Chapter 2

-Sasuke's POV-

"Shit I'm gonna be late." I sped around the corner in my dark cherry cadillac, my car screaming past a group of jocks who all flipped me off and jeered at me from their cheap convertible. 'Imbeciles.' I pulled expertly into one of the faculty parking places, threw the car into park, grabbed my messenger bag, and hopped out onto the pavement. Shutting my door behind me, I saw my least favorite person approaching with his new squeeze, Temari. 'What a douche…'

"Well, if it isn't Sasuke, what's the matter you still listening to that moronic guardian of yours?"

"Don't you have someone to screw, right now? I mean besides the skank on your arm?"

Neji lunged forward and grabbed my shirt; I wasn't too big so he managed to pick me up a little.

"What'd you say, Uchiha?"

I shook myself out of his grip and headed to class,

"Fuck off, I'm late for class." I said and began walking away. With that I received a swift kick to the back and fell forward. As I pushed myself up I felt a sharp heel dig into my back. My face was forced to the ground as I heard Temari cackling, like the evil bitch she is,

"You're too easy, Sasuke." she said between laughs. I felt Neji stomp down on the back of my knee cap harshly. I remained still, wincing from the pain. I felt Temari finally remove her heel and with that I rose to my feet and punched Neji with full force, causing him to fall back and giving me my chance to dart.

I looked up from my biology class to see a figure enter the classroom late. He had black hair cut short, emo, except the way he wore it was more punk. He wore a black 3 days grace shirt with a striped long-sleeved shirt beneath that with white and black stipes. His jeans were faded and torn at the knees, and he wore black converse. His messenger bag was army green with bullets on the side of it.

"Hey, Slacker. You're late, again." I watched him take a seat as the professor gave him an all-knowing look.

"I had a small detour, sorry." The pale teen said with obvious irritation. The teacher smacked the back of the student's head before walking up to the front, his long, spiky white hair waved behind him in a dignified manner.

"I don't want to hear about your sex-capades, Sasuke… or do I?" he added with a grin, whipping out a small notepad and paper from seemingly nowhere. 'Why are all the teachers here perverted?' I sighed and rested my head on my hand.

"Why don't you knock it off and teach me something for once." The student angsted. I looked away from the two and saw that Ino was looking over at me with a smile. My eyes widened, 'She's choosing to look at me when there's this scene playing out before us and I'm doing nothing?' All of a sudden I felt the person behind me kick my foot lightly. It was Choji. I heard a slight sliding noise I brought my foot to meet his, but it was gone, instead beneath my foot the surface was slick, as if there was a paper of some sort. I pulled it forward with my foot and looked, it was a note. 'A note? No way it's from Ino.' I picked it up swiftly to see it labeled, "New kid". I glanced at the two still bickering and furtively opened the note.

Dear New Kid,

Hi! I saw you with Choji today. You were trying to pick up the trash when he stopped you. Hopefully you'll rub off on that pig.

So where are you from? What's your name? Mine's Ino.

'Hmm… so she thinks I know nothing about her.' I tapped my pencil to my chin thoughtfully.

Ino,

My name is Shikamaru. I was actually born in this town, just the east side and lived there until four years ago when we moved to Australia. We just moved back though, it was too intense for my parents.

'Shit I'm starting to ramble, better make it short.' I erased the part about my parents and added.

I still am getting used to this school though, would it be alright if you showed me around some time?

-Shikamaru

'That should be good.' I folded the note back up and, when the teacher wasn't looking, blatantly threw it over the desks at her. She caught it, obviously surprised. I simply smirked and went back to watching the teacher.

"So are we at an understanding?" Sasuke asked, obviously wanting to move on.

"Yep. Detention, go, now." The professor grinned and returned to the head of the class.

"What? But you said-"

"I said get your skinny ass out of my class, Uchiha." He turned on the projector as the disgruntled boy rose and left the class promptly.

I waited for Ino outside the class, Choji showed up first.

"You don't have a chance I told you, Shikamaru." He pulled out a bag of beef jerky and began munching on that next, barbeque flavor. As I turned to reply I saw a flash of blonde hair leave the classroom.

"Hey, Shikamaru." she glanced momentarily at Choji, wondering whether to greet or ignore him.

"Hey," I replied. Choji decided to mosey off, though obviously peeved. "So, I heard your guardian won't let you date, but I'd like to get to know you anyways. Is there somehow…"

" Actually, a new rule has been set for my brother and I. If he goes on a date, then I can. So until then… I could always use a tutor for English."

"Well, wait," I began, "I guess the English could work, but how hard is it for a guy to want to date?"

"Um…" She hesitated with a small laugh, she was cute. "You know that guy who came into class late?"

"Yeah," I replied simply. We started to walk down the hall, Lunch was next.

"He's my brother."

"What? You two look nothing alike!" 'Aw man, this is bad. That guy didn't look as though he had a stick up his butt, it was more like a whole tree!'

"That's because we aren't technically related, we were just adopted by the same person. In fact I used to have this crush on him… I sort of still do." She looked off as she pondered this.

"But then why…" 'Man, girls are so confusing.'

"Think about it Shikamaru. We aren't allowed to go near the opposite gender except for each other, plus he isn't related to me, and he's really good looking."

"But why would you be interested in me then?" I wondered aloud.

"Well, you don't live with me, and you're someone brand new, all girls are interested in the new guy. Plus who knows, Sasuke could be totally wrong for me, maybe the right person just hasn't come along yet." She seemed thoughtful when she said this and I couldn't help but smile. "So, maybe tomorrow at lunch we could meet?"

"Sure." As she started walking away to her group in the lunchroom she turned,

"Oh, and one more thing, the reason why he can't find a date so easily is because he's gay. Actually, maybe he might be bi, I don't know but he likes guys, at least I know that much." 'Damn, this could be harder than I thought.' I had already made up my mind that it would be easiest to get a date with Ino by finding one for her brother myself. 'Choji doesn't seem gay plus I need someone who's going to give this Sasuke guy a run for his money. Since I'm not sure if he likes girls a guy would be the best choice, but where do you get a guy who would want to date him, are there even many gay guys in this school?' And again there's the problem that he can't be a complete fruit. 'Hmm, or if I could bribe someone.' The only thing that talks better than words is money, but I have none.

"Yo, how'd it go?" I turned to see Choji carrying a tray stocked high with almost two portions of every dish.

"Alright, except that I need to find her brother a date."

"What? Sasuke, dude no way that's even more impossible than dating her. He's gay."

"I know, she told me."

"So why would you want to find him a date, aren't you the one looking for a date with Ino?"

I sighed, sitting down with my new friend and pulling out my bagged lunch.

"Yeah but…" I sighed again, "Maybe this whole thing is too troublesome. Their guardian made a new rule that Ino can date if Sasuke gets one. I had a plan to bribe someone into dating Sasuke so I could go out with Ino but I don't have any money, and I don't know the students well enough to know who would date Sasuke."

"Haha!" He munched down piece of pizza, "You know who has that much money, Neji, and he's already got a crush on Ino so there's no way you could ask him."

And then I got the greatest idea I'd had this whole schoolyear.

"Choji, I need you to talk to Neji for me, you think you could do that?"

"Uh, probably not…there's no way a pretty boy like him is going to want to listen to me."

"He might if there's something in it for him."