Chapter 1: Welcome To Konoha High
~Because maybe you're going to be the one that saves me,
After all you're my wonder wall~
A/N I wanted to start this story, I will update the others as soon as I can, and expect the improved Sasuke's New Life to be out soon.
Sakura walked into the classroom filled with students from different clicks, such as preps, Goths, jocks, etcetera. Her emerald orbs glanced around the physics class, she never expected to see some of this people in a class like this one. She walked up to the teacher, Kurenai, and handed her a note. She nodded approvingly and yelled,
"Attention, we have a new student joining us today, this is Sakura Haruno."
She gestured towards the pink-haired girl next to her desk. Sakura clutched a white binder to her chest that was covered by a red t-shirt. Her black pants matched her black flip-flops. The students in the class said their hellos and muttered hi, easily welcoming her to the class.
"Sakura, you may sit next to Hinata, Hinata please raise your hand," Kurenai said to the shy girl in the center of the room.
A dark-haired girl raised her hand timidly while looking down, her face flushed red. Sakura smiled and walked over to the girl and sat next to her at the table.
"Hey, I'm Sakura," Sakura stated, holding out her hand.
"Hinata, " She replied back as she took her hand and shook it.
"Alright, I'm going to give you guys a worksheet, I expect it to be done by the end of class," Kurenai strained the last part.
Some students always tried to convince her to let them turn it in the next day, but she wasn't going to fall for it. She let that slide a few times, but not anymore, after all she needed to have some things to enter for grades for the day or else she would get into trouble. She passed out the worksheets as the students groaned with aggravation and frustration. Kurenai only chuckled at their sad attempt to change her mind.
"No complaining, just get it done," Kurenai stated.
Sakura went to work on her sheet, she was a natural when it came to science, she was fairly smart for her age and knew what she was doing. Hinata was just as smart but wasn't going through the problems quickly as Sakura was. She liked to make sure her answers are correct before she handed it to the teacher.
Setting her pencil aside, Sakura glanced over her work; when she was satisfied she stood up from her table and walked up to the teacher's desk. Kurenai glanced up from the pile of essays she was grading and looked at Sakura with wide eyes, who had the worksheet in her outstretched hand.
"Well, I'm impressed Sakura, you finished your worksheet even before Hinata," Kurenai complimented, "I have only one other student that finishes as fast as you do, great work."
"And who would that be?" Sakura inquired curiously.
"His name is Sasuke, he is a very bright student but he hardly ever talks nowadays."
"Really, I thought all the bright students were more of the talkers."
"Yeah, but he's different, I don't know what caused him to change. Look at me, I'm talking to you about someone you don't even know."
Sakura smiled as Kurenai took the paper from her hand, she turned swiftly on her heel and sauntered back over to her desk.
'I'm curious to meet this kid,' Sakura thought as she sat down in her seat.
Hinata smiled and got up, going up to turn in her paper as well. As soon as she sat back down, Sakura turned to her and asked,
"Hey Hinata, do you know a kid named Sasuke?"
Hinata flinched slightly, as she sighed and looked up at Sakura. Sakura knew she did; just from her reaction, she was hiding something.
"Hinata, what is it?"
"Y-You're right, I-I do know him, h-he, used to hang out w-with me and my friends, but he suddenly stopped, I shouldn't be the one t-telling you this, you should ask Naruto."
"Naruto?"
Hinata turned red when Sakura mentioned his name again. Sakura wasn't oblivious to this fact and smiled slyly. Hinata noticed that smile and shifted nervously in her seat while twiddling her fingers.
"You like this Naruto don't you?"
"Y-Yes, p-promise you won't say a-anything."
"Don't worry I won't."
The bell rang signaling the end of the period; since Sakura came to school later in the day, it was now lunchtime. Sakura and Hinata walked out of the room as the others stayed behind to turn in their papers, some muttered 'I got an "F"' or 'that sucked'.
The duo walked to the large lunchroom, dodging several people that ran down the hall to be the first in line. Its like they wouldn't get anything to eat, but that's not the case, its all about the seating, they wanted good tables. Sakura pushed open the door and held as her and Hinata walked through.
The cafeteria was packed, most kids took their lunch and headed outside to eat. The two got in line and got their food, Hinata led Sakura over to a door that went outside. They walked to a table underneath a tall tree with freshly grown leaves on the branches. Sakura looked at the bodies that occupied several of the spots.
A girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes noticed them first, she stood giving Sakura a full view of her outfit, a pair of blue jeans and a purple blouse. Her actions brought the attention of the others, a girl with chocolate brown hair put into buns, a boy that had the same eyes as Hinata, a blonde-headed boy with bright blue eyes, and a boy with a pineapple haircut.
"Hey Hinata, who's your friend?" the blonde haired girl asked.
"G-guys, this is Sakura, s-she is new here," Hinata stuttered.
"Hi, I'm Ino," Ino took the liberty of introducing herself, she knew Hinata was too shy to do it.
"Hi," Sakura replied back.
"This is Shikamaru the lazy ass," Ino chuckled gesturing to the boy with a pineapple haircut, Shikamaru only gazed lazily at them as he muttered 'troublesome'.
"I'm Tenten," The girl with the buns put in, then pointed to the boy next to her, "This is Neji, Hinata's cousin."
"I thought the looked alike," Sakura said as she smiled.
Suddenly a pair of blue eyes came up to look straight into hers. The blue-eyed boy then glanced up at her hair.
"Is that your natural hair color?"
Sakura sweet dropped at his question before answering,
"Yes, its my natural hair color and who might you be?"
"I'm Naruto, the greatest person you'll ever meet."
"What in being a moron?" Neji inquired, obviously amused when Naruto turned to him and glared angrily.
"You wanna go Neji?"
"Enough, knock it off," Tenten glared at the two before they childishly sat down and looked away from each other.
Sakura only giggled at them before taking a seat next to Hinata who sat next to Ino. Sakura then looked to Naruto, she was curious about this Sasuke kid and she wanted to ask about him. Gathering her courage, she finally managed to ask,
"Hey Naruto."
The blonde boy turned his attention to her, his eyes curiously wondering what she wanted.
"Uh, do you know about a boy named Sasuke?"
Naruto immediately stiffened and turned his gaze away from her, the others all looked at him in sympathy, they knew that Sasuke was his best friend and this was a very touchy subject.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."
"No, its probably right for you to know, especially if you are going to be hanging out with us, you'll need to know why I'm always off somewhere else," Naruto remarked sadly.
Sakura looked at the pained expression that was strewn across his face and immediately regretted ever bringing it up, even if she should know.
"You see, Sasuke, he lost his mom and his brother, they died trying to protect him from a man that broke into their house, this happened last year during our sophomore year," Naruto began, "He blames himself for what happened and so does his father, I don't know if he and his dad even talk anymore even if they are in the same house."
Sakura listened intently as Naruto revealed this information to her, she felt sorry for the boy, even if she hadn't met him.
"Sasuke became cold and distant from us, he just stopped talking to us one day and we didn't know why. I pushed him for a reason, until he finally told me, after that he hasn't spoken to us since, I'm about ready to give up on him."
Sakura's heart clenched at the thought of this boy giving up on one of his friends. She wanted to say something, anything to change his mind about what he was saying. But before she could say anything, she saw everyone's stare had gone somewhere else. She followed their gazes and they stopped on a boy, walking in the opposite direction of them.
The boy they stared upon wore black jeans with a chain hanging down the side of his right leg. His black zip-up hoodie hid the shirt he was wearing and the belt if he had one. He had the hood up over his head. Black eyeliner traced around his eyes, as if his eyes weren't already black enough, bags under his dull orbs showed he hardly got any sleep. Lastly he had two piercing near his bottom lip, called snakebites, they weren't full rings, just silver studs. His black shoulder-strap backpack hung at his side as he walked away.
"Who was that?" Sakura questioned.
"That, was Sasuke," Naruto replied.
A/N Please read and review and tell me what you think, should I continue it or not?
