"It's so depressing in the Upper East Side, today," Ino pouted, looking out her window from her room, gazing upon the small specs of snow landing against the pavement. She retreated back over to her Queen sized bed, plopping down on it with a miserable expression on her face. "My boots got wet, they're probably ruined now. Three hundred dollar, down the drain. Ugh!"

Sakura came out of Ino's walk-in closet, a silvery dress in her hands. "What about this? It's fairly new," Sakura suggested, holding up the dress for Ino to see. Of course, Sakura knew her fashionista best friend well enough to know that 'fairly new' wasn't going to fly.

"Sakura!" Ino exclaimed, throwing up her hands in frustration. "It's almost Christmas! I need something expensive and fabulous. Nothing in my closet is going to be good enough, I guess I'll just have to go shopping."

"You just want an excuse to go shopping," Sakura accused, rolling her green eyes.

"Maybe."

"You can't fool me, Ino." Sakura walked back into the closet, hanging up the dress back in its rightful place.

She walked out and closed the doors behind her, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow at her pouty best friend. Ino just shook her head at Sakura, choosing not to explain why it was so important that she got a new dress. Sakura didn't bother asking, she knew the response would probably be unreasonable to anybody but Ino herself. She didn't have time anyone, when Sakura glanced at the pink clock in Ino's room, she realized that she was late for dinner.

"I better go, my mom wants me to be home for 'family dinner'," Sakura mocked, a small smile spreading across her face.

"Ha," Ino huffed, waving her friend off. "You have to actually act like a family to be a family."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Sakura asked curiously, turning around to face the blonde, who was know stumbling for a reply.

"I-I'm just saying!" Ino defended. "Your mother hasn't been very nice to you since your father, you know."

"I guess… But, we're still a family, and you should really be more considerate when choosing your words." And with that, Sakura left her flustered friend alone in her room, and saw herself out of the Yamanaka Manor.

The dark seemed to spread fast, and Sakura hadn't of realized that she had stayed at Ino's place so late. She was absolutely sure that her mother was going to kill her. That is, if some homeless man didn't wonder over and kill her first.

"Ow!" Sakura's hand immediately flew to her head as she felt a sudden sharp pain in her head. The pain was so sharp and unbearable, that Sakura was down on her knees in the middle of the dark alleyway.

"Sakura..."

Sakura looked up, her eyes wide as she search the alley for the voice, but the alley was empty and silent. The voice rang in her ears again, causing her to stand up quickly. The next thing Sakura knew, she was laying on the ground, looking up at the sky as blackness consumed her vision.

"Sakura… That's a really pretty name! I'm Naruto!" Naruto yelled cheerfully, bringing in the small girl into his big arms for a friendly hug. Sakura was frozen in shock for a second, but a smile started to appear on her face, and she patting the boy on the back.

"I know who you are," Sakura said shyly, smiling up at him. She turned towards the white-haired man beside Naruto. "And i know who you are, too, Mr. Kakashi."

Sakura sat right up with a gasp, as the blackness faded away and reality seemed to welcome her back. She was freezing, and her clothes were getting wet from the damp alley. Sakura took a couple of deep breathes, trying to recover from whatever the hell just happened, but panic seemed to overwhelm her.

"What is going on?" She yelled into the darkness, stumbling to her feet and running towards the street.

She stepped into the road, waving her hands around until a cub pulled up next to her, and she quickly got inside.

"Where to?" The cab driver asked, taking a drag of his cigarette.

"You're late!" Sakura's mom exclaimed whenever a freezing cold Sakura entered her house. "Congratulations, you just ruined family night."

"I'm sorry, mom. I lost track of time."

Sakura lowered her head to look down at the tiled floor, she didn't want to deal with her mom's crazy outbursts at the moment. Sakura just wanted to go to sleep and forget about whatever happened in that alleyway ten minutes ago.

"Ugh, whatever." Her mother marched back into the kitchen, and Sakura could hear her yell at demands to their kitchen staff.

She ignored the commotion going on in the kitchen, and ran up their marble stairs to the double doors of her room. She locked it, pressing her head to the door in an attempted to gather her thoughts.

"What's wrong with me?"

"Nothing, you're just not in control yet. It causes you to black out. Soon enough, however…" Kakashi put a strip of paper in his book to hold his place, and then slammed it close. "You'll get the hang of it, Sakura. Don't worry."

Sakura's head snapped up once the dream or memory had faded, and Sakura placed a hand over her mouth in horror.

"What the hell is going on?" She whispered, letting herself move over to her bed to sit. "What's happening to me?"

The end of the Introduction Arc!

Now, all of the characters will be in the chapters, instead of just one. So, the chapters should get fairly long. Hopefully.