Hello! Here a NaruSaku oneshot! It's a companion fic of my NejiTen story "What Life Gives You". I think you can understand the story even if you didn't read "What Life Gives You" but it's sure you'll understand better if you read it. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto's characters but I own Xia, my OC from "What Life Gives You" and the plot.

Worth

She wasn't always like that. She wasn't always that mean, bitchy and I'm-the-best-in-the-world-so-bow-in-front-of-me. She was nice, friendly and I'm-not-that-good-so-please-help-me-if-you-can.

I think it's started with her "friendship" with Ino. At the time, Ino was the queen of the playground. Everyone wanted to be her friend. If you were on Ino's blacklist, it's was a social suicide.

But, hey, we were what? Five/six years old? Yeah, something like that.

Anyway, Ino was nice. It wasn't really her fault but Sakura saw in her a rival (don't ask me why) but she kept inside. At that time, she was my best friend. She was scared of everyone minus her family and me. I just had the chance to be her neighbor so it was easy to always be with her. But in Sakura's heart, she wanted to be like Ino. The queen.

Is it normal for all girls to want to be a princess?

But I wouldn't care less. For me, Sakura was the perfect girl. An angel, a beauty, everything. Yep, I fell in love at six years old and she stayed in my heart. Lame? Maybe. But she was my world.

But she had a crush on Sasuke. Sasuke was my best guy friend. I've been the idiot who made them meet. Sakura couldn't talk to him properly but I saw her eyes glow every time he was near. Ino and her had cute fights of who will marry him. Still, I could start to scream everywhere that I loved "Sakura-chan" even thought she would blush and say that I was being ridiculous, in her cute way.

Then, she changed.

It was the year before entering Middle school. Her mother died. I did saw her for a month, and when she came back, she had this dark (can I even say bitchy?) aura. She didn't speak to me anymore and people started to get scared of her. Ino, who had the time was her friend, started to act more like the sidekick or like Tenten said: "the little puppy who follow everywhere".

We then entered in middle school and Sakura started to be bitchy. She started gossiping in the back of other girls and she started to be flirty with boys. It's when she started the "popular" group with Ino, Sasuke and Neji. I could have join too but I was too nice to be bitching around like they did. I still claimed that I loved her but instead of her cute way, she would huff me in a bitchy way.

Then we entered in high school and everything started to twist. Sakura started to sometime lose her confidence. Every time, she would come to me, crying on my shoulder, asking for comfort. She never looked down in front of the others, only in front of me.

Ino then started to act more sluty and that did help Sakura. Not wanting Ino to get more attention, she acted sluty too. I didn't like that.

And still, some night, Sakura could come in by window to search for some warmth.

After that, the final blow came: Tenten. For Sakura, Tenten was the biggest rival to fight. She was everything Sakura wanted to be: strong, talented, courageous, not afraid of what people would say… It didn't help Sakura's self-esteem. She did anything to fight her, by all the dirty tricks she could find.

At the end, Tenten won by taking all Sakura's "allies". Neji fell in love with Tenten and "quit" Sakura, Sasuke decided to go on his own like Tenten shouted him to do and Ino, even Ino, decide to stop following her like a lost puppy and start things on her own. Even thought, Ino is still her friend; she's just less bitchy and stopped to follow Sakura's orders.

Since that, Sakura had been crying every night in my arms, in my room. Where no one could see her.

"I don't understand. Why people keep turning their back?" she sobbed on my shirt.

"Maybe… you should stop acting like someone else. Maybe you should let the real Sakura-chan." I said in a smile.

"But what is the real Sakura? Who is she? I'm better like that… I'm important." I couldn't support those words. I had heard them too many times.

"Sakura-chan, you cannot be important when everyone hates you. You cannot be important in this bitch like hell persona." She looked at me surprise. She had reasons, it was the first time in so many years I would yell at her.

"Why are you mad Naruto? What I did wrong?" She stood up and looked at me. "Why people keep betraying me? First Neji, then Sasuke, Ino and now you? I never thought you do that. Why are you betraying me?"

"If you stop acting like a sluty bitch maybe I wouldn't feel like this! You think I don't know you slept with Sasuke?" She shocked by my words and by my angry tone. I didn't want to say it but I was too frustrated. After a moment, she calmed down.

"It was an accident… I was drunk and lonely… you weren't there and…"

"And what? Sakura… I can't understand you right now!" I screamed as I got up.

"And why are you so mad anyway? It's not like you're my boyfriend or anything… and anyway you took my virginity." I look at her serious eyes and scoff.

"I took your virginity? You gave it me! I didn't ask anything! You came and YOU asked me to take it!" I then sighed and sat, trying to calm down. "But you're right. I'm not your boyfriend or anything. So what am I, Sakura? What am I? I sometime wish I could…" I couldn't finish the sentence.

She looked at me, scared, her eyes getting wet.

"No… Naruto… Don't abandon me… I need you… I can't… I can't survive without you there… Please Naruto…"

She then kissed me and it didn't matter anymore. I wanted her in my arms. I wanted to protect her. I wanted to be there for her, to take care of her. I could feel her hand underneath my shirt but I didn't care, I was doing the same. I already knew how the night would end but I didn't care that I was doing the same mistake again. The important thing was she needed me.

And nothing was worth more than that.

The End.

I'm thinking of continuing this story but I'm not sure... Anyway, hope you liked it and please review!