Just one more interview and I'll be done for the day; hopefully these people won't be as dysfunctional as the others. Sakura thought, as she waited on the corner for the bus. At twenty-one, Sakura finally decided it was time to move out of her older brother's house and look for her own place, or at least live with roommates since her part time job didn't pay enough to afford all of the bills.
Sakura had gone to meet/interview with potential roommates and none of them appealed to Sakura after meeting. The first place she went was a two bedroom apartment off of the Main Road in Konoha. It was a nice place with a living room, kitchen, and full bathroom; the only problem was the roommate. She was a forty something year old women who sounded like she smoked too much in her lifetime, not that Sakura minded smokers, this women also had seventeen snakes and a snapping turtle that didn't have a cage living in the apartment. Also she fought regularly with her boyfriend and had very loud and "passionate" as the woman described, make-up sex with him. Sakura immediately declined the offer to live there.
The next offer was even worse than the last. It was a three bedroom apartment in the most rundown part of the city, and there were already six people living there, and they were all prostitutes. Prostitutes, it was pretty much a whorehouse she walked into. Sakura wasn't quite sure why they needed another roommate but decided against that apartment when a few of their clients showed up and asked her if she was new and was willing. Sakura assured them she was not new and definitely not willing, and then she ran the fuck away from there as soon as possible. Thinking back on it, she should have known they were prostitutes just by the ad in the paper. They described themselves as very very friendly and loved meeting and having a 'good time' with new people. They even had parenthesis around good time in the ad itself!
Sakura sighed as she leaned back on the dirty worn bus seat, at the rate she was going she would never find a place to stay. It's not that she didn't enjoy living with her brother; they got along fine and dandy. But leaving Sasori meant leaving her past behind, and all the dirty little secrets they held. Even though she loved her brother dearly, they both decided that being apart with minimal contact from each other was the best thing for Sakura, the safest thing for Sakura. At least for a little while, until those dirty little secrets no longer had control of their lives and they could breathe easy again. So when the bus finally pulled up Sakura hoped for the best that this last house would work out.
Konoha was a large city, and Sakura grew up and lived on the east side of the city. It wasn't ghetto or slum like, but it was still lower class, as were the apartments she had previously been looking at. This last one was different though, it was a West Side house. The West side wasn't a bunch of rich people who had nothing better to do with their lives than to throw around their money on sports cars and plastic surgery, no it was still considered middleclass, but it was a step higher than what Sakura had lived in. The bus ride took forty minutes to get there, and it also wasn't quite in the city city part of Konoha, just the outer portions of it in a neighborhood, something Sakura also hadn't lived in before, most of East side was all apartments. The bus dropped her off in front of a small minimart, and she walked three blocks to the house she was looking at. Thank you GPS. Sakura though to herself.
8235 Kurama St. This is must be the place. Sakura stood at the end of the driveway and surveyed the two-story house. It was a simple, quaint brick house with a green shudders on the windows, along with a green awning that covered the small porch. There was an old dark green Chevy Trailblazer parked in the driveway, and a white focus parked in front of the house, indicating that someone was home. Sakura took a deep breath and walked up steps to the door. She rang the doorbell and within seconds the door swung open revealing the house's owner. The owner, a tall blonde-haired girl around Sakura's age stood there smiling.
"You must be Sakura, the girl who called about the room?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm Sakura Haruno," Sakura replied politely.
"Well come on in!" the blonde said holding the door open for Sakura to enter. "My name is Ino Yamanaka by the way," the girl said closing the door behind her; Sakura was looking around the room when another girl with black hair and lavender eyes came down the stairs to greet the visitor.
"This is Hinata Hyuuga, she's my roommate," Ino said introducing the black haired girl.
"I-it's n-nice to m-meet you," Hinata stuttered out shyly.
"Nice to meet you too! I'm Sakura," Sakura replied with a smile, she noticed Hinata had the most intriguing eye color, very pale lavender, it suited her gentle eyes.
"So let me give you the grand tour," Ino said, arms out gesturing to the space around them.
"This is the living room, upstairs are the three bedrooms, there's also a bathroom up there, through here is the dining room," Ino explained as she led Sakura through the dining room that connected to the living room, "the kitchen is right over here, and that door is the bathroom. Downstairs, there is another T.V. where all of our gaming systems are hooked up, we also have an air hockey table and a ping pong table, oh yeah the laundry room is down there too, her I'll show you!" Ino led Sakura down the stairs followed by Hinata, to show her the basement. Sakura looked around, Ino wasn't kidding there was a huge air hockey table in one corner, adjacent to it was a ping pong table. The large T.V. was set up all sorts of gaming systems, Xbox 360, Playstions two and three, they even had a Nintendo 64 and a Gamecube hooked up. Sakura, to say the least was impressed. Sasori and his friends only had an Xbox hooked up to their television.
"Wow, you guys have all that?" Sakura asked. So far she enjoyed this house, it was clean(mostly,) potentially dangerous animals have not been spotted as of yet, and there was a decent amount of space in this house plus videogames were a plus, though she sucked at most videogames, she was killer at Super Smash Bros. Melee, if she used Kirby that is.
"Well it's not all ours," Ino replied, "We have some guy friends who practically live here, they have keys and everything and those apes are around all the damn time." Ino emphasized all the time, "we've kind of just inherited their stuff since they leave it and never take it back."
"W-we understand i-i-if you wouldn't want to s-stay here because of th-them," Hinata added in.
"They're the reason we can't get a decent roommate, I mean the guys are nice, they won't be creeps and try to rape you in your sleep or anything like that, but some people don't like the idea of going downstairs and finding random men eating breakfast, plus they can be really loud. Especially our one friend Naruto, he yells at everything. And Kiba, well you'll find him in the kitchen or playing video games most likely, chances are you'd find our friend Shikamaru asleep somewhere, or in the yard cloud watching. Then there's Sasuke, he just has a stick in his ass and can only show two emotions, irritated and even more irritated. Chances are he'll just ignore you." Ino explained.
Sakura thought about what Ino said about the guys being there constantly. It didn't really bother her considering when she lived with her brother his friends did the same thing. They practically lived there, and the way Ino described the guys wasn't so bad, they didn't sound as strange as the freaks Sasori called friends. Plus between work and school and homework, Sakura would be busy and probably wouldn't be home most of the time. She pondered over this while she followed Ino and Hinata back upstairs into the kitchen.
"This cupboard here would be yours," Ino said pointing to one that had an unreadable named scratched out on it, "both Hinata and I have our own, our rule is no one is allowed to take food from another cupboard without permission, same goes for the fridge just label your stuff, the guys know not to eat anything with your name on it, they'll just take our stuff."
"W-we also t-tend to p-play music c-constantly," Hinata added.
"Yeah, but when bedroom doors are closed its harder to hear the music, so you can blast your own if you felt like it," Ino added.
"Well I don't mind the guys being around, when I'm here I'll probably be held up in my room, and loud music doesn't bother me, I could sleep through an air raid. My only question is the rent, how much would I be paying?" Sakura asked.
"Because my parents actually own this property and are renting to me, we get an awesome discount, its nine hundred total per month, so we split it three ways," Ino explained.
"Nine hundred total! Holy mother of flying monkeys that's cheap!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Ha ha yeah, you can thank my parents for that," Ino said with an amused look on her face, "so…?"
Sakura paused for a moment to consider everything, she absolutely loved the house, and the price was just right, she probably couldn't find a better place.
"I'd love to be your new roommate!" Sakura said barely containing her excitement; she was practically jumping with glee.
"YES! You can move in whenever, we'll get the boys to help you if you'd like," Ino said excitedly.
"It's no problem, I'll have my brother and his friends help me."
"W-we have the p-paperwork a-already made up," Hinata stuttered, before she went upstairs to grab the contract. After a few minutes of reading it and going over specific parts, Sakura signed her name and officially had a place to stay.
"Here's your key!" Ino said happily handing over a small key.
Sakura had a very good feeling about this.
Author's Note: Whoo! new story hope you like it! and If you don't, well that's okay. :D Reviews would be nice! Don't feel obligated though!