, "the flirting was completely harmless."

His words had a positive effect. Naruto bumped his forehead against Sakura's head.

"Sorry, sorry," he said. Sasuke and Lee slowly let go of him, eying Yukimura. He had already been released by his friends and was staring past Sasuke, hands in his pockets. To Tenten it looked like his hands were shaking. The other two guys that were with Yukimura were sitting on the barrier, looking somewhat uninterested in the fight.

Naruto and Yukimura exchanged looks before the taller turned around sharply. Naruto clenched his jaw against words while silver hair tried to make amends and gave a small wave. Naruto couldn't resist giving him a smile.

"Hey -!"

"Guess he's gay 'cause he let his hair grow looong."

Yukimura was on Kiba so fast Tenten could only stare for several seconds. She wasn't the only one. Even his friends were stunned.

"I dare you to say that again!"

The fight quickly escalated from there. In the confusion the boy with the X-mask started coughing hysterically. Tenten saw blood come out of his mouth before the boy with the high-tail half carried him away from the fight. The biggest one with the top knot joined the fight, though it looked like he was trying to use his size to break them up so that silver hair could get Yukimura out of the fray.

Tenten's blood boiled. Neji had stayed behind her but the other guys present had joined the battle. High tail also joined in, and by the looks of things he hit hard. Lee was knocked to the ground by one of his punches.

Naruto was taking the chance to try and hit Yukimura, but both his blows were blocked. Yukimura hit him square in the jaw, making Sakura cry out, "Naruto!"

Silver hair had given up trying to remove Yukimura from the fight.

'They're all getting hurt... how the heck are we gonna' explain this to teachers... CRAP! SCHOOL!'

Tenten joined the fray, lashing out at her own classmates. Her presence seemed to make the much larger, obviously more skilled students from the other school worry, so they backed off quickly.

"Guys cut the bull and act mature!" her comment was directed at everyone involved. She glanced over her shoulder to see that the other four still looked like they wanted to continue the fight but were afraid they might accidentally hit her by the looks on their faces.

Sasuke slipped by her to test the biggest man behind her. As she went to glance over her shoulder – the big man was having no trouble with Sasuke – she noticed two figures, one with very long white hair and the other a brunette with his hair slicked back, approaching cautiously from the side. They were from the school that she and Sakura had been stupid enough to forget to ask the name of.

Her eyes caught sight of a punch being aimed for her.

"K-Kiba watch where you're-!"

Tenten would be able to block herself if she could make her body turn faster. Kiba's fist was centimeters from her face and she tried to get out of range but -

A large hand wrapped around Kiba's wrist and stopped his movement instantly. Kiba was shocked by this new opponent's strength. No matter how hard he struggled he couldn't get his wrist out of the other students grip.

'This... this is the guy that... he – he's really fast...'

Clearly the man – who'd been the one hitting Yukimura on the head – didn't see Kiba as a threat at all. He straightened and Tenten noticed that, through his messy brown hair, he had an eye patch over his left eye. It was black, making her thoughts drift to pirates.

"Watch where you're aiming, kid," he informed Kiba, thrusting him back. Kiba stumbled and stared up at him. He turned to Tenten.

"Hey, you okay?"

"Y-yeah... th-thanks..." she managed to say, distracted by his blue eye. He was quite handsome, the eye patch adding an air of mystery to him that made Tenten want to know who he was. He tapped the back of one of his hands against her cheek and gave her a smirk that made her swoon on the inside before narrowing his lone eye at his classmates.

"Haul ass back to school. I don't wanna' hear it Motochika! Move it! Don't make me set Mistu on you!"

"Hai, haaaaai!!" Motochika – silver hair – cried, racing away from the situation with Yukimura over his shoulder.

"Why does he have Yukimura over his shoulder?" Tenten's savior demanded, walking toward his classmates, now totaling out to be eight – though two had just left.

"Beats me," commented a low voice belonging to the brunette with slicked back hair.

Tenten's savior regarded his friend for a moment before turning to the kid with the X-mask, "what the hell were you doing, getting involved for? One of these days, that cough of yours is gonna' get ya, and we don't need that happening, you see?"

"Hai, onii-san. I tried not to but..."

"Ah, never mind," her savior decided, ruffling the boy's hair, which made the latter laugh lightly.

Tenten couldn't pull her eyes off of him, even though Neji was calling out to her about them needing to get back to school asap. Tenten absentmindedly nodded her head, and blushed lightly when her current interest looked over his shoulder at her. After a frantic call from Sakura and Neji she took off.

--

"Hey I saw that."

"Saw what?" Masamune demanded. Motochika grinned at him as they all piled onto the bus, "you were lookin' at her yeah you were!"

Masamune couldn't help smiling even as he smacked Motochika upside the head, "shut up, just shut up."

"Oo Masamune's gotta' cruuush!"

"I thought I told you to shut up?"

"You did. I didn't listen – OH SHI-!" Motochika bolted for the stairs to the top of the bus. Masamune glared over the seats at him as he settled in the back with Yukimura, Keiji, Hanbei and Mitsuhide.

"We get back to school you're dead," Masamune threatened, sitting next to Kojyuro. Motochika made a distressed noise that made those around him laugh.

"Masamune-sama."

"Huh?"

"You could try."

Masamune felt heat start rising to his cheeks, "you too, huh?"

Kojyuro smiled, "Hishashii's hounding me about hounding you to get yourself a girlfriend. You could use one."

"I don't even know that girl's name," Masamune leaned back against the chair, "she's fine though. Nice legs on her," he commented, smirking as he glanced at Kojyuro. His friend was staring out the window.

"I'm going to pretend you never said that."

"Oh come on Kojyuro! Tell me! How's it going with you and Hishashii huh, huh? Getting anywhere? I mean you guys have been going steady for three damn years."

"Masamune-sama..." Kojyuro half-whined, giving him a 'please no' face. Masamune sighed, "fine, fine. I'll lay off."

"... you could care less about her legs," Kojyuro commented as the bus came to it's next stop to let someone off. Masamune tensed, "well, yeah I could. I really don't. You're the one with a thing for legs. Isn't that how you and Hishashii got together in the first place?"

Kojyuro turned red, "you could say that."

Masamune chuckled, 'Hisha's a pretty physical girl though...'

Silence fell over the bus, causing Masamune to look over his shoulder. Motochika and Yukimura were asleep, which explained why it was so quiet. Mitsuhide looked like he was nodding off when he jumped a little and pulled out his phone. The caller was Nou Hime, judging by the way Mitsuhide whispered. Keiji seemed interested in the conversation but Hanbei was in his way. Mitsuhide twisted his body toward the window, ignoring the two eavesdroppers to his right.

Masamune sighed as his thoughts returned to the girl, 'she was tough. Hell, she punched one of her own classmates in the face. But that one guy with the long hair... must have been her guy... huh...'

A stop before theirs, Masamune got up. Keiji took this as the signal to wake up Motochika and Yukimura. The two of them stretched.

The bus came to a stop and the group got off, walking for about five minutes to get to their school: Sengoku High.

--

"And... what would be your explanation for such injuries?" Iruka demanded, his eyebrow twitching. Tenten fiddled with the bottom of her skirt. She'd been worried about what the guys were going to say about their totally trashed appearances.

"We got into a scuffle. That's all, Iruka-sensei," Naruto informed him, all smiles. Iruka bought it and let them pass by the gates.

'Thank goodness we have computer class! It's on the first floor,' the bell rang as the large group burst into the classroom. Tenten took her assigned seat in between Sakura and Temari. As their teacher Sarutobi – nicknamed Sandaime – began the lesson Temari smirked.

"I heard from a friend that you two ran into some pretty cute guys today."

Sakura blushed and Tenten resisted scowling, "some of them were cute."

"Oh? And the rest of them were hot, I assume."

Tenten glared. Sandaime had gone into talking about something totally unrelated to what the class was supposed to be talking about, but it interested the guys and therefore the noise level in the class was at a minimum. Tenten noticed that Sakura had logged onto Facebook.

"Sakura."

"What?" the pinkette asked innocently before becoming interested in the status' of her friends. She nibbled on her lower lip, "my cousin broke up with his girlfriend. Ee, I knew this was gonna' happen..."

"Che! Wait... which cousin? The younger stuck-up one or the older mature one?"

"Obviously the younger one."

"Heh. Sorry to say this, Sakura, but I think he's too young for a girlfriend... even though he's older than us."

Sakura giggled at the comment and Tenten smiled. She'd only met that cousin once, but she knew what Temari was talking about. Though in his twenties, he acted like a ten year old.

"So do you know what school those guys were from?"

"No... we forgot to ask them," Sakura said sadly. Temari's brow furrowed before she replied to someone who was chatting with her.

"What did their uniform look like?" the blonde probed. Tenten looked at her, "why do you want to know?"

"Because I think I might know them."

Sakura gaped, exclaiming a bit to loudly, "really?"

"Yes, really, Sakura."

Sakura blushed and giggled, "that's great sensei."

He smiled. He knew that Sakura wasn't paying attention, 'but the guys are, and that's all that matters,' Tenten smiled, 'he's okay with us girls talking, because we aren't loud... usually.'

"Anyway, Temari. Their uniform shirts were pale blue and the pants were navy. I think they were supposed to be wearing ties, but only one of them had it with them..."

Temari's brow furrowed more. She looked past Tenten at Sakura, "did you happen to get any names, you flirt?"

Sakura turned scarlet, "well, duh."

"Tell me!"

"Yukimura."

Temari's lips slowly turned up in a smirk, "yup. I know them."

--

"Hey boys! Those girls you met today? Temari goes to their school."

"Aw hell. You serious, Kasuga?" Masamune demanded, twisting around to look at the attractive blonde. He watched as she nodded her head, "mm. I'm talking to her on Facebook. They're in their computer class now," she glared at Sasuke, "and you are skipping."

"Hey, I came in late! Shingen told me that if I'm gonna' come in late I shouldn't go to his class at all," Sasuke sighed, "and give me a break, Kasuga. This is the first time I've skipped for the past eight months."

She was quiet for a few seconds, "yeah, that's true... Yu-Yukimura! What are you doing!?" she exclaimed then, jumping up from her seat. Masamune turned back to face the front before looking to his right to see what Yukimura was doing. Yukimura quirked an eyebrow.

"Sometimes I wonder who should actually be labeled the bad boy: you or me."

"You, obviously. We can go into great detail as to why that is, Date-dono," Yukimura replied, typing 'Haruno Sakura' into the Facebook search bar. Masamune buried his face in a hand.

"There you go, calling me 'Date-dono' again... gees... HOLY -" he was pushed forward abruptly as Kasuga pressed too heavily against his chair. He braced his hands against the long desk in time though, so he didn't bang his face against the keyboard. Kasuga tried to stop Yukimura.

"Leave the innocent pinkette alooone! Besides, she has a boyfriend."

"Hey! I can make new friends if I want!" Yukimura protested, having a difficult time keeping Kasuga from interfering with what he was doing.

"Sasuke! Help, please?"

"'Course Sanada-no-danna."

"Sasuke I swear if you so much as touch me I'm going to – KEEENSHIIIN!!"

The requested male poked his head into the IP lab before scowling, "Sasuke. What are you doing to my girlfriend?"

Before Sasuke could respond – his arms were wrapped securely around Kasuga's waist – Yukimura defended him, "Uesegi-dono. It's for a good cause, really. Kasuga's disturbing me. I thought that maybe you were busy and Sasuke was closer," Yukimura gave Masamune a look. The latter smirked, "Date-dono wouldn't have helped me anyway."

Kenshin stared and then shook his head, "Kasuga. Come."

"H-hai..." Sasuke released her and she flounced to the front of the room. He snatched up her hand and led her outside. Yukimura leaned back in his chair, "I love free blocks in the IP lab. And what the heck are you still here for? You should go home, Masamune."

"Hah. Since when were you so concerned about me?" Masamune questioned, tapping his fingers against the desk. Yukimura was silent; Masamune stopped tapping.

"... ever since you and you-know-who broke up, you've been acting different, you know that?" Yukimura finally said, staring blankly at his screen. Masamune watched the Facebook page, and saw a tiny red balloon appear. He bopped his fist against Yukimura's shoulder, bringing the teen out of his daze.

"New notification. What did you say in your message?"

"Let's be friends! And a smiley face."

"... you're joking right?"

"Nope."

"... you're hopeless, Sanada. And you claim that it's my fault you don't get any girls," Masamune sighed, resting his chin on his fist. Yukimura whacked the side of his arm with his palm, "shut up."

'It's true, it's true,' Masamune wanted to say out loud, but he'd rather not provoke his friend. Said friend was doing a little happy dance, one that disturbed Masamune so much that he had to look away.

"She accepted whoo! Oh. They wanna' know who you are. You haven't officially met Temari right?"

"Nope."

"She doesn't know your name?"

"Nope."

"... you are such a mysterious mysterious person. Maybe that's what gets their attention, hm?"

Masamune looked fully at Yukimura, "you know what? Shut up before I break your face in."

"Ee, you're so scary!"

"Duh, I'm Masamune. I have a reputation of being scary everywhere," he leaned a little closer, "you see?"

Yukimura glared at him for a moment then returned to his online conversation with Sakura. Masamune poked his fingers under his eye patch and rubbed his blind eye. How he hated the thing and memories that stayed with it. Yukimura started poking him in the shoulder. He ignored the enthusiastic teen.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY!"

"WHAT?!" Masamune demanded, giving Yukimura a death glare. Yukimura swallowed in fear before pointing at his screen and saying, "the brunette girl? Her name's Tenten."

'He did not just tell me that. No he didn't. Nope. Nuh-uh. Nope,' the seconds ticked by with Masamune and Yukimura just staring at each other: Yukimura waiting for Masamune's response, and Masamune waiting to make sure it was all just a dream.

Because Masamune didn't want to admit that he was interested in this Tenten, this tough girl that had a high chance of being able to fight him off if she wanted to.

"Masamune? Hello? Her name's Tenten. Setsuna Tenten."

"So you weren't pulling my leg."

"'Course not!"

Masamune placed his elbows on the desk and raked his hands through his hair, "I hate you so damn much right now, Sanada."

Yukimura grinned his abnormally large grin, "yeah, but you'll thank me for it later. So either you can add her – like I did – or I can suggest her to you, or I could just tell her who you are and get the mysterious mysterious-ness over with -"

"Shut up Sanada Yukimura I'll do it myself."

"SWEET."

Masamune resisted glaring at him.

'I'm so tempted to kill him. So, so, so, so tempted to kill him,' he growled inwardly as he logged onto Facebook. He jabbed Yukimura in the arm before finding Tenten. She was the only Setsuna Tenten that appeared when he looked her up, and since she looked like he remembered her, he added her.

"You didn't leave a message! You evil, evil person!"

"Sanada, shut up."

--

Class was drawing to a close when Tenten noticed that she had received another friend request. She tilted her head, wondering who this could be.

Her eyes widened and her cheeks reddened when she saw the profile picture Yukimura's mysterious friend had. Temari also looked and whistled under her breath, "wow, Tenten, he's hot. Is he Yukimura's friend?"

"Y-yeah he is," Tenten stuttered, finally looking at his name, 'Date Masamune, huh? That's a nice name... Masamune...'

To Tenten's left Sakura muffled a squeal, "he looks like a model in that picture! Accept, accept!"

Tenten gave Sakura a look, "I was going to without you having to tell me."

She accepted the request, praying that she didn't end up regretting the choice.