A/N: Well, this is Starchii back for another one! This story is definitely going to be less serious than my other, current story, The Howling. I love having humor in things, and I love making good out of a bad situation so this story came into being! Not to say there won't be serious parts, but it generally is a fun idea I came up with. Well, the main characters are Haruno Sakura and Deidara. Now, even though there is romance between them there are a lot of parts where they aren't interacting because of the plot. Well, I think I've said enough. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. –Insert witty banter here-

Prologue

Haruno Sakura's life was…boring. Well, she wouldn't really call it boring, but it was most definitely mundane, repetitive, and…okay, maybe a little boring. Every weekday it was the same thing. She woke up, got ready to go to school, went to school, dragged herself through eight forty-minute periods (with the exception of 5th), and finally was freed from school to go home.

So, it was with much reluctance on this sunny Thursday morning, that Sakura slammed her palm down onto her alarm clock and dragged her lazy ass out of bed. Stifling a yawn, she ran a hand through her long pink strands of knotted hair. Barely aware of her motions, she scuttled across the wooden floor of her bedroom and slipped down the hall to the bathroom. Downstairs, she could hear her father watching the early morning news while thumbing through yesterday's edition of The Star Beacon.

Running on auto-pilot, Sakura picked up her black hairbrush and ran it through her hair almost worried about the small chunks of hair that were getting pulled out from the knots. When she was satisfied with her work, she brushed it all back with the exception of her bangs, and twisted it into a high ponytail. Next, she slid her contact case over to her and, one-by-one, put the two flexible things onto her eyes. Blinking away a few tears, she turned on the faucet and ran her toothbrush underneath it. She slathered her green toothpaste onto it and first, brushed her teeth, then, brushed her retainer.

These normal tasks were only the beginning of the long day that Sakura endured every weekday from fall through spring.

After throwing on some clothes (she was never really sure what she wore until later), the rosette girl flopped back down onto her bed and began to wait for her committed boyfriend to come and pick her up for school. Sighing, she pressed a side button on her almost primitive cell phone and saw that the time read 6:20 A.M, which gave her about twenty minutes to just relax and think.

Unfortunately for Sakura, the next thing she heard was her dad yelling up the stairs that her ride was there. Groaning, she once again pulled herself from the comfort of her bed and skipped lightly down the steps. Her father quickly handed her the schoolbooks she needed and she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Bye daddy, I love you!" She said with a bright smile before walking out of her front door. Once outside, an oddly feminine hand reached out and took one of her heavier books. Glancing up, Sakura stared into the traditional smirk of her boyfriend.

"You know I hate when you carry my books, Deidara, I am not some incapable person that needs assistance," she said with a quick roll of her eyes.

"Yeah, well you know I love doing things you hate," he said still wearing that damn smirk. Sending him a quick glare, she slipped into the passenger side of his small, maroon Chrysler Sebring LXI. Setting her books onto her lap, she glanced out of her window and heard Deidara turn on the car. The cars loud idle rumbled into life and Sakura heard the click of the automatic shift moving into drive.

"So, how was your morning?" Deidara asked, already moving away from her earlier frustration with him. That was the way things were with the two of them. They fought, but they were always ready to put those spats behind them. Unlike her best friend, Ino, and her boyfriend, Chouji, who never fought and claimed their relationship was perfect.

"Meh, same shit different day," she replied as they turned into the school's parking lot.

Geneva High School was probably the most architecturally unsound building that Sakura had come across in the small state of Ohio. The design of the building would most likely be alright in any other state, but for the harsh winter conditions that this part of Ohio were known for, everything was all wrong.

Deidara slid into an unused parking space in the middle row of the student's lot. Mornings were one of her favorite parts of the day; Sakura could simply relax for ten minutes and spend quality time with her boyfriend. Stretching her back a bit, she leaned over and rested her head on Deidara's lean shoulder.

Apparently God was not with her today because as soon as she got comfortable, a small tapping sound was heard from the window. Groaning, she looked over and saw Yamanaka Ino, her proclaimed best friend, standing there with a goofy grin on her pretty face. Akimichi Chouji, her boyfriend, was, like always, attached to the blonde's hip looking just as goofy as his partner.

Sighing, Sakura opened the door to the car and stepped out into the chilly, spring air. Ino immediately began to laugh at something, which thoroughly irked the other girl.

"What is so funny?" She asked loudly, only causing her friend to burst into even louder giggles.

"Jesus, Sakura, I knew you didn't care what you wore, but that is kinda ridiculous," she said while flicking a piece of short, blonde hair away from her face. Ino was always predictable when it came to the way she wore her hair and did her make-up. Everyday, the blonde girl wore her shoulder length hair down and straight while her make-up consisted of a thin layer of cover-up and dark- black eyeliner lining the bottom of her eye, causing her already unnaturally blue eyes to stick out even further.

Luckily for Sakura, this meant that Ino was also very predictable about the comments she made. Usually, first thing in the morning her best friend always tried to piss her off with something. The rosette girl had a feeling this was one of those mornings.

"Shut up, Ino…don't tease Sakura," she heard Deidara say from the other side of the car. Turning her head slightly to the side, she saw her boyfriend standing there with an irritated expression adorning his features. Now, Deidara didn't exactly hate Ino, but she did annoy him a lot. He was constantly annoyed with how the blonde girl didn't work for what she wanted; she had it handed to her. This wasn't a bad thing…it was just slightly annoying to some people.

Ino's pretty, pale face scrunched up into a scowl before it broke into a sickeningly sweet smile. "Don't worry Dei-kun, I was only teasing. Don't get your panties in a bunch," she said before skipping away with Chouji. Deidara, in turn, rolled his blue eyes and walked around the car towards Sakura.

Together (hand-in-hand), the pair walked into the school building that was their home for seven straight hours.

"You know, you shouldn't get so mad at Ino. If it weren't for her, we wouldn't even know each other," Sakura said while giving his hand a squeeze. It was true; Sakura just didn't make friends by herself. Ino and Deidara had become friends during her freshman year and his sophomore year. They immediately began to like each other as something more than friends, but it never turned into anything because of their inability to admit their feelings. During August band practice the following year, Ino had introduced Sakura to Deidara and that had turned into something.

"Whatever," he said as they turned the hall and flowed into the science hallway. "Well, I'll see you after homeroom Sakura-chan."

"Bye Deidara-kun," she said as he moved into Mrs. George's homeroom class.

The first half of her day was…boring. She threw that word around too much, but that's the way it felt. First period was Pre-Calculus with Dr. Poluse. Nothing about that woman was friendly. She was arrogant, slightly disillusioned with the world, and intelligent. Fortunately for her classes, she knew how to teach because…well, she had a doctorate in math education, which was something that most of the people in this class could only hope to achieve.

Her torture session was quickly followed by Keyboarding, which was most likely the most laughable class she had. Mr. Ankrom taught it. The man was generally happy and, in his own words, had a warm and fuzzy feeling surrounding him. That is until you pissed him off. Then, he turned into a raging animal bent on destruction. Luckily for her, he stayed relatively peaceful only beset by a stupid freshman playing solitaire while he was explaining something.

Almost running out of that class, Sakura followed Ino to the school library where they spent their study hall in general peace. Usually they both took this time to talk or do pointless homework assignments since the librarian held a general like of the both of them.

Fourth period was Spanish IV and she along with Hyuuga Hinata were the only juniors in the class among seniors. Señora Sweigert usually allowed them to work together on projects and in general she was a very easy-going woman.

Already feeling better about the Ankrom incident, she walked into her favorite class of the day, band. Smiling, Sakura grabbed her flute and took her seat with the rest of the Symphonic Band (named that because they were too good to be degraded as concert band). Today they were playing her absolute favorite song. Scenes from the Louvre it was called, and she was so wrapped up in warming up to play that she didn't notice Deidara until he was almost an inch from her face.

"Hello! Sakura! You alive?" He asked, waving a hand in front of her face. Snapping to reality, she saw her boyfriend standing before her with his baritone sax hanging around his neck from the thick, black neck strap hooked to the large, metal instrument.

"Yeah…I'm sorry I got wrapped up in the music," she said sheepishly as Mr. Carrel, their band director, took his stand on his podium. Deidara quickly fled to his chair farther down the row from her. Their old, rather angry band director tapped his conductor's stick on his music stand and the entire room fell silent in the breadth of a moment. Every single person at least respected the man before their group, if not feared him at least a little. He had the power to rip your soul to shreds in mere seconds, but only if he was truly angry. The task of making him angry…really wasn't that hard. Thus, this was the reason why the band lost at least one member every year.

Sakura turned to Ino, who was on her left, and watched as the blonde girl took out all of their music diligently. Ino absolutely loved the band. Her life began and ended with band. This was probably the only class her friend truly enjoyed during the day.

Almost too soon, the bell ending five 'A' and 'B' rang and signaled the class to go to lunch.

Sighing, Sakura swung her navy green messenger bag over her shoulder and fell into a diligent step between Deidara and Ino. Deidara quickly grabbed her hand while Ino nudged her shoulder with her elbow, attempting to get her attention. Sakura sighed and turned her head to look at her best friend. Ino smirked while holding Chouji's hand and pointed to Inuzuka Kiba, their mutual friend.

"So, Kiba wants to get the foursome together sometime this weekend, what do you say?" The blonde girl asked as Chouji grumbled something incoherently. Ever since that fateful August band practice that Sakura and Deidara had begun dating, there had been a sort of group that consisted of Deidara, Sakura, Ino, and Kiba. Kiba and Deidara both played the saxophone, thus easily became friends before Sakura and Ino knew either of them. Now, since Chouji was dating Ino it became harder to hang out just the four of them because of the jealousy that practically radiated from Ino's loving boyfriend.

"Yeah, that would be fun. Do you want to, Dei-kun?" Sakura asked, turning to her silent boyfriend. Deidara tilted his head to look down at her before giving a small nod. By this time, they were already at their lunch table. The rosette girl sat down and took out her lunch bag while Deidara, Ino, and Chouji went up to buy the horrendous school lunch.

Seeing Kiba sit down across from her, she pulled out one of her Hostess sweet treats and handed it to him. Happily, he reached across the table and took it from her.

"Thanks, Sakura! You know I love my Hostess!" He said as he quickly unwrapped the treat and began to devour it. Deidara and Ino returned around this point with pizza and French fries, which was just about the only thing edible in the entire cafeteria.

"Hey Ino, wanna hear the word of the day?" Kiba asked with a shit-eating grin plastered onto his face. Ino smiled up at him and nodded. Kiba was Ino's best guy friend, and the two of them were almost inseparable, which caused for a problem when Chouji was added into the mix.

"Okay, the word of the day is legs. You wanna come back to my place and spread the word?" He asked with a smirk. Ino frowned and kicked him from under the table while the rest of the group burst into laughter, minus Chouji.

"Hey, watch it Kiba," Chouji said with a frown while Kiba simply rolled his eyes.

"You guys are way too serious," he said as he sat back in his chair and took a few sips of his strawberry milk. At this point, Hidan and Tenten decided to make themselves known and took their seats at the table. The two of them had been dating for who knew how long, and they were also two of Ino's closest friends. Sakura never really talked to either of them, but that didn't mean that she didn't like them.

"Hey guys! Sorry we're late, but Hidan decided he'd get into another fight with Kakuzu," Tenten said as she placed a brown paper bag on the table before them. Slowly, she took the items of food from the bag and began to munch on some baby carrots.

"Oh whatever! That asshole deserves it, and you know it!" Hidan shouted indignantly at his girlfriend. Tenten rolled her eyes and blew a couple of bangs from her face.

About the mid-way through lunch, Kiba made his way to a different lunch table because of the awkwardness of sitting with three couples. Ino snorted when the boy left and crossed her arms in a pouting expression.

"Bastard always leaves. I mean, what the hell! Ever since Chouji started sitting here, he's been so distant…he hardly talks to me anymore!" Ino huffed and allowed herself to be pulled into Chouji's comforting hug.

"Well, look at it from his point of view for a second. We used to hang out all the time, and then you started dating Chouji. Then, instead of hanging out with him we were always spending time with Chouji. He probably feels replaced," Sakura said, but quickly realized that her friend wasn't listening anymore. Sighing, Sakura turned her attention to Deidara.

"Uh, Dei-kun, how much did you get to eat?" She asked as her boyfriend dipped a fry in ketchup and threw the whole thing in his mouth.

"I don't know, it's the usual. A piece of pizza, some fries, an iced tea, a cupcake, some ice cream, a fruit roll-up. Why? You want some?" He asked offering her some of his food. She shook her head rapidly; horrified that he could eat so much and not gain a pound.

As soon as Deidara finished his…smorgasbord, the lunch bell rang, and they were forced to go to sixth period. For Sakura, this meant physics, which she hated. It wasn't the teacher she hated, Mr. Burgard was actually insanely funny, but it was the actual context of the class that she stumbled over. Ever since day one, she hadn't understood a word of what either the teacher or the book was saying. It all seemed like gibberish to her. And since today seemed to be a gift from God himself, today was her class's day to have a double period. Luckily for her, these were the periods where she actually saw her best guy friend, Uzumaki Naruto, and her former, secret crush, Uchiha Sasuke.

"So, Naruto did you play World of Warcraft again last night?" Sakura asked during the break in periods. The hyperactive blonde turned to her and smiled brightly.

"You know it, Sakura! I pwn everyone in that game!" Naruto said enthusiastically. It was no secret that her friend spent every waking moment playing the online, computer game. Ever since it had come out, his life had revolved around progressing in it, which unfortunately meant that Sakura had been kicked to the backburner.

"Why must you even ask anymore, Sakura? You know the dobe derives entertainment from people kicking his ass," Sasuke said from his position beside Naruto. Sakura restrained some giggles behind her hand and watched as the blonde turned his attention from her to the black haired Uchiha.

"Well, at least I don't let myself get pushed around by my older brother," Naruto shot back, and the air instantly grew colder. The rosette stiffened in her seat as Sasuke glared angrily at the other boy. It was no secret that Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, pushed him around. Itachi was a senior just like Deidara, and the stoic man had a special way with words, which meant that every word that left his mouth made you want to punch him even more.

"Don't talk about him, Naruto," Sasuke said, and just like that the conversation was over. The rest of the class dragged by, and Sakura nearly jumped with joy when the bell rang and they went to the last class of the day.

Her last class was C.P English with her favorite teacher, Mr. Kiess. The class itself was also her favorite, and today they were watching Of Mice and Men, a movie rendition of John Steinbeck's book.

"So, Sakura, what's the news today?" Mr. Kiess asked as soon as she took her seat. The question wasn't uncommon; in fact, he asked her that exact question every day. Smiling, she shrugged and delivered the usual answer.

"Oh, y'know, the usual."

"Guys, I'm home from school," Sakura said as she walked in the door after school. Her father simply grunted and held up a finger to show that he was on the phone. She simply nodded and walked up the stairs to find her mother. Her mom was in the kitchen, as usual, making dinner.

"Oh, hey honey, are you going to be around for dinner?" Her mom asked with a smile as she turned to face her daughter.

"Yeah, and I think Deidara is coming over too," she said and her mother nodded before turning back to her work.

"So, how was school?" Her mother questioned as she flicked her head to get an annoying piece of red hair out of her face. Sakura opened the fridge and picked out an apple before taking a seat at the kitchen table.

"Meh, it was okay," she said with a shrug. She saw her mom shake her head and she took a bite from the apple.

"You always say that. How am I supposed to know if you're doing well?" She asked as she filled a pasta shell with whatever it was that went inside stuffed shells. It's not like Sakura really cared that much about the domestic stuff.

"You approve of the report card, so you know I'm doing well," Sakura replied before hearing her cell phone begin to ring. "Hey, sorry mom, but I think Deidara is calling."

Quickly, Sakura dashed out of the kitchen to escape further questioning and ran into her room. Her cell phone was playing its happy rendition on an Avenged Sevenfold song, and she flipped it open hurriedly.

"Hello?"

"Hey Sakura-chan, you want to go somewhere for a little bit?" Deidara's voice questioned from her black LG Voyager. A smile grew on her face as she nodded, and then she remembered he couldn't see her and proceeded to feel like an idiot.

"Yeah! I'd love to. Where do you wanna go?"

"How about we go to Arthur and Lloyds for some phosphates?"

"Sounds amazing!"

"I'll be there soon." The dial tone rang out, and she set the device back on her desk. She plopped down on her bed and glanced around at her room. It was adorned with everything that had to do with cherry blossom's, compliments of her friends and family. Apparently, everyone around her liked the irony of her name a little too much.

When she heard Deidara pull in, she darted from her room and down the stairs, yelling a quick goodbye to her parents. Sighing, she plopped down in the passenger seat of the car and relished the sound of music pounding out of the stereo. Other than the rock music, the ride back to Geneva was silent. Casually, she glanced over at Deidara and found him staring out of the windshield, grimacing. Sakura decided to let it go until they were happily inside the soda fountain with phosphates in their hands.

When that time actually came, she found her mouth still firmly shut, and she was still unwilling to bring up the look on his face in the car. Luckily, she didn't have to.

"Uh, Sakura…I've been thinking lately," Deidara started, looking horrendously awkward.

"About what? You can tell me anything, you know that," she said while reaching out and placing her hand gently on his arm. A horrible feeling began to crawl into her stomach when she saw him sigh.

"I know, but this is really hard…I've never really said this to anyone but my parents," he said, and all dread was erased from her because she couldn't really imagine him breaking up with his parents.

"Dei-kun, I'm sure it isn't that ha-," she began, but was quickly cut off.

"Sakura, I love you," he blurted out quickly. At first, she was almost positive that she misheard him, but when she looked up and he had this look of serious sincerity covering his usual countenance she ditched that idea. An abundance of emotions washed over her at the four words, and she wasn't sure where the sparkling joy was that was supposed to fill this moment. Instead, she was quickly becoming light-headed, and with a groan she lifted herself from her seat.

"I think I need some fresh air," Sakura said before turning and practically throwing herself out of the door. Cursing that there were no benches on this side of the street, she slowly began to cross the street, too dizzy and nauseous to watch where she was going. Vaguely, she was aware of Deidara moving behind her, attempting to get her attention. Then, the tone of his voice changed from annoyed to terrified.

"Sakura! Get the hell out of the way!" Deidara screamed as he sprinted towards her. Unhurriedly, she moved her head to the side and saw, with horror, a giant truck heading her way. The driver realized a little too late that she was still standing in the middle of the street, and slammed on the brakes.

Sakura inappropriately realized at that moment, that this is what a deer must feel like when caught in the headlights. Terrified, she scrunched her eyes closed and awaited the impact, but found instead she was flying away from the moving truck.

Her eyes flashed open and she caught a flash of blonde above her. Her body landed with a crunch, and her head was slammed onto the concrete of the sidewalk a bit too roughly.

The dizziness became unbearable at this point, and as she slipped into unconsciousness she realized that Deidara was lying on top of her.

A/N: Well, that'll be it for now. Let me just explain right now that I know some of the characters were OOC. Well, I wanted them to be that way right now because this is a totally different reality than what we see when we watch the television show, Naruto. Trust me, this is only going to make it more entertaining when Sakura wakes up and finds herself with the same faces but different people. Also, most of the stuff above actually did happen to me…well, except the accident. The conversations, the teachers, the classes, those were all things that really happened to my friends and me during my junior year. So, if you find it unrealistic I apologize, but I was just trying to go off what I knew.

Please review, your words seriously make my day, and keep me from going insane. I love to know what you think, and a review shows me that you took time out of your day to slap some words down to either praise or criticize my work. Truly, I don't give a rat's ass about whether you love it, like it, or hate it…just tell me!

Oh, and please feel free to check out my other stories A Test of Insanity (multi-chaptered, COMPLETE), The Howling (multi-chaptered, In Progress), and In Desperation (one-shot).