Chapter 1: Enter Sakura
It was an average day at the leaf village academy, every single fan girl swooning over Sasuke and Naruto still trying and still failing to ask Sakura out. Today was going to be different though, Sakura had planned to tell Sasuke her feelings in hopes to win his love and affection and stick it to her rival Ino.
Class had just ended and Sakura began to make her move towards Sasuke only to be intercepted by her rival Ino, "Where do you think your going forehead?", asked Ino in an annoyed tone.
"None of your business Ino pig", replied a very irritated Sakura
"I think you were trying to make a move on my sweet Sasuke."
"Last I checked he's not yours and if anyone is going to be with Sasuke it's me!", replied Sakura heavily emphasizing the word 'me'.
"Really", Ino shot back inching her face closer to sakura.
"Yeah, really", said Sakura as she also moved her face in closer.
Both girls stared at each other showing there angriest expressions and you could almost swear you saw a flicker of lightning between the two.
Soon a crowed of students who hadn't left yet where watching both girls argue, maybe they were hoping for a fight who really knows.
Sasuke who hadn't left the room yet watched both girls with disinterest, 'How annoying'., Sasuke thought to himself. Sasuke soon left the room in his usual uncaring manner with both hands in his pockets and his blank facial expression.
Naruto who also hadn't left yet was fuming in the back of the room watching everything happen, 'Sasuke it's always about Sasuke', thought Naruto. Eventually Naruto just took a deep breath to calm himself down and left for his favorite ramen stand Ichiraku.
As everyone was finishing leaving class Ino and Sakura were still staring each other down until there Sensei Iruka Umino broke them up and told them that they have to stop getting into constant arguments in class since it really was distracting to other students.
Both girls apologized and left class, although they were still bitter towards each other.
Sakura decided instead of going home she was going to look for Sasuke to tell him her feelings, she decided to walk through town in hopes of finding him.
As Sakura made her way through town she ran into Naruto who was trying to start a conversation with her, but she was in no mood to hear what he had to say, she just wanted to know where her sweet Sasuke had run off to.
"So Sakura do you want to get some Ichiraku ramen with me, it the best ramen you'll ever taste.", stated Naruto with enthusiasm.
"I'll pass on that ,Any way have you seen Sasuke anywhere around here?"
Naruto let out an annoyed sie and said, "Yeah I saw 'Teme' earlier, I think he was headed to the park."
and with that Sakura ran off towards the park leaving Naruto all by himself, "A thank you would have been nice!" shouted Naruto
Soon enough when sakura got the park she saw her crush Sasuke sitting on the park bench with hands in his packets and head lied back with his closed. To Sakura he looked so peaceful, so calm and she didn't want to ruin Sasuke's peace time so she decided to hide behind a park tree close to the forrest and plan out how she would talk to Sasuke.
'Ok Sakura no pressure, it's just your crush sitting on a park bench you can do this, just start slow maybe open with a hello. No that's not good enough I need to sound cool, confident and not nervous... aw screw it I'll just wing it', thought Sakura
Sakura slowly walked over to Sasuke, the closer she got the more nervous she became. Sakura began to start sweating, her face was blushing, she could hear her heart pounding, and her hands wouldn't stop shaking. Soon Sakura came to a complete stop as she began to wonder if this was a good idea, she had never been all alone with Sasuke before and none of her rivals for his affections were here either, the scene was to perfect, it was now or never.
"Hey Sasuke", said Sakura meekly.
Sasuke slowly opened his eyes to see the nervous looking pink haired girl in front of him, 'It's her again, I wonder what she could want this time', thought Sasuke emotionlessly
Sakura couldn't tell what Sasuke was thinking because of his blank expression, but his eyes did tell her that she had is undivided attention.
Sakura began to fidget wither fingers nervously trying to speak, "Hi Sasuke how are you", Sakura asked nervously.
"Fine I guess", replied Sasuke in a monotone voice.
"Lovely weather we're having huh.", Sakura began to internally curse herself for not being able to say what she need to say.
"I don't mean to be rude but what are you doing here."
Sakura began to tense up a bit, "You know just taking in the sights and enjoying the fresh air", Sakura said unconvincingly.
Sasuke gave her a look that told her I'm not convinced and Sakura began to sie, now was the moment of truth.
"Sasuke I.. um... I like you and not just like you but like you like you, your cool and mysterious and I know you probably hear this a lot from the other girls at the academy but even so I just needed to know if you maybe want to go out sometime."
Sakura was more nervous then ever to hear Sasuke's reply, the anticipation was killing her and all her emotions began to run through her mind all at once, but the number one emotion in mind was fear. Everything in the park around Sakura seemed to be going in slow motion, everything was quiet and her mind wasn't handling it well, what if he rejected her could she handle the fear of rejection, how did Sasuke feel about her if he felt anything for her at all.
Sasuke began to speak and Sakura began to listen to what he had to say about her, she was finally going to hear what Sasuke thought about her.
"Sorry, Sakura but I don't even really know you and besides I don't have time for romance, I have to keep on training and getting stronger so that one day I can avenger my clan by destroying him."
Sakura couldn't even hide her facial expression, she was crushed by what he had to say and the worst part was when he said that he didn't even know her and by extension he didn't even want to know her. Suddenly the ground became more interesting to look at.
"O-ok." was all she could say in her defeated tone, and then she took off into the woods and all Sasuke could do was watch, sure he was blunt with her but that's the only way he knew how to tell fan girls to leave him be, but yet this was different he felt almost guilty which was strange to him, but Sasuke quickly through that emotion to the side and remembered his goal that he would make into a reality. 'Watch out Itachi, when I'm strong enough you'll be nothing more than a bad memory.', Sasuke thought to himself.
Meanwhile in the leaf village woods Sakura began to walk alone with nothing but Sasuke's words replaying in her mind in an endless loop, she started to think back to what she might have done wrong, she started to think maybe she should have tried harder, but a new though crossed her mind, she really didn't understand Sasuke, ever since what happened to his family in the Uchiha massacre all she wanted to do was comfort him and tell him everything would be ok but she knew he wouldn't except anything that came close to pity in his eyes.
Nothing was quite the same after that day which was very depressing because before that tragedy Sasuke actually used to smile and now it's been so long Sakura couldn't even remember what Sasuke's smile looks like and she didn't mean the occasional smirk, she mean a genuine happy smile.
Sakura's tears finally began to fall and soon her sadness was replaced by a new emotion, pure unbridled rage. Sakura was confused by this new feeling, sure she had been angry before but not like this, her teeth clenched, fist tightened and body shaking, she needed to take this new found fury out on something and the only thing in front of her were trees so they would have to do. Sakura's breathing was heavy and all she could see was red and with one really powerful swing she punched the tree in front of her leaving an imprint and drawing blood from her knuckles, then something happened a yellow light flashed and all of a sudden a small abandoned looking shack was in front of her.
Sakura was freaked out at first and she was about to turn right around but her curiosity got the better of her and she walked in to the abandoned looking shack. Immediately Sakura could tell no one had been here in ages the only thing in this shack was food and blankets, it almost look like a fallout bunker. Suddenly Sakura felt pain in her right hand since it was still bleeding from punching the tree, so she decided to see if there were any bandages in this small one room space and sure enough there were bandages on the top shelf. Sakura rapped her hand with the bandages and began to try to leave since there was nothing interesting in here until she stepped on a loose floorboard.
Once again Sakura's curiosity got the better of her and she sat down and moved the board with her left hand and under the board was a note and a little box that looked very withered. Sakura tried to read the note but nothing on it was legible anymore due to the fact that the ink was smeared. Since reading the note was out of the question Sakura opened the box and inside was a scroll that unlike everything else was in perfect condition. "This looks like a jutsu scroll."
Sakura opened the scroll and read the name of the justu, "Hiraishin?",said a confused Sakura.
Sakura didn't understand but for some reason she was compelled to put the jutsu scroll in her pocket and leave. Sakura went with her instincts and immediately left the shack with the scroll in her pocket and when she did the shack disappeared like it was never there at all. This was all so strange, what was a mysterious disappearing shack doing in the middle of the woods, and why was she so compelled to take the Hiraishin scroll. Sakura broke from here thoughts when she realized it was night and now she was even more confused, she could have sworn it was still daytime, she was only in the shack for like ten maybe fifteen minutes at best. It didn't matter, Sakura began racing home as fast as the could and her only thoughts were, 'my parents are going to be pissed'.
When Sakura got home she got the usual where your parents and we were worried worried about you and your only 9 years old speech. Sakura's parents also wanted to know where she was and what happened to her hand and she lied and said she injured her hand training and she was late because she was getting it treated. All Sakura could do was apologies and head up to bed, as she went to her room and closed the door behind her she laid back on her bed and all she could think about where todays events and the part of her day that stood out most wasn't Sasuke crushing her feelings, no her number one thought were on that scroll.
Sakura took the scroll out of her pocket and began to read it but she couldn't make heads or tails of the seals that the scroll described, so she closed the scroll and told herself come morning she was going to the library. Sakura place the scroll in her nightstand drawer, changed and began to drift off into a deep sleep. "I'll figure you out Hiraishin."