Thanksgiving break was awesome :) I finally got time to finish this chapter, hope you guys enjoy it too.

This chapter they are finally back to school!

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Chapter 20

"S-Sakura-chan?" Naruto, who just came back from his meeting, paused for a long second before blushing in ten shades of red at the sight of her bareness.

W-why is she changing here?! He looked away or at least tried to look away.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Sasuke's eye twitched at her state of undress. His eyes unconsciously landed on her chest binding. It was then he noticed he was blushing. Though his face remained emotionless as usual, his heated red ears clearly telling the opposite.

"I was trying to change into the maid outfit," The pinkette turned the dress over and around trying to find where the bow tie belongs, but it only seems like a puzzle to her." how do you put this-" A jacket landed on her head. And before she could get it away from her face, she felt her wrist getting dragged by a hand.

"Who the fuck changes in middle of the hall." He snorted while pulling her towards the closest private room. When he reached the library, which appear to be the nearest, he roughly turned the door knob and threw her in before slamming the door, hard enough to nearly break it.

"Don't fucking come out till you get in that damn dress." Sakura rolled her eyes at his comment, how hard was it to tell her where that bow tie belongs?

Outside the room, Naruto felt like banging his head against the door. Nope, I didn't stare. He desperately wanted to denied, but he did stared. Feeling the guilt crawling in his skin, he stood in the corner with gloomy clouds looming over him.

Sasuke wasn't glooming in the corner like the blonde but he was certainly mad. Mad at her for not having some sense of danger, mad at her for not even feeling embarrassed when they saw her nearly half naked. Mad at her for not taking them as men instead of the 10 year old boys she remembered.

Moments later the door cracked open but before he could voice out his opinion for her earlier action, he held his breath when she slowly revealed herself behind the door.

"How do I look?" She asked while tying her hair up into a pony tail. Though the outfit was the same as every maid in the house, Sakura's beauty clearly outweighed everyone else's . The black maid dress hugged her body perfectly showing her well prominent curves and her small body frame. Naruto couldn't help but praise the designer of the dress who made her look so perfectly in it.

"You look great. Sakura-hime." Out of no where, Naruto recovered from his depressing action and kneed in front of her before kissing her on the hand. Sakura laughed and commented it was only a maid outfit.

" Would you like to say something too, Sasuke-kun?" Naruto said jokingly and brought Sakura closer in front of the Uchiha. Sasuke threw him a glare but he didn't notice.

No response.

After what felt like long seconds, Sakura tilted her head to look into his eyes, " Does the dress look fine?"

Long pause.

"Hn. It doesn't matter how you look." He turned away before taking his leave with red ears again.

"He meant you look cute." Naruto translated but only to receive another deadly glare from the Uchiha.

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"Ohaiyo."

"Ohaiyo."

The morning breeze was cold but refreshing as students waves good morning to each other. The school gate were opened wide waiting for everyone to gets in. Many small talks came from groups of friends as they watch the scene in front of them with doubtful eyes.

Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto all came in at the same time, this sight is rare enough but what bothered them the most was that they came in as if they were just casual friends. Some mouth dropped, questions and rumors quickly spread before they even reached the entrance of the gate.

Sasuke was annoyed. If they keep staring at them like that, he was for sure to have some 'punishment' with the person who wasn't lucky enough to get his attention. It was so goddamn annoying.

"Bitch! Don't walk to close to Uchiha-sama and Uzumaki-sama!" One of the kings' followers snarled at her with her proximity with his 2 superiors, and threw a soda can he just finished, destination clear.

Sakura could easily dodge it without effort, but before she could, Sasuke caught the can and it crumbled in matter of seconds under his hand. It was evident that he is going to throw it back at his face, but Sakura held on his hands and shook her head.

"Please don't." She knew well how much difference in their strength compare to ordinary people. If he was to throw it back, she was sure there will be more damage than merely bleeding.

Sasuke glared at her not wanting to listen to her. He was mad. Extremely, what the fuck did that guy think he was doing? He was almost not able to control himself if it wasn't because Sakura had took the can away from his hand.

" I will go first." She sighed and threw the can in the recycle bin before walking towards her class. She knew people are staring at her, but it was always like that anyways, so she decided to ignore it.

Naruto who wasn't in the best mood since the morning because of all those staring, he simply walked towards the guy who threw the can and smiled at his face.

"Fucking do that again, your damn arm will end up in that trash can." He said as if he's in a causal conversation.

Even if he had a strong urge to beat him up, he knew well Sakura would hate it and he wouldn't want her to hate him. This much, he could control.

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"P-please d-don't take Sakura-san's desk." A boy shakily protested when he witness the kings' followers trying to throw the desk that belong to the pinkette away.

"What?" The male with orange hair questioned in an annoyed way. Did he really hear that right? No one has every stopped or questioned what they do when they clearly knew who their leaders are.

"What did you just say?" He dropped the desk roughly and turned to give the boy, who's almost a head shorter than he is, an irritated look.

Manta backed up and winced at his harsh tone. It had taken all his courage to voice out that line, there is no way he is brave enough to continue when the orange hair guy looked as if he's going to skin him alive.

"I-I p-please d-" Before he could finished, he fell into the middle of all the desks when a fist connected with his face. Nearly all the students backed up not willing to involve with this kind of situation. Some looked away in shame, there is no way they could step out if they might end up in the same circumstance.

"Continue if you want your fucking head pin in front of the school." They laughed and spited at the boy on the ground before leaving the classroom with Sakura's desk.

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The door slide open and everyones' eyes turned to the person standing at the entrance. Whispers and small giggles went on as the rumor of Haruno Sakura coming back today was true. She has been nearly gone for 2 weeks and during that two weeks, the kings were behaving a bit different than usual. Some say she was killed and some spread that she just ran away, though none was confirmed.

Manta who has just finished fixing the desk patterns he fell into looked at her before he let out a sigh of relief to see her completely healthy with no serious injuries or anything. He took a long moment but finally swallow down the lump in his throat before walking towards her.

"S-Sakura-san, t-thank you so much for saving me the other time. W-without you I could have died that day." He bowed genuinely while holding out a letter he struggled to write few nights ago trying to convey his sincerity. He had waited for her to come back and give it to her.

Sakura watched him eyes widen slightly. "You are welcome." A wave of happiness overwhelm her at his gratitude, it made her smile from the bottom of her heart.

She accepted the letter he handed her and it was then she noticed the bruise on his face. "What happen?" The girl slightly touched the purple-greenish bruise that had started to form on his cheek.

Manta unconsciously taken a step back and blushed at the sudden contact. "N-nothing, I just-" when his nervous eyes averted from his feet to her face, his face turned pale when he saw who was behind her.

"U-Uchiha-sama, U-Uzumaki-sama," He said their names shakily. Though he wasn't as nervous as now would when he sees them normally, but this time, Uchiha was glaring at him. Glaring, yes, the action that was enough to make him faint. Feeling his legs about to give in, Manta closed his eyes and blurted out a weak 'good morning' before running out the door.

He nearly felt his heart stopped from the extreme fear that hit him when their eyes connected.

Naruto watched the boy ran away sweating, his lips curved into a smirk. "Seems like he's pretty fond of Sakura-chan." He said only loud enough for the Uchiha to hear him. He smiled even though there was no response from him. This game, he's gonna win, just a little bit more oil to that fire.

"Sakura-chan, what is that?" He pointed at the letter in her hand, turning the corner of his eye to look at Sasuke.

"Manta gave it to me earlier. " She flipped the envelope over to find a neat and elegant calligraphy written in her name. He must had spend a lot of time on it.

When Sakura was busy tracing her hands over the beautiful calligraphy, Naruto took his chance to made his game work.

"Is probably a love letter," almost just a little more.

"wonder how Sakura-chan would reply," twitched

"What if she accepts?"

GOAL

"Sakura,"

"Hm?" The pink haired girl turned to look at the Uchiha.

"Give me the letter."

"Nope." She tug the envelope into her bag clearly not going to give it to him. She turned to get to her desk but the Uchiha slam his hand on the blackboard behind her, blocking her way.

"Then don't read it." He looked down at her, his shadow covering her face. To others watching , it clearly looked like a little bird caged by a eagle. There was no way to deny if the king is using this much of an action.

Getting a bit frustrate by his persistent, Sakura let out a tiresome sigh. "I am going to - READ IT." she brought her head back slightly and brought it back in full force hitting the Uchiha right on the forehead.

It made him stumbled backwards and he cursed when he realized it fucking hurts like hell. He almost questioned if her forehead is made out of metal. He was sure he saw stars for a second but he would never admit it.

Sakura walked away causally while the Uchiha covered his aching forehead with his palm. What the fuck?!

If her forehead hurts too then he would at least feel a bit satisfied, but she just walked away as if nothing happen!

Naruto bursted out laughing but only to receive an elbow blow to his stomach from the frustrated Uchiha. He felt more pissed off than he already was.

Sasuke snarled and glared at her back, everyone who's watching quickly averted their eyes and focus back on whatever they were doing. Fine, he's going to let her read it but she not going anywhere with that guy. That he could not accept.

"Good morning Uchiha-sama, Uzumaki-sama," A guy with orange hair appeared next to them and greeted enthusiasm, though both made no move to acknowledge his appearance. He watched the pink haired girl walked towards her desk with an evil grin.

"I made a little treasure hunt for that bitch." He smirked when he saw Sakura sighed and turned back towards the door. He had made sure to hid it well so she couldn't find her desk, last time was just too easy for her.

He laughed out loud when she passed by him and was tempting to trip her with his foot but everything stopped when Sasuke held her by her arm not letting her go any farther.

"Sasuke?"

He didn't know how to continue but he just doesn't' want her to go.

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Hope you like it :D

I need some ideas on how the Akatsuki should appear, please:) I gotta made them appear somehow.