A Feeling of Yearning
Mario11445: Hey everybody! I warned you to keep an eye out for this! Not the title, but the ones who read my first story all the way to the end do! I'm not exactly sure of what this is going to be about, so we'll find out together! Thanks for reading! I'm going to make the chapters longer this time! Five year time skip since the incident with Sasuke's escape. Just to let you know, some of this almost made ME cry.
The pink-haired konoichi sighed as Tsunade continued to lecture her. She was fifteen, and was stuck in her sensei's office like some badly behaved Academy student. It was true she was being a bad girl, but she couldn't take being nice to everyone who wronged her. Like Sasuke.
"Are you listening to me Sakura?!" The Hokage, or as Naruto would say, the old hag, yelled. Sakura awoke from her daydream.
"Hai," She said, "Gomen, Tsunade-sama."
Mario11445: Alright about the Japanese talk there, I'll fill you in on what they mean when they come up. For instance, Hai- means yes, yes sir, and yes ma'am, Gomen- means sorry or I'm sorry. Enjoy! Oh yeah another thing, when the speech is italicized, that means that they are talking to themselves in their mind, and when its bold and italicized, its either the Tailed Demons or an Inner self.
Tsunade glared at her misbehaving student and sighed, there was no way Sakura would change because of a lecture. She was just like the rest of team 7, stubborn. Recently though, Sakura started to treat Tsunade like a second mother, and because of this, they were very close so there might be a chance that Sakura would listen. But, once again, Tsunade was wrong.
"Alright, you are dismissed." Tsunade said, Sakura got up, bowed to her master and left. 'That girl, its as if she will never stop misbehaving'
"Sakura-chan! The old hag finally let you go!" Sakura was greeted by Naruto with a bone crushing hug.
"Naruto... cant... breathe..." Sakura gasped, Naruto let her go and apologized. They walked together back to Sakura's house. Naruto looked over at her and saw her eyes were filled with sadness, more then when she tried to stop Sasuke from leaving. He knew she was over him now, but he couldn't help feeling guilty for not being able to bring him back.
"Sakura-chan?" She looked at Naruto, "You sure your over Sasuke?" She was on the verge of tears, Naruto didn't know what to do.
"I am over him, but," Sakura started to cry, "I just can't help thinking about him!" With this last statement, Sakura turned towards Naruto and buried her head in his chest and cried. For a moment they stayed like that, Naruto put his arms around her and tried to comfort her the best he could. They finally got to Sakura's house, Sakura thanked Naruto and disappeared inside.
"Sakura-chan," Naruto said to himself, "I will kill Sasuke for doing this to you. I promise."
The only reason Sakura Hanuro is now mischievous is, Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto knew this, but didn't do anything about it. "That was my mistake." Naruto said, "Sakura..." The Nine-tails sensed his anger and gave him some power. Naruto's eyes were red and slanted, the scratches on his face grew wider. He slammed open the door to Tsunade's office looking like this, Tsunade looked up. She froze.
"No." Naruto's anger grew,
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?!" He yelled, "SAKURA IS LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF THAT DAMNED UCHIHA! AND YOU EXPECT ME TO JUST NOT DO ANYTHING!" Tsunade was shocked that Naruto called Sasuke 'Uchiha'. That only meant one thing, Naruto would leave even if she said no. Tsunade sighed and thought about what would happen to Naruto if he went alone. Jiraiha might find him and make sure he isn't killed, but what if he doesn't? Sasuke was the leader of the Sound Village since he killed Orochimaru.
"Alright." Naruto calmed down a bit, but just enough for him to stop yelling.
"I just don't want Sakura looking like that anymore." He said, the power of the Nine-Tails had receded.
"Go fetch Shikamaru." Tsunade said, "And don't even THINK about leaving before my say-so." Naruto nodded and left to get Shikamaru.
Two hours later
The team of ten was ready to set out, once again, to get Sasuke. This time, however, they were going to kill him. Naruto remained serious during the entire time, which was very unusual of him. Just like before Sakura appeared to them, "Naruto," Naruto looked over at her, still extremely serious, Sakura's eyes got violent, "Kill him." No tears, no sadness, just hate and lust, Naruto nodded.
Ambushes, traps, and ordinary criminals got in their way during their adventure to the only place Sasuke could be. Naruto's anger grew tremendously with every second. Pretty soon he was far ahead of the group. Every ninja that opposed him was cut down immediately. Even Naruto's friends started to fear him. Thanks to the Nine-Tail's power he arrived at the lair five minutes before everyone else, instead of going inside he waited for his friends. He knew he would need their help to get inside. They went inside the lair. It seemed deserted, but Naruto knew Sasuke was here, the ninjas they fought on the way here were probably the ones from this section of the lair.
Finally, they found Sasuke, or Naruto did, the others were fighting extremely powerful ninja that got in their way. "Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" They lunged at each other. Near the end of their battle, Naruto was getting desperate. He ordered the Nine-Tails to give him all it's power... 'Its time to kill.' (Nine-Tails/Kyuubi)
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Sakura looked out her bedside window, Naruto still hadn't come back. Then, she notice some commotion around the gate, 'whats going on? Is Naruto and the others back?' Sakura went to the gate and shifted her way through to the front to greet her friends. Sakura gasped, there were medic ninja carrying a dead body back into the city, the top was covered, but on the middle of the corpse, was Naruto's headband. Sakura Hanuro now had no friends.
Sakura was alone. Completely and utterly alone. Her parents were killed, and now her friends were also. She didn't know what to do, she spent most of her time crying, but during these times Tsunade was the nicest person she had ever known. Tsunade took Sakura into her home, and made sure she was content with her surroundings. The news of how Naruto died had hit her like a bullet, the cause of Naruto's death was... overflow of chakra. He summoned all the power of the Kyuubi, and even though he was killed, so was Sasuke.
Sakura wanted Sasuke dead, but she didn't want Naruto to kill himself in the process. Sakura cried for three days straight, when she finally stopped, something would make her start again. Tsunade knew this was a horrible thing to do, it cut down her stanima and slowed her reflexes. Tsunade finally made the decision to send her to Suna, Temari would take care of her.
Suna was indeed the best place for Sakura to recover, she was escorted by Kakashi, Tsunade knew he would get her to Suna safely. Kakashi knocked on the sand sibling's door, it opened to reveal the face of Temari. "Sakura its good to see you again!" Temari went to Sakura and gave her a hug. Sakura didn't respond, rather, she barely noticed Temari.
"Sakura has been like this for a month now." Kakashi explained, "She's going to be living here, in hopes of reviving her." Temari nodded, it wasn't a problem, well, Sakura was, but not as a burden.
After making sure everything would be alright with Sakura living here, Kakashi left the job of reviving Sakura to Temari. "Sakura? Temari said. No response. "Sakura." No response. "Sakura!" This seemed to work.
"What?" Sakura's voice was horse after weeks of confinement.
"Snap out of it already!" Temari said, Sakura started to cry. Temari sighed, "You can't keep dwelling in the past. Even though you think your alone, your not! You have Kakashi-sensei, me, Kankuro, Tsunade-sama and the entire Leaf Village! Heck even Gaara too!" Sakura looked at Temari, her expression had lightened up a bit.
"Gaara too?" She asked, Temari smiled, they were finally getting somewhere.
"Yes, Gaara too. Even though he may not show it he was surprised and sad when he heard of the death of his friends." Temari smiled, "Your not alone." Sakura's expression finally rested completely, but Temari knew they still had more work to do before her revival. They were finally getting somewhere. Temari left Sakura to reflect on what was said. When dinner was ready Gaara finally came home, Sakura looked up at him, he was smiling. Sakura didn't understand, why was Gaara smiling, he NEVER smiled. Gaara looked down at Sakura, he looked at Temari, she motioned him over. Sakura didn't know what they were talking about, nor did she care. Gaara went out of the kitchen and sat on the sofa next to Sakura and stared at her. Sakura fidgeted nervously, she hated being stared at. Finally,
"What do you want Gaara?" Sakura asked, Gaara smiled, glad to get a response.
"I want to snap you out of your seclusion. If you don't let anyone in, no one would let you in. I learned that the hard way." He said. Sakura's eyes widened as she remembered what Temari told her about Gaara. "I care about you." Sakura froze.
'Gaara...cares...about me?' She pondered this though for awhile. Gaara stood up,
"Come eat dinner." He said.
"I'm not hungry." Sakura refused to move. Gaara got pissed off, so he picked her up, despite her many protests, and carried her to the kitchen. Temari and Kankuro stared at the struggling konoichi and the very pissed off Gaara. Gaara dropped Sakura onto her seat and pushed in the chair, Sakura gave him an angry glare as he sat down. Temari then realized Gaara was smiling, but under that smile was a very small smirk. She now understood what he was doing. Kankuro didn't notice the smirk so when dinner was over Temari told him about it.
"So I guess we should leave this to Gaara then." He said.
"Yeah, but don't tell Sakura any of this." She replied, Gaara had to pick Sakura up again and carry her to her room. Sakura glared at him.
"Why did you do that?" She demanded. Gaara smiled,
"I see your finally waking up." Sakura froze, there was absolutely no way out of this one, in fact, Sakura had completely forgotten what she was in Suna for because of Gaara.
Sakura got up from her bed, "Going somewhere?" Gaara asked.
"I want to look at the moon." She said, Gaara got up, went over to her grabbed her waist, and teleported using his sand. Sakura was glaring at Gaara again, "Do you have to take me everywhere?" Gaara smiled,
"Yes." Sakura continued glaring at Gaara. Despite Sakura being mad at Gaara, they enjoyed each other's company. Sakura was nearing revival.
End of chapter
Mario11445: Well? Is it better then my first story? I did promise I would make the chapters longer. This chapter shall be called... The Beginning of New Sakura. How's that?