So this is my first AU Naruto fic, and I hope you like it. Forgive me if I overlook any spelling mistakes, and bad english. I'm still learning.

Disclaimer: Do not own

Dedication: This chapter shall be dedicated to~ IdioticIdiot. Cause I have no one else to dedicate this too. Belle14072 Person that has no friends.

The Beginning of Everything

Haruno Sakura. That was her name but no one seemed to care or bothered to remember it, they only remember her by her big sized forehead and her unique appearance. They teased her about it, made fun of her about it and some used it against her just because they didn't like her. She had been picked on since she started kindergarten, she tried not to let the fact that it bothered her very much show on her expression. The bullies would never know how much it affect her.

Sakura was 6 years old now, it was almost till graduation from The Konoha Elite Kindergarten. That meant Sakura had been undergoing continuous bullying for the last 3 years. She was put in the 3-A class, second best to 3-S that's only available for 3rd years of the school. Sakura didn't want any more attention than she was getting now, the last she wanted now was to get picked by jealous students that wasn't able to get into the Special Class about the size of her forehead having something to do with her superior grades.

But lowering her grade didn't mean she was exactly free from the bullies.

That day was like any ordinary day, Sakura was sent to school by her elderly but loyal chauffeur and butler. She arrived at the gates in a white Mercedes, she opened the car door to see if anyone's spotted her car and when she's sure. She turned to her chauffeur "Thank you, Jin jii-chan. I'll see you after school then" Sakura slid off the seat and onto the concrete floor then tiptoed to reach for her bag pack that was still on the seat.

"Have a nice day at school, Sakura-sama" the elder bade her goodbye as she pushed the car door closed. Sakura then continued on her journey to the classrooms, she sighed as she took the last step of stairs, she was safe to go in but life's doesn't go as smoothly as that, now does it. Before Sakura could even take a step into the school, she was ambushed by a bunch of her female classmates.

"Look who's in school, Forehead girl!" their leader emphasized on the last word. Sakura flinched a little, but luckily that went on unnoticed to the 5 girls in her way. "Please let me pass" Sakura said with her soft spoken voice. "Hah? What did you say! For a girl with a big forehead you sure don't talk very loud" a girl with short black hair and brown eyes said with a voice that couldn't get any louder. Everyone's attention immediately turned to her.

Sakura's fingers tightened around her back pack straps. "Haha! It's the Forehead Girl!"

"Whoa, you're right. Her forehead is huge"

"She has pink hair! what a freak!"

The red-haired leader smirked as everyone made fun of her. It became a routine now, they would somehow manage to corner Sakura and made her the center of attention. The girl looked proud of herself as Sakura lowered her head and waited till they were satisfied. But today's routine had been interrupted as the Special Class students that were usually late, arrived at the gates.

"Hey everyone, it's the Special Class members!" some random student shouted and immediately everyone's attention shifted to them. Everyone acted as if Sakura non-longer exists, giving Sakura the chance to walk away. The black shiny limousine stopped in from of the school gates, Sakura knew who they were, but she's never even made eye contact with anyone of them.

The members of the Special Class consisted of some of the richest kids in the country, the class had 7 members. At the top of the class is, Uchiha Sasuke. Heir to the Uchiha Corporation that his father owns, his father is also the chief officer of Japan's Trusted Police Force. Second in place is Hyuga Neji, prodigy of the Hyuga main family. His family owns the second most successful company in Japan, second to the Uchiha Corporation. Third in line is Hyuga Hinata, a adorable soft-spoken girl, ridiculously shy, Heiress to the Hyuga Branch Family. Making her the cousin of Neji. Her father and Neji's father are partners in business.

Fourth place is Kizai Tenten. Her father's like the Japan version of Tony Stark. He's sold weapons to armies from all over the world, her mother 's half chinese. In Fifth place is Yamanaka Ino, Her father works as a agent in an underground intelligence organization which the government funds known as ANBU Black Ops. Most people had never heard. Whereas her mother is a famous botanist.

In Sixth place we have Uzumaki Naruto. The only one that dares confront Sasuke and the only son of the Kage (Prime Minister, but Kage suits this better) of Konoha. But never once had he bragged about his father's status. Lastly in seventh place is the lazy genius, Nara Shikamaru. His father is a brilliant tactician and the commander of the ANBU Black Ops, he has led many missions to success without having to move from his office. Rumours claim that Shikamaru inherited his father's intelligence but he's too lazy to pick up a pencil and finish his paper, therefore landing him in last place.

Sakura took her seat at the front of the class. That's the worse seat for someone who's being bullied by the whole school. When the teachers turned around of left the classroom a rain of paper balls would be thrown upon Sakura.

Throughout the whole day, it was just like any ordinary day.

the dismissal bell rang and all the students ran out, leaving behind Sakura who was slowly putting her books back into her back pack. She slipped her hands through the straps and pulled the bag down from her desk then pushed her chair in before leaving the classroom.

When she was outside the school, the sun was already setting. She saw the playground had a few boys huddling together, probably trading action hero cards or something boys do, but that's not the problem now, she actually had to walk across the playground to get to the gate. She sucked in and mustered all her courage to move.

As she moved closer, tried to slip through the side thinking they might not notice her. She was so focused in watching them and making sure their attention are still on what they were doing that she didn't notice the bump that pops up on concrete floor. "Ah!"

She tripped and fell forward, her backpack laid in front of her as she got up. "Look it's the freak!" she heard one of them call out. She lowered her head as she stood up and dusted herself. They surrounded her, cracking offensive jokes about her. She didn't do anything, they'll get bored and leave on their own.

One of them poked her forehead, she took a step back to balance herself. "Her forehead's as big as a billboard!" the culprit laughed then the others echoed. Then another one pulled on her hair, making her wince. "Who on earth has pink hair?"

"She's a freak!"

"You shouldn't have been born"

"Hiding it with your hair won't work you know"

"Cause it's too big!"

Soon they were poking on her forehead and pulling on her hair. The tears welled up in her but she bit down on her lip, still refusing to cry.

But she couldn't hold it anymore. Tears ran down her cheeks uncontrollably.

"Ah! She's finally crying!"

"Crybaby Forehead girl!"

Sakura squat down and buried her face in her knees, trying to hide her tears. Is this how she was gonna live...? Maybe they're right, maybe she shouldn't have been born.

"What are you guys doing?"

The boys stopped picking on her and turned around to look at who dared interrupt their-

"U-U-U-Uchiha... S-Sasuke...!"

Sakura looked up with her wet eyes. She didn't hear them wrong, it's definitely Uchiha Sasuke standing before them with his bag strap across his chest and his hands in his pockets with an eyebrow raised. Unless her eyes have failed her too, not only that, the whole Special Class is standing behind him.

Sasuke's eyes landed on Sakura for a split second before rolling back to the bullies "You didn't answer my question, what are you doing" Sasuke repeated in a more annoyed tone.

"O-Oh, We were just making fun of this cry baby" one of them said, pointing at Sakura who was staring at Sasuke with eyes shimmering from the tears. "Hee... so she's the forehead girl everyone's been talking about" said Sasuke, looking at Sakura with his usual bored expression then looked at the boys with were as stiff as a rock. "I... don't like you very much" Sasuke narrowed his eyes, a scowl forming on his face.

The boys began to sweat nervously, not knowing what's gonna happen to them next. When Uchiha Sasuke gets angry, your life is not guaranteed. "3 seconds" Sasuke held up 3 fingers. The boys looked at him, confused. "I'll give you 3 seconds to disappear from my sight, before I have to beat you guys up" Sasuke said, dryly.

The boys began to scatter like flies, and one of them looked like he just wet his pants. Sasuke watched as the boys disappeared out the gate, he then turned back to Sakura. Who looked pretty terrified of him too. He walked over to her and stood in front of her, Sakura was looking up at him like a tower. He was first to speak "Are you ok?" he asked her after he crouched down to her level.

Sakura merely nodded slowly. Sasuke looked up at her forehead "They're right, your forehead is big" Sasuke said. Sakura lowered her head. "And you tried to hide it with your hair" Sasuke's fingertips brushed Sakura's bangs. Sakura blushed and buried her face deeper into her knees, she waited for the insult that was to come.

"Your name" he said. Sakura's eyes widened a little, no one besides the teachers had asked for her name. And what's so ironic is that Uchiha Sasuke, is asking for her name now after all the years. Sasuke stood up "Well if you don't have one then I guess I'll have to call you forehead girl" he said, walking away.

"Sakura..." she muttered softly.

Sasuke stopped in his tracks and looked back at her. Sakura stood up "Haruno Sakura!" she shouted a little too loud, she closed her eyes her small hands curled up in fists. Then she felt someone poke her forehead. "I see..."

She looked up to see Sasuke with a small smile on his face, the sun setting behind him. A faint blush appeared on Sakura's tear stained cheeks. Soon everyone was gathered around her, but for the first time, they weren't doing it to pick on her. They were actually being nice to her.

"Hwaa... she so cute! Your name is Sakura right?" a girl with short blonde hair, a pretty face and beautiful blue eyes asked her. Sakura stared at her with admiration and nodded. "My name's Yamanaka Ino, nice to meet you" said Ino with a smile. Sakura returned the smile, Ino's eyes rolled around then leaned over to whisper to Sakura "You're the first girl Sasuke-kun actually showed interest in" Ino straightened and winked at her, Sakura blushed.

A girl with her hair tied in short pigtails entered her vision "I'm Kizai Tenten!" she announced then stepped aside, revealing a fidgeting girl with short midnight blue hair and opal eyes. "This little one here is Hyuga Hinata" she said. Sakura looked at the shy girl that looked like she was mirroring Sakura's actions. "H-Hi" Hinata stuttered as a blush formed on her cheeks. "Hi" Sakura answered with a wave.

"C'mon Shikamaru, go introduce yourself" Ino shoved Shikamaru to the front. Shikamaru stumbled forward "Tch, you're so annoying" he muttered. "I heard that!" Ino yelled at him. Shikamaru looked down at Sakura "Nara Shikamaru" the boy with a small spiky ponytail said and held out his hand, Sakura took it and shook it. "Nice to meet you" she said.

After that Shikamaru stepped back. Tenten was dragging Neji behind her, she stepped aside "Go on" she said. At first Neji was looking away, eventually his head turned to her like a robot, his right eye twitched a little as he said his name mechanically "Hyuga Neji" he had long hair that's tied at the end and opal eyes just like Hinata's.

"My name's Uzumaki Naruto, and... can I touch your hair?" said a blonde boy with cerulean eyes. His blonde is darker than Ino's. Sakura tilted her head in confusion but eventually nodded "Sure" Naruto reached over to touch her short pink locks, he looked down at his hand "Soft..." he grinned cheekily and threw his hands over his head. Sakura smiled then she noticed Sasuke was frowning as he looked away. "You can touch my hair too, Uchiha-kun" she said, confronting him. Sasuke blushed "I-Idiot! Why would I wanna do that!" the Uchiha turned away.

Sakura chuckled, she turned to walk away but not before she felt someone's hand on her head then it retracted. "You're right, it is soft" she heard someone say. But she already knew who was it.

"Ah, I've got something here that might help" said Ino, she let down her bag and began to raid her bag for something. Everyone surrounded her as she looks for it, desperate to know what was it. She reach deep into her back pack and her eyes lit up "I found it!" she declared proudly. Then she pulled out and revealed what seemed to be a red ribbon. "I thought it looked pretty so I asked Mama to buy it for me, but turns out It don't look as good as I thought it would on me" said Ino, she pouted but she stood up and looked at Sakura. "Let me try something" she dragged Sakura away from the crowd

When the others tried to follow Ino shouted at them "Don't you dare follow us! I'll show you after I'm done!"

They waited as Ino worked on Sakura, Ino put her hands on her hips "Perfect!" she stepped aside, revealing a new improved Sakura. Her bangs now framed her face and the magenta bow was tied on her head, Sakura looked around innocently. "There, people won't make fun of your forehead anymore if you show them that you're not afraid" said Ino. "O-Okay" said Sakura. Ino smiled then turned to the others "She's cuter now isn't she" said Ino, proud of her work. "Ino, you're great!" said Tenten.

Ino nodded proudly then noticed Sasuke was staring directly at Sakura. "She's cute isn't she? Sasuke-kun" Ino emphasized on his name. Sasuke flushed and turned away, then cleared his throat "W-Whatever"

Ino snickered, clearly having fun teasing Sasuke. "Alright! Sakura, since you look so adorable with that ribbon, I'm giving that to you as a gift of our friendship" said Ino. "R-Really? You mean it?" Sakura said, excitedly. Ino nodded firmly "From today onwards, you're our friend. If anyone dares bully you, just tell us alright?" said Ino. "Yeah! We'll make sure they get their butts kicked!" Naruto said, excitedly. "So... we're friends now? Right?" said Sakura, eyes sparkling with excitement. "Yeah" they all answered her.

Next Day...

That morning, a black limousine stopped in front of Sakura's mansion, and guess who stepped out, Yup, the Special Class Students came to pick her up to school. Sakura's parents wasn't home but she asked Jin if she could go with her new friends, Jin was overjoyed that the young mistress had made new friends and let her go. Not only that, Sakura was moved up to the Special Class thanks to Sasuke's influential parents. Ino and Sasuke spent most of the time of their classes fighting over Sakura.

Sakura wasn't very used to get admiring looks from students so she hid behind Sasuke and Ino. She had a feeling the girls from her old class wasn't very please with her transfer. Can you believe it? Just yesterday she was being picked on and everyone called her a freak and the next day she's walking with the most admired kids in school.

That was how Sakura made her first friends, and it's only about to get more interesting.

Next Chapter

"SAAAKUUURAAA~"

"Ino, this is a library, you know?"

"Why? the guys practice doesn't start till 5"

"Tch, What do you want. Karin"

"Sasuke, Nice shot!"