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Chapter One: Photoshop and Magazines
"What the fuck is this?"
"Its my vengeance."
"The hell are you seeking vengeance for? And on whom, for that matter?"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, as he pondered the question, "Its been a while since I sought it. Just felt off."
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the man, watching him while he gazed out of their office's window in a pensive manner. It wasn't unusual for the Uchiha to bark nonsense at the blonde; considering the fact that said blonde was basically the only person he spoke to.
However, that did not, in any manner imply that he had the right to create something, like... like that!
"Why did you make a poster of me in a bikini, teme!?"
The Uchiha cocked his head.
"You were the only suitable option."
"Are you gay?"
"You're making a mountain out of a molehill."
"No, I'm asking you whether you're gay or not," said the blonde, picking up the poster and eyeing it with obvious distaste, "And I have cause for genuine concern, you bastard. Photoshopping something like this takes time. And whenever you experiment with bikinis, you put me in."
Sasuke shrugged, "You're the only person I've got pictures of on my phone."
"And you still consider yourself straight?" Naruto tossed the poster away, a vein popping up on his forehead, "Who in Kami's name were you gonna send this to?"
The Uchiha didn't reply immediately; but turned away, and walked casually over to his chair. Once there, he eyed the poster on topic with the vaguest form of interest.
"My tailor."
Chirp, Chirp.
"YOU RETARDED DICK! WHY WERE YOU GIVING YOUR TAILOR SOFT-PORN ON ME?"
Sasuke calmly raised an eyebrow, not taking the blonde's outburst seriously at all; but merely letting out a sigh, and resting back in his chair.
"After seeing you, that idiot's been sewing the words 'Its Legal', into every single one of my suits' tags. Its become a menace, really."
The blonde's Sapphire eyes came close to popping out when he heard that, and he gulped several times before uttering his next reply.
"And you thought giving him that would make him understand otherwise?"
"Yes."
Chirp, Chirp, Chiirp.
"Die, you sonuvabitch!"
"Wh-AAAH!"
Sakura looked at the list in her hand with a minute sense of distraction.
"Haruno-san?"
The rosette blinked.
Breaking out of her reverie, she looked up, and at the man before her again, "Yeah, Konohamaru?"
The man, or rather, Konohamaru, smiled, and held up a considerably large brown colored envelope, "Here's the set of the last four month's issues, although I've no idea why you suddenly got caught up in these things."
She smiled.
"Nah, its just that my friends were really pressy about me not knowing what's going on around me and stuff."
"So you turned to the People's magazine?"
The rosette tilted her head, smirking sideways, "Trivia was one of those things."
Konohamaru chuckled.
"Anyway, I'll leave you with... you're catching up. Catch ya later!"
With that, he got up, and left as fast as he'd come in, barely giving Sakura time to thank him for taking the time off his busy schedule to come to her office.
Once Konohamaru was out of sight, Sakura looked at the brown envelope in her hands again. It seemed awkward, after all this while, to actually take a break, and read… a magazine, for Kami's sake. It was even more disturbing to her, to think that she had fallen prey to things of such sort.
She sighed.
"Oh well."
Opening the folder, she sifted through the issues, eyeing the one she was looking for, before-
"Aha! There you are."
Her eyes automatically morphed into ones of interest.
Sexiest Man on Earth: Naruto Uzumaki!
"You blonde Baka… how the hell did you become this?"
Even though she tried to keep her thoughts negative; her smile gave her true state of mind away.
Somehow, during the short span of time she'd spent getting to actually know the real; and noticeably grown up, Naruto Uzumaki, she'd come to gain a sort of knack of rooting for the guy.
And that, scarily, didn't feel half bad.
Shifting into a more cozy position on her chair; she flipped to the page wherein the article of her interest was printed, and smiled.
Her friends were right, after all.
Taking a break actually did feel good.
A week earlier; at the Konohagakure High Batch of '07 Reunion…
"Holy shit Forehead, that creep's got swag!"
Sakura narrowed her eyes at the blonde girl beside her.
"Swag? How the heck are you coming up with that?"
Ino all but pointed at the dance floor, "Look at him; he's totally got Misaki under his spell. Misaki. Remember? Cheer-leading-captain!"
The rosette glanced at the duo.
Indeed, the blonde guy was moving smoothly around the dance floor, ball-dancing to an almost perfect degree, with one of the prettiest women present. Not to mention; he was whispering something into the ear of the girl, which was, in the least, making her smile.
That was no ordinary feat.
Even more so, considering that this was Misaki they were talking about.
The rosette's lips curved in a sign of respect. The Baka had really come to possess some amount of suaveness.
And, perhaps, some amount of sexiness as well!
"This is Naruto Uzumaki, can you believe that?"
Ino smirked, "Oh don't you dare call him that! THIS ain't Uzumaki, girlfriend, this- this is shizz! How'd he get so good looking?"
Sakura gulped.
Sure the guy had become cuter, but that didn't imply that she was going to reveal that she felt that way to Ino. That woman was pure evil.
"Not that good-looking."
"Have you lost it? That's gorgeousness!"
"You sound like some fangirl."
"Oh please, bitch; I'm just stating facts."
"Uh, huh," a grin flew over the emerald-eyed girl's face, and she brought her glass of champagne up for another sip. As the bubbles tickled her throat, her mind began to calm down a little, and her smile widened.
"Hey Ino, say Naruto and Sasuke were to both ask you out, who'd ya pick?"
The blonde girl raised an eyebrow; a devilish glint in her eyes.
"If THAT happens, I'll have to reschedule my work."
"Dirty pig."
"Plea-"
"Sakura! Ino!"
The two girls turned around towards the place where the sound had come from; and found a, sort of, high Tenten calling out to them two seats away from their ones. A concerned Neji eyed her anxiously, with an arm over her shoulder, as she wobbled over to them.
"H-Hehe, why're yooou guys l-looking so inteeently at Orangey, eh?"
Both of the girls' cheeks began to color, and a couple of unintelligible replies escaped each of their lips… only to make the brunette smile more interestedly.
"Cute! Tha-aat's sooooooooo cute!" Tenten chuckled out, lashing out an arm and delivering one sweet slap on Neji's stomach, "Eh, Nejei! What'cha think?"
The Hyuuga gulped, and broke a sweat; clearly not pleased with the situation.
"U-Uh, yea-"
"Ha!" said Tenten, in a laugh, once again patting Neji on the stomach, "You sophisticated bastard! You're cute too. Will ya marry me?"
Neji gulped again.
"U-Uh, we-we're already engaged."
Tenten blinked.
"E-Engaged? B-But what's a riiiiing do? Let's boogie on the bed," the brunette began to smile obnoxiously, and unsuccessfully attempt to make her lips meet those of the pearly-eyed man.
"We-e need to go home."
And with a small but powerful sweep; the woman was hung over Neji shoulder; by the same, and, thoroughly unsatisfied with the situation, began to curse her husband.
"Y-You idiot! Lemme down!"
Neji smiled apologetically at the two women in front of him, "Sorry for her behavior. I guess we'll have to go. We're getting married two months from now; be ready to get the invites!"
And just like that; in the matter of a minute, the two of them were out and gone.
Ino blinked.
"That was –"
"So amazing," Sakura smiled.
The blonde looked at her like she'd lost it.
"AMAZING? Have you gone mad?"
Sakura shot her a withering glare, "Oh stop being a drag! They're getting married! Can you believe how much our lives have changed since the last union?"
Ino blinked.
"We're all accomplished now, have good jobs, and ev-"
"They're getting married..," said the blonde, her tone unreadable.
Sakura looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Yeah, I though I tol-"
"Can I talk to you for a second?"
The two of them turned around...
...to find the beaming face of Naruto Uzumaki.
"A second?" said Ino, going in for a moderately saucy voice, "Take a whole yea-"
Sakura slapped a hand onto her face, and eyed the male blonde interestedly.
"I assumed you were gonna do that when you addressed us the first time. And then you saw Misaki, right?"
He gave her a sheepish shrug.
"Ah well, I saw her after such a long time."
The rosette raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, seven years are so long aren't they?"
"They aren't?"
"Mayb- Ah darn..."
Noticing the friendly smile on her face, Naruto threw her an impeccable grin, "Would you care for a dance, Sakura-chan?"
The rosette blinked.
A dance.
With Naruto Uzumaki.
"When did you become like this," she said, a grin on her face, and offered him his hand.
"Yeah, leave me alone, and go," came the voice of the Yamanaka from beside them, "I'm warning ya Sakura, I'll drink so much... that your bedroom is probably what my brain's gonna take for a bathroom."
"Pig!"
Ino stuck her tongue out; before a smile once again crept onto her face, and she shrugged.
"Ah well, I'll socialize with everyone for you too," she pointed a finger at her, "You owe me bitch."
And with a chuckle; the two of them were out on the dance floor.
"Now don't go thinking this has any romantic undertone to it, Baka," said Sakura, suspiciously eyeing the blonde's face.
"Ah, please, romance went to hell the moment Sasuke and I got down to business," he said, a laugh accompanying his voice.
A short span of silence followed, in which he turned her around once, and then pulled her to him again. Sakura noticed his eyes twinkle mirthfully; and found a weird sense of cheerfulness spring up within her. However, she also felt the need to get to know something... understanding that the gap between her and reality was getting a bit too huge.
"So how did you and Sasuke-kun become entrepreneurs?"
Naruto didn't respond immediately, his eyes adopting a distant shade. However, that lasted only a couple of second, because in a flash, the light-hearted-and-foolish demeanor he carried, was back... and he was smiling at her again.
"Did odd jobs for a year and a half, before being given the distributorship to a pharmaceutical farm... made some money off that for like, a year... and then... well we started S.O.6.P!" he said, with an undertone of pride.
"That's an awesome story," said Sakura, grinning.
Naruto chuckled, "Ah, its nothing much... say, I wanted to ask you something, ya know?"
"Shoot away!"
"You still like Teme?"
Her eyes widened at the unexpected invasion into the more private aspects of her, and her cheeks began to color vigorously.
"W-why that all of a sudden?!"
Naruto grinned, "No its just that I felt curious."
Emerald-eyes swept over the hall, before landing upon the Uchiha; sitting on a chair at the counter, by himself; typing into his phone.
"I d-don't know... haven't thought of it in a while..."
The blonde observed her, saying nothing.
"So, what's up with you?" said Sakura, forcing on a smile, "How's your love life going?"
That seemed to get the man thinking. His eyes moved up; his face contorting into one of contemplation. Sakura eyed him keenly, trying to gauge his actions.
Something Kiba had said earlier floated into her mind.
"No Ino, he didn't get 'a' girlfriend."
Her eyes widened.
"Don't tell me..."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"How many women have you been with?"
Silence.
"Seventy."
She felt like someone had slapped her.
"Seventy?!" Sakura asked, her eyes wide. THIS was the biggest prude in their batch? Shiiiit...
He winked at her.
"Give or take twenty."
She didn't even bother to control her giggles at that.
XXX
Present Time; Metropolitan Hospital, Konoha...
'And what's more; the co-chairman of S.O.6.P's actually single and ready to mingle!'
Sakura laughed at that; closing the magazine shut, and throwing it at her desk. However, her eyes lingered upon the image on the front page; her new and blonde Baka of a friend, posing in a clumsily, albeit sexily so, worn suit.
Her lips wound into a smile.
Naruto Uzumaki.
What an unpredictable guy.
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