Hey. It's me, ksko81. This is gonna be my very first chapter of my new story after I quit writing two years ago. So my writing skills may have dulled around the edges, but hey.. Just bear with me.. :D. Oh and, reviews really make my day.

DISCLAIMER: [I will only post a disclaimer on the first chapter okay?] Masashi Kishimoto is the sole owner of Naruto and it's characters, my sole intention of writing and publishing this story is so that I may enhance my writing skills. :D. Besides, IF I owned Naruto, Hinata would fall in love with some other guy and Sakura and Naruto would have the coolest love story ever. XD

November 14, 2008

5:57 pm

*Rustle*Rustle

"Hey, Naruto, you sure about this?" Jairaya said, looking at his godson packing up his things.

"Yeah. Don't worry about me Ero-sensei, I got a good place near the school campus and it's also near the place I work at."

"Uh-huh. You know, I'd get lonely..."

"How the hell could you get lonely with all the girls you sleep with? I can't even get enough sleep here, with all the screaming." Naruto said with a smirk while closing the box with all his clothes.

"Very funny, gaki. Here, let me help." Jairaya ruffled Naruto's already messy hair and carried the boxes downstairs.

"Thanks Ero-sensei! Be careful okay? The boxes might fall!" Naruto called out.

Naruto looked around his almost empty room. He had been living with his godfather for about six years of his life. Even though his godfather was a down right pervert, he was the closest thing he considered as his father-like figure. Jairaya taught Naruto how to fight, how to cook, how to flirt and in sense, how to live.

"Huh?" Just about when Naruto was to exit the room, he saw an old photograph flying around his room.

"Winter must be close, the winds are getting really strong..." Naruto closed his windows and searched for the flying photograph.

And slowly, the picture twirled in circles before it landed on a dusty carpet.

"Shit." Was all Naruto could say as his eyes landed on the picture.

This was supposed to be the day that I'd get over her.Naruto got the picture, slowly, fearing that the picture would break at his grip.

The girl who unconsciously taught my idiotic heart how to truly love..

The girl who's responsible for my destruction of my heart.

"What am I thinking? As if I have the right to get mad at her.. As if I have the right to blame her for my heart." As if I took the chance to say what I feel about her...Naruto felt the tears prick his eyes.

Naruto closed his eyes, as his body fell on the bed. His mind drifted to what happened exactly 2 weeks beforehand.

*Flashback

October 31, 2008

8:12 am

"Ero-sensei, have you seen my shirt? I can't find it anywhere!" Naruto called out from the laundry room.

"What shirt?" Jairaya asked as he stirred the noodles.

"You know, the one with orange stripes! Arghhh!" A loud crash could be heard from the laundry room

Jairaya sighed. What the hell could make the gaki frustrated so early in the morning?

"Here." Jairaya spotted the said shirt on the floor and threw it at Naruto's face.

"Where the he- Ooof! Hey! You found it!"

"Naruto, you do realize the mess you made right? Better start cleaning, the ramen's gonna get cold."

"Cool! You made ramen?" Naruto started folding the piles of clothes that were on the floor.

"Uh-huh. You showered already? Where are ya' going today huh?" Jairaya asked, leaning on the door frame.

"It's Halloween, if you forgot. I'm gonna buy candies for trick 'n treat." Naruto said as he folded the last shirt on the floor.

"Wow. You're gonna buy candies at 9 in the morning? You do realize stores open at 10, do you?"

"I didn't get the chance to do my daily 5am jog." Naruto said with a shrug.

"So you're gonna jog a what? A 30-minute run under the scorching heat of the sun?"

"You exaggerate, Ero-sensei. It's windy and cloudy today.. Come on, I'm hungry." Naruto said, making his way to the dining room.

During Breakfast

"You don't have a date tonight gaki?" Jairaya asked

"Dunno. Maybe I'll pick up a girl from the mall, like what you usually do." Naruto said, sticking his tongue out.

"Psssh."

"So, I'll be going now okay? Besides, it's your turn to do the dishes!" Naruto stood up and wore his trademark jacket, an orange Nike.

"Be back before tick and trat starts!" Jairaya shouted.

"It's trick or treat you old pervert! Bye!" Naruto jogged his way out of the house.

Sigh. I'm nineteen years old, and I've never girlfriend. What's wrong with me again? Naruto sighed as he thought about his so called 'miserable' life.

Maybe because.. I'm just a little too not over HER.

Damnit! Why can't I just get over her? I'm sure she already forgot my name.. I mean, six years without any type of contact...

"Well, doesn't life suck?" And as Naruto shook his bangs out of his eyes, he stumbled on some rock and fell.

"Oof." Was all Naruto could say. Did I get heavy? It's like someone's on top of me!

"Double oof!" Unfortunately, when Naruto fell, so did a girl who happened to be near him.

"Oh! I am sooo sorry!" Naruto said, as he opened his eyes to see a blond girl on top of him

"Ahhh..! Hey! Umm. Sorry!" The girl quickly rolled over, lying next to Naruto.

"You grabbed my arm quite hard, ya know?" The blonde said, as she rubbed her arm.

"Uh? Umm. Here, let's get you and ice pack, I think a bruise is starting to form." Naruto said, as he stood up, holding his hand for her to reach.

"Thanks, I'd appreciate that. By the way, the name's Ino. Yamanaka Ino." Ino said as she took Naruto's hand.

"Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto's smile temporarily melted Ino's brain.

He is so H-O-T! Ino thought, blushing.

"You got a fever or something?" Naruto asked as he noticed the redness of Ino's face.

"Huh? Oh nothing. Hehe." Ino laughed awkwardly.

*Ring *Ring

Ino's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Idiot, where the hell are you?" The voice shouted over the phone.

"Who's that? Your boyfriend?" Naruto asked.

Ino signaled Naruto to shush his mouth while listening to her friend yell over the phone.

"Well anyways, I'm here at the refreshment stand near the big mango tree. Meet me here in 5 okay?" Ino cringed at the voice of her best friend, while shaking her head.

"So?" Naruto asked again.

"So what?" Ino questioned.

"So- That was your boyfriend shouting over the phone?"

"Uh, no. That was actually my best friend. I'm gonna go to the refreshment stand. Wanna come with?" "Please say YES, please say YES" Ino thought, wanting to spend more time with the hottie before her very eyes.

"Sure." Naruto said, stuffing his hands in his pockets.

It was a five minute walk to the refreshment stand at their pace. They talked about their studies, their part time jobs, and little details of their life.

"Hmm, nursing huh?" Naruto asked, he was always facinated with medicine-oriented carriers.

Probbably because SHE always dreamed to be a doctor. Naruto absent mindedly drifted from the real world, thinking about his long time love.

"Yeah, it never struck me 'till-Hey, Naruto, are you still listening?" Ino noticed Naruto's lack of participation in their conversation.

"Huh? Oh.. Sorry.. What were you saying?" Naruto was brought back to the real world, seeing Ino's hand waving up and down, to attract his attention.

"I said-"

"INO! You pig! Hurry up!" A girl, about 20 meters away from them shouted.

Weird. She has pink hair.. Wait.. PINK hair? What the HELL? Shit.. She can't be... Shit. Shit. Shit.

Ino mumbled something incoherent under her breath while making her way towards the pink head. Naruto, on the other hand was inwardly panicking while unconsciously following Ino.

"Forehead! God! What's so important that I had to hurry huh?" Ino started rambling on how her beauty sleep was disturbed..

"Idiot! I wanted you to meet my new-"

It was then when the pink head saw her bestfriend's company.

Cerulean eyes met emarald.

And at that very moment, hundreds of memories flashed before their very eyes.

"Boyfriend." A dark haired boy with eyes the same shade of his hair said. He circled his arms around Sakura's waist while resting his head on her shoulder.

"A pleasure to meet both of you." He smiled, not noticing the tension building up with his girlfriend and the guest.

"Sakura." Naruto managed to say, after what seemed like forever.

"Naruto." Sakura said, with a tint of guilt in her voice.

"Wait, you two know each other? What a coincidence!" Ino smiled "And forehead, why didn't you tell me you were dating? He's so HOT! By the way, I'm Yamanaka Ino." Ino exclaimed, holding out her hand.

"And I am Sai." Sai smiled as he shook Ino's hand.

"Um, hey. Sorry to bother. I gotta go." Naruto said, looking at Sakura in the eyes for the last time.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. He mentally cursed at his stupidity. There she was, standing in her goddess like beauty.. with another man.

*End of Flashback

And as Naruto laid down on his bed, he looked over the window, he drifted to sleep with the last thought drifting in his mind: I wonder if she's happy.

On the other side of town, a sad soul was thinking the same thing.

"I wonder if he's happy."

:D

Hey.

Okay, so I wasn't so pleased on the way I ended the chapter, but hey, it's been awhile since I wrote anything, storywise.

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