Saving Me
Intro: This is a dark fic about Naruto and Sakura's falling in love.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. I also do not own the song that this story is named after, no that belongs to my favorite rockers eva, NICKLEBACK!!
Summary: When the stress of the village's taunting and scorn finally gets to Naruto, he turns emo and the only thing that can save him are three words from a special someone. AU,Warning:Characters will be OOC.
Pairings will be
Main: Naruto/Sakura
Secondary: Hinata/Sasuke
TenTen/Neji
Shikamaru/Ino
Chapter 1, Prologue
I ran from the mob that had burning torches and were screaming and yelling, "DEMON! Kill the demon!"
I had to live this way every day because of something that had occurred in the past: an event that I didn't even remember.
My name is Uzumaki Naruto and as far as I know, I'm a demon, or so that's what they call me. I've been persecuted from the moment I could walk and the adults never turn a smile my way. Every time I try to play with the other children, they shoo them away and whisper things in their ears while giving me a hateful glare. I never understood why they hated me so much but I just know to expect it, because that's how it's always been and there's no sign of them ever changing it.
I made my way to my secret hiding spot and eventually the shouts faded out into the night. I gently cried to myself from the shadow of a large tree.
Suddenly, I felt a burst of anger swell up inside me and I punched an nearby tree, causing my already bruised knuckles to bleed.
Today was October 10th, the one day that I should have been spending opening colorfully wrapped boxes with my name on them, smiling up at my parents, and being treated like a king, but it wasn't so. Even though today was supposed to be special, even though it was my seventh birthday, it had become the worst day of my life.
I stopped crying abruptly when I heard a twig snap in front of me. "Who's there?" I asked in a scared voice.
To my surprise, a girl walked out of the bushes. She looked as though she had been crying because her eyes were red.
"I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to spy," she said in a nice voice and I relaxed a little when I realized that she wasn't here to kill my.
"Who are you?" I asked because I couldn't tell in the dark since the clouds had covered the moon.
"S-Sakura Haruno," she answered before she broke down and started crying.
"Well, what's wrong Sakura?" I asked, trying to be nice despite my own problems. That was before I saw the cut on her arm. "Whoa! What happened to you?" I asked in alarm. The cut was bleeding profusely and it looked deep.
"Oh…I…um…did that…t-to myself," she answered as her crying slowed a little bit.
"Is that why you are crying?" I asked and she teared up again before starting to cry again. She fell over onto me and the blood from her arm got on my clothes.
Just then, someone burst through the clearing from where Sakura had appeared. I could tell it was a woman, and as soon as she saw Sakura lying in my arms with her blood all over my shirt, she yelled, "Get away from her, Demon! Don't you hurt my Sakura!"
She grabbed Sakura by her uninjured arm and took her out of the clearing. Soon I heard the voices of the mob building again and I fled the bloody clearing and the mob that pursued me once again.
That was the last I saw of Sakura for a long time, and I'd begun to forget about her, that is, until graduation day…
End: This fic is going to be a dark fic! Sakura was a bit emo in this first part but you'll find out later why she was like that. Anyone know something strange about Sakura from the manga that might have made her cut herself. Something to do with her family?... HintHint. And btw that last sentence was the beginning of the time skip, duh! R&R plz