The next day, I made it to class right as the bell rang. Granny Chiyo reset my alarm clock so that by the time it went off, I only had fifteen minutes to get ready and get to the school. I swear if that woman does not stop pranking me…I'm going to run away and join a badass gang or something. Maybe make a few badass puppets to come after her-

I like puppets.

Kakashi-sensei sent a bored look my way as I entered the door and I wondered why he was there on time. Usually his students had a good twenty minutes or so to be in class without getting caught for being tardy. Going out with Iruka-sensei really was changing him for the better. (For now. There was not a person alive who could change Hatake Kakashi.)

"Find your seat, Sasori." He sighed. He flipped another page in his porn novel and sat down heavily in his chair. When he finished the next two pages, he put a bookmark in his place ("One should never dog-ear precious items.") and carefully set it on top of a forgotten stack of homework. Porn freak.

I took my seat and rolled my eyes when I noticed the person sitting beside me was Inuzuka Kiba. He was a loud mouthed boy who wanted to hook up with another good friend of mine: Shabaku Gaara. (Ha, as if that would ever happen. Gaara did not go for dobes. That was actually the reason why he did not fall for Naruto…no offense to Sasuke, of course.) He kept staring intensely at the side of my head and I made damn sure to keep my eyes glued to the front. The last thing I needed was for Kiba to notice that I noticed him.

"Sasori," he hissed, his urgency preceded only by his raw desperation. "Sasori!"

I kept ignoring him. Perhaps he would get the hint and stop talking to me. But alas, Kami did not rain down little joys upon my head. (But what else could you expect from an indefinite being with all power?)

"Sasori!" Kakashi-sensei said my name that last time. Well, to be more accurate, he shouted my name to get my attention, but I digress.

"Yes, Hatake-sensei?" I decided to answer because I was not in the mood for another fight after breaking up with Ino. He sighed at my obvious incompetence.

"Were you listening to the lecture?"

I narrowed my eyes in confusion. I had not even realised he had been speaking this entire time! Iruka-sensei really had gotten under his skin this time. I wonder what Kakashi-sensei's punishments were when he royally screwed up…on second thought though, I would like to have lunch today. (Sometimes, my thoughts tend to wander when I'm left to my own musings, so just bear with me, okay? Okay.)

In order to avoid an argument, I said lightly, "Well, I didn't hear enough to answer a question, if that's what you mean. If you want to quiz me further, you'll have to repeat everything you just said." Yes, I realise that was said with an attitude, that was the whole point of the setup. Sarcasm. Everyone else snickered and Kakashi-sensei just looked blankly at me, though he could have secretly been planning various murder tactics on me. At least, that's what Sasuke says his brother is thinking every time he looks at me in the same indifferent way. But let's get back to the original story. You know, the one you actually wanted to hear about? Yeah….

So anyway, Kakashi-sensei gave me The Look and then boredly went back to the lesson. "Whatever. Guys, I want you all to partner up for a new project." Everyone cheered. Whenever Kakashi-sensei gave us a project to work on, it meant we did not learn anything new for however long the assignment lasted since the lazy ass teacher thought we "needed the class time for the project." Hey, if it worked for him and Icha Icha Paradise, then who were we students to argue?

"Each pair will be given a section of the human body. You will research the health dangers associated with the particular section you are assigned." His tone left definite room for argument, but that margin was a double-edged sword. If a student chose not to do the work or chose to argue with him about it, Kakashi-sensei would simply take off from his or her grades without batting an eyelash-he just did not care what the student thought about the matter.

My kind of teacher.

"Alright then, if no one has any objections, I'll go on. I want a 2500-word essay and an informative, creative poster detailing-"

"Sir, please excuse me for interrupting, un." A confident voice cut in. All eyes trailed to a row toward the back of the classroom, discovering a cute, petite blonde girl who had spoken. Wait, I knew that long honey-blonde hair…she was the girl who knocked me over yesterday! As she continued, my scowl gradually grew deeper. "But exactly when is all this due anyway, un?"

Kakashi-sensei sighed dramatically. "If you guys would let me finish, I'll tell you." I smirked as she looked affronted. "It's due at the beginning of the month. That's exactly three weeks from today. You can start picking your partners…now." He said it as if we were somehow involved in a race. I snorted. My classmates, however, took the bait.

Idiots.

Kiba launched himself at me, but using my awesome ninja skills and reflexes (yes, I have those…), I quickly dodged his attack. I jumped out of my desk and ran around the classroom, trying to get a partner.

"Naruto?"

"Sorry, I'm with Sasuke."

"Chouji?"

"Not this time. Sakura actually agreed to be my partner and I'm not even Sasuke! Well…kinda because none of her friends are in this class. But at least I got a girl partner!"

"Shikamaru?"

"Nah, I got Ino."

"Neji? Do you-"

"You should know by now that I'm either with Hinata or Lee. And since Hinata just became Kiba's partner…."

"Hidan?"

"I'd rather have…Kazuku…than anyone else in this fucking hellhole."

"…Tobi?"

"Hehe, sorry, but Zetsu said Tobi's a good partner."

Realising I was quickly running out of options, I turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke?" I just barely managed to make the question an irritated growl rather than dripping with the desperation I felt.

He snorted rudely. "What did Naruto just say? Dobe…." Just then, Sensei's voice rang loud and clear throughout the crowd of students.

"Who doesn't have a partner yet?"

I turned to see him standing beside the blonde girl and mentally cringed. Why didn't Gaara take this class? He should have been there to save me from the yellow hair! I tried to subtly move further into my throng of friends, but Sasuke (like the BITCH! he is) pushed me in front of the oh-so-loving group and called out, "Sasori still doesn't have one!"

Kakashi-sensei turned back to the girl. "Well, that settles that. You can be Sasori's partner." She gave me a somewhat soft and shy smile and my stomach flipped traitorously.

I hate blondes….

I gave Sasuke my meanest glare, but he only smirked. "Don't worry thanking me Sasori, that what best friends are for!" He assured me in feigned, innocent sweetness. Damn. I forgot Uchihas were immune to all types of hard stares. Well, since Hinata already snagged the (apparently) only guy who had wanted to be my partner, I guess I was just stuck with whatsername. I made a mental note to get her name soon since Sensei forgot to mention it to the class.

Somehow, I knew this was shaping up to be a pretty shitty school year.

A/N: Well, here's the next installment to my SasoDei. And guys, please don't kill me for making Deidara a "girl." He isn't really, Sasori just thinks he is because I did when I first saw Dei-chan. So no one can blame me or Sasori, right? He'll find out Deidara's real gender in the next chapter! XD And special thanks to Ibbited, Blood Drenched Scorpion, NerdyBookLover, Sugar'n'bloodyrainbows, jaded fox2, and FaintReality for reviewing the first chapter! You all made this chapter possible! ^_^

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I glanced at the clock: 5.29. At the same moment, I heard the ominous doorbell and the even more ominous shuffle of Granny Chiyo's feet across the wood floor. (Honestly, I don't know how that woman is still alive. I shudder to think about it.) I tried to run down the stairs as fast as possible, but she already beat me to the door.

"Hello, you must be Deidara-kun."

"Good afternoon Akasuna-san, un…."

She chuckled in that (OBNOXIOUS!) way she does. "Oh there's no need for formalities. After all, you're going to bear Sasori's children soon." My-admittedly shrieked-"Grandmother!" went unheard and unnoticed as she leaned closer to Deidara. "He's very lonely, you know." Her lifted cheek wrinkles made her eyes close in mirth. Deidara's wide eyes peered over her shoulder to look at me in confused-wary-fear.

Okay, this was officially the worst day of my teenage, mutant life.

Let me know what you think of the characters so far, please! And I went back and fixed the bold and underlining, as those of you who already read this chapter can see. I don't know what happened there because it wasn't supposed to look like that. This is the way I originally intented it to look. Sorry to everyone's eyes I hurt in the making of this chapter! XD

Your (always) sincere fan fiction author,

~theflawintheplan