Thanks for all of the reviews! Your compliments give me motivation. Oh and the credit for the Porky Porkenheimer comment goes to ihatecollege at deviantART (It's from his/hers ha-larious SasuSaku VS. SaiIno comic. Give it a look, it had me LMFAO-ing! XD)

Chapter Three

Sasori's Advances

The classroom door burst open. The four friends looked up and gave a slight gasp.

"Sakura!" Ino's light blue eyes widened. "You look horrible!"

It was true. Her usually buttoned mahogany blazer was undone, her plaid ribbon was crooked, and one of her gold knee-high socks was lower than the other. Not to mention her hair was so tangled it looked like a pink bird's nest on her head.

"Thanks," Sakura grumbled as she dragged her messenger bag to her seat. She collapsed into her chair and groaned into the wooden desktop. The urge to crawl under a rock and die was growing stronger by each second.

"Oi, what's wrong with you?" Naruto asked as he poked her in the arm.

"Hmm…she seems depressed," Sai concluded.

"Either that or really pissed," Ino said under her breathe.

Sakura snapped her head back up to glare at her flaxen friend. "Stupid, of course I'm pissed!" She barked.

Ino sighed, "Calm down, Forehead. Why don't you tell Dr. Yamanaka about all your troubles?" She stroked her imaginary beard.

"Like I'd tell you!" Sakura snapped, "You'd laugh at me anyways!"

"S-Sakura, um, y-you have leaves in your hair," Hinata pointed out. "Here I'll get them for you," the soft-spoken girl offered.

"Thanks," Sakura said as Hinata began to pick at the foliage in the pile of short hair. She turned to Ino. "See? Hinata's a true friend," Sakura huffed.

Ino slammed a hand on Sakura's desk and leaned towards her. "I said we could talk about it, didn't I! Billboard Brow!" Ino's eye twitched in anger.

Sakura stood up leaned forward, dragging Hinata with her. She narrowed her eyes at the Ino, "Who're you calling Billboard Brow, huh, honoray Ms. Porky Porkenheimer?"

Ino returned the glare. "Isn't obvious, Five-Finger-Forehead?" she retorted. They both gritted their teeth and you could just see the steam coming out of their ears.

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Here we go again…"

"Indeed," Sai sighed as the two girls started to verbally abuse each other.

Hinata's opal eyes were wide in fright. She just let go of Sakura's hair and gulped. "U-um, excuse me…"

"Oink, oink! Isn't my snout the cutest!"

"Shut up! At least my forehead isn't huge enough to have its own zip code!"

Hinata squeezed her eyes shut. She didn't like confrontation and she definitely didn't like it when her friends fought. "P-please—"

Sai intervened, "Ino, please lower your voice. People are starting to stare." He nervously glanced to a very annoyed Shino and awakened Shikamaru.

"Yeah," Naruto agreed. "Hey, Mr. Hatake, aren't you going to do anything about this?"

The silver-haired teacher, Kakashi Hatake, looked up from his book and smiled pleasantly behind his surgical mask. "Nope," he said simply. "I've learned to never get involved when female quarrels."

The girls were still at each other's throats, totally ignoring what was said.

"Don't you feel the least bit of sympathy when you eat bacon! Cannibal!"

Hinata tried again, "S-stop—"

"Galactic Forehead!"

"Oh yeah! Pig?"

"Yeah, Forehead!"

"STOP IT!" Hinata finally shouted. Ino and Sakura froze with their fists in the air and turned to her. Everyone joined the stare place upon the Hyuga; even Kakashi lowered his book to gawk at her. She looked down at her feet. "I-I mean…" She started to twiddle her index fingers—a habit of hers. "Why can't we just get along?"

"Interesting…" Sai stated. "Looks like Naruto's starting to rub off on you."

The blond flashed a playful grin as he gave two thumbs up. "Way to go, babe!"

"Ah!" She averted her eyes. "I-I wasn't trying...I-I mean…" Hinata fumbled for her words with rose-tinted cheeks.

Sakura sunk back down into her seat. "Oh my God…" She groaned again. "I'm sorry everyone. It's just one thing after another and… it's driving me nuts!"

Ino shook her head and laughed lightly, "Stupid." She moved to join Hinata. "Here, I'll help." The two had managed to get all of the leaves out of the roseate clump. Hinata had handed Ino her brush and she was now trying to de-tangle it. "Now, how about telling us what's got your panties in a bunch?" Ino asked as she set the brush down.

Sakura told them her story. Everything from her and Ino's encounter with Sasori to this morning's little marathon with him. When she finished—as she expected— Ino again rolled around on the floor laughing her ass off. Naruto had laughed too but not as dramatically while Sai and Hinata politely suppressed their laughter by biting their bottom lips.

Sakura looked away, "See, I told you you'd laugh…"

"Ah-ha-ha, you've got to admit, Sakura, it's pretty funny. I mean, foot-stomping, seriously! Even I'm not that immature!" Naruto chuckled.

Hinata's lip quivered a bit as she spoke, "S-Sakura…I-I'm…so s-sorry!" The dam burst and she broke into a fit of giggles.

Ino sat up from the tiled floor and wiped a tear that had pooled at the corner of her eye. She sighed from the hilarity. "So, let me get this straight, running around like a mad man is your way of flirting? I don't think a hot guy like him will go for that!" She started to laugh again.

Sai's smile faded instantly, "Hot guy?"

"Like hell I was flirting!" Sakura growled at Ino. "He's totally nauseating! I'd rather die than make goo-goo eyes at him!" Sakura shouted, not mentioning the fact that when she first ran into him she nearly fainted by his good looks. "Screw that little motherfuc—"

The warning bell for first period rang before she could finish her sentence. Kakashi stood. "Homeroom has officially ended." He snapped his book shut. "Get ready for English."

Everyone scrambled to their seats after five minutes the first period bell rang.

"Okay!" Kakashi clapped his hands together after he finished taking attendance. "I'm hoping you did your homework over the weekend—" The opening door interrupted him. "You're late," Kakashi stated to Gaara who was supporting a half-dazed Kiba.

Gaara handed him a pass. "I apologize but Kiba was momentarily unconscious and I had to get him to the nurse."

"It was crazy," Kiba said while his eyes swirled. "Out of nowhere these two mini-tornadoes just zoom right past me and I was knocked into a wall…" He was babbling while Gaara helped him to his seat.

Kakashi was crumpling up the pass and threw it into the wastebasket. He turned back to the class. "Okay, now let's start out with that homework—"

Slam! "Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…"

His eyes were wide as he looked to Sakura who had slammed her head off of her desk. Kakashi sighed, "Haruno, do you need to see the nurse too?"

Sai leaned forward to whisper to Ino, "So, is she mad again?" He cringed at the heavy air surrounding her.

"No, this time she's depressed," Ino sighed.

"Ah, why do we have to go to the library? It's free period; we should be playing kickball in the courtyard or something," Naruto complained with both of his hands behind his head.

"N-Naruto, quiet down a bit," Hinata said with a finger to her lips.

"Yeah, we need to get a couple of books for our history project," Sakura informed him. "Then we can go play kickball."

"Yeah but it's so boring in here," He whined. "And I'm always getting kicked out of this place for some reason…"

"Shh! Idiot!" Sakura hissed. "You're too damn loud, we don't want to get kicked out either—Ah!" She rammed into someone and rebounded slightly from the impact. "Oh I'm sorry," she said.

"No, I'm—" the person shut up when Sakura looked up at him. Then he sighed, "Oh, it's just you."

"AH!" Sakura shouted as she pointed at him. Then she immediately covered her mouth. She looked around to see if anyone had heard her. When she found she was safe she glared at him. "Sasori! What're you doing here!" Sakura whispered fiercely.

"It's a school library," Sasori rolled his eyes. "I'm allowed to be here, brat."

Naruto leaned forward to squint at him."Oi, who's this?" He asked.

"That's Sasori…" Sakura said through gritted teeth.

Naruto jumped back to cover Hinata's eyes. "Ah, Hinata! Don't look at him, he's too pretty!"He bellowed. Then a confused expression crossed his face as he patted the quiet girl's face gently. "You're hot," He stated, referring to her sudden blush.

"N-Naruto…" Hinata voice wavered and she passed out. Again, she had read too much into his words.

"Oh no! Not again!" Naruto shouted as he picked the blue-haired girl up in bridal style and started to run off. "Sakura get her books for the history-thingy!" The blonde shouted as he ran to the exit, chanting 'Nurse Shizune' over and over again. Sakura's face had 'Kill me now!' written all over it as the students in the library gave her dirty looks.

Sasori raised a brow at her and screwed his pinky into his ear for the second time today. "A friend, I presume?" Sakura gave a sad nod. "Well that makes sense."

Sakura gave a low snarl as she scrapped her teeth together. "What the hell is that supposed to mean!" The girl snapped quietly.

He gave a slight shrug. "Take it in what way you will," Sasori monotoned as he sauntered between two bookcases in the back corner of the library. Sakura followed him to yell at him some more but she stopped to glance at the books he was scanning. She gave a slight yelp and slammed her hand over her mouth again.

How to Torture Your Enemies, 101 Ways to get Revenge, and even How to Get Back at Your Rivals! Sakura thought in mortification. What kind of school library is this!

He turned back to her with a bored face. His eyes immediately got their attentive glint in them when he saw her reaction. Sasori smirked, "Forgotten about that, huh?"

She glared at him and uncovered her mouth. "Of course not, Jackass!" Sakura hissed under her breath. "But what kind of sicko needs a book for a thing like that!"

He continued to sneer at her. "It's because you're a special case," Sasori remarked as he grabbed a book from the shelf.

Sakura didn't like the way he emphasized the word 'special'. "Jerk! What do you mean by special!" She raised her voice a few notches. There was no one around to hear them.

Sasori gave a smug chuckle and advanced onto her. "Because you're a girl…"

"D-dumbass. What're you saying?" She stepped back and he advanced again, smirking all the way. This went on and on and before she knew it, Sakura was against the back wall.

Sasori turned off his smirk and looked at her with his deep, soulful, brown eyes. He placed one hand up on the wall and lifted her chin with the other. "I mean, exactly that, Sakura…"

The way he said her name sent delicious shivers down her spine. It rolled right off his tounge so perfectly in his beautiful, subdued voice. Now that Sakura thought about it, his voice was always calm and quiet, even when they had been arguing. He looked so serious and the way his eyes were half-closed when he looked down at her made her want to scream—in rage or in embarrassment she wasn't sure.

This isn't right! Sakura screamed in her mind as she slipped her chin out of his hand. She lifted her hands up to push him away but he stood solid no matter how hard she shoved. That's right, Sakura thought as she returned her arms to her sides. He's the only one besides Lee who can keep up with my speed. He's probably as strong as or stronger than me.

She looked angrily at a bookcase to her left. "This is sexual harassment," she tried to yell but her voice faltered.

Sasori laughed again as he turned her head back to him. Again, her chin was in his hand. "Don't look away from me," he ordered firmly as he hovered over her lips.

Shit! He's going to kiss me! Sakura thought in hysteria. I-I don't want this!

Sakura tensed up and squeezed her eyes shut. She could feel his breath right on her lips…

:O Oh my God! Cliff hanger! (Teehee don't kill me! ^_^')