A/N: Thanks for all the ideas everyone! Keep 'em coming! Also, thanks for the hits. I'm freakin' amazed at how well this story is doing.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto. In the story, there are parts where there are bold italic words. Those are two different parts of the same characters mind. So, it's not like there is someone who can read minds.

"SAKURA! I need you in here, pronto! These papers need to be organized better so I can, um... Just do it!" Tsunade's voice boomed through the walls to where Sakura was sitting, reading over previous medical files. These various diseases and problems interested her; it was one of her favorite pastimes to read them.

"Coming, Tsunade-sama." Sakura placed the files back in their drawers, and walked over to the Hokage's office, humming the entire way.

"Good morning, Sakura," Tenten's voice came from behind.

"Oh! Hello, Tenten. I was just going to help Tsunade-sama avoid doing paperwork. If you'd like, you can come with me. It's better to have company than to do it alone." Tenten nodded, and they both entered the office.

Standing in the middle of the room, right in front of the desk, was none other than Sasuke. Sakura's smiling face suddenly went cold and hard. She looked angry, and her eyes were narrow, and filled with hate. She walked right over to the paperwork, without even so much of a glance toward her used-to-be crush.

"Ah, Tenten! It's a good thing you came! I need you to go gather a team to leave right away. Mr .Uchiha here was just telling me about two ninja that had been spotted out near where the most recent Akatasuki activity was supposed to be. It's rumored that Orochimaru has been following them around, and I need a three man team. I was just thinking that this would be a perfect reunion mission for Team Guy." Tenten bowed, than left to go find her teammates. Tsunade looked down at her desk, and noticing a stack of paperwork had gone missing, looked over at Sakura.

"Good. I need you to sift through those for high paying missions that only require Chuunin or a three man Genin team."

"Tsunade-sama, you need to do this! I'm not Hokage, I'm not supposed to be filling out your paperwork."

"Sakura, Sakura. You forget that I am the one who controls what nights you get off. And if you don't help me, I am liable to take away a certain night that you were planning on having off."

"But Tsunade-sama! I..."

"I don't want to hear it. I will take it away if you don't. Uchiha here can help."

"I can do it myself, thank you," Sakura's voice was cold and stiff. She was glaring at Sasuke.

"And Uchiha can help. He was supposed to be helping you today, anyway."

"Yes Tsunade-sama," Sasuke and Sakura said together. Tsunade nodded, and then left. She had a good day of drinking to do. And Shizune wasn't here to say anything.

Sakura split the stack into two parts. "You take that half, I'll take this one. The only time you are to talk to me is if you have a serious problem with deciding if they are worthy of attention. Got that, Uchiha?"

"Sakura, look. I'm sorry..."

"GOT THAT, UCHIHA?" Sakura's voice had risen to a full blown yell now.

Sasuke sighed and rolled his eyes. "Yes, Miss Haruno. I mean, Mrs. Nara."

One death glare from Sakura was all it took to shut him up. Sasuke rolled his eyes again, and got to work.

The paperwork was so boring, and Sakura was going through it like water. She was a stamping machine, going over each one so fast that it was impossible for Sasuke to keep up. She glanced over at him. He wasn't doing anything, just staring at her with a dumb look on his face.

"I would appreciate it if you did your work, Sasuke." Sakura's voice was still cold, but she seemed a little nicer this time. They both began to work again. It was tiring, boring, and Sasuke had three paper cuts.

Their work was interrupted by a small knock.

"You wanted to see me, Hokage-sama?" Shikamaru's voice carried into the room.

"Tsunade's not here, Shikamaru," Sakura responded.

"Can I still come in? It's too troublesome to go back home. My mother's cleaning today..."

"Sure! I'm doing paperwork, so I don't know if you'll have fun." Sakura was smiling now. Sasuke noticed how her voice became much lighter when she heard Shikamaru's voice. "Oh, and Uchiha's here."

'Since when did Sakura call me Uchiha? She has definitely been hanging around Shikamaru too much.'

The door opened, and Shikamaru stepped in. "Uchiha? How troublesome." Sasuke shot Shikamaru one of his best death glares, but it did nothing. Shikamaru just stuffed his hands in his pockets, and walked over to where Sakura was stationed. He sat down next to her.

"We still on with Naruto and Hinata tomorrow? I can't believe he's actually going out with her... I think she drugged him."

'Hmm... Shikamaru and Sakura are double dating with Naruto and Hinata. I never did like Hinata... She was so shy and stuttery. And she liked Naruto. There are tons of better looking people in this village, like Neji... Well, not her cousin. But there's Shika-- no, he's a dumbass. And Kiba's got flea's and Chouji is huge. Shino is just weird, and Lee is... Lee. I guess she picked the best one.'

'But she should have picked you.' Another part of Sasuke thought. 'No! Not everyone should like me!' He thought back to himself.

'But it would be nice... She's so much hotter than Sakura, anyway.' 'NO!' 'YES! Goooo for Hinata' 'NO! I LIKE Sakura!' 'Shikamaru has Sakura now. Goooo for Hinata...' 'NOOO!' 'Dooo eet!'

As Sasuke argued with himself, Sakura finished up her paperwork. Shikamaru and Sakura were carring on a conversation of their own.

"So, where do you want to go for lunch? Once I finish this paperwork, I'm free for another two hours."

"I don't know. It's too troublesome for me to pick."

"I hear Ichiraku Ramen stand is having a couples special today. Ayame was advertising last night."

"That's good. I guess I'll pay. It's not right for..."

"I know! It's not right for a woman to pay for herself. Bah! But if you're offering, Shikamaru..." Sakura winked. Sasuke stopped talking to himself to roll his eyes at her, and then go back to arguing about Hinata.

'Her shyness is SEXY!' 'Noooo!' 'Yes!' NOOOO!'

"Well, I'm done. Bye, Sasuke. Shikamaru and I are leaving. Sasuke...?" Sakura walked over to the teenager who was staring at the stack not moving. He looed like he was concentraing deeply on something or another. "Alrighty then. Let's go, Shika-kun."

'And she has the Bya--- SHIKA-KUN?' Sakura's last words seemed to hit Sasuke like a pile of bricks. Shika-kun? How disgusting. Now he had a reason to help Ino: To stop Sakura from calling it Shika-kun.

"Bye, Uchiha," Shikamaru said as they both walked out the door. Sasuke was still sitting there, ranting in his head about Sakura and Shikamaru.

A few minutes later, the couple was walking down the street. "It's so nice to get out of that office. I couldn't stand having Sasuke in there after what happened..." Sakura's voice trailed off as her eyes teared up again.

"Don't think of that night, Sakura. What they did... it hurt both of us. So it's better to forget it to the best of our ability."

"You're right, Shikamaru. I'll try my hardest."

"Ah, here we are." They had arrived at the ramen stand. It looked as if everyone in the town was here eating. Or at least, Naruto and Hinata.

"Nar-Naruto-kun..."

"This is delicious! Are you going to eat your bowl, Hinata?"

"N-n-no..." She pushed the bowl of ramne toward Naruto and smiled feebly.

As he scarfed down his next bowl, he turned to Hinata. His mouth was still full of ramen, and he was grinning, "You should definatley try some of this, Hinata," he said with a mouth full of the stuff.

"You idiot, you just took her bowl." Sakura hit Naruto in the back of the head, causing him to spit out the ramen.

"Awww, Sakura-chan! You made me spit out my ramen!"

"You mean Hinata's ramen, idiot!" Sakura hit him again, harder this time.

"Hello, Hinata." Shikamaru walked over to Naruto's accomplace while Saukra and Naruto bickered.

"Oh, he-hello Shikamaru-kun." Hinata looked up at him, and then over at Naruto again. "W-what are you d-doing here today?"

"Well, we were going to eat, but I think Naruto might have taken all of the ramen. Let me guess: He dragged you here to take advantage of the Couples Special?"

"Yes." She looked back over at him. "B-but I wanted to c-come with him, anyway."

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto was frowning. "Why are you here with him," He jabbed a thumb in Shikamaru's direction, "when you could be here with meeee?"

"Because you're here with Hinata, baka!" Sakura yelled at him as she hit him yet again. Shikamaru walked over by Sakura and grabbed her arm.

"Before you hit Naruto again and tell him he's an idiot, which I sure he knows by now, lets get something to eat." He sat down next to Naruto, and had Sakura sit down on the other side of him, so the two teamamtes were seperated. Naruto shot Shikamaru a grateful look.

"Hello, Hinata! I didn't see you there. How are you?" Sakura smilied down towards the shy Hyuuga.

"F-fine, Sakura. A-and yourself?"

"I'm doing fine, thank you! And," she said, turning to Ayame, "I would like some diet ramen and a water." Ayame nodded and turned to Shikamaru.

"May I take your order?"

"Just a bowl of beef ramen and a water, please," Shikamaru replied to the waitress. She nodded again, and turned to her father.

"Your order will be out in a bit," He said, and got back to work.

By now, Naruto an d Hinata had left the stand, and were heading toward where Tsunade was supposed to be.

"She's not there; the only person in her office is Sasuke," Shikamaru yelled to Naruto.

"That's fine! I wanted to talk to him about that note Ino put on his door, anyway," Naruto yelled back at the two.

Sakura turned to face Shikamaru. "Ino left Sasuke a note?"

"I guess so. Although, our information did come from Naruto. It might be foolish to trust it."

Sakura looked back down at her ramen. "Lets just say for a moment we did believe Naruto. What do you think the note would have said?"

Shikamaru sat in thought for a little bit, and then turned to her. "It would probably have something to do with you and me."

"Hmm... I wonder..." Sakura's green eye's flashed dangerously. "Well, anyway. I've got to get back. Bye, Shikamaru! See you tomorrow night!"

A/N: New chapter up soon, I hope. I have a really funny scene that's been stuck in my head for a while now, so I'm goning to put it in.

Review, please! And keep the ideas coming. :3