Naruto Watty Awards 2nd place winner for 2021! Sakura Haruno is just beginning her new job at Konoha P.D. as a forensic pathologist and anthropologist. What happens when she accidentally texts a risqué photo of herself to a stranger, intending to share new lingerie with her best friend, Ino? For Sakura, it's the end of her dignity in the field solving murders, that's for sure. And what will happen when she realizes that her new partner, Sasuke Uchiha, is the most attractive, frustrating, kind, and annoying partner she's ever worked with? STARTED: January 30, 2021 COMPLETED: July 19, 2021 SPINOFF #1: WHO AM I (InoxSai) - begins @ Chapter 34. https://www.wattpad.com/story/261261200 SEQUEL: BONDED SOULS (SasuSaku): https://www.wattpad.com/story/270809272 SPINOFF #2: PURPOSE AND EXPECTATION (NaruHina) - Simultaneous w/ sequel. https://www.wattpad.com/story/262769159

Worlds collide when Sakura Haruno, a diligent chemistry student, is paired with Sasuke Uchiha, an arrogant economics major, for their required math course project. Over a semester of reluctant collaboration, their clashing values, stubborn philosophies, and mutual disdain begin to unravel in unexpected ways. ----------------------- • Sasuke x Sakura enemies*-to-lovers story (asterisk since enemies is a strong word. More like, people who dislike each other - to - lovers) • Academia (university) setting • Art used in this story comes from credited artists (all credited in the comments!) If you're an artist and come across your art, please let me know if you'd like me to take it down! • Story contains adult language, sex, and instances of substance use • Cover art by @meliaart0 on Instagram • Chapter covers by @FullMoonArts on X unless otherwise specified in comments • I don't own Naruto, or any of the characters. I own the story. P.S. Give this story a read if you'd like to learn some math proof techniques on the side, haha

Uchiha Sasuke was an overachiever, and Haruno Sakura, well, needed a tutor. On the brink of suspension from his high school, Sasuke is pressured to tutor students in need to amend for his troubling behavior at school. Can his aloof personality and competency in mathematics work together to tutor this girl who spends more time reading novels than doing her homework? Sasuke had always been good with textbooks, although perhaps, Sakura would be the first textbook he couldn't understand.