The sun was shinging brightly down on her cherry blossom pink hair, as she walked throught the small village that she was currently residing in, heading over to her hokages office to determine what her next mission would be. Ever since she had got her heartbroken at that time, she kept herself pre occupied by training constently, and taking every mission that she was able to get, keeping her emotions bottled up so nothing would be able to show, and no one would know just exactly how she was feeling, or how bad she was truly hurting. Things like that, she has always tried to keep those feelings bottled up, and always made sure to check on others, and fake her smiles so that no one knew what she was going through.
The perfect cover up, or so she thought that it was anyways.
She walked into the building were the Hokage currently resided, and made her way down the long lengthy halls to get to her destination. Sighing, she stopped in front of the large brown, wooden door, and knocked quielty, waiting for her to be allowed in. She heard a faint, "come in.", from the other side, and immediately, she put her fake smile on her face, opening the door to enter. Entering the room, she saw Lady Tsunade sitting her desk, with her hands on her head letting out a long, stressed out sigh, putting down her pencil to look up at her. She let out a little smile when she noticed her standing there.
"Finally, you made it here just in time Sakura."
Sakura looked up at her once again, still carrying the same fake smile as she did when she first entered the room, "Of course sensei, You called for me, so what mission do I have now?" She asked respectfully,
Tsunade, once again, let out another sigh, staring at her, a look on her face that she has never seen before. It kind of made me worry a little bit, but I let it pass by my anyways. "Well, you may not like this mission very well, but you are the only one that I can count on for this mission, the only one that I can trust as of right now." Her face was calm and collected, and her voice was stern but collected. She sometimes felt proud that she was her teacher, Ever since she has been training harder, Tsunade had pretty much taken her under her wing, and trained her with super human strength that can kill someone in one blow. A long with it, her temper as well is very easily set off which also came from her sensei. "I undersatnd Lady Hokage, I will be more than happy to do the mission for you, Just let me know the details so I can make sure I am properly prepared." She stated confidently,
Tsunade stared at her quietly for a minute, obviouslty debating on how to word the debriefing. It stayed quiet in the room for pretty much a whole ten minutes, before anything was said. "Well, I am trying to figure out how to tell you, without upsetting you or making you want to turn down the mission. I want you to be able to completly focus on the mission, but I am mainly worried about your emotions, and your feelings." She breifly spoke without loosing eye contact with Sakura. She raised her eyebrows in confusion, not sure on why her mentor would be so concerned with her emotions and feelings due to a mission, that she has not even told her the details for yet. Surely, it had nothing to do with her hearbreak, considering that have had no leads on him in over a year now. They use to get leads all the time, but they turned out to be dead end leads, or a battle would break out before anyone could speak on changing minds or anything like that. She frowned at her, trying to understand what she meant but was not able to.
"Lady Hokage, whatever it is, even if it has to do with my feelings or emotions, It will not affect the mission, those will be blocked away, you know as well as I do, that I would not let anything or anyone stand in the way of that, so please tell me what the mission is and what I need to do. I will be sure to succeed in it." My voice was full of confidence, but on the inside, my mind was racing. What could it be that made her mentor think that she would be able to handle it. She knew she would though, she had got to where she can handle anything thrown her way, aside from death that is.
Tsunade continued to stare at her hard, still thinking. Nothing had came out yet in reguards to the mission. Sakura continued to wait for her to speak. "Well, considering I have no other choice but to send you, here goes nothing. This mission, is a retrival mission. I have recieved word that Sasuke has been sighted close to near hear, now the next few things that I am fixing to tell you, must not be spoken to anyone as is considered to be confidential, and if anyone were to find out, a few...certain lives... would be at stake that really does not need to be, do i make that clear before I continue explaining?" She asked, voice much harder than it normally is, only resulting in making her more nervous than she was before. Then something clicked in her head, something that Hokage spoke, that has not been spoken in a long time, that name... had not been brought up in a year ever since the last lead was a dead end. Before her emotions could take place or show, she forced them down, and looked at her mentor, pure determination on her face, She was not going to let him ruin this mission for her, because of naive feelings for him that really should not be there anymore. Of course, they still were, and they would always be, but it was something that she was going to make sure never serficed again in her life.44
She forced her face to become blank, and stared back at the Hokage with a blank expression on her face. "yes Hokage, I under stand, I am ready for you to tell." She spoke softly. Tsunade nodded her head at her, and continued to stare at her before also continueing to speak explaining everything, and I would knod my head at her showing that im listenign so there was no problems, and that she is hearing everything that she is saying. "To start with, I know you are already aware that Sasuke was going to go after his brother for revenge for massacuring the entire Uchiha clan. But the thing is, Itachi is not to complete blame for that massacre, matter of fact, he is not to blame at all," She paused in the middle of exlaing, sighing and pushing her hair back behind her ear, speaking again," that was soemthing that was ordered, because the Uchiha clan had been plotting a scene, to kill the Hokage, and take over Konaha, and make them the leaders. Itachi, being part of the ANBU, caught wind of the plotting, and informed the Hokage immediatly, but Danzo had been present in the room at the time, and ordered for Itachi to kill off his whole family, and give his life up in Konaha with it, and no one knowing the truth. When Danzo made this order, Itachi had asked the Sasuke be spared, and be able to live his life, knowing full well that Sasuke would evnetual come after him in return, So what I want you to do, is find sasuke, and bring him back here, and hopefully, we can sort this mess out, and he will no longer want to get the revenge that he seaks, and Itachi would be left alone. I want you to leave in the next hour, and make sure you bring plenty of supplies and cloths, because I do not know how long this mission will take you." She spoke slowly but clearly so that she didnt miss anything and nothing would have to be repeated, then sat back in her chair, watching Sakura, watching for any sighn on any emotion, or anything that she could see that Sakura USE to have a hard time hiding, which was not the case now.
Sakura stared at her mentor for a moment, completyly shocked by what she was told , considering everyone believed that he is/was a cold blooded murdered that betrayed his own village, In secretcy, he really was not, and it is the saddest thing, because no one knew, and no one would ever know. She was not sure how she would react now if she ever saw him, but she would probably still be scared, and not care too much, because there always could have been a better way. Pushing all these thoughts to the side, she looked back at her sensei, fully prepared to do the mission without a second thought, or even batting a eye of fear or anything that should have been felt, but was not felt. She closed her eyes, opening them back up to look at the Hokage. "Hai, lady Hokage, I will make sure to bring him back so you can explain, I will pack and leave immiediatly." She spoke, and with that being said, she dissapeared in a flurry of cherry blossom petals,
Arriving back at her apartment, she immediatly grabbed her bag, and began to pack everything that she would need for the mission, and a little extra just to be on the safe side. Before giving her the mission details, she had given her an idea on where she should start looking for him, that way it would be a little easier this time. Cloths, shuriken, kunai, food, water, extra water, healing items from the hospital, and of course, her contraceptives to keep anything from happening in case any rogue ninja snuck up on her just in case. She sighed as she packed her last object in the bag, throwing it over her shoulder, and walking out the door to head to the gates to get ready