DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. MASASHI KISHIMOTO DOES.

"Your art style is painting then paint." Itachi simply said, undoing his arms and put it on the mattresses as he leaned on it, eyeing Sasuke with his harp gaze.

The latter snapped at him, "Paint what Itachi! What!"

Itachi looked at him, his face plastered a surprised reaction, then went back into its calm and collected demeanour, "Wait here."

Sasuke rolled his eyes and repositioned himself at his chair, he leaned on it and toppled his feet on the table, not minding the poor sketch pad.

A minute or so, he heard Itachi's footsteps, slowly approaching him. He was about to turn around to see what his brother's up to when a photo shoved right into his field of vision.

Sasuke stared at it for a while, his eyes are clearly surprised and his jaws left a gap in between.

Itachi looked amused at his brother's reaction, this is clearly a priceless scene before him.

"Paint it."

"You're Mine, Only Mine"

Chapter 9: "Masterpiece"

Thursday, the day when this torture will end, and well when Sasuke will finally beat Sasori's ass or so what he thinks.

Adjusting his necktie on the mirror, Sasuke runs a hand on his hair, combing it neatly taking a deep breath as he looks on his reflection.

'Let's see if he can beat me.' smirking on his reflection on the mirror, he went downstairs to catch his brother, Itachi in his usual business wear.

"Good morning, otouto." Itachi greeted him with his gentle smile, knowing what day it is, he can easily tell why Sasuke's being odd today.

"Morning." Sasuke simply said as he walked his way to the door.

"My, my, aren't we grumpy today? Aren't you going to eat at least? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Asking his brother and getting no response but the sound of the door being shut when he left the house.

Itachi sighed as he shook his head, "Ah, young love." He can only imagine what will happen today and is quite excited to know if Sasuke did make the painting well.

Of course, Itachi knows what Sasori exactly dares to show the class, he knows him as his subordinate and as one of his brothers in the fraternity. He might not admit it but Sasori is great at art quite frankly, his art style is beyond a two-dimensional artwork, his masterpiece is nothing close to the painting but he knows that Sasuke got this. And he knows exactly why he just hopes that the others see this too.

The room slowly begins to get full as the class hours are nearing, the students begin to fill the room, occasionally greeting their classmates and talking with their friends. Bragging about their works of art.

When a certain redhead went inside the room, all eyes turned at him, why not? It's odd enough that he carried a wooden box inside the room. What could his art style possibly be?

Looks of curiosity followed his trails as he sat at his seat looking at Sakura and immediately greeting her, "Good morning, Sakura-chan" Sasori greeted her right away with his smooth voice.

Hearing his greeting Sakura turned from the girls, that she has been talking to, to Sasori, "Oh. Good morning, Sasori-kun!"

Sasuke can't help but to flinch at this, even if he's not looking at then, he can only imagine how Sasori looks at Sakura and having known of his newfound feelings, he can already feel his blood boiling, not that he admits it anyways.

Sakura took a good look at Sasori and stops on the wooden box right on top of his desk, "Oh! Is that what you're going to present?!" she exclaimed, clearly knowing what it is.

"Hmmm?" Sasori followed where Sakura was looking, smirking on finding out what she means, "I thought you forgot about that. But to answer your question, yes. Yes, it is. It's a form of art anyways."

"Oh my! I'm so excited to see their reactions! I know how beautiful your works are!" she cheered happy, too happy on Sasuke's opinion who is listening to their conversation.

Sasuke locked his gaze on the big canvas in front of him.

[FLASHBACK]

"Hey! Good morning, Sasuke-teme!" Naruto greeted him, already inside the room as he talked to Hinata.

"Dobe." He greeted him back and looking at Hinata giving her a curt nod as a greeting which she copied back.

"What's that?!" Leaving Hinata on her seat, Naruto jumped at Sasuke and tried to reach the big canvas in his hands. "Let me see!"

"No. You'll ruin it." Sasuke shoved Naruto's handoff of the covered canvas.

Naruto looked at him pointedly, "Heh! Show off!" And returned to Hinata's company.

One by one filled up the room, his friends enter as well, one after another.

Ino and Tenten stopped by his desk as well eyeing the canvas that is covered in a white paper, "Mind telling us what's in it?" Ino chirped looking curiously at the canvas as if she can take a peek on it.

"Painting." Sasuke simply said earning a look from Ino and Tenten. Now Tenten asked, "What did you paint?"

"Hn." He simply grunted avoiding any more conversations.

"You mono-syllabic bastard!" Ino retorted and went back to her seat. Bragging about her work of art.

Eyeing everyone around, he saw his friends, Naruto having the sketch of Hinata, he didn't even bother to redraw it and make it more refined, Hinata on the other side did a graphite art of Naruto, it's better than Naruto he noted. Ino having a clay model of her holding a pineapple is quite a cringe, he can only shake his head as she heard her nagging Shikamaru for doing nothing, this always happens. Neji went a little bit different matching with Tenten, they had both their pen tabs with them, Digital Art he suspects as they kept pointing at each other's work, making some changes from time to time. Then go his other friends that made some weird art, Kiba creating a stuffed dog, his sewing skills is quite impressive. Chouji making faces on his chips and ending up eating them earning another nagging session from Ino. Shino drawing a detailed picture of a bug with its labels on it, someone needs to remind him that this is an art class and not biology. Lee created a clay art too, of him and his standing father, Might Guy.

At long last, Sakura went inside the room. Sasuke didn't know but he is quite expecting her to be with Sasori but when no one followed her inside the room, he sighed and relaxed his tensed shoulders.

Sitting next to him, Sakura greeted him first, "Good morning, Sasuke-kun!" Said man glanced at her, "Morning." she giggled at this, shaking her head and looked at the big canvas on his desk.

"Is that a painting?" She went to touch it, glancing at Sasuke, reassuring that he won't get mad for doing so, seeing that he just looked at the canvas. She tried to look at the paper that covered it, seeing if she can take a peek.

"You won't see a trace." Sasuke simply said, making Sakura jumped a little, smiling sheepishly at him, "Hehe, sorry about that Sasuke-kun..."

"Aa." He simply replied. "It's been a long time since I saw a painting of yours, this must be a beauty.." She said softly just like her smile.

Sasuke looked at it, he looked at her with much care in his eyes, "It sure is."

Shin Kunohana shortly went inside the room, his materials with him. The class greeted him in the chorus and he greeted them back in glee.

"Well, I think now's the time for presenting?"

The class cheered in excitement.

Shin called his students one by one, nothing in particular stands out yet, just the usual drawings, some on anime characters and cartoons which the class laughed and joked about, no bad blood.

"Shino." Shin called out, hearing his name Shino stand up on his seat and proceeded at the front, vellum board in hand, he turned it around to reveal his 'art' of a bug, with labels on it. Seeing this some of his classmates shakes their head and facepalmed.

Shin sweat dropped on what he saw, "Shino... I think I told you to draw an art… not… err?" Glancing on the vellum board thinking of a way to say it politely.

"This is art for me. Why? Art isn't just about what we perceive as art but rather we create art based on what we think is art." Shino replied.

Shin sighed not wanting to make the conversation any longer and accepted Shino's conclusion seeing that he is partly correct. Gesturing the class to clap for the man before them, they all clapped along and he proceeded to the next student. "Kiba!"

Kiba beamed and runs at the front as soon as his name called, he presented a stuffed dog that looks exactly like Akamaru, his best friend. Girls looked at it and some even commented, 'aww' and 'that's cute'.

"Did you do this by yourself?" Shin smiled at him looking at the perfectly done stuffed dog with the perfect sewing skills.

"Yup!" Kiba cheerfully said showing off his hands, several of his fingers tapped with band-aids giving proof that he did it by hand. "This is really amazing, Kiba. You could make use of your skills and talent!"

Said name, nods his head in glee and pride, being proud of himself as his classmates gave him a round of applause. Bowing in respect at Shin, he took the stuffed dog in his hands and he walks back to his seats

"Chouji."

Chouji stands up but didn't take a step forward, Shin raised an eyebrow on him, "Chouji?" The said man scratched the back of his head, smiling sheepishly, "Uhh... Sensei, I might've eaten my art.."

Knowing that this had happened a lot of time in some other subjects, as his fellow teachers had said, he sighed in disbelief and gestured for him to sit, "Okay. Well, how about you, Shikamaru?"

Shikamaru didn't bulge in his seat and just shrugged at Shin who asks in return, "Did you even think to do it?"

"Too troublesome." Shikamaru implied shrugging at Shin.

Shin was about to say something when Ino quirked in, "I told them to do it right just this once! Ahhh!" She said in frustration tugging her high ponytail a bit.

"It's fine Ino, I've been notified about this. Well, how about showing you art?" Shin replied softly taking a good look at the modelling clay that sat upon her desk. She beamed at this and she swiftly gets her art and walked to the front.

"Here's mine! As you can see, this is me." Ino grinned at everyone being proud of what she did. Earning a 'wow', 'nice' and 'that's sexy as you are' she grinned and nodded her head.

Shin is quite impressed as well, peering closer to the model that she did, he can see the small details that she put into it, including what seems to be a pineapple that she is holding.

"This is great art. I'm quite impressed. The details are exceptional!" Shin clapped his hand and the class soon followed suit.

Ino proudly took the claps and praises, nodding at front. "Next stuff! Tenten?"

Tenten grabbed her pen tablet with her but then paused before she walks completely to the front, noticing her movements, "What's the matter, Tenten?"

She gave Shin a sheepish smile before answering, "I was wondering... If... I can present my artwork with Neji?"

The class went wild hearing this, they knew something's between the two, and all they need is this some-kind-of confirmation. Her friends knowingly looked at Neji, waiting for him to stand up as well, looks like he was shocked as well but he gets up with his tablet finally going at the front with Tenten.

"So, why do you want to present together?"

Neji's the first one to turn around his tablet, showing a girl character that has a great similarity and resemblance to Tenten. She then turned hers as well, it looked like Neji as well minus his long flowing tresses that are helping in a ponytail.

"This is our OC's, we took the reference to each other and I've been using this to be the characters in my stories, having Neji to create the male character. I wanted to present this two at the same time since they go by together in the story." Tenten explained and Neji nodded in agreement, "She asked me some time back then to draw a boy character for her story, saying that she isn't good at drawing a male character."

Shin looked at their work and back at them with a knowing smile, "And you two go by together as well?" His tone was more of a statement rather than a question.

Tenten blushed at this and Neji simply looked away, reddish ears went noticed by Sasuke who is smirking at the scene before him, he never expects that Neji's the one to go in a relationship. Especially, not with the Tenten girl.

As the class settled down, Shin asked them to get back to their seats which Neji and Tenten complied. "Hinata? Can you show yours in front?"

Hinata squeaked a little when Shin called her name, "Y-yes!"

She walked timidly at the front of the class and showed her graphite art of Naruto, it's a picture that Sakura quickly recognize, she looked at Sasuke who looked at her as well.

It was a portrait of the picture of Naruto that Hinata took a shot from last Christmas using Sasuke's phone via Sakura, which forced Sasuke to give his phone to her. The rest is history.

The class went wild again, whistling and squealing about Hinata and Naruto, the whole class - if not the whole campus - knows that Hinata has feelings for Naruto.

Naruto stood up and clapped along, "I drew Hinata! Look! LOOK!" He screamed in glee and let everyone take a good look at his sketch. Shin didn't even scold Naruto for not putting it on a decent paper and not renewing it, he sees that both Hinata and Naruto were happy. Ah, young love.

As soon as Naruto and Hinata as well as the class settled down and calmed down, Sakura stood up noticing that Shin is looking at her and motioning for her to come next which she abides carrying a canvas with her.

"I didn't know that you paint, Sakura." Shin grinned at her, seeing her painting as she turned it around for the class to see.

Sakura painted her favourite place, Sasuke mused. It was the view by the river in the morning sky by spring season, as the cherry blossoms bloom under the sun.

It was a beautiful landscape and it made Shin happy, "This is so beautiful Sakura."

"Thank you, sensei. It wasn't that much, I haven't been practising so my painting might be a little sloppy." She shyly confessed that earned protests.

"Forehead! It's beautiful! Just accept the compliment!" Ino yelled at her, "Yeah, Ino's right Sakura-chan! It's faaaar beautiful than any of the paintings that we saw!" Naruto supported Ino, nodding in agreement.

"That's correct. That's the best thing I've seen so far." Sasori claimed, shooting her a sweet smile that made Sasuke's eyes roll,

"Thank you so much for appreciating my painting. But I think the next people have the best artwork that you will ever see." Sakura queried.

Her statement made everyone curious and looked at the last two-person that hasn't presented yet. Sasuke and Sasori.

Returning to her seat with her art in hand, she looked at Sasuke beside her, "I think that your painting is far greater than mine. Goodluck, Sasuke-kun!"

Sasori didn't turn his head toward the two, but he knows that she's been cheering him. What could the Uchiha possibly paint? He knows that the Uchihas are full-packed with talent. That goes for Itachi as well, he's pretty talented, himself.

Shin clasped his hands to gain everyone's attention, seeing that they are all too excited for Sasuke and Sasori's masterpieces. "Sasuke. Sasori."

The two stands right away as soon as Shin called their name, a big canvas covered in a white paper on Sasuke's hands and a wooden box. Full of mystery.

They both set their masterpiece on the desk.

"Go on. Show it to us."

"I'll go first then," Sasori stated, looking briefly at Sasuke for his approvement.

As soon as he revealed what's inside the wooden box, the room fell silent, mouth gaping, and eyes are glimmering in awe.

Sakura, on the other hand, sits happily. She knows that Sasori is into puppets and is a puppeteer back on Suna, his family run a business about puppets as well. Nevertheless, she still looks forward to Sasuke's painting, it excites her even more that he will get to revel hi painting last.

For a minute or so, the room and the world seemed to stop, they were amazed so as Shin who has his mouth agape as well. Regaining his senses, he first went to take a great look at Sasori's work of art. Scratch that, it was a Masterpiece.

"His name is Sandaime. I made him myself."

It was an average small puppet about 15-inch tall and a very fine piece of art indeed. It almost looks like a porcelain doll if it wasn't for the joints of the puppets, it has a darkened skin, seeing as this is the original colour of the wood that he had used to create it, its black hair looks soft as well, and its golden eyes looked lively, Sasori dressed it in a dark grey puffer jacket with fur collar. It's almost creepy, it looks so alive.

"It looks very alive. I didn't expect that someone is still interested in making puppets." Shin said. "I think you could join an art contest for this, you'll win for sure!"

Sasori smiled in flattery, the class soon joined the praise.

"You're so cool, Sasori-chaaan!"

"You got some skill man, dayyum!"

"That's so amazing! I bet no one can outdo you!"

"You two both look so handsome!"

"Can you make a puppet of me?"

The class blared praises and questions that flattered him too much.

Sasuke stands still, waiting for the crowd to settle down so he can present his, smirk forming on his face.

"Come on! Let's move on to Sasuke-teme already! I wanna go eat rameeen!" Naruto's voice echoed to throughout the room, getting everyone's attention.

The noise died down immediately and looked at Sasuke and to Sasuke's still covered canvas. "Sasuke. Go ahead."

All of a sudden, Sasuke thought that his painting is intriguing, he never painted anything like that before and he knows that this will get some talks afterwards but he doesn't care anymore. This is it, he mused. He just needs to suck and swallow his pride and ego.

Sasuke began to rip the white paper that covered his painting. A sign that it was newly painted and that he is a painter.

Piece by piece they started to see the painting, it has a dark sky, with white and yellow dots. The night sky, everyone mused. It excites them and frustrates them that Sasuke is actually taking his time uncovering his masterpiece.

Then the moon showed, along with the sea, it that as dark as the sky but reflects every spectre of light that it catches. It glistened with the moonlight, as if the moon is kissing the sun, it was breathtaking. It's not just beautiful, it's elegant, serene. Like you could feel the gentleness and the calm seaside like you can feel the breeze.

As the land shows, which is coloured white but darkened in the painting, almost everyone recognizes the place and was even hooked into it, it's by the beach, the seaside, where the ever famous fireworks from the Sakura festival shows. And then, just as they were expecting, it shows the cherry blossoms, not too many but it dances with the wind, some of its flowers flew with the wind.

There's the last piece of paper that covered one part, Sasuke tore it down, sighing as he does, not knowing what would be their reaction.

As soon as he removed the paper from that part, sounds pf gasps filled the room.

It's perfect.

There.

A girl stand, her side facing the audiences, as they took the appearance of the girl in the painting. Her petite body shows under her white nightgown that flew by the wind, flawless skin, soft and creamy. Her seemingly soft hands trying to grasp the cherry blossom petals that were taken by the wind. Her rosy hair went with the wind as well but careful not to block her face, it just flew perfectly almost making her look like she has a halo but in pink. Her face spells pure elegance and serenity, she seems calm, happy, contented.

Everyone turned to look at the person that seems to be in the painting.

Sakura.

His Masterpiece

A/N: Here ya go! I think this is the longest chapter as of now, I went with the flow trying to explain their art.

Please tune in again! Hahaha. I'm going to make this much interesting from now on, new ideas sprouting from my head.

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~Yatsu Narurasuke