So, here I have a new story for you that just popped into my head after watching this specific anime that acts as inspiration to this story. I'm obsessed with this new anime called little witch academia so consider yourselves warned about possible similarities between this story and the anime. For example I took the magic academy basically from the anime; it's name is the same because I have no creativity whatsoever and I'll just insert a picture of the building so everyone can check it out (cause I really suck at describing complex buildings).

update note on the pic: apparently I cannot post links so I'll try to make this as easy as possible, just copy bit .ly/2rNrKuJ without the space and it should take you to the picture

Lets just get it out of the way so I don't have to post any disclaimers in the future chapters - since I expect everyone to atleast read the first chapter.

SO

I draw inspiration from an anime called Naruto and little witch academia but do not own either of them. Consider yourselves warned.

Sakura snapped out from her daydreams when she felt the humming of the car she was in stop. She heard the stern bus driver yelling that everyone should get out of the bus. She complied and non-chalantly picked up her belongings, a black leather backpack and a pink suitcase that had cherry blossoms on it, and popped out onto the street. Sakura looked around her. There were people bumping into her on the busy street that was lined with scyscrapers all around. She hurried to grab a flyer she had in her pocket. It was rectangular and very plain looking – just like any other tourist guide you'd grab. But this one wasn't a tourist guide, this was her map to her new life. Sakura held the flyer in her hands, trying to figure out which way she was even supposed to look at it. Looking around her, she saw nothing that could help her on her quest of finding her new school.

She rubbed her forehead and tucked a few strands of pink hair dangling in front of her face behind her ear when trying to decrypt this awful piece of paper she was provided with.

"How is anyone supposed to understand anything of this?" she muttered to herself and smoothly tried to join the mass of people walking on the street, minding their own business.

She felt alone even though she was walking amongst lots of people, there were atleast 10 people within her touching-range. Many of them were talking on their cellphones, some had hands-free earpieces which seemed weird to Sakura. A subtle breeze brushed against her skin and threw her hair around. Even though her hair barely reached her shoulders, it could really get in her face. Brushing the pink locks away she stared at the piece of paper.

'You useless piece of paper..' she thought to herself. And with that a strong wind blew over her and grabbed the flyer right out of her hand, leaving her in the big city with nothing to guide her. It took a while for Sakura to pick up on what had just happened. Her emerald eyes widened as she bit her bottom lip, trying not to start screaming and crying out of frustration in the middle of a busy street with lots of people around.

Digging her nails to her palms she picked up her suitcase and hurried forwards. She didn't know what to do, not that she knew what she was doing in the first place, but that map – as annoying as it was – was her only way to find her way to her new school. She didn't really know much about her new school either, other than that there she could become one of the strong female witches her grandmother used to tell stories about.

She lifted her gaze up from her feet to have another look around.

'Maybe I could ask someone..' she though to herself, shifting her gaze around the people she was surrounded with. She gathered up the courage to ask a lady that was walking beside her.

"I-I'm sorry but do you know where I can find Luna Nova academy?" Sakura asked.

The lady turned her head to her direction. Her face was stern and she didn't look like she was very interested in Sakura. Her brown eyes looked Sakura up and down, from head to toe. Sakura thought it was impossible for someone to show so much condescension towards her in a few seconds. The pinkette wasn't sure if this lady knew what she was talking about and knowingly didn't tell her or if she just didn't know, but she shook her head and without saying anything, she continued walking, leaving Sakura just standing there.

"Rude much." she murmured after the lady was gone. She could still see her blonde hair somewhere in the crowd of other people. She continued to ask other people but no-one knew where she was headed. She got lots of polite answers but most of them were just plain rude. She dragged herself into a coffee shop that she conveniently encountered.

Walking in she felt warm air brush against her skin. The coffee shop was nice, it had a cool rustic vibe to it that Sakura really liked. She walked up to the counter and eyed the row of succulent and other cute houseplants that were placed all around the shop.

"A mocha frappuchino, thanks." Sakura ordered from the waitress behind the counter. She had luscious brown hair that reached her mid-back and she smiled back to Sakura. Maybe the nicest thing since she got to this damn city.

"Take a seat, I'll bring it to your table." She politely told Sakura and she went off to find a seat. She sat down to a small table that had only two chairs around it and rubbed her temples with the tip of her fingers. She could feel a nasty headache coming. Suddenly she remembered her grandmother telling her that rubbing the skin between your pointer finger and thumb could help, so she placed her right pointerfinger and thumb on each side of her palm and started rubbing the spot. She wasn't very patient with the method and just came to the conclusion that it didn't work after 30 seconds, exactly when her drink arrived.

'Ugh. Maybe I actually am a caffeine addict..' Sakura thought when bringing cool glass to her lips.

She took a sip of her delicious drink. It tickled her tastebuds in the greatest of ways. Sakura wasn't a big fan of bitter coffee, sweeter drinks suited her better.

Sakura buried her head in her hands. How would she find her way to her school in time for the opening ceremony? From what she'd heard, if you came late, they would close the gates and you couldn't get in until tomorrow but by then accepting your place as a student would have already ended and someone else would come to take your place. How could she wait another year to follow her dreams. She heard people come and go in the coffee shop but she wasn't really bothered by it, she had her own problem to worry about that were about to consume her.

Suddenly she heard the chair opposite of her scrape against the tile floor and she quickly looked up from her hands. Her green eyes met with the mesmerizing blue eyes of the blonde guy looking down at her sympathetically, smiling a little.

"Is this chair free?" He asked and Sakura nodded in return. He sat down and ran his hands through his blonde spiky hair. "Rough day?" He asked.

"Yeah." Sakura sighed and took another sip of her drink. The guy didn't respond with words, but Sakura could see the questioning look he had. She wasn't exactly comfortable with strangers, but what the hell, she had just thought about giving up on her dreams so why not divulge her stressful situation to a complete stranger who, maybe out of plain politeness, seemed to care. "I'm supposed to start a new school year today and I can't be late but I lost my map and can't find my way anywhere around here. So now I'm here sipping my coffee, contemplating whether or not I should just go home and forget this day even happened."

"Naruto, what do you want?" Some guy behind him asked when he was ordering. The guy opposite to her glanced over his shoulder at the black haired guy she presumed was his friend.

"Normal coffee with milk, no sugar. Remember, I'm supposed to be on a diet." He said and turned around back to face Sakura. "Sorry about that."

"It's okay." Sakura answered, a slight smile rising to her lips after hearing the tone of the person referred to as Naruto when using the word diet.

"But hey I'm starting today too, where are you headed?" He asked her. His voice had this energy to it and he was clearly happy, which made Sakura also cheer up a bit.

"Luna Nova, have you heard of it?" Sakura said looking at her drink. None of the people she'd asked had even heard of it so she didn't have her hopes high.

"Oh yeah!" He answered. It took a while for the pinkette to take in the information, but as soon as she did, her eyes widened in shock.

"Reallywhere?" She said maybe a little too excited and fast. All of these emotions were rushing through her, she was happy, excited, nervous - she'd gotten her hopes up again. With the surge of energy and excitement, she hadn't noticed that she was on her feet and leaning over the table with her back straightened.

The blonde laughed at her. "It's a few blocks from here, just continue walking that way", he pointed to Sakura's right, "and when you see this tall glass building that has a big fancy gate in front of it, you're basically there." He said before turning to his friend that had his drink in his hand.

"Hey I gotta go but I hope you find your way." He said picking his drink up from his friend. "Oh, and my name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki."

"Sakura." She answered and took another sip from her drink. Naruto didn't really hurry around and he adjusted the chair back under the table.

His friend was already out of the door when Naruto realized he'd even exited the café. "Uh I gotta go but it was nice to meet you. Bye magic-girl." He said in a hurry and ran after his friend with his coffee almost spilling everywhere.

Sakura smiled. Maybe there really were good people in this city. She waved her hand to his direction and continued to sip on her drink.

'Magic-girl?'

As realization dawned upon her, she almost choked on her drink. People started to look at her, so she avoided eye-contact while banging her chest with a fist to get a breath. She grabbed her drink and her stuff and headed outside. The waitress that served her waved at her as she walked out. Sakura saw her through the window and waved back at her. She'd definitely come back here and have another cup of coffee.

Stepping back up to the street she glanced at her phone.

"11.42 am! It starts at noon!" She almost shrieked and without even glancing at the people around her, who were clearly baffled by the pink haired girl screaming, she started running. She followed Naruto's orders and looked for a tall building with a 'fancy' gate, as Naruto had put it.

"Gate. Gate. Gate.." She murmured to herself. Suddenly she found herself looking at a big iron gate. She glaced over it and saw a scryscraper with walls practically made of windows. The building was so tall she couldn't even count how many floors it had.

"Gate." Sakura smiled as she started walking towards the large doors she anticipated were where she was supposed to enter.

Suddenly she felt herself being thrown forwards and fell on her face. "Oww.." she groaned rubbing her nose. She didn't think she'd tripped, how could she trip and fall on – grass? Sakura really looked where she'd fell, she was on her knees, on grass, with her suitcase and backpack not too far away from her.

"Look at her, it's like she's never gone through a portal." Sakura heard someone shout in a mocking tone. She looked around her and saw this mindblowing – almost castle like – building that was going to be her home for the next few years. Then she turned to look at a group of girls that were pointing and laughing at her. She felt anger bubble up in her stomach and blood rush to the apples of her cheeks.

"A-are you okay?" a careful but sweet voice behind her asked. Sakura turned around quickly to face the pale, blue haired girl that was offering her hand to her. Sakura grabbed it and got up, dusting dirt from her clothes. "Thanks alot." Sakura smiled at her. She had long dark hair that had a blue tint to it and almost translucent eyes, lively and beautiful ones. And they were now staring at her.

"Uhh what did you say?" Sakura asked apologizingly when she realized that she'd missed the girl's question completely. The girl smiled at her, seeing that she was a little confused about everything.

"I asked if you'd never traveled through a portal before." she calmly asked and picked up Sakura's backpack kindly handing it to her.

"Uhh, well.." Sakura mumbled looking down at her blue skinny jeans that were tucked away in her black booties. "No, I haven't, and that kinda threw me off." she admitted to the girl.

"That's okay, the first time is always the hardest. I almost puked on my first time." Her words comforted Sakura. "What's your name?"

"Sakura Haruno." the pinkette answered and picked up her suitcase. "What's yours?" She asked her, right now she just didn't want to be alone so making a friend really couldn't hurt.

"Nice to meet you, Sakura. I'm Hinata, now come on let's not be late on our first day." Hinata turned and started walking towards the school. Sakura hurried after her and started walking beside her.

"So, are you new here?" Sakura asked and tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear.

"Yeah this is my first year but I come from a magical bloodline so magic isn't a completely new consept for me. Most of us students are from magic families." Hinata explained and Sakura frowned. Her parents weren't witches or wizards or anything, she was a normal girl.

"I don't.." she silently muttered but that didn't seem to bother Hinata.

"That's fine, if you didn't have any magic in you, you wouldn't have been able to get through the portal, which means that even if you don't come from a magical bloodline, you can still practice magic." Sakura listened to Hinata when she explained to her that her heritage didn't really matter. She started thinking, who could be the witch in her family, since mostly women practiced magic.

And that concludes the first chapter of my new series. Hope you enjoyed and remember that reviews are always welcome!

❦ Goddess of glam