Chapter two- Some Apartment, Some neighbor

"This is it?" Ino asked, she looked up at the building with disgust. Hinata stood beside her and began to figit. The apartment looks beat up, the red paint is falling apart and there's a weird smell coming from it.

Sakura walked out of the truck and began stretching with her arms in the sky.

"It's all I could find, in fact the man who I talked over the phone with, put up a price I cannot refuse and judging from the money we have with us."

Her voice trailed as she pointed to the building, "This is only thing we can afford right now."

"Oh boy, I can't wait to look inside." Ino said as she waved her hands in the air sarcastically.

"Hey, don't you think there's a lot of girls hanging around here?" Hinata asked, she pointed to a group of girls that were walking out of the building. There was another group of girls hanging out by the bench.

Ino arched her eyebrow. "Why would they live here?" She flung her right hand towards the building and pointed at it, "I mean, look at it! It's a dump!"

Sakura shrugged, "Maybe they're in the same situation as us. Getting money for a living is one thing, but looking for a job is something else."

"Hey! Come and help me, move these bags!" The girls turned around to see Tenten pulling a luggage out of the truck.

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Room 313

Sakura took out a pair of keys out of her pocket and turned to the girls.

"You ready?" Her voice was low and serious.

Hinata took a deep breath and nodded. Ino sighed and dropped the luggage on the floor roughly to look at her nails while Tenten grinned and thumbs up.

Sakura did a short salute and proceeded to insert the key in the door knob, finally she unlocked the door. She flung the door wide open so they could all see.

At first there was excitement, they were hopping that behind that door, it will be a lot more cleaner and more decent looking than what appeared outside, after all- never judge a book by it's cover, right?

Their hearts sunk as horror replace their expression.

The apartment consists of one chewed up sofa, a broken lamp on the floor and a broken wall. Ino dramatically flung her right arm over her forehead.

"Oh daddy! I miss you already!"

Tenten was the first to recover, as she walked inside the residence. She gently lowered their belongings on the floor.

"This is not what I was expecting. But at least there's hot water right?"

Ino snapped her head, she grabbed Sakura's shirt. Pulling her so Sakura was facing her, nose to nose. "There's hot water right?" She began to pout, tears threatening to fall. "Please tell me there is hot water!" She screeched.

Sakura lift her hands in front of Ino, as if she was surrendering, "Yes, don't worry! I made sure there was. I wouldn't be able to survive either."

Ino let out a sigh of relief. She calmly began to let go of the pink haired girls shirt.

Hinata walked in the apartment and looked around, eyebrow raised with worry. She turned to see Ino slightly panting as if she was going to faint any moment. She quickly decided to say something, hopping to ease her blonde pigtail friend

"Uhm, Look at the bright side, our parents told us that the truck with our furniture will be here by tomorrow morning. So we don't really need to keep these-" She coughed, her hand in a fist position to cover her mouth, "-High quality equipment."

Ino stared at Hinata, she began to straighten her back, "Y-yeah." She exhaled a deep breath. "You're right." She began to smile, as she walked inside.

Sakura took a step inside and looked at the walls. "Let's go to a nearby store and buy paint." She poked the wall, quickly rubbing her hand on her pants, "These walls are in desperate needs of a makeover."

The girls nodded but Tenten raised her hand.

"Sakura, don't you have to meet up with that Jiraiya guy in thirty minutes?"

She turned to Ino. "Don't you need to meet the store owner in twenty minutes?"

The two girls looked at their phone and they began to freak. Tenten sighed and took out the car keys out of her jacket. "I'll drop you girls off and after that-" Tenten turned to Hinata and pointed at her, "-Hinata and I will go buy paint. We can start decorating the rooms our self " She scrunched up her face, "Or at least make it more appropriate for our living requirements before you two come back."

Sakura and Ino dashed out of the apartment with Hinata giggling as she followed suit. Tenten groaned, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

"I knew I shouldn't have come."

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"So can I change the color of the wall?"

Ino asked, looking at the wall, "It doesn't match my sense of style."

The owner of the store laughed a bit, he rubbed his hair. "The honor is all yours."

The owner has medium dark brown hair, tied in a small pony tail. With small circular glasses hanging from his neck. He wore a white shirt with black pants, with a black apron on.

Ino giggled, the owner looked at the clock on the wall and back to her, "Ah, looks like I'm going to be late," He turned to the blue eyes girl, "Pardon me but I have to I have to go somewhere." He handed her the keys to the store, "Lock up when you're done."

Ino nodded and waved him away. She turned back and walked to the counter, she touched it while staring at it blankly.

"Hey! You must be the new owner of this store eh?" Ino looked up to see a man with spiky brown hair, with two red triangles under each of his eyes.

She smiled and bowed down. "Nice to meet you, my name is Yamamake Ino. I'm going to sell flowers here, starting next week that is."

The man nodded as he walked towards her."My name is Inuzuka Kiba," He pointed a store across from hers. "I own a pet store, and this-" He pointed to his jacket and a small white dog popped up, "Is my pet dog, Akamaru."

Ino eyes widen a bit, she leaned towards the dog with a small squeal. "He's adorable!"

Kiba smirked and did a pose. "Thanks. You should come over and check the store out when you're free."

Ino smile, a blush forming. "Only if you come and check out my store when it's done."

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Sakura took a seat in front of the class, she began to look around and sighed. It appears that everybody has already formed their own little hang out group. Making it extremely hard for her to get friendly with anyone.

She took out her textbook that Jiraiya gave her an hour ago and flipped to the first chapter, hopping to catch up on what she missed.

Just then there was a loud noise at the front, startled, her books fell on the floor. Hastly, she began to pick them up, she stopped when she noticed a women's hand holding her book, out streatched towards her. The woman is a light-skinned women with light golden-amber eyes with blonde hair.

The women smirked as Sakura reach towards her books. The lady smacked the books on top of Sakura's head.

"Well,

well,

well,

what do we have here?"

Sakura began to tremble as the lady's face was only inches apart. She took a deep breath.

"My name is Haruno Sakura, P-please to meet you..."

The class burst into murmurs and whispers as the women began to throw her head back, laughing. When she calmed down, she picked Sakura up and helped her on her feet.

"Please to meet you! My name is Tsunade! From here on out, I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about the medical world!"

Sakura force herself to smile, making her mouth to twitch, "It's an honor to be in your present."

Tsunade smirked, while looking at Sakura from head to toe.

"So you're the girl who got a scholarship from the principle eh?" She began to crack her knuckles, making Sakura look at Tsuande with fear.

"You better prove yourself worthy or I'll send you back home quicker than you know it." She patted on the cherry blossom hair.

"Sa-ku-ra." She left the stunned Sakura alone as she turned around, she clapped her hands.

"Okay! Everybody please get to your seats!"

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One hours later

"I'm home!" Ino yelled as she took off her shoes.

Hinata and Tenten walked out of the kitchen to greet her. "Welcome home!"

Tenten smirked as Ino dropped her hand bag on the floor. "How was your day?"

Ino sighed loudly, brushing her front bangs out of her eyes, "Bad. I have to re-paint the store within two days since the flowers are coming in three days."

Hinata giggled while wiping her hands using a wet towel, "Well, Tenten and I can come and help you. We can start looking for a job while we're at it too."

Ino sighed of relief, "Thanks, you guys saved me the trouble."

She stopped to look around, "Wow, you guys did a pretty good job in cleaning this hell hole while I was gone."

Tenten did a small bow, "It was a great work out."

Ino rolled her eyes and followed Hinata to the kitchen,"Is Sakura home yet?"

Tenten shook her head, placing four bowls on the table.

"Sakura said that we should eat before her, since she we don't know her timetable yet." Hinata explained, putting the main course on the middle of the table.

Just then there was a loud slam, the three girls turned to see Sakura walking in, "I'm home!" She screamed.

"Welcome back!" The girls said together.

Sakura smiled and walked towards them, she eyed the cardboard and sat down, "Looks like I arrived just in time."

Tenten smirked and picked her bowl, "Looks like it, and if you didn't, someone here would've eaten it all." Her eyes were on Ino.

Sakura laughed and turned to Ino, she used her chopstick to point at her.

"I know you're a pig, but since we're living together. Please refrain from eating everything from the refrigerator."

Ino gasped as Hinata quietly began to eat, sending in worry glances between the three.

Before anything could happen, a loud 'BAM' was heard and then drums were heard. The girls dropped their bowls on the floor.

Ino stood up and started walking to the wall, where the sound is coming from, "Could you turn it down a little?" She yelled.

Sakura shook her head, "Looks like they can't hear us."

Tenten began to grumble, picking off rice from her pants. Finally she stood up, "Okay, this is it!" She screamed, "I'm going to teach those losers a thing or two about manners!" She stormed out of the room.

Ino and Sakura looked at each other and nodded, "Wait for us Tenten!" Hinata sighed and gently stood up, patting her pants before following them quietly.

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Room 314

Tenten began to pound on the door, "Open the door dammit!" Ino and Sakura were standing behind her, arms across their chest. Hinata, the only one who notice something was odd, was beginning to rock back and forth.

Girls are slowly surrounding them, with deathifying glares.

She took a deep breath, her dad was right.

The city is a terrifying world.

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A/n: Thanks for reading!

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