First of all let me thank those who reviewed my story. It helps me in writing knowing that people appreciate it. Since this is my first time in writing a story ever, I hope that readers will bear with some mistakes that I might make.
I see that you're wondering why Sasuke won't give his name. Hehehe things will start to unfold soon, maybe in the next 2 chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
All it Takes is a Name
Chapter 3 – Learning the First Name
As Sakura walked to she was thinking over and over again the plan that Hinata told her. If things go right then she will finally know the guy's name.
"Why am I doing this in the first place?" Sakura thought to herself.
She finally reaches her destination, the famous internet and coffee shop. Sakura confidently walks inside and proceeds straight to the counter. As she hoped, a man was there writing on a piece of paper.
"Excuse me sir." Sakura sweetly called the guy's attention. "I was wondering if there is a terminal that I can use."
The guy continued to write on his piece of paper and after a few minutes he looks up at her and says, "Yes miss, we have a lot of empty terminals available. Do you want to sit at any particular place?" the guy smiled back at her.
Sakura was surprised. The guy who was looking at her wasn't the same guy who gave her the cold treatment the other day. This one had thick eye brows and a bowl-like hair.
"Uh… I'm sorry but where is the guy who was here yesterday, the one who seems to have a cold attitude?" Sakura stuttered.
"Oh you mean Sasuke? He works here on weekdays only. During the weekends I am the one who attends the shop. My name is Rock Lee by the way." He looked at Sakura with interest. "So what does a beautiful girl like you want to do with a guy like Sasuke?"
"Aha! I have his first name already!" Inner Sakura shouted. "That was easier than I expected."
"Uh… Well…" Sakura was now blushing because she didn't quite know how to answer Lee's question.
"If I were you my gorgeous flower, drop that guy and have a date with me instead." Lee was now smiling brightly at her. "A guy like Sasuke will only make your heart sad and blue while I can show you the world and its wonders."
"Oh no, it's nothing like that." Sakura was definitely blushing now. "I just wanted to know his name because for some reason he gave me the cold treatment when I asked him for it yesterday."
"Ah I see… Sasuke has been known to be like that to other people, especially to those who want to get to know him more." Lee was looking at Sakura dreamily, not taking his eyes off her. "As a matter of fact, I think that guy must be gay or something. I mean, he isn't interested in girls at all. Now what man wouldn't be interested in girls especially girls such as yourself who's so beautiful?" Lee said with a wink.
(Lee is definitely flirting with her)
"Hmm… It's obvious that this Lee is attracted to me. I know! Maybe I can pump him for more information about this Sasuke fellow." Sakura thought.
"Well it would be helpful if you tell more about Sasuke, like maybe a last name perhaps?" Sakura took off her glasses and leaned closer to Lee.
Lee was now starring into Sakura's pretty green eyes. "My you look even more beautiful without those glasses."
"You can give me Sasuke's last name and maybe I might go out on a date with you pretty boy." smiled Sakura.
"Oh yes! I knew that if I followed my idol Gai that this opportunity will come!" said Lee as he struck a nice-guy pose.
"Now hold it cowboy, you have to tell me Sasuke's last name first before you start getting excited there." Lee snapped out of his little act and suddenly became quiet.
"Uh hello? Lee? What is wrong? You do know Sasuke's last name right?" Sakura waved her hands at Lee's face.
"Well… You see… I don't know his last name either." It's true that we work for the same shop but the trouble is that he just gave me his first name. Sasuke was very good in avoiding questions about his last name." Lee bowed his head. "Sorry I couldn't be off help to you my beautiful flower."
"Damn it! All that flirting for nothing. Well at least I got his first name and that is a start." Sakura said to herself.
"Don't worry Lee, you helped me in a way so don't feel bad." Sakura turned towards the exit and waved at Lee.
"My dear beautiful princess I hope I see you again and maybe we can have that date." Lee shouted as she left the computer shop.
"Well I better go find Hinata and tell her what happened to my little adventure. Too bad I wasn't able to pull off our plan." Sakura said with a sigh. "Anyway, Results are results."
Haruno household ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Sakura telephone call for you, I think it's Hinata."
"Thanks mom." Sakura got the phone and went straight to her room.
"Hello Hinata. What's up?"
"Hey Sakura, Ino is asking everyone to go out. They want to eat at that pizza place called Kunai Slice." Hinata said to her.
"Sure I'm game. I can also tell you there how my "name" quest went." Sakura said making her friend curious.
"Ok then, let us all meet there in an hour. See you later."
"Bye Hinata, see you."
Kunai Slice Pizza Place -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The group was standing outside. The place was really packed. A lot of students surely flocked the place. It was said that Kunai Slice had the best cheese pizza in the fire country region.
"So what do we do now?" Ino asked the group.
"Why don't we go to a ramen shop instead to eat?" whined Naruto. Hinata gave him a light tap on the head and told him that it was time for him to eat something else.
"I don't want to wait in line for a seat." Said Shikamaru. "It's too troublesome to just stand here and wait for even hours maybe.
"I know maybe we can just go to someone's place and eat there. We can call for delivery so in that way we still get to eat pizza while we are in the comforts of a house." Suggested Tenten to the gang.
"Not a bad idea. And it sure beats staying here to line up for a table." Neji added.
"Ok then, so let us all go to my house then. It is more spacious and we recently had a new home theater system that we can use to watch movies." Ino offered.
"Fine, let us all go Ino's house." Sakura said with a smile.
"And I thought I could eat ramen for tonight." Sighed Naruto and as he saw the look on Hinata's face he suddenly stopped whining.
Yamanaka Mansion -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After arriving at Ino's place, the group settled in the den and selected from the stack of movies that they can watch.
"Sakura, please be a dear and order the pizza for us. Get 4 pizzas but make that 2 of them are cheese pizzas." Ino gave her the cordless phone and a delivery hand-out of Kunai Slice.
Sakura dials the number and after a few rings someone picked up the phone.
Employee: Kunai Slice Pizza Place how may I help you?
Sakura: Uh yes I would like to ask for a delivery.
Employee: Certainly miss, hold on for a few seconds.
Sakura: Ok.
After a few seconds
Employee: Thank you for waiting miss. Can I have your name please?
Sakura: Uh Haruno Sakura.
Employee: Telephone number and Address please.
Sakura: (says the necessary information)
Employee: Thank you for the information. Can I please have your order?
Sakura: Two 18" Cheese Pizzas, one 14" Pepperoni Pizza, and one 14" Manager's Choice.
Employee: Hold on for a moment while I compute your bill.
Employee: That would be a total of K$1500.
Sakura: Ok I have the exact amount.
Employee: Thank you for calling. Your order will be there in 30 minutes or else it will be free plus you get a free liter of Chakra Juice.
"The order will be here in 30 minutes guys." Sakura sat on the lazy-boy sofa and watched the movie that was playing.
At the Kunai Slice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Uchiha! Get your ass here, we have a delivery!" shouted Chouji who is the manager of Kunai Slice.
Sasuke Uchiha, computer shop attendant during weekdays and pizza delivery boy during the weekends, walked over to the counter to get the pizzas that were to be delivered.
"Here you go Uchiha, make sure you get there on time. We have a guarantee to hold on too." Snapped Chouji. "Now get going!"
Sasuke exits through the service door and proceeds to ready his delivery scooter.
Sasuke's POV
"Man, why is that guy always yelling at me. If he weren't my boss then I would have punched him already." Grumbled Sasuke as he mounted his scooter and sped away.
"Yamanaka mansion eh? Well I guess rich people also eat commoner's food. I always thought that they always eat in fancy restaurants that orphans like me dream of eating in."
Sasuke was getting a bit bitter, recalling his past, his dead parents, his older brother…
"Darn past, how can I run away from it all? I never asked for this kind of life, working my way to study in a good school, having a despicable brother and all."
Sasuke dodged the traffic and as he drew near his destination he looked at his watch.
"20 minutes, not bad time."
Sasuke drove through the driveway and stopped at the front door. He proceeded to remove the pizzas from the delivery box and makes his way to ring the doorbell.
End of POV
Inside the Yamanaka Mansion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone was laughing out loud that nobody heard the doorbell ring. They were very much distracted with the movie. Finally after several rings Neji heard the ringing sound.
"Hey I think the pizza is here." He said.
"Sakura dear, the money is on the table. Hinata-chan you go with Sakura because I know she can't carry 2 boxes." Ino asked the two girls.
Sakura and Hinata went to the front door and opened it. The delivery boy had his head down but when he looked up it gave him and Sakura a shock.
"You!" said Sasuke wide-eyed.
"You!" said Sakura pointing her fingers at the delivery boy before her.
Hinata looked at both in a puzzled face. "What is going on?" she asked Sakura.
"This is that ice-cold jerk that I was telling you about Hinata." Sakura said.
"Hey who are you calling a jerk!" Sasuke practically yelled.
"You, you are the jerk, giving me the cold shoulder just because I wanted to know your name. Well for your information Sasuke, I know your first name already." Sakura said challengingly.
Sasuke was surprised that she knew his first name. He guessed that Lee might have given her his name.
"I need to make sure that Lee gets my thanks for giving out my name. And I also need to make sure that nobody from Kunai Slice will mention my last name to this woman." Sasuke said making a mental note.
"You may know my first name but you won't know my last name. I warned you that you shouldn't know and yet you persist in knowing. I'm telling you to back away lady. Sasuke said threateningly at Sakura.
"Look, I have a name also mister and it's…"
"Haruno Sakura" Sasuke said cutting her off. And even before Sakura could ask him how he knew, Sasuke held up the delivery receipt in her face which showed her name.
"Here are your pizzas." He said to Hinata. Hinata immediately gave him the money and begged Sakura to just drop the argument.
"I'm leaving; don't follow me around anymore if you know what is good for you." Sasuke shouted as he drove off in his scooter while leaving a fuming Sakura.
