Hey everyone! I hope that you are ready for this fun adventure that I am going to be sharing with you! I also wanted to say that I DO NOT OWN the characters from Naruto and Naruto Shippuden! Please enjoy and leave a review if you want!

Training, Ramen

Sakura screeched as she listened to Lady Tsunade, "I am what?!" Sakura yelled as she looked at her. "Lady Tsunade I love you like a mother but please the hospital needs me, the medic teams for both Anbu, evac teams, and just regular teams need me!" Sakura pleaded as she looked at her adoptive mother and Hokage. "I am sorry Sakura but my mind has been made up. As of right now you are permanent vacation until I say you are allowed to return back to the hospital and any missions." Lady Tsunade said sternly as she looked at her, and continued "I do not want to hear any buts about it you work to much for your own good Sakura and you do not take any breaks. You need time to decompress and relax." Sakura looked at Tsunade and said, "But who is going to cover my shifts? What if there is an emergency?" Tsunade put her hand up and simply said, "Then Shizune or I or both of us will handle it, you have trained this staff to handle any situation and you have trained various other hospitals in all of the neighboring ninja villages. I am pretty sure we are capable of handling your vacation time." Sakura sighed as she looked at Tsunade and begrudgingly said, "Fine I am on vacation." Tsunade smirked and said, "I need your hospital badge, your keys to the hospital, and any official paperwork or documents. When your vacation time is up you will be able to get them all back." Sakura tensed as Tsunade said that, but handed them all over to her. "Now my beloved daughter go have some fun and please do not send anyone to the hospital unless they deserve it." Tsunade said as she shooed her from her office. "Well, at least that is over with." Tsunade thought to herself. "Shizune I need more sake!" Tsunade yelled as she heard Shizune scrambling to bring her another bottle.

Sakura sighed as she left the Hokage tower, she didn't know what to do so she decided she would head to the training grounds to get some training in and figure out what the hell she was going to do with herself. Sakura sighed as she thought back to when Tsunade took her on as an apprentice, then adopted her when her parents didn't return from their mission, and just all the changes that have happened. Sasuke and Itachi were one of the top ranking Anbu members, though Itachi still beat him as being the youngest captain. Ino was getting married to Choji soon, Shikamaru and Temari were expecting their first child, Kiba was getting ready to take over as clan leader, TenTen and Neji were trying to date, Shino was doing his usual bug thing and working with intelligence operatives, Naruto was training to be the next Hokage and courting Hinata while she was being prepped to be head of the clan, and she was on permanent vacation for not taking a day off at the hospital duties as head of the medical teams, missions, and anything the Hokage asked her to do. Sakura sighed as she finally made it to the field and was shocked to see Itachi, Shisui, Genma, Anko, Kakashi, Kurenia, and Asuma all there training with Konoha 11. Sakura smiled as she yelled "Hey do you mind if I join you?" Ino squealed as she ran over to Sakura and pulled her over, "Of course Forehead!" Sakura smiled as her and Ino went back to join the others in training. "I am surprised to see you outside of the hospital." Gemna and Shisui said at the same time. "Well, until further notice, I am officially on permanent, which means no missions and no hospital." Sakura said quietly as she looked at her feet angrily. "Cheer up Blossom, that just means that you get to have some fun with us instead." Itachi said as he looked at her, "Shisui, stop slacking and lets get back to training." Itachi added as he attacked his cousin. Everyone joined in as Sakura, Naruto, Sai, and Sasuke started normal training with their ninjutsu, then move on to weapons, then stealth, and then taijutsu. This repeated throughout the entire training it went through the sensies/captains, to the students, and then they would mix together to train as well.

After a couple of hours of training everyone stopped and took a break, you could see Sakura just laying down on the grass looking up at the sky and relaxing. Soon she was joined by Itachi who literally picked her up and moved her so she was leaning against him while he sat down under a tree with her. "Itachi I was enjoying the sun." Sakura whined as she looked up at him and blushed slightly. "I can see that, however, I wanted to spend some actual time with you for a little bit. Plus I want to ask you if you would like to join me tonight for dinner at my place?" Itachi asked as he looked down at her. "I am guessing it will be with your family or in your actual apartment?" Sakura inquired so she knew what to go home and get changed into after training. Itachi knew that Sakura didn't like to be underdress or overdressed, and she definitely did not want to show up right after training. "It will be at my apartment, Sasuke and Shisui may stop by of course, but that is only natural of them since they never want to stay at home at all." Itachi stated as he looked down at her. "Sure, why not I have nothing better to do tonight." Sakura shrugged as she sat up and stretched. She slowly stood up and popped the muscles in her back and her neck as she looked at him. "What time would you like me over Itachi-kun?" Sakura asked as she continued her small stretches. "How about we say 7pm, it is 2pm now and we probably will be training for another couple of hours, that will give you enough time to relax and get ready." Itachi said thoughtfully as he got up and looked down at her. Sakura nodded and smiled as she turned to move to go back to training, when he pulled her back and kissed her on the cheek and whispered in her ear "See you tonight." This did not go unnoticed by Gemna, Ino, Kakashi, and Sasuke. Everyone else was too busy in their own world and training. Ino squealed quietly with Sakura as they decided that they were going to have their own fight. "So Ino what are the stakes this time?" Sakura asked as she looked at her and smiled she had just finished putting on her gloves that helped her when she is fighting. "Whoever looses has to treat the winners to a spa day at the new spa at the Hyuaga family and the Uchiha family just opened up together." Ino offered as she looked at her and smirked. "Your on!" Sakura said as she took her fighting stance. "Ready?" Sakura asked as she looked at Ino who nodded. "Let the battle begin!" Choji yelled as the two took off in one of the most heavily and heated sparring session that they have seen so far between the two of them. The max lasted almost two hours and finally Sakura was the victor after demolishing almost the whole training grounds. "I am going to have to pay for the training ground and either way you will be joining me so I will pay for you." Sakura said as her and Ino collapsed laying on the ground laughing as they looked at each other and smiled. "Well, I am gonna head home and take a bath and send a message with the money over to Lady Tsunade." Sakura said as she got up and grabbed her stuff. "I will walk you home, since I am heading out anyway." Gemna offered as he looked at her. Sakura nodded as she waved goodbye to everyone as they left the training grounds and headed to her house.

Sakura and Gemna got to her place and he walked her to the door. "Would you like to come in?" Sakura asked as she looked up at Gemna. "Sure, I would love to come in." Gemna said as he looked down at her. Sakura smiled as she unlocked the door and opened it letting him walk in first. Gemna headed inside and Sakura followed as she grabbed her mail and placed it on the table. She closed the door and put her keys up and took her shoes off and placed them next to Gemna, who was leaning against the wall looking at her. As soon as Sakura stood up and was walking to the kitchen she was pulled against Gemna in a deep passionate kiss as he held her close and ran his hands into her hair. Gemna broke the kiss and looked down at her and moved her hair behind her ear. "I missed you while I was out on my mission." Gemna whispered, not many people knew that they were living together and they had been seeing each other for a couple of months now. They weren't in a relationship, however, they had slowly moved from roommates to simply having quiet date nights in the house. They weren't ready to go public, and after the almost near death mission that they were on together where Sakura almost lost her life, Gemna did not want to leave her alone. Plus he was now apart of her protection team and was chosen to live with to make sure that people did not try to kidnap a vital person to the Hidden Leaf Village. Sakura sighed as she leaned against him and said, "Itachi invited me to dinner, and I have a feeling he is going to try to start courting me. He has been hinting to it for so long, and I am not ready for that. Not after everything, plus I have you." Gemna chuckled and looked down at her. "Go on a couple of dates, but when you come home at night I will have the house ready for a romantic evening with a bubble bath and everything you love." He whispered as he picked her up and took her to the bathroom to get her in a bubble bath and her ready for dinner that was going to be happening with a very persistent Uchiha. Sakura nodded as she giggled and held onto him. He got the bath ready and put her inside to soak after he took her clothes off. He let her soak while he got some food ready for her and he got her outfit ready for tonight. Sakura relaxed as she cleaned herself off and washed her hair. She got out of the bathtub and blowed dried her hair and brushed it. She walked out and smiled as she put on her bra and her black flowy tank top and her skinny jeans and her sandals that he had picked out. She smiled as she snuck up behind Gemna and kissed his neck as he groaned lightly. "If you do that you aren't going to be making it to dinner tonight." Gemna said as he looked at her and Sakura smiled back as she picked up the sandwich that he had made for her.

Sakura soon left the house and went to have dinner with Itachi. She arrived to his place but saw that he wasn't there and that the lights were off. She tried the door because sometimes he would leave it open if he was going to be back soon but it was locked. She noticed that there was a note on the door that said Sakura I apologize that I am not home, there was an emergency a the Uchiha police station and I was needed. I will come by to see you tomorrow to schedule plans. Sakura sighed and headed back home, she stopped and picked up sushi for her and Gemna. She walked back to the house and walked inside and noticed that he was gone to or at least she thought. She put her stuff down and went into her room to get into her pjs. When she came out she saw Gemna and one of the girls that he worked with. Sakura was shocked when she saw this, she was kissing him though it did look like he was trying to push her off. "Get off and get out Lily, I have told you many times that I am not interested in you and you proceed to follow me home and to try to get into my pants. Now get out." He shouted as he pushed her out the door and slammed it in her face. Lily hadn't seen Sakura, however, Gemna did and he was not happy about that. "I am so sorry" Gemna exclaimed as he looked at her, however, Sakura walked up to him and kissed him deeply and pulled him to her. She jumped up and he caught her as she wrapped her legs around his waist, which Gemna had time to turn around and lean her against the wall. He asked for permission and slowly pushed his tongue into her mouth that started a heavy make out session. "I have sushi in the refrigerator for us." Sakura whispered as she broke the kiss needing air and had he slowly put her down. He went to grab the sushi as she put a movie on the TV. They sat there and ate sushi and watched tv and fell asleep in each others arms that night. Sakura sighed in happiness as she leaned against him and did not want anything to change for the longest time.