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5/20/08

Hi, there.

For those of you new readers, you may be very confused. I am the blame for this because I had an Original Character and i recently changed her to Karin--Sasuke's new teammate? Team Hebi?

So yah, I'm sorry if I make you guys get frustrated. My Original Character's name was Nataki, by the way. (Bitchaki, a nickname Sakura has come to cal her)

Sorry! And enjoy!

CHAPTER 2: THE LIST

I collapsed on my bed, shoes still on and closed my eyes.

I did horribly at work today.

I mean, whats the point of me trying if all I get is a headache and bad blisters.

I looked at the clock on my bedside table. It read 5:30. I was suppose to work until 8:00 today. My manager sent me home early because she thought I was sick.

And in a way I am.

Sasuke?

Out of all the people to be paired with it had to be Sasuke?

Stop thinking about him.

I rolled over to my right had side and stuck my had under my pillow. My dad would be home by 6 today. He'll expect me to be at work what will I say to him? It's impossible to lie to the guy.

Stretching my legs a little, I tried to get into a more comfortable position. I felt something under my pillow. I fingered it and my eyes snapped open I took out a folded piece of paper. Confused, I opened it.

My look of confusion was replaced by a smile. The paper read

10 FACTS I CAN NEVER EVER CHANGE NEVER.

Stupid title? Yes but I was only 8 when I started it give me a break.

I started it back when I got made fun of for my over sized forehead and pink hair. I made a promise to myself not to change anything to drastically, just word it differently.

Anyway, it said:

1) I will never meet another girl with pink hair and green eyes. And there is nothing worse than my huge forehead.

This was before Ino befriended me. I still think my pink hair is ugly, and my forehead is still pretty big.

2) Ino will always be a pig

This one had been crossed out like two times. But it's back up again. The first time I wrote it was when I found out she liked Sasuke also. I crossed it out in fifth grade when we decided friendship was more important than boys. Then when I found out she was still crushing on Sasuke, I wrote it once more. After that Sasuke and I started dating, me and Ino became friends once more. When Sasuke broke up with me, Ino was convinced it was because he liked her. So, her being a pig went right back up.

3) I will never see my mom again

No, she's not dead. She decided to leave me and my dad back when I was eight. My dad never told me why, but I'm pretty sure it's because she didn't think my dad was good enough to start a family with her or something. She's in America now, she got remarried last month. She invited me to the wedding of course, but I didn't go. I blamed it on schoolwork.

4) Boys are icky

What girl didn't think this at a young age? I crossed this one out after I started to like Sasuke it stayed crossed out until he ended our relationship, then I put it back on.

5) I will never beat Neji-san in a spar.

I wrote this one when I was like 13 and after several failed attempts at beating Neji-san, I decided that I will probably never be able to. But he's my number one sparring partner because he's the only guy that doesn't go easy on me.

6) My dad doesn't trust me now, and never will

My dad, good old dad. He's way overprotective. I think he thinks he's gonna lose me just like mom. I wish I could tell him it wasn't so…but I can't bring up mom. I see his face fall and his eyes look so distant. I wonder if he still loves her, how could he after she left him?

7) There is no such thing as a straight-gay guy

You know what a straight-gay guy is right? A guy who is so nice and easy to talk to he has to be gay but ends up being straight. I thought I had one of those last year. I don't really wanna relive it, but it was after Sasuke broke my heart. I had no one to turn to I couldn't even tell Hinata or Tenten. This guy found me crying in the park and I spilled my guts to him. He became my best friend and that's all I ever saw him as. But he ended up taking advantage of me. I found out from Tenten he does that to a lot of girls, he earns their trust and then tries to have sex with them. He moved when my dad found out what happened and threatened to rip his organs out through his ass.

8) Getting married? For me that won't happen until I'm like 30

After my mom invited me to the wedding and I declined, she didn't beg me or even seemed saddened by the fact her daughter wouldn't come to her wedding. I decided that I didn't want to get married if I ended up like her. 30 is a good age ne? Besides dad would ever let a guy come close to marrying me.

9) There is no such thing as a perfect guy. No one even comes close

This was after Hinata and Tenten saw how depressed I was all the time and set me up with several guys. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I'm pretty sure love just wasn't meant for me.

10) Uchiha Sasuke is the biggest jerk face ever. Nothing and no one can change that.

I wrote this two months ago, when I found out Sasuke was engaged to Karin. So just in case you're wondering, no it wasn't arranged. He wanted to marry her. And she has the ring to prove it.


Yeah, I finished up the list two months ago. I sighed and folded it back up. I was about to put I back under the pillow when I heard a knock on the door.

Dad.

Jumping up, I scrambled to the door and threw it open.

My smile brightened when he exclaimed

"Sakura!" and tackled me in a hug. He can be such a kid sometimes. Laughing I detached myself from him. I missed him; I haven't seen him for a whole day and I got lonely.

"Why aren't you at work?" he walks past me, dropping his briefcase on the floor and making his way to the kitchen.

"I got sent home sick."

He turned to face me "You're sick?" he places his hand on my ample forehead. His voice is laced with so much concern I feel guilty.

"No," I say quickly swatting his hand away playfully. "I was having an off day…"

"Ok then, how about instant Ramen for dinner?"

I took a deep breath "dad," he was already fumbling through the cabinet for the ramen we probably didn't have.

"Hmm…"

"I'll be coming home from school late tomorrow."

"And why is that?" he looked in a higher cabinet.

"I have to do a project with a classmate and I have to go to their house."

"Who?" he looked in a lower cabinet absentmindedly and pulled out a metal pan.

"Sasuke"

His eyes widened and the sound of clattering metal was heard. He turned slowly to look at me, his face was red.

"Why?" he hissed it slowly and dangerously.

"We got partnered up dad no big deal."

What a stupid idea telling him the truth! Gosh.

Suddenly the floor was the most amazing thing in the world because I couldn't pry my eyes off it.

"When is it due?"

"Two weeks from now."

He left the room. I was confused, but he was back in five minutes with a pen and paper.

"Dad what are you doing?"

"Writing you a sick note for two weeks, of course."

I laughed slightly "Dad! Don't worry about it if I don't do it I fail."

He slammed the pen down.

"If that boy does anything to you, let me know and he won't ever be able to eat properly again."

I nodded smiling and he turned back to the opened cabinet, he continued to shuffle through the many pots and pans.

Smiling gently, I crouched down next to him

"How 'bout we go out to eat dad? My treat"

"Sure."

X

Waking up to the annoying beeping of my alarm clock is always a challenge. But I manage to do it anyway.

Doing the regular routine of showering (with warm water this time) I stepped out and put on my uniform. Walking over to my dresser I picked up a brush and ran it through my shoulder length hair.

I didn't want to go to breakfast, I was sure dad would lecture me on the dangers of sex or something. So I slowly opened the door of the tiny apartment when I heard his voice.

"Sakura."

"Heh heh, hey dad."

He pulled out something from his back pocket.

"If he does anything ANYTHING at all, you...well, you know how to handle this."

I rolled my eyes and kissed him on the cheek

"Bye dad," I said tucking the pepper spray away.


School? Nothing to extreme happened in homeroom. Naruto and Kiba fought for the longest time and Karin kept shooting angry looks my way.

As if it's my fault I got paired up with Sasuke.

Nothing really happened until science actually, so let's just skip to there.

"Now! My youthful students we will be starting a new chapter in the wonderful world of science! It will be about youthful elements! Yosh!"

"Oh Gai-sensei I can not wait for such a time it will be most interesting!" that was Lee this maniac that has an unhealthy crush on me and looks exactly like Gai creepy, huh?

"LEE YOU ARE CORRECT IT WILL BE INTERESTING!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI SENSEI!"

"LEE"

"GA-"

Someone threw a shoe at him and he was knocked out. No one saw who did it –cough- Naruto -cough-.

Gai-sensei was devastated and took Lee to the infirmary. The bell rang for lunch.

Hinata Tenten and I made our way to the huge sakura tree at the back of the school. We sat beneath it and ate our rice balls.

"So Sakura-chan, do you know what you're going to do the history project about yet?"

"No, I'm going to Sasuke's house after school. What about you guys?"

"We are gonna do it about female ninjas called kunoichis." Hinata whispered

"Hmm"

They seemed like they wanted to say something to me. I saw it in their eyes. I knew what they wanted to ask me about too.

"I'm ok with working with Sasuke you know."

Tenten and Hinata smiled.

"Sakura-chan, i-if he well,-"

"I think what Hina-chan means is if he hurts you in any way, we won't hesitate to kick his ass."

I smiled as we shared a group hug.

I love these guys.

After lunch we had P.E all we did there was run track.

In history I sat with Tenten again. Asuma-sensei smiled at us with that cigarette hanging out of the side of his mouth.

"I hope all of you are getting along well with your projects. Today we will cover more on that subject."

He handed out worksheets.

"Most of you probably picked out what you wanted to do your projects on by now."

Not us.

We had to finish the worksheet with the person next to us. I could barley pay attention. I kept thinking about after school. At Sasuke's house. Working with him on a project together. Maybe even alone?

No way. There's no way Karin would let that happen.

The bell rang startling me from my thoughts.

I watched everyone else leave; Sasuke was amongst the last with Karin trailing after him like a puppy. Gaara was the last one, besides me to depart. We stared at each other for a while. I never noticed before but he has really nice eyes.

So green and empty…so lonely

"Haruno are you alright? The bell rang two minutes ago."

"Oh!" I looked at Asuma-sensei

"Right I was just leaving."

I grabbed my bag and rushed out the door.

Uchiha residence here I come.


I hope this chapter cleared up a lot more questions! Next update will be soon please review!

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