title: 7:31
prompt: SASUSAKU MONTH ON LJ! 2012
rating: T-M

summary: o29: Naruto's trying to set him up with a girlfriend. Too bad that he hates all of his options. Well, maybe one's alright.

REVISED 6.30.14


.o29.
Options

"What were my options again?" Sasuke asked.

Naruto sighed. "Red, tan, brown, purple, yellow, pink."

"I hate all of those colors."

"You don't have a choice. Pick one."

"Fine. Purple," Sasuke said, choosing the color closest to his favorite.

"You got it!" He went behind a room covered by a curtain and pulled out a shy, pretty girl twiddling her fingers.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What is this?"

"Her name is Hinata. Say hi to teme, Hinata-chan!"

The girl blushed, stuttered profusely, and then wailed out for no apparent reason.

"Yeah. No. Next." Sasuke said, waving Hinata away.

"You don't think she's pretty?" Naruto asked, incredulous.

"She's fairly attractive. Just not my type. Did you just pair us together because we have a similar color scheme?" he asked, frustrated.

"No! But anyway, I'll have her!" Naruto said gleefully. "Okay. Red, tan, brown, yellow, or pink?"

Sasuke sighed. "Brown."

"Okay. Come out here, TenTen!"

A girl with her hair in two Chinese buns appeared, swinging a knife on her finger. She pointed it at him menacingly.

"Hey, I'm TenTen."

"Seems too feminist. Next!" he called out as TenTen growled, trying to slice him with her knife and shouting the words, "FEMINIST? WHO'RE YOU CALLING FEMINIST?"

"So. Red, tan, yellow, or pink?"

"Tan."

Out came a girl with a giant fan on her back. Her hair was in four pigtails and she smirked at him.

"You're cute," she said.

He raised an eyebrow.

"I feel like we're married somehow," Temari, the girl, said. "You know?"

"Hn."

"So…" she began.

"Next," Sasuke called. He turned to Naruto. "Really, Naruto? Don't you have anything better? I mean, I don't want to even be here, anyway."

Naruto groaned. "Sasuke, you need a girlfriend. You said so yourself! I'd like to restore the clan."

"Yeah, but…"

"But what, you pussy?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "What were my other options again?"

"Red, yellow, pink."

"Fine." He looked up at Naruto's blonde hair and sighed. "Yellow."

A girl in a ponytail came out, trying to swish her hips. Sasuke took one look at her and frowned. "Nope."

"But—" the girl whined. For some reason, she reminded him of a pig.

"NEXT."

Naruto led the piggy away, giving Sasuke his last options. "Red or pink?"

"Red." He hated pink. It was so bright and frilly and…ugh.

A girl with glasses came out. She had bright red hair and matching eyes and glasses, so he assumed she was intellectual. He thought wrong.

"EEE!" she squealed as she jumped onto Sasuke's lap, throwing her arms around him. "You are so hot!"

"Get off!" he shouted, trying to push her. "NARUTO!"

Naruto tried to take the girl off his body, but she continued to cling onto him.

"Karin, stop! Bad girl!" Naruto shouted.

The girl stopped and turned to look at the blonde, growling.

"What did you just call me?" she asked, backing off from Sasuke to raise her fists at him.

"Next, Naruto."

Naruto led the punching Karin away, screaming curses at both boys, before Naruto said, "It's just the pink one now. Take it or leave it."

"I'll leave it."

"Too bad! She's beautiful. I think you'll be happy with her. Sakura!" he called out. "Come out!"

Sasuke wasn't expecting what he saw. In front of him was a girl, her hair pink, but her smile gorgeous. And she looked so innocent and naïve, sort of different from the purple girl.

"Hi," she said, putting her hand out. "I'm Sakura."

He took it and liked how firm her handshake was. "Sasuke."

"The rest of the girls there are pretty upset with you," she said. "So I figure you might not give me that much time."

"Who said?" he asked, interested by this girl.

"You," she said with a sweet smile.

Sasuke was attracted to this girl's personality, not just her looks. He leaned closer to her, his elbows on his knees.

"What do you do?" he asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you a student?"

Sakura smiled. "Graduate. I'm working on becoming a doctor at Konoha University under Tsunade-shishou."

"Wow. Smart, too."

She gave a nervous chuckle. "Thanks. So, what about you?"

"Freelancer."

"Oh!" she said. "That's cool."

By the tone of her voice, he knew that she was genuinely surprised and interested.

He smirked. "You're different."

"In…a good way?" she asked, her tone rising slightly.

"Hn." He nodded.

"Cool."

Standing up, he held out his hand for another handshake before slipping her a piece of paper.

"Call me," he said, heading out, dragging Naruto's arm with him.

"Hey, wait, teme—are you sure you don't want to see your other options again?"

"I'm sure." He nodded to Sakura. "I'll hear from you soon," he said, almost arrogantly.

Sakura stared down at the phone number in her hands and smiled.


Slight changes!