Hey everyone! After a long time of reading FanFiction stories, I've FINALLY gotten an account and created a story! This is my first one, so constructive criticism would be nice. Flames are welcomed, but not wanted. And I'm sorry if some characters seem pretty OOC.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, (SPOILER AHEAD! BEWARE!!!XD) Deidara, wouldn't of died and Sasuke would be dead :P

"talking"

'thinking'

'inner Sakura'

CHAPTER 1

"Hurry up, Forehead! We're gonna miss the bus!" Ino Yamanaka yelled to me from my apartment's living room. I could tell she was getting impatient.

" I'm coming, Ino-Pig! I'll be there in 30 seconds!" I yelled back to her.

I walked over to my bedroom mirror before I went to the living room, and looked at the reflection of the girl that I saw. My name is Sakura Haruno, and for the past 10 years, I had been living alone because my dearest parents had died one night in a tragic car accident, when I was only 6. Ino had been the one to comfort me when I had locked myself in my bedroom for days, refusing to come out, and we soon became the best of friends. Ino and I are now 16 year-old girls. We attended Konoha High, our awesome high school. And even though we get on each others nerves a lot, we are still best friends.

My figure is slim, around 5 ft tall, so I'm pretty short for my age, but I have the weirdest feature combination you have ever seen. I have bright pink hair that comes down to my mid-back, that is strangely natural, and bright green emerald eyes and a slightly larger-than-average forehead. But because of these God forsaken features of mine, I have never once had a guy ask me out in my entire life. Well, except for my friend Rock Lee, but he asks everyone out, so he doesn't count. Guys are guys so they think I'm too weird for them. But I don't mind this, because I still have the most awesome friends a 16 year-old girl could have. Ino on the other hand, has guys asking her out all the time. She has a slim body like me, only a little taller. But unlike the girl who is right now pouring her thoughts out to a mirror, Ino's waist-length hair is a stunning sunny blond and she has complementing ocean-blue eyes.

" Sheesh! sometimes I wonder why I'm still friends with her!" I jokingly said to myself, laughing slightly.

I hastily grabbed my large suitcase and headed down the hall of my small -cozy- apartment to where Ino was, walked right past her, and into the entryway to get my winter gear on.

"We better hurry up, or we'll be walking to the ski resort!" I said quickly to Ino, a hint of annoyance in my voice just to make her mad, while putting on my winter coat, boots, gloves and hat which all had the theme of pink, white and black, my favorite colors.

" Isn't that what I've been trying to tell you for the past twenty minutes?!" Ino replied, clearly annoyed, but soon found herself talking to thin air since her pink-haired friend was already rushing out the door. Sighing, Ino quickly grabbed her own suitcase, which was even larger than mine and walked outside. She was already dressed in her winter gear that was either purple or blue.

Together, we made our way to the bus that was taking us and our classmates to the ski resort. It was a class field trip, and we were all going for a whole two weeks with their classmates and teacher. We quickly put our bags in the side compartment (a/n: you know those big compartments on the side of a travelling bus) of the bus and climbed on to find a seat. All of our classmates were there, including Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akimichi, Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru, TenTen, Rock Lee, Neji Hyuuga, a few other random people from their class and our teacher Kakashi Hatake along with another teacher, Might Gai. Me and Ino went to sit behind Hinata and TenTen, and Ino and TenTen started talking almost immediately about everything to anything, while Hinata just listened quietly.

I wasn't in my famous 'talking mode', so I just laid my head back on the cool surface of the seat and closed my tired eyes, hoping for a nap on the way as the bus started moving. Well, it wasn't that I wasn't in a talking mood, I just had no wish to be here right now. Even though I'm really good at a lot of sports, skiing is not one of them. Actually, being bad at skiing is an understatement. I'm horrible! I always just felt so out of control when ever I'm on a pair of skis. Besides that, I also have a phobia of skiing. When I was only 6 years-old, half a year before my parents had died, we had gone skiing and I ended up taking a really bad fall by not being able to stop. My leg had been very badly fractured and it had hurt like hell! I still have the huge scar on the back of my leg from the stitches they had given me. Up 'til now, I hadn't gone skiing once. At first, I wasn't planning on going on the trip at all, but then Ino had begged me with her stupid-but-somehow-still-cute puppy-eyes...man, I have got to stop giving into her begging! Ino had told me that it would cheer me up a lot to get away from Konoha for a couple of weeks, but in truth, I'd rather stay home.

Unfortunately, a nap was not an option since the whole bus was filled to the top with laughter, talking and some yelling and shouting (Naruto, of course).

'Why would you wanna take a nap in the first place?! We're going skiing!! So, stop worrying about braking a leg or embarassing yourself and be happier!'Inner Sakura said.

'I know, but what happens if I'm so clumsy that I brake my leg again, only worse and have to spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair, crippled, not being able to play any more sports? And...and the last time I was skiing was when I was with Mom and Dad...' I reluctantly replied to my Inner self.

' Breaking your leg was a one-timer thingy! So, screw that and go skiing!CHA!' Inner Sakura mentally yelled, not hearing the last part of Sakura's fear-sentence.

'Whatever' I sarcastically retorted, and tuned Inner out since she was starting to get on my nerves.

Since I didn't want to talk and I couldn't sleep, I looked around the bus, taking in the faces of the people I had known practically my whole life, who were all wearing snow gear in their favorite colors. Naruto was wearing orange-themed winter gear and was arguing to Sasuke about God knows what. Sasuke was arguing back as well, only not making a big scene like his blond friend was. He was wearing winter gear too that was either dark blue or white. As I let my gaze rest on Sasuke before hastily looking away, I could feel my heart pinch at little. I had had this huge crush on Sasuke when I was 12, and even though it was just some stupid crush and even though I've been over him for a good few years, I still had this stupid little soft spot for him in my still broken heart. But I knew well that it was impossible to have a chance with him since that one day so long ago when I was 12...

'I could feel the butterflies dancing and leaping in my stomach as I spotted Sasuke walking down the street, on his way home. 'It's either now or never! I have to tell him how I feel, and I have to tell him now!'

I ran up to him and started walking beside him." Um...Sasuke?"

"What?"

I gulped, desperately trying to get rid of the lump that had formed in my throat."I...uh, w-wanted to t-t-tell you s-something..." 'Dammit! what a time to stutter!'

"hn."

I decided to just come straight out with it, so I took a deep breathe and... "I love you Sasuke! I really love you!" I looked at my feet and stopped, unable to look him in the eye. Sasuke stopped as well, a couple of feet ahead of me and turned around, glaring the famous Uchiha glare that was mixed with anger and annoyance.

" You are so annoying! Get away from me and leave me alone" he hissed at me, and spun around and kept on walking.

I could feel unwanted tears starting to gather up in the corners of my eyes as my heart had just been shattered into what seemed like a million pieces. " Sasuke..." Doing the only thing I could think of at the moment, I ran. I ran, not knowing where to go, tears now unwillingly streaming down my face. Ignoring the people around me, I soon found that my feet had taken me to my apartment. I ran inside and I didn't stop running until I reached my bedroom. I slammed the door shut and threw myself on the bed, sobbing hard and freely now. The place where my heart should have been was no more than just a dark, cold empty space.

'why...?''

Ino had come to comfort me later on, and slowly but steadily helped me get over him. I had finally gotten over Sasuke, but it had taken a long time.

I continued to look around her at the other students on the bus. Shikamaru was unsurprisingly sleeping ('lucky him' I thought). Chouji was eating a bag of potato chips while listening to Naruto and Sasuke argue and other random conversations. Hinata had now joined into Ino and TenTen's conversation, which was now about school gossip, but she was only talking a bit. Shino...wasn't doing anything.'Maybe he's sleeping. I can't really tell since he has those sunglasses on...' I thought to myself, curiosity in my mind. Kiba, wuth Akamaru on his lap, was talking loudly with Neji and Lee about something to do with what type of snowboarding style was better. The rest of the students were either talking, laughing with their friends, yelling to each other across the bus or minding their own business like Kakashi and Gai who happened to be doing a thumb-wrestling game( a/n: LMAO!).

As I looked around once more, I realized that all these people have been my friends ever since I had moved to Konoha with my parents when I was 4. These were the people I had grown up with, and it made me smile, thinking about all the good times they had had.

As the trip continued, I could feel myself getting drowsy since all I had been doing for the pas hour was staring out the window at the passing scenery and snow-covered fields. I decided to close my eyes, just for a few minutes, to rest them but unexpectedly soon fell into a light sleep, despite the noise everywhere.

Little did she know, another class from another school were on their way to the same ski resort.

I climbed onto the bus as quick as possible. Not because I was late, but because I was excited! The whole class was going on a 2 week-long skiing trip at some resort. Not only am I a good skier, I love it too, both skiing and snowboarding! It's like my winter hobby, and I go every winter with my friends.

My name is Deidara. Me and all of my closest friends are all 17or 16. I'm a very handsome young man, and I have this slight childish look to me sometimes like when I pout. On the other hand, I have slightly feminine features, to my huge dislike. I have long blond hair, that's usually in a half pony-tail, with all of my bangs covering my left eye from view. My usually bored, sky blue are now lighted up with excitement.

I couldn't go skiing with my parents because they were long dead, dead since I was 4 because of some stupid airplane driver. Sure, I missed them a lot, but that was in the past and there's nothing I can do about it now. When my parents had died, my red-headed best friend, Sasori Akasuna, and his parents had taken me in until I turned 18 and could move out, which would be next year. Sasori's parents were almost like the parents I never had, since I hardly remember my own folks very well. I had also grown accustomed to calling Sasori's parents 'Mom and Dad', which they didn't mind. It was a thing I had picked up when I was around seven. I had accidently called them Mom and Dad, so from then on, that was what I called them.

" I can't WAIT to get there, un!" I said as loudly as I could into the near-empty bus.

" Tobi can't wait either, but Tobi is a good boy!" Deidara's mask-wearing friend, Tobi, yelled from across the aisle.

" Shut it Tobi, nobody cares if you're a good boy or not." Kisame said, from behind me, to the boy with an orange mask while covering his ears.

" Shut up, all of you." Itachi, sitting beside Kisame, said to them, accompanied with a glare that could kill, making everyone shut up instantly.

" Whatever. I just want to get there. I hate waiting and road trips." Sasori said from beside me, sounding bored.

" Nobody gives a shit about what you hate Sasori, you hate so many things it's not even effin' funny, seriously!" Hidan said from the seat in front of me and Sasori, turning around so he could glare at said red-head, clearly annoyed.

And so, the road trip was a lousy one in my point of view, filled with loud arguments, laughter, yelling, shouting and a lot of talking (Tobi) but I seriously didn't have a care in the world for the bus ride. the only thing that was in my mind was about getting to the resort and skiing. Another reason why I like to go to ski resorts because you would always meet some pretty cool people there. This one year when me, Sasori, Itachi, Kisame, Hidan and Tobi had gone skiing, we had met this guy who could snowboard on his hands (a/n: i don't even know if that's possible, but oh well XD), and another year we had met this girl who could ski backwards (without crashing into something :P), which I thought was wickedly awesome. Maybe this year they would meet another person who's different from the rest...? It was also pretty cool that we were staying for a whole 2 weeks. When I was in 8th grade, the class had went for only 2 days on a weekend which was pretty fun but it went by really quickly. It was also that weekend that Kisame had broken his arm and was so cranky about it.

'Sheesh...he better not brake his arm again and be grouchy like that time, un. That was like hell, un! mental note: don't piss Kisame off when he's grouchy, un!' Deidara said to himself, laughing slightly. When Tobi had pissed off Kisame that weekend, Kisame had chased Tobi around...with a butter knife. It had been so funny since it was Tobi getting chased, but I still wouldn't want to get on Kisame's bad side.

I checked his watch. There was still another 3 hours left of the road trip. Sighing, I closed his eyes to try and get a bit of shut-eye, but failed miserably since everyone in the bus was talking, laughing, yelling or whatever.

' Oh well...I guess looking out the window could be fun, un' I mentally sarcastically said to myself. I didn't feel like joining into some pointless argument that my friends were having. Sure, I'm excited and all to go skiing, but right now, I'm in 'bored mode' right now. So, for the rest of the trip, staring out the window seemed like the only option.

So...how was it? And I know that Deidara seems OOC, but oh well! XD Only you guys can tell me! Was it interesting? Boring? Read and Review,and I'll give you a cookie! X3

Ta-ta!