[ May I ]

Full of life with the world that's wanting more.

"So instead of choosing the clothes I'm suppose to wear tomorrow… We are buying clothes." Sakura said as she stared at all the shopping bags in her hand.

"You need new clothes Sakura." Ino said as she began to rushed to another window and stared memorizing at a bright pink dress as Sakura rushed behind her. "You can't wear those that are in your cabinet, you might give them bad impression." Ino said as she pulled Sakura into the shop she was just looking at.

"I'm there for an interview, not a fashion model." Sakura pointed out while she allowed herself to be pulled by her blonde friend, even though she seemed to enjoy the last minute shopping which they had planned three hours ago.

Placing down her shopping bags, the blonde took one of the clothes and rushed to the mirror while staring at the mirror and admiring the dress. "This is gorgeous! I'm so going to try this!" Ino shrieked as she quickly rushed into the fitting room. Sakura rolled her eyes, as she sat down on one of the seats outside of the room that Ino just went in.

And how does Ino had the money to buy all these clothes everyday? Oh, her father left her a huge sum of money before he left for a long vacation to enjoy his retirement, but Ino loved flowers, thus even if she had the money to spend for the rest of her life, she went to get a job as a florist at one of the flower shop in town.

But what about Sakura? Her Mom and Dad were in another foreign country working on their oversea business. They always sent money back as her monthly allowance and the amount could actually last her for a few months instead of one, so she could actually shop every single day. But instead, she wanted to be like her best friend, find a job and actually grow independently and lead a…

Peaceful life…

"Sakura! How does this look?" Ino asked as she turned around to let her friend to give some comment.

"It's beautiful…" Sakura said as she looked as her best friend was smiling back and lifted her dress up to reveal her high heels.

"I'm buying!" Ino mentioned, for the 10th time consecutively when they were in other shops too.

After tugging her best friend out of the shop and into the busy night at the street, her phone rang as she fumbled for her ringing phone and finally found it as she answered it swiftly.

"Hello? Ino's here!" Ino said chirpily. Sakura smiled for that, her friend was just too awesome and hyper for that. "What? What did you say? I'll be right back!" Ino yelled in the middle of the street as a few passers-by stared at her weirdly while they were walking by the two.

Ino quickly ended the call as Sakura looked worriedly at her friend. "What's wrong?" Sakura asked.

"The flower shop have been robbed, and the owner was actually hurt when the robber was taken place, I have to go and check it out." Ino said as she grabbed onto her friend's arm. "I'm sorry Sakura but I can't take you home, I've to go for now." Ino said as she quickly headed for her car park after Sakura nodded, indicating that she understood.

0o0

Sasori felt a vibration in his pocket as he reached into his pocket and fished out his phone while browsing through some books at a bookstore. After looking at who was calling him, he answered it.

"What is it Deidara."

"Hehe, Sasori… I've forgotten to tell you that there's a document that Mr. Nara wants you to go through and he wanted a respond by tomorrow morning yeah, I've send the document to your email." Deidara said innocently and Sasori could already picture him rubbing the back of his head for his carelessness.

"Right." Sasori closed the book at placed it back onto the shelf as he gave a sigh. "We really need another worker…" Sasori muttered while Deidara spoke behind his phone.

"What did you say yeah?"

Sasori walked out of the shop and into the busy street. "Nothing, I'm hanging up right now." Sasori said as digged into his pocket to search for his car keys, in realization that he had actually parked his car at one of the petrol station to get it fixed.

He turned and walked towards the pavement of the street in search for a cab, when he finally found one as he quickly went forward to grab the handle, but to his surprise, there was another girl fighting for the same cab too.

Their eyes met, Green versus Brown,.

"Can you get your hands away from my cab?" Sakura ordered.

"Sorry? Your cab? I've actually seen it first." Sasori remarked.

"I'd seen it first, it's just that arms are longer than me, and you've reached it first and-"

"Yes, I've reached it first so buzz off." Sasori said but Sakura refused to budge.

"Didn't you heard of ladies first?" Sakura growled. That was when Sasori became quiet as he looked at her pink hair, frowning.

"W-what What's with my hair, never seen a pink-haired woman before?" Sakura yelled. Sasori then looked back into her green orbs.

"Not really, but it's interesting to see a pink-haired lady with a few strands of white hair right in the middle." Sasori replied casually.

Sakura immediately released her grip on the door handle and reached out for her pink locks. "WHAT?" Sakura shrieked. The redhead smirked as he pulled the door and quickly got in, which made Sakura awfully surprise.

"Yah, Ladies sure gets white hair first." Sasori said as he slammed the door shut as the cab went off right in front of her.

"He's! ARGH!" Sakura stomped her foot onto the ground. "I hate these kind of stupid jerks!" Sakura angrily yelled as she walked further down the streets, and while passing by some huge mirrors that were right outside of a fashion accessories shop, she stopped at stared at herself.

"There's no white hair… right?"

0o0

"I can't get over that! I just can't!" Sakura gritted through clenched teeth as her hand turned into a fist and stared angrily forward. 'If I can punch him right now…" Sakura said as she smirked, picturing the event happening in her mind.

Ino stepped onto her pedal once the red light turned green as they went full speed ahead. "Geez, it's just a cab, Forehead." Ino said as she turned left towards the petrol station, "Anyway Sakura, let me get some gas pumped. There's still time." Ino said.

Sakura nodded as they approached to the petrol station before Sakura asked Ino about the robber incident.

"Oh, the owner was alright, but weirdly, the robber didn't take anything, not the money or anything at all. Perhaps he escaped before he steal anything. The police are still investigating." Ino replied, Sakura stroked her invisible chin " I wonder… this is a suspicious case…" They then came to a halt.

"Don't act as a police when you can't." Ino said as she get of the car to get some petrol into her car. Sakura sat in the car patiently as she look at her watch, "thirty more minutes…" Sakura gulped. She suddenly felt nervous for the interview without a reason.

"Maybe I should get a candy bar before heading to the interview, that should somehow calm me down…" She said as she pushed the door opened without noticing someone was right outside.

0o0

"Thank you." Sasori said as he paid for the petrol and the repairs of his car at the cashier counter before approaching out. Just then, a blonde girl walked past him and towards the cashier while he walked out of the store.

After taking a sip from his hot coffee, he started searching for his key in his pocket and once he found it, he fished it out, yet accidentally dropped it onto the floor. As he bent down to pick it up and stood up, a car door which was just beside him swung open without a care in the world.

And a wham, the enjoying-coffee was over.

The door had knocked Sasori's cup of coffee onto his shirt as he looked down his stained shirt with two wide eyes. He slowly looked up to find a familiar pink-haired girl.

Sakura got off the car to find that she had knocked over a guy with coffee and spilled it all over him. She exclaimed in horror.

"I'm so so sorry!" She bowed several times, finding it weird when the person she had accidentally knocked into didn't respond.

She slowly raised her head, as the first thing she saw was the same red hair with the same chocolate-colored eyes she met yesterday night.

It was that Jerk.

"You!" Sakura pointed a finger at the redhead.

"Oh, it's you." Sasori calmly said, even though the coffee was all over him.

"You…" Still didn't got over the incident yesterday, she looked at the stain on his shirt and then glared right in the eye as she shouted. "Serve you right!" She immediately stepped onto his foot with her high heels.

And sometimes, she doesn't know her strength…

His brown eyes widened as he bent down and grabbed onto his foot in pain before glaring at her. "You...brat!"

Right at that moment, Ino walked out of the store and approached to her car and Sakura quickly shouted.

"Ino! Get in!"

Sakura quickly opened the door and Ino; who didn't know what was happening and just got into the car like what her best friend told her too. Within a few seconds, they sped off, leaving the redhead holding onto his leg and groaning in pain.

0o0

"Gosh! What on earth happened?" Ino said as she was driving towards the address that the email had sent them. Sakura was grabbing on her skirt as she looked at Ino.

"I didn't know why I was acting like that either, I was so angry and I just stepped onto his foot without thinking… and all I know was to escape." Sakura said.

"Who was that?" Ino calmly asked.

"That redhead who I spoken about, I can't believe I met him again." Sakura sighed as she stared outside of the window.

"Count yourself unlucky then, what if you really met him again." Ino laughed.

"No way! I couldn't possibly meet him again…" Sakura said as her voice became hoarse, "Could I…" Sakura gulped, she felt uneasy all of the sudden.

Ino then turned into the car park as they came to a halt, Sakura got of the car and took a deep breath. "You know the address right?" Ino asked and Sakura nodded. " I've told Hinata that we shall meet up and get lunch after your interview, I'll wait for you outside after your interview." The blonde winked and gave a thumbs up.

"Everything's going to be great!" Ino said.

"I hope so…" Sakura walked out of the car park as Ino was finding a spot to park her car.

Sakura slowly approached to the office that the address was given as she stood outside the glass door. She had an interview a few months ago for her previous job and she was not that tense, yet, she just couldn't stop herself from being nervous right now.

"Damn that redhead, if only I got a candy bar… Maybe I should get a candy bar!" Sakura smiled contently as she turned and walked down the steps and towards the busy road, to actually find someone that she thought she would never see again.

It was that guy Sakura met earlier.

He was using a tissue and rubbing the stubborn stain off his shirt as he shut his car door and slowly approached the same direction towards Sakura, yet he did not seem to notice the girl at all.

"Oh my G-" Sakura immediately put her hand over her mouth, "I can't let him see me!" She quickly entered the office without thinking anything else other than escaping from him.

The bell that was hanging at the corner of the door chimed as a blonde head popped out of the kitchen. Sakura stared at the blonde who then walked out of the kitchen while stirring his coffee and smiled at her. "Haruno Sakura, I suppose!" He called out.

Sakura straightened herself as she combed her short hair with her fingers and bowed. "Ah... Good morning!" She smiled back.

"I'm Deidara! Come on in!" Deidara handed a packet of drink and Sakura thankfully accepted it before glancing around the room.

The first floor was very simple, with light blue wallpaper and a kitchen at the corner of the room, and in the middle of the first floor, there was a desk with a few messy file and a few organized file. It really seemed that there were two different people who were the boss of the company.

The desk also had a laptop and a telephone at the corner, taking a last look, Sakura followed Deidara up the stairs that was allocated right beside the glass door; which was the entrance.

They reached the second floor, there were two rooms along the corridor, but Sakura didn't have a chance to view the other room as Deidara pushed the glass door and allowed Sakura to enter.

There were many shelves; one was filled with different books with lots of different sizes. Another shelf was filled with all sorts of different colour of clay, but mostly all the clay was in white.

Another small shelf that was filled with files, another bigger shelf was filled with different kind of small wood models; houses, chairs, tables, all coated with colorful colors.

Right in the middle of the huge room, there was two desks but were both separated. One desk had a stationary holder filled with pencils and paintbrush, a stack of organized file, and a laptop at the corner of the desk.

There was another desk that was messy, yet the different clay models were aligned neatly and nicely on the table, with another laptop on the table.

There was a huge window, which was just behind the two desk, which could view the busy streets outside of the office. Sakura took a glimpse of the amazing view before following Deidara to a round glass table, allocated at the corner of the room.

They both pulled out the chairs and sat down before Sakura shyly looked around while Deidara placed his cup and Sakura placed her untouched drink on the table. "This room is actually the main room. We do mostly everything here though, yeah." Deidara said as Sakura nodded in response, her eyes were fixated at another huge room, which was actually also in the same room they were in. Sakura assumed that the room might be he storeroom.

Noticing what Sakura was staring at, Deidara spoke. "That room would be the wood project area room, where you can actually all the equipments of sawing, sanding cutting, anything to do with wood making was all inside.

Sakura eyes glittered as her eyes were glued to the room, "I'm not in charge of it, so I can't really show you right now, yeah." Deidara said. Sakura felt a little disappointed that she couldn't see the amazing machines and equipment that could be found inside, but she knew that she could touch them one day.

"Well, as I was saying you wanted a job as a furniture designer here, as I have said, the wood stuff are all inside. And I'm not in charge of these; instead, I'm in charge of clays, yeah." Deidara paused before continuing. "And I couldn't actually decide much as I wasn't actually-"

"Ding ling ling!"

The familiar bell at the door chimed again and both of them looked at the glass transparent door as they could hear the sound of steps approaching. "Aha, he said he wouldn't be late… and he was…" Deidara laughed.

Sakura just gulped in anticipation.

"If he actually accepts you in, I can tell you a whole LOT of stuff to be alert off. Then you wouldn't pissed him off and he wouldn't fire you, yeah." Deidara winked.

The door opened as a man who was holding a file in his hand, while the other was wiping some sort of stain on his shirt came in. His chocolate-brown eyes glanced across the room before landing at the two who were sitting at the round glass table at the corner of the room.

"That's Sasori, the other boss of the company-"

A gasp interrupted Deidara before he could finish his sentence. Deidara looked at Sakura, puzzled. The blonde then looked at the redhead who placed his file on the neat table before approaching the glass table, slowly.

And that few steps, it was torturing Sakura to the max.

"Oh, so this is Haruno Sakura, the new employee that you decide to interview, isn't it?" Sasori said as he pulled out a chair and sat right beside Sakura, his eyes continued to stare at the nervous girl who was shifting uncomfortably. She grabbed the drink, poking the small hole with the straw and started drinking it slowly.

"What happened to you yeah?" Deidara said as he pointed at the stain on his shirt.

"Oh? This stain? It was nothing, just pure accident." Sasori said as he looked at Sakura again. Her eyes were staring under the table, afraid to look up.

"So, she's Haruno Sakura yeah-"

"I'm hiring her." Sasori interrupted the blonde's sentence again.

"What? Yesterday you were complaining that I shouldn't and now…" Deidara looked at his friend while Sakura slowly raised her head up, continuing drinking from her straw as her eyes met the redhead ones.

Sasori suddenly stood up which surprised Sakura. He just shrugged at the question Deidara asked but then the redhead finally gave a reply.

"Yesterday, I was reading about this fantastic book on 1001 ways how to torture your own workers, so I've decide to try that out."

Sakura choked.

To be continue

In future chapter, the chapters might be like this long, or a little bit lesser, so yeah :D And if there is any grammar mistake, I'm really sorry, currently in a rush here.
And could I know again, am I writing Sakura and Sasori OOC? Or is it okay? Please review!