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6:15 am

Text from Ino: Morning sunshine!

Sakura: …….

Ino: Don't be bitter!

Sakura: Why shouldn't I be?

Ino: Because the birds are chirping and the sun is shining and today is Orlando Bloom's birthday! I'm coming over. (1)

Sakura: doesn't reply but instead turns off her phone and goes back to sleep.

Twenty minutes later.

Something large and blonde pounces on Sakura.

Sakura grabs hold of that large blonde something, and pushes it off of her, effectively tossing it across the room.

Sakura's eyes finally adjust to the brightness of her room and sees Ino sitting on her bed, looking annoyed.

"Huh? What are you doing here?" Sakura said, jumping back in surprise at her friend suddenly being in her room.

"I'm guessing that you forgot about the text I sent you this morning?" Ino said, laughing at the number of times she has done this with Sakura.

"What on earth are you spouting? I didn't get any texts this morning!" Sakura said, shaking out her hair and standing up, beginning to look for something to wear for the day.

"Check your phone," Ino said, laughing on the inside, and the out for that matter.

"I'll take your word for it."

"Mmkay. Oh, I just remembered something! Don't you start work today at the Mangekyou Bakery with the Uchiha boy?" Ino said, going through Sakura's closet and handing her a yellow dress with little red strawberries in a random pattern, "wear this by the way."

Sakura shrugged and changed into the dress, slipping into a pair of Mary Jane's, along with dark stockings.

They walked down to Sakura's kitchen, Ino grabbing an apple (-) and Sakura grabbing a handful of cherries (fear my amazing pun usage). Both of them sat waiting for their coffee to be ready.

"Hey, hey, you, you I don't like your girlfriend!" Ino's cell blared. She looked down a little surprised before pulling it out of her bag.

"Shika?" Sakura inquired, popping a cherry (blossom) into her mouth. (Pun un-intended)

"Yop," Ino flipped it open.

Sakura could only hear Ino's side of the conversation which goes as, "Good morning! How art thou my little slacker?" Pause " I'm over at Sakura's house. You know she's hopeless without me, she'd probably have turned up with Gaara-type eyes and wearing chains." Pause "Of course that'd be a negative!" Pause "What do you like girls with a rougher edge?" Pause "How interesting." Pause "Mmkay. Peaces."

At this point she hung up and turned to Sakura, saying, "hey, want a ride to school Shikamaru is on his was."

"Sure," Sakura said, throwing her stems in the trashcan. Sakura ran back up to her room, realizing that she'd forgotten her paisley Vera Bradley backpack on her desk. When she came back down Ino was waiting by the front door for her. They waited in silence until Sakura's phone beeped twice, signaling that she'd just received a text-message. It was from a certain dark-haired, emo-tastic love of hers and read, "Morning sunshine. I'll drive us from school straight to work today okay?"

"Who's that from?" Ino asked, being her usual noisy self.

"You're favorite boy," Sakura said, letting Ino count off the boys that pissed her off on her fingers as Sakura replied to Sasuke's text with "Alright, let's meet outside of the by the back entrance after 9th bell."

"Sasuke?"

"Aye," Sakura nodded, "we start work today after all."

"Oh right, forgot that you got a job at that bakery place. The owner guy is kind of pretty, for an old guy."

"It's Sasuke's older brother."

"Scratch what I just said."

"Aye."

They waited in silence for another couple minutes before Shikamaru pulled up. They both got into the back seat, seeing as Choji, Shikamaru's best friend, was occupying all of the passenger seat. Sakura, Shikamaru, and Choji sat in silence, Sakura drinking her coffee, as Ino prattled on as if she'd been up for hours.

They arrived at school with just enough time to get to homeroom before the late bell rang, signaling that they all had detention.

When Sakura and Ino arrived, Sakura looked about, hoping to see Sasuke, and to much surprise, he was sitting, talking to Hayate-sensei, who was much surprised by Sasuke's appearance in homeroom.

"Morning Sasuke!" Sakura smiled, poking his arm as she approached him.

"Hello, how are you?" he said sounding as if he had woken up about five minutes ago.

"Good, you?" she asked.

"Fine, fine, just tired. I want to go back to bed. Homeroom is worthless."

"Not entirely! It gives you a couple minutes to get in the school mindset before your first class!" She said overly perkily, taking a huge sip of coffee from the container in her hands that she clutched too as if her life depended upon it.

"How much of that stuff have you drank already this morning?" he asked, smiling and poking her coffee cup.

"Not that much!" she said, again overly brightly.

"Yeah…" It was very clear that Sasuke did believe that his pink-haired friend hadn't been drinking too much coffee.

They sat talking for another ten minutes before the bell rung, signaling the end of homeroom.

With a quick goodbye Sakura dashed from homeroom and up the stairs to her Italian room. She sat in her assigned seat and waited for the rest of the class to arrive. When all were seated and the starting bell had rung the teacher came to the front of the room and said way too loudly, "Good morning my beautiful class! I am feeling that in order to keep up our youthful enthusiasm we must change seats!" And thus Gai-sensei began to ring off the new seating arrangements.

When Sakura sat down in her new seat barely had time to look up before her new desk partner shouted loudly and happily in her ear, "Good morning Sakura-chan!" Oh no, anyone but him, dear God no!

Unfortunately her greatest fears were realized, "Hi Lee-kun," she winced as he began a speech of how the "great fate of a springtime of youth" had brought them together.

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(1) Note! It's really like spring in the story, and yes I'm aware that Orlando Bloom's birthday is actually January 13th not at all in springtime, it just makes for a better-ness.