Reaching out

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It was happening again. The villagers had all surrounded Naruto to talk about him. Mean comments had been made. Disgusted looks on people's faces. But no one knew how Naruto felt. He felt pain, sadness, and anger. And throughout the crowd there were only three people that cared.

There was Little Hinata Hyuga. She was shy, beautiful, and smart. She had always loved Naruto, but, she didn't have the courage to stand up to these people, so she just stood there and watched as people made fun of him. But what could she do?

Next was Sasuke Uchiha. He was tough, cool, handsome, and all the girls loved him. He didn't think Naruto was smart, but he also didn't think that he deserved to be treated like this, but he had a reputation to look after. He wasn't going to ruin it for Naruto.

And the last one was Sakura Haruno. She was unique. She tried to stand up for Naruto, but her father wouldn't let her, but that wasn't going to stop her. Her green eyes looked determent. She didn't think anyone deserved this. She knew it wasn't Naruto's fault. And she knew what it was like to be bullied, but she could never imagine being in Naruto's situation. Sakura took a deep breath, and stepped forward... actually she fan forward so her dad couldn't stop her.

"Sakura Haruno, what are you doing? Get back here!" Sakura's father, Kaito yelled after her. His face was boiling with anger.

Sakura's mom put an arm around her husband. "Calm down. Let her do what she thinks is best." Sakura's mother, Sakuno said in a calm voice.

"But the fox daemon..." Kaito growled.

Sakuno sighed. "You know as well as I do that Naruto had nothing to do with the attack! That poor boy has been living in pain."

Sakura ran up in front of Naruto. Villagers gasped. "What's she doing?" A woman whispered. "I don't know, but she's crazy." Another replied. Soon everyone joined in on their conversation.

"Stop," Sakura screeched. All eyes were on her. Some glares...

"What's wrong with you people? He's just a boy! You shouldn't shun him, you should be helping him. He has no family, he's always been alone! The fox attack wasn't his fault; in fact, he had nothing to do with it! He didn't choose to have the fox sealed inside of him, so just leave him alone!" Sakura cried.

Hinata was shocked. Sakura stood up for Naruto. Hinata wanted to join in, but she couldn't. She was too scared.

"Come on Hinata, there's nothing left to see." Haishi said, dragging her daughter away. Hinata looked back one last time and then left with her father.

Naruto looked up at the pink haired girl. He wiped away his tears and put a smile on his face. "Thank you!" Naruto exclaimed

Sakura looked at Naruto and smiled. "It was nothing!" Sakura said happily.

Naruto jumped of the swing and kicked some dirt. He walked over to Sakura. "So what's your name?" Naruto asked with a big grin on his face.

"My name is Sakura Haruno!" Sakura replied, returning his grin.

"Well, I'm Naruto Uzumaki! But you probably already know that." Naruto said.

Sakura looked at Naruto. He had a grin on, but his eyes were still sad. She frowned. She looked at Naruto's clothes. It was all torn and dirty.

"Sakura-chan, why are you frowning?" Naruto asked. He didn't like seeing his new friend sad.

"Oh, it's nothing! Hey Naruto, do you want to play a game?" Sakura asked enthusiastically.

"What kind of game?" Naruto asked.

Sakura put a finger on her chin. "What about tag?" Sakura suggested.

"What's tag?" Sakura gasped.

"Well tag is a really fun game. You see, one person is it, and the other people have to run away from the person that's it. If the it person catches you, then you're it, got it?" Sakura explained.

"Yea, but can you really play with two people?" Naruto asked.

"I guess not." Sakura frowned. "What if I go look for someone to play with us?" Sakura asked, brightening up.

"I don't think anyone wants to play with me." Naruto murmured.

"Well I might as well look." Sakura said. But before she could leave, Naruto grabbed her wrist. "You promise to come back, right?" Naruto asked. Sakura gave him a smile and nodded, and then she ran off to find some more kids.

As she ran, people starred and started whispering about her speech. Sakura just rolled her eyes and ignored it. She promised herself that this kind of stuff wouldn't bother her.

Suddenly she bumped into someone and fell.

"Watch it!" A voice spoke.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to!" Sakura apologized. She looked up to see a pair of onyx eyes staring at her. It was Sasuke, her crush.

"Sa-Sasuke-kun," Sakura stuttered, not knowing what to say.

"Hn. Look where you're going next time, Sakura," Sasuke muttered. He grabbed her wrist and helped her up.

"You know my name?" Sakura asked, surprised that Sasuke Uchiha knew her name.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Everybody knows you Sakura. You made that big speech about fox boy." Sasuke told her.

"Don't call him that!" Sakura glared.

"Whatever. Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be with fox boy?" Sasuke asked.

"I told you not to call him that! And if you must know, I'm trying to find people to play tag with us." Sakura told him.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Tag is such a childish game."

"But Sasuke-kun, we're only seven." Sakura said.

"Hn," Sasuke grunted.

Then Sakura started grinning. "Sasuke-kun, do you want to play tag?" Sakura asked with a sly grin. Sasuke looked a little scared.

"I already told you, it's a childish game!" Sasuke muttered, crossing his arms.

"Come on Sasuke-kun, pwease?" Sakura begged, giving him the irresistible puppy dog eyes. Sasuke stared into Sakura's eyes. They weren't friends, but he was still weakened by those eyes.

"Fine," Sasuke grunted, giving up.

"Yay. Thank you Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cheered. She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the field where Naruto was waiting.

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"Oh come on! Why did you get him?" Naruto whined.

Sakura frowned. "Hey, you should be thanking me. Do you know how hard it was to convince this guy to come? I had to use my secret weapon!"

"You brought out a knife and threatened him?" Naruto guessed.

"No, I-

"Or was it a gun? Oh maybe a machine gun...or a kunai..." Naruto kept on guessing

"No, I'm a ninja yet! I did the puppy dog eyes thing." Sakura explained. Naruto burst out into laughter.

"Hey, aren't Uchiha's supposed to be emotionless? You're not supposed to be weakened by a girl with puppy dog eyes!" Naruto laughed.

"Be quiet dobe!" Sasuke muttered.

"You guys just met, and you're already acting like brothers!" Sakura pointed out.

"Hn. Can we just get on with the game?" Sasuke asked.

"Oh yea, I forgot, Uchiha's don't like talking, sorry. Alright then, let's get on with the- but then Sakura noticed Hinata hiding behind a tree, starring at them.

"Hey Hinata, Do you want to play with us?" Sakura called.

Timid Hinata took a step forward and nodded. She started walking towards the group slowly.

"Come on Hinata, run!" Sakura yelled.

Hinata started running towards them. "Th-thanks for in-inviting me," Hinata stuttered. A blush crept onto her face when she noticed Naruto.

"Ok everybody put your foot in!" Sakura ordered.

They all did as they were told. Naruto had orange sneakers, Hinata was wearing purple sandals, Sasuke had blue sneakers, and Sakura had pink sneakers.

"Sky blue, sky blue, everybody is out except for you!" Sakura sang. Her finger landed on Sasuke's sneakers.

Naruto stuck out his tongue. "Ha ha, you're it!"

"Be quiet!"

"No!"

"dobe!"

"Ba-

Naruto, don't say the B word!" Sakura scolded.

"Fine," Naruto muttered.

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Did you like it? I'm planning on making this a long story. Next chapter is going to be about their tag game, and a little NaruHina and SasuSaku in it. Hey, tell me, should I put a little NaruSaku? Anyways I saw this in a dream I had, kind of stupid -_- ...Well then, please R&R!