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Summery: At Kohana High a group of perfectly normal friends are about to have their lives changed when a certain pink haired girl appears. When Orochimaru shows his true face the group has to battle physically and emotionally to save the friendship they cherish. SakuraxGaara.
When Everything Goes Wrong
Chapter 1
Rain clouds hung in the air filling Kohana with a damp feeling. Sakura sat unmoving on a stone bench. As he humidity settled on her skin and clothes, she let out a sigh. Tomorrow would be her first day at Kohana High. She had attended a private school before hand so this school was all new to her.
Sakura shuddered at the thought of the teasing and tormenting as a result of her pink hair.
At that moment a cool breeze ran through her hair. Dancing in the wind her long hair occasionally kissed her on the cheek.
Looking up at the gray and cloudy sky, she felt a drop of rain water fall onto he rather large forehead.
Soon it began to sprinkle lightly, speaks of the sky's tears rolled down her body.
Standing Sakura walked down the stone path. By the time she had reached her house, Sakura was completely soaked. Running her hands through her wet hair, she stepped into the empty home.
"I'm back," she announced to the lonely shadows. Her parents were always away on missions leaving her in a dark house. Sakura didn't mind though, they did what they had to do
Leaving her shoes at the door, she entered the darkness.
Sakura awoke to another gloomy day. Following her daily schedule, she rolled out of bed. After taking a steamy hot shower, Sakura slipped on her usual sleeveless red outfit, skipped breakfast, as always, she headed straight towards the front door, slipping on her shoes while going out into the morning.
Hurrying to school, she tried to push all nervous thoughts from her head.
Finally she stood in front of her new school. Keeping her eyes on the ground, she received her class schedule from the front office. Looking down she read, Homeroom: Hatake Kakashi room 101.
Sakura found the room quickly; upon entering she felt everyone's eye rise up to meet her.
Sitting in a corner, Sakura overheard an obnoxious blonde say, "Shikamaru, look at her overly sized forehead."
Sakura winced at this comment. She pretended to be interested in a piece of tape stuck to her desk.
When a shadow fell over her, she looked up. It was the blonde girl from before.
"Hi, I'm Yamanaka Ino," she told Sakura smiling. "That's a rather large forehead you have there," she said flicking it.
"Ino be nice," came the voice of a black haired boy standing behind her. "Being new is troublesome; she doesn't need you to make it worse. Hey I'm Nara Shikamaru," he introduced himself.
"H- hi," Sakura stuttered. "I'm Haruno Sakura," she told them nervously.
"Sakura huh," Ino repeated.
At that moment a gray haired man walked in just as the late bell rang.
"Yo," he greeted raising his hand. Ino and Shikamaru took their seats.
"I'm Hatake Kakashi," he announced. "Now one by one each of you introduce yourself and tell us one thing about you, not that anyone cares," he ordered playfully.
First a boy with brown hair and a dog on his head stood up.
'I wonder if he knows there's a dog on his head,' she thought.
"Inuzuka Kiba, and this Akamaru," he said and the dog barked a hello. "We're the best team in this school so stay out of our way."
Then a friendly blonde boy stood, "I'm Uzumaki Naruto I like ramen and I'm going to be Hokage one day!" Sakura made a mental note to remember everyone's name.
A boy with black hair and sun glasses then stood up to say, "Aburame Shino, I like bugs."
'Why is he wearing sunglasses inside?' Sakura asked herself.
Suddenly a boy with thick eye brows resembling fuzzy caterpillars stood up, "I'm Rock Lee Kohana's handsome green devil, my dream is to show the world I can be a great ninja just using tiajitsu."
'He seems nice," she thought.
Inner Sakura: "Uh, look at those eyebrows."
"I'm Yamanaka Ino and I'll be the best girl shinobi of all time," she cried flames burning in her blue eyes. Everyone near her backed away slightly.
"I'm Nara Shikamaru and I'm lazy," he stated, bored.
"Hyuuga Neji, people call me a genius," said a blacked haired boy with strange white eyes.
'Maybe that's why no one is bothered by my pink hair, everyone else is pretty weird too,' Sakura thought.
A shy girl with dark blue hair stood shaking, "I'm Hyuuga Hinata, nice to meet you, and Neji-kun is my cousin."
"Hi I'm Tenten, I like to fight with weapons," she said cheerfully.
"Akimichi Chouji, I like to eat," said a rather chubby boy.
"Temari," said a blonde girl with four spiky ponytails, "if you see the three stars on my fan, you'll die."
"Kankuro, Temari is my sister," said a guy with purple face paint.
"Uchiha Sasuke, don't mess with me," said a black haired boy with cold eyes.
When Sakura heard his voice she looked up.
'Wow he's cute!' she screamed in her head, but blushing as she thought this.
Inner Sakura: "Not just cute! He's HOTT AS HELL!"
Last a boy with blood red hair stood black circled his blank green eyes, "Gaara, just Gaara."
'He's creepy," she thought.
It was quite. Sakura realized she was the last one, everyone was staring at her. She tried to stand up, but stumbled embarrassing herself. Blushing she managed to get out, "Haruno Sakura, I'm new here."
"Well now that everyone is done-" Kakashi started but was interrupted by Tenten.
"Kakashi-sensei! You didn't tell us something about yourself, all you told us was your name," Tenten said.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes, "I'm Hatake Kakashi and I don't like you."
Tenten fell over; sitting back in her seat she crossed arms angrily.
"Hey, hey Kakashi-sensei, that wasn't very nice," Naruto defended.
"Oh look the bell rang!" Kakashi announced. Everyone got up to leave.
'No it didn't,' Sakura muttered in her head. Never the less she followed the rest of the class. Once out in the hall Ino and some other girls approached her.
"So who do you have?" Ino asked grabbing Sakura's schedule.
Homeroom: Hatake Kakashi Room: 101
Gym: Gai Room: Gym
Lunch: None Room: Lunchroom
Ninjitsu: Orochimaru Room: 666
Health Care: Shizune Room: 250
Weapons: Hatake Kakashi Room: 101
Sakura watched as the girls leaned over the piece of paper.
"You have classes with at least one of us!" Tenten, or that's who Sakura thought she was, told her.
"Your Tenten right?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, you have a good memory. Unlike Ino here, she has a memory of a goldfish, three seconds then it's gone," Tenten said smiling.
"What did you say!" Ino yelled tackling the brown haired girl. Sakura smiled.
"Do you remember mine?" asked the girl with four ponytails.
"Temari," she muttered hoping it was right.
"You're defiantly smarter than Ino," Temari laughed then took off down the hall. Ino got off Tenten and started chasing Temari, a cloud of dust behind her. Sakura helped up Tenten.
"We'd better head to Gym," Tenten told her. Sakura nodded her head in agreement.
"Let's go Hinata," Sakura called after the shy girl.
Hinata seemed surprised but soon smiled and followed after the other girls.
Sakura entered the large gym and gaped at the sight. Thousands of people could have fit in it, it was huge.
Sasuke walked passed Sakura and using his hand he closed her mouth and kept walking. Soon she was being dragged by Ino and Temari to the dressing rooms. All the girls stripped down to their underwear, except for Hinata that is. Ino pulled on white shorts and a purple camisole, Tenten wore a pink camisole with brown shorts, Temari had a blood red cami and black shorts, and Sakura had a black camisole and pink shorts.
Tenten, Temari, Sakura, and Ino waited for Hinata. Blushing she asked them to please leave.
"Awe come on Hinata, we're all girls, what do you have huge boobs under that jacket of your or something," Temari joked. Hinata turned completely red.
"Please," Hinata begged.
"Okay, okay," Ino agreed pushing everyone out. Everyone waited paitently outside the dressing room door. Hinata finally appeared wear and sky blue tank top and dark blue shorts.
Tenten, Ino, and Temari fell over. Hinata blushed.
"What's wrong?" asked Sakura.
"This is the first time we've seen anything but her face!" Tenten cried.
"Usually Hinata wears long pants and long sleeve shirts even if it's one hundred degrees outside," Temari said in an exasperated tone.
"Wow Hinata I didn't know you had such a body! You're a babe!" Ino yelled bringing all attention to them. Hinata tried to run into the changing room to hide but was caught by Ino.
"Wow Hinata!" Kiba smirked as he approached them. Hinata turned as red as a tomato.
"Hinata is that you?" asked Naruto. That was too much. Hinata fainted. Sakura couldn't help but laugh at this scene. About the time Hinata awoke a man with black hair and fuzzy eyebrows ran into the gym.
"I'm Gai, your gym teacher and I love youth!" he said enthusiastically holding out his thumb in the good guy pose. Suddenly he started running around the gym yelled "youth!" over and over again. Once he had finished a lap he held out his thumb, "everyone enjoy you wonderful youth outside." He marched outside followed by mumbling students.
All of the guys come over towards Sakura and her new friends.
The first one to speak was fuzzy eyebrows, "Hi Sakura my name is-"
"Lee right?" Sakura asked smiling.
"Uh- yeah," he said blushing.
"And yours is Neji, Gaara, Sasuke, Chouji, Naruto, Shino, Kiba, Shikamaru, Kankuro, and of course Akamaru," she said pointing to each person and patting Akamaru on the head. Everyone seemed a little shocked, except for Gaara and Sasuke, their emotionless masks still on.
'She's beautiful and smart!' thought Lee.
"You're much smarter than Ino," Naruto commented and was later tackled by Ino. Sakura laughed. They all started to jog around the track. All of the girls where huddled together whispering.
"Girls are so troublesome," Shikamaru commented.
"So who do you think is the best looking Temari?" asked Sakura.
"Uh-" she thought looking back at the boys. "I'd have to say Sasuke."
"No way he's mine," Ino and Sakura yelled at the same time. A giant sweat drop formed on Tamari's temple. Sakura and Ino glared daggers at each other.
"What about you Tenten?" Temari questioned. "You and Neji?"
"No, no we're just friends," Tenten said nervously.
"We all know who Hinata likes," Tenten said trying to change the subject.
"Who?" Sakura inquired.
"Naruto," answered Tenten, Ino, and Temari. Hinata blushed like mad.
"So does anyone like that new girl?" asked Naruto.
"She seems nice," answered Shikamaru.
"She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!" cried Lee hearts in his eyes. Everyone else murmured their okays.
As the girls jogged Sakura got the feeling of being watched.
"AH!" Ino screamed. Following her line of vision Sakura noticed an old perverted hermit sitting on a hill with binoculars.
"That's Jiraya-sama," explained Naruto coming out of no where, "he's an old perverted hermit."
"Oh," everyone said in unison. Suddenly the girls took off running. Sakura was in the lead fallowed by Tenten, Temari, Hinata, and finally Ino.
"Come on Ino-pig," yelled Sakura waving.
"What!" Ino screamed chasing after her.
Kiba laughed. Ino-pig, I like that one. Shikamaru smirked.
As Sakura ran for her life she looked over her shoulder to see Ino catching up to her. As she passed Gai-sensei he yelled "enjoy your spring time of youth."
When Sakura realized she was getting no where with running she turned to face and angry Ino.
Ino lunged and tackled Sakura. Ino's eyebrow was twitching in annoyance.
'I need to think of a way to get out of this,' Sakura thought hurriedly.
"Look Ino Sasuke is waving at you," Sakura pointed at him. Ino's face softened and turned to look at him.
"Hey Sasuke, Sakura just pointed at you," Naruto told him. Sasuke looked over at Sakura.
"She's just trying to get Ino to calm down," Sasuke said in a know-it-all voice.
A few minutes later gym was over and everyone got dressed in there normal clothes. Making there way to lunch everyone was in there own conversation. Standing in the lunch line Sakura watched as Kiba and Chouji fought over who would be first.
Shikamaru smirked. "It's useless, Chouji is going to win."
Just as Shikamaru said Kiba soon flew backwards. He bumped into Sakura and they both fell over.
"Oh, sorry Sakura," Kiba apologized rubbing the back of his head.
"It's okay Kiba," she told him as he helped her up. When they all sat down for lunch Sakura noticed Tenten and Hinata staring at two specific boys, Neji and Naruto.
Sakura and Ino leaned over towards each other.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking," Sakura whispered mischievously.
"Pancakes," Ino replied.
Sakura cocked an eyebrow. "No! We should play match maker," Sakura said referring to Hinata and Tenten.
"Oh," Ino said her eye glinting demonically.
"Bwah hahahaha," Ino laughed evilly. Everyone looked over at Ino who's eye had flames burning in them.
"That's never a good sign," Neji said.
After lunch a select few made their way to room 666. Sakura took a seat Kiba, Gaara, Sasuke, and Hinata sat around her.
A really pale snake resembling teacher walked in the room.
'He's…strange looking,' Sakura thought.
Inner Sakura: "AH! He looks like a snake that looks like he was run over ninety-one times by a motorized scooter and then shaped into human using mashed potatoes!"
Sakura raised an eyebrow at her inner self.
"Hello class," he said in a silky smooth voice. "My name is Orochimaru."
Sakura got a bad felling from this teacher. Every time he approached Kiba and Akamaru, Akamaru would whimper and hide.
The rest of the classes flew by. When the group of fiends gathered outside school Sakura proposed everyone come to her house. Everyone backed away as Ino and Sakura's eye's glinted evilly, but they all agreed.
Sorry if the first chapter was boring but I promise it will be much better in the next chapter! Please read and review.