HELLO! So as I said in the earlier announcement I asked you guys to tell me who do you think Sakura should end up with! You sent me PM's, emails and reviews and the results are in!

The results did change the ending slightly but I am excited to write it even more knowing that the majority would like it that way!

So this is the rewriting of chapter 7 according to the results from the poll.

Again: Some of you were confused that I used things a little modern to the Naruto era like: cars, cable, known musicians, sports… but this really isn't an AU (alternate universe). I want you to see this scenario like the after war part, with a slightly more modern Konoha but nothing major. Ok?

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The Try-outs

By: NenaUchiha22

Chapter 7: Time Will Tell (Updated)

Would they like pasta? Maybe not Italian… maybe something like crepes. Oh, but the crepes' pan was destroyed when Naruto tried a recipe he thought would turn out fine. Okay then maybe sushi… but they probably won't like that for dinner. Oh that's it. Chicken with potatoes and chili, they loved it when she made it and it's been a year or more since the last time she cooked that for them. Yes, that was it, she thought after finally grabbing two chili cans and putting them in the shopping cart.

"What'chu doing?" Sakura almost threw the second can at that voice.

"Holy shit, Ino. Don't ever do that!" Sakura said still startled.

The blonde grabbed Sakura's shopping cart and kept walking. After a few seconds Sakura followed.

"By the way, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked just as they turned to the next aisle.

"It's a freacking supermarket Sakura, what do you think I'm doing?" Ino asked smiling.

"You do your groceries on the 15th always… That's not until a week from now" Sakura said as she stopped the car.

"Woah… what a stalker!" Ino exclaimed. Though Sakura of course knew that because she always accompanied her to do her groceries. Ino needed that inhumane strength to carry the bags.

Sakura laughed "seriously pig, what are you doing here?"

Ino sighed "I need to talk to you"

"Is everything okay?" Sakura quickly asked.

"Yes, yes but I need to do it now" Ino assured first.

"Okay, but right now I have to get home and make dinner, today's my turn to cook and maybe we can talk later?"

"No time. Let's go to my place and I'll pay for the pizza for your roommates"

"You know... I live with Naruto" Sakura reminded her.

"Fine, I'll pay for the six pizzas but let's go"

Sakura laughed and they left the cart alone in the aisle as they quickly walked outside while Ino dialed the pizza number

Sakura sat on the blonde's bed watching her walk in circles over and over again. Mumbling stuff like "so fast" "so sorry" "but he's so dreamy?" "Am I weird?" Under her breath making Sakura uneasy.

"PIG!" She finally yelled at her friend. "I can't understand a shit you're saying. Can you speak like a normal person?!"

Ino breathed in before sitting down in front of Sakura.

"Sai asked me to be his girlfriend" Sakura's eyes widened at the news. Noticing the reaction Ino quickly commented "But I can say no if you want to!"

Sakura looked at her friend confused and then laughed.

"Ino… you must really like him" Sakura said and Ino looked at her confused. "You never really think about dating guys, you just do it".

Ino sighed. It was true, dating for her was easy and normal. She did it since she was a kid, you liked a guy dated him and broke up.

"I am completely on board with it if that's what you're asking" Sakura said, Ino smiled and took her friends hands. "You look so happy and I know despite his social skills, that he can make you really happy" Sakura said.

"Oh Sakura! Thank you so much!" she said before hugging her friend against the bed. Sakura laughed, because in fact she was completely happy with it.

She then remembered something, something that she had forgotten or better said something that she didn't pay much attention to back then, but now it made total sense. When Sai first met Ino she called her beautiful, and up until know she is the only woman that he's used that name for. It's funny how things turn out sometimes, but when they do it seems just right. Like a missing part of something you didn't know had something missing.

"So forehead" Ino called Sakura's trail of thought off. "How is it going with you dating all of Konoha?"

Sakura's faced blushed.

"Relax, nobody knows. But tell me, is the bet going to be paid in cash or…"

"Agh… Ino stop it" Sakura said. Ino looked at her friend and suddenly the calm face she had from when she was thinking about the happy couple now looked troubled.

"Hey" Ino called her offering her a lollipop, "What is it?"

Sakura looked indecisive to tell her friend. But in the end, she was her closest friend not to mention the best. After a few laughs she would be honest about her advice and will always advice the best for her.

"Okay… I" Sakura licked her lollipop as if it could give her strength she needed. "I kissed…"

"Holy shit"

Sakura ignored that comment and continued. "Sasuke… and Naruto"

Ino's mouth dropped and she started laughing running around the room looking for rum. And diet coke. Best combination for them when it came to gossip and heart to heart confessions.

Sakura began telling her about her date with Kakashi, followed by her date with Sai and then the last two dates who saw more action than she expected. She first started with how drunk she got with Naruto and how they started making out in her room, and then the very next day she made out in that same place with Sasuke. From the very first date to the last one, Sakura told every detail as the blonde requested them after all she was used to interrogatories she was in the end a pillar in the Intelligence Division. They shared a few laughs when she confessed how she puked in front of Sasuke, and a few "aww" when she told the story about Kakashi. In the end they spent around three hours just talking about those four days. After Sakura finished the story she sighed.

"Damn Sakura" Ino finished after a long sigh.

She got up under the stare of Sakura who has just catching her breath after all the talking. She took a piece of paper, and wrote something down. She folded it and pointed it to Sakura.

"Sakura we've known each other as far as I can remember. We've had our ups and downs, but I've always known everything about you. From your favorite ice cream flavor, to your biggest fears. So this is what we're going to do… I wrote down the name of the guy you're going to end up with"

"What?" She asked. Before anything could be said by the pink haired girl, Ino continued.

"I am saying that I change the bet slightly" Ino continued. "If the boy you end up with is in this sheet of paper, I will give you a gift" Sakura arched an eyebrow "But if the boy isn't, I will give you another kind of gift"

Sakura laughed out loud wondering what was it with her? In any of the bets she'd win.

"What do you win?" Sakura asked.

"If the paper is right, self-satisfaction. If not a lesson." Ino answered shortly.

"What are the prices?" she asked.

"If the sheet of paper is right, it's a surprise" She said "If it isn't, then I will give you my secret to staying skinny even after eating junk for days"

Sakura's mouth dropped. She knew it! There was a secret to it, it was impossible that it was just metabolism. Ino laughed at her expression.

"So do we agree?" Ino asked.

"Wait, we have to keep that page in a safe place to prevent that any of us changes it." Sakura said.

"Despite winning in both cases you want to keep it safe?! Wow Sakura, I can't believe you don't trust me" Ino sighed. "But I don't trust you either so… we're going to keep this with Kasuyu's sama" Ino said.

After thinking it too much she agreed.

"You know she may make it wet, but she's the most trustful slug I know" Ino mentioned gaining a glare from Sakura.

After Sakura summoned a mini Katsuyu and trusted her with the task, Ino walked Sakura half-way home.

"So the other bet is off?" Sakura asked.

"Well… you're going to get involved with someone before your birthday that's for sure, and the all the way part you took it too seriously, making out with all your teammates so…"

Sakura's face blushed "INO!"

The blonde laughed as she waved goodbye to her friend running back home.

"Sakura, if you don't figure it soon, time will tell. I am always right" she yelled.

Sakura sighed deeply wondering what name her friend wrote as she walked home.

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She entered the house a little bit more eased because of her conversation with Ino. And decided to relax, time will tell. She walked in without anyone noticing her, at the picture inside she wanted to take a photo.

There they were, the most important people in her world. She found her roommates busy either discussing among them or trying to fix the TV. They were too interested in their own issues they didn't even notice Sakura was in the room. She leaned against the wall and observed the spectacle.

Sasuke was making a call and seemed rather desperate and angry. He kept repeating the phrases You can't fix it today?!, You got to be shitting me!,and I'll kill you if you don't come and fix this right now, Do you know I can use a Susanoo?, What do you mean you don't know what that is, where you even alive for the fourth ninja war?. He kept walking around the room making gestures with his hands, if the rest of the team hadn't been so busy, they'd probably laughed at him just as she felt like doing right now.

She then turned to look at Sai, who was holding a million books with titles such as Engineering for dummies or Fix your own things or advanced electricity.Her eyes ran to Kakashi who was turning on and off the TV waiting for a miracle as he ate a slice of pizza. The TV was black even when turned on.

Naruto on the other hand was running around the house searching for all the TV's available. They owned three TV's. Sasuke's, Kakashi's and the one in the living room. So it seemed useless to keep checking on those three every two seconds, but he kept doing it.

Just as Naruto entered the living room again, she coughed which caught their attention.

She smiled as she saw they were looking at her annoyed and frustrated. She remembered the Basketball finals were today and it all made perfect sense.

"I have an idea" she said.

"If you know how to fix cable, do it now, please? Sakura-chan, I beg you" asked Naruto with what seemed tears in his eyes.

Sakura wanted to laugh at this but couldn't. She knew how important this was for them. Just as much as she loved football, they loved just as much basketball. Today was the final and cable was broken. She knew they'd never missed a game this season.

Just like that Sakura completely forgot her worries. Living a normal day in Team 7's house.

"I don't know" she said. All of them went back to their business ignoring her and she coughed again. They looked at her even more impatient. "They're going to be playing it in Django's is a sport's bar that just opened, I'm certain because guys at work told me they were going to watch it there"

A moment of silence. It only lasted five seconds, because they started running towards their room to grab their wallets and jackets. She smiled as she ran upstairs and quickly change her medic uniform into shorts and into her Konoha's warrior's basketball shirt that Naruto gave her as a present. They all wanted her to be a fan. She fixed her hair fast and brushed her teeth. She grabbed a pair of heels that matched the color of the shirt and ran downstairs. She found everyone ready, she grabbed her purse from the counter and they left the house.

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They arrived at Django's a minute before the game started, the restaurant hadn't assigned table yet but they walked in there like they owned the place and sat in a round table in front of a lot of TV's. They all asked for dark beers not looking at the hot waitress and kept watching the screen. Sakura wondered if she ever looked that stupid while watching her games.

Sakura played with her straw as she watched the screen. She sat between Sasuke and Naruto. On the far right there was Kakashi and on the opponent side there was Sai. Sakura looked around for a waitress or waiter that could bring her a mojito that she just suddenly craved.

Sakura as everyone knew was not known for being a very patient woman, so she got up to look for a waitress or find the bar, whatever appeared first. As she got up she felt the multitude pushing her away from her goal, just as she had found the bar. She tried to fight the amount of persons to find her way to the alcohol supply but she just didn't. She walked until she found a place where she could hide until the crowd found a table or whatever they were looking for.

She found a small hall in between boots and she took it she walked all the way down and found a door, she pressed against it and she found the girl's restrooms. She was glad that she had found it even though it was not what she was looking for.

She entered it and saw a bunch of stalls that looked like dressing rooms which she found rather interesting. She sat down in front of the mirror intending to wait for a while until the crowd outside calmed down and let her walk to the bar.

Just then when she was sitting on the small chair in front of the mirror did she notice the place. And it was then when she heard a conversation that would later haunt her.

"What's wrong with you?" she heard inside one of the halls, she then saw through the mirror that under the curtain door there were four feet. Which meant that two girls were in one stall talking.

"I… no-nothing, It's just I saw" the sobbing girl answered and because she was crying Sakura couldn't tell right away who she was.

"What did you see? You ran here crying! Hinata please tell me" So that was it Sakura thought.

She started feeling like an intruder but couldn't move from her place so instead she just completely hid her chakra as she thought the girls were probably too immersed in their problem to had even noticed her.

"He's here. It's the first time I saw him since that time" Hinata answered first time she didn't stutter.

The other girl was silent. Sakura started to get up to leave as she felt she had no business being there.

"Listen, Hinata. You should talk to him, you can't live like this." The other girl said and Sakura finally cracked that it was Tenten who said that.

"I just can't, he-he's moved on I heard. I can't do anything about it" Hinata answered and kept sobbing and Sakura bet that Tenten had hugged the Hyuga girl as her crying started to get more subtle or better said quieter.

It was then when Sakura decided she had heard too much and got up slowly and quietly left the room. She then returned to her task and found the bar asked for her mojito but deeply kept thinking what it meant that Hinata had been crying that much. She felt that such a sweet girl shouldn't be crying.

She found her teammate's table a little easier than it originally was to leave it. They had just started the half time and looked normal again talking not like robots that could only stare at the screen, she sat down next to them as they kept talking.

"Seriously though that Hoki kid is going to win us all the trophy" Kakashi argued.

"You're just saying it 'cus he has gray hair... But the team would be losing if it wasn't for Torune" Naruto counterattacked.

"If he's anything is because those huge glasses all Aburame member wears. He's not special" Sasuke said.

Sakura decided to interrupt. "Excuse me, but isn't Konoha winning?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, but it has to be argued at which extent is each member responsible for the current win" Sai argued and Sakura laughed.

"I say Suzaku is the brain of all the plays, hence the responsible for the win" Sasuke said.

"I have an idea" Sai said. "Why won't we settle this like some tribes in east Sunagakure?"

Everyone was about to complain but were already too relaxed because of the alcohol so they just looked annoyed and waited for him to continue.

"We must drink a liter of beer, the first one to finish it will be right" Sai said.

"I doubt that's how they do it—

"YES! Let's do it!" Naruto screamed gesturing the waitress to bring a liter of beer for each.

"I'll just watch I didn't even bet" Sakura argued and the rest reluctantly agreed.

"I have an idea to make this more interesting" Sai said as he saw the gray haired and the black haired guy a little aloof to the whole situation.

He waited until he had all set of eyes on him.

"Whoever drinks the beer first gets the chance to choose the order in which they want their next date with Sakura" he said, immediately gaining attention for the rest. "I won't participate in this as some of you know I know have a companionship" Kakashi rolled his eyes at his words. "So you three would compete against each other"

The waitress arrived with their drinks and suddenly the three sat up straight and grabbed each their huge gar. Sakura suddenly felt scared as determination showed on her roommates'' faces.

"On three. 1"

They slowly clenched the handle.

"Two"

They looked at their drink and probably strategically plan how they were going to drink it"

"Three"

Hell broke loose.

Suddenly all tables looked at them as they stood up to drink they beer.

Sakura stood up as well a little startled. While Sai held a clock taking time to see the winner. Slowly but surely people started gathering around them and started cheering, cheering for Team Orange, Team Gray and Team Blue is what they named them. Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto were too concentrated to even notice the cheering.

"DONE!" Naruto yelled and everyone started cheering, in 15 seconds he had finished their drink. Just close to him were Kakashi and Sasuke still with very acceptable numbers but it didn't matter as now Naruto had the upper hand on the order of the dates.

And just like that everyone returned to their table as the game resumed and the boys' eyes went back to the screen, leaving Sakura wondering what would the sequence of the last dates would look like?

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A/N

According to your feedback I changed the ending a little bit. So keep reading to find out who ends up with who!

Please share your comments below as a review! I love to read what you'd like in the story. :D

I said I would probably update this Wednesday 11th in the last announcement. But I think I will do it until Friday because of school . Thanks for reading.