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#3: Library

It was a well known fact that Uchiha Sasuke was a rather smart boy.

It is also a well known fact that his national fan club would trample over you in seconds if you called him just a "smart boy".

He was handsome, in a peeved, dark way, and he had a brain behind that pretty face. In addition to a pretty face and a pretty mind, he had a pretty nice wallet. His family was rich (his fan club would call this the understatement of the year) and because of his brother being a mass murderer currently in jail, he most certainly didn't have to share.

When you have looks and brains and money, you also get something a bit negative to balance things out.

What you get is simple: arrogance.

But like everything Uchiha Sasuke does, it is the best. He had the best looks (voted "Emo Boy" of the year) best brains and best arrogance. Well, you can't call it best when it's something bad like arrogance.

So let us say Uchiha Sasuke is the most arrogant person in the whole island of Japan and every nearest country around it.

So, when a brilliant arrogant man goes to the top Japanese college's library and is looking through the books shelves to find a text book that is so old it is only found in libraries and he just can't find the book we have a problem.

What the hell?

The young man strolled through the many books sitting upon the shelves.

He silently cursed at this library.

Why did it have to have four floors? Why did each floor have to have at least 100 bookcases the size of Godzilla? And with those bookcases at least 60 books to one shelf?

He should have gone to community college.

The book that Sasuke was hunting for was a very, very old med book.

Sasuke was studying to become a surgeon, the best in Japan in fact, and his professor, the only one who wasn't all that impressed with him, sent him on a wild goose chase after a book written by some Tsunade hag…

What was really interesting was how Sasuke was wondering why the heck Jiraiya was more interested with the blond haired clown in their class who magically got into med school then he was in him.

Truly interesting, really.

What made him even more peeved was the fact that the blond idiot found the book before him.

This added to his frustration.

Before he could think any longer, he collided books first into a small body.

"Ugh…" Sasuke mumbled, rubbing his aching head.

"A-ah, gomen! I-I'm so sorry!" the young woman apologized. She looked honestly worried.

The ever so handsome Sasuke wondered if she was stuttering because she was one of his fan girls.

It just goes to show that rich, handsome, brilliant men have no modesty whatsoever.

"Why the hell are you apologizing for?" Sasuke grumbled underneath his breath. The young woman was sniffling and Sasuke looked up in amazement to see she was welling up with tears.

You have got to be kidding.

Sasuke was going to bolt and run (he hated woman and he hated crying) until he noticed that one of the books she was picking up looked really familiar. He glanced at the scribbles on the paper on his hand and finally realized that that book was Tsuande hag's book.

"Give that to me."

The young girl blinked and only then did Sasuke notice he odd, nearly pearly white eyes.

He almost faltered. Almost.

"Give that book to me."

The young girl blinked again and tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear and picked up the book he wanted and held it firmly to her chest…

Then she ran.

Lucky for Sasuke, he had lightning fast reflexes and he quickly caught her wrist.

She looked at him with wide, teary eyes.

God, this was the first time he ever felt like he kicked a puppy. A cute, adorable puppy with cancer and five months to live.

What was this feeling called again?

Ah, yes, guilt.

Say hello to an old friend.

Sasuke sighed and ran his hand through his hair.

"Look, I've been looking everywhere for that book," with those words he pointed to the crumbling brown book and continued. "Could you just give it to me?"

Surely, Sasuke thought, this girl couldn't be in his class. She didn't really need the book.

The girl blinked slowly at him and he had a sudden feeling she wasn't one of his fan girls.

This girl was looking at him as if he was the slimiest, selfish, disgusting thing that ever crawled the planet.

"A-ano, Uchiha-san…I need this book too. Jiraiya-sensei told the whole class to get it," the girl spoke slowly.

Sasuke's eyebrow twitched.

She knew his name?

Was she mocking him?

"B-but I can get you the book! There are still dozens left on the book shelf on the first floor!"

And so, Sasuke and Hinata found that apparently, the dozens of books that she saw was quickly picked off the shelf by the other 43 students in the class.

This led to Sasuke and Hinata sharing a book in a 5 hour long class every Wednesday, Thursday and Monday.

Meeting #3: End.

A/N: Did you know that I always wanted to have a romantic encounter in the library?

Yup, I'm that much of a nerd.

Ah, by the way, in Meeting #2, Hinata got detention in Orochimaru's class because she squealed out loud when a spitball hit her from behind. Sasuke sure is evil, eh?

Thank you for reading!