Chapter 1
Skater Girl
The skate board glided across the pavement, heads turned, gasps were heard, and eyes grew wide. The people of Konoha High wasn't prepared for the new student, arriving from America.
Half an hour earlier!
Sakura hurried to put on her faded ripped jeans and her favorite red t-shirt that said 'Keep staring. . . . .I might do a trick.' She grabbed her red sweatshirt, her pink hair stuck out underneath her baseball hat, and grabbed her favorite pair of goggles, and slid them over her hat, that was backwards, her bangs sticking out. She grabbed her skateboard as she rushed out the door a piece of toast sticking out her mouth.
A young man, with a white shirt, that clung to his muscular arms and body, and raven black hair that came up in spikes in the back, walked down his street, when a blur of red and pink skated down the hill, past him to the school. "What the-?" he asked dumbfounded.
"Sorry!" Sakura yelled to the boy.
At the school.
"Hey Teme!" a blonde boy yelled out.
The blonde boy ran up to the raven headed boy, followed by three other boys.
"Hn." he said. "Come on, Sasuke. You can do better than that." one of them said.
"Shut up, Kiba." Sasuke said.
"Watch out!" a voice yelled. Sasuke looked to who the voice belonged to, it was the same blur from before, he moved, when the blur moved past him, "Thanks." it yelled, Sasuke noticed, pink hair and a red baseball hat. It was smiling, with red rimmed goggles over its eyes.
"That must be the new kid." Neji said.
"Hn."
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"Please introduce yourself, Haruno-chan."
"Yes, sensei." Sakura said. "My name is Sakura Haruno, I moved from America, but I was born in Japan, that's why my name is Japanese, I love to skate, I read a lot, and my favorite types of music, is hip hop, rap, and sometimes rock." Sakura looked at her sensei, who nodded his head.
"Miss Haruno, you will sit next to Sasuke-kun, in the back."
Sakura walked to where Kakashi pointed. She silently sat down in her seat, eyeing Sasuke, she rolled her eyes and looked at the board, that said 'Naruto Uzumaki was here!' that was all scribbles. Sakura sighed, it was just another school, with another bad ending.
"Hi! I'm-" the blonde boy started.
"Don't tell me, your name is Naruto Uzumaki, right?"
He looked shocked. "How did you know?"
"Your hand writing is the same as on the board." Sakura stated.
"Oh," Naruto blushed.
Sakura giggled.
"Okay class, toady is a free period, I want to finish my book." Kakashi told his cheering class, turning the page.
"Hey, were you riding a skateboard earlier?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, hey, thanks for moving out of the way, before." she told Sasuke.
"Hn."
"O-k," she held the o, "does he always act like that?"
"No, sometimes he's even grumpier." a boy said, Sakura looked at him, he had white eyes without pupils, and black long hair tied in a low ponytail.
"Hello," Sakura said.
"I'm Neji." he said. "This is Kiba and Shikamaru." he said gesturing to the boys at the desk next to sakura. Kiba waved, and Shikamaru could be heard snoring.
Sakura giggled. "Hi, Kiba-kun, is Shikamaru asleep?" she asked.
"Let's see," Naruto said, he pinched Shikamaru's nose. He stopped breathing momentarily, and he woke up, his face a slight purple. "What the hell?" he fumed.
Naruto laughed. Sasuke and Neji rolled their eyes. Sakura got up, and walked to the front of the room, and talked to Kakashi. He looked up, and said something. Sakura shook her head, she walked out of the room silently. Only Sasuke saw this.
A few minutes later, Sakura walked in the room, and silently walked to her seat. Naruto looked up at her, "Where were you?" he asked.
"I went to the nurses office, Mr. Nosy." Sakura said.
"Why?"
"Because, it's none of your business where I go and what I do." Sakura said. "Now drop it."
"Fine, hey, do you want to come with us to the movies, later?"
"Sorry, I have plans for, later." Sakura smiled.
Naruto gave up, and Sasuke smirked. The bell rang, and everyone hurried to gym class. Sakura noticed a girl who looked like Neji and talked to her.
"Hi, um, are Hinata Hyuuga?" Sakura asked.
"Oh, um, y-yeah. Do y-you need h-help g-getting to your next c-class?" she stuttered.
Sakura looked into her pupil-less white eyes, and said, "Yeah, could you help me?"
Hinata smiled, "Sure. C-come on."
"Thank-you Hinata-chan." Sakura smiled.
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In gym class, Gai had assigned partners to everyone, and Sakura would be in with a group of three. "Okay!" Gai sensei yelled out. "Time to assign partners, miss Haruno, you will be in a group of three. Group one, Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki. Group two, Ino Yamanaka and Hinata Hyuuga. Group three, Shikamaru Nara and Temari. Group four, Kankuro and Gaara. Group five, Rock Lee and Choji Akimichi. Group six, Tenten and Shino Aburame. Group seven, Neji Hyuuga and Sakura Haruno, oh, that turned out even! Group seven, join group one, and help Haruno-chan."
Everyone had gotten into their groups, a bunch of Sasuke's fan girls glared at the tomboy, who scowled at the floor.
"Hey, Sakura-chan." Naruto exclaimed.
Sakura, looked up and did a small wave, she noticed Neji was already with them, she noticed Sasuke looking at her, she stuck out her tongue. "Hey, what are we supposed to do?" Sakura asked.
"We're supposed to shoot hoops, first one to ten wins." Neji explained.
"This should be a breeze." Sakura said, coolly, Sasuke noticed her height, she was almost Naruto's height, a few inches shorter, though. She started to dribble the ball, and she ran up the court and jumped like a gazelle, she almost flew to the hoop, slam dunking the ball through the basketball hoop. "Sakura one, you guys zero." she tallied.
"You won't last." Naruto said.
"Is that a threat or a challenge?" Sakura said, grabbing the ball.
"Challenge!" Naruto yelled, so loud that the entire gym heard him.
Sasuke hit him upside the head, "Shut up, dope."
"OW!" Naruto rubbed at his head, Sakura giggled.
It was on now, Sasuke stole the ball from Sakura, who made a slam dunk. Sakura grabbed the ball, but Neji stole it from her who made a shot from half court, Naruto grabbed the ball then, but tripped on his shoelace, who threw the ball to Sakura, who caught and made a shot from the back of the court, the guys dropped their mouths, Sasuke recovered first and grabbed the ball, he shot it from half court, Naruto gave up and helped Sakura win, when she said she would tell him the reason for disappearing earlier. Sasuke and Neji formed a team against Sakura and Naruto.
8-9. Sakura and Naruto had the 8, Sakura closed her eyes and shot the ball into the basket, she smiled as she heard the swish of the net, she opened her eyes, the ball was bouncing toward Naruto who grabbed it and threw it to Sakura, she grabbed and ran to make a slam dunk, Neji tried to tackle her, she dodged, and when Sasuke tried to tackled her, he managed to bring her down, they landed face to face on top of each other, Sakura was on bottom, she was blushing like crazy, she had never been this close to anyone, let alone a boy, a really cute boy. Sasuke looked down to see a blushing Sakura, he heard gasps, Naruto was hovering over them in seconds, he held up one hand to his mouth and whispered to Sasuke, "Is that how you express your feelings, Teme?"
Sasuke quickly got up, and helped a still red Sakura. "T-thank y-you." she stammered. She was breathing heavily, and she ran away inside the girls' locker room.
'Oh my god! I've never felt this way before, to anyone, let alone someone like Sasuke.' she thought.
'You go girl!'
'What do you mean?'
'He's hot! That was clearly a sign, go for it!'
'No, we're just friends, I think.' Sakura was still slightly red when she walked out of the locker room, she looked over at her group, she sighed, and walked over.
"Are you okay?" Neji asked.
Sakura smiled and nodded her head. "Yeah, it's happened before, so don't worry about it.
Naruto noticed a cut, "Sakura-chan, you have a cut on your knee."
Sakura examined her knee, and took out a band-aid. She carefully placed it on her knee. "Like I told you, no need to worry. Stuff like that happens all the time, I get cuts and bruises, no big deal. Sakura laughed.
"If you say so." Naruto said.
When gym was over, Hinata walked over to the silent Sakura, with two blondes, one with a ponytail, the other with four spiky pigtails. And a brunette with buns. "Hello, Sakura-chan. This is Ino, Tenten, and Temari." she gestured to each one of them.
"Hinata, you don't have to call me 'Sakura-chan', just Sakura."
"Sorry, Sakura," Hinata blushed.
"I saw that thing with Sasuke-kun," Tenten said. "You must have liked it, right?"
Sakura blushed ever so slightly, "No. I didn't. I have lunch next, can I sit with you guys?"
"Sure, we'll be sitting by the window, outside, okay?" Ino said.
Sakura nodded, "Okay."
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Sakura walked outside with her lunch bag, she noticed Naruto almost instantly, he yelled over to her. "Hey, Sakura-chan! Over here!"
Ino turned around, and motioned for her to come over at another table.
Sakura looked back and Naruto, and mouthed 'Sorry, ' she walked over to the girls, and Naruto looked upset. "Look what you did Teme, now Sakura-chan is avoiding us."
"Maybe she's just avoiding you," Kiba laughed.
Sasuke looked to where Sakura sat, he couldn't see her face, only her red baseball hat turned backwards. He sighed, and he left without a word.
"See you in class, Teme." Naruto told his friend.
"Hn."
I'm done, I can hear the hallelujah chorus now, singing 'we are family.' Please review, I want to see what you guys think, and feel free to give me some ideas.
