The prologue was there to explain a little bit about Sasuke's life and why he left the Sound nin. Here is the real chapter 1 now.

blah – regular text

'blah' – thinking

"blah" – talking

blah – flashback

'blah' – dream

'blah' – Inner Sakura


Chapter 1: Haruno Sakura

"BRRRRIIINNG BRRRRIIINNG!" Sakura's alarm clock went off. She looked at the time on the clock.

'Oh no! It's 7:30! I'm gonna be late!' Sakura jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom. She took a quick shower then got dressed.

"Sakura! You're gonna be late!" Her mom was calling her from downstairs.

"Coming mom!" Sakura yelled. She grabbed her school bag and ran downstairs.

"Do you need a ride honey?" Sakura's mom asked as she saw how frantic her daughter was.

"No it's fine, I can walk." Sakura smiled and kissed her mom.

"Bye mom!" Sakura ran outside the door.
'First day of sophomore year' Sakura sighed as she continued to walk along the sidewalk towards her school.

'Hell yeah! Maybe we'll meet some cute guys too!' Inner Sakura yelled.

'Where were you this morning?' Sakura said to her inner self.

'I was sleeping!' Inner Sakura yelled at Sakura.

Sakura just let out a sigh and then continued walking to her school. She was going to turn around a corner when all of a sudden someone ran into her.

"Oww, watch where you're going," Sakura said as she got back up.

"Sorry, guess I'm still a little too sleepy." the other girl said as she got back up. She looked about Sakura's age.

"Are you going to Konoha High too?" Sakura asked the other girl.

"Yes." The other girl said.

Sakura smiled at her, "My name's Haruno Sakura, what's yours?

"Tsuchi Kin," The dark-haired girl said as she picked up her bag which fell down.

"Glad to meet you Kin, hey wanna walk to school together?" Sakura asked her.

"Okay." Kin said.

With that, the two continued to walk towards their school.


Sakura took out her schedule once she was inside the school building.

"Let's see, I have Math with Mr. Hatake Kakashi first, how about you?" Sakura asked Hinata while putting her schedule back into her bag.

"I have History with Mr. Umino Iruka." Kin said as she put her schedule away.

"Okay, see you later then Kin!" Sakura waved to Kin as she walked to her class.

Sakura walked into her classroom only to be greeted by a loud yell.

"HI SAKURA-CHAN!!!" a boy with spiky blonde hair yelled as Sakura entered the classroom.

"Hi Naruto, how was your summer?" Sakura asked as she took a seat next to him.

"It was great! I got to eat Ramen EVERY day!" Naruto exclaimed.

"I see, interesting." Sakura said. Naruto and Sakura have been friends ever since 8th grade. He tried to ask her out on a date last year, but Sakura refused and it ended up pretty badly for Naruto.

Sakura and Naruto continued to talk about what happened over their summer and what they did and everything. When all of a sudden another loud yell was heard in the classroom.

"SAKURA-SAN! AT LAST MY FLOWER HAS APPEARED!" Lee yelled as he entered the classroom. Everyone in the class sweat dropped.

"Umm… Hi Lee, how was your summer?" Sakura asked nervously.

"It was good, but it wasn't as good as it was suppose to be since I didn't get a chance to see my Flower at all!" Lee said with a fire in his eyes.

"Quiet down Lee, you're disturbing the rest of the class." Tenten said as she entered right behind Lee.

"Hi Tenten!" Sakura said, "How was your summer?"

"It was fine." Tenten just stated. The four of them continued to talk on about what they did over the summer and how great this year was going to be. Sakura felt good about seeing her old friends again.

After about 10 min. into the class the door finally opened. "Hello class, I am your teacher, Hatake Kakashi, but you can call me Kakashi if you want.

Sakura thought Kakashi was weird, he always sat at his desk reading his "Icha Icha Paradise" book and he always had his left eye covered. She wondered why his eye was covered anyway.

Kakashi walked over to his desk to take the attendance.

"We will be having assigned seats, so when I call your name jus say something and I'll tell you where you'll sit." Kakashi looked at his attendance sheet.

"Uzumaki Naruto?"

"I LIKE RAMEN!" Naruto yelled as he got up from his chair.

Kakashi sighed as he pointed to Naruto's seat and continued taking the attendance.

"Rock Lee?"

"I'm here sensei." Kakashi pointed to Lee's seat.

"Haruno Sakura?"

"Here." Sakura got up from her seat and sat over to where Kakashi pointed.

"Tenten?"

Tenten just stood up and nodded at Kakashi as he pointed to her seat.

"Uchiha Sasuke?" Kakashi said and looked around.

Just then the door opened revealing a boy with dark hair spiked in the back and dark onyx eyes.

"Hn." Sasuke said still standing in the doorway.

"Glad you made it Sasuke, how about you sit next to Sakura." Kakashi pointed to the seat next to Sakura.

Sasuke nodded and took his seat next to Sakura. Sakura couldn't help but glance over at him.

'Wow, he's hot.' Sakura was lost in thought. 'Yeah! Damnit!' Inner Sakura was going crazy.

"Now class, the person next to you will be your math partner for this year, I will give you the whole period to introduce yourselves and get use to each other." At that Kakashi took out his Icha Icha Paradise book and continued reading where he left off.

Sakura turned to Sasuke, "Hi, my name's Haruno Sakura, what's yours?"

"Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke just said blankly. Sakura smiled at him.

"How was your summer then Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked him.

"Hn." Sasuke just grunted.

"You don't like to talk much do you?" Sakura looked at him.

"Hn." Sasuke said again.

"Hey I got an idea, do you want to go eat with me after school today?" Sakura asked him with a bright shine in her eyes.

"Sorry, I'm busy after school." Sasuke spoke up. Sakura just looked down at her desk.

"Oh… okay." Sakura mumbled. Then the bell rang and everyone left the classroom for their next class.

(A/N: I'm just gonna skip all the way to lunch time, nothing important in between)


Sakura went to her locker to put away her things. She took out her lunch and walked into the cafeteria. Before she entered the cafeteria, she saw Sasuke at his locker putting his things away. She decided to go ask Sasuke if he wanted to eat lunch with her.

Sakura walked in the direction Sasuke was in.

"Hey Sasuke-kun, wanna eat lunch with me today?" Sakura asked him.

Sasuke looked at her for a moment and then continued putting his stuff away.

"Not today." Sasuke simply said as he took out his lunch and walked towards the cafeteria.

Sakura pouted for a moment then walked into the cafeteria where all her friends were.


"Hi everyone!" Sakura exclaimed as she sat down next to her childhood friend Ino.

"Hey forehead-girl! What took so long?" Ino said while taking out her lunch.

"I was… busy with something." Sakura said blushing a bit.

The table Sakura sat at consisted of Lee, Naruto, Shino, Kiba, Chouji, Neji, Shikamaru, Hinata, Tenten, Ino and herself. Sakura took out an onigiri that her mom packed for her and nibbled on it a bit. Her thoughts drifted back to the mysterious onyx-eyed boy she met earlier today.

"Forehead girl! Hey! Are you there!?" Ino was snapping her fingers in front of Sakura's face trying to get her attention.

Sakura shook her head, "Oh Ino-pig, sorry I was thinking about something."

"Oh? Mind telling me about it?" Ino asked nudging Sakura a bit.

Sakura sighed, "It's nothing." And she continued eating her onigiri, that's when it caught her eye, she saw Sasuke, sitting with the girl she met earlier in the morning while she was walking to school.

'Kin? But what's she doing with Sasuke-kun?' Sakura wondered.

'Chaaa! I'm going to kill her if she's Sasuke-kun's girlfriend!' Inner Sakura roared.

Sakura watched them from where she sat. They looked like they were just talking, nothing else. She wondered how Kin was able to get close to Sasuke like that, he seemed so… distant from everyone else. Sakura was snapped out of her thoughts by Ino once again.

"Ohh, forehead-girl, you checking out Sasuke-kun?" Ino said grinning mischievously at Sakura.

Sakura was surprised by the sudden question, "Umm… n-no, w-why d-do y-you think I am?" Sakura blushed slightly.

"He's cute isn't he?" Ino said nudging Sakura slightly.

"Umm no, I think I have to go to the bathroom." Sakura quickly got up from her seat and ran out of the cafeteria blushing madly.


"So how was your first day Sasuke?" Kin asked as she took a bite out of her dango.

"Hn." Sasuke just said and continued eating his onigiri.

"You know you can try to be more lively." Kin said taking another bite out of her dango.

Sasuke just took another bite out of his onigiri and ignored Kin's statement. Kin just sighed. Sasuke really didn't change much ever since they left Orochimaru.

Kin sighed again; she knew that leaving Orochimaru was for the better anyway. Now she and Sasuke have a new life.

"Let's go Kin," Sasuke said snapping her out of her thoughts, "Kakashi wants to see us now."

Both of them got up and walked out of the cafeteria towards Kakashi's room.


Kakashi was reading his Icha Icha Paradise book again. He giggled as he turned the pages reading each sentence carefully. Suddenly his door opened and he looked over to it to see his two students, Sasuke and Kin.

"Ahh, if it isn't my two favorite half demons." Kakashi chuckled as he motioned for them to sit down.

"Why did you call us here Kakashi?" Kin asked.

"Hn." Sasuke just said.

"Well, as both of you already know, there has been a recent rise in demon activity around this area as of late, I'm giving the rest of you the day off to investigate the attacks." Kakashi told them as he continued to read his book.

Sasuke and Kin nodded without hesitation and left the room.

(A/N: I don't feel like writing the rest of the school day so I'm just gonna skip all the way to the end of the day)


Sakura lied on her bed and stared at the ceiling. The first day of school sure was tiring, especially since she couldn't get the Uchiha out of her mind.

'Who was he?' Sakura thought to herself.

'A hottie!' Inner Sakura screamed.

'Woah where'd you come from?' Sakura thought to her inner-self.

'I was taking a little nap' Her inner said.

'That's a good idea, maybe I'll take a nap too'

With that she began to drift off to sleep to rest her thoughts, little did she know, a shadow was lurking outside her window…

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Phew, this chapter's finished. I'll try to have a new chapter updated every week. Please R and R :)