Scars
Chapter 5
I don't own any of the characters, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto
Author's note: I want to apologize to those who like this story and have been waiting for updates. I have been a bit busy and I wasn't sure how to keep on writing this story. To be honest I'm still not sure about what will happen now, or at the end of this story. I'm writing it without any plan. So I'm a bit disappointed at how it turned out to be. But I promise I will end this story no matter what. And when I start a new story I hope it will be better than this one. So, thank you for reading my story and I promise to try and improve my writing. missgreeneyed
The next day another sparring match with Kakashi, because Naruto was busy with his party preparation, and shift at the hospital left Sakura just as tired as yesterday, but she promise her blonde friend to come so the first thing she did, after coming home, was taking a long relaxing shower. Then was the hard part, finding the right clothes for the party.
Sakura was stuck not being able to decide between a gorgeous traditional red kimono with black and white ornaments and an ever more awesome black dress with a v-formed cleavage and bare shoulder, which hugged her body like second skin. But before she could decide, the young women heard someone knocking at her door. Still wearing only her bathrobe and with a towel wrapped around her head she went to open the door. And the first thing she heard was:
"You're still not ready?!"
So it was obvious that her other obnoxious blonde friend (this time the female) was here.
"And what do you think?" answered Sakura oh so sarcastically and moved back to her bedroom to finally solve the outfit dilemma
"You should definitely wear the kimono." said Ino the second she entered the room
Sakura looked at her friend and saw that she was wearing a kimono too. Then she remembered Naruto said this was all for Hinata and that girl loved beautiful kimono. Sakura turned to Ino and smiled. So, it was decided.
While Sakura was getting ready her loud-mouthed friend kept on gossiping about everything and everyone. This way, without asking one question Sakura found out that Shikamaru and Temari finally started dating and that Choji lost five pounds and that Neji was still an ass to Ten Ten, but the girl didn't want to leave him and that Ino herself was dating a gorgeous and in her words "the coolest guy alive", whose name was Yukiteru.
'In other words everybody are pairing up' thought Sakura blocking out Ino's further blabbering by humming a song that her mother used to sing to her when she was little. And now her mother and father were far away and didn't care about her anymore, she was just a disappointment to them. Sakura's eyes were now covered in tears, but she couldn't start crying in front of Ino.
The pink haired girl took the obi and handed it to the blond asking to tie it for her. This way she had enough time to get her emotions under control while Ino was behind her. But the emotions of loneliness didn't go away, she just stored them deep inside her mind. It should be enough for this night. Or so she thought...
When they finally got to the bar that Naruto specified everyone was already there. And, by saying everyone it means EVERYONE. All the konoha 11, the sand siblings (even the Kazekage Tsubaku no Gaara was here), all their genin and academy teachers and lots of Hyuggas. Well, this was a really huge party.
Getting through the crowd was hard. Sakura realized a lot of these people haven't seen her after her mission and that was the reason why all of them stared at her like she was infected with some kind of an awful disease. Sakura realized she was not the only one to notice it as she heard Ino gritting her teeth. But thankfully, they soon found Naruto.
He was surrounded by people asking all kinds of questions, but being himself he soon lost his patience and announced after climbing onto one of the tables:
"You're all wondering what's happening and what this party is all about. Well, the truth is that Hinata, my girlfriend is now with her father where she will find out that soon she will become the head of the Hyugga clan and this party is to congratulate her, but it's a surprise so we have to be quiet until she shows up, you know. I also have a little surprise for her, but it will be a surprise to all of you too. So please enjoy yourselves, but be quiet."
Sakura was happy to see her friend became so good at dealing with people because he will need these skills when he will become the Hokage after a few months as that was already decided with Tsunade-sama.
"Sakura, Ino, I'm happy you're here"
"Yeah, so when will Hinata come?" asked Ino
"I'm not sure, you know. By the way, you look really beautiful today, Sakura" said Naruto already being dragged away by someone else.
"Thanks" said Sakura to an already empty space
"I wonder what's the surprise Naruto was talking about?" said Ino, who was probably dying to find out and start gossiping about it right now.
'Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea' thought Sakura and smiled.