Because of You

Summary:

Stepping onto that stage, onto those floors, you may just forget everything you ever knew. That even includes your name. Everything, except the moment ahead and the reason you’re here. Cheerleading.

Yes, I realize that this has nothing to do with the actual Naruto plot. Uh Don’t review, message, or try to explain to me with a 101 reasons why this doesn’t go with Naruto. Honestly I don’t give a shit. :D And a crap load of highschool stories also don’t go along with the Naruto plot, it makes them more interesting because we watch the series come on, lets put a little twist on it. And the reason I’m making this cheerleading is because there are no like other cheerleading stories, and what about those cheerleading readers out there, well here ya go. From another cheerleader to anyone who is willing to have a new taste in a story, I GIVE YOU, Because of You. :D And you’ll get the title either later in this chapter or in the next one.

I’m going to start this out at easy as I can. I love sports. Ones that involve contact and make people go, ‘wow’. Oh…but there is one little part, and most people judge this about me, before they even know me. People think I’m girly and I’ll take shit from guys. Maybe even I’ll be a slut. Uh…no. Ok, so I’m a cheerleader. But not your average school cheerleader, I’m competitive. Competitive cheerleading is seriously, no joke. We have five practices a week, two are tumbling and the three are actual cheerleading related stuff. I belong to the team, LEC. Leaf Elite Cheerleading. Summers coming to an end and I’m nervous to start this school year. This is my first year in this town and I’m totally scared. I moved here in mid July, joined the Elite Cheerleading squad at a gymnastics academy and apparently no one from there will be attending Leaf High school. Most of the girls are homeschooled because most of the girls are also level 10 or elite gymnasts. I was never really into gymnastics. I was only really good at tumbling and I was actually half decent at beam. But I was never really good at the other two, and I didn’t really want to waste my time with that.

My mom was her middle school and high school cheerleading captain. All four of her high school years she was in varsity and she also did gymnastics and made it to level 10. She then went onto college cheerleading and her job became a preschool teacher. After she was down teaching the little kids, she would go and coach the varsity high school team. She met my dad, got married, and here comes little old me. So while my mom only got into cheerleading at 7, she started me at the early age of 3. But my dad wanted me to be tough as well, so once I was 6 he put me into football and softball. I was the only girl on my football team, ages 6 to 8. And my softball team was all girls, ages 6.

Now I’m not going to bore you with my whole life story. But those are the basics. Today I still do competitive cheerleading and am in softball. I stopped football when I entered 8th grade. Now I am going to be the new girls of Leaf High, its junior year honey.

Oh gosh. Is your stomach supposed to feel like a toilet flushing when you look at a new school? Probably. But me, being me, just walked up to that school, bad stomach and all and just walked in and looked for the office. I had a competition on that one day that you get tours and stuff so the teachers were going to find someone in all my classes and assign them to be my ‘buddy’. I walked into the office and saw a tall girl, really skinny but muscular arms and had brown hair tied into two buns, one on the each side of her head.

“Hi, are you Sakura Haruno?” she asked with a curious face.

“Um yea. Are you my buddy person?”

“Yep. That would be. My names Tenten!” She had a big smile on her face. She seemed like the happy type, but not so happy that I would want to punch her in the face at the end of the day happy. Once I got my schedule I saw that I had Kakashi for homeroom.

“So is this Kakashi guy nice?” I asked.

“Yea, he’s always late to class and comes up with his own really lame excuses but you get used to it. And he barely ever teaches us. He pretty much teaches the first half of class and then the second half he gives us free work or what ever we want to do time” I seriously think I’m going to like this school and this year.

We arrived to the class and it looked nice. It was very plain, while most teachers hang up posters this didn’t have much. I looked at Tenten with a questioning look. One kind of saying, where am I going to sit?, look.

“Well you can sit by me of course. I’ll introduce you to all of my friends; I think you’ll like them. I mean, I don’t know much about you since it’s such a short walk from the office to here, but just give them time. Especially Naruto, he may seem annoying and stupid but he can be really nice.”

“Ok. And thanks.” I really did mean it. I’m not someone to hand out thank you’s, but I thought this was a very nice offer.

She just smiled to me as we walked to the back right corner of the room. I sat down in the farthest corner and she sat next to me.

“Where early since they thought it would take us time to get your schedule so we can talk till everyone gets here” Tenten said.

“Well…” I started and thought about something to say, and then I thought of something, “So how many of your friends are in homeroom with us?” I asked.

“All of them are actually. It’s just after homeroom we split up and only seem each other at lunch, then study hall at the end of the day”

“Oh ok, so will I probably have someone I know in every class”

“Yea, because we always get split up and there will be a very slim chance you won’t know someone in your class” She said smiling. “So you don’t have to be nervous.”

“Well that’s a relief”

Then I decided to ask Tenten about the cheerleading team.

“So Tenten, how’s the cheerleading team here. Is it already picked out and everything?”

“Oh don’t tell me your thinking of trying out. No cheerleading tryouts will probably be in a couple weeks. But not to be mean, but I really doubt you’ll make it. Well that depends, what are you going out for. Junior Varsity or Varsity?”

“Varsity and captain” I replied boldly. She started to laugh, but then she stopped when she saw my questioning look.

“Oh sorry! It’s just that, hah, no new kids ever make varsity. Do you have a big cheerleading history or been on any teams?”

“I have a little history, not to major but not to small. It’s pretty good” I was going to leave out I was on LEC. One of the girls on LEC, Becky, told me that girls on this team are treated differently. That when you go out, your like idols and your treated differently because LEC is such an elite and advanced team. Luckily I just joined the team and we haven’t gone to any major competitions so no one in this school has to know I’m on the team till we have a major competition.

“Well if I’m behind you all the way. But it’s a slim chance” She said smiling. But I saw that doubt in her eyes. And I was really confident to make the team. I’m co-captain of LEC, so you could say I’m good. You have to be on LEC for three years before you can be captain, they even bended the rules for me so I could be co.

The bell rang, and in filed the people. Bah, people were staring. I really hate it when people stare at me because of my freaky natural pink hair. A couple of people were walking towards us. The first one that sat down was a girl with deep purple-ish hair, and she had white pearl eyes. Then came a very, VERY, hyper looking boy, he was tall with golden blonde hair and had some whiskers on his cheeks. Third boy was a really tall one with long brown hair, and also pearl white eyes, he and that girl must be related. Then he very bouncy preppy girl game with blonde waist length hair, and she had the really pretty blue eyes, followed by her was a lazy looking boy with pineapple shaped hair. Then last of them was a really tall guy, a lot of people are tall compared to me, he had black hair that was spiked in the back.

I felt kind of awkward but none of them seemed to pay much attention to me anyway so I didn’t really mind.

“Hey guys, I want you to meet someone” Oh great, I really hate introductions.

“This is,” she got up and stood next to me, “Sakura, and she’s new” There was a mumble of hi’s…I guess this isn’t a very morning group. That is until the two hyper blondes got up in front of my face and started to yell things that I couldn’t quite understand since they were talking so flipping fast.

“Ok, Ok, guys calm down” Said Tenten as she pulled them away from me.

“Ok so Sakura, Hinata is the girl with the white pretty eyes, Neji has the same eyes, and they are cousins. Shika (I’m really too lazy to write his whole name) is the lazy one and the hyper blonde next to him is Ino. Then there is the other hyper blonde, Naruto, and next to him is Sasuke.” She said.

“Well, ok. Hi, um…I’m Sakura and I’m not good with introductions” I said with a grin on my face. We kind of talked the rest of the class until the teacher walked in, with five minutes left.

“Hello class, sorry I’m late. I would come up with an excuse but all I can really say with the time we have left is that I will be your homeroom teacher for the year and I teach math” he said in a laidback tone. I felt it was really weird how this guy was wearing a mask that covered half of his face.

The bell rang as most students got up and sprinted out of the room, our group just kind of took our time and walked out.

“So Sakura what do you have next?” Asked Naruto.

“Um, gym” I was really hoping someone had gym with me.

“Oh me, Sasuke, and Neji have that!” perked up Tenten.

“Oh oh! So do I!” Naruto joined in excitedly. So our group split up at the six of us walked our way to gym.

“So Sakura, what sports do you play?” asked Neji in a really laid back voice. This seemed to be a real laid back guy.

“Softball, oh and cheerleading.” Everyone stopped and looked at me.

“Cheerleading? Really?” asked Naruto.

“Um, yea.”

“Oh, well that’s cool.” Said Tenten acting like this was her first time hearing it and then urged the group to move on. I really am gonna get along with this girl. The rest of the day just went by like nothing. Gym was soccer, which I really hate. Then we just had introductions the rest of the day. Apparently I have Sasuke in all of my classes. Well except one. We didn’t really talk but we did say one thing or another, and he helped me in math, since I suck at that, but nothing to major. Uh, well now schools over, and I’m sneaking out of the school and hoping no one noticing the LEC cheerleading shirt I’m wearing, because with school, it’s making me late for practice.

“Hey Sakura! Wanna go to the movies!” I heard Naruto’s voice. Crap…

How is it?! I have to say this is going a little better then, As I Lay Dying. But still. Ok, please please please, read and review. :D hehe. I except creative tips, not rude comments.