We were on our way to a new city. Making another move because of my father's job. My dad Kizashi is manager of this warehouse company. So where ever they go, he goes. My mom Mebuki was a baker. She was the best baker I known. She never had a problem with the moves. Whenever we did move she would make friends with the women easily. While I was in school. Basically I was a stick in the mud because no one wanted to hang out with me. This was one of the reasons why I was never excited to move to new cities.
My head was pressed against the headrest. The sunlight was beaming on my forehead. It's was extremely hot today for some reason. Well I never watched the news. That's my mom's department. Keeping up with all the weather and such. From the window of the car I could see the welcoming sign. It said "Welcome to the Konoha!". I didn't feel welcome at all.
I tilted my head away from the window view so I didn't have to look at that welcoming sign anymore. When I tilted my head my eyes went directly on my dad. He was smiling ear to ear. I wanted to ask him what he was so happy about, but I didn't open my mouth. Most-likely he was excited for the move. My eyes moved over to my mom. Her face was pretty neutral.
"This city looks pretty nice!" My father was speaking with so much excitement in his voice. It nearly scared me a bit.
"It really does. I'm sure there are tons of new opportunities here. Right Sakura?" My mom looked over to me and smiled.
"I guess so." Trying to return to smile back I could feel my lips being twisted. The smile turned out crooked looking and awkward.
"Oh come on sweetheart. I'm sure you'll meet a lot of new friends at your school."
I shrugged my shoulders. I wanted to turn my head away from my parents, but the only other option I had was to look at the city. My eyes reverted back to the city view of all the buildings and signs. I'd rather look at that then make awkward eye contact with my mom. The car grew silent again. A few minutes went by until we fully entered the Konoha. We were passing many stores and tons of people.
As the car continued to go I seen another sign in front of a building saying "Konoha High School". I was guessing this building was the school. We started to see less and less more people. Finally the car stopped in front of our new house. The neighborhood we were in wasn't to bad. It was walking distance to stores and my school.
The car stopped and we all got out. The house was a pretty. It was a plain beige like color, but the way the house looked on the outside made up for the dull color. There were small patches of flowers. I seen a small balcony on the side of the house. Hopefully that was my room or I could claim it as my own. I ran up in the yard to get a closer look at everything.
"I see you like the house Sakura."
"I didn't know the house would look this nice, Mom! Let's go inside and check it out!"
"Alright lets go."
Dad's voice could be heard calling over to us before we walked any farther. He was behind the trailer that was attracted to the car, full of our things. There should be another U-Haul truck that would be here tomorrow. The truck probably was filled with extra stuff my mom brought along.
"Can we start unloading this first! Please!" I could hear him chuckling from the other end of the trailer.
"Oh right. Sorry dad." I rushed over to him as we started to unload the trailer. Mother opened the door to the house so we could walk directly in with everything.
All the boxes were inside. The only thing we had to do was unpack. Mother and I were in the kitchen unpacking all the pots, pans, and anything else that had to go in the kitchen. Once again there was an awkward silence between the two of us. It couldn't be helped though. I already knew she was going to bring something up about this place.
"So Sakura are you ready for school tomorrow?"
"No I'm not. Well at least I don't think I am." I sighed a little.
"I heard the school is pretty nice. This is a great opportunity to do a lot. I don't know if Kizashi mentioned this yet, but We might be staying here permanently."
"Permanently. I see."
Some part of me was happy that the moving might stop, but then again It wasn't an easy feeling to settle for. I opened one last box in the kitchen before I walked into the living room where dad was. He was opening up a few boxes placing mom's little statues on the floor. I walked towards him and grabbed on the shoulder of his shirt. I tugged the fabric of his shirt to get his attention.
"Hey dad?"
"Yes Sakura?"
"Do you mind taking me too that room with the balcony?"
"Ofcourse Sakura."
We walked upstairs to where the rooms were. Dad was opening and closing doors because he wasn't sure which room had the balcony in it. Finally he found the room. As we walked into the room I looked around graciously. I went into a small trace admiring the room.
"Do you want this room?"
"Yes! I do! I do!"
"Well it's yours then. Your mom won't mind a room change." He smiled at me and patted me on the head before he walked out the room.
We did at least 4 hours or more of unpacking boxes. Within those 4 hours another U-Haul came with our beds and dressers, but I was sure another would come tomorrow. Dad set dressers and stuff up by himself. He actually set up anything that had to be set up. Like tables, selves, chairs. Our rooms were nearly complete. When we finished it was night. Mom ordered take-out for dinner. We all sat around the dinner table and ate.
After eating I went upstairs to the bathroom to take a shower. I had to get myself prepared for the new school and people that I would be encountering tomorrow. I took a nice 20 minute shower. Drying myself off with my towel that was placed on the rack. I made my way to my room to put my sleeping clothes on.
I plopped in bed not bothering to cover myself in my blanket. My face was mushed against my pillow. Before I closed my eyes to go to sleep I guess I said a little prayer to myself. The words "Please be good to me" ran through my head. I was trying to give myself a little hope things would change for the best at this school.
In my sleep I could feel a hand placed against my shoulder rocking my gently. Opening my eyes slowly I seen my dad standing there in his working suit. I was guessing it's morning time.
"Rise and shine Princess. Wake up. You have school today."
"Five more minutes." My voice sounded horrible in the morning. Before I could say anything else he opened the curtains that were up to my window. The sun beamed through and the light hurt my eyes. Quickly I covered my face with my hands.
"Come on, get up!" My dad had way to much energy for someone his age.
"Fine, Fine!"
I took my sleeping clothes off and started getting ready for school. The school had a uniform code. The other schools I went to never had uniforms. We could freely wear what we want. The school uniform was black and white. I didn't mind the uniform to much. I wouldn't have to worry about what I was going to wear everyday.
I finished getting dress and walked downstairs. Dad was waiting for me by the door. He always drove me to my new schools for my first day there. The car drive was silent. It only took at least 10 minutes to drive to the school. He pulled up in front of the school to let me out. Dad patted me on the head before I got out the car.
"Have a nice day today Princess."
"I'll try too. You have a good day a work."
"I will!" I waved at him as he drove away.
My body twisted around to look at the school. It was pretty big. The courtyard was empty. I was guessing everyone was already inside. My heart started to race as I took my first steps into my new life that would be starting in KHS. I walked slowly inside the school. I walked to the main desk to get my class number. I had to find my homeroom.
I looked at the piece of paper that was given to me at the desk. My classroom number was 106. I traveled up the hallway until I found the door with a 106 above it. Slowly placing my hand on the doorknob I took a deep breath before walking in. As I walked in my heart stopped. All eyes were on me.
A man with silver hair stood up from behind a desk and looked over to me.
"Ah, you must be our new student? Sakura is it?"
I didn't speak. I just nodded my head to answer him.
"I'm Kakashi Hatake. Your new teacher, but you can just call me . Please don't be shy, come on in. Introduce yourself to the class."
Closing the door behind me I walked in front of the blackboard. I was facing the entire class. I was never one to be shy around people, but I don't know what happened to me.
"I-I'm Sakura Haruno. It's nice to meet you all."
As I was introducing myself I could hear little whispers of people saying "Why is forehead so big?" and "Her hair is pink. Is that normal?" My eyes were glancing across the faces of my new classmates. One boy in particular was starting at me like he was in amazement or a trace. He had yellow hair. His skin was a perfect tanned color. We made eye contact for a few seconds before he quickly turned to a boy sitting next to him. The boy sitting next to him had dark blue hair and nice skin also. These boys seemed like good friends.
"You're pretty caught up with everything, right?"
"Yes, I am. The move didn't effect my school grades."
"Perfect. We're doing equations and such right now."
"I see."
"Hmm, Sakura you an sit next to Ino by the window."
"Alright."
I walked over to the seat where I was told to sit at. The girl I was sitting next to had beautiful long hair. Her hair was a bleached blonde color. started to teach. I pulled out my notebook and started taking notes. The type of equation he was teaching I already knew how to do, but It never hurt to take more notes.
"Pssh. Hey new girl." Ino was looking over at me.
"Hello."
"I'm Ino. If you need anything you can come to me!"
"I'm Sakura. It's nice to meet you Ino-san and Thank you." We were trying to keep our voices down so we wouldn't get caught by .
"After math is over I can introduce you to a few of my friends. We have lunch after this so we can speak freely."
"I'd like that, thanks." I gave Ino-san a small smile.
I wasn't sure If I just made my first friend in this school or I was going crazy. It was a wonderful feeling that someone just willingly openly talked to me without asking about my hair or forehead. Time flew by. Before I knew it math class was over.
"Lunchtime kiddos. Behave yourselves." was walking out the classroom.
"Ino-san? Is it okay for him to just leave out the class like that?"
"Of-course it. Why? They didn't do that at your last school?"
"No they didn't actually."
"Oh I see. I see. How many times have your moved Sakura?"
"A couple times because of my dad's work."
"My parents own a flower shop in this city here."
"Flowers? That's really nice. You must love being surrounded by them."
"Of-course I do. You have the name of a beautiful flower. You must have a beautiful personality too."
"Thank you." I looked down at my notebook feeling sort of embarrassed.
"No need for thanks silly."
"Umm who are those two boys over there?" I didn't lift my hands up to much, but I pointed my finger over to the yellow and dark blue haired guys. They were being crowded by a group of girls. It was kind of hard to make them out.
"Oh them? That's Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke has the dark hair and Naruto is the yellow haired one. Why do you ask?"
"Naruto was looking at me kinda weird when I walked."
"Well that's Naruto for you I guess. Now let me introduce you to a few of my friends."
We both stood up at the same time. I lingered behind Ino as she took me over to a small group of kids all sitting together. She walked behind me and placed her hands on my shoulder inching me forward.
"Hey guys! I would like you to meet Sakura~"
"Sakura this Shino, Kiba, and Hinata." Ino pointed to each of them as she said their names.
"Hi there you guys." They all said "Hi" at the same time. Hinata stuttered a little. I guess she was shy. Kiba seemed like the cool type and Shino seemed really laid back.
"Alright guys, I have to show Sakura off to everyone else. Talk to you later!" Ino continued to inch me over to other people. I noticed she was pushing me towards Naruto and Sasuke. There were two other boys sitting over there with them besides the random crowd of girls. Ino had to make a pathway for us to get to the boys.
"Shesh. All these girls. Well anyways I want you guys to meet Sakura. This is Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Chouji."
"Hi guys."
"Hey." Sasuke gave me a little smirk.
"Hey there." Shikamaru and Chouji spoke at the same time. That last person to say anything was Naruto.
"H-Hi there, Sakura-chan~ I'm Naruto Uzumaki. It's nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too."
"Well I think this covers it Sakura. You met all my good friends. I'm expecting you guys to treat her well."
came back in the classroom. Lunch was over. We all went back to our sits. There was no class switching today because of some special meeting for some of the teachers. So was teaching a little bit of everything today. The bell rung after a long day of school. It was time to go home. I started packing my things away.
"Well I'll see you tomorrow Sakura!"
"Alright bye, Ino-san."
I got all my stuff together and walked out the class. Almost everyone was gone. I made it outside walking out the school gates.
"Sakura-chan!" I turned around quickly. Naruto was walking up behind me.
"Eh, Naruto. What's up?"
"I was wondering If I could walk with you? You're walking in the same direction of my house."
"Sure, why not?"
"Thanks!"
While we were walking Naruto and I arms bumped a few times. I looked over to him and he's was making a goofy expression. The walk was kind of quiet before Naruto broke the silence.
"So when did you move here?"
"Yesterday actually."
"Oh nice."
"Yeah I guess so. Have you always lived here?"
"Yup all my life!"
"It must be nice not having to move around all the time. You can actually make friends and keep them."
"Sakura-chan.."
"Hm? Is something wrong?"
"N-no no it's nothing."
"I see, Alright."
The walk got quiet again before It was time for us to part ways.
"Well this is my stop Naruto."
"Ah this is your house. Well I only live a few houses up from here. Well thank you for letting me walk with you!"
"You're welcome. Bye Naruto."
"Bye Sakura-chan."
I waved to Naruto while I was walking into the house. Dad's car was parked in front of the house so he must be home early. I was excited to tell them about the new people I met. As I walked in the house mom and dad were scurrying out the living room. My father was smiling like always and my mom looked like she was smiling too.
"Welcome home, Princess!"
"Welcome home dear."
"Thanks mom and dad. What are you two so happy about?"
"Who was that boy you were walking with? Is that your new boyfriend? Only been in the school a day and you have a boyfriend!"
"B-Boyfriend? Naruto isn't my boyfriend. He's just a friend of mine." I started to blush heavy as I looked over to my mom for her expression.
"Sure he isn't dear."
"MOM! You too!?"
Dad walked over and patted me on the head.
"It's okay sweartheart, you don't have to openly admit it right now."
"H-He's not! Naruto is cute and everything, but he seems goofy. Plus he's popular. I'm pretty sure he already has a girlfriend. He'd never go for someone like me. Now off the boyfriend thing!"
"Alright. Alright. So how was school?" Dad was still smiling at me.
"It was pretty good actually. I met a girl name Ino. She introduced me to all her friends. I guess you can say they're my friends too now."
"That's lovely dear." Mom came and put her hand on my shoulder and gave me the biggest smile.
"I think this school year is actually going to be alright." I thought those words would never come out my mouth, but they did. This is the beginning of something new.