-1(A/N):Here's the next chapter! I hope you like it! Finally Sakura goes to Konoha High. Woot! I think the story really starts to pick up in this chapter.

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"Hahaha! Victory!" Sakura yelled triumphantly to herself. She was alone in her room. She was NOT going to be late today! Mind boggling almost, seeing as there are very few times she actually isn't late. She couldn't help it though, fate just didn't seem to like the idea of her being on time. She looked at her alarm clock which was next to her bed. It said 7:00 am. And school didn't start until 8:00. "Haruno Sakura wins again!" She said victoriously. She was already dressed in a black short sleeve button up shirt with a red tie, a red plaid mini skirt, black knee high socks with red converse, and a long red bow tied in her hair behind the bangs. Konoha didn't have uniforms like her old school did.

"What the hell, might as well start off with a bang." She said looking in the mirror. Then her smirk twisted into an evil smile. "Konoha high beware."

She grabbed her bag and went downstairs to the kitchen to eat a small breakfast. When she walked into the kitchen doorway she felt something land onto her shoulder. She continued walking to the counter to grab a cookie out of a small jar.

"Ah Scope. Come to see me off to my 'first' day of school?" She asked the squirrel. It merely looked up at her, with those cute little eyes. "Awww your so adorable!" Sakura squealed. She lifted her hand to pet him but before she could reach up to him he disappeared. "What the- -Scope where did you--HEY MY COOKIE!" When the hell did he take her cookie!?

"Little bastard…" Sakura mumbled. Still mumbling about little squirrel demons and their evil thieving ways, she grabbed another cookie and walked out to her car to leave for school. Right after her father had said she was now going to Konoha High he walked away leaving no room for arguments. That sadistic bastard needs to go die or something. I mean he obviously has nothing left to live for except make my life hell so what's the point of him…

She sighed as the car started. She had never been to a new school before and didn't exactly want to start now. Nor had she ever made a whole lot of friends outside of school. Its not that she didn't know how to, if anything she was a real people person, its just the thought of being alone. Being the person that knows absolutely no one around themselves. It would be a lie if Sakura said she wasn't nervous about going to a new school, because she was. Badly. Her old school was just a small private one. She didn't know what to expect from Konoha.

"Just keep a level head and try not to make any enemies." She said softly to herself. " All I have to do is talk to and get to know people…how hard could it be…?" She stopped herself.

She had just pulled up to a very large building. There were teens everywhere walking from one place to another and chatting away with friends around the school. There were just about the same amount of people around the building as there was in the mall. And THAT was a lot. Sakura gulped. This was Konoha High.

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Sakura parked her car in the parking lot. Forcing herself out of the car, she grabbed her bag and walked confidently to the school while keeping her chin up. Every now and again people would stop talking and look solely on her. It was rather nerve racking. What the hell are they looking at!? They act like I'm glowing green or something…She didn't even bother looking back at the people staring at her. She had to find the office to get her locker and new schedule. Walking through the front doors she listened as people whispered as she walked by. God didn't they have something better to do? She stopped walking and looked around. There was no office in sight, not even a sign. One would think that such a large building would have a sign to point out where the office was. Seriously if she kept walking without knowing where she was she would get lost. And Sakura was NOT good with directions. She silently groaned.

"Are you lost?" Sakura turned around to see a really good looking blond man smiling at her.

"Yeah I am actually. I'm looking for the office." She said never looking away from him. He had such beautiful blue eyes.

"Well let me help you out, yeah! My names Deidara…and you are?"

"Haruno Sakura. Nice to meet you Deidara!" She smiled widely at him.

"The pleasure is all my mine, yeah." He sat his hand on her shoulder leading her through the large hallway. " Your new I'm guessing? Be careful not to get lost around here. It's a pretty big place, yeah."

"I've noticed. And the sad part is that I nearly thought I was lost after just stepping through the door." She chuckled.

"Like I said, its pretty big. So Sakura what grade are you in?" He asked looking at her while they walked side by side.

"I'm in the 11th grade this year. And yourself?" Was it just her or was Deidara really easy to talk to? She went with the latter.

"I'm a senior, but I've been held back before, yeah. Here we are!" He pronounced. "Well Sakura I guess I'll see you later. I've got to go, but if anyone gives you trouble you come find me and I'll kick their ass, yeah!" 'And I'm fairly certain they will…especially the boys, yeah…'He looked at her pretty face and the way she was dressed. 'I wouldn't be surprised if you made a few boys have nosebleeds on your first day, yeah.' He thought to himself, smiling inwardly.

She giggled. "Thank you for your help Deidara."

"Anytime, yeah! See you around!" And with that he walked off leaving Sakura alone. She watched as he walked away.

"Wow he seemed really nice. Maybe it wont be as bad as I thought here." She said quietly to herself. She walked into the office and went up to one of the secretaries. "Excuse me but I'm new here."

"Ah, alright. Go on into the principals office so she can tell you the rules of our school and give you your schedule." Then the woman pointed to the shut door in the back of the office.

"Okay thanks." Sakura walked over to the door and opened it, stepping inside.

"Please take a seat." A woman was sitting behind a large desk in the middle of the room. Sakura did as she was told and sat in the chair in front of the principal's desk. The woman had blond hair and bright brown eyes similar to Sakura's. She also had a huge bust. Wow.

"Hello Sakura, and yes I know your Sakura, welcome to Konoha High. I'm the principal, Tsunade. I'm not gonna give you some big fancy speech on what you shouldn't do. You seem smart enough. Here's your schedule and locker number and combination. You have 15 minutes before the bell rings so you can go find your locker then get to your first class which is,"

"English with Kakashi-sensei" Sakura continued, looking at her new schedule.

"Down the hall to your left, up the stairs to the 2nd floor, and its room 345. Your locker should be close to your homeroom. You may go now."

"Hai Tsunade-sama." Sakura got up, grabbed her bag and went of to her homeroom as instructed. Her shoes made slight squeaking sounds as she walked on the shiny, polished floor. There was a good amount of people in the halls, all of which were talking to one another or walking to wherever they needed to be. Sakura went up the stairs and looked for room 345. When she finally found it, not to far away down the hall from the steps, she sighed in relief that she was able to find the right room. Now all she had to do was find her locker…

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"Sasuke-teme, I'm telling you that an alliteration is a sentence with all nouns!"

"Naruto you're the biggest idiot I've ever seen in my life." Neji said looking back from his seat across from Naruto's.

"What!? I'm trying to study for that stupid test Kakashi said we would have today!" Naruto threw his papers in the air out of frustration. "I give up!"

"Dobe, you never had a chance of getting a good grade." Sasuke looked at the angered blond.

"Nobody asked for your input Teme." Naruto glared at the dark haired boy. "So can it."

Shikamaru looked up from his seat beside Neji. "Naruto your just going to start another--"

"I can say whatever I want."

"Why do you always have to get on my nerves so bad!?"

"Its kind of my job."

Shikamaru sighed. They were at it again. "I'm getting tired of them fighting every single time they're in the same room together."

"Well its not about to change any time soon, and you know it." Gaara sighed.

"Where the hell is Kakashi, the bell rang five minutes ago!" Naruto groaned.

Neji reached back flicked Naruto's forehead. " Since when do you care?"

"Well for your information," Naruto started, with Sasuke behind him mouthing everything he said, making fun of him. "I just want to get this damn test over with! And also-- hey what are you smirking at!?" Naruto turned around only to see Sasuke staring off into space. "Okay…" he said, arching an eyebrow.

"Alright class get in your seats already." A voiced called out from the doorway. Kakashi walked in the classroom, orange book in hand, not even bothering to look up at the class until he reached his favorite place to lean on his desk. "Quiet down now."

"Kakashi-sensei put your stupid perverted book away!" Naruto yelled.

Kakashi sighed. "Naruto, please sit back down." Naruto obeyed the teacher and sat back down into his seat, grumbling. "Okay class, I have an announcement to make--"

"There's not going to be a test today!?" Naruto budded in, now excited.

"Test…? What test?" Kakashi looked back at Naruto with a raised eyebrow.

"Wait there's no test?"

"No…?"

Naruto jumped out of his seat and pointed at the group of boys that he was sitting by. "YOU LIARS!"

"Naruto would you please sit down already?" Kakashi asked now getting irritated.

"Then what was the announcement?" Naruto was now confused. What else was new.

"Yes, as I was saying, we have a new student here today. Class meet Haruno Sakura." And with that a beautiful young girl with long pink hair walked into the room. As she walked to the front of the class, people were whistling at her and whispering to one another about the hot new girl. Sasuke and Gaara watched the girl stride to the front with interest. In the row in front of him Neji's mouth dropped slightly as Shikamaru simply raised his eyebrows. All the boys were thinking along the same line-- Drop dead gorgeous . It seemed this school had never seen anything like her before."Please tell us about yourself Sakura."

"Okay. Well My name is Sakura and--"

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto jumped up out of his seat and waved to the surprised girl.

"N-Naruto?" Sakura stared wide-eyed at the blond. What the hell are the chances of meeting him here?

"Ah so you know someone here?" Kakashi said, more to himself than Sakura. "Ok then Sakura you can go take a seat beside Naruto."

"Okay." Sakura said, walking over to where Naruto sat, then taking a seat next to him.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Naruto, who had just tackled the pinkette into a hug. How the hell does Naruto know her!? Stopping himself from looking at the pink haired girl to the point it would be considered 'ogling'. He turned his head finding it extremely hard to look away from her. Little did Sasuke know he wasn't the only one having trouble looking away from the new girl…

"Okay class settle down. Now lets start today's lesson." Kakashi said, walking around his desk sitting down and starting to read his book once again.

After waiting patiently for a couple seconds, Sakura spoke up. "Uh, isn't he going to actually teach us anything?"

"Nah we never do anything. And when we do its not a lot" Naruto replied.

"Why not?"

"Because Kakashi is too interested in that damn book to actually teach us anything." The boy that sat in front of her with long brown hair and silver eyes answered. "I'm Neji by the way."

"Okay then, nice to meet cha Neji!" Sakura grinned at him.

"Nice to meet you too, Sakura." Neji smiled at her, making her cheeks slightly pink.

"Oh! Sakura-chan I want you to meet my friends!" Naruto said excitedly. "Okay lets see…This is Neji, as you already know now," Naruto pointed a Neji. "And this is Shikamaru," He then pointed to the boy with the spiky ponytail in front of himself, who looked like for some reason was trying to look at anything but Sakura. "Next we have Sasuke-teme. He's a jerk, so we would all understand if you don't want to talk to him or anyth--" Sasuke whacked Naruto over the head with his fist.

"Dobe…Nice to meet you Sakura." Sasuke reached comfortably over Naruto's desk to shake Sakura's hand, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Go away Teme!" Naruto grumbled, rubbing his sore head. "Oh and last there's Gaara," Naruto made a gesture to the redhead in front of Sasuke. Gaara simply nodded at her, never looking away from her bright green eyes.

"Pleasure." The redhead smirked at her. Her blush returned and she quickly looked away from him.

"Hey we're back." Sakura turned around. There were two boys standing behind her desk.

"Who's Pinky over here?" A brunette boy with red triangles on his cheeks asked.

"Sakura, this is Kiba and that's Sai." Neji pointed out to her.

"Sai and Kiba…Got it." Sakura nodded.

"You must be new." Kiba Said sitting next to her, while Sai sat next to Neji. "We don't get new students very often here."

"I see." Sakura said

"So whats your schedule Ugly?" Sai asked her sounding bored. Wrong thing to say.

Naruto and the rest of the boys around her snapped their attention to Sai and Sakura.

"…Excuse me…?" Sakura asked in a low voice, narrowing her eyes dangerously.

"I said, what's your schedule Ugly."

Sakura took in a deep breath getting ready to scream at Sai when Naruto jumped in.

"Don't be offended Sakura-chan, Sai is just like that! He doesn't mean anything by it!" Sakura looked back at Sai who shrugged his shoulders. The bell rang and everyone began to get their things and walk out of the classroom.

"See you later Sakura-chan! Maybe we'll have another class together later!"

"Yeah you never know!" She pulled out her schedule wile she walked to the door. "Next I have…History with Asuma-sensei…" She read to herself.

"You do?" She looked over her shoulder to see Sai and Kiba, who then walked on either side of her. " Sai and I do too so you can just go with us!" Kiba suggested.

"Yeah seeing as you don't know the way there anyway, do you Ugly?" Sai said smiling at her. "Lets walk together then."

"Yeah ok!" She cheered smiling brightly. Hmm…maybe this whole friend thing isn't as complicated as I thought it would be! "Hey guys do you think you can take me to a restroom on our way to class?" Its not that she actually had to go or anything she just wanted to go check her make-up. If Kiba and Sai knew why she wanted to use the bathroom they would probably think along the lines of 'Typical girl' then roll their eyes. Which is why she didn't want to tell them that's the only reason she needed to use restroom. Well she WAS a girl right!? Sakura smiled.

"Yeah sure there's one over there." Sai replied. "We'll wait here for you."

"Noooo you'll wait for me in the bathroom." Sakura said sarcastically.

"Yeah Sai could, seeing as he acts so much like a girl." Kiba chuckled. Sai glared at him while Sakura went off into the bathroom giggling.

After a few seconds Sai spoke. "Kiba you do realize its obvious that Naruto, Gaara, Neji, Sasuke, and Shikamaru--" he counted them all off on his fingers.

"--All look like they ."

"And you do realize we'll have to--"

"Keep them from doing anything to her."

"Would you stop that! Dickless…" Sai huffed, crossing his arms in aggravation.

"Yeah real mature Sai. I bet you cant go a week without calling Sakura or anyone else a name" Kiba grinned like an idiot. Why was Sai friends with this idiot again?

"And why would I want to bet on something so stupid?" Sai asked.

"Wow Sai, I knew you would fail miserably, but I thought you would at least have the guts to try--"

"FINE."

"Okay guys I'm back!" Sakura walked up to the two boys. "Sai stop pouting, you look like a two year old." She laughed as Sai's face showed clear signs that he would like nothing better than to insult her. "What your not going to call me Ugly?" Sakura said in astonishment. Sai narrowed his eyes at her and Kiba looked like he was about to explode from not laughing. Sakura raised an eyebrow at her friends.

Kiba took a deep breath to calm himself. "Okay I think we're going to be late lets go.". And then they began walking down the hall once again until they got inside the class room. History wasn't so bad with Sai and Kiba there. The only thing interesting that may have happened was that when Sakura was walking back to her seat from turning a paper in, some kid she walked by tripped her, thus making her fall, and tried to look up her skirt as she did. Clearly he didn't know who her new declared 'brothers' were. Once Kiba and Sai got up to beat the crap out of him he was gone, out the door. Sakura could have sworn when he ran by her he had said something under his breath that's sounded like 'I didn't know she was friends with them!' which made her curious as to why it really mattered.

After history Sakura walked off to her next period which was chemistry with Orochimaru. Sai and Kiba had told her how to get to the rest of her classes and she surprisingly hadn't forgotten. When she reached the chemistry lab she looked for a table to sit at. Most the tables were almost or already full. She was just knew a situation like this would happen. I better sit somewhere before something like in homeroom happen--

"Hey Pinky you can sit over here!!!"

"Hey pretty lady there's a spot here!!!"

"WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME!?!"

Sakura's eye twitched slightly at the last remark.

Then a girls voice rang out, slightly more quite than all the boys'. "Hey you can sit over here if you want." Sakura looked at the table to her left, where the voice had came from. She quickly walked over and sat down before she drew anymore attention to herself.

"Thank you!" She sighed.

"No prob!" Sakura looked up to see who the voice belonged to. Sitting diagonal across the table from her was a brunette with buns on each side of her head. "I'm Tenten and this," She nodded to another girl with silver eyes and long, sleek blue hair that was sitting beside Sakura. "is Hinata." Sakura hadn't even noticed Hinata until Tenten had pointed her out. Sakura looked down to her lap at she felt a tad of guilt. Then she looked back up.

"Nice to meet you both! I'm Sakura." Tenten opened her mouth to say something but Sakura cut her off. " And yeah my hair is naturally pink." Sakura smiled at Tenten.

"Sorry I just had to ask--you know I asked Hina over there the same question in the 5th grade when we first met." All the girls giggled t themselves causing people from other tables to look over at the three girls.

"What are you looking at!?" Sakura snapped. All the people who had turned to watched slowly turned back around.

"Go mind your own damn business!" Tenten snapped after Sakura, making anyone who hadn't turned away do so. Hinata felt like she wanted to just crawl under the table. But she didn't of course because she was used to her best friend Tenten acting this way…Looks like Tenten and I are about to make a new best friend. Hinata was thinking quietly to herself.

All three of the girls talked straight through Orochimaru's assignment ( even Hinata had spoke quite a lot; Sakura was just a really easy person to warm up to) and even got it done in class. Immediately it obvious they would all be close friends after today. Sakura told them all about her first day so far.

"You knew Naruto before you came here? How about that..." Tenten rambled. " What surprises me is that you actually got along with Sai and Kiba, but its astounding you hit it off well with Sasuke, Gaara, and Neji too! I mean Shikamaru and Naruto are pretty good people persons but wow…cool! You know what that means Hinata!?" Tenten asked sounding excited.

"It means that Sakura wont have to worry about our whole group hating her like they do normally to people." Hinata replied quietly. Even though you could barely tell, Sakura could comprehend this must be a big deal.

"What? Is your 'group' like exclusive or something?" Sakura asked.

"Well yeah sorta. " Tenten answered slowly. " You see Hina and I have no problems with new people…for the most part…"

"Not true Tenten." Hinata started. " You know very well even you have trouble…accepting people."

Tenten sighed. " I guess your right…really I'm no better than them…but Sakura is a different story! She's awesome! And whats amazing is she hasn't made one enemy this whole time! That just takes takes the cake!" Hinata nodded in agreement.

Sakura was confused. "But I got along just fine with all the boys and everything, and even you! Does that make me different or something? What do you want me in your little 'exclusive' group or something?"

"Well duh! And its obvious that the guys do too, from what you tell me." Tenten said like it was the most obvious thing in the world..

"I see." Sakura nodded in understanding, cracking a small smile.

"But listen Sakura, there are some groups out there that you really want to avoid." Tenten warned. " Listen carefully ok? Just stay away from Karin and her group." Sakura blinked. Tenten looked pretty serious. "You see that blond over there?" Tenten pointed to a pretty blond girl who was quietly doing her assignment. "That's Ino. She's Karin's 'right-hand-man' so to speak. Avoid her, Karin, Kiari, and Kin at all cost."

"She doesn't looks so bad Tenten…" Sakura said softly.

"Looks can be deceiving Sakura-chan." Hinata piped up.

Tenten nodded once again. " And there one more group you want to steer clear of. It's a group called Akatsuki. Got it?"

"Yup!" Sakura said confidently. "No problems Tenten, Hina!" They sat there smiling at each other in understanding for a moment.

"Class please look up here for a moment." Orochimaru spoke out. "I hope you haven't forgotten that I said I would be assigning partners for the big science project due next week." The whole class groaned, including Sakura. Homework already? she complained in her head. "I'll be passing out the cards with your partners name now. Half the class will receive a card, the other half's names are on the card. When a person gets a card with your name on it, that is who your partner will be." And with that he walked over to Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata's side of the room and began to hand out cards to every other person. He handed one to Tenten who, glared at her card and moaned. Apparently she had gotten someone she didn't want to be with. Sakura could have sworn she had muttered the name "Lee". Orochimaru skipped over Hinata, meaning someone would be getting a card with her name on it, and handed Sakura a small card. Sakura's eyes widened.

"Who'd you get Sakura?" Tenten looked at Sakura with worry for her new friend.

"Yeah who did you get Sakura-chan?" Hinata asked quietly.

"…Ino."

Both girls gasped. Tenten snapped out it first. "Sakura you--!"

"Alright class get with your partners! Arrange when you will work together." Sakura gulped. She got up slowly at first until she realized Tenten wanted to say something, probably just something about how horrible Ino was. Sakura walked quickly away toward the blond, who was patiently waiting for her partner to find her, before Tenten could start to speak. Ino spotted her walking over, and Sakura waited for her to scrunch up her nose in disgust, or look smugly, superiorly , at her and turn away. Ino did no such thing.

"Hey, you must be new right?" Ino grinned at Sakura. It wasn't an I'm-better-than-you smirk…just a normal grin.

"Yeah…" Sakura said slowly. "I'm Sakura."

"Nice to meet you Sakura. I'm Ino." Sakura cautiously sat down next to Ino. "So how has your first day been? It's a pretty big school huh?" Ino chuckled. Sakura blinked. Immediately conversation was going and the girls were going on as if they had known each other for years or something. When there was only a couple minutes of class left they were still chatting away, and boy did they have a lot in common!

"Its your favorite store too!?" Ino squealed. "No way! That's where I got my shoes and necklace from!"

A LOT in common.

"Your kidding I've been going there for years buying all my--" Sakura was cut off by the bell. Both girls sighed. "Maybe I'll have another class with you Ino!" Sakura said sounding hopeful.

"Maybe! Well I gotta go! See ya!" Ino called back at Sakura, and then walked out of the room. Sakura gathered up her bag and also started walking.

"Sakura!" Sakura looked back at Tenten and Hinata who caught up with her and they began to walk together.

"Hey guys!" Sakura said, extra happily.

"So how was it…?" Tenten asked darkly.

"I cant even imagine what you must be going through Sakura-chan…" Hinata shuddered.

"Well…it certainly wasn't what I had expected…I have to go this way. See you later!" Sakura said cheerfully, walking down another hall than Hinata and Tenten. What the heck was their problem with Ino anyway? She seemed really nice...Next Sakura had math with Kurenai-sensei and then 5th period was lunch break. Sakura suddenly stopped walking and looked at a door to her left.

"This must be it!" She walked into the class room, and luck must be on her side now, because the room was practically empty. Well then again she did have advanced calculus so that could be it. Sakura wasn't a nerd, but math was just always one of the things that came natural to her. She looked around for a place to sit down. As she began to make her way to the desk closest to her, a voice called out.

"Yo! Hey come sit up here." Sakura looked up. At the top row of seats in the corner closest to the door was a group of three girls. (A/N: it's the kind of room that rises up from the front of the room to the back, and the desks are on the steps. That's how Sakura's english and math classes are.) The one that had called out to her was a blond girl with four spiky ponytails on the back of her head that sat in the very corner. Sitting on the right hand side of her was a girl with brown eyes and red hair. In front of the blond there was one more girl who had short blue hair, a light lilac colored flower clip on the side of her head with a small bun in the back of her head, and dark blue eyes that were looking straight at Sakura.

"Thanks!" Sakura said gratefully, as she walked up the steps and sat in the seat next to the blue haired girl.

"Its no problem. I'm Temari." She reached her hand out to Sakura, who noticed there was a stick of gum in it. "Gum?" Temari asked.

"Yeah thanks!" Sakura smiled and took the stick of gum. "I'm Sakura."

"Well you seem pretty cool so I don't think I have a reason to beat the crap out of you." The red head smirked, making Sakura gulp. "I'm Tayuya."

"Don't mind her Sakura. She goes around actually looking for people to start a fight with." The blue haired girl spoke up. " The names Konan." Tayuya rolled her eyes.

Sakura smirked. "Well thank you for not starting a fight with me on my first day."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet you are." Tayuya retorted. Sakura narrowed her eyes and stuck her tongue out.

"Hey you want me to kick your ass?" Sakura said in a mock-serious tone.

"Haha I think I like you already." Tayuya smirked.

Konan blinked in what appeared to be surprise. "Tayuya…don't tell me you just admitted that you don't dislike someone." Temari rolled her eyes.

"So Sakura how do you like your new school?" Temari asked.

"Hmm well it…sure has a lot of interesting people."

"You think so?" Temari put her index finger on her chin, appearing to be thinking. " I've never really thought about it…"

"Since when do you think?" Tayuya snorted with laughter.

"Shut your face Tayuya, before I rearrange it!" Temari shouted back. Sakura sweat dropped at her newfound friends.

"Are they always like this?" Sakura asked Konan, raising an eyebrow. Temari was now standing up, not looking very happy and Tayuya was shouting some very colorful swear words at the blond.

"Ah, you get used to it after so long." Konan grinned. Sakura giggled.

Trying to stop her smirking Sakura looked up to take in the rest of the class. Their small group wasn't alone in the classroom anymore; there was now a few more people (but not that many) scattered throughout the room, and every now and again a person would walk in and take a seat, as the bell hadn't even rang yet. Why did it seem like people were avoiding walking near, and even looking at Sakura and the other females she sat by…? Just as Sakura was torn from her thoughts and was about to break up the fight between the two girls she was sitting by, two familiar people walking into the room, chatting to each other casually. Sakura remembered right off the bat what their names were. Neji and Shikamaru.

Suddenly Neji looked up and noticed Sakura…and then noticed who she was sitting next to.

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(A/N): Haha I'm so evil. Would this count as a cliffy? Yosh! It finally starts to pick up a little bit! Ok sorry if your mad at the 'groups' right now. And by the way, in this story Tayuya and Temari are in the Akatsuki. I don't know why but I could just see Konan and them hitting it off for some reason.. xD Oh and Ino…yes Ino is in Karin's little group. But you'll just have to find out who'sreally evil later, wont cha?

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You can thank my friend Jamie and Threea for cutting the chapter in the middle of the school day. I wasn't going to, I was actually going to keep writing…but they said to put it in the next chapter for 'Dramatic effect'.

What the heck does that got to do with cutting a chapter short you may ask. Well…I have no clue.

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