It was one of his clones that had found her.

Naruto had made over a hundred clones around Konoha in his search for his other teammate. It shouldn't be too hard should it? You could see her bright pink hair from a mile away. So here they were, running around the streets and rooftops until one finally spotted her, and sent the word around.

So Naruto approached Sakura, who was currently walking around some shops.

"Hey Sakura!"

Whipping around, Sakura shouted, "Not right now! I need to buy some new kunai Naruto!"

Naruto crossed his arms and huffed. "Well go on then, I'll wait right here."

"Fine then! Wait there!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

Watching Sakura storm into the store, he began tapping his foot, humming a tune, throwing some raw fish over the crowds to see their reactions. He even decided to play rock, paper, scissors and eye spy with a clone. He was so caught up in his games he didn't see Sakura's fist heading for the back of his head.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"You're not paying attention!"

"Well I am now!"

"SHUT IT!"

Taking a deep breathe, Sakura finally asked, "So, what did you need me for?"

Naruto beamed. "Teaching me better manners!"

…

"That's it?"

"Yep!"

…

"Ooooookay. Sure."

"Wahoooo!"

"Okay Naruto. Girls like to be given things. So we'll start with how to greet a girl, talk a bit, and give a gift."

"Mmk."

"So pretend I'm the girl alright? Come and say hi."

Sakura walked off and sat under a tree in the park, took out her book, and started to read. Naruto watched her and bounced on over.

"Heya Sakuraaaa! How's it going!?" Naruto shouted to her. "What ya reading? Is it one of those boring books. Cool! I'd never be able to read those nerdy things!"

"Narutooooo!" Sakura ground out. "That's not how you do it! Are you trying to scare them? Make them self conscious on what they may like to read?"

"I said it was cool!"

"But you said it was nerdy and boring!"

…

"Fair point."

"Let's skip straight to the gift part, okay? It shouldn't be that hard, it'd make a good starting point!"

Naruto and Sakura walked through the streets, heading to buy a gift for Naruto to practice with.

They walked into a shop as Sakura called out. "Hey Ino!"

Naruto made a noise of surprise as their friend walked out of the back to the flower shop's front counter.

"Hey guys!" Ino greeted. "What brings you here today?"

"We just need a simple bouquet of flowers. I'm giving Naruto lessons."

Ino leaned over, gossip mode engaged. "What kind of lessons?"

"Lessons on manners."

Ino laughed. "Ohhhh, good luck then! You'll need it!"

Naruto looked indignant. "What is that supposed to mean?!"

"Never mind. Here are the flowers. Naruto, you pay."

"WHAT?!"

"Good manners mean you pay for the girl! Don't make them pay for themselves!"

"Fine, fine." Naruto grumbled paying the price of the flowers. "I'll pay for the stupid flowers."

"Bye Ino!" Sakura called out, leaving.

"Byeee!" Was the reply to their retreating backs.

Ino huffed. "My flowers aren't stupid! So rude! Naruto is a lost cause!"

"Bring those flowers to me as if I was the girl. Okay?"

"Got it!"

So Sakura made her way back to the tree and sat back down with her book. Naruto walked this time, holding on to the bouquet tightly. He made his way over to her, and stood next to her.

"Err. Sakura take these!" He stammered, and shoved them to her face.

Sakura in turn spluttered from the flower attack to her face. Standing up, she batted them away.

"No! No no no no!" Sakura went off. "This isn't how you do it! What are you trying to do? Suffocate her?!"

"Jeez. Sorry!"

"Well I give up! You aren't getting any girl this way Naruto! You can't even learn manners!"

"You're giving up so quickly?!"

"It's pointless!"

"Then what do I do?!"

"I don't know, ask Sasuke!"

"He was the one to lead me to you!"

"Then ask Kakashi! He's a flirt, go talk to him!"

…

"Huh, you're right." With that, Naruto hopped away, leaving a fuming Sakura, and a bouquet of flowers.

Sakura finished throwing them into the river, watching the various petals flowing downstream.

Ino was taking a nice break from her shop, but stopped seeing various petals flowing by the river. Eyes widening in surprise, she fumed. "Narutooooooo!"

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