Based on the song by the All-American Rejects.
Summary: No idea. It was a random idea I thought up that really has no point.
Seventeen-year-old Naruto slurped his ramen happily, wondering what he was going to do for the rest of the day. Normally, he would be doing something with Sakura, but she was currently spending the day with Ino, Hinata, and Tenten.
Naruto's ears perked up as the very girl he had been thinking about arrived behind him, Ino walking alongside her and Tenten and Hinata trailing a few feet behind them. Naruto turned around in his seat to see them heading towards the ice cream stand across the street. It was a hot day, he had to admit. He wondered if Sakura had noticed him.
"So Sakura, I have officially decided that you need a boyfriend," Ino was saying. Naruto ears perked up almost immediately.
Sakura raised an eyebrow, a gesture Naruto was familiar enough with to spot from yards away. "Why?" she asked.
"Because you just do."
Sakura increased her pace in order to reach the stand, and the other three girls had to hurry to keep up. "Can't argue with that logic," Sakura deadpanned without turning around.
"Well, the rest of us are taken, so you should be too."
Ino's statement was news enough to Sakura for her to stop and turn around. Up went the other eyebrow. "Hinata's still single." She looked over at said girl. "Aren't you?"
"She has Kiba," Tenten interjected before Hinata could start stuttering.
There was a long pause. "Oh." The walk to the stand was resumed. "When did that happen?"
"Last week," Ino replied. "Which is why I decided that you need a boyfriend, too. Now that I've got Shikamaru, and Tenten's got Neji, most of the decent guys are taken. So you better get a move on." She looked over at Hinata. "Shino's single, isn't he?"
Sakura wrinkled her nose. "No thanks. Who says I'm single anyway? I could have a boyfriend you just don't know about."
"Oh, please," Ino said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "You would've told us already."
Sakura just shook her head and sighed, stopping as they reached the stand and digging into her pocket for some money. "One chocolate, please."
"Make that four," Ino added to the man running the stand. She leaned towards Sakura. "Don't worry, I'll pay."
"Thanks."
They received their ice creams and continued down the street, closer to the ramen shop where Naruto was sitting. Ino stopped suddenly, eyeing the ramen shop and noticing Naruto watching them. "Hey, what about Naruto?" she asked.
"What about him?" Sakura asked absentmindedly, eyeing her ice cream cone, which was already starting to melt.
"He still has that thing for you, right? You should date him."
"Thing?" Sakura repeated. "You mean the whole 'liking me' thing?"
"Yeah. Why, what's wrong with Naruto?"
"Nothing, really."
"I think he's cute...in a puppy kind of way," Tenten added.
"Maybe... he's just not really my type," Sakura said with a shrug. She saw Naruto raise an eyebrow from across the street, and grinned as she realized he could hear their conversation. She gave him a small wave, and he rolled his eyes and waved back. "Besides, like I said, I might already have a boyfriend."
"I refuse to believe you've been keeping a secret like that from us," Ino pressed on, grabbing Sakura's wrist and leading her down the road and past the ramen shop. "Come on, we're going to my house to do make-overs."
"Oh, goody..."
"See? You should be more feminine, that's how you get boyfriends, Sakura..." Sakura just shook her head and smiled, ignoring the rest of Ino's rant, and licking her ice cream cone as her smile slowly morphed into a smirk.
Only Naruto saw the wink Sakura shot him as she let herself be dragged away.