A/N: New chapter! Yeah! 190 reviews! More YEAH! Thank you for all of you who reviewed! I love you all! And extra thank you for those who were patient for this chapter (being a junior in high school is really hard!) because it took so long!
And thank you to Unique girl - YAYZ (cool name by the way!) for giving me the idea of making Ino, Ten-Ten, and Hinata meet Nicole! So special thank to you!
'Text': thinking
"Text": talking
Text: Inner Sakura
Text: Flashback
Text: Ring tone
Disclaimer: OMG! I'm writing this on since it has 'fan' and 'fiction' on it then that means I DON'T OWN NARUTO! I just own Belle, Chiyo, Meg, Nicole, this plot… whatever else is there I forget…
Chapter 19: It's All Just Stupid
"Helloz?" a certain brunette asked groggily into her cell phone.
"Ten-Ten. It's me Neji."
"NEJI!" Ten-Ten yelled angrily as she sat up. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS IN CALIFORNIA!?"
"It's six AM," Neji replied, obviously to the fact that Ten-Ten was sleeping… and was annoyed at the fact Neji's been calling every hour. "I just want to tell you—"
"Not to do anything rash, I KNOW!" Ten-Ten yelled the last part. She took a deep breath in and out, trying to calm herself down. "I'm your girlfriend Neji and I have deep feelings for you and that won't change when I'm away from you. So I just ask one thing: STOP CALLING ME EVERY HOUR!"
"Well, I just wanted to remind you not to do anything bad."
"WHAT WOULD I BE DOING AT SIX AM?" Ten-Ten bellowed into the cell phone.
"…Stuff."
"Well if stuff means sleeping then yes I'm doing "stuff". Good… whatever it is over there. I'm going back to sleep."
"I hope you have a good sleep then," Neji said stoically.
Ten-Ten closed her phone.
"…Neji calls a lot," Ino commented, as she watched Ten-Ten practically slamming her phone on the nightstand.
"Why aren't you sleeping?"
"Jet-lagged," Ino replied softly so she didn't wake up anyone else. "It's like six pm over in Paris so I can't really sleep since I'm used to Paris time."
"Well I'm not used to Paris time so shut up! I'm trying to sleep!" Sakura whined, as a pillow was covering her head to drown out the voices that were keeping her up.
"Why is everyone awake?" Hinata asked, quietly.
It's probably been three hours since everyone arrived in L.A. Since Belle had some concerts to do in the east coast and her mansion is full of paparazzi, Sakura decided to just rent a room in the hotel the Chic Chick interns stay at.
Sakura, Ten-Ten, Ino, and Hinata put all their money together (they didn't want to ask Belle or their parents for money because they wanted to be independent) and could only afford a regular room with a small living room, one bathroom, and one bedroom with two beds. Sakura and Ino slept in one bed while Hinata and Ten-Ten slept in the other.
"I'm trying to sleep!" Sakura complained, pushing her pillow closer to her ears.
"Come on Sakura!" Ino exclaimed, snatching the pillow away from her best friend. "I want to see to Mel Rose! Rodeo Drive! …Another place that sells clothes!"
"Then go down to the lobby, to the Internet room, search on google for "Mel Rose. Rodeo Drive.", and look at the pictures," Sakura groaned, as she tried to take the pillow back.
"Why don't you just get up before I throw cockroaches on you!" Ino yelled, angry.
I don't fancy you to my shine
Don't fancy you to my shine
Don't fancy you to my shine
Don't fancy you to my shine
You think you're cute
You think you're fine
You're always to steal my shine
As the ring tone repeated itself, Sakura groaned.
"Speaking of gross objects," Sakura mumbled, as she picked up her cell phone from the floor and opening it.
The ring tone meant that Nicole was calling. The ring tone was especially made for Nicole. (A/N: The song is called "Don't Fancy You To My Shine" by: Destiny Child. I'm so glad I found it in my iTunes library because I was like "it's perfect to describe Nicole and Sakura's relationship)
"What?" Sakura spat to the phone.
"Oh! Someone's a little testy," Nicole's sugarcoated voice said in the other side of the phone.
"Yes, Nicole?" Sakura asked, trying to sound nicer.
"Well Chiyo wants to talk to you. Something about your article and how it sucked," Nicole said, the last part sounding like she made it up.
YOUR FACE SUCKS!
"Okay Nicole, I'll be there right away," Sakura said, holding her anger in her inner self.
"Oh yeah!" Nicole exclaimed, in phony surprise. "You're with those friends with the problems!"
"They don't have problems, Nicole."
"Sakura, I've been in your room and saw the picture of them. Trust me, they have problems," Nicole's voice went into a whisper. "Especially in the weight area."
OH NO YOU DIDN'T JUST INSULT MY BEST FRIENDS! SOMEONE HOLD MY EARRINGS!
"Nicole…" Sakura growled. She swore she was going to let her inner Sakura out… not pretty.
"It's okay Sakura!" Nicole said, sounding like everything was going to be okay… even though there was no problem. "I mean you probably just hang out with them to make yourself feel better about your weight!"
OH NO YOU DID NOT JUST INSULT THE WHOLE FAB FOUR!
"GOODBYE NICOLE!" Sakura snarled as he closed her phone and started to yell into her pillow.
"…Sakura? Are you okay?" Hinata asked her pink haired best friend.
"Hinata, I think when you see Sakura screaming in a pillow… and now punching the pillow, it means Sakura is not okay," Ten-Ten answered for Sakura, staring at Sakura like 'WTF is wrong with my friend'.
"I have to meet Chiyo up in the pent house suite," Sakura groaned, as she got out of bed.
"…You're mad that you get to go to the Penn house suite… while we're here in this rinky dink room!" Ino exclaimed in disbelief. "That's like saying: No I don't want this outfit from Urban Outfitters, I want one from Target!" (A/N: …I don't know why she knows what Urban Outfitters and Target are)
"Not that!" Sakura retorted stormily. She sighed, trying to calm down. "Nicole had to be the one that called me and basically called us all fat."
"…She called me FAT?" Ino bellowed hotly. She quickly jumped out of bed and headed towards the door… in her pajamas. "I'm going to kick her—"
"—Ten-Ten!" Hinata cut in before Ino could say anything. "You're phone's ringing… I mean vibrating!"
Ten-Ten grabbed the phone off the table and quickly put it back after seeing who was calling.
"Why does Neji have to keep calling me? He's wasting his minutes or phone card or whatever…"
"He's just making sure you're alright," Hinata replied, standing up for her cousin. "My father does it all the time."
"Must run in the family… no offense Hinata."
"It's alright," Hinata reassured Ten-Ten, even though she was a little offended.
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"So you must be Ino, Ten-Ten, and Hinata," Meg said, with a small giggle and pronouncing each name wrong and pointing at the wrong person.
After the girls showered and changed, they went up to the suite. They decided after this, they'd go to out to eat and see the sights of L.A.
"I'm Ten-Ten, she's Hinata, and she's Ino," Ten-Ten corrected.
"Sorry, I'm not used to Japanese names. I took me a while to remember Chiyo's name from reading it," Meg laughed.
"Yeah," Chiyo agreed. "Hi. I'm Chiyo. And this is Meg."
"Why did you need to talk to me?" Sakura asked Chiyo, getting to the point right away. She didn't want to see Nicole or let her friends see Nicole.
"Or it was something about your recent article for that party you went two days ago," Chiyo answered, sounding a bit uneasy. "Here come to my room, it's in my computer."
Sakura followed Chiyo, leaving Ino, Ten-Ten, and Hinata alone with Meg who looked friendly like Sakura said.
"So do you like it in America?" Meg asked, her voice kind of slow because she didn't know how well they knew English.
"Yeah," Ino replied. "Do you know where's the best shopping?"
"You should be really asking me for that," a new voice came in from the main door.
The girls (excluding Meg, who already knew who it was) turned around and saw a girl with blonde hair now curled up and a face that reminded Ino of Temari.
"Hey Nicole," Meg greeted. "How was… where did you go?"
"To the lobby to check if my mother sent the clothes I got from Milan but I was stopped by the Paparazzi," Nicole replied, casually and if the Paparazzi were looking for her. She looked at the three new girls and gave one of her sugar coated fake smiles. "You must be Sakura's friends!"
"You must be the one who called us fat," Ino replied, glaring at Nicole.
"What can I say?" Nicole shrugged. "Not everyone could be as fit as me."
"Just keep telling yourself that," Ten-Ten mumbled.
"Okay, I'll just work on it later," Sakura said to Chiyo as the two walked into the loft.
"Sakura!" Nicole greeted happily. Could her face be anymore fake? "I was just talking to your friends!"
Damn… I owe them so much now…
"So we better get going now!" Sakura exclaimed quickly, grabbing Ino, who grabbed Hinata, who grabbed Ten-Ten and running towards the door. "BYE!"
"…Wow, Japanese people run fast when they want to get out of places," Meg laughed as the door slammed.
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"Sakura, buy these leggings! They're hide your unique fair legs!" Ino teased, handing Sakura some leggings.
"Ha ha," Sakura said coldly as she put it back on the shelf. "It's my hair and eyes that are unique not my skin."
After the girls left the hotel, they decided to go a mall… but Sakura being new to this little thing called fame didn't know that the paprazi that Nicole was talking about was for her and that the paprazzi followed her EVERYWHERE! In the hotel hallways, in the lobby, in the bathroom where they were trying to escape!
So hiding half an hour in the lobby closet, Sakura put on a hat and huge sunglases so no one suspected her as Sakura Haruno, the new girlfriend of Sasuke Uchiha and new friend of Belle Akai. Now the girls were finally at the mall and no one suspected a thing.
"Well no one said it was easy to be famous!" Ten-Ten simled.
"Or knowing people famous," Ino added.
So I'm can only be famous by knowing people famous? HELL NO! I'M FAMOUS BECAUSE I MADE MYSELF FAMOUS! ...And because I'm dating Sasuke!
"I'm famous because I'm awesome!" Sakura exclaimed.
"No you're not!" Ino retorted, walking towards the jeans without really looking who's in the way. "It's because--OMPH!"
"Ino!" the three girls exclaimed, helping their blonde best friend up from the floor.
"Watch where you're going!" Ino yelled at the guy who bumped into her and made her fall.
"Sorry," the guy replied. He smiled at Ino. "Hey I'm Jake but you can call me tonight."
"I have a boyfriend!" Ino replied to the pick up line, angry that people obviously don't see she's in a realtionship.
"Ino...," Hinata started to say as she watched Jake walked away. "You don't have a boyfriend."
"Well I will when I get Shikamaru back!" Ino defended. "It'll happen!"
"Yeah and then we can turn into ninjas that go on dangerous missions ever since we were twelve," Sakura mumbled, sarcastically.
"Shut up!" Ino yelled hotly.
"...So Hinata," Ten-Ten said, turning to her other best friend who wasn't fighting. "How's it going with Naruto?"
"It's going well," Hinata admitted, blusing a bit as she smiled. "But I don't think my father approves of him."
"What makes you think that?"
"He told after I invited Naruto over for dinner one night," Hinata replied, looking at a pair of earrings even though she didn't have pierced ears.
"It doesn't matter, as long as you like him," Ten-Ten reminded her. She could tell Hinata's self-esteem was going down because she wasn't obeying what her parents wanted.
"Yeah, I know," Hinata replied, giving a reassuring simle... Ten-Ten didn't believe it.
"I'm going to try this shirt too," Sakura declared, interputting the two converstation since she dragged Hinata along with her. "Come on Ten-Ten I found this dress that'll look great on you!"
"But I don't want to wear a dress!" Ten-Ten protested, trying to free herself from her best friends' grasp.
"To bad! You need to look more girly in front of Neji because you're sweaty and smelly when you see him," Sakura replied, not caring about the brunette's protests.
"Yeah and they say her green eyes are just color contacts," the worker said to the other worker. She then saw Sakura and Ten-Ten. "How many items do you have?"
"Four," Sakura replied. "She has one."
The worker grabbed a 'four' and a 'one' placard. "Follow me," The worker said, borderm in her voice.
Sakura and Ten-Ten followed the worker to the end of the dressing rooms and the worker open the door with her key and put the placard on the door handle. "Thank you," Sakura said, poliety before closing the door.
"Ten-Ten?" Sakura asked, looking at the walls.
"Yeah?" Ten-Ten's voice was heard through the left of Sakura.
"Try on the dress and show me!" Sakura said through the wall, as she started to grab one of her outfits to wear.
"Can't I just stay here and rest? I mean I'm a little tired by all the walking and me being injured and all..."
"You're not tired and you know it!" Sakura exclaimed, clutching the shirt she was going to put on. "Just put it on and show me it!"
"..."
Taking the silence as Ten-Ten listening, Sakura smiled and changed. As she put on a skirt she found, someone knocked on the door.
"Sakura, open up!"
The jade eyed girl opened the door to see a very sour looking Ten-Ten in a dress that made Sakura squeal in delight.
"Ten-Ten, that dress looks so good on you!" the pink haired girl gushed.
"I don't like it, it's short," Ten-Ten replied, her eyes narrowing a bit but that could just be becasue there were some annoying girls talking in the other stall.
"What do you mean it's about--"
"--Sh!" Ten-Ten said quickly, covering Sakura's mouth as she leaned more to the other door to hear some girls talking even though they were practically yelling to each other so they can here themselves. "They said something about you're name!"
"...My name?" Sakura questioned, confused as she went closer to the wall.
"Sakura Haruno? Isn't she the girl who's dating Sasuke Uchiha?" a girl's voice asked her friend.
"Yeah, that girl. But I read in some website that she's not really dating him and the whole thing was a set-up. Like Chic Chick and Sasuke's people made Sasuke and Sakura act the whole thing out for more publicity for the magazine and to show that Sasuke can be nice since he's always so emo."
"Eh, that doesn't seem like so much of a surprise seeing that Sasuke is like an ice block and magazines tend to do that," the other girl replied, sounding like it was no big news. "I notice that stuff like that are usually fake. Like reality TV shows, we all know they're practically scripted!"
"True," the girl agreed. "But I can't believe someone like Sasuke would do it. He doesn't seem like someone who'd do fake things. Hey, the black jeans look horrible on me, do you want to try them?"
Ten-Ten put her head away from the wall, seeing that the two were now talking about clothes, and stared at her pink haired best friend. She was looking at herself in the mirror like nothing happen, but Ten-Ten could see through that fake facade. She knew Sakura was sad... and inside she was mad.
"...Sakura," the brunette started to say to her best friend, slowly taking a step towards her. "Remember: Those girls are just naive who don't think anything is real."
"But if you think about it, Sasuke dating is rather illogical especially with a girl like me," Sakura said, her voice sounding monotoned.
ILLOGICAL MY BUTT! WE'RE DATING HIM! AND IF SOMEONE SAYS OTHER WISE, WE'LL KICK THEY'RE--
"--Sakura!" Ten-Ten said, waving her hand in front of her face.
"Yeah?" Sakura asked stupidly.
"I was saying rumors are just lies to put people down," Ten-Ten preached. "You should just ignore them."
"Thanks Ten-Ten," Sakura said, giving a smile. "Good thing I brought you girls here or else I wouldn't know what to do!"
"...You'd probably barge into the girls dressing rooms and yell at them until the workers kick you out," Ten-Ten laughed. "I'm going to change out of this dress now..."
'I guess being somewhat famous and hated made Sakura a better liar,' Ten-Ten thought in her head as she went into her own dressing room to change back to her regular clothes. 'She won't let that thing go even if she thanked me.'
"Hello? Sasuke-kun?" Sakura whispered into the phone.
"Sakura? What do you want? It's four AM in London!" Sasuke answered, extremely annoyed that his girlfriend would call at this hour in London. Espically since he got an hour of sleep before she called.
"Thank gosh," Sakura sighed in relief. "You're still the same person before you left!"
"What are you talking about? And why are you whispering?" Sasuke asked, getting even more annoyed since he didn't know what in the world she was talking about.
"Because Ten-Ten, you know my best friend in Japan that's here for a week, is in the bathroom and if she overhears then she's going to be mad that I'm calling you when she thought she made everything better!" Sakura whispered loudly, and fastly.
"...So what is the point of calling me at four AM?" Sasuke asked, getting to the main point of his problem: being woken up at an early time.
"Everything's going weird and crazy!" Sakura whined into the phone. "People always follow me with camers, girls gossip about our relationship and saying it's a whole fake, and even though my best friends in the whole world are with me I feel bad!"
"..."
"...Sasuke-kun?"
"...Yeah?"
"You're suppose comfort me in this hard time! That's why I called you at four AM!" Sakura exclaimed in distress, not even bothering to whisper anymore.
"That's what being famous is like, Sakura," Sasuke informed his green eyed girlfriend. "They do all those stuff and more. Like right now, there's people probably in my balcony trying to get a picture of me."
"But-But-But that's stupid!" Sakura complained, using the best words to describe how she was feeling about this... and she was top of her high school class.
"No one said being famous wasn't stupid," Sasuke commented.
"I guess..." Sakura sighed as she stared at the ceiling. "I'll let you go to sleep now. Good night Sasuke-kun! Love you!"
"Bye," Sasuke replied, which was actually a step up from him since he usually just said "Hn" for "Bye".
"I can't believe we only have like a day left of being the fab four!" Sakura announced as she walked passed by Ino to go to the bathroom.
"I know! I don't want to go back to Paris!" Ino declared. "Seeing Temari all over my man!"
Sakura was going to point out that Shikamaru wasn't Ino's man, but she decided not to. Ten-Ten, Hinata, and Sakura noticed in the week of spending time together, Ino was serious about her love life even though it didn't look like it at first. After Ino kept talking about how she was still with Shikamaru, Sakura became exteremly annoyed and let Inner Sakura out and that meant Sakura yelling at Ino on how she wasn't with him anymore (From what Ino told the three, it sounded like Shikamaru dumped her). Sakura felt really good about getting Ino back to reality, until Ino burst into sobs and sobbed that she might actually love Shikamaru.
This was a huge shock to the three... and everyone who was looking at the crazy crying girl in the center table of the food court. After a few minutes of very awkward silence, Ino broke it with saying she wasn't so sure since everyone had their own defintion of love and asked the three their defintions.
"Um... I-I'm not so sure," Hinata stuttered her answer. "I guess if you-you're hap-happy with the person and want them to be happy then you're in love..."
"If you would risk you're life for them then you truley love them. Like you put their needs before yours," Ten-Ten answered, with a shrug.
"In the immortal words of MY boyfriend "'Cause I can comb across the world. And see everything and never be satisfied. If I couldn't see those eyes"," Sakura gushed at the end. "It's going to be one of his songs for his new album! I bet it's about me!" Ino glared daggers at her. "Oh yeah back to you: love is going everywhere and never like anyone else but the one person you love." (A/N: By the way, the lyrics that Sakura was quoting was from the song "Hello Beautiful" by: Jonas Brothers)
Since Ino said she wanted a different defintion of love, Sakura guessed that what they said was true with her relationship with Shikamaru.
"Hey tell me when Ten-Ten and Hinata come back with our food, I'm going to take a shower," Sakura said, closing the bathroom door behind her.
"Hai," Ino said, as she turned on the TV for some entertainment.
"You got the best of both worlds. Chill it out take it slow then you rock out the show," the theme song to some Disney show played.
"That's what Sakura needs, two identities!" Ino declared, pointing at the TV. "...But that'll be confusing. Not knowing if she either one..."
Wake Up Wake Up
On a Saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
There's something going on anywhere I go
Tonight
Tonight
Yeah, tonight
"Where's that music coming from?" Ino asked, as she searched around for the source of the music, to only find Sakura's cell phonet that re-started to play the chorus of one of Belle Akai's songs (A/N: Okay so that song is really Wake Up by: Hilary Duff... Yeah Belle sings those kinds of songs)
The panel in the cell phone said the call was from "matchmaker" and had a bad quality picture of a girl with blonde hair. "Who's this?" Ino asked to herself. Knowing it's not even her phone, Ino flipped it open and put the phone to her ear. "Hello? Who's this?"
"Hi!" a cheerful female voice came from the phone. "Are you one of Sakura's best friends?"
"...Yes..." Ino said, cautiously. The voice sounded so fimilar but Ino couldn't put her finger on it. "But who's this?"
"So you are one of Sakura's best friends! I'm Belle Akai!"
"BELLE?" Ino practically squealed. "I love your music, it's amazing! And thanks for sending me to L.A! That's really nice of you!"
"Thanks and your welcome!" Belle replied happily. "You should really thank Sakura for the trip though, she was the one that thought of it! So who are you? Hinata, Ten-Ten, or Ino? ...Did I say your guys names right?"
"Yes you did! I'm Ino."
"You're the one with the boyfriend problems in Paris, right?" Belle asked, not noticing that you should address people like that.
"...Yeah," Ino said, now annoyed that Sakura identified her as the one with 'boyfriend problems'.
"So what exactly is the problem?" Belle asked, sounding like she really wanted to know because she really did want to know.
"Well...," Ino said, taking a deep breath in. She noticed that it makes her feel better to tell someone her problems so whne they ask, Ino would tell. "I used to like this guy and I guess he liked me but he actually had a girlfriend when he was hitting on me. But then he broke up with her just to be with me and he asked me to be his girlfriend in the most romantic way! But anyway, we started to hang out a lot and I guess he was feeling suffocated so he basically broke up with me even though he just said we needed a break. And then a girl told me that he does it all the time and ends up with some other girl always being the rebound. BUT I think that I love him!" (A/N: Just to sum up their relationship in a nutshell!)
"..."
"..."
"...Know wonder Sakura told me I wouldn't get your realtionship... I don't."
"I like this guy who used to like me but he's probably dating an other person right now and I think I love him!"
"...You think you love him?"
"Well what do you think love is?" Ino asked. "You write and sing all these love songs, don't you have a reference?"
"Love is like songs. There are many genres but they'll all about the same thing."
"...So you don't know..." Ino stated, disappointed at the answer.
"Basically yeah!" Belle answered cheerfully. "But let me tell you this." Her voice was such in a seriousness that Ino swore it wasn't the same person. "I think that if you were truly to end up with the guy then by the end of the summer you'll be with him. Because, according to Sakura, you'll never see him again and if you never see him again then you only have memories. So if you two are together again by the end of the summer, then you two are soulmates."
"Thank you," Ino said, smiling even though she knew Belle couldn't see it.
"Your welcome and I have to go! Bye! And tell Sakura I called!"
"I will. Bye!"
Ino pressed the red button on her phone to end the call and looked at the date on the phone: July 20.
"I have one month and a week to see if Shikamaru is my soulmate," Ino said, feeling her eyes water up. She wiped the tear that was forming as she gave a soft laugh. "This is all just stupid and troublesome."
A/N: ARGH! I'm a pirate! ...Okay that's not why I'm saying argh... it's because this chapter seems to rushed! And it seems so... so... badly written! It's really bad! But I have school and other stuff so I guess I did rush this and when I rush, the stuff is bad! I promise, though, that the next chapter will be better! And hopefully updated faster!
Next chapter: Belle shows Sakura that you can't always be loved by people and Sakura learns what "keeps your friends close but your enemies closer" means.
Yeah more Sakura... but techinally the main pairing is SasuSaku so they have to be in most chapters! So please review (I'm so close to 200! I'm very happy!) but no flames!