Chapter 2, Does this make me a flower?
"Something wrong, Sakura?" Lady Tsunade asked, noting that her student had just killeda the fish she was practicing medical ninjutsu on rather than healed it.
"No, I'm fine." Sakura gave a pained smiled as she remembered the night before.
And bam, another dead fish.
Tsunade sighed, "It's a good thing I don't have you healing people today. You're seriously off your game, Sakura."
"Sorry, Lady Tsuande." Sakura apologized.
"Maybe I should be training you harder." The Hokage thought aloud, bringing back memories that were even more scary than the kiss for Sakura. Anything was better than Tsunade's training from Hell.
"No, I'm fine, Lady Hokage! I'm just... hungry." Sakura grabbed at the first excuse that came to her mind.
"Oh, in that case go eat and when you get back here we'll train harder than you've even trained before." Tsuande ordered her.
Without much of a choice Sakura trudged out of the hokage's office and down to a nearby ramen stand. She ordered with a sigh and sat there, not hungry enough to eat but not rich enough to waste the food she had just negligently boughten.
"Sakura? Are you alright?" An upbeat yet concerned voice asked her.
"Oh, Lee, I didn't see you there." She shot him a pained smile. Great, just what she needed, another person asking her questions when she just wanted some time to herself. This is just what I need. She thought sarcastically as she looked the spandex clad boy up and down. Wait, maybe this is just what I need...
"Hey Lee.." She began, not sure how to bring up such a topic without coming forthright and stating it. "What would you do if someone you trusted kissed you?"
Lee raised one of his bushy eyebrows. "It... depends on the person."
Sakura blushed, hoping she wasn't giving him the wrong idea. "What if it was someone like..." She almost said Naruto, but speaking of her faraway friend would have caused her too much pain. "Someone like Neji."
Lee looked stunned at the sudden, awkward question, but soon enough he was laughing. "Good one, Sakura. That was very funny." he gave her a thumbs up and a toothy grin.
Right. She thought, I shouldn't have depended on him to help me with this problem. I can't just rely on Lee now that Sasuke and Naruto are gone... I have to learn to deal with problems on my own now.
Sakura stood up, her determination renewed. "Yeah, I'll see you later, OK Lee?"
"Oh, you're going so soon?" Lee looked disappointed.
"Unfortunately."
"Aren't you going to finish your ramen?" Lee struggled to find a reason to make Sakura stay.
"Sorry Lee. You can have the ramen, if you'd like." With those words Sakura was off. Before her lunch break was over she had one last stop to make: the flower shop that Ino worked at.
Sakura walked in to find Ino helping a costumer at the counter. She shot Sakura a wink as she talked to the costumer, and as she walked away A smirk covered Ino's face. She knew what Sakura had come to discus.
Sakura approached the counter, her legs shaky and her face red.
For the first time in her life, she was truly afraid of Ino.