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"Really! Great! Then you can get to meet my friends! They'll be glad to meet you and get to know each other! So, I'll see you over there!"

"Yeah, see you there!"

"All right man! Talk to you later! Peace man!"

"Yeah, ja!" Sasuke hang up.

"Hmm, I wonder what's kind of friends does he have? I can't wait to meet them!" Sasuke smiled.

Chapter 3- Meet Naruto's friends!

It was lunch time and Sasuke was changing from his uniform to his regular clothes. When he closed the locker, he walked out of the room.

Sasuke was walking in the street, glancing every so often at the shops. He was supposed meet Naruto and his girlfriend at a restaurant. "Hmm, since when was the last time I ate.. I ate sukiyaki… Must be long time ago. Man, I'm dying to meet Naruto's friends…" He said to himself.

"SASUKE-KUN!"

Sasuke felt a hug wrapped around his waist. He looked down and saw a pink haired girl smiling at him. "You again?"

Sakura made a face, "What do you mean 'you again'? Are you saying that you're not happy to see me...?"

"No, no, no, I'm not saying that… I'm just surprised to see you again, that's all. Aren't you going to let me go now?"

Sakura let go of him and said, "Hey! I have a name, you know! Don't tell me that you forgot my name, huh?" She made a sad face.

"Of course not, I didn't forget your name...Your name was… uh… um… Sakura, right?" Sasuke said hesitantly. He wasn't sure if he got the right name.

Sakura jumped with joy, "Yay! Sasuke-kun remembers my name! I'm happy! Yay! Yay!" She was dancing around in circles.

Sasuke sweat dropped, "She sure is hyper and weird too… Is she always like this all the time?"

"So… What brought you here? Do you want something from me?" He asked.

"Nope, nothing. I just came here to see you again! Hehe!"

"I see, but aren't you supposed to be at work instead of meeting me?"

"Nope, I don't go to work!"

"You don't go to work? Um… okay then… What are you doing now?"

She stopped dancing, "I'm looking for something."

"You're looking for something? What are you looking for?" Sasuke raised his left eyebrow.

"I don't know." She jumped up with one leg, then the other.

"You don't know what you're looking for? How are you supposed to look if you don't know what it is?"

"I know that… But the thing is that I've been searching for it for a very long time and somehow something tells me that this thing… is very important to me…If I don't search… I might never rest in peace…" She said sadly.

"Something very important to her? I wonder what it could be. It must be very precious to her. Well, I've better cheer her up because she seems pretty sad right now." Sasuke thought.

"Sakura, don't worry about it! I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for! I'll support you all the way." Sasuke patted her back.

"Arigatou! I will find it!" Sakura smiled.

Sasuke smiled, "Sakura is Kawaii when she smiles."

"Oh yeah, Sasuke-kun! What are you doing now? Are you going somewhere?" Sakura looked him, questionably.

"Huh? Oh, that's right! I'm supposed to have a lunch with my friends!" Sasuke looked at his watch.

"Lunch! Cool! What are you having for lunch?"

"Well, a friend of mine chose a restaurant to eat and we're going to eat sukiyaki." He answered.

"Really! Cool! I wanna eat sukiyaki too! Can I come? Can I, can I?" She begged as she pulled his shirt.

"No, I don't think so." Sasuke walked ahead.

"Why not? Tell me a good reason!" Sakura followed him.

"First, you're too hyper and too loud. Second, I don't even know you. So, there's no way I'm bringing a stranger like you who misbehaves the way you do and I'm afraid that you might steal food without paying again like you did to that old man." Sasuke looked at her.

"You think that I would do that such a thing, huh!"

"Of course! And I always will! I have the feeling that you might!"

"You're so mean, Sasuke-kun! I'm not a bad person!"

"Uh huh… Right…" Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"No, I won't steal, I promise! Please let me join your lunch! Pretty please! Please, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura made a puppy eyes.

Sasuke stared at her eyes, which had begun to fill with tears. Just looking at her face made him feel uncomfortable. He sighed, "All right, all right! You can come, but just no misbehaving, okay?"

She nodded, "Hai, I will behave! I promise!"

"Okay, let's go now."

- Sukiyaki's restaurant -

Sasuke and Sakura walked into the restaurant. When they got in, Sasuke spotted a blonde boy and a short blue haired woman who sat at big table, talking with a big group of people. When the blonde saw Sasuke, he waved. "Oy Sasuke, over here!"

They went and sat down. "Sasuke, where were you, man? I was about to call you to find out what happen to you! I thought something bad happen to you! I was really worried!"

"Gomen Naruto, I didn't mean to make you worried. I just happened to meet someone and I had a long chat with them. Sorry, it won't happen again." Sasuke ran his fingers through his hair.

"Ah, it's cool, man! As long as you're here! Anyway Sasuke, I'd like you to meet all of my friends... even though one person isn't here yet. But, I'll just introduce them anyway. First on the left, is Yamanaka Ino. She's a preschool teacher," He pointed the blonde girl.

She wore a pink blouse with a brown shirt over top and wore black high heels. "Hi there, it's pleasure meeting you, Doc!" She shook Sasuke's hand.

"The pleasure is all mine." Sasuke smiled.

"On the right side, this is Hinata's cousin Hyuuga Neji and his wife Tenten." He pointed a man with long black hair and white eyes and the brown haired woman who had hair tied into two buns on the sides of her head.

The man wore a white shirt with his black suit, sunglasses and a tie. The woman who sat next to him wore a beautiful green dress with a purple jacket and long boots. She seemed pretty fat, but Sasuke could tell right away that she must be pregnant.

"Hi, nice to meet you! I hope we can be good friends." Tenten shook Sasuke's hand.

"You too. Hi, please to meet you too, sir." Sasuke stuck his hand out, waiting for Neji to handshake.

"Yeah, you to-"

RING, RING, RING!

"Oh, excuse me for a second." Neji took out his cell phone from his pocket and answered it, "Hello? Yes, what is it? What do you think? Buy, of course! We needed it for our bread products at our bakery plant! We'll build another building! No, sell that! What else do you have?"

Sasuke looked at him confused, "What the heck? Buy? Sell? Build? What kind of job does he have?"

"Sorry that I didn't mention it about his job. Did you know that Neji is a billionaire?" Naruto said.

Sasuke's eyes were widening, "BILLIONAIRE! He's a billionaire!"

Naruto nodded, "Yup, he's a billionaire! He's the president of his company and who would've thought that he'd be rich after we finished college?"

Sasuke's jaw dropped, "Oh my god! I can't believe this billionaire guy and his wife are here eating with us! Why would they come here? Wouldn't it better if they went to eat at some better place instead of here? I guess they came here because maybe they wanted to see Neji's old friends. I never would've thought that Naruto would have a friend like him. I wonder how they've become friends."

"Sorry about that. Where were we? Ah yes, we were about shake hand. Anyhow, nice to meet you." Neji shook Sasuke's hand.

"Yeah… same here."

"All right now that we all know each other, we could start eatin-" Naruto got short because Ino interpret him.

"Wait a second, Naruto! My love isn't here yet!" Ino said.

"Oh, that's right, I forgot him. Where's that guy?" Naruto looked around.

"Ino, did you call him?" Hinata asked shyly.

"Of course, I did! But he didn't answer his phone! God, why does this have to happen! If he's not here in the next 5 minutes, I'm going to let him have it!" Ino said angrily as she clenched her fist.

The door opened, they turned around and saw a man that had dark brown hair, tied up into a high pony tail. He wore white shirt with brown suit. He went and sat down.

"Gomen, I'm late…" He breathed ghastly.

"Shikamaru, I'm glad you've made it!" Hinata said shyly.

"Hey, I didn't want to come here at all, but Ino forced me to come. It's too troublesome to argue her back. So, I couldn't do anything about it." He removed his suit and rolled up his white sleeves.

"Hehe, right, right… Oh yeah, Shikamaru, I like you to meet my best friend Uchiha Sasuke! Sasuke, this is Nara Shikamaru. He works as a Car salesman." He introduced Sasuke to Shikamaru.

"Yeah, yeah, I heard about you. Naruto told me how great guy you are. It's cool meeting with you." Shikamaru shook Sasuke's hand.

"Ah, I see. Anyway, I'm glad that I got to meet you." Sasuke grinned.

"So, tell me Shikamaru, why are you late?" Tenten asked curiously.

"What do you think? I sold lots of cars."

"Really? How many cars have you sold?" Neji asked him.

Shikamaru opened his mouth, but he closed it. "I knew it. You sold none. You always say that you sold lots of cars, but it never happen. I can't believe you can't sell at least one car." Neji lifted his sunglasses up.

"Hey, it's too troublesome… No one wanted to buy the car!"

"Shika! I'm so sick of tired hearing you that you couldn't sell any car! How are you going to earn some money for our happiness! If you don't sell any car, then you should quit your job and start looking for a new job!" Ino yelled.

"No, I don't want to quit my job… It's too much troublesome to look for another job. And what about you? Everyday I hear you complaining about school and that the children were behaving badly and how you get so fatigued about them." Shikamaru looked at her.

"No… I can't quit my job! I love working with children… It was the best job I've ever had!"

"Then you shouldn't complain about mine."

"You guys always complain of everything… Although Neji and I don't have any problem with money! You guys should act like us and be happy together! Ne, right dear?" Tenten kissed him on his cheek.

"Um… Yeah…" Neji blushed.

"Naruto… Are they always like that?" Sasuke whispered him.

"Heh… Yeah, they're always like that even though they're a couple!" Naruto laughed.

"Sasuke-san?" Hinata said.

"Nani?" Sasuke looked at her.

"I'm sorry that I didn't ask earlier… The girl that came with you… who's that girl eating the sukiyaki right now?" Hinata pointed.

Sasuke saw the pinked hair girl was eating sukiyaki with mouthful. "Yum! This is good!"

"Sakura! Don't start eating alone! That's very rude of you! You should wait for people to eat too!" Sasuke shouted.

"Demo… I was hungry! I couldn't wait any longer! You guys talked for so long! So I had no choice but to eat!" Sakura continued eating.

"Sakura..." Sasuke said angrily.

"Hey Sasuke, who is she? Is she your girlfriend?" Naruto whispered.

"G-g-girlfriend! No, she's not my girlfriend! She's a… She's a…" Sasuke blushed.

"Ah, I get it! You picked up some girl on the street and you paid her to come with you, right? Sasuke, you sly dog!" Naruto looked him evilly.

Sasuke turned really red, "No, you got it all wrong! That's not what you think! Why would I do that! I'm not that type of person would that!"

"Haha! I'm kidding, I'm kidding! Man Sasuke, I can't believe you actually believed what I said! That makes it even funnier!" Naruto laughed loudly.

"That's not funny, Naruto!" Sasuke shouted irritably.

"Anyway, aren't you going introduce her?" Shikamaru asked.

"Oh right! I met this girl yesterday, it's a long story, but I can't explain it now. She begged me to have lunch with us, so, I let her come with me. I hope you guys don't mind. Anyway, this is Haruno Sakura!"

"Hi Sakura, it's nice to meet you!" Everyone greeted her.

"Mffffmfff..." She nodded.

"Sakura, can you stop eating and say hi to everyone." Sasuke sighed.

"Ah, it's okay man. If she's hungry, let her be! Anyway, let's eat now! And we should talk some more and get to know each other too! Ah… talking about our old times is going to be great!"

"Yeah!"

TBC

Next chapter will be about them still continuing their lunch and talking about the past. Anyway, hope you liked it and please RR!

-Saki-Kun