I had stayed up until about three in the morning talking with Naruto and eating instant ramen. It turned out that he loved instant ramen and ate my entire supply. I had mostly just listened to Naruto tell stories about his past. It turned out that his past was about as bleak as mine. He had grown up as an orphan since birth. His dad had died in the military and his mom just disappeared. He was always picked on at the school orphanage until one day, when he was eight years old, Sasuke showed up. Naruto welcomed Sasuke with open arms and Sasuke flat out refused to be his friend: much like me. Sooner or later Naruto must have said something to Sasuke because they became best friends and always watched out for one another. Now Sasuke lived in his own apartment and Naruto lived with Neji.

Naruto talked a lot about Hinata as well. He told me how they met and how she was always so shy around him and he was stupid and loud. One day she was getting picked on and he stood up for her. He started walking her to their classes and soon he says they became best friends.

What amazed me with Naruto was that not once did he speak of being popular or talking about people badly just because they were different. He was the second most popular guy in school and I was starting to think he didn't even realize it. He really was special.

My thoughts were interrupted as the school bell rang. I had been sitting under the cherry blossom trees again and this time I earned even more stares from the popular clique. At the sound of the bell Naruto ran over to me happily and sat on the ground next to me.

"So are you still coming to Sasuke's house tonight?" He asked excited. I nodded and turned my I pod off in order to give him my attention. He smiled and I just raised an eyebrow.

"What are you so happy about?" I asked curiously. His smile just grew and now I furrowed my eyebrows in annoyance.

"I think I'm growing on you Sakura chan. You like me don't you?" He taunted and I hit him in the side of the head. He rubbed his head and I smirked at him.

"Whatever." I said. He smiled again and I knew he got the message. I didn't deny it because it was true. He was growing on me. I was really starting to love this Baka. Of course, only as a friend. I would never really love him. We were just there for each other. Last night's events came back to me and I smiled. A warming smile that I never knew I had in me.

"Hey I want you to meet someone." He said as he stood up. I watched him stand up and shook my head. There was no way I would actually walk over to those monsters. They could come to me if they really wanted to meet me.

"I am staying right here Naruto." I said turning my I pod on again put only putting one ear plug in. He shrugged and ran off to the Fountain. I rolled my eyes. He was hopeless. He really thought he could get those freaks to accept me. His mistake.

Naruto ran over to his friends and grabbed Hinata's hand.

"Hinata chan, come and meet Sakura chan." He said panting. Hinata smiled at him and nodded.

Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows and frowned as he watched another one of his friends go running to her. His plan was not going to work if everyone kept running to her. He grits his teeth and then relaxed. Sasuke took a deep breathe and closed his eye. Well now he would just have to work that much harder for the next part of his plan.

TenTen watched as Hinata and Naruto walked off together to talk to Sakura and quickly turned to see Sasuke's reaction. He looked tense at first: really angry and frustrated but soon he relaxed and she watched his lips turn to a smirk. What was up with him lately? She looked over at Neji but he was calm. He just seemed to be keeping a close eye on his cousin but besides that he didn't seem to care either way. TenTen was sure that if she wanted to talk to Sakura Neji would come with her. She was abou to ask him about it when a thick tension rose in the air. She turned to see Kiba glaring daggers at Sasuke and her mouth fell into an 'o'.

Kiba was boiling inside. Sasuke was being a real asshole about all of this mess. He wanted to talk to Sakura but knew without the 'leader's' approval he would be a social outcast. Now he was fighting with himself for being such a coward. Finally he came to his decision.

"Listen up Uchiha, I want to know what the fuck you think you are doing! First you try and start a fight with her all because she wanted to sit under the cherry blossom trees and then you just let Naruto run off with her and you refuse to let any of us go with him. Now you are letting Hinata go over there and you still aren't doing a damn thing." Kiba yelled taking a step toward Sasuke. Sasuke never even opened his eyes to acknowledge him.

"You can talk to her if you want dog boy. I won't turn the whole school against you but what do you want me to do?" Sasuke asked calmly. Kiba grit his teeth in frustration.

"I want you to talk to her and get this silly little 'war' over with. She just needs friends. And you know what…so do I and obviously I don't have any hear because a real friend wouldn't let us all split up and argue like this." Kiba said glaring at the Uchiha in silence for a few minutes before turning heel and walking away towards Hinata and Naruto.

"Now's a bad time. If you want to stay friends with everyone it's best you wait a little while." Neji whispered in TenTen's ear and she wondered how he always knew what she was going to ask. It was very attractive though. TenTen turned around with a smile on her face and kissed Neji on the lips gently.

Ino stared in shock as yet another one of her friends went to hang out with that pink haired freak. She was losing everyone to her. Ino tightened her fist and balled them up until her knuckles went white. She looked at Sasuke but he avoided her gaze and went back to his deep thinking. TenTen and Neji were making out and her boyfriend was sleeping. She had no one to cry to and she couldn't help but wonder why that was.

I sat up when I saw Hinata and Naruto coming over to me. I quickly turned my I pod off and watched them warily as they both sat down next to me. The Hinata girl smiled and looked away playing with her fingers. She was shy. That was bad. That would mean she would expect me to do the talking. Well, that wasn't going to happen.

"Hinata chan this is Sakura chan. Sakura chan this is Hinata chan. Girlfriend meet best friend. Please no cat fight." Naruto said very slowly. I started to giggle and Hinata looked at me surprised.

"Hinata chan you shouldn't be surprised. You were all way to quick to judge her. She is human you know. She can laugh and be happy." He said wagging his finger at Hinata. I started to giggle even more. Mentally I was killing the blonde for making me do such a stupid thing like giggle but when you were around Naruto happiness just came naturally. I looked over to the popular clique when I heard someone yelling. I watched as the guy I had bumped into yesterday morning came stomping over here angrily. I sighed. What was this blonde loud mouth doing to me?

"Hey, that Sasuke is so pig headed sometimes. I can't believe him!" Kiba yelled more to himself then us and we all just looked at him. Naruto was first to comment on his outburst.

"Sasuke's always been that way and he always will. If we just give him time he'll see the right thing to do and he'll do it." Naruto said and I smiled at him admiringly. He wasn't just a loud mouth. He was the purest thing in this world I knew. He was always so happy and trusting and faithful. Hinata was a lucky girl.

Kiba sat down next to me and smiled. I glared at him and he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"I don't remember inviting the whole all of you to come and sit with me." I said looking at Kiba and Hinata. Hinata looked away shyly and Kiba just looked me in my eyes and smiled again.

"You didn't have to." He said softly and I felt a warm feeling take over. I was losing control of everything and I hadn't quite decided if that was good or bad yet.

"Besides you didn't invite Naruto and you seem to like having him around." Kiba said playful and I glared in Naruto's direction. Only playfully though.

"He was just to fucking persistent." I said and Naruto smiled proudly giving me the thumbs up. I rolled my eyes and stood up as I heard the late bell for first period ring. The four of us walked through the side doors together. Naruto had grabbed Hinata's hand and they were watching me yell at Kiba for trying to grab my hand. Kiba then wrapped his arm around my waist and I hit him on the side of the head. He rubbed it and made what could have been guessed to be a pouty face. I merely rolled my eyes at him and kept walking. I was making friends and I didn't even want to. These people were forcing me to let them help me and what was I doing? I was lying to them and sneaking to Sasuke's house to get picked up by a stranger to do drugs.

I was throwing it back in their face. Guilt washed over me and I got angry because I had never felt guilty before and I knew that guilt was nothing but obligation to love. I hadn't asked these people to help me. I knew better then to trust so easily. It was their fault. If they got hurt it was all their fault and I shouldn't give a fuck if they think it was my fault. I shouldn't give a fuck what they would think of me taking the pills. If they want to help me so bad they should have just left me alone instead of making me experience this new pain. It was uncontrollable. At that moment I knew the only way to make the pain and unwanted thoughts go away was drugs. I wanted more then just the pills. I wanted the Heroine. I wanted to be completely lost, forever.