Naruto pulled into his usual parking space behind his apartment. His friends all piled into his car without any semblance of grace or silence. "So where are we headed?" he asked. Kiba shouted "Burger King!" at the same time Sakura and Ino yelled out "Cook Out!" Naruto winced. "Sooo… Sonic it is, then." Whoops and hollers resounded from the backseats.
Sitting in the car munching on Sonic's conies and tots, Naruto is totally unsuspecting of what is to happen next. "So Naruto," Sakura sipped her limeade then stated bluntly, "We've set you up on a blind date." She held up her hand, sensing what was coming. "You can't back out of it, so don't even try. We're tired of seeing your love life suffer. Consider this an intervention." Naruto scowled.
He responded loudly, "I don't need your help. And it's not suffering! I'm just too busy for stuff like that right now. I could find somebody if I really wanted to!" Kiba snorted. Naruto turned to glare at him. "And you guys aren't exactly going out with someone every nig—" Kiba opened his mouth and Naruto interrupted with "I mean a significant other, Kiba."
Naruto sighed, exasperated. "You know what? Fine. I'll do it. Just to prove that I can if I want to. As long as you guys swear to never do this again!" If only Naruto knew what the resounding laughter would mean for him.
Sakura smiled at him. "Good. You're to meet your date at Villa Nueva in your usual back corner booth at 8 o'clock on Friday night."
'Two days. That only leaves me two days to mentally prepare myself for whatever bogus date these idiots set up. Well, at least it's at the Mexican restaurant. Who knows? Maybe she'll be nice and we'll have a good time. If not, there's still gonna be burritos.' Naruto smiled inwardly, careful not to let his mouth so much as twitch.
Friday rolls around and Naruto walks in his apartment to see Sakura and Ino waiting on his couch. "Somehow, I get this feeling of impending doom." Sakura laughed a little too loudly and slapped his back. "Come on, I want to help you get dressed." "Sakura, I'm not a total idiot. I can dress myself, you know." She grinned, "Ah, but this is a special occasion." Naruto grunted in reply, knowing he couldn't possibly win an argument against Sakura.
In the end, Sakura had rummaged through Naruto's closet and dresser, finally picking something out. Naruto was somewhat confused to see that it was something he would normally wear anyway. "Sakura, was this really necessary? I probably would have picked that out on my own, anyway." Ino snorted. "Of course it was necessary. She wanted to go through your drawers and this was the least rude way to go about it." Naruto just gaped.
He sighed, shaking his head. "Well, I'm going to get a quick shower. I don't want to smell like the gym, regardless of how I feel about going out."
Sakura waited until she heard the click of the lock on the bathroom door before she let out the breath she had apparently been holding. "Thank god he doesn't still have that stupid yearbook. This just might be the perfect prank after all." She clapped her hands together, marking a job well done. She and Ino took their leave to go meet up with Kiba, but not before putting a smiley-face sticky note with a heart on it on the bedroom mirror that said "Good luck getting lucky!"