Chapter 1: Meet the rivals...
"What is your problem?" I yelled at him.
"Problem? Me? I don't have one." He said, feigning innocence.
"Ugh." I said, and stalked off angrily.
"You don't look very pretty with that frown on your face." He said, as he followed me down the hallway.
"Do I look like I care what you think?" I turned around, furious.
"You do care." He grinned. "I see it in your eyes."
"You just think that I care because your ego is too big to realize that some people don't actually fall for your nonexistent charms. Now stop following me and leave me alone." I turned around angrily and walked away from him again.
"Hmm. I could," He thought out loud, "but annoying you is too much fun. Nope, I'm staying." He continued following me down the hallway.
"You seriously want to drive around in your car ALL DAY?" I shouted again, after a few seconds of angry walking.
"Yup," He answered and I could hear the amusement in his voice. "All day long. And since I also have to do what you want to do, you're going to have to do what I want to do." He said.
"You're going to regret this." I said furiously, hoping he'd change his mind. "I am going to make you do the most terrible thing ever."
"We'll see," Sasuke grinned.
Hi, my name is Sakura and welcome to my nightmare. You probably have no idea who I'm fighting with and what I'm fighting with him about so I shall explain it briefly. After my explanation I shall go back to being furious. You see, our school has this thing where they make people who dislike each other spend time with each other. It's a way of showing students that everyone has good and bad aspects. Due to the fact that we would never admit whom we did or did not like, our best friends are asked to testify for us. It's tradition that our best friend does not take our side and anyways, if your friend tells who your worst enemy is then as revenge you will have to say who your friend's enemy is too. The only problem with this tradition is that some people have many haters and others only a few. In that case they make people team up in larger groups. In my case, the person I disliked the most had only one person who disliked him and that was me. The reason I'm so angry at him now is because he said that on the day he has free choice and I am forced to join him in whatever he's doing, he wants to drive around in his car all day. ALL DAY! I have to drive around in a car, with the person I like least in the entire world, for a whole day! What's more, the school has decided to send us to hotels all over the state, so we can see a different place and get to know each other at the same time. What fun.
"We're going horse riding." I announced a few days later, hours before we were to leave to our first hotel.
"Horse riding?" He said unbelievably. "Is that your idea of my most terrible day ever?" A grin spread over his face.
"After horse riding we're going to the spa. I've booked massages for both of us." I smirked. I wasn't a person who loved massages, in fact, I disliked a lot of people touching me but if it was going to give Sasuke a bad time then I would sacrifice myself for that.
"Hmmm." Sasuke said. "Half naked girls walking around and some hot masseuse massaging me, I can't say I mind."
I nearly laughed. "Except for the fact that I booked a male masseuse for you." I could not hide my grin.
Yes! I squealed silently, when I saw a shadow cover Sasuke's face. I had finally found something that he truly disliked. I wasn't surprised, which straight guy liked being massaged by another guy?
I laughed. "Enjoy your massage Sasuke!" And walked off towards my few moments of peace and freedom before going on this terrible, terrible field trip.
Sasuke
"A massage, by a man? I am NOT doing that." I complained to one of my friends, Neji. He just grinned.
"I think she finally found something you detest."
"Yeah," I grumbled. "When she first mentioned it I pictured some hot masseuse massaging me. I cannot believe she booked a MAN." Naruto nearly burst out laughing.
"Well, at least you don't have to go somewhere with your ex-girlfriend." He said, and the grin on his face immediately disappeared. Naruto's ex had cheated on him and Naruto was still furious about it so the fact that he had to spend a week with her at different hotels was not something he was too happy about.
"Come on," I tried to cheer him up, my own problems suddenly seeming much smaller than his. "We'll get through this week and it'll all go back to normal."
Sakura
We were walking towards his car and for a second I contemplated running away and not coming back. At the same time I knew I wanted my diploma, which I would not get if I didn't go on this horrible trip. I'm going to strangle the person who made this trip mandatory, I thought to myself. Sasuke walked over to the drivers seat and opened the door and I walked to the passenger seat and hopped into his jeep. I leaned my head against the seat and groaned. This was going to be a long, long week.
The first hotel was around an hour away from our school and we drove there in a very awkward silence. Sasuke had turned the radio on so at least we weren't driving in complete silence but we didn't say a word to each other the whole trip. I had asked a teacher if we could go in two cars but the teacher had said that the best bonding time was when sitting in a car together. Yes, sitting in a car in silence is very good bonding time, I thought sarcastically.
The hotel we arrived at was beautiful, large and luxury. Sasuke parked the car I got out and grabbed my bag from the back of the car. Then we walked to the entrance of the hotel. I gazed at its huge porch big, curtained windows and was happy that Sasuke and I didn't have to share a room. We walked up to the large front desk in the lobby and the man behind the counter grinned, he already knew who we were. The hotel had been informed of our arrival and was asked to plan a number of activities we could do together. Why did our school have to be so organised?
"You must be from Bluecreek high school." The man smiled. Sasuke nodded, and then frowned, probably at the man's enthusiasm.
"Here are your keys," the man said, leaning behind him and grabbing two keys. "You have rooms opposite each other. You will be expected back here at 5 for a game of pool and dinner is at 7."
Pool. What an unoriginal hotel. I grumbled inwardly. But on the outside I smiled and took my key.
"Thank you." I walked to the staircase because I saw that my room was on the first floor and I wasn't bothered to take the elevator. Apparently Sasuke had the same idea. We walked up the stairs side by side and in complete silence.
We came to the top of the stairs and walked to our rooms. I had some trouble opening the door but when I finally did the room was absolutely gorgeous. The view was spectacular, a view of snow-covered mountains, and there was a large double bed in the room, with a big flat screen hanging on the wall and a mini bar filled with drinks and food. I opened the bathroom door and found a big bath with numerous soaps and shampoos in a holder. I dumped my stuff next to the bed and let myself fall on the soft bed. I lay there for a few seconds before I excitedly got up and grabbed the TV remote together with a folder about the hotel. I turned on the TV, flipped through some channels and settled on a movie I had already seen. Instead of watching the movie I read the folder of the hotel and saw that they had a swimming pool, a sauna, two restaurants, a bar and a gym. This wasn't going to be such a bad stay.
Five o'clock came far too soon. I was still exploring all the possibilities of this room and enjoying my alone time when I pulled out my phone and saw that it was five to five. Time to go downstairs. I groaned softly, grabbed my key and walked out the door. When I walked into the bar where the pool tables were, I saw that Sasuke was already playing an intense game with some hot guy whom I had never seen before. It was Sasuke's turn and he angled the stick so that it was in line with the ball he was trying to hit. My eyes widened in surprise when he hit the ball, which hit another ball and two balls fell into two different holes. Sasuke straightened up and looked at the hot guy triumphantly.
"You're good. And you already have a fan," The guy said, nodding in my direction. I rolled my eyes as Sasuke turned around.
"Just sizing up the competition." I shrugged. Sasuke laughed.
"Don't bother. You're never going to win." My first instinct was to say something like: 'I'm better than you think' or 'I'd watch out if I were you' but the fact of the matter was: I couldn't play pool at all. Half the time I missed the ball and it was an extremely rare occasion if I got a ball into a hole. He was going to beat me, badly.
"I'm just not jobless enough to play a lame sport like this one." I shrugged.
"You're just extremely bad." Sasuke guessed.
"We'll see." I said, just as one of the hotel employees walked up to us.
"You must be Sasuke and Sakura." He said. I nodded.
"We have this table reserved for you," The young man said, as he led us over to a table in the corner. "We expect you to play at least three games of pool." The man turned to Sasuke. "I saw you playing just now, apparently you know the rules. Would you mind explaining them to her?"
"No, not at all." Sasuke said, and smirked at me.
"All right!" The man said enthusiastically. "Have fun and if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask."
"Thank you," I said meekly. The man walked off towards the bar and I walked to the other side of the pool table, far away from Sasuke.
He sighed and looked over at me. "You know the basic rules right?"
I nodded.
"Ok, let's just play and I'll tell you what you're doing wrong." He said, with a surprising amount of patience in his voice. He then placed a metal triangle in the middle of the pool table and arranged the balls in the middle. He carefully lifted the metal triangle up and placed it on a nail on the wall. The balls on the table stayed in place perfectly.
"Here, play." Sasuke said, as he handed me the white ball. I took it from him reluctantly and placed it on a random spot on the table. What did I care at what angle the ball hit the other balls, it wasn't like it would make a difference. I positioned myself with my stick like I had seen others do it and attempted to hit the ball. Sakura, if you miss this, I told myself, I will personally punch you. I took a deep breath and pushed the stick forewords so that it came in contact with the ball. I didn't miss but the ball only moved a couple of centimetres. Wow, that failed. Sasuke laughed softly and I looked up at him with an angry expression on my face.
"I'm sorry," He said, trying to stifle his laughter, "the expression on your face was just so funny."
"Liar," I muttered under my breath.
"Here, watch." Sasuke said, as took a stick and positioned it in front of the white ball.
"Put your hands like this and then put more force behind your hit." He explained. I was leaning on my stick and made no move to copy his actions. I hated him teaching me something.
"You know, we have to play three games before we can get out of here so if I were you I'd just learn this and get it over with. It'll be better for both of us." Sasuke suddenly said annoyed.
"Fine." I said, and gave him a sarcastic look. Then, I copied his movements.
"No," Sasuke said, walking up to me. "Place your hand like this." Sasuke was standing behind me and I felt his breath on my neck. He took my hand and was about to position my fingers so that I would be able to hit the ball properly when an electric shock went through me. I knew what had caused it: his touch. Apparently he had felt it too because he pulled his hand back so quickly that I barely saw him move. For a moment there was so much tension between us that I thought I could hear it crackling in the air. The intense tension disappeared when Sasuke stood up straight and cleared his throat. He took a step away from me before he said, like nothing had happened: "Try it."
I ended up getting through three games of pool. I got better the longer we played but it was inevitable that Sasuke won all three of the games. By the time we were done I still had an hour until dinner and decided to go up to my room to watch some more TV, get changed and maybe take a shower. Then dinner with Sasuke. I sighed. I was not looking forewords to an awkward dinner with a very hot, but also very annoying guy.
Wow Finally over guys did take me a very long time please review and tell me if i should make chapter 2!
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Which couple do you like and why?
A) SasuSaku
B)SasuHina
C)SasuNaru
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