Chapter 1: Arrival.
"Tenshi! Are you awake yet?" called a hyper voice.
"Baka, how could she not be with you calling through her door like that!" said an annoyed voice.
Tenshi just smirked. Same thing every morning, she thought. Her two best friends wake her up by screaming at each other in front of her apartment door.
"Guys, just shut up! I'll be out in a minute!"
"Ok!" shouted Sakura.
"Can we come in?" asked/shouted Natuto.
"Yeah, the doors unlocked!"
Sakura and Naruto opened the door and entered the apartment.
"Sakura, can you get some coffee started?"
"Of course, as long as I can have some!"
"Sure!"
Lots of screaming could be heard from the apartment. All the time.
Tenshi was in the bathroom, drying her black with light blue highlighted hair when Naruto came bursting threw the door.
"Tenshi-chan! Do you have any ramen?"
"I don't know. But if you barge in here one more time I will make sure that you cannot eat ramen ever agien." said Tenshi with a warning tone in her voice.
Naruto gulped.
"You wouldn't do that, would you?" asked Naruto innocently.
"I don't know, but I don't think you would want to see me try 'cause I will if you don't get out of here."
"Ok." said Naruto, high-tailing it out of there.
Tenshi sighed. He will never learn.
When Tenshi left the bathroom, she smelled the sweet smell of coffee, and, much to her dis-pleasure, ramen.
Sakura handed her a cup before she sat down at the table next to Naruto.
"Seriously Naruto, how can you eat that stuff so early in the morning?"
"Easy!" he said with a huge grin. "Like this." With that he started to eat while Sakura and Tenshi rolled their eyes.
They heard a knock on the door.
"Come in! The doors unlocked!"
Ino popped her head in threw the door.
"You guys have a mission. Report to Tsunade's office ASAP."
The three nodded and got up. Silently, they cleaned up the kitchen and headed out the door.
Tsunade looked up as her three top ANBU entered her office.
"Have a seat; I will be with you shortly."
She when back to her scroll, only to look up a moment after.
"I need you three to deliver a scroll to the Sand. They will give you a different scroll that you will take back to me. This could be difficult, or it can be easy. It depends on whether the Akatsuki found out about them. Chances are they did. If so, this could be extremely difficult. Understand?"
"Hai."
"Good. You will leave at dawn tomorrow. Good luck." She handed them a scroll.
As they left, Shizune came in.
"Tsunade-san, you have a visitor."
"Send him in."
A man in a black cape walked past the trio. Sakura looked at him strangely. Tenshi noticed the look.
"What is it?" she said quietly to her friend.
Sakura was quiet, and then said, "I'm not sure. I feel like I know him from some where. I recognize his chakra."
Tenshi nodded, somewhat confused, but she didn't want to push the issue, not here, not now.
Tsunade looked at the cloaked figure.
"Why do you want to come back? After all these years?" she asked.
"Because I do." answered the man.
Tsunade looked questionably at him.
"Very well. I expect you will stay at your place."
"Hn."
"Ok then. I'll let you get settled."
He turned to leave.
"Sasuke? Did you…" her voice trailed off.
"Give up on my revenge? No. but I have put it aside…for now." with that he left the room.
Sakura, Tenshi, and Naruto where training in the training fields before their mission. Sakura and Tenshi are sparing, while Naruto practiced his aim.
"Tenshi! Think fast!" yelled Naruto, throwing a kunai at Tenshi.
Tenshi caught it without even looking at it.
"Really Naruto. I expected you to do better than that." said Tenshi while dodging a punch from Sakura, then countering with an axe kick.
Sakura fell to the ground.
"You win. Agien." she complained. "You always win! It's not fair!"
Tenshi rolled her eyes.
"That's because you are so predictable."
"Tenshi! I bet you won't beat me!" shouted an egger Naruto.
"How much you want to bet?" said Tenshi, trying hard not to laugh.
"Hmmmm. If I win you treat me to ramen. And if you win…"
"If I win you have to ask Hinata out."
Naruto stared at her.
"But…"
"We all know you like her and she likes you. You won't ask her out and she won't ask you out. I'm just giving you the little push you need."
Naruto blushed.
"Fine. Let's fight!"
They got into their fighting positions and started to fight. Sakura just leaned up against a tree, watching the fight. This is going to be interesting.
Meanwhile, Sasuke walked to the training grounds after being told he would find Sakura and Naruto there.
I can't wait to she the looks on their faces when they see me…then again, they already saw me. They just didn't recognize me. He thought again to that morning, when he passed the two of them with a girl he never seen before. I wonder who that was. Hn. I'll just ask Sakura.
When he reached the training grounds, he saw Naruto sparring with the girl he was with earlier. Sakura was leaning up against a cherry blossom tree, watching the fight with an amused look in her eyes.
When he looked back to the fight, he smirked. Naruto was losing. To a girl.
He watched as Naruto charged at her, only for her to move out of the way to let him hit a tree.
Before he knew it, he was pinned to the tree.
"Hmmm. What do you know? You lost." said the girl.
Naruto pouted as the girl let go of him.
"Does that mean…"
"Yes, you have to ask Hinata out."
Sasuke smirked, surprised. The dope still didn't have the nerve to ask the Hyuga girl out. He needed to lose a stupid bet in order to do so.
He shook his head. When will he learn?
Sasuke sighed. Time to make my entrance.
Sakura smirked. Tenshi was unbeatable.
"Tenshi, can you show me how you do that jutsu, again?" she asked shyly.
"Of course. Watch."
"K."
Sakura watched as Tenshi did the jutsu that she still didn't understand.
"Ok." said Sakura throwing her hands up in the air, "I give up…"
"That surprises me, Sakura, I never knew you to give up." said a voice out of no where.
"Whose there?" called out an angered Tenshi.
The man from before stepped out of the shade of the nearest tree.
"Long time no see, Sakura, Naruto."
Sakura just stared at him.
"Naruto, you guys know him?" asked Tenshi.
"Yes I know that teme." said Naruto, obviously angry and excited but trying very hard to hide it.
"Sasuke-kun?" whispered Sakura.
"Sasuke…Uchiha?" asked Tenshi.
Their look was so worth it. Even the other girl looked surprised.
"Yeah Sakura, its me." said Sasuke.
Sakura ran to Sasuke, giving him the biggest hug ever.
"Oh Sasuke-kun, I missed you so much!"
"I missed you too."
When Sakura let go of me, Naruto walked over.
"What made you decide to come back?"
Sasuke's expression darkened.
"Lets not talk about it here." he said nodding towards the girl.
"WHAT! You don't trust Tenshi! She's awesome! She kicks ass!"
"Interesting intro, Naruto." said Tenshi, walking up to me.
"So you are the one who caused this town so much pain." she said coldly.
"Blame Itachi." he said, as equally coldly as Tenshi.
Sakura looked from Sasuke to Tenshi.
"Please don't fight! Not now!" she begged.
"Whatever you say, Sakura." says Tenshi annoyed. "Don't stay up to late. We have a mission tomorrow." with that Tenshi left to go home.
"You are not my fuckin mother!" called Naruto with playfully anger.
"Whatever!" she called back.
Sakura looked after Tenshi worried.
"Naruto, you think she's ok? She hasn't acted this cold since she arrived here."
Naruto just nodded.
"Mind telling me what's going on?" said Sasuke, confused.
"Oh, it's nothing." said Sakura quickly.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes. Yep, definitely nothing is making my friends upset.
"Yeah, we are just worried about a good friend." says Naruto.
"How long has she been here?" Sasuke asked, wanting more information on the girl.
"She arrived about a year after you left." said Naruto, since Sakura obviously didn't want to talk about it.
"Hn."
Damn the Uchiha! Uggg! He makes me so mad! How can they just welcome him back after he hurt them so bad! Tenshi stomped all the way to her apartment.
She sighed.
This is going to get interesting.