Sakura Petals

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

A/N: I'm updating too fast... Plus I'm skipping tons of stuff just to get to the sasusaku parts. I like it this way so I'll just keep going.

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Chapter 8

Sakura, Sasuke get together

It had already been two weeks since Sakura and Ino got Tenten and Neji together. They also got Naruto and Hinata together aswell. Ino stretched her arms.

"It's been a busy week. Now it's time for you and Sasuke to get together!" Ino called out at her phone.

"What?! Why me and him?" Sakura yelled at her phone.

"Because both of you look like a cute couple. Anyway, you two are used to each other. Plus I know you like him."

"…" Sakura blushed secretly on the other line.

"So what are you waiting for? This is just a thank you present from getting the gang together. Plus Tenten and I already sorted this out when we're all going to the mall in a few hours." Ino included.

"Well, it's not a secret anymore since you told me."

"Yeah but you have no idea what we're going to do."

"…"

"Anyway, see you later!"

"Ino wait-" But before she could say anything, Ino had hung up. Sakura lay on her bed.

'What should I do? Ino already found out.'

'Oh hey, I just remembered the thing that Sasuke said when you fainted.'

'What?'

A few seconds passed and you could already hear Sakura screaming all the way from her house.

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Sakura fiddled with her fingers as she waited for the rest of the gang to show up.

'Are you sure he said that?'

'Positive.'

'Are you sure you're wrong?'

'Negative.'

She then saw Ino and Shikamaru from a short distance.

"Sakura-chan!" Ino squealed when she hugged.

Sakura sweat dropped.

"You have no idea what we're going to do to you." Ino whispered evilly in her ear.

"Konichiwa Sakura!" Tenten chirped at the frozen Sakura. "What happened to her?"

"Nothing much." Shikamaru explained with two words.

They waited for everyone to gather and start the shopping spree.

"Tell me why I'm here again?" Naruto moaned rubbing his eyes. "Plus why does it have to be so early?"

"Reasons." Tenten told him. Tenten then winked at Ino to start the plan.

"Sakura, can you get my phone in my house I left it there." Ino said, trying to make an excuse.

Sakura made a confused face.

'Is this part of her plan for me and Sasuke to get together?'

'Just play along for a while.'

Sakura strangely nodded so Ino gave her the keys to her house. Sakura exited the mall, being eyed my Ino and Tenten.

"Okay, here's the plan, tomorrow is Sakura's birthday and we need to plan a birthday surprise for her!" Ino said seriously.

"So, what's the point here?" Naruto asked carefree.

"Don't say so what!" Ino screeched while hitting Naruto's head really hard.

It took them a long time for them to disperse and get a present before Sakura would come back. But everyone agreed that they would do it.

-CAMERA POINTING TO SASUKE-

Sasuke walked around the mall for two times and he still couldn't find a store with something good for Sakura.

While going around the mall for the third time, something caught his eye. It was a tiny corner shop that had tons of accessories for girls. He entered the empty store and found that there weren't that much people. He browsed around on the shelves. He found this golden charm bracelet with sakura flowers and petals for the charms. A woman came up to her.

"Is that for someone special?" She asked grinning at him.

Sasuke looked behind him and found a woman looking as if he wanted to buy it.

"You can ask if you want to write a message on the bracelet if you wan." She smiled eagerly. (A/N: Don't worry about her; she's married so there's no problem about your second thoughts.)

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Everyone then met up at the same place, twenty minutes later. Sakura came back with Ino's phone and keys in one hand. As soon as she got there, she pulled the opposite way, being told that they should go home.

Sakura then arrived at her house minutes later. She went to practice kendo again. As she was putting on her dogi she remembered something.

"Hah, it's my birthday tomorrow." She said to herself strangely.

'No wonder they made up an excuse for you to go away for a while…'

She shrugged off those thoughts and finished changing. After that she went outside with her diary and sat under the cherry blossom tree.

'Okaa-san, Otou-san and Onii-san in heaven,

Tomorrow is my birthday and my friends are acting very strange lately. They must be preparing for a surprise party so I'll try and act surprised. I will also try and find a new job. Maybe I can ask Sayaka, she already has a part-time job. Serving at a cute bakery would be no problem at all!

Please send me your wishes and pray that I will have a good day tomorrow.'

Sakura waited for another batch of petals to be blown by the wind. She then got up and made her way inside.

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The next day finally arrived and Sakura quickly rose out of her bed. She ate breakfast, took a shower and got changed. The door bell rang after she had just done those things.

"Ohayo, Sakura-chan!" Ino chirped as she stepped in the house.

Tenten and Hinata were behind her and they looked as if they were trying to hide something but they did a very bad job at it.

"Say, how about going to the park with Hinata-chan! You two haven't been talking o each other in a while! See you!" Ino said quickly, pushing Sakura outside and letting Tenten in.

"But we-"Ino closed the door before she could say anymore.

"Just talked on the phone last night…" Sakura finished slowly.

There was no point in banging on the door shouting for the damn house keys so they just walked to the park anyways.

Ino quickly grabbed her cell phone and dialled some numbers.

"Okay, Sakura's out of her house so you can all come in now." Ino called out.

She then hung up and waited for a few seconds until the doorbell rang. The boys appeared at the door, from Sasuke's house.

"So, how was your stay?" Tenten asked eagerly.

The bys said nothing and just shuffled around the hallway. They then got ready for the decorations and the food.

Meanwhile in the park Sakura walked along normally on the path while Hinata kept blushing constantly and sweating quite a lot.

"Hinata, are you alright?" Sakura asked.

"N-n-no, nothing at all!" Hinata lied as she waved her hand up and down.

'She's bad at lying. But she has a good personality. It too obvious though.'

'It was already dead obvious when she kept on babbling about my birthday on our way here.'

At least Hinata could hold her off until the preparations were done.

Back at Sakura's house, an hour later, Ino sighed from all the work she had just done.

"Good, we're now all done. That was dead easy." Ino said in a calm and relaxed voice.

"For you anyway, you're the only one who barely done the work around here. You've just yelled and shouted at us to hurry up and we're not working our asses off." Tenten said wearily.

"Now all we have to do is wait until they get back." Neji said, slumping on the sofa.

Sasuke walked upstairs and looked around the hallway. He opened a random door and it just so happened to be Sakura's room. He just walked in anyway and pondered around the room.

'Her room is so plain.'

'I'll say. Everything is ordinary! Why does she even go to a rich high school anyway?'

Sasuke sat on her bed, pulling out a wrapped box from his pocket. He hid it under her pillow so that the present would just be a surprise. He stood up and headed towards the door. He took one more glance before leaving.

'Tell me again why she comes at our high school.'

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"Get ready; Hinata says they're almost here!" Ino announced after she hung up on her cell phone.

They switched off the lights and got into their hiding positions. A few minutes later they heard the door bell.

"Whoops, I forgot to give them the house key." Ino cringed as she had remembered.

"Wait, I got the spare keys in my bag." They heard Sakura say at the other side of the door.

They heard the key unlock and the door knob motioning. It finally opened widely. Sakura turned on the lights.

"SURPRISE!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAKURA!!!!" They screamed as they jumped out of their hiding places.

Sakura tried to make an OMFG-look. She failed to do it so the rest of the gang stared at Hinata suspiciously.

A few minutes later, they got settled in and they started to play games and did everything normally. They played spin the bottle and it got interesting.

They stared the top of the bottle, spinning wildly at everyone. It eventually stopped on Naruto.

"Naruto truth or dare?" They asked evilly with red eyes.

Naruto froze in fear. Sasuke had just done a really good dare that even embarrassed him. He wanted to show them that he could take on a challenge like that so he said dare. Of course it was pretty obvious what they were going to say.

"We dare you to give up ramen for a month." Ino said simply.

"What?! Can't you give me less amount of time to give up on it! I can't survive without ramen that long!" Naruto begged on his knees.

"Okay fine, a week, but you have to at least get used to something by then." Sakura made an exception.

"Thank you Sakura-chan, you're a lifesaver." Naruto thanked, he was now lying on the floor.

"Well do you want to try beef jerky now? That might be the food that you could get used to." Tenten suggested.

"Ah, I have those, wait here." Sakura said getting up.

"Beef jerky?" Naruto asked, still confused.

Sakura came back with a pack of them and laid it in front of Naruto.

"Eat it." Ino said.

Naruto just stared at it.

"Eat it." Neji and Tenten joined in.

"Eat it." The rest began to chant, even Hinata.

Naruto still just stared at it.

"Just eat it dobe! It's not like it's the end of the world!" Sasuke shouted, running out of patience.

Naruto slid one strip out and began to slowly put it up in his mouth. He opened his mouth but it still wasn't going in. Ino got impatient so she pushed his hand so that he swallowed the whole strip.

Naruto paused for a moment. Everyone edged towards him, waiting for the result.

"…"

Everyone still edged closer.

"It's…" Naruto began.

"It's…"

Everyone edged even closer to his face.

"It's… It's…" Naruto paused for a moment.

"It's… DELICIOUS!!!!" He screamed as he stuffed the pack in his mouth.

"How long do you think he will get addicted to that?" Neji asked.

"Don't know." Ino replied.

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Sakura showed them the guest room since they were sleeping over.

"Oyasumi, Sakura-chan!" Ino said before Sakura left the room.

She waved and then closed the door. She already opened her presents. Everyone gave her one except for Sasuke.

Sakura got into her room and lay on her bed. Her head made contact with something hard under the pillow. She sat up pulled out her pillow. Under it was a nicely wrapped box. She grabbed it and read the name tag. It was from Sasuke.

She unravelled the gift and found a charm bracelet. It was golden; it had cherry blossom flowers and petals for the charms. She put it on, sparkling and clinking as she gazed at it. She looked down and saw a letter.

"Tegami?" She asked to herself, opening it.

(A/N: For the people who don't know what Tegami means: It means letter in Japanese.)

She read the words printed on the letter. She widened her eyes. She took another look at the bracelet. She found some words that were scratched on it.

'To my Cherry Blossom-' Sakura stopped reading it from there and stared into space for a few minutes.

'S-so it is true.'

'Cherry blossom? No-one's ever called you that. Well he's special anyway and I know you like him back.'

Sakura put the letter back into the box. She only read half of it saying that there were some words written on it so it was true. She pulled out her diary from her hiding place and went into the room before. She lit the candles and sat down, scribbling the thoughts down.

'Okaa-san, Otou-san and Onii-san in heaven,

Today is my birthday and it was so much fun. In the end Sasuke gave me a present and it beautiful. I can still hear Onii-san saying that he is the one. I thought I heard him confess the other day but I can't remember. I still haven't read the entire letter that came with the bracelet plus I haven't read the rest of the text. I am very tired from all the events that have just happened. I will read it tomorrow.'

Sakura stopped and then opened her window. She climbed out and stepped onto the platform. She leaned out of the bars and let the wind blow through her.

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The next day came and everyone was still excited at what happened last night. They all left early since they haven't done their homework yet.

"Bye, see you tomorrow!" She waved goodbye as they drove off.

Sakura shut the door and ran frantically upstairs. She got the box from last night and took out the letter. She scanned through all of it. Widening her eyes and kept on repeating that phrase that he confessed on paper.

'I love you.'

She checked on the bracelet and read the rest of the text.

"To my cherry blossom, my dearest treasure." She said aloud.

This was an awkward moment for her. She had no idea what to do.

'How about sending him a letter too, writing how you feel which is the same way. Plus he is so damn smart, confessing on paper so you don't have to say it directly.'

She actually agreed with her inner there. She wrote the letter and slid it through the Uchiha's mailbox. She ran back to her house and sighed. She was eager to know what would happen to her next.

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At the end of the day, Sakura had just finished practising kendo. She took out her diary and scribbled some words.

'Okaa-san, Otou-san and Onii-san in heaven,

I have confessed to him by letter and Onii-san may be right. He may be the one. I am eager to find out what will happen to me tomorrow. But first I have to see how Sayaka and Sai's relationship is going. For now I have to go. I have a feeling that the phone will ring.'

She ended the entry and waited for the spring breeze to drift off. She ran inside and she was totally right. The phone was ringing.

"Hello?" Sakura greeted.

Sakura opened her mouth to hear a certain someone's voice.

"O-oh hi Sasuke, w-what did you w-want to talk about?" Sakura stuttered at her crush.

She froze on his reply.

'Sakura, quick say yes!'

"Sure." She said simply.

"Okay, see you tomorrow." She then hung up and squealed in delight. She was now Sasuke's girlfriend.

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A/N: That was the longest chapter I've ever typed. Don't you think so too? Anyway, we're holding a Christmas party so for a treat, I will update on Christmas day and Christmas Eve! (Because I am in the mood to do it) Reviews are much appreciated and have a merry Christmas!