title: wow, sakura can be paired with anyone
pairing: surrrrprise!
summary: sakura has a boyfriend? sorry, naruto.
notes: i used to write fanfiction everyday. now i don’t anymore. it’s so painful. where’s my outlet?!
Sakura claps her hands. “Okay, guys, let’s play a game.” In Naruto’s cramped apartment, everyone perks up. “Guess who I’m going out with!”
For a long moment, it’s silence. And then Naruto screams, “You’re not single anymore?!”
She rolls her eyes. “No, Daddy.”
“WHAT? WHO IS HE? WHICH BASTARD DO I HAVE TO BEAT UP?”
“Maybe it’s not a guy,” Shikamaru points out from the couch, yawning in the process. “Maybe she’s going out with a girl, and didn’t know how to break it to you.” At that, both Sasuke and Naruto pale at the same time. Except Sasuke is way paler, so in turn, he looks a lot deader.
Sakura laughs. “No, it’s a guy. He’s in this room right now. Guess! Whoever guesses right won’t get beat up by me for the next week.”
Every male in the room visibly straightens up.
Ino’s the first to guess. “Kakashi-senpai?”
Sakura blanches, and glances at her former teacher, who wisely pretends that he didn’t hear anything. “He’s old enough to be my dad, Ino. That’s disgusting.”
“Teme!” Naruto points accusingly at Sasuke. “You betrayed me!”
Sasuke snorts. “If I started dating her, I wouldn’t hesitate to rub it in your face at the first opportunity, dobe.”
The blonde then swivels around and glares at Shikamaru. “Dude.”
“No.”
“Now that I think about it,” Tenten muses, “Sakura can pretty much date anyone, and it’d work out. Right, Neji?”
Neji grunts. “Must I remind you that our relationship prevents me from dating any other girls?”
She giggles. “Right.”
Naruto looks like he’s ready to kill someone. His gaze locks onto Shino, before saying threateningly, “It’s always the quiet ones…” Kiba bursts into guffaws that nearly have Hinata jumping out of her skin, just as Shino looks at the blonde over the rim of his sunglasses. No words are exchanged. None have to be.
“It’s not you, is it, Kiba?” Shikamaru asks incredulously, cracking an eye open.
Kiba shook his head. “Nope. I tried to pick her up once, and it didn’t work. Even when I softened her with alcohol.”
Sakura merely smiles. “You can’t win me over easily.”
“So he has to be good at something!” Naruto doesn’t look put out that he’s had three wrong guesses already. “Yamato-taichou, is it you?”
Yamato promptly chokes on his own spit. “Why would you even think of me that way?”
Almost simultaneously, everyone looks at Gaara, who’s sitting in the corner.
He glares at them all. “No.”
Sakura coughs discreetly, glancing at Sasuke. The Uchiha looks once at Lee, who seems dangerously close to tears, and clears his throat. “Is it Sai?”
The room is deathly silent. And then she smiles. “Bingo!”
Naruto faints.