I'm so happy right now. I've been having a pretty good week, my parents came home today.

Well, enjoy!

oO-Liar, Liar-Oo

Recap:

Her thoughts were so rudely interrupted when loud yelling came bursting through into the classroom, making Hinata jump, and causing an angry, throbbing mark on both Ino's and Tenten's heads.

"-TELLING YOU TEME! THIS IS YOUR ENTIRE FAULT!"

"Why must you bring up the subject again Dobe! You're the one who got careless and got caught by Kushina-san!"

"YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! YOU JUST STOOD THERE SMIRKING WHILE I WAS BEING DRAGGED AWAY MY OKAA-SAN! Think about how she must have felt when we didn't come back to the apartment-"

The blonde boy got cut off when he walked in with a certain black haired, onyx eyed boy, and his dark blue eyes caught with Sakura's pink hair, as it traveled down to her face. She smiled brightly at him, quick to hide her shock, and waved lightly.

"Hi Naruto,"

In the momentary shock that took over, Sasuke and Naruto stared shocked at Sakura's sudden appearance, while Tenten, Ino, and Hinata whipped their heads from the bickering pair to Sakura, and repeating the process after a minute or two.

Sakura, on the other hand, smiled calmly, as if she her apartment buddies whom she had thought have disappeared, appear suddenly in her new school.

"Hello to you too Sasuke," She acknowledged the onyx-eyed boy a greeting, smiling warmly towards said boy.

Finally, after a moment's notice, Naruto stepped a mere centimeter closer. "S-Sakura-chan?" He croaked out, nervously, as if hallucinating.

"Who else would have pink hair?" She joked, grinning at the blonde.

In the split second after she had answered, she was thoroughly glomped by the over-excited, ramen-obsessed, 15 year old boy, to the ground.

"SAKURA-CHANNNNN! I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!"

Sakura burst into a fit of giggles, "You were the one who disappeared a month ago Naruto,"

Naruto grinned himself up at Sakura from his spot when his arms wrapped around her abdomen. "It wasn't my fault though Sakura-chan! Heading back from the ramen shop with Teme-" Sakura rolled her eyes playfully at his choice of nickname for Sasuke, "I was caught by my Okaa-san! Then she dragged me back to my house! She wouldn't let me out of her sight the rest of the summer!"

Sakura was all-out laughing by this point, peering down into Naruto's blue eyes, which stayed blue, throughout his story.

"Not lying," She thought, "good. Potential, potential..."

After Naruto had unlatched himself, rather reluctantly on Sakura's part, he helped her up and she gazed over at Sasuke, beaming towards him as he watched the whole thing unfold.

"Sak... ura?" He managed to breathe out, as she stepped closer. "The one and only," She grinned.

Sasuke blinked, and then offered a small, barely visible smile. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a certain Yamanaka.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait." She droned, "What are we missing here?" She glanced to Naruto, to Sakura, then to Sasuke, narrowing her pale blue eyes. "How does he," She motioned towards Naruto, "and he," motioning towards Sasuke, "know you?" She asked, nodding towards Sakura.

Sasuke sighed, "You remember when I told you that Dobe ran away from home again, during the summer, right?"

The three girls nodded in reply, and let Sasuke continue.

"Well, he went rented out an apartment next to Sakura. She found us fighting one day, after Kushina-san told me to try and persuade that idiot to come back home, of course the moron refused, we fought, caused a ruckus I guess, managed to break down the door, and that's when Sakura found us."

When he finished, he glanced over at the girls, to find them staring back in a rather impassive expression.

"Tell us why we're not surprised?" Tenten asked, while Ino shook her head. Sasuke snorted. "Because he does it every summer."

Sakura raised an eyebrow, glancing over to the Uchiha, searching his onyx eyes for the signal of black, only to find it completely untouched, and remaining its usual color.

She then turned her sight to Naruto, who has been making faces at Sasuke as he was telling the story, and tilted her head a bit. The blonde noticed and sent her a grin.

"You run away from home every summer Naruto?"

Said boy stopped making the immature faces at Sasuke, and turned to Sakura. He grinned sheepishly and put a hand over his head.

"Hehe... yeah...?"

The answer came out more of a question, but seeing as his cerulean blue eyes hadn't changed colors, Sakura brushed it off as a "Naruto thing".

A thoughtful expression crossed Sakura's face as she began thinking.

"He runs away every summer... I wonder what kind of miserable home he has to live in to have to run away every summer..."

Sasuke seemed to notice Sakura's thinking face, or maybe he could just read her mind. "Dobe's rich you know. He's rich, with two healthy parents, and his father just so happens to be Mayor Minato Namikaze."

Sakura raised an eyebrow at this. "Namikaze? But Naruto's surname is Uzumaki." She asked, thoroughly confused by this loud blondes life.

Naruto grinned at that. "Well, you see Sakura-chan, I've always been compared to Otou-san, I never really liked it, so I changed my name to my Okaa-san's former surname; Uzumaki, the first time I ran away. So, my legal name is Naruto Namikaze, but I guess Uzumaki sort of stuck."

Sakura just raised another eyebrow, her mouth slightly agape. "What the hell is wrong with this boy?"

Tenten laughed at her reaction. "Don't confuse yourself with Naruto's life Sakura, it's as confusing as it can get. Just don't worry about it,"

Sakura nodded, despite the questions hanging on her lips.

"S-so..." Hinata coughed, "Sakura-s-san, you w-won't mi-mind meet-meeting o-out oth-other fri-friends w-would yo-you?"

Sakura sent the shy Hyuuga a warm smile, "Sure. I don't mind."

No more than a second after answering, she was thoroughly glomped by both Ino and Naruto.

"Sakura-chan is going to our school! I'll get to see her every day!" Naruto screamed, his face split into the widest grin Sakura has ever seen.

"You're not a fan! We can be the best of friends now! We'll go shopping and do each other's hair-" Ino rambled/yelled.

Sakura was torn between laughing and throwing the two blondes off of her, when she got the sudden jolt in her mind, sending her into a memory stupor.

"We're best friends now Sakura-chan! We can go shopping, and get our hair done together-!"

Sakura felt a boiling hot feeling well up in her chest, like she just drunk a cup of wine and was currently feeling the aftershock.

"Sorry Sakura, we're not friends anymore. You got too close to Gaara-sama. I never liked you anyway, you and your too wide forehead."

She gulped, growing rigid. "Umm..." She fidgeted out of the two blondes grip and awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck. "I- I'll be back." She stuttered slightly, rushing out of door like a scared bunny.

"See dobe, you scared her."

"I DID NOT! INO DID!"

"WHAT? WHY YOU LITTLE-"

Sakura exited out of the bathroom rubbing her eyes, trying to get them back to normal. She sniffed slightly, barely audible to even herself.

There weren't much people in the hallways; most were already shuffling into their respective classrooms. She took a deep breath, and a wide smile spread across her face. She began walking... when a previously unnoticed foot had stretched out lazily from the shadows, causing her to trip.

BITCH! HOLD OUT YOUR ARMS!

Thanks to the quick reminder her inner had very loudly interjected, she complied and didn't hit face first on the ground, merely centimeters away from it though.

"Nice reflexes." A dazed, lazy voice drawled, making Sakura snap her head at its general direction. She caught sight of a boy, around her age, yawning widely and stretching. His black hair was up into a pineapple-like pony-tail (Sakura couldn't really say that it was weird, she had pink hair), and he had sleepy narrow brown eyes. Once finished stretching he tilted his head slightly, eyeing Sakura. "Your new, aren't you?"

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Yeah..." She murmured, as the boy lifted himself up and extended an arm towards her. "Hm..." He muttered, as Sakura dusted herself off.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"Mm..." The boy shrugged, throwing his hands over his head and yawning again. "You just seem familiar. Pink hair, green eyes, tiny..."

"I am not tiny..." Sakura muttered, crossing her arms and walking back towards the classroom. "Hey," The boy ignored him, "your that Sakura Haruno chick Naruto wouldn't shut up about when Kushina-san managed to drag him back to his house."

Sakura 'mm-ed'. "Naruto..." She thought briefly, "he'll make a good 'friend' for the school year. He'll just forget about me after I move anyway." The pinkette snapped back into reality, a soft smile spreading towards her lips. "Yeah, Naruto. He was in the apartment next to mine. You a friend of his?"

"If you call it that." The boy replied lazily, "I'm Shikamaru Nara."

Sakura grinned, "Yeah. Nice to meet you!"

Short chapter TT-TT

Please review, they make my day, and there's nothing much to look forward to now that it's summer break.