Instead, she was thinking something along the lines of 'What the hell just happened? Did...Naruto...really say that to ME? That's so unlike him...what's wrong?'
Well, whatever it was, she was going to figure it out...somehow. Sometime...just not NOW. She was TIRED now.
She picked herself up off the ground, using the tree as a support. 'Holy shit, I'm tired...' she thought.
She looked around the training grounds and remembered how long the three of them had spent training here...waiting for Kakashi-sensei, making up some excuse for being so late...as usual. Naruto was sometimes late, from eating Ramen, which he said he had to have every day. And Sasuke-kun, who was always here at the same time every morning.
"Things are SO MUCH less complicated whenever you are 12..." she sighed to no one inparticular.
It was about 11:00 PM, so the streets of Konoha were dark, except for the street lights that lit up the streets, casting shadows everywhere. You could still see the lights on in some of the shops, including the ramen shop, which Sakura headed to first. She HAD to eat SOMETHING.
Expecting Naruto, she automatically yelled "Hey, NARUTO!" ,forgetting for a moment Naruto had been extremely angry with her about 12 minutes ago, but Naruto was no where to be found.
After 2 bowls of ramen, she paid for her food and left, heading home at first, but then remembering that her mother was out of town.
'Oh CRAP where am I gonna stay?'
She went over to a payphone and called Ino...
"Ino, you are my BEST FRIEND in the ENTIRE fire country..."
Ino sighed, then said "Sakura, hon, what do you want?"
"Fine, ugh," Sakura gave up. "Can I come over? You know, for the night?"
"Yeah, sure!!!"
"Really?" Sakura asked...today was looking up...a bit..I mean, at least she had somewhere to stay.
"No." Ino stated as obviously as if it were in front of Sakura.
"What?"She asked, VERY confused.
"N-O." Ino spelled it out as if it were such a hard word to spell.
"But...but...Ino!! Why not?!?" she stuttered.
"Umm...hehehe...well, the thing is, someone's over...here...like, now." she started giggling, then regained her composure quickly.
Sakura was getting VERY pissed right now, "Well, who IS it? Hinata? Tenten? who?"
"Hehehe...well...ummm..." she cautioned.
"Ino, if you can't tell me, you can't tell ANYONE."
"Fine...it's...
Naruto..."
Even in the dim light of the moonlight above, you could plainly see Sakura's ghost-white face framed by her pink hair.
"N-Naruto?" she stuttered...was she becoming Hinata?
"Well, DUH! Isn't that who I just said?" Ino mocked her.
"Well, yeah- but I, uh, oh GOD. Sorry Ino, got to go."
"What are you TALKING ABOUT? You're the one who called ME."
"Oh, yeah, ummm...yeah, well, I uhhh...gotta go, bye." She hung up the phone, cutting off Ino's muffled goodbye.
"Naruto?" Sakura was shocked.