Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ True Essence ❯ Something New ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer's Apply:I do not own Naruto, all of those characters, images, words that you are familiarized with in the story is owned by somebody far richer than me and I possibly think a bit older than me too. The only thing I have owned in this story is the plot, for now I guess.
Chapter One- Something New
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“Ha-ha, can't tag me!” Running freely with the wind, big cheerful smiles forming on their lips. “Come on, why can't you just run faster than that?” Under the bright sunshine, kids playing tag with their friends. Having fun is the only thing in their minds, so simple and true. Things were much simpler when they all were younger, no worries, no problems and, no heartaches. It was a world of blissful oblivion but it wasn't always like that.“People don't like me and I don't know why...”, A blond boy with eager blue eyes waiting patiently to be noticed and be acknowledged and then join the game to have fun. He just stands at the side waiting patiently day after day, at the same time and place but still nobody can hear him.Then something made him turn his head into another direction, he saw a little girl with unusually pink hair and big green eyes talking to the kids that were playing. He smiled as he saw Haruno Sakura, the girl that caught his beating heart. Even for a kid, he knew that he liked her on a friendly basis. She was kind and pretty, Naruto wanted to be friends with her but doubt was biting him inside. “Maybe she might like me but then she could be like everyone else and runaway from me even though I don't why...”
“Can I play, too?” But before she could even talk some more, a group of kids were giving her questioning glares. “Please?”Then a girl with long silky black hair accompanied by two boys who looked like they have something disgusting lingering under their noses confronted her. They looked at the kid before them and the girl started snickering, holding her hand in front of her mouth trying to look higher class than the pink-haired gal. “Why would we want to play with a girl that has a gigantic forehead that would reflect the sunlight and hurt my beautiful eyes? Hmmm?” She felt hurt nobody has ever said that to her before, she lowered her head and tears started to stream down her face. “Ami-san is always right. Nobody wants to play with Ms. Big Forehead Girl!” They commenced into taunting laughter and the girl went running away. Naruto was about to follow her but then he was already beaten by a girl, the pretty cute but bossy girl that he believed her name was Yamanaru Ino and she was already trailing after Sakura. Now his priorities changed, he decided that he was going to pay Ami a visit. Uzumaki Naruto, the loner, outcast and invincible boy that nobody else would want to take a second look at, felt burning anger inside him rising and rising so rapidly. He stood up from his spot and went to Ami and her friends. He caught their attention by simply being out of place, but that didn't stop him from what he was going to do.“Hey you!” He pointed to Ami. “Listen to me, you spoiled stinky faced brat! Don't you dare pick on Sakura. She had a much more prettier face, more kinder heart than you spoiled brat!” He stuck his tongue out and made a grotesque face at them. Ami suddenly wailed and started to run away. “Was it that scary? Oh well...” He smiled at the gesture he had just made, he protected someone and he was sure that Sakura Haruno will be his definite friend. “Naruto!” “Oh no! It's, it's-”, he received a hit on the head. “Why were you picking on the that Ami girl? You know that picking on other kids is bad right?” Iruka, the man that Naruto would look up to as his father since he was orphaned and did not know why, was using the tone of voice that meant something bad was going to happen for Naruto himself.“No ramen for a week.” Naruto fainted.£££££
She was running wildly into the forest that she did not know of its terrain. Crying her eyes out, she began tire running but it stung what Ami said. Now they were going to play a game of see who would make Sakura cry first, they were always doing that. She took it as a sign that she would never a friend in her whole entire life.“I have an ugly forehead, its too big for my own good. I'm not that pretty and I have weird pink hair, always tied up into braids.” She covered her forehead with her palms, not noticing that it was soon the sun would set and she was alone running to nowhere.She hurriedly removed the ties of her hair and threw it on the ground. She started to cry again and sob her eyes out, letting her hair cover her face. She leaned her back to an old oak tree and let herself rest. Soon she had to get out of the forest and go home, she was fearing what her father would say after coming home after sunset. “That push-over freak! She will eat dirt!” Her inner-self shouted out loudly inside her mind. Though her remark made her laugh a bit, she still felt hurt. “What did I ever do to them? It's not like I'm mean to them, they're mean at me for no reason!” “We should knock her out, then take her out and hang here up a tree with a wedgy!” Her burning inner-Sakura was raging war against all, even though as a child she was a free spirit and a bit shy but her inner-self seemed quite the opposite. It seemed for her to be a relief that only she can hear and comment upon her secret inner-self. “Then we would lastly make her do something very humiliating, let her roam around in nothing but an ugly dress filled with, with bugs!”“Hey, Forehead Girl! Shouldn't you be home by now?” Sakura turned her gaze towards a fellow student at the Junior Nin Academy for girls, Yamanaka Ino. The daughter of the beautiful flower shop in town.Wiping her eyes from the tears that have stained her face, “....”. She did not want to look at her. She tried to compare Ino with her, “I just look like a piece of pearl compared to a diamond like her.” With her gaze down the ground, she didn't notice that Ino had sat herself beside her with a grin on her face. “I didn't mean to make you sad you know, it was just a joke.” She still was ignored by Sakura and couldn't hear anything else but the echoing of her cries. “Would you stop crying? The most beautiful girl in the world is here with you, you should be honoured with my prescence.” Finally the sobbing gal looked back at her, she could see the bright smile with her teeth all white and shiny. “Here.” Ino extended a hand out to her and in her hand was a long piece of red silk. Confused, Sakura still accepted it when she opened her mouth as if on cue Ino explained why she gave her that.“It's for you to tie your hair, you know let it be a hair band. Show to them that you don't care what they say, you look much cuter like that.” “If I do this then would everyone else like me?” A question out of the blue, and the answer meant the world for her. She had been alone ever since the day that Ami and her bumbling idiotic followers have decided to bully her for fun. She didn't know what to say but then she just smiled and said...“I don't know. Maybe or maybe not, one thing's for sure that nobody likes a crybaby that has snot coming out of her nose.” She saw Sakura hurriedly wiping her face from the waters of sorrow that she had just shed. When she had opened her eyes Ino was walking away from her, “Maybe it was all a mean joke they played on me...” She looked at Ino retreating away from her. “She's just like them, what the heck is she doing leaving us alone!” “Sakura-chan! Hurry up or you're going to be eaten by a pack of wild boars!” Scared and filled with doubt, she followed Ino back where she led her home. “I'll see you tomorrow. Then maybe we could play together, ok?” Sakura merely nodded and waved goodbye as Ino did the same. When Ino was finally out of sight, she went to get inside her house and ran straight towards her bedroom after greeting her parents with a kiss on the cheeks. Lying down on her bed for a while, she sat up and looked at the full-length mirror near her cabinet. She smiled. Then it hit her, “Today, I just found my first friend!” “Hell Yeah!” Zionne: “A new story has found its way to be butted into my heart and I have produced another baby-fiction. It's not my first story but it is my first Naruto fiction. The pairings shall not be mentioned, I'll just see where my inspiration takes me but surely there is no YAOI or YURI in this. I am sorry for those fans wanting that kind of,er, style but it's not my thing. Either way I still have to reveal the fact that I have not watched this series but read the English version of the manga that I have downloaded at www.narutofan.com and I still to have yet wait for the upcoming mangas. It would be also nice if you readers would check out my other stories, it would be nice to have some reviews....(looks all sad and gloomy).....”“Either way, please review!!!”