The bell finally rung for lunch and Sakura had successfully avoided Ino and crew since English. Now all she had to do was go down to her locker, drop off her stuff, pick up her lunch that she had packed for herself, and walk over to the Cherry Blossom trees for some peace and quiet. The rowdy teenagers in her classes were starting to give her a headache, and a certain blonde seemed to be in most of her classes, and he was the noisiest of them all! Girls were supposed to be chatty, but this guy just didn't stop!

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A boy with blonde hair that stuck out in all directions sat in front of Sakura, blocking her view of the board. She recognized him as the one from Ino's group. She sighed and leaned to the right to get a good view of the board. As soon as the teacher had his back to the board to write lots of mathematic equations for them to complete, the blonde swiveled around on his chair to face her.

"Hi! I'm Uzumaki Naruto! I'm guessing you're Haruno Sakura." He spoke quietly. Sakura didn't think this boy knew how to whisper properly.

"Yes" She replied. The pink hair must have given her away. She has considered dying it, but then it turned out that she was allergic to the dye.

"I've heard that you're really smart and-"

"Uzumaki and Haruno! You're on a warning! One more word from either of you and you're on detention after school tonight!"

'Great. Detention on my first day of school. This blonde better shut the hell up!'

However, Sakura should have known better. As soon as the teacher turned his back to the students again Naruto started once more.

"So, why did you move to Konoha?"

"I don't know." Sakura decided to be really cold with the blonde. Hopefully he isn't as thick skulled as he looked and notice that she didn't want anybody talking to her at the minute.

"It's nothing special here. Just trees and birds and cars and trees… wait; I've already said tre-"

"Uzumaki and Haruno! You two are on detention tonight in this room! And if you don't show up you're going to have to do double the time!"

'Great! What am I supposed to tell my mum? I've never had a detention in my life!'

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Unfortunately this never stopped Naruto from asking her questions. She just answered yes or no under her breath hoping he would just shut up, but he just kept showering her with more questions.

'I mean, he asked me what my mum and dad's name was!' She had winced at the mention of her Father, but thankfully the bell rang out for lunch before she had any chance of answering. She rushed out as quickly as she could.

She collected her lunch she walked back to the map and memorized where the Cherry Blossom trees were. However, when Sakura was in sight of the trees and was thinking about the peaceful atmosphere, she noticed some people had already claimed the spot.

'That doesn't surprise me; it is quite a nice place. As long as its not- oh shit…' The group of people that she had been trying to avoid all day was sitting at the tree having there lunch: Ino and everyone. Now she had to find somewhere else to sit.

Walking back towards the map to find where the café was, she bashed into someone and dropped her lunch. Luckily it was in a plastic box and the lid didn't come undone. She said sorry to the person and picked up her lunch. However, when she looked up at the person after she had retrieved her food, she realised that the person that she bumped into was a guy whose face was covered in an orange mask. Sakura tried to suppress a giggled. With the mask on he resembled a lolly-pop.

"Hi! I'm Tobi! Come eat with Tobi and friends because Tobi is a good boy!"

This boy freaked her out.

He wore a bright orange mask.

He resembled a lolly-pop.

He spoke in third person.

"Uh, okay…" Sakura said, stretching out the 'o'. She had nothing else better to do and if it meant that she would have somewhere to eat, then she would go there. Her stomach rumbled in agreement. Plus she might be able to make new friends, although this guy was just plain weird.

She followed him around the back of the school to the opposite side of the field. In the distance she could see other people sitting down eating their lunch. She counted and there were eight of them, and only one of them was a girl.

'Could the girl be a player? No Sakura. Don't think like that, you don't even know her yet.'

These people must be Tobi's 'friends'. He skipped over to them and sat down.

"Tobi, who the fuck is this? You know you aren't supposed to bring random people over here! It's Leader's orders!"

'Leader's orders, what the hell…?' Sakura thought.

"But Hidan, Tobi is a good boy! She's the new junior and she was lost so I decided to help!"

'I was not lost. You bumped into me.' Sakura protested in her head. 'Oh my god, please don't tell me he said Hidan. Please don't be that guy from his morning!'

"A junior! Hmpf!" A blonde guy said. He looked a bit like a girl at first glance, but the deep voice gave it away. He also had really long hair.

"This is your fault Tobi if Leader disapproves. Not ours. The blame is on you." The women said. She had blue hair. Sakura was relieved that she wasn't the only one with an unusual hair colour. However she might have dyed it.

She felt a little out of place just standing there. Sakura didn't know whether to sit down and have something to eat or just walk off. However, before she could make the decision, a guy with auburn spiky hair walked up to the group. He noticed Sakura and eyed her suspiciously.

"And who are you?" he asked in a not-so-friendly voice.

"H-haruno Sakura sir." Did she just say that? Why did she just call him sir? Where did that come from? She blushed when she realised what she said and looked at the ground, finding it very interesting at that moment. It must have been the aura that he was giving off, like he was in charge of everything.

He smirked when she called him sir. "Who brought you here?"

"I did! Tobi is a good boy!"

'That is the third time he has said that in five minutes!'

"Tobi, you know the rules."

"I know, Leader. But she was lost and Tobi decided to be her friend. Please let her hang around with us."

'So this is who they call Leader…' Sakura thought.

'Leader' glanced at everyone's faces, leaving the woman's last. He lingered on it for a while until she spoke up.

"I think it would be good to have another female around. It would give me some company and I could finally have girly chats."

"You have Deidara for that, Konan." One of the guys laughed. His skin and hair was tinted with blue and his eyes were really small, almost shark like. The blonde that had spoken earlier smacked the shark-boy around the head while saying "Bastard!" So he must be Deidara.

"Do not tell anyone about this place." and with that 'Leader' walked over to Konan and sat down.

Sakura remember Tenten's warning that morning and debated whether to sit down or not.

"They belong to a group of eight others who call themselves the 'Akatsuki'. Take my advice: Don't. Go. Anywhere. Near. Them. Again."

'Oh well,' she thought 'Tenten betrayed me so I can do whatever I want to do. Stuff her advice!'

So Sakura did the same as the 'Leader and sat down to eat her lunch, listening to everyone's separate conversations. None of them really bothered her. Most of them ignored her. It was really only Tobi, Konan and the red-head Sasori that spoke to her. She found out that the shark-boy was named Kisame, the guy with green hair was called Zetsu, the 'Leader's' real name is Pein, and the guy with black hair tied in a loose pony tail was called Itachi. Apparently he had a brother in Sakura's year called Sasuke but the two brothers don't get on. She already knew Kakuzu and Hidan. However later she found out that Hidan had a very bad swearing problem.

'A bunch of misfits all come together to form a group. I guess I'll fit right in then…'