Edit: I changed the advice column... again. Just so you know.

You're all probably thinking, oh no, not another high school fic.

Here's my reply: oh yes, another high school fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. And if I did, I'd pick a less cliched main character.

Plagerized

Chapter 1: Introduce Me

Excerpt from the Advice column
Dear Sakura,

I want to meet people. I'm pretty shy and have no friends. Could you be my first friend? Or at least let me meet your other friends?

Introduce Me

Dear IM,

Haha, sorry, but friendship doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You don't just ask people if they can be your friend. You develop a relationship over an extended period of time. You do have a chance to make new friends though. Classes are changing soon, and you might just get your chance to meet someone that you've never met before and become friends!

Sakura

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Entry for Saturday, Oct. 17
Dear Diary,

I don't write in one often, but, seeing as you are my new diary, I have decided to write in you as much as I possibly can. First, I should introduce myself. I go by the name Haruno Sakura. I like reading, writing, and studying. I have shoulder-length pink hair (which is tied up with a red ribbon I recieved as a gift), pale green eyes, and a large forehead (which people make fun of). The only person I don't mind insulting my large forehead is my best friend, Yamanaka Ino, but I know she's teasing (which is why it's also okay for me to call her Ino-pig). She and I have been best friends since we were six - and that's also when I met her other friends, Akimichi Chouji and Nara Shikamaru.

Ino has long blonde hair, which she tends to pull into a ponytail. Wearing it any other way would just serve to annoy her, I guess. She has baby blue eyes, and she's very pretty. A long time ago, she gave me the red ribbon I'm currently wearing as a gift. Many of the boys in our grade have the hots for her. But she only likes one person in the grade - some guy named 'Sasuke' (whoever he is). Anyways, every time she goes off on one of those 'he is so cute!' rantings, all of us try and ignore her as best as possible.

Akimichi Chouji has reddish-brown hair. He will not restrain himself from murdering you if you call him 'fat'. All of us tend to knock out the person who tries to before they say it anyways - no one deserves to die like that. He's always eating a bag of potato chips. For Christmas, I got him one of those really big bags of chips. I had a hard time finding enough wrapping paper for it. Took him a couple days to finish eating that bag. Oh well.

Shikamaru is Chouji's best friend. Shikamaru's a total lazy bum, however, and spends most of his time cloud-watching or sleeping. He's ridiculously smart though, with an IQ of over 200. I'm also smart, but he's more logical than I am, which is why he excels in math and I excel in literary arts. If there was one day that I ever went without hearing Shikamaru's "How troublesome," since he moved into Konoha ten years ago (and into the house right next door to me!), it hasn't happened yet. Oddly enough, he somehow landed the editor's position of the school newspaper. His only response? "How troublesome," he says. I don't think it's that bad...

I also have other friends, like Hyuuga Hinata, Tenten, and Uzumaki Naruto.

Hinata is from the prestigous Hyuuga clan, the richest clan in Japan. They're known worldwide, having people from the clan in important divisions of the country. They also have a huge buisness. There's two divisions of the clan - the Main house, and the Branch house. The Main house is well-known, and earns much more than the Branch house, who only serves as the Main house's bodyguards and such. Anyways, there's some sort of rivalry between both houses. Hinata is to be the leader of the clan when her father, Hiashi, dies. However, her father sees her as a total failure. She has short navy hair and completely white eyes, which makes everyone believe that she's blind - even though she isn't. She's very soft-spoken, very polite, and very sweet. She has a huge crush on Naruto.

Tenten has no known last name. She was abandoned on our doorstep, and my parents took her in. I guess if we were to give her a last name, It'd be Haruno, since she's part of our family. In the letter that her parents left, it said her birthday was March 14, her name was Tenten, and that she enjoyed going to the dojo. So, my parents sent her to the dojo, under a man named Umino Iruka. (I think Maito Gai-sensei should become a dojo teacher. He seems like the kind of guy who should do that instead of teaching.) Anyways, Tenten tends to put her long brown hair into two buns. Ino wanted to force her into wearing braids, but Tenten wouldn't relent. She hates girly stuff like that.

Uzumaki Naruto... where do I begin with him? Let's see...

He was left to my parents by his dead father (his mother died on the day of the birth) as a last wish, seeing as my parents were his dad's best friends. So, he became another member of our family. I think if we'd grown up differently, he probably would have some sort of crush on me. He sure acts like it, anyways. He's got spiky blonde hair, but that's because he doesn't comb his hair in the mornings. He also has these blue eyes. If you stare at them long enough, it's almost like staring at the ocean. He's hyperactive and loves ramen. Most of the time, if he's not home, he's at the local ramen place, Ichiraku. I told him to get a job there, since he spends so much time there, but he hasn't yet. He's completely clueless when it comes to matters of the heart, and just says what he thinks. It's why Hinata loves him so much. He's not afraid to voice his opinion. Naruto was also sent to the dojo, because my parents thought it'd be a way to get all that energy out. So far, it hasn't happened yet. He tends to do unexpected things - like get me you, for instance. I'd spent weeks on end asking for a new diary, and Naruto went out and got me one. It was quite the surprise.

Lately, I've been writing a thing for the school's website with Tenten. It's been rather hectic. And recently, Shikamaru came up to me with an offer. I've been thinking about it, but I really don't think I'm the right person for the job. Who to choose in my place?

And so ends my first entry.
-Sakura

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"Oi, Sakura! Get up, will you?" Who is that? Tenten? I thought blearily, squeezing my eyes shut.

'Shannaro! Let me sleep!' Inner Sakura yelled. I bopped her on the head, and she retreated into the depths of my mind.

"Honestly, you and Naruto just love sleeping in," Tenten's voice groaned. "You two need to get up now if you want to get to Konohagakure no Sato!" My eyes shot open.

"Finally!" The brown-haired girl cried, flinging her hands in the air in exasperation. "I was beginning to think you'd never get up!" She turned and left my bedroom. I heard her faint voice crying "Naruto, get up!" from the other room. With a sigh, I pulled my closet door open, revealing a mirror. In the reflection was a 15 year old girl with pink hair and green eyes. That's me. I'm Haruno Sakura. I go to Konohagure no Sato, which is one of five high schools in the area. All of them are considered "villages," hence the "Sato" part of the name. There's Iwagakure, Sunagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure as well. The uniforms are all the same design, but they're different colors.

I pulled on my white blouse and my red skirt, twirling a little. Then I turned back to the mirror to tie the bow under my collar; adjusting it. Lifting my bag, I stepped out the door and was nearly barreled over by Naruto. I yelped as he ran past, adjusting his tie. He nearly hit me in the head with his bookbag as well. Tenten came walking down the hallway; watching Naruto practically fall down the stairs. He yelped when he reached the landing and crashed into the wall.

I went down the stairs at a slower pace, turning to the left as I reached the bottom to see the kitchen. Then I turned back to Naruto, who was now sitting on the floor rubbing his head.

"Itai..." He wailed. Tenten jumped the last few steps and bopped him on the head.

"You do realize we're going to be late?" She demanded. Naruto shot up and bolted past me into the kitchen, where mom was pouring herself coffee.

"Oh, you two are finally up! Sakura, I'm a bit surprised though.You're normally the first one up." I let out a nervous laugh. The reason I'd been up so late was because I had been busy typing something for the school website, and Tenten and Naruto had been helping me. But if mom found out that we'd stayed up late to do something for school, she'd be furious.

"Uh... well, I couldn't sleep," I lied. Mom studied my face for a moment.

"Oh, okay. Your lunch is over there," she finally said, indicating the pink, orange, and green cloth-wrapped boxes. I poured a bowl of cereal for myself. Naruto had made cup ramen and was wolfing it down. Tenten, on the other hand, had finished eating and was waiting for us to finish.

The front door opened and slammed shut, indicating Mom had left.

"You ate before you woke us up?" Naruto asked between slurps. Tenten nodded, earning a glare from both of us. She laughed nervously.

"Ah, gomen, gomen! But I was hungry and well..." Naruto waved her off, shaking his head.

"Whatever, Tenten-chan." Tenten glared at him.

"You'd do the exact same thing! That's why Sakura's more reliable," Tenten shot back, turning to look at me. I chose not to say anything, watching Tenten and Naruto glare at each other.

"Fine, Tenten-chan." There was a long silence, filled with the sound of Naruto slurping ramen.

"AH! Stop calling me that! We're freshmen!"

"But it's habit! Sakura-chan doesn't mind it, right?" Frankly, I didn't care.

"Nope," I replied, glancing at the clock behind Naruto's head. He turned back to Tenten.

"See?" My eyes widened.

"Whatever..." The time was 7:34. It took 15 minutes to get to school, and school started at 7:45. And that's when it sank in...

"Dammit! We're late!" And thus, we cue the mad rush to the front door...

--

"We're changing classes today, you know," Ino commented, leaning against one of the silver lockers in the hallway. She turned to look at me. I was fumbling with my combination lock

"Are you paying attention, Sakura?" I nodded, finally pulling the door open successfully and pulling my books out.

"I hope I get the same class with Sasuke-kun! He's sooo gorgeous! And hot!" I rolled my eyes. Here came The List.

"For one, he has these amazing eyes! They're dark and so totally cool! Also, he's got this amazing dark bluish hair that sticks up in the back! I wonder how he does it... and oh! He's got amazing personality! Even though he just glares at you, you can tell that he's just cool like that. And-"

"Ino," I interrupted calmly, "as much as I want to hear about how much you love this Uchiha Sasuke, I really don't care. At all." At this, Ino turned to me.

"How can you not care?" She demanded, horrified. I rolled my eyes. She had to pull out the dramatics.

"Ino... how should I put this... I don't even know who he is," I said evenly. Ino gasped in horror. I let out an exasperated sigh. We probably had this conversation every day. Sheesh. I wasn't even in his class, for Pete's sake!

The bell rang, and I sighed in relief. Freedom.

I bolted to my classroom - class 3-A. Ino was in 3-C, so she wouldn't be bothering me in class. Naruto was in 3-B, and Tenten was also in Ino's class.

3 guesses as to which class the 'guy with the amazing personality' was in.

If you guessed 3-B, good for you!

When I reached my class, the new classroom arrangements were listed on the front board. According to it, I was still in class 3-A - and so was Ino, Naruto, and Tenten. Hinata came over to see the sheet. Her lavendar eyes widened.

"I-I-I'm in the s-same c-class a-as N-N-Naruto-kun!"

"Hinata, don't faint on me," was my reply.

"B-b-b-b-b-but..." I sighed.

"Okay... Hinata, you need to take a deep breath -" But before I could say anything else, she fainted.

"Uh... where's the teacher?" I needed to get her to the nurse's office, and fast. I glanced down at Hinata.

But... unless the teacher came, I couldn't go anywhere.

Fun.

Note sarcasm.

--

The teacher didn't show up, but an assigned seat list was sent to our classroom. Hinata revieved, to find out that her assigned seat was right next to Naruto.

Guess what? She fainted again.

The joy!

Well, not really. Naruto was assigned the task of moving her to her seat, because apparantly, the nurse wasn't in and he sat next to her. Nevertheless, Hyuuga Neji, her cousin, was ready to kill.

He also had to move her because the teacher wasn't here.

When was this guy going to show up? Honestly!

When you get here Kakashi-sensei, you will be in a world of hurt... I vowed as Ino came over. Her eyes were alight with excitement.

"Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun is here! In this classroom!" She shrieked into my left ear. I swear all of the people in the classroom would've been staring at us if all of those girls surrounding the back row of desks weren't distracting them already.

The interesting thing was, Sasuke was apparently being surrounded by all of those girls, considering Ino was pointing excitedly at the group of girls, who were screaming "Sasuke-kun!" really loudly.

"Amazing," I replied dryly, plugging my left ear in case she decided to scream into it again.

"Isn't it?" Ino cried. Apparantly, the concept of sarcasm had flown right past her head. She just didn't get it - I didn't care.

"Uh-huh," I replied. Ino ran off to join the group of screaming girls. I took a seat at one of the few non-surrounded desks in the back of the room. Tenten came over.

"Sakura, I got Naruto to hand 'it' to Neji-san."

'It' happened to be what I'd been staying up late working on. My article on plagerism for the school website.

It's ironic that that exact article was plagerized.

Please don't start laughing.

--

When Kakashi-sensei showed up a hour (yes, a hour) late, there were many glares directed at him until he said just six words: "Detention for anyone who is glaring." That made them all stop in a flash. No one apparantly wanted detention on the first day of school.

"Alright everyone, I will read your names in alphabetical order. You will introduce yourselves -" He stopped abruptly, glancing around."Extra students, leave. Now." All the girls that had been in the back row scattered, but not before one of them blew a kiss to the person they kept referring to as "Sasu-kun."

"Okay," Kakashi-sensei began. "Now that all of them are gone, let's begin." And how, exactly, were we supposed to introduce ourselves?

"I'll go first. My name is Hatake Kakashi. You are all to call me Kakashi-sensei. No exceptions." Here, he stopped, glancing around at all of us before pausing at Naruto. He then went back to staring at the rest of the class. "And then you'd say your hobbies, likes, and dislikes. Too bad for all of you, because I really don't feel like telling all of you about them." The rest of the students looked at each other in confusion.

Kakashi-sensei is weird like that. He wears a blue headband - a relic of the former actual Konohagakure no Sato. It's been passed down to him by his ancestors - and the only reason I know that is because my parents are best friends with him. It's tilted sideways, covering his left eye, because he's blind in that eye. Also, he wears a face mask because he likes looking ridiculously mysterious.

If you ask me, I think he's seen too many ninja movies.

"First. Aburame Shino." A dark-haired boy wearing sunglasses and an overcoat (isn't that against dress code?) stood up.

"Aburame Shino." He said.

There was a long silence.

Then he sat down.

"...Uh, next?" Kakashi-sensei asked, baffled (although you really couldn't tell, considering how his face was covered with a mask).

"Akiraku Ami," a purple-haired girl said, standing up.

And so it went.

When he reached me, I stood.

"Haruno Sakura," I introduced myself. "I like writing. Writing's also my hobby." I paused, glancing at the whole class. "And I hate liars."

I'd never forgive anyone who lied to me.

Never.

--

Letting you know about every single person would be really boring, so I've just decided I should skim through the important ones.

Yamanaka Ino - Likes? Flower arranging and 'Sasuke-kun.' Hates? Idiots and people who also like 'Sasuke-kun' who are not part of the official fanclub. Hobbies? Flower arranging.

Nara Shikamaru - Likes? "Too troublesome to tell you." Hates? "Troublesome." Hobbies? "How troublesome... cloud watching."

Uzumaki Naruto - Likes? Ramen. Hates? "That three-minute wait for ramen!" Hobbies? Ramen tasting.

Hyuuga Neji - Likes? Meditating. Hates? "Not much." Hobbies? "I enjoy sparring." And, even though he didn't admit it, he spends his time protecting Hinata.

Rock Lee - Likes? "The power of YOUTH!" and me. Hates? "Anyone who shames the power of YOUTH!" Hobbies? Fighting Neji, and (although he didn't say it) saying "youth" way too much.

Tenten - Likes? Pointy objects. Hates? Rude people. Hobbies? Knife throwing, if you can believe it.

Sabaku no Temari - Likes? Fan dancing. Hates? Her brother. Hobbies? Fan dancing.

Sabaku no Kankuro - Likes? Making puppets. Hates? His sister. Hobbies? Puppet shows.

Hyuuga Hinata - Likes? Flowers (and even if she doesn't admit it, Naruto).

Inuzuka Kiba - Likes? Dogs. Hates? Idiots. Hobbies? "Uh... I don't have many hobbies, unless hanging out with Akamaru is one!"

But since I mentioned most of these people in my diary entry, I'll skip ahead to the most important one.

Uchiha Sasuke.

Doesn't like anything, hates his fangirls (who didn't seem to care when he said that) and he doesn't seem to have hobbies either. He was seated right next to me.

Oh boy. What a great way to start the new term.

--

"Hi, I'm Haruno Sakura," I introduced. "And I know you're Uchiha Sasuke."

"..." Was his reply.

Stupid Kakashi-sensei, what am I supposed to get out of this 10-minute "Get to Know Your Partner" time?

"I like writing - I even wrote an article for the school website."

"Hn." He glared at me with his dark eyes. I stared back. "Your necklace is stupid-looking."

Of all the things to bring up...

"This is a locket," I said, fingering it. "Specially made. It was my 10th birthday present from my secret best friend." It was an oval shape, with a Sakura tree on it - my namesake.

"Hn."

"Do you say anything besides that?" Yeah, this guy sure had amazing personality...

"Hn."

"I guess not, huh?"

"Hn." Wow. This had to be the most amazing conversation ever.

"So, uh, Uchiha-san, what do you do in your spare time?" I asked, as politely as possible.

"Ignore idiots." Wow! A sentence! "Like you." Was I offended by his statement?

Not really.

Considering that this guy had issues and didn't talk. Seriously.

I think he's one of those 'double personality' people. Because apparently, he and Naruto have fantastic spats. And he reportedly acts different around friends.

I guess that's just one of the mysteries of the world.

"Nah," I replied, trying to seem casual. "Naruto's more of an idiot." And he was. Hinata had fainted again and he hadn't even noticed yet.

"Hn." And here we are, back to one-syllable answers! Whoo-hoo! Except he had this weird look on his face - vaguely between a smirk and that indifferent expression he'd been wearing.

"Ah... okay then..." I said awkwardly.

I wondered how he could make two expressions at once.

Kinda strange, if you ask me.

Ahahaha... that's the end to my very lame chapter.

I'll try to get the other chapter out ASAP!