Sasuke immediately hit 'end' and rolled over. The raven fell asleep without a second thought.
Sakura walked into her room after turning off all the lights. Her phone vibrated, it was a text message. She laughed and replied to Deidara. He wanted to know if she could come over and watch a movie, but she had to decline so she could go to sleep. Kami forbid that she have fun before she goes to work. The pinkette changed into a large t-shirt with sleep shorts. She did one last check around the house, making sure things were closed and the lights were off, before climbing into her bed and falling asleep.
A loud squawking noise woke Sakura from her dreamless sleep. She looked at the clock and shot up. The usual screams of being late filled the air. It was a wonderful thing that she had set out the night before. She quickly changed and ran to the bathroom and scrubbed her teeth before grabbing her shoes and purse and running out the door. She stood in the hallway, still muttering about how late she was going to be, only to put on her shoes and shut the door.
As usual, Sakura ran into the hospital just as she was going to be late. Sakura's day was as it was every other day, although there were more children patients today. The pinkette clocked out at eight thirty and began the slow walk home. She walked through the door, only to be greeted with the sounds of laughing coming from the living room. Sakura snuck past the living room and walked to her room. She quickly changed into a pair of pajama pants and a random t-shirt and walked out to the kitchen.
"Sakura-chan, did you just get home," Deidara asked.
"Yeah, I had to work a late shift. Oh, sorry I didn't cook today, late shift," Sakura replied lamely.
They shared a laugh and the pinkette continued to the fridge. There was nothing there, so she went to the cabinet and pulled out some instant ramen. Three minutes later, she was enjoying ramen and tea, while tuning out the conversations around her. As she was literally scrapping at the bottom, a certain blonde neighbor, snatched the cup and her chopsticks away from her.
"Deidara," Sakura whined.
"No, that was a horrible sound."
Sakura smiled and the clock on the stove caught her attention. She waved to everybody and told them to be quiet, and then she went to bed. The pinkette didn't have time to even become uncomfortable before she passed out.
Naruto was sitting with Hinata on the couch, each of them tangled in the others limbs.
"Hina-chan, what do I do? Sasuke-teme is obviously in love with Sakura-chan," the fox like, blonde haired boy whined.
"I think that you should set them up on a date. I'll invite Sakura-chan to the park and you invite Sasuke-kun. Then, we'll ditch them," she replied simply.
"That's a good plan," he said putting his head in the crook of her neck.
The raven haired Uchiha sat on the couch in his living room; he'd been dodging calls from that bitch Karin all night long. Finally, he just threw his phone at the wall. The screen cracked, but nothing else. He sighed angrily. I wish Itachi would hurry up, he thought. Sasuke's phone chimed and he saw that it was from Naruto.
Meet me at the park, teme. Tomorrow at five.
Sasuke replied with a confirmation. The raven then stood up, grabbed his keys, and walked out. He strolled all the way to the part of Konoha that was dedicated to the once big family that he used to have. Now it was only him and Itachi. He knocked on the door and his brother answered it.
"Hn, what do you want?"
"I was simply coming to receive an update on my house."
The older brother looked to his younger, "It's almost done, but you do know that you have to find a suitable girlfriend..."
The younger raven nodded, "I already have one in mind."
With that, the younger of the two walked away. Not bothering to look back, he was focused on how he would get the pinkette named Sakura. Sasuke eventually got back to his apartment and draped himself across the couch. The raven laid on his back and stared at the ceiling. He eventually fell asleep, dreaming up ways to make the pink haired girl his.
Sakura smashed her alarm clock and got up. She wasn't going to be late today. Inner Sakura smiled evilly.
We are going to look good today.
Sakura picked out an outfit that consisted of a casual pink, black, and white skirt with roses. She grabbed a light gray v-neck and slipped on her shoes. The pinkette skipped to the bathroom and tended to her hair and brushed her teeth. She skipped back to the kitchen and made a bowl of cereal. The pinkette finished the bowl quickly and walked back to her room to get a cardigan and her purse. She called to Zetsu and walked out the door. The pink haired girl walked at a more leisurely pace to work, admiring the scenery for once. Besides getting up on time, the pinkette was stuck with a sense of euphoria because she was getting off at three o'clock instead of the normal nine at night.
She walked into work five minutes early and shocked everyone, even her mentor, Tsunade. The pinkette just conitnued to the employee's room to clock in and get ready. As she grabbed the handle to walk, out, someone grabbed it to come in. Before Sakura could even move, she saw stars.
"Hey... Hey are you okay," a voice was swimming in Sakura's head.
She slowly blinked her eyes open and was astonished at who she saw.
"Kisame, what are you doing here?"
He looked down at the pinkette. Ohmykami, I just hit her in the head! What if she doesn't want to be my friend anymore?He calmed down and helped her up.
"Deidara wanted to know what you were cooking for dinner tonight- Hey, is that your phone?"
Sakura grabbed her phone off the floor, she looked at the new message. Softly smiling, she typed in a reply of confirmation. The pinkette slipped her phone in her pocket.
"Yeah, I'll cook. What do you guys want?"
"Oh," the shark like boy started, "It's just Dei and Sasori, the rest of us have dates or jobs."
Sakura smiled, "Well, tell him that I'll make steak or something, but I have to get to work."
Her sharky friend nodded and walked back toward the entrance. Sakura completed her rounds, staying with the children a little longer. Now, she was in the lab, doing paperwork. The pinkette's phone vibrated on her desk. Sakura picked it up to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Sakura-chan, I can't bring you lunch today. I got caught up with some stuff, do you mind if I send Sasuke-teme down there with it," her best friend asked.
"No, that's fine. Or, I can go get some myself," she replied.
"Okay, I feel really bad about it though," her blonde friend deflated, and then inflated, "Bye Sakura-chan. He should be there soon."
Naruto hung up after that, he was glad that Sakura didn't hear the lie in his voice. He walked up to Sasuke's door, ramen in hand. The raven looked at his best friend on the other side of the door. He looked to the bento in the dobe's hands.
"Take this to Sakura at the hospital, her lunch break is in fifteen minutes and I can't take it to her today," Naruto rushed.
He thrust the bento into the raven's hands and practically ran away. Sasuke was confused, but nevertheless, he slipped on his shoes and walked toward the hospital. The raven didn't usually do nice things, that's why when people in the hospital saw him, they gasped. He just had to grit his teeth and bear with it.
"Haruno Sakura, please," he asked the front desk lady.
"She's helping a patient in room 276."
"Thanks," the raven haired boy said.
Sasuke didn't know why, actually he did but he denied it, but as he walked, his heart beat faster. He saw his childhood friend. A person beside her noticed and whispered to her. Sakura immediately turned around and started walking toward the Uchiha. She smiled and gently took the bento from him
"Come on Sasuke, you must be uncomfortable with all these people staring at you."
She grabbed his hand and gently pulled him along, "My lunch was so close to the end of my shift today, if you could just wait fifteen more minutes, we could go eat somewhere else."
Sasuke nodded dumbly as the pinkette led him to her office. She opened the door and turned on the lights. The pinkette moved back behind her desk and tidied up the paperwork. Sakura wrote a few more things down before her phone chimed. Sasuke observed (watched kinda creepily) as she looked at it and smiled. How he wished that he could make her smile like that. He looked away as she turned her head up from her phone.
"Okay, Sasuke, just let me clock out and then we can leave and go eat."
He nodded, fifteen minutes had passed already? Sakura handled everything and walked out of the building with Sasuke beside her. As she recovered from her drunken stupor, she slowly came to realize that she still liked her.
You know you wished he'd do unspeakably dirty things to you.
Shut up, Inner I do not, Outer Sakura thought as she choked down a gasp.
Sasuke looked over at Sakura, she was coughing pretty hard.
"Sakura are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. Fine."
Sasuke looked at her one last time before resuming a stoic expression. His father would think of him as pathetic if he kept shooting emotion out left and right.
Away from all of this sat eight other people in Pein and Konan's apartment.
"We're being reassigned. We can't stay in Konoha anymore," Pein said.
"When are we leaving," Kisame asked sadly.
"Two days from now, and there's a big chance that we'll never come back to Konoha again."
With that, everyone stood up and walked solemnly to their respective living spaces. They knew that when Pein said two days that it meant that they had four hours to pack and get back to his house and then they'd get everything sorted out with bills and such. It didn't help when Itachi went back to his house. The Uchiha sat down and wrote a letter before packing everything he owned into a suitcase. He called his younger brother and left a message.
"Come to the house when you're done doing whatever."
Sakura sat down with Sasuke on a bench not too far from their apartments. They were making small talk. The pinkette opened the box and sighed angrily when she looked at what was inside.
