Nanny or Mommy

Chapter 3: Sakura's Decision

Disclaimer: I Don't own Naruto.

Sakura tiredly made her way to the elevator that would take her to her dorm. It was only 2 in the afternoon and she was already exhausted from the day.

She would have to tell Ino about her predicament even if she already knew what the blonde's reaction would be. Slowly she unlocked their dorm room and opened the door.

It seemed that Ino or anyone else wasn't in yet. She happily sighed it wasn't every day that she got the dorm to herself with 3 other girls living there.

Unfortunately, she was wrong as soon as she closed the door Ino was coming towards her with urgency in her step. "Where the hell have you been?"

"Where else?" Sakura removed her shoes sloppily and headed to their room. Still, Ino wouldn't let up on her questioning.

"So what did he want?" She didn't say anything as she laid on her back staring up at the ceiling. Honestly, she didn't want to talk about it with Ino just yet. "Helloooo Earth to Forehead."

"Ino I just don't feel like talking about it right now." Least to say Ino was shocked the two usually told each other everything. Silently she went to her side of the room.

"I'm going to change my classes up once summers over." They made eye contact for a split second before Ino looked away. She wouldn't believe it until she actually saw it. Sakura made sure to have a lot of classes in one day that she barely made it on time to work some days.

"Why would you do that? You love learning." She doesn't respond to the blonde. Instead, she got up and left.

"Sakura?" Ino's frown deepened at being ignored by her best friend. She also got up and followed quietly behind Sakura.

Something was definitely up with Sakura. Whatever she and Naruto talked about it got her shook. She was determined to find out just what it was.

After following her mysterious friend for about a few minutes she was lead to the local park. From a distance, Ino watched as she took out what looked like a letter. Whatever was in the letter was the cause of Sakura's awful mood.

Meanwhile, with Sakura she was staring blankly at the letter in her hand as her thoughts run rampant. She didn't mean to brush Ino off like that but some space was much needed. If she was to take the job she wouldn't have enough time to worry about school. Part of her wanted to take the job but another part of her wanted to be selfish and worry about herself.

Maybe talking with someone would help her with her decision, an outside opinion.

Sakura rose from the bench she was sitting on and headed back to her room. Ino noticed this too and quickly ran back to their dorm to not get caught spying.

Sakura arrived back in no time with a small apologetic smile on her face. "Ino I need your honest opinion but you have to keep whatever I tell you a secret."

"O-ok." Ino tried to not sound the least bit excited but she couldn't wait to hear Sakura's secret.

"Naruto offered me a job." Ino sat up straight at the unexpected words from Sakura's mouth. She was expecting something more along the lines of him asking her out or something.

"Wh-what's the job?" She was scared to find out what it was by the way she's been acting.

"Naruto wants me to be his nanny." A long unbearable silence settled between the two. None was too eager to break. Ino hoped that it was a joke or even a prank but Sakura wouldn't joke about something like that.

"Bu-but you're in college you don't have time to play mommy." Sakura glared at Ino for the harsh way she was talking.

"Don't say it like that. Those kids just need someone in their life they can always come to." Ino was about to reply until she came to a shocking realization.

"Oh my god, you're considering it?!" She looked away guiltily having been caught.

"No! You can't just quit college to take care of some snot-nosed brats." She knew how smart Sakura was but her bleeding heart sometimes came up at the wrong time.

"Come on Ino. Bolt is starting kindergarten and his younger sister is probably in preschool. So if I adjust my schedule I'll still be in college and at the same time be the nanny." Sakura smirked at her own idea. She had to admit she just made it up on the spot. It's weird that she's asking for a second opinion but disregarding it completely.

"So when do you have to make a decision?" The pinkette shrugged plainly.

"We should ask Tenten what she thinks about it," Ino suggested.

"No! I don't want too many people knowing I'm possibly Naruto Uzumaki's nanny."

"Wow, you really thought this through." She had a lot of time to do so. It was a situation that she needed to for once overthink.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Kids are really difficult." Not that she would know Ino tried her hardest to stay away from them unless money was involved.

A long pause settled between the two as Sakura thought about which decision to make. Her mind flashed back to yesterday at the carnival, how Bolt was so sad and cried for her. And all she did was stand there and watch as Kiba took him away. She wanted to make it up to Bolt and if being his nanny will do it then so be it.

"I'm taking the job." Ino sighed when she saw the determination in Sakura's eyes, there was no convincing her otherwise. Ino took the envelope that was tightly clutched in Sakura's hand.

She skimmed over it rather quickly only stopping once she saw how much Sakura was getting paid. "Sooo Sakura do you remember that conversation we had earlier about me needing a job?"

"No, I'm not giving you this job." Ino sighed. She then noticed a number on the envelope that could only be one person's number.

"H-he gave you his actual number." She mumbled trying to contain her excitement. All while resisting the urge to add the number to her contacts.

Sakura knew her friend well and if she didn't take the envelope back soon she would be calling the blonde any minute now. Quickly she snatched the envelope from her hand before she did something stupid. "I don't know if it's his actual number."

"Well call it and find out. You've already come up with a decision, right? So call." Ino pressured wanting to see if the number was his. Unfortunately, Sakura was stubborn about it and didn't want to. Claiming that he's a busy man and her calling would be unnecessary.

"You really hate him don't you?" The pinkette cringed at Ino's deduction of her feelings toward the blonde.

"Hate is such a strong word I would use the word dislike." Sakura put the envelope down on her desk before turning back to her best friend. "I'm sure you would too if you actually paid attention yesterday."

"Oh come on so he hurt your pride a little so what? He needs you now more than ever so call." Ino kept repeating the words "call him" over and over until she finally gave in.

"Fine! I'll call him just don't say a word." Sakura pulled out her phone and punched in the numbers angrily. While it rang she glared at the excited blonde in front of her.

"Moshi Moshi." For a moment she blanked out suddenly her stomach was full of tiny butterflies. Until Ino punched her in the arm for not saying anything.

"K-konnichiwa this is Sakura." She heard him clear his throat before saying anything.

"Sakura-chan I wasn't expecting you to call so soon hav-"

"I'll take the job on one condition don't call me Sakura-chan." She snapped it seemed that man loved nothing more than annoying her. And his next statement only proved her theory correct.

"Ok but I'm your boss now so that means you have to call me Naruto-sama." She could practically hear the smirk in his voice. "I call you Sakura-chan and in exchange, you don't have to call me Naruto-sama. Deal or no deal?"

Sakura groaned extremely loud. "Why do you want to call me Sakura-chan so bad?"

"It fits you I just hope no one else calls you that. I only want myself and my children to call you Sakura-chan." Sakura's eyes slowly widened as her face turned as red as possible.

Unfortunately, the moment was ruined when he began laughing like it was a joke. "Just kidding. Are you free tomorrow?"

The worst part of their somewhat flirtatious conversation was that Ino could hear every single word. The blonde was currently squealing in her pillow. "W-why do you w-want to know?"

"I can take off an hour or two to show you where you'll be staying also Bolt would appreciate the surprise." Sakura scoffed as if he cared what Bolt would like.

"From what Bolt told me you don't seem to be close to him at all what would you know what he would appreciate." It seemed the light mood shifted into more of a serious atmosphere.

"I would rather have that conversation in person. Besides I don't think it's any of your business about what goes on between Bolt and-" Sakura's sarcastic laughter cuts through his little speech.

"I'm the nanny so your kids best interest are my number one priority Uzumaki. So to end this horrible conversation I'll accept your proposal I'm free at 12 goodbye Uzumaki." Before he could even stop her she had already ended the call.

Sakura sighed losing whatever confidence she had to hang up on Naruto Uzumaki. Meanwhile, Ino was just staring at her with her mouth wide open. "Sakura you have a date!"

Ino went to her closet and started throwing random outfits around looking for the perfect outfit to as Ino likes to say, "dress to impress."

"Ino it's not a date." Like every word that came out of Sakura's mouth, they fell on deaf ears.

"He's going to be in shock tomorrow when he sees you." The pinkette didn't even want to try to correct her blonde companion.

There was one thing Sakura was aware of and that was her strong dislike for the blonde who had such an annoying ability to annoy her so easily.

.x.

Naruto had just got off the phone with Sakura wearing a smirk on his face. He somehow managed to get the girl to agree with the tour.

He already knew that she hated him hell anyone who's around them for 5 minutes would know. He found it to be a breath of fresh air from everyone praising the ground he walked on.

"Naruto I think you forgot about me." Naruto sighed now remembering that he was once again sitting with his manager for lunch. Sakura's call distracted him from talking to the older man in front of him. "Who was that?"

From the grin on his face, he already made his own assumption of who it was. "It's my new nanny she accepted the job." He tried to say nonchalantly but Jiraiya could see right through it.

"Ahh, I see you're finally attracted to your nanny." A proud grin spread across the face of his manager.

"It's not like that besides she hates my guts but she'll be able to control Bolt." Jiraiya looked confused so Naruto explained the events that happened yesterday.

"Hmm so by hiring this Sakura you're hoping to get her to calm down Bolt." Naruto nodded quickly.

"With Bolt starting kindergarten soon I'm worried that he'll do something horrible there and get expelled." Jiraiya shook his head at the single father of two. The only time Jiraiya hasn't seen him as stressed was a few moments ago talking to his nanny. He needed a break and hopefully, the nanny would see it too and get him to take a break. Summer was almost over and Naruto only went to the carnival with his children only because he asked him repeatedly to take them.

"Look just try not to think about it much once you're finished with the movies then take a break Naruto you need it." Jiraiya paid for the lunch and said goodbye to his conflicted godson.

Naruto sighed also leaving it was still pretty early in the day to get a drink so going straight to his next movie set would be fine. "Kiba tomorrow at 12 we'll be picking up Sakura-chan."

Kiba lifted an eyebrow silently wondering why exactly they're going to pick her up. It seemed that Naruto could read his mind. "She accepted the job," Naruto said with a smug smirk on his face.

End

I wanted to make this longer but I didn't quite have the time to. School is next week and it's my last year so I really need to focus.

I'm not abandoning any of my Naruto stories it just may be a slow update and short never under 2k words.

Next chapter is "what Ino calls a date"

Revised: 12/5/18