Hello all! This is my first attempt at writing, well, anything outside of school related works. I'm sure its filled with mindless errors or mispellings of things. So, constructive criticism will be very helpful. Flames will be ignored. It's a lame first try, but I hope you all enjoy it!
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One Moment Can Change A Life
Chapter 1: Formation of the Teams
The sun was setting on another normal day in the village of Konoha. Everything was going along as it normally would on any given day. No one was left in the park at this time except for one crying girl. Her pink hair covering all of her head, and small hands were hiding the tears streaming down her face. Sadly, this was considered a normal day for the girl, and she knew it would continue this way.
The alarm clock rang loudly for the start of a new day. Before long Sakura picked up the clock and threw it into one of her walls. 'Why does the alarm go off when I'm finally getting a good sleep?' Forcing herself out of bed and flicking her shoulder length hair out of her face, Sakura went through her normal routine. Showering, dressing in her normal red dress sorry, don't know what it's called and shorts, and ate breakfast. She had to make her own breakfast everyday, her parents were always out. 'Crap, I almost forgot…'. Sakura walked back up to her room to look for her newly issued headband for graduating from the Academy. An annoyed look appeared on her face as she started digging through an untidy room for the headband. "Maybe I should clean up every once in a while…this is just frustrating." After finally finding it sitting plainly seen on top of her desk, Sakura left out to the explanatory meeting for becoming a Genin.
'This headband is really uncomfortable!' Sakura half sighed half yelled to herself. She forcefully and painfully had to tug another strand of her long bangs that got caught in metal part of the band with the village logo on it. She never minded having her hair reach down to the top of her eyes, covering the large forehead Sakura despised more than anything. Now it was her headband's duty to cover it, but now it seemed more of a pain than she had originally thought. Sakura was so focused on loosening her hair from the unrelenting grip of her headband; she hadn't noticed that she was walking close by to one of her least favorite classmates: Ino Yamanaka.
After loosening the last bit of hair that was caught, Sakura heard a sound she had become all too familiar with. "Hey big forehead! Having trouble getting that thing around something that wide?" Sakura stopped and turned around to see a confident yet cocky Ino catching up to her. Giving her a nasty glare, Sakura blatantly asked, "What the hell do you want, Ino-pig?" "Oh, nothing…just the morning joke at your expense….the usual." Sakura continued to glare as Ino walked by her to the meeting. After Ino had walked far enough ahead of her, Sakura continued walking, biting her lower lip while she did so. It's not that she wasn't used to the teasing, but it hurt none the same. Over time, Sakura learned to force back her tears, but could never fully remove her bad habit of biting her lip whenever one of those "incidents" (as Sakura preferred to call them).
After what seemed like an entire year of walking, Sakura finally made it to the meeting for the newly made genin. Sliding open the door and stepping in as quietly as possible, she found she was the last student to arrive. 'Wait…I'm not last today…' Sakura thought as she saw two empty seats in the room. She couldn't place her finger on who was last, but to Sakura it didn't matter. She never liked any of her classmates, and tried to avoid being near any of them as much as possible. Taking her seat in the last row closest to the window, Sakura decided to figure out who was the one person missing.
'Let's see…' Sakura began to ponder. 'There is that Hyuuga girl down there, sitting next to…oh great, the jokers themselves'. Looking over the row that contained Kiba, Chouji, and Shikamaru, Sakura decided to move onward. 'Oh wait…I forgot that bug guy…what's his name again? Who cares, it doesn't matter anyway.' Moving her eyes to another part of the room she saw the two people she despised most of all. Ino was sitting in the chair closest to the Uchiha prodigy, Sasuke. Sakura knew all to well why she hates the two of them; Ino with her constant teasing of Sakura's forehead, and Sasuke who never had a weakness, always better than everyone. 'Well, at least he hates Ino almost as much as I do.' Sakura thought looking down at a rather annoyed Sasuke trying to ignore Ino as much as possible. Before Sakura could even rule out who was the missing student, an orange clad, blonde haired boy burst into the room shouting "Sorry I'm late! I couldn't get any hot water for my ramen! Wait what group am I in!?"
As Naruto went rushing down to the last available seat in the room, Sakura slouched in her chair, mentally scolding herself for not seeing that it was the most annoying student that just happened to be missing. "So…! What group am I in!?" Naruto yelled even louder than he normally would have. "We haven't started yet, man you're a troublesome idiot" replied an annoyed Shikamaru as Iruka walked into the room. Iruka had already figured out that Naruto was causing quite the commotion. He always was the one who would start a huge fuss. "Quiet down Naruto. I'll start the meeting in just a moment".
"Since all of you have now graduated from the academy…" Iruka began. Naruto began squirming at what the news could possibly be, while Sakura just stared out the window at nothing; what she normally does during school. She was smart enough to know all the answers, so she never paid much attention during class. "…and have now become genin, each student will be put into groups of three, then be assigned a jounin instructor to be your new sensei." The last part of the sentence managed to catch Sakura's attention 'What?! Why do I have to be stuck with all these jerks!?'. Sakura noticed she had a shocked look on her face, and quickly changed back to her neutral glance. "I will now announce who is in what team, and all the teams are based on each one of your individual skills you've shown during your academy days."
Before even the first name was announced, it was obvious Sakura was anxious. Her hands were tightly gripped to her knees, and she unconsciously began lightly tapping the back of her right foot. The dull classroom began to feel very cold and airy now. 'Just get on with it!' "First, Ino Yamanaka…" 'Oh please I can't be in her team…I'd rather kill myself!' Sakura's tapping began to quicken. "…Shikamaru Nara,…" Iruka continued. 'please…' Sakura's eyes were glued shut, as she could feel sweat began to form in her fave. The teasing was hard enough as it was. There was now way she could handle endless torture day in and day out. "…and Chouji Akimichi." After hearing the final name for the first team, Sakura let out a held breath and her whole body began to relax. She looked to the other end of the room to see Ino pouting that she wasn't put in Sasuke's group. 'Heh, at least she gets to be miserable for a while' Sakura silently smirked to herself. "Now, the next team…" Iruka announced as Sakura broke away from her thoughts. 'Damn, I forgot that I still have to be in a team with two other people'. Laying her head on the table, she at least could relax a little more from now on. After all, nothing could be worse than being in a group with Ino. "Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno,…" 'Crap…I still get someone I completely hate…how can it get worse than this?' "…and Naruto Uzumaki." Suddenly, out of nowhere came a loud thud from inside the room. It took everyone a few seconds to see that the noise was Sakura slamming her head into the table.
