I'm back from Hiatus!!!! School's back on the schedule, but I'll still be posting this fic... frequently. Please R&R! It's a crime to read and not review! That's what a great TT author used to say. I'm just repeating it, so credits to her! :)

Chapter 3

"What? Your brother?" I stared, agaped at the man standing in front of me. He seems to be smirking at my situation. Damn, I am not falling for it. I will not give myself in! Just because he's Sasuke-kun's brother gives him no right to deserve my respect and bribery. "Nice to meet you......." I held out my hand, smirking myself to see if he'll shake it genuinely or do something he shouldn't in front of Sasuke-kun that will black dot him.

"Sakura, what are you doing here? Out of school?" he eyed me, looking very suspiciously. I flinched by the look he's giving me, I felt like a baby who does something wrong that angered her father.

"Pedicure and manicure?" I replied raising a pitch higher. "Today's a half day due to some technical problems," he looked like he didn't trust me. I gave him a genuine look enough to convince him that I'm telling the truth. I know what he's thinking, I know exactly what's on his mind. It doesn't take a genius like me to figure it out, actually. He's accusing me inwardly that I am so obssesed with him (like I'm not) to skip school just because he wasn't there.

"So Sasuke-kun, I didn't thought you'd skip school... what are you doing here? You normally don't like to come to a beauty spa," it's time for me to accuse him now. He didn't look like he's taking the accusation seriously. "This is a special occasion to relax in the spa with my brother," was all he said and his voice sounded nonchalant. what happened to my loving Sasuke-kun? He normally doesn't sound like this. I forgot that my hand is still held out, how embarassing? "Aren't you like going to shake it as you introduce yourself to me?" I asked modestly to the ugly man beside the drop-dead gorgeous Sasuke-kun.

"Sakura, this is my brother, Uchiha Itachi, the heir to the Uchiha productions in the States,"

"Nice to meet you, I am Haruno Sakura," I think I did a pretty darn good job in emphasizing my surname since Sasuke-kun didn't add it in. "Heir to the Haruno modeling agency," I boasted, since his title is clearly annoucne, why shouldn't I?

"Oh, Sasuke, I thought you said she was pretty, why is her hair abnormally pink with emerald coloured eyes which doesn't match her hair... not to mention her oversize forehead. I thought girls have colour sense," I know he was making fun of me, I knew it. He was intentionally mocking me.

"With all due respect, you're not looking so handsome yourself. If I see you somewhere else, the guess of you being Sasuke-kun wouldn't even be a piffany," evidently, I wanted to add that. For brothers, they look completely different, not to add their personality too.

"-ahem- shall we all go take a drink or something?" Sasuke asked, feeling tight in the middle.

"Sure Sasuke-kun, why not?" I was about to leave with them until the nice lady who was getting my nail polishes returned and called me. "Miss, you're not done," She said it in a sing-songy voice.

"Sure, I'll be right back,"

"That's okay Sakura, some other time," I can't believe he's shooing me inwardly. Before I could even say a word, he draped his brother in a brotherly fashion and left, didn't even spare attention at all. It was like I didn't even exist in this world. Am I being a social reject now? From her boyfriend? OMG, 911, I need to call Ino.

Ino-pig, 911, come see me in my section when you're done_S

I spend the rest of the time getting my nails done as I wait for the pig to come see me. Damn, she's taking long! How many massages is she taking anyways? Finally she arrived!

"What's the 911 Saki," Ino asked frantically, rushing in the room as if something's on fire. Her expression completely changed when she saw me relaxed, getting my nails done."Is this a 911 Saki? Do you want me to pick your colour for you? I thought it was a real emergency, you baka!"

"No, not a fashion emergency, I met with Sasuke awhile ago," I started, she looked at me with interest and nodded. "He turned out to be someone I... hate when I was at the mall, in the book shop to be more precise, and now he's mocking me. Pointing out all the negative points about me," at this point Ino gasped with her palm blocking her mouth. "And Sasuke-kun's alienating me!" I shrieked adding the last part.

"This is terrible," she said, stating the obvious."You must be devastated," she added. Now she's being melodramatic.

"Yeah," I replied, awkwardly, playing along.

"Don't worry, I'll get you out of this," she assured, she looked trustworthy enough. But she's the best person you could go to with emergencies. Any kind, she'll help if you can get her interested in it.

(The next day... back at school... at the steps)

"Hey little freshman," Ino called in her sweetest voice to a passing young girl. "You know who the hottest guy in school is right?" the girl nodded. "Of course it's Uchiha Sasuke!" Ino smiled. "Good, did you see him come in?"she batted her eyelashes at this point.

"Uh, no,"

"Then tell me when you do,"

"Sure, I will," the little girl smiled and skipped away, that must have brightened her mood. Ino sure is good at using little girls, especially freshmen.

I heaved a sigh at Sasuke-kun's absence.

"Saki, honey, don't give up just yet," Ino said, teasing me, trying to be dramatic.

"Stop being just a drama queen," I gave her a playful punch giving a soft laughter as well. After all, she was being funny.

"Hey, don't feel bad about it. I'm sure it's just a matter of time. He'll turn back to you," Ino told me, seriously this time.

"Thanks," I said, staring down at the grayscale steps of the school entrance, I took another spoonful of strawberry yogurt and stucked it in my mouth. The only way to please yourself over stress is to full yourself with something sweet. And a second way to please me for this case is to get even with his brother. Watch out Itachi, your bro-mance is going to end soon.

Then a squeal rang through the gates, that only means one thing, Sasuke-kun is here at school. Perfect timing for my plan to start in action. This starts now.

I wonder why the fangirls still chase after him when me, I am dating him. That doesn't make sense, do they still think Sasuke-kun would turn to them and leave me? Nuh-uh. Wrong fangirls. Watch and learn little fangirls, cos the Queen Bee will show you how it's done.

"Sasuke-kun's here," I alerted Ino though I was sure she was aware of the fact too.

"Hey Sakura, I figure you'd be here," Sasuke-kun arrived in front of me, at the bottom of the steps with swarns of fangirls swooning behind him after glimpse of total hotness. I mean, who could resist his coolness? Major hottie alert.

"Um, is there anything you wanted to tell me?" I asked, batting my eyelashes. I know that was a dumb questions, it sounded like I was mad at him and we're not even dating. Wrong question, dammit. He's my boyfriend for god's sake! He doesn't need to a reason to see me! Damn you Sakura, you're dumb! Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb! What's your huge forehead worth if it's not for show?It's not even functioning properly.

"Oh yeah. Care to join dinner at my house? To give you a proper introduction with my brother," he said drawing circles with his feet acting like my question earlier didn't even affect him. "Then I'll be going now. I have free period first, hn," he really have to leave the hn there, did he? I can already see the sarcasm dripping as my mind flashed back to the earlier conversation. Or did he hn that to his fangirls? I hope so.

"That went well," I sighed and whispered, but Ino seem to detect me immediately.

"Anything bothering you again?" she asked.

"Yeah, everything," with that I got on my feet and left for my homeroom. I totally know why Sasuke jumped to first period instead of homeroom, he didn't want to walk to homeroom together. And I let it slip me earlier. What is wrong with our relationship? Is it really his brother's doings? Why is he alienating me? Why?! Is Itachi holding a grudge on me for the book he lost? It's just a book, and he won't really jinxed his brother's frist relationship, would he?

(Homeroom)

I ghosted over to the seat beside Sasuke-kun's seat before any other fangirls does. He didn't even bothered to turn to look at me. He just froze in the position he's in for the past five minutes as we sat. Then Ino came and sat at the desk beside me and mouthed. "Is everything ok with him?" her eyes looked pointedly at Sasuke-kun who sat innocently nonchalant.

I think I should make the first mood to stop our coldness. "So Sasuke-kun, shall I pick a new dress from the mall or just out of the closet?" I asked, my chin on my plam which my elbow is leaned on the desk, I tried to sound attractively cute.

"Uh, your decision," he replied. I thought Sasuke-kun wasn't cold to me after a month when we started dating. I was wrong. Dammit, I was wrong. The coldness is just repeating over again.

"I want to look perfect," I switched to a new position which is leaning back on the chair and stared at my eraser. Hurrah! He turned to look at me, no grin or smile but still. "Sakura," my named escaped his angelic lips. "You're going to fall backwards if you continued to lean on your chair," bastard! I never thought this day would come when I call Sasuke-kun a bastard. How could he pay no attention to me when I'm trying to make him like me again? This is not fair!

"Don't worry, I'll be careful," I gritted my teeth. My voice have a slight edge of anger, I'm trying my best not to let myself sound too angry.

"Morning class," Kakashi entered. "I can see I'm late, well, this time I have a good explanation... it's because of the technical difficulties we had yesterday. Staff meeting," he rushed the whole reason so that Naruto wouldn't have time to call him a liar.

Then the bell rang, signalling for our next class. Biology is going to suck today, cos there's a lot to think about in my mind today. A lot to mentally prepare for the dinner tonight too.

"Bye Sakura, gonna go use the computers for free period now," At least he said bye and told me what he's going to do for free period. Maybe he's just bored with school... and hopefully I'm excluded in his boring , that must be it. Biology can be spend freely now. I am so going to teach the devil-brother a lesson he'll never forget!

Shannaro!!!!!