Finally...I've been working on this chapter for a whole two hours. I think my fingers are cramping. It's not the worst chapter, but it's not the best either so there you have it...Whatever it is...

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Chapter 2: 7 years later…the 1st day of school
"Naruto, we can only bring three bags each…" Sakura sweat dropped as she surveyed the room they shared at the orphanage. It was bare of almost everything accept the furniture.

"I know, that's why I up all of our stuff into these six really big bags." Naruto gave her a grin and looked at his handy work with pride. All six of the bags were over stuffed and about to bust at the seams.

"I already packed. My bags are downstairs."

"Oh…"

Sighing, Sakura walked over to the bag closest to her and started to unpack it. "We have an hour before we have to leave. I'll help you sort through all this stuff." Naruto gave an unhappy grunt and began to tear into another bag.

Fifty minutes later, after a lot of arguing and tossing junk, they were ready to go. Sakura sat out on the huge front steps, her three worn duffle bags piled next to her.

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Name: Sakura Haruno

Age: 15

Hair color: Pink

Eye color: Green

Parents: Unknown

Specialties in battle: Unknown

Personality: Calm, Calculating, Intelligent, has a destructive temper

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Naruto paced next to her, occasionally sitting, only to jump up again in either excitement or fear, he wouldn't tell.
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Name: Naruto Uzumaki

Age: 15

Hair color: Blond

Eye color: Blue

Parents: Clasified

Specialties in Battle: Unknown

Personality: Over excitable, hyperactive, tends to act rashly in tight situations

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"Sakura?"

"Yeah?"

"Where is Sasuke-teme?"

"His parents are bringing him. He's an Uchiha, remember?" Sakura looked at him curiously. Naruto scratched his head in embarrassment under his gaze. Cocking an eyebrow at him she gave him a look of disbelief. "You forgot?"

"No! I mean yes! Wait! No! I mean no! Well, you see, I just thought that he had to get there like the rest of us." Naruto finished lamely. Glancing around, he found something else to catch his attention. "Look! The bus is coming!"

"Great! Let's go!" Sakura quickly stood up and gathered her bags together. Naruto followed suit.

"Be careful." Sakura glanced back and saw Iruka standing at the top of the stairs. Sakura nodded and smiled to him, while Naruto just flashed him a foxy grin. Tugging on her mask and pulling her bandana into place to cover her hair, Sakura glanced at the bus that was just now turning the corner to their street.

"Bye Iruka-sensei! We'll write!" Sakura shouted as she trotted down the stairs to stand by the street. Naruto was already there.

"You better!" Iruka shouted back, watching sadly as they climbed onto the bus and then disappeared from sight. "You better…."

Sasuke stood stiffly, not allowing any of his thought to show on his face. This school was stupid… or maybe pathetic would be a better description. The only thing that would make it bearable to him would probable be Sakura and the Dobe. All the students were stuck up, especially the older Hyuuga, and the girls just kept looking at him with heart eyes.
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Name: Sasuke Uchiha

Age: 15

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Black

Parents: Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha

Specialties in Battle: Sharingan and Chidori

Personality: Cold, emotionless, loyal, hidden soft spot for friends

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Gritting his teeth slightly, he glanced at his mother. She was listening eagerly to the principle, a very busty woman named Tsunade.

"You son will be in good hands here. We will be sure to bring him to his highest potential her at Konoha High Academy, in both academics and physical skill."

After hearing this, Sasuke tuned them out again, not really interested in their little chat. He was already at his peak of skill, or pretty close. After training with Sakura and Naruto for seven years, you had to be. When it came to fighting, they were down right vicious. Sakura knew all the tricks in the book, and more than a few that weren't in the book. Her stamina was amazing and her chakra control, unheard of. She had more than a few attacks that he still didn't understand.

As for Naruto, let's just say that it wasn't fun at all to be on the end of his Rasengan. That attack even gave his Chidori a run for its money.

He vaguely heard Tsunade ask if they had any question and he politely raised his hand. She glanced at him in surprise, but quickly hide it with a nod and a, "Yes?"

Keeping his voice cold and emotionless, he inwardly smirked when both his mother and Tsunade flinched from its coldness. "When will the bus carrying the outsiders arrive?"

Tsunade forced a smile onto her face and answered, "It should be here any minute. I think that's the most I've heard out of you all day."

Sasuke bowed slightly and said, "Excuse me," and made a bee line for the door leading out of the office. Neither of the two women tried to stop him. Once he had exited, and the door closed, Mikoto Uchiha quickly turned to Tsunade to apologize for her son's odd behavior.

"I'm sorry. He normally doesn't act so rudely. He's probably just anxious." Mikoto offered a friendly smile as an explanation.

Tsunade frowned slightly. "Anxious of what do you think?"

Mikoto shrugged slightly before answering. "We believe he has outside friends, but we are not positive. There are times when he will simply disappear of the face of the earth for a day or two and our best Anbu can't find him. When he comes back, he acts as though nothing has happened and refuses to talk about where he has been or what he has been doing. This is what I wished to talk to you about. Would it be possible for you to keep an eye on him and see who he prefers to be around?" A hopeful look appeared on her face as she gazed at Tsunade.

Tsunade considered her request for a second before answering. "I suppose I could, but why? Do you not wish for him to interact with outsiders?"

"No, that's not it. I simply want to understand him better. He has refused the friendship of all children his age that we have introduced him to. All of them were from high class families with the best manners and the best possible upbringing. He doesn't even show any interest in his brother. I just don't see what he finds so interesting about these outsiders. Just a mothers worry, I guess…"

Tsunade smiled gently at her in understanding. "I'll do the best I can Mikoto. I'll call you when I find something out."

Mikoto's face flooded with relief. "Thank you Tsunade. I really appreciate it. I must go now. I have an appointment. Farewell."

"Bye." Tsunade watched Mikoto leave with a strange look. When she was long gone, she smiled slightly and muttered to herself, "Interesting. An Uchiha with a different point of view. Never seen one with an interest in outsiders before…"

Sasuke quickly made his way through the many school halls heading toward the front entrance. He ignored all the looks he got and tuned out all the whispers. He wanted to greet Sakura and Naruto when they arrived. Finally making it out of the building without any incidents, he inwardly groaned when he saw the older Hyuuga, Neji he believed his name to be, and his groupies blocking his path.

"Uchiha." Neji all but hissed as Sasuke came to a stop about four yards from him.

"Hyuuga." Sasuke greeted with his same emotionless voice. He knew it ticked the other boy off so he always used the same tone with him. He inwardly smirked when Neji frowned in irritation.

"Don't use that tone with me Uchiha." Neji said with a glare. The brown haired girl with two buns growled slightly and a boy wearing green spandex with a bowl cut and huge eyebrows nodded.

"OR WHAT, WHITE EYES!" Sasuke relaxed slightly when he heard Naruto's obnoxious voice boom from behind him. He straightened, however, when Naruto stepped up next to him, showing that he was at his side, ready for a fight.

"Yeah, or what, white eyes?" Sasuke visibly smirked when Sakura's calm, cold voice appeared on his other side. This pompous jerk was going to learn the meaning of pain if he didn't play his cards right. Neji, however, didn't realize this and just smirked at them in distaste.

"I see the great Uchiha's are befriending outsiders now. How pathetic." Neji sneered as he gave Naruto and Sakura a once over, pausing on Sakura's mask and bandana, and Naruto's fox whiskers and orange jump suit.

"No, only this Uchiha." Sasuke answered in the same tone.

Neji flinched in annoyance. "I believe I told to not use that tone in my presence."

"Watch your mouth, boy or I might just take it off with your head." Sakura's voice screamed death in a bad way and her eyes looked as hard as jade. Neji didn't seem to notice this and just gave her a look of distaste.

"As if you could outsider. Your threats mean nothing to me." Those words signed his pass on to Sakura's bad list.

Sasuke closed his eyes when he heard Sakura drop her bags like they were on fire and let a satisfied smirk spread across his face when Neji let out a surprised gasp, before falling to the ground in unconsciousness. Opening his eyes, he saw Neji, blacked out in the brown haired girl's arms and the spandex guy staring at Sakura with heart filled eyes. Speaking of Sakura, she was standing next to him, having never moved from her spot, right arm held out, pointing toward Neji, fingers spread, with a surprised look in her eyes. Naruto looked surprised too.

After a second, Sakura slowly turned to him and said softly, "I guess he didn't know how to fight a mind attack. I think I might have hurt his mind a little. I hope it's not permanent. Iruka would kill me if I got expelled the first day…"

Sasuke just shrugged. Leaning down, he grabbed two of her duffle bags and headed toward the girls dorm rooms. Sakura and Naruto followed him. "Sakura, you took out a Hyuuga prodigy with one attack. That should count for something."

He felt her look at him in disbelief. "He was a Hyuuga? I thought they were one of the strongest ninja clans."

"They are, and you took out one of their favorite prodigies with a wave of your hand. Pathetic, don't you think?" Sasuke cocked an eyebrow at her, waiting for an answer.

"I'll say…" Sakura breathed out. When they got to the entrance to the girls dorm building, she took her bags from him and left to get a room.

Turning to Naruto he said, "You bunk by me."

Naruto just gave him a disinterested look and said, "Whatever you say, teme."

Sasuke twitched slightly from his nickname, but didn't comment on it. He quickly made his way to his dorm room and steered Naruto to the unused room opposite his. Naruto carelessly dumped his bags in the middle of the floor and said, "Great, now what's for breakfast?"

"It's noon, dobe."

"Great, what's for noon?...wait, did you just call me a dobe!"

"Hnn…"

"Shut up, teme!"

"At least I'm not a dobe."

"I'm not a dobe."

"You're a liar too."

"WHY YOU-!"

Okay, we'll leave it at that and go check in on Sakura. If you really want to know, Naruto was cut off by a punch, with he generously returned ten fold, and with that the fight was on…

Sakura cautiously glanced around the bare room. Many of the other students had yet to arrive yet, seeing as school started in about three or four days. They had come early to get settled in and learn the lay of the buildings. Deciding she liked it, she put her bags on the bed and went and signed her name on the room chart at the end of the hall.

The room had two windows, as it was in a corner, a bed, a shelf, a dresser, a closet, a chair, and a desk. She unpacked her cloths first and then unpacked her weapons. After that, she set the few keepsakes she had on the shelf and put her duffle bags in the closet. Flopping down on the bed, she gazed at the ceiling for a long time, allowing her mind to think of everything and yet nothing at the same time. She was disrupted from her meditation by the sound of running foot steps, sobbing, and a door slamming. Pausing for a second, her sharp nose picked up the smell blood.

Springing to her feet, she was out her door, across the hall, and into the room opposite hers in a split second. A girl with short black hair and pearly white eyes spun around to gaze at her in fear and surprise. Sakura vaguely wondered in she was related to the Hyuuga prodigy she had fought with two hours ago. Quickly making her way to the girl, she immediately found the source of the blood. The girl was wounded in several different places. Her hands were slashed across the palms and blood was sliding down her smooth skin, coming from both sides of her mouth. Concerned that she might have internal injuries, she gently forced the bewildered girl onto the bed and before she could have a say, shoved some chakra into her stomach. This seemed to either calm the girl, or it was too much for, because her entire body suddenly relaxed and Sakura was free to heal the minor injury with ease. When she was happy that the wound was fully healed, she grabbed the girl's hands and with a quick stroke of her finger, had the palms healed and scar free.

The girl gave a startled squeak and held up her hands to examine them. When she decided that she wasn't imagining this, she turned to Sakura opened her mouth to say something, but all that came out was a gasp, then another squeak, followed by a heavy blush. After that, she just looked down at her lap in shame and twirled her fingers together.

Sakura smiled at the shy girl under her mask and decided to take pity on her. Holding out her hand she said softly, "Sakura Haruno. Jake of all trades and here, as I'm told, an outsider. Pleased to meet you. I'll be living in the room across the hall until, most unlikely, the end of the school year, or, more likely, I get expelled."

The girl struggled for a second, then pulled in a breath and let it out slowly. Not meeting her eyes, she began to talk slowly, in stutters and with much difficulty. "I-I…I-am H-h-h….h-hinata H-h-hyuuga. I…i-I w-wish t-t-to ummm…..t-to th-thank y-you for h-heal-ling m-m-my hands."

Sakura's smile grew. The girl was so shy. It was too cute. "Not a problem at all. I have to patch up my two friends all the time, I'm used to it. Umm, by the way, if you're related to a guy with white eyes and long brown hair, hangs around a girl with buns and guy wearing spandex, I'm not really sorry, but I totally invaded his mind and learned all his secrets and techniques. Are you his cousin?"

Hinata nodded in amazement. Kind of forgetting her shyness for a second, she blurted out, "Y-You're the one th-that got N-Neji so angry!"

Grinning sheepishly at her, Sakura kinda shrugged, then nodded. "Yeah, that would probably be me. Sorry if he took his anger out on you. Did he do that?" Sakura gestured toward her hands. Hinata blushed a deeper red, then nodded.

Sakura's eyes narrowed in distaste and she muttered, "I'll have to take care of that." Turning to Hinata she let her eyes smile and waved, "Nice meetin' ya." Heading toward the door, Sakura paused when she felt a hand grasp her shirt from behind. 'I didn't even sense her move.' Sakura thought in shock. Hinata didn't even seem to notice and just began to struggle to speak again.

"P-please….stay. I-I…" Hinata let out a gasp of relief when Sakura nodded in understanding and closed the door and sat down on the chair by the desk.

Sakura put her serious gaze on Hinata and said in a low, calm, yet comforting voice, "Remember Hinata. I'll always be here. You just need to ask."

Okay, so that chapter suxed... I'm try, I relly am but i just don't think writing a fanfic at 11:30 at night is a good idea. I'm tired. Good night.

cya

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P.S. I was too lazy to spell check this. could you guys tell me if I got any of the spellings wrong?