disclaimer: I own neither Naruto nor Harry Potter.

i.

Haruno Sakura met Uchiha Sasuke at the age of eleven.

With no older siblings or friends to help her, getting her trunk up the Hogwarts Express was tough. Finding an empty carriage was even tougher. Dragging her things behind her, Sakura passed carriage after carriage of noisy students, each talking animatedly about the new school year. Beside her sizable trunk, Sakura looked more like she was nine and not eleven. It didn't help that she had bubblegum pink hair and a short stature for her age. Honestly, sometimes Sakura thought she resembled a house elf more than anything.

It should have really come as no surprise that she would be easy pickings for bullies, but Sakura was completely unprepared for the foot that tripped her and brought her down easily along with her large suitcase. A group of boys surrounded her, laughing at her misfortune.

"Oh, what do we have here? A first year girlie! With pink hair at that! Man, look at that large forehead!"

Sakura tried, really tried to stop the tears from flowing (she was a big girl now, she told herself. Daddy told her that she had grown up) but it still came in the end. She had always been a bit of a cry baby. Naturally, it prompted the boys to taunt her even more.

"What, crying for your daddy already? Too bad, kid, he's not here to save you! Man, what a kid… what are you, five? Still calling for daddy and mummy?"

Sakura hated it. Hated her size, hated her childlike features, hated how easily bullied she was. But there was nothing she could do. After all, she was just a kid who had been too overly protected by her parents. She resigned herself to keeping quiet, hoping that the bullies would leave her alone after a while—

"Stop harassing her."

Sakura started. She looked up, only to see a boy with the prettiest features she had ever seen. Vaguely, at the back of her mind, she knew that boys weren't meant to be pretty, but there was no other way to describe the features of this boy. He was shorter than the bullies, but his dark hair, onyx eyes and aristocratic features made him look menacing.

"Eh, who's this kid? Another first year? Trying to play the hero already? Tch. What's your name, kid? Itching for a beating?"

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke."

His name seemed to hold some sort of power because after a "tch, another one of those damn Uchiha kids", the bullies left. Her savior took one look at her, and turned to walk back to his carriage, two doors down from where she was on the floor.

"My carriage has seats, if you're looking for any."

Sakura gaped for a moment, before standing up and dusting herself off. She gathered her belongings quickly and moved into his carriage.

"Um, t-thank you."

The boy merely inclined his head in acknowledgement. They spent the rest of the ride to Hogwarts in silence, but Sakura had never enjoyed such a comfortable silence until that point.

Uchiha Sasuke became Haruno Sakura's first friend at Hogwarts.

notes. very, very short, but stay tuned. Have a few more chapters already typed out!