A/N: So! I decided to rewrite the entire KSA story. I felt the original wasn't well written, it had a lot of random plot twists that lead no where and the chapters didn't make sense in the way they were connected. I let too many things happen at once so it really wasn't like a story- just a whole jumble of words, and then the characters were way ooc. I've been working on making my characters more in-character, though I still think my Sakura and Tenten are way off, as are Temari's reactions. I'm open to criticism- I want to get better. So, you see any errors tell me. Rest assured, I know I've said I'd update more often, but everyone knows how unpredictable life is. I will update when I can.
Onto other matters, I realized I left a lot of things about the schools very vague, so I'll fix that. Here, is some info you'll need:

Konoha School of the Arts:

- A school that works with students who are good/exceptional in Art related subjects.

- Has 4 buildings: The Main (2 floors), The Tech(3 floors), The Hub(1 floor) and the Gym

-Teaches grades 7-12

-Principal: Tsunade

-Vice Principal: Danzo

Suna Athletic Academy:

-Sister school of KSA, works with students who are good/exceptional in Sport/Athletic related subjects.

- Has 4 different buildings: One for the Elementary school (2 floors), one for the Middle School (3 floors) and one for the High School (3 floors). They are inter-connected by bridges on their second and third floors with the exception of the Gym which has 2 floors and a shed for storage.

-Teaches grades k-12 (different divisions)

-Principal: Orochimaru

-Vice Principal: Tobi

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Songs will be listed with the artists who are the proper owners of said songs and Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Chapter I: New Beginning

Sakura has arrived twenty minutes before the bell was supposed to ring. Having no choice now (She still had to get her schedule from the Principal) she entered the school gates before the temptation of ditching got to her.

She had transferred from Suna Athletic Academy to Konoha School of the Arts after an accident during one of her performances ended her career as a dancer. She had her hopes and dreams, though they were no longer achievable, but she would have to settle with working with what she had now. She had always had a hobby that not many besides her really close friends and family knew about, and it was what had gotten her into Konoha.

Sakura had always thought that she was a terrible singer but that was just her opinion. Her family and friends assured her that she was wonderful at singing which only made her sadder. She didn't want to be a singer. Sure it was fun as a hobby but she had always pictured herself on stage dancing, showing emotion, and telling stories with the grace of her body-not the soft melody of her voice.

She also missed her friends and nothing was going to stop that pain. She had walked into the main building by now ignoring the quick glances and whispers around her. It was natural as she was the new girl after all.

"I miss Suna..." She mumbled quietly. Inner her was away at scolding her. Something about how it had been her choice as Suna still had general study classes. Sure, she could've stayed, but then she'd be too embarrassed and she just knew Karin wouldn't let her live the incident down.

"I can't believe I used to consider her my rival," Karin's words rang in her mind echoing and echoing. She had last seen the red head during her last day before she transferred. Of course, she had to be acting high and mighty, pointing out casually that she'd totally been better for the main part; that she wouldn't have screwed up.

Rage flooded through her. Karin had no right to think she was better than Sakura, she surely wouldn't have been as cruel if the same incident happened to Karin. Her anger getting the best of her, she yelled "KARIN!"punching the locker nearest leaving it with a nice dent.

Great. As if everyone wasn't already staring, now she had everyone in the hallway looking at her as if she was a mad lady. She didn't even spare them a glance, her face red, she bowed her head and quietly continued on her way. 'So much for not standing out...'. After continuing down the hallway, she smiled a bit. She'd never been one to "blend in" after all.

She turned a corner and paused to check the time when someone tapped her on the shoulder.

"Hm?"

Sakura was confused. Who would dare to talk to the newcomer who was no less coming from their rival school (Not to mention the outburst she'd just done). She hesitated then turned around silently studying the person. She rubbed her eyes, eliciting a eye roll and soft punch on her arm from the person.

Grinning, she knew she wasn't being delusional. "Tenten! Temari!" She hugged both girls tightly. People were staring again, but she sure as hell didn't give a damn. Her best friends were here, and suddenly everything looked a little brighter.

"Whoa, missed us already Pinky?" Temari asked a smile playing at her lips.

"I can't believe we haven't even been apart for twenty-four hours and she misses us," Ten Ten said playfully her tone loving. "As happy as we are to see you too Saku, can you let us go? We've gotta breathe sometime you know."

"Sorry," Sakura sheepishly released her friends, a hand rubbing the back of her head now, but she was still smiling shyly.

"It's okay. So what were you doing? We have to go see the Principal apparently." Temari dusted off her uniform, fidgeting a bit.

The Konoha high school division uniform for the girls consisted of a leaf green over coat, white short sleeve or long sleeve button up undershirt, a mid thigh or knee length leaf green skirt and a leaf green bow that went around the collar. Boys wore the same green over coat and white undershirt but they wore khaki pants in place of the girls' skirts. They also wore ties, not bows.

Each girl wore their own variation, and just to peeve people off and still show her pride it seemed Temari had tied her handkerchief that had Suna emblem onto the back of her backpack for display. This made Sakura inwardly chuckle and groan at the same time. Just like Temari to do that. Her own uniform was worn carelessly, the undershirt wasn't buttoned all the way at the bottom and just 2 or three off the top, her socks were rolled up to just above her combat boots, and her bow was loosely tied. She did care about her appearance- but today she couldn't care less.

Tenten didn't seem to have done anything all that different to the outfit, she wore it just like she had wore her Suna uniform: nice, neat and perfect by school standards. Her buttons were buttoned all the way to the top, her overcoat was buttoned as well. Sakura herself had kept the first button of her uniform undone for comfort- her skirt and shirt were still new and stiff. She had her bow tied loosely, but not as loose at Temari and her overcoat was only buttoned with one single lonely button.

Of course, Tenten and Sakura both wore regular school girl shoes they were told to bring tennis shoes to keep in their P.E. lockers but they weren't permitted to be worn on campus otherwise.

'Opportunity'Sakura thought mind wandering from their outfits and onto Temari's last comment. A full on smile graced her lips as she retaliated against the blonde.

"Already? Wow. I at least thought you'd wait until the school day actually started to get in trouble, especially when it's your first day at a new school."

"Well, Temari always likes to get the leap on us," Tenten joined in on the teasing as Temari just laughed.

"I said WE. So, therefore you got the jump on Sakura too Ten," Temari argued pointing an accusing finger at the brunette, her tone was one of certain victory.

Sakura was about to make a comeback when Tenten reminded them that they had a mission to take care of first. And side by side they wandered the halls until they found the principal's office.

They walked in the huge double doors to be greeted by the secretary. She had short black hair and brown eyes that followed them as they walked in.

"You must be the Suna transfer students. A moment please," She picked up the phone on her desk and dialed a number quickly.

"What?!" Tsunade barked into the phone that's ringing irritated her so much that she had opted to answer it to hear a human voice rather than the obnoxious ringing.

"The transfer students are here. Should I send them in?" Shizune asked.

"What?! Already, but it's too early..."Tsunade moaned into the phone holding an icepack to her throbbing head. She had had a rough night and her hangover was kicking her butt.

"Okay I'll send them in right away." Shizune said ignoring Tsunade's last comment she hung up before she could complain. "Okay, go on in. She'll be happy to see you."

The girls looked at each other, shrugged, and made their way to the door the read "Principal". Tsunade growled as she hung up her phone and put the icepack away just as the door to her office opened.

"Here are your schedules and a map of the school. I don't want to see you in here again." Tsunade hurriedly handed each of the startled girls two pieces of paper and shoved them out of her office.

"Okay?" the girls stood there as the office door slammed in their faces. They were shocked for a second before turning and making their way out of the office.

"What a strange school..." Sakura commented putting the map behind her schedule so she could get some sort of idea of where she was supposed to go.

"Really, really strange you mean," Tenten added as she also looked at her schedule.

"Well, what did you get?" Temari was done looking having already folded the piece of paper up and stuffed it in her bag.

"A bunch of Music related classes," was all Sakura said. She was still busy trying to study the map of the school.

"Art, English, Math..." Tenten just read them off at random not really impressed with her classes. The Art class peeked her interest a bit though.

"Well, my first class is-"

The bell rang. They looked at each other, none had the same first class right?

"You have to tell me later why you transferred." Sakura said, map still in hand.

A hand was raised in recognition of what she'd said. Temari was already turned away.
"I'll text you in class!" Temari made her way down the east way of the hallway, map in hand, off to Music Theory.

"Bye!" Tenten yelled to Temari, she gave the pinkette a nod and hug then ran off to Choir.

"Bye!" Sakura waved, went back to looking at her map with a sigh and tried to make her way to Choir in the filled hallways.

She had eventually got to class about 10 minutes after the bell rang. She had to ask for help from a security monitor named Genma who made sense of her map and pointed her in the right direction. She paused, and then nervously walked into the class. The teacher was in the middle of talking but turned to look at Sakura. She had layered black hair and beautiful red eyes.

"Hello,"

"Hi. I'm Sakura. Sakura Haruno." She held out her schedule and the pass Genma had given her. A bandaged hand reached out and took them.

"I hope you won't be late again Miss Haruno. Please, take a seat." Kurenai-sensei said after a second. She handed the schedule back and put the late pass on her desk. Sakura nodded her head and noticed that Tenten was sitting with the students. Walking past her, she waved to Tenten and took the only available seat left which was by a boy with dark blue hair.

Sakura was alert, though not exactly paying attention to what Kurenai-sensei said. Silently she studied the people around her. Her neighbor in particular, the boy with dark blue hair and black eyes, had caught her attention. He looked older than her for sure and seemed oddly familiar. She continued catching peeks of him, the thought that she might've known him bugging at her. He never seemed to notice her staring thankfully, as if she needed to attract attention again.

Someone noticed her looking though, and she had made it clear. Leaning forward, the girl behind her made sure Sakura could hear her plainly. "Don't even think about it," the girl warned.

Sakura turned around at this and met level blue eyes. They belong to a blonde girl, someone who looked oddly familiar. 'What is it with people looking familiar?!' inner her demanded. Sakura too was starting to feel as if she had to be mistaken, or she was going crazy.

They were staring at each other, Sakura and the blonde girl. Sakura's eyes questioningly and the blondie's hostile, accusing even. They just stared, studying each other for what seemed like a few minutes when Kurenai-sensei noticed their little staring contest.

"Miss Yamanaka, Miss Haruno is there a problem?" Kurenai questioned eying the girls suspiciously. Both immediately turned back towards her. The blonde's image was burned into Sakura's mind just as her image was burned into the blonde's.

"No sensei!" The girls replied sweetly turning their attention back to fully as the entire class eyed them as well. Sakura knew who the girl was now, her fist tightening in a ball. 'Yamanaka' is what sensei had said and there was only one person Sakura knew with that name. It had been a long time since she had seen Ino, and her image totally changed from the last time she had seen the girl a few years back when they were both in elementary school.

Tenten looked at Sakura, then at Ino. She studied her quietly then turned back toward Kurenai before anyone noticed. She got the feeling that Ino wasn't so nice by the glares she shot at people, especially the one she gave her friend. Sakura herself didn't look too good right now, but she couldn't do much in the middle of class. Putting it to the back of her mind, she focused on what Kurenai-sensei was saying.

"As I was saying, we were asked to perform in the winter festival and I accepted the offer-" The entire class groaned as Kurenai smiled and continued. "So your homework for this week is to come up with a song having to do with the holidays. Then we'll have an in class vote for the best performance and then we'll edit and perform the song at the festival. You know by now that you can have groups, but the rule still stands at no more than 5 people to a group."

Turning to the white board she went into more details.

~Meanwhile in Music Theory~

Temari's class was relatively small-there weren't even 15 students present. The people at her table- two boys and a shy looking girl- didn't seem interesting in the slightest. She had gotten to the class just as every one took their seats. Asuma-sensei had smiled at her and urged her to introduce herself to the class.

She lifted a hand, said "Yo." and walked away to take the last seat, which happened to be at her current table. Her teacher sweat dropped, but gave the whole "Welcome to Konoha" speech before continuing with the attendance. Temari observed her "table-mates" and noticed the bespectacled girl was trying to get the attention and interest of the boy with the pony tail and the other boy just sat there not really doing anything. Not interesting at all. The teacher began to lecture, drawing and writing eagerly on the white board. Everyone else pulled out paper and pencils or pens and started taking notes. Everybody but her and the ponytail dude. Which takes us back to square one of Temari being bored.

Not taking notes or doing something productive was unusual for the tempered blonde. Ever the good student, she did her work as told and it was usually A plus work. Many people were surprised by that since she gave off the dominate and scary vibe of a delinquent. Sure she didn't mind stirring trouble here and there but nothing too big that would affect her grades. Nothing this Asuma-sensei was going over was new- she remembered most of this as it was just the basics of music, notes, the counts,etc. Stuff she had basically learned back in middle school. So she found no reason to pay attention. The vibrating of her phone in her palm distracted her and made her look down.

One New Text From: Ten Ten

Ugh choir is so boring! :/

Temari laughed to herself while texting her reply:

Tell me about it! I'm a second away from being K.O'd!

"You know that if the teacher moves a bit more to his right he'll be able to see your phone." It was ponytail-boy who commented . He sat straight across the table from her; his head was down. Addressing her, he'd noted this 'fact' dully and didn't even care to lift his head.

Temari growled lowly not liking how he put his two pence in. "Who asked you Pineapple head?" She whispered to him dangerously. The nickname sprang to her mind as the only part of him she could see was his ponytail. The tail part being spiked up and his head being round instantly made the image of a pineapple appear in her head.

Shikamaru lifted his head up a look of annoyance on his face."I have a name you know," He said coolly as she scoffed, teal eyes giving him an eye roll for dramatization.

"Yeah, you do." She agreed. "It's Pineapple Head!" emphasizing her statement her voice had risen. Temari had never been a quiet person. She was loud, at times obnoxious and definitely wasn't afraid to voice her opinion. At this point the others at their table were looking a bit uncomfortable, the bifocal girl was looking back and forth between the fired spirits. Unsure of what to say, she began constantly pressing up at her glasses.

Asuma sensei walked over to them noticing the racket. It was odd for Shikamaru to be a cause or involved in such a ruckus.

"What's wrong Nara, Sabaku?" Asuma-sensei asked, eyes bouncing back and forth between both fuming teens. He was getting slightly amused since nothing usually perturbed Shikamaru-who was one of his favorite students. Shikamaru was what one would call a "lazy genius" and he tended to avoid "troublesome" encounters- the kind that were just like what was happening right now.

"Nothing," Temari replied with gritted teeth as she tightened her grip on her phone. It was vibrating as Ten Ten had just replied.

"It didn't sound like nothing."Asuma commented turning from her to Shikamaru. "What do you have to say Shikamaru?" Asuma and Shikamaru stared at each other, Asuma's eyes glittering in humor, Shikamaru's eyes the manifestation of someone who was annoyed.

"Nothing's wrong," The spiky haired teen replied finally breaking eye contact.

"Are you-"

"I'm outta here!" Temari declared. She wasn't in the mood to put up with such annoying people right now. She grabbed her bag, deposited her phone into the safety of her pocket, and left the class rapidly.

Normally, Asuma would have given out detention for this type of behavior, but he decided to give the girl a break- it had to be hard adjusting to a new school. Sighing he turned to Shikamaru again.

"We'll talk later."

"Stupid woman…" was all Shikamaru mumbled laying his head back down.

"Geez, teenagers these days…"Asuma commented rubbing the back of his head as he walked back to the front of the class. "Well, let's continue. Please turn to page..."

Within minutes, the second bell of the day rang signaling the end of first period. Sakura walked out of the class meeting up with Tenten. They didn't have the next class together but their classes were on the same floor so they walked together. Tenten kept giving Sakura looks hoping she'd speak soon about the girl, but she herself didn't want to bring it up and push her friend to talk if she didn't want to.

When they reached the third floor Sakura sighed then turned to smile at Tenten.
"See you at lunch!" the pinkette waved turning to the left to go to her science class. Tenten halfheartedly returned the wave then turned right to go to her English class. Temari had gone straight to her Math class after leaving Music Theory. She too would not see the others until they had lunch after their next class.