Love is War {Akatsuki Love Story}

"Miki, guess what!" Lupin shouted at me. She was always so energetic, I felt left out when her and Lunae were together.

"What?" I shifted from my position of holding my book to closing it to look at her.

"We are supposed to be getting a couple of new students today."

"Really? In January? 'Bet you they must have gotten in trouble or something." I opened my book to continue reading.

"Class!" Our teacher called. "We have a total of about five or more new students."

Three boys and a girl walked in. One boys hair was red, not orange red, but bright red. Another came in with long blonde hair tied into a ponytail with long side bangs. The next one seemed stranger. He had black hair and a red eye, not eyes. His left eye was covered by a cloth.

The girl looked shy with blue hair and clear eyes.

"Introduce yourselves." A student from the back called out. The teacher glared at him but quickly dismissed it.

"I'm Sasori." The red head answered quietly.

"Deidara." The blonde flicked his bangs to the side.

The black haired one didn't answer verbally, but he wrote his name on the chalkboard in big messy writing. "Tobi." He said, drawing a butterfly next to his name.

"I'm Konan." Her smile was barely visible.

"Alright, your old school might've work differently, but here, we always work in partners." The teacher scanned through the room looking for partners for the new students. "Lupin get up. Tobi go sit with Miki. Miki, wave your hand so he knows who you are." I shyly raised my hand and he skipped over to me.

I looked over at Lupin. Her books were at hand.

"Lupin, move to the desk in the back." She did as told. "Deidara take a seat next to her."

They immediately started up a conversation. I sighed subconsciously.

"Are you okay?" Tobi asked me.

"Hm? Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked fiddling with a page of my book.

"You seemed kind of upset when that girl left the desk." I glanced at Lupin, who didn't even seem to be disturbed that we were separated.

"No, I'm fine." I pushed my book into the desk and looked at the teacher.

"You don't want to talk?" Tobi persisted.

"I don't know." I mumbled.

"So what goes on at the school that seems interesting?"

"We have a dance coming up next month, and before that we have school play going on." I quietly said.

"You're in the play?" Tobi asked, kicking his feet.

"Nope, but Lupin is. I'm more of the person that just goes here because I'm forced to." I finally took a peek at him. Tobi was intensely focused on me, his red eye had a pattern on it.

"How old are you?" He ran a pale hand through his hair.

"Um, I'm thirteen and fourteen in August."

"Lucky Duck!" He touched my nose with his fore finger. "I'm fifteen!" My eyes slightly widened

"How? You look thirteen." I asked obviously confused

"I'm in foster care so I go from house to house yearly so I'm usually pulled back a grade to catch up with the other students. As for me looking thirteen, it's probably genetics." Tobi smiled.