A/N: Hey everybody! My 4th fanfic and counting! For all of you people who are fans of my other story, You Came? You Went? I Hate You!, after I upload the chapter to this story, I'll try to get right to work on chapter 10 for that other story, so be on the lookout for it. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this first chapter! :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. I only own the characters I make up for this fanfic.

"Otou-san! Okaa-san! Onegai! Don't leave me here!!" a young girl wailed as she chased after the departing figures of her parents.

There was a huge iron gate separating them. Her parents on one side who were beginning their journey home, and her on the other beginning her new life in the hell in which they had sold her into.

She fell at the foot of the gate, her pink hair, along with her freshly shed tears, were being blown back by the howling wind. The rain cascaded violently, making her best dress soiled with the dampness and the mud which was starting to stick. Nonetheless, she stuck her bare arm between two of the iron bars, trying to grab hold of her parents' faraway figures. It was either to pull them back or it was either to try and keep hold of them and hope that the force would be great enough to pull her away from the horrendous place.

She stayed in that position for what seemed like forever. Although all of her efforts were futile, she didn't seem to want to give up. It was then that her new "supervisor" approached her sobbing form.

"Sakura, onegai, calm down," her supervisor said in a soft voice. "Everything will be fine," she reassured.

Sakura seemed to ignore her comments and sat on the rock hard ground beneath the pouring rain. She kept on sitting there in silence and had a long thousand-yard stare while her supervisor waited for her reply.

"Well, we better get going inside if we both don't want to get ill," her supervisor said, losing hope that Sakura would ever speak another word to her.

"Ne, Tsunade ojou-sama," Sakura said out of the blue.

Tsunade, which happened to be the supervisor, swerved around, startled, and faced Sakura. "Nani? What is it?"

"Th-they're," Sakura stuttered, "not coming back… are they?" She turned to stare at Tsunade, waiting for her one question to be answered.

"No, Sakura… they're not," Tsunade answered sadly, seemingly hesitant to answer the young girl.

A shadow fell over Sakura, and her pink locks gradually covered her eyes, strand by strand.

"I see," she responded. Then she stood up, dusted off her soiled dress, and tried to shake out the water in her short hair. "I understand. I'll fulfill my proper purpose here."

Tsunade smile a smile full of pity towards her, then nodded. She then led Sakura towards the building that sat behind those iron gates, the building of Sakura's new life.

They walked through the cement path that led from the iron gates to the building, up the tall, cold steps, and into the building, where their steps squeaked with every step on the green, marble floor.

There was a door at the end of the hallway labeled "Office" and Sakura assumed they were headed that way. Throughout the journey through the hall, the girls who worked there seemed to stare at Sakura with piercing eyes. Thankfully, they didn't seem sharp enough to be able to want to kill her.

Sakura tried to escape her stares by looking at Tsunade. Not for that reason. It was because she was the only person in the whole place that Sakura new that gave her at least some comfort.

Tsunade looked to be a strong woman. She looked to be in her twenties' or thirties', but she sounded as though she was about fifty. She had on a pink kimono with orange flowers on it and orange silk on the inside. The obi was purple and so was the silk on the ends of the sleeves. She also held an empty sake bottle in her right hand.

"You mean she was drinking when my parents sold me to her?!!!! What have they done?!!!" Sakura thought with horror to herself.

When they arrived at the office, the sight in there didn't ease Sakura's thoughts in the least. There were empty sake bottles scattered about the office, the smell of cigarettes lingered in the air, and papers were all over the place.

Sakura seemed to be unable to take her eyes off from the scene and was unusually speechless.

Since she was so transfixed, she almost didn't notice that Tsunade had tossed a pile of pink cloth towards her. Although, either way, she had caught them just before they were about to hit the ground.

"Now," Tsunade instructed, "go across the hall and get changed into those. Then, come back here for further instructions."

"Hai, Ojou-sama," Sakura replied and made her way into the room that Tsunade had told her to get changed in.

A few minutes later, she was in a baby pink kimono. It was decorated with white leaves and a darker shade of pink silk was on the inside and at the end of the sleeves. The obi was scarlet-colored.

Sakura took her worn-out dress and returned to the office. There she saw Tsunade talking with somebody… somebody familiar…

"Ino-pig?" Sakura asked with disbelief.

"Forehead-girl?" Ino asked with the same tone of voice.

"Hm? You two know eachother?" Tsunade questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Hai," Ino answered excitedly, "we're childhood friends!"

"Well, I guess you two have some catching up to do, so you can go. And show Sakura around, Ino," Tsunade said.

"Hai Ojou-sama!" both stated simultaneously, and with a quick bow, both left the office.

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A/N: OMG!!! What now? What will Ino and Sakura talk about? Will the other girls accept Sakura? What adventures await her next time? R & R