She woke up early the next morning and made some breakfast. After she ate she took a shower, then went to her wardrobe to decide what she wanted to wear that day. After a thirty minute crisis, she decided on a long-sleeve black shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. Satisfied, she finished up in the bathroom and left the house. She wanted to walk to school to get a better view of their neighborhood, which wasn't that charming. Graffiti decorated most of the buildings she passed by. Feeling somewhat uneasy, she sped up to school, almost breaking into a run. She arrived there and headed straight to class. To her dismay, he was already there.
"Curses..."
She took her seat, took out a book, and read, waiting for class to start. Mr. Hatake was reading a book about the crusades at the front of the room, giggling like a girl as he read. She assumed he must have a nudie magazine or something under there...what a perv. Soon the students entered and took their seats, and class resumed.
"Ahem. Welcome to the second day. Today, we're gonna start on our projects. (Groans) I know, I know, you probably have projects in your other classes, but this'll be fun. I'll select a group of you to act out certain scenes throughout history. Most of these will be a two-person group, since the three-person projects in ninth grade were so..."he said this looking at Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto, who refused to meet his gaze,"But, I will pick the scene, and the people I think should play it. Up first: Aburame Shino, Akimichi Choji, and Inuzuka Kiba, you three will act out Zeus vs. The Titans; Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata will do a Native American ritual scene; Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, and Nara Shikamaru will do an Aztec sacrifice; last but not least,"
"Oh come on!"
"Umeshii Kiko, and Uchiha Sasuke, will do a tribal dance."
Everyone turned to look back at Kiko, as though pitying her. She wanted more than ever for that box of napalm at this very moment. Class ended and they went to second period, some of her classmates giving their condolences because of her situation. When she sat down in class, she wanted more than anything to get to work and start studying the body.
"Uzumaki! Sit next to Hyuuga today." Mr. Morino said.
Naruto obeyed, getting up and sitting next to a now blushing Hinata.
"Today we start that wonderful, glorious project you were all so excited about yesterday."
"Define excited..." Naruto mumbled.
"This project, may be somewhat touchy to most of you. If you look around, this class, though small, is evenly split between boys and girls, which brings me to the project."
"Dammit! Why couldn't my last name be something like Karenda or something like that? Why!?"
"Because of the chance of sexual harassment suites against this school, on the women, this project will require the women to study the men. I only want an analysis on the top half of their body, no lower than the belt, or if they sag, the waist. I want a detailed description on: muscle development, organ condition, breathing, physical fitness, and the list goes on. Now I suggest that you all begin to make plans, because this project is due in four weeks."
"Great...now I have to look at him. Could this day get any worse?"
Next period,"All right children, we're kicking this year off with a fun project. We're going to act out scenes from literature. I've picked these parts according to who I think could make the best out of it. Ahem. Umeshii Kiko and,"
"I'm having a premonition...the next words out his mouth will be Uchiha Sasuke."
"Uchiha Sasuke."
"I should drop out of school and make that my hobby, predicting disasters and misfortune."
"You two will act out the famous Romeo and Juliet scene."
"Which one?" she asked quickly.
"Hopefully the one where they kill themselves." she thought darkly.
"The kissing scene."
If she were a mirror, she would have shattered. Everyone turned around again, in a wide-eyed stare. Ino was green with envy. Kiko would switch places with her any day.
"This.has.become.the.worst.day.of.my.life!" she thought hopelessly.
"No need to rush though, this project isn't due for about a month."
After he assigned everyone else their roles from hell, they had to converse with their partner on how they were going to do it.
Taking another deep breath, she turned to him and said,"Well, this is out of the ordinary, wouldn't you say?"
He didn't look at her, instead said,"Try not to make these projects you excuse of wanting to touch on me." he sounded haughty.
"Believe me, touching you is the last thing in my mind." she lied,she wanted to strangle him. That was technically touching him.
He made no reply, only opened up a book and began to read. Kiko got up and went to the teacher.
"Mr. Umino, why do I have to be paired with Sasuke?"
"I know he can be somewhat...distant and rude at times,"
"At times?"
"But you can never judge a book by its cover. Give him a chance, you might actually get a perfect score. After all, he is the smartest kid in the school."
"Impossible!!"
Throughout the rest of the day, she kept her spirits up. After all, he was the smartest kid in school, so academically she wasn't really in danger. Right?
She got home late, and was surprised to see that her parents and older brother were putting on nice clothes. No sooner had she entered the apartment did her mother drag her to her room.
"Put on something nice, we've been invited to dinner." she said excitedly.
"By who?"
"I forgot, but he's the head of the police department here." she said.
"Whatever..."
She put on long white dress with spaghetti straps and white heels, matching her mother. They left out the house, her mom and dad talking excitedly on their way to the restaurant. They arrived at a fancy Japanese cuisine restaurant, and got out he car.
"Honey, where is he?" her mom asked excitedly.
"Right there." her dad said pointing near the entrance.
Kiko spotted them. There were four, and when they got closer she could make them out. There was a man with brown hair, a woman with black hair, a younger looking man with black hair, and...no...it couldn't be. There was Sasuke, who looked just as surprised as she did to see the other.
"Mr. and Mrs. Umeshii, welcome." Mr. Uchiha said shaking her father's hand.
"Thank you for letting us join you this evening Mr. Uchiha." her father replied shaking his hand.
"These are my two sons, Itachi and Sasuke."
"This is my son, Aido, and my daughter Kiko." he said smiling.
Kiko and Sasuke glared at each other for a few seconds.
"Looks like Kiko and Sasuke have already met." Itachi joked.
"We have class together." they both said coldly.
"Splendid! Well, let's get in there and get our bellies full!" her mother said, knowing the looks the two were giving each other wasn't friendly.
They went inside, where their table was all ready for them. They all sat down, this time Kiko sat across from Sasuke.
"Guess I should order something light. If I have to look at his face every time while I eat, I think I'll heave." she thought.
When they waiter came though, she ordered a big meal, she was hungry enough as it is. As they waited for the food, her mom began a conversation.
"So, how did you two meet?"
"Well, I've gotten interested in your husband's work. Can you explain it to us again Mr. Umeshii?" Mr. Uchiha asked.
"Well, I've designed a device that can track an individual purely through their DNA. So far, I've only tested it on small creature like rats and pigeons, and the results were 100 accurate. But that was just a prototype. With enough money, and resources, I told Mr. Uchiha that I would design one for his police force to use."
"Impressive." Mrs. Uchiha said with a bright smile.
The food came, which delighted Kiko and Aido, who said grace and dug in.
"Pass the salt." Sasuke told her.
"Sasuke, ask for it." his mother whispered to him.
"That's alright." Kiko said grabbing it.
"May you die from high blood pressure." she whispered softly.
"What was that?" her mom asked.
"I said it would be my pleasure." she said with a bright smile.
Her mother raised an eyebrow, knowing full well what she said before.
As they all began to finish their food, Aido asked Itachi,"So Itachi, what do you do for a living?"
"I'm an FBI agent." he said proudly. Mr. Uchiha didn't look so proud.
"Oh, decided to go where the action is?" Aido joked.
"You could say that, yes." Itachi laughed.
"Much to the dismay of his father." Mr. Uchiha scolded.
"Please dear, not here." Mrs. Uchiha pleaded.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Itachi asked sternly.
"You know exactly what it means." he replied.
"When will you get over it dad, huh? I've already told you millions of times that I don't want to take over this police force when you plan to retire. I have my own dreams to live."
"Maybe your dreams should be towards helping your family! Sasuke hasn't told me once that he doesn't want to take over once I'm gone!"
"That's because you leave him no choice!"
"Sasuke, tell him!" Mr. Uchiha sounded angry.
"Leave me out of this." Sasuke said coldly.
"You see dad? This is what I'm talking about! You try to force us to do the things you want us to do, using the excuse that it's to help the family as your crutch!" Itachi said.
"If you don't like then why don't you just leave!" Mr. Uchiha yelled, the restaurant now tuning in on this scene.
"FWI dad, I already did! That's why I'm an FBI agent, and you're nothing but a chief."
Itachi hit a very sensitive nerve as Mr. Uchiha gripped the table.
Thinking quickly, Kiko stood up, clapping,"Bravo! Bravo! That was magnificent guys! You two will win those two parts for that new movie coming out if you act like that! How bout a round of applause for these two everyone!" she said motioning for the others to clap, who realized what she was doing and joined in.
"Good job honey, way to go!" Mrs. Uchiha said with smile, mouthing a thank-you to Kiko for her quick thinking. The rest of the restaurant joined in, apparently convinced that they were rehearsing for a part to a movie.
The ride home was quiet, everyone didn't expect something like that to happen.
"Good job sweetie." he dad told her with a smile.
She smiled back, but in the back of her mind she had a new perspective on Sasuke Uchiha.