When Gaara Joined

The Group:

Sakura- freshman: Academically smartest kid in school, knows first aid.

Ino- freshman: Manipulator, information gatherer.

Lee- freshman: Even though a freshman, he's already captain of the wrestling team.

Neji- freshman: Best observer.

Sasuke- freshman: Knows exactly how to keep his brother at bay. Many a time, people come to him for protection against Itachi.

Naruto- freshman: Knows just about everyone in the school. Makes friends easily, takes to everyone's good side

Gaara- freshman: moved from Suna. In Suna, best known and most feared knife fighter. In Konoha, he's making his impression…

More characters if suggested

The Antigroup:

Itachi- junior: spoiled, sadistic, always gets what he wants, so far…

Deidara- junior: cowardly, only brave around Itachi.

Kisame- in college: Tall, has the most physical strength out of anyone, but is stupid.

Sasori- in college

More characters if suggested

Others:

Hinata- freshman: painfully shy

Temari- in college

Kankuro- in college

Shikamaru- in college

TemarixShikamaru

NarutoxHinata

SakuraxSasuke

More pairings if suggested

Based on this picture (I DID NOT DRAW THIS!!)

realized later that there's a description of the characters below the picture, and I'm not using that. Just the picture gave me this idea.

Itachi's persistence:

"Come on Sakura, why don't you even wanna go on one date? Why the hell are you so obsessed with my brother? You know he hates you!" Itachi yelled at the pink haired girl.

Sakura was a somewhat polite girl, but Itachi was starting to piss her off.

"I'm sorry," she said sternly, holding his gaze. She was afraid, nonetheless, she didn't want him to feel as if he had more power in this situation by lowering her head. Itachi Uchiha was someone that people were afraid of, since he always made sure he got what he want. But Sakura also had friends, and she had Sasuke.

Besides, Itachi probably wouldn't start anything at school. It was lunch, and around them were the other students of Konoha High, who could potentially be witnesses.

"Hey! Sakura!" She heard Naruto call. Thank god, she thought, knowing that behind him the whole gang would be there. "Is that bastard annoying you again?"

"Why don't you leave? You know you're not wanted here!" Ino said angrily, coming behind Naruto.

"Stay out of this, bitch," Itachi spat venomously.

"This is our business, you freak," Negi had joined them.

"Unlike you, we believe in loyalty." Sasuke added.

"Itachi! If you have a decent sense of pride in you, you should leave!" Lee showed up, his words were rock solid.

"Damn it…" Itachi knew he was outnumbered, and even if Deidara had been here to back him up, he couldn't have actually started a fight on school premises. He knew the teachers like Mr. Kakashi, Iruka, Jirayu, and even the principal, Tsunade, would probably intervene right away. For some reason, they had a sixth sense for this kinda stuff.

Itachi turned and walked away.

"Why does he always have to do that?" Negi asked.

"Screw him, anyway, you guys wanna hang out today, after school?" Naruto asked happily.

"Yeah, it's a Friday so why not?" Sakura said, answering for the whole group. Naruto needn't have asked. They always hung out after school.

"I'm guessing your going to use my truck again?" Ino asked.

"Of course, Ino!" Lee declared.

"Your all gonna pay for the gas then," Ino joked. She really didn't mind driving them around, "Where should we go this time anyway?"

"Let's go to that one place that Chouji's parents own. I think he started working there to," Sasuke said.

"That figures!" Ino laughed, "Chouji and food always went together."

Gaara signed, he had made it through the first week of Konoha relatively unnoticed. Having recently moved from Suna to Konoha, he was trying to get used to the place. Making friends was the last thing on his mind.

As he started walking, his mind went back to the commotion that had taken place at school during lunch. From this he learned that he should definitely stay away from Itachi Uchiha, and people who were associated with him. But, he wasn't afraid of him. He was from Suna, afterall, and all people from Suna knew how to fight. Suna was riddled with gangs, shootings, drug busts, you name it, they've got it.

In Suna, Gaara and his three siblings were known and feared. That kept them safe, but that security was shattered by their father, and the best option proved to be moving to another city. This city.

Inside the truck, the gang spoke about random happenings and laughed their problems away. Naruto happened to glance out his window, and saw the new kid, Gaara. No one had really taken notice, since in his school it was the teacher's option whether or not to introduce the new kids. Usually the teachers would just leave the new kids alone, let them get accustomed to the school. For this reason, no-one knew he was new. Except Naruto. Naruto always noticed things like this, since he knew just about everyone in the school, being the loud mouth, outgoing person he was.

On a whim, Naruto rolled down his window and asked Ino to slow down, beside Gaara.

From the moment the truck slowed down, Gaara was on guard. His options were to run, or continue walking. This was Konoha, and it was known to be one of the safest cities, so Gaara decided not to turn, but to stay cautious.

"Hey! Gaara!" A boy yelled from the truck, "Wanna hang out with us?" Though the gang wondered what the hell he was doing, they didn't question him. Naruto, afterall, was a good judge of character.

It was him, one of the five people who had come to Sakura's aid. Gaara dared to look at the truck, and saw it was the six people who he had seen earlier.

"Why?" Gaara asked darkly.

"I dunno, just for fun!"

"Isn't your truck already overloaded?" The truck was a five-seater, there were six people.

"Let me worry about that," Ino said, "Why don't you just come?"

In most cases Gaara would have declined and kept walking. But he had seen the scene, and he couldn't just pretend he hadn't seen that. He felt compelled to go with them…

"Sure," He got into the already crowded truck.

"We should brought Lee's car," Sakura said, squishing into Lee as Sasuke squished into her.

"… Don't tell me I have to sit on your lap," Gaara glared at Naruto.

"Uh…"

So with Sakura on Sasuke's lap, the problem was solved, and they all drove to the diner.

Itachi, who heard from Deidara, who heard from Kisame, who heard from Sasori, heard that Sakura would be at the Ijuohc diner. Gathering the three, he made his way to the diner in his Mercedes, recently bought for him by his father.