Prologue
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Summary: Sakura and her mom are moving from San Diego, California to Konoha to start a new life, and to get away from her alcoholic, gang leading father. Sakura thinks the move is pointless and that this "new life" thing won't work out. But when she meets Sasuke she sees a chance to start off new. But the question is does he hate or love her.
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It was a new town, a new school, if I was lucky a new life. But the chances of that were slim, very slim.
I never thought I would be able to handle the move. I had found it to be rather, what's the word I am looking for…oh yeah 'troublesome'. I got a little bit of a laugh out of this me Sakura Haruno using the word troublesome you could tell that I had been around my ex-boyfriend Shikamaru for too long.
Shikamaru had made me promise to keep in touch with him, and call him as soon as we arrived to where ever we were moving to (he didn't know the exact place since we weren't allowed to tell anyone).
It took me by surprise when he asked me to keep in touch with him, seeing as we didn't break up on good terms. Right before we left he called out me name, and acted like he had something to get off his chest.
"Sakura…I, I…never mind," he said as he walked off looking down at the ground wit a saddened expression. I shouldn't have felt bad for him but…but I did. I thought about running after him, but that wouldn't have been right not after all the things he put me through…
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Flashback
"Hey, Mrs. Haruno I am here to pick up Sakura for our date," said Shikamaru as he stood in my doorway.
"Okay come in, and sit down," she said smiling. "No thanks, Mrs. Haruno I am really in a hurry,"Shikamaru said smirking.
"Okay suit yourself I will go get Sakura for you," she said as she walked up the stairs. My mom was really fond of Shikamaru, mainly because he stood up for me when I was getting made fun of by the other kids at school.
In fact, she liked Shikamaru so much that when he asked could I stay out later than usual she agreed. So, I was now allowed to stay out until 1:00 a.m. on our date that night (which was way past my 9:00 p.m. curfew).
Shikamaru had told me that the reason he asked my mom could I stay out later was because he had something "special" for me. I tried to guess what it was after he told me that he had something "special" for me. I came to the conclusion that it was either jewelry, a new cell phone (which I was in desperate need of) or a car, (since Shikamaru's parents were loaded).
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I was overly excited about my something "special" and I didn't try to hide it during our date (which might have been a bad choice).
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We went to a local restaurant and we were having a pretty good time, until Shikamaru asked me did I want to go back to his place afterwards, and then it all went down hill from there.
"Sure," I said thinking that my "special" thing was at his house.
"What are we going to do at your house, watch a movie?" I asked smiling at him as I gave him a quick peck on the cheek. It has to be a car he probably has it parked in his drive way so that it will be the first thing we see when we drive up. I mean why else would he want us to go back to his place.
"Oh I have something better for us to do, something way better for us to do," Shikamaru said.
"Something better than a movie," I said still smiling at him.
"Oh, yeah," he said, right before he grabbed me by the waist and pulled me in for a passionate kiss. The kiss wasn't the bad part, (we kissed all the time). I didn't really start to freak out until he tried to stick his hand up the front of my blouse.
"Stop," I said embarrassed by his actions. I took a few steps away from him so that I could see what he had really planned for us to do at his house.
"What…what do you mean you got something way better for us to do?" I asked looking at the ground afraid to look him in the eyes.
He lifted my face up so that I would have to look at him." You know what I mean," he said as he revealed a huge perverted grin.
I now understood why he asked my mom to let me stay out later this is what he meant by "special". I was furious I couldn't believe that he would stoop so low after I had told him over and over again that I wanted to wait.
"I have already told you that I want to wait," I said as I quickly jerked away from him. I tried to run, but I wasn't quick enough and he grabbed me by my arm.
"HOW LONG DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE ME WAIT? I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR NOW!" He yelled at me as he tightened his grip on my arm.
"TAKE ME HOME NOW, I WANT TO GO HOME, I said trying to pull away from his tight grip. I was unsuccessful.
"NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE ME WHAT I WANT," he said as he dragged me to his car.
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ME?" I asked with fear evident in my voice.
He opened the door to his car as I tried to fight him off me. He threw me inside the car and then slammed the door and locked it. I started to freak out and I tried to come up with a plan to get myself out of this situation.
Why is no one seeing this? Should I yell for help? Should I try to unlock the door and make a run for it? But by time I came up with a reasonable plan Shikamaru was already sitting beside me in the car.
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Since I wasn't able to run I thought that begging would be the next best thing, I found this to be wrong, very wrong.
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"Please don't do this to me Shikamaru I love you," I said as tears streamed down my face." Please don't ruin our relationship over something stupid like…
I was taken by surprise as Shikamaru slapped me hard across the face. It reminded me of the time that I had come home to see my father beating my mom. Of course I tried to pull him off of her but I wasn't strong enough. I begged for him to stop as tears streamed down my face, he then pushed me down onto the ground and slapped me as hard as he could across the face. I had told Shikamaru about this and he had promised that he would never do anything like that to me, and that he would do anything, and everything he could to protect me. But I guess it was all just a bunch of empty words because here I was holding my stinging face in my hands as he yelled at me.
"YOU DON'T LOVE ME BECAUSE IF YOU DID THEN YOU WOULD BE AT MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW DOING WHATEVER I ASKED YOU TO," he spat at me. He then shoved me down and pinned my arms above my head.
He started kissing me, this kiss wasn't like the kiss that he had gave me before. This kiss was aggressive and it showed the anger that he had within. I was still shocked that he slapped me so I didn't fight back even if I did it would have been useless he was so much stronger than me. I sat there hoping that he would stop kissing me, he did.
But it was only to rip my blouse from my body. I finally came back to reality and I knew I had to stop this if I waited any longer than it would be too late.
"I want to go home," I cried as I tried to push him off me he pinned my hands down and began to kiss aggressively again. Sakura you have to stop crying and fight back if you want to get out of this mess. "I began to thrust my body in every direction hoping that he would release his grip on my arms.
"LET ME GO HOME NOW OR ELSE I WILL SUE YOUR FAMILY FOR EVERY PENNY THEY HAVE." Maybe threatening him wasn't the best idea but I was willing to try anything to make him stop. I flinched expecting to feel a sharp sting in my face again.
Surprisingly, the threatening worked he released the strong grip he had on my arms reached over me and opened the passenger door.
"FINE YOU CAN GO HOME IF YOU WANT BUT YOUR NOT GOING HOME WITH ME!" he said as he shoved me outside onto the pavement.
I laid there weeping as he sped off in the direction that we had came. I had no cell phone and no way to get back home so I just laid there for what seemed to be an eternity. My mom finally came for me she had received a call from Shikamaru saying that I had ran off with some guy during our date and that he had no clue were I was.
Afterwards... my mom asked questions, but she didn't pressure me to answer them I guess she knew that if I really wanted to tell her about it I would.
Shikamaru was the first guy that I had ever truly loved and probably the last...
End of Flashback
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After that incident, Shikamaru and this smutty girl named Ino started dating. He never said anything to me about our "breakup". I hoped to God that he regretted what he did, and that he couldn't sleep at night because of it. But the chances of that were again slim, very slim.
Ino was the biggest slut in the school there were only a selected few of guys that hadn't slept with the girl. So, I knew for sure that Shikamaru was having sex with her, and plenty of it, which was what he had wanted all along. (Sorry about the Ino bashing Ino fans but I just hate that girl).
Ino and Shikamaru broke up a couple of days before my mom and I were assigned to leave San Diego. Ino left him for this new student named Sai she didn't do it in private everything Ino did had to have a lot of attention everyone had to see it. I guess it was just Karma getting back at him know what they say Karma is a …
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"What are you thinking about sweetheart," said my mom as she disrupted my thoughts and displayed her biggest, fakest smile. She didn't think I knew the difference between her fake and real smile but boy did I know. The fake smile is the only smile that my mom has shown since my dad became an alcoholic, (and most recently a gang leader). I hope that one day I can see her real smile again not this fake, put on smile.
"Nothing," I replied returning the same fake smile back to my mother.
"You know I'm doing this for the both of us, we get to start off fresh and experience things we never thought we would." Parents are always trying to make their kids believe that everything they do is for the both of them; and that everything will be alright.
"You know that's exactly what the parents in scary movies say before they go to a new town, and a mental patient or zombie kills them and there whole family," I said jokingly.
"Well aren't you a pocketful of sunshine," my mother said as she looked out the window.
"I'm just kidding mom," I said only to prevent her from getting her feelings hurt.
"We have now have arrived at the Konoha Airport," said the flight attendant over the intercom.
"Wow, were already her," I said.
"Yeah, I guess so," she said as she stood up.
"I guess I spent the whole time lost in thought," I said smiling at her.
We quickly got our luggage and went outside to the front of the airport were our new car was waiting for us.
Now I wasn't expecting anything fancy but this piece of crap. The car was a dull gray color and it looked like it had been in about thirty-five wrecks.
"Isn't it nice," my mother said. I started to wonder if we were looking at the same car.
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We remained silent inside the old-beat up car. I tried to focus on positive things but I mostly thought about my… my dad.
It was his fault that my mom and I had to move away from California in the first place if my father hadn't decided to become an abusive alcoholic than this would have never happened. He always hit on my mom (and sometimes me).
One night, my mom finally got enough courage to call the cops on him, he got arrested but we soon found out that my father had given up his business to become a wealthy gang leader.
The police thought it would be in our best interest to join the Witness Protection Program and get new identities and move to an assigned area incase he sent some of his "thugs" after us. But my mom insisted that it was unnecessary, and that it would be to stressful on me.
After the police thought about for a while they said that we were free to use our same identities, but we would have to go live in an area that they assigned to us so that we could be under close surveillance (which is why we were now moving to Konoha).
"We're here," my mom said pretending to be excited. She leapt out of the car and walked towards the house, as I slowly followed behind her. Once the house was in view my mom said.
"Don't you think it's gorgeous," (her fake act had returned).
"It's the most hideous thing I have ever seen in my life," I said as I examined the house from top to bottom. The house was a dark green color with what I guessed to be a tan color that had faded and appeared to be yellow as the trim.
""Oh come on, yeah it's not perfect but it's a house," she said looking at the house.
"I know you're eager to see the inside so come on so I can show you around," she said as she motioned for me to follow her towards the house.
"If the outside looks this bad then I would hate to see the inside," I said giving the house a disgusted look.
I examined the house one more time hoping that my opinion about it would change, but it remained the same. "You know mom I'm starting to believe that there is something wrong with your eyes," I said smiling as I followed her towards the house.
I didn't know why I was so worried about how the house looked when I really should have been worrying about was the new school I was scheduled to attend the next day, Ninja High to be exact. What a crappy name for a school. I wonder who named it. I thought as I stepped onto the porch of our new "home".
"Cherry Blossom I think this will turn out to be our own personal heaven," my mom said as she said as she unlocked the door and walked inside.
I slowly followed behind her not excited the slightest bit. My assumptions were right the inside looked worst than the out. This was going to be something very challenging for me to get use to.
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"Our own personal Heaven, yeah right more like our own personal Hell," I mumbled.
A/N:
Maybe this should have been considered Chapter 1 instead of the prologue but oh well.
I am really sorry if this chapter sucks, I wish I was a better writer :( I hope that the next chapter will be better than this and I promise to make the story more interesting as it progresses. Oh and I am really, really sorry if there are a lot of grammar errors, and some things that don't make since. Plz let me know if you find some.
Oh yeah and I got a question that I want to ask ya'll I want to make Sasuke worse off than Sakura in this story so should I make him:
Emo/depressed
Drug addict
Gang member
Player
All of the above (if that's possible)
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