Sakura was walking around the gorgeous leaf village, it was early October, the leaves' colors were staring to change. The sun was still shining bright, there were no clouds in the blue sky. It was so warm and relaxing that Sakura forgot what she was doing. When she decided to sit down and just let the warm breeze nestled her soft round cheek. It was so calming that Sakura started to doze off to sleep.
"Sakura, Sakura, what are you doing?" softly called a voice from her past. She knew that voice so well, it was one she heard every night, in her darkest and happiest dreams. The one that consulted her that it will be alright.
"Sasuke, is that you?" she responded with a fierce intensity.
"Yes, Sakura it is me, I thought you were coming to visit me."
"I was, I mean, I am."
"Visiting hours are almost over."
"Oh no, they are, I have to go, I have to make it."
"Sakura, you have to wake up."
"What?"
"Wake up, wake up, wake up," the voice repeated, growing softer and softer.
"Sakura, Wake up." She opened her eyes to see Naruto shaking her. "Wake up," he yelled.
"Get off of me." she pushed him away.
"Are you okay, that was a pretty deep sleep you were in?"
"I'm fine, now get out of my way," Sakura yelled as she stood up.
"Did you see Sasuke today, he should be awake very soon?"
"That's where I'm going, bye, I have to hurry." Sakura runs of in a frenzy. She needs to get there. "I think I can wake him up by talking to him, I should be able to," Sakura thought to herself. Sakura was running just as fast as she possible could. There was almost nothing that could stop her. She was so close she could almost taste it, the half died taste of sick and elderly people was so close. She was getting so very close.
When all of the sudden, as she turned the corner, she ran into Rock Lee. "Oh lee, I'm sorry I should have been watching where I was going."
"Oh, Sakura, it's okay."
"So, how are you today?" Sakura asked nervously.
"Better now, Sakura is something wrong, you sound nervous." Rock lee answered. All that was going through her mind was visiting Sasuke at the hospital. "So, where are you going in such a hurry?"
"I'm going to the hospital." Sakura looks into the distance toward the hospital.
"Oh no, are you alright," Lee got a worried look on his face
"Yea, I'm fine."
"Then why are you going to the hospital?"
"To see Sasuke, I have to go, I want to make sure I'm there before visiting hours are up."
"Wait, Sakura, before you go answer me on question."
"What?"
"Sakura Haruno,
will you go out with me?"
"Lee, I don't have time for this,
I will tell you later." Sakura runs off, not thinking of what she
was just asked, all she cared about was seeing Sasuke.
After she left the hospital, all she could think of was the confrontation with Rock Lee earlier. What was she going to do? "Lee has been so strong for me, but I want to keep myself available, if Sasuke ever changes his mind, but Lee is so desperate, and loves me so much, I guess, I can go out with him, just to be nice," Sakura thought out loud. The next day Sakura went off to find Lee to give him the good news. Again as Sakura turns the corner. Bam, she runs into someone else.
"Oh, I'm sorry, wait it's just you," Sakura said as she saw Ino getting of the ground. "Need help," Sakura offered a hand to the once upright Ino.
"Sakura," Ino screamed.
"What? I helped you up."
"You really need to watch where you are going, now my butt hurts."
"I'm sorry, is your butt going to survive."
"I hope so, it's all I have since I cut off all my hair. Look at it, it's like a bunny rabbit tail," the girls started to laugh. "I heard you got asked out by Rock Lee again, but you didn't smack him."
"Yea, he did, and I didn't, I was actually on my way to find him."
"Are you going to say yes?"
"Yea."
"Oh that's great."
"We're not getting married, just going on a date."
"I wasn't happy for you, I was happy for me, with you out with mister brows, I can take Sasuke off your hands, you two will be perfect together, bushy brow and billboard brow, you already have the same last name, how sweet."
"Shut up Ino, pig, it's just a pity date."
"Ahh, to bad, like I said perfect." Ino walked off laughing.
"How dare she say that," Sakura thought to herself. She knows she doesn't have a chance in hell with Sasuke, so why be mean to a guy who loves her so. Sakura needs to find Rock Lee. "Where could he be?" Sakura thought again to herself. She walked all around town. She still couldn't find him. She walked toward the edge of town and still, he was no where in sight. It was getting late, and Sakura was getting very tired. She decided to go back home and try again tomorrow.
The next day Sakura went off to look for Rock Lee again. This time if she saw anyone she would stop and ask if they saw him. Of course, unfortunately, the first person she saw was Ino. She could go up to her and ask if she saw him, but she would just end up making fun of her again. She decided just to go past her and look someone else. "Hi Sakura," Ino said as Sakura tried to pass by her. "Did you Rock Lee, your lover, yesterday."
"Whatever."
"So, what are you doing today?"
"None of your business, I need to go."
"Okay, bye." Sakura runs off around the corner.
"Hi Sakura," Naruto says when he sees Sakura coming around the corner.
"Hey Naruto, have you seen Rock Lee lately?"
"No, why are you looking for bushy bruw?"
"Because, I need to tell him something," Sakura yelled at Naruto.
"I was just asking."
"Whatever you say, bye."
"Bye."
Sakura walks off to try to find someone else who might have a clue. She is walking all around and can't find anyone in town anywhere. "It's five 'o' clock, Kakashi's most likely at home," Sakura said to herself. She runs off to Kakashi's house, when she got there she sees six-teen Narutos working around Kakashi's front yard. "I'm not going to ask," she whispered to herself while sneaking around to the back. "Kakashi-sensei," Sakura calls while lightly tapping on the door.
Kakashi suddenly appeared at the now slightly opened door. "What are you doing at my back door?" Kakashi asked.
"I have a question, and I didn't want to disturb the Narutos."
"Okay, wait did you say Narutos."
"Don't worry about that, I wanted to know if you know where Rock Lee might be."
"I think he's training, like he always is."
"Okay, thanks."
"Wait, I would got to the ramen bar to see if Guy is there to make sure."
"Alright." Sakura heads off in the direction of the ramen bar. When she got there, she found that Kakashi was wrong, Guy was no where in sight. She had to find Lee, she couldn't take it anymore. She was about to give up, when she heard what sounded like Lee training in the woods. Sakura walked up toward the woods to get closer to the sound. "Lee, is that you," Sakura called out, half afraid and half excited. She walked a little closer.
The person in the woods called out in fright, "is anyone there, don't come any closer, I'm warning you, I'm a taijutsu master."
"Lee is that you?" Sakura called as she walked, through the last little bit of brush, toward the training field.
"Sakura, is that you?" Lee smiled as he saw her somewhat friendly face. "What are you doing out here this late?"
"Late, it's only nine-thirty."
"Wow, time sure flies when you're having fun."
"Yea, fun."
"So, did you want something?"
"Um, well," Sakura got nearly Hinata red with embarrassment. "Well, I'm here to give you a response for your question from the other day."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean about going out sometime."
"Okay then, what are you saying."
"I'm saying, I will," she gulps, "go out with you."
"You mean it, yes, yes," Lee screamed while doing back flips in the air. "Sakura, you can't truly understand how happy I am right now."
"I bet I can," Sakura said while imagining how she would feel if Sasuke would go out with her.
"I must tell Guy-sensei, he would be so proud."
"All I know is he's not at the ramen bar."
"Oh the ramen bar, mmm ramen sounds good, we can go there for lunch tomorrow, after I beat that teammate, Naruto, of yours, speaking of teammates, how's Sasuke, wait we'll talk about everything tomorrow on our date, oh our date, I love the sound of that, bye beautiful Sakura, I will see you tomorrow, let's say one."
