AN- HEY EVERYBODY! I've been a part of Ff-net for almost 3 years...i think. And I have yet to post my first piece. So here it is! I'm an avid ff reader and I know ill keep writing until im done. I feel newly inspired. I always have ideas but never had resources to share them. And now I do! I'm too happy, anyway I've gone on for far too long. Read and review if you wish, critique as you must and see fit. Thanks guys.

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a/n -Hey, so ive read a couple of honest and truthful reviews and I really appreciate them because I realized I had a lot of editing to do on this chapter, so thanks those of you who were kind enough to review because once I re-read it the mistakes were clear to me, spellcheck did me no good so I re-read everything and fixed it up before more readers could get to it. Thanks so much for the advice. I hope its more enjoyable and neater this time around.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

'Run, yes run! i have to make it, kami! i have to make it! mom will kill me if anything but absolute perfection' is achieved and I'm sure being late to school would not fall in the 'absolute perfection' category! She is going to have my head.

"Sakura?" I heard a timid voice next to me, i turned to look at the speaker not slowing my pace down.

"Hey Hinata, i really cant talk! its almost 8:00 and you know i cannot be a minute late, as a matter of fact you understand that better than anyone!" I gasped and quickly tugged on her sleeve to speed up her pace as well.

Hinata Hyuuga was practically a princess with high expectations of her, I wouldn't let ONE lousy late mar her achievements, if anyone in this world had it harder than me it was her! I heard a giggle, this made me stop, 'Hinata would never laugh at school!'

I looked at her bewildered "I'm sorry Sakura, but it seems you have yet to get your wrist watch repaired" She stated with another small giggle. I completely stopped and gave a frustrated growl looked down at my wrist and glared at the broken pink contraption adorning it

"I've been running for two blocks for nothing!" I growled at it. 'this was all mothers fault! she was completely to blame, how dare she not remind me to repair my wrist watch, she couldn't leave that responsibility to me!

i already have school on my plate and ...and...and "absolute perfection" Cha!'

"Don't be mad Sakura, look there's Ino" Hinata pointed out.

I was far too busy mumbling away about perfect memory Hyuuga's and unfair mothers and stupid broken wrist watches to even realize that she was talking. Kanoha was a huge village, the blocks were very long and mean while not as full as on market days or festival times it was still pretty full, plus there was a lot of twists and turns, and yes the village was very beautiful but that didn't mean it was without its imperfections. I was seething that I had ran for two whole grueling blocks, i was not in any sort of state to run that long! i wasn't athletic or fit and surely my muscles would be sore come midday. I was too deep in though to realize Ino had made her way toward us.

"Hey Hinata! forehead girl" she cheerfully greeted. Her loud obnoxious voice was all it took to shake me out of my stupor. "Clam it Ino pig!"I growled.

"whoa, who shoved a tree up your butt this morning?' she shot back. I growled trying my hardest not to rip the hair right out of my head, OK, so i had some sort of temperamental issues, we all have issues! "oookay, anyways, ignoring the angry he beast, how was your break guys? any cool back to school presents?" she asked.

...'she called me a he beast' I would have lunged at her throat had I not stumbled on the stupid broken sidewalk of Kanoha, a supposed elite and refined village home to some of the most prestigious clans like the Hyuuga and Uchiha, yet still we had broken sidewalks! In the path that Hinata Hyuuga walked no less!

'Why hasn't Hiashi fixed this yet?! Hinata could get a serious ankle sprain and he could kiss the 'most graceful Hyuuga' comments he's so proud of goodbye, why? Cause she would have to limp to school! Or she could break a leg and have to walk with crutches and who would think her graceful then? All because Hiashi had failed in his fatherly duties of protecting his daughter and she had broken her leg because he hadn't gotten the damn broken sidewalk fixed! Of more importance, I almost fell over!'

"they have some serious repairing to do!" I seethed.

Hinata and Ino laughed at my expense. I closed my eyes, bit my tongue, inhaled through my nose, decided that everything that happened before this point was moot, no anger no stress, I was going to be on time for school, so there was really no reason to worry, what else could possibly go wrong anyway? I exhaled through my mouth and smiled and turned to my friends, they looked a bit freaked but relaxed when they saw my smile.

"Well,uh, father gave me a pretty cool plant. Its called a Sunflower and he says one day with good care it will grow tall and proud befitting as an addition to the Hyuuga main garden, and he says it would do me good to learn a bit of extra responsibility" Hinata replied a small smile gracing her face.

I grinned at her, it must mean a lot to receive something from her father when he rarely showed any sign of knowing she existed but at the same time demanded nothing but perfection from her, I felt her pain.

"That is all I got, Hanabi got a few more presents than I but only because she is younger, Sakura, Ino, what did you guys get?" She asked. I smiled because having frustratingly annoying perfectionists as parents had an upside

"I got a new laptop, I love it. I mean sure its only for school use but I still love it, its beautiful!" I exclaimed happily.

"oh, pish posh forehead! Its great that you got a laptop but you will not waste it on 'only school work'! Anyway I got a clothes some shoes but most importantly my phone! Its fabulous, take out your rocks and jot down my new number" she teased, Hinata and I laughed it off, I was glad she got what she wanted.

"Hey do you guys have the correct time?" I asked as we made it to the main gates of Kanoha High.

"its 7:45 Sakura, don't worry we have more than enough time to get to class" Hinata assured.

I smiled, I loved being early to school. We made our way over to our favorite part of the campus, under a huge cherry blossom tree. Sitting there always relaxed me, it was soothing and sitting under there in the mornings was the best. As soon as I got there I sat and leaned against the trunk as did Hinata and Ino. I closed my eyes feeling the sun on my face with the fresh morning breeze blowing my unnaturally natural pink hair out of my face. We didn't say anything each of us too focused on our own thoughts, even Ino. I slowly opened my eyes and looked around the still vacant Kanoha High, I knew exactly why too. There wasn't many people who tried to make it as early as me or Hinata, Ino was here just for chit chat but if she felt like it she too would sleep in these extra 15 minutes instead of rushing to school like me and Hinata were forced to. Also there weren't many walkers left to begin with, a lot of the schools '16 and over' population had a car, I wanted one but it simply wouldn't happen until I was at least 17 and currently I was 15, I still had a while to go. But on mornings like these I was glad my parents forced me awake at 6:15am sharp to begin my morning rituals and have a bit of time to study whilst I ate my breakfast. Mornings like these when the sky was clear and never would you see a brighter blue, and the sun was shining as bright as ever and yet the breeze was crisp and cool and the air around you smelled of only the purest things mother nature had to offer, of flowers , grass and the wet earth.

Yes, mornings like these reminded me of why I could very well be a morning person. I felt at peace as I looked around the big campus of Kanoha high, a huge school with, a small population of students. Everyone pretty much knew everyone, Kanoha high consisted of a 3 floor building plus a basement which held 2 gyms and one small lunch room, or you could eat out on the campus as long as you didn't stray, mostly everyone ate at the campus.

The campus was beautiful, it was a large grassy area surrounded in a circle of flowers and trees, my favorite being the cherry blossom tree, since not only was it beautiful but it reminded me of my name. I inhaled deeply taking in the scent of the morning air one last time before the bell rang and this placed turned from peaceful into chaos. People just had this way of overreacting about not seeing their friends for a measly week.

I loved Hinata and Ino but gladly id give up another week of seeing them for some more vacation time.

I heard screams and I remembered the major reason why our school was always in chaos, here they came now, in two cars each of the ring leaders driving. One car was flashy, orange with yellow, and at the speed he was driving, it almost looked like a flash of yellow lightning, the other car was sleek and a dark blue, much more simple then the last but it held a subtle form of superiority over the other car. I couldn't stand it. The yells of crazed, far too hormonal girls who believed they would somehow seduce and capture the boys heart and be with them forever! Where was the dignity?! I looked over to the cause of such a riot in my peaceful morning, two boys, one with Spiky yellow hair and open wide cerulean eyes, tall and tan, sometimes loud but always kind to his friends. The next with raven hair and onyx eyes, more private, more stoic, more reserved, more seductive and handsome, tall and fair, a contrast of one another. Enter Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.

I knew them a lot better when I was real young, maybe four, but slowly they left me behind. I really used to care when I was little, at first I had felt almost betrayed and at times like I wasn't good enough to be around them and their new group of friends, they had rapidly climbed up the social ladder that I could never hope to keep up, they were the topic of almost every 'worthy' conversation, but slowly with school becoming my one and only priority I stopped caring. When our freshmen year at high school started there was so much fuss about them that I didn't notice'. The story behind them goes, They were best friends, they came of such similar backgrounds. Uchiha Sasuke's whole family had died in some mystery case that was never solved, he was the only one that survived and inherited their only riches. He had no friends, Naruto was an orphan from the get-go, he was looked over by the Village Hokage for some strange reason, but no one else ever paid attention to this orphan boy, some even shunned him, when these two boys met they instantly became friends at the tender age of 3, they grew up like brothers and while many fawned over the Uchiha child no one understood how he could be friends with a lowly orphan when he was once from one of the most prestigious families of Kanoha! Sasuke ignored all the rumors and criticism told everyone to "SHUT UP" when they talked about Naruto and he wasn't around to defend himself, yes, he was very loyal to his blue eyed friend.

When Naruto had turned 14 and was told of his true identity, son of the most legendary Hokage, the yondaime, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, he got an inheritance as well because the Uzumaki and Namikaze were not some lowly families, no, they too had a high name to withhold , the village made a 180 and accepted Naruto with open arms once they heard this news. Naruto however had shunned them for a change and kept only a few select friends by his side, friends that accepted him from the beginning.

'The story would have been touching if it was completely true, they didn't mention of Naruto and Sasuke's childhood rivalry, why? Cause they didn't know of it, fan girls completely shoved out the part where they weren't always a 2 man party. People would never accept the fact that a girl with pink hair had been there first hand to witness the real events unfold, no matter what short amount of time she had spent with them. People rather hear convenient stories where there was no people in Naruto and Sasuke's life other than the two protagonists themselves. And by people I definitely mean fan girls! Fan girls that spread this version denying any girl ever being in the picture. Yes I knew them before but now the fan girls wish had come true, that girl was not with them anymore, they had left that girl behind. Personally I don't know which one pisses me off more, Naruto completely shunning me when once I could call him my best friend or Sasuke ignoring my very existence when I, once at four years old had held the older 5 year old as he finally broke down and cried for the loss of his family'.

The loud ringing of the bell and the even louder screams of the fan girls shook me out of my reverie. Class was going to start in 5 minutes. I ignored the tightening in my throat and the stinging in my eyes as Hinata bumped my lightly with her hip. I looked up

"you seem spaced out Sak, whats up?" Ino inquired.

I gave them a smile "Nothing, I just cannot afford to be late, lets go!" I rushed them.

They nodded and we headed off. Shaking all thought of Naruto and Sasuke I ran to class. Today would have probably been a good day, hadn't I said it before? What could go wrong? Well Kami was going to show me exactly how wrong things could go. I ran right behind Hinata and Ino not really caring who was in my way, I really should have paid more attention. I bumped into someone, hard. I would have fallen on my head had a hand not shot out to keep me up from falling. My eyes were shut ready for any sort of impact but when nothing came I opened my eyes. I looked down to my arm to see a fair hand tightly holding on to me. Too tightly, I quickly looked up to glare at my could be attacker. I stared into deep pools of onyx, I was mesmerized for a second before I took in the whole face. Sasuke, and he was staring at me so impassively as if I wasn't worth his time, his eyes scanned me up and down and again making me feel more than uncomfortable

"Watch it" he stated letting me go.

"Sorry Sasuke" I simply said full intention of running away and bee lining it to my classroom when I felt an even tighter grip than before on my wrist.

I didn't even have time to turn around before I was being pulled back and slammed into a row of lockers. I once again was captured by onyx, angry onyx eyes glaring at me, Sasuke leaned in dangerously close to my face grabbing hold of my other wrist and pressing them both on either side of me against the lockers.

"Don't call me by my name, only friends can call me by my name and as far as i'm concerned I don't even know you" he growled.

I would have time to mull over the words later, right now the only things on my mind were 'he is really close and everyone is staring!'. His eyes kept looking down on me and his words finally hit me. I bit my lip my eyes starting to sting, the lump in my throat coming back and bigger than I had felt it in a while. It was a mix of anger, embarrassment, and fear a lot of fear, he was just so close so dangerously close. His face wasn't even moving away or anything I didn't know how to react, I was paralyzed.

"Oi, Sasuke, drop the girl and lets go! Tsunade is going to be on my ass if i'm late again!" Naruto's loud voice seemed to break Sasuke out of his trance.

With one last 'I'm far too superior to waste my time on you" look, he pushed away from me lightly pushing me into the lockers even more and he walked off. I stayed there paralyzed, trying to hold back tears. I bit deeper into my bottom lip and pushed myself off the lockers, ignoring everyone's stares and whispers, and walked to class. The 2 minute warning bell rang again and I dashed to my homeroom to get my new schedule for the second semester.' Thank Kami Hinata and Ino would be there, when had they left me? Did they witness any of the action where I was being bullied by one Uchiha Sasuke? And on the subject of Uchiha Sasuke, what the hell was that?! Scream at me he could do, tell me not to call him by his name?! fine, whatever, chicken ass suited him better anyway! But why was he touching me?! Why did he lean in so close? Too close, he was all up in my personal space, like he said "i don't know you" well that went for the both of us, but there he was pinning me against the lockers, invading my personal space! what gave the 'mighty Uchiha' that right?! and more importantly, why hadn't I said this all to his face? Why was I so scared of him? Sure he had at least a foot on me, and yeah he had maybe 80 pounds of muscles on me where I was a scrawny tiny little thing, Ino would never let me forget it. But it was something else, his eyes sent chills up my spine and the way he was so close gave me goosebumps, whatever it was it was confusing me! I don't like being confused!'

I shook it off as I made my way in to homeroom at the nick of time, a seat right next to Hinata open. Homeroom was just a "welcome back reunion" of sorts, where the students would just talk for a full period with their friends and pick up their schedules.

"Sakura, where were you?'"Hinata asked concerned

"yeah forehead, you made us run! you could at least have had the decency to keep up" said an annoyed Ino.

I looked at them, Ino's yelling making me feel just a bit better for some reason. "Guys, this day can not get worse" I groaned. The door swung open, I turned only to clash with a pair of onyx eyes a second time this morning, I quickly looked away ignoring the goosebumps I once again inexplicably got.'What else could go wrong?! what was I thinking?! I really should stop challenging Kami!'

That was the first chapters, I have so many ideas. Im not going to be the type of author to hound you for reviews or to threaten to stop writing unless "i get at least 10 reviews on the chapter", thats not how I am. I like writing and if you got feed back than im happy to hear it, suggestions, critique, anything. And if you just popped by for something entertaining to read, I hope you got what you wanted and enjoyed.