Chapter 5- The pink haired project partner

"Sakura, what happened to your face?!" Ino asked rushing over to sakura who had a small bandage on her cheek.

"Oh, I fell down the stairs and grazed it. It's only a scratch." She answered. In truth, it was grazed by a bullet.

Ino dismissed it since it was only a scratch and they all went to their first class.

They all had their history class together with their teacher being Kurenai.

"The anbu is a secret organization used to deal with various sorts of criminal activities that the police aren't able to handle. Sometimes they would target the criminals who managed to slip out of court because of lack of evidence. The anbu has been tremendous help and has also worked as spies against the Russian during the cold war. However, they were disbanded on 1996 because of lack of funds." Kurenai explained.

This was the information used for a cover up of the anbu's existence since it managed to slip out last time.

"You will pair up in partners to do research on the anbu." Kurenai announced.

Immediately all the girls stood and begged sasuke to make them his partner but kurenai quieted them down with a stern voice.

"I've already chosen the partners. Shikamaru would be with Ino, neiji with tenten, naruto with hinata and sasuke will be with sakura."

The fan girls of the Shinobi glared at the shinobi's partner.

Most of the glares were directed at sakura who sigh and buried her head in her hands.

"Looks like we're spending the entire week together." Sasuke said smirking,

"You're a flirt you know that." Sakura countered playfully glaring at him.

"Sakura." A voice called out and emerald met with onyx eyes.

"Hello sasuke."

"When are we going to start the project?"

"Anytime is fine with me." Sakura said shrugging.

"My place, after school."

"Sure, where is it?"

"I'll wait for you in the parking place." Sasuke said leaving before sakura could even object.

Emerald eyes looked around for raven hair. She found him leaning on to a black Porsche.

Sasuke spotted her and motioned her to get in the car. She wordlessly seated herself in the passenger seat as sasuke started the engine and drove of.

They drove in silence; both eyes were on the road. Sasuke drove deep into the city, near some dense forest.

A beautiful house came into view; it was overlooking a lake and was surrounded by the trees.

There was a huge fence surrounding the area of the house and an enormous gate. They opened when they saw sasuke's face and he silently drove in the complex.

Sasuke parked his car in the garage, where a lot of more expensive cars are sitting dimly.

"Wow, nice cars." She said eyeing the black Mercedes.

"Come on." He said leading her in the house.

It was a beautiful house, the floors were made of the best wood and all the furniture was neatly arranged. The glass walls of the house reveal the scenery of the lake which was glittering under the sun's rays.

"You coming?" sasuke's voice broke her trail of thoughts as she stopped gawking at the lake and followed him to his room.

The walls were painted a dull blue and the bed was navy and midnight blue. A study desk was in one corner of the room with a computer sitting on it. Beside the study table was a red electric guitar sitting dumbly on the floor. There was a Plasma TV and the most comfortable looking couch sakura had ever seen.

Sasuke half expected her to tackle him on the bed, or seductively seated herself on the bed like all the other girls before her did. But instead she flung herself to the couch which she snuggled in cutely.

"It's so soft." She said bouncing up and down before giggling to herself cutely.

Sasuke felt something weird overcome him when he heard her laughter and he almost smiled.

"Let's start the project." He said sitting himself on the laptop and opening a search engine.

The research went on well, sasuke found the information in the internet and sakura wrote it down.

"I got something interesting here. "Sasuke announced and sakura looked up uninterested.

"They say the member of anbu always wear a mask. Also, the highest ranking of anbu called the anbu numbers has a tattoo of a number." He explained and sakura eyes widen in surprise which she carefully replace with an interested look when he turned back.

"Hm…interesting." She said writing the information down.

The anbu spilled some information to cover suspicions but that is not one of them.

"I think the anbu still exist." Sasuke started earning a surprised look from sakura.

"Why do you think like that?"

"Well, you heard about that infamous assassin. Crimson flower… The one who only kills the criminals but never the guards or lackeys. They said she always wear a mask." Sasuke said and sakura started to panic though she carefully hid it.

"Those are probably just rumors. And she must have used a mask to cover her identity not because she's a part of anbu." Sakura reasoned and luckily for her, sasuke dismissed it.

"It's getting late." Sakura mused looking at the setting sun.

The sky was filled with beautiful purple, orange and yellow all blended together. The colors reflect themselves in the mirror lake making it more breath taking than it already is.

"The sunset's beautiful." Sakura said staring out the glass walls.

Sasuke looked at the sunset as well but what he saw made his breath stuck in his throat. Yes, he saw the sunset and the lake, but what took his breath away was the petite girl staring at it absentmindedly.

Her emerald eyes glowed with the colors of the sunset; her pink hair had a few shades of yellow since the light fell on it. Her lips were curved upwards in a small yet breath taking smile. The only flaw to the beautiful sight is the glasses perched on her nose which hides the full beauty of her eyes.

Sasuke snapped out of with the sound of her angelic voice. "Well sasuke, I should get going. See you tomorrow." She said heading for the door.

A hand opened the door for her and sasuke walked out and towards his black Mercedes.

"I'll send you home."

"You don't have to, I can take the bus."

"It's a waste of money and time."

"Well you're wasting your gas and time." She retorted.

"Just get in already." Sasuke said revering the engine and driving out as soon as sakura put her seat belt on.

"Over there."

"La Plaza hotel?"

"Yes, I live there."

Sasuke parked his Mercedes outside the hotel as sakura get of the car.

"Thanks for driving me home sasuke." She said and closed the door.

Sasuke watched until she disappeared to the hotel doors before driving of to his home again. The whole time his mind went back to the girl he drove home.