Chapter 4

"So you're gonna pay then? Thanks!" A blonde boy entered the cafe, quickly followed by the person he was talking to. Sasuke Uchiha.

"Since when did everybody start coming here?" Sakura mumbled. As if appearing out of nowhere Tenten had practically materialised behind the girl "They're some of the other Sunday regulars, along with your Sensei"

"Shit Tenten you scared me!"

"Sorry, do you know them as well?"

"Well, define what you mean by 'know'"

Tenten giggled slightly and replied "Ahh, I get it observing from a distance are we?"

Sakura blushed, "Uhm, something like that..."

"So which one is it? The blonde or the emo?"

That had caught Sakura by surprise, but then that turned into anger. "Sasuke isn't an emo, he's just misunderstood"

Tenten wore a smug look on her face "Let me guess, you'll be the person he can open up to about all his 'problems', right?" The brunette giggled "Oh c-mon, don't give me that look, I was kidding, honestly I'm surprised you're into that sort of thing, I thought the blonde would be more your type."

Sakura hesitated, although they were friends, she didn't really know Tenten but she seemed comfortable enough with her to talk about guy stuff.

"But if you're not gonna go after the blonde cutie, I wouldn't mind taking him off your hands" The girl winked and they both began giggling. Sakura was almost taken by surprise, this day couldn't get much worse for her, but at least she was getting closer to someone in the process.

"He's all yours!"

Both Sasuke and Naruto had order a large amount of food, this meant that several trays needed to be taken out and Sakura was the only free hand at that time.

"Sakura, you need to help me take out these trays, I can't handle them all" Tenten was grinning but with a pained expression in her eyes. Sakura really hoped she wouldn't have to face two awkward situations in one day. But she couldn't leave her friend.

"Alright what am I taking out?"

"That tray over there" The girl pointed to a filled tray.

The pink haired girl picked it up, and carefully positioned it on her hand. She was going to get this over with, come back into the kitchen and take some of the other orders. This wasn't going to be any better than with Kakashi, probably worse, but at least she was getting some interaction with Sasuke.

She walked over, trying to be graceful, hoping he was looking. Tenten had already gone back in to get the last few plates, which left Sakura alone to put the plates out. Damn it.

Something the girl wasn't expecting was that as she put the plates of food down, the blonde boy looked up in amazement and blushed. "Thanks!" he said, well shouted. This left Sakura slightly shocked he was staring right at her and she couldn't avert her gaze.

Then Sasuke sniggered to the side of her. "Could you be any less obvious, Naruto" So this was Naruto, he wasn't how she'd pictured him, maybe better looking but still not her type. "Shut the hell up Sasuke!" The boy was waving his fist right at him, his face bright red. Sakura giggled nervously, not really knowing what to do in a situation like this. She managed to spit out a quick "Enjoy your food" and was about to turn around and leave before Naruto turned to her frantically and spurted out "Wait, a sec!"

She faced him, he was starring right at her "I'm sorry I haven't said anything to you before, but I was wondering-" He looked down, twiddling his thumbs, before looking up. Sakura noticed he looked quite cute when he was nervous. "Well there's this festival in the next town, I was wondering if y-you'd maybe wanna go with me?" he blushed.

She couldn't refuse, not straight off but she could maybe make up some excuse about work. "Uhm, well I work a lot, when is it?"

"On the 5th, all day"

Shit, that was a Saturday; two weeks away in fact, she couldn't make an excuse for that. What if he found out that she wasn't busy, he'd probably get upset, and he seemed really close to Sasuke and she certainly didn't want him hating her.

"Well okay" The girl smiled but nothing could match the grin that exploded over the blondes face. "AWESOME! Maybe I should take your number so we can sort out when we're going to meet?" He giggled slightly at the thought of finally getting the girl he'd been staring at for a few weeks now.

"Sure" Damn it, she was getting in deep. This would be a onetime thing. Then she wouldn't have to see him again. "I can't give it you now, because I'm working, but I can give you it at school?"

"Yeah, I'll come find you on Monday!"

"Well, I'll see you then I guess, bye"

The girl smiled, turned and walked away. Trying to figure out what happened there. She got asked out my one of Sasuke's friends, to a festival in the next town for the whole day. How could this have happened, maybe if she hadn't though he was too nice to reject she could have waved it off if it was anyone else. Honestly, she didn't think anyone could be more pathetic but her right about now. But Ino would be proud.

"Well, well missy!" Tenten returned into the kitchen "Seems like Blondie was your type after all!"

Sakura threw the girl a sad look.

"Oh no, don't tell me you only accepted it because you felt sorry for him!" The pink haired girl turned to face the floor "I just hope he doesn't like me at all after this..." Tenten slumped next to her and touched her shoulder. "Don't worry bout it you'll be fine, but if you honestly don't want to go then you should consider telling him. Better do it now before he gets too excited!" The brunette smiled sympathetically. "The place is getting pretty empty now, how bout you talk the rest of the day off to clear your head?"

"Oh no, I couldn't, honestly-"

"Go, I'll cover for you, I tell the rest of em' you felt sick or something leave it to me"

"Tenten I-"

"Think nothing of it, now get going!"

A slow walk home really let Sakura clear her head. How could she do this, going out with someone because she felt sorry for them, she had the perfect opportunity to make an excuse or simply say no! But she didn't and a punishment for being a total bitch, she was going to go on this date. She was going to be nice to Naruto and make sure that he was completely put off by her. That seemed like the best plan she had.

"Well don't you look sad, work giving you trouble?"

Kakashi, was it this man's plan to pop up everywhere she was?

"No, just thinking..." She paused.

"For someone who's 'just thinking' you look almost depressed!" It was strange, although she'd looked at him, now she was able to look at him properly she almost came to the conclusion that he wasn't half bad, in fact he was quite handsome. "Penny for your thoughts?" he interjected.

"Girly stuff, you wouldn't be interested" She waved him off, not noticing his slightly red face. Kakashi felt like he'd just stepped into a mine field 'girly stuff' was kind of personal and he wasn't prepared to go there any time.

"Sorry I asked, well I'll leave you be, see you at school" He turned away and began to walk. Sakura expressed a faint "See ya, Sensei" before making her way back to her own house. Their conversations were becoming less awkward, but she still couldn't shake the feeling that if they carried on this way, weird things could start happening.

She hit her bed 15 minutes later, and didn't wake up, until the next morning.