Chapter 1: The map

Konohagakuen

"Bye mom! See ya! I wont be seeing you for sometime, take care okay!" Sakura waved her hand at her mother as she went out to their gate.

"Take care of yourself too, okay?! Don't worry about me!!" her mom waving goodbye at her daughter.

Birds flew gracefully beyond her as she looked up in the sky. The sky was blue above and the sun was bright as always.

The new town girl explored the sight in her new neighborhood. The street is clean; the morning breeze was cool, and excitement of other students preparing their day for school.

Sakura just moved in this neighborhood because of her mother's work. So she was forced to go to a new school; which she is not very familiar with. The school was quite big so she will not even need a map for the directions. But for Sakura, she'll need it…

Sigh. "Why do I have to change schools if my old school was just one town away with my current school now." Sakura whined. "Like my mother would even care, maybe because of the low tuition fee than my last school." She giggled. "Maybe because of the scholarship here in the school, that's why I here! I am the valedictorian on my previous school anyway." She bragged.

Sakura stopped like she forgot something. She looked at her hands like she is supposed to have something in her hand. She checked her bag, pockets and even her wallet. "OH. MY. GOD." She said calmly. "M-my, M-m-map…" she remembered. "N-nooooooo!!!" Sakura screamed, holding her head with both of her hand and looked side to side. She panicked like someone is died in front of her.

She started looking for people to ask for directions. Apparently, she can't find any.

"Is someone here? I heard somebody screamed by the street and I thought somebody needed help."

"Huh?" Sakura turned to the yellow-haired boy. She just started to scream like she saw a ghost. But the boy didn't even understand what she was saying.

"Naruto, what is going on here? We are gonna be late for..." A black haired boy popped out from Naruto's behind. "Huh?" he looked at Sakura. She continued being wild not minding the two boys.

"Well, I think this girl needs help, Sasuke. Looks like she's lost or something." Naruto, pointed at the panicking girl. "I think she is the one who we heard scream a while ago." Naruto added.

"Hn" Sasuke walked towards the girl. "What's her problem anyway?" Sakura stopped when his deep voice serenaded through her ears.

Sakura stared at the boy. "Oh me? umm… ahhh… n-not… at all. Hahah…" She scratched her head like she is hiding something.

"Let me guess…you're lost?" as the crossed his arms looking high-and-mighty all of a sudden as he gave Sakura a smirk.

Sakura stopped laughing. "Well, maybe we can call it like that. But don't have to pushed it…Sakura paused and noticed a blonde boy. Then she focused her eyes at the boy's uniform. "Y-you go to the same---"looked at the both of them and continued." –– SCHOOL AS ME!!!!!" her eyes changed like diamonds. "You're the same year as me too, junior high! Even though we might have different schedules. But I don't care!!"

"Hn. come on Naruto, if you don't hurry up will be late for class." He walked towards his friend with his hands on his pockets.

"No!" Sakura held Sasuke's shirt. "Could you at least help me out here? I AM lost." She begged.

"Come on, Sasuke. Maybe we should help the girl. Anyway she goes to our school anyway right?" Naruto suggested walking toward his friend pointing at the pleading girl.

"My name's Sakura Haruno. And don't ever call me Miss." she clenched her fist. "So shall we go now?" her mood suddenly changed and skipped towards the stop light. She tripped on a bump on the sidewalk and she was caught by Naruto.

"Are you okay, Sakura?" helping Sakura to get up to her feet.

Sakura rubbed her eyes and noticed that someone is holding her. She opened her eyes and Naruto's head was so close to her face. She tightens her fist again and punched Naruto on his stomach. "Pervert!" and she started running away from the two boys.

Naruto took a step back rubbing his stomach to try relieving the pain from Sakura's punch.

"Hn, pathetic" Sasuke chuckled looking at the boy.

Sakura kept running and saw a big sign that says, "Konohagakuen. This way " the sign points left. "So I will reach the school in that direction." She walked to the said direction.

Naruto started to worry about Sakura being lost again. And he noticed that Sasuke remained calm as always like nothing happened.

"Do you think she is lost again?" as he looked at his friend.

"No." Sasuke replied. "I am pretty sure she went the right way. When she was running away from you, I observed that she went to the right direction."

"Oh, you think so?" Naruto looked up in the sky. "Maybe you're right"

Sakura walked a few minutes away from the sign, until she saw the gates of her new school. She noticed that there was a weird symbol that looks like on her uniform painted on it.

She was about to go inside then someone shouted from behind.

"Sakura!" She looked back and the two boys walking towards her.

"Looks like she didn't got lost." Sakura pouted and waved her hand at Naruto.

"Oh yeah, my name is Naruto Uzumaki!" as he pointed his thumb on to his chest. "And this guy here is---"

The bell started ringing. The students inside the campus started running towards their classrooms. The people in dorms started barging out of their rooms. Some of them didn't finished on they are doing inside their dorms.

"Oh, looks like I need to go." Sakura looked at her watch. "Just introduce him to me next time, Naruto! Bye!!" waving goodbye to the two boys.

"We should go to Sasuke." Naruto looked beside him and saw no one. "He left me…"