Chapter 2: Meeting

It was a beautiful day in Konoha and it seemed to be the perfect day for all the new kids trying to become ninjas. The begining students were only six years old and all of them seemd excited. Well...almost all of them. Inside one of the classrom was a six year old Sakura Haruno and her best friend Ino Yamanaka who was the same age.

"But Ino, what I can't be a good ninja?" Sakura asked Ino who was humming a soft tune.

"You'll do fine Sakura. You know almost everything there is to know about chakra and how to use it. I'm sure you'll be fine." Ino told her best friend trying to reassure her.

"But..." Sakura began to speak but got interupted.

"Arrf!" A bark could be heard from behind Sakura, causing her to jump. Both her and Ino turned around to see a boy with short messy brown hair and red uside down triangles on his cheeks, and a white puppy was with him. He was wearing an amusing grin on his face. Both girls knew that he was the one who barked.

"Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you so much." He gave a light laugh at Sakura, still wearing his grin.

Sakura could only look away and turned back around to look in her lap.

"Hey! What's your problem!" Ino stood up and went to defend her friend.

"Whoa. I said sorry. I didn't think I would scare her that much." He said to ino who was still mad.

"Well sorry doesn't cut it. How would you feel if we barked at you." Ino was really made now and everyone could tell.

"Alright, alright. Sorry." He said knowing that Ino would only stop until he said sorry.

"Don't say it to me, say you're sorry to Sakura." She said pointing at Sakura who turned back around to face the boy.

"So your name's Sakura? Well, Sakura, I'm very sorry that I barked and scared you. So is Akamaru." He pointed to his white puppy who barked and waged his tail.

"It's ok." She told him looking down at her hands again.

"I take it, you don't talk much?" The said leaning in closer to Sakura who was turning pink at the closness of their faces. She put her head down so low that you could now only see the top of her head

"Well well, if it isn't billboard brow." All of the kids plus Akamaru turned to see Ami standing outside Sakura and Ino's row and was smiling an evil smile. "They let you in here? I'm amazed your big forhead even fit through the door." Ami and her friends laughed at Sakura who only looked back down at her hands and tried not to cry. "What's wrong? Afaird your big forhead will scare everyone away?"

"Knock it off, Ami!" Ino glared at Ami who only scoffed and walked away. "Don't listen to a word they say Sakura, Ami's just a stupid girl who has a big mouth." Ino said, trying to calm down her friend who was close to crying.

"O-ok." Sakura wiped her eyes with her hand to wipe away the tears that were threating to spill.

"Whoa, what's that girl's problem?" The boy asked once the three girls had left. Sakura looked at him one more time before turning away from him. He wanted to know why they were so mean to Sakura, and why they called her billboard brow. 'Girls, come up with weird nicknames.'He thought waiting for one of them to answer his question.

"It's none of your business so butt out!" She told him before sitting down next to Sakura and began to tell her a story about what her dad did today.

"Really?" Sakura's eyes widen with amusement at what Ino told her.

"Yes really. I could've killed my dad for leaving his kunai pouch right in the middle of the living room. I fell right on my butt." Ino laughed as she remembered what happened to her this morning.

"You're lucky you didn't hurt yourself." Sakura said giggling.

"Actually I told him, I twisted my ankle when I fell. You should've seen how white he turned or how mad my mom got." Both girls broke out in laughter at this point in the story.

The teacher walked in the room soon enough and told the class to quiet down. He soon began to tell them about what they would be doning while being here and what kind of things they would be studying and experiencing. While this was going on, the boy from earlier wasn't listening to a word their Sensei was saying. He was focusing on Sakura. He heard everything the girls were talking about and couldn't help but smile at how carefree they looked. Especially Sakura.

'Sakura...she has a really cute laugh.' The boy thought as he waited for class to end. He wanted to try and talk to Sakura again, and this time he wouldn't bark or scare her.

Lunch finally came and everyone was runnign out to go to friends and tell them what they learned and stuff.

"Hey Sakura!" Ino called from the door. "Let's go!" She waved to Sakura who was coming towards her. But just as reached ino she fell to ground because a water balloon was thrown at her.

"Ha! Take that billboard brow!" It was one of Ami's friends who through the balloon and was standing at the other exit before taking off.

(A/N: The acadmeny had two doors to enter. One in the back of the class and one at the front.)

"Sakura!" Ino helped Sakura help before taking off after the girl. "Get back here you little..." Ino disapeared into the halls running after the girl.

Alone now Sakura began to take the balloon pieces out of her hair while little tears went down her face. Just as she got the last balloon piece out, Sakura felt a hand on her head.

"Got'ca billboard brow!" It was Ami's voice. She took the ribbon that Sakura had on right off her head and began to run away.

"No!" Sakura ran after her desperately trying to catch up to get her ribbon back. 'Ino, gave me that. I have to get it back.' Sakura ran and ran but couldn't catch up, Ami was just to fast. Finally she was outside where Ami was with her friends laughing at her. Sakura saw that the ribbon was no longer in her hands.

"Good luck trying to find that ribbon now!" Ami and friends laughed at Sakura before walking away.

Sakura was now looking for the ribbon and for Ino but couldn't find either. She gave up after a little while and sat agaisnt a tree, pulled her knees up and put her head on them. She began to cry only to feel something lick her hand. She looked up to see that it was the boy from earlier and his puupy.

"You ok?" He asked. His hands were behind his back as he looked down at Sakura who was trying to wipe the tears away.

"Y-yeah. I-I'm ok." She told him. Her eyes were red form her crying and her throat now hurt too.

"You sure? I saw what happened in the classroom. Why are those girls so mean to you?" He asked her while Akamaru tried to get her to pet him.

Sakura gave a weak smile to the dog and began to pet his head. Akamaru was happy and curled up next to her letting her continue petting him. "It's because of my forehead." She told him.

"Your forehead?" He repeated and looked at her forehead. "Is there something wrong with it?" He didn't understand what she was talking about.

"Yes. It's too big. Everyone always makes fun of me for it. Ino's the only one who hasn't." She told him.

"I haven't." He was right. He never said anything about her forehead and Sakura just realized.

"Why not?" She was so use to people making fun of her because of her forehead, she didn't understand why he didn't.

"Because I don't see anything wrong with it." He told her the truth. He really didn't see anything wrong with her forhead.

"You don't?" She couldn't believe it.

"Yeah. It looks fine to me." He confessed before moving his hands to the front and showed her what was in his hand. Right there, in his hand was her ribbon.

"My ribbon!" The boy gave it back to Sakura who instanly put it back on her head.

"Yeah, I saw that they took it and found it. It's a little dirty but at least's it's not riped or anything." He said.

"Thank you." Sakura looked up at him and gave him a smile that made his heart skip a beat.

"Uh...no problem." His cheeks turned a bright red at that smile. "By the way, I'm Kiba Inzuka." The boy now known as Kiba said to her.

"It's nice to meet you, Kiba. I'm Sakura Haruno." Sakura told him her name forgetting that he already knew.

"Well it's nice to meet you to Sakura, aha ha." He gave a nervous laugh. "Well I gotta go. Come on, Akamaru!" The puppy went to his master and they took off running. "I'll see you later, Sakura!" Kiba called back.

"Bye!" She waved even though she knew that he couldn't see. "And thank you." She said the last part to herself as she watched him run with his dog.