I own nothing, characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. First story so please be kind.
Cherry Blossoms
1
Sakura Haruno dropped on her bed. Long day at the clinic, and she was exhausted. How did she get through the day? Tsunade taught her well, she was up nearly two full days working on injured shinobi. Team Seven had a mission soon. She had to be rested for this, but emergencies happened. Such as the ones that she came in contact with yesterday. So many shinobi had been ambushed, so many injured, more dead.
Sakura closed her eyes and shot up as there was a sharp knock on her door.
Kakashi stood at her door. He lazily looked up from his perverted book.
"Hey Sakura," he waved slightly.
"What are you doing here Kakashi-sensei?" she asked right away.
"I'm well how are you?" Kakashi ignored her question. "Tsunade sent me to fetch you."
Sakura rolled her eyes. Tsunade knew she just got done with these long string of emergencies. Sakura followed Kakashi to the Hokage's office. There she saw Tsunade with her cup of Sake and Shizune looking out the window with Ton Ton. Sakura felt like crap, and no doubt it was being reflected in her appearance.
"Tsunade-sama?" she bowed her head. "You sent for me?"
"Yes," she sipped the cup and set it down only for Shizune to grimace as she began to pour another cup. "Sakura, I think now is the time to offer this to you. Shizune fill it to the top!"
Shizune sighed poured more.
"Anyway, I'm offering you the chance to join the ranks of the ANBU," she looked at Sakura's weary face. Shizune nearly dropped the cup as she was pouring. She realized that would mean that Sakura would be outranking her.
"Seriously?" Sakura was awake enough to understand and she was excited. "The ANBU?"
"Yes," Tsunade began to explain. "It would be immensely helpful to have an ANBU member I trust so well. Not only that but your medical talents would be very well suited for a position like this."
Kakashi looked up from his book for a moment to hear this conversation.
"It would prevent lives from being lost and all those continued strings of emergencies at the hospital," she smiled at Sakura.
"I can hardly believe this," Sakura whispered.
"Kakashi!" as Tsunade turned to him he quickly closed the book. "Take Sakura to the ANBU outfitter, he'll make a mask for her and the proper uniform to fit her style."
"Yes, Lady Hokage," he stood up to leave but Sakura stopped him when he heard her ask a question.
"Tsunade-sama," Sakura began. "What about Team Seven's mission that's coming up? ANBU don't go on the same kind of missions."
"I'm assigning it to a different team, besides the rest of your team will be busy with other things," she grinned a knowing smile.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked slightly confused.
"I mean Sasuke is trying out for an ANBU position too, Naruto is trying to become a jounin, and I believe Kakashi will probably be called back into the ANBU. You may all be a team again, just as part of the ANBU," Tsunade explained.
"How can our team be an ANBU team if Naruto is only a jounin?" Sakura inquired.
"Simple, Sai will take his place until he is ready," she answered. Tsunade drank her cup of Sake again. "It may take awhile but it may not, we never know with Naruto."
Sakura nodded, she bowed as she left but as she left she muttered to Kakashi, "I can't imagine Sasuke and Sai getting along much better."
"Me either," he chuckled.
I know it's short but there should be more to come.