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The next day when Akiko-sama makes Sakura apologize, she gives Ino a sharp grin and Akiko-sama whacks her over the head as she opens her mouth and says, "Nice gap tooth."
Ino gives her what is possibly the nastiest glare known to mankind and runs back to her flower shop.
"I'm so sorry, Yamanaka-sama, Sakura-chan is—"
"Ino was rude." Sakura interrupts, leveling the clan leader with a sharp glance. "She should apologise."
Inoichi Yamanaka was more than shocked but he wisely didn't say anything. The woman in front of him with the wine-red eyes and the long beautiful chestnut hair pleaded apologetically but the short, tomboyish girl with the long pink hair just told the truth.
"What did my daughter say?"
Ino had told him that Sakura had just randomly attacked her out of nowhere for saying hello to the "Sasuke-kun" boy in her class.
The pink haired girl raises an eyebrow and Inoichi wills his lips not to twist into an amused smile.
"Sakura-chan, please be polite."
"She was insensitive about Sasuke's family." The girl growls out and a spark of anger shows in her eyes, "And you should really stop encouraging your daughter to go after guys like that—she's in the academy to learn how to be a shinobi, not how to pick up boys!"
Akiko-sama inhales sharply and Sakura knows that the woman will be making her pick up after the customers when they get home.
She cringes just thinking about it.
Sakura just shakes her head and glares up at Ino's dad. "Your daughter has privilege and she's just—just—squandering it away like it means nothing! She should be ashamed."
Inoichi stares.
His pupil-less blue eyes watch the little girl who's shouting about privilege and thinks that this is what a shinobi should be like.
"Would you like to join us for a meal next Saturday, Sakura-chan?"
Bright green eyes still, shocked and then a brilliant smile explodes on her face.
"Only if I can bring Sasuke and Naruto and Akiko-sama."
This is how friendships are made.
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