Not Cool

Not Cool

High School

Sakura had sometimes wished that she was more like the past years top of class student. It wasn't that she wanted to look like her. It was just sometimes Sakura wished she didn't have to work so much harder to keep her perfect scores. Tenten had always had perfect scores and she had still had time to go to parties and hang out with people.

In other words, Tenten had been popular. Sakura had been the school nerd. Tenten was funny. Sakura was weird. Tenten was perfect. Sakura was a wannabe genius.

Sakura had been sad she never really met Tenten. She had been fairly certain that Tenten would have understood her better than anyone else. Unfortunately, due to difference in schedules, and social times (not that Sakura had any), the two never really met. Sure Sakura had seen Tenten. But they were both busy. Sakura had been certain that no matter how good of friends they may have became she still would've just taken Tenten down to nerd level too.

Sakura had already been accepted into an elite college. All she had to do was graduate and that was due to happen momentarily. Sakura was simply happy that she had managed to make it through high school with fewer scratches and/or emotional scars than many.

On the other hand she Sakura had decided that once she got to college she would be different She would have friends, if not popular friends then friends that were considered normal. Sakura had decided she would go to every party she was invited to. She was going to chill out some. She had decided to make her college years different than her high school years.

Sakura was going to change. She was going to change big time.

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Sakura ran her hand through her hair for the umpteenth time. It was long though not as long as most of the girls. Sakura after all had gone through a short hair phase when she was in junior high. But that didn't matter. What mattered was she was about to walk onto the stage to receive her diploma from her school's principal and people would be looking at her. Her and her horrible pink hair and pale skin. In other words she was nervous. Very… very… very nervous.

The principal called her name and she walked onto the stage praying she looked more confident than she felt. Which she was pretty sure she didn't.

She accepted her diploma and made her way back off the stage. Once the ceremony ended Sakura didn't stick around to socialize. In fact she left immediately. It wasn't as though she had any friends.

Her one and only friend Ino went to another high school. However Ino would be going to the same college as her. And so would Ino's boyfriend Shikamaru, who had graduated top of Ino's class… even if he was lazy.

In any case, Sakura left. She hadn't even bothered to tell her parents the date of her graduation. What good would it have done considering her parents were almost always out of town and didn't give a care about their only daughter. So she simply decided that while they were away she was going to pack her items and head off to college. It wasn't like they would care and even if they did it wasn't like they could do anything. After all Sakura was 18.

She had paid for everything she was taking with her. Her clothes, her sheets, and her books… well you get the picture. Sakura owned everything. Her parents would probably be happy to be rid of her anyway. To them she was just some little minor detail that they constantly had to make sure was still working out okay. In other words, they just considered her one big problem.

In any case she figured since they were gone right at that moment she should start packing. She was going to college a few days ahead of Ino in order to, well, get away from her parents (1). She sort of wished that she was going after Ino or even just with Ino because honestly she was afraid of the idea that there could be other people there she would have to socialize with. She knew for a fact that she was in no way, shape, or form a socializing type person.

But necessity called her to get the heck out of her parents house and far, far, far away. The only thing she did plan on doing was leaving a note with her cell # and the college she was going to that told them not to worry because it was all paid for. She hated herself for being so generous when really she just wanted to get them out of her life but she was just too much of a goody-goody, she supposed.

Part of her just prayed that she would be able to go around unnoticed until Ino showed up with Shikamaru. The other part of her, however, really hoped she would be able to find some friends who wouldn't judge her because she was top of class, or because she had pink hair. Even though she highly doubted both the former and the latter. But she was sure once Ino got there things would be better. At least she honestly, sincerely, with all her heart hoped so.

But then again as great as Ino was she certainly wasn't a miracle worker. And Sakura knew she would need a miracle worker in order to make herself less… ugh and more… cool. So she started packing her things on the hope that maybe she would be able to make friends and if not Ino would stick with her anyway. Ino always had. Ino had stuck up for her against the cool crowd at Ino's school and the cool crowd from Sakura's crowd, at the same time. Sakura was certain college wouldn't change anything, at least not too drastically.

As Sakura began to pack her cell phone rang. She looked to check out who it was and her cell didn't recognize the number. Neither did Sakura, however she did know that it was a cell number. It was odd that she could tell but she could. In any case, she figured it was just Ino whose parents had probably gotten her a new cell for graduation picked up.

"Hello?" she asked just to make sure the person she was dealing with was in fact Ino. It wasn't. In fact, it was a guy. She definitely didn't recognize the voice though.

"Hello, I am Sasuke Uchiha. Is this Sakura Haruno?" the voice more stated than asked the second part.

"Yes…" Sakura said carefully. "Can I help you?"

"I am calling you from Konoha University to tell you that I will be showing you around. What day will you be arriving?" he asked.

Sakura paused in slight shock. "I'll be arriving next Friday," she replied finding that it was dreadfully easy to talk to this guy over the phone even though he didn't sound all that friendly.

"Alright then I will see you then. Wear a lot of blue because you're in the blue dorms."

"Okay. But I really don't think you'll miss me… I kind of have an extremely noticeable and unusual hair color."

"Okay, well, you're the only blue showing up that early so don't worry about trying to find me. There's a bench right inside the eastern entrance. I'm guessing you know which entrance that is?"

"Yes."

"Just go sit there. I'll find you. Or I may already be there. In any case, you don't need to go wandering around to get lost," Sasuke, said.

"Alright."

"Good-bye."

"Good-bye," Sakura replied before hanging up her cell.

She began packing again. She had been told that she would be sharing a dorm with four other girls. However she didn't really know who they were. She really wanted one of them to be Ino however unlikely that was to happen.

She pulled out her yearbooks collection. She had always got a yearbook just so she could remember all the people she would ever need to avoid in her entire life. She began flipping through one. For some reason she stopped on the page that had Tenten on it, below Tenten's picture in bold letters were the words: 'Tenten Uchiha. Valedictorian,(and a whole lot of other things that won't fit here. (see page 56 for more info.)'

Of course it wasn't Tenten's achievements that caught Sakura's eye it was her name. She had known the name Uchiha had sounded familiar when Sasuke had said it. She wondered if they were related… or if it was just a coincidence. She supposed she would be able to find out later. And if not… it really wasn't her business anyway.

Sakura closed the yearbook as her cell rang again. This time the number told her that it was Ino.

"Hey girl! You ready to start a whole new life?" Ino all but shouted.

"Definitely. But you're never going to believe this. I just got a phone call from some guy a KU (2). He asked me when I was showing up and told me he was supposed to show me around. And then he told me to wear a lot of blue because I'm in the blue dorms. You gotten any phone calls like that?"

"Yeah. Some girl, I think she said her name was Temari. She said she wouldn't be showing me around but she was calling me to ask when I was showing up and that someone named Sasuke, or Lee-Anna would be showing me around. And I'm in the blue dorms too! OMG that totally just made our chances of being roommates go so much higher."

"Yeah. I wonder who is going to be in our dorms though. I mean since there will four other girls in our dorms. That means five girls in one dorm. That's a lot of people."

"Yeah. Listen I'm going to be heading over two weeks after you as planned. So if we're not in the same dorm room we can talk to some people and see if we can change that. But look, I've got to go; Shikamaru said he wanted to take me somewhere. And before I go you didn't send me an invite to your graduation party."

"I'm not having one."

"Oh well, you had better show up at mine girly. It's tomorrow from five to eight. Don't forget. And you know where my house is."

"Alright Ino. I'll be there. All I'm doing is packing anyway."

"Lots of love."

"Lots of love," Sakura replied before once again hanging up her cell.

Sakura began packing again. She set aside a few items she needed to make sure not to pack. Her toothbrush (she would need it), her hairbrush (she would need it) and few changes of clothes (she would need them) and Ino's graduation gift. That was it. Everything else she either packed to go with her, or packed to go into storage.

End of first Chapter

Authors notes:

For some reason this school allows people to stay all summer as well as through the school year. Don't ask, I don't know.

KU is short for Konoha University

I hope you like my story. I've never done a Sakura based type story. To be honest I'm a little nervous on how it will turn out. But I think I have a pretty good idea so maybe it will be okay. Thanks, please R&R.