"Sasuke-kun!" a 12-year-old girl shouted while running to the said to be "genius" of the Konoha Ninja Academy, Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke paused his training to see which fan girl had called him now. More to his surprise, it was the shy, pink haired, Haruno Sakura. When the girl reached him, panting, she began to speak.
"Sasuke-kun, I just wanted to tell you something if I could."
"Hn" was the only thing heard from him.
"Sasuke-kun...I-I..."
"Spit it out already!" he shouted in an annoyed tone. She flinched, but began to speak once again.
"I-I...I love you Sasuke-kun. I always have," she had said. He was about to reply but she cut him off before a sound could be made. "And not the way those other girls do either. I've always admired your intelligence and strength as a ninja," she smiled, hoping that her words had done something to that cold ice making a barrier around his beating heart.
"Sakura, that was a very apealing speach there." She smiled at him, thinking that she had succeded her goal, but she was let down as he said his next words,
"But I think you've spent too much time reading those books and not training, making you weak. That speach was nothing to me."
Sakura was practically in tears now.
"And no, I'm not sorry for being mean. But I am sorry for your lack in strength," he chuckled and walked away to train more.
She was crying. But not from being upset. From him being right. She was sick of being told she was weak, so she turned around, and ran.
Sasuke had caught a glimpse of her running away from the corner of his eye, thinking that she thought that he was right. Which he was, but she wasn't running because he had implied that she couldn't get strong. She was running because she had thought that he meant that she needed to get her butt in gear and train already.
Too bad that was the last time he saw her. She didn't show up at the academy the next day. He just laughed. "So, she was too weak to come back."
Weeks passed. No sign of Sakura. Everybody was worried, and now looking for a missing Sakura. She was not at home. A few of her belongings were missing as well. Her parents have no clue as to where she could have gone. They were out on missions when she had been discovered missing.
Another week passed. Still no Sakura. By now, the whole village knew of the Haruno's dissapearance. But at the Ninja Academy, they couldn't just wait for her to pop out of no where. They had to get on with the assigned teams and let them graduate. Doing this, Team 7 was left with only 2 genin. Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke, with their sensei Hatake Kakashi.