| Ino Yamanaka |

"So, what do you think about Sasuke?" I asked Sakura as she Hinata and I worked together on our art project. She swirls her paint brush into the thick bright pink paint before lifting it up to the canvas to paint a flower petal. Her brows furrowed together. I know she noticed that Sasuke has been avoiding her, and I honesty just wanted to get her opinion on everything since no one bothered to ask her.

Sasuke has been a close friend of mine since middle school. It honestly has been just me him and Naruto. The two of them are like my brothers I never had. They defended me when I needed them the most and wiped my tears whenever I cried. When Sasuke's parents died I made it my business to be there for both him and Itachi. They were my family.

"I don't think anything." She says simply. I looked over at Hinata who pursed her lips together and continued to draw her picture.

"You sure?" I asked. "You don't find him attractive or anything?"

"Why you ask Ino?" Sakura says in a nonchalant manner. Her and Sasuke have that in common. "I don't even be around him long enough to get a good look at him and if I do its always the back of his duck-butt ass head."

I snorted. "Duck butt?" I giggle. "Oh that's new."

"Dont avoid my question." Sakura says. "Why you ask?"

"I just think the two of you are so hot together." I reply. "Don't you think Hinata?"

"My name is Bennet and I aint in it." Replies Hinata. My eyes lowererd as my eye twitched.

"Gee thanks for the support." I tell her.

"Anytime."

"Nard and Saus are really rubbing off on you young lady." I smirk at her. She looks at me and giggles.

"You think so?" She asks.

"Oh most definitely." I smile. I turn my attention back to Sakura whose concentration never left her painting.

"Sa-ku-ra." I say her name in a sing song manner trying to gain her attention. She looked at me from her peripheral before looking back at her easel.

"Why are you pressuring me about what I think about Sasuke?" She asks. "Did he say something to you about me?"

"Well-"

"Don't answer that." She says cutting me off. "I honestly don't care enough to know."

I furrowed my eyebrows. I heard Hinata giggle. I turn to her.

"She's a tough one." I whisper to her.

"I told you." She whispers back.

"You two should really learn how to whisper." Sakura says again. She then puts down her paintbrush to fully turn towards us.

"Sasuke is just like every other guy I've seen at this school." She says. "I don't really too much care for him is all." She shrugged her shoulders. "I just dont know what I did that made him want to avoid me for the rest of his life but I'm in no position to press an issue about it." She finishes her sentence with a slow blink. "Are we done talking about him now?"

| Sasuke Uchiha |

I looked up from my phone just in time to see Hinata and Sakura coming to the table. I took in a deep breath. I had no energy to get up and leave so I decided just not to look at her at all. 

"That's surpising." I could hear her saying. I sucked in air trying not to look at her. The table talked amongst themselves and I just kept to myself. I scrolled through stuff on my phone becoming impatient and wanting this lunch period to be over and done with so I wouldnt have to hear the voice of that pink haired girl.

Letting myself get the best of me, I look up just as she caught my gaze, I quickly turned away. I could feel my face getting hot. I have to go. I have to get out of here. I got up and walked away I couldn't take it anymore. I need to stay away from this girl. She's no good. Not even the slightest bit.

"Dude where ya goin?" Naruto asked once he caught up to me.

"I don't know but I caught her gaze and had to get out of there." I tell him.

"Another vision or something?" He asks. I shake my head.

"No but I felt something in the pits of my stomach and I felt my face getting hot." I tell him as I lean against the wall. I stuff my hands in my pockets and look up at the ceiling with a sigh. I looked back down at Naruto who was smiling that stupid Uzumaki smile. I frowned.

"What Naruto?" I ask.

"You like her don't you Sasuke?" He says.

"That's stupid Naruto." I tell him. "I don't even know the girl to even like her."

"You dont have to know someone to find them attractive." He crosses his arms over his chest. "Look dude, you can't keep avoiding her forever. I'm starting to miss spending time with my girlfriend. You gotta learn how to ignore her existence like you do everyone else's."

I rolled my eyes and looked away. My heart rate increased.

"She-she's coming." I say lowly.

"Hm?" Naruto looked in the direction I was and gave a smirk. There, Sakura and Hinata were on their way towards us. I took in a deep breath.

"Lesson one." Naruto says. Just as the girls were gonna pass us, Naruto took Hinata by the wrist stopping her in her tracks.

"Excuse me beautiful." He says. "But I saw you walking this way and I couldn't let you walk by without getting to know you first. My first question is, do you have a boyfriend?" He smiled after his words causing the smitten Hyuga to blush heavily.

"Actually I do." She says to him. "He's a really handsome blonde with intoxicating blue eyes. Have you seem him?"

Naruto smiles ans presses his lips against hers. I think I'm gonna vomit. My eyed traveled elsewhere and I found myself staring at pink strands cascading down a curvy figure. Of course her back was towards me which made this sight so much better. I seen her turn but that didn't stop me from taking all of her in. My eyes traveled up to her face and we locked eyes. She quickly turned her gaze away from me and I looked down at the tiled floor of our school. How was I gonna get out of this one?

| Sakura Haruno |

I played in my hair wating for Hinata to finish talking to Naruto. Feeling someone staring at me I turned around to be greeted by Sasuke and his onyx colored orbs. I quickly looked away feeling my face getting hot. Was he staring at me? Why?

The bell rung indicating that lunch was over and it was now the start of a new class period. What made this even worse was that I had this class with Naruto.

He kissed Hinata goodbye and she ans Sasuke went to their class as Naruto and I began to walk to ours.

"So," He starts stuffing his hands in his pockets. He looked over at me and smiled before turning his attention ahead of him.

"So?" I question as I pulled my hair into a messy bun.

"What do you think about Sasuke?"

"Seriously?" I say dryly. "Ino asked me that already."

"Really?" He asks. "Huh, who woulda thought." He crossed his arms as if he was thinking. "So what'd you tell her?"

"I told her I don't think anything about him. He's just like any other guy at this school." I tell him. "He's avoiding me for reasons I don't even know, and I dont even know him."

"It takes time for Sasuke to talk to someone new." He defends his best friend. "But once he feels comfortable around you he'll start talking."

"How can he get comfortable around me and hes always leaving when I come around Naruto?"

He chuckled. "He'll stop eventually."

"Great." I reply with much needed sarcasm.

| Hinata Hyuga |

"The pink haired girl." Sasuke says. I look over at him. "What's her name again?"

"S-Sakura?" I answer.

He doesn't say anything else. I furrow my eyebrows and he looks at me from the corner of his eye. "What?"

"Why would ypu ask that when you've been avoiding her since the day she got here?" I ask.

He doesnt say anything.

"Was curious that's all." He says.

"So why do you avoid her?"

"I don't like new people."

"You don't even know her to not like her Sasuke." I folded my arms over my chest. "I already know because Naruto told me. I wanted to see if you trusted me enough to tell me too."

"I know he told you." He says simply. "Which is why I didn't tell you. Why would I repeat myself?"

I frowned. "Asshole." I mumble.

For a split second I thought I saw him crack a smile.

"She doesn't know." I tell him.

"Who and what dont they know?" He asks.

"Sakura." I tell him. "She doesn't know why you're avoiding her. I haven't said anything if that makes you feel okay."

He shrugged. "It makes no difference to me."

He and I reached our class.

"She's cute though." He walks into class like those words didn't just leave his mouth. I stared at him as we sat down. He refused to look my way let alone talk to me anymore. I quickly pulled out my phone.

To Ino🐷 & Naruto💏:
Stage 1 complete. He just said he think she's cute. 🙌🏾

From Naruto💏:
🤘🏾 we are moving forward with the plan!

From Ino🐷:
Operation- SasuSaku is now in motion! 😻😎

To Ino🐷& Naruto💏:
Let's do this guys!