D: I don't own Naruto
"Hey Sakura-Chan!" A blonde chimed as he met his old teammate for noon brunch.
"You know you're late jerk," Sakura said in an annoyed voice as she sat in her normal stool playing with the straw in her drink. Her eye brow twitched and her hair was tied up in a pony tale… a sign that she had woken up late and ran there because of the thought of being there last.
"Sorry! I accidentally slept in! You knew I just returned from a mission yesterday!" He whined as he scratched the back of his head with his usual dumb grin making its way across his lips.
"I was on the same mission you idiot!" Sakura screamed as she massaged her temples. She turned around in her stool "sit down and order your ramen…" she insisted as she took a sip from her hot, morning coffee. Naruto grinned and jumped in the seat next to her. He was happy she was too tired to get up and punch him, she had to be as tired as he was, if not more, since Naruto probably got an hour more sleep than her.
"So I guess this is the wrong time to ask, but have you filed the mission report yet to the old hag?" Naruto asked knowing they had to do that by day's end.
"I'm not lazy like you Naruto," she scowled as she picked up the papers.
"So you didn't do it either!" Naruto asked with a smirk.
"I did half of it!" Sakura said as she stuck out her tongue, damn him and being able to see through her lies.
"Ha so you're almost as lazy as me! Face it you're more like me than you think!" Naruto declared with a victorious smile.
"Pft yea right! Like you? The number one hyperactive ninja? Please hyper?… have you seen me this morning?" she asked in a sarcastic way. It was clear she was in no way 'hyper' today.
"Don't forget the number one underestimated ninja… you can't deny that one!" Naruto countered, and he was right she couldn't deny that she was just as underestimated as him.
Sakura rolled her eyes and planted a small punch on the top of his head as Naruto's ramen came in.
"Ah thank you Ayame!" Naruto thanked the young server as he plunged himself into the stew without a second thought of the argument or the punch.
"You're hopeless…" Sakura muttered under her breath as she began to eat her miso stew also.
"So did you talk to either of them yesterday?" Sakura asked as she stared into the kitchen. Her chin rested on her hand.
"By them you mean Sasuke right?" Naruto asked in somewhat of a spiteful way. He still felt jealousy towards his rival; he was able to sweep Naruto's love off her feet and not even care for her, while he could barely get a talk out of her that didn't pertain to her 'Sasuke-kun.'
"I was wondering if Kakashi or Sasuke were coming today." Sakura said with a smile trying to dust off Naruto's tone.
"Nah, I haven't heard anything from them. We did come back late last night so I haven't had a chance to talk to them." Naruto said honestly as a second Miso Stew came his way.
"AH! We told them we'd be back by this morning!" Sakura yelled frustratingly. "Why are they always late? Why do they always make us wait?" Sakura ranted to the only person that was always willing to listen.
"Well the one's an icy bastard and the others a lazy bastard so I guess that's could be the reason why they're not here yet," Naruto explained with his infinite wisdom. Sakura giggled and then punched him again.
"Don't call Sasuke-kun an Icy bastard…"
"Yea listen to her, you baka," Sasuke said as he walked into the café with his normal cocky smirk.
"Who are you calling baka, bastard?" Naruto said as he leapt to his feet, always ready to fight, morning or night.
"Ah, stop it you two, honestly," Sakura yelled as she got to her feet to ready to break the boys apart.
The boys glared at one another and took their seats once again.
"Dobe," Sasuke said under his breath as he, to Sakura's disappointment, took a place on the other side of Naruto.
"So if the icy bastard is here," Naruto began as Sasuke formed another glare towards him, "then where is the lazy…"
"I hope you weren't about to call me a lazy bastard," A familiar voice came out of no where. "Such disrespect."
"It's the truth Kakashi," Sakura informed the man as she drank her noodles.
Kakashi frowned and sat next to Sakura, "I'm not ALWAYS late… So how'd the mission go you two?" the three pupils looked at him as though to say 'You dumb ass I can't name one thing you weren't late for.' They let it go they knew there was nothing they could do for the matter.
"Boring, nothing big happened, just breaking up an uprising in the North Mist village. It was more annoying than anything else was. They were getting mad at the new leader up there or something of the sorts. We only got like on battle and some of them weren't even trained as ninja. You should have heard Shikamaru, I think he said troublesome more times than I could count," Naruto summarized their journey briefly as he held out his bowl for more food. "And Sakura…"
"Got the most out of it. That was only because I had to heal the men that Naruto and the others had to knock unconscious because they wouldn't listen to reason, it was just annoying all together. I mean just because the guy isn't who they voted for, honestly it was so dumb." Sakura continued Naruto's story.
"Yes well it sounds like you two enjoyed yourselves a whole lot," Kakashi added with a grin.
"Right," Naruto and Sakura added together in a sarcastic tone.
"Finishing each other's sentences? Saying the same thing? Maybe you two are more like each other than I thought," Kakashi added as he plunged into his noodles. Sakura glared at Kakashi, while Naruto stuck out his tongue towards Sakura and managed something under his breath along the lines of 'like me.'
"Yea well at least you guys get to leave the damn village, I'm stuck here running errands…" Sasuke snapped which made his eye twitch. Ever since he got back he had been under tight surveillance, and was to be that way for 3 years, not to mention after this he was not to lead a mission until he was 30 years old. Kakashi was just happy they didn't execute his old student. Sakura and Naruto knew he would get out of being executed, he was from the great Uchiha clan… this still didn't help him get out of it completely.
The table went silent once again. It usually got silent when anything was brought up about what happened between Orochimaru and Sasuke. Sasuke stood up and walked towards the cash register.
"Oh Sasuke-kun! Can I walk you home?" Sakura said as she saw the avenger walk towards the street.
"No, I'm going to go train." Sasuke replied as he began to walk away.
He didn't want to hurt her. He didn't deserve her, he knew that; he didn't love her like that and that is why he can not turn around and love her back. Because it would have been a lie, all of it, he wouldn't have done it for love. He'll never be able to take back how much he has hurt the girl. The girl he loved like a sister, but could not love her more than that. He couldn't do it. He couldn't break her heart like that.
"Oh well I'll help you train then, I mean if you want…" Sakura insisted. She just wanted to be around him, just wanted to feel that he knew she was there. That's all, just once.
"No, I need to train by myself…" Sasuke said as he picked up the pace. 'I can't love her like that, I'll never be able to give her what she wants.'
"Oh alright then well, maybe later then…" She gave in. And smiled weakly at the boy.
"Maybe. See ya later," Sasuke said as he disappeared leaving the girl behind once again. Naruto squirmed in his seat and twitched with irritation he had to turn around in order to stop himself from beating the kid up. He would have stood up and yelled at the son of a bitch like he always did but he knew how it would end up. He would have a bump on his head and a mad Sakura on his hands, and that's the last thing Sakura needed was 2 men she wouldn't be able to talk to.
"Hey Sakura-Chan can I walk you home? I mean I'm going your way anyway!" Naruto said with a grin.
"Naruto…" the girl sighed, "you're such a child," Sakura composed herself once again. She stuck out her tongue as though she were a child again.
"Yea, Yea well I have work again, unlike you too, be happy you're just usual Jounins for right now, ANBU will not be that easy." Kakashi grinned as he poofed off.
"Well Sakura-Chan?" Naruto asked. Sakura sighed and agreed as she paid for her food and left.
They both walked in silence for the first couple of moments. Both lost in their own thought. Sakura was thinking about Sasuke, as she had when they were little, she still did as they are now. Naruto thought of Sakura, as he always had, as he always will. Naruto's eye all of a sudden glistened as though he had an idea, not just any idea, a brilliant idea.
"Eh Sakura-chan what are you doing Friday?" Naruto asked.
"Oh I don't know, I don't think anything right now, why? Planning on having another bar night for the rookie 9?" Sakura said with a giggle.
"No no nothing like that… You know we only have that once a week." Naruto said with a smirk.
"Heh, last time was pretty fun huh?"
"Yea, it was, I couldn't believe Lee, I mean woah…"
"heh yea, I knew there was a flaw in his personality…" Sakura joked.
They kept talking about their bar hop and how much fun they had together and they finally got to Sakura's house and the talking seemed to completely stop, and then it occurred to Sakura.
"Wait," Sakura giggled, "What got us started on this topic?"
"I asked what you were doing Friday night and we went from lee getting drunk, then to dance moves which he whipped out and some how it evolved into partying on a beach on of these days." Naruto recalled.
"Oh yea… wait why did you want to know about Friday?" Sakura asked.
"Oh you know the usual… will you go on a date with me?" Naruto smiled as he took her hand in his.
"Naruto, we've gone through this. I'm not going out with out, I'll talk to you tomorrow," Sakura said with a smile as she turned around only to not be able to move. Naruto's hand was still around her wrist. "Naruto let go, I need some sleep."
"No, not until you promise a date with me this Friday…" Naruto said with a grin.
"Naruto I am not afraid to punch you."
"I know, you've done it multiple times…"
"Not with all my strength." Sakura said as she kept trying to pull away.
"Come on Sakura… Friday night please!" Naruto said with a continuous smile.
"NARUTO COME ON!" Sakura yelled as she held up her fist menacingly
"No all you have to do is say yes and keep your promise."
"NARUTO! We've been through this!" Sakura yelled as she punched him in the stomach. Naruto was winded but he took it, looked up and smiled. Sakura's eye twitched and she began to punch him over and over again, in the face, in the stomach, in the arms, and she kicked him in the shins. But every time she hit him he would just come back like a yo yo. He didn't even try to dodge the attacks, or block them with his one freed arm, his other hand never left the girl's wrist. He took every hit with a smile and a grin. Sakura was breathing hard and Naruto was now down on his knees, only being held up with those knees and his one free arm. Sakura looked at him with fear and suspicion.
"WHY! WHY WON'T YOU STOP!" Sakura yelled. As she tried to break the grip of Naruto's hand. "We've talked about this, why can't you just stop loving me!"
Naruto slowly looked up, he had one black eye and blood was at the corner of his mouth. His head slowly lifted and looked at the green orbs he had fallen in love with. And he gave her the grin that everyone in Konoha had learned to love. "Sakura-chan, the same reason you won't stop loving Sasuke…"
Sakura looked at him and slowly shook her head. Her eyes were closed… he hoped she wasn't crying.
Naruto kept smiling and slowly brought his one free arm up. "Sakura-chan… just one… give me just one chance, one date this Friday." Naruto asked, his hand formed a one and his other hand gripped the woman's hand. "Just One," the boy pleaded, "That's all I need... to get you to love me..."
D: yea yea I ended it on a cliffie! But hey who cares… I updated. Naruto, I believe, will do ANYTHING for something he loves. And Sakura is something he loves, so I believe this situation is likely. I hope you liked, do review so I know there are people out there that like it.