A/N: FINALLY. I am updating. This is no dream. School has been biting my ass harder than before. Being a sophomore, with crappy ass teachers and hard ass classes are stressful. Speaking of ass… This piece of crap is finally up. Enjoy~ Btw, I failed my finals… If you guys ought to know. ; A ;


The girl raised her eyebrows in curiosity. She doesn't recall a classmate who goes by that name. She knew he was a top student but never really saw his face. She looked around the class to make-out their names. Who is Akasuna Sasori? She never liked to talk to anyone other than Ino and Hinata. So it's most likely she hasn't been making wide friendships with people in her class.

"Hm, who is this Sasori? I'd like to meet him since he's the top student and all." The rosette smiled to her self as she paced inside her classroom where several students sat lazily onto their desks. "Everyone seems so distressed… Probably because they don't know who the hell their partners are."

"Have you heard? Sasori is going to be partners with Haruno this time." A girl whispered to her friend as she was trying her best to keep it down, but Sakura had heard her clearly as her name was involved in their conversation. She wondered more about Sasori and decided to listen in.

"Eh, you're right. I saw the list. Sakura's in for so much devastation. I mean he's smart and all, but the things he can do to her… Especially Haruno-san… She's so frail and fragile. She's so small and looks so helpless." The friend replied sighing and glancing at the rosette.

"Hm, well let's see how long she'll be able to cope with Akasuna. I heard he likes to take girls' virginities. I wouldn't be surprised if she would lose it in a day or two after working together in each other's houses." The same girl added. "I heard Sasori lives in a dorm while Haruno-san lives alone in an apartment. What are the chances she'll lose it in her house? No one lives with her and I also heard Sasori's room mate is a total player."

"Eh, I feel so scared for Haruno-san. I wish I could do something about it." The student sighed as she shrugged it off. "She's very independent, so I trust her to make wise decisions."

Sakura furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. Why were girls worried for her? Is this Sasori person a rapist or something? She was clueless and irritated thinking about the rumors. She didn't believe in them, so why would she be so caught up in it. It's not like she knew him.

"Ugh… Fuck it. Remember Sakura, those are just rumors. Just rumors…." The rosette shook her head, her soft pink locks swaying towards the patterns of her movement. "Who is Sasori?"

Sakura then sat onto her seat resting her head onto her hand. She gazed out the view of the gray autumn sky from the class' window. She thought to herself everything was going to be fine. Even if those rumors were true, she knew she won't give her virginity to anyone, especially to someone she doesn't even know.

"Ah… I 'm so tie urd." Sakura playfully told herself laying her head onto the desk, closing her eyes. "When is Kakashi-sensei going to come to class early? He's so uptight about people being on time and he's the latest one here. Meh… I'm going to sleep."

Sakura yawned letting her head relax physically and mentally. She was on the edge of entering a deep sleep. She was there, until she had heard the classroom door slide open roughly with lazy footsteps following afterwards. Kakashi-sensei, she thought. She could tell it was him due to the class' sudden silence.

"Oh, so Kakashi-sensei is finally half-early this time." Thepinkette thought to herself and ascended her head from the desk.

She was wrong, completely wrong.

"Oh… false alarm…" Sakura bitterly said, "Damn, looking at him makes my hip hurt." She rolled her eyes as she had seen the familiar and quite heavy redhead from yesterday enter the class.

The redhead gave the rosette a menacing glare causing Sakura to shiver a bit. "What's with him?" she thought as the boy sat down into his assigned seat. She was supposed to be the person doing that to him. She rolled her eyes and let her head rest onto the hard table waiting for her silver-haired teacher.

/

"Now class, I will ask you all to stand up and form a circle around the whole room. And when I call you and your partner up I am going to place assign you to a seat together. Now please come up, Yamanaka Ino and Hyuga Hinata. You both are Group one. You both will sit over there by the window next to each other." The silver-haired young man pointed to their assigned seats while looking at the sheet of paper.

"Great, Come on Hinata! I call the window." The blonde ditzy young woman giggled grabbing the fair eyed girl's wrist.

"U-um, Okay…" Hinata stuttered as she reached her seat.

"Uzumaki Naruto and Inuzuka Kiba… You both will be at the very front, since you both are annoying knuckleheads. Group two." The teacher's comment towards the two partners caused laughter to uproar across the whole classroom.

A blond student stepped out of the circle, his ears red from embarrassment. "Yeah well, I hope your partners will be just as bad as mine!" He called out to the class hyena-like.

"Whatever, dead last. I'm probably the only one that's going to do crap in this project." Kiba rolled his eyes and paced towards his seat lifting his legs onto the desk crossing his arms.

"Hehe…" Sakura giggled at their amusing scene. "What losers…"

The whole class seemed to laugh except the hazel-orbed redhead who just sat on the teacher's desk waiting to be called, his eyes pasted onto Sakura's form as he knew surely that she is his partner.

"Alright, then after that refreshing joy of laughter- Haruno Sakura and Akasuna Sasori, come forth."

The laughter soon died down immediately as the names were called. Kakashi as well remained silent and waited for the students.

The rosette looked at her surroundings as they had been eyeing her with obvious worry. With the class's intimidating looks, Sakura hesitantly stepped forward and looked around for any obvious movement indicating that he or she is her partner.

"Um… Akasuna Sasori?" Sakura called out questionably to her class.

Slowly, the redhead alighted from the teacher's desk, stepping forward into the class and walked towards Sakura nonchalantly. This movement caused Sakura to widen her eyes. That bastard was his partner? That boy from yesterday? The pinkette's mind could not accept it and was preparing to explode but her body remained motionless.

Kakashi-sensei had noticed the odd atmosphere and broke out the silence with a cough. "Well, then… Haruno, Akasuna. You both will be sitting next to each other in seat fifteen and sixteen."

Immediately, Sasori walked towards his seat, ignoring her and sat down looking out the window with crossed arms. Sakura, on the other hand took a bit of a while to have her teacher's voice to generate into her brain.

"Haruno… Your seat." Kakashi-sensei patiently reminded.

"H-huh? Oh right." The pinkette finally came back into reality and paced towards her seat, not bothering to avert her gaze towards her newly assigned partner. "I can't believe this… Talk about coincidence."

Knowing something was suspicious the silver haired instructor eyed both the partners then continued on. After all partners were put together in assigned seats, the classroom was put in a silent daze, except for the small mutters coming from Naruto and Kiba. The trail of silence was then broken by Kakashi sensei's small cough.

/

The bell rang to dismiss class and the rosette packed her stuff as fast as she could, wanting to get away from his partner as soon as possible. Though, she doesn't really see the point in escaping since she will be going to his place and vice versa, but she just wants to keep distance from him. Her sore hip was pleading to lose the sight of him.

"Got to get out. Got to get out." The rosette thought repeatedly as she stuffed her books inside her satchel.

Sasori's eyes were trained on Sakura- watching her carefully with obvious amusement. Sakura's eyes then averted to meet his own.

"What's so funny?" she asked bitterly as the whole classroom was only occupied by the two.

"Just your fear and your need to get out of here." He chuckles in amusement, "Since we're the only two left in class."

The blood-haired young man then paces towards the alerted Sakura, bringing her to back up into a desk. With no where to escape, Sasori barricaded the rosette and leaned into her as close as possible.

"Why can't you move, Sakura?" she thought as her heart gave a thumping reaction.

He leaned in closer his lips right next to the pinkette's ear. He breathed softly ready to voice out a whisper to Sakura.

"What are you thinking about right now?" Sasori whispered as he placed Sakura's pink locks behind her ear. "I'm curious, with your look right now it seems as if-"

"Sakura?"

A thankful interruption flows out around the classroom. It was a soft familiar voice that rescued Sakura from her situation with the boy. The pinkette smiled with relief and looked past the redhead to see her pale eyed friend, Hinata.

"Hinata! Thank goodness you're here!" Sakura replied with relief, as she headed towards her friend giving Sasori's shoulder a violent shove with her own in the process.

"Was I interrupting something, Sakura? I don't want to be a bother." The pale eyed girl asked as she gave Sasori (who didn't bother looking at them both) a quick glance.

"No, it was an impeccable timing. Thank you." Sakura shivered as she shakes her friend's hand, still in shock with the redhead's reaction.

"Oh alright… Well Ino and I were wondering if you could come and go out with us today. But it seems like you're busy talking with your partner. Of course, since you both have the highest scores in our grade." She shrugs as she looks down at the ground.

"Going out would be lovely. Er… Just let me pack up alright? Please stay with me and don't go anywhere!" Sakura cried. "No, it's alright; we are smart so we could finish it without even breaking a sweat, right?

"A-alright…?" Hinata replied in a confused manner, clueless of the whole situation.

She rushed back towards her desk to continue on where she stopped. The rosette packed her notebooks neatly, taking her time knowing that Sasori will not do anything rash while her friend was around. She placed the last book into her bag noticing a small note lying nonchalantly onto her desk. She knew it hasn't been there the whole time and picked it up. Knowing who it was from; Sakura glanced towards Sasori's direction but seeing he had already left the room.

"Where's Sasori?" The pinkette asked Hinata raising her eyebrows in curiosity.

"Akasuna-kun? Um, he left a few seconds ago. Do you want me to call him?" Hinata tilted her head in question.

"No!" She abruptly replied, resulting in a demanding tone that made Hinata shudder. "Sorry. Uh no thanks, Hinata, he's probably in a hurry."

Sakura crumpled the note tightly onto her fist as Hinata nodded in reply. She thought again and placed the note inside her bag in case it was a school related message. Afterwards, the two girls finally left the classroom to meet up with their blonde friend, whose arms were crossed and feet tapping impatiently for their slow pace.

"Took you guys long enough, I thought I was going to stay here all afternoon." The blonde rolled her eyes and joined in the group.

"Sorry, I had to have a talk with my partner." Sakura said apologetically. "He's not the most approachable type of guy, if you ask me."

"Yes, and I had to wait for her." Hinata added quietly.

"Talk? With Sasori? About what?" Ino asked bluntly.

Sakura bit her lip with hesitation to answer, "I-I'll tell you when we're going to wherever we're going… Where the hell are we going, Ino Pig?" she smiled sheepishly trying to change the subject.

"You know, just a nearby café." Ino replied linking arms with the pinkette.

"Hmph, it better be good." Sakura laughed linking her arms with her two best friends. "Well let's get going!"

The three girls then headed out of the school together, inseparable. Back in the building, Sasori, on top of the school's rooftop he sat absentmindedly. His phone suddenly went off as someone called him. He reached inside his bag and took the call.

"Where the hell did you run off to? How dare you fucking leave me here?" a girl's voice yelled with expressive anger.

Sasori didn't reply but listened and smiled with amusement as the girl throws fits onto the phone. Then he hung up.

"Hn."

Then a smirk stained the redheaded boy's face.

/

"Wait, so you're partners with Akasuna, Forehead Girl? Tough luck on that one, hun…" Ino shook her head in disapproval as she took a bite of ice cream. "He's the guy I said that gave off a bad air to me. You know an eerie personality... His background is just too… inappropriate? And the rumors too…"

"Rumors? Not again, Ino…" Sakura rolled her eyes as she took a sip of her frappuccino. "How do rumors even do you justice, if it's not about you?"

"No listen to me, Sakura!" Ino retorted seriously, now standing up. "You don't know how much shit you're put in, now that you're Akasuna's partner. You're in real shit now. I know and personally talked to his victims."

"I-Ino, please keep it down." Hinata pleaded tugging onto her blonde friend's school uniform.

"Really, and what did those "victims" say?" Sakura raised her eyebrow sipping onto her drink absentmindedly.

"He slept and left them in the middle of the night."

"Well that's those girls's fault for choosing to sleep with him. If they regret it, why would they even let themselves get screwed?" The rosette debated unknowingly trying to defend the bastard she despised.

"Have you even talked to your partner, before? If you did, he would have flirted with you by now…" Ino replied calmly.

Sakura opened her mouth to reply, but no words came out from it. She was speechless on how accurate Ino described her encounter with the redhead's true nature. Was he flirting or to just simply tease the rosette for her over exaggerating attitude at their first actual encounter? Who knows?

"Sakura… just watch your back alright? We can't really help you since you live alone." Hinata said earnestly trying to comfort her pinkette friend.

Ino sighed and nodded agreeing with the pale eyed girl finishing off her treat.

"Good luck, hun. We'll be here, no matter what. If he dares to touch your cute face I'll personally kick his ass." The blonde said raising a clenched fist, making the atmosphere a bit more comforting.

"Thanks, Ino." Sakura laughs. "Enough with, my partner. What's your research paper about?"

"Oh we're going to research on the code of the samurai's and ninjas. A bunch of rubbish, but it's an easy with Hinata here. I heard her family were great weapon makers for samurais back in the Edo Era." Ino replied head locking Hinata with her arms. "Right, Hinata?"

"I-I think so…" the pale eyed girl stammered sheepishly. "What about you and Akasuna-kun, Sakura?"

"Japanese mythology, you know; Oni? Teke Teke?"

"Interesting…" Ino replied as she wiped her mouth.

"It's getting late, I should probably get going." Sakura started as she glanced at Ino's expression.

"Eh….? Now? It's only five o'clock…" Hinata asked as she hadn't finished her treat.

"Well you know, I like to keep myself on track with work." Sakura smiled apologetically as she waved at them. "I'll go on first, bye guys."

"As expected from Top Student." The blonde shrugged looking back and then towards Hinata. "Well we could still go shopping… Just the two of us!"

"Sure… Alright..." Hinata replied as she finishes her hot chocolate and follows the blonde out of the café.

/

The rosette paced slowly towards her apartment complex, her mind set on the mysterious redheaded classmate. Were those rumors about him true? Did he really sleep with numerous girls in a one-night stand?

"I don't really give a damn anymore." Sakura told herself as she headed up towards the stairs of her apartment.

The door gave a loud creak as the rosette entered her dorm, dropping her bag down onto floor she slouched onto her couch and closed her eyes. She thought about what Sasori Akasuna. How could a total player be one of the top students in school along with her? Maybe he's too handsome that everyone makes up foolish rumors about him… Maybe…

"Why am I even thinking about him?" Sakura yelled as she sat up straight breathing heavily. "I don't even give a damn about him, why am I so worked up? Ugh… Screw this, I'll just get in, do my work, and leave. Don't even bother looking at him. Don't look at those hypnotizing eyes."

She slouched back onto her seat and looked back at her bag, "Well, got to start homework then." She sighed and headed to her bedroom dumping the books onto her bed.

She quickly drained her books, page by page as she continues to work, ignoring the cramping pain on her fingers. She never thought of procrastinating on anything, as time was important to her. After a while, Sakura reached out for another book realizing that she had finished all her work, unknowingly. All she sees on the bed was the crumpled note she had found on her desk. The rosette glanced at the note for a while before picking it up. Hesitantly, Sakura unfolded the note and began to read the message. After a moment, the pinkette's green optics widened.

"It can't be…" Sakura said to herself in fear.

Her hands begin to shake, her fingers begin to stiffen. Then, she let go of the parchment letting it drop onto the floor by her feet.

The note read in neat elegantly neat handwriting:

I know your deep secrets and past.

- Sasori


A/N: Dear Readers,

I am very happy to finish this before school starts once again. I'm very sorry to the bone. I still hope all you sweet lovelies still wait for things to come. I'm still alive and willing to update. Please bare with me. I'm sure I can update sooner unlike this time. I guess that's my New Year's Resolution. Happy New Years, Everyone! Reviews are appreciated. Confused? Please Message me and I'll explain it in a courteous manner. Thanks!

Note:

Oni – means Demon

Teke Teke – Japanese mythology about a girl with no lower body