Sand: ok here's
Sakura: Chapter
Kiba: Three!
Kiba: On
Sakura: With
Sand: the
All: STORY!!
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"Mmmmph Go AWAY!" Sakura half-groaned, half-shouted as her mother shook her for the third time.
"But Saakuraaa, it's the first Saturday after school started." her mother whined.
"No school, sleeping in." Sakura whined back burying her head under her pillow.
"Nooo, shopping SPREE!!" her mother responded happily.
"No!" Sakura yelled into her mattress.
"It's tradition!" Tsunade yelled back, Jiraiya and Naruto watched with amusement from Sakura's bedroom door.
"Forget tradition I wanna SLEEP!" Sakura moaned.
"Plllllleeeeaaasssseeee!" Tsunade begged.
"Ugh." Sakura grunted, Tsunade grinned and practically skipped out of the room shoving Jiraiya and Naruto out in front of her.
"She'll be out in a minute dressed and ready to go."
"How do you know, all she did was grunt." Naruto said as he and Jiraiya sat down.
"So? She'll be up and showered and out here fully dressed in about fifteen-twenty minutes ready to go shopping all day." Tsunade said smiling.
"You got all of that from a grunt?" Jiraiya asked raising an eyebrow.
"What can I say I know my kid." she replied, smirking.
3twenty minutes later3
"Ok mom let's go!" Sakura said as she walked out, her mid-back length pink hair was pulled into a braid, she was wearing faded ripped up light blue jeans, and a long sleeved scoop-neck shirt, and black boots. The shirt was light grey and its sleeves went to the middle of her fingers.
"Told ya." Tsunade winked at the two stunned males as she followed her daughter out the front door.
"Wow … guess Tsunade does know Sakura-chan really well." Naruto murmured, Jiraiya nodded.
"I hope it does Sakura-nee-chan good though because she's been really depressed lately." Again Jiraiya nodded.
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"Hey mom check this dress out!!" Sakura called as she pulled a dark green floor length halter dress off the rack.
"It's cute, it would soooo bring out your eyes." Tsunade replied walking over.
"I was talking about for you, not that it would matter, you steal my clothes anyway." Sakura said smiling.
"You steal my clothes too!" Tsunade cried indignantly.
"Touché." Sakura giggled and put the dress back on the rack.
"Soooo, where to next?" Tsunade asked as they walked arm-in-arm out of the store.
"Hmmm. Well we could go … SHOE SHOPPING!" Sakura cried dragging her mother to the nearest shoe store. Shoes were Sakura's weakness, she loved shoes.
"Ooooooh Sakura-chan check out these boots, too CUTE!" Tsunade called from one end of the store.
"Oh yeah well these pumps are AWESOME!" Sakura replied.
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"Hey mom?" Sakura asked a little while later as they sat at the food court pigging out on burgers.
"Yeah?" her mom responded looking up from her soda.
"You remember that photography contest my teacher called about." she asked nervously.
"The one we mocked for two days, yes what about it?" her mom replied with a chuckle, remembering their funnier jokes.
"Mom, I'm going to enter my pictures." Sakura said staring determinedly at her French fries.
"Seriously?" her mom asked surprised.
"Yes." Sakura said with sigh.
"Well then, good for you Sweetie." Tsunade said smiling lightly at her daughter, Sakura grinned back.
3few hours later3
"Hey Tsunade, where'd Sakura-nee-chan go?" Naruto asked walking into the kitchen.
"She must be in her art studio" Tsunade replied.
"Huh?" was Naruto's intelligent, or not, response.
"Well since our apartment is the only on the top floor we have access to the attic, the entry is in Sakura's bedroom closet, yeah weird, anyway Sakura turned it into an art studio as soon as we moved here, it's where she goes when she wants to be alone." Tsunade replied.
"Wow COOL!" Naruto cried.
"Yeah it is, just don't ever go in there, even if she's up there, she'll kill you." Tsunade said, Naruto's face fell.
"Maaan!" he whined, Jiraiya and Tsunade laughed.
3in Sakura's art studio3
Sakura pulled out her paints as her iPod blared Fergie's 'Big girls don't cry' into her ears. She turned to her easel and started on her next piece for her portfolio.
'I wonder what the girls will think of me entering the contest …. I just hope they'll support me, I sure they will.' Sakura thought as the rest of the world faded away, it was just her, the music and her art.
3Next Day3
"NO WAY! You're entering? SWEET!" Ino cried as she, Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, and Tenten walked into their government class. (yeah … I changed some of their classes …sorry).
"Sakura-nee-chan is gonna blow the competition away! BELIEVE IT!" Naruto yelled.
"Naruto! Shut UP!" Sakura yelled slamming her fist into the top of his skull.
"Itai! Sakura-nee-chan that hurt!" The blonde boy whined.
"Idiot." Sasuke smirked.
"What'd you call me." Naruto grabbed Sasuke's collar
"Now now children act you're age … not Naruto's IQ." Sakura said, Tenten and Ino laughed at Naruto's expression.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late, a black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way." Kakashi said as he entered the room, Sakura raised her hand.
"Yes, Sakura-chan?" he said nodding at her.
"Kakashi-sensei, if you're going to lie about why you're late then you should at least make you're lies half way believable." She said smiling lightly.
"Yes yes, onto the roll." he said, Tenten, Ino and Sakura giggled.
3on the way home3
"Sakura-chan, what picture did you enter into the contest?" Sasuke asked her as she led the boys to the subway. Kiba was staring intently at her back, remembering the times when she would loop her arm through his and drag him down the subway stairs while mocking his protests.
"Umm, well when I was about ten, my mom and dad used to take me to visit some relatives of ours who lived by the sea, and they lived on top of this cliff and my parents room had a balcony, and I used to take hundreds of different pictures from the balcony, of everything I could, and the one I entered is this picture of my aunt's flower garden, from the view of the balcony." Sakura said, the guys nodded.
"Oi Dog-boy, you feeling ok, you haven't said a word all day!" Naruto said getting in his face.
"I'm fine, get outta my face." he replied shoving Naruto away.
"Touchy touchy." Naruto murmured.
"Well not everyone likes your face too close to their, Moron." Sasuke stated rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, just Hinata-chan … or should I say Hina-chan." Sakura said smirking.
"AAAHH Sakura-nee-chan, stop!" Naruto whined.
"Huh?" the other guys looked at Sakura.
"That's what he calls Hinata, and she calls him Naru-kun." Sakura said giggling.
"SA-KU-RA!!!" Naruto whined his tan cheeks a brilliant red color, the rest of the boys roared with laughter.
"Thanks Sakura-nee-chan." Naruto said pouting.
"Awww don't be like that, Naru-chan." she said snickering.
"Hmph." he turned his back on her, still pouting.
"Awww come on Idiot, it's not that bad." Sasuke murmured punching Naruto in the arm lightly.
"Says you Sasuke-jerk." he replied, but he was no longer pouting.
"Train." Neji and Shikamaru said in a dull tone.
"Soooo, Sakura-chan, I saw Sai talking to you in the hallway after Government, what was that all about?" Sasuke asked the shorter girl.
"Huh? Oh, um, he's my portrait partner in Art, we were setting up a time and place to meet to do our portraits." she answered, he nodded.
"Can I come?" Naruto asked.
"No."
"Why not?!"
"Because you'll either annoy me, distract me, or mess something up, or all three." Once again Naruto was pouting.
"Come on Naruto do you really think you'd be able to sit still long enough for them to do their portraits?" Neji asked.
"Well no, but …." he didn't finish his sentence.
"Don't worry Naruto, I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself, besides I have you on speed dial … all of you." Sakura said smiling.
"…Ok but I swear if he lays one hand on you the wrong way, I'll kill him." Naruto muttered with a sigh.
"Yeah yeah, LITTLE brother." Sakura giggled, Naruto swatted at her head and she ducked.
"This is our stop!" Naruto and Sakura cried.
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Sand: ok this was more of a filler-ish chapter but hey, what can I do when I have writers' block.
Sakura: may get better later on …. We hope.
Kiba: Till then read and review.