Summary: After her parents had to leave for Paris for a big job opportunity and sends Sakura a big check every month, she is being well taken care of by an old family friend. When summer comes around, Sakura finds out her parents aren't sending any money for the two months. Sakura would ask Tsunade (her guardian) for money whenever she needs to go out but ends up doing something most teens don't really want to do: get a job.

Genre(s): Romance, Humor, Friendship, Adventure, and General.

Pairing(s): SakuSasu, InoShika, HinaNaru, TenNeji

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto -_-

Anyway, I hope you guys like this. :3 Enjoy!


Falling in Love in Aisle 7
by sushicakes


Beep beep

Good morning Konoha! This is DJ Jay in the morning, it is now 7AM, now get your butts out of bed! Not much traffic this morning which is awesome, KT will be delivering the news in 15 minutes so stay tune! Also my lucky listeners, today we got the new single from Ke$ha! So here it is!

Hot and dangerous
If you're one of us, then roll with us
'Cause we make the hipsters fall in love
And we've got hot-pants on enough
And yes of course because we're running this town just like a club
And no, you don't wanna mess with us
Got Jesus on my necklace

Listening to the radio a bit more, Sakura opens up her emerald eyes slowly and rubbed them. Her hand slowly reached over to the light pink nightstand and pressed the alarm off. Getting up and off her comfy bed, she stretched her arms and legs and walked into the washroom. She looked at her reflection in the mirror and touched her long pink hair. 'I should do something with it...' She thought.

Walking back into her room after a nice morning shower, she wrapped the towel around her long hair and walked over to her dresser. Opening up the second drawer, she pulled out a light grey t-shirt, the neck opening was really loose but she didn't mind it. She put the shirt on over her black bra and pulled out a pair of black basket ball shorts. Heading downstairs, she could hear Tsunade making breakfast.

Tsunade isn't her mother but her guardian and a family friend ever since her parents had to go to Paris for this really great job opportunity. As much as Sakura's parents knew their daughter could take care of herself, they knew she'll get lonely living by herself and since Sakura loves Tsunade, it is a win-win. Even with Tsunade saying money isn't a problem while taking care of Sakura, Sakura's parents sends her a big check each month. Almost like an allowance but bigger. Tsunade helped Sakura open a bank account to save the money for when she needs it and in the future.

But then the horror came (well not really but it was at first).

Her parents called a month ago telling Sakura that they aren't going to be sending her money for the summer and will give in September. Their reason? Sakura is at a reasonable age (16) to get a summer job, any job really. Sakura knew this day was going to come anyway seeing as how her parents talked about how they starting working at 15 and now were successful in the business industry and are entrepreneurs. Sakura spent the last month, looking up jobs. Local stores, petting stores, even at the Konoha mall. Nothing. All the pink headed girl wanted to do was to work with Tsunade at the hospital and as much as Tsunade wanted her there too, they couldn't let her since she's not 18.

Sakura's friends were all either on vacation by now or working at their jobs. Basically, she's going to end up staying at home all summer doing nothing.

Tsunade settled down a plate in front of Sakura who sat down at the counter, the plate had two strips of bacon, a cup of harsh browns and a small amount of scrambled eggs. Tsunade's plate was the same but added two pieces of toast. Both have a glass orange juice.

"It's going to be a big day for you today."

"Hm?" Sakura looked at Tsunade with a questioned look.

"Remember, your interview at the-"

"Oh shoot! Ah, almost forgot about it!" Sakura stood up, hugged Tsunade and hurried back to her room.

Tsunade just sweat-dropped at the girl and smiled. "Typical Sakura."

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Sakura quickly started her computer, looked at the time it was 8:45AM and her job interview was at 10. She had time but now she had to think about her wardrobe. When her computer finally loaded up, she plugged in her USB stick and opened up the file that said 'RESUME! PRINT OUT!'. While her resume is printing, she walked over to her closet, opening it up, all she could see is dresses, dress pants, two blazers and belts. Pulling out a dress pants her placed it in front of my legs and looked in the mirror.

"Looks like I'm trying too hard."

Putting it back, she stared at her closet once more but then closed it. Walked to her dresser, there was nothing. Looking at the time again, it read 9. Sakura grabbed her eyelash curler and mascara, after apply it, she went over to her desk, grabbed the resume and shouted bye to Tsunade.

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Sakura got off the bus and walked a half-block to her destination. Walking towards the door, it automatically opens both sides. As she stood and looked around she could hear music playing over the speakers, she saw the sign 'Manger's Office', she turns left and walks into the blue door. There was a girl at the front desk and looking up she saw Sakura standing right there.

"Hi, how may I help you?"

"Hi, I've got an interview at 10."

"Alright, name please?" the front desk girl asks.

"Sakura Haruno."

Sakura looked at the girl going through a binder, highlighted her name and check it off. She reached into a drawer pulling out a clipboard with looks like a questionnaire. "Just filled this out, you can sit over there and I'll call you when Mr. Jiraiya is ready."

Sakura nodded and walked to the area the girl pointed to and sat down on a blue leather couch. Looking at the clipboard, it is a questionnaire. Taking the pen that was attached, Sakura started answering them. After finishing, she brought it to the girl and sat right back down.

Sakura looked at her watch it read 9:56. She looked around the room and saw pictures of what seems like the former managers and the founder. A door suddenly opened and a guy with long white spiky hair poked his head out, and the front desk called out Sakura's name. Sakura got up and straightened her pants and shirt, walking over to the door, Sakura smiled at the girl and she smiled back.

"Good luck."

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Sakura entered the room, it wasn't as scary as she thought it was going to be. There was a long book case and a widescreen TV and a DVD player. There was even a small kitchen. This guy seems pretty laid back. Mr. Jiraiya told Sakura to sit down on the chair and Sakura handed him her resume. Taking it, he looked at it for a second but it seemed like hours to Sakura. She got feel her palms feeling sweaty so she quickly wiped them on her pants.

"Impressive resume here," Mr. Jiraiya finally said.

"Thank you."

"I see you do a lot of volunteer work with charities."

"Yes, it not only helps me when applying for college but helps me boost my confidence and knowledge," Sakura replied but then thought 'What the fuck did I just say? Oh my God I'm not making sense!'

"Ah, a girl like you working hard will definitely succeed in life," Mr. Jiraiya said and smiled.

Sakura smiled back. "Oh thank you."

"Now why would you like to work for me?"

"Well, I feel like it was time for me to get off my butt and do something with my summer instead of just doing nothing for two whole months."

"I know what you're saying. I've felt that way and most of my employees do too."

'YOSH! A point for me!'

"I know you said on your application that you would just like to work for the summer but what if, you want to still work here afterward?"

"Oh wow, honestly, I've never really thought about that but for now, it's 50/50 for me."

He nodded his head and looked at her resume once more, and smiled. "Well Sakura, thank you for your time and please go tell Judy at the desk 'cookie'."

Sakura stared at him and shook his hand. "Thank you for your time. Hope to hear from you soon."

Exiting the office, Judy saw her and asked how did it go.

"Good, I think... also he said to tell you 'cookie'?"

Judy's smiled widen and went to the cupboard and pulled out a green bag handing it to Sakura. "See you Saturday morning at 9."

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Sakura left the place in shock and called Tsunade who congratulated her and that they were gonna go out for a special dinner tonight. Sakura quickly got on the bus that is going to take her home. While sitting at the way back of the bus Sakura opens up the bag, she pulled out a green collar t-shirt and a pair of working gloves.

Looking through the bag once more, she couldn't find any pants. Thinking about getting off and heading back, she found a note. Reading it, it says, "Congrats to you! YES YOU! As you see this is your uniform and you must wear them to work everyday! As you may notice there is no pants or shoes. You may wear your own but it MUST be black pants (shorts and skirts is acceptable) with pockets and for shoes, NO FLIP FLOPS OR SANDALS! When you come for your first day, you will be trained by our trainer. Good luck and welcome to the team!"

Sakura sighed as she stuffed everything back in and was happy about finally finding a job but then it hit her.

"I'm going to be working at a supermarket."