title: sweet tooth
prompt: #8 - mission impossible
summary: "he just wanted to spend time with you, sakura-chan!" naruto snorted.
After pressing her back against the side of the Yamanaka flower shop, Sakura quickly stuck her head out from the corner of the store, peeking down the sidewalk and surveying the area before making a signal with her hands, motioning to her teammates that it was safe to pursue their target.
There was a blur of their respective colors, and within a moment, Team 7 was across the street, hidden in the shadow of a dango stand. It was Sasuke who looked for their target this time.
"She's stopped at a couple of kids down the block," he told them, drawing his eyebrows downward as he watched a woman park her mobile cart in front of a group of neighborhood children sitting at the edge of the sidewalk. "I think they're going to buy some."
Naruto groaned loudly, leaning against the side of the dango stand and sliding downward so that he was sitting at the gravel beneath them. "How the hell are they affording those cookies?!" he hissed, clutching at his growling stomach. Even from their distance, he could smell the cookies that boasted at being the best in Konoha. They were rated five stars and everything, he thought bitterly, and sold despite their ridiculously high price.
Sasuke shrugged and took a seat in front of Naruto, an elbow resting on his knee as he glanced up at Sakura.
"We need to go snatch some while she's parked," she suggested, leaning out of their temporary hiding spot. "It'll be easier that way—the lady will be distracted with the other kids."
Naruto and Sasuke helped themselves up, and the dango-seller smiled over at them, dusting his hands off on his striped apron. "Kids, would you like to buy some—?"
They shook their heads slightly and took off.
Soon enough, they were just meters away from the cookie cart, hidden behind a bookstore. Sasuke watched as the old woman who towed the cart around town distributed a warm cookie to each of the kids seated at the sidewalk, and Sakura wrinkled her nose at the sight. Her eyes darted to Naruto, who was still clutching his stomach and making uncomfortable noises. The scent of the homemade cookies was taking a toll on her as well, she realized, hearing the low rumble of her stomach. She scowled, her breakfast feeling ages ago.
As the woman gingerly picked up a chocolate cookie to give the second child not so patiently waiting, Sakura tugged on her teammates and they rushed out from behind the bookstore and onto the sidewalk, where they fell into formation, readying themselves to stretch out their arms as they passed by the cart.
Unfortunately, the aroma of the cookies proved too much for Naruto, and he tripped just as his index finger grazed a warm sugar cookie. Sakura crashed into him, and Sasuke fell into Sakura in turn.
The lady started upon seeing the three of them at the foot of her cart and looked around in surprise. "Ah…if you all are all right, would you three be interested in buying anything?" she asked.
Sasuke got up first, handing her a few crinkled bills and buying three cookies before Sakura could protest.
Minutes later, they retreated to the back of the Yamanaka flower shop to eat, and Sakura noticed Sasuke simply holding his own in the palm of his hand.
"I forgot you don't like sweets, Sasuke-kun," she said, wiping off the crumbs on her dress. "Why'd you agree to tag along today?"
Sasuke was silent, and Naruto glanced at him before erupting into laughter upon noticing the slight redness of his ears.
"He just wanted to spend time with you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto snorted, and Sakura's eyes widened as she waved his joke away.
Sasuke cleared his throat. "Something like that," he said.
The remains of Sakura's cookie slipped from her hands.