"You're the useless one Mari not me. You keep forcing yourself on him, discriminating every single thing I do, spreading lies about me. For the love of God, what did I do to you?" She lifted her hands in the air in frustration.

"We were friends Mari, what went wrong?" Sakiko started feeling sentimental as she felt an unknown pain crush her heart.

"As you said, we were, not until you took Sasuke away from me," she retorted.

"You have got to be kidding me! I never did. He was never yours, I took nothing from you. Where did that distorted thinking come from?"

Sasuke walked into the class and saw the scene in front of him. He walked towards them with long strides, anger etched deep in his eyes. "Mari stop it, Sakiko stop it as well. What is wrong with you two?"

"Good, Sasuke is here."

"She wouldn't dare lay a hand on Sakiko."

Some of the students murmured behind them. From their conversation, he could pick up that they had engaged in hitting each other and he wasn't happy about that.

"Both of you cut it out!" He yelled.

"Watch as I beat your love, perhaps that would open your eyes to see how weak she is and not worthy of you. Only I am worthy to be by your side."

Before anyone could react, Mari slapped Sakiko again.

POW!!

But before she could feel triumphant about it, Sakiko slapped her on her face. "You stupid girl, how dare you, an idiot slap me?!" Sakiko didn't wait for her and answered her with another slap.

Her chest heaved up and down, as she panted, her eyes were open wide in anger. She had tolerated this girl far too long.

Just because she kept quiet about her nonsense doesn't mean she was stupid or a coward.

"For your information, I am not stupid or an idiot. Say one more insulting word this time and I would hit you across the face again.

"You are a FILTH... "

'That's it." Mari got angry and threw a punch at Sakiko's face. "I guess I would ruin your face first."

Sakiko didn't wait for the punch to hit her and dodged, making Mari fall forward. Before she could get up and regain her balance, Sakiko took the opportunity and kicked her to the ground.

In a matter of seconds, she was on top and Mari and started beating her. Seeing this, Sasuke, some students and their homeroom teacher rushed to separate them.

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~Staffroom – Mrs Hasegawa's Desk Corner~

Sakiko, Mari, Ayumi and Sasuke stood in front of their homeroom teacher's desk as she addressed them.

Several expressions we're displayed on their faces as they received the lecture of a life time.

Sakiko had her head down as the teacher spoke. She felt bad that she had let her anger taken control and behaved wrongly.

Sasuke on the other hand was stressed out mentally. Although he felt tired, his emotions wasn't displayed on his face. He was calm and took in all their teacher's words.

Mari was a different case, she had a look of anger, frustration and at the same time lust. She gave Sasuke puppy eyes and clearly ignored everything Mrs Hasegawa was saying.

Ayumi was filled with rage as she noticed the unruly behavior of her classmate by her side, but she had a calm and unworried look on her face. After all, she was the vice class captain, she needed to show example.

"How could you two behave like a bunch of kids. It is against the school rules to fight. I should have you call your patents over."

"Damn it, it has gone far. I do not want Father knowing about this situation," Sasuke thought.

"Ma please, do not let our parents know about this," Sakiko begged. "Mom and dad would be disappointed in me if they found out," she thought.

"Okay, I would handle this and not involve the student council and the disciplinary committee."

At the same time, Sasuke and Sakiko heaved a sigh of relief.

"Good gracious," Ayumi muttered.

"What really happened?" Mrs Hasegawa asked.

Mari quickly spoke before the others could say anything and said, "I was on my way back from finishing the work given to me, when Sakiko called out. She was insulting and laughing at me, that was when I retaliated," she lied.

The other three had their eyes wide open. Sasuke couldn't believe his ears. He knew he wasn't there but something I'm him couldn't believe what Mari had said.

He knew his sister, she wouldn't do anything like that. Well all his worries was cleared when a feminine voice spoke up.

"You liar!" Sakiko lashed out.

She had been quiet all these while and felt bad, but when Mari spoke up, she knew she might twist the whole story and true to her worry, Mari had pushed the blame on her.

Mrs Hasegawa raised her hand to silent Sakiko.

"But... "