A New Life

Chapter One

First Day

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"Sakura! For the last time, Get up! You'll be late for school!" A messy pink-haired teen rapidly sat up, blinking to adjust her eyes to the light.

"I'm up, I'm up!"

"Then let's hear some footsteps!" Her mother called. Grumbling, Sakura Haruno took the five steps to her closet, pulling out her new uniform. Looking it over, she mentally made notes.

'Meh, the colors are fine, I guess.' She carefully removed the grey and rose material from the hanger, untying the blush colored ribbon, she unbuttoned the platinum shirt. removing her own pj attire, she slipped into the blouse, rebuttoning it.

'Skirt's cute. A little short, but cute.' Finished straightening the gray skirt, she pulled on her new rosette leg warmers, adding the finishing touch of silver sparkly flats. Sakura ran her brush through her hair, glanced at her reflection to make sure she looked fine, and headed downstairs for some food.

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Sakura was glad they had moved close to the new school, it gave her a chance to walk in the open air. She still didn't like the fact that they had moved at all, but at least they were near the school. She had just reached the school parking lot when her cell started playing Caramelldansen. Sakura quickly snatched it from her bag and opened it before the tune could freak out any possible friends. Her cell said that she had a text, so Sakura pressed the view button.

[Hey! I miss you! TT^TT how's it going though? school start yet?] The Jade eyed girl smiled to herself as she read over the text, seeing that it was from one of her friends. The girl had kept starting drama, over the stupidest things, and Sakura was a main victim. They were constantly getting into fights. She was thinking about how to reply when the school bell rang, so she just put it on silence, threw it back in her bag, and ran to the school.

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"Umm, Hi. I'm Haruno Sakura, where do I sit?" The teacher looked up from his binder at his new student. He smiled at her, then flipped a page to see his seating chart.

"Hmm-hmm-hm... well it seems that if your going to have a partner, you're stuck with Naruto. Good luck with the idiot. Naruto! Raise your hand!" A blond boy turned in his seat and rose his hand enthusiastically. "Naruto, I'm going to put Sakura next to you, so try not to make her deaf and if your stupidness rubs off on her, you're dead." Naruto stuck out his tongue at the teacher as Sakura sat down next to him.

"Hi! So your name's Sakura?" He asked the rosette, turning in his chair to face her.

"Yeah."

"With an S?"

"Umm, yeah...:

"No duh Naruto, most girls named Sakura have an S in their names." A boy with his black hair pulled into a ponytail remarked. Naruto was about to respond when the teacher started talking, explaining the assignment. Working together, they were supposed to separate a pile of salt and they had to choose what they were going to use; water, a beaker, and a burner, a balloon and rubber band, or a pair of tweezers. Naruto was ready to grab the burner and stuff when Sakura told him the balloon would be best. He fetched the rubber objects and the salt and pepper before sitting back down.

"What are we going to do, Sakura?"

"Have you guys studied static electricity yet?"

"Studied what?"

"No, we were just about to start." The black haired boy answered for Naruto.

"Oh. well, if you blow up the balloon, I'll show you how to separate the pepper and salt." Naruto quickly filled up the balloon and tied it with the rubber band before handing it back to Sakura. The teenager rubbed the balloon on Naruto's spiky head, then moved it slowly over the salt and pepper.

"Woah!" Naruto exclaimed as the pepper flew up to the balloon. "How did you do that?" Sakura shrugged.

"Static electricity. Naruto, raise your hand so the teacher will come see." The blond did so and soon the teacher was standing in front of them.

"So did you guys get it?" He asked them.

"Yep! Sakura's real smart and did it in a flash!" Naruto enthusiastically replied.

"Oooh, that's why you guys are done so quickly. I was wondering why Naruto was raising his hand. So where's the pepper?" Sakura moved the balloon so he saw the spice sticking to it. "Ok. Good job! Your reward is some candy from the sweets box! Naruto, show Sakura where it is."

"Yay! C'mon Sakura!" Naruto grabbed her hand and lead her to the said box. "Choose what kind you want!" He said while picking out a Laffy Taffy. Sakura surveyed the candy before grabbing a cherry flavored dumdum.

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"Whatever Naruto. There's no way someone paired with you could figure that out." The black ponytail boy remarked, his partner with messy brown hair munching on chips beside him.

"Shut up Shikamaru! You're just jealous that we won!" Naruto flared up, agitated, when someone bonked him on the head with a green binder.

"Quiet Naruto! You'll disrupt the youthful studying of our school!" A black haired boy with huge eyebrows came to stand next to the group.

"Oh, Hi Lee! ah, Sorry Sakura, I forgot to introduce everyone. That's Shikamaru Nara," He pointed to the teen he was arguing with a second ago, "That's Choji Akimichi," he gestured to Shikamaru's lab partner, "And this is Lee Rokku. Lee, This is Sakura." Lee looked at Sakura and his eyes grew wide.

"Hi." Sakura greeted, wondering why his eyes were so big. Maybe she had something on her face...

"Hello Sakura! Let's go out together! I'll protect you till I die!" Sakura blinked, surprised.

"No... Thanks?" She hoped that she hadn't hurt him...

"Then I will ask again when I am stronger!" Lee didn't look too hurt.

"All righty then..."

"Don't mind him." Shikamaru reassured her, "He does it to every pretty girl he meets."

"He didn't do it to me." A girl with a long blond ponytail commented as she joined the group.

"Consider yourself lucky." another one replied, adjusting her head buns a little

"Ino and Tenten." Naruto whispered to Sakura.

"Good thing Lee's not gay then!" A boy with shaggy dark brown hair and red marks on his cheeks walked over, followed by another boy with dark hair and sunglasses.

"That would be terrible." A hodded guy with purple designs on his face teased Lee.

"Be nice to him." A redhead leaned on Lee's shoulder, "He can't really help it, you know."

"Yeah, just like how every girl falls for Sasuke?" Shikamaru's arm was linked with a blond girl that had four pigtails' arm.

"Kiba, Shino, Kankuro, Gaara, Temari. Naruto pointed them all out for Sakura.

"Him and Sai. It's like their destiny to have fangirls." Two people with matching white eyes joined the group, the boy with long, dark brown hair, the girl had lengthy, midnight blue locks.

"Hi Hinata! Yo Neji!" Naruto greeted the pair this time.

"Are they related or somethng?" Sakura asked, leaning over to Lee.

"Yes! They are cousins." He answered.

"Is Dickless talking about us again?" A guy with black hair that fell into his eyes asked, coming to a stop next to another teen with black hair that spiked only in the back.

"I'M NOT DICKLESS!" Naruto shouted.

"That is Sai and That is Sasuke. Sai beleives that Naruto does not have a Penis." Lee explained for Sakura.

"Hey guys! The bell's going to ring soon! We need to get to class!" Ino added while adjusting her bag.

"Hey Sakura, what classes do you have next?" Naruto asked.

"Here." Sakura gave him her schedule and he looked through it before handing it to Sai, who took out a pen and wrote some stuff on her schedule.

"You have next period with Ino, Kiba, Gaara, and Sasuke. I'll see you in fourth!" he waved and left, not long after the rest of the group dispersed to go to their classes. Ino took Sakura's hand and started walking down the hall, chattering an insane amount of words.

"So how old are you?"

"15."

"Me too! When's your birthday?"

"March 28th."

"Aww, you're older then me! Billboard brow!"

"Doesn't Ino mean Pig?

"I'm not a pig!"

"Ok! enough!" Kiba started walking inbetween the fighting girls to seperate them. "We're here!"

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Sakura looked around a little when she entered the classroom before following Kiba to the teacher, who he asked if Sakura could sit by them.

"Ok, That's fine with me! She can sit by Sasuke." Kiba lead Sakura to the desks that Sasuke and Ino had sat at. Ino was currently turned in her seat and talking to Sasuke when Sakura sat by him.

"You're going to sit by us? That's great, Forehead girl!"

"I know, isn't it, Ino-pig?" Kiba sighed as Ino stuck her tongue out at Sakura. Sakura was about to make a face back when the teacher turned on an overhead, telling the students to copy down the notes.

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"So what do you have next?" Kiba asked the pink haired girl when their World History class was over. She pulled out her schedule and checked it before putting it back in her bag.

"PE."

"Ooooh, Have fun in there!" Ino smirked.

"...Why?" Sakura asked, extremly confused.

"Lee is in that class." Kiba explained.

"Umm, Ok." Sakura still didn't get the point. Kiba and Ino exchanged glances before shrugging.

"You'll find out." Kiba replied.

"Yep! See ya later, Billboard Brow!"

"Bye Kiba! Later Pig!" Sakura and Sasuke started off for the Gym.

"So, how is PE?"

"Hnh."

"Umm, does that mean 'It's great?'"

"It's annoying." Sakura was a little surprised, she'd expected another 'Hnh'.

"Oh. Why?"

"You'll see."

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When they got there, Hinata and Tenten were waiting for Sakura.

"W-we told Naruto t-that we'd wait so you didn't g-get lost." Hinata explained as Sasuke left to get in his PE clothes.

"C'mon Sakura! Let's go get ready!" Tenten exclaimed, starting off down some stairs, Sakura and Hinata soon following.

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So how was it? Gomenasai that the first Chapter's so long! ^^; I'm having issues with coming up for a title, but I think this will work. Thanks for reading!