Authors Note: So yea, this is a SakuSasu story thing. I am a big fan of them. The couples that would be in this story will be SakuSasu, ShikaIno, NaruHina, and NejiTen.

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Inners

Changing Hearts

Chapter 1: The First Day

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"Damn alarm clock…" Sakura mumbled," Why do I have it set anyway?"

"Sakura! Are you up? You don't want to be late for your first day of school!" Sakura's mother called.

'SCHOOL?' Inner Sakura exclaimed.

Sakura jumped out of bed with her sheets tangled around her foot as she dashed towards the bathroom. She hastily ran her brush through her pink locks while scrubbing her teeth. She quickly pulled up her hair in a bun and wore a beanie over it. As soon as she finished refreshing herself, she changed into her school uniform.

Sakura's uniform was made up of a plain white polo, a short plaid skirt (courtesy of the perverted principal), and knee highs with flats. Of course she wore a sweater over her shirt because she hated tucking in her shirt.

Sakura was desperate to fit in. She was exactly normal-looking at first glance. With her long pink hair and large forehead, there was no doubt she would be an outcast. Though her parents always say to her that her pink hair went beautifully with her large, jade eyes and her forehead gave her an innocent look. As you can tell, Sakura was very insecure about herself. She was a very beautiful girl, but refused to show it because of her insecurities.

Her looks weren't the only thing that bothered her. She was also going to a different school. A VERY different school. A ninja school in Japan in fact. Of course Sakura knew all the basics after about three years of hard training. Sakura was born in Japan from what she was told, but adopted by a couple in America. She was told everything about her past from how she is a ninja to being an adopted child at the age of 12. The people who found her when she was a child said that she was all battered up and couldn't remember anything about her life.

She sighed at herself in the mirror. The nervousness started to kick in. Sakura had a lot of talent just didn't trust enough in herself to think it. Sakura immediately regretted wanting to become a ninja. There would be other students there that know what they are up against and knew fascinating jutsus and techniques while she only knew the basics.

"Sakura! Hurry up! You need to eat some breakfast before you go!" her mother called again.

"Coming!"

Sakura walked downstairs and grabbed a piece of toast and nibbled on it.

"Sakura, you need to eat more than that or you won't have any energy by the end of the day."

"I know Mom… I'm just not hungry. Nervous about this new school."

"Ah, don't worry. I'm sure you'll make friends soon."

Sakura gave her mom a half-smile.

"I'm gona go now. I don't want to get pushed around in crowded halls."

"Okay. Bi, dear."

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It seemed that Sakura got to school earlier that she thought. Only a few students were wandering the halls and chatting. She walked up to a girl with long, blonde hair tied up in a high pony tail and blue eyes talking to a girl with brown hair tied up in two buns with brown eyes. Sakura quickly adjusted her beanie so that it was covering all of her hair before she tapped the blonde on her shoulder.

"Excuse me."

The blonde turned around.

"Hiya, my name's Ino! What's yours?"

"Umm, my name's Sakura. Err… could you tell me where to get my schedule?" Sakura answered nervously.

"Yea, come on. I'll show you," Ino brightly said, "Oh, and this is TenTen. She's practically the weapons master of the school."

"Hey." TenTen gave Sakura a smile as they walked down the hallway.

"So are you new here?" questioned Ino.

"Yea… I just moved here from America."

"AMERICA!?!" the other two girls shouted in unison, "So this place is really different to you, isn't it?"

"Yea, really different."

"Don't worry, we'll show you around," stated Ino, while putting an arm around Sakura's shoulders.

The girls walked and talked until Ino spotted someone else.

"Hey Hinata! Come over here I want you to meet someone!"

A girl with navy blue hair came over to the trio. She was wearing a large, white jacket over her school uniform. Her eyes were a pearly white.

"Ohayo, Ino. TenTen," the girl called Hinata answered quietly.

"Hinata, this is Sakura. She is new here from America!" TenTen introduced.

"Sakura, this is Hinata. She is another friend of mine and she is part of the Hyuuga clan, a very powerful clan of Konoha," Ino introduced.

"Nice to meet you," Hinata said politely.

"Same here." Sakura once again gave a half-smile.

The girls asked Sakura many questions about America until they finally reached the office. Sakura received her schedule. She had all of her classes with her new-found friends except Taijutsu.

As they started to walk to homeroom, Sakura was accidentally pushed down by a tall stranger.

Author's Note: So yea the first chapter was pretty short. Don't worry; the chapters will get longer more into the story.

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