"So I go, and I will not be back here again. I'm gone as the day is fading."
It's a story about growing up, and moving on.
I do not own Naruto
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Her makeup was too thick on her thin face. Her arms were too toned for her petite form. Her hair was too tight for her liking.
"Sakura are you ready?" Sakura felt her dance instructor place their hand on her shoulder.
"Mhm," Sakura gave a slight nod as she stood up, ready for her last performance before she would leave this place and move onto college. She shuffled her feet to the side entrance of the stage behind the curtain. Taking deep breaths, Sakura looked at her team behind her as they all gave her thumbs up and reassuring nods. Before Sakura could fully register what was going on, she took off onto the stage into a series of leaps and turns with her team following close behind. Giving the most incredible performance she could muster was the goal, and it was succeeded as she hit the ground from the final move. Sakura knew in that moment she had made it, made it through high school, made it through the straining practices, the tears, the blood, it was all success, and now she could move on.
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"Wow Sakura, this is a lot bigger than I was imagining!" Sakura gave her mom a strange look before turning back to look at her dorm room. Sure it was decent size, but knowing the room she had once lived in back home, it did not compare.
'But I'm not back home, and I'm moving past all of that' Sakura reminded herself as she set her remaining bags down. The final goodbye with her mother came and went and next thing she knew she was laying on her bed wondering what the next step was.
'I just need to get out of here and go see this place,' with this thought, Sakura pushed herself off the bed and looked at her full body mirror behind her door. She wore jean shorts that showed off her toned legs from dance, alone with a pair of black flip flops and plain white v neck t shirt. Although she felt that she looked too simple to be leaving her room; maybe that was her problem from the past. She was scared to be too simple, but maybe too simple was a good thing.
Tying her long pink hair into a high pony tail, Sakura walked out into the hall way and inspected the surrounding. Just a normal dorm hall way, with a few students walking around. Some students had their doors open, welcoming anyone to step in and become friends. Some people already had 'Do not disturb' signs hanging up, those being the students Sakura knew she did not want to be around. Although she looked for change, she was interested in remaining a social butterfly. Being at the end of the hallway, she walked towards the other end, glancing into any open doors.
Realizing she was on a co-ed floor, Sakura felt a rush of nervousness hit her. She had a few boyfriends throughout high school but dance never allowed anything to become serious. Her main interaction with boys was through dance and that was all business, never talking about each other's personal lives. Finally she heard a high pitched female's voice from the upcoming room, the last door on this side of the hallway.
"Tenten, how the hell can you even door that with a soccer ball?" Sakura peeked into the room to see a girl with long blonde hair staring at the other girl who was juggling the soccer ball with her knees.
"Ino, maybe if you ever tried real sports in high school you would know how to do something like this to," the girl, who Sakura assumed was Tenten, replied as she let the ball drop to the ground. Sakura took a deep breath before lightly knocking on the door. Both girls turned to look in her direction and Sakura put on a big smile,
"Hi! I live on the other side of the hallway and I'm new around here…so…" Sakura found herself not knowing where to go from that explanation. Luckily it seemed like there was no need to go on because both girls smiled and stepped forward.
"Hi I'm Tenten and this is Ino," the brown hair girl said as shook Sakura's hand, "This is my second year at K-U. Ino and I were friends in high school so she's rooming with me her first year here!"
"So did you two go to Konoha high school?" Sakura asked as she leaned onto the wall. She knew this would happen often, she had moved from Suna which was 5 hours away and knew that most Konoha high schoolers stayed in the city to go to the university.
"Yes we did, there's a lot of us here actually from our friend group! We can introduce you to them if you want; we're meeting up for dinner!" Ino chirped into the conversation. Sakura smiled and just nodded.
Two hours had passed while Sakura spent time with Ino and Tenten in their room. She had learned that Tenten was captain of her high school soccer and basketball team and had a soccer scholarship was K-U. It explained her tall and muscular body. Ino was a cheerleader and was in student council during years of high school. She was the pure definition of girly girl, but Sakura could tell that she was going to appreciate both of the girls in her new found college life.
"Hey we should get going! Neji just texted me that they're heading to the Café," Tenten said as she stood up with a different kind of smile on her face.
Sakura read through it and said the first thing on her mind, "So…Neji?"
Tenten just sighed and looked back down at her phone, Ino answered for her, "Neji is Tenten's dream guy but she doesn't believe that he likes her. Although you'll see, it's quite obvious that he does!"
The three girls arrived to the college's Café in a few minutes. Sakura saw a group of people circled around the outside, they talked like they had known each other for years...
'Oh of course, they all probably went to high school together' Sakura sighed on the inside, hoping she wouldn't stick out too much.
This plan failed as the first thing she saw and heard was a hyper blonde kid run out of the circle and shout, "Hey Ino, Tenten! Who's that new girl with ya!?" Sakura flinched as he just kept running towards them and stopped right in front of Sakura. Before anyone could say anything else he kept talking, "Hey! I'm Naruto and it's great meeting new people right?! Oh boy, I love college already!" Again before Sakura could reply, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, talking her ear off about how they were all friends from high school but he was sure she would fit right in if Ino liked her.
"Hey Naruto, how about you let the poor girl introduce herself," Sakura saw the owner of the voice. It was a tall skinny boy leaning against the building, with brown hair tied up in what looked like a pineapple shape. Everyone stopped chatting and turned to look at Sakura. Although she was used to all eyes on her, it was not normally in this situation. She felt her cheeks turn slightly pink before saying, "I'm Sakura and I'm from Suna…." Not knowing what else to say she gave a smile and looked at Ino and Tenten for help.
"She lives down the hall from us! She's really cool," Ino said stepping forward, sensing the agony of awkward coming from Sakura.
"Anyways, this is everyone Sakura!" Tenten said before pointing out everyone and introducing them. There was Neji, long brown hair and pretty bright eyes. Naruto, too hyper and loud but friendly, and that's all Sakura could really ask for. Shikamaru, pineapple hair and lazy genius…but definitely Ino's love interest. Then there was Sasuke, he seemed like he didn't have a care in the world to be there or a care to even be meeting Sakura. He gave her a slight nod but then continued looking down at the ground.
"This is going to be great everyone! Now let's go eat!" Naruto cheered loudly before entering the Café with everyone left to follow. Sakura slightly fell back before entering behind the group. She hoped this all worked out, she hoped this was going to be a new beginning. A fresh start.
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I hope this was a good start! I'm really bored… I'm at tech school for the Air Force and I'm so bored all the time! So this is just something to do in my free time. Please support! (: