Haunted by the Past

Main: Sakura & Sasuke

AU, Sakura was in the eighth grade when it happened. Her parents away, she walks to her house alone in the dark and a man jumps her from the shadows, rapes her, and then leaves her broken to suffer the pain for the rest of her life.

A/N: Chapter 2, up!

It had been three years since the day her life changed. She looked around at her classmates, juniors, excited because the seniors graduated today and that meant they moved up. They would "rule the school" supposedly.

Sakura had no intention of "ruling" anything. Not school, not people, or just anything. She preferred to stay invisible. Things were...easier that way. No, easier wasn't the word. In fact, she wished she could be as outgoing as her friend Ino, or TenTen, who had been the most popular senior on campus. No, things weren't easier for Sakura. They were anything but that. The truth was: being invisible was being safe, and Sakura liked safe.

Of course, she hadn't always been that way. Looking at Naruto and Kiba goofing off reminded her of how she had been.

In junior high...

No one was totally wild back then, well okay, they were pretty close. And Sakura and her BFFL Ino were the wildest of them all, or out of the girls at least.

They went to everyone's parties, showed skin like "nude" was the new fashion, and didn't care whose feelings they hurt with their "mean girl" ways.

Sakura was the better of the two, of course. Ino had lost her virginity by the sixth grade to some Shikamaru guy, who apparently fell asleep during the act. Sakura, back then, was "The Tease." You know, that girl that everyone wants but no one can have? Yea, that was her.

And it wasn't that she was taken or that she was super-religious (A/N I wouldn't know anything about that. 0.0) but she just wasn't "skanky." She told Ino one day that she "was going to wait for the right guy so that when he got her, he would have a special gift in her, someone that was untouched."

So, Ino had almost given up on hooking her up with anyone, until the eighth grade, when this new guy, Kabuto came to their school. He was a jock, but a shy one. Sakura thought he was cute, but she had no thoughts of him being, "The One." Ino, however, still tried her best to hook the two up.

She finally convinced Sakura to accept Kabuto's date proposal and on the second date, he tried to screw her. Sakura, being the clean virgin she was, was outraged and slapped him in the face, swearing that she would never sleep with someone that was so brazen.

After that, Kabuto didn't speak to her. He always ignored her and talked about her behind her back, trying to get her angry or desperate enough to break down and give him what he wanted. She never did.

But then, "That Night" happened, and Sakura changed. She skipped school for a week after that happened and when she came back, everything was different. Her clothes, her hair, her makeup, her personality, everything.

Naruto had been her best friend. Their relationship was platonic of course, for he liked Hinata and unbeknownst to him, she liked him too. They were very close and therefore Sakura knew All of his secrets, and well, he knew all of hers...until now.

There was no way she would tell him. Ino found out by accident, her being the one to walk in on Sakura after it had happened, the evidence still there. Knowing that she would not be able to resist those gorgeous blue eyes of his, she decided that, it would hurt, but she had to tell him goodbye. She stopped hanging out with him after that.

In fact, she stopped hanging out with every guy she knew, because she was afraid of them. What if one of her so-called friends had been her rapist? She couldn't be sure and so she just avoided men altogether.

So the only people that knew her secret were she and Ino. Hinata, another female best friend, did not even know, and although she could feel something different, Sakura knew, she never questioned Sakura's motives or her past.

Sakura looked at her ex-blonde friend with a longing in her eyes. He'd always been so sweet. He made her smile on the worst of days and made her feel loved even when everyone else seemed to hate her. Of course, as mentioned before, their relationship was purely platonic. He was like a brother to her, or even, just "One of the Girls" not in the weird way of course.

That's when she decided it. No matter what memories still haunted her dreams, no matter what secrets she wanted kept, today she would renew her friendship with Naruto, even if it killed her.

She took a deep breath and then stood from the bench she'd been sitting on, walked across the grass and behind Naruto and then gently tapped him on the shoulder.

"So where are we going again?" the dark-haired boy asked his mom for about the fifth time since their drive had begun. It was unlike him to pester her this much. Normally, he just went with whatever it was but she had a good idea that she knew what had him so "questionny."

Back home, were his father and brother. Their divorce settled, his parents had decided that each could take one of the children and that one would move away. Mikoto had chosen the youngest, who agreed seeing as how he and his father argued constantly, and she had also chosen to be the one to leave.

But being separate from his family was not what had her son so annoyed. It was his friends. And not just any friend, his girlfriend. Red hair, dark crimson eyes, perfect figure, and charming demeanor, yes, Mikoto knew her very well. In fact, she was at their house almost all the time. She was surprised that this girl could put up with her son and his quietness, but she did.

Personally, she did not like the girl. She was a little too flirty to be anything good for her son, and she'd heard that she even had tendencies to check out girls, or whatever the young people called it these days.

So, she had no problems getting her son away from that girl, but he thought otherwise.

So, here they were: driving to this new place that she still refused to explain to the teen in the seat beside her and he sulked in his little corner of the vehicle, thinking about his girlfriend, no doubt. She smirked, knowing that the wait was killing him and knowing even more so, that missing his girlfriend was killing him. Mikoto was quite pleased with herself for being such a great mastermind.

-End-

A/N: Mwuahahahahaha! I left you guys hanging on Sakura and Naruto right? Yea that's what I thought. Anyways review please! I'm going to bed! Haha. Seriously, I am though. I'm tired. And I need to gather my thoughts, don't patronize me!

Luz u guys, REVIEW!