Weird Reunions

A while after the Sasuke retrieval mission the village had settled down. Sasuke was back. Naruto was just there. Things were intense for a while. With everyone from that mission finally recovering, they decided to interrogate Sasuke. Asking him questions while using a Yamanaka member as a lie detector. He answered truthfully.

He was influenced by the curse mark.

He wasn't mentally stable at the time.

He heard this voice, his voice, telling him that he needed power.

And when Naruto wouldn't let him go without a fight, he felt like he needed to fight Naruto.

Somewhere in the middle of the fight, he wanted to kill Naruto. And the thought only got stronger as he began transforming.

"Transforming into what?" they asked.

Transforming into this monster, but it felt good. He felt good, because he felt so powerful.

"And when it finally came down to the end, I saw Naruto. He closed his eyes and purposely missed. I had the Sharingan on at the time so I saw it all. I didn't want to win that way. I didn't want to kill him. When that thought ran through my mind, I had found the will to crush any influence the curse mark had on me," Sasuke said.

Regret was the only emotion he had. He had wronged so many. Especially his village.

"Is he telling the truth?" Sasuke heard one of the ninja say.

"It's all there in his head. He believes every word. He's not lying, but I can double check if you need me to," the Yamanaka said.

"No, its fine. That's all we need at the moment lets go to the Hokage," the ninja responded.


With Naruto...

It wasn't long before Naruto had left the hospital. He was the first one to leave. Sakura was looking for him, something he found strange. He was sure that she would have gone to the Uchiha first. When he spotted her, she looked winded.

"Naruto. I can't thank you enough," She said in between breaths.

"No problem Sakura-chan. I told you, I keep my promises and that was a promise of a lifetime," Naruto said confidently, almost triumphantly like a hero would.

"I know why I wasn't able to go," She said suddenly.

"Huh?" he responded.

"On the mission I mean. I wasn't strong enough," She said.

"Are you kidding Sakura? Your almost the strongest person I know," Naruto said.

"No. I wasn't strong enough, but I promise I'm going to get stronger for us. For the team," She said.

"Ok Lets get stronger together then," Naruto said.

"Right, for team 7," She said.

"For Team 7," He rose his voice.

"FOR TEAM SEVEN!" The both cheered at the same time.

Naruto somehow made her feel better. He made her feel confident. She felt like she was ready to visit Sasuke.

"I'm going to visit Sasuke now," Sakura said.

"You haven't visited him?" Naruto asked.

"No," She said.

"Why?"

"I was scared," Sakura said. She turned around to leave.

"He's back you know. I mean he's Sasuke again," Naruto said.

"Hey Naruto. Thanks," Sakura said as she began walking towards the hospital.

"Any time Sakura-chan," Naruto said.


With Sasuke...

He was sitting up right. He was thinking of the things he could do to repay his act of betrayal. He couldn't think of anything and then he heard Sakura's voice.

"Right here?" She asked outside of his hospital room.

"Yes that door right there," He heard the nurse guide Sakura.

She opened the door and saw Sasuke looking at her. She didn't blush. She wasn't nervous. She didn't have butterflies in her stomach. She didn't feel worry.

She walked up to him.

"I-

*Slap*

"You left us," She said.

"I'm-

*Slap*

"You had us worried,"

He stayed quiet this time.

"Why? Why did you leave?"

"I'm sorry," he said.

She began crying slowly. All of the emotions she was holding in were coming out.

"It'll be different this time, I promise. I won't leave," Sasuke said while he looked at Sakura's shaking body.

"I'm sorry," this time she apologized wiping away the tears.

"For what?" he asked.

"For hitting you," She said.

"Its fine. I deserved it," he said.

"So do you think things will go back to the way they used to be?" She asked.

"No... they'll be better. We'll be a team," Sasuke said.

"I hope so for your sake. I'm going to get strong and if you try to leave again, I'll be the one that brings your broken bones back to Konoha," Sakura said. Sasuke was confused. He thought she liked him. He guessed that after the night he left, those feelings weren't the same.

"Heh. So how's Naruto?" Sasuke asked. A smile appeared on Sakura's face at the mention of the blonde's name.

"He's doing good actually," she said.

"Figures," He replied.

"What happened between you two? I heard you two were in a fight," Sakura said. Sasuke's mood darkened when he recalled the fight.

"Yeah. We faught...

Flash back...


He was in his transformed state and Naruto had visible red bubbly chakra cloaking him. With their final techniques, they were ready to end the fight. They both jumped in the air. When their techniques were close to colliding with each other, it seemed to have caused a reaction of a compressed explosion. The only thing wrong with the situation was that the giant explosive sphere had engulfed them and wasn't reacting.

Inside the orb, however, Naruto and Sasuke were just about to hit each other with their attacks. Naruto missed. Sasuke decided to miss as well. As they exited the giant sphere in opposite directions, they were hit by the blast that the sphere had delayed. Sasuke hit the stony monument, hitting several ledges on the way down and Naruto skidded on the floor.

As Sasuke landed on the ground he had fractured his collar bone, his elbow, he sprained his ankle and dislocated his shoulder. Naruto had some scrapes from skidding on the floor, but they were minor injuries compared to Sasuke's. (Check187: to sasuke: Take that bitch)

Sasuke's eyes were hazy, but he could see someone coming towards him.

It was Kakashi.


Flash back end...

"...- then we were brought here," Sasuke said finishing what happened. He seemed lost in his thoughts.

"Oh I see. Well, I got to get going. Lady Tsunade might get angry if I show up late," Sakura said as she stood up and walked to the door.

"Hey Sasuke?" Sakura said. He still seemed lost in thought.

"Yeah?" He responded.

"Get better soon, ok?" Sakura said before walking out the door.

"Ok," Sasuke said. He smiled. He knew she was gone, but he felt better knowing he had teammates like them. A new start. A new beginning. A different path. Things were looking pretty good for him.


With Naruto...

A few days had passed by. Naruto had found a small litter of kittens that seemed to run away whenever he showed up. They looked like they were almost full grown cats, but they were slightly smaller so he considered them kittens. They would dumpster dive into nearby dango restaurants. He figured they liked dango. It seemed obvious enough so that's what he deduced.

He tried befriending them. Little by little, they seemed less scared of this blonde stranger. They purred when he petted them. Pretty soon they were all surrounding him, seeking attention from him.

And now on this day he bought some freshly made dango and a medium sized saucer of milk. He looked for the kittens and there they were. They were behind a dango shop again. As he stepped into the ally the kittens turned to the familiar face. He placed the saucer of milk down first.

Oh poor Naruto. For he only saw these cute little kittens that seemed to love him for all the tender love and care he gave them; he did not see the looming terror they saw. So when he brought the food and milk they were happy to see him at first, until they stared behind him and ran away.

Naruto was confused. The kittens never ran away like that. They had smiles for crying out loud. Why would they run away like that? These dango couldn't have been that bad, could they? He grabbed one and took a bite. Nope. They tasted great.

An arm seemed to snake its way around his neck while the other reached for the dango.

"Is this for me gaki?" He heard the voice of a woman that had the memories of her flash before his eyes. It was that creepy Ank-

"MMph!" He couldn't finish his thought. The woman had forced a kiss upon Naruto. He was shocked, baffled, and ... did I mention he was shocked. As she deepened the kiss, he could feel her tongue coiling around his. He didn't even notice what she was after. She did however. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted the dango that he had in his mouth and she got it.

As they separated, she yanked the rest of the dango sticks and left. Leaving the poor boy dazed. When Naruto finally came back from his shock. He was mad. She had stolen his first kiss. His first kiss. Fuck what anyone said. That one never counted or happened for that matter.

His hand slowly went up to his lips. The feeling of the kiss was still fresh in his mind. When they connected, when she forced her tongue in, it wasn't ba-

No she stole it. It wasn't real, yet he couldn't keep the smile off his face. It was a strange feeling.


With Anko...

It had been a slow day for Anko. She was bored out of her mind. She went to her favorite restaurant just to smell the food. She hadn't gotten a mission for a while now and she didn't have money to buy some dango. she would rather have the sweet smell of dango for free than stuck doing dishes for a nice plate of dango. As she walked out she could still smell the dango, but it wasn't coming from the restaurant.

It was coming from the ally way, behind the restaurant. There she saw the kid from the chunin exams. The one with the cute whisker marks on his face. She liked messing with him then, so why not mess with him now? She noticed the dango he had, she also noticed he was going to give it to these poor cute little kittens. No, wait. fuck those kittens, she was starving for some dango.

And like clock work, the gears in her head began turning. A devious smile spread across her face. She knew what she was going to do.

And the rest was history.

Oh how fun that had been for Anko. She felt good and she had dango to eat. To her this was a very nice victory.

Suddenly a ninja appeared in front of her. He told her that the Hokage wanted to see her. Finally, a new mission to do. She could get paid and then get some dango.

As she entered the Hokage's office she was greeted by her assistant and a little pig.

'That would make an interesting dango,' She thought eyeing the pig making Tonton fear for her life.

"Anko, I've got a mission for you. I'm sending you along with a genin I need a vacation fro- I mean a capable ninja. It's a simple information delivery mission, but the information is very important. Don't let anyone look besides this man. He'll hand you a scroll to give me. Is that clear?" Tsunade asked.

"Hai Hokage-sama. Just one question, who's the gaki?" Anko asked until she hear his voice...


With Naruto...

After the incident, Naruto still felt hungry. With the flavor of dango in his mouth, he decided to get more dango. Suddenly a ninja came by and told him to pack up, because he had an important mission from the Hokage. He did as he was told. He even packed the dango to eat on the mission.

As he walked into the Hokage tower, he wondered what mission he was going to get. And the more he thought about it, the more excited he would get. He finally reached her office.

"Alright! Baa-chan, I'm here. What's the important mission you're going to give me," Naruto said excitedly when he noticed Anko was standing right there.

"You're going to go on a missio-

"It's you!" Naruto said pointing a finger at Anko. As soon as he yelled he got bonked on the head by Tsunade.

"Don't interrupt me again you little brat," Tsunade stated.

"Ow, that hurt," Naruto said bashfully while holding his head and pouting. An expression that Anko had wanted to tease so badly, but she wouldn't. She held to much respect for the Hokage to cause such a scene.

"You'll be going with Anko. She's in charge. Do what she says and just go on the mission," Tsunade said exhausted.

"Hai Baa-chan," Naruto said still holding the same expression.

Anko had the mission the scroll and now she had to go on a mission with this cute little gaki. This day had started out slow and now it was snowballing into a great day.

'I Wonder how this mission is going to turn out. Heheh,'


End ... for now.

Check187: I wanted to get this out there. For those that have read "Hai Ojou sama, Whatever you say" You abso-probably know what i'm talking about.

Anyways I don't know what how I wanna play this yet. I like the idea of a SakuNaruAnko story, but I'm leaning towards just NaruAnko. Thank you for reading cuz well if you're reading this then you obviously read this chap of this story.

If you have any questions you know how to ask. review duh (^-^)