Naruto had followed her around and while he was not the best at

reading the mood very well. He understood Sakura way better than any other person he knew. As Naruto sat by the table poking to his ramen while thinking about how to get Sakura to at the very least like him as a friend.

Minato just came home from yet another day of never ending paperwork and was just tired now. When he came in to see his son and wife already eat and he mostly had to fight to get something to eat. So when he came in and saw his son hardly touching his food he was taken aback by it and couldn't help but worry.

"What's wrong Naruto?" He asked worriedly looking at his wife who shocks her shoulder just as bothered by this as well. Naruto looked up at them as if surprised to see them there before looking down once more at his food playing with it once more.

"There is this girl in my class, Sakura-Chan…" Naruto said softly and Minato saw the way his eyes lighten up as she said her name with a small blush on his cheeks. "And I try talking to her and while she doesn't dismiss me… She won't reply to anything I say and just look at me like I'm weird"

He felt the relief come through his whole body and even felt happy to know that someone was trying to befriend her. He was not even surprised to know that his son would have the same taste in women as he did after all Sakura did have some neat hair.

Shaking his head he took out a chair and sat down looking at his son, Sakura was, after all, a very hard person to get close to. She had made it very clear from the very beginning that the only reason she even came to Konoha was because he mother trusted him and she wanted to be a ninja.

"You just have to hang in there and show her that you won't leave that is what she truly fears,Trouble" Minato said wisely remembering how hard a time his dear Kushina gave him, it was nothing but trThe trouble that was worth it in the end, when he turned his head towards said woman he was just thinking about smile at him and for a moment he forgot everything. Yep worth it!

Naruto on the hand looked up at his father looking at his mother who had a soft smile on her lips and he hoped that someday he and Sakura-Chan would be like that too. He remembered how his mother told him how she fell in love with the elder blond when he complimented the thing she hated about herself the most. Yeah, he wanted to like that too.

With newfound hope, he nodded eagerly and began to eat and for the first time in his life, couldn't he wait for school to start. With the support of his parents, he could do this!

When the next day came around Naruto left extremely early, a half hour before school would start. He went to the flower shop with his mom for her, since his mom told him she would like that. When he finally was in the class he saw her, the one who had his affection already sitting in the room. He was happy at first to see her, right until he saw the blue and black bruises, most couldn't be seen but it did nothing to make him feel better.

He looked around in anger his sky blue eyes was turning a dark blue as he made his way up to her. When he stood right in front of her he looked down at her and for once she looked up at him, he asked or more like demanded to know who had done this to her.

"It doesn't really matter," Sakura said in a flat voice, it had happened on her way to school were some elder kids had found her and teach her a lesson, for looking at them or something. The only reason to why the bruises hadn't healed was because Kyuubi was mad at her for not fighting back. It didn't matter anyway she needed to get used to the pain as a ninja in the future.

Having expected the conversation to be over she looked down once more when flowers came into her view, she looked up once more this time surprised and watched as the blond boy scratched the back of his head smiling with a small blush on his cheeks.

Never before had anyone ever gotten her flowers, she took her hand out, it was shaking a bit and took the flowers before smiling up at him with a shy and soft thank you. Looking at the table she felt a bit of heat coming to her face.

The day went by in a blur for Naruto, he was on cloud nine right now. Sakura had smiled at him! It had to be the cutest thing in the world with the small red that colored her cheeks too. The only thing he really heard was that there soon would be the day where once parents came to school to hear how it was going, what was it called again?... Anyway, he would just have to tell his mom later.

Sakura sat at home, looking out the window, she had no one to take with her to this special day. Nodding to herself she would ask Kakashi-San to take with her, with that she got up and went out the door, and stood in front of the next door right beside her own with the number 12 on the door, with nothing else on it, not even his name.

After having knocked on the door a couple of times and nothing happen, Sakura took the matter into her own hands and made a small summon right outside his door. After the smoke was gone a small black fox sat in front of her, it upper face had a white mask on it kind of reminded her of the ANBU's mask with a small half-moon in the forehead.

"Can you find the person that lives in here Luna?" Sakura asked softly knowing that the fox couldn't refuse her anyway. Luna had been the first fox Sakura had to raise on own and name for that sake. That gave them a special bond and she would most likely take him with her to the 'special day' and Kyuubi hated it for some reason. While Luna still had a long way to go before he was a fox she could use to help her on missions, he was still way ahead most foxes in the art of tracking.

The fox nodded his head and went to the door to take a sniff before nodding once more and Sakura picked the small fox up and into her small arms that could just hold the fox. As they began to walk around the village Luna had ended up holding his tail, since people had almost stepped on it too many times.

After following the way that Luna had pointed she accidently ran into a boy and fell on her butt. Looking up she saw a boy that looked to be older than herself, he looked surprised down at her before helping her up. Looking closer she couldn't help but think of that black-haired kid that Naruto-San was with, what was his name again… Sasuro? No, Sasuku? or was it Sasuke?

"Sorry," She said softly still holding the fox to her chest, looking at the ground waiting to be hit once more. When it never came she looked up and the boy smiled down at her, taking his hand out towards her and she closed her eyes, only to feel him poking her forehead she dared open one eye and saw him smiling softly at her.

"Hey, Itachi!" There was yelled from somewhere and the boy looked up to find the source while Sakura just blinked once, twice. The boy Itachi-San excuses himself and walked over to an even elder boy… Weasel, what an odd name to give one's child…

Shaking her head she continued on her personal mission to track down Kakashi-San. She watched as the people on the street avoiding her, she went on one side and all the others on the other side… oh well, that just meant that she wouldn't run to anyone else.

As she walked Sakura noticed that she was slowly leaving the village and was now walking towards the training grounds, of course. She should have known he would be out here after all he was a ninja. When she made it to the training ground that Kakashi was on she saw two other people, one of them she knew, that was Obito-San who had helped her the first day here. Turning her eyes to the last person she saw a woman with brown hair and a purple strip or triangle? The looked to be good friends, doubting for a moment if this really was a good idea, Sakura finally let her Chakra go so that it wasn't hidden anymore.

Kakashi had been augmenting with Obito like always when he suddenly felt her Chakra coming out of nowhere he turned and looked the way it was coming from. There stood the little girl with her pink hair and… an odd looking fox in her arms, she looked to be debating with the fox if she should go over to them.

With a nod of her head she walked up to him slowly her gourd was not down, he could see the way she was watching them. When she finally stood before them she looked down at the fox, softly thanking it for the help, and the fox nodded its masked head and disappeared into thin air.

"...I'm Sakura," The little girl said quietly ever so often sending his old teammate a quick look before looking at the ground once more, it was like a submissive dog. Rin went down to look at the girl giving her smile and introducing who she was with a soft smile. Now he could see the black and blue bruises and looked up Obito to see an angry look crossed his face, he had noticed too.

"Kakashi-San… I don't have any parents" At first she had been hesitating, not sure how to get the words out right, talking and being social, was definitely not what she was best at. She waited for him to nod and her fingers were playing with one another, not sure how to ask him.

"I don't have a guardian either" She added as an afterthought she really hoped he knew where she was going with this. But when she looked at him he looked just as unaware as before clearly not getting where she was going with this. Finally having had enough she sign tiredly, he was most likely just going to say no anyway, so it didn't really matter how she said it.

"And there is special-something-day at school soon… and um, I was wondering if you could go with me instead?" She asked looking up at him, she liked Kakashi-San far better than the Hokage anyway. He knew when she didn't want to talk about something and never forced her into talking about something she didn't want to, but, most of all he didn't pity her.

After a long silence, the young girl sign once more, for some reason she felt a bit disappointed that she would be going alone but not overly surprised by it, but it still tasted bitter. She then gave them a broken smile.

"I didn't really expect you to say yes, it's okay, though… Have a nice day" With that Sakura turned around and left, she walked around the village for a bit just looking at things with her Chakra hidden. She looked at a house and saw a happy family eating dinner together and couldn't help but feel jealous of them. A cold wind hit her and she went to the swing watching snow begin to fall, this year Christmas would most likely be one she was spending alone too, just like everything else.