Her alarm clock went off and it was 5 in the damn morning. She was never a morning person, so waking up was always troublesome.

Sighing, she hit the snooze button, almost breaking it. Stretching her arms and legs, she got her normal civilian clothing to go take a shower, considering Tsunade gave her a break from yesterday's mission.

It was an S-class, where it included capturing several high ranked sound ninja and torturing them to hand over a certain scroll that had many secrets of Konoha. It wasn't really that hard for her to be honest.

She was 22 and being an anbu captain for over 2 years wasn't a very hard mission to her. When ever Sakura asked for a harder mission that involved actually putting an effort into it, Tsunade always said she wasn't ready. And that always struck a nerve to Sakura.

How can she possibly not be ready? She was trained under the copy-ninja Kakashi Hatake, the apprentice of the legendary sannin Tsunade herself, perfect chakra control, super strength, and even defeated Akasuna No Sasori of the Akatsuki. She felt like everyone underestimated her, not just her mentor.

Sighing once more, she adjusted the water temperature for the shower. She took off her pajamas and undergarments, and stepped in. Sakura always did her best thinking in the shower, not really bothered to know why, she started wondering what her schedule would be for today.

"Well, let's see. We have to go to the grocery store to buy more ingredients for our soldier pills, clean the house, babysit the two brats Mrs. Atarasi left us, and see if there's any patients at the hospital. If not, WE'RE FREE FOR THE REST OF THE DAY!" Inner Sakura throwing her hand in the air in a fist.

"Aren't you forgetting about Naruto? We promised him that we would hang out at Ichiraku's today. We haven't seen him in so long with all these damn missions we've been having lately."

"We? We haven't agreed to hanging out with him. You did, outer."

"Oh come on, why don't you like him? He's like our brother. I mean, he can be really annoying and loud sometimes, but he's probably the sweetest and loving guy I know. Not to mention strongest. I'm surprised he's not Hokage yet"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever I know that. What I'm taking about is his Bijuu inside of him. He annoys me, thinking he's all that and shit."

"Oh, well,I'm sure you can get alo- wait. What do you mean by the nine-tails annoying you? You can talk to him?"

"..."

"INNER!"

"MY GOD, no need to yell. Yeah I can. I'm your inner mind, so obviously I can go into people's minds."

"More like a inner disease."

"HEY!"

Before her inner could even start arguing with her like half of the time they usually do, she cut off their "connection". She wished she could have learned how to do that yearsago. But the gods in the sky were cruel to her and made her suffer. Realizing that she's been in the shower for a little too long than she usually planned to, she quickly rinsed her hair with shampoo and conditioner and cleansed her whole body. Coming out of the shower, she grabbed a blue soft and warm towel and wrapped around her lean and well curved body.

Over the years, Sakura had developed a more mature and grown body. Her "chest department" which she liked to call, became more larger. Not like those women who had them large to seduce men and their shoulders/back hurting so much from how heavy they were. Just a good perfect size. Just the way she liked them.

Not to mention her hair too. It had gotten a lot longer, to her waist even. She had to remind herself to get a trim, it was beginning to annoy her. If she was on a mission and someone spotted her cherry pink hair, she would be in deep shit. Someone had to be either blind, or plain stupid not to notice it. I mean, her bounty wasabout 50,000,000 ryo. Almost all shinobi wanted to kill her when she was spotted. But they didn't succeed, now did they? Hell no, not even close. Sakura Haruno was not to be easily beaten. Looks deceive, so ninja always underestimate her for a little fragile girl. Unlucky for them that she had strength of 1,000 men.

She put on her tight white blouse and normal brown capris with several pockets. They went down to about her knees, maybe even a little shorter. To top it off, she slipped on her flat bottom sandals that were white and brown that covered her ankles. She looked around for any hair ties, but found none. Today was the first day of summer. Yesterday was scorching hot, so you could probably imagine how hot it could be for her today.

She sighed, yet again. "I guess I'll just stop by at Ino's and ask for one." Before leaving, she looked in the mirror. Smirking at how good she looked, she ran out the through the door and grabbed her keys along the way. Locking her door, she put the keys in her front pocket and pumped little to no chakra in her feet to get there faster.

When she finally got to the Yamanaka Flower Shop, she tried to look for Ino but she was no where to be found. Finally, silky yellow hair caught her eye.

"INO! There you a-" before Sakura could even finish her sentence, she realized it wasn't her. It was her mother.

"Am I really that young that I'm being compared to my younger daughter?" Mrs. Yamanaka let out a cheerful laugh.

"I'm very sorry for barging in your store. I was looking for Ino." Sakura exclaimed. Bowing her head.

"Now why would you be sorry, Sakura?," she said, "I swear you're too apologetic sometimes. If you're looking for Ino, she'll be right back. I wanted her to pick up some new flowers to add to our store. You can stay here for a few minutes until she returns." said with a smile.

Sakura nodded, taking a step to the side, trying not to get in her way of work. Amaya Yamanaka looked very much like her daughter. Her yellow vibrant hair was in a high pony tail just like Ino's. The only difference was that her long bangs didn't cover her eye. She had two bangs instead, but they were clipped to each side of her hair, showing her beautiful face. She had some few wrinkles here and there.

Turquoise eyes moved in the direction of the pinkette. There was always a silence between the two. But it was never really an awkward one, more of a comfortable silence that two people enjoyed. Even so, she still wanted to bring up a conversation to make the time move along faster. Not fully knowing what to talk about, she decided to ask about her relationship.

"So Sakura honey," started Amaya, " How's the love life going for you?" asked Amaya curious. Sakura looked at her questioningly. She thought to herself, who in the right mind would like her? Let alone fall in love with her? She was never stunning or beautiful like any of her close friends.

She let out a halfhearted laugh. "I'm actually in no relationship whatsoever. I don't even like anybody to be exact. Even if I did, I'm not really what guys want in a girl." She scratched the back of her lower head. She mostly did that when she was being humble or nervous.

"Don't be silly Sakura, you're a beautiful girl. Don't tell me guys don't want a girl like you. Trust me, you may not see it, but everyone else sees it. Including me. When ever you walk by, men can't even take their eyes off of you. Even Ino told me." Amaya finished off her sentence with smirk. Knowing she did her job well.

Sakura was slightly blushing. She didn't know whether to believe her or not. Amaya was never the one to lie. She was probably the sweetest mother she's ever met. Sometimes Amaya reminded her of her mother that she used to have.

People may not believe it, but Sakura always wanted a big happy family. She always smiled around everyone and cheered people up, just by her presence. But when she was alone where no one could see her, she always wore a frown and hated herself. Her father was a ninja, but was mostly at bars. When he got home he would always be abusive toward the whole family. Her mother on the other hand was a normal civilian who was pregnant at the time. They were expecting a girl, Sakura and her older brother Akio wanted to name her Asuka. Sadly, her father one night was more drunk than usual. He beat her mother so hard she had to go to the hospital. Sakura was only 10, and her brother was on a mission. So the only choice was to leave the house to save her mother.

Her father died of alcohol intoxication while Asuka, not even being born yet, died of miscarriage. She was devastated. To top it all off, Akio died on the mission while all this was happening. What was left of this whole family was her mother, and she already died the following year of a disease. Sakura being, well, Sakura. She blamed everything on her. Feeling guilty for the whole thing. If she was stronger and older at the time she would have at least saved her mother. Everything that night, mentally scared her. That's why she moved out of the house after all of it. She couldn't bear living in that house after all of that happened. Though, through out the years, she's gotten to look past it and start new. She couldn't live her whole life miserable. She had to be strong.

Before Sakura could even respond, Ino walked in.

"FOREHEAD! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN FOREVER," screamed Ino, tackling Sakura to the ground.

"Pig...get...off... me!" said Sakura while trying to talk through Ino's tight hug. Her hugs were the best, but sometimes were a little too much when they haven't seen each other in a while.

"Huh...OH!.. heh heh, sorry forehead." apologized Ino. Helping her up, she gave her a proper, none death crushing hug. Amaya just smiled at the two.

"Judging by your clothes, I guess you're not on a mission," said Ino. Sakura only nodded. Ino grabbed her hand and walked out the store. "MOM! WE'RE LEAVING! LOVE YOU!," screamed while now running down the sunny streets of Konoha. Amaya just chuckled, how can she be so energetic, she"ll never know.

"My god forehead, where have you been these past few weeks. I never see you."

"Ino, I'm an anbu, what do you expect. Oh, by any chance, do you have a hair tie?"

"I wouldn't be Ino Yamanaka without one!" said Ino, giving Sakura a black hair tie. She tied it around her pink long locks and made it into a high pony tail like Ino's. It looked messy, in a attractive way, with her spiky hair perfect in place. Her neck was already beginning to sweat from all the hair in the way.

"Okay, so what are we going to do today? Spar, hang out, club..." Ino went on and on, listing activities they could do together.

"Actually Ino I was kind of busy today. I have a list of things I have to do. I was hoping you would help me with them..." said Sakura without looking at Ino. She didn't say anything, so she hesitantly looked at her, hoping she doesn't look mad at her.

"You're a really big pain in the ass, you know that Sakura? But fine, the faster we get this whole thing done, the faster we can hang out!" cheered Ino happily.

Sakura just smiled. Where would she be without her best friend?