-1Yay! I finally got my first story up! Hope you like it! You'll see couple of familiar characters in this chapter.

"..text" -- Normal talking

'..text..' -- Thoughts

'..text..' -- Inner Sakura

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The moon was towering over a large mansion that was in the middle of many more. It had a large yard and a fence surrounding it. The neighborhood always looked so peaceful.

" Bye guys! See you later!" A girl with long pink hair called to her friends, who were waving back while they drove away.

"See ya Sakura!" They yelled back, even though they were almost out of sight by now. Sakura smiled as the black car drove out of sight.

'I should get out more often…' She looked up at the large mansion that she lived in. The smile slowly faded away as a look of anxiousness replaced it as she closed her eyes. 'If only…' Sakura reopened her beautiful mint-green eyes, sighed and walked into her home. She quietly shut the door behind her so he

wouldn't hear she was back. She walked up the stairs as quiet as possible, turned down the hall that lead to her room, and shut the door behind her.

" Oh no!" Sakura said to herself, " I forgot my book bag down in the kitchen when I got home from school!". She slapped her forehead and with a slightly irritated moan, went back out of her room and made her way to the kitchen.

'Aha! Gotcha!' She picked up the bag. a victorious smile on her face now.

" Where were you? " A mans voice rang out from behind her. It didn't seem very happy either.

" Hehe, just went out with a couple friends to see a movie and go out to eat." Sakura replied, looking innocently at her father.

Sakura flinched as he raised his hand to strike," Lets make sure that doesn't happen aga--"

" Your bed is ready Miss Haru--Oh! I-I'm so sorry am I interrupting something? " A terrified maid had walked in. " I'll be leaving now!" She bowed and left the room in a hurry.

Sakura's father looked down at her. " Bed. Now." Sakura didn't need to be told twice as she ran out of her kitchen to her room. She shut the door behind her and slid her back down it falling to the floor next to her forgotten book bag. 'That was close…if she hadn't walked in when she did I would have been beat…again…' She put her head on top of her knees and sat there.

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"SAKURA!" Sakura shifted in her bed to see over her pink blanket so she could see who was yelling at her. When she opened her eyes she found excited green eyes similar to her own staring at her. Too close for comfort. Sakura blinked a couple times as her brain slowly processed who the face above hers belonged to.

"MOM!! WHEN DID YOU GET HOME!?" Sakura jump/tackled the brunette as the floor came into the picture to catch their fall.

"Jeeze Sakura! Its good to see you too but I cant breath!" Said Sakura's mom as she hugged her daughter back.

"I haven't seen you in so long so what do you expect!? Mercy?" Sakura joked, as she let go of her mother.

" Hehe not when I come home to see you!" Sakura's mom replied, as she laughed and straightened out her business suit. " How about you get dressed and you and I go out to eat breakfast?" Sakura's green eyes lit up at the question.

"Ok!" Sakura replied.

"Great…oh and take a shower too because you smell pretty bad." Sakura's mom said, while plugging her nose to make Sakura mad.

"Hey! Watch it!" Sakura said, as she watched her mom get up off the floor and walk across the large room to the door.

" Be ready to go in thirty minutes." And with that she smiled and walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her. Sakura got off the floor, still smiling. Her mom was home! Sakura hardly ever got to see her mom because she was always gone on business trips. She had actually just came home from London today, after being gone for a month. She always missed Risa Haruno. Her mom. Sakura looked a little oppressed for a moment as she thought about mostly living with her dad. He beat her. She would never tell anyone. Ever. She knew it would only make things worse by doing so. He was dangerous and she knew it…who knows what he would do if he found out she had told someone. ' Well I'm not about to find out.'

Sakura snapped out of her thoughts. She walked over to her bathroom and took a quick shower. When she got out she picked out the outfit she would wear today, which was a tan shirt with a brown mini-skirt with a black belt, and brown tan and pink striped leggings with brown designer clogs, and pulled her hair back with matching pink clips to keep her long hair out of her face. She then grabbed her pink purse and walked out the door to look for her mom. Sakura was walking to the kitchen when she heard someone walk in behind her.

" You had better watch it." Sakura turned around to find the owner of the voice. Her father.

" Watch what?" Sakura replied coldly. She could see his face turning into an unpleasant scowl. He reached out his arm and before Sakura could move or defend herself she was struck down. She painfully hit the cold, hard stone tile of the kitchen floor as she gasped out in pain. She put a hand over the painful throbbing in her cheek as the pain moved to her whole head causing a nasty headache. Her father walked out of the room and Sakura pulled herself together and got off the floor. Her hand still on the now bruising cheek she looked at the clock.

"Mom will probably be waiting in the car now…" Sakura quietly said to herself. She left the kitchen to go outside to where her mom's car was.

" What too you so long? " Sakura's mom asked, watching as Sakura slid into the seat of the hummer and fastened her seatbelt.

" I forgot my purse in my room and had to go get it." Sakura replied.

" Oh I see. Still as forgetful as always I see! Hey! What happened to your cheek!? " Risa grabbed her daughters jaw to examine the bruise.

" I--uh--I fell in the shower and hit my head on the side of the shampoo rack!" Sakura answered, hastily. Her mom looked at her for a couple seconds.

"I see your still as clumsy as ever as well." She said with a small smile. Sakura made a pouty face and put her hands up to her chest.

" I was never THAT clumsy!" And with a small, "Hmpf!", turned her head to face the direction opposite of her mom.

" What ever! Deny it all ya want….So where do you want to eat at? " Risa asked, driving the shiny red Hummer H2 out of the drive way and down the road, passing many other fabulous mansions.

" Meh…I don't care…Denny's?" Sakura answered.

"Eh sure why not." Risa replied as she swerved by slower cars. Sakura's mom always drives crazy. But you get used to it after so long.

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" Yeah well I don't think I'll be able to eat anything for the rest of the week!" Sakura said lazily as she turned up the radio. They were on their way home now.

" Sakura I want to do something! I mean I'm hardly ever home….I don't want to go back…well…home yet. If you get what I mean." Sakura's mom said as she watched the road, swerving left lane to right lane and back to the left lane again.

" Hell mom…all you had to say was you wanted to go shopping." Sakura said with a big smile on her face.

" YOSH!!!" Sakura's mom screamed, doing a U turn to get to turn around to head to the mall, causing people to swerve off the road and into each other to try to avoid hitting the large red hummer. Sakura stuck her head out the window yelling back at the poor bystanders that got in the way of her mother from getting to the nearest mall.

"SORRY!!!" Sakura yelled out, " Mom! What have I told you about driving like a maniac more so than usual!?"

"Sorry, sorry….There it is!" Said Risa, staring excitedly at the large mall…instead of the road. " Oh!!! I think its gotten bigger since last time I seen it! Hell yeah!" She pulled the car into the closest parking space to the door they could find and walked in. It was definitely Sakura favorite mall, and she has seen malls from around the world. She looked to her right to see a store with an outfit that was blue that caught her eye right away.

" OH Mom! Lets go into this store!" Sakura squealed, as her mom looked over and they both ran into the store.

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Sakura and her mom had a blast. They hadn't spent so much time together in half a year! It was now past 5:00 pm and they had ate breakfast at about 10:00 am. And after carrying bunch of heavy bags full of clothes you can get pretty hungry,

" Oh…My…God…I don't think I've ever been this hungry before!" Sakura complained, as her and her mom carried their heavy bags.

" I thought you said you weren't gonna be hungry for the rest of the week or whatever you said…Well lets go to the food court because I'm starving too…" Risa said, dragging her heavy bags of clothes and accessories.

"Wait Mom…Lets call someone to take these bags, because my arms are gonna fall off!" Sakura suggested.

"Fine, fine….wimp…."

"Hey watch it or I'll tell Aunt Suzu when you were nine you broke Grandma's teacup and famed her!" Sakura threatened, with a sly smile.

"…."

"I got you good. Admit it."

" …You can be so mean Sakura! I sure as hell didn't raise you like that…" Risa said raising an eyebrow. She got out her phone and dialed a number. " Yes we're at the mall again…Yeah…Lots of bags this time…in front of Bath and Body Works…OK thanks, bye." She turned back to Sakura. Umi is almost here to take our bags to the car." Umi was a maid and one of Sakura's good friends. Umi is 18 and Sakura is 16 and they've been friends for two years since Umi started working as a maid at Sakura's home. Risa and Sakura waited about 5 minutes when…

" I'm here! You two can go on now I got the bags!" Sid Umi, smiling. She has short curly purple hair and purple eyes with a darker skin tone.

" OK ya sure Umi? " Asked Sakura.

" Of course!" She replied.

So Sakura and her mom went to the food court, once again alone. Risa and Sakura agreed on Burger King and ordered two hamburgers with two medium fries and waters. Afterward they sat down at a small two person table and began to eat.

" Hmm…?" Risa looked up with a sly look on her face, " Yo Sakura look at those boys! They're all pretty cute, ne?" She pointed to a small group of teens who were sitting on the other side of the food court at their own respective table. There was five of them. One was a blond and had vibrant blue eyes with three slashes on each cheek. Another had bright red hair and dark rigs around his aqua eyes. The next had spiky black hair with dark onyx eyes. On the right of him there was a boy who looked half asleep with dark hair pulled up in a spiky ponytail, and the last had long coffee brown hair with beautiful cream colored eyes.

Sakura nearly choked on her fries. "W-what!? Mom! Your way too old to be looking a teenage boys!"

"Hmpf! I'll have you know I'm plenty young! …Hmm…" Risa took a round container of lip gloss out of her purse., a sly smile playing the features of her face. Sakura knows that look all too well…

"Mom What are you do--" Risa dropped the lip gloss, both her and Sakura watching it roll straight towards the boys table and past until it hit the opposite wall.

"Sakura dear will you please go get my lipstick for me…?" Risa said, batting her eyelashes.

"Why should I!?"

"Because I took that out of your purse."

" UGH!!! MOM!" Sakura growled and got out of her chair and walked toward the lip gloss, her mom watching her. She was walking by the table the boys were sitting at when--

CRASH

"WATCH WHERE THE FUCK YOUR GOING!!"

"YOU ASSHOLE WATCH OUT!" Sakura was sitting on the ground with French fries all over her and the ground. The boy with dark onyx eyes and spiky hair had turned around to throw his food away right when She was walking by and they ran into each other, though only Sakura fell.

" What did you say?!"

" You heard me chicken head, WATCH OUT."

"Would you both just shut up!? You too Sasuke." Sakura looked over to where the voice came from. It was the redhead.

" Excuse me!?" Sakura was standing now with her fists clenched.

" What did you say Gaara!?" Sasuke rounded on the red head.

"FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!" The blond was yelling in the background.

" Oh God we don't need another fight. You, " The boy with creamy eyes said to Sakura, " Go the hell away already."

SNORT

Everyone looked down at where the boy with the spiky ponytail was sleeping.

"I DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO START A FUCKING FIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE! How can you blame me when he," Sakura pointed to Sasuke, " ran into me!?"

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something about that but Sakura put her hand up to stop him. " Im not being so immature as to keep fighting with you." And with that she stomped away, flustered and and blushing.

" What a bitch." Gaara said, taking a drink of his soda.

" What a freak…who the hell has pink hair anyway." Neji stated.

" Haha Sasuke almost got his ass whopped by a girl!" The blond laughed.

" At least we'll never see her again." Sasuke added.

" Wad I miss…" The sleeping boy asked.

Everyone rolled their eyes.

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Sakura stomped back to the table her mom was at.

"Happy now?" She asked.

" Like I knew that was going to happen!" Risa defended.

"What ever. Let just go home I'm too tired to shop anymore."

" Understood," And they both got up, walked to the car, and went home.

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(Author's note) So what do you guys think so far? Its my first story so hopefully it comes out ok. The story is going to be a GaaSaku, SasuSaku, NejiSaku, and ShikaSaku. I wanted to make it interesting so I thought I would do a love rectangle so lets see how that works out…I don't know what pairing is going to win for our Sakura yet…I guess I'll just see how the story goes. Reviews are loved! I would really appreciate any constructive criticism you have just no flames please ok?