From Me To You

A Valentines Day Fic.

Posted in honor of Haruno Sakura's Birthday.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. (And probably never will.)

Written: 3/19/08 Typed: 3/27/08 Edited: 3/27/08

Enjoy, R&R please!

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Sakura Haruno walked into her home office and grimaced. She had a boatload of paper work to do. It was just sitting there waiting to swallow her up in its depth.

She picked up a section of the pile and began to read quickly. Anbu mission reports, civilian complaints about the new park equipment, something about the Academy playground, and a renovation request from the regulars at the Jounin lounge.

Sheesh, I'll never get this done.

So make up some shadow clones to help you, dummy! God, I wonder why you're supposed to be so smart, I don't see it that often. I bet your IQ is lower than Naruto's sometimes!

Sakura ignored the comment about he IQ level and instead commented on the shadow clone idea.

Good idea!

Sakura made the appropriate hand signs and created six clones of herself to do some of the work.

"Okay guys! Let's get this mountain sorted!"

"Hai!"

The other six Sakuras moved over to the pile and began to briefly scan papers and sort them into smaller stacks, neatly arranged in rows. The real Sakura got several folders out and began to label them. After that she helped her clones to sort more papers into the folders she had just finished with previously.

Let's see here. Anbu mission report. Jounin roster. Two and a half year old Academy students list. Old festival plans. Instructions for making spicy pickles for a snack…? Sakura shook her head. "When Tsunade-sensei said to sort these, I never thought she would have health food recipes in this mess."

The other replicas of her chuckled.

After all, none of them could really see Tsunade eating health food…or sorting papers.

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/47 minutes later./

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Sakura nodded at her clones and with a 'poof' they disappeared into a dense white smoke that billowed around the room and disappeared speedily.

"Whew! Finally done."

Trudging down the dull white stairs, the pink-haired kunoichi lay face down on her pink couch. She laid there for a while enjoying the peace of the moment. Suddenly, her stomach growled, revealing her hunger.

"Okay, I'll feed you."

Sakura patted her stomach (which was still making animal-like noises) and walked to the kitchen.

"What to eat, what to eat? Umm. I think I'll have some instant ramen. Geez, Naruto must be rubbing off on me more than I thought."

Sakura pulled the package out of the cabinet and poured water in. After sticking it in the microwave, she wandered over to the fridge and extracted the milk carton. She then transferred about half of what was left into a glass.

When the microwave 'ding'ed and she had put her ramen on the table, she finally sat down and began to eat. A few minutes later, when she was done eating, Sakura looked up and saw a blue bag opposite her, sitting on a chair.

Sakura stared at it curiously before reaching over her empty ramen cup and picking it up.

Who could this be from? Huh.

All of a sudden she remembered what day it was, and why there would be a present waiting for her on this particular day.

"OH MY KAMI! I COMPLETELY FORGOT!"

Yes, that's right. Haruno Sakura, who always remembered everything had forgotten Valentines Day.

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I've decided to make this a two or three chapter story, so I don't have to write it all in one sitting. See you soon!

R&R, please!?