Disclaimer: Naruto character's belong to Kishimoto Masashi

Sakura's Knight

Written By Udon

Full summary: (AU+OOC) 16 year old Sakura was the school's Ice Princess, she emitted a cold aura that scared most people away. Although she was rich, she was not happy. Ever since a young age she disliked people and hated girls. She needed a house keeper and her classmate Naruto needed money. Hence, their sad love story begins.

Pairing: Sakura and Naruto

Rating: Pg-13 years, some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes.

Genre: Romance, Angst, Drama

Chapter One: Naruto's First Day At Work

Sakura was heading to the school's cafeteria by her self just like any other day. She was striding along the corridor until a certain blonde haired boy stopped her for a brief moment, this had changed her usual routine. She stared at the blonde haired boy from head to toe who had just passed her a piece of paper that read 'Work Wanted.' Her heart skipped a beat because standing in front of her was a boy that resembled her beloved brother. She really wanted to stretch out her hand and touch his face.

"Deidara is that you?" She whispered with hollow eyes.

Naruto was surprised that the school's ice maiden actually spoke to him. He stared at her wavy long pink hair that stretched down to envelop her heavenly endowed figure. His male testosterone made his heart rate accelerate because standing in front of him was the most prettiest girl he had ever seen in his life. He held his breath for a long time before he realised he needed to breathe again. He quickly responded to her question.

"No I'm not Deidara," He answered.

No I'm not...

His words repeatedly rang in her head, it had made her feel colder than usual.

She shook her head to shake away her coldness and asked, "What are you able to do?"

"I can cook, clean, mow the lawn, act as your body guard and look here," said an excited Naruto.

Sakura looked down to examine Naruto Uzumaki's bike licence. Born on 10th October, which meant he would be turning 17 this year and was in the same grade as her.

"You have a bike?"

"Nope, that's why I want to work to save up for a motorcycle."

"I see... How much do you want to be paid per an hour?"

"I dunno. I have never worked before."

"I will pay you $30 an hour, give me your mobile." Sakura saved her number and address.

"Ok."

Naruto was thinking how generous rich people were and started seeing dollar signs in his head.

"This is my number, come to this address within 30 minutes of my call. If I find out that you give out my personal information to other people, I will no longer need you to work for me. I will have a two week trial with you."

"Understood!"

While this conversation was going on the school's number one prince and president of the student council Sasuke Uchiha was clenching his fist. Sasuke was every girl's dream of an ideal boyfriend. Although he was nice to everyone, no one has ever heard of him having a girlfriend. Sasuke was secretly jealous of the blonde haired boy as he had always dreamed of getting Sakura's mobile number.

"I must get her number off him," whispered Sasuke to himself. He started to read a piece of paper he found on the ground that Naruto was handing out. 'Work Wanted.'

'Interesting.' He thought happily.

...

Sasuke's Flashback

One year ago, Sasuke was happy to be in the same high school as Sakura.

Sakura was walking with ear phones in her ear before Sasuke grabbed her by her shoulder.

Sakura turned her head and spoke angrily, "Don't touch me so callously. Do I know you?"

Sasuke was shocked. How could she have never heard of the brilliant and good looking Sasuke Uchiha. Every girl in this school would rave frantically about him. They all dreamed of the day that almighty Sasuke would talk to them. The Sakura in Sasuke's memory was happy, kind and caring. He wondered what has caused Sakura to change.

"Ah-hem, I am Sasuke Uchiha a member of the student council. You're Sakura Haruno correct?"

"Yes and what brings you here?"

"You haven't submitted your work experience form which was due a week ago."

"I seem to have lost the form, do you have a spare?"

"Yes." Sasuke pulled out a form from his bag.

Sakura grabbed a pen and quickly scribbled some words and handed it back to Sasuke.

Sasuke looked down at the paper. Future ambition: Musician. Work experience preference: 1) Orchestra 2) Music industry 3) Piano tutor at a music school. Sasuke's heart fluttered, just as expected from his dream girl. A girl who could play music. Sasuke sighed all he could afford was a guitar and free lessons from a family friend.

By the time Sasuke had looked up Sakura had already disappeared into a corner.

...

The next day when Sasuke saw Sakura in the corridor he thought maybe he could ask her to become his friend.

"Hi, can we-" announced Sasuke but before he could finish his sentence Sakura had walked right past him. Sasuke didn't want to give up so he ran past Sakura and placed two hands on her shoulder. Except he was so nervous his hands had slipped down and now it was on top of her breasts.

Sakura looked down at the hands on her chest and stared up at her perpetrator. Her hands moved automatically to his face.

SLAP!

"Please don't ever touch me again. What are you, a pervert?"

"Sorry."

Sasuke distractedly thought how good her breasts had felt. It was so soft. This was expected of his dream girl to have developed into a beautiful woman.

Sakura walked past him and once again Sasuke was staring at the image of her back. Sasuke was so embarrassed at what he had done; he had never approached Sakura since that day.

...

Beep beep

Naruto looked at his text message.

# Meet me at my house at 4PM don't be late! #

'Yes, I can feel the money fanning my face,' thought Naruto. Now that he thught about it, the ice maiden was actually a very beautiful girl. He got paid to work for such a beauty; God must be looking after him.

# Ok, see you after school. #

...

After the last school bell rang, Sasuke noticed Naruto grinning and skipping happily along the corridor. Sasuke wanted to punch his happy face off. A smirk appeared on Sasuke's face as he thought of a brilliant plan. He was going to follow Naruto to see if he could lead him to Sakura's house.

Sasuke was never able to follow Sakura after school because she had her own personal chauffer. He was super poor and lived in a rundown house so catching a taxi was out of the question. He had never thought of getting work as he was actually a very lazy person. Instead of wasting time working, he spent most of his time studying in the hopes that one day he'll become someone successful.

He followed Naruto to the front of a modestly big house. He watched Naruto ringing the door bell and out came Sakura who opened the door for him. If Sakura was the one opening the door then perhaps there were no other maids. This had meant that she would be home alone with that goofy guy and Sasuke was not happy with this idea.

'I am not going to let this happen, perhaps there is another way of getting inside this house so that I can monitor their interactions.' He thought.

Sasuke walked towards the back of the house and in between him and the back yard was a very high fence. He studied the sharp looking spikes at the top, and concluded that climbing over it could lead to a disaster. Sasuke did not want to be stuck on top of those unfriendly spikes. He decided to look for an opened window instead.

...

Naruto looked at the address on his phone and the house in front of him. He looked at the address a second time unsure whether he was at the right house. 'Just as expected of rich people' thought Naruto as he studied the three storey house towering high over his head. He pressed the door bell half expecting a maid to open the door but was surprised when Sakura stood in front of him.

"Hi," said Naruto confused.

"Come in. You are five minutes late by the way."

"Sorry, I seem to have a bad sense of direction," explained Naruto.

"I don't have maids because I dislike girls. I like my privacy and my father lives in a big mansion so don't ask me any questions. You can probably start by cleaning around."

"Ok."

"I usually order take away food but perhaps you can cook for me tonight. I have left some money on the kitchen table for you to go out and buy some ingredients."

"Ok."

"I'll just be upstairs."

The instant Naruto stepped into the kitchen he smelt a really bad smell. He looked at the sink which was filled with unwashed dishes. He looked down at the bin which was overflowing with rubbish. It was as if she had not cleared her rubbish for weeks in order for the foul smell to have developed.

'God how does she live?' He wondered.

Naruto quickly opened some windows so that some fresh air could come into the kitchen. He cleared the sink that was clogged with dirty dishes and he also threw out all the stinky rubbish. By the time he had mopped the entire downstairs which was all tiled it was about 5:30pm. He opened all the windows on the first level to help the tiles dry quicker. He grabbed the money on the kitchen table and went out of the house to get the grocery.

...

Sasuke had circled the house for over 20 times but he could not find a single window opened, even the ones on the second level of the house were closed. One window did open but in order for him to get to it he must climb over the spiky fence, which he had already ruled out. Sasuke was about to give up when he noticed all the windows in the first level became opened.

"Yes! This is my chance," shouted Sasuke happily.

When Sasuke was busy climbing into a window he did not notice Naruto heading out of the house. As he entered the house Sasuke nearly slipped as he wasn't expecting the floor to be wet. His ears were alert in case Naruto was to walk past, he didn't want to get caught so soon. Stealth mode on!

'This is my chance to see how Sakura's house would look from the inside.' Sasuke thought. 'I'll just have a quick look and then I'll head home.'

After looking at all the rooms on the first level, Sasuke crept slowly and soundlessly up the carpeted steps of the second level. He quietly opened the first room that he came into contact with and was unable to believe his eyes. He pinched his cheeks to check whether he was dreaming. 'I must be in heaven,' he thought.

Sakura was sleeping soundlessly in a bath tub filled with bubbles and only her face washer was covering the view to her voluptuous chest area. Sasuke realised if she was to open her eyes at this instant, any chance of a relationship between the two of them would be utterly and completely destroyed. A breeze from the opened windows in the first level came into contact with Sakura, which caused her to sneeze.

Wide green coloured eyes stared directly into the blurry image of her assaulter.

"ARGH! Pervert Naruto. Get out!" Cried Sakura.

Sasuke didn't have to be told twice to run out of the bathroom and he slammed the door behind him at once. 'Wait' he thought, 'Naruto? Could it be that Sakura is short sighted and thus was unable to see him?'

'Phew! I better get out of here,' thought Sasuke and he quickly climbed over the window from where he had entered.

...

Naruto went to the nearest super market which was 10 minutes away. He grabbed a few ingredients to make an ebi tempura curry dish. When Naruto returned to Sakura's house, he realised he did not have any keys. The first thing that came into his mind was to ring the door bell.

Sakura was really anxious, she wondered if Naruto had seen her naked body underneath the bubbles. Sasuke sure did, as most of the bubbles had already dissolved. The image that remained in Sasuke's mind would most likely reappear in his dreams tonight.

'Unforgivable,' thought Sakura, 'I am totally firing this guy!' She was amazed that Naruto had the nerve to ring her door bell. She put on her glasses and stormed downstairs to open the door.

"You dare come back after what you have seen?" She yelled angrily

"What have I seen? I don't understand why you are getting all angry." He asked innocently.

"You saw me naked!"

"WHAT? How could I have seen you naked when I was cleaning your house and only just now came back from the super market?"

"But... There was someone standing inside my toilet just a while ago."

"I swear to you Sakura, since the moment I first stepped into your house I have not once walked past the first level."

"Then who could it be?" She wondered.

Just as Sakura was saying that she noticed some black footprints on her glistening clean tiled floor. The footprints disappeared after the third step on the carpet as the shoes would have dried after contact. Sakura could not believe her eyes, while Naruto was out shopping an intruder had climbed into her house.

"I see."

Sakura remarked and wondered how those footprints got there.

"Yes, I am really sorry I had left the windows opened while I was out." Bowed Naruto, "I am relieved that you weren't hurt, I understand that I have failed you. If you want me to leave this instant I will."

"No, stay. Be my guard tonight. I will pay you." She said. Naruto reminded her too much of her brother and she wanted to explore the possibility of making a friend. A friend?

"Eh? Ok." Naruto thought of getting paid while sleeping was a very tempting offer.

"Good. You can go and cook something now." She grunted.

TBC

Revised version of Ch 1.

Ch 2: Her Beating Heart