Chapter 8: preparations

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We both plan how the decor would go, making an ombra of colored flowers scattered all around Sakura's house. The blueprints and everything were colour coded, my dad also helped us pick flowers for the decor. It took us a day, but it was worth the time. We got most of the house florist up, we were just planning on cleaning the house, but I got carried away and put too much effort in.

"whoa ino, these designs are gorgeous!" Sakura's compliment made me blush,

"thanks, i was originally planning on using them for me and the person I like, but the person I like, will probably never like me back," I sighed, keeping my emotions to myself. I felt a hand rest on my shoulder,

"ino- i know about sasu-" i put my finger on her lip before she could finish.

"Sakura, listen, I don't like- sa-" before I could tell her the front door barged open.

"AYO WHAT'S UP" tenten yelled, now going silent when she saw us, hinata was right behind tenten,

"oh- tenten-san, we should go-" Hinata tugged on tenten's arm and tenten blurted out,

"OKAY NEVER MIND- MY SHIPS SAILING AND BYE! I'LL ASK FOR ADVICE LATER" tenten slams the door behind us. Sakura moves away from my finger and tells me

"I better go check if the flowers upstairs are getting enough water! Bye" sakura runs upstairs to her room. "Great. Now it's awkward." I sigh and continue working.

Once again it's night, i sleep over at sakura's to avoid sprinting back in the morning. It seemed like our bond was regaining, we had to flourish the whole house. Sakura's parents were coming back in 3 days, so 3 days were spent working, talking, organising, goofing off, ect. At the end of the 3rd day, we were both lying down on the ground, heads across from each other.

"We actually did it" i felt amazed,

"we did-" sakura probably felt the same. We laughed it out then got to her room,

"so- how do you think your parents will react to this?" I raise an eyebrow smirking. she sits across from me on her bed, at first she wasn't sure and gave me a puzzled look and laughed it out.

"I'm not too sure actually, I just hope they like it," sakura sighs as her cherry hair gets in her face. I had two clips in my hair so I took one out. I built up the courage to come forth and place it in Sakura's hair. She looked at me, we both looked a bit red but i think she was red because of the light. "Thanks-" sakura looked away, i sat back on the far end of the bed,

"oh, no problem," i smiled. We spent that night talking about dreams, and the one thing I loved about it was that it was all about Sakura and me, no sasuke included. We woke up around 8 in the morning, it was off but what could we say, when you spent the night talking with your childhood crush it was kinda hard to wake at 6 in the morning.

"My parents will be back by 8pm, that gives us exactly 12 hours to put the final touches," sakura and i both get up, we both take about an hour to get ready for the day. (I borrowed some of Sakura's clothes, again because they were comfy.) we get downstairs at 9 then make breakfast. We sat down to eat and chat for another hour. It was 10 am, we got to work, i'm out in the garden while Sakura was giving most of the rooms a final polish. One hour later she joins me outside. "11, 9 more hours till mom and dad come home" sakura bends down to help me with the tulips.

"Yeah, but i think we'll be done before your parents get back" my motivation was high. We spent about 2 more hours in the garden planting stuff and pulling weed. (we used weeds instead of wood to burn in the fire to steam the grill) at about 1 we got in the house, both took a shower, then did the finishing touches, it was 2:00 pm. "We still have 6 hours" I hint,

"yep, and we really only need an hour to prepare dinner for my parents" sakura pulled out a rose from one of the bouquets and placed it in my hair. "That's for the clip" she adjusts it as I day dream. We decided to head out for the time being, just to hang out for a bit. We spent 5 hours talking, venturing, and pulling each other's arms around the village. As we head back sakura looks at me and smiles,

"Thanks for today, and every day. When I was younger I always envied you for... well... you. But over the past few days i realised that our friendship is much more valuable than any jealousy and outer weeds, so, thank you. Thank you for always standing with me." Sakura lets me in while I become a tomato.

"AHhHhHhHh! sHe ThInKs I'm VaLuBlE!!! I cAn'T tHiNk StRaIgHiT!!!" my head was spinning and I flopped on the couch.

"Ino- are you okay?" Sakura asked ready to perform medical jutsu,

"never better!" I was still burying my face into the pillow.

"Alright- im gonna set up the table in the backyard, once you're done relaxing, could you pull the food from the fridge?" sakura questioned holding a tablecloth.

"Sure" I responded, getting up and to the fridge, we set everything up in about half an hour,

"okay, now that that's done, I gotta get dressed" sakura hurried inside, I grabbed her arm and asked

"for what?" i was quite confused,

"it wouldn't fit the scenery if i was in pj pants would i?" she looks at me then i respond with,

"i'm gonna dress up too" i sprint past her and into the house.

"Okay- I have a spare red dress!" she shouted, we got dressed.

I sat on the bed waiting for Sakura to show up to help me zip up my dress. It was true, we both had the same dress, yet it looked so different on either of us. We both wore a rogue dress, skirt just above the knee dress. It had a heart shaped lining, right above the chest, the dress was supposed to be sleeveless but it had a white lining with three quarter sleeves just past the elbow, with a corset laced with silk. We both wore cherry slippers with our hair tied in low buns. Both had roses twined in our hair. "You look beautiful ino" sakura smiled,

"same to you sakura'' i smiled, for a bit we just stood there, gazing at each other's beauty, until we realised sakura's parents were supposed to be here. We rushed down the stairs to see Mr & Mrs Haruno, but there was no Mr, Mrs. haruno.

"Maybe they were late," I reassure Sakura, "yeah- you're right". We both sat on the porch, waiting for Mr & Mrs haruno. We wait for about an hour,

"9:00," Sakura mutters, burying her face in her hands.

"Sakura- it's gonna be okay," I put my hand on Sakura's back, and Sakura suddenly pulled away and stood up.

"No ino, it's not okay, my parents are gone and now it's almost ten! I wish we never wasted this much time on something so meaningless!" sakura roars, i stood up and yelled back

"well i'm sorry but sometimes life just disappoints you miss sakura!!!"

"Oh yeah?!? Miss ino-pig! You're always the picture perfect princess! Do you know how long I've envied you? Everybody loves you!"

"not everyone forehead!"

"ADMIT IT INO! You only became my friend to flex on sasuke!"

"Sasuke! Sasuke! Sasuke! Have you ever thought!-" i cut myself off before I say too much. "Forget it" I don't even bother. I just shove past Sakura, dropping my rose, and heading back to my house. Last time it was just tears, now it was anger mixed with tears.

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