"You cheated on me?"

That's me: Akasuna Sasori. I led a pretty good life up to this point, having good grades to wow the teachers with, wonderful parents who support me in anything, awesome friends to joke around and hang with, and oh yeah….

"Well Sasori, what am I supposed to say?"

That's my girlfriend, Yamanaka Ino. (1) She's a gorgeous, nearly platinum blonde girl with pretty baby blue eyes and nice curves. She's also supposed to be the girl I cater to exclusively as a perk of being my girlfriend, but as you should have already guessed, we were currently in the middle of a fight.

"You can start with the truth, Ino!"

"Okay, yes, I kissed him, Sasori. But that's all that happened, I swear! It's okay!"

I blew a frustrated sigh, raking my fingers through my hair. Did she really think kissing another guy, a guy she swore she did not have feelings for, mind you, would turn out okay in the end in regards to our relationship? "Why would you think that? Why would you think that was going to be okay?"

"I didn't mean to Sasori, it just sort of happened."

It just sort of happened. What kind of fool did she take me for? I was not born yesterday. (And for you smart asses out there who are thinking to themselves, 'Well that's obvious,' you can suck it, because you obviously can't recognise sarcasm.) Ino just glared at me, probably-finally-keying into the fact that I was not exactly happy with her at the moment.

"Hey, nothing happened, okay?"

At that, I let out a disbelieving laugh that almost sounded like a bark. "Nothing happened? Ino, you kissed another guy. Do you understand what that means? That means you met with someone outside this relationship and then kissed that guy who was outside this relationship. Outside. I don't think you grasp the concept of fidelity. You obviously don't." The glare did not let up, but I did not really care at the present moment. After all, I could also deliver a mean stare when I wanted to. (And boy, did I want to.)

I looked around at the growing crowd of faces. Dammit, this was not where I planned to do this. Having a fight over personal problems at school was like announcing to the world, "Hi, I'm Sasori. Would you like to stand around obnoxiously while I try to patch up the holes in my crumbling life?" Yeah, that was not even close to what I wanted or needed right now.

"Sasori, I didn't go all the way with him. That's got to count for something, right?" Her amazing blue eyes pleaded with me to give her another chance, to forget this ever happened and try to strive once more for the happy future with her that had seemed so attainable the half hour before all this.

Now, don't get me wrong. This was not the first time this had happened with Ino (the first, and only recorded, occurrence being when she was dating the school heartthrob Uchiha Sasuke-one of my best friends. He then retaliated by sticking his tongue down Uzumaki Naruto's-his best friend's-throat, and they have been together ever since.), but it was the first time it had happened whilst she was with me. I had to think about what I should do for the relationship for a moment because I seriously doubted she ever stop cheating on her boyfriends.

After a few minutes of debate, I lifted my head to look her straight in the eye. I sighed. "I'm sorry Ino, I can't forgive and forget this. I'd like to stay friends, but I can't be with you anymore. I'm sorry." I added the last one for good measure and to hopefully soften the blow a little better. She gaped at me for a second, probably not believing I would not stay with her, and then abruptly turned on her heel and ran off. Her friends, who were interwoven in the group, shook their heads in disdain for my actions before running after her. Everyone else, sensing the spectacle was over, went off to their respective homes or interschool activities (the bastards), leaving me there to wonder why I could not satisfy Ino enough.

Since I thought I was alone, you can image my surprise when a hand lightly touched my shoulder in comfort. (I did not jump into the air when this happened…I'm not a sissy little girl.) Sasuke and Naruto stood at my side, reassuring smiles on their faces.

"It will be okay," Naruto soothed. He probably would have been touching me in comfort like boyfriend, but his arms were currently laced around the waist of said boyfriend. "You'll get over her and be as good as new in a couple of days. You'll see."

I sunk to my knees and Sasuke followed, forcing Naruto down with us. I did not care, however, as this was my time of need, not Naruto's. Immediately regretting my own thought, I sniffled and clung to a compassionate Naruto. His lover was less than sympathetic. Jerk.

"Can't say I didn't warn you."

I looked up from Naruto's chest to gaze disbelievingly into Sasuke's onyx eyes. When his expression did not change, I tried to win his sorrow with glistening puppy eyes-he still was not moved.

"What? I told you she was bad news, but you chose not to listen to me. 'Oh no Sasuke, you're wrong.' " Sasuke created a high pitched voice in what I have to say was a pretty poor imitation of myself. " 'She won't do that to me.' " Naruto looked angry at that and was about to open his mouth in my defense, but one look from his boyfriend and Naruto decided he would rather get some ass tonight than protect my feelings.

Thank you Naruto, you are such a great friend. I love you too. Sasuke smirked at me and I swear for a moment I forgot we were even friends. That's how much these two care for me. Sasuke did not yet to think he was in the wrong.

"I mean, I hate to say I told you so, but…. Maybe next time, the thought of getting in someone's pants won't make you as giddy as listening to your friend." (2)

Okay, that went beyond jerk and started to enter into Bastard Country, a land I loved to death and consequently called home. And I did not like anyone else invading my home.

"I can be a bigger bastard than you, Sasuke." I warned. We stared each other down for a while before a twitch of our lips appeared on mirror sides of our mouths. It was not long before full-blown smiles erupted on across the lower halves of our faces.

"I'm sorry she hurt you." Sasuke said, standing and brushing invisible dust and grime from his clothes. (He always looked perfect, one of the reasons I could not believe we were even as good of friends as we were.) "I did you warn you though, can't say I didn't."

Naruto was helped up by his loving, and apparently doting as well, honey bunches of sweets. (Or whatever that cereal is called-that's his pet name for Sasuke.) I was left to get up by myself. Just as I got to my feet, some random kid bumped into me from behind. It was only thanks to my amazing balancing skills-with a little help from Naruto's arms-that I managed to stay standing. If I had fallen, that kid would not have lived long enough to see his or her mother regretting having such an idiotic child. I turned to see who had been so careless, but all I glimpsed was long, honey blonde hair fluttering around the corner and, more than likely, out the school's entrance doors. That girl better hope I never see her again.

A/N: That's all for now, I promise not to keep you guys waiting too long. Please review, if only to tell me what I'm doing right with this story and what I need to improve on. Thanks!

Tata for now!

~theflawintheplan