Torn between her first crush and the two people who taught her so much…
Hyuuga Neji…
Sabaku no Gaara…
Uchiha Sasuke…
It was unfortunate that she had a mission the next day with her team. It was not only awkward for Sakura but also Sasuke but he hid it quite skillfully. So Sakura decided to play it cool as well.
"Mou…Where's Kakashi-sensei…He's always so damn late…" Naruto pouted his lips and sat down on the bridge.
"Hehe…He never changes does he." Sakura smiled at Naruto and looked up at the sky.
'I remember Neji used to look at the sky like this…' she thought to herself. Just then, they heard a 'poof' and there stood their aloof teacher.
"Yo!" he waved and they all gave him a death glare.
"Ah sorry sorry, I saw this little lady that…uh…was giving birth in the middle of the street?" he scratched his head.
"LIAR!" both Sakura and Naruto yelled and pointed at their teacher. Sakura giggled after that.
"Neh just like old times." She smiled at Naruto and Kakashi.
"Hehe. Yup." Naruto placed both of his hands behind his head.
"Hey Kakashi-sensei! What mission are we doing today?" she clasped both of her hands in excitement.
"Ah…Let's see…It's a Ranked D mission I'm afraid. Nothing exciting." He took out his 'Come come paradise A.K.A Icha icha paradise' and began to read.
"Kakashi-sensei! How many of those perverted books do you have!" she pointed at the book with a disturbed look on her face.
"Ah! This is the seventeenth volume!" his visible eye curved to a crescent indicating that he's smiling.
"…I can't believe this…" Sakura's eye twitched.
"Mou…I can't believe that Ero-sennin is such a freaking pervert…" (A/N: Ero-sennin means perverted hermit…A.K.A Jiraiya-sensei…)
"What about the mission…" Sakura and Naruto turned around to find Sasuke speaking whom they have forgotten about and turned back to look at Kakashi.
"Ah…cleaning windows…" he was still reading his book.
"NANI! BUT THAT'S SO BORING!" Naruto grabbed his hair in frustration.
"Naruto, don't be so loud." Sakura punched him on the head.
"Itai…" he began to massage it.
"Ah…Let's go then…" Kakashi walked off to their next client's house and the team followed behind.
Sakura hummed to herself as she cleaned up one of the windows on the fourth floor. (A/N: They used the tree climbing technique…During episodes…somewhere in the first 20…) She was already done on the first three floors on her side of the house. Sasuke was on the third floor on his side and Naruto was on the second floor of his side.
"Come on Naruto! If you finish before me I'll treat you to ramen!" she yelled out to Naruto's side.
"Really! Oh right! I'll do my best Sakura-Chan!" Naruto performed his Kage Bunshin no Justu and his clones did some of the work for him.
'Well…I didn't say he couldn't use techniques.' She thought to herself and went back to work.
Sasuke couldn't help but feel somewhat jealous at that moment. He knows that Naruto likes Sakura and he didn't mind that. It was mainly because she didn't ask him to join her later on.
'She's acting as if nothing happened yesterday…Why do I feel like this?' Sasuke gritted his teeth.
"Hey Sasuke-Kun! Do you wanna join us later on too?" she yelled out to his side as well.
"WHAT! NO SAKURA-CHAN! DON'T INVITE THAT BAKA!" Naruto cried out to Sakura.
"Naruto! Keep working or no ramen!" she barked at Naruto.
"Noooooooo!" echoes in the forest…
"So Sasuke-kun…Do you wanna join us?" she called out to Sasuke.
"Whatever…"
"Great! Let's get this done then shall we?" she continued on with her work, humming a tune as she did it.
"Yes! We've finished this god-damned house!" Naruto yawned out and stretched his aching muscles.
"Yup! Now we can go get something to eat!" Sakura did a few stretches as well.
"Who owns a six storey house but never use it anyway…" Sasuke mumbled to himself but Sakura heard him.
"Yea! I was just thinking about that too!" she smiled at him and he blushed a bit.
"Alright then. Now that's done…I'm gonna go home and sleep. So tired…" Kakashi yawned but kept on reading his book.
"But you didn't even do anything!" Naruto yelled at Kakashi.
"Well…I'm off…No missions tomorrow or training. Laters." And with that, he disappeared with a 'poof'.
"Oh well…What do you guys want to do tomorrow? I wouldn't mind watching you guys spar or maybe we could even go hang out with the other teams like Ino's or Lee's. Hey! We should have a party or something! All of us together just hanging out and stuffs!" she talked excitedly while Naruto talked along with her and they walked off to Ichiraku ramen. Sasuke followed silently behind them.
"Neh Sasuke-Kun? Why are you so quiet? Well, it's not like you talk a lot but you should talk a bit more! You know, socialize…" she talked to Sasuke while Naruto dug into his bowl of ramen.
"Itadakimasu!" Naruto yelled out happily.
"Hello? Yoohoo! Anyone in there?" she tilted her head to see Sasuke's face a bit better.
"Can we talk outside…" he murmured out.
"Oh yea sure. Naruto! We'll be outside alright?" she told him but all he did was wave them off as he continued to eat. She sighed and walked outside.
"What's up Sasuke-Kun?" still holding up her act until it was necessary to take off her mask again.
"…" his brows furrowed in thought but she waited patiently until he was ready to speak again.
'She's acting so normally…as if nothing did happen yesterday…' he thought to himself.
She continued to stand there and look around the streets, taking in every single detail about it.
"…" he was about to speak when he beat her to it.
"Sasuke-Kun? Did you really mean what you said yesterday?" she looked past Sasuke's head, not directly looking at him.
"…" his hands in his pocket, he realized that she wasn't looking at him. The eyes that use to show so much happiness only for him were gone.
She remained quiet, waiting for his response. She could hear Naruto's slurps and the boiling of the water inside the bar. The wind's silent voice as its' little hands went around her legs and through her pink hair.
"I…" he began only to be cut off by…
"Sakura big forehead! How are you!" Sasuke's eye twitched when he heard that voice.
"Hi Ino-pig…" she shot her a menacing look.
"Hehe…what are you doing with my Sasuke-Kun? Just because he's in your team and your relation with him is improving doesn't mean that you have free will of him." Ino sneered at her.
"Whatever…I'm gonna grab some ramen." She smirked back at her and headed back into the ramen bar.
"…I was hoping we'll get to tease each other a bit more than that. Sigh…I haven't had a good fight with her for a long time." She sighed and went into the bar as well hoping that they could continue from before.
Sasuke's eye twitched again and he decided to getaway before it becomes uncontrollable.
"What do you want Ino-pig…." Sakura spat out to Ino in a joking manner.
"What were you doing with my Sasuke-Kun Sakura big forehead?" she fought back.
"Who said that he was yours pig?"
"Who said he wasn't big forehead?"
"Calling you pig takes less effort for me than for you to mock me…" she quarreled back.
"So what? It doesn't matter. More is better!" she crossed her arms.
"Yea right. You're still growing your hair for Sasuke-Kun?" Sakura placed her hands on her hips.
"Well, so are you. I can't lose to you in looks." Ino smirked.
"But at least I'm stronger and better than you. I have wisdom and beauty as well as strength pig."
"Who says so?"
"I do!" they glared at each other.
Ino's team and Sakura's team minus Sasuke watched them bite each others heads off. It was getting almost dangerous but then someone came in and the fighting atmosphere diminished.
"Looks like someone is getting into the killer mood as well…" the person spoke monotonously.
"Hi Gaara-Kun…you know me. Me and Ino were just joking around." She waved at the red head.
"You're lucky that he came to your rescue. I would've kicked your butt anytime big forehead!" Ino spoke confidently.
"Oh yea? You wanna prove that pig!" They went back to glaring.
"I thought that name calling was something of the past already..." he continued to speak in his uninterested voice.
"Hehe…Wanna join us for ramen? I was just about to eat but this pig here won't stop talking." She pointed to Ino.
"Who are you calling pig big forehead!" she yelled back.
"I'm calling you pig!" she screamed back.
"Sigh…this is so troublesome…" Shikamaru placed a hand to his forehead and Chouji was eating away with Naruto.
"What did you say Shikamaru…" she towered over him and he visibly shrunk.
'Great…her attention is off me…now I can eat in peace.' Sakura thought as she took a seat beside Naruto. She gesture for Gaara to sit beside her. He shrugged before he took the seat beside her.
"Hey, what have you been up to?" she smiled at him.
"Brooding…" he sighed.
"Just because it's the full moon…why don't you just try and relax a bit. It'll do you good!" she punched him on the shoulder lightly.
"That was horrible…" he stared at her from the corner of his eye, smirking.
"Hehe. What do you want to order?" she tilted her head in a cute manner.
"Anything is fine with me…I'll have whatever you'll have." He closed his eyes.
"What if I order something you don't like?" she grinned at him.
"What if you order something I do like?" his eyes still shut.
"Then I'll have to make note of that then now won't I?" she teased him and he smirked back.
She noted that Naruto's slurping has stopped only to be replaced by his voice.
"Hey Oyaji! Another bowl of Miso ramen please!" he yelled out at the bar owner behind the counter. (A/N: Oyaji means uncle in a…seemingly rude way but in Naruto's case it's natural neh!)
"Hey! I want Chicken ramen please! Make it two! Is chicken ok?" she turned to Gaara who just shrugged it off with a 'Hn'.
This was considered their late lunch and early dinner for most of them anyway. Naruto and Chouji ate late dinners and late suppers all the time. They stayed there till it was way past the sunset.
"Bye Ino-pig! I hope you don't end up falling flat on your face on your way home!" she smirked at Ino.
"Yea Sakura big forehead, I hope you don't bang into someone and give them amnesia because of your forehead." She sneered back at her.
"Laters." She waved at Ino and her other friends and walked off with Gaara.
"Still restless?" she asked him.
"Always…" he sighed.
"You've been sighing a lot lately…Wanna tell me about it?" she smiled at him.
"…I haven't killed anything for so long…I need a mission…" he sounded dead serious too.
"Can't you do anything other than train, eat and kill?" she asked jokingly.
"You forgot breathe as well as other things." He smirked at her.
"That's common knowledge…" she crossed her arms.
"Well, so is killing." He leered at her.
"Baka." She smirked at him.
Jyo-Chan – Wah….So much homework…I was hoping I wouldn't have to do soooo much today….but damn! I was sooooo wrong!
Sakura – Neh, why don't you do your homework now and then you won't have to do it later?
Jyo-Chan – I'm too lazy…and it's so troublesome…
Naruto – You sound like Shikamaru…
Jyo-Chan – I got a bit of everyone in me, I like ramen but I'm lazy. I can get quite intimidating and glare at a lot of people when I'm in a bad mood. (Looks at Neji, Sasuke and Gaara.)
Sakura – Hehe. That's so funny.
Naruto – Hey! What flavor do you like?
Jyo-Chan – I like chicken and beef and seafood…(and this goes on for hours…)
P.S – Gimme some ideas on who you wanna see next chapter neh!