This Chappy is extra long since I promised to put Gaara in. There is a few things I must clear before adding Gaara so I decided to make this a long chappy and add Gaara in after all the things I had to do.

Sorry for the delay. My pc went all beserk on me so I had to format the thing then install windows again. Cool Im Updating this one hour till my 19th b-day. Anyway enjoy while I eat some delicious cake!

Oh and I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 3

The whole English period was spend with Sasuke and Ino talking. Sasuke would say something then Ino would laugh. She has a really beautiful laugh. Sakura couldn't help but feel jealous. She had a hideous laugh compared to Ino's. After the first 30 minutes of class Sakura really found that Ino's laugh was irritating and hideous.

Sasuke didn't even spare a glance at Sakura but instead kept on looking at Ino. He couldn't help it. Ino was just so alluring. She was beautiful like she was sculptured by the gods themselves. Her nose, eyes and even her laugh was beautiful. 'What about Sakura?" a little voice in the back on Sasuke's name asked 'Sakura? Who's Sakura?' Sasuke though but ignored it. He didn't care. If he couldn't remember who she is then she must be a annoying person or some useless fan girl or something.

Sakura sat reading their new English text books. Every time Ino laughed, Sakura could feel her grip on the book tightening. Kakashi sat reading his porn with his feet up on his desk. He already gave them the homework and class work for today. Read the set work books.

The bell rang after what felt like a life time. Ino stood up and winked at Sasuke before leaving the room. Sasuke took his stuff and walked out of the room after Ino. Sakura sighted again. 'Sasuke always waited for me then we would spend our lunch together'

Sakura was the last one in class now. She slowly packed up her books and walked towards the door.

"Sakura" Kakashi called from his desk. He was still in the same position that he was in the whole time she had read her book.

"Yes, Kakashi Sensei?" Sakura asked looking at her sensei. Kakashi was her favorite teacher in the whole school. She knew him since she was young. Kakashi saved her life countless of times. It was one of many secrets that only she and Kakashi shared.

"You looked so lonely and sad through out the entire lesson" Kakashi began. His dark eye looking at her in a sensitive and loving way. He loved Sakura. She was like a little sister to him. He protected her from her parents on countless times when things got out of hand.

"No, Im fine" Sakura replied.

Kakashi noted her voice dropping a syllable which he knew meant she was sad. "Is it because of Sasuke forgetting about you and paying so much attention to Ino. I've never seen Sasuke pay so much attention to anyone before"

Sakura nodded "Im so confused. I feel like Sasuke is a different person. He never use to act like that around me" Sakura sighted "I cant stand being around them"

"Sakura why don't you move to another seat then? There is one in the back of the class" Kakashi offered

"Really? I though you made the seating arrangement for this year permanent. You even said that you won't change the seating arrangement for anything"

"Yes, well people change" Kakashi smiled "I can see your pain Sakura. I wasn't reading my book I was looking at you the whole time"

Sakura smiled "Thank you Kakashi, It seems that you always find a way to save me and when you cant save me you make it feel less worse than it is" Sakura hugged Kakashi. "Arigato" She took her bag and left the room with a slight smile on her face.

Kakashi sat there smiling. Sakura had the most beautiful smiles ever. She had the ability to brighten anyone's day by just smiling. "Sakura I wont always be able to save you but I'll always be there for you like the family we never had" Kakashi whispered.

When Sakura entered the cafeteria she saw her friends and also Sasuke hang around Ino. They all talked to her and not one of them seemed to notice Sakura missing. They always reserved a seat for Sakura when she was late for lunch. Her seat was always the open one next to Sasuke and Naruto. It now occupied Ino.

Sakura could feel tears building up. She immediately darted out of the cafeteria. Allowing no tears to spill until she was away from anyone. 'I won't cry in front of anyone ever again' Sakura though as she walked towards the huge Sakura tree in the Konah High gardens. The gardens were breath taking with one tall Sakura tree standing in the middle, surrounded by flowers of all colors. A few benches were placed below the tree for students that wanted to spend their time surrounded by the natural beauty of Nature.

Sakura sat down on the bench underneath the tree. "How can Sasuke do this to me? I though he cared about me?" A few tears slipped from her eyes and made their way down her soft cheeks. "Look at me, I'm crying again. I'm useless" Sakura laughed bitterly at herself. "I told myself I won't cry again after what happened that night"

Flashback

Sakura was sitting in the park of Konoah. The natural beauty of night surrounding her. She was holding her head crying out loud. Her tears slipping down her check like a furious waterfall in the Rainey season. She couldn't take this anymore. Her parents did it again. "I can't believe they hurt me again. Why is everyone I know hurting me" She asked as more tears streamed down her face. Her vision became blurry "Isn't there anyone out there who wouldn't hurt me and make me go through this immense pain that I feel in my heart"

"You know crying isn't that good for you. It makes ones eyes red and puffy" A voice commented from in front of Sakura

"Fuck off!" Sakura said harshly not even bothering to look up.

"Ouch that hurts" The voice commented in a faked hurt voice. "I though you never minded being around me, Sakura"

Sakura's head snapped up. Before her stood Sasuke Uchiha in all his glory. The full moon was shining down on him, illuminating the young man. He looked even more breathtaking than he ever looked during the day.

"Sasuke?" Sakura chokes.

"Yeah" Sasuke sat down next to her. "I heard you talking while crying. I had my deal of pain in life after my parents died. Itachi wasn't always there for me like I wished he was."

Sakura sat there staring at him. This was the longest conversation she have ever held with the youngest Uchiha. She may have had this crush on him since she met him when she was 6 years old. She was 16 now so it was almost like 10 years of her life she spend loving someone she could barely talk to and who wouldn't talk to her unless he was forced to.

"Sakura, I wont ever hurt you" Sasuke said. He wasn't looking at her but was looking at the ground "I know what it feels like to be in pain. You helped me out a few times when we were children after my parents died. You always cheered me up even though I was such a mean jerk to you and to Naruto. Thank you"

Sakura almost died right then and there. Sasuke just admitted that he was grateful for her help. He also said he won't ever hurt her.

"Thanks you Sasukekun" Sakura smiled at him

"I won't let anyone hurt you. Promise me you won't cry again. I'll take away all those things that would make you cry" Sasuke looked at her now.

"I wont ever cry again" Sakura smiled at him while wiping away all the tears that fell from her eyes.

That all happened a year ago. She and Sasuke started dating a few days after that. Sasuke even opened up. He was finally becoming a human being.

End flashback

Another tear ran down Sakura's cheek "This time Sasuke, you're the one making me cry. The more you smile, the more you pay attention to Ino and the more you ignore me. It's breaking my heart into more pieces." Sakura watched her tear drops fall. They fell onto her pink skirt, staining her skirt with dark pink marks from the wetness.

"Sakura?" A voice said from next to her. Sakura snapped her head up to see her principal, Tsunade standing in front of her.

"Tsunade Same?" Sakura quickly wiped away some of her fallen tears in hopes that Tsunade didn't see her cry. Tsunade smiled and sat down next to her. "Yeah, Sakura its me. Don't hide your tears"

"Hai, Tsunade Sama" Sakura sighted.

"Kakashi told me what happened in class and that your taking it hard" Sakura opened her mouth the interject. "No, Sakura, I want you to go home now and rest. It might feel you better. Who knows maybe Sasuke realized that he was an asshole and he'll say sorry"

"Sasuke doesn't have the work sorry in his vocabulary" Sakura whispered. "I can't go home now. I've got to go to class and…." Tsunade cut her off

"No your going home now. Im letting you go home and I'll let all your teachers know that you are not feeling so well."

"But what about my parent? If they see I'm at home earlier than usual they would freak and…" Sakura got cut off again

"You know that Kakashi and I told you to stay at one of our houses when something happens at home. It's nice to have someone at my old house besides me and the cat." Tsunade chuckled "Im an old hag in a big old house with a cat, how ironic. Kakashi also likes the company at his place. That man is as social as a rock unless he's around the ones he cares about."

"Yes, Tsunade. I know of Kakashi's past. I like being around both of you guys when I cant be at home. My parents won't accept me not being at home for such a long period of time"

"Fine go to my house today and take a nice long nap. I'll call your parents and make up some excuse that you can't be at home today." Tsunade took her house keys from her long green jacket pocket. "Here. Make yourself at home when you get there" She smiled.

"Thanks you Tsunade Sama" Sakura took the keys smiling. "You've helped me so much"

"See you later then, Sakura. I have matters to discuss with Jiraiya and his perverted ness" Tsunade stood up and walked away from Sakura and towards the school building.

"Guess your right, Tsunade" Sakura stood up from her seat. "I need to get away from this place" She walked back to her locker. Lunch was almost over. At her locker, Sakura got some books from it that was assigned as homework before slamming her locker shut and slipping the bag over her shoulders. Sakura walked down the hall towards the exit.

The sun was shining bright outside, birds were singing, everything was cheerful but inside of Sakura's heart. She could have sworn her heart died when she saw the man of her life flirting with another girl. The worst part is that he didn't even care doing it in front of her. Sakura crossed the street. She has loved Sasuke her whole life. She would even die for him.

'I must be overacting' Sakura thought. 'Sasuke is only being nice to a new girl while im being really bitchy. I don't even know her. How can I hate someone I don't know?' Sakura's mind was busy finding answer to questions she didn't know. 'Why did Sasuke act that way towards Ino?'

"Watch where you're going!" Sakura's mind was snapped back to reality. She noticed that she walked right in front of a car while crossing another street. "Sorry" She whispered walking onto the pavement. "If I keep on thinking while walking, im going to …………"

"Get yourself killed?" A deep masculine voice cut into Sakura's sentence. She snapped her head to the side from where the voice came from. There leaning against a wall stood Itachi Uchiha, clad in black leather pants and a comfortable red shirt. His long hair was tied back in a ponytail. He was holding a brown shopping bag.

"Yeah" Sakura whispered.

Itachi stood up from the wall "Well where are you heading to, Sakura?" Itachi asked in a soft tone.

"To Tsunade house"

"Where is Sasuke?" Itachi looked for his little brother but couldn't see him anywhere.

"School"

"Ah" Itachi nodded.

"What about I give you a lift to Tsunade? My car is around the corner. That way I can keep you from getting hit by a car"

"Thank you Itachi" Sakura smiled at Sasuke's older brother

"No prob" Itachi gave her one of his very very very rare smiles.

Sakura sat in the passengers seat, looking out of the window. Itachi kept on giving her glances. He just couldn't understand what is wrong with Sakura but he knew that when someone is in one of these none talkative moods then you should not ask a lot of questions. Itachi has known Sakura for years. He met her 10 years ago when he picked Sasuke up from school. He has always liked the little pink haired girl and now that she was his brother's girlfriend, he always sees a lot of Sakura around at their big old house. Her smiles were always contagious which made Itachi smile his rare smiles.

'Where are you Sasuke? What is Sakura doing alone in the middle of the street during school hours?' Itachi knew that something must have happened at school. Sakura was one of those goodie too shoe girls. She would never ditch school in a million years. Sasuke always drives her home after school but she said he was still at school. This was really unlike Sasuke. Itachi knew that his brother was a mean prick but not to Sakura. He cared about her; Itachi could see it in his eyes. Why wasn't he with her when anyone could see that Sakura was clearly upset. 'What did you do to her, Sasuke?'

"Itachi San, take a left at this stop. It's the house with the green roof and the sake bottle shaped mailbox" Sakura's soft voice snapped him out of his thought.

"Hai" Itachi turned left like Sakura instructed. He stopped right in front of the house that had a green roof and a sake bottle mailbox. Damn, when didn't Tsunade think about Sake. Itachi remembered when he was still in high school that Tsunade always had a stash of Sake bottles in her office. Itachi knew since he was more in her office than he was in class along with his partners in crime: Sasori, Kisame and Deidara. He still sees all of them at his university though and they are still the same troublemakers like in high school.

"Thank you Itachi" Sakura smiled at him. She opened the car door, took her bag and climbed out of the car. "Bye"

"Bye" Itachi smiled at her. Sakura closed the door and walked towards the front door, fishing in her pockets for the keys. She opened the front door and waved at Itachi before slipping in the house.

Itachi sat in the car watching as Sakura went inside the house. 'Sasuke you've got a lot of explaining to do" Itachi said out loud as he started up the car and drove off to the Uchiha estate.

Sakura did her homework in Tsunade's kitchen for an hour or two until she finished it all. She took a nice long bath. Tsunade always said that baths relaxes ones body and also their mind or something like that. By the look of all the kinds of bubble baths and scented liquids to be found in her bathroom its clear that Tsunade liked her baths. The sweet aroma of vanilla filled the bath room as Sakura laid in the bath.

'Sasuke I love you. I don't even know if you love me. You never once uttered those sweet 3 words to me. I thought that you just needed time for you are not one to talk much. Expressing your feelings is one of the things you never got use to after your parents died and Itachi went away…..' Sakura leaned in to close the hot water tap before relaxing again. She started to feel so sleepy with the relaxation of the warmth and the sweet aroma.

'Come to think about it really. I never once saw you pay much attention to me. Well you did kiss me and we did make out a few times but that was always every few weeks or so. Lately you seem so annoyed around me' Sakura sighted at her thoughts. Why couldn't these thoughts just go away? They kept on plaguing her and that the reason why she keeps on feeling so depressed. Its all her minds fault.

Sakura woke up in her 'bedroom'. Tsunade gave Sakura her very own bedroom. "What the hell" Sakura rubbed her eyes.

"Morning, Sakura" Tsunade walked into the bedroom with a cup of tea in her hands. "You fell asleep in the bath tub. It was a good thing I came home early. You shouldn't sleep in a bath tub, you might drown" Tsunade scolded.

"Sorry" Sakura took the warm cup of tea that Tsunade gave her.

"Well get ready, I'll give you a lift to school. Just Ignore Sasuke and his stupid flirting with Ino 'phase', don't stress yourself out, ok? Love hurts, I know"

"ok thank you. See you at the kitchen, Tsunade." Tsunade smiled then walked out of the room. Her heels were making a 'clack, clack' noise as she walked down the wood hall towards the kitchen.

Sakura made the bed, got dressed and made her way to the bathroom where she brushed her hair and her teeth. She applied a bit of light make up. She wore a red T-shirt with a black mini skirt and some black heels. Sakura had most of her clothes here in here 'bedroom'

In the kitchen, Sakura placed her cup in the sink. Tsunade was standing in the kitchen watering some of her plants that stood around the nicely furnished kitchen.

"Im ready, Tsunade. We can go now" Sakura picked up her bag from the kitchen table where she left it the night before.

Tsunade picked up her car keys. She quickly drained all the left over coffee from her cup before setting it down in the sink. She grabbed her leather bag from the counter and her jacket. Sakura followed Tsunade to the door where Tsunade locked the front door behind her when Sakura came out from behind her.

"Ja ne, its school time" Tsunade smiled at her young student who in turn for these words grimaced.

Sakura was calming collecting her books for English. The first few classes were ok. There was no problem in Math's or science or even Geography for Ino and Sasuke wasn't close to each other in those classes but English…Sakura dreaded this next class. 'Thank goodness it was the class before lunch. Now I can contemplate suicide every time Ino's chainsaw laugh erupts through out the room then at lunch I can sit under my tree and wallow in my self pity" Sakura sighted 'Normal school day, ne'

When Sakura got to class she was one of the first students to appear. Slowly she walked to her new desk that Kakashi gave her. It was in the back of the class where no one sat. Sakura was a perfect student with perfect scores so sitting in the back wasn't a problem for she wasn't a problem child unlike Naruto who couldn't shut up.

She took out some paper that she had used to write down notes on the first few chapters of their asseigned books. A pain in the ass, ear shuttering laugh erupted which made Sakura look up to see the blond she devil with her stupid smile and her stupid white teeth, blinding everyone. Perfect raven hair, perfect white teeth and beautiful onyx eyed boy walked next to her smiling one of his stupid smiles. Every time Sakura saw him smile she felt an urge to stab him.

The 'friends' as they are referred to at school sat in their desks, chatting away. "Friends my ass. Its more like couple" Sakura whispered. Her voice held no hate like the fury she felt in her heart. She had no real hate. "Hate destroys one" She sighted for she had seen the power of hate first hand and the outcome wasn't pretty.

The previous day's routine continued with Sakura reading and making notes. Twitching every time the 'Blond bitch from hell' laughed her wicked laugh.

Not one of them noticed that Sakura wasn't next to them where she should be. Instead they just continued their everyday lives.

Kakashi walked into class 15 minutes before class ended "yo"

"Your late!" The whole class screamed with the exception of Sakura.

"Yeah but you see I was walking down the hall when I bumped into this scary new student then I had to take him to his class"

"Liar…….or is it?" Mummers went out throughout the class. Was Kakashi telling the truth? What scary new kid?

The classroom opened as a boy with red hair walked in. "So much for knocking" some girl in the front row whispered.

The red head boy locked his jade eyes with the girl and gave one hell of a blood-curling smile. His black eyeliner, which was put on really thick. Made his jade eyes stand out. He wore black leather pants with black sneakers. Chains were hanging from his pants and connected to his belt while he wore the strangest thing for a shirt, a straight jacket.

"Class meet, Sabaku no Gaara" Kakashi read the name from the while card.

YAY Gaara is in

Sooooo Sakura's Past is a mystery aint it XD Truth shall reveal as the story moves on. Oh yeah and I'm aware I make mistakes but bare with me ok. I've never liked people who point out all my mistakes in life. It pisses me off. lol that's me for you. I'm not very social in life. I read a lot thus I have no life XD