About Sakura

Summary: Ino reflects on what makes boys like Sakura. Implied Ino/Shikamaru

Rating: PG

Author's Note: Just a drabble; I had a bit of free time and I decided to write. It's a total of 385 words. That's all…

Why is it that boys fall in love with her?

The way I see it, she's as common as they come. She has no special abilities. She possesses no extra-ordinary beauty. She has no special talents.

The only different thing is her pink hair, but that's hardly a favorable trait. Plus, with such an abnormally huge forehead, it makes her weird pink hair look even weirder.

So, I ask myself again. Why is it that boys fall in love with her?

I have to consider however, that all the boys in love with her, are not that normal themselves.

Naruto for example… well... I'm sure someday somewhere, he'll be able to find someone who can put up with his seemingly endless energy and overactive imagination. The boy is too much of a nuisance, so even if he is in love with Sakura, he is of no loss to me.

Lee-san. He's odd looking… He might be a good ninja, but that hardly compensates for his unflattering bowl haircut and his exaggeratedly think eyebrows. Again, he is of no loss to me.

The fact that she is 'in the same team as my beloved Sasuke -kun implies nothing. Sure, they practically spend most of the day together completing missions, and he has probably come to her rescue a couple of times, but that does not mean that he has developed any feelings for her. Right?

I know Chouji would never develop any feelings for me just because we're in the same team. We are friends, no more than that! I am certain that I would never fall in love with him because I save him a couple of times.

Shikamaru… the boy does get annoying sometimes… He's too busy ignoring people and too lazy to ever feel anything for a girl.

*sigh* Still, it must be nice to have someone swear eternal love to you… Damn that Shikamaru for being so uncaring and unfeeling….

What am I thinking about? Is not Shikamaru I'm interested in it's Sasuke-kun! Yea… Sasuke-kun…

As I see her holding on to him his expression tells me something…

I can't help feeling that Sasuke might, in some unknown way, for some unknown reason, feel something other than friendship for Sakura.

Which brings me to where I began…

What is it about Sakura?