So after three years Naruto finally brought Sasuke back to The Hidden in the leaves village. Of course it's wasn't easy , Naruto fought and talked to Sasuke almost two long days until Sasuke admitted defeat and agreed to come back. Naruto never thought he will ever be thankful to Kyuubi's healing powers, but now he really was. He recovered from his serious injuries just in three days, while Sasuke was in the hospital for three weeks. And now was the day when they were going on the the first mission as reunited team.
It was beautiful hot summer day and Naruto was standing on their usual meeting spot ( on the bridge DUH) and looking at the water. He was was enjoying peace and silence but not for too long because Sakura arrived. She changed a lot in these three years but still sometimes was annoying as hell. She greeted Naruto with hug. He just smiled and said:
"Mornin Sakura-chan. You sure look beautiful today."
She replied blushing:
"Thanks Naruto-kun, Ino-chan did my hair today."
Naruto nodded understanding and turned his head to left there he saw standing shocked Sasuke.
"Hey teme you gonna join us or what?!" asked now grinning Naruto. This got Sasuke out of trance and he started walking towards his teammates still his head spinning with millions questions like - why is Sakura is so friendly to Naruto? Since when she started blushing around him? Are they even a little happy seeing him? However Sasuke completely lost track of his thoughts when his friends pulled him into hug. When after two hours Kakashi decided to show up he found his students chatting and laughing. When they noticed him Sasuke looked to Naruto waiting for outburst of complaints but it never came, Sakura althought started shouting while listening to Kakashi's excuse:
"You were playing with your pet Dolphin? Again? That's such a lame excuse! Be more creative sensei"
Naruto just smirked and asked:
"How's Iruka-sensei doing?" To Sasuke's surprise Kakashi started blushing and stuttering.
"H-He is d-doing just fine, well except his back pain" Kakashi finally managed to say collecting himself. Sakura started blushing, she now understood what Kakashi meant by 'Dolphin'. Sasuke looked at Sakura and then realization hit him, he smiled at Kakashi and said:
"Congratulations Kakashi-sensei. Just make sure that Iruka-sensei would get some sleep once in a while, not only 'masage'. Okay?"
Kakashi didn't like where this was going ( when did his students became that smart? He had no idea! Poor man.) so he decided to change topic:
"So with the missions guys, it's two D-rank missions... I think we could divide into two groups to finish it sooner. What do you think?"
"I think that you're just eager to come back and continue playing with 'Dolphin – chan'. And Tsunade – sama is making fun of us. Two D-rank missions? Seriously? We are not twelve years old anymore. And it's gonna be something like take five dogs for a walk or something like that"
said a little annoyed Naruto .