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Setting: Konoha Leaf Gate Entrance

"Finally! Its been too long!" The blond boy complained as they walked back in through the village gates.

Sakura sighed, "Naruto, its only been a week and a half. And it was just an escort mission to a town right outside Konoha, so it wasn't even that far away."

It wouldn't have been so bad had he not been talking about all the different types of ramen he was going to get every day on the way back to the village. Sakura smiled to herself. Would he even like Konoha if Ichiraku didn't exist inside its borders?

"Stiiiiill Sakura," he whined, "all i could think about was a nice steamy bowl of ramen from Ichiraku! Speaking of awesome ideas, wanna get a late lunch with me? I'll pay, considering it be kinda like a d- OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" He yelled, lazily rubbing his head. It didn't hurt, but it was never fun being the object of Sakuras rage.

"First off," Sakura started, "I might have come with you, if you hadn't made it out to be a date! How many times do i have to tell you, I'll never go on a date with you!?"

She crossed her arms and continued walking, feeling completely righteous in her violence.

"SECONDLY, I've already got something planned with Ino, Hinata, and Tenten at the new Restaurant that we decided to go to before the mission."

Naruto looked puzzled. "Huh?.. Since when was there a new restaurant? Do they have ramen there too? What kind? Omg, if it's anything like Ichiraku i don't think i could handle it! Well maybe i could show off my new sexy-OWWW! Sakura stop!"

Sakura had him in a hold around his neck and was flicking his forehead repeatedly with her free hand as her inner self leaked out. "GOOOOD, IS THERE LIFE FOR YOU BESIDES RAMEN, OH WAIT THE OTHER HALF IS PERVERSION! WHAT IF THIS PLACE DOESN'T SERVE RAMEN?! HUH? WHAT THEN?! And don't you even THINK about using that jutsu there! Little Mouse BBQ is now sacred based solely on the fact that you haven't used that dumb jutsu there yet, AND ON TOP OF THAT THEY'VE BEEN BUILDING IT FOR MONTHS! How can you hope to be Hokage if you don't even notice-"

"Sakura..." Naruto whined.

Her team leader sighed deeply. "Sakura, you should be a bit nicer to your comrades. You'll never know when you might see then again." In truth, he too had gotten tired of hearing Naruto prattle on and on about Ichiraku, plus it made him hungrier. But he could only be annoyed with Naruto so much since he wasn't doing it purposely.

Sakura didn't even half to look at Kakashi to know that even though he had responded, he was still buried in one of Jiraiyas Icha Icha erotica novels ... could he be more of a pervert, reading that kind of stuff in public? Sakura sighed... feeling all her anger seep away inside her. Even if he was a slight pervert, she was glad to have him around. He was a seemingly good listener and was always around when everyone else is already wrapped up in plans.

She smiled innocently up at Kakashi while still holding Naruto, her voice laced with sarcasm she knew he could detect.

"Of course, ... Kakashi-sensei!"

His eyes peeked over the top of the book for a split second to lazily glare at her. It was the only thing that seemed to get under his skin, to be called sensei when he stopped being their sensei five years ago. But Sakura didn't care, why should that stop her from using the title? She liked the reaction it enticed from him! She casually released Naruto from the death grip.

"Well I'm off to go meet up with Ino and them at Little Mouse BBQ. Later!"

Kakashi lifted a hand in response as she walked away. Naruto was too busy studiously rubbing his forehead, muttering his complaints under his breath.

Would Sakura ever get tired of those two? Ino on the other hand was a different story. The morning before Sakura left with two of her teammates, the blonde made it very clear that something very important was going to be discussed when they could all meet. If knowing Ino was any indicator as to what the topic would be, then Sakura already had an idea of what it was about. Boys.

She sighed softly," time to go get this over with..."