Forgotten

Chapter 3: A Trip Down Memory Lane

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.x. Recap .x.

Rock Lee backed away as Gaara silently grabbed his collar and pulled him off his feet. He raised his fist slowly and made a move to punch the guy's guts out but a small and fragile hand grabbed the suspended fist in mid-air. He looked back at the person holding him back…

"Blah" Normal P.O.V

"Blah" inners

---x--- Sakura's Little World ---x---

'Why is it that every time a guy comes up to me and tries to hit on me I always arrive here?'

'That's because you want to escape the stupid, horny bastards that just want to get into your skirt.'

Sakura was watching a 'movie' inside her head about her childhood, the good times she had with her friends and family. She saw herself getting picked on at school by the slut-wanna-be Ami, who made her childhood life a living hell. Flashes of her playing Sai was fading in and out of her vision. She saw herself drawing a picture of her family, playing the flute Sai got her for her birthday. 'I miss you so much. Why did all this have to happen to me?' She sobbed to herself.

'Ne. Sakura, it's okay. Don't worry about it. You have the Sand sibs here with Ino and your new friends. They will always protect you, ne?'

'You're right. They will always be there for me." She said smiling through her tears. She wiped her red-rimmed eyes with the back of her hand. "Everyone will help me…and I will take up the arts again, just for Sai-nii-chan.'

'Uhh…outer…You might wanna wake up now, Gaara-kun is about to beat the living shit out of the weird green dude, and he might end up living in the hospital for the rest of his life.'

'Oh. Crap. Stupid Gaara just had to be the most over-protective 'brother' ever, and so violent too!'

---x--- Normal P.O.V ---x---

Sakura snapped out of her trance and looked up to see Gaara swinging his pale fist towards the trembling being. She jumped up and grabbed his arm, to prevent any blood from being spilt. Everybody at the gang's table watched with some interest in what was going on. Gaara looked back to see that Sakura had captured his fist in her frail one, with a concerned look in her green sea-foamed eyes. She shook her head at him as she tightened her grip. His cold eyes had softened when he saw her. He rounded on the boy with cold indifferent eyes, than the moment earlier.

"I never want to see you do that EVER again to her. Understood?" he said menacingly. The said boy nodded his head viscously and began to back away, he turned his head to Sakura, and bowed humbly and said to her, "Gomen nasai. My name is Rock Lee. I'm sorry if I scared you. For my punishment, I will run 1000 laps around the school, and if I can't do 100 laps I will do 500 push-ups…"

Ino and Temari reached out to Sakura and pulled her towards the table. Sakura just gave the boy a weird look. "Sakura! Are you okay?" Temari and Ino asked in unison. Sakura turned around and gave everyone a weak smile.

"Yeah. I'm okay" she replied with a weak smile.

Everyone looked at her puzzled, amazed at how this girl can just go from traumatic to a girl who doesn't show much emotion. Sakura went back to eating her lunch, and just kept quiet while the others mingled amongst themselves. The silent Uchiha looked at the girl with an interested look. He saw how fragile and shy she looked on the outside, but when he looked at her eyes, he could see the hidden emotions that were yearning to let loose. There was something about the girl that intrigued him so. 'Is it because she isn't like any other girl that flings herself at him? Or was it something else?' He thought. He turned away from the girl and looked out the window. 'Hn. Why was he thinking about this girl?'

'Maybe it's because you like her'

'What the hell! Who the hell are you?!'

'Well…I am your inner self. I was always here, you were just too stupid to realize it.'

'Shut up, you stupid cocky bastard.'

'So smart. You just called yourself a cocky bastard.'

'Hn.'

'You stupid unemotional bas—"

Briinng! The lunch bell had interrupted Sasuke's thoughts. Everyone gathered all their belongings and headed to class. The girls including Sasuke, Naruto and Neji headed to art class. "Ne, Sakura-chan, why did you move back here from Suna?" The bun-hair girl asked with a touch of curiosity in her voice.

"I'm not totally sure Ten-Ten-chan. I think it was because of kaa-chan's job or something like that." She whispered as the continued their walk to class.

"Ne, Sakura-chan. Why don't you act like yourself when you are with us? Why don't you act like you do when you saw Gaara and them?"

Sakura stopped walking. Everyone looked back at her waiting for her to answer. She had her head looking down and her bangs covering her face, she was fiddling with the hem of her skirt as she struggled for words.

"Naruto-baka." Ino said in with a stern, brisk voice that cut cleanly through the tense atmosphere.

Naruto being a complete and total idiot was oblivious to the hint that was forcefully aimed at him. "Sakura-chan, why aren't you answering us?"

Everyone can sense the sad aura around the petite girl and sighed. "Naruto-kun. Let's hurry up and get to class ne? We can go eat ramen later, my treat!" The Hyuuga heiress said trying to coax her boyfriend into leaving the poor girl alone.

"Yatta! You're the best Hinata-chan!" He pulled the said girl into a bone crushing hug and landed a big one on her cheek. She burned crimson. "Come on Hinata-chan! We gotta get to class, so we can have ramen later!"

As the poor girl was dragged to class, she glanced at the group giving them and apologetic look before catching up with her hyper-active boyfriend. 'Stupid Naruto.' Everyone sighed and sweat dropped but the jade-eyed girl.

"Ne, Sakura-chan. Forget about that baka. You have your own reasons and when the times right, you can tell us about it ok? Now we got to get to class before the bell!"

Sakura brightened a bit; she flashed a fake smile at Ino that everyone but the Uchiha was oblivious to. "You're right. Let's get to class now! Lead the way now Pig!"

"Urusai, forehead-baka!"

Ten-Ten laughed at her friends childish antics. Neji just smirked while the chicken-hair boy just kept a blank face on the outside, but internally he was in turmoil. 'I agree with the dobe…why does she act this way? What was with that smile?'

They arrived at the classroom and everyone took their seats except Sasuke. He just stood at the entrance of the classroom with a confused look on his face.

"Oi! Teme! What's wrong with you! Class already started and you're just standing there like an idiot!"

Sasuke snapped out of his trance and sat down with a scowl on his face. The gang except Sakura was shocked at Sasuke's behaviour; he's always so calm and collected, what the hell happened? "Alright you maggots! Quiet down!" (A/N: Guess who that is! ;) If you guess Anko-sensei you are right! Give yourself a pat on the back:)) The teacher demanded. "Today, you all will be drawing something of your childhood, either good or bad. And I don't care if you suck at drawing; it all depends on your emotions! You have the rest of the week to work on it and this is worth 15 percent of your mark; so put the effort into it. You may start now." (A/N: It's a Wednesday)

'What should I draw? There were so many good things that happened when I was younger. But then again, there were also so many bad things.' Sakura thought to herself as she looked out the window. She began to brainstorm on a sheet of paper. She began to reminisce about her past as she turned away from her paper and look out the window to the chilly autumn day.

--- x --- Sakura's Daydream/Memories --- x ---

"Oni-chan! Oni-chan! Look what I drew!" A 4 year-old Sakura yelled.

"Ahh! Great job Saku-chan! You're getting better every day! Someday you will be able to draw like me." The 5-year old complemented, as he examined the landscape drawing of a forest full of cherry blossoms.

"Arigatou, Sai-nii-chan." Exclaimed the bubbly girl.

The scene faded into another…

"Awwww… it's forehead girl. Who would ever like you? You're so ugly. No wonder you have no friends. Yamanaka is just your friend because she feels sorry for you."

"You're wrong Ami! Ino is my friend, and I'll make even more friends later!" Sakura sobbed. "Go away! You're all wrong."

In the real world, tears silently trailed down her pale face as she continued her journey throughout her childhood years. Everyone in the class was busy working on their painting that they didn't notice the lone girl by the window…out of all the people there only one person noticed and that one person was…

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