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Chapter 1

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What Started It All

Team Kakashi was lazing around on the newly picked training ground. Sakura was lying on her back under a big sakura tree, with her feet dangling in the river. Naruto swam in the river, and screamed loudly every time a fish came in contact with him. Sasuke sat in one of the many trees, observing his friends, and dozing slightly in the summer heat. Being in the fire country they tended to have extremely hot summers. Kakashi, the leader of this lazy team, sat against the same tree Sakura was under, 'reading' his infamous orange book. In truth, Kakashi was rather enjoying watching Naruto make a fool out of himself over a few little fish.

"Sensei?" Sakura had rolled over on to her tummy to watch the copy-nin.

"Hm?" came his lame response.

"Why don't you ever date any of the women who throw themselves at you?" she asked lazily.

"What?" he asked confused, never taking his eye off his book.

"You heard me." Sakura innocently twisted a finger in her short pink locks.

"I suppose I'm waiting for a certain someone to throw herself at Me." he moved his eye away from the book to look at Sakura.

"Oh, and who would this be?"

"Sorry that's classified." He replied lazily, as he continued to read his book.

"Your no fun" she rolled back over and continued her cloud gazing.

Naruto appeared above Sakura, dripping water all over her face. "AH, Naruto that's gross!" the pink kunochi screamed.

"Sorry Sakura-Chan, what were you two talking about?" the blonde demon fox asked.

"Just dating, nothing exciting." She answered, wiping water from her eyes.

"Oh… hey Sakura-Chan wanna get some ramen later?" he asked nonchalantly.

"Sure, you paying?"

Naruto whipped out his frog purse, he had just enough for two bowls of ramen. "I suppose, if you don't mind one bowl that is."

"Hmm… yah that's fine."

"So it's a date?" he asked with worry written in his voice.

"It's a date." Sakura tilted her head to look at Naruto and gave him a big smile.

"Wait! Why do you get to go out with her?" Sasuke suddenly appeared at Naruto's side.

"Because I asked?" the blonde didn't know how to react. He'd never seen Sasuke show any interest in Sakura before.

"What if I wanted to ask her out tonight?" Sasuke looked defensive for some reason.

"But you didn't ask her, Naruto-kun did." Kakashi answered for the kyuubi.

Sakura was now sitting up, thoroughly confused by what was going on. She couldn't believe the boys were arguing over her. Well… it was a one sided argument, Naruto just looked thoroughly confused. Even though the Uchiha had expressed interest in her, she wasn't about to break her date with Naruto for him. He had waited a long time for this and she would feel bad if she ditched him now. Besides she enjoyed his company over Sasuke's any day.

"Why do you care?" Sasuke shot at Kakashi.

"I don't really." The silver haired man shrugged. "Why don't you just ask her out for another night?" he suggested.

"Not a bad idea. So what do you say Sakura-Chan?" the Uchiha asked turning to her.

Sakura was thrown off by the question, not only by the fact that she was finally recognized as still sitting there, but also by the fact that the three men were discussing her. "Uh… sure… I guess…" the puzzled look on her face never once faltering. Sakura looked at Kakashi in wonderment. She couldn't comprehend what was going on; only that she now had two dates with her best friends.

"Then it's settled, the two of you each get a date with our cherry blossom here." As if that settled the matter, Kakashi resumed reading his smut.

And this is what started it all…