Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto so don't sue me.

Author's Note: Naiteki means "inner", so connect it with Sakura and you'll get the picture. Oh yeah, I'm not all too good with the –chan or –kun thing so forgive me if I use them incorrectly or not enough. Kudos to whoever figures out the song.

"La" talking

'La' thinking

'La' inner Sakura

Chapter Two

Genins of all ages were crowded into the main auditorium, socializing or just sitting in one of the seats impatiently. This was where they would finally receive their team assignments and greet their new sensei, and all were exceptionally nervous. Hinata fidgeted with her fingers worriedly and glanced around the room in a jumpy manner.

"S-Saku-chan," Hinatatripped over her words, "D-Do you think we'll be on the same t-team? I mean I-I don't want to be all alone."

"Relax, Hina-chan," Sakura was tossing a kunai around, "You'll be fine. Plus, you might even be on the same team as your boyfriend over there." Sakura winked at a certain blonde haired blue-eyed boy.

Hinata squeaked and burrowed into her puffy jacket, trying so very hard to hide the pink that stained her cheeks. White eyes silently peeked out to observe her love.

Naruto was busy torturing an ant on the seat in front of him, eyes drooping out of severe boredom. The fox child yawned and scratched his tummy, glancing around the room to see what mischief he could cause. Blue eyes landed on a pair of two girls: one hiding cutely in her jacket and another who was sitting attentively with her arms crossed. For some reason he couldn't take his eyes off of the cross-armed one, as if some unexplainable force was drawing his attention to her.

Hinata squealed when she saw Naruto's eyes staring in her direction, shrinking back into her seat even more. Sakura knew he wasn't staring at her but didn't have the heart to tell her so.

"Hey, Hina-chan," whispered the roseate girl, "Why are you hiding? How will he be able to see your beautiful face?"

"R-Really?" Hinata poked her head out, white eyes worriedly scanning Sakura's for reassurance.

"Yeah, if you really want his attention then you shouldn't hide. How will he ever know you're there then?"

Hinata sucked on her lip. "You're right, Saku-chan." The Hyuuga straightened up but made some effort to hide the crimson that stained her cheeks. She refused to even gander at him, lest she lose her nerve yet again.

Naruto broke out of his trance like state and reverted his attention elsewhere, yet his mind kept wandering back to the mysterious female. Only her mouth and chin were visible, but they were so beautiful. She had a cute, pointed chin and pouty, pink lips- with pale skin that looked like it had never been touched by pimples. A warm, fuzzy feeling formed in his stomach. The Uzumaki boy shook his head to clear himself of such thoughts. He then noticed all the attention Sasuke was getting.

For some reason, that made him mad. Naruto stormed over to where the prodigy was lounging, girls flaunting themselves at his feet. "Hey, teme! I've got something to tell you!"

"What do you want, dobe?" Sasuke didn't even bother to look at him.

"Naruto! Go away!" Ino yelled, draping herself on Sasuke. "Can't you see we're busy?"

Sasuke scowled and pushed her off.

"No!" Naruto retaliated, "Not until I- mff!" Somebody behind him accidentally shoved him… right into Sasuke's face.

A chorus of screams radiated throughout the auditorium as every single fan girl witnessed Sasuke lose his first kiss to none other than…Naruto. Hinata was probably the only one screaming in vice versa. Sakura was screaming because she was laughing hysterically and her sides were killing her.

'HAHA! OH MY GOSH, IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING! HAHA!' Naiteki was having a freaking fiesta. 'DRINKS ALL AROUND, EVERYONE!'

"NO! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS FIRST KISS!" Ino sobbed into Nara's shoulder. He smirked a little in satisfaction.

"GAH!" Naruto shoved Sasuke away and began gagging and spitting. "EW! My mouth, it's been infected!"

Sasuke began coughing and furiously wiped his mouth on his sleeve. "You're infected? Why you- I'll kill you!"

A few of the girls had quieted down and skulked off to a corner to wallow in their woe. In doing so, they allowed Sakura's whoops of laughter to permeate the now semi-quiet atmosphere. Many turned dumbfounded as to why she would be laughing so hard, and half were shocked that she was actually laughing.

'Why is she the only one not crying over the kiss?' Sasuke wondered. 'Could she be different?'

"Whoa, that was good!" Sakura smiled broadly, showing every one of her pearly whites. Her grin abruptly mutated into a frown as she saw the crowd staring back at her. 'Shit.'

"What?" she questioned, scrutinizing them with sharp eyes, "What do you want? Never seen a girl laugh before?"

'Hey, chill! Come on Saku-chan, relax, maybe it's time you let me out to do some socializing. I can fix this!'

'Aha, no.'

Inner Sakura huffed and stalked off to her own little corner in Sakura's mind.

"Having fun there, Haruno?" Sai sat down next to Sakura and motioned everyone to carry on. The students nodded and resumed their chats, albeit many still felt awkward.

"Sai," Sakura regarded him with unfeeling eyes, "What do you want this time? And didn't I say I would kill you if I ever saw you again?"

The boy didn't even flinch. "I just saved you from social embarrassment, and you thank me by killing me? Why, Sakura-san, that hurts!"

"Looking at you hurts me."

Sai smiled throughout it all which was a sharp contrast to Sakura's obvious, sour expression. She did not want to be next to this homo. Luckily, the door to the auditorium swung open as Iruka stepped up to the front and proceeded to announce the teams. The genins clamored to their seats and quieted down. Sakura let out a breath of relief and switched seats with Hinata, using the commotion as a distraction to Sai. She did not notice the tiny frown that graced his lips.

"Okay, kids, settle down," Iruka prepared his scroll, "As you know, I'll be announcing your teams today. You will train with these teams every morning and perform missions with them, so don't take this lightly. There will be absolutely no team switching, since the great Hokage himself has placed you in this specific order. Now, the teams will be… (A/N: I have no idea what the team numbers are so I'm just making this up) Team One: Murasaki, Nami; Hamura, Rei…"

Hinata crossed her fingers, praying to at least be on Naruto's or Sakura's team. Sakura tried to console the poor girl, getting overworked over something as trivial as this. "Oh come now, Hina-chan. We'll still see each other after the practice sessions and on days off."

"Team Six!" Iruka's voice boomed, "Will be- Inuzuka, Kiba; Aburame, Shino; Yakushi, Kabuto; and Hyuuga, Hinata!" (A/N: Here it's four to a team)

Hinata's face paled considerably as she gripped Sakura forlornly. "I-I'm not on y-yours or N-Naruto-kun's team…" Sakura's face softened and gently ran her friends along her back.

"Oh, it's not that bad Hina-chan. At least you'll make some new friends." Hinata smiled a little. "Well, let's hope my team is agreeable, too."

Maybe she shouldn't have said that.

"Team Seven! Sai; Uchiha, Sasuke; Uzumaki, Naruto; and Haruno, Sakura!"

'DAMN!'

"Whay!" Naruto sputtered. Sakura assumed it was a cross between a what and a why. "B-But Iruka-sensei! I refuse to work with the teme! I'll work with Sakura-chan and Sai, but not him!"

'Sakura-chan! Who does he think he is? We don't even know each other!'

"Sakura-chan?" Hinata whispered, hurt. She turned her head away from her so-called friend. If he called her that then she must mean a lot to him and for that to happen then they must have been seeing each other in private. The violet-haired girl knew better than to jump to irrational conclusions, but love can blind even the sharpest eye.

"Quiet, Naruto, you get what you get." Iruka continued his announcements, despite the various groans and squeals emitted by the students.

Sasuke glanced at his teammates. He already knew who Naruto was, so there was no need to look at him, not that he'd want to in the first place. Sai... Sasuke had already met himwhen Kabuto and he offered their partnership.

Now Sakura…Sakura was different. He didn't even know the color of her hair or her eyes for that matter. Only her chin and lips were available for his viewing pleasure, and though they were just miniscule portions of her body, it still attracted him. Her lips were a luscious, magenta tint, and her chin was angled in all the right portions. Not too square yet not too round. Unfortunately, she was wearing clothes that were way too big for her, probably to make people think she was scrawny or flat or something. He wasn't a perverted person, but he was just concerned that her attire would interfere with her performance in battle. He deducted that Sakurahad caught him staring at hersince she stuck her tongue out at him.

He pulled back in annoyance and a bit of embarrassment. If that damn hood hadn't been overshadowing her face like that he could have turned away before she saw him. One day he was going to remove that hood and burn it. He added that to his check list alongside "Kill Itachi." Oh. And "Revive Clan."

"Alright kids," Iruka droned on, "You all have a ten minute break to get settled and meet your teammates, then head out to the classrooms that have been set aside for you and you'll meet your sensei there."

"Hai!" the teens nodded in unison.

Sakura slammed her hands on her ears. Sai, Naruto, and Sasuke had been arguing for the last hour and a half, and their sensei still had yet to show up. She was trained to be as unsocial and mean as possible; however, she never did master the whole 'hiding-your-emotions' thing.

"Would you stop with the whole dickless thing!" Naruto hollered in Sai's face. "What, are you gay or something? That seems to be the only thing on your mind whenever you open your mouth!"

"You're calling me gay?" Sai snorted, "I'm not the one who kissed emo boy over there."

"You'd better watch your mouth," Sasuke warned, eyes flashing dangerously.

"No, you watch your mouth. If you want this partnership to last, that is."

"Forget it; I'm not working with an idiot like you. Even Naruto is better."

"Partnership? What partnership? How come nobody tells me anything!" Naruto shouted, waving his arms around boisterously.

'One.' Sakura counted quietly in her head, inhaling and exhaling.

"I should have known you'd choose that dickless idiot over us. It's obvious that you're the gay, seeing as how you reject every female in the world. You probably enjoyed that kiss, huh" Sai twirled a kunai.

'Two.'

"Again with the gayness! Will you ever think about something different? Probably have wild fantasies about Sasuke or something." Naruto groaned, bored out of his mind and irritated as hell.

"Shut up, dobe."

'Three.' Sakura's eyebrow twitched.

"Make me!" the Uzumaki boy stuck his tongue out. A rock flew in his direction. Naruto leapt out of the way.

"Gah! Sakura-chan, duck!" Naruto pointed at the rock that was flying straight at her. Unfortunately, Sakura had been too preoccupied inhaling and exhaling and by the time she got the message, the rock hit her face. She could have easily dodged it, but then again this would give her reason to shout and beat the crap out of them. The stone hit the area where Sakura's eyes would have been. An unexpected sound of glass shattering filled the boys' ears as a few shards of the crystal-like substance dropped onto the floor, followed by a metal frame.

"Look what you made me do, dobe!"

"Shit, Sasuke-teme broke her glasses!" Naruto gaped openly.

"Way to state the obvious, dickless."

"Wait, Sakura-chan wore glasses?"

'Four.'

The fact that her fake glasses were broken did not faze Sakura, but the fact that the boys still continued to argue did. The glasses didn't exactly make a difference since her hood always shadowed them, but sadly her hood couldn't shadow everything. Like their incessant talking for instance.

"It's your fault, teme!"

"What, me? No it isn't."

"Okay… Then it was Sai's!"

'Fiv- You know what? Fuck this! Let's kill them now!'

"SHUT UP!" Sakura bellowed, her chest heaving up and down, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS! THIS IS CRAZY! Why can't you all just shut up and wait patiently like I have? You, Sai, need to stop thinking about dicks. You, Naruto, need to shut the fuck up. I don't want to go deaf now! And you, Sasuke, well, I just hate you! I don't get why every girl likes you, you're just ain insensitive bastard who needs to learn to move on!"

"And what if we don't want to?" Sai teased, testing her anger. Sakura smirked.

In the blink of an eye, all three boys yelped and jumped upward. They all shrunk back as far as they could go in the stiff, wooden chairs. Three kunais were lodged dangerously close to where their crotches were, the sharpest side staring threateningly at them. The trio gulped; they weren't ready for castration just yet.

"That," Sakura began, "Is what will happen. Now, be good little boys and just sit down, okay?"

The boys nodded. "Sakura-chan is scary, isn't she?" Sasuke nodded. He was still a little distractedby the magnificent speed at which Sakura threw the kunais. 'I mean, it was totally unexpected, and it was all just a blur.' He had never seen a girl move so quickly or gracefully, and the more he contemplated it the more he yearned to spar with her.

Too bad sitting completely still and quiet was physically impossible for Naruto.

"Where is he!" Naruto growled, referring to their sensei. It had been exactly one minute and 37 seconds since Sakura's command to stay quiet. Sakura sighed and shook her head. Sai reluctantly passed five dollars to Sasuke, who smirked victoriously. Naruto was extremely mad that their sensei would be so late and make him suffer with these…these…weirdos. Well, Sakura-chan wasn't that bad, and she seemed pretty cute. Naruto thought of a plan and snickered. He put a chalkboard eraser in between the door.

Sakura didn't mind that Naruto had spoken up, she knew it was coming. She just dind't want Sai or Sasuke to start talking, since they might provoke him into getting into yet another argument.

'He's so silly.' Naiteki thought.

'Yeah, but at least he'll give us some entertainment when we go on long, boring missions.'

'What, are you saying I'm not entertaining enough for ya? I can be entertaining! See, HDFSNGF!' Naiteki made a face and Sakura giggled.

"Naruto, a jounin would never fall for that trick." Sasuke stated.

He spoke too soon.

A gloved hand rested on the doorknob and opened it, causing the eraser to fall on his head. The chalky white powder spilled all over the jounin, making him seem like some retarded ghost.

It spoke. "My first impression? I hate you."

'Psh, what kind of jounin is this?' Sasuke thought. Sai sweat dropped and Naruto laughed until his stomach hurt. Sakura's eyes were bulging out of their sockets. C-Could this be who she really thought he was? Her breathing became shortened andemerald eyes shone exctiement. Sai and others lifted an eyebrow, curious of her sudden change in behavior. She kicked the chair out from under her and ran towards the jounin, wrapping her arms around his middle in a crushing hug.

"KAKASHI!" she grinned upwards, getting a few spots of chalk on her nose.

The silver haired jounin glanced down, surprised. Who was- Ah, he remembered now! Realization hit him hard as he fought the urge to smack himself in the forehead.

"Sakura, good to see you! Ah, let me rephrase that: I hate everyone but her."

Kakashi and Sakura smiled, leaving a dumbfounded Sai, Naruto, and Sasuke staring at them. Surprised wouldhave beenputting it mildly.

DUN DUN DUN. okay reviews now plz. no flames. thank you. twinkle twinkle.