"Sakura eh?" The boy responded, "I'm Shikamaru."

Sakura sent him a glance of disinterest that was also very threatening. "I didn't ask nor do I care." She told him coldly.

Shikamaru blinked, then having nothing really to say to her he turned towards the blackboard and muttered "Troublesome."

Time ticked off second by second as Kakashi-sensei continued his lesson slowly realizing that everyone was too asleep to actually be paying attention. Then the bell rang for the end of class. Most students ran out with a newfound energy that shattered their sleepiness but Shikamaru and Sakura lingered behind.

"Give me your schedule." Sakura stated simply.

Shikamaru handed it to her, and Sakura took out a map she had doodled of the school and marked the rest of Shikamaru's classes on it.

"Here, Kakashi stuck me with showing you around the school." Sakura said as she handed him the map and his schedule. "So he will get on my case later if I don't, so when school's over come find me and I'll give you a tour."

Shikamaru remained dumbfounded for a moment silently wishing that Kakashi-sensei had assigned him with a guy that Shikamaru could get along with, not a girl that as far as he could tell that he didn't want to get on the bad side of.

"Uh, okay." Shikamaru finally answered when Sakura had started to send him annoyed glances.

Now that Shikamaru had answered Sakura walked off without a word, leaving Shikamaru to wonder what her problem was as he followed the map to his class.

Then the next class skipped off and it was lunchtime.

On an ordinary day Sakura would sit by herself peacefully under the shade of the largest tree in the courtyard (it was called the dead tree because it's bark was gray and its leaves were black but the tree still remained alive no one knew why but it was rumored that Orochimaru experimented on it, before Sakura no one dared go near it and now that Sakura always sat there everyone else stayed even farther away) but as you can imagine this wasn't an ordinary day or this story would be pretty boring right?

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This was Shikamaru's first day of school and as such he did not know where to sit at lunch. Then his eye caught onto a blonde-headed kid with cat scratches on his cheeks like kitty whiskers. But the kid seemed very hyper and had a fox-like grin so Shikamaru thought the whiskers suited him. The blonde boy was smiling and waving Shikamaru to join him and his friends at their table. Shikamaru accepted the invitation without a second thought.

When he sat down the blonde kid asked, "What's your name new kid? I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" he grinned.

Obviously Naruto's smiles were contagious because Shikamaru had a light smile on his face when he introduced himself.

Naruto had a big group of friends and he introduced all of them to Shikamaru. Shikamaru thought that some seemed like Naruto, nice but hyper those were Kiba, Chouji, Kankuro, and Lee but the rest seem cold and distant: Shino, Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara.

"So what's up?" Naruto asked Shikamaru.

"Nothing really." Shikamaru answered honestly but then his eyes caught on Sakura. "Hey, whose that girl over there? The one with the pink hair."

"Oh her?" Kiba answered before Naruto could. "Her name is Sakura, and trust me she isn't really someone you want to know."

"That I could have guessed but I mean what's her problem?" Shikamaru pressed on with his question.

"Her problem?" Sasuke said flatly turning his gaze to Shikamaru. "You mean why she is a stuck up bitch? She's always been like that. She prefers to be a loner and gets pissed off if anyone tries to talk to her and she is the only one that likes that creepy guidance counselor Orochimaru."

"Then there's that fact that everyone seems to die around her." Kiba added.

"I know what you mean, yesterday I saw Taro bump into her, she had her head slammed into the locker and she dropped all her books and then Taro called her a bitch and walked away. She looked really pissed off and today they tell us he overdosed on drugs." Kankuro told them. "Its just weird."

Gaara smirked. "I've never heard those rumors, now that girl sounds interesting." He said getting up and walking towards Sakura. All of his friends watched him, very curious to see what would happen.

"What's up?" Gaara asked Sakura when he reached the dead tree.

She gave him a glance but didn't think that he was worth talking to so she didn't reply.

Gaara squatted down so that he and Sakura were on eye level even though she wasn't looking at him. "Hey, is you're brain not working?"

Sakura glanced at him again, complete disinterest in her eyes until she returned her attention to her food.

Gaara wasn't fazed he pressed on, "What you think you're better than me or something? You don't have a single friend."

Sakura didn't look at him but she said, "I prefer it that way moron."

Gaara smirked. "Good! You do have the mental capacity to speak! I was beginning to wonder."

Sakura shot him a glare.

You know, now that Gaara was looking at her closely Sakura was actually pretty attractive. Especially now that she was glaring at him " Are you trying to intimidate me? Because it's not working."

Sakura kept her eyes on him, still glaring. "I can't help it if you're too stupid not to know when to back off."

Gaara laughed. "I know when to back off but I've seen puppies with scarier glares then you." Now that he was done with pissing her off he got up and returned to his group wondering what would happen if the rumors were true.

Sakura still glared at him as he walked away one thought in her mind:

'You're dead.'

A/N: I finally updated yea!!!! Personally I'm starting not to like this story but already have it planned out so I want to finish it considering how I haven't even gotten to the actual plot line yet. I'm not very happy with this chapter but the next chapter will be much better I can promise you that.

CORRECTIONS FROM CHAPTER ONE: In chapter one its says that Sakura asked one of her friends for Taro's name to kill him but she doesn't have any friends so she actually asked Orochimaru. Also, the last chapter was written in first-person perspective but I found that the story didn't work in first-person so I changed it to third-person.

I know that I said that I was going to make my chapters longer and I will but this is where I needed to end this chapter in order for the next chapter to work.

Current Pairing Vote Status:

ShikaSaku: 4 votes

NejiSaku: 3 votes

GaaSaku: 2 votes

KibaSaku: 2 votes

SasoSaku/SasoTem/SasoIno had one vote though I really haven't planned on doing any of those couples as an option they sound interesting so I will definitely throw in some hints of them.

So I will be hinting at all the couples until the last chapter when I will have Sakura end up in the couple that has the most votes but since I haven't updated in forever I wonder if anyone will actually read this again. Oh well.