Hi everyone! It's me! Back with an all new story! Woo! Anyway, the first chapter is really going to suck so hold on to your knickers. I haven't written in first person in soooo long it's going to take me a while to get used to it. And plus, I'm using a new writing style (look carefully) and yeah, that's all I gots to say. And yes, the pairing is unknown and I'm not telling. Okay fine, it's SasuSaku . Ya happy?!

Flash-back

The locker room doors swung open. All in flash the bright lights and the brightness of the wood and the stack of the bleachers came into view. The roar of the crowd rumbled around us and I breathed in the smell of my favorite sport. Basket ball. My name is Yuuhi Tsugashi, and I am the captain of the girl's Konoha High basket ball team. And today was the X Championship, against the Suna boys team.

I bit my lip and turned continued to walk out onto the court. The roar and sound was numbing but there was a single truth, this was my home. Where I belonged. And my team. OUR team. These girls were my sisters, and this was our game. I know I sound like some kind of mantra but it's really true. As corny as it may sound.

I tucked a ball under my arm we all huddled around our bench. Coach Kurenai gave us a quick talk and then sent the players in. "Tsugashi, I want to play all the girls on this game. You aren't starting. I want Haruno to take the ball down as point-guard."

I looked at the youngest girl on the team. Haruno Sakura. She wasn't very skilled, and I felt that this single freshman could destroy the game.

And that's exactly what happened. With each second she wasted her time, trying to shoot and not passing. She dribbled the ball wide so that the Suna team could steal and score. I grimaced at the girl's performance, but I knew that she had only played 7 seconds all season, and deserved some time in the light.

"Pass!" The girls screamed at her. Out stretching their hands so they could grab the ball if the young girl decided to follow their advice. But Haruno didn't listen. And when the clock went down, the game was over. We had lost.

"Haruno!" I barked. I couldn't help it, I was boiling angry. About to explode. She walked over, a guilty look on her face. I grabbed her shoulder and hissed in her face. "You just lost us the title. Let me tell you something. You ain't gonna get nowhere playing a sloppy one-girl game. Get off this court, you don't belong here."

She stared at me for a second. All the girls were glaring at her. This freshman thought she was all that. All that! They sneered in disgust as she walked in defeat the girls locker room. I watched after her, snarling.

Coach Kurenai patted my shoulder. "You don't need to worry. She'll learn from this. You'll see Yuuhi."

I shook my head. "That's one spoiled brat. Suna has one freshman on their varsity team. And he is nowhere near as much trouble. He's got a lot of talent."

"Oh, and what freshman is that?" Coach Kurenai asked.

I pointed over at the boy who was the only freshman on the Suna team. He was sitting on the bench, not as excited as his other team-mates were. In fact, he looked kind of angry. His black eyes were dark and cold. He had (what some of the older Suna boys called) chicken-butt hair and a set, muscular but skinny figure. Kinda cute. His name was Sasuke, and he was probably a basket-ball prodigy in the making.

I looked in the directing Sakura had gone. She would never be like him. She could never lead a team. Not a million years.

I slid my hands into my pockets, remembering that night, long ago, as I stared at the picture in the trophy case. It was a picture of our old team captain, Yuuhi Tsugashi. She was grinning ear to ear. I bit my lip softly. She was holding the X Championship trophy in her right arm.

Let me tell you the story of the Konoha High girl's basket ball team in the most respective way that I can. Now, Konoha High had never won anything big, it had been minor tournaments and a few traveling games here and there, but nothing huge. The X Championships was huge, and every year it was always

against the Suna girl's team and the Konoha boy's team. The X Championships was the game of games. And it still is. Whoever wins the boys division championship and whoever wins the girls meet up and play a game to see who is better. The title (especially if the girls win) is a high glory. The Lady Leaves could never dream of going there. Never in a zillion years.

Well, never in a zillion years, until a talented young freshman named Yuuhi Tsugashi came along. At first, no one took her seriously. A freshman had never made it onto the varsity team, but she was so good that some people believed that the Konoha girls could actually have a chance. In her sophomore year, she became captain, but the team lost in the semi-finals. The next year, they actually made it and won the freaking XC. Yuuhi was a sensation. One in a million. She loved the game so much, that she wanted to go back the next year, and that's when I joined in. Yuuhi was the first freshman, and people really thought I was something because I was the second freshman to make the V team. People thought I was the next Yuuhi, but I was never all that good. When we made the XC, yeah, it was exciting, but coach-Kurenai wanted to play everyone, including me. And I single-handedly destroyed any hope of winning.

Of course, I'm junior now and Yuuhi graduated a while back and probably went to some fantastic college somewhere far away. And after her leaving, the basket-ball program sortofjust fell apart. All because of me.I snorted and turned on my heel, away from the case and back down the hall. I was nothing like her. And today was supposed to be historic. After leaving a year of basketball out, we were finally holding try-outs, but no one could get Yuuhi out of their minds."Good riddance." I whispered under my breath.

"Wallowing in your own past failures again?" A voice said from next to me.

I changed my solemn expression to a grin and looked up at who was talking. It was Tenten. "No." I lied. Though I have to admit, I regretted my self-ness in that game so bad, that I could probably kill someone..mainly myself over it.

"Okay then…" She said, taking the bait. "Then whassa matter?"

I grinned harder, it started to hurt my face. "I guess I'm a little worried about try-outs. That's all."

She and I were barreling down the long hall, people had to press against their lockers to keep from being plowed over. The lighting was rather dark, so it made sense for me to not look where I was going.

"Sakura." Tenten said, pulling her books tighter to her chest and stopping. "Number 1, the tryouts are next period. It's a little late to be 'worried'. Number 2, You're a shoo-in for the team. Okay, so we all make mistakes but honestly, you don't play like that anymore. I have a feeling you're going to be our new team-captain…" She sang at my face.

I wrinkled my nose. "I doubt it…I don't think anything is going to change. And besides, is basketball supposed to even have frickin captain? I thought that was foot-ball thing and..."

Tenten glared at me.

"Nevermind."

"I take that back. You wouldn't be good." Tenten remarked, frowning. " Every word that comes out of your mouth has to do with bouncing a ball or trying out for different positions. Is basketball all you ever talk about?"

I frowned. She had a point. Ever since I had played that disgrace of a game, I had devoted my whole life to the sport. I had barely any friend and had worked my tail off. Look at what I was wearing now. Black, red and white basket ball shorts, baggy-style. (XD) Tennis-shoes, a grey sweatshirt with my pink hair back in a pony-tail and a skinny head band around my head. I looked ready to jump on the court and start doing drills.

But, that being said, I was a stubborn idiot, so I set my jaw, determined to prove Tenten wrong. "Not everything I say is sporty…" I whined. "Look.."I searched around for something to say that didn't include my favorite sport. "Um…" I was growing desperate. There! I spotted something out of the ordinary. I could use that…."Look, there's really cute guy walking through the hall coming towards us."

Wait. There's a really cute guy walking through the hall coming towards us? I did a double take and what I said was indeed correct.

Tenten grinned at me and bowed karate-style. "Ooohhhh you are so wise grass hopper."

I laughed and looked back at the guy. He had black hair that was spikey in the back and black, coal eyes. But for some reason, he didn't seem as pleasant as he looked. The temperature dropped about 15 degrees as soon as he turned the corner and something in his stare said 'Come near me and I'll bite your head off.'

"Who IS that guy?" I whispered. Tenten shrugged. But then she giggled.

"Look." She said, she pointed and there was a basket ball under his arm. "I was right. Everything you say IS connected to basketball. In one way or another."

"Well if you think of it that way." I pouted. Forgetting all about the actually person and thinking more about what my friend was accusing me of.

"What do you mean?" Tenten asked.

I crossed over to the nearest trash-can. "Okay, here's an example. Let's say, I said, 'Oh, look how someone dumped their milkshake inside this trashcan.' That has nothing to do with basket ball right? But then, you'd remember back to that time when Kaede brought a milkshake to practice and someone threw up in it and she ran out to this exact trashcan and dumped it. Then the statement, 'Oh, look how someone dumped their milkshake inside this trashcan.' Would have something to do with basket ball."

"I'm not THAT smart Sakura." Tenten whined. "I'm honestly not thinking like that."

"Well YOU must not be thinking because you're in my way." Someone directed at me.

I looked up to see that same boy glaring down at me. He was a good 4 inches taller. My open mouth snapped shut and I just glared.

"Move."He demanded.

Coach Tsunade (our newest coach ever since Coach Kurenai left after I lost the XC) has always told us one thing. 'When you're looking a center (the position usually played by the tallest person in the team) in the eye, don't back down.' Even if they mow you over you don't budge because your job is to get that ball in that basket, no matter what happens to yourself in the process.'

I know that saying is a little rough around the edges and actually, not true but one thing was. This boy was the person I was staring down, and my job was showing this kid that this is my turf (since he obviously didn't go here) and he had no right to tell me I should move out of his way.

I stood there, jaw set, ready for anything, but I wasn't ready for him to pick me up by the collar and basically chuck me across the hall. Which is what he did.

I landed painfully, on my back with my legs up and against a locker and my neck wrenched to one side. The boy just kept walking; didn't even look back.

Tenten raced to help me up. "Are you okay?!" She asked.

"Yeah," I said, even though I could barely breathe. "Just a little winded that's all."

"You don't look okay. He had no right to do that." She was unsuccessful at helping me stand so I just lay there on the ground, humiliated.

"Dude!" One boy ran up with a shocked look on his face. "Serves you right! Do you know who that was that you just tangled with?!"

I shook my head. (which all my blood was running into by the way and making it pound)

The boy looked around frantically so shocked he could barely speak. "D-Dude! That was Sasuke Uchiha! The leading player on the Suna team! He joined varsity when he was a freshman! He helped win the XC!"

"And didn't blow the whole thing." Remarked one kid quietly.

I glared at them from my upside down position on the floor.

"He's the all-star! The best player in the world I swear!" The kid seemed to be hyperventilating. "I can't believe you took him on. That was the stupidest thing a person could do!" He was screaming and wheezing and gasping for breath and being choked by his shirt collar at the same time. Almost as fast as her arrived, he disappeared into the depleting crowd of students.

"Sasuke Uchiha." I repeated once I had come to a standing position. "What a jerk."

"I'll say so." Tenten grumbled. "Didn't even apologize."

"He did that on purpose Tenten. Whatever you do on purpose you don't have to apologize for until someone makes you." I pointed out.

She nodded. "I mean, what's the all-star player of the Suna team doing at Konoha High?"

Suddenly, that random kid came out of nowhere again. "He's here to apply to be the assistant coach because his dream college requires him to do so at a different high-school than his own and what better school than the one that'sfinally startingafter skipping a season and is destined to fall apart." He screeched and then disappeared again.

Tenten and I looked after him in horror. "Who the heck IS that?" I finally said.

"I have no idea. But anyway, is that true?"

Another amazing appearance from the boy. "Yes!" He screamed. Just as I was about to ask him what his name was he turned to me and yelled. "My names Carl! Bye!" And then he was off.

"That. Was. Kinda. Creepy." I stuttered.

Tenten nodded. "But, I hope it's not. If THAT kid was the assistant coach, I think he'd train us to fall on our butts."

"Worse than that." I said. Making a fist. "No one could stop me from killing him the moment I see him. I swear..."

Tenten sighed. "I hope Carl's not right."

Suddenly, that same chocking, wheezing, screaming kid appeared again. "I ham right!" He shouted. "Ooooohh I said ham! I want some ham!!!" He then was gone.

Tenten and I both shivered after watching him go and sprinted off to class. But one thing was racing through my mind...if that kid is helping coach us...we're all going to die.

I feel like eating some ham now. Okay, since I want to go get something to eat, I'm going to end this chapter hear and …

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