First Friend

By: Uzumaki Addiction

Disclaimer: No Naruto ownage for me ;3;

Genre: FLUFF XD

Pairings: implied NaruSaku & SasuNaru

Naruto skipped out of his apartment where he lived alone. It was the first day of seventh grade! He couldn't wait! This year he'd finally make some real friends!

He skipped across the street, whistling a tune. He met his first friend that moment. "Hi! It's my first day of junior high!"

The pink-haired girl looked at him and popped a bubble from her gum in his face. "Who are you?"

"I'm Naruto! Uzumaki Naruto!" The blonde said with a toothy grin. "What's yours?"

"Haruno Sakura," the girl said smiling. "You're new?"

"Yeah yeah!" Naruto said excitedly.

"Let me show you around."

"Ah! Thank you, Sakura-chan!" the boy said, smiling stupidly. He sure liked this nice girl!

"Let me see your schedule," the girl commanded. Naruto handed the crumpled piece of paper over. "I see… we have almost all of the same classes."

"YEAH!"

Sakura didn't look as enthused. "Yeah… Listen, don't call me 'Sakura-chan' ok? Just Sakura. Nothing else."

Naruto nodded, crushed. "Sorry…"

Sakura felt bad, now, but decided she'd let him go find new friends. He was a little to risky to be near, Sasuke might think she was taken! "Why don't you go over there, Nabuto?"

"Alright…" the boy said, disappointed. 'Nabuto…? Is that who I am? More like… nobodyto.' Naruto thought to himself. He didn't have a real friend.

Naruto walked up happily, though not as excited as earlier, to the group of people Sakura had directed him towards. "Hello! My name's Uzumaki Naruto!" Three boys looked up. One was lazy-looking, with his brown hair tied back in a ponytail, one was a total freak with no pupils and really long black hair, and the other was a boy who looked almost as canine as the little white dog he toted upon his back. A single drop of sweat ran down his face as he stared at them with an open mouth. 'What the hell…what a freak show…'

"Hyuuga Neji."

"Kiba." The dog-like boy said with a smirk. Kiba elbowed the lazy man. "Say your name!"

"How troublesome…" Shikamaru shifted, to lie against his freaky friend, Neji. "It's Shikamaru. What do you want?"

"Ah, well…" Kiba stood up to the stuttering blonde and sniffed at him, and Naruto got goose bumps. "WHAT THE HELL! What are you doing?"

"Checking you out," the boy said, brushing back his short brown hair and continuing to sniff.

Naruto's face went pale, and he thanked the boys and left. Kiba sat down. "That's one way to get rid of a pest…" the boys all laughed.

Naruto tried his luck again, this time with a few girls. He smiled and waved at one, a blonde girl with her long hair tied back tightly. She answered him by ignoring him. He sighed. He wasn't interested in the bleached blonde, the freak with a knife collection, or the weird girl with purple hair staring at him. He wanted Sakura. He decided to go find her, so off he went!

He found her, and unfortunately two other guys. One, a weird kid in green pants with horrendously thick eyebrows was blowing her kisses, and the other was a gothic kid with a strange hair-do (Naruto later yelled at himself for describing him as 'not to bad looking'). Sakura seemed to not like 'dog eyebrows' but seemed to like the gothic kid a lot. "S-S-S-Sakura-chan!" Naruto said, shoving the weird thick-eye browed kid out of the way.

"What are you doing here!" she yelled, and she smacked him in the face. "Back to what we were saying, Sasuke-kun?" she said to the gothic boy.

"We weren't saying anything," the boy replied, looking at the tear-filled blue eyes of the new blonde boy. "Who are you?"

"He's not important, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura said, flipping her shiny pink hair in front of him.

"Naruto…" the blonde boy said, walking away. It was going to be just like every other year, lonely. The boy sat on a bench outside of school, wondering whether or not to just run off. He pulled out a tablet and began drawing, not surprised to see that it turned out looking like Sakura. 'She's so beautiful…'

"You draw her a lot better than she actually looks," remarked a deep voice, belonging to Sasuke.

"You!" Naruto said, jumping up and dropping his folder and drawing tablet on the floor. "We're rivals! Sasuke-teme!"

"I don't want Sakura, but I don't want her to have you."

"What? Why? Ahgh! You are all the same; nobody wants me to be happy!" Naruto screamed, grabbing his folder and running off.

"You don't remember me…?" Sasuke said, almost sadly as we watched the blonde boy run away. "You were… my first friend."