Doctor Oblivious

Chapter One: She Needs a Life

Crazy: Ughhhhhhh I need to do some serious revising to all my stories

(Page Break Brought to You By Twirling Sakura)

"I love you, Doctor Haruno."

Silence. It was so quiet one would be able to hear a pin drop before it was broken. There was a sharp sigh, accompanied by a twitching smile on pale pink lips. She looked less than pleased, not that the starstruck male would really notice.

"That's… kind of you, Akagi-san."

Peridot hues glance over him, nearly wincing at the hopeful eyes dim at her deflection. Ugh. Why did rejection have to be such a delicate process? She'd like to rip the metaphorical bandaid off, but that usually made room for harassment. No thanks. She stares at the board in her arms intensely, the easiest way to avoid his gaze. For a moment she had to resist the urge to write 'delusional' in her report.

The young man, Akagi, couldn't help but frown. He wasn't surprised by her trying to deflect his confession, but he liked to think he was good looking. Sure, maybe he wasn't gorgeous- really with his brown hair he was rather plain- but he wanted a chance with her! He'd known when she helped lead him through some difficult illnesses that she was the one. A gentle affection had started back then, and had quickly become a near lustful obsession. He clears his throat, as if expecting her to reset her answer.

"No, Sakura-" She grimaces "Dr. Haruno, please! Just listen, I really love you! I've been in love with you ever since you helped me! You were there for me when everyone else had-"

Perhaps she was being too mean? Sakura sighs again, a small hand running through her pink strands, duly noting how much of it had escaped her ponytail since this morning. She would need to fix it. Maybe some would say she was cruel to ignore his heart felt confession, but it felt like it wasn't anything she hadn't heard before. Once he seemed to wind down, she bows her head slightly.

"Though I find your confession to be brave, I'm not interested in a relationship at this point of my life. Much less with a patient, that would be entirely unprofessional." She raises her head, smile wooden against her deceptively sweet face. "Have a good day, Akagi-san."

How his fantasies crumbled so quickly.

(Page Break Brough to You By Ino Hair Flips)

"Wow, you icy cold bitch." Ino said dryly, flicking her blond hair behind her with an amused smirk.

"What, so I should drop to my knees and accept him and the relationship for a kinky fantasy he's had? Fuck. That."

The two women were hiding away in the only place in the hospital where peace even seemed remotely possible- the coffee room. It's the one place anyone could meet up after dealing with patients to get a small respite, and the two most popular women were especially frequent visitors.

"Well, it's either something like that or end up some old crazy spinster. Better start collecting your cats in preparation, forehead."

"Who needs a cat when my best friend is bitchy enough to be one?"

"Rude."

There was a small pause, Ino taking the time to look at her frustrated friend. She was striking, exotic. Sakura was her own category of lovely. Ino herself was a more common kind of beautiful, with her big blue eyes and perfect blond hair- a fact that she made sure to flaunt.

The pinkette though really was quite the sight. That pink hair, barely reaching her shoulders, was a shiny fall of blush strands, curling in slightly at the ends. And those eyes were a brilliant, unusual shade of peridot green that were so incredibly expressive. Sure, Sakura might not have much for breasts, but her legs were definitely enough to get men's (and some women's) imaginations going.

Really if it weren't for how incredibly awkward she was, Sakura Haruno by all rights should be in a relationship right now. If her fans had it their way, she'd have been hitched long ago.

And if Ino had her way, Sakura would have been married YEARS ago. At the age of 24, her pink haired best friend was not only a doctor under the tutelage of none other than the best doctor alive, Tsunade Senju, but she was gorgeous on top of it!

But again, it came down to Sakura being awkward as hell. Since high school the pinkete has only had female friends. She had decided around middle school she wanted to follow in Tsunade's footsteps, working tirelessly to be qualified. Thanks to her determination, she never really met anyone outside of their group.

Here, Ino could even name them.

Uh, herself, obviously. Ino had been Sakura's very first friend back in elementary school. The pinkete had been bullied until Ino stood up for her, earning her own adorable, shy duckling to follow her around. Well, until she got inspired by Tsunade. She very quickly had stopped hiding behind Ino and hiding away in the library.

Then there was Karin. Karin in all her red haired, angry glory came around in middle school. She and Ino, both being such loud women had quickly made friends, even if it was tumultuous at times. With Karin coming into Ino's fold, the fiery girl had quickly taken a liking to their shy pink haired flower. Even now Karin was probably the most protective of Sakura in the group.

Next came Hinata, the sweet shy Hyuga. Sakura had been the one to befriend her first, the two connecting over their shared meekness and overall social anxiety at the time. Even after Sakura became more of her own voice the two remain especially close.

Temari and Tenten soon followed, having been Hinata's friends from their previous schools. Together they had made quite the pack in high school, but heavens knew it wasn't always for the best. They'd been so protective over Sakura she never really dated any guys, despite the fact even then she'd had a fan club.

Shizune and Tsunade were the only others Sakura could consider her friends, though seeing as they were coworkers and, at this point, pretty much family it was hard to count them.

So, that was it. The whole list of people Sakura actually had in her group of friends. They all loved her, but their pink haired friend was an outlier now in that… she was the only one alone. Hell she was the only one who wasn't MARRIED.

Ino sought to fix this.

"You know, someday I'm just going to drop you in your weird little fan club and hope you get a guy. Or girl. Whatever you're into."

"INO."

"What? Just saying!"

"Uh huh. You wish I was into you, perv."

Ino smirks at this, wiggling her brows at the pinkete, who simply rolls her eyes in response. "Who could resist this face~?"

"Me."

"Whatever. Stop trying to distract me. Why not just give one of these guys a chance? Go on a date, live a little."

"They're my patients Ino, that's against so many rules… and besides, it's not like they actually love me. They just want me in their bed."

"That's how it starts, sure, but you bring them into your sugar trap and make them want to stay!"

"You sound so creepy, pig."

Sakura huffs, finishing off her cup of coffee- black, a fact that Ino shuddered at. Demon. "Alright, now that we've had the same conversation we have pretty much daily, how about we actually go do some work?"

"Whatever you say, future spinster."

Ino had a mission in life, and it was to make sure that Sakura Haruno got with a guy who would give her a happy, loving relationship. She wanted her best friend to live a full life, not just one about only her work.

She would have to start really putting some effort into this.

She needed to call a girl's meeting, minus one certain cherry blossom.

She'd be damned if any of her friends became crazy old cat ladies, not on her watch!