I looked at the note, and at the closed door.
'Roselyn Restaurant, that's expensive! I wonder if this is a date…' I thought, looking at the note that Kakashi wrote to me. I was excited and nervous at the same time. The only time I ever went on a date was a dare, and I went out with Naruto. That didn't end very well.
"Hey, Sakura! Who was that!?" I heard Naruto call out. I slowly turned away from the closed door of my house and went into my living room, looking first at Hinata and then to Naruto.
"Roselyn Restaurant," Was all I could say. I watched Hinata's eyes grow big and round and a shy smile gracing her lips as she stood up and went over to me, shyly putting her arms around me in a hug.
"Wait…what's with saying Roselyn Restaurant? I don't get it," I laughed lightly at Naruto's inability to understand what Roselyn Restaurant meant.
"Naruto, I've got a date with a complete stranger, named Kakashi," I said, hoping that I could jog his memory at the name of Kakashi.
"Oh! The person that you were talking to, before I interrupted, well, your date should be fun! Not in a place like Roselyn Restaurant! That place is too…well…asking to get married kind of place," Naruto said. I almost laughed at his definition of Roselyn Restaurant. It was slightly true though. Not many first dates go to that place because it was very expensive and most the people dressed very exquisitely. Really not a first place to take a date to.
"Well, if it makes you feel…better…he's quite handsome…" Hinata said, shyly, looking up at my face, I could see that she wanted me to be happy, knowing that Sasuke wouldn't date any one except for Ino, who, unlikely, had cut her hair to where it just barely past her shoulders.
"I know, he is quite handsome, I think I'll have fun, even if he's taking me somewhere expensive…problem is…I don't know what to where!" The problem hit me hard. Sure I had some nice clothes, but a nice that would fit into Roselyn Restaurant, I don't think I did.
"We should go…shopping…after the movie…" Hinata said, still blushing, no matter what, after what Naruto said, it would be hard for Hinata not to blush.
"We should. Naruto, would you like to come or stay here with Niko?" I asked, pretty sure of what he'll pick.
"I'll stay if you don't mind. But shopping for clothes is not my thing," I almost wanted to laugh out loud before I saw the movie Titanic was about to start.
"Well we better watch this movie or we won't have time for shopping," I said, curling up on the couch with my little baby on my lap, purring softly, as if he knows that my favorite movie was about to start.
"When's your date?" Naruto whispered over to me, keeping quite for the sake of his wife, that had all her attention to the T.V. screen.
"Tonight at 7. Why?"
"Is he picking you up?" Hinata asked, her attention now focusing on me.
Now it was my turn to blush, I read the little note again and shook my head no.
"All he wrote was to meet him there at 7..." I trailed off, seeing the looks on my friends faces.
"What's wrong?" I asked, a little nervous around them now.
"He should pick you up! Not let you find a way to get there!" I was completely shocked at Hinata's tune of voice. I've never seen her this way, never.
I cold tell she was slightly angered by Kakashi, in letting me find a way to meet him.
"Its not a big deal, I'll just get a cab to take me," I said, with a wave of my head, as if this was no big deal to me.
"Hinata's right, Sakura, he shouldn't let you find a way there, he should be picking you up," I now was completely shocked silent. Naruto just now, acted very serious. But then again, he did have his serious times when he wanted to be. It just wasn't very often that people got to see how serious he can be.
"Guys, he probably just moved here and doesn't have a car yet. So its no big deal for me to get a cab and meet him there," I said, sitting slightly up right, trying to defend someone I barely knew.
"You like him don't you?" Naruto asked, seeing the way I was trying my best to defend Kakashi.
"I…" I felt my cheeks burn hotly, and couldn't meet the eyes of my friends.
"Yes. I like him…" I said, looking down at my cat and started petting, hoping to get his purr loud enough to where I could drown out my friends.
"Well, I guess if he's new, then its okay…" Hinata said, trailing off her thought as she started watching the movie intently.
'I hope…' I couldn't finish my thought as the noise of the movie got my attention.
We all stared at the movie, soaking everything up. I saw and felt Hinata get angry at Cal. It was a funny site to her angry and wanting herself to do something to him.
I watched the clock to see what time it was. We had started the movie around 12 and it was getting around 3 o'clock.
"Oh! You didn't tell me there was going to be a baby in the water!" Hinata sniffed, and Naruto and I tensed, and looked over at Hinata.
Hinata was crying her eyes out, with making a sound. I watched the tears roll down her face, one by one, one after the other. It made my heart want to break. I've never seen Hinata cry, and watching her now, just made my heart ache.
No one said anything else as we watched the end of the movie. When we finished it, Hinata was the first one to speak.
"I liked the ending. I liked how they showed her being young again and with Jack, good/sad ending, I say," I smiled at Hinata, and then looking down at Naruto. It never seemed to amaze me how he would all of a sudden fall asleep.
"Goofball," I said, lightly shaking Naruto, hoping to wake him up.
"I'm up, I'm up,"
Hinata and I started to laugh, to see Naruto's hair stand even more up end.
"The movie's over, Silly, Sakura and I are going to go shopping now. You take good care of Niko," Hinata said, getting up from the couch and stretching her muscles.
"We do have time to shop?" Hinata asked, me looking slightly worried at the clock, then back at me.
I put a hand on her shoulder, smiling, "Don't worry, we have 3 hours…Will that be enough?" I was uncertain how long it would take Hinata and I to shop for a dress and probably a pair of shoes to match.
"Hmm…I hope so…Let's go!" Hinata said, taking her wallet from Naruto and giving him a peck on the cheek before going over to the door, putting her shoes on, and waiting for me to get over to her.
"Sakura? Are you okay?" Hinata asked me, as I slowly made my way over to her.
"I…I'm nervous that's all. I've never really never been on a real date before…" 'With a complete stranger,' I finished the thought, feeling the butterflies flutter in my stomach.
"It's alright, lets go before we run out of time to find a dress and some shoes to go along," Hinata said, thinking the same thing I thought.
"Naruto, we're taking your car!" Hinata said, before going out the door, with my hand in hers' practically dragging me into the car.
"So, have you thought of what color of dress you want, Sakura?" Hinata asked, glancing at me, then back to the road.
"Black, but if they don't have any black ones, which will surprise me, then probably a light shade of pink," I said, knowing that with the color I dyed my hair, was a making it hard to pick out dresses.
"That's good. You got choices to choose from," Hinata said, grinning brightly, liking the idea that she was taking me out shopping, and having being able to talk to me without my work getting in the way.
We sat in silence, but it was a comfortable silence; we've known each other since we went to kindergarten, we've gotten used to the silence that followed us. Hinata wasn't much of a talker, unless you get her comfortable around you. Meaning, you have to talk a lot to her, and just be comfortable around her as well.
"Well we're here! Lets shop!" Hinata said, after 20 minutes of driving, she ended up in the parking lot of a big dress shop.
"We're shopping here? Its so huge!" I said, looking at the three story high store.
"Well, its not all dresses, but its close, the two stories that you see are where the dresses are, and the third level, is where the shoes are to match every single dress in the store," I looked over at her, to see her smiling.
I knew then that I was in trouble.