Chapter 1:
I adjusted my glasses in front of the mirror. I pulled my red turtle neck sweater on. I put my hair in a pony-tail. I patted my hands on my sides of my baggy blue jeans.
'Perfect, just perfect.' I thought as I looked at myself through my bedroom mirror. I gave myself one of those "I can do it" looks and smiled.
My name is Sakura Haruno, and it was my first day of 4th year high school, and I swore to myself that this would be the year where I wouldn't dare care about what others thought of me.
My family and I had just moved back here two weeks ago, and when I say 'moved back', I mean we used to live here a long time ago. This was the same town I was born in, the same town I met my very first friends, and the same town I took my very first steps. I had moved away from Konoha when I was just in grade 8, and now, here I was, getting ready to go to high school in that same town.
"Sakura! Hurry up and come eat you're breakfast! You'll be late for school!" My mom yelled from downstairs. I heard a hint of annoyance coming from her voice, probably a sign that sooner or later she'd come up here and force me down if I didn't go down now.
"Coming!" I yelled back. I didn't want to relive the event of her driving me insanely mad my yelling even more than usual.
I looked once more into my reflection on my mirror. I looked just like I wanted to look. A bookworm, a geek, a nerdy looking-freak.
You might be asking, "Why in the world does she want to start her new life looking like that?" Well, if you really want to know, it's because of all those friggin perverts out there! You can say I've had bad experiences in my other hometown. But I'll save that for later.
I grabbed my backpack from the side of my bed, and ran downstairs. I walked into the kitchen and saw my dad reading the daily newspaper.
"Good morning Sakura." He greeted as I took my seat beside him.
"Morning." I said back, I ate the toast that was in front of me. I tried being careful with the crumbs that had always managed to stick stubbornly on my sweaters, I didn't want to spend another half an hour getting my clothes as perfect as I had wanted them to look.
My mother walked in with a basket of laundry in her hands.
"Did you see you're brother?" She asked me. My reply was shaking my head with my mouth full of breakfast.
Mom sighed.
"He is never here when I need him!" She said as she continued her way to the laundry room. She was always frustrated when it came to him. When they were in the same room all you could here was yelling.
Koji, my brother, was only a year older than I was. He is most definitely an awesome brother, but he always teases me about stuff.
Just then, the doorbell rang.
"Oh! That must be Ino!" I exclaimed as I grabbed my bag and went over to my dad and gave him a kiss on the cheek. I yelled goodbye to my mother from the doorway and went to the greet my best friend.
Ino and I were bestfriends since childhood, and when she heard that I moved back in town, she was the first to give us a welcome back visit.
I opened the door, and smiled.
"Good morning Ino!" I sang in a cheerful mood.
She smiled back.
"Good morning, you look rather nerdy today." She commented and laughed at her own joke. Ino was the only person who new the real reason why I had been dressing like this, all covered up. I stuck my tongue at her in a playful way and closed the door behind me as I stepped out.
"Ok, let's get going!" I said cheerfully, she nodded. We both then started walking down the sidewalk to our highschool.
"So Sakura. Are you planning on making any new guy friends here, or are you planning to keep your 'I hate every guy' attitude?" Ino asked me and chuckled.
"Hmmm... I'm not really sure, it depends." I said, I didn't really want to talk about this.
"Well?" Ino demanded an answer.
"Well, I honestly don't know, I'll just go with the flow of my mind." I said as I stretched my arms.
"Ok then, weird answer but ok." She said totally confused.
Ino was a pretty girl, she was actually one of the popular people, but I was wondering if I was going to get in the way of her social life, I had asked her about it once, and she said don't worry about it. She told about the people at the high school, she described the most popular people guy, Sasuke Uchiha, as the hottest guy that could ever live.
I remembered him from eighth grade. In eighth grade, he was also referred to as the most popular guy, but I didn't see how he was so popular, he was a jerk, and not to mention a player, AND cold-hearted bastard.
And for some reason, I was referred to as the most popular girl in school, I don't know why people would think that, but I just was.
"Oh, and I'll introduce you to my Shika-kun later!" Ino said happily. Shikamaru was her boyfriend; they had been a couple for a long time now. Shikamaru was also one of the best friends of the all popular Uchiha boy. I remember him being the most lazy and smartest guy in the class in eighth grade.
"Okay, there it is!" Ino said as she pointed to the huge high school, the Uchiha high school, apparently the rich Uchiha family had bought that too along with the popular malls and shops and stuff. Damn them all.
Ino and I started crossing the road, and then all of a sudden an expensive sports car almost ran over me.
"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" I yelled at the moron in the sports car.
Ino too was shocked. The car pulled over right in front of us.
"Oh my god." Ino said as she started shaking her head.
A guy with blond hair stepped out of the passenger seat.
"Hey Ino! Sorry bout that, heh heh." The blonde said.
"You retard! You almost hit her! Not me! Apologize to her!" Ino yelled as she pointed at me.
I was pathetically still on the ground, I stood up, dusted myself off, and started adjusting my glasses like a normal nerd would do. And i thought to myself, "Jeez, my perfect look is friggin ruined now." I gave myself a pouted look and recontained my posture.
"Heh heh, sorry, but it wasn't me! Blame Sasuke!!" The blonde whined and pointed at the driver's seat.
"Oh forget you guys!" Ino yelled once more, she came over to me and helped me up.
"Sasuke get out here and apologize!" The blonde boy yelled. The drivers seat window pulled down and revealed a guy with raven colored hair. I must admit, he wasn't bad looking at all, but of course, I knew he hadn't changed at all.
"Naruto get in, we're going to be late." He demanded. He took a glance at me and stared for a moment, I don't think Ino noticed. Cheh, I guess he kind of remembers me by my pink hair eh? I shot a smirk at him.
He glared.
What? He wasn't even going to apologize? Damn he definitely never changed at all.
"Sorry again." Naruto said as he waved his hand goodbye and ran to the car.
"Bastard Uchiha." I muttered to myself. Ino noticed and grunted.
"He's always like this! He won't even say sorry, poor Naruto had to say it for him!" Ino said.
"That was Naruto?! Naruto Uzumaki?!" I asked in shock, I didn't really think it was the Naruto from all those years back, then again... not many people have the name Naruto... do they?
"Yeah, how come?" Ino asked, she raised an eyebrow.
"Oh my god! He's changed!" I said in astonishment.
Ino chuckled.
"Yeah well, enough with that! We're late!" Ino said when she looked at her watch.
We both ran to the school.
"Dude, who was the nerdy chick with Ino?" Naruto asked me.
"I don't know." I said, I never took my eyes away from the wheel. Actually, I did know who that was, Haruno. Heh, I haven't seen her for a while, she's changed, what's with the geeky look anyway? She used to look different, way different.
"She looks kind of familiar." Naruto said, he started thinking about who it looked like. "Wait! She had pink hair! SAKURA!!" Naruto said and jumped up from his seat but instead he hit his head on the car roof.
"Dork." I said.
"Teme!" He shot back.
"Baka." I said rolling my eyes at his stupidity.
We arrived at the school parking lot. And guess what was the first thing I saw. Those fucking fangirls. Joy...
Me and Naruto stepped out of the car.
"SASUKE!! EEEEKKK!!" A fangirl said, the next thing I knew, A huge crowd of fangirls started coming my way.
"Sasuke..." Naruto began.
"Hn?" I replied.
"I suggest you run..." He said bluntly.
For once, I agreed with him.
OK ppl! Ena here! this is my second fanfic.! I know it sucks so far, but if you stay tuned I can garantee you'll like it! Read & Review plz!!
