Hiya guys! I'm Konsoli. This fan fic takes place after the chunin exam and before sasuke runs away and naruto tries to hunt him down, and Tsunade is Hokage. Tsurikeku (Sur-e-kay-ku) is the main chatecter. Or, Tsuri (Sur-e) is what she is mainly called in this story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the titles belonging to the series. Those belong to other peple. I only own Tsurikeku.


Tsurikeku snoozed in her family's ever so full car as they passed through the gates of Konohagakure. Strands of her chocolate hair framed her face as they wriggled out from her ponytail under her pink bandana. Her pale blue eyes closed, due to the lack of sleep she had received from the endless packing and stacking of moving boxes into trucks and the car that she was now riding in. In her pink and white plaid pajama pants and a black tank top with "Kunoichi" stitched in pink upon the back, she slept, exhausted, but she did not do so with out reason. For only a week ago, she found that her father had received a job in the village hidden in the leaves and that he would be expected to begin with in a weeks time, and thus, rushed her to say her farewells to her friends, relatives, and the only part of the world that she had ever called home, Sunagakure, the village hidden in the sand. Luckily, with ease eh completed the graduation test of the local ninja academy and then was assigned into a squad of three genin. Now in honor of the place that she once called home, and also in honor of the place that she now must call home, she wore two ninja headbands, one of sand around her neck, and one of leaf upon her forehead, both black headbands. As her car finally entered Konoha after going through all the security checks, it hit a slight pothole in the road, jerking her awake.

Hesitantly, she lifted her eyelids and gazed out the window. She saw trees, leaves, grass, and people. "Huh?" she muttered to her self. "Oh! That's right. I'm in Konoha. I think…" she trailed off.

Her father heard her muttering and glanced into the back seat seeing his daughter's eyes finally open. "Tsuri! You're awake," he greeted her.

Tsuri continued to stair out the window. These surroundings were much different that the ones the she had lived with in Sunagakure. "Are we in Konoha yet?" she asked.

"Oh, yes we are honey," this time her mother replied from the passenger seat. "Didn't you notice the trees?"

"Hn," she replied. It was much different that the sand she had been used to looking at. After all, she had lived in the desert all her life. She still wished that she was back in the village hidden in the sand with her friends on a morning like today.

It was Saturday and a sunny one at that. She would much rather be with her friends training, or even just talking with them, but instead she was cramped in a car that she would soon be forced to help unpack. The worst part is that she didn't even know where their house was, although she did know it was fairly large.

'Oh well' she thought. 'At least I get to go venture around this afternoon…' and her thoughts ended as she fell back asleep, but not to quickly to see a pink haired girl strolling by with a smile on her face as she entered a flower shop.

"Ino?" The pink haired girl called into the flower shop.

At that moment, a blond appeared from behind a bouquet of daffodils. "Hey Sakura. What's up?"

"Just, getting some flowers for our new neighbors," she cheerfully replied. "Mom's orders."

"Ah," the blond nodded, and began to find a few cheerful flowers for Sakura to take home so her mother could give them to their new neighbors. "Do you know who they are?" Ino asked intrigued. For it was not everyday that a new family moved into Konoha.

"Not really," Sakura replied. "Just that there is a girl around my age moving in with her family, and that they moved quite a ways to get here."

Ino handed a beautiful bouquet of bright colored flowers in exchange for the money that Sakura handed her. "Well maybe you can start hanging out with her instead of annoying me so much," she jokingly said as Sakura headed out the door with a laugh.

"Yeah, maybe," she replied as she left the flower shop. She looked at the beautiful bouquet of flowers and pranced of towards home. She couldn't wait to meet her new neighbor. 'Who knows' she thought, 'maybe she will actually become a good friend.'


Will Sakura find out who her new neighbor is next time, and will she learn of the sectrets she hides that remain in the village hidden in the sand? Read the next chapter to find out.

Please review. I would love to hear what fellow viewers think of my first work! Thanks in advance!