Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but if I did… well I don't and that's all that matters.

The Words The Tree's Whisper

Chapter 1: The Boy From the Woods

The trees blew in the wind as it blew past them making them sway as if they were dancing to the rhythmic sounds of the storm that was taking place. The strike of lightning lit up the gray cloudy sky and shortly after the sound of thunder could be heard as though a giant drum was being struck in the sky above. A young girl stared out the window of her two-story house. The girl was around the age of sixteen her hair was pink and short as it only came to the length of her shoulders. She had the most dazzling pair of green eyes that you have ever seen, but even though they were quiet dazzling they harbored the emotion of loneliness. Yes, she had parents but her mom would spend countless nights at clubs and her father being the big business man that he was spent many of nights at his office. Her mom usually came stumbling in at 4:00 in the morning with the smell of alcohol on her breath wasted from the night drinking it up with her friends. The next day her mother would spend sleeping off her hangover and her dad would usually call to check up on how everything was going the girl, who goes by the name of Sakura Haruno, would lie and say that it was going great. Sakura would always hide in her room crying her eyes out thinking maybe tomorrow her dad will come home and they could start being a family and her mom would stop going out to her late night parties with her friends. By now the rain had stopped and the girl got up from the place on her bed and slipped on a pair of shoes as she walked out of the door to her house. She didn't bother saying goodbye to anyone because she knew no one would here her. As she stepped outside the smell of rainfall filled her nose she liked the smell. She looked empty as she walked down the driveway of her house.

She took a right as soon as she left her driveway and began walking down the street with her eyes closed. She didn't need to look where she was going because she walked this route whenever she felt lonely and that was a lot. She knew the path by heart from every turn to every pothole she had to watch out for otherwise she might trip. But for some reason this time she stopped at a fork in the road. She looked down the right road, the one she usually took, it led to town. Then she looked at the left a forest was there, trees everywhere the eye could see no one ever went down that way as if it was forbidden through an unspoken law. But something that day pulled Sakura towards the forest so she strayed off of her usual path to take a left instead of a right. The forest was beautiful. The way the sun hit the trees that were covered with the fresh rain that fell only an hour ago. As she walked down the now dirt path and she came to a river where there was a footbridge leading to the other side. But something she saw caught her attention it was a sign she walked up to read it but it was so old the words and pictures on it were to messed up to read. So without another thought in her mind she walked across the footbridge and proceeded deeper into the forest, blindly, not knowing where she was going. After a short time of walking and sight seeing she had the strangest feeling she was being watched. A quick look around the forest confirmed her suspicions as her lonely green eyes met onyx black ones. There in a tree stood a boy and from the looks of it he was around the same age as her. He had jet-black hair and black eyes looking as though they could read any emotion yet they were emotionless. He wore a dark blue shirt with a lose fitting that were a sort off white with stains of mud. Sakura studied the boy for a minute and with out noticing she smiled for the first time in years her eyes showed something else then loneliness, they showed hope. She waved to the boy but the boy just looked at her, he ignored her.

Sakura gave up her attempts to talk to the boy and began to walk again as the boy left her sights she sighed and her eyes again showed the loneliness that had only left for a moment. She walked for another quarter of a mile and again Sakura felt as if she was being watched. She looked around again only to find the same boy as before looking at her this time he wasn't on a branch he was peering out from behind a tree only a few yards from where Sakura stood. Again a small smile formed on Sakura's face.

"If you are just going to follow me why don't you come out here I am kind of lonely and could really use your company," Sakura said. She didn't know why but she seemed comfortable in the presence of this boy.

"Hn," was all the boy had said as he disappeared into the woods.

Sakura looked disappointed but she turned around and marched back the way she came. She smiled as she saw the boy follow her all the way back until the woods ended. She rounded the corner to her house and she smiled as she entered her room after all she found a new path to walk.

Authors Note: So here is the first chapter of my story The Words the Trees Whisper. I hope you like it. Although I wasn't planning on putting in any other people from Naruto I might so tell me in a review of what you think. It will take me awhile to update I thought up this story while I was at work, I work at McDonalds so I grabbed a crayon and a few napkins and scribbled this down when there were no customers.