SakuIta The Girl Conference

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*RECAP*

"SASUKE-TEME!" It yelled at the top of its lungs. "I'M BACK! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? IS SAKURA-CHAN HERE?"

Sakura's eyes widened even more than they were when she heard that voice. She knew it all too well.

The smoke cleared and, just as she suspected, a blond boy with messy, spiky hair, wide clear blue eyes and three dark lines on each cheek stepped out of the shadows. He was grinning as he scanned the house for the people who he was calling for, but stopped when he saw the stunned couple holding each other just a few feet from him.

His eyes widened to the point where it almost seemed like they were going to pop out his sockets and roll on the floor like a cartoon. "What the? Sakura-chan? What are you doing with the teme's brother?"

"N-Naruto!"

*END RECAP*

"You have got to be lying!" Ino yelled as her hand smacked the wooden table at a café she, Sakura, Temari, Hinata and Tenten were meeting at, appalled. "After everything happening the way it did, after getting the most perfect mood of the perfect moods, Naruto just barged in?"

"Not just 'barged' in," muttered Tenten, glaring at her banana-mango smoothie. "He pulverized the damn door!"

"I-I'm glad N-Naruto-kun seemed to get stronger," added Hinata, nervous and worried for her pink-haired friend. "But t-that was really inopportune t-timing."

"Agreed," sighed Temari, shaking her head in both disbelief and pity. "Granted, Naruto couldn't have known. He didn't even know if you guys were in the house to begin with, much less that a party was going on, and that you and Itachi were together was probably the farthest thing from his mind."

"He's an idiot," declared Ino, taking Sakura's hand and giving it a comforting squeeze.

"He's not an idiot, he's just…" Sakura began, trying to protect her friend. Sure, she wasn't too happy with the Kyubi host, but he wasn't at fault. Well, except maybe for the part where he owed the Uchihas a new door. "He's ignorant," she concluded. "He can't see or know about things unless they're right under his nose and even them you have to explain to him what they are."

"Not always, but true enough," agreed Ino.

"Out of everything you've said," Temari added, nearly growling her frustration at the blond boy, "the door is the least of the problems. He interrupted you guys. That's the middle problem. The big problem is his absolutely shocked expression, as if the thought of you dating not just an Uchiha but Itachi was completely unfathomable. Now that's just plain rude."

The other girls nodded.

"We should teach him a lesson," said Tenten, leaning over the table with her arms crossed, looking serious. "Not anything major, just to teach him where to draw the line."

"T-that wouldn't work," stuttered Hinata. "H-he may not even k-know what the prank is supposed t-to be teaching him. He'd j-just get mad at us."

"He is pretty clueless," confirmed Sakura.

"How about we just tell him?" offered Temari. "Like you said, Sakura, he won't know anything unless you tell him."

The group of friends agreed and started discussing the best strategy as Sakura looked on, half amused. Once a shinobi, always a shinobi; even for the smallest of things.

Sakura looked at her circle of girlfriends. Ino, the beautiful long-haired blond with sky-blue eyes had been her best friend since their Academy years; was the gossip queen of Konoha but was always firm and stood her ground. She was the one who knew how to comfort someone.

Hinata, shy but decent, with dark hair and big white eyes was always friendly with her and became her close friend after they had trained a few times together; her crush on Naruto was adorable and she was fiercely determined to help anyone any way she could.

Tenten, with her brown hair arranged in twin buns on top of her head and a dark pink Chinese shirt, the weapons master with deadly accuracy hadn't joined the group until after they had graduated from the Ninja Academy and she had proved a formidable opponent and a calming influence for all.

And last but by far the least, Temari, the spiky-haired blond with four ponytails holding her hair up and grass-green cat-like eyes, wind-specialized jutsu user and Gaara and Kankuro's older sister, was a bit of a tease but she was really insightful and wise, one could count on her for anything.

How Sakura could ever survive without her friends was better left unsaid. They were her support, her family, her teammates, her everything aside from Itachi, her family and her other friends.

Speaking of which, she thought as she gazed out the café's window, her elbow leaning on the table as she propped her chin on her hand. I wonder how Sasuke and Itachi are faring with Naruto. Knowing him he won't leave them alone until he's either run out of steam or they use some jutsu on him. She smiled. But even then he won't give up. He never does.