Summary: Everyday she came to the well, writing her wish on a piece of paper before burning it and tossing the ashes into the well. Everyday she wished for the same thing; someone to love her. Weeks passed, months and a then a year. She almost gave up, until she met him.
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.
A/N: Deleted my old story for this one. There is mature subject in this story, no sex but there is talk about sex and there will be drugs and drinking. Also, there will be hard swearing, maybe not in this chapter but there will be. But that is not the over all theme to the story so I rated it a Teen, if you want me to change it, or think I should, ask in your review. So enjoy the story.
Chapter One
"Sakura-chan," a white-eyed girl mumbled, poking her pink haired friend. She looked up at the teacher who was walking down the isle away from them. "Wake up, Asumi-sama is coming this way."
Sakura, the curly pink haired girl waved her hand at Hinata's voice. "Three more hours mom." Sakura grumbled, yawning in her sleep. Was that even possible?
Hinata sighed and pinched her cheek, twisting it with slight pressure.
Sakura's head shot up, looking around. The teacher walked passed Sakura, as Sakura wrote the answer to the question on the board. Oh God she hated the last period of school. For a senior, having math was not the ideal ending day class. At least twenty-three others shared her doomed day ending. One of her best friends, Hinata being one of them.
"Anyone like to come and write the answer on the board?" The teacher, Asumi-sensei asked the class. She was a mid-twenties woman. Just married and pregnant. Sakura could tell that she was popular as a teenager, her jet black hair straight and silky. Her light blue eyes pretty and piercing. Asumi-sensei looked around the room her eyes falling on Sakura.
"Haruno-san please come and answer the question on the board."
Sakura swallowed, bring her notebook with her. It was a formula answer so she had to get this right. She tugged at the bottom of her short black skirt. She was wearing a long, fitted yellow shirt that's neck line came below her breasts. Of course she was wearing a white cami under her shirt. Her black flip-flops clicking on her heels. She walked to the board and started writing her answer down.
Sakura was both pretty and smart. Not popular, though her partner-in-crime, Ino was popular with the boys (for reasons Sakura wished not to know). She wanted to be a model when she was younger but now she wanted to be a doctor. Saving peoples lives would be a better reward than clothes and being famous. However, she was a fashion-whore.
Sakura finished off her answer, turning to the class. "Done," she said, smiling as she gave the teacher the chalk. Sakura knew her answer was right. She walked back to her seat to get glares from girls and from boys. They didn't like they fact that she could hear something once and see it once and she knew it for good. Photographic memory helped her with learning.
She slid in her seat next to a grinning Hinata. "Wow, Sakura-chan she looks dumbfounded that you knew the answer."
Sakura shrugged her thin shoulders. "Never judge a Haruno's ability to know things." That was the truth and nothing but it. Her father was a scientist and her mother was a nurse. Both were smart. Her older sister, Nekio took college math courses in middle school. Sakura was in advanced math, history, chemistry and English. Her younger brother, who was ten, was in the eighth grade. They were smart, all of them were smart.
The bell rang as Asumi was going on about how the math essays were due at the end of the week, on Friday. Sakura picked up her things and waited for Hinata to come to her side.
"Your essay done yet?" Sakura asked, looking at her shy friend.
Hinata shook her head. Hinata was shorter than Sakura by two inches, making her five foot two. She was skinny, like Sakura. Her navy blue hair reached her shoulders. Her bangs just above her eyebrows. Her eyes were pure white and soft looking. "I started it though. What about you?"
"Finished it last night after making dinner for Nobu," she said, running her fingers threw her hair as they walked. Sakura was like a mother to her younger brother. Her parents were always working late, her father on business trips almost everyday. So she was like his mother. Only at seventeen and she felt as if, she had a child.
"SAKURA!!!!" Someone screamed, the whole school knowing who's voice it was.
Sakura turned around to be enveloped in a hug by Ino her best friend in the whole world. "Hey Ino," she said, hugging her friend back. She could tell that Ino had something on her mind. Though she was acting normal her hug seemed more forceful and when she pulled back Sakura saw it in her light blue eyes. "What is it?"
"He turned me down."
Sakura's jaw dropped to the floor. This was a first for Ino. Ino was never turned down because she gave guys what they wanted. She didn't care what people said about her, she wanted to have a good time. She broke up with her boyfriend on Monday it was now Wednesday. Sakura talked to her over the phone about her new bait while she was writing her essay. It was Nara Shikamaru, captain of the baseball team and class president three years running. "Why?"
Ino shrugged her tanned shoulders that were exposed. Her platinum blonde hair pulled into a high ponytail. Her bangs on the right side of her face, covering her eye. She wore eyeliner much like Sakura light make-up. "He wanted to get to know me first. Who does that anymore."
"Everyone but you," Hinata stated bluntly, nodding her head. Hinata was a sweetheart and spoke the truth. Her and her boyfriend Naruto had been going out for a year and they shared their first kiss two months ago. She liked to take things slow like Sakura.
A blonde boy approached the group of three, behind him was a brown haired girl with her short brown hair in tiny pig tails. Her eyes matching her hair. She didn't have bangs, she was tall. Almost five foot nine, that was tall for them. And her figure slender.
The boy wrapped his arms around Hinata once they were near, his ocean blue eyes only for her. He had a small scar under his left eye. He was built and tall, taller than Hinata by a foot at least. It was her boyfriend, Uzumaki Naruto. He was the point guard of the basketball team and the class clown. He kissed her cheek and fox grinned at her. "Ready?" He asked her, going out on a date.
"Yeah," she said, looking at her three friends. "I'll call you guys later." They all nodded and Hinata went off with Naruto down the hall.
The brown haired girl smiled at the short blonde and pink head. They were the same height, Ino and Sakura. "Guys, guess what?"
"I'm going to be Japan's Next Top Model?" Ino asked, raising her eyebrows.
"No."
"Dammit just tell us Tenten," Sakura said, rolling her apple green eyes.
With Tenten it completed the group of four. All of them holding different views on boys. Hinata was hesitant, but liked boys after a while. Ino was lustful, she'd just used guys. Tenten was excited, she was engaged so who could blame her. And Sakura was a hopeless romantic, she wanted the prefect guy with the prefect ending.
"Okay, gosh Sakura."
"Sorry I have to pick Nobu up from school in thirty minutes." She opened her locker, which was next to Ino's. Tenten all ready had her backpack on. "Even though I only walk him home I still have to do it." She pulled out her a notebook and chemistry book. She placed them in her backpack.
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Ino slammed her locker door, she was still pissed that Shikamaru turned her down. She'd get over it by tomorrow. Sakura shut her locker door to look at Tenten, looking at the small diamond ring on her left ring finger.
Tenten was getting married to Hyuuga Neji. He was a freshman in college, and the heir to his uncle's company. Hyuuga Corp. was the second biggest company in Kohona. The made the hottest clothes in Kohona. Everyone shopped there.
"Neji and I set the date for the wedding!"
The three of them started walking again. "Omigod, really?" Sakura asked, she was a bridesmaid at Tenten's wedding. So was Ino and Tenten's sister Yuri. Hinata was the maid of honor, they were best friends.
"Yeah, it's not the fifth of August next year." It was the thirteen of December so they had a lot of planning to do. Sakura figured Tenten would have it tomorrow if Neji didn't want a fancy wedding. Tenten hardly did fancy. The trio walked out of the school, Tenten waving good-bye to them as Ino and Sakura went the other way.
Sakura let out a long sigh. "I envy her."
"I don't." Ino wrinkled her prefect nose. "Getting married when your eighteen? Yuck. I like being free."
Sakura rolled her eyes at her childhood rival. "Loser."
"Your one too."
"I know, only because I'm friends with you."
"Are we stopping at the well?"
"Duh."
"Mmkay, just checking."
The well was on the way to the middle school. It was old and didn't work. It gathered water at the bottom when it rain. There was a legend that if you wrote your wish down on a piece of paper, burned it, and then put the ashes into the well, your wish would come true. Sakura had been putting her wish in the well for the passed year. Everyday it was the same:
Someone to love her.
A wish that never seemed to come true. Her mother didn't even let her come to the hospital, though Sakura wanted to be a doctor. Sakura's father, Mikeo was always gone. Her siblings could care less about their sister. Sure she had her friends but she wanted true love.
Ino skipped to the well, twirling. It was clear that Shikamaru was forgotten from her mind. Sakura wondered if she had emotional problems sometimes.
Sakura dug out the green sticky-note pad and wrote her wish down in quick scribbles. She looked at Ino who handed Sakura her purple cigarette lighter, Sakura disapproved of Ino's smoking problem but Ino's parents both smoked and it was clear that Ino was falling in the same fate.
Sakura lit the paper on fire, watching it burn as she held it over the well. She didn't let it go until the fire burned her fingers and she let the paper fall. She watched it burn and disappear into the dark well.
Ino snatched the lighter out of Sakura's hands and placed a cigarette to her mouth, lighting it. She was legal to smoke too, her eighteenth birthday had been in September. She blew smoke away from Sakura as they continued walking. "You know that Hikari Saikeo was pretty good looking."
"New bait?" Sakura asked, knowing her best friend than anyone else.
Ino nodded her head, placing the cigarette to her slightly parted lips. She blow a cloud of smoke away from her best friend, tapping her cigarette. "I have a different plan now. I always get what I want. I'm going to date that Saikeo boy for as long as it takes to get to know Shikamaru. Once I get him to like me. I'll ask him out or whatever then leave him once I get what I want."
Sakura nodded, she and Ino had different outlooks on dating. Sakura was looking for love and Ino was looking for lust. People often wondered how the two could be best friends. After Ino's first steady boyfriend cheated, her personality flipped. It wasn't her fault, Sakura dated three boys before. A red head named Gaara, that she dated for four months in freshman year before he moved away. Kiba who she dated for all of sophomore year, he and her still got back together sometimes. Not that often anymore because he was busy with sports. And last was Shino, Sakura dated him the summer after Kiba and into the school year for about a month. Then it was over and she never talked to him again.
Ino was still going on about how she was going to get Shikamaru. They were at the school now, she was still babbling about something that Sakura wasn't listening to and more. Sakura pulled her cell phone out of her backpack and looked at the time, three twenty-seven. Three more minute—make that two more minutes of listening to Ino go on and on about pointless things.
Sakura thought about tomorrow, she had to work. Blah and take Nobu to hockey practice. Good thing her essay was done. Though Kakashi-sensei wanted the chemistry paper done by tomorrow and the history of World War II was needed by Friday, Orochimaru-sensei asked of that. Gai-sensei wanted her in for weight lifting on Saturday morning. Other than—no Hinata's play opening was on Friday night and she needed to go to the opening show.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the school bell ringing.
Ino threw the cigarette on the ground, stepping on it with her heel. "Sakura your brother better hurry his little ass up. I'm getting my nails done at four."
"You don't need to wait for me."
"I know, I'm just bored out of my mind and Nobu is fun to tease."
Students started coming out of the front door, some holding hands. Others talking and laughing and some were alone. One that was alone was a white haired boy with dark green eyes who rushed over to Sakura.
Sakura and Ino started walking away with the boy trailing behind them a little bit. "Hey Nobu," Sakura said, looking over her shoulder and smiling at her little brother. He had their father's hair and their mothers green eyes. Sakura looked just like her mother. She acted like her father though. He was Sakura's favorite parent growing up, besides the fact that he was always gone.
"Hi guys."
"Why do down?" Ino asked, walking backwards to look at him.
He shrugged, as if he wasn't down. "Nothing."
"My mom is taking him to Suna so he can do to the private higher education high school," Sakura explained to her blonde friend. "He doesn't want to go on Friday because it's the end of the week."
"If it was up to me I'd leave the poor kid in his normal grade, no matter how smart he was." She turned back around, facing the way she was walking. They both lived close to the middle school. Ino turned into her yawn, a big white house with a red door. Flowers covering her back yard everywhere, her mother did own a flower shop and that's where Sakura worked. "I'll call you tonight Sakura!"
"Okay," Sakura shouted back as she and her brother cut threw their yard and opened the front door. Sakura yawned, she was tired. She put her backpack on the floor near the front door and went to the counter where she found her mother's usual note;
Sakura and Nobu,
Your father is away on a business trip until Sunday and will be back late. I have a patient that is going to take a lot of work on. Cancer, so I'll be hope around eleven. Sakura please feed your brother and finish your homework. No friends over unless it's Ino because your tutoring her like you were two weeks ago. Do I make myself clear?
I love you,
Mom
Sakura rolled her eyes and went to the frigid, pulling out a can of Coke. "I'll be in my room Nobu." Sakura could hear the TV on in the other room. He maybe smart but he was only ten. Sakura headed up stairs, grabbing her backpack on her way up.
Sakura picked up her ringing cell phone, looking at the caller ID;
Ino-pig
She opened the phone and placed it to her ear. "Hey Ino."
"Sakura! You know how I have to pick Nobu up from school tomorrow. Because you have to work and all?"
"Yes," Sakura said, writing down the answer to her chemistry question. It was hard listening to Ino and doing schoolwork at the same time.
"I was thinking that you could ask Shikamaru to walk with us. I'll invite Saikeo. It's time to make that boy jealous!"
Sakura knew that Saikeo was going to say yes to Ino. He asked her out while she had her eye on a boy named Harku. "I'll do that for you Ino." She changed the phone to the other ear, writing down another answer.
"You better! I have a good feeling about tomorrow. Like something good is going to happen to you. Not to me but to you."
"Yeah sure Ino."
How little did Sakura know that her blonde friend was right.
A/N: I have the second chapter written, I'll update when I feel like updating. Review and I'll make it sooner.