Summary: Sakura is in high school, upon entering her and her best friend in the whole world, and boyfriend, Gaara no Sabaku are trying to figure out hard schedules, manage dates, friends, and skate park trips. Will these years be tough, or the best years of their lives? One-sided SasuNaru, NejiTen, ShikaIno.Flashback"Blah" talking 'Blah' thinking

Chapter One: Enter: Haruno Sakura and Sabaku no Gaara

Disclaimer: I do not, will not, will never (tear) own Naruto ©Masashi KishimotoBring Me to Life belongs to EvanescenceiHome, iPod, © MacAlice Cullen © Stephenie MeyerBut I Do own Anka!

Wake me up! Wake me up inside! The iHome alarm clock rang. A pale hand slapped it off."Urg…." A pink haired girl moaned, this was Uzumaki Sakura (A/N I know... that's Naruto's last name but…I like the idea of Naruto and Sakura being brother and sister) Today, is her first day of the ninth grade, she got up and trudged to her bathroom

"AH!" she had looked at herself in the mirror, being shocked by her own appearance. Her pink hair was in a tangled mess, she couldn't even throw a hand through there. Her eyes looked tired, purplish bags under her eyes made her look like a pink haired Alice Cullen from Twilight.

"Better get ready…damn school…" Sakura mumbled, she took off her clothes and threw them into the dirty clothes hamper, took a black and orange striped towel and wrapped it around her self. She then turned the hot water knob on, putting her hand under to test to see if it was warm enough she burnt herself.

"Ow…" she yelped, she then turned the cold water halfway, she warily stuck her hand under again. It was warm.

"Ah…" she murmured. She took off the towel and put it on the towel rack. She stepped in.

(15 minutes later)"Sakura!" a voice yelled, it was her mother.

"Yeah mom?!" she shouted back, she towel dried her hair, she flipped her hair forward to dry the back of her hair she had black highlights in it since she was in the seventh grade, she was wearing a black BAM shirt with black skinny jeans and black and red DC shoes, the black eyeliner was put on perfectly.

"Can you get your brothers up?" Her mother shouted back. Sakura laughed and rolled her eyes, her two loving brothers. Naruto and Anka, Naruto was her twin and Anka was five years younger than she was, in the fourth grade.

"Sure mom!" she ran out of her room, and ran towards her brother Naruto's room, it had a poster of a big fox on the tall mahogany door. She swung the door open and threw herself onto the bundled up body.

"Nii-san! Get up, it's the first day of high school!" Sakura yelled, the body shifted.

"Saku-chan! Leave me alone! Please, I beg you, I'm your twin! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I LOVE TO SLEEP IN!!" he whined, Sakura giggled. Naruto stuck his head out groggily, his bright blue eyes were so much different from her emerald green ones; he also had three whisker marks on each cheek; so was his spiky blonde hair while hers was naturally pink, they were fraternal twins and sometimes people mistook them for being such great friends, not brother and sister, even when they addressed each other as "Nii-san" and "Nii-chan", people just never took them seriously when they told said people they were twins.

"I know Naru-kun, now COME ON! MOM MADE CEREAL!" she yelled sarcastically, she shoved his head to the side.

"Now, I gotta get Anka up…wanna help me tickle him awake?" she said, wiggling her eyebrows up and down.

"Oh, you know I wanna get that little guy back! Remember he dumped ice water down my back yesterday at the party?" Naruto said. Anka had been very foolish to do that, he knows his older brother would get him back.

They walked down the hall to where a mahogany door was covered in ninja posters, Anka was a Ninja fanatic. Sakura shushed Naruto, he covered his mouth with his hand, Sakura opened the door to see a peaceful Anka his long blonde hair went up and down in a rhythm with his breathing, and his bright red comforter was covering his blue sheets. Sakura and Naruto walked over to their sleeping baby brother. Sakura held up three fingers, signaling that she would give him the go sign as one finger. Three fingers….two fingers…one…

"AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SAKU HAHAHAH RA HAHAHAH! NARU AHHAHAHAHAHAH TO! HAHAHAH PLEASE STOP HHAHAHAH!" he cried out, Sakura and Naruto were being merciless, Naruto took Anka's foot. "Please, no Naruto-Nii-san! You—" Naruto started to tickle Anka's little foot, tears were streaming down Anka's face from excessive laughter.

"Naruto…heheh I think Anka here has learned his lesson.." Sakura said, Anka stuck his tongue out at his older sister. His bright emerald green eyes with blue specks held happiness and sarcasm.

"ANKA! SAKURA! NARUTOOOO!" a voice yelled, and this time..It wasn't their mother.

"Yes father?" chorused Sakura, Naruto, and Anka. Naruto looked just like his father, Anka looked like a mix between his parents he had blonde hair and emerald eyes with blue specks in them, and the only thing Sakura got from her parents was her father's eyes, and both of their personalities put into one.

"Come on! Your mom made pancakes!! And no Naruto, your mom said you need a "real" breakfast, not ramen…don't feel bad I'm kinda sad too!" Their father said, Naruto shrugged. The three siblings slid down the stair railing, Sakura jumping off five inches before it ended, Naruto falling off and landing on his face, Anka jumped onto Sakura, luckily she caught the boy.

"Dang you're getting heavy!" She groaned sarcastically, she was joking around, Anka was a bit on the leaner side, he was 5 pounds under weight for his age group. Anka just hugged her and ran to his mom hugging her.

"Hi Mom! Naruto fell on his face again…" he said taking a seat by his father. Their father laughed a bit, before getting a death glare from his wife. He stopped laughing and started talking to Anka.

"Don't worry Mom, Naruto didn't do any damage to his face, and I checked for a concussion, which he doesn't have, and I see no bruises or cuts so your clumsy son is a-okay!" Sakura concluded her analysis of her brother. Sakura had always wanted to be a pediatrician, she just loved working in the medical field, but what she really adored was what the pediatricians did. Did they not only help with bruises and such, but even some do surgery, and other big things to help children!

"Hey hurry up or you two will miss the bus." Their mother said. Naruto hastily shoved syrup covered pancakes into his mouth, gulped down his orange juice and ran upstairs to get changed.

"YOU DIDN'T GET CHANGED!?" Mother yelled, Anka laughed. Naruto ran down in an orange polo with baggy blue jeans, he had on a black DC hat which was tilted to the side to cover his face.

"You ready Sakura? You got your schedule? Knapsack, skateboard, lunch money?" Naruto asked, Sakura grabbed her black knapsack with red fuuma shuriken stitched onto it, her skateboard, and her schedule.

"Guess who's bus route combined with ours?" Naruto smirked, Sakura's eyes widened.

FlashbackNine Years Ago

A five-year-old Sakura ran from a group of boys and girls. What she didn't know was she was about to hit something….or someone.

Sakura ran into a boy with blood red hair and purplish bruise under his right eye.

"OW!" they both said simultaneously. They both looked at each other studying each other's features.

"Oh…I'm really sorry I ran into you...what's your name?" asked a curious Sakura, Gaara raised an invisible brow.

"Uh….I-I'm Gaara….Sabaku no Gaara…What's yours?" He asked warily. Sakura beamed, she was glad she found him, she needed a new friend.

"Me? I'm Uzumaki Sakura!" She said proudly, Gaara smiled a bit. "Hey, Gaara? Do you wanna be my friend?" Gaara smiled brightly, he had never had a friend. The only people who cared about him were his brother and sister.

"Sure Sakura…" he smiled crookedly, Sakura held her hand out for him to shake.

"Gaara?" Sakura asked warily, Gaara looked at her. "What happened to your eye?"

"Hey we got to get to our own classes. I'll see you tomorrow right?" he asked carefully and quickly. Sakura nodded.

Fast forward Three years

"Gaara! C'mon! Naruto, Ino, Kankuro, Temari, Shikamaru, Tenten, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, and Neji told me about this new girl! Apparently this new girl thinks she's Sasuke's girlfriend! Hehe…let's go!" Sakura yelled, she grabbed Gaara's hand. Sakura and Gaara had grown over the three year friendship. Gaara was a mere two inches taller than she.

"Okay…" Gaara had never told her of the bruise under his eye from Kindergarten. Sakura still sometimes asked but Gaara just merely changed the subject. Now he had a darker bruise than before under his right eye.

Fast forward two more years

"WHAT?! GAARA NO! YOU CAN'T GO!" Sakura screamed. They were in fifth grade; Gaara had gotten friends over the years, like Sakura's brother Naruto.

"Sakura…" Gaara said coolly, "Look, my father wants nothing more to do with me." He looked away from her. Sakura had tears streaming down from her emerald eyes.

"…." Sakura said nothing.

"I'll call you, and Naruto, Sasuke, Temari and the guy's everyday. It's just a couple of hours' time difference. Don't worry." He walked over to her, and hugged her tightly. His blood red hair hung in his face. He had now, worse bruises than ever before. Now he came to school with two dark bruises under his eyes. But now he tried covering them up with eyeliner; and in doing so some of their classmates had started calling him "emo" he had just ignored them, but Sakura punched them all. Their group of friends had started to skate and wear dark clothes; but Sakura questioned even more.

"Gaara…" she sobbed. Gaara shushed her. "Gaara, please don't go, you've been my best friend for six years. If I have to talk to your father—"Sakura was cut off by Gaara yelling.

"NO SAKURA! YOU DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO MY FATHER! HE HITS ME! IF HE EVEN HEARS THAT I TOLD ALL MY FRIENDS THIS! HE'LL—"He shut himself up, just recognizing what he had just said.

"S-so…that's why you have had black eyes everyday since you came to school?" She cried, Gaara nodded.

"I'm going to say something." She said quietly. Gaara's eyes widened.

"Sakura…" he said carefully, "please, don't say anything. He'll only hit harder." Gaara's eyes teared up at the thought.

"Gaara…I don't want him hurting you…" she said through clenched teeth.

"Sakura…look I leave tomorrow. I wanted to tell you earlier but…I thought if I told you later you wouldn't try anything funny. So…when I get settled in my new school, I'll call you. Oh, here's my new number. It's my cell phone that I bought with my money." He handed her a piece of notebook paper with a scribble on it.

"Sakura?" Gaara asked, Sakura looked up; tears still falling down her cheeks. "I love you." Sakura cried even harder. Gaara hugged her and held her until she fell asleep. He carried her to her house, Naruto answered and took her, and he told him what had happened. Naruto nodded and said he would hear from him soon.

Fast forward to next year (still in flashback mode)

Gaara ran, he ran for his life. He now didn't have black eyes. He had black rings from insomnia. People thought it was eyeliner, he said it was. Therefore, the boys at his school (A/N I forgot to say, he goes to an all boys private school in London.), called him emo boy and cutter. He ignored them like before. But this school, he couldn't stand it. The teachers even ridiculed him, he ran and got a plane ticket back home, he had called his brother and sister and asked him if he could move back, all the while crying. Now, Gaara never cried, but the boys here beat him up everyday. Even a couple of his teachers beat him, one teacher even punched him so hard in the ribs he cracked three of them. Gaara went to the nurse saying he tripped and fell down the stairs on his side.

Temari and Kankuro couldn't stand their father, he had sent their little brother to a foreign school which he had no choice in. So she moved out and lied about her age, saying she was eighteen to get an apartment. Kankuro had devised a plan to make sure that their father wouldn't see that they had moved out and that Gaara was coming back. 'Boy, Sakura and the gang will be happy…' he thought.

End of Flashback mode.

"Gaara?" Sakura smirked. Naruto nodded then he laughed.

"Sometimes I think you're psychic Sakura!" He chuckled, he then saw a raven haired boy run away from a herd of girls. Naruto laughed even harder, his boyfriend is being chased by his fan girls that hadn't given up on Sasuke.

Naruto had claimed he was gay when they were in seventh grade, Sakura was happy. He had never known why he couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. But when they were in eighth grade last year, Sasuke came out too. Naruto, him having a crush on Sasuke for the longest time, was far happier than Sakura had ever seen him. Sasuke told Naruto that he had been crushing on him too.

"Awww….that's not nice Naruto! He might be tackled by the fan girls and if he's down…" she trailed off to let that ponder in his imagination. He threw his knapsack to Sakura, her barely catching it fast enough, he ran towards Sasuke.

"OKAY LEAVE HIM ALONE NOW! HE'S TAKEN!" Naruto yelled, the fan girls growled. "Oh, I'm so scared of a bunch of fan girls!" Sakura heard him yell, she just laughed and put his knapsack over her shoulder. She put her board down and stepped on top of it. She also put her iPod in and turned on "Never Too Late" By Three Days Grace. She then started to skate towards the bus stop a couple of blocks down from where they were originally standing.

She then ran into someone.

"I'm so—" she was cut off by a hug.A/N Ohh…I wonder who hugged her…well I really hoped you liked my first Naruto fan fiction. Thanks for reading, please review!

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