Welcome to the first chapter of THE HAPPINESS AND SORROWS OF A CHERRY BLOSSOM. Honestly, I have no idea how this story is gonna begin or end, I'm just making it up as I move along.

Talking

Flashback

Chapter 1: Flights

It started with a black ribbon and a cherry blossom flower.

A relationship...

A friendship...

A life...

and...

A moment...

Its true that opposites attract. Like, if the opposites were from a dark side... and a flower like light... What happens when a true love is broken from these two? Sometimes these kind of questions cannot be answered.

A black ribbon... and ... a cherry blossom.

A boy... and... a girl.

Sasuke... and... Sakura.

It had all happened a year ago. It would have lasted, but...

"We are too different", The raven haired teen said, these were the exact words that poured from his lips.

"You're right, we are." Sakura, the pink haired beauty said, her head was facing the ground she and her boyfriend were standing on... correction, her EX-boyfriend. She turned around and walked away, her head still hung down as tears came down her delicate soft skin. "And plus, you dont love me... you never did," As she muttered these words to herself, she ran, she didn't know where she was going, but she knew she hated one person right now...

Sasuke Uchiha, the guy she thought that loved her...

The guy that dumped her for another beautiful girl...

The guy that gave her the black ribbon that she kept, and had forgotten in a small special box where she kept her past memories.

Sakura's POV

"My name? Sakura Haruno." The flight attendant had asked me tons of questions.

We... by we, I mean me and my best friends Ino, Tenten and Hinata, we had gone on a trip by ourselves to the Hawaii. It was summer vacation, and we had lots of fun.

"How old are you miss?" The flight attendant asked me another question.

"Sisteen." I answered.

"Didn't she like, ask you that already?" Ino asked me, she stuffed another cookie in her mouth, I nodded.

"Now all I need to know is where you are heading to." The attendant was now getting on all our nerves.

"YOU ALREADY ASKED US THAT DAMN IT!!!" That was Tenten; it seemed that she had lost it. Another attendant noticed all the commotion and came over to where we were standing.

"I'm sorry girls, but Ms. Riley is new here, she is just a trainee." The older attendant said with a nervous smile.

"Maybe she's afraid she might get fired." Hinata whispered in my ear, I giggled out loud which made the attendants stare at me.

"Well then... let me take over." The older attendant said as she pushed aside the trainee and walked over to the computer which had the girls' information.

We were in first class thanks to Hinata's father. He turned into a really nice guy since the past 3 years.

"Ohhh, I can't wait to get home, when we do, I'll go head first into the hot springs!" Ino said enthusiastically as she stretched her arms in the air.

"Now that you mention it, it would be kind of nice, going into a hot spring after our long journey." Tenten said as she gave a warm smile.

Hinata had taken her seat beside the window, she looked out at the airport and said, "I don't feel like going back, we have to unpack and everything, then we have to go and buy our new school supplies."

Hinata was the most shy of us; actually she was the only shy one out of three of us. She had grown her hair until it reached halfway down her back. She had also improved her confidence alot more, but she was still shy.

"Personally, I can't wait to go back to school, it'll be like a new start since we're going to be started university..." I said as I closed my eyes. My best friends nodded there head's.

"Oh my god! That means we will be going SHOPPING!" Ino screeched.

I couldn't help but cover my sensitive ears; her screech was just a tad bit loud.

"Ino... don't you think we should rest a bit before we go shopping, it's a little early for that, I mean... look at all the luggage we have! What do you think is packed in them?!" Tenten said, she probably just didn't want to go shopping, she explained to us once that she would rather eat dirt that go shopping, which she did, but that was when we were 10.

Ino started stating a theory that without shopping, you would get really pale and start to faint.

"Like seriously Tenten, have you never heard of the lack of shopping?! How the hell do you think Neji-san got the pale skin? He hates shopping, and pretty soon, your gonna turn out looking like him if you don't start shopping like a normal girl!" She ranted on and on.

"But Neji's a g-guy..." Hinata corrected, trying to defend her cousin.

Ino stood dumbfounded. I chuckled at the look of her face, she had cookie crumbs all over. I started to get impatient.

"Damn it! Where is that plane?!" And right on queue, the call for the flight to Konoha came on.

"Well, I guess this is it. Good-bye America! We'll miss you!" Ino said dramatically, I saw Tenten role her eyes, while Hinata took hold of her bags. I sighed and took my bags.

We were guided to the plane along with a bunch of other people.

Normal POV

"Oi! Teme! Get up! Oi! Baka! Baka Baka!!!" Naruto, the spiky blonde pushed and pulled at his friend's hair, he was obviously trying to piss him off badly, he had been doing this for the past half hour.

The raven head's eyes started twitching non-stop, he was innocently laying on his bed listening to his ipod, but he couldn't take it anymore.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?!" Sasuke burst, his eyes wide-opened, his hair messed up from all the tugging Naruto gave it.

Naruto held his finger out to say something.

"Ummm... I forgot..." Naruto said plainly.

Sasuke jumped off his bed and started strangling him.

Naruto started screaming like a girl pathetically.

Neji walked into the room and just stood there as he watched the scene before him. He stood there a while just watching them punch the hell out of each other, but then he finally broke the two apart by throwing a book at them, unfortunately, it only hit Naruto in the head.

"FUCK!" Naruto yelled, he now had a bruise on his forehead, "What was that for?!" He yelled again.

Sasuke stood up and brushed himself off and sat on his bed like nothing happened.

Neji ignored Naruto's question.

"Sasuke, we have to go check out the dorms, otherwise all the good dorms will be taken." Neji said.

Sasuke nodded and walked out of the room leaving the two behind. Naruto was now rubbing the bruise on his head and Neji smirked at him.

"What?" Naruto snapped at him. This made Neji smirk again.

"I suggest you put something on that." Neji suggested as he walked out of the room leaving poor Naruto to tend to himself.

Sakura's POV

"OH MY GOD! THIS IS FRIGGIN AWESOME!" Tenten yelled, her eyes were wide opened in excitement.

We now sat in first class. We had a view of everything. The sky was beautiful, and not to mention the TV's and everything was here.

Hinata was sitting in her seat beside Tenten, and Ino was off at the counter asking for cookies.

It was now midnight, and the sky was so beautiful.

Ino came back and sat down beside me.

I started thinking to myself and realized that I was no longer a young teen or a child, I was a young lady. Pretty soon I would be starting University, but I let my dad work on that, he was deciding which one to put me in, I don't know why, he just was.

For so long it had just been me and my friends, Hinata, Tenten, and Ino. Now we would be off to a University. I wondered what other things would happen. For the past two years, we had gone to an all girl high school.

For some reason, I can't help but wonder what Naruto-kun was up to, we had been through so much together, he was like an older brother to me, and remembering him always reminded me of Hinata, she has a little crush on him, actually it's huge, but you get the point.

Just then, a person I really didn't want to remember popped into my head, Uchiha Sasuke, to me he was like a devil, all I wanted to do to him was stab him in the heart a million times non-stop just like he did to mine. I hoped he was having a horrible life. I just didn't understand how girls would be in love with an arrogant jerk like him, I mean, to me, a frog would be a better man than he would ever be. I hope I never see him. But I did receive a strength from what he did to me, I learnt how to defend myself more and not to care what others thought of me, I learnt not to fall for guys from there looks, and I learnt never to act nice to a guy if they're a jerk to you.

My thoughts were cut off as the plane shook heavily.

I looked at my friends and smiled, they were fast asleep in there own dreams and thoughts. Looking at there faces reminded me that friends are all I needed, not an idiotic bastard like Uchiha. I closed my eyes and fell asleep, only hearing the sounds of the plane.

Hey people! hope you all liked that first chappie! I know I know, it was suckish, but hey! there is more to come!

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