Discailmer i don't own Naruto or any of the charecters

this story will contain yuri in future chapters you have been warned

also chapter length will vary through out story

Sakura closed her locker door sighing she held the books tighter to her chest as she turned to walk down the corridor she had barely made it a few steps from her locket when an annoyingly loud and chirpy voice called out.

"Hey billboard brow!" gritting her teeth she turned to face the owner of the voice

"Ino please stop calling me that"

"What's up with you and what is up with the shirt?" Ino muttered while she walked beside Sakura

"Just a bad start to the day that's all and I like this shirt" Ino looked Sakura up and down grey cargo pants and a baggy long sleeved black shirt with various tribal patterns on the back. Compared to Ino in her black mini skirt and purple halter neck it was a very drab outfit but she couldn't care less right now. Ino skipped along happily beside Sakura chattering nonstop not noticing how tightly Sakura held her books to her chest or how she flinched whenever someone bumped into her.

"So I saw Sasuke this morning damn he's gotten sooo much hotter over the summer but he was meaner than usual didn't even tell me to go away just brushed right past me anyways there's a rumour going round that Sasuke is gay and that's why he never accepts any advances from girls imagine that Sasuke uchia gay!" Ino pulled a disgusted face

"You have something against homosexuals Ino?"

"No not at all I mean sure it was weird when Shino and Kiba started going out but I'm used to it now as long as they keep the PDA to a minimum it's just the thought of Sasuke being gay" she made the disgusted face again. Sakura resisted the urge to roll her eyes the only reason Ino would mind if Sasuke was gay would be that she would have absolutely zero chance of getting with him. Like she had any chance now ha she had more chance of becoming queen of the universe. Sakura gave up a long time ago her heart just wasn't in it she felt like she was only chasing after him because Ino was because it was a normal teenage girl thing to do.

"Oh my god Hinata you let your hair grow longer it's absolutely gorgeous" Sakura looked up to meet Hinata's nervous eyes she had turned bright red as was usual for any and all compliments her hair was just past her chin now even all over now straightened and by the look of it highlighted.

"It was Neji's idea he said it suited me long Shino said so as well" Hinata nervously fiddled with the strap of her messenger bag a small smile on her face Ino continued her stride towards the English classroom Hinata walked at Sakura's other side meaning she could relax anyone going past would bump into Hinata first. As they walked Sakura reviewed the homework in her mind making sure she didn't miss anything they were doing Of Mice and Men and had been asked to write a short essay on how Steinbeck used animals in the story. It was easy of course for Sakura she was expecting a good grade for this and hopefully to not have to read any of it out in front of the class. So lost in her thought she didn't notice her crush walking down the corridor towards them until they were only few feet away she squeaked and ducked her head making Hinata worry.

"Sakura is something the matter?"

"No nothing I'm find just it's a bit bright in here think I'm getting a migraine" Hinata's face instantly clouded with concern making Sakura think she shouldn't have mentioned a migraine after all.

"Maybe you should go to the nurse I could tell Iruka sensei you aren't feeling well"

"No I'm fine besides I can't miss this lesson I'll fall behind I need to do well I need to be perfect" she whispered the last part before she blurted it out they didn't understand so it's better to note tell them. The warning bell rang just as they reached the classroom door Ino walked in first head held high swinging her hips as she walked clearly wanting some attention from certain boys in the class. Hinata followed scanning the room for Kiba and Shino finding them sitting by the window at the far side of the room talking quietly Kiba was smiling gently. Hinata hurried over to them eagerly leaving Sakura to slink to closest desk possible and sink into placing her books on top along with her pencil case and copy of the set text. Iruka rushed into the room a few minutes later and began to apologise profusely to the class Sakura looked up at him fondly he'd never change would he.

"Ok now before we start I'm going to have a few of you swap places Ino please take the empty place between Choji and Shikamaru" Ino viscously picked up her things and slammed on the desk of her new place earning a glare from Shikamaru "Naruto and Sakura please go and sit next to Sasuke"

"What sensei that's not fair I don't want to sit next to a bastard like him!"

"Watch your language Naruto why can't you be sensible look Sakura isn't complaining" Sakura froze halfway across the room looking up slowly surely enough some curious eyes were on her she hurried to take her new seat next to Sasuke not even bothering to look at him. Naruto eventually followed moodily after a few minutes arguing with Iruka murmuring something along the lines of stupid Sasuke.

"Now the reason I've moved you is to help you make new friends and also for some of you improve your grades" Naruto was about to jump up and complain when Sasuke kicked him in the shin "now for example Naruto has the worst scores in the class so I've sat him with the two best students in the class to try and encourage better grades from him"

"What about me then I'm stuck with the lazy ass and the food freak!" Ino yelled from the back

"Now Ino that's not nice Shikamaru made be lazy but he has hidden potential and I'd like you to help him unlock it, make him more passionate about his studies and also I thought you needed some new friends" Iruka smiled lightly as Ino groaned and let her head fall against the desk the lesson went pretty much uneventful apart from Naruto and Ino's constant outbursts about the unfairness of the seating.

Coming near the end of the lesson Sakura was feeling a bit more relaxed Iruka hadn't asked for the homework yet which meant he was probably going to collect it before they all left. Going over her notes making sure they wasn't anything she missed she smiled to herself maybe today wouldn't be so bad after all. "Good news I'm not setting any homework just yet thought I'd give you a few days into the new term before I torture you all"

"Yay Iruka sensei you're the best" Naruto yelled joyfully but Sakura's face fell she liked having homework it could distract her well hopefully the other teachers wouldn't be so lenient. Gathering her books up she watched as the others all ran for the door Ino waved goodbye as she skipped off to drama.

"um Sakura what do you have next" Hinata stood in front of her desk once again fiddling with her bag strap Sakura quickly scanned her schedule Art an easy relaxed lesson what'd you expect with Kakashi sensei being the teacher all he had to do was set the work then sit at his desk reading all lesson and Ino thought Shikamaru was lazy.

"Art what about you?"

"Oh me too Sakura I'm glad walk with me please?" Sakura followed Hinata out of the classroom back into the thriving halls of the school Hinata made a few attempts at conversation that Sakura didn't really try to continue. When they arrived the art room was practically empty no one really tried to come on time to Kakashi's lesson as he didn't care too much he was always late himself anyways.

Scanning the room looking for a suitable seat Sakura spotting exactly who she wanting to see her face broke out into a relief filled smile as she weaved her way towards them bidding Hinata goodbye. Sliding into the seat beside him Sakura set about arrange the desk to her liking he didn't even glance up as there were only two people who would sit next to him and by the quiet way his companion sat he knew who it was.

"Hello Sakura how was your holiday"

"Quiet and a bit boring but nice how was yours Gaara?" his pale sea green eyes slide smoothly upwards to meet hers he didn't say anything but his message seemed to be reflected in his eyes as Sakura replied "that bad huh?" he nodded slightly at her before returning to his sketch book she then proceeded to carefully observing the gently way he moved the pencil across the paper. Creating all manner of art harsh landscapes, beautiful portraits and abstract collages of various images swirled together in a confusing but enlightening chaos. Kakashi strolled into the classroom ten minutes later nose in one of his books as usual he casually waved a hand at the class before settling down behind his desk and addressing the class as a whole.

"Ok today we'll be pairing up and doing portraits and do them in your own style no traditional boring rigid pictures please use any materials you want you may begin" Hinata cautiously rose her hand

"Yes Miss Huyga?"

"Sensei sorry but are we choosing our own partner?"

"Of course have fun" he lowered his eyes to the book once again Sakura sighed Hinata was always like that making sure that's doing something absolutely right her father's a real perfectionist. So disappointing him wasn't a good idea making poor Hinata nervous beyond belief about messing up in any way. Sakura looked at Gaara smiling wondering how to do his portrait noticing to no surprise at all that he had already begun his. Sakura decided to draw him chibi style with cute little cat ears as it would annoy him and Kakashi couldn't care less she giggled as she began her mission to annoy Gaara.

Finding herself enjoying drawing Gaara this way Sakura did not notice when he stopped drawing to lean over her shoulder nor did she notice his glare that was until the bell rang making her jump and narrowly miss hitting him in the face. Quickly she went to pack away her things while Gaara moved at a snail's pace as if deliberately leaving his picture on show. Sakura turned to bid him farewell just as he was putting the picture inside his sketchbook she gasped at what she saw once again stunned by his artist skills.

"Gaara that's amazing" his face showed the hint of a smile the picture was her alright made entirely out of flower petals an invisible wind was blowing her hair across her face giving a mysterious air about her. "finish those pictures for homework" Kakashi brought her out of her daze lazily calling the order out to the class reminding Sakura that Ino would be looking for her to babble on about her stupid drama lesson. Just what she needed to have her ear talked off by the ridiculously zealous blonde she had barely made it out the door before she heard the excited squeal of a very happy Ino.

"Sakura I've got a date and he is such a hottie oh my god!" skidding to a stop in front of her Ino's face was lightly flushed and her eyes were shining fiercely with excitement.

"Ok who is he then?"

"Transfer student his name's Mizu he has lovely grey eyes and dark messy hair and his smile" she broke off with a spirited squeal making Sakura wince and wish she'd covered her ears beforehand.

"He can't be that amazing Ino he's just a guy"

"Just a guy god Sakura no wonder you've never had a boyfriend the way you act about guys I'd go so far as to say you might as well be a lesbian" Sakura blushed wildly at her comment about to respond when Ino interrupted her friends thoughts "well we know that's ridiculous if you're a lesbian then I'm bald" she laughed loudly swinging her arms by her side heading for the back doors linking her arm through Sakura's dragging her along with her.

Once outside in the sun Ino scanned for someone Sakura hoped it wasn't her new bitch yes Ino was the one in control of her relationships. Fate was cruel to Sakura dragging her to somewhere she didn't want to be for two reasons first being Mizu and the second being he was talking to her crush.

"Mizu hey this is Sakura my best friend go ahead dazzle her" Ino roughly pushed her forwards she barely managed to stop herself falling into them but the close proximity with her crush made a blush once again grace her cheeks.

"Cute I love it when a girl blushes" Sakura blinked stupidly his voice was lovely but at the moment she wasn't really paying attention to him she was holding back the urge to either through herself on her crush or run to the other side of the school. Ino prodded Sakura hard in the back urging her to respond to him she complied to stop Ino manicured nails of death inflicting more pain.

"Hi nice to meet you"

"Oh Sakura that's such a boring response say something more interesting or I'm going to pull him away and ravage him right now" to avoid the annoying make out session that was sure to follow Ino's words she scrabbled for a decent conversation topic.

"So how'd you like Konaha so far?" she ignored Ino's annoyed sigh focusing on his face.

"Oh it's nice lots of things to look at and do" he shot a totally perverted glance at Ino making Sakura want to gag stupid easy Ino picked another ass. Ino only smiled wildly and moved to stand next him he in turn wrapped his arm around her waist. That sentence was far too polite she pressed herself against him and he pulled her even closer so they might as well go away somewhere this was PDA to the extreme.

"Oh Sakura I almost forget Neji asked me to try and get this to Hinata and well you'll probably see her before me" not daring to look up in case her blush got worse Sakura accepted the small bag.

"Ok I'll try and find her right now bye" she turned on her heal and rushed back indoors not even giving Ino the chance to complain. heading straight for her locked slamming it open swapping her books and hurrying to wait outside her next class five minutes were left of break but she didn't care it was better waiting here than being out there still. She wasn't lying when she said she would find her right away Hinata was in her next class.

"Hello Haruno pleasant day are you looking forward to religious studies"

"Sai you completely emotionally ineffectual bastard why the hell and you bugging me" she turned to glare at the annoyance that was Sai her embarrassment from before evaporating immediately as she stared at the smiling boy in front of her.

"You're in my class so I thought I'd talk to you as it's agreeable to do so also I wanted to ask if you'd seen dickless today"

"Yes I saw Naruto he's in my English class" she emphasized on Naruto's name trying as most did and probably failed to get Sai to stop calling him dickless as it pissed Naruto off which made him infuriating for everyone else to put up with. Sai continued to smile his stupid smile making Sakura want to turn around a walk off so she didn't have to deal with anymore. She just wasn't angry with him like she'd usually be the others get angry at him Naruto had the name calling to get angry at Ino had the dress sense typical of her to get angry at him for the way he dressed huh. Well Sasuke just said his entire existence was annoying but Sakura thought it was because Sai got along better with his brother than he did.

"He left this behind in history I thought I should return it to him" Sai held up a tatty looking notebook Sakura resisted the urge to raise an eyebrow at him for thinking to return something so useless as she recognised it as his doodling book.

"Don't bother it's not important"

"Really I thought he might have his notes in it"

"Naruto taking notes in class him actually doing something he's suppose to not going to happen" Sai stepped closer as if to hand it to her she stepped back eyes wide clutching her books close again. He stopped in his movement observing her cautiously she was brought back to normal by his odd stare and she managed to force herself to relax again.

"Sorry Sai just developed this habit recently I don't want people too close"

"You've had a traumatic emotional experience would you like to talk or have a cup of tea"

"No Sai just shut up, it isn't your business and what was with the tea question?"

"Some people appear to think that a cup of tea is needed in a crisis" the bell rang stopping the conversation from continuing any further as the other students flooded the halls once again.

"Just give the notebook back to Naruto yourself" Sakura swept into the classroom taking a seat and staring straight ahead until Hinata walked in she handed the small bag which was received with a thank you and blush. Then Kurenai arrived only serving to puzzle Sai further as she glared at him. He observed for the entire class as she took notes frequently and put her hand up to answer any and all questions. His plan did have a flaw she may have noticed him staring but Kurenai did.

"Sai if you'd like to take a short break from staring at Sakura and actually take some notes" Sakura whipped round and stared at Sai inquisitively he smiled and began to take some notes keeping eye contact with Kurenai to show he was paying attention. Eventually she stopped her eagle eye observation and went about setting them some homework simple research so there was a general noise of agreement form the class.

"Sai stay behind for a moment I'd like quick word" he complied standing the side of her desk letting the other students pass he nodded at some of them received raised eyebrows and slight sniggers.

"I know you are more curious about your fellow students than most but constant staring unsettles some so please refrain from doing so"

"I shall try to cease this action in the future Kurenai sensei might I ask is my staring the problem or the fact that I was staring at Haruno" Kurenai froze not sure how to answer she was quiet fond of her quiet pink haired student that was the reason she was acting defensively about the situation as the staring clearly unsettled her.

"You weren't doing any work as you stared so unless you can multi task efficiently I suggest you leave the staring till lunchtime you're dismissed" Sai nodded slightly and headed out of the classroom Kurenai sighed and leant against her desk

"Tough lesson?" she smiled at the sound of the voice looking up as Asuma leaning against the door frame "no more than usual I'm guessing you have a free period as well if your here" he smiled

"I do and it's best spent with you" he smoothly closed the door crossed the room and captured Kurenai in a passionate kiss.

Sakura rushed towards her next lesson head down stupid Sai couldn't he mind his own business for one damn minute her luck was not with her today as she walked into someone standing still sending her backwards onto the floor. A hand was presented to her whom she ignored as she continued to collect up her notes that had managed to scatter across the floor.

"at least let me help you pick up your notes" Sakura froze at the voice there was no quick escape from this one looking up at the smiling face of her crush of a few months she was lost for words. Her smile dazzled Sakura and the perfume that lingered around her made her just want to collapse at her feet.

"Thank you Tenten"