Second fic.. kind of nervous about this.
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The Return.
To say that she was shocked would be the understatement of a century. She had only been gone a couple of months for a mission in Suna then viola, she comes home and suddenly he's back?
Scoffing to herself, she weaves through the crowds and squealing girls to the Hokage's building.
Getting fed up with hearing 'Sasuke-kun', she disappears in a shower of cherry blossoms to the tower.
Arriving at her mentors building, still hearing squeals and cheering she quickly runs up the stairs to the Hokages office, quickly giving nods to passer bys. Not bothering with knocking as she was extremely familiar with the building, you know, being the Hokages apprentice and all… she walked in with her head held up high ready to give her mentor the good news of her success on her latest mission. What she didn't count on was the person she most loathed to be standing in the room. Suddenly the room wasn't so pleasant. Her face soon dropped to that of a glare as her eyes landed on… "Sasuke-kun". Mentally shaking her fist at whoever was up in the heavens at this point in time, she pointed her gaze to the Hokage.
"I'm sorry shishou for interrupting; I was just here to give my mission report as requested"
"Oh Sakura! Your back, hopefully with good news I presume?"
"Of course. But perhaps I should come back later when you've sorted out this traitor?"
Ouch.
"Don't worry about him, we are done. Remember Uchiha, you're walking on thin ice here, one screw up and I'll dig you so far into the earth's core that it'll incinerate you. Got it?"
"Yes, of course Tsnaude-sama." Sasuke's deep baritone voice spoke.
Turning around with ANBU slowly trailing after, he left for the Uchiha compound.
Sakura turned her stare to her shishou, obviously wanting to know what the hell was going on.
"Hmm, it seems the Uchiha boy fulfilled his revenge quest and killed Orochimaru in the process. He said he does not know of what happened to Kabuto." Explained Tsunade.
"Well, that's great for him. But enough of him, here is the mission report. You'll be pleased to know that I didn't run into much trouble. I think it's fair to say, it was pretty much a walk in the park." As Sakura handed her mentor the report, Tsunade gave her a look that was obvious in saying 'is that all you've got to say?'Sakura stared back with a bored expression... Sighing she figured to better explain it then.
"I'm not in love with him anymore; in fact I don't think I ever was. It was just puppy love. I was so blinded by my infatuation that I failed to see what was right in front of me, he's a human ice cube that is incapable of loving anything."
Tsunade didn't seem to accept her answer but she nodded anyway, giving her a dismissal.
Walking out of the tower and back to her apartment, she figured she smelt bad and probably didn't look any better. Coming up to her apartment in record timing, she walked through the door, stripping off her clothing and jumping straight into a nice hot shower.
Sighing with contentment for the first time since she arrived back in the village, she scrubbed at her hair and skin to remove the sweat and grime that had accumulated from her travels. Stepping out of the shower and dressing in her normal ninja attire, including her ANBU vest with black shorts and red singlet top, she backtracked and picked up her disposed clothing. Throwing the clothing in the wash and putting away her ANBU mask, Sakura decided to take a quick cat nap on her bed.
Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Screaming out in frustration from being interrupted from her peaceful slumber, Sakura grabbed her door handle, slammed it open to find Naruto beaming up at her from her front door.
Letting her scowl drop from her face to a brilliant smile, she was quickly enveloped in a big bear hug.
"Can't breathe, Naruto-baka" Sakura jokingly pushed him away.
"Sorry Sakura-Chan, I just wanted to visit you to see if you wanted to join me for ramen!"
He quickly added "Oh Sasuke-teme is back!!"
Sakura sweat dropped.
"Of course, I know he's back silly."
"Have you visited him? Cause I was going to drag him along for some ramen"
"Well, I'm sure he'd love that" she sarcastically replied
"I don't care, the bastard has no say and neither do you" with that said, Naruto quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of her apartment complex straight down to the ramen stand.
"NARUTO! I can walk by myself; stop bloody dragging me along like a rag doll, dammit!" She screamed, adding on an extra punch to the head to prove her point.
Naruto just sulked at being punched.
"Sakura-Chan must you always hit me?"
"Would you two shut up? You're attracting attention"
Sakura whipped her head around so fast, she nearly got whiplash. God dammit why did that prick have to actually come of his own free will? Seems to be doing that a lot lately…
"Would you go jump off a cliff?" Sakura snapped back.
This is not Sakura… Sasuke thought.
"Hn."
"Yeah that's what I thought. We don't always get what we want. Especially in my case, cause that'd mean you'd still be fagging around with the snake-bastard and his lap dog." An idea just popped into Sakura's head.
She let out a mock gasp.
"Oh no, wait! I take that back, you'd would be more useful 6 feet underground."
Naruto let his jaw drop to the ground.
"Sakura-Chan! It's my job to insult the teme!!"
"Yeah, whatever. On second thought Naruto, I might catch up with you later. I'm rather tired, cya around baka"
Naruto was about to open his mouth to speak his protests but Sakura had already left.
Both the boys were left wondering what happened to their Sakura.
A/N: So... what did you's think?