Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters. I do own Megan, Chiyo and Nicole.
Text: Inner Sakura
'Text': thinking
"Text": talking -
Chapter 1
First Day in LA
Sakura sat in her seat excitedly. She was actually in a plane trip to LA!
"I'm actually going to LA!" Sakura squealed, excited.
Since Chic Chick was a very popular magazine, Sakura got to sit in first class and since Sakura never been on first class for an airplane, it was so new to her.
People were still getting on board and she was already to go to LA. Sakura jumped in her seat with a big smile on her face, which made people that passed by give her weird faces.
A teenage girl that looked around Sakura's age was walking towards Sakura. She had brunette hair that was up to her upper back with bangs. A white sundress with a green plaid tank top dress on top, white sandals and brown eyes.
Sakura saw the teenage girl.
Sakura looked down at what she was wearing: a pink miniskirt/schoolgirl skirt and a white sailor shirt with a pink bow in the middle and the collar to the sailor suit was pink with lines of white.
'So I packed the clothes that I was going to wear and I had to wear my high school uniform, so what?' Sakura thought to herself. 'At least I'm going to LA!'
The teenage girl stop at Sakura's row.
"Can I sit here?" Sakura nodded at the teenage girl question.
The teenager sat next to the jumping Sakura and looked at her sort of weirdly.
"You're very happy to go to California, huh?" the girl asked.
Sakura nodded and put her hand out.
"I'm Sakura."
The girl shook Sakura's hand.
"I'm Chiyo. I'm pretty happy to go to California too. I have an internship there."
"Is it at Chic Chick?" Sakura asked, hoping.
"Yeah." Sakura squealed in delight when Chiyo said that, which made Chiyo back away from her a bit.
"I got an internship there too!" Sakura exclaimed.
Hell yeah! I didn't even go to LA and I already know someone!
Chiyo smiled.
"That's so cool!" Chiyo exclaimed. "Now I already know all of the interns except one."
"…Isn't there only three interns?" Sakura asked, confused.
"No," Chiyo said, shaking her head. "They had to change it to four. I know one of them. She's my best friend named Megan. But she wants to be called Meg for short."
"Oh," Sakura said, now not bouncing and being excited anymore.
"Don't worry!" Chiyo said, smiling and trying to reassure Sakura. "Meg is really nice but she laughs a lot and sometimes in random or bad times. She lives in Washington, the state in U.S.A, so she's already there with the other intern."
"Oh," Sakura said again, but now in relief.
But Sakura noticed something: when Chiyo said 'the other intern' her voice had gone softer and sort of like she was disgusted with the other intern.
"Is there something wrong with the other intern?" Sakura asked.
"Well…" Chiyo said, now sounding uneasy. "Meg says that the other intern is named Nicole and she… how can I put this nicely… is about as sweet as the most sourest candies."
"Great," Sakura said sarcastically.
"So…" Chiyo said, trying to change the subject, but she couldn't really think of something.
Sakura smiled. She knew something already: whenever something went bad instead of trying to make it better Chiyo would change the subject and Sakura liked that.
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After lots of hours of sitting and getting to know each other much more, Sakura and Chiyo were really good friends.
"Passengers please buckle in your seat belts and turn off all electronics. We are landing in Los Angeles, California with our flight landing early."
As the plane landed Sakura and Chiyo went out of the plane.
"HELLO LA!" Sakura yelled on top of her lungs as she took her first step in the airport and put her arms up.
"Sakura!" Chiyo said, putting Sakura's arms back down. "Don't do that! People are staring!"
"Fine," Sakura said.
The two started to walk in the tunnel in silence until Sakura noticed something.
"How do we know where we're going?" Sakura asked.
Chiyo looked like she was going to answer that question, but then stopped since she didn't know either.
"I don't know," Chiyo said, as they walked towards the end of the tunnel. "Maybe there would be a---"
"CHIYO!" Chiyo and Sakura looked towards the right where the girl voice's screamed Chiyo's named.
Sakura saw a girl around Chiyo's and her age. She had long black hair that was up to her lower back and was tied into a half ponytail. She was wearing a small black heart pattern with a dark red to maroon hoodie with a gray shirt that was barley visible since the hoodie was zipped up, a navy drop-waist mini skirt, and gray ballet flats. She had brown eyes and had a slim figure.
"Megan!" Chiyo said, hugging her best friend.
Sakura noted that the girl that was Megan was very… clean. Everything she was wearing was clean cut. Sakura looked down at herself in disapproval. Being on a airplane for a long time wasn't good for her image. Her short pink hair was messy, the soda she spilled on herself stained her shirt, and her skirt was crumply and stained.
Megan and Chiyo stop hugging each other and Chiyo spoke up.
"Megan, this is my new friend and other intern Sakura," Chiyo introduced Sakura. "Sakura, this is my best friend Megan."
"Call me Meg, I like it better," Meg, or really Megan, said, putting her hand out.
"I just like being called Sakura," Sakura said, shaking Meg's hand.
As the three walked to the baggage claim area, Meg started to talk.
"Oh, you two will be so surprised on what Chic Chick sent for you two. I just wanted to come so I could see Chiyo," Meg said, but Chiyo gave a not believing look. "Fine. It was really to get away from Miss. 'I think dessert is evil because of the calories' or whatever."
"Who would think dessert is evil?" Meg laughed at Sakura's question, which Sakura didn't really make for a joke.
"Nicole," Meg said, wrinkling her nose. "She's the worse."
"What did Chic Chick sent for us?" Chiyo asked, changing the subject before Meg could talk about Nicole.
Meg just pointed to a guy in a black with two bouquets of red roses. He was also holding two signs. One of them read 'C. Nitta' and other one read 'S. Haruno'.
"Wow." Meg laughed at Chiyo and Sakura's awe expression as the guy walked up to them.
"Nitta, Chiyo," the man said, handing her one of the bouquet of roses. "Haruno, Sakura." He then gave the other bouquet to Sakura. "Which ones are your luggage bags?"
"The aqua blue duffel bag with royal blue handles," Chiyo said.
"The pink duffel bag with the green handle." The chauffeur nodded and went off to the baggage carousel.
Red roses, a chauffeur, and someone to get your bags at the annoying bag moving thing! Hell yeah!
As the chauffer was waiting for the bags, Sakura noted that Chiyo took out a book with a beach print cover and a blue pen from her small backpack and began writing furiously while she was walking towards a seat. Sakura and Meg followed her while Meg explained about Chiyo and her book.
"Whenever Chiyo experiences something new or meets someone new, she always writes in her journal," Meg explained, pointing to the journal that Sakura mistook for a book. "She wants to be a writer for her carrier."
"Oh," Sakura said.
The chauffeur got their bags and they went to a limo!
A limo? I could hella get used to this!
Sakura turned on her cell phone and called saw she had three new voicemails. With Chiyo writing in her journal and Meg looking at the May/June issue of Chic Chick, Sakura called her voicemail.
"You have three new voicemails," Sakura heard the computer generated voice said on her phone.
"First message:"
"Sakura!" Sakura heard Ino's voice yell in her ear. "It's Ino! Where are you? Are you still in the plane? Call me when you get there! Bye!"
"End of message," the computer generated voice said. "To delete press 7, to—" Sakura pressed 7 on her phone. "Message deleted. "Next message:"
"Hey Sakura!" Sakura heard Ten-Ten's voice. "It's Ten-Ten, well you should know that already but still. Sports camp is the best! It's like one of those camps that we went to when we were kids where it was all woods like and you and Ino hated it since there were bugs everywhere. Still, call me later!"
"End of message." Sakura pressed the 7 button on her phone before the voice said boring stuff that she already knew. "Message deleted. Next message:"
"Hello Sakura," Sakura heard Hianata's voice. "It's Hianata. You'll probably in the plane right now when I'm telling you this because it goes right to your voicemail. Call me when you're there. I want hear about your trip... while I'm here being bored. Bye!"
Sakura pressed the 7 button to delete it and pressed the red button to end the call.
"Your voicemail?" Chiyo asked Sakura, as she put her journal away.
Sakura nodded.
"So what kind of internships do you want to be in?" Sakura asked the two, although she had an idea of what they wanted it to be.
See the internship divides up into four selected internships. Like fashion internship, entertainment internship, editorial internship, and beauty internship.
With Chiyo writing in her journal constantly and wanting to become an author for a career, Sakura bet she wanted the editorial internship. With Meg looking so stylish and going on about how she loved the schoolgirl look, Sakura guessed she wanted the fashion internship.
"Editorial," Chiyo replied, smiling dreamily like she was going to her own world with her being a editorial intern.
"Fashion, of course," Meg beamed. "What about you, Sakura?"
Sakura gave a smile.
"Entertainment," Sakura replied.
The entertainment internship meant Sakura could go to those famous parties, met a famous person, or something like that.
"I think Nicole wants that internship. I feel a fight coming on." Meg joked amusingly, and gave a small laugh to her own joke.
Chiyo, like Sakura predicted, changed the subject.
"Why would you want the entertainment internship?" Chiyo asked. She then smiled a sort of devious smile. "Is it to met a famous person?"
Uchiha Sasuke! The hottest and sexiest guy alive!
Just thinking about that name made Sakura couldn't help but smile and nod.
"Ooohhh," Meg taunted, jokingly. "Sakura likes a famous person! Who?"
"Uchiha Sasuke. He's so cute!" Chiyo nodded and agreed while Meg gave a laugh when Sakura said that.
"He is, isn't he?" Meg asked. Meg sighed. "But then again I already have a boyfriend so I think he's not that cute as my boyfriend."
"I think he's a great singer and actor," Chiyo admitted. "And cute, but I don't think I'm like you who would try to met him." Chiyo shrugged.
The limo went to a stop.
"We're here," the chauffeur said.
Sakura, Chiyo, and Meg got out of the back seat and went into a huge building that was Chic Chick building.
Sakura was sort of shocked as they walked into the building. She seen stuff like this before: white wallpaper and plush carpet. The difference was that it looked so cleaner and well lit. There were signs that pointed to the elevator, the security office, and other stuff.
"We have to go into the office of Ms. Tsunade." Chiyo and Sakura gave Meg puzzled stares. "I don't know why she want to be called by her first names. Probably so she can seem young."
Tsunade was the woman that found and was the head editor of Chic Chick. Since she was Japanese but lived in America all her life she made it an American/Japanese magazine.
"Wait," Sakura said, stopping them. "I have to go to the bathroom."
"Okay," Meg said. It's just on the second door to this hall." She pointed to the left hall. "Go to the elevator straight forward and go to the third floor. Then go straight to the right corner and that's where we're suppose to be."
Sakura nodded and she went to the left hallway while Meg and Chiyo went straight.
Sakura didn't know why, but this place gave a good vibe. It was sort of like when you go to the hospital and when you walk down the hallway you feel all depressed and sort of scared. But this was like the same thing, but opposite. Sakura felt confident in this place.
Even the bathroom was nice. It looked more like a regular house bathroom then a generated public bathroom. Sakura went in a stall and went to the bathroom.
When she was done she went to the sink and washed her hands like she didn't have somewhere to go, but she noticed something: she did have a care in the world.
"I'm probably late," Sakura murmured to herself, as she wiped her hands with a hand towel that was neatly folded.
Sakura quickly ran out of the bathroom, but bumped into someone. She guessed it was a model or something like that since the young women was thin and tall.
But bumping into her meant that Sakura dropped her bag, which dropped her personal belongings like her iPod nano and cell phone. The model, luckily for her, didn't have anything but didn't even bother to help Sakura.
"Rude much?" Sakura mumbled as the model went into the bathroom.
Hey you bumped into me too! Help me before I kick your ass! I'm late enough already!
Hastily picking up her things, Sakura worried on how this would look. She was messy, she was late, and she if it wasn't even bad enough, she had a bad feeling in her stomach. The stomach problem was probably just caused by her having butterflies in her stomach.
Finally Sakura had her things picked up and ran to the elevator.
"First day and I'm late," Sakura said to herself, pressing the '3' button on the elevator.
Sakura tapped her feet at the elevator music, trying to make it a distraction for her worries of being late… it wasn't working. The elevator music barely had a beat so Sakura gave up on that but before she could find another way to calm her nerves, the elevator opened and Sakura rushed out of it.
People looked at Sakura strangely, but Sakura didn't care. Heck, she was kind of used to it. Sakura guessed it was either because of her short up to her chin pink hair (which was put down right now and messy), her forehead (which everyone says it's huge, but Sakura just gets mad about it), or that she was running. But a girl at the desk said something, but Sakura didn't hear it since she rushed past by her. But finally she was there, but there was another problem: the door was stuck.
"Damn it," Sakura mumbled, as she tried to budge the door open.
At the end, Sakura kicked the wooden door open, which gave her a big entrance since now everyone was looking at her.
It would be normal for Sakura that when she arrived somewhere and she was late, she would be relived and happy. This was the exact opposite of what she was feeling right now. She felt… awkward and the silence wasn't helping. Everyone was staring at her either in confusion, disgust, or nervousness for her (Chiyo and Meg).
Sakura noted that there were only six in the room not counting her and that they were all females. Two of them that looked around there 30s were behind two separate desks, which Sakura presumed that the one with the big desk was Tsunade and the one smaller was her assistant, which she didn't know the name of.
In front of the two were Chiyo, Meg, and a girl around their age that Sakura didn't know of.
She had a slim figure sort of to slim, straight blonde hair that was up to her shoulder, and green eyes. The girl was wearing a black dressed that clung onto her body, black ballet flats, and gold hoop earrings. And she was also smiling. But not in amusement like Meg was trying to hide, but like she was insulting Sakura.
After the long moment of silence, the girl that was Sakura's age spoke.
"Good first impression," the girl said, smiling a sugar coated smile with a sugar coated voice to match. Her face then gone to a glare and her tone gone meaner. "Not!"
Sakura noted that Chiyo was mouthing off the word that Sakura presumed to be 'Nicole' and Meg was pointing at the girl.
'Great,' Sakura thought to herself sarcastically. 'I'm late, I'm messy, people are insulting me…'
Sakura's train of thought paused for a moment because she saw Meg was pointing at her left shoe, which Sakura looked down to look at. 'And I have toilet paper stuck to my shoe.'
This is a hella bad day…
'You got that right,' Sakura said, agreeing with her inner self.
A/N: That was a long chapter… well for me it was.
Next chapter: it has all of them but I think I'm going to have mostly Ino and her story. Or at least something like that.
So yeah, I hope you like. Please review, but no flames!