Among the cherry blossoms so pink…

Summary: Sakura Haruno, 13 years old, Chuunin, pretty, young and slim, smart, crybaby, over-protective, weak, innocent and sweet.

Sasuke Uchiha, 13 years old, Chuunin, handsome, young, smart, talented, brave, independent, strong, lonely, always thinking of getting revenge and kill his older brother; Itachi, and the only survivor of the well known Uchiha clan.

Naruto Uzumaki, 13 years old, Chuunin, brave, speaks whatever there is in his mind, grumpy, impatient, lacks self-control, bigmouth, talented, and dreams of becoming a Hokage to prove he is worthy of!

So they are the main characters of the story… minor characters:

Hinata Hyuuga, Neji Hyuuga, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, TenTen, Kakashi, the Jounnin teachers, The legendary Sannin, Gaara and his siblings…

PAIRINGS:

Of course.. SASUXSAKU… and a bit of….

NARUXHINA

NEJIXTEN

SHIKAXINO

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Summary of the story:

All three major characters are the best of friends, well known for their great friendship and camaraderie, talented Chuunins. Sakura in the other hand is weak, loses to her battles, Sasuke and Naruto are her saviors. She has a crush on Sasuke, and he doesn't know about this. He thinks of her as his girl best friend. Naruto in the other hand, curses Sasuke for stealing the heart of Sakura from him. Even though they have secrets and infatuations, their friendship never dies. Find out their confessions, heartbreaks and how they survive their toughest missions. Will Sasuke fell for Sakura? Will Naruto find his true love? Will their friendship last forever? Can they protect Sakura for the rest of their lives? Will there be a time that Sakura will leave her team for someone's sake? Find out… read and review! Thanks all….

GENRE: ROMANCE/ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA/HUMOR

WRITER: SEPTEMBER ANNE

STARTED WRITING THE FIC: June 6, 2005…

YOU KNOW THE DRILL EVERYONE! READ AND AFTERWARDS REVIEW FOR EACH CHAPTER!

AMONG THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS SO PINK…

Chapter 1: team 7! We're the best!

It was a busy morning at Konoha village. The Chuunin exams are finish and they are now full pledge Ninjas. The day was always the same, the village was busy, and all the people of Konoha are always energetic and full of bright spirits. Even though the Chuunin exams are finished. Trainings for young Chuunins or Genins are non-stop. All teams and their Jounin teachers or trainers are busy preparing their selves for another exhausting missions that will be assigned to them by the Hokage.

At the usual training ground of team seven…

"Oh man! This is always the same! Why do we have to train and train our selves! These are all nonsense!" Naruto exclaimed. He stopped fighting his sensei and sat at the grassy ground.

Kakashi-sensei sighed and looked at the exhausted face of poor Naruto. He placed his kunai at his small bag, which is hanging at the back of his pants.

"Will you stop blabbering, Naruto!" Sakura yelled at Naruto. Our pink haired Ninja was training with our Uchiha prodigy. She turned around and looked at Naruto.

"Are you still not tired, Sakura!" Naruto exclaimed. He stood up and faced Sakura and sighed.

"I am not! I want to train, because I want to be strong!" Sakura replied and faced Sasuke again.

Sakura's words echoed throughout our Uchiha prodigy's head. "Train to be strong!" echoed inside his head.

"Well my! Sakura is improving!" Kakashi told himself.

"Fine! Let's start again Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto urged his sensei for another fight.

"Okay!" Kakashi exclaimed. He took out his kunai again and thrown it straight to Naruto's face. Naruto easily dodged it and thrown another kunai to his teacher.

Sasuke looked at Sakura, who looks at him with full determination. He walked in front of Sakura.

"You really determined to train more, ne!" he asked and looked straight at her emerald eyes.

"Yes! I need to be strong like you and Naruto. So you will never protect me!" she exclaimed and clenched her fists. She looked at the ground for a while and found herself looking straight to Sasuke's onyx eyes.

"Wow! Sasuke's eyes are so captivating!" she thought and stared at his onyx eyes.

Sasuke stared at her eyes blankly and was annoyed. "What are you staring at, Sakura!" Sasuke said a bit annoyed.

"Umm… Sorry!" she blushed and looked away. "Let's start now!" she urged Sasuke.

Sasuke nodded in agreement and took out his sharp kunai. Both of them fought with each other. At the very end, Sakura lost all her Chakra and Sasuke told her to give up. She had many cuts on her arms and legs even her face.

"Let's stop Sakura! You are weak already!" Sasuke said.

"I don't want to!" Sakura yelled and looked at Sasuke seriously. "I didn't know, Sasuke's worried about me!" she thought.

"Stupid Girl!" Sasuke yelled.

Naruto and Kakashi had finished their fight already. As usual Kakashi won again. After their fight, they agreed to watch Sakura and Sasuke's fight.

"Yeah Sakura! You should stop now!" Naruto exclaimed. He looks worried at Sakura's condition.

"Sakura, stop now or you'll get yourself seriously hurt!" Kakashi sensei yelled.

"I will not stop, unless I defeat Sasuke-kun! Sakura said furiously.

Sasuke sighed and walked to Sakura. Sakura got out her kunai, but she dropped it. Sasuke had hit her hard on her neck and she fell unconscious. Sasuke caught her and he put his arms at her head.

"Sorry" he whispered to her ears.

"Good job there!" Kakashi said and walked to where Sakura and Sasuke were standing.

"You killed her, Sasuke-teme!" Naruto yelled out angrily.

"I didn't you idiot! She's just unconscious!" Sasuke explained and looked at Naruto blankly.

"Oh!" Naruto said and rubbed his head.

"Dobe"

Kakashi sweat dropped. He looked at the skies above him. It was already pitched black. The stars shone brightly at the night sky. Then he heard sounds of crickets at the tree standing next to them.

"We better call it a day!" Kakashi said and looked at Sasuke.

"Yeah!" Naruto replied.

"Sasuke, you better carry Sakura to her house." Kakashi suggested.

Sasuke nodded in agreement. He carried Sakura at his back, her arms around his slender neck. Kakashi walked ahead, followed by Naruto then Sasuke carrying Sakura.

"You better get her home, or else!" Naruto exclaimed. He looked behind him and stared oddly at Sasuke.

"I will!" Sasuke said and looked at Naruto angrily.

They reached the village's gate…

"Well I gotta' go home! See ya!" Kakashi greeted them goodbye, the he disappear into thin air.

"Well, see you!" Naruto looked at Sasuke and sighed. "You better bring her home safely!" Naruto told himself. Inner Naruto: Yelling furiously!

Naruto waved a hand to Sasuke and ran to his favorite Ramen store to eat his dinner.

"Better, bring this stubborn girl home!" he whispered.

A couple of blocks from Sakura's home…

Sakura felt warm, she opened her eyes and saw a blurred image. It was black and it felt soft and silky. "Black hair? Who?" She rubbed her eyes and was shocked to see Sasuke carrying her on his back. She blushed.

"Umm.. Sasuke-kun.." Sakura whispered.

"You're awake" Sasuke said without emotion.

Then she remembered, Sasuke hit her on the neck and she fell to unconsciousness.

"Hey I remember! You hit me on the head!" Sakura yelled.

Sasuke covered his ears and sighed.

"I did that, so you will stop being so damn stubborn!"

Sakura was a bit embarrassed and a little bit annoyed.

"But you hit me! A friend should not do that!"

"Whatever!"

Sasuke looked at Sakura, and found out that she had a cut at her right cheek. He touched the cut and Sakura felt the pain.

"OUCH! That hurts!"

"You have a cut on your right cheek." Sasuke said a bit concern.

"It's because you cut it with your sharp kunai!" she exclaimed. "You're bad!"

"Well sorry my dear Sakura! You urged me to fight you!" he exclaimed.

A vein twitched at Sakura's forehead. She accidentally touched her cut and she closed her eyes in pain.

"It hurts!" she exclaimed.

Sasuke looked at her expression. He felt sorry for injuring Sakura. He stopped walking and put Sakura down. She stood on her feet and looked at Sasuke's face.

"What!" she exclaimed as she touched her wound on her cheek.

"You're so damn trouble!" he exclaimed as he touched her wounded cheeks.

"OUCH…OUCH…! IT HURTS! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT!" she yelled.

The People walking passed them, stopped and looked annoyed at Sakura. " She's weird!" a girl whispered to her companion.

Sakura felt embarrassed and ran. Sasuke followed her. Sakura stood in front of a flower shop and then a teardrop fell from her emerald eyes. (Take note: not Ino's parents flower shop!)

"Sakura"

"See what you did! They thought I was such a weird girl! I felt so embarrassed!" she exclaimed between sobs.

"You're not weird. Umm.. Just a little." Sasuke said

A vein twitched near her temple and she looked angrily at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at her blankly.

"What did you say!" Sakura said angrily, her fists clenched.

"I said you're a bit weird!" Sasuke teased.

She hit him on the head. Sasuke touched his sore head and gazed angrily at Sakura.

"Serves you, for calling me weird!" she said with a (beh) expression on her face.

Again her cut was hurting. She touched it and pressed it hard. Then, blood flown from her cheek. She removed her hand and saw blood at her palm. She cried in horror.

"Stupid!" Sasuke exclaimed.

"Sasuke-kun! It's bleeding!" She cried out.

"Duh! You pressed it so hard! It will surely bleed, you idiot!"

"Do something Sasuke-kun!" she said and cried.

"Will you stop being a cry baby!" He exclaimed.

"But it hurts! Can't you see that!" she cried again.

Sasuke sighed. "Whatever!"

"You're so emotionless!" she yelled at him.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and watched as Sakura cry like a 3 yr. old baby.

"Come with me!" He said and offered a hand at Sakura.

"Where?" she asked him.

"To my house. I'll nurse your wounds." He said shyly.

"Sasuke-kun's going to nurse my wounds at his house!" Inner Sakura speaking.

She nod in agreement and held his silky hand. She blushed.

At Sasuke's house…

He opened the door and he walked inside and turned the lights on.

"Well, come in."

"Hai!" she said while blushing.

"Sit there first and I'll get the medical kit." He said and pointed at his sofa. He left to get the medical kit. She watched his back and smiled.

"Wow! Sasuke-kun's house is so cozy and clean!" she exclaimed. She stood up and looked at a picture at the side table next to the sofa. It was a picture of him (3 yrs. Old) with his parents. "He looks cute!" she said to herself.

Then a blood dropped and landed at the tiled floor. "Oh my!" she whispered. She wiped it with her hands. Sasuke stepped inside the room and saw Sakura looking at his picture.

"I see you saw my parents picture." He said and sat down the sofa and opened the medical kit.

"Yeah! You look cute there!" she exclaimed.

Sasuke blushed. "Cute?" he murmured.

"Come here." He commanded Sakura to sit beside him so he can nurse her wounds.

"Yes!" she sat beside him. She forced herself to blush so that he can't see it.

Sasuke first put a band-aid at her cut on the cheek, then her arms and lastly her wounded leg. He also wiped out the dirt from her face.

Sakura looked at his onyx eyes and smiled. "Sasuke-kun is such a great friend!" she said to herself.

"There" he said emotionless.

"Thanks a lot! I don't feel pain anymore." She said relieved. She hugged him. She blushed on what she did. He blushed in shocked eyes.

"That's for.. umm.. Thanking you!" she exclaimed and let him go. She looked at his shocked expression and laughed.

Sasuke came to reality. "What's so funny!" he exclaimed while he blushed.

"Nothing!" she teased him. "You look so cute with that expression of yours!"

"Whatever!" then he forced himself not to blush once more.

Sakura stood up and looked at Sasuke's deep onyx eyes. "Well I gotta' go! Thank you for all you've done for me!" she said in a well-mannered way.

"You're welcome!" he answered back.

Sasuke lead Sakura to the front door and gave a small smile.

"Did he smile?" Inner Sakura thought. She too smiled back.

"Well catch you tomorrow!" she said and waved goodbye. He waved goodbye and looked at her retreating figure.

On her way home…

"Sasuke-kun's so sweet and cute!" she whispered to herself. She blushed as she looked at the night sky above her. "He really changed a lot!"

-END OF CHAP. 1-

Please review… thanks for reading! Chapter 2 up! Sorry if some of you think it's a bit long or not interesting! Well upcoming chapters are better than this! So tune in! …