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Sakura had been friends with Naruto and Sasuke since childhood, ever since her family moved to Konoha district when she was 4 years old. The first time she'd met them was two days after the move, when her mother had taken her to the playground.
Naruto had been 3 and a half at the time, and she had watched a group of older kids push him off the swing set. Having been taught compassion at an early age, Sakura had rushed to help him up, at the same time a 4 year old Sasuke had rushed over from the slides to beat up the bullies.
Afterwards, Sakura's mother had taken her and the two bruised boys for ice cream before dropping them off at their respective homes.
And they've been best friends ever since.
Thirteen years later, Naruto announced that he was in love with Hinata and the two began dating. Not one to be outdone, Sasuke soon began dating Ino. And poor Sakura, feeling like a fifth wheel whenever they all hung out together, decided to distance herself from her friends.
Things seemed to be getting back to normal after Sasuke and Ino broke up, until Sasuke started dating TenTen. And after that failed relationship, came Temari, then Ami, and then Karin.
"Please tell me you're not still dating Karin?" Sakura asked of Sasuke, one summer's afternoon as they rocked gently on the swing set.
"Yeah, it's been almost a month, right? You two are getting pretty serious, huh?" Said Naruto making smoochy noises as he leaned closer to Sasuke.
"Idiot," muttered Sasuke, pushing him away. "What's wrong with Karin, anyway?"
"Um, let's see," said Sakura, putting a finger to her lip and pretending to think, "she hates me!"
"She doesn't hate you," replied Sasuke automatically.
Naruto burst out laughing at that. "Of course she hates Sakura-chan. She thinks Sakura-chan is in love with you!"
"WHAT!?" spat both Sasuke and Sakura, a million denials and insults coming to mind.
Naruto just raised his hands in surrender. "Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. She doesn't like Sakura-chan hanging around her boyfriend so much, especially when you dont have a boyfriend of your own, Sakura-chan."
"That's ridiculous, if that were the case then how come Hinata doesn't feel the same, even though I hang out with you just as much as Sasuke?"
"W-W-Well a-a-actually, S-S-Sakura-san..." started a quiet voice from beside the swing set.
Sasuke and Sakura jumped at the voice, having forgotten that she was there completely.
"Oh, come on! Not you too," begged Sakura.
Hinata simply nodded her head and blushed as she looked at the floor.
"We're getting off-top here. The reason I called you here today is because I... IthinkIreallylikeKarinandI'mseriousabouther."
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"What? No, come on Sasuke, dont walk away, I seriously couldn't hear what you just said!"
"Stop being so emo, tell us properly!" Added Naruto.
"I SAID I LOVE KARIN! Maybe. I think," said Sasuke, deflating as he sat back on the swing.
"Wow," yelled Naruto, patting Sasuke on the back and sending him swinging forward.
"Watch it, idiot! Anyway, I didn't call you here for that exactly. I-I... Need... Your... Help," he eventually says.
"Really?" Asked Sakura. "But you never ask for help. Ever!"
"Clearly that's not true because I just did. Now will you two - sorry, three - agree to help me or not?"
"Ofcourse we'll help you! You're our friend, we're not going to turn our b-"
"Wait wait wait. Hang on Naruto. This must be pretty big if Sasuke cant solve this problem on his own," said Sakura, not missing the way Sasuke shifts uncomfortably in his seat. "First tell us what's up."
Oh yeah! Good idea, Sakura-chan - you cant trick us, Sasuke-teme!"
"You guys are the worst," said Sasuke with a groan.
Nonetheless, he proceeded to tell them about his brother, Itachi, and how he's managed to scare off everyone of his girlfriends' so far-
"Wait, what about Ino, she wouldn't scare that easily!"
"-He cut her hair in her sleep," Sasuke deadpanned.
"Huh," said Sakura, an evil gleam in her eye, "That pig told me she cut it because it was time for a change, and that I should do the same!"
"W-what a-a-bout Tenten? She's d-d-dating my cousin n-n-now and she seems t-t-tough," said Hinata.
"Yeah! Yeah!" Added Naruto. "She used to beat up on me all the time when you two dated!"
"-Green hair dye. The day she went to the salon to fix it, she met your cousin, Neji."
"Your emo brother has a hair fetish or something," says Naruto, scratching his cheek. Just then, his eyes light up, as though just figuring out something complicated. "Oh! So Itachi was the one responsible for Karin's terrible red hair colour!"
"What? No! That's her natural hair and I like it that colour! Anyways, that's not the point!" Shouts Sasuke, his cheeks aflame.
"Ok, then what has he done to Karin?" Asks Sakura, hoping that he says something really aweful.
"Nothing, he doesn't know about Karin yet. Which is why I need your help. Things are getting serious with Karin and I cant risk him being an ass and scaring her off."
"But we've met Itachi before, and he seemed nice enough. Kind of dark, but decent enough. Why is he doing this?"
"I think he's bored."
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"Your family is pretty messed up. Have you considered therapy?"
"That's not funny," pouted Sasuke, shooting Sakura an evil glare.
"S-S-So w-w-what do you w-w-want us to do?"
"He's been away for two months with his friends on some trip to Africa to feed starving children or something like that, but he's due to return tomorrow."
"Aaanndddd you want us to...?" Asked Sakura.
Sasuke turned to look at her, an evil gleam in his eye that sent a shiver down her spine.
"I want you to distract him."
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