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CHAPTER 4

"I refuse!" Erza flat out told her partner with a straight face. It was the second day that she met with Uchiha Sasuke after school for their History assignment. They had gone through each others note from yesterday and compiled whatever information necessary for the essay and decided that it was still lacking in content. So they continued from where they had left yesterday and work in silence until Sasuke braced himself and asked her to join Natsu, Naruto, Gray, Juvia, Gajeel and Lucy for their meeting in the weekend, for the second time.

"But why?" He countered.

"There's no need for me to join them since we're going to finish this assignment today," she said with a glare.

This time it was the brunette who frowned. "Then, we'll just join them and have some fun"

"You can go if you want to have some fun," she pointed. "I got my own thing to do," she continued before she returned to her book.

"What kind of thing do you have to do? From the way I see it, you don't even have friends to do anything with," he sneered, challenging her for a better reason.

Erza raised her head to look at the boy dead in the eye.

"What friends got anything to do with it? I don't need friends to do anything that I want," she spat out. "From the way I see it, you just asked me to go only to humiliate me later when it's obvious that my company is clearly not wanted," venom dripping with every words she uttered.

Sasuke's eyes widen when she said that. He wondered why she would think that way. Why did she think that low of him? Anger surged through him like a fire. Just as he opened his mouth to retort back, Erza closed the book she read with a loud snap and get up from her seat.

"This book has no important information in it," she puffed out before walking to the shelf containing other books.

Sasuke watched as the red haired beauty placed a wooden stool in front of the shelf before she stepped on it to reach the top shelf. He scowled at the scene while thinking about how stubborn she could be. She could just ask him to take that book for her in the first place.

Stubborn woman, he grumbled inwardly before he focused back to his own book.

Erza browsed through the book on the top shelf while cursing the other occupant in the room. He was a bit annoying and dare she say a bit persistent when he wanted something to go his way. Asking her to join the weekend outing for example, she didn't know what his motive was but she blurted out what came to her mind at that moment without thinking it through. Now that she thought about it, maybe it sounded a bit harsh on her part. She was indirectly insulting him. With an inaudible sigh, she thought she would apologize later to him.

Found the book she was looking for, she took it and balanced it in her left arm to take another book that caught her interest. That's when she heard a loud snap. She wondered what that sound was when she lost her balance and felt herself falling. The books in her arms fell to the floor first with a loud thud and she closed her eyes readying herself to felt the pain from falling on the cold, hard floor.

However, it was not as hard and painful as she initially thought it could be. In fact it was warm and firm and comfortable. She opened her eyes and raised her head from the firm surface and was shocked when she saw that she was face to face with Sasuke. He had cushioned her fall with his body and his hand circled around her tiny waist to catch and stabilize her.

"Damn," the tiny curse escaped his lips.

"I'm sor…ry," Erza stuttered and tried to scramble away from him, afraid that she was crushing him with her weight. However, the hands circled around her waist tightened, preventing her from escaping.

She looked at the black orb in confusion. "Sasuke… let go of me," she said, some of her long red hair spilling on his chest and his face.

"No," he replied. "Not until you agree to the outing this weekend," he said, gritting his teeth from the pain on his back.

"What?" Erza yelled. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. This guy really was persistent. "I told you I'm not interested in going out with you guys," she growled as she tried to wriggle herself free from his death grip.

"And I'm not going to let you go until you say yes," he ground out, tightening his grip more on her, he was sure she was going to have bruises later.

"You're crazy. I said I'm not going," she was yelling now. She felt his right hand left her waist and she took the chance to push away from him. However, Uchiha Sasuke proved to be stronger than her when her attempt met another failure.

"Are you really not going to change your mind?" He said in seriousness.

"No," Erza answered defiantly, glaring daggers at him.

Sasuke sighed heavily. "You choose to do this the hard way," he said.

Erza was startled at that. What was he playing at? But before she could ask him what he means, she felt his lips collided with hers in a harsh kiss.

Erza froze on the spot. She was too shocked to do anything, something to prevent him from abusing her lip. After a while, she felt Sasuke released his hold on her but she was too stunned, still trying to register what was happening in the first place.

"I hope you're not going into shock," he said calmly. "Was I that bad of a kisser?" He asked with a smug look on his face.

Erza was shaken out of her stupor and scrambled a few feet from him. "YOU!" She yelled pointing a finger dangerously at him. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?"

"Your brain cell fried or something? I was kissing you remember?" He stated without any care in the world.

Erza's face turn to the same color as her hair in an instant, recalling the kiss that he stole from her.

"How dare you," she growled dangerously, her whole body shaking with barely suppressed anger.

Sasuke could feel the murderous intent radiating from her in waves. Only now that he feared for his life. He obviously wasn't thinking clearly when he pulled that stunt earlier.

"Hey, it was your fault anyway," he said trying to defend himself.

"How the hell is it MY FAULT?!" Right now she was shaking with rage. The nerve of this guy, how dare he tried to pin this on me, she thought silently.

"Okay, maybe it was partially your fault. You wouldn't agree to the outing this weekend when I was asking you nicely. And what's with the thought of me humiliating you. Do you think so lowly of me?"

She felt a little guilty at that. "Whatever, I'm still not going," she said stubbornly with a death glare.

The evil smirk on his face made the shivers run down her spine. She had a feeling that she wouldn't like whatever it was that he would say.

"Well, if you don't come then I will show the picture of us kissing to everyone in school," he said, showing his phone with a picture of them in a provocative situation and KISSING!

When the hell did he take that picture?

"What do you think the others will say when they see their student council president like this?" Sasuke said, shaking his head, feigning innocent.

Erza paled and she felt her soul left her body at the situation she found herself in. Erza Scarlet learnt new things about Sasuke today. He was annoying, persistent and one manipulative bastard that always wanted things to go his way. Somehow, he reminded her of someone she knew. And it was not that all surprising with their relation.

"YOU JERK!" She hissed, frustrated that she fell for his trap. All this so that she agreed to the outing thing this weekend? What a crap.

"I think we should go home for today. Since we have 'THIS WEEKEND' to finish it up," Sasuke said pointedly which only earned him an evil glare in return.

Erza felt like murdering someone right now. If he didn't get lost soon, she couldn't be held responsible for what she would do to him.

"Oh by the way Erza," she sent a look his way, wondering what was it this time that he wanted to say. Was it not enough the damages he sent her way. "You should cut down the amount of the strawberry cheesecake that you consumed. You're heavy you know."

BAM!

Sasuke never saw it coming but a book was sent flying straight at his face for his comment. It took a while for the pain to register in his brain.

"WHAT THE HELL, WOMAN!" He exclaimed while rubbing his pained face. "IS THAT HOW YOU TREAT YOUR SAVIOR?"

"YOU ASKED FOR IT YOU BASTARD!" Erza yelled. No one could come in between her and her strawberry flavored cake. She knew that he was joking from his tone earlier but she felt her anger subside a little by bringing some physical pain to her tormentor.

Then, a thought crept through her mind.

How the hell did he knows about my strawberry cheesecake?

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"I'm home," Sasuke greeted when he slipped through the door. His parent was in the living room watching the television when he passed them.

"Eh, Sasuke. What happened to your face?" His mother asked in worry, hurriedly went to his beloved son.

His father tore his eyes from the news and looked at his youngest son. There he stood with a scowl on his face. His forehead and nose was clearly red. He wondered what had happened. He hoped Sasuke didn't get into a fight. Fugaku watched his son sternly waiting for an answer.

"A crazy girl dares to throw a book at my face," Sasuke grumbled grudgingly.

Well, that was unexpected, Fugaku thought silently. At least he's not in a fight.

His mother was stunned at his answer. She blinked her eyes as if waiting to hear him saying that he was joking but when he just kept quiet about it, she knew that it was the truth. She let out a chuckle, much to his dismay. A chuckle led to giggles before it blown into a full laughter. She laughed heartily hearing Sasuke's answer. "Well, that was a first," she said in between her laughter. Even his father couldn't help but wearing an amuse smirk on his face.

Sasuke's frown deepened. "Why are you laughing? It was painful you know," he said childishly, annoyed at his parent's reaction to his demise. Even his dad was smirking gleefully at him.

With a humph, Sasuke walked to his room, leaving his laughing mother and smirking father, cursing a certain red haired girl along the way. He disappeared in his room but not before he heard what his mother said.

"I really want to see this girl."

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To say the atmosphere at the public library was tense was an understatement. It was freaking awkward and full of anxiety. There sat at the corner of the library was a group of high school student from Fairy Tail High actually. The group of eight sat at the table with different emotion and thoughts running through their mind. Six of them were glancing nervously between a red haired girl and a black haired boy, praying for their life, hoping that nothing life threatening would happen to them on that day.

"What are we waiting for? Let's finish this quickly so I can go home," the red haired girl, also known as Erza Scarlet said with authorities in her tone.

"Yes!" The other six which comprises of Natsu, Naruto, Gajeel, Gray, Lucy and Juvia said instantly before opening their books and began their research. Meanwhile, the last of their group, Uchiha Sasuke merely scowled at their behavior.

"Since we are almost finish with the assignment, what if we just combine the information we gathered the other day," Erza said, more like ordered to Sasuke.

"Fair enough," Sasuke agreed, before they started comparing notes and discussed about how they wanted to proceed with the assignment.

The others also took their job seriously, mainly because Erza was there and also because they wanted to finish early so that they could have fun later on. They had promised to have lunch and go to the arcade after their discussion.

"I guess that's that," Sasuke spoke, stretching his muscle after an hour into their discussion.

"Yeah…," Erza nodded in agreement. "We can start writing it down," she said much calmer than what she felt when she first arrived at the public library, glad that she can finally finished her work with Sasuke. She brought out her notebook and started typing furiously on the keys while Sasuke rested his head on his folded arm on the table, watching the girl work in silence.

"Erza," Sasuke called.

The said girl gave him a sharp gaze. "What?"

"These guys planned to have lunch and go to the arcade later," he said, throwing the bait.

"So?" Erza countered in confusion. Not seeing his intention.

"So we should join them later," he suggested still not moving from his position. Sasuke braved himself and held her steely gaze. He didn't tell her about all of their plan for today.

Erza looked to the others and noticed that they all had been watching at her and Sasuke's exchange in interest. However, they quickly turned their gaze away when they were caught eavesdropping on their conversation.

"Excuse us for a moment, please," she said to the others with a faked sweetness in her voice but the murderous intent in her eyes was obvious. With that, she got up from her seat and dragged Sasuke away from the table by the back of his collar.

"You guys, should we go and get help?" Naruto whispered uncertainly at his friends.

"They are going to be fine," Gajeel said trying to assure their friends.

"It's Sasuke I'm worried about," Natsu said with panic in his voice, afraid for his best friend's safety.

"Yeah, Erza is being super scary right now," Lucy supplied. "She looks ready to skin Sasuke alive."

With that, all sort of scenario went through their minds with Sasuke getting murdered by the red haired student council president. Just imagining it made chill run down their spine.

"Sasuke…," Naruto whimpered with river of tears ran down his cheek.

Meanwhile with Erza and Sasuke…

"Why are you dragging me to this secluded section?" Sasuke asked as soon as Erza let go of her death grip on his collar. "Really Erza, if you want to spend some time alone with me, all you have to do is ask," Sasuke added with a smirk.

"Keep dreaming Uchiha," Erza cut him. "All I want to do right now is cut your head off," she threatened him with a glare. "And for your information, I don't want to spend more time with you than I should. You give me enough trouble as it is."

For some reason, her words cut through him like a knife. He knew that he tricked her to make her come today, but he still wished that she won't be so cold to him and everybody else.

"I agree to come here for the discussion, nothing more. So don't go and get any idea that I will join you guys later on, got it!" Erza said.

"Say what you want, but you have to come," Sasuke easily countered. "If not…" he purposely trailed.

Erza knew where this was going. He's going to blackmail her using the picture he took using his phone.

"Okay stop," Erza sighed heavily and massaged her throbbing temple. She knew better than to reason with this manipulative bastard. "Okay, for this time I'll play your game, but after today ends you have to promise me that you will delete the photo in your phone. If you don't keep your promise, I'll make your life a living hell, you got that?" She threatened.

"Deal," Sasuke agreed with a sexy smirk on his face.

"You better be," Erza gave a final warning.

After they had reached their agreement, both of them walked back to their waiting friends.

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Erza sipped her iced tea as she watched her colleagues interacted with each other. They were having lunch at the corner café just near the public library. Everyone looked like they were famished. Only she herself didn't order any food but a glass of iced tea since she had quite a heavy breakfast in the morning. Everyone ordered their favorite food she noticed.

Her eyes strayed to her left and saw that the famous Uchiha ordered an iced tea like herself and a plate of onigiri with slices of tomatoes. That was…. unexpected. She never thought that Sasuke would like to eat simple dishes like that.

Then again, Uchiha Sasuke was full of surprises. At first when he came to Fairy Tail High, she thought that he would become a nuisance to her, a student council president. Especially, since he was a model and a famous one at that. She expected a snobbish, a holier than thou attitude, a jerk, a playboy and many other behavior that had been playing in her mind back then. But he proved to be none of those.

Even if he was a manipulative bastard, her conscious mind thought grudgingly. But she could see the intention behind his manipulative actions was a good one, even if he didn't show it.

Although he practically black-mailed her to come, she couldn't say that she didn't enjoy today even if a little bit. These were her friends once, before she distanced herself. Natsu, Naruto, Gray and Lucy. She used to hang out with them before everything happen.

Erza was startled when she felt a whoosh of air fanned on her face. Sasuke was waving his hands in front of her, trying to get her attention. She saw the scowl on his face and had a good guess that he had been talking to her.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" She asked.

"I asked whether you want my onigiri. You've been staring at it for quite some time now," he repeated.

Erza was startled. Did she really space out?

"No, thank you," she replied curtly, shaking her head once.

"Are you sure? You didn't even eat anything," Sasuke persuaded.

"Yes, I'm sure. I'm not hungry since I had a heavy breakfast this morning," she replied.

Sasuke shrugged before he got up and walked to the counter without saying anything. Silently, she prayed for him to come back quickly. It was awkward at the table without him. Furthermore, she wanted to avoid unnecessary interaction with the groups. But luck was not on her side as Natsu chose that moment to open his mouth.

"So how are you doing these days Erza?" The rose haired man asked genuinely with a large grin on his face.

Erza stared at Natsu. She really missed his infectious smile. Back in the day, his smile would light up her face whenever she was feeling down. He was her best friend along with Gray, Naruto and Lucy.

"I'm fine thank you," Erza said.

"That's good," Natsu nodded. "It's so great seeing you again," he said looking at her with a soft gaze that made Erza uncomfortable.

"It's not like you don't see me at school," Erza countered, a little confuse by that statement.

"It's true but it's been so long since we've been out together like this," Gray answered instead of Natsu. "It's nice I guess," he shrugged with a ghost of smile on his face.

"Ye…yeah," Lucy stuttered. "It would be nice if we can go out together like this again in the future, just like old time," she said. Everyone could see the hopeful look on the blonde's face.

Erza was startled at their comments. She never thought that they would enjoy her presence, much less expecting to go out with her again in the future, not after when she was so cold to them. She was speechless. How was she to answer to that?

Gajeel and Juvia watched intently at their interaction. Being the new addition to the group they didn't know much of what had happen between the dynamic five. The two knew that the five of them were best friends once. Everyone in school knew that. But they didn't know what made the beautiful Erza to distance herself from her friends. It seemed like not long after her parents died, she became cold towards them.

"So what do you say Erza?" Naruto prodded gently, leaning back against his seat.

"I…," Erza started. "I can't promise anything," she answered. She saw that their face fell as she told them that. And for a moment, she felt guilty for causing the mood to go down. "Maybe if I'm not busy, I'll reconsider," she added after an afterthought.

They all looked at her in shocked, but the happy glow was emitted from their face. Although she was no longer their best friend, that didn't mean that she enjoyed seeing them in pain. She didn't want to be a source of pain for anybody. In school was a different case, she was the president after all. She needed to do her job seriously and prevent the students from misbehaving.

"That's great," Natsu gave her a wide grin with a thumb up. "Now I'm all fired up!"

"What's with you dumb ass?" Sasuke came back to the table after his short disappearance. Erza noticed that he had a piece of cake in his hand before he placed it in front of her.

The sweet smell of the cake was teasing her nose. "Strawberry cheese cake?" She uttered, looking at him in complete confusion.

"Yeah, you should eat something. We're going to the arcade after this. I don't want you to lose your energy later," he said, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. He sat back at his place while avoiding everyone's gaze. Erza wondered why he was being nice to her. Was it his way of saying sorry for what he made her gone through? But something had been nagging her mind for a couple of days now and she took the time to question him about it.

"Anyway Sasuke, how did you know I like strawberry cake?" She asked suspiciously.

"How could I not know," he stated in a bored tone. His cheek was rested on his palm with his elbow on the table while he looked passively at her. "You devour at least two piece of strawberry cake every time I saw you on lunch break at the bench under the tree."

"When did you see me? I never saw anyone nearby the place," she said more to herself, with her forefinger on her chin in a thinking pose.

"Your attention was clearly on the cake, not anybody around you," Sasuke supplied. "Seriously Erza, you should eat healthily. I'm surprise you can maintain a good body after all the amount of cake you consume dai…"

Sasuke never had the chance to finish his sentence as a fist connected with the back of his head with so much force.

Everyone winced when they saw what happened and wisely cleared the area where the scarlet haired beauty sat eating her cake, while the group sat with her was sweating profusely afraid of being the next victim to the famous scarlet haired president's wrath.

Sasuke should have known better than to comment anything regarding her love for the strawberry cheese cake.

To be continued

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