"I'm just not sure which pair to choose," Mrs. Yamazaki said, holding up two pairs of black shoes that looked exactly the same.

"The one's in your left hand complimented the shape of your legs more," reasoned the beautifully pink haired girl currently helping the woman.

She was dressed professionally in a red pencil skirt with a matching blazer and white dress shirt underneath as well as a pair of black heels. The only childish aspect of the entire outfit was the black headband with a black bow on it placed neatly in her waist length bubblegum locks.

"Do they really?" asked the older woman.

"Oh without a doubt," said the 16 year old girl, smiling sweetly to make sure her fib seemed truthful. The woman needed to pick a pair of shoes already damn it; it had been twenty freaking minutes already!

"Sakura-san."

Both women turned to look at the employee who had just walked up to them.

"Yes Akahana-san?" the girl now named Sakura asked.

"Tsunade-sama wants you to come to her office."

"Let me just finish helping Yamazaki-san and then-"

"She said you have to come now."

Swallowing thickly, the pinkette turned to the confused housewife and smiled.

"My apologies Yamazaki-san, but I'll have to leave you to Akahana-san."

"Don't worry dear, I've already made my decision. I'm simply going to get both."

Sweat dropping slightly at the proud expression on her customer's face, the pinkette decided not to mention the rather high price tags on both pairs of shoes.

'I wonder what Mr. Yamazaki will have to say about this,' she thought to herself as she walked in the direction of her boss's office.

Knocking on the big oak doors at the end of a brightly lit hallway in the dress section, Sakura waited patiently for the loud 'come in' that signaled that she could enter.

Walking in, she saw her boss leaning against her desk, fingers laced together in front of her face.

"Sit down Sakura."

Oh. Shit.

That was the we-have-a-problem-voice. This could mean only three things.

1. She was fired (and she really, really needed this job)

2. She was about to fire someone else

3. Something was wrong in the store

4. They ran out of sake

Honestly, she was hoping it was option three.

"We have a problem in the store."

Throwing rainbow confetti and sparkles around in her head, Sakura relaxed her shoulders and straightened in her seat.

"What's wrong Tsunade-sama?"

"It's sales. They're down, way down."

Slightly shocked by the news, Sakura sent a bust buster through her head to pick up the confetti and glitter as she became completely serious. For this was after all a very serious topic.

"I was looking through some old files and I noticed that the store's sales went up almost immediately after you started working here."

The pinkette couldn't help but puff out her chest slightly at the compliment. She worked her ass off and it felt damn freaking nice to have someone notice.

"But it's still not good enough."

And there goes that pride.

"So, I want you to go back to your school and recruit some new employees, preferably male since most of the staff already is all female. Make sure they're attractive though, acme and B.O. do not sell."

Sakura froze at the command. Had her boss really just told her to go around a high school and recruit hot teenage men to work in a department store? Looking back at the busty blond she saw the seriousness of her gaze and swallowed thickly. She was serious.

"I know that it must seem strange for me to ask you to go around your school and try to persuade people to work here at the store but I'm running out of options. If you brought better sales then I'm assuming that more teenagers will to." Tsunade said. "Also, if you do this for me I'll make you assistant manager and I'll give you a raise."

Signal the entire dump trucks of internal confetti and glitter. Assistant manager was one step below Tsunade who was the head of the store and the head of the store only reported to the owner of the mall and the owner of the mall only reported to- well, no one really. Plus the extra money and this deal was almost to good to be true.

"I'll do it," the young girl said as she looked determinedly at her boss.

The blond smiled at the steely look in her employee's eyes that reminded her so much of herself when she was a teenager. She had liked the pink haired girl since the moment she walked in for her interview and she had only grown to like her more over tine.

"Alright then, todays Sunday so when you come in tomorrow, tell me how things go."

"Hai Tsunade-sama."

Standing from her seat, Sakura made for the door but was stopped just as she grasped the handle.

"Oh and Sakura," called the blond.

Turning curious emerald eyes on her employer, the pinkette raised a single manicured eyebrow.

"Good luck," the blond smiled.

Returning the smile with one of her own the younger girl replied, "Thank you Tsunade-sama."

The next morning Sakura climbed the steps of Konoha High School and looked nervously down at the paper clenched tightly in her hand. The paper held the names of all the men she was going to ask to work at the mall department store and the jobs she planned to assign them if they accepted. Now for the hard part, getting them to accept.

Carefully unfolding it, she looked down one more time at the names she had written.

Shoe Department:

-Itachi Uchiha

-Kisame Hoshigaki

*Reason why: They won't try to look up any women's skirts

Kitchen Ware:

-Tobi Uchiha

-Kiba Inuzuka

*Reason why: They're happy people and it's kind if hard to mess up kitchen ware

Bedding/Home Décor:

-Deidara Iwa

-Sasori Akasuna

*Reason why: It's the most artsy job we've got at the store

Men's Clothing:

-Neji Hyuga

-Sai Ito

*Reason(s) why:

A- Have you seen Neji's hair? The dude knows how to take care of himself

B- Sai's patient and that's a good skill to have in clothing

Cash Register:

-Kakuzu Tanaka

- Hidan Sato

*Reason(s) why:

A- All Kakuzu ever does it count/talk about/think about money

B- It's most likely (hopefully) to have less people since the place is so big and therefore less opportunities for Hidan to curse

Accessories (A/N So think like watches and ties and stuff…yeah I know it sucks but I ran out of ideas!)

-Naruto Uzumaki

-Sasuke Uchiha

*Reason(s) why:

A- Naruto will be able to put his positive energy to good use and get men to pay for overpriced watches they could get cheaper just about anywhere else

B- Since most people realize that we charge to much they don't come back there so Sasuke won't have to talk much

Floor Heads:

-Gaara Subaku (Floor 1)

-Pein Ame (Floor 2)

*Reason why: They're both good leaders and they'll keep everyone else in check

Let the games begin.

So this was an idea I got while sitting in a Nordstrom trying on shoes. You gotta love those hot employees who work in the shoe department, they just give you the best fanfic ideas. Lol I'm so weird. Anyway, I'm not sure if I should continue this or not so review and tell me what you think!

p.s.- I need a name for the store so if you have an idea for a name tell me!