01: Because, who the hell would want to date an obnoxious girl who takes satisfaction on kicking a vending machine? No one, of course. Except, for him, but he is denying it.

AU. Disclaimed.

The Nile

by: you are my math

- Denial isn't just a river in Egypt -

In between all those snap backs, rude comebacks, insulting nicknames, Suigetsu knows he had really fallen into a deep, deep shit trap called love.

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She is never worth the wait that is what he mutters in the deepest corner of his mind, as he strolls around the room concisely catching a sight of the red headed woman kicking the vending machine.

He twitches, annoyed. She will never be worth the wait. Never in a billion chance she will, he counters, reasoning out. Why would her? She has never been classy, and pretty. Besides, she has a twisted personality, which he despises the most. But, at the same time, takes his amusement on the ride.

"Why is this thing not working again? Give me my can of Coke!"

Usually, he will approach her, tease her, annoy her, insult her, and give rude comments at how stupid she is, but right now...

He walks off, gulping down the thought that creeps down his spine.

The thought that tells him to approach her.

He dismisses the way how his body slightly betraying him, and actually doing him a favor. Of course, the sight of her doesn't nearly take his breath away, it doesn't. Nor, the idea how her menacing voice rings through his ears like a stupid, eerily music. That's poetic, and he thinks it's completely off, and idiotic.

He shakes off his head, hardly averting his eyes to elsewhere. He slides down next to Ino, who greets him sweetly. Smooth, this is the ideal girl that he will be glad to take his move whichever the day is. Class, pretty, smart, heart-fluttering personality, unlike someone he knows.

Say, of all the girls he comes across, and of all the idols that flock at him, she is the closest he has ever made a connection with, no doubt, she is only the very person he lays his eyes on.

"Maybe you should help her."

He snaps back, glancing at Ino beside him. He raises a brow at her.

"You've been staring at her." She nods at the pissed off woman across.

He snorts derisively, looking at Ino like she had gone mad, till he drifts back his gaze to the red haired. "What? Pfft, me?" He shrieks, almost even stuttering in the process. "O'course not." Although, her sentence is clearly a statement, he finds himself wanting to deny it.

"She's kicking it off again," Ino notes, chuckling.

"She's always like that, it's no surprise." He teases, mused, leaning over the table. Somehow, the nagging thought is killing him again, he curses underneath. His gaze briefly cascades over the woman afar, before looking back at his favourite girl, Ino.

"The only thing surprising here, is you." He watches as the blonde grins slyly, and something within his instincts & sharp-witted nature tells him that it's a bad thing. There's nothing of it, of course, if there's one thing he figures, that would be the fact that it's only meant to be worse. Of course, why would she grin like that to him?

He slips it off, chuckling. "Is that because I'm sitting here with you?" He cat calls, subtly flirting with the blonde. He means, who wouldn't flirt with this gal? She's cute, and supermodel. Damn. Unlike someone he really, really knows.

But Ino seems to get off the hook, her eyes glistening knowingly. "Yes, usually you're off teasing her. What's the prob?" She coos, nudging his ribs. And that is when all those thoughts he keeps, swats him in the gut, eagerly wanting to be acknowledged.

But he laughs it off, what the fuck. "Karin's a troll. I'd rather sit here with you, gorgeous." He whistles lowly, grinning when he notices the barely noticeable small tint of red in her cheeks. Bingo! His grin widens, as he snoops with her more.

Call him flirt, playboy, but he ain't gonna slip this chance to snag a kiss—maybe—with his crush. He means, c'mon. She's pretty. And, she is his ideal girl.

But that is only that, a small blush of gratitude because of his compliment, nothing more, and nothing less. She doesn't even make an effort to slide back, and his quick advance clearly doesn't cow her.

He halts midway, when she seems unimpressed, leaning down on his arm, and he lets her speaks instead. "Already figured out you like her? You got that James Dean daydream look in your eyes."

He scoffs, momentarily having internal lapses. "As if. Who would want to date a freak?"

"You." She instantly counters.

And somehow within the depths of his soul, he feels the flip, the gut twisting shit that eats him alive. He grins anyway. "I'd date you instead." He says, lowly whistling, easing the feeling that nearly takes him as a whole. Who the hell would want to go out with someone as obnoxious as the woman who takes muse on kicking some vending machine? Girls don't do that. Even Sakura wouldn't do that.

"Flirt." Ino mutters.

He stumbles, and laughs at her, only to be welcomed by someone whose first remark is to piss him off the edge. "She has probably taking out her frustration on the poor thing. I think you should help her out, Suigetsu."

He flicks his head to see Sai standing behind Ino. He frowns, as his dreams shatter down. "Here comes the lame white ass." He mutters darkly, earning a hit on the arm from Ino.

Sai looks down on the scene beneath him. "I think it is not nice to flirt with someone else's girlfriend."

Before Suigetsu could retort a year worth of insulting comebacks, he is suddenly cut off short.

"Hey! Ino, do you mind lending me the English handouts?"

He instantly averts his gaze to the woman approaching them, he sees as her face gradually crafts into a scowl when she sees the very sight of him sitting across to where her seat is supposed to be.

"Nope. I'll give it to you later." Ino replies.

He rattles for any possible logical reasons to slip away. Somehow the thought of her sitting across to him is something he doesn't like to deal with right now. He usually doesn't give a flying crap, but this time feels just…different. She is too much of a bitch to start off. It's Monday for crying out loud, he doesn't want to add anymore bitch to the day other than the Monday itself.

So when Karin slides down to the seat in front of him, casually giving him a glare in the process, like it's the usual thing to do in the morning that is when he finally loses it. He curses, as to why his chest suddenly beating in a strange rhythm he isn't fond of. Or, to the idea that he is feeling sort of agitated.

The pit of his stomach crunches down, giving him a strange reaction, and he is surely not going to venture to speculate about butterflies in the stomach. Fuck no! So with such urgency, he blurts out. "I remember Sakura doing me a favor!" Uncool.

The three of them look at him, baffle.

"Sakura is absent today, right?"

Oh shoot, shit for brains. "Exactly, she is absent because of the favor. She's doing it." He rummages through their stares, fortunately, he is quick to think. "Sayonara."

He briefly looks at Karin to find her staring at him also, the mere sight of her is bothering, at the least. For once, he never would have thought that his gut feeling will ever knock him this much. "Damn it woman, it's Monday, and you already look like a fucking shit." He grins, as he scrams off, never forgetting the fact to leave it all intact—like, say, leaving Karin a one hella insult about her looks today.

He wouldn't want to be seen as a walking see-through, so he settles for his in character personality.

"What the hell is wrong with him?" Karin bellows, riling up, completely oblivious to Ino's shrewdness, and Sai's empty smiles. Suigetsu has always been the only one who can piques her vital point to any slightest provocation, so easily like one, two, three.

The blonde leans down, dazzlingly daydreaming. "You threaten his obvious composed feelings."

But Karin isn't quick to catch her friend's metaphorical reply, which leaves her glaring to the direction of where Suigetsu had disappeared. But somehow, her friend's boyfriend's flat reply might be the sole reason as to why her heart suddenly made a flip.

"I think he means you look beautiful."

Author's Note: So, I have started myself a series of one shots about SuiKarin; a tribute actually, because of their chemistry.

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