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Chapter 1

The students of Konoha Gakuen were hustling about the hallways in the early morning before the beginning of the school week for its students and faculty. First years were wandering the halls already used to the high school setting. Second years were getting by peaceably without having to worry about first year jitters and third year exams. And third years were running rampart as they tried to finish their exams and applications for colleges.

As the morning rush of students still hustled and bustled about, a petite girl with bubblegum pink hair and emerald green eyes parked her jeep in the one of the parking lots, the lot closest to the front doors of Konoha Gakuen. The pinkette parked her jeep closest to the largest cherry blossom tree at the very end of one of the parking strips, and reached to grab her messenger bag from her passenger seat. The pinkette, Haruno Sakura, walked out of her jeep and went inside the school doors towards her locker. While others, such as first years, may mistake her as one of them, other students recognized the pinkette from all of their previous years as a second year, soon-to-be third year. Sakura went to her small shoe locker and changed into her indoor shoes.

"Hey Sakura!" yelled a brunette haired girl with her hair tied up in twin buns at the top of her head. Sakura smiled at her friend, "Hey Tenten, how goes it?"

"I'm good, just got done with early morning practice. What's up with you?" questioned Tenten as she also changed her shoes.

Sakura gave a small smile, typical Sakura, as happy-go-lucky as she was, she had a lot of times when she was shy, "Nothing much is going on. Which practice did you attend this morning?"

The thing about Tenten is that she is a total and complete tomboy. Sure, she knew how to dress like a girly girl and wore the uniform skirt, but she much rather prefer the comfortable clothes of her sweats, jeans, and t-shirts. In school, she was pretty much involved within every single sports team. She was on the girls' tennis team, girls' soccer team, girls' basketball team, girls' softball team, and the girls' lacrosse team. She loved her sports, and she was always active in them, "I had soccer practice this morning. Ugh, as much as I love to do sports, I really hate doing them in the morning, especially when I have to get clean all over again."

Sakura lightly laughed at Tenten's "distress," "Well you could always just go back to doing one sport, but I don't really think that's an option for you."

Tenten smiled a large, pearl white teeth smile, "You're right about that."

Both girls headed towards their respective classroom on the third floor of the school, "Yeah, thanks for waiting guys."

Both of the girls turned toward the voice behind them, and noticed their other friend at a shoe locker close to theirs. Subaku no Temari was another friend of Sakura and Tenten's, she had dirty blonde hair that was placed in four spiky ponytails. She was the same height as Tenten, both whom completely towered over the petite pinkette. Temari hurriedly put her shoes on and ran to catch up with her two friends, "Sorry about that Temari, we would have waited if we knew that you were right behind us," kindly spoke Sakura.

Temari joined the two girls, "Yeah, I know you would, but I thought I would have caught up with you by the time you guys were ready to leave the lockers."

Temari was also another girl who was really into sports, but she wasn't as involved as Tenten was. She and Tenten were both on the girls volleyball team and the girls softball team, "How was softball practice?" asked Tenten.

The dirty blonde shrugged, "Not bad, Anko wasn't too hard on us, but she did say that she wants to see you for practice after school today. She wants to talk about the upcoming game with the two of us."

Tenten nodded in response, "No problem, I wanted to talk strategy anyway." All three girls walked up the stairs towards their classroom, making small chit-chat.

Once the girls were on the third floor, Temari broke the small talk, "Can you guys believe that we have only a month and a half left until we're finally third years? I can't wait," resting her hands on the back of her head.

Both of the others girls nodded in understanding, "I'm super excited! We meet with our homeroom teachers in the first week of school too, so I'm excited to see what colleges I will be able to apply to," rationalized Sakura.

Tenten sighed, "Ugh! I don't want to think about all of the hard stuff in our third year. I wanna think about all of the fun stuff like leaving school early, and of the six classes we have, we have two free periods for whatever we want."

"You're right, being a third year will be fun, but we also have to be serious. We can't slack off any more than in our previous years." The more Sakura talked, the more that the other two girls became depressed from Sakura's speak of still working hard.

"Okay, enough your boring school talk and I swear I'm going to slap you Sakura," all three looked ahead of them and saw another familiar blonde girl with her hair in a high ponytail and another girl with midnight blue hair behind the blonde.

"But Ino, we should be concentrating on our future. It's an important time for all of us," softly spoke the midnight blue haired girl. Her name was Hyuuga Hinata, and she was probably the nicest, kindest, and most lovely person that you would ever meet in your entire life.

The second blonde, Yamanaka Ino, looked towards Hinata in friendly annoyance, "Hey, I thought that you were on my side Hinata."

All three girls laughed at the scene in front of them and approached the other two girls of their group, "Nope, sorry Ino, but Hinata's on my side. See she loves me!" teasingly said Sakura, as she wrapped her arms around Hinata sideways. Hinata laughed lightly at her friends.

They all headed into their classroom, and the three girls placed their belongings on their respective desks before all of the other girls congregated together at Sakura's. While the girls chatted over exciting future events that would happen as third years, Sakura stared out the window. Her desk was in the second to last row of the classroom and right next to the window, giving Sakura the perfect view of the outside world. While Sakura immersed herself within her thoughts and the girl talk going on, a boy walked into the classroom and headed to the desk right behind Sakura.

Hearing a backpack quietly plop on top of the desk behind her, Sakura felt her shoulders slightly tense. The chair made a small screeching sound against the tile floors, and the male body sat himself down. Completely oblivious to Sakura's tense demeanor, another male made a showy entrance into the classroom, "Good morning everyone! No need to fear, for Uzumaki Naruto is here!"

The students in the classroom and even some who were in the hallways glanced at the sunny blonde's cherry and loud attitude. The girls looked to see Naruto making dramatic bowing gestures to his imagery entourage, "Cut it out Naruto. Nobody cares, so stop making such a big deal out of it." Ino said.

Angry at being interrupted in the middle of his daydream, Naruto crossed his arms across his chest, "Oh yeah, what do you know? Just because you can't see my amazing awesomeness doesn't mean that others don't, right everyone."

The teenagers in the class slightly chuckled at Naruto's statement; while Naruto was a cool guy, he was still pretty annoying and didn't know when to stop showing off. "Man, can't you shut up for five minutes…it's still way too early in the morning for this."

Naruto turned towards a guy who had his head buried in his hands. Typical Nara Shikamaru, he always wanted peace and quiet so that he could get some sweet shut eye. "Just because you want to sleep doesn't mean that I can't speak as loud as I want."

"Ano…Naruto-kun, well…um" nervously asked Hinata. Hinata was twiddling her pointer fingers together and her face had a pretty pink blush sprinkling her cheeks. Her friends snickered a bit at their shy friend's obvious crush on the blonde.

Naruto turned his head towards her direction and Hinata jumped a bit at their eye contact. He smiled a huge smile at their direction, and poor Hinata could not have turned any redder…that is until, "Oy, shut up dobe."

Naruto lost his giant smile, and turned to glare at the boy behind Sakura's desk, "Hmph! Why don't you shut up, Sasuke-teme?"

The girls sighed at the normal morning routine for the past nine years going on, but a certain pink-haired girl gave her full attention to the said boy named 'Sasuke-teme.' She turned around in her desk to view him, Uchiha Sasuke, the boy that has had Sakura's heart ever since a very young age. He had flawless features, hell, he was flawless in the eyes of not only her, but many. His black hair was spiked up in the back, making it look like a chicken's butt. His skin was a pale white, but completely without flaws, and his onyx black orbs complemented his aristocratic features. He sat back in his seat with his hands in his pockets and his eyes closed in a calm aura.

Just the sight of seeing her heart's affection in front of her made Sakura's heart flutter, "Good morning, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke's eyes opened to acknowledge the greeting voice in front of him, and Sakura swears she had to fight down the slight blush that was coming upon her face, "Hn."

"This should not be bash Naruto day! Come on guys!" complained Naruto. He stomped towards his desk right next to Sasuke's and plopped himself down in his chair. "You! You should get that stick out of your ass and try to stop being Mr. King of the World over here!" Naruto pointed at Sasuke accusing him of whatever little problem he may have caused.

"Hn, who else is going to put you in your place?" spoke Sasuke in his low baritone voice.

"Anyone but you that's for sure!" Both boys looked towards each other and again their morning rivalry appeared, "Come on now you guys. It's early on a Monday morning, can't we just get along for once."

Sakura mediated between the two boys, but both still glared at the other until they turned away from each other. Sakura sighed at two of her oldest friends childish antics, but knew that there was nothing that could really be done between the two of them.

The bell rang, and Ino, Temari, and Tenten left to their own respective desks, while Sakura and Hinata stayed in the same area because of their seating arrangements next to Sasuke and Naruto. The class continued to chatter amongst themselves knowing that their morning teacher would be late. Hinata and Sakura continued their own talk amongst themselves, mostly what applications, tests, and other items they were getting together for colleges. Between their other three friends, Hinata and Sakura were the smarts ones of the group, so they were always prepared, "Ne, ne Sakura-chan, do you think that I could borrow your math homework? I completely forgot about it last night."

Sakura sighed, "Naruto, you've said that every day for the past years that we have known each other. As much as I want to help you out, why don't you just do your homework for once?"

Naruto laughed in nervousness, he didn't want to get his dear Sakura-chan made because when she was made, boy was she mad, "Oh come on Sakura-chan! I'll…I'll do whatever you want me to do for the rest of the week if you let me copy your homework, please!"

Naruto bowed his head and clapped his hands together, "Please Sakura-chan!" Sakura just sighed again, and reached for her math notebook, and threw it down on his desk, "Don't mess it up, okay?"

"Thanks Sakura-chan!"

Naruto went straight to work.

"You know," spoke up the voice behind Sakura. She turned around in her desk to give Sasuke her full attention, "If you keep babying him, then he's just going to keep using you for your homework, you know that right?"

Sakura stared at Sasuke then flushed a bit, "Well…eventually I feel bad for him, so there's no harm, right?"

Sasuke stared right back at her, "Tch, whatever. It's your own fault if he messes it up one day."

And Sasuke went back to slouching in his seat slightly with his hands resting behind his head, and his eyes closed. Sakura stared at him a bit before sighing again. She turned back in her seat and Hinata gave her a sympathetic look at the way Sasuke treated her.

They resumed their talk, until the front door of the classroom opened revealing a tall man in his late twenties. He had silver hair that defied gravity, an eye patch over his left eye, and a mysterious mask that covered his face. As he walked into the classroom, he had his nose buried into an orange book, that many students knew could not have been allowed at school, so how their teacher did it, they had no clue, "Good morning everyone! I'm sorry that I'm so late, you see there was this black cat that crossed my path so-"

He was cut off by a loud voice in the back of his classroom, "Yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before Kakashi-sensei. Just get it over with, okay?"

Kakashi looked over his book and noticed Naruto pointing at him accusingly; he smiled underneath his mask, "Well Naruto, seeing as how you have no respect for your elders, how about we solve this in a professional manner."

He put down his book, and took out a stack of papers from his desk, "So…we'll solve this with a pop quiz!"

The class groaned and glared at Naruto, while Naruto only rubbed his head with apologies in every direction. Kakashi handed out the papers, and everyone started on their quiz, "Remember no cheating. This shouldn't take long, so once your done place it on my desk."


The long Monday school day ended with many of the students glad that another day had come and gone. Sakura stretched in her seat, happy that Monday was over. She started to collect her books, "Are you going to be staying late today, Sakura?"

Sakura looked at Hinata's waiting look for her to finish packing her bag, she shook her head, "No, not today. I've got practice at the studio, so I'm heading there."

Hinata nodded at Sakura reply and bid her farewell for music practice at the choir club. Sakura continued to pack her bags, and started to stand up, "Ready to go, Sakura-chan?" Waiting at the door were Naruto and Sasuke; an everyday Monday routine. Ever since Sakura's dance practices were moved to late nights, on Monday's and Thursday's, the two boys would go with Sakura to her dance practices, leave for dinner, and then come back to pick her up. It's happened ever since Sakura had her accident back in their first year. "Yup, I'm already." The three friends walked out of the classroom towards the parking lot where Sakura's jeep and Sasuke's own car awaited them.

"Mah, that was harsh of Kakashi-sensei to give us a pop quiz. I had no idea what I was doing, even with Sakura-chan's homework." Naruto complained all the way to the car.

"That's your fault idiot. If you kept your mouth shut, it would have saved us all the trouble." Naruto hmphed and crossed his arms, turning away from Sasuke in anger, "How the hell was I supposed to know he was going to give us a pop quiz?"

"Hn, knowing how you act, he would have given one to us sooner or later." Sasuke's monotone voice insulted Naruto.

Sasuke headed to his Mercedes Benz SL. Naruto followed Sasuke to his car and Sakura to her own. They both pulled out and headed towards Sakura's home. Within ten minutes they reached her two-bedroom apartment that she shared with her mother, but was overseas a lot doing work.

Sasuke parked outside of the apartment building and waited there for Sakura to park her jeep in her apartment's garage. Within seconds, Sakura headed out with her school bag and another bag she used for dance. She popped the trunk, placed everything in, and went to the passenger side, where Naruto moved his seat forward, so that Sakura could sit in the third passenger seat that Sasuke had specially placed in.

"So, right to dance practice Sakura, or do you have time to grab a snack?" asked Naruto eagerly hoping her response to be a yes. Sadly, Sakura shook her head, "Sorry Naruto, we've got placement auditions soon, so I'm taking extra classes until I'm finished with my performance in June."

Naruto pouted, but understood that Sakura was dedicated to her dancing. Sasuke pulled out and headed towards Sakura's studio, "Look to your left."

Startled at Sakura's voice, Sakura turned and noticed a bento box, "Okaa-san thought that you might be hungry, so she made that for you."

"Thank you very much, Sasuke-kun. Please tell Mikoto-san that I'll pay her back somehow," touched by the kind gesture, Sakura held the bento close to her.

A few minutes later, Sasuke reached Sakura's studio, and parked.

"Thanks for taking me again, Sasuke-kun. It really isn't necessary, you know."

"Of course it is Sakura-chan! We care about you, and we want you safe. We're not going to let what happened last time happen to you, got it?" Naruto proclaimed loudly. Sakura smiled and thanked them again.

"What time?"

"Nine o'clock please Sasuke-kun." Sasuke nodded, and Sakura headed inside; only when she was within the ballet studio did Sasuke drive away.

"Hey, Sakura, you're here early," asked a brunette girl.

"Yeah, since we have placements coming up for our recital, I thought that I should be here more," the brunette nodded in understanding, "Well then get ready, cause we've got a full schedule ahead of us."


At nine o'clock on the dot, Sasuke pulled up in front of the studio, and five minutes later, Sakura stepped out redressed in her school uniform. She pulled open the passenger door and sat herself down. Once secured with her seatbelt, Sasuke pulled out and drove off back to Sakura's place, "Thanks for picking me up again Sasuke-kun, you really don't have to."

"Hn, it's not a big deal," as much as Sasuke said it, she still felt bad. The ride was quiet. Sakura knew that Sasuke like his silence, so she never really brought up any sorts of conversational talks. After knowing him for so long, Sakura knew when she could read Sasuke. So, when Sasuke started to speak, "Hey, there's someone I'm interested in," and confessed to having feelings for someone, it caught Sakura completely off guard.

"You…You do," Sasuke nodded, "Well, do you mind if I ask who the girl is?"

Sasuke was quiet for a bit, then he dropped the bomb, "It's Karin."

Suddenly, Sakura's heart stopped the fluttering notion she's had in her chest ever since he admitted to liking someone, to almost stopping completely from whom it was that he liked.

'Karin! That ugly, stuck-up bitch that's been making my life hell, since like ever,' thought Sakura. But quickly, Sakura squashed down her thoughts, "O-Oh, I see."

Sasuke nodded completely oblivious to Sakura' heart breaking, "I was wondering something…"

"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun, but if you're asking me to get in her circle of friends, then that'll be impossible for me"

Sasuke was quiet for a bit more, but spoke up again, "No, not that, I just wanted to know if you could try to be…nicer to her."

Sakura was a bit shocked considering he knew how Karin treated Sakura. He knew that Karin did not like Sakura, so how did he fall for her? It just didn't make sense to her, "I'm…kinda afraid that she may not like me if you and she keep fighting, so can you try to not make her so angry anymore?"

Sakura's heart just kept breaking from the words that Sasuke spoke. As much as Sakura wanted to whine and complain that no she would not do such a thing considering she was never the one who picked the fights, Sakura nodded, "I'll…I'll try my best…Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke nodded and pulled up to Sakura's apartment, "Thank you again Sasuke-kun." He nodded once more and drove off, leaving Sakura to her own devices. Sakura was glad that Sasuke didn't wait for her to enter her apartment, because if he did, then he would have seen the tears streaming down her face and heard the breaking of her heart.


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