Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do not own the Anime/Manga Naruto or the characters in any way, shape, or form. If I did you would see InoSaku ALL the time in the Anime and Manga, as well as the death of Sasuke. . Don't hurt me Sasuke fan girls! Back, BACK I SAY!! Flees
A/N: This is my first fic ever published. While this is just the beginning I hope you all stick with me here! Some of the scenes are based off of the Anime, but most are created. The first few chapters are all for plot development, kies?
Warning: Beginning may seem tame but later chapters will involve Harsh Language, Sexual Content (Yuri, Girl on Girl), and Angst. If you do not agree, then do not read past Chap 1!! You have been warned.
A young girl sat on a stone road in the Konoha park, her pink colored hair bobbing up and down as she sobbed once again. Nearby another, slightly older girl walked by to meet with her friends. Hearing the cries, the young blond looked around the area and sighted the pink haired mess. 'Isn't that the girl who gets teased a lot?' She began walking towards the girl thinking she recognized her from somewhere.
The blond bent down in front of the crying girl, who now cried even louder, thinking someone else had come to pick on her and her giant forehead.
"Hey, aren't you the one their always teasing because you got such a big forehead?" She asked nicely, wondering if it was indeed that girl.
The pink head looked upwards, and the blonde was stunned by the others piercing emerald eyes. "Who- Who are you?" She asked in a sweet, but scared tone, still sobbing softly.
"Who me? That's easy, my names Ino, Yamanaka Ino." The blonde said gently, "Who are you?" Asked Ino, wondering what the pink haired girls name was now.
"My names.." She sniffled a little before continuing. "Sakura," she said quietly, shyness creeping on her voice.
"Huh? Hello! I can't hear you," Ino spoke to the still sniffling Sakura. "Lets try that again ok? Who are you?" Ino asked once again, trying to get the shyer girl to speak up.
"My name is Sakura!" The pink headed girl yelled at Ino, closing her eyes in the process.
Lifting her hand, Ino moved it towards Sakura's pink bangs which covered her forehead. "That's better. So this is the famous forehead, huh?" Ino pushed on her hand moving little Sakura's head backward and making the girl look up, as Ino leaned forward and looked at the girl better, she smiled serenely.
"Whoa, it is kind of big. So is that why you hide it behind your bangs?" Moving her hand around Sakura's hair, then moving the pink tussles out of the girls face. "That's dumb, it just makes it worse. Makes you look like some kind of dog." Ino said, trying to say it as nicely as possible.
Sakura began to pout again at Ino's words, remembering all of the taunts the kids spewed at her. Ino just looked at the girl, feeling sorry for the pour thing.
"So your Sakura, huh?" Ino smiled sweetly at Sakura again, knowing she had almost made the girl cry again.
"Uh-huh." Sakura mumbled out, and Ino stepped away. As she did, Sakura's face gradually rose to look at the retreating figure.
Ino Yamanaka turned around and started to walk away from the girl whom she just met for the first time. "Hey you know what? I've got something special for you, come back here tomorrow, ok?" Ino kept walking as Sakura looked at her, turning a tree and leaving the pink haired girls line of sight, Ino smiled to herself, knowing that she had just probably made a new friend.
"Huh?" Sakura watched the blonde leave her, and walk through the trees. Some of Ino's words repeated in Sakura's head. 'Who me? That's easy, my names Ino, Yamanaka Ino.' Sakura smiled to herself and stood upwards, wiping the dust off her outfit before walking down the road in the other direction. 'Ino… She's really nice.'
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Sakura smiled to herself as she skipped down the road, happy thoughts running through her mind. "Someone was nice to me!" She spoke to herself, ignoring the looks from people nearby, who only usually saw her as a sad, depressed little girl.
"Hey! Billboard brow! What are you so happy about?" A group of boys walked out of the candy store that Sakura just went by. She looked at them, but kept the smile on her face. Trying to ignore their taunts, but not doing such a good job of it.
"Hey say something forehead!" One of the boys sneered at her, Sakura only looked away from them, as a bigger boy stepped forward, obviously the leader of their group.
"What's wrong with you forehead? Won't talk? Huh, I bet there's nothing in that head of yours and that's why you wont talk!" The boy said mockingly, looking down on Sakura.
"W- Why do you always pick on me…" Sakura began, as she sniffled a little, looking downwards to the ground, seeing her tears pool on the street.
The boys just looked at her, amazed that she actually spoke back to them. "Because its so easy wide forehead! Forehead, forehead, forehead!" They all yelled out in unison at the young girl. They laughed at her misery, as tears swelled up in the girls emerald eyes.
"Wahhhh!" Sakura began to cry loudly again as the big boy pushed her down on the dirty street. Sakura's hands shot up to her eyes and began rubbing them as they puffed up slightly.
"Hah, what a crybaby." The boy who pushed her spoke to his friends, talking about how easy it was to make the younger girl cry loudly. "Its so easy. Humph! C'ya round forehead." The boys put their lollipops in their mouths and began to walk away, leaving Sakura on the ground crying again.
Sakura kept crying, as her mind raced. 'Why won't someone help me!'
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--At the same time--
Ino walked through the park, thinking of the girl she had just met. "Sakura, huh? Such a pretty name. I wonder, does she have any friends?" Ino had walked aimlessly through the park, forgetting her friends for the most part, whom she had specifically gone to meet before meeting Sakura. "Why did I come here again?" She questioned her self as she kept walking, enjoying the warm summer breeze and the suns rays, bathing her skin.
"Hey! Ino! Over here!" Voices called for Ino's attention, but seemingly didn't make its way to her just quite yet. Ino stopped and looked upwards, seeing the clouds pass by over head the young girl sighed. "Ino! Hey Ino! What are you doing?!" The voices yelled a second time, this time getting the blonde's attention.
"Huh?" Ino looked around, noticing her name being called for the first time. Ino then realized whom it was exactly who had called her. It was the friends who she went to play with in the first place!
"Ino, hurry up or you'll be left out!" They yelled at her and the blond ran to catch up to the four.
"Gomen," apologizing quickly, "I met this girl on the way here, and I guess I kind of got sidetracked, Heheh." Her face scrunched up as her hand scratched at her head.
"That's ok Ino, who was she?" One of the two girls had asked, wondering if she knew who Ino had been talking about.
"Oh, her names Sakura, do you know her?" Ino had asked, wondering if her friends knew anything of the girl. "No I don't, sorry Ino." Her friend replied, Ino looked saddened a little, but didn't let it bug her much. "So, what are we going to play today?" She asked, now curious to what their game was going to be.
"Well, we were going to play either House, or Hide n' Seek," One of the girls spoke, Ino looked around noticing the daylight would not permit an extended game of House.
"Lets play Hide n' Seek, then. It looks like it'll be dark soon so it makes the game funnier!" Ino talked to the kids happily, some lingering thoughts still on Sakura. Ino stood in a circle with the four other kids, as they tried to decide on who would be 'it'.
"I think Ino should be it," One of the boys had said quickly into the conversation. "Wha- Why me?!" Ino sounded surprised and somewhat excited at the same time. "Because, you were the last one here!" The boy spoke again, everyone nodded in agreement, Ino's mouth hung wide open in amazement.
"No fair!" She had said loudly, trying to make her point across. "Sorry Ino, but you did make us wait." The blond just grumbled to her self and spoke out flatly. "Fine."
The other kids scattered around the area as Ino stood next to a swing set that would be the 'home base' and began to count. "Itchi, Ni, San, Shi, Go, Roku…" Ino peeked through her hands and looked around a little as she kept counting, "Juu Roku, Juu Shichi, Juu Hachi, Juu Kyuu, NiJu.(1) Ready or not here I come!" Ino's hands shot from her eyes as she began to search for her hidden friends.
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--Two Hours Later--
Sakura still sat on the ground, in front of the candy shop that those boys were in. Her eyes were red from crying to much and it almost hurt to blink. "Why, why does this always happen…" She spoke to herself and slowly stood up. A cold wind blew through Konoha as nighttime began to near. "I… Should go home." Sakura spoke emotionlessly.
Slowly she stood, dust scattering off her clothing as the wind blew by. Tears still streamed down her cheeks as Sakura walked down the street, head hung downwards, her eyes on her feet.
Finally, Sakura reaches her houses front door, but stands outside, wiping tears from her green eyes, not wanting to be pitied by her parents, who don't know much about Sakura's torture.
After what seemed ten minutes Sakura finally reached out for the door knob and slowly opened the door, watching it creak open the girl winced. Once the door was open however Sakura quickly scurried inside, and ran up the stairs to her bedroom.
"Sakura! Is that you?" Her mother called out as she hear someone run up the stairs. The older woman's head poked out of the kitchen as she saw her pink haired daughter turn the corner. Sakura's mother smiled to her self and went back to fixing the dinner she was in the middle of.
Sakura turned the corner, as she heard her mother call out, but she didn't want to bother answering her. The only thing on her mind was getting to her room and burying herself inside her blankets, cuddling with her plush bunny. The second she was in her bedroom, Sakura slammed the door shut, causing a loud bang to go through the household. She slowly walked to the beauty stand in the corner of her room, next to the window and grabbed her bunny doll from the hard wood surface.
Looking in the mirror, Sakura thought to herself, of the wonderful blond girl she had met earlier that very day. The one person to treat her as something more then a freak as other kids called her. Walking to her bed, Sakura squeezed her bunny, Usa-chan against her self, crying gently into its head.
"Usa-chan! I met the most wonderful person today. She was kind to me, and she was beautiful as well!" Sakura cried slightly still, but cried tears of joy.
The young girl lay on her bed, her Usa-chan still pulled to her self, thoughts of Ino running wild through her mind. "I should go tomorrow right Usa-chan?" She asked the doll, wondering if she should go to meet with Ino the next day.
Suddenly, Sakura's thoughts were blown out of her mind as her mother called up to her. "Sakura, dinners ready! Hurry down before it gets cold and your father eats it!"
"Hai!" Sakura yelled down, jumping off the bed and rushing downstairs, tears no longer on her face, only thoughts of the blond occupied her as she entered the kitchen.
After she had finished her meal, she gave thanks to her mother and rushed back to her room. Quickly changing into pajamas, Sakura jumped into the bed and turned out the light, trying to make the next day come as soon as possible.
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--One Hour Earlier, in the Park--
Ino searched all over for her hidden friends. Finally finding, and tagging the last one who was hidden up one of the trees that overlooked the small area she had met Sakura earlier. The kids all gathers by the tree, laughing together, the day had gone by faster then they thought, and only really, got one game of Hide n' Seek in before it grew to dark.
"Hey, Ino, lets call it a day. Its starting to get dark and my mom told me to be home before the street lights came on." One of the girls spoke, before another spoke up, saying almost the exact same words. Ino just nodded to them , agreeing that it was time to go.
"Ok, I guess we'll head on home then." The boys said, as they ran down the brick road, followed after by the girls, leaving Ino standing by her self in the same spot as earlier.
'I wonder if she'll show up tomorrow? I sure hope she does.' Ino thought to herself as she stared at the road, before walking off, in the direction of her own home.
Upon nearing the flower shop her family owned, which also doubled as their house, Ino's thoughts went back more and more to the pink haired girl. Ino opened the door to the flower shop and walked inside. The smell of flowers assaulting her nostrils heavily, but she enjoyed the fragrance. She made he way upstairs, and into the kitchen to where a plate of food waited her.
It was cold of coarse, so she opened the microwave and quickly reheated the food. After scarffing the food down her throat, the blond skipped to her room. After entering her thoughts ran wild, 'What was she going to give to Sakura tomorrow when they met?'
Ino looked around the room, her eyes resting on a long scarlet ribbon. "This would go perfect with her hair color!" She squealed to herself giddily. Quickly grabbing it Ino placed it on the night stand which rest next to her bed.
Yawning slightly, Ino shuck her head, as drowsiness overcame her. She sat on the bed, and her thoughts returned once again to Sakura. Why was she so interested in the young girl? Why did her face keep popping up in her mind? Oh well, Ino smiled to herself and went over to her dresser, and grabbed one of the pajamas from the drawers, she quickly changed and crawled into bed.
"Sakura… You better be there…" Ino mumbled to herself as she lost consciousness, and drifted off to sleep land.
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(1) "Itchi, Ni, San, Shi, Go, Roku…" "Juu Roku, Juu Shichi, Juu Hachi, Juu Kyuu, NiJu' Translate: "One,Two, Three, Four, Five, Six" "sixteen, Seventeen, Eightteen, Ninteen, Twenty"
A/N: How'd you all like it? Question Comments? REVEIWS?! D? Haha, I hope you all liked it, and remember, this is just the beginning!! -Illidan182