Welcome to Konoha Café!

By- D…E…C…E…P…S…H…U…N

Summary- It's like Sakura's dream come true- working at the brand-new, totally chic Konoha Café, socializing with the rich and famous (well, sort of), and all that jazz. Too bad it comes with two pretty-boy prodigies, one hyper ninja wannabe, and lazy sensei coaching them… [SAKUMULTIPLE[NaruHina [InoShikaTem AU

Notes- Okay… this was going to be a Halloween-ish story complete with horror, and suspense… AND COOLNESS (because Halloween's coming soon!!!)… but after writing about a page and a half, the story completely morphed into… something else. Let's just say that this is just a story that I wrote to… erm, celebrate the Halloween-ness of the… erm, week.

Random Person: -Ahem- so, basically what Decepshun means is that she's writing a fic to celebrate Halloween, but it's not scary or anything…

Random Person 2: Which is somewhat stupid.

Shut up! –Ahem- anyway, enjoy the story!

PS- I'm trying out a new style of writing- if you review, please tell me how it seems. (a.k.a "say if it stupid, genius, or just plain weird... or exactly the same as my other writings.")

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+Prologue+

And How It All Began

Sakura closed her eyes and sighed. Took a deep breath. Closed her eyes again. Sighed again. Took another breath. She straightened her uniform, and tugged at her skirt. She hand-combed her hair, pulling at the tangles. Frowning, she eyed her chapped lips. Sakura quickly applied lip-gloss and smiled again.

After all, she had gotten the job. The ultimate job a girl her age- fifteen years old- could never dream of getting, not in a million years. But she had.

The few spots at Konoha Café, reserved for high school students, were almost unobtainable. After going through several job interviews, with existing staff criticizing your every move, how you dressed, how you hair looked, how you held yourself- it was all critical. But what, exactly, made Konoha Café so desirable, Sakura couldn't tell. Perhaps it was how chic the café itself looked. Perhaps it was the ultra-hot staff members.

But Sakura didn't care about the chic-looking café, or the cute waiters. She was in it (A/N- very tempting to put in '…for the cash; yeah, baby!') because… well, you could say she wanted to find out where her life was going.

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+Chapter One+

The Morning

A cell phone rang, playing an upbeat melody. Someone stirred. "Mmm," the girl muttered, sleepy, blinking blearily at the clock. 5:45 a.m., the bright, harsh letters on the alarm clock stared back at her. "Who would be calling so early?" she murmured to herself, relishing the warmth of her bed.

Nevertheless, she opened her light pink cell phone. "Hello… this is Sakura speaking," the girl, Sakura, said softly into the phone. She paused, listening to the speaker calling her. "Hmm…" Pause. "Sorry, sir. I didn't know- I'm new, see." Pause. "Okay. Yes… that wasn't an excuse." Pause. "Alright. Can you first tell them to wait if I don't answer the door?" Pause. "Okay, thanks. Bye."

Sakura groaned, and ran her fingers through her cherry-pink hair. She yawned, and washed her face, feeling a bit more awake now. She smiled at herself in the mirror, and hastily brushed her teeth.

"Good morning, everyone!" she yelled to her stuffed animals- the cat, the bunny, and the mouse. Feeling all awake now, Sakura hugged each of them. "Wish me luck, 'kay?" She sat down next to the stuffed animals and sighed. "I wonder what it'll be like- the new job?" She sat there in silence for a few minutes and jumped up. "I'd better start changing."

She stripped out of her pajamas- consisting of a light pink long-sleeved shirt with cherry blossoms on it, and long dark-pink fleece pants- and into the Konoha Café uniform, which was basically just a long-sleeved, black maid costume. But even frillier.

Sakura sighed, as she slipped on the dress, and put on the white knee-length socks. She tied on the thin, satin-white bow in her hair, and gasped in surprise when she heard a (masculine) voice behind her, whispering in her ear: "You're doing it all wrong." His breath tickled her ear; he untied the bow she had (painstakingly) tied.

"Y-you!" Sakura jumped in surprise, her face turning red. "W-w-what are you doing here?" Her head whipped around, turning to see a boy with short, black hair and even darker eyes, his pale skin not contrasting much with her white ribbon that he held in his hand. Her breath caught in her throat as she eyed him dazedly.

"I'm Sai," he said nonchalantly, as if walking into an unknown girl's bedroom was something he did everyday, "Now let me retie the bow."

Sakura snapped out of her daze. "A-ano!" Sakura yelped a little. "Wait-"

Now listening to her, Sai leaned forward, and bent down a little, as he retied the ribbon, gently tugging at it when he finished. "There." He smiled. "Okay, time for proper introductions. I'm Sai, one of the staff members of Konoha Café…"-I nodded a little, about to sit on my bed-"… and the person you're about to sit on- his name's Naruto."

Sakura squeaked a little, as she realized the presence behind her. Balancing between standing and sitting down, Sakura was about to get back up again and apologize profusely when suddenly; she felt a furry, warm thing rubbing against her leg. Her eyes widening as she held in her scream, Sakura lost her balance and fell, despite her attempts not to, on the stranger sitting on her bed.

To make a long story short…

She fell.

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"Mou, Saku-chan," the stranger, Naruto, whined, as Sakura tried to squirm from his grasp, red-faced with embarrassment, "Don't go away!" Sakura paused and looked the stranger over- with soft-looking blond hair, bright blue eyes, and tanned skin, sixteen-ish, seventeen at most.

She blushed, but when she heard another (thankfully, feminine-at least she thought so) voice mutter: "Dobe." Sakura turned towards the direction of the voice and grinned at the person. She opened her eyes and found herself staring at a girl- or maybe it was a boy- of about sixteen to seventeen; about the same age as Appear-In-Strangers'-Rooms and Weird-Whiny-Guy. She- or maybe it was a he- had medium-length silky-looking dark hair, and obsidian eyes, staring back at Sakura.

"Introduce yourself, teme!!!" the blond boy- Naruto- yelled gleefully… or perhaps he was always this cheerful. The girl- or a boy- sighed and brushed hair away from her- or maybe his- forehead and began: "I'm Uchiha Sasuke. Ignore anything the dobe says about me." With that, she (or a he?) huffed, and glared out the window.

"What's with her today?" Sakura whispered not-so-quietly to Sai, who was leaning against the pale pink wall of Sakura's bedroom. Naruto snickered, hearing her question, and Sai smiled- although barely. Sasuke head snapped in her direction. Noticing her acquaintances' reactions, Sakura blinked innocently: "Was it something I said?"

There was a long awkward silence, broken by Naruto's badly contained laughter. He finally burst out laughing, followed by a huge smirk from Sai and a scowl and a glare from Sasuke.

"The thing is… -snicker-," Naruto managed to say between giggles and snickers, "that… -snicker- our fellow 'Suke here, -snicker-, is, in fact, 100 male." Sakura's hands flew up to cover her mouth- she was mortified to the extreme. "Ano, Sasuke-kun, gomen."

"It's-" Sasuke started to say, but was interrupted by a sudden door opening, banging into the wall. A dramatic smoke wafted around from behind the open door, and as the smoke cleared, the four saw a gray-haired man with a sheepish smile on his face.

"Hello, kiddies!" the gray-haired man said cheerfully, pulling out an orange book, "Sorry I'm late. See, there was this old lady, and her cat was stuck in the middle of the road. But… a car was going to come! Thinking quick-wittedly, I ran to the middle of the road, snatched the poor thing up and brought it back to the old lady. Being the seemingly-cold-but-deep-down-is-a-poetic-soul person I really I am, I gave a long speech about how the poor kitty-cat could have been killed. The old lady thanked me over and over and over again and told me to go visit her home, where we could have a tea party. Being the truly nice person I am, of course I accepted. But then she-"

"What total crap!" Naruto yelled, shoving his foot in the man's face. "Kaka-sensei, you SUCK!!!"

"Hmm," Sai commented, "That's the worst excuse you've had in months, Kakashi."

Sasuke ignored everyone and just stared out the window, inducing Sakura to believe that something exciting was really out the window- what exactly was out there? She had lived in this room for sixteen years of her life, but she hadn't noticed anything out there. Or maybe that was something pretty-boys (or girls… -snicker-) like Sasuke did.

Either way, that didn't really explain what the strange, gray-haired man was doing, bursting into her apartment. Or the fact that he was studying her plushies. Or the fact that he was busy drooling at whatever he was reading in that garish, orange book of his.

"Kaka-sensei! Are you listening?"

"Not really."

"NO!!! You are, since you're replying."

"Not really."

"YOU SUCK!!! DATTEBAYO!!!"

"Not really."

"Guys-" Sakura began.

"KAKA-SENSEI!!!"

"Not really."

"Guys!" Sakura tried again.

"Why are you still reading your stupid orange book?"

"Not really."

By then, Sakura was extremely annoyed. Her vein twitched, as she smoothed down her crumpled Konoha Café uniform. She sat down calmly enough, but her anger was released when Naruto started shouting and yelling. "SHUT UP!"-Naruto cringed, but Sai and Sasuke's faces didn't change a bit- "You!"- Sakura pointed at the gray-haired man- "Who the hell are you?"

The gray-haired man's face didn't crumple in fear, but, instead, broke out in a happy, jovial grin. "Ah. How silly of me! I forgot that you don't know me… yet." He finally put down the orange book, and to Sakura's disgust, she found it to be a copy of Icha Icha Paradise. "I'm Kakashi, and I'm going to train you poor souls to be a great waiter or waitress at Konoha Café!"

"W-wait!" Sakura questioned. "But what about that cell phone call?"

Kakashi grinned, and sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "Oh, that? That was just a prank call."

Sasuke rubbed his temples, not staring out the window at nothing anymore. "I have a feeling this is going to be really bad." But Naruto, on the other hand, grinned happily, "Yay, Kaka-sensei!" Sai didn't speak, but continued drawing in his black sketchbook- or notebook- that Sakura had no idea when it had come into the scene.

Sakura stared at the others, then at this crazy man, Kakashi, then back at the others. 'Impression,' she thought in her mind, 'not really good.'

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And it really wasn't. Not the impression. The actual training.

"Okay, kiddies," Kakashi said, "I hope you brought your uniforms." Naruto, Sai and Sasuke exchanged looks, and Sakura giggled when she realized that none of them had brought their uniforms, but stopped giggling when Kakashi got this evil grin on his face. She gulped, as he yelled, with sparkly stars in the air: "ALRIGHT, WHY DON'T YOU WEAR SAKURA-CHAN'S DRESSES? They're uniform-like enough!" Naruto grinned like an idiot, but Sai sighed as he banged his head once on the wall. Sasuke mumbled incoherent words under his breath, but judging by the look on his face, Sakura didn't really think he had said, "Ooh, dresses! Oh, the lace! Oh là là!"

Sakura's frown dissipated as she joined in on Kakashi's evil plan. She disappeared into her closet, and brought back the most frilly, girly dresses- the ones Ino had bought and forgotten (or was that on purpose?) to take home and Sakura had been forced to keep.

Sakura smirked as she held up a pink spaghetti-strap dress with light pink beaded chiffon (A/N- ok. I don't really know what that is… but…) shawl sewn onto it- so it couldn't come off (no matter she had tried to make it look less prom-ish, but ended up failing… multiple times). In her other hand, there was a strapless summer dress from god-knows-where that was a mix of fuchsia and amethyst, which was a disgustingly girly colour with only fuchsia already. It had a piece of black lace tied in a bow at the waist area, the outfit complete with frilly dark pink lace at the hem of the dress.

Sakura smiled innocently as she place the two dresses on her bed, and the boys watched, stunned, as she disappeared back into her closet. Kakashi giggled like a little girl at random times, but the other three present in the room with him sincerely hoped- for the first time- it was because of his stupid orange book, not because of the impending feeling of doom they felt, as Sakura returned, with another dress.

"Hmm," the roseate-haired girl pondered, more to herself than the other people present in the room, "Aren't I lucky that Ino-pig bought so many dresses?" She hummed a tuneless song, as she sorted through all her clothing.

When she came back to her room, she found a half-naked Sasuke standing, holding the summer dress as far away as he could from him, but a happy-looking Naruto jumping up and down in the prom dress, making her wonder, how exactly, did Naruto fit into a dress that a girl HER size wore- but the thought quickly disappeared, as she didn't really want nightmares about it.

"I don't really want to wear this abomination of a dress," Sasuke said to her, as he noticed that Sakura had entered the room. Sakura, up until that point, had used every ounce of her willpower to keep her eyes averted from Sasuke, but when she heard his voice, her head snapped in his direction… and fainted from the sheer hotness, her last thought being: 'Damn pretty boys.'

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Sakura woke up to Kakashi's voice, saying: "Alright, kiddies, you don't have to crowd around her," which was replied to by Naruto, "But I've got to make sure Sakura-chan's okay! DATTEBAYO!!!" Sakura felt groggy and light-headed. She groaned a little; her head hurt like hell.

"Ugh," she moaned, as she sat up. A bit unconsciously, she asked, without any real meaning: "What did you guys put in my tea?" Sakura rubbed her temples. That's about when she got a real look at what she was wearing- pajamas. Her eyes widened.

"WHAT THE HELL? DID YOU GUYS CHANGE WHAT I WAS WEARING? PERVS!!!"

Naruto looked at Sai. Sai looked at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Kakashi. Kakashi looked at Naruto. There was a long moment of silence. Finally, Sai spoke up, and with a pained look on his face, said, "You don't really want to know."

Sakura was content with that answer. She lay back down- that was when she noticed the bed she was in. It just didn't feel right. She looked around. It had black sheets. Black silk sheets. The pillows had dark blue pillowcases. Then she finally understood why this bed seemed so… different- "HEY! This isn't my bed!"

Again, Kakashi looked at Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Sai. Sai looked at Naruto. Naruto looked at Kakashi. There was another awkward silence. "Umm, you don't really want to know that either."

"Right," Sasuke said, "And that's my bed you're in."

Sakura looked confused, as she surveyed her surroundings. "HEY! This isn't my room… Where are Neko-chan, Bunny-kun and Nezumi-kun?"

"Yes. You're in Sasuke's room, Ugly. Therefore, your disgusting cat, bunny and mouse things are in your room." Before Sakura could glare and hit Sai for calling her 'Ugly', Kakashi butted in with, "Hey, kiddies, let's start the lessons. I'd like to start before I grow old and die of old age."

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"Curtsy!" Sakura yelled, seeming to enjoy every moment of the pain Sai went through; as he 'curtsied', his eye twitched with annoyance. "More gracefully, Sai!" She clapped her hands gleefully, like a little child, as she watched him curtsy flawlessly in the blue frilly Alice's-Adventures-in-Wonderland-type dress.

"Why," Sai asked, his face devoid of any annoyance he –might- have felt, "the hell do I have to do this? Why did Dickless and Emo-Kid get to leave?" Sakura grinned, clearly enjoying his discomfort. "Well, see, Sai-kun, you get to stay with me in my apartment! To get in touch with your… umm, femininity," Sakura said, grinning widely.

Sai's face lost its colour, and if it was possible, it turned even paler than its usual colouring. Sakura noticed and giggled a little, tossing her pale pink locks back. "Mou, Sai! I'm not that bad!"

From somewhere in her apartment, Sakura heard a high-pitched giggle that she could only assume came from Kakashi. She shuddered, and poked Sai, who had seemed to have frozen to ice. Hearing another giggle, she poked Sai again (more frantically), who still wasn't moving. Finally, after hearing multiple more giggles, Sakura just dragged Sai onto her bed, and dividing it in half with a line of pillows, fell into a deep sleep.

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Preview-

She awoke to the sound of a scratching pencil on paper. Not really caring what it was, Sakura groggily moaned, as she hugged onto the closest thing she could find. Savoring the warmth the thing- whatever it was- brought, she snuggled closer to it, but tilted her head slightly, in confusion, when the thing stiffened. Sakura opened one eye, and in alarm, opened the other… 'Whoops. That was just Sai I hugged.'

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Play list-

In The End Linkin Park

Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance

Falling For You Eva Avila

Dirty Little Secret The All-American Rejects

When You're Gone Avril Lavigne

Dear Mr. President P!nk

My Girl's Ex-Boyfriend Relient K.

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It's the end… of this chapter!

Whoa… this is the longest chapter I've ever written! I'm so proud of myself!!! XD

Please review!

PS- How old do you guys think I am, anyway? Like, do I seem on the old-ish side…? Take a guess- whoever gets it right will… GET A WHOLE CHAPTER DEDICATED TO THEM!!! XD If you want, that is. What I want to know is how old I seem…

PPS- Okay, I've read over the A/N and I realize how creepy I sound. XD

Decepshun