There she was, standing in front of the gates which she had left behind for her country, but now she was home. Home at last. She approached the gates and looked up at the people on guard duty.
"Hey! Open up the gates!" The woman shouted at the guards.
"What is your business in Konoha?" One of the guards called back to her.
"I am here to speak with Tsunade-sama." She shouted back at them.
"No one is scheduled to meet her right now!" The other guard shouted in return.
"Great," The women mumbled under her breath. As she was turning around to leave, she saw the familiar face of a perverted frog hermit coming up behind her.
"Jiraiya-sama, you're just the person I need to see!" The women exclaimed as she ran towards him. Jiraya looked the woman up and down; she looked roughly 23, seemed a little under six feet, had short pink hair, and also had her Leaf hitai-ate slanted down in front of her right eye. The feature that showed the most, however, was her eye which was a brilliant green. Jiraiya also noticed that she had an amazing figure.
"Now what would a pretty girl like you want to see someone like me for?" Jiraiya asked forcing back a nose bleed.
"Well you see Jiraiya-sama, I need to get in the village but the guards won't open the gates and I need to see Tsunade-sama to report that I finished my mission." The woman explained.
"I see. How long was your mission?" Jiraiya asked.
"Tomorrow it will have been ten years, Jiraiya-sama." The woman said with a sigh
"I see" Jiraiya stated.
"Well can you help me?" The woman asked.
"By any chance are you Haruno Sakura?" Jiraiya asked.
"God! It took you long enough to figure it out." Sakura said fuming.
"Well then follow me Sakura." He said walking up to the gates. The guards saw him and opened the gates. "To tell you the truth Sakura everyone thinks you're dead."
"Really?" Sakura asked as she walked along side Jiraiya.
"Yeah. You should have seen your funeral everyone in Konoha came and some people came from other villages when they heard you had died. You were that missed Sakura." Jiraiya said a little bewildered at his own words. Sakura stared at him with wide eyes. "Well here we are. Do you want an escort to the Hokage's office too?"
"Yeah that would be nice. Oh and Jiraiya-sama." She said
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Thanks for everything." Sakura said as she smiled and hugged him, when she let go he was passed out from blood loss. Sakura quickly healed him and they continued on there way.
"Send him in." Came the voice of the Hokage.
"Hello Tsunade-hime." Jiraiya said a bit to cheerfully.
"Hello Jiraiya, what do you want?" Tsunade replayed.
"Oh I don't want anything; it's the person I'm escorting that wants something." Jiraiya replayed again far too cheerfully for Tsunade's standards.
"Who's that Jiraiya?" Tsunade asked not wanting to wait any longer.
"I think you know her, her name is Haruno Sakura." Jiraiya replied watching Tsunade's reaction to the name and the part where Sakura walked in, in all her Sakura glory. To make a long story short; Tsunade was speechless.
"Jiraiya, I want you to get Kakashi's, Kurenai's, Asume's, and Gai's team here now!" Tsunade yelled never taking her eyes off Sakura. Jiraiya was gone the second she finished.
"Hi Tsunade-sama." Sakura said rubbing the back of her head.
"I can't believe it you're alive." Tsunade said in shock
"Believe it because I'm right here." Sakura replied. At that instant multiple clouds of smoke appeared.
"Yo." Sakura said to the entire group in front of her, "Sorry for being late, I saw two turtles running in a race so I had to stay and make sure that they didn't collapse."
Everyone stared in shock. There in the middle of the room was a women who was giving an excuse for being late. The first to recover was team 7 when they realised that that was one of the lame excuses Kakashi would give.
"LIAR!!" Naruto shouted. Kakashi just smiled and Sasuke smirked.
"Yo." Kakashi commented pulling out his beloved book just to tick Sakura off.
"Yo." Sakura said with a smile, "Hey Ino-pig, you just going to stand and stare, didn't your mother ever tell you that that is rude."
"Welcome back forehead-girl." Ino said, tears streaming down her face.
"Hey Naruto looks like you're still not Hokage." Sakura said with a smile, "What did you do while I was gone? Eat ramen everyday?" Sakura said laughing. Then everyone knew.
Haruno Sakura was alive and well.