~*I'm The Star!*~

Summary: Sakura Haruno is just your average high school student; getting ready to go to College and train as a doctor but also she is a song writer for this band her sister is apart of. One day when he sister catches a cold, she is the only one that could take her place.

~SasukexSakura~

~Slight KarinxSasuke~

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Sakura was irritated. Everywhere she went, people knew her. "Hey, weren't you that girl that sang at the venue? I saw on it T.V.!" That's all she ever heard everywhere she went. At school was even worse! People she never talked to...people that didn't like her came up to her. They asked would she be singing again. She would simply say, it was a one time thing and it would never happen again and that she was doing a favor for her sister; which was true. Ever since she sang with the damn band, Karin had been ignoring her. She could guess that she was mad at her for sounding better than her and managing to somehow get on T.V., which that never happened with her voice.

"Sakura, table 3 need service!" She heard her boss yell. Sakura looked up sluggishly at her boss, Tsunade. Sakura had no idea why she worked at a place like this. She sighed and stood up and walked over to the table with her pad and pen.

"Welcome to Hooters, where our Hooters are the best. May I take your orders?" She said with an exaggerated happiness. They didn't seem to noticed as they continued looking through the menu.

"Um, well, Can we have the twenty piece boneless wings with fries and three pepsis." The man said looking up at her. As Sakura wrote down the order, she couldn't help but feel the man's eyes on her. "You look familiar..." He said. Finally looking up from the pad to see he had a face telling her that her was trying to remember something.

"Yeah, she do...," The other person said, "Wait...you were that chick that was singing on T.V. with that band down at the venue a couple of days ago. Ah man, when is you guys next show? I wanna be there." She smiled politely.

"Like I tell everyone else, that was just a one time thing. But you are welcome to watch the band with the original singer next weekend." He grimaced and shook his head.

"No, I thought you were the new singer after the red headed broad. There's no reason for me to see them now." He said. Suddenly a creepy grin appeared on his face, "Oh, yea I almost forgot. Today's my birthday, think you can sing a little something for me." Sakura frowned a little but then she looked up and saw Tsunade staring daggers at her saying 'if you don't do it your ass is fired'. She let out a huge sigh before bringing her cheeky smile back. She placed her pad in her black hip bag.

She began by slowly running her hand over her chest and grimaced when she saw his eyes follow it as she did so. She quickly clapped her hands loudly, startling him a little. Smirking a bit from his reaction, she continued clapping and started adding a little movement to her hips, "Hooters has a birthday Song! It ain't too short, it ain't too long. Sing it right you get your wishes! Sing it wrong you do the dishes! Sound off: Happy. Sound on: Birthday. Bring it on down: Happy birthday - to you!" She said finishing it off by blowing him a kiss and winking.

She saw his face dust over with a pink hue, "Your food will be here momentarily." She said before turning and walking toward the kitchen. She felt so ashamed, so ashamed that she actually began to think back on why she needed this job. Oh right, pay for the plane ticket to Massachusetts, buy her books and a laptop and at least get two months of rent in before she gets accepted. She had just had to get through this until then. She pulled out her pad and ripped the note with the order in and gave it to the chef.

"Just get through this until the summer." She told herself, "And you can put this behind you for good."

XxXxX

It was about ten o'clock when she got off and she was tired. Almost tired enough to just fall out on the sidewalk. She yawned loudly as she walked to the bus stop. She walked to the schedule and looked for the next time the bus came. She groaned. Damn, she missed the bus and now she had to wait an hour for the next one. She walked over to the bench and fell on it, "I wish I had a car." She said to herself. She yawned once again and rubbed her eyes; she just prayed that she wouldn't fall asleep before it came.

Sakura closed her eyes but then a loud car horn abruptly woke up. Her eyes grew big as she stared at the black car parked beside the bus sign. She narrowed her eyes a little to see if she could see inside but she couldn't because the windows were too tinted. Just then the window rolled down, revealing her sister's boyfriend, Sasuke. "What the fuck, Sakura," He said, obviously irritated, "Are you trying to get raped or kidnapped or something?" She glared.

"No, I'm waiting on the bus." She yelled back.

"Falling asleep like that, you're not going to catch shit. Get in the car." He demanded harshly. Sakura shrugged her shoulders and stood up and walked over the chair, opening the door and sitting down before closing. She would usually put up a fight and be stubborn but she was too tired for all that right now. "You got a cellphone, right? Why didn't you call somebody?"

"I thought everybody was be sleep by this time. Why are you out so late?" She asked, curious.

"I was on my way to your house but lucky I always take this way toward it. Why are you out so late?"

"I just got off work and why are you going to my house so late?" He looked at her and smirked.

"Well, your sister said she was lonely and she needed company for the night." She frowned.

"Didn't I tell you to fuck at your house? It is gross to hear both of you have sex, if you don't know, my bed is up against the wall where Karin's bed is, so when it starts bumping, I can hear it very clearly."

"What, your virgin ears can't take the passionate noises of me and Karin?" Sakura rolled her eyes. Little did he know, she wasn't a immature kid that squealed and giggled over the subject of sex; matter of fact, she wasn't even a virgin anymore.

"Whatever." She finished, "Just keep it quiet when you guys do it, I'm very tired." She said leaning her head against the door and closing her eyes.

"You know, people are approaching me about you." She opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Well, people are approaching me about me, so what. Tell them what I tell them, that I don't sing with the band and that it was one time thing, just as simple as that." She said before closing her eyes, "I wish I'd never agree to do that, it feels like it ruin my life." Sasuke stopped suddenly at the red light, making her roughly jerk forward, almost hitting her head on the dash, "What the hell?" She said, "I would've lost my head, you bastard!"

"Why do it have to be it ruined your life? It might of made it better." She gave him a confused look before realizing what he was talking about.

"How might it would of made my life better?"

"More opportunity, like if the doctor career doesn't work out, you can go for singing. Its just a thought, you don't have to." As the car pulled off, Sakura looked out the window and stared up at the passing street lights in thought. Would she go for singing if her doctor career didn't work? She really didn't come up with an alternative if it didn't, but she could give it a thought. But the only thing she was thinking of right at the moment was go home, take a shower and listen to Mariah Carey.

As they pulled up to her house, Sakura quickly climbed out the car and walked toward the door, unlocking it and opening it to see Karin in just her underwear and bra. Karin looked at her as if she was shocked, "Okay, this is awkward. I thought you were Sasuke." She said. Sakura chuckled before shaking her head and walking past her and up the steps.

"He'll be in." She said before turning the corner, right into her room. She threw off her shoes and walked over to her closet and grabbed out her towel and clothes for after she took a shower. She out her room and into the bathroom.

She got out the shower after about ten minutes and dressed in a small shirt that exposed her stomach and red boy shorts. She came out the shower with an towel over her head drying her hair. As she placed the towel around her neck, she looked up to see Sasuke in front of Karin's room staring at her. She kneaded her eyebrows close together and stared back at him. "What you looking at?" She said grinning, she very well knew on what she had on was very revealing; she just wanted to tease him.

He closed his eyes, "Hn." He said before disappearing in Karin's room, shutting the door. She began to quietly laugh as she walked into her room, also shutting the door and throwing her damp towel on the bed. She walked over to her stereo and turned it on. She smiled when she heard her favorite song by Mariah Carey, "I stay in Love". This song had so much meaning to her, she began to sadly think back on when she found out Karin and Sasuke were dating.

Flashback

"Are you almost done?" She heard Sasuke say over her shoulder. She picked up the paper and handed it to him with a big smile.

"Just finished." She said. As he took the paper from her hand, Sakura couldn't help but blush a little when she felt his fingers brushed against hers. She placed both her hand in her lap and stared down at them. Why did she always spaz out when he talked to her or touched it, it made her feelings all too obvious.

"This is good." She snapped out her thought and stared up at him, shocked. She blushed even harder when she saw his charming smirk directed toward her. She suddenly stood up and stared at him. He gave her a questioningly look, "What's wrong?" He asked. She blushed even harder as she tried to say something out her mouth but couldn't, she was utterly wordless to tell him of her feelings. She bit her lip in thought and looked at her feet, shyly.

"Come on, Sakura, tell him now or forever regret it." She told herself. She looked back up at him, finally having a little courage to tell him.

"Sasuke, I...well, I wanted to t-tell you that I lo-" She was interrupted when Karin and the rest of the guys barged through the door. She looked at them annoyed; she was so close to tell Sasuke of her feelings for him.

"Sasuke, you sly dog, are you trying to flirt with your girlfriend's little sister?" Naruto asked abashedly. Sakura looked at Naruto with shock as her eyes widen. Girlfriend's little sister? That meant...

Sakura looked at Karin to see he was glaring daggers at Naruto, "My Sasuke would never try to talk to a kid, right?" She said walking toward him and wrapping her arms around his neck. Sasuke smirked and wrapped his own arm around her hips, which caused her to let out a silent gasp. Her and Sasuke were...dating?

"No." he said before planting one on her. It felt as if her whole world shattered as she saw them kiss right in front of her. As they pulled away, Sasuke looked back at her. She used her bangs to cover her eyes for he wouldn't see how she felt.

"What were you about to say?" He asked.

"Nothing. I wasn't about to say nothing." He cursed when she heard her voice crack at the last part. Before they could asked what was wrong with her, she left out.

End

It crushed her, she stayed in her room for about a week and the worst thing about was that both him and her were completely oblivious on why she was so upset. To help herself with her heartache, she started dated a boy named Gaara that was a grade above her. He was a nice, mature guy that understood her of her feelings and even tried to help her forget her one-sided crush. She even slept with him to convince herself that she now in love with him, but sadly they had broke up because he moved far and didn't like long-distance relationships, which she totally agreed because she didn't like them either.

She walked over to her mirror and picked up her blow dryer brush and began running it threw her damped mid-back length pink hair. As she continued to brush her hair, she couldn't help but go over the features of her face. Was she pretty enough for Sasuke in the first place? She guessed she was pretty cute because Naruto and a few boys at school commented on it, her body was mature. More than Karin's body. What was it about Karin that made him choose her? Was it because of her age? She shook her head, she never told Sasuke she liked him, so how could he possibly like her back? She sighed heavily as she placed her brush down and walked over to her bed falling on it in a heap.

Sakura began following the lyrics, "But I kept on hanging on, inside I know it's over, you're really gone, it's killing me cause there ain't nothing that I can do. Baby, I stay love with you." She sung slowly as she took in the meaning of that one sentence. Over the music, she began to heard the silent but loud cries of her sister. She began to feel tears prick at the side of her eyes. She groaned loudly and bit her bottom lip as she grabbed her pillow and placed it over her face. She wanted to forget those feelings she had for Sasuke all those years ago but they wouldn't disappear out of her heart.

Deep down she knew she was still in love with him.