I'm saying this now so people don't get confused later. Tsunade is MUCH OLDER then she is in the actual naruto story, and so she doesn't keep up her original appearance. You'll understand what i mean later on in the story.

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Sakura wasn't particularly new to the town, she'd been living in Suna for the past three years of her life. It was a lively town, though not many people would visit but the warm weather pulled everyone in like bees to honey, especially since the town ' a mysterious aura' to it. It was a small town, not known that widely, but one of the biggest pull factor would be Suna High School. For the past three years Sakura had been homeschooled. Before that, she had everything a girl could ask for; friends, family, parents etc. but three years ago, the Haruno household fell apart when Sakura's father killed his wife unexpectedly. Now, the pink haired female's dad resided in jail, claiming: 'It wasn't me!' Now, Sakura lived with her grandmother. Her grandmother had a lot of money, and her name was quite well known throughout the world. Senju, Tsunade. Sakura's grandfather was dead, due to reasons that Tsunade doesn't like to speak of. It's always the same 'You'll know when the time is right.'

As of right now, Sakura was pacing back and forth in her room. After three years of being home schooled, her grandmother had finally decided to let Sakura attend Suna High. It was unclear to the female what had finally changed her grandmother's mind so suddenly, but she wasn't one to complain. Sakura clutched the charm around her neck, it was in the shape of a cherry blossom. It had belonged to her grandfather once, but when he had died, it was placed in Sakura's possession. Tsunade always said it was meant to bring protection, it had always done that for past relatives anyway. Sakura carried it with her everywhere. She did believe it was proctecting her somehow... from something or someone. Suna was a town full of mysteries after all.

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Being late to class on the first day of school wasn't exactly what Sakura was thinking when she had pictured going to school. It was more along the lines of bustling hallways, chatter ringing through the hallways and friends exchanging their plans for the afternoon. Of course she knew this was Suna she was talking about, with it's school population of less than 500. Still laughter did ring through the hallways; it went along well with the town of Suna in general. But now, the hallways were completely empty. Not a single sign of life lingering in the atmostphere, leaving Sakura on her own.

"Dang it..." Sakura hissed, leaning against a locker nearby.

Sakura's P.O.V.

I always got a weird vibe from the town, but now? I know for sure something was weird. Everyone just left me all alone. I wish I could just go back to Konoha, but that would be impossible. Blowing my hair out of my face, staring at the ground. I couldn't go back to my old life, but I didn't really like this place that much either. It was nice and peaceful, sure, but this place always gave me a feeling as if it was hiding something away in the dark. I'm not so sure I want to know what that 'something' is either.

Stupid Sakura, I thought, fingering the charm around my neck once again.

Pushing myself off the locker, I deceded that I may as well wonder through the hallways, what could possibly go wrong? Maybe I'll run into someone skipping class, or someone who has arrived late and ask them for help. That map I was handed made no sence, then again I was never good at reading maps. Now, left or right? Groaning in frustration I turned around, ready to bang my head into the lockers, when suddenly I heard footsteps. I'm saved! I thought as I turned my head to my current left, where the sound was coming from. A dark figure was approaching, and from the looks of it, it was a girl.

"Stupid! Ugh... This ruins my perfect attendance and no tardy reputation!" She yelled as she was running down the hall.

Her eyes grew wide as saucers when she saw me standing in the hallway.

"New girl?" She asked.

I nodded slowly in response, even if that statement was only half true. She seemed nice enough and looked like an ideal student.

"Oh! I'm Hajime Sora. Just call me Sora... formalities make me look old." She said, rubbing her neck nervously.

"O-oh, uh, I'm Haruno Sakura." The last time I'd spoke with anyone my age was three years ago. I hope i didn't make it obvious enough for her to notice.

"Well, uh, Sakura-chan? I was informed of a new student coming in today! I'm part of the welcoming committee and I've been assigned to show you around the school."

Thank goodness! The school has some sense after all. I thought that I would have to spend my first day trying to find my way around.

"Oh... um, we barely have any new students, so this is kind of a big deal... and uh, where do you want to start?"

"Uh, how about my first class? I don't want to be super late." I suggested offering an awkward smile.

"Right!" Sora said snatching my schedule out of my hand, she jet down the hallway to the right gesturing for me to follow her.

Groaing I ran after her. I was so out of shape, I hadn't done much for exercise in the past three years. I didn't have a chance to, I wasn't allowed out of the house. My grandmother had always reasoned 'The darkness holds more monsters than you can count.' I wasn't a child, but I didn't argue with her. What was the point? She was stubborn and wouldn't give in no matter what I said. I turned around a corner only to find it empty, with the lighting dimmed.

"Great, I lost her," I said as I bent over with my hands on my knees, trying to catch my breath. "Perfect."

I heard a door slam shut, and looking up I tried to find the source. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but the door slamming shut had defiantly echoed down the hallway. There was a set of stairs at the end of the hallway, otherwise the hallway was completely bare. The stairs then. Slowly making my way towards the stairs, the only sound I heard now was made by my shoes hitting the ground softly. The stairs themselves had a fine layer of dust covering them, as if they hadn't been used for a while. There weren't any signs of them being used at all in at least the past year. Then what was that noise?

I walked up the stairs, leaving footprints in the dust, they had to lead to somewhere, right? They did lead somewhere. At the top of them there was an abandoned floor of the school. This part wasn't lit at all, and it was almost pit black. There was some light from the thundercloud covered sky but not much.

Should I go up another flight? Even if someone did catch me, I couldn't get into trouble since it was my first day at Suna high and I was lost. Right?

This starcase had even more dust piled up on it. Blocking off my nose, I started to walk up it, hoping this isn't one of those haunted buildings from the ghost stories. I sighed in relief when I reached a black, metal door at the other end. What if the principle was a nut case and this was his office? I smiled at the thought, no, this was a locked door. Opening the latch, I pushed the door open. My face met with cool air rushing in, blowing my hair back. Oh, this must be the rooftop. I stepped out to see that the gray thunder clouds looked ready to blow, a few rain drops already falling but the small amount made it very hard to detect them at all. That's not all there was though. Sitting on the edge of the building, was a figure. His legs were swung over the edge, the figure slumping. He was wearing a black sweater, contrasting with is flaming red hair. I didn't notice I was staring until he spoke up.

"Who are you? I've never seen you around." He said with a calm and raspy voice, there was a hint of a warning and demand it. It seemed he was used to being in charge. Something else was laced into his voice, it was barely noticeable... was it desolation?

I couldn't find my voice, even with my mouth open to speak, I could only stare. The man turned his head slightly, so the left half of his face was visible. My breath got caught in my throat. His eyes were a sea foam green, black bags lined his eyes, as if it had been done with eyeliner. His skin was pale, looking paper white, but the most catching feature was the Kanji on the left side of his forehead reading 'Love.' I would be lying if I said that he wasn't truly stunning, in fact, I would go as far as saying he was beautiful; but he also gave off a dangerous kind of aura. How'd he get here anyways? The stairs showed no sign of being used in a while. The door to the roof opened once again, and I turned to see Sora running up, panting, holding my schedule in her right hand.

"What are you doing up here!? It's dangerous!" she said, her voice and face laced with terror.

Turning back around, I noticed the boy wasn't there anymore.

"Sakura no one dares to come up here!" Sora said, suddenly appearing at my side. "Please! Come on! We need to leave, NOW!"

"H-huh? Why?" I asked looking around. How could he just disappear like that? It's physically impossible!

"Will you come if I tell you?" Sora was looking around too, as if to make sure no one was listening.

"Yes," I said nodding slowly.

"You deserve to know about it if you are going to be joining. The rest of the school does. No one dares to come up here, that guy's dangerous! Rumor has it he placed four guys in the hospital, all by himself! You should steer clear of him!"

My eyes grew wide. What?

"Red hair, pale green eyes, black bag under his eyes with a kanji on his forehead? His name is Gaara." Sora said.