HiHI! Wow I started another fan fiction and I promise I'll try my hardest to complete this one! Pinky swear, lol. Anyways, I know that the premise for the story may seem pretty sad, (characters from Naruto on SKATEBOARDS! WOOT!) but I got the idea from when I watched about 10 episodes of Naruto in a row, then listened to Blink 182 for two hours on a car journey. So… I promise I'll try make It work! Oh yeah it's AU, obviously, and this'll be a Sakura x Sasuke story, so go awayness you non likers of their love! And it'll mostly be told through Sakura's point of view, but a few chapters may be different characters. Anyways I'll stop babbling, here be my story!

For the love of a Skater.

Chapter 1: Shadow.

The 25th of May. That was the first day I saw HIM. I was just sitting in my cramped English classroom, perspiration practically Dripping on the desk!

"Just five days more of this, just five days till no more school for the summer!" I kept thinking to myself. I was sick of algebra, I was sick of stinky classrooms and I was sick of teachers and bitchy gossips. I just wanted to hang out at Bob's store with my friends and have fun.

I sighed and looked out the window. The blades of grass blowing in the wind were just torturing me! I just wanted to dance with the butterflies that were fluttering by the flowers in the blazing heat of the sun. Then something caught my eye. It was a guy on a skateboard. He was skating down the gravely path outside the fence which surrounded my school. I don't exactly know why this guy on the skateboard caught my attention. He was pretty good, but I knew plenty of guys who could skate pretty good. Maybe it was his longish black hair, or his smouldering deep eyes. Whatever it was he caught my attention like no other guy ever has.

The guy soon skated off but I just kept my eyes glued to the spot where he had been. He sure was pretty...

"Yo, Sakura!"

"Huh?"

I was shaken out of my stare by my best friend, Ino.

She stood beside my desk, frowning at me slightly. "Come on, you nut, everyone's gone, how the hell did you not hear the bell?"

I blinked, still in a daze.

"Well come on! I'm not waiting here forever!" she moaned tapping her foot.

I quickly packed up my bag and we left the empty classroom. You never leave a girl like Ino waiting. Her mood swings were the worst and she could stay mad at you for days for the littlest thing. I'd learned long ago never to cross Ino. Not that I'd want to, she was my best friend. I was always shy and she was the only one who would ever pay me any notice. She gave me confidence when I was being bullied and I owe her forever for that. True, people called me her little lamb because I was always by her side, hanging on every word she said, but I didn't mind. Ino was the prettiest, most popular girl in school. Heh I suppose she was my idol. I didn't mind living in her shadow. Back then I didn't, anyway.

Ino strutted down the corridor like she owned the place, in her white belly top, black Capri pants and pink converse shoes. I paled in comparison with my old pair of dungarees, red tee and red converse shoes. I could never pull of things like Ino did.

"So you hanging by Bob's place tonight?" enquired Ino.

Robert's smoothies joint, more commonly known as Bob's place, was a popular hangout spot among the skater community. It had a great place beside it that was great for skating and it served great smoothies. Even if it was run by a senile alcoholic called Bob. But Bob was way cool, no matter what people said about him.

I sighed in response to Ino's question. "I dunno, Ino. I look like such a poser! I can't skate for my life!"

Ino was a great skater, almost as good as Rock Lee, and that was saying something. He was the best around. He could skate circles around that wannabe skater dork Naruto.

Ino rolled her eyes in response to my complaint. "Sakura, all you need is more confidence and practice, trust me! You'll be a great skater if you would just work at it!"

I didn't respond. Ino took my silence to mean I was going to Bob's that night.

"Great, be there at seven, bye!" and with that she ran off to her locker.

I sighed once again and left the school premises, looking at all the kinds with their groups of friends. Don't get me wrong, Ino was my idol, the person I looked up to most in the world but... it got lonely living in somebody else's shadow sometimes.

Okey dokes, so there was the first chapter, how did ya likey? Please leave a review!