Disclaimer: La. I do not own Naruto. If I did, I would marry Itachi and turn him into the side of good. La. If Kisren owned Naruto, Orochimaru would be joining her for afternoon tea everyday.
Kat: I wrote this story for my friend, Suzie, who is a Sasuke hater. La. If she was everput into the Naruto world and paired up with Sasuke for a report, La, I'm sure that everything Mey says is what she would say and do. Enjoy. Not a SasukeXOC because I know that will make a lot of fangirls quite angry. La. Fangirls are scary.
Mey Urushi leaned back comfortably in her seat in the back, contently chewing on the pink stubble on her pencil that used to be her eraser. Her fingers drummed on her wooden desk boredly as the teacher droned on and on about the history of Konoha. She was fine in any other subject, but when it came to history, her attention span was limited.
Her best friend Naoko, who sat in the desk next to her, flashed her a quick, worn down smile. They were just about being bored to death.
"Why do we always have history for the last class of the day?" Mey thought with a small sigh.
Surely if they had any other class, they would win this long hard war between students and boredom. But they didn't, so naturally they were losing the war.
"…and so, I want you to pair up and write a report about the first hokage," the teacher seemed to be wrapping up. "Be sure to summarize any speeches that you find on your research, and write up eight paragraphs on the kinds of jutsus he used with your opinion of them. The report should be at least two inches thick."
Mey yawned. This would be easy. Even though she never paid attention during class, that didn't mean she got bad grades in turn. Actually, she did extremely well. And if she paired up with Naoko, she would rock this report, since Naoko was the best at history.
"Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata, you shall be working together. Yamanaka Ino and Furuya Naoko, you shall be working together."
It took her a moment to realize that the teacher was assigning partners. Mey hardly listened to the other names the teacher read off, only listening for her own.
"Urushi Mey and Uchiha Sasuke, you shall be…"
That was all she heard, as the world seemed to stop for her and her breath caught in her throat. And just like that, her dream of getting a perfect score was shattered unpleasantly.
It wasn't that the Uchiha kid wasn't smart. He was one of the top kids in the school. But she hated him for reasons only she knew. She hated everything about him.
But it was when he turned around from the front row to look at her that it finally sunk in.
She stuck out her tongue childishly, and he gave her a disgusted look before turning around.
Mey didn't even notice the death glares she was getting from all the girls as she slowly covered her face with her hands.
How long she stayed like that, she didn't know. But then she heard him speak in that low icy tone of his.
"Well, we're supposed to be discussing when we should get together."
"Like hell I want to ever get together with the likes of you," she spat, not bothering to look at him.
"I feel the same way," he replied dryly, but she heard his usual smirk in it. How much she wanted to beat the crap out of him that day. But as much as she hated to admit it, he was far stronger than her, and she could never accomplish that feat.
She glared at the top of her desk, refusing to look at him.
"But we are partners, and I want to pass this class you know. This report is more than 50 percent of our grade," Sasuke continued.
"More than 50 percent?" she gasped, turning around at last to meet his gaze.
"Like I said."
She looked for a way out and did not see one. Finally, she said with as much hatred as she could muster, "Fine! Meet me at the library tomorrow after class."
And he slinked away as quietly as he had come, and this time Mey noticed the looks that were being directed towards her.
"Fuck off," she mouthed toward the girls who had been watching the whole scene and whispering amongst themselves. To make her point, she flipped them off, and shot out of the classroom like a bullet when the teacher dismissed them.
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"You got paired with Uchiha Sasuke!" squealed Naoko as they walked home together. With Mey walking backwards and Naoko supervising, so her friend didn't hurt herself.
Mey found her irritation rising to a new level as her so-called "best friend" continued on and on about how great he was.
"He's so handsome and smart and charming and cute and wonderful and-"
"Naoko, will you just shut up about him?" snarled Mey, stopping in her tracks and turning around so she could properly talk to her.
"-intelligent and generous and sensitive and kind." Naoko paused to take a large gulp of air, which Mey took to her advantage.
"Generous? Sensitive? Kind?" she shrieked in mirthless laugher. "Him? Naoko, are you sure we're even talking about the same guy?"
"Well, just because you don't see that…" Naoko trailed off when she caught the look of murderous intent in Mey's eyes.
"You mean that he's rude and self-centered and arrogant!" she corrected as Naoko flinched.
"You…you actually hate him don't you," Naoko whispered, struck dumb by disbelief. "So it's true."
"What's true?"
"Don't get mad, ok Mey? But there's been this rumor going on…"
Mey's expression hardened with every sentence Naoko uttered.
"And there's one rumor where you strangled him and left him in a dumpster. But you didn't, did you?"
Mey groaned at her friend's stupidity.
"Oh spare me your gossip!" she snapped, side-stepping a telephone pole. "And do you actually think that, as much as I'd love to, if I strangle Uchiha Sasuke to death, he would show up in school today? So what is he? A ghost?"
Naoko grinned sheepishly. "I know! I know! I'm just making sure."
"Whatever Naoko."
The two teenagers walked on in silence until the sidewalk they had been taking split into a fork.
"Bye, see you tomorrow!"
"Yeah, bye."
And they parted ways. One of them daydreaming about the day Sasuke would ask her out on a date and the other thinking up effective ways to kill him in his sleep.