A few hours later, the rest of the girls came back. "Hey Tenten? Has Sakura made any progress? Is she...Oh." Tenten slowly turned to them, one eye twitching.
"Sakura. Is the worst. At this. EVER!" she yelled. "First I tried to get to to hit some targets. But no, they reminded her too much of Sasuke for no reason other than that they were stuffed with straw which also begins with an S! Bulls eyes were out of the question because they were red and Sasuke's eyes were red! So I thought fine, I'll get her to attack me then, I don't look like Sasuke. So I told her to hide in the woods and randomly try to attack me, with whatever weapon she wanted." Tenten sighed and buried her face in her hands. Hinata patted her on the back.
"There there, I'm sure you did your best."
"She got stuck up a tree, beaten up by a pair of squirrels, fell down a hole, manged to pin herself to a tree with her kunai, and nearly poked her own eye out with the senbon. And then spent two hours talking to a rock about how great Sasuke is."
"So, where is she now?" asked Ino.
"She tripped and couldn't get up again." So everyone pulled Sakura up to her feet, and dragged her back to town.
"Okay, listen up fore head girl! This is one thing even you can't mess up. I'm, going to be teaching you how to be businesslike and friendly to customers." said Ino. "You'll be working in my flower shop. But since I can't risk losing customers to your ineptitude, so the other girls will be pretending to be customers got it?" She grabbed Sakura by the arm and dragged her into the shop. "Now put on that apron and stand behind the counter with me ok?" The bell at the door rang as Tenten walked in.
"Hi Tenten! What are you doing here?" asked Sakura in surprise. Ino rolled her eyes.
"Well, at least you've got the friendly greeting down."
"Umm. I would like to, um, buy some flowers?" said Tenten who had probably never done so in her life.
"What, you want a bouquet of kunai?" asked Ino. The two laughed.
"What? I don't get it!" said Sakura.
"Never mind. Ask her what kind of flowers she wants." said Ino.
"What kind of flowers do you want?" asked Sakura.
"Oh, I don't know. Ummm. How about those ones over there?" she said pointing to some at random.
"Right. Sakura, go get those, wrap them up, check them out, and give them to her." ordered Ino. Sakura manged to do that, only confusing the cash register for a bunny once.
"Here you go!" she said hanging them to Tenten, who didn't look like she knew what to do with them.
"Going to give them to a certain boy you like?" asked Ino playfully, knowing that Tenten liked Neji. "A certain prodigy perhaps? With special eyes?"
"Well, I don't really think flowers are his thing." said Tenten blushing. Behind the counter Sakura thought "Boy? Prodigy? Special eyes? Omfg she's going to give them to Sasuke! Not on my watch! Red alert! Battle stations!"
"Now, that was actually not half bad Sakura. Sakura? Uh oh." said Ino slowly backing away. There was fire in Sakura's eyes as she leaped over the counter with a battle cry of "Sasuke's mine!" and attacked Tenten.
"Gah! Help help ow! Why couldn't you have fought like this when I was trying to train you? Ah, Ino help me!" yelled Tenten as she went down.
"Sakura, Tenten likes Neji not Sasuke!" yelled Ino quickly. Sakura paused as the Sakura Identifier 360© went to work. "Access data bank, Hyuuga Neji. Boy, check. Prodigy, check. Special eyes, check. Identification positive." Sakura leaped up and pulled Tenten up, brushing her off.
"Sorry Tenten! I just go a little crazy over Sasuke!" she said.
"A little?" muttered Tenten.
Meanwhile...A certain prodigy with special eyes just happened to be passing outside the shop when Ino yelled. And no, it's not Sasuke. "Hmmm. Tenten likes me? Interesting..."