Hey guys, its me again. So yeah, the novel of the Naruto anime isn't going as well as planned its hard to get time to sit down and just work on one episode/chapter in one go, so my own story is a lot easier to work on during classes. Here is the first chapter of this story, it's basically a SakuraXLee pairing with a few minor pairings as we go along, I know there isn't many people who have the pairing I do, not many people like them and prefer Sakura with Sasuke or Naruto but i like this pairing, so deal with it. Enough rabbiting on from me, please read and review this, i know the summary is really bad but I can't do them well. Hope you enjoy it x

disclaimer - I don't own Naruto

'God am I bored.' Sakura thought as she and her parents were in the car. She didn't particularly like the car at the best of times but at this present moment in time she hated it, for it was the mode of transport taking her away from the village she was born, to an unknown village with a prestigious Academy to its name. This was the reason she was leaving, because her parent's had decided to make their daughters life the best they could, and by the best in education was how they thought to do it. She didn't hate her parents, far from it, but she just wished that they could have talked to her about it and came to a decision together. She didn't want to give up all that she knew and loved, to go somewhere foreign, especially when her parents weren't even moving there.

She tried to ignore these thoughts as she got depressed every time she thought about it, but it was always in the back of her mind, which was where she tried to push them to. Her parents told her the day before, so she could tell her friends, that the journey would take five hours and they'd only been driving for one and a half, so she stared out the window, listened to the music on her mp3 and tried to get comfy so she could have a nap.

She can't remember if she dreamt or not but when she awoke she found herself under a blanket of light shadow as they were now driving through a forest. It wasn't a thick forest since she could see through the trees to the grasslands outside, but it was enough to take off some of the heat from the sun. She was grateful for that because she didn't deal well with hot weather. As she looked around at the scenery she realised that it was actually quite pretty, at least better than the views of mountains she had before.

'Sakura, sweetheart, we're almost there.' Her mum called from the front passenger seat, since her dad was driving. As she said that, the forest opened up to a small village. A mountain face was on one side of it, while the other sides were surrounded by vast forests. There were a few shops but most of them were just for the huge school, which was looming behind them. She didn't have much time to look at the village since they were pulling into the Academy through the huge gates.

As they parked near the entrance a small dark haired woman came out and asked, 'Are you the Haruno's?'
'Yes we are.' Sakura's mum and dad shook hands with the woman.
'And you must be Sakura right?' The woman asked.
Sakura nodded, even though she wasn't that shy of a person, she couldn't help but feel it.
'Nervous? I remember I was when I first came here. It's pretty intimidating isn't it? Oh, I forgot, my name's Shizune.' Shizune spoke animatedly. Sakura thought she was being a bit too excited but she didn't want to appear rude so she didn't say anything.

During these exchange of words Sakura's dad was taking her luggage out of the car.
'Do you need some help with those? I've asked one of the stronger students to come down and take them to Sakura's new dorm.' Shizune said politely.
'That would be great, thanks.' He replied and put a few bags down and carried the others in his hand inside, then returned do to the same with them.
While he done this Shizune showed Sakura and her mother to the reception.

'Lady Tsunade will be with you shortly.' She said and turned around. As she did she spotted a boy walking down one of the hallways leading to the reception.
'You called for me Miss Shizune?' The boy asked her politely. He had walked through the door so Sakura could now see him. He had short black hair cut into a bowl shape, and big bushy eyebrows. His eyes were big and round and, despite the blackness of them, they radiated warmth. His long-sleeved dark green t-shirt and khaki combats suited him perfectly as with the voice he had.
She managed to take all this in within the second she saw of him, since he looked straight at her so she turned away, embarrassed, with a slight blush on her face due to being spotted staring at him.
'How many times do I have to tell you? It's just Shizune.' She sighed
'But father always taught me to be polite to everyone, especially females.' Sakura, upon stealing a glance, had noticed he had turned his attention from her to Shizune.
'Don't I know it,' she said to herself, quiet enough so the boy couldn't hear, 'Whatever, could you go help Mr Haruno and take the bags to the spare room in your sisters dorm, and send Ino here?'
'Of course.' He said to her and bowed. He then turned to Sakura and said, 'I'll see you around sometime then.' and bowed to her too. This caused Sakura to glow bright red but luckily he didn't see since he'd already left to help her dad.

Sakura then realised she had been holding her breath, so she allowed herself to breathe out. She had thought that these kids would be a like a different species to her but that boy seemed normal enough. She wondered what the rest would be like. Maybe it might not even be so bad, well as long as she can get along with the girls here.

Sakura then heard her dad say, 'Are you sure you'll be okay with all those bags? Do you think it would be best if you split it up?'

He came through the door and held it open as wide as he could and through it came a mountain of bags. Sakura couldn't believe what she was seeing. The boy who was trying to help was taking all the bags up at once. He had some of them tied to his back and carried the rest in his hands.
'Don't worry Sir I carry things twice as heavy for a mile a day this is no trouble.' He said with a strained voice, gave him a thumbs up and flashed a cheeky smile. Sakura's dad was taken aback by this he didn't know what to say, he admired the boy.

Sakura stood up abruptly making a loud noise, so much so that Shizune, her parents and the boy were all staring at her. Any other time she would be embarrassed by this but she wasn't going to let someone struggle over her luggage.
'Here let me help you.' She said heading towards him.
'There's no need Miss, I'm fine.' He said but she could see the sweat dripping down his face.
'It's my things, I shouldn't let someone else struggle with them. It's rude.' She said reaching to grab the ones from this hand. But as she did a tall blonde haired woman walked down the nearby stairs and seen the family there.

'Mr and Mrs Haruno? I'm Lady Tsunade. Would you like to come with me? Sakura you come too please.' She said strictly and turned around. Sakura now had no choice but to let him take them, alone.

She slowly walked after her parents but before she left the room, she turned to see if he was still there and he was.
'Let me repay you for this.' She said.
'It's no problem. I'm happy to help.' He replied, gave her the same cheeky grin and then started walking off back down the hall he came from, muttering to himself something like, 'If I can't carry these bags down this hall in 2 minutes then I have to run up the stairs with them in under 1'
Sakura smiled, he seemed very reliable she thought and hurried to catch up to her parents.

'Please, sit down.' Lady Tsunade said gesturing to the chairs in front of the table as she moved around to the back of it. Sakura tried to sit down at the nearest chair to the door as she can find, but unfortunately all the chairs were in a line and her parents had already chosen the two outer ones, causing Sakura to sit between them both.
'Anything to drink?' She asked but all rejected it, 'As I'm sure you're all tired so I'll just get down to business. Welcome to Konoha Private Academy. Hope you enjoy your time here. There's just a few things we need to go over. Just to confirm you've paid for 10 weeks so far in this Academy and when they are almost up we'll contact you for more payment.'

Sakura zoned out for a while since this talk was for her parents and not for her. She wondered what the people were like again, after seeing that boy push himself like that for her, she hoped everybody else would be the same, so she could get along with them and make this an easy time. This made her think about her friends at home. 'Speaking of that, I'll phone him later before I go to bed.' She thought.

'Sakura? Would you like to come with me to reception, you can say your goodbyes there, pick up some school things and then you can meet your room-mates.' Lady Tsunade said standing up. Sakura nodded and stood up and followed her with her parents right behind her.
As they walked her mum started rhyming off a list of stuff she was to make sure she had when she unpacked and to ring them if they'd missed anything.
Lady Tsunade told them to wait in the reception area while she went and found Sakura's guide around the school and dorms. Sakura's mum started crying while they waited. This was the last time they were going to see each other for a while and she was getting emotional.

'You promise to ring us at least once a week right?' She asked sobbing.
'Of course I will.' She said clearly upset about having to leave her family.
Her dad ruffled her hair so it stuck up everywhere, 'Be good, kiddo.'
'Daaaad,' She complained flattening her hair, 'I'm seventeen, I'm not a kid anymore.'
'You'll always be our baby.' Her mum said cutting across her father.

Tsunade chose this moment to walk in with a tall, long blonde haired girl.
'Are you ready to come with us?' She asked.
'Just a minute.' She said and then turned to her parents and gave them both a huge hug and said, 'I'll miss you.'
'We'll miss you too. It's going to be a bit lonely at home without you.' They said and waved at their daughter as she went off to start her new life.

It's a little slow to start off with but I need to get all the characters in the right places in the story if you know what i mean. Some of the characters may get a little OC-ish but it will be as close as i can get to the character without spoiling my story.