A/N:

HEEEEEY! So here comes chapter 8! I am so excited to see your reaction with this one. Sakura might surprise you with the decision she makes. I hope you like it

Today I'm updating with my dear friend Maten who writes a fic in Spanish called FriendZoned.

Tell me what you think of this!

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The Try-Outs

By: NenaUchiha22

Chapter 8: The Bonny & The Fox

She channeled her chakra slowly like a needle with a thread, she managed to control it to the point that it seemed she had an invisible hand knitting something delicate. Sakura channeled more chakra into the right side of the tube and less onto the left side to apply different pressure to the system hence converting its boiling point to a hundred to receive the results she had been searching.

"Oh my god, Sakura-san has done it!" a brown haired guy wearing a doctor's coat said but Sakura didn't stop there. She kept pressuring her chakra until the results appeared on the computer that was attached to the tube with the liquid inside.

The machine started making sounds, which indicated that the measurements started appearing, a drop of sweat fell from the corner of her forehead, and a smile formed on the side of her mouth. She had indeed achieved it.

She slowly withdrew her chakra into her body and slowly sat down or nearly collapsed on a chair that was behind her without paying much attention on not hurting herself in the process. Doctors ran from side to side, some to find something for Sakura to recover, some to check the results on the machine. Sakura didn't care at that point it had been seven hours straight channeling her chakra through that tube.

She felt a cool wave of chakra on her forehead and she slowly opened her eyes to meet a very familiar pair of eyes.

"Shishou" She murmured, with her free hand Tsunade waved.

"You've out done yourself today Sakura. One vaccine in three days, very impressive" Sakura was so tired she just answered with a smile and closed her eyes.

Not aware that closing her eyes would mean that she'd fall in a deep dream. In a dream so deep that Tsunade had to call someone from Team 7 to get her home.

In twenty minutes her teammate arrived to the place while Tsunade was still replenishing her body with her own chakra.

"Out of all of Team 7 I didn't think you would come" Tsunade spoke up not looking at him.

He approached the room slowly, by then only Tsunade was left with Sakura inside as she had given the others another assignments. His eyes grew a little worried when looking down at Sakura but he tried to hide it, though Tsunade noticed his reaction.

"I was the first one that Shizune found, I guess" he answered.

"Take her home and let her rest all day, don't wake her up not even for dinner. I already gave her a pill so she won't be hungry and tomorrow she'll be brand new. She doesn't need to come to work for the rest of the week" Tsunade instructed. The boy nodded and carefully carried Sakura bride's style.

Tsunade didn't miss how his eyes never left her pupil's face and for a second she wondered if there was something going on between them. But Sakura would have probably told her about it if they were official. Tsunade looked at the boy how he didn't even waved goodbye to the Hokage and kept walking not leaving his eyes from Sakura's face.

Just when he was out of reach Tsunade left out a laugh.

"Who would have thought that eventually he would be the one to fall for her?" Tsunade murmured.

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Sakura smiled as she slowly woke up, she had the sweetest dream. An armored knight carried her to a castle and laid her on her bed tucking her in like a little girl. She tried to get up but suddenly realized that she couldn't as she had indeed been tucked in bed surrounded by at least seven covers.

She came to the realization that she was home but something felt odd. She was not wearing her pajama, but rather some boys' sweatpants and a huge sweatshirt. Then she remembered the last thing from the day before; the laboratory, Tsunade and… black. All black.

She used her chakra to break from the covers' embrace. Some may have laughed at her for using chakra for such a task, but whoever that had tucked her in made a hell of a job. Someone had brought her home and changed her… changed her. She blushed at the thought of someone seeing her naked because in fact now that she was out of the covers she knew for sure she wasn't wearing a bra.

"I hope it was Tsunade-sama" she wished out loud. She checked her clock and notice that it was 8 AM.

She brushed her teeth and changed her clothes, she wondered if it was in fact Tsunade who brought her home why would she change her outfit into boy clothes? Then the possibility of a boy bringing her home, undressing her, changing her clothes and tucking her in bed appeared in her head. And the only possibilities that existed were her four roommates and none of them made her feel more comfortable about the fact that he/they had seen her naked.

She walked downstairs where she found Naruto. She was already dressed with her doctor's coat all set to leave for the laboratory and it was already late for work, so she just grabbed an apple and waved to her roommate.

"Where do you think you're going?" Naruto asked.

"To work silly, and I am already late. So bye" She said but before she could grab the door's knob Naruto intercepted her.

"So that's why they call you Konoha's hero" Sakura said while looking at him, it didn't take him a second to reach her and he was on the other side of the room.

"No, they called me that way because I helped destroy the infinite Tsukuyomi not because I am super-fast" he complimented himself.

Sakura laughed but continued. "Seriously though, I am extremely late" She said trying to grab the door and yank his arm away.

"You don't have to work according to Tsunade" Naruto said.

"What?"

"Yeah, apparently you found a vaccine extra fast so she gave you the rest of the week off" he said. Sakura's expression became calmer and she smiled. She was glad that she didn't have to work that day it had been hell the day before and she knew for a fact that she couldn't keep up like that the exact same day.

"Sweet!" Sakura exhaled. "Wait so you talked to Tsunade? And brought me home?" Sakura asked.

Naruto was already in the kitchen but he answered "Oh no. I didn't bring you here, I was just told what happened" he said "I made pancakes"

Sakura was about to ask who was then who brought her home but a fresh pancake plate was set on her side of the table, so she didn't. Naruto joined her just as he was eating his own from the kitchen before he was properly seated.

"Did you make this?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, no. No. Sasuke made them" Naruto answered mouth-filled. "He made them like thirty minutes ago before I threw them all out"

And then she remembered the arrangement they had the other day at the bar. Naruto won the beer game so he decided the order of the following dates, and the order had been set as: Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi.

"Wait… but our date is not until Friday" She commented.

"Oh yeah, but with this whole thing of you having a week off I just thought it would be cool to move it earlier, is that okay?" he asked.

Sakura smiled "Sure, what are you thinking for today?" she asked.

"Well maybe go to the new place that opened just a week ago I think they have some tempura"

"What? Are you taking me to a place which main dich isn't ramen? Am I that special?" she joked.

"Hey… I guess you are" said Naruto taking into account that it was a big deal and Sakura laughed at this expression.

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They arrived to the place at dinner time, the place was extremely fancy. And they both felt underdressed. They both looked at the place from outside it looked like a small mansion, but as they lowered their sight they saw the door and a very familiar symbol appeared, it was the Hyuuga's family emblem. Sakura felt Naruto stiffened when he saw that it was a Hyuuga restaurant.

"Everything okay?" Sakura asked. "I thought you liked the Hyuuga's"

"No, no. Everything is okay" he assured and not too convinced she followed him inside.

Once inside she noticed how it looked even fancier. And wondered just how much the food there costed. A pretty Hyuga girl was at the counter.

"Do you have a reservation?" she asked with a sweet voice and Sakura noted that her age was probably 16 or less, but she looked older.

"Sorry we don't. Can you write us on the list?" Naruto asked.

"Sorry I can't you have to make a reservation a week before" She answered.

Just as Naruto was about to complain a voice cut in.

"Natsu! What are you doing?" a voice interrupted. It was Tokuma Hyuuga's sister dressed in a beautiful purple dressed that made Sakura feel like she had to leave and change outfit as to not look so out of place. "These are the hero's that saved us in the fourth ninja war!"

Natsu looked extremely embarrassed. "I'm so sorry! Let me show you your table" she said before running to find one.

"Thank you dattebayo!"

"No! Thanks to you. You saved us" was all she said before turning around and leaving them.

The coupled walked inside the restaurant hoping to find Natsu with their table as they walked by Sakura made eye contact with a familiar face. With a person whose voice she had heard some days ago and somehow she felt nostalgic.

Hinata looked at Sakura and then Naruto who didn't see her. But Sakura recognized the look on her face as sad when she looked at him, like she wanted to tell him something she couldn't.

They were seated on a table close to a huge fishbowl that made Sakura realize that the Hyuuga had to be the most extravagant of all clans with all the weird things they used as ornament.

"Hey Sakura-chan, what do you want to order?" Naruto asked her and she noticed that she had been staring at the huge yellow fish in the fishbowl. "Ouh, I don't know yet. Maybe just some onigiri I am still filled with the pancakes" "Great. I will order ramen" Sakura laughed at her friend. The food was excellent and the company just perfect, they laughed and laughed and kept gaining stares and glares from all of the room. But suddenly they stopped being the main attraction as the sound of broken glasses filled the place. A young woman had crashed with a waiter hence causing him to drop all of the drinks he was carrying. The room was silent, Naruto and Sakura immediately identified the girl as Hinata. Who didn't stop to help the waiter but instead ran straight to the bathroom covering her face.

Sakura who had seen the whole thing excused herself telling Naruto that she was going to check on her.

As she arrived she couldn't not feel a Déjà vu feeling. She entered and the sound of sobbing coming from one of the bathroom was so familiar.

"Hinata are you okay?" Sakura asked handing her a tissue from the other side of the door.

"Sa-Sakura-chan?"

"Yes"

"Please go. I can't see you right now" she pleaded while sobbing but Sakura didn't move, it was already too weird knowing that Hinata had been crying twice in the two times she had seen her.

Slowly Hinata's sobbing started to become less and she spoke again.

"You're not mo-moving" Hinata said.

"I am not until you tell me what has been happening with you these last days" Hinata kept silence. "Why have you been crying, now here and at Django's"

Hinata slowly opened the door, her make-up completely ruined and looked at Sakura.

"So it was you who was spying Tenten and I back then" Hinata said, Sakura was a little ashamed for being called a stalker but didn't show it.

"Yes, so please tell me"

They looked at each other for a long time until the Hyuuga sighed and nodded motioning Sakura to sit in one of the bathroom's cushions and she followed next.

"I am engaged" she confessed.

Sakura couldn't speak for a moment, then she asked. "And I assume that you are not happy with it?"

Hinata nodded. "My father arranged it, he wants to keep the bloodline clean"

Sakura listened and kept quiet for a second before the girl began sobbing silently again.

"Hinata" The girl looked up at her. "Are you in love with someone else? That's why you're crying?"

Hinata seemed to be taken aback but she breathed in before nodding.

"Yes and I see that you've won him over and that he's moved on. Please don't tell him that we ever spoke" she asked as the got up and again ran away from the bathroom.

And then it hit her… She was in love with Naruto… Hinata was in love with Naruto. And she felt so stupid for not noticing it before now it all made sense, all those times when she fainted, the times she blushed, the times she cried, the time she… she almost died because of him.

Sakura felt suddenly so guilty. She wasn't a close friend to Hinata, she had never been but she knew she was the most humble and good girl there was and at some point before the war she would call herself her friend. And hurting her even though she didn't plan it intentional felt wrong.

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They walked home quieter than usual, Sakura immersed in her thoughts debating between telling Naruto what happened with Hinata or not. Hinata pleaded that she didn't but somehow not telling him felt wrong and she felt with the moral obligation to do so.

As they arrived to the house and climbed up the stairs Sakura couldn't held it in anymore.

"Naruto I'm gonna ask you something and I need you to be completely honest with me"

Naruto looked at her suspiciously but stiffened up and nodded.

"Did you or did you not have something going on with Hinata?" she asked, she could tell by his reaction to the question that the answer was a yes.

He sighed and looked her in the eye.

"We went out a year ago, we only went out three months and it was great… but her father" Sakura narrowed her eyes at this, Hinata's father could be a pain in the ass. "He asked me to not see her again, he convinced me that I wasn't worthy and that he would place her with a more deserving partner so I broke it off"

There was silence for a second.

"So you just gave up… that doesn't sound like you" Sakura scolded.

"Sakura-chan… It's different" Naruto called her out. "It's different not giving up to save someone's life against Pain or Madara, it's different than giving up because you knew you were not the best for the one you love"

Sakura froze at the last word. So he did love her.

"Naruto the bet is off. You should be with her" Sakura said turning around to go to her room.

But a set of hands pulled her back and pressed her against the wall. "She is my past, now I'm here with you"

That was all he said before he tilted his head and pressed his lips against hers. Sakura pushed him away but with the same strength he pushed back and after a few seconds of struggling the pink-haired just gave in.

So he left her wondering… when did Naruto become such a good damn kisser. The same hands that were once pushing him away, were now playing with his hair. His hands went from her waist to her butt and she gasped when she felt his hands giving her buttocks a hard squeeze. When did Naruto become this passionate and hungry kisser?

He pushed her into her door room and smoothly opened the door not ever once stopping the kiss and actually making it go deeper as he introduced his tongue into her mouth. Sakura couldn't think clearly, she knew it was wrong. God, it was so wrong. She just witnessed one of her friends crying over the man she was now kissing desperately. But she couldn't stop as much as she wanted too, Naruto was doing wonders with his hands and as much as she hated herself, she wanted to see what else he had under his sleeve.

He placed her on the bed and stopped the kiss, both were now breathing heavily looking at each other intensely. Sakura saw Naruto's stare deep into her eyes. She had to stop this, they would regret it greatly. With a strong self-control that she didn't know where she got it, she lifted herself on her elbows and looked at him convinced of stopping this from going farther.

"Naruto, we can't this is—

But he took his shirt off, and goodbye self-control. He jumped on her and kissed her neck hungrily and mercilessly. She on the other hand didn't lose the opportunity and caressed his chest and shoulders trying to suppress her urge to moan.

Naruto opened her blouse and kept kissing her, he opened it leaving her just on her bra, he looked down at her breast and then… he stopped.

Sakura kept caressing until she felt him lifting himself up and sitting on the bed with his head on his hands. Sakura sat up and looked at him worried.

"Naruto, are you okay?" she asked carefully.

"I can't" he said, and she blinked twice. "I thought I could, but all the time I was kissing you I just imagined you were her"

Ouch. Sakura felt her ego breaking into a million pieces. She smiled at him. He had just realized who he should be with.

Despite just being rejected, she felt something warm in her chest. Her best friend was in love and somehow that made her incredibly happy. The fact that he was in love with someone who would actually love him back the way that he deserves made her happier. Hinata deserved Naruto as much as he deserved her. It was so meant to be, that Sakura felt an infinite joy running over her.

"You love her" she stated and lifted his chin to make him meet her eyes.

Naruto's eyes denoted sadness and melancholy that Sakura didn't like.

"I can't. It's not right for her. She needs to have a strong Hyuuga by her side. Her dad says—

"Screw them!" Naruto got startled when Sakura screamed. But kept looking at her. "She loves you, idiot. And you love her. That's what you should be worried about, not him or the clan, or the pure bloodline" she finished. "Hell they'd be lucky to have you in their clan! The future Hokage, the planet's hero, the chosen one!"

Naruto sighed and looked away, trying to think of the best possible outcome that could come from pursuing the girl he loved even if her dad disapproved. Sakura laughed at his expression.

"Why are you laughing?" he asked.

She stopped once he met her eyes. "I just find it funny how you have fought against deadly opponents like Pain, Madara, Obito, and yet… you are terrified of Hinata's father"

Naruto left a short laugh out and scratched the back of his head.

"Dude, he's scary" he said. And they laughed.

After they finished, Sakura grabbed his shoulder and squeezed it a little.

"Go get her" she said. Naruto stared at her a little less sad before she continued "She's almost too good for you" she laughed. "But she loves you and you love her, you deserved to be together. I am glad you realized this"

"Sakura-chan, I-I'm sorry about…"

"It's okay, Naruto" she interrupted him "It wouldn't have worked anyways" she said motioning at them. "You like girls with big boobs" she said.

Naruto blushed but didn't deny it making Sakura laugh louder than before.

"I'm gonna get going, then." He said. She nodded.

He got up, grabbed his shirt and put it on before running to the door.

"Oh, and Sakura-chan!" he called from the door, making her look his way.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Thank you" he said and Sakura thought that those were the most sincere words she had ever heard.

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A/N: The end of chapter 8! I hope you liked it… so that leaves us with Kakashi and Sasuke! How exciting! She's going to stay with the winner of the votes. Stay tuned to see who's Sakura gonna end up with.

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