Hey everyone! I finally finished the first chapter! I thank TeenageCrisis for being the first to review on the prologue, and i also thank her and Vadergirl102 for favoring my fanfic! I hope everyone who is reading my fanfic enjoys my first real chapter, and I promise that there will be more Itachi and Sakura scenes!

College has been amazing so far and I have my first classes tomorrow afternoon, so wish me luck!

PS: READ THE NEW NARUTO CHAPTER! AND GIVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND RANTS, BECAUSE WHILE I SHOULDN'T HAVE FREAKED THE HELL OUT, I DID EVEN THOUGH I'VE BEEN GUESSING SINCE LIKE FOREVER AND YEAZ. BUT READ CHAPTER 599 OF NARUTO!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS! I DO OWN THIS IDEA!

Chapter 1

"Hey! How's it going?"

"Hey yourself! Not much. What class are you in?"

"I'm in class 2-3, what about you?"

"Class 2-2…"

Konoha Middle School was a bustle of students in the early morning surrounding the bulletin board trying to find which class each of them were placed into. Different groups of first, second, and third years gathered in the school yard with their friends to discuss what classes each of them were placed into. I looked at the bulletin board in front of me to see that my name was listed under Class 2-1.

As I stared at the sheet in front of me, a strong arm placed itself around my shoulder, "Good morning Sakura-chan!"

I looked to my left and saw Naruto placing his person comfortably around my shoulders, "Good morning, Naruto. We're in the same class again this year."

"Awesome! Ne ne, that means that Sasuke-teme is in our class to then, huh? Yosh, I'm so excited! Second year of middle school here we come," Naruto pumped his fist into the air. Suddenly, a school bag came crashing down on top of Naruto's blonde mop of hair, "Ow! What the hell was that for?" Naruto yelped in pain as he placed his hand a top his head to rub the pain away.

"Because you're too loud idiot…" Uchiha Sasuke, our other childhood friend.

"What I can't be excited that we're in the same class again, teme? You know, we've been friends for so long and…" Naruto's ranting went off in a tangent. I turned to look over my right shoulder and gave Sasuke a smile, "Good morning, Sasuke-kun."

He nodded in my direction and mumbled a small good morning underneath his breath. Sasuke came to my right and also placed his arm around my shoulder, "So, I'm guessing he's excited about being in the same class again, huh?"

I nodded while Sasuke sighed, "That idiot-"

"I'm not an idiot you…you bastard!"

The two of them were now glaring at each other over my head, "Alright boys, that's enough. No fighting on the first day of school. Let's head off to class now, okay?"

I pushed the two of them by their chests and started to walk away with the two of them catching up and placing themselves on either side of me. Naruto was chatting away on how exciting it was going to be in their second year of middle school now that they weren't puny little first years and this and that…he talked away to Sasuke and I who stopped listening to his rambling before he even opened his big mouth.

We found our shoe lockers, changed into our indoor shoes and headed up to the second floor where all second year classes were found. The first door to our left had the sign 2-1 on top, and we entered to a normal classroom with a few students milling about and catching up with friends. A seating chart was drawn on the board, and we walked to our respective seats, which again, were conveniently placed next to each other. I sat in the fourth row toward the right of the classroom, next to where the sliding windows to the hallway were slightly ajar. Sasuke sat behind me in the fifth row next to the sliding window and Naruto on Sasuke's left in the fifth row.

Naruto kept his rambling on while Sasuke leaned back in this chair with his hands behind his head, and his eyes closed still tuning out Naruto's incessant talking. I sat in my seat and immediately pulled out the current book that I was reading, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."

Just as I began getting into the middle of the second part of the book, a loud voice reached my ears, "Geez Sakura, you know, you could look up from that book of yours to at least greet me into the classroom when I say "Good morning," ya know?"

I raised my eyes to acknowledge the person that the voice belonged to, but immediately pulled my attention back towards my book. "Good morning, Ino."

Yamanaka Ino. I met her when I was in third grade back in grade school. She helped get rid of some bullies on my way home, and ever since we've been best friends…well, best girl friends. Ino rolled her sky blue eyes and placed one hand on her hip, "Seriously forehead, you could've at least waited for me to walk to class together. I mean, I searched all over the schoolyard for that pink hair of yours and I found nothing! I thought to myself that maybe because Sakura's so short she got lost in the crowd, but like, you have pink hair! I should've found you right away and I totally didn't, and…"

Yeah…Ino's got as talkative a mouth as Naruto does. This time I closed my book and my emerald green eyes gave their full attention to Ino. "You know Ino…just because I have pink hair doesn't mean that I'll always stand out in a crowd. I don't like to stand out too much."

She snorted, "Yeah, but Sakura…you have pink hair! You're the most unique looking girl on campus. There's no way you wouldn't stand out. I mean, if I were a guy looking for a girlfriend, then I would totally hook up with you."

"Ino, please! That's…that's embarrassing," I blushed at the way Ino spoke about relationships so informally.

It's true that I have vibrant pink hair that does stand out amongst crowds, but other than that, I don't have other unique qualities: green eyes, pale skin, small stature; everything about me was ordinary.

"Puh-lease! You're freaking hot Sakura and you should own it! I mean, why else are we best friends, duh!"

"Geez thanks Ino. I'm glad our friendship is so valuable to you."

"You know that I kid. Anyways, you just turned thirteen…what, a few days ago? Now that you're a teenager, you're gonna have curves coming in, and that uniform will hug your curves in the right places and uh! I cannot wait until boys start swarming you with love letters-" "Ino!"

Sometimes it was embarrassing to hear Ino talk, but whatever she says is definitely not true. I mean, I don't have the uniform in a bagger size with the skirt past my knees, and it doesn't look like I drown in the shirt or anything. Our school uniform consists of a plaid skirt with different shades of blue, white button shirt either short sleeved or long sleeved depending on the weather that day, a black button down vest, and a red necktie. For guys, they had dark navy blue pants, a white button down shirt both long and short sleeved, and a red tie, but they had the option of either wearing a black sweater vest, blazer, or just their white shirt.

I wore my skirt mid-thigh, a small sized button down shirt, and snuggish vest with my necktie. A small silver chain necklace, watch, hair ties, and a couple of bracelets were added to the school uniform that I wore. Ino wore her skirt super short, rolled up the sleeves of her shirt with the top buttons undone, and black vest; she refused the necktie.

I dressed appropriately in my uniform with little to stand out, so I don't see what the hell Ino was talking about. I sighed a little and pulled out my book again to begin reading while Ino kept rambling about.

"Shaddup Ino! Kami! Your voice has got to be the loudest in its existence! It echoes throughout the hallways and interrupts other people's conversations!"

Ino sharply turned her head to Naruto, "Like your one to talk Doofus! You voice is so loud it echoes throughout all of Japan!"

Naruto snorted, "Well at least my voice reaches Japan. You're voice can reach China from here!"

"Are you trying to start something Naruto?"

The two blondes started a glaring contest with sparks flying everywhere. I ignored the commotion that was happening behind me and continued my reading.

"…I see Ino's at it again, huh?"

I glanced to my right and then stared back at my reading, "Yup."

"This is so troublesome," the boy outside the classroom window ran his hand through his hair then rested his chin on the windowsill.

His name was Nara Shikamaru, another friend of ours and a childhood friend of Ino's. He glanced at Sasuke's direction and gave him a head nod and Sasuke returned it. Sasuke put in his earphones to ignore the screeching voice beside him, while I kept at my reading and Shikamaru dosed off. The first day of school was pretty normal with Naruto and Ino fighting so far.

"Are you gonna stop it eventually, Shikamaru?"

"Nope, it's your turn actually."

I sighed, "Fine."

Again, I closed my book, and turned towards the two fighting blondes, "Alright, this is no time for fighting."

The two of them looked in my direction, "Ino, class is going to start soon, so you might wanna head over there; Shikamaru's been waiting. And Naruto, you know it's not polite to pick fights with girls."

"But she started it Sakura!"

I raised my hand, "I'm sure she did Naruto. Now, sit back down."

Turning towards Ino, I gave her a small smile, "Sorry Ino, I guess we're not in the same class this year."

"Hmph! They should've put us in the same class together! I mean, how the hell am I gonna talk to my best friend?"

"I know, I can't talk to my best friend either, but don't worry, we've still got lunch and break."

"Hey! Don't go monopolizing Sakura-chan, Pig! She's our best friend first, not yours!"

"She's my best friend Naruto, not yours! Besides, we're girls and we've got places to go and people to meet. It only makes sense for us to be the best of friends, like sisters even!" Ino proceeded to hug my head close to her chest.

He snorted, "Whatever pig! Sakura-chan's OURS! We found her first, so she's our best friend first and foremost, just like we're her best friends first and foremost!"

"You know what-" Pugh! Ino's ponytailed hair started to get in my mouth, "Come on you guys! Not now!"

This was just getting ridiculous, first stupid fighting, and now, nonsense fighting! "We're not eight anymore! You can share, can't you?"

"No."

We turned our heads towards Sasuke, who had taken out his earphones and was now fully listening in on the conservation. "Sasuke-kun…"

"Yeah! You tell her Sasuke-teme! Beat that Piggy!"

Naruto stuck his tongue out at Ino. Ino looked shocked for a bit, but soon enough got over it and crossed her arms over her chest, "She's MY best friend."

Sasuke glared, "Ours."

…Now this was just getting awkward. Tension arose in the classroom.

"Alright. That's enough now everyone." Our attention was brought to a man who clapped his hands together to listen to him. This man had silver-gray hair that defied gravity with a black bandana wrapped around his head covering his left eye and a medical mask around the lower part of his mouth…what a strange person.

His one eye looked at every single one of us, "The blonde and the guy sleeping outside our window," he addressed Ino and Shikamaru, "Class started ten minutes ago, and it seems like your teacher is waiting for you outside."

Both of them looked to see another man standing outside the door of class 2-2 waiting for Ino and Shikamaru to sit down in their appropriate seats in class. Neither looked embarrassed, instead Shikamaru kept sleeping and Ino turned to Naruto and Sasuke, "This is not over."

Ino walked out of the back door of the classroom and dragged Shikamaru away into their said classroom. I sighed and looked at our teacher once more. He was the oddest looking teacher around; I wonder what his name was, "My name is Hatake Kakashi, but please address me as Kakashi sensei."

…That answered my question.

"Now that that is out of the way, and there are no more agruments going on. Let's start off by introducing ourselves, shall we?" He looked us all over with his lazy, but critical eye, "Let's start off with the boy in the very back to the right of the classroom."

Sasuke looked at Kakashi-sensei, "Please state your full name, some things that you like and dislike, and some of your hobbies."

Sasuke stood up, "My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are few things that I do like. What I dislike is this blonde idiot to my left-" "Hey!" "And…" Sasuke looked around the room with glaring eyes, which made a lot of the girls in the class squeal in excitement, "…fangirls." The girls squealed and talked about how cool is was that their Sasuke-kun didn't like them.

…Yeah…fangirls are weird, especially Sasuke's.

"My hobbies are sports."

He sat back down and lay back in his chair, closing his eyes. "Thank you Uchiha. Well then, let's continue with the girl in front of you." Hey, there's my turn, "My name is Haruno Sakura. I like a lot of things, and isn't anything I really dislike," It's true! "My hobbies are attending my work because I love the people there and cooking."

Kakashi-sensei nodded his head. This continued for a little while longer, and after a few people, Naruto gave his introduction, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I love ramen and video games and playing pranks on people. I don't like Sasuke-teme," He stuck out his tongue at him, and Sasuke ignored it, "My hobbies are eating ramen, trying new ramen places, making people love ramen, collecting different ramen flavors, and…playing videos games and beating Sasuke-teme in sports!"

Sigh…well…Naruto is Naruto.

The rest of the class went on with their introductions and after fifteen more minutes we had finished everyone in class. Kakashi-sensei stayed quiet for a little longer, then spoke up once more, "Well…I can say that this is going to be an interesting year. I'll be your homeroom teacher, as well as your math teacher for the rest of the year. You'll have math after homeroom, so we're good on time. I have no particular rules in this class, but there is one that you must obey at all times."

Everyone held their breath, "You must never, and I mean never…"

"…You must never…interfere with my reading."

He proceeded to pull out a small book with the words Icha-Icha on the cover and a chibi man chasing a chibi woman. "Hey! That book's a—" "Piece of wonderful literature? Yes…yes it is."

"No! That's a—" "Don't tell anyone Naruto."

Well, I'm glad that he can be so serious.

Naruto shut his big mouth, but kept glancing at the book. I tilted my head to the side in curiosity in what the book was, but I felt a pat on my shoulder from Sasuke. I turned around in my seat to face him. Sasuke had a serious look on his face that screamed 'Don't ask!' I looked towards Naruto and he just gave me a simple cheesy smile that said 'It's okay Sakura-chan. You're too innocent to understand.'

…I didn't get it, and honestly, I don't think I want to.

A knock on the front room door pulled me out of my thoughts. "Ah, here he is. Please come in."

The door opened and an older, and familiar, teenage boy walked into our classroom.

"Isn't that your older brother teme?"

"What the fuck is Aniki doing here?"

Kakashi-sensei spoke up, "This year, Konoha Middle School has decided to give the third year honor students next door at Konoha High School an opportunity to become a teacher's aid here. Since most of the honor students have finished their required courses to graduate, Principal Tsunade had decided to give this position to fill in the classes that they are not taking. The third years won't always be here, but they will be here most of the time and will leave when they have class. These seniors are here to help you during the school hours, but not afterwards, since they have their own entrance exams to study for. Why don't you introduce yourself?"

His dark grey eyes turned towards Kakashi-sensei, then back towards our class, "My name is Uchiha Itachi. I hope to help you with all of your second year of middle school."

All of the girls couldn't stop staring at him. The girls were blushing and whispering about how cute he was and that they couldn't believe Sasuke's older brother was their teacher's aid. Naruto and Sasuke looked weirded out.

Honestly…all I could do is stare at him like I did all of those years when we first met at the swing set in the park. Why the fuck was he so freaking enchanted?!

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