A/N: Hello again! Thanks for all the reviews so far! Made me happy :) As a reward here's chapter two!

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Sakura woke up the way she had for the last two years; in pain and agony. But it wasn't physical pain.

Oh no.

That would be way too easy. Every night, while her body slept, her mind was tortured in her dreams. She was definitely emotionally unstable while she couldn't put on her mask of strength. Really she was just a weak little girl pretending to be strong…and that was completely unacceptable for the eyes of anyone but her inner self. Sakura growled as the last of her traitorous thoughts slipped through her grasp.

Her parents.

She was alone now, with no family left to turn to. Of course she didn't blame them. If it was anyone's fault it was her own…Sakura leapt out of bed and decided to go to the kitchen to distract herself. The house was as gloomy as ever and Sakura trudged down the empty hallway to the kitchen, sighing sleepily. A hot chocolate with extra marshmallows would cheer her up, it would have to.

Sakura shuffled around the house for about an hour before she decided she had better get dressed and head out. She stared at the closest for a while before inner Sakura decided to have her say. "This is generally the part where you say 'I don't know what to wear!' and throw clothes around the room, well, that's what most girls would do."

"Hmm…" Sakura sighed and pulled out a pair of black skinny jeans, a plain red shirt, her favourite pair of Vans…obviously red, and her most favoured item of clothing, her black leather jacket.

"We…aren't most girls…are we." Sakura stated bluntly. Inner Sakura nodded in approval at the clothing choice and then in agreement to Sakura's statement as Sakura walked back out of the room, down the hallway and out the front door, slinging her bag over her shoulder as she went.

This was it. Day one.

She slowly walked over to her shiny red motorbike, reaching out to touch the black leather cushioning of the seat cover reminiscently. This was her father's prized possession. The pinkette smiled as she remembered her eight year old self watching as her father tinkered with the bike. It hadn't look liked a bike at that stage really. Just a bunch of parts in the middle of the garage that he was piecing together slowly like a large puzzle. Over the years the pieces seemed to gradually form a motor bike before her eyes. The black leathery seat had been the last part, and on her fifteenth birthday, the bike was given to her as a present, (much to her mother's refusal), but her father had just chuckled and ruffled her hair. She could still hear his loving words. "Princess is a good driver, she'll be safe." He had muttered under his breathe soon after that he would teach her how to do a wheelie later.

Sakura laughed happily at the memory. Her eyes flicked to the time on her watch and she immediately straddled the bike. She was later than she would like to be. Not that Haruno Sakura was ever late, school didn't start for another half an hour, plenty of time. The engine roared to life as she turned the key and her smile brightened even more so as she pulled on her helmet and flicked up the stand. She could make it to school in seconds on this beast.

A/N: Speeding is bad :)

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Sakura pulled into Konoha High parking lot literally fifty-seven seconds later…not that anyone was counting…and pulled up in an empty spot at the end of the row of spaces, closest to the front entrance. She killed the engines humming with a twist and pull of her keys and stepped off the bike, pulling off her helmet as she did so. She smiled to herself as her pink tresses blew in the wind. She'd picked a great spot to park, right underneath a tree of her namesake, and as if it couldn't get any better, the shade it provided was just perfect for motorbikes…since she wouldn't want to ride her bike if her seat was burning hot due to sun exposure all day.

Sakura was pulled from her thoughts by some psycho red head who had come racing over screeching about kame-sama knows what…Sakura sighed heavily, already feeling a migraine and turned to face the evil eyed Karin.

"You…you…WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Karin screeched. Sakura's brow creased in a questioning manner and her weight shifted to her left side as she put a hand on her hip lazily. Inner Sakura muttered something about it being 'way too early for this shit…'

"Parking? Why…what does it look like to you?" Sakura's eyes narrowed irritated.

"You can't park there!" The red head blurted out as if it was a well-known fact.

"Oh? And why is that?" Sakura frowned. Karin looked like she was about to explode as Tayuya and Ino came running over to her side. "Umm…not that I necessarily care or anything…" Sakura started with a dry look on her face, "…but I think you might need to take your friend to the school nurse. She's looking a little…red in the cheeks…and that can't be normal…" Sakura shrugged and turned to walk away, happy with her statement, only to suddenly notice the crowd of students surrounding her. She blinked a little startled but managed to keep her cool composure.

"Shut up you bitch!" Karin screamed and Sakura turned back with an amused expression on her face. She had been expecting all three of the females to be glaring daggers at her, or lunging at her with these so called daggers, so she was quite surprised when instead, their gaze was soft…and heart filled…and off to the left. Puzzled, Sakura followed their line of sight all the way back to her bike, where another motor bikes engine died beside hers with a flick of the rider's wrist. The said rider, (of possibly the most beautiful black motor bike she had ever seen), was also dressed in black Vans, black skinny jeans, a plain black shirt and…oh kame-sama, oh kame-sama, oh kame-sama, OH KAME-SAMA HE'S WEARING A BLACK LEATHER JACKET, stepped off his bike and pulled off his helmet.

Sakura inwardly squealed and quickly decided that black was definitely her favourite colour, well at least, it looked good on him. It was him, red shirt number nine. His obsidian eyes swept over her bike slowly and then his eyes lifted up to her.

"Play it cool damn it!" Inner Sakura growled. Sakura agreed mentally and automatically swept her gaze away with a smirk and turned to walk away. Once again, she was rudely interrupted, only this time, not by the voices of the bitchy trio, but by a strong, deep and husky voice.

"Hey, princess. This is my spot, didn't anyone tell you?" Immediately Sakura's anger flared…no one could call her princess unless she allowed it first, and stupidly, Karin added to Sakura's hate fire.

"We tried to tell her Sasuke-kun! She said she didn't care!" Karin cried with an over exaggerated sniffle. Sakura glowered at Karin as she turned again and marched up to red shirt number nine.

"Definitely hotter up close if that's even possible," Inner Sakura sighed dreamily. Sakura ignored her alter ego completely as she stopped in front of him, eyes narrowed in a dangerous glare.

"Well I'm sorry I didn't get the memo about the rich, popular, heart stealing, cocky asshole that has a designated parking space, just for him, all because he has a pretty face. I don't care what you look like, that spot's mine now..." Sakura huffed out in a long growl. A shocked expression flicked across his face before he covered it with a smirk. Sakura's voice lowered into an even more dangerous tone, "…and, NO ONE calls me princess." Sakura snarled and glared into his irritatingly sexy eyes. The silence in the parking lot was that of a funeral's and Sakura had had enough. She turned on her heels and proceeded to shove past basically half of the student body before she reached the front steps of the main building. She didn't even glance back, she was satisfied. The look of shock that had flicked across his face was just priceless, although she probably wouldn't have noticed it if she hadn't been so close to his face. She grinned inwardly. No sense in not having any fun becoming the school punching bag, and besides, anything those three stuck up whores worshipped had to be evil. So really, she was doing the world a little good if she slayed the (black haired, onyx eyed, chiseled out of rock, with a great sense of style in clothing AND motorbikes) demon's ego, even just a little.

Sakura was broken out of her 'plotting to destroy' by a hand around her wrist tugging her forcefully into the janitor's closet. Too shocked to even react, Sakura found herself sitting on an upturned bucket staring at chocolate brown eyes. Sakura blinked blankly at the girl before she realised the equal weight of her…'janitor room buddy's' hands on her shoulders. She could feel the girls breath against her lips and Sakura's brow creased questionably.

"Uhh…I'm not into this sorta thing if you catch my drift…" Sakura said slowly, breaking the silence. The girl broke out in a laughing fit and sat down on another upturned bucket.

"Don't get the wrong idea, you're hot, but not my type either." The girl wiped a tear from her eye and continued. "What you did to Uchiha back there was just fucking awesome! I'm TenTen by the way, nice to meet you Sakura-chan, and welcome to the Hyuuga side of the school!"

"Umm…Uchiha? How do you know my name? And what is a Hyuuga?" Sakura frowned with confusion all over her face.

"Oh kame-sama! You don't know? Holy shit! Geez girl! You just picked a fight with Sasuke Uchiha! The Uchiha half of the school will be trying to murder you and you don't even have a clue and come on! Everyone knows your name! You stole UCHIHA'S parking space and told him to get fucked! You're fearless for sure!"

"Uhh…TenTen, right?" The girl nodded yes eagerly. "Right."

"Are all the people in this school psycho…" Inner Sakura mumbled.

"You didn't really answer what a Hyuuga is? What do you mean 'The Uchiha half of the school?" Sakura scratched her head. TenTen blinked back at the pinkette shocked.

"You mean…you seriously don't know what an Uchiha or a Hyuuga is?" TenTen asked in shock.

"Well…I know of an Uchiha…I've never met…Sasuke was it?" TenTen nodded, "But what is a Hyuuga? How does this have anything to do with school…gahh I'm so confused, my head hurts…" Sakura pouted.

"Ok, ok, it's better if I just explain everything from the beginning. So you know about Konoha High's oldest legend? The battle between the Senju and the Uchiha students ringing any bells?" TenTen raised an eyebrow as the emerald eyed girls brow creased in thought.

"Actually, yes. My mother and father were both from the Senju side. Why?" TenTen's smile grew.

"Well that's perfect that means you're a Hyuuga!" TenTen sang happily.

"Come again? Why am I a Hyuuga, TenTen you haven't explained it at all…" Both girls attention flicked to the door as the bell rang loudly in the corridor.

TenTen leapt to her feet pulling Sakura up with her. "See ya in class Sakura-chan! Talk to you later!" She flung the door open and raced down the halls. Sakura stepped out of the closet and watched as the girl disappeared around the corner. She sighed and began her hunt for the office.

Sakura arrived at the office late because somebody decided to use all her carefully planned time blabbing about stupid school battles. Because of this, Sakura left the office late, well that and the Principal held her back quite a bit. It seemed as though people here just wanted her to be late to everything…definitely not Haruno Sakura-like. She ran to catch up with her only hope of finding her first class.

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Flashback

"Just have a seat dear and our principal will be with you in a minute. What was your name? I'll grab your file for Yondaime-sama." The principal's secretary, Shizune, (Sakura could see from the name plate on her desk) said sweetly.

"Haruno Sakura…" she replied slowly. Immediately the woman spun her chair to the side and rolled across the floorboards till she reached the large metal cabinet at the other side of the room, proceeding to fling open a draw and search through the 'H' section, whilst humming a happy tune.

A/N: NarutoSoundtrack: Afternoon of Konoha :) I put this in here purely because that's what I was humming while typing :)

Sakura took this opportunity to let her eyes roam around the fairly large office. Her eyes landed on a couch in the corner where a blonde haired boy in black skinny jeans and an orange shirt was curled up…asleep.

Sakura frowned. "What the hell is up with this place…" Inner Sakura's eyes narrowed at the boy.

"Aha!" Sakura snapped to attention as the secretary slapped Sakura's file down on the desk in front of her. "There you go, you can take that in with you" Shizune said smiling as she stood up off her seat.

"Right…thanks, umm, is that guy ok?" Sakura pointed to the boy, over her back ,behind her.

"Oh yes he's fine, don't mind him, it happens all the time," Shizune answered as she walked over to the door labeled 'Yondaime Principal's office' and knocked once before swinging the door open and in a sing-song voice she spoke, "Yondaime-samaaa! Our new student Haruno Sakura is here to see you and Naruto's asleep on the couch again, shall I send for Uzumaki-sama?" Sakura stepped in behind Shizune and faced the blonde haired blue eyed principal with a strong smile. He nodded with a smile at her and then turned to Shizune.

"Thank you Shizune, don't bother calling for her, she'll be here soon I'm sure, Haruno-san, please have a seat" He said smoothly and pointed to the seat in front of him. Shizune nodded and walked out closing the door behind her. "Welcome Haruno-san, I'm Minato Namikaze, the fourth principal of Konoha High school, it's a pleasure to meet you." The man smiled and Sakura instantly felt a warm, happy, bubbly feeling inside of her.

"Thank you, Yondaime-sama?" Sakura tested with an unsure expression.

"Just Minato is fine, don't turn into Shizune on me," the man laughed, "I've been trying my best to get her to stop with her iron fist of formality." Minato chuckled.

"Ok Minato-sama," Sakura smiled brightly, "Umm, here." Sakura shoved the file under his nose. His eyes softened, his smile never fading, and he flipped the file open on the desk.

"Aah I see, looks like you were taught well in home school if you were accepted in Akatsuki High schools gifted and talented, your parents must have been very smart, I'm very sorry for your loss." His eyes softened even more so and his facial expression saddened somewhat.

"Oh it's fine!" Sakura said quickly, "it was a while ago now, and yes, they were very smart." She smiled distantly.

Minato nodded sympathetically and his eyes flicked back down to the file on his desk. He cleared his throat, "Why did you decide to change schools, surely graduating from Akatsuki High school has its advantages in the college life awaiting you?" Sakura nodded.

"Yes I know, but, well I guess I just didn't feel right being there?" Sakura said as she shifted uncomfortably in her chair. Minato nodded and continued with his reading. Suddenly there was a loud thump behind her and Sakura leapt out of her skin before turning to the source of the noise.

The sleeping blonde boy from the previous room was now groggily rubbing his eye as he sat up on the carpet with a large yawn. "You fell off the couch again, Naruto." Minato stated with an amused grin on his face.

"Yeah." Naruto said as he scratched his head dazedly.

Sakura was speechless.

"When the HELL did he get in here!? He was asleep on the couch in Shizune's office…and we…we walked in here…and he stayed…and…" Inner Sakura screeched as she stared at the boy bug eyed through Sakura's shocked emerald orbs.

"Anyway Haruno-san, here is your timetable for the rest of the year," Sakura took the piece of paper with a loss for words, although inner Sakura had a few as she continued.

"AND NOW THE PRINCIPAL'S ACTING LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED!" Inner Sakura howled.

"If you have any problems at all you let me know, or if it's a problem you aren't comfortable talking to me about, my wife Kushina works as our school counselor. I'm sure she would be more than happy to help." Minato smiled.

"T-Tha-" Sakura was interrupted by, what felt like, an earthquake, followed by a stampede mixed with a cyclone. Sakura noted that the ground was definitely shaking, and suddenly there was a mass of crazy red hair whipping around angrily on top of a terrifyingly scary, (yet gorgeous), woman's glaring face at the door. The woman marched inside leaving what felt like cracks in the ground, as her glare increased tenfold at the blonde boy who had curled back on the couch once again. She stopped beside him and Sakura couldn't help but wonder how he'd slept through that.

"Kushina he was just slee-"

"NOT. NOW. MINATO." The woman growled and bent down next to the boys ear.

"Naruto-kun…" she said sweetly and the boy smiled in his sleep as he turned towards her soft words.

Kushina's eyebrow twitched and Minato immediately clamped his hands over his ears. Sakura barely managed to do the same before…

"WAKE UP!"

The reaction was instantaneous as Naruto yelped and leapt off the couch whimpering "Mum! I…ahh…you look lovely this morning…doesn't she dad?" Naruto looked over at Minato with pleading eyes. Minato agreed with a snap of his head in an up and down motion, his eyes almost nearly as wide as Naruto's.

"Nice try but not good enough, don't try to rope your father into this, let's go Naruto…" Kushina snapped and grabbed Naruto's ear, dragging him out the door without a word while Naruto protested loudly as they went.

"Ohayo Uzumaki-san" Sakura heard Shizune chirp cheerfully from the other room.

Sakura turned back to Minato who was smiling happily again. "I just love my family" he grinned. Sakura nodded and thanked Minato sweetly, deciding to pretend a worldly disaster didn't just burst into his office, and turned to walk out.

"Oh Haruno-san."

"Sakura is fine" the pinkette smiled.

Minato nodded happily and replied, "if you hurry you can catch up to Naruto, you're in the same class. Please look out for him Sakura-chan." Sakura nodded and rushed out the door. So that was Minato's…the principals…son!?

"Well there ya goooo…" Inner Sakura said more to herself as she blinked with her head cocked to the side. Sakura flew down the corridor following the long red hair that belonged to the counselor and Naruto's pitiful wails.

End Flashback

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The two walked into room number seven and Sakura stopped outside the door to look at her timetable. This class was Math, with Kakashi-sensei. She sighed and opened the door slowly. The class was silent, "probably because of the long red headed woman and her deathly aura," inner Sakura groaned. Even though Kushina and Naruto were making an amusing scene in front of the class, (and a somewhat scary one on the red heads part) the students didn't fail to stare in the pink haired girl's direction. Sakura just shrugged it off and strolled over to Kakashi's desk while Kushina shoved Naruto over to his desk, (which just happened to be to the right of a certain Uchiha in the back row) and jammed him into the seat forcefully. Naruto stopped whining and slumped over the front of his desk. His eyes crossed to Sasuke, who Naruto noticed was staring at the front of the room.

"Hey teme, what are you looki-"

"Naruto!" Kushina snapped at the blonde who immediately slapped both hands over his mouth. "Hello Sasuke-kun," Kushina started sweetly, "Don't forget tonight, dinner's at seven." Sasuke nodded once and with that said and done Kushina turned back to the front of the room, all whispers dying in the front of the room as she did so and she walked over to Sakura's side, laying a hand on her shoulder as she did so.

"Hello Sakura-san! Kakashi this is your new student, Haruno Sakura, take good care of her," she squeezed Sakura's shoulder gently and gave her a reassuring smile as she turned and walked towards the door. Sakura watched as she exited, Kushina made an 'I'm watching you' sign to Naruto before she left, making Naruto gulp and nod silently.

"Well welcome, Sakura." Kakashi started as he pocketed an orange book. "Want to tell the class about yourself?"

"Not really…" Sakura replied smoothly.

"Alrighty then!" Kakashi said in a slightly amused voice, "Please take a seat in any empty space you find and we'll get started." Sakura nodded and turned to the rows of tables. There were two empty seats.

This was hell.

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A/N: Hope you liked it! I made it a little longer and I probably could have made it even longer than this but I think it may have gone too long then haha :) Sorry for the cliffy and pretty please review :) Thanks for reading!

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