Honestly this chapter was so fun for me to write though I did write it years back, Sakura and Ino's dynamic is so fun to play with in the modern world. Also, Sasuke in this story is just so damn funny to me, because we never see his perspective and it's really only through the eyes of Ino, Sai and Shikamaru (to an extent), all the impressions we have of him our through their eyes. In all honesty I don't think he gets utilized to his fullest comedic potential in most stories, hopefully I did him justice.

Also Sai is one of the more interesting perspectives to write from, I think due to his canon background. Translating that into the modern world was interesting to me because I had to do a lot of research on mental health-specifically PTSD, I really wanted to capture the same repressed emotions he was struggling with in the manga in a sensitive way. Anyway enough of my rambling! Enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. The women would be better written if I did.

Chapter 3

"Forehead!" Ino whined, drawing out the 'eh' sound and flopping a hand dramatically over her eyes to signify her despair as she laid sprawled out on her best-friends couch.

Sakura looked at Ino with pointed green eyes, which the blonde recognized as her 'lecture the hell out of you' look.

"Ino," Sakura began, her eyebrow twitched as she bit down on her tongue to prevent the instinctual 'Pig' from falling out. This situation was serious. "Are you stupid?!"

Ino sat up and threw a fluffy white couch pillow at Sakura which the pink-haired girl caught effortlessly. "Maybe!"

Sakura's hands found their way to her temple as she felt a headache coming on.

"Well what was I supposed to do?" Ino asked, throwing her hands up in the air.

"I don't know?" Sakura said, "Be happy for him?"

"As if!"

"Pig!" Sakura couldn't help herself, getting up she pushed the pillow she was holding into the blonde's face.

"Knock it off!" Ino shouted, pushing back and swinging her arms and legs wildly.

After a few minutes both girls shifted away from each other with annoyed glares. Then Sakura's gaze softened as she approached Ino with a sympathetic hug. Instantly falling into her best-friends' arms, Ino felt herself begin to choke up but quickly pushed it back down. She could feel the rosy-haired girl rubbing circles on her back in a comforting motion.

"Ino look, you still have time to tell him it was all just a joke." Sakura mumbled against her shoulder.

Pulling away, turquoise eyes narrowed as lips turned down into a scowl. "A joke?"

"Yes." Sakura said, her face looking serious again. "A joke."

"I'm not joking." Ino said, shaking her head and lifting herself off the couch. Crossing her arms, she met Sakura's jaded glare with an icy one of her own.

"This isn't some stupid high-school relationship Ino! Shikamaru is getting married!"

"Well he's not married yet!" Ino yelled back. She tapped her foot against the red-stained wooden floors of Sakura and Sasuke's high-rise condo.

"But he will be!" Sakura emphasized her words to get through to her best-friend. She sighed when Ino responded with an 'and?' eyebrow raise. It was always in one ear and out the other with her.

"Look, I'm doing this for him too."

Sakura's perfectly sculpted pink brow rose in incredulity. "How so?"

"If this works out then it means that those two wouldn't have lasted anyway. In that case I would have saved him a ton of money from divorce proceedings!"

"You are so selfish!"

"You're one to talk!" Ino huffed. The hypocrisy of Sakura lecturing her on being ethical didn't escape her.

The same Sakura who had ignored Sasuke's own wishes when he had told her he didn't want anything to do with her or Naruto. Granted, he was acting out from his parent's separation, later turned reconciliation, and probably didn't mean it. But the fact that Sakura had persisted to hunt him down, shove her love down his throat, and force him to face his feelings instead of just letting him waste away like the drama queen he was, was practically self-serving!

"That is so not the same thing." Sakura rolled her eyes. "Sasuke and I were off and on again at the time."

"Oh yeah?" Ino snorted. "And if I asked him he'd agree?"

"Only if she was there." Sasuke walked in, covered in sweat from the gym and offering his two-cents. He munched on what looked like those disgusting vegetable chips Ino always gagged at when she passed them in the grocery and reached for the greasy potato kind.

Ino smirked victoriously at Sakura, choosing to ignore the fact that her boyfriend had probably heard part of their conversation. If she was lucky he had only caught the back half of it. That at least gave her plausible deniability.

"Sasuke, you're encouraging her." Sakura whined, feeling her face grow red at his words.

Sasuke simply hummed as he sat down beside Sakura in the seat Ino was planning on occupying again. Rolling her eyes, the blonde sat across from them in the ridiculously expensive white leather couch in the corner of the couples ridiculously expensive living room.

"Sasuke, nice to see you." Ino greeted with a smile, only to glower as he gave her an indifferent "hm" in response. She liked to forget the long elementary to high-school years she spent harbouring a massive crush on him before ultimately falling in love with Shikamaru. She didn't know any better then. At least that's what she told herself at night.

"Look, just think about what I said okay?" Sakura said. She had given her a look that spoke of the secret between the two before leaning back into the couch and shifting closer to Sasuke.

Sighing Ino bit her lip as she let her best-friends words sink in. She should listen to Sakura. She was being the voice of reason she desperately needed.

But, Ino clenched her hands together, she couldn't give up on Shikamaru that easily.

Looking at how Sasuke, who was normally stoic, discreetly put his arm around his girlfriend and pulled her closer, Ino felt the urge to get Shikamaru back become even stronger. She wanted what they had.

Secretly she was a little jealous of her best-friend. She had the man of her dreams (who not to mention was super rich), had a great job as a surgeon in training who was practicing under one of the top surgeons in not only Konoha but the whole world, and in general she just had her life together. Sakura was living the dream. Though she would never tell her this, Ino sort of looked up to her.

And what Sakura Haruno wanted she took without ever hesitating. It was Ino who had taught Sakura to be more assertive when she beat up the rosy-haired girls bullies all those years ago, but it was Sakura who had continued to carry that same tenacity with her throughout everything that she did.

Not to say that Ino was some push-over underachiever. Far from it. She also worked as a respected resident doctor in the same hospital Sakura was at, while also occasionally moonlighting as a florist at her family's flower shop. And she never let anyone bulldoze over her or took less than what she deserved.

It's just that when her and Shikamaru broke up it was like Ino had lost the perfect picture she had spent her whole life chasing. She wanted to have her cake and eat it too. She wanted, no needed the fairy-tale happy ending.

As far as she was concerned she deserved it.

"So, Sasuke." Ino began innocently. He paid her no mind as his eyes stayed focused on the flat screen TV he had turned on to watch the news. Rolling her eyes, the blonde continued despite her annoyance. "What do you think of Sai?"

Shrugging his shoulders Sasuke still didn't offer any form of eye contact. "I don't."

Feeling her eye twitch Ino continued pressing the issue. "You don't have any opinions of him?"

"Why do you care if I do or if I don't? It's not like you two are together."

"Actually, we are."

At that Sasuke actually turned to look at her. Like really look at her. He stayed deadly still in his seat as his dark eyes stayed on her for an indiscriminate amount of time before he burst out into laughter. It was the loudest Ino had ever heard him laugh.

"That guy? Yeah right!" Sasuke said in between breaths, he was clutching his stomach now as actual tears started to form at his eyes.

Sakura gave Ino a knowing eyebrow raise as she motioned towards her hysterical boyfriend. Ino ignored her though, choosing to glare at the Uchiha who still hadn't calmed down.

"What's so funny?" She asked, crossing her arms and leaning back into the couch irritated.

"How does one date a robot?" Sasuke answered. He had calmed down, but he still had that stupid smirk on his face.

"I could ask Sakura the same thing."

"I'm nothing like him." Sasuke actually seemed offended as he scowled at her words. "He's really fucking weird."

"No he isn't!" Ino denied, defending her fake boyfriend from the Uchiha's slander.

Sasuke raised a perfect brow at that.

Ino shrugged. "Fine, maybe he is, but that doesn't make him a robot! I'll have you know that he treats me like a princess."

"Hm." Sasuke said. A small chuckle escaped him as he nodded his head in a way that let her know he didn't nor wouldn't believe her.

Okay so…not the reaction she was hoping for. Still Ino pushed forward despite the setback.

"We've been dating for two months." She said, smiling to herself and trying to make it look like she was in love as possible.

"Good for you." Was Sasuke's disinterested reply. He went back to focusing on the news as an anchorwoman relayed a story on some guy who had gotten a broken arm from performing a civilian hero act, preventing the robbery of a convenience store.

Ino stopped her lips from forming a snarl. Two could play this game.

"And I was thinking maybe we should all go on a double date."

Sasuke's brows dipped into annoyance as he regarded the blonde with a smouldering look. "Not a chance."

Ino had of course expected that answer. For whatever reason Sasuke and Sai were two people who would probably never get along. Mostly on Sasuke's end. She figured it had something to do with the fact Sai had been telling Sakura to forget about the Uchiha and date Naruto instead during said mans meltdown. Also, the fact that everyone said Sai kind of looked like him. He didn't seem like the type but Sasuke was incredibly vain when it came to his family's looks.

Also, Sai kept referring to Sasuke as 'Prick'.

"Too bad, Sakura already said yes." Ino looked at her best-friend with a smug grin.

"Did she?" Sasuke asked in a voice that made it clear it wasn't a question but more of an accusation. He looked at his girlfriend with a firm and terse smile.

"Ino!" Sakura frowned. She was shaking her head at Sasuke to try and dispel Ino's lie but he had already been convinced as he regarded her with an intense gaze.

"What forehead? You did say to think about what you said!"

"I didn't mean it like that, Pig!"

"Who's to say."

Ino fought back the laugh that threatened to come out as she watched Sakura rub Sasuke's arm in a reassuring manner, trying to convince him Ino was lying. He didn't believe it though and Ino couldn't blame him- she was a really convincing liar, a skill of hers she sometimes used to extract information out of people or psych them out.

She had picked it up from watching her father, who was a military intelligence general. He used similar tactics whenever he wanted her mom to admit to her overspending or go on outings she didn't want to on his days off.

You just had to play to their weaknesses, and just like how her mom's weakness was her love for large bouquets and the tightening of her dad's wallet, Sakura's was when she lost. To anybody. In any matter.

"Even if she said yes, I wouldn't go." Sasuke smirked at Ino, unaware that he was just playing right into the palm of her hand.

"And why not?" Just as Ino had expected Sakura's sore loser instincts had come into play. Even if she didn't actually agree to go, the thought of Sasuke not allowing her the possibility of actually saying yes was what got under her skin.

"Because I don't want to hang out with that weirdo."

"But I already made a commitment!"

She hadn't. It was meant to sound hypothetical but to Sasuke it sounded like she was admitting to agreeing to Ino's date suggestion.

He shifted in his seat then and turned to her with his trademark scowl, "Oh, so you did say yes?"

"What does it matter? The fact that you said you wouldn't if I did makes it seem like we're not a team." Sakura crossed her arms, getting just as annoyed.

Sasuke snorted as he rolled his eyes. "A team makes decisions together."

"Oh? Like how you told Naruto last week that we'd hang out with him and Hinata even though I'd said how I wanted that weekend to ourselves?"

"What? That's not the same. You know Naruto won't shut the fuck up until I say yes, and he's both of our friends."

Even though slightly offended at that dig Ino could feel herself getting giddy at what his words would do to Sakura.

"And Ino isn't?" Sakura raised a brow, her voice getting thin as a humourless smile made its way to her face. "We're going." It wasn't a suggestion.

"I mostly meant Sai." Sasuke mumbled, aware that there was no room for discussion considering his girlfriend had made a very valid point. Stupid Naruto.

Ino clapped her hands satisfied with herself and swung her feet off of the couch. "Okay so I'll see you guys soon!"

Before Sakura could even realize that she had been played Ino slipped on her tan wedges and high tailed it out of their condo. She walked even faster as she could hear Sakura curse a very loud 'PIG!' from down the hallway.

Quickly she pressed the elevator button. Tapping her foot, she prayed that it would open before Sakura raced out of there in a hurry. Her prayers were answered because just as a blur of pink begun to race towards her the door opened and Ino practically jumped in, pressing the close button quickly as Sakura's furious face came closer into view.

Leaning her back against the mirrored elevator wall Ino sighed and placed a hand to her chest. She ignored the sharp and constant text-notifications she was getting, most likely from Sakura, and clapped her hands in glee. Serves that ridiculously handsome pompous jerk right!

But her happiness went just as soon as it came.

Ino's hands went to grab at either side of her head in shock. "What did I do!"

She had completely spaced out when she suggested that, forgetting she was just playing around. And now that Sakura made that fiery display there was no chance in hell she would let Sasuke win and have Ino cancel.

Her and Sai couldn't go on a double date! They weren't ready to make their fake-couple debut! Sai would probably do something weird and blow their cover.

She sank down to the elevator floor as she could hear the faint ding of the passing floors on her way to the parking garage.

"No, I can make this work." She quickly picked herself off the ground as the elevator came to a stop and two people dressed for what she guessed was a corporate work environment entered.

'This could work' Ino thought. This date would prove to be the training grounds that her and Sai needed. If there was anyone who was the toughest critic she knew, it was Sasuke Uchiha. If her and Sai could pass the test of his critical eyes that meant that they could do anything. Bonus points if at the end Sasuke actually warmed up to her faux beau.

Ino clenched her fists. They would need to prepare extremely well if this were to work, Sai would have to come over to her place so she could coach him how to behave.

She blushed at that thought. It wasn't like he had never been to hers, Ino threw get togethers there all the time. It was just that they had never exactly been alone during those get togethers, especially not alone and behaving romantically.

She shook her head. It would be fine. Ino could be professional, even if Sai looked like some kind of perfectly sculpted God. No big deal.

The end result would be worth it.

INO: Double Date with Sakura and Sasuke this weekend (¬_¬)

We'll practice for this at my place tomorrow at 4 PM.

See you then boyfriend! Don't be late! (ﾉヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ

Sai looked at his phone with a curious expression as he reread Ino's texts over and over. A double date? He had thought she was possibly drunk yesterday when she suggested he pretend to be her boyfriend but now he could tell that she really was as serious as she looked.

He texted back a simple, 'Okay.' Not sure if he should end the conversation there or keep it going.

Ultimately he placed his phone back in his pocket as he heard the familiar loud shout of his best-friend Naruto.

Opening the door, he was met with the Cheshire grin of the blond as he raised one hand that held a pack full of beer and the other which held a brown bag filled with burgers, guessing by the smell.

"I know you haven't eaten all day." Naruto said, stumbling in the place and kicking off his shoes indiscriminately. "Been working on that new piece right?"

"Yeah." Sai nodded his head. He stepped away so Naruto could enter his apartment, which at the moment was covered in paint splattered white tarp.

Placing the food and drinks on the small kitchen table Naruto walked with his hands on his hips over to where Sai's painting stood. It was just a couple of strokes at the moment, but the blond still looked impressed. "Wow, It's really good man!"

Sai simply shrugged in response. "Thank you." He felt a small smile form in appreciation. Whenever his art was complimented it actually made him feel proud.

"So, how've you been? Sorry we couldn't hang out more often this month, but this stupid political campaigning thing is harder than I thought!"

Sai nodded trying to seem understanding, but he didn't understand why Naruto would work on the campaign of another person if he himself wanted to be a city representative. All that effort he could've put into his own campaign, but he figured it was because Naruto was afraid he might lose. Though he couldn't see why the man would think that. He was one of the most inspirational people Sai had ever met.

Sai gave him the same 'I'm Fine' answer as always. He had a consistent routine that he followed everyday unless his rambunctious friend invited him out to hang with the rest of their social group.

He moved the teal covered paintbrush he was using and swirled it within the water to clean it before the brush got stiff and harder to clean or worse stained. As he swirled it around he suddenly remembered that he did in fact have something to share with his friend. He remembered Naruto telling him that it was good to confide in those close to you.

"I've got a girlfriend."

Naruto who had went into the kitchen, grabbed a beer, and came back with a gulp of it in his mouth promptly did one of those dramatic spit takes Sai always saw in the movies. Luckily, it got on the tarp beneath his feet and nowhere near his artwork.

"What?!" Naruto yelled, quickly wiping the excess on his chin as he looked at Sai with wide cerulean eyes.

"I have a girlfriend now." Sai simply repeated. He walked into the kitchen not mindful of the way Naruto stalked behind him with a dropped jaw. Washing his hands, he found that some of the paint stained his skin although his hands were clean. He didn't mind it though, as a painter you got used to the occasional stain as some colours were harder to wash off than others.

The pale man grabbed his burger and fries and sat down at the small country pine table to eat.

Naruto pulled up the chair opposite him, and began digging into his food as well, "Sai you're joking right?"

"No." Sai said. He bit into his burger and suddenly felt the hunger that he had momentarily forgotten come in full force. He ate with more vigour then, thankful that Naruto had thought to bring him this seeing as he had forgotten to go grocery shopping that week, too busy working longer shifts and then spending his free time painting to do much of anything. Or, he guessed, remember to do it.

"Huh." Naruto paused his eating. His bright eyes regarded Sai with a serious expression as he propped one arm on the table to lean back against and examine his friend. He didn't understand how Sai could get a girlfriend. He wasn't exactly a person who was easy to 'digest' so to say. Naruto figured whoever it was had to be equally as weird. "Who's the lucky girl?"

Taking another satisfying bite out of his burger Sai managed to choke out "Ino," before taking another.

Naruto laughed boisterously then. His face enveloped entirely in his wide smile in the way it always was whenever he was happy. "For a second I thought you said Ino." He breathed out in between breathy chuckles.

Sai paused his eating and raised a brow, "I did say Ino."

Naruto who at the moment was taking another sip of his beer had sputtered it out again. "What?!"

"I would appreciate it if you stopped doing that Dickless." Sai said, frowning at the mess the blond made on his table.

"I'd appreciate if you'd stop calling me that!" Naruto scowled. His eyebrows dipped in confusion shortly after. "Ino's your girlfriend?"

Sai shrugged, "Kind of."

"Kind of?" Naruto frowned at his friend. "I don't like the sound of that."

The blond squinted at Sai. Did he somehow misread a signal from Ino? It wouldn't be surprising considering that she did have a habit of flirting with Sai whenever they were all hanging out. But even the clueless man would have to know that she wasn't serious. Ino was the kind of person who liked attention, nothing wrong with that. Naruto himself was the same way, but only in regard to friendship, Hinata had his heart.

When he went to explain that maybe Sai had probably been confused the man looked up to the ceiling in thought.

"Well technically it's all pretend." Sai wondered if he could actually call her his girlfriend or if there was another name for it considering it was fake. Should he call her his fake girlfriend?

"Pretend?" Naruto asked. He scratched at his chin as he titled his head at his friend. What he was saying didn't make any sense.

"Yeah I'm playing her pretend boyfriend."

Naruto blinked at him. "And why would you do that?"

"Because she asked me to."

A blond eyebrow rose in incredulity at the thought of Ino asking Sai to be her boyfriend. "You sure she did?" He asked again, he didn't put it past Sai to jump to conclusions when it came to love. Naruto himself used to be an idiot when it came to things like girls and feelings, he couldn't imagine that someone like Sai- who has an even worse grasp on emotions than he ever did would fare any better in that regard.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Sai asked, looking at Naruto like he was an idiot. Which, admittedly, he sometimes was. What was it that he wasn't getting? It was pretty straight forward even for him.

"I still don't get what you mean." Naruto still looked clueless as Sai continued eating his burger and payed him no mind.

"I'm playing her boyfriend in order to help her with the chase."

The blond did a double take at his words, "The what?"

"The chase. Ino said it was evolutional."

Naruto nodded not quite understanding but seemingly wanting to drop the conversation before his head exploded.

Sai however did not take the hint and continued explaining to what he only assumed was Naruto's slow comprehension skills. "She said that when a man sees the woman they love in a relationship with someone else they get jealous. It's a hunter instinct."

"Sounds like a load of crap. She probably got it from one of those mags she's always giving Hinata to read." Naruto's tanned face scrunched up in distaste as he reached for one of his fries. "Men don't like stuff like that."

"Is that so?" Sai wondered if he should give Ino this information considering her convincement that this fake relationship plan would work.

"Shouldn't you know that?!"

He looked at Naruto quite seriously then with his lips in a frown. "Should I tell her?"

The blond continued eating his fries unperturbed, "Not like she'd listen anyway."

"But then she'd lose." Sai begun to think about how she would act if that happened, remembering the dullness in her smile at the bar that time.

He realized he didn't want to see her that way again, not quite understanding why but attributing it to the fact that it just wasn't like her and he hated inauthenticity.

Naruto waved him off, he didn't exactly get it, but he figured Ino was probably messing with Sai just for the fun of it. Maybe the guy didn't understand it was all pretend. "There's nothing to lose."

"Well there is Shikamaru." Sai said it so nonchalantly like he hadn't just dropped a pile of truth on the blond that he maybe-possibly wasn't supposed to know. Ino hadn't said anything about not telling Naruto so he figured she wouldn't care as long as her lazy ex and his fiancée didn't know.

Naruto, being the klutz that he was that day, nearly lost his balance as he gripped the table to keep from falling out of his chair. He blinked a couple of times with his mouth opened, and Sai couldn't help but think that he looked quite dumb.

Suddenly the blond grabbed him, pulling him so close towards him Sai could clearly see the dark blue iris in his eye submerged within cobalt blue. "What?!" Naruto yelled, disregarding Sai's eardrums and probably leaving him with a bout of hearing loss.

Sai pried tan hands off of him and pulled himself away, straightening out his grey V-neck sweater with a displeased expression. Though he wasn't someone that could read the room quite well Sai did (sometimes) understand the nature of personal space, or at least the value of using an inside voice.

"I have neighbours." The man plainly said, giving Naruto a dull look.

His friend paid him no mind as he sat unusually still with a pensive expression. Sai recognized it as Naruto's thinking face, creased forehead, pursed lips, and an orange sweatshirt clad arm resting on his crossed leg with its hand holding his chin. As an artist Sai had a habit of taking in every detail of a person's face. The artist in him couldn't help thinking that his friend looked even dumber than before.

When Naruto finally spoke with a somberly said, "Ino knows about Temari huh?" Sai wondered why Naruto sounded as if Ino was the last to know. He also wondered if he should've told him at all.

Ino wasn't really clear on what he was supposed to do, or how he was supposed to act. Maybe she wouldn't be mad. Naruto was his best-friend and it was protocol to confide in them with everything, right?

It wasn't like he planned on telling anybody else.

"So, basically you two are pretending to date so Ino can make Shikamaru jealous?"

Sai didn't say anything.

Naruto's eyes narrowed as his eyebrows furrowed in annoyance, "That's really fucked up."

Or maybe she would be mad. Sai frowned, still not bothering to comment considering he didn't quite get Ino's reasoning himself.

He could imagine her freaking out on him. He guessed this was kind of his fault. He did leave that 'Shikamaru still likes you' suggestion in her head in a, now in hindsight, terrible attempt at helping. He also told Naruto about it.

Naruto Uzumaki was a self-righteous guy. He wouldn't put it past him to intervene and try to speak some sense into them. All Sai really wanted to do was confide in a friend. He now knew that somethings were better kept to yourself.

"It's not a good idea." The blond scolded him right on cue as he crossed his arms. "Though I think I blame Ino more considering she's the one who planned it."

"I did tell her that he maybe still liked her." Sai offered. Was it in defense of Ino? He wasn't sure. He also wasn't sure if it was even a good excuse.

He didn't think Naruto could frown even deeper, yet he managed to do just that.

"Why would you do that?"

The pale man shrugged. "It seemed that way to me."

"Why would she even believe you?" Naruto then looked at him with a sheepish smile. "No offence." He added.

Sai didn't take offence. He wondered why himself.

"Maybe out of desperation?" He voiced aloud.

Naruto winced at his choice of words. "You're sooo lucky she didn't hear that." He paused another beat as he gazed at him sternly, like a father would his child. "You guys should stop."

Sai looked off to the side. Ino definitely wouldn't stop, he could already tell. He already tried that. Plus, she had already told Shikamaru.

Also, there was the text she sent him earlier.

"But we have a double date with Ugly and Prick."

Could they cancel? Sakura was really annoying about last minute changes. Sai himself didn't mind them; it wasn't like he craved social stimulation anyways. He also wasn't very good at making conversation.

He wasn't sure how Sasuke would feel about it. The two of them never really spoke. Sai didn't know why that was.

"Wait, Sasuke? Okay I've got to see that. Can me and Hinata come? You guys can fake break up after." Naruto had cracked the first smile he had in a while, laughing to himself like he knew something Sai didn't.

Which he did. He really did want to see Sasuke forced to do something that caused him misery. Especially after said man had texted him earlier that day about ruining his life with his annoyingness. He chuckled wickedly to himself as he imagined it all play out. Yes, it would be quite the show. Also, cherry on top, he would get to speak to Ino directly.

"I guess you can come."

It's not like Ino said Sai couldn't invite anyone. And plus, she liked Hinata, he saw her hanging out with Creepy Eyes almost every other weekend. Sometimes Sakura was there if she wasn't busy being that head surgeon Tsunade's lapdog. Which she almost always was considering the amount of times he's witnessed her complain about her tiring residency.

Plus, it seemed as if the idea of going caused Naruto to completely change his mind about them pretending to date.

He wouldn't be shocked if it did. His friend had a short attention span.

Naruto rubbed his hands together eagerly. "Great!"