Chapter 1: Don't let The Darkness Come.
DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
{Sakura's POV}
Sakura Haruno was not just another girl in Konoha.
She didn't have the most perfect body or the most perfect skin.
She didn't wear the 'In' clothes, or swoon over the hottest eye candy in the school.
In fact, the only thing she cared about at that moment was that it was her first day in a new school . . . again.
She sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror and smiled with approval.
Her black skinny jeans fit to her curves with little rips her and there.
She wore a purple shirt that said 'Bite Me' with a little monster.
Her pink hair with strips of black in it was up in a high pony tail showing off her face.
Her bright green eyes were accented with black eyeliner and mascara, giving her a mysterious look.
She smiled again and went down stairs.
She grabbed herself a bagel and sat down.
She sighed again as she saw her cat on the couch.
She threw the rest of the bagel away and fed her cat.
She scratched its black and blue fur, smiling as it purred.
"Now you stay out of trouble, Midnight." She said grabbing her backpack and keys.
She closed the door and turned toward her pride and joy.
Looking at her black Mustang she smiled as she thought back to her sixteenth birthday.
Her being blindfolded and pulled out if her comfy house in North Carolina.
Her mom slowly taking of her blindfold and smiling at my expression.
Sakura thanking her mom and dad till she couldn't speak.
She didn't realize she was crying till she felt a silent tear roll down her cheek.
She wiped it off quickly as she got in her car heading toward school for another first day of school.
~.XxX.~
Sakura got out of her Mustang and a small frown formed on her face.
She had always liked the feeling when she was driving her Mustang; it helped her forget the past when needed.
She got her backpack out of the trunk and faced school.
She glared at the people staring at her, girls giggling and taking quick glances at her, boys staring at her and gawking at her car.
She rolled her eyes and kept her head high as she walked into the building.
She was holding her schedule in her right hand as she made her way to homeroom.
Taking a quick glance at her schedule she pushed open the door to room R-14.
~.XxX.~
She walked in the door and was faced with stares from everywhere.
She sighed and glared at them as she walked to the back of the class room.
She put her stuff on the floor of sat down, taking out her iPod and put her ear buds in.
She didn't want to her them talking about her like she wasn't there.
She heard everyone go quiet and smiled happily, glad that no one was talking about her anymore.
Then she felt a tap on her shoulder, she turned her head and saw a dark haired boy staring at her.
She sighed and pulled out her ear buds, glaring at him the whole time.
She saw him give her the once over and she smiled.
"May I help you?" She said, getting his attention back up to her face.
"You're in my seat." He said.
She looked at him then the seat searching for a name.
"Um, where might I ask?" She said looking at him smugly.
His eyes narrowed, and then he smirked.
He bent down to her level and stared her in the eyes.
She stared at him for a moment before glaring at him harder.
His eyes widen for a moment before he stood straight up again.
"Hn." And he went to another seat.
She smiled smugly and put her ear buds back in.
Then she felt another tap on her shoulder.
She looked up and saw seven girls standing over her.
She sighed and took off her ear buds . . . again.
"What did you do to our Sasuke-kun?" one of them asked, looking down on her.
She sighed and stood up, all her 5'5 glory. She placed her hands on her hips and stared at them.
"So, this Sasuke, he was the guy with the hair like a chicken's ass?" she smiled at them and started laughing at their expressions.
"How dare you! Mock our Sasuke-kun right on front of our eyes!" another one yelled.
But now Sakura was kneeling over in laughter and wiping away her tears.
She stood up, trying to calm herself.
"Ha, you should have seen your faces. PRICELESS!" Sakura said as she sat back down, a small smile still on her face.
They looked down at her, faces going red.
They turned around and head out of the door.
Sakura started laughing again.
Everyone was staring at her like she was crazy but she didn't care.
Wiping away the last of her tears, she pulled out her drawing book and started an intricate design of vines and cherry blossoms branches wrapping around a heart.
"Hey!" She jumped and messed up her art.
She looked at it, at the ruined cherry blossom vine, the mark up into the heart messing up her shading.
She looked up to be met with blue eyes staring at her.
"Um, hi. Uh, sorry about messing up your drawing. Uh, I'm Naruto!" He, Naruto looked at me and held out his hand. She looked at it then slowly stood up.
"Naruto? You better hope that I can fix that! You know how long it took me to make the shading perfect in the heart!" Sakura started to take deep breaths, taking his hand and shaking it.
"Anyway, my name is Sakura. Sorry about yelling at you. I'm really into drawing and when I get into the drawing zone; I go to a different world." Sakura said, taking her hand from his.
She turned around and found her drawing book missing.
She turned around and saw that the one they call 'Sasuke-kun' was holding her drawing book, looking through it.
Her smile turned evil and she excused herself from Naruto.
She walked up to Sasuke a smirk planted on her face.
She sat down on his lap, feeling him tense under her.
She smiled as everything got quiet.
"So, why are you looking at my drawing book, Sasuke?" she said trying to get comfortable in his lap.
She snaked her arms around his neck, she heard him hold his breath and she smiled showing her teeth.
".Me." Sasuke said not looking at her.
"But Sasuke! I was just getting comfortable!" Sakura said pouting as she got closer to his face.
".." He said still not looking at her.
She smiled as she closed the distance between their faces and kissed him in the mouth.
She smiled against his mouth as the class got really quiet.
They were stunned waiting for Sasuke to push her off but it never came.
He started to kiss her back and wrap his hands around her waist.
She pulled back with a malicious smile on her face.
"Don't take my stuff and I won't take yours." Sakura said with a small smile.
"I have no idea what you took from me." Sasuke said staring at her.
"Really now? Hm, how about when you figure it out you come find me!" Sakura said as she walked back to her seat.
Everyone was staring at them.
"AHAHAHA! TEME JUST GOT TOLD BY A GIRL! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Naruto was laughing and rolling around on the floor.
Sakura smirked and sat down.
She looked over and saw Sasuke staring at her.
She blew him a kiss and looked down at her drawing.
Naruto came up to her, and hugged her.
Sakura dropped what she was doing and stiffened at the sudden contact.
"You are my hero Sakura-chan!" Naruto said still hugging her.
Sakura relaxed and patted his back.
~.XxX.~
Walking into the lunch room she felt giddy.
Her new friend Naruto had made her smile more today than in the last year.
She got her food and stood there, before deciding to go outside.
Then she felt another tap on her shoulder.
'This is happening a lot today isn't it?' Sakura thought as she turned around only to be greeted with a blonde, brown, and black hair girls staring at her.
She looked at them then smiled.
"Well, forehead, nice of you to show back up her, after what? 10? 11 years?" Ino said as hugged her friend.
"Sakura, it's so good to see you!" TenTen said as she stepped in after Ino.
"S-Sakura, how h-have you b-been?" Hinata said looking at her.
"It's good to see you all too. I been, fine."
Sakura said looking away.
There was a tug on her hand and she was pulled to one of the tables.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto yelled as she was jumped by the blonde.
She patted his back still not use to the close contact.
He stepped back and pulled her to a seat, right next to Sasuke.
"Well, what have we here?" Sakura said looking at Sasuke.
"Hn."
"Still no idea what you're missing yet?" Sakura said a small smile on her lips. "Hn."
"Sakura-chan do you think you can fix your drawing?" Naruto asked looking her in the eyes.
"Kinda. The shading is still kinda off but it's fixable." Sakura smiling.
"You're still drawing?" Ino said, hope present in her eyes.
Sakura looked at her, "Yeah, why?"
"Nothing. Oh! I forgot! How's your mom and dad?" Ino said looking at her smiling.
Sakura stiffened and looked down at her food.
"Um, I would rather not talk about them." Sakura said in a whisper.
Everyone stared at her, everyone, including Sasuke.
"Anyway." Sakura said forcing a smile and looking up.
Everyone was staring at her. "What?" Sakura said.
"Um, Sakura-chan, why don't you show use some of your drawings?" Naruto said trying to lighten the mood.
"Sure!" Sakura said smiling at Naruto. Sakura reached in her and pulled out her drawing book.
She flipped it to the first drawing and put it on the table for them to see.
Sasuke mumbled beside her.
She looked at him, "What was that?"
"You let them see it without hesitation. And yet when I started to look through it..." Sasuke trailed of whispering to Sakura.
"You didn't ask." Sakura said looking at him. "Hn."
They heard a small gasp and looked at Ino.
She was staring at one of her drawing's she did the night of her seventeenth birthday.
It was red swirls and black paint coming into one big heart.
The heart was 3D and had little cracks in it here and there.
The background was pink and purple making the heart standout more.
She stared at her a couple more seconds remembering when she drew it.
The police had come to her door that night to tell her the news.
She ran to her room and slammed to door when they left.
She remembered looking at her drawing utensils and her drawing book.
She picked them up and started to color.
"Sakura…" She was snapped out of her past and realized that tears were coming down her cheeks.
"I, um, I got to go." Sakura said as she picked up her drawing book and placing it back in her book bag wiping at her face.
"Sakura, do you mind if we have a small sleep over tonight?" Ino said staring at her best friend.
Sakura forced a smile and nodded as she walked out of the school and heading to her car.
She couldn't stay here, she felt sick and she felt like crying.
Everything remind her of her parents.
She fell to her knees before she reached her car.
A sob escaped her lips as she hit the pavement.
"SAKURA!" she heard her name and felt hands wrap around her but she didn't look at them.
She didn't want them to see her tears, didn't want to her weak.
She felt the person pick her up and put her in her car.
Taking her keys they got in the driver seat and drove off school grounds.
She didn't want the feel to overtake her, the darkness to return.
Before she passed out she saw dark hair like a chicken's ass, she smiled and the darkness overtook her.