Senko: Well I normally don't really type up my stories much…I'm really lazy and it takes me forever to click on the Microsoft Word thing . LoL yeah I'm really lazy but as you can see, I've been quite bored lately. The fanfics I've been reading are really starting to get boring! I'm not a big yaoi fan and so I don't really read yaoi…don't get me wrong, I find yaoi okay but I'm just not a big fan. There's hardly much to read ;-; PLEASE! Will someone write a HakuSaku story? Cause I've only read one HakuSaku story and I really like it. All the other Haku stories are either HakuZabuza or HakuNaru you know?

IMPORTANT NOTE: I have decided to make both the village girl and the princess be named Sakura! Why? Simply because I meant for the village girl to be the Naruto character Sakura and the princess to be someone else. Then, the village girl aka the Naruto character Sakura, would have to act as the princess. But I did not like the idea of having Sakura be called something else for the whole story! However, if I change the name of the village girl, then the main character would not be the naruto character Sakura anymore! So, I decided to have both be named Sakura! The chapter will explain it when Ino…this chapter will explain it! XD If you are confused with the names too much, then say so and I will consider writing the whole story in first person point of view!

I apologize deeply if this chapter (and/or future chapters) may appear confusing. I've read a few stories where a certain character has two identities. In this case, the village girl will have to act as the princess and both will have the same name: Sakura. However, to help you guys out, I will refer the princess to 'princess Sakura' or 'Sakura-sama' ok? If the future chapters get confusing, I will attempt to write it out in 1st person POV to see if it helps. Also, I will now be referring Jiraiya, Sasuke, Neji etc. as Jiraiya-sama, Uchiha-sama/Sasuke-sama, Hyuuga-sama/Neji-sama etc. ok?

RESPONSES(chapters 1 and 2 that is; I apologize if I 'forget' to give you a response)

Springninja: Thankies so much for reviewing!

Bleumoon469: I know LoL I try my best not to rush. I decided to make Sakura disagree with the whole princess thing because I thought that that'd be boring! I mean, where's the fun then if she's all happy with being a princess and stuff? You need conflicts in stories after all :D

Lady of Genesis: Thankies a bunchies for you review :D

CrissyKitty: LoL sorry if the flashbacks confused you too much! You are supporting Neji? Oh yeah! I forgot! I have absolutely no idea of who I'm going to make Sakura be with! . Ok since you are supporting Neji…that's like…one for Neji and zero for Sasuke…

A. L. S.: I took your advice into consideration you know? I at first looked up names and I was actually gonna make the village girl be named Haruko, which, according to some site, meant Spring child :D But as you can see, I changed my mind ;-;

Allyssaashley: No I'm not phillipino(is that how you spell it?). I have a friend who is phillipino though. However, I am Asian! If you wanna know what type, then ask me. I'm just not telling yet cause I doubt that you'd know what it is.

LOvEnEko: O.O;;; at your thumbs up and flash that resembles Gai's.

XYX: Thank you so much!

Blackbelt: Well as you can see, your wish is my command. You now have two more wishes LoL I'm just kidding :D

Bevy-Chan: Sorry for confusing you TT-TT

Disclaimers: I don't own Naruto -.-

Previously on "Love Me For Who I Am": What is she this dense? Doesn't she know that the more she yells at me, there is a bigger possibility of me doing what she don't want me to? Deciding to ignore her voice(again), I twisted the doorknob. "WELL I JUST OPENED THE DOOR INO!" A proud smirk arose on my face…until I noticed that there were people in the room.

There were three males in the room. The oldest had long white hair. Sitting far to the right of him was a young boy about my age. He's rather cute…he has dark navy hair. His eyes were closed and his chin laid on his hands, which were intersect, and rested on a table. I saw his eyes open slightly and glance up at me. Across from him, to the far left of the old man, was another boy about my age. His hair was long, black, and tied loosely at the end…

Chapter 3

"AH! Sakura! You're here!" the old man exclaimed with a smile on his face. Sakura stared at the man with a look of uncertainty on her face. What was this man saying? Who the hell is this man anyways?

"Uh…excuse me but…" Sakura started. She was going to say 'Excuse me but how the hell do you know me?' but couldn't because…

"Oh excuse us!" A female voice finished. It was Ino's. Ino had entered the room, unnoticed by Sakura. "I'm so sorry Jiraiya-sama, Uchiha-sama, Hyuuga-sama. Sakura and I were sparring and she was trying to escape my mind transfer technique." Ino bowed apologetically, took my Sakura's arm, lead her out of the room, and shut the door close.

Once outside, Sakura struggled out of Ino's grasp. "WHAT THE HELL!"

"JUST SHUT UP! I told you not to run this way and not to open the door! If I was an enemy, I would've already led you to a trap using reverse psychology!"

Sakura remained silent for a while, knowing that she did indeed fall for it. "Hmph whatever just let me outta this goddamn place! I don't even belong here nor do I want to be here!"

"You will remain here," Ino snarled dangerously.

Sakura walked away from Ino, starting down the long hallway. "Look I don't really care ok? Go find some other village girl to play the princess. I'm pretty sure that there are lots of girls out there who'd love to be a princess."

Inside that room with King Jiraiya, Prince Uchiha, and Prince Hyuuga…

"WHAT THE HELL!"

"JUST SHUT UP! I told you not to run this way and not to open the door! If I was an enemy, I would've already led you to a trap using reverse psychology!"

The three males could hear everything the two females were saying. After all, the females were only a couple of feet away from the door and were yelling…quite loudly too.

"I see your daughter has quite a temper, Jiraiya. I thought she was more…the gentle and obedient type," the boy with white eyes stated.

Jiraiya laughed nervously. "Well yes she is…at times that is. She can be quite rude and lose her temper easily when fighting."

"She is strong, is she not?" the other boy with the dark blue hair questioned.

"Only in genjutsu. Her genjutsu skills are very high though her taitjutsu and ninjutsu are only average," Jiraiya informed. "Well I think that's enough of Sakura. You can find out more about her later on. For now, I will give you a tour of my place."

With that, Jiraiya led the two other males through a door. And just after they left, Sakura and Ino's conversation continues. It was such a shame that the two princes didn't stay to hear:

"Hmph whatever just let me outta this goddamn place! I don't even belong here nor do I want to be here!"

"You will remain here."

"Look I don't really care ok? Go find some other village girl to play the princess. I'm pretty sure that there are lots of girls out there who'd love to be a princess."

Back outside….

"Hey wait!" Ino ran up to Sakura. "Ok look will you please, please, please just be our princess?"

Sakura paused. She could see Ino's eyes sparkle with plead and desperation. "Ok look here, Ino, I don't want to be your princess ok? I just want to return to my home and resume living a normal life. There are a lot of young girls about my age who wants to be a princess! They've been yearning since a small little girl to live in a big castle and marry a sweet prince. They'll help you and this kingdom. I would help this kingdom in any way I can…but I won't throw away my life when there are so many others who'll willingly do this."

Ino sighed sadly. "What's your name?"

"Sakura," Sakura answered.

"What? Are you serious?" Ino stared shocked at her. "Not only do you look like the princess but you have the same name too?"

"My Uncle Sarutobi said he named me. He said that I reminded him of cherry blossoms…you know my hair and all? Yeah…"

"Ok Sakura. Well, I want the best for this kingdom too and what's best is if the residents can just live peacefully. I don't want to screw up your life when there're many others who want to do this. But…it's just that you are the only one with the princess's features…and a week before the princess Sakura went missing, we had already sent a photo of her to the other kingdoms…

"If we hadn't sent the photo…then we'd have hosted a competition to see who was best fitted to be the princess. But we can't turn back time, Sakura."

There was a long silence. "Here, let me show you," Ino led Sakura back to the room that Sakura awoke in. Once inside, Ino opened a drawer and handed Sakura a photo. Ino smiled.

"This is Sakura," Ino pointed to a girl with the exact same features as her. "The man with the white hair is Jiraiya…and the woman with the blonde hair is Tsunade. Sakura, do you see anyone else who has the same appearance as you and the princess? No right? Sakura, I was very fortunate to have seen you that other day."

Sakura studied the picture. What Ino had said was true. Before Ino had shown her the picture of the princess, Sakura had been the only one with pink hair. Most of the girls were blondes like Ino or brunettes. Few had red hair.

"Ino…tell me about the princess."

Ino smiled mildly. "The princess Sakura was very delicate and gentle and she was a bit pale. She was always smiling at other people and her eyes…always glittered. I was founded by Tsunade-sama when I was about 10 and she took me in. At the age of 12, she assigned me to be Sakura's bodyguard. Sakura was disciplined and was always well-mannered. At first…I thought of how wonderful it was as a princess…but Sakura was boring.

"It seemed to me as though she had to act as someone she wasn't. So…I began sparring with Sakura privately. I was amazed at her determination and stubbornness to avoid losing. Sparring with her was the only time she was ever interesting. Sakura wasn't really too special. She was only skilled with genjutsu.

"But it wasn't as though I was too special myself. My only special technique is my mind transfer technique though my ninjutsu and was higher than Sakura's. I didn't have to do much. All Sakura did was wander around the castle occasionally but she was always in her room a lot. She never left the castle grounds…well it wasn't as though she had a choice in going. For her own protection…she had to remain in the castle...so that…s-so that no one could see her and that ways…they wouldn't…wouldn't be able to attempt…to….attack her…."

Ino's voice faded away. Sakura stared up from the picture and looked at Ino. "And you think that I want to spend my time like this, Ino? To be 'happy' when the real 'happiness' is taken away?"

"That's not what we meant," a voice said as Sakura and Ino heard the door shut close. It was Gaara. "It would only, hopefully, be temporary. Think of it this way, the princess never bothered to communicate with many. They don't know her except her features and this could benefit you. The only time you will have to act civilized and well-mannered is in the presence of kings, meetings, maybe the princes etc. You should know that the consequence of not participating is death not only to you, but to your family…and to the whole kingdom."

Sacrifice her life for everybody else's? That was indeed a hard question. Well…sometimes…you have to stop being so stubborn. Growing up always means to think about the others as well as yourself rather than just yourself. Sakura sighed and hoped this would only be temporary as Gaara had said. "How long will I have to act?"

"An estimate of two to three weeks. We already have ANBU searching for the princess," Gaara stated before leaving the room.

"Well…maybe it won't be so bad. All I have to do is stay in the room and maybe wander around," Sakura smiled.

"Um…" Ino began. "You know those two guys back in that other room? The young and cute ones? Well…you see…they never told us when they'd be arriving. We had assumed that they'd come here in about two weeks but it seems they already came. You can just remain in here and wander around…but sooner or later, you'll have to meet them."

Sakura inhaled. "Ok. For the sake of the kingdom, I will meet the guys! At least they aren't ugly!"

"Er…Sakura? Well you see…" Ino started again but Sakura decided not to listen. Childlessly, she brought her hands up to her ears and chanted.

"At least they aren't ugly…at least they aren't ugly…at least they…"

"But Sakura?"

"Not ugly! Yeah! Not ugly!"

"Sakura they…"

"Shut up Ino-pig! You bring bad news! At least they aren't ugly and that's all I need to know!"

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure! Notuglynotuglynotugly!" Sakura beamed widely.

Senko: Ok everyone :D Well like I said, I might not be updating so soon because of school and all. Can you believe I got an F in PE? DAMMIT! Well it's all cause I didn't dress for twelve times…and if you don't dress for ten times, your grade is dropped to an F. I didn't know that we had to write articles to make up for our nondresses! Honestly I didn't! April 1st was the last day for the 3rd quarter and I currently have an F! This could result in not graduating or walking the stage, not being able to go on the 8th grade field trip or participate in the activities, and not being able to go to the AVID fieldtrip! WAAH! But I am not all bad -.- I have all A's in my other classes…except maybe Science I might get a B+….waaah….but I am so fortunate! My PE teacher said that April 1st may be the last day of the quarter but they don't turn in the grades until the following Monday and she says that if I do seven news article summaries, she'll raise my F up to an A! I'm so relieved! But then now I still got Algebra homework to do…and prepare for some interview….argh! So as you can see, I am extremely busy, pressured, and stressed!

In truth, I would not even be updating right now! I'd be updating in about like...another week or two! However, I had already had this chapter typed up when I was still on Spring Break :)

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