A/N: Thanks you SO much to everyone that added this story to their alerts / reviewed. It really means a lot! *dances* Cookies for you! ^_^ without further ado….. The second chapter!

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Weeks go by, a glare here, an insult there, I still hate the Uchiha. Everyone else is telling me to just ignore him, but I can't. I enjoy pissing him off. Why? I have no idea...

"For your final project, you will all have a partner and together you will..." My professor droned on and on. I tapped the toe of my shoe impatiently against the floor. I wasn't really listening; he talked about the same things now, the final and what will be on it. He had been warning us about the project, so it was no surprise.

He began listing off pairs; thankfully, I didn't have to wait very long.

"Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha." He called.

Wait.

What?

Uchiha?

Hell. No.

Not him.

Anyone but him.

Please?

A wave of dread washed over me. I mean really! The one person I don't want to be paired with in this whole class, and I'm paired with him?

What'd I ever do to upset the fates?

I glanced across the medium sized lecture hall to see dark onyx eyes staring at me, his eyes not showing a single flicker of emotion. Like I was a wall. Like I wasn't even there.

What. The. Hell.

I shoot him my best glare. To keep myself from throttling the guy right now, I imagine killing him multiple times in various violent ways. That always helps.

"Your partners are your partners, no changing. I'm serious." The professor's eyes narrowed at us. As if daring us to see what would happen if we even thought of switching partners.

I guess I'm stuck with Uchiha then. The bell rings, I'm the first one out of the room. I do not want to deal with Uchiha now. I'll look him up in the directory later. I get all of 100 feet away from the lecture hall when a hand grabs my arm, I spin around to meet the same onyx eyes I saw earlier.

Sasuke.

Damn him, couldn't he just leave me be, until I figured out how I was going to do well on this project with him as my partner.

"What do you want?" I snap.

"We are partners, did you not hear?" He asked, a slight hint of mockery woven in between his words.

I grit my teeth to keep from growling at the jerk. "Yes, I know. You want to start right away?" I ask, acid leaking though my voice.

A flicker of something dashed across his eyes, what was it? Or am I just going crazy? Right now, probably the latter.

"Hn. The sooner we are done with this the better." He says in a strained voice, as if he is trying to keep from his anger from exploding.

"Fine, the library then? We can get some other books there." I sigh, already tired of dealing with the holier-then-thou Uchiha.

"6 o'clock." He states, it's not even a question. And he walks away.

Well then, this is going to be as pleasant as pulling teeth. I adjust my bag, and walk to my next class.

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By 5:30 I'm about ready to die. I'm dead tired from my other classes, I strive under stress, but after anything as important as a "surgery" I feel like I could sleep for weeks, and I do not want to deal with Uchiha.

"Ya know what Karin? I'm changing into my pajamas." I tell the surprised redhead as I strip off my jeans and T-shirt. Exchanging them for dark purple PJ pants and a white tank-top.

"You're going to the library in your PJs?" She asks doubtfully. Looking up from her laptop with bloodshot eyes. Her eyes looked like she had been staring at a computer screen for far too long. She, also had finals coming up, and she was as stressed as I was.

"He can deal, I'm tired, and this is much more comfortable." I shrugged, pulling my short, pink hair into a ponytail. I let small pieces of hair fall, framing my face. Damn layers.

"Okay then, please don't kill him. Please?" Karin asked, her eyes back on her laptop screen.

"No promises." I mutter. Slinging my bag over my shoulder for the nth time today, and head off to the library.

The library isn't that hard to find, it's like the main landmark for the campus. It's an oddly shaped building, with slanted roofs, and the large glass windows that made it look like a 5 year old designed it. Plus, my hall is the closest to it so it's a relatively short walk. I took a small detour and got coffee. No one even looked twice at me, I suppose many people study in their PJs.

the library was excessively quiet, which isn't usually the case. Usually this close to finals there should be a lot more students here. I realized that there was probably some kind of event going on, a swim meet perhaps?

"You're early." A dark-smooth-like-honey voice says from behind me. I yelp and spin around.

"Jesus Uchiha! You scared me!" I exclaim, putting a hand on my chest. Oh god, did I just think his voice was dark and smooth like honey? It must be the lack of sleep.

"Hn." He grunted, walking right past me to a table. He sat his bag down on a table towards the back, and sat down. I walk over, doing the same thing.

"Okay, so what do you want to do for the project?" I ask, telling myself that staying calm is the best policy.

Our project is pretty easy surprisingly, we have to create a review lesson for the whole class. Write the notes, teach it, everything.

"Weren't you paying attention?" He replied, not even trying to cover up the smug tone in his voice.

I struggle to keep my voice level.

"Yes, I was. I'm asking your opinion, despite how much I don't care to hear it."

"Hn. I don't care." He shrugs. I can feel my eye twitching.

"Really! Help me out here. What do you want to do!"

We continue this for about 10 minutes before we both agree on a topic.

I take out one of my textbooks and begin flipping through the pages, looking for useful information. I feel bad for my textbooks, I abuse them so. I'll write on their pages, fold some to preserve my place, and I've dropped each of them quite a few times. I write down the pages I want to go back to later, after I'm done with the jerk.

I tune everything out for what feels like hours. Until I start reading the same line over and over again, and everything just turns into a page of fuzzy words, and then I see nothing at all.

"Woman." a demanding voice snaps. I open my eyes, and notice my face is flat against my textbook. What did he just call me? Just to spite him I ignore him.

"Sakura." He growls, not attempting to mask his irritation this time.

"Yes?" I reply as innocently as possible, tearing my face from the book. Damn.

"You fell asleep." He smirks.

"I noticed." I replied, yawning.

"You talk. Quite a bit." All the blood had drained from my face. No I don't. At least, I don't think I do. The only person I've really shared a room with is Karin, and she sleeps like a rock. So she wouldn't know. Hinata had mentioned it a few times, but I figured stuff like this was few and far between.

"No I don't." I glared at him. Maybe he was trying to mess with me.

"Hn."

I knew it. He probably didn't hear a thing, "Okay. I'm going now." Looking outside, it's dark, really dark. How long had I been out?

"By yourself?" He asks, slightly doubtful.

"Well duh. Unless you feel the need to walk me to my room. Which I don't think you do."

"It's 11o'clock."

He let me sleep for 5 hours?

"Jerk, My roommate is probably thinking I'm in a dark alley right now getting attacked."

"Whatever. Don't get kidnapped."

It's a short walk to my room, I really shouldn't be scared. At the same time, campus police wasn't that great at apprehending suspicious looking characters.

"Don't get me thinking about it!"

"You scared?" a mocking tone in his voice.

"N-no." I reply, my voice suddenly smaller. What the hell? I'm always the loud one.

"Ugh. I'll walk you." He sighs like it's the end of the world, and starts packing up his own stuff.

I shoot him a glare. "I'll be fine." My voice is low, as if I'm ordering him to do as I say.

"I don't want to be held responsible if you get killed, or whatever. I like this as much as you do." he grumbled, now standing up and waiting next to me. I gather my things, and walk with him to the door.

The second I leave the library I want to go back inside. It's freezing out here. It's late May for crying out loud, it should not be this cold. I shiver involuntarily, the Uchiha looks like he's about to say something before something else grabs his attention.

"Sasuke!" a loud, cheery voice boomed, I saw the Uchiha flinch visibly before turning around.

"What do you want?" His voice is cold. I turn around to see another guy around our age, with very light blonde hair and bright blue eyes, wearing lots of orange. His face was kind, smiling at the dark, and brooding man next to me. Total opposite.

"Nothing, I was just about to look for you. I got worried." He smiled mischievously before taking a step forward and draping his arms around a very surprised Uchiha's shoulders. I bite my tongue to fight back laughter. Oh god, I'm never letting this go. Uchiha pushed him away.

"Personal bubble Naruto, we've gone over this." He glowered at the guy. He just smiled before turning his attention to me. Naruto? The named seemed familiar.

"Hey. I'm Naruto." He totally ignored Uchiha and took a step forward. After what I just witnessed, I took an involuntary step back, not wishing to have my personal bubble violated.

"Sakura." I reply, acknowledging him with caution. Then it hits me, this is Hinata's friend. She likes him. Apparently they have similar classes, she really likes this guy. Odd, Hinata is so quiet and calm. Naruto is…..not.

"Nice to meet you." He says, shooting me a smile. Not even taking offense to the step back.

I shoot him a smile back, "Ditto."

"Okay, this is great and all, but some of us have to get up in 6 hours." Uchiha suddenly interrupts.

"Oh right, so you coming back to the dorm tonight, bastard?" Naruto asks. Uchiha doesn't even flinch at the insult. Wait? They were roommates? A gust of wind reminds me that it's late and I'm cold.

"Yeah." Uchiha nods and grabs my arm, pulling me away.

"Bye Sakura! Nice to meet you." He calls before walking away in the opposite direction.

"Lemme go!" I snarl, yanking my arm out of his grasp. I continue walking, he just shoves his hands in his pockets and follows me. Stupid Uchiha. He doesn't have a first name, as far as I'm concerned he's just my partner and a total pain in the ass.

The rest of the walk is silent until we get in the dorm building.

"DAMN IT SUIGETSU. YOU LITTLE FUCKER!" A voice screeches.

"Shit." I mutter. It's not even Friday, why is he here?

Uchiha whistles. "Lovely."

"You have no idea." I mutter. They can take it elsewhere. I'm tired and I'm cold.

"Hn."

"I can walk from here. Later Uchiha." I sigh, I don't even want to thank the guy. Which is rude, I know, but I don't care.

"I have a first name, woman." He growls.

"Whatever. Uchiha." I call over my shoulder before walking away, not even bothering to see his reaction.

I walk the rest of the way to my room, when I reach the door I notice they are definitely not fighting. Shit. I need a place to crash. I left them alone and walked up to Tenten, Temari and Hinata's room. I knew someone would be awake. I knocked gently in case they were all asleep.

No one answered. I started to panic, I needed a place to stay. Right before I turned away, Temari opened the door.

"Sakura?" She asked, looking concerned. I gave her good reason too, I generally don't show up at people's door looking like I just woke up, in my PJs , with my bag.

"I was studying with Uchiha, I fell asleep, I woke up, and my room is occupied." I explain. I yawn again.

"Ew. I'm studying too, you can crash here. We won't mind." She smiles before opening the door all the way, revealing that while she may of been studying, she wasn't alone.

"Thanks..." I begin, until I see him. Sitting in the middle of the room surrounded by pillows and books, is a guy with dark hair pulled up into a ponytail and a very bored expression.

"Sakura, Shikamaru. Shikamaru, Sakura." Temari smiles. I smile at him and he just nods.

"Shikamaru is falling asleep on me, so I'm about to kick him out." Temari smiles, cracking her knuckles for emphasis.

"You are? Troublesome woman, my room is all the way across campus." He complains as he begins to pack up his stuff.

"Lazy ass, no it is not. It's like two halls down," She chuckles, "Besides, Sakura has no place to go. Now get out." She playfully shoves a scowling Shikamaru out the door.

"See you tomorrow Temari." He mumbled before she shuts the door.

I raise my eyebrows at her. This is the guy she hated. She certainly didn't act like it.

"What?" She blushes, her voice raising a few octaves.

"Nothing. Just, I thought you hated that guy." I smirk.

"Love and hate is a thin line I guess." She smiles softly, as if I would understand her.

"Unless you're me." I scoff. I do not love Sasuke. Anything but.

"Yeah..." She replies in a distance voice, a soft smile still playing at her lips. I love Temari to death, I really do but sometime she is just weird.

"I'm going to sleep now." I say once the couch is cleared off, promptly collapsing. My eyes immediately slide closed, the only time I realize anything is happening is when Temari, I think, drapes a blanket over me. My inner self smiles, she's the best.

A/N: Thanks for reading! I know that people are reading it, but I've only gotten a couple of reviews, and I'm still very appreciative of them. But I don't want to feel like I'm posting to thin air xP So if you want more, lemme know!

~Allie