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"So as I was saying" Ino said continuing her rant about a dress she had seen from a boutique at the mall two days ago.
"Ino, why don't you just buy it and not pester us anymore?" came the exasperated tone of Tenten
"Well, I'll need your opinion if it looks good on me"
"A-ano Ino, w-we can't see the dress" stuttered Hinata
"That's why I'll take you there" Ino said again with a proud grin on her face.
"Let me get this straight, you'll take us to the mall just to see your dress?" Sakura suddenly piped in, placing the book she was reading down.
"Uhuh"
"Wow isn't that a bit of a spoiled brat?" Tenten said jokingly
"Whatever panda" Ino said sticking her tongue out
"W-why do y-you need the d-dress?"
"Nothing really" Ino said nonchalantly, though a small blush on her cheeks said otherwise.
"Nothing? Or is it about impressing your mr. dreamguy?" the pinkette asked with a knowing smirk playing on her lips.
"Sak, you know however I like Sasuke I'll never have a chance with him"
"I t-think Sakura w-wasn't talking about h-him" Hinata said with a smile on her face too.
"Eh?" asked the blonde looking at her three friends.
"Shikamaru" Sakura, Hinata and Tenten said in unison.
"What about him?" Ino asked innocently, though the darkening blush on her cheeks stated quite the opposite.
"Ino, you know you can't fool us" Sakura said with a smile on her face
"Yeah we all know your I-love-Sasuke-kun-act is just to hide your true feelings" Tenten said exaggeratedly
"Yeah, why don't you try and talk to him or somehow, I know he'll like you" Sakura said placing a comforting hand on her friend's shoulder
"Come on, he thinks girls are troublesome"
"Y-you m-might be able to c-change that"
"You think so?"
"We know so, c'mon you're one of the hottest girls in school" Tenten added
Sakura rolled her eyes, seriously, what Tenten said was true, and Ino never had problems with guys before. That's the reason why she can't understand what Ino was so frightened about when it came to that lazy ass, heck even gay men turns straight when she passes by. Guy problems were for her, but well maybe Shikamaru is Ino's first true love after all.
The girls were huddled in one corner of the room having their usual chit-chat before class started, that was about to end due to the bell that rang and their professor who just came in.
"Well, alright I'll think about it" Ino said with a smile as she stood up to go to her seat. The blonde was about to take a seat when she felt someone slip something on her blazer's left pocket. She turned around but couldn't find anyone possible for that action so she just fumbled in her pocket and found a note.
'Meet me at the Physics lab at lunch' it said. There was no name indicated so she looked up again and search for the culprit and found none other than Uchiha Sasuke looking straight at her. She narrowed her eyes in confusion and question. Sasuke seemed to understand so he gave a small nod, admitting that it was his. The blonde returned the note to her pocket and proceeded to take her seat, focusing her thoughts on the lesson to be discussed.
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"Hey have you seen Ino?" Sakura asked while placing her tray down at the table.
"Yeah that pig's gonna lose weight if she misses lunch" Tenten piped in.
"I'm n-not sure, but s-she said she's going to take c-care of something f-first." Hinata shyly whispered, glancing at Naruto.
"Well, even teme's gone" the blonde said.
"Sasuke?" asked Sakura.
"Yep, he too said that he needed to take care of something." Shikamaru answered.
"Oh" the pinkette mumbled
"Sakura, you ok?" Tented asked.
"Yeah sure, I just need to go to the washroom first." Sakura said again as she stood up.
The rosette girl didn't know why but she suddenly felt weird when her friends mentioned that both Ino and Sasuke were missing. It wasn't like she didn't like the thought or something; she just felt…weird, that's all, nothing more, nothing less.
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Ino glanced around the room after shutting the door behind her. She had no difficulty locating Sasuke for he stood like he owned the place. He was there. Leaning at the professor's table with his arms crossed. The blonde couldn't deny he was certainly some catch, and she did have a crush on him, but that had been over the day she became aware that she'll never get his attention, unless she wanted nothing more than a sexual relationship with him, but no matter how Ino may be such a bitch, she was never that kind of girl.
"Well, what do you want?" she asked
"I need to know something Ino" the dark haired young man said as he approached her.
"Okay" Ino said, raising an eyebrow with curiosity.
"And I need you to tell me the truth" he said again, stopping about a meter from her.
"What's it about anyway?"
"Is Sakura seeing Akasuna Sasori?"
"Eh?" the blonde asked, knowing this conversation was up to no good.
"You heard me"
"Fine, yes, so what?" Ino asked again, crossing her arms.
"How long?"
"Why do you need to know?"
"How. Long. Ino?" Sasuke asked again, emphasizing his point
"Six weeks" she huffed, if there was anything about the guy that she would certainly disapprove of, it was his temper.
"They've been over a month?" he growled.
"Yeah so?" Ino said again, taunting Sasuke.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Do I need to?"
"I don't think you know who Sasori is Ino"
"And you do?." Ino said with a sarcastic smile.
"He's not good for her" Sasuke said, running his hand through his hair.
"Really? Why Sasuke? Why is nobody ever good for her, not Kiba, nor Naruto nor Sai?" Ino said raising her voice already. Sasuke was about to retort, but she beat him to it.
"No Sasuke, you listen and you listen well. If you think I don't know what you've been doing then think again Uchiha. I know you've been threatening her suitors, and if ever she managed to have a boyfriend despite your taunts, you'd still find a way to make the guy back away."
"They're not worthy of her" he stated matter of factly
"Then who is? You?" Ino shouted angrily
"She's my friend" Sasuke said, fists clenched.
"Fine, then if you're not going to court her then let her be happy with her own choices, cause frankly, friend or not, you don't have a right to meddle with her affairs." Ino said again, before turning around to leave the Uchiha to absorb her message.
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Class had just ended and Sakura hastily put her things into her sling bag, wanting nothing but to get home already.
"Hey Sak, ready to go?" asked Tenten
"Huh? Where?" she asked dumbfounded
"To the mall silly, you've forgotten already" Ino joked
"Oh, I'm sorry I can't come" she said halfheartedly
"W-why? A-are you o-okay?" Hinata asked worriedly
"I'm fine, I just need to rest I think"
"You want me to drive you home?" Ino asked, concern evident in her voice
"No thanks Ino, I'm fine, you go and have fun." She said managing to smile to her best friend.
"Alright, we'll find anything to buy for you" Ino said again
"Bye Sak" Tenten chirped in
"T-take c-care" Hinata mumbled
"Okay you too guys, promise I'll make it up to you next time" she said as she lackadaisically waved goodbye to her friends.
The emerald eyed girl sat down in her seat, rubbing her temples. She felt bad ditching her friends like that, but she knew this was the right thing to do, she hasn't been feeling right since lunchtime and she didn't want to risk snapping at her friends to let her frustrations out, which was quite soon, because of the stress brought about by too much thinking, the next person who'd talk to her was in danger of being screamed at, and she didn't want that to be any of her friends.
But most of all Sakura felt guilty for thinking about what transpired with Ino and Sasuke. She didn't even know what made her curious about it, or if they were indeed together during lunch. She knew she didn't have the right to interfere with her friend's life; Ino deserves to be happy after all.
'Yoohoo, need help?'
'What do you want?' she snapped
'Great, now I'm even angry at my own self, I'm going crazy!'
'No you're not; you just need to accept things'
'What things?'
'That you're jealous with Sasuke and Ino'
'What?!'
"Sakura" said a deep baritone voice, disrupting her inner musings
"Eh?" she said standing up to face a hard, strong, muscled chest.
"I'm here Sakura" the voice said, making the pinkette look up to see Sasuke's handsome, smirking face. Sakura immediately put some distance between them to be able to see Sasuke's face easily without looking up and because his fresh ocean breeze scent was intoxicating her, not that she would admit that out loud.
"What?"
"Why are you dating Sasori?" he asked coolly, his smirk disappearing.
"Excuse me?" Sakura asked, her patience wearing thin.
"You heard me"
Sakura snorted and grabbed her bag, turning around to leave, but just as she started to walk, a hand gripped her wrist and whirled her around, making her stare directly into Sasuke's obsidian eyes.
"Break up with him" Sasuke stated casually
"What?" she asked shocked
Sasuke rolled his eyes and said again, this time slowly, as if explaining to a three year old "Break. Up. Wi…"
"I heard what you said!"
"Then why are you asking?"
"Well why do you want me to break up with him?"
"He's not the guy for you"
"Great! After Ino you're hitting on me too!" Sakura said. She didn't mean and want that statement to come out her mouth, but she can't help it, she was just so confused and mad right now.
"What?" Sasuke asked, this time it was his turn to be shocked.
"You heard me" she said cockily imitating his former statement
"I didn't fuck Ino" his temper rising
"So now you're denying. She deserves a better man than you jerk!" Sakura yelled, pointing a finger at him
"You think of Ino that way? Then she obviously doesn't deserve you for a best friend" he said smirking
Sakura wanted to retort, but how could she, for Sasuke had just voiced her own guilt, making tears form in her eyes.
Sasuke realized his mistake and wanted to apologize.
"Sakura" he said, but never got to finish his sentence for all he heard was a sudden loud slap that resounded in the room. It took him a moment before he felt a sting on his cheek and found out that Sakura had slapped him and ran out of the room.
Sasuke slightly touched his cheek and winced from the pain. Sasuke sighed as he went to get his backpack and contemplated on why the situation seemed like déjà vu. All the dark haired young man could do was smirk as the memory refreshed him about his seventh birthday.
'That girl always had a good arm' he thought.
