Sakura had become a strong person. She had gone to Tsunade and asked to become her apprentice to grow stronger. Tsunade helped her become stronger and found that she also had healing skills as well.
After that, she had gone to Anko and Kurenai and gotten them to teach her as well. She had gotten stronger and she had been accepted into the Anbu ranks.
She frequently went on missions for the village and she was gone a lot. At first, it had been hard to get used to but she eventually began to make herself a reputation.
She had just gotten back from a village and she was exhausted. She had been sent to find a scroll that had been stolen from Konaha. She had been undercover for three months. She had taken a sound village headband and worn it for the duration of the time that she was there.
Her hair was now long and dyed black. Pink was too conspicuous when she was trying to hide. She was wearing a long black jacket over some black pants. It looked sorta like her Anbu inform but not too much. Her hair was still black.
She saw a restaurant and walked up to it. It was a normal restaurant but there was also a bar. She sighed and walked into it. She was used to being in places like this by now.
A man walked out and stumbled into her. "Hey baby. What're yoouuu doing in a pla'e like thi'?" he slurred out. He smelled like alcohol. He went to put his arm around her but she grabbed his arm and squeezed.
"Don't even try it." she said in a low voice. He ran away from her and the guys that had been watching from inside laughed and hooted. She walked to the back of the restaurant and sat down.
A lady came back to take her order. "Nice job with the drunk, by the way. What would you like to drink?"
Sakura thought for a minute. "Do you have any wine? I'm having a little party for myself."
The lady, Kana, nodded. "I'll bring it back. Any food?"
Sakura shook her head and Kana left. She took this as a chance to look around. She didn't see any familiar faces but a couple of people were looking at her. One man out of all of them caught her eye.
He was tall and had an X shaped burn over most of his face. His face wasn't showing any malice but his eyes sure were. He was wearing a huge jacket over his fighter's body.
Sakura frowned a bit but it was gone from her face in an instant. She knew that she would need some help with this one. She glanced around and her eyes soon found someone. Two someone, actually.
Kakashi and Guy were sitting near the back also, drinking a bottle of Sake. From what she could tell, the bottle was empty.
Kana came back and gave her the wine. "Is there anything else?"
Sakura smiled. "Yes, there is."
Kakashi was surprised when Kana came and set another bottle of Sake on their table. They both looked at the waitress.
She smiled at them. "The lady in black over there ordered it for you." she pointed at Sakura.
Kakashi gave a small smile. That women was…..beautiful, to say the least. He stood and Guy gave him a look. "I'm going to go and say hi. Come on." he pulled Guy to his feet and dragged him over to her table.
Sakura smiled at them. "Hello. Did you need something?" she asked.
Guy took over. "You are beautiful. May we have the pleasure of sitting with you?" he asked.
Kakashi resisted rolling his eyes at how Guy was acting. He could be idiotic at times.
But Sakura smiled and even blushed a little. "Sure."
She had changed in the eight years since team seven was split. She was now beautiful, powerful, and even deadly if she needed to be.
She fingered her glass a bit, pointing it towards the man. "I don't suppose that you know anyone in here, do you?" she asked.
Kakashi had noticed what she was doing with her glass but he was a bit confused about the question. He looked around and immediately saw the man. He ignored him and acted like he was looking around.
Guy had also noticed him and was surprised that the girl had as well. "No, I don't think that we do." he said. "Do you know who that is?" he whispered.
Sakura nodded slightly. 'Follow me after I get him out of here.' she mouthed. "Well, sorry boys but I need to get going." she stood and walked over to him.
Kakashi could see that she was pulling out the charm to try and get him out of here. She was also acting drunk.
They left the building and Guy and Kakashi exchanged looks before following.
Sakura had gotten him to follow her.
He stood over her, with his arm behind her. "Babe, you made the right choice." he said with a bit of a slur.
Sakura was gathering the chakra in her fingers. "I know that I did." she said before bringing her hand up. She squeezed the back of his neck, trying to knock him out.
He figured it out and roughly grabbed her hand. "You little…."
"I wouldn't finish that if I was you." Kakashi said from behind.
Guy had gone for help while Kakashi and Sakura were left to fight him. He swung his arms around wildly, making it easy for them to dodge.
Kakashi used his combination of kicks and punches to knock him off balance. Then Sakura came in. She used her illusion jutsu to confuse him before rendering him unconscious.
Anbu came just as they were finishing up. One of them recognized Sakura as an old friend. She gave a small nod that meant they were going to meet up later. They took him away, leaving Kakashi with Sakura.
Sakura sighed and yawned a bit. "I'm sorry….I don't think that I good your name."
Kakashi smiled through the mask. "I'm a Jounin named Kakashi. I can tell that you are a great fighter."
Sakura smiled. It was so funny to see her old sensei hitting on her without even knowing it. "Well then, Kakashi, I thank you for helping me out. Your are a very good fighter as well."
Kakashi leaned on the wall next to her. "Hey, I was wondering if you would let me show you around Konaha. I know where all of the best places are."
Sakura sighed and yawned again. "I'm sorry Kakashi but not tonight. I just got into town today and I'm exhausted."
He was immediately ready to offer to take her to a hotel but she put her finger on his mask, right where his lips were. "I'm staying with a relative. Sorry."
Kakashi pouted a bit. "Could I show you around tomorrow?" he begged her with his eye.
Sakura sighed and shook her head. "Sorry but no. I'm visiting tomorrow with my relative. Bye." she winked as she walked away. It was fun when your sensei didn't know who your were.
Kakashi watched her walk away.
Guy was silently laughing behind him. One of the Anbu members had told him that she was Haruno Sakura. He couldn't believe that Kakashi was hitting on his old student. He wasn't going to tell him. He was going to have fun with this!
The first thing that Sakura had done when she got to her small apartment was wash the black dye out of her hair. Her hair came down to just above her butt and it was called beautiful by many people.
She changed into a tee shirt and sweatpants. When she walked out into her living room, she smiled. Her Anbu friend was already there.
Her friend, Kohana, stood and walked over to her. She hugged her before taking a good look at her. "You look better with black hair." she said.
Sakura laughed. "You hungry?"
Kohana nodded. She was always hungry. While Sakura was in her small kitchen, she asked her questions. "Did you take the scroll to Tsunade yet?" was her last question.
Sakura walked out and handed her a sandwich before sitting down on the couch with her own sandwich. She took a bite before answering. "Not yet. Technically, I wasn't due back until tomorrow and that's when I'm meeting with her."
The girls talked for half of the night. Kohana left because Sakura couldn't stop yawning and she needed to be awake when she talked with Tsunade.
Sakura stretched her arms behind her head as she walked down the streets of Konaha. She was wearing a long sleeve pink shirt that hid her Anbu tattoo. She was also wearing black pants and sandals.
She sighed and squinted as the sun fell on her eyes. She looked around and saw that she was near Ino's flower shop.
Ino now ran her parents flower shop. She had made the place flower, no pun intended.
Sakura could hear Ino's loud laugh from down the street. She also might have heard Shikamaru's voice a little bit too. She walked up and saw that the shop was closed. She knocked anyway.
"WE'RE CLOSED!!" Ino yelled from inside.
"INO-PIG, OPEN UP!!!" she shouted back. She heard someone fall off a chair from inside.
The door flew open and an out of breath Ino stood there. She looked at Sakura for a minute, trying figured out if its really her.
Sakura smirked a bit. "Yes Ino-pig, its me."
Ino screamed a bit and threw her arms around Sakura. They were good friends, even though they fought a lot. "Sakura, when did you get back from Kika village?"
No one was to know that she was an Anbu so she had to come up with an excuse for being gone all the time. Tsunade had helped her out and they had come up with this. Sakura was interning with another mednin at a village called Kika, which was not really a town.
Sakura nodded. "I don't know how long I'll be here for, though."
"Hey." Shikamaru said as he came out. He was in an Anbu uniform but even he didn't know that Sakura was Anbu.
"Sorry to cut this short, but I need to see Tsunade-sama. I don't want to be late." Sakura said. They said their goodbyes and Sakura walked down the street in the direction that she had been going in.
She made it to Tsunade's office just before she was supposed to be there. She knocked on the door before entering.
Tsunade smiled at her. "Welcome home Sakura. The mission went well?"
Sakura nodded. "I successfully retrieved the scroll and also learned some valuable information about the true location of their main headquarters. Here is the scroll. It was being used on children and it seemed to make them stronger."
Tsunade frowned. She didn't think that these jutsus could even do that. "Oh well. I heard that you had a busy first might back. Good job on spotting that man."
Sakura nodded. "I wasn't the only one who was there. Kakashi and Guy were also there. They did just as much as I did."
Tsunade smiled. "I know. By the way, did you see Kakashi anywhere today?"
She shook her head. "Nope. I haven't seen him."
Tsunade was getting a bit upset. This didn't happen very often. "Sakura, were he and Guy……….drinking?"
Sakura could tell that this was going to be bad. "Yes." she reluctantly said. "Why?"
"NOT GOOD!" Tsunade punched her desk. "He gets really drunk when he has more than one bottles of Sake."
"And I was an idiot and sent them an extra bottle of Sake to be nice." Sakura slapped her forehead.
Tsunade took a few deep breaths. She was trying to calm herself down. "He'll be out of it for, hmm, the least is two days. Maybe more."
Sakura felt bad. Wait, what was so important about him being able to do something today? "Does he have to do something today?"
Tsunade nodded. "The new class just graduated and he has been assigned to another team. He needs to meet and test them."
Sakura flinched. That couldn't be good.
"Sakura, could you go and check on Kakashi for me?" Tsunade suddenly said.
Sakura had been wondering how he was but that hadn't been on her mind at all! She stared at Tsunade for a minute, not saying a word.
"I need you to see if he is in any shape to go and meet his new team. Please?" Tsunade asked.
She couldn't exactly say no. He was her old teacher and she had never seen his home, so she agreed. "Alright. Where does he live?"
Kakashi groaned a bit when he heard some light knocking on his door. It may have been light but to him it sounds like a hammer hitting metal.
He had dragged himself to his bathroom just in time to be sick. He was now collapsed on the floor. He grabbed a small towel and tried to clean himself up a bit.
This happened every time that he drank too much. He passed out then was sick for a while. After that, he was fine. And he rarely could tell what he had done after he drank too much. This time, he could tell exactly what was happening around him. Mostly.
He managed to stand and drag himself to the door. He stood staring at the person in front of him.
She had long pink hair in a low ponytail. She was wearing a three quarters length pink shirt that said, 'Don't mess with a girl ninja!' on the front. She was also wearing black pants. Her eyes were what gave her away.
He gulped down another urge to throw up. "Sakura?" he managed to choke out.
She immediately noticed that something was wrong. First off, he wasn't talking correctly, like he was trying to stop something from happening. Second, his face was pale. Thirdly, he smelt like throw-up.
His body heaved a bit as he tried to stop himself. He didn't want to look like this in front of his old student. That would totally humiliating.
Sakura could see what was going to happen. Thankfully, he didn't have a second floor apartment. She grabbed him and pulled him to the bushes near his home. He immediately was sick. She let him be sick before dragging him back into his apartment.
He limply lifted his hand to show the way to his bedroom.
She helped him there and went over to a dresser after putting him on the bed. She found some sweatpants and a tee shirt. She handed them to him and left the room to let him change.
He was a little confused. Why was she doing this for him? Maybe it was just the hangover messing with him. He pulled the clothes on and dropped the nasty ones on the floor.
She came back in after a minute. It took Sakura a minute to realize that he wasn't wearing his mask. Not that it mattered. In Anbu, she could find records on anyone and she had accidentally found one of Kakashi without his mask on so she already knew what his face looked like. She walked over to the side of his bed. "Feeling a little better?" she asked.
"Not…….really." Kakashi managed to get out. He was starting to feel really sleepy. He felt like he hadn't gotten enough sleep last night.
Sakura could see him getting more tired by the minute. Sakura was silently laughing in his head. It was a little funny to see her old sensei who was very strong like this. But it was also humiliating for him. She leaned over and easily pushed him back on the bed.
He wanted to get back up but the bed felt really nice. He gave her a questioning look, still not realizing his missing mask.
She smiled. "Rest. Your tired." she said.
That was all he needed. He slowly started to get under the covers. He was a little embarrassed when Sakura had to help him out. He leaned on the pillow and felt sleep taking over. He whispered something to her before falling fast asleep. "Thanks."
Sakura saw that he was now fast asleep. She carefully got off the bed and accidentally stepped onto the clothes that he had dropped. She sighed a little and picked them up. She found the bathroom and cringed a little. She set to work on cleaning up this mess that he called a house.
Guy hurried over to Kakashi's apartment after his hangover had worn off. He had remembered what happens to Kakashi when he drank over two bottles of Sake. That and the fact that the brand of Sake they were drinking was strong.
He walked up to the door and didn't even bother to knock before entering. He didn't even notice that Kakashi's house looked a lot cleaner than it did the last time that he had been there.
Sakura had been reading a book that she had found when Guy had burst through the door. She had jumped a little before amusedly watching him. It was funny.
He was about to open the door to Kakashi's bedroom. His hand went for the knob but he stopped when a shuriken lodged in the wall next to the knob. He spun around and finally noticed Sakura sitting in the chair behind him. "WHO…."
She was immediately up and had her hand over his mouth. She gave him a glare.
Guy pulled away from her. "Who the heck are you?!" he semi-yelled.
She had her hand at his mouth again. "Don't yell. Tsunade-sama sent me to check on him."
Guy finally recognized her. "Sakura?" he asked.
She nodded and then hit him on the head. "That was for yelling. He is asleep in there, you know." she said.
Guy got a guilty look on his face. "Oh really?"
Sakura's face hardened. "Yeah, really. Oh, and don't try to deny that you and he were drinking last night."
Guy pulled her outside so they wouldn't wake Kakashi up with their voices. "I don't know what your talking about."
Sakura sighed. "Guy, I know that you recognized me last night by the way you were acting. That and the fact that his eye was glazed over was proof. And he still smells like sake."
Guy sighed. "If Tsunade is looking for him then something tells me that either he or I are in trouble."
"Both of your are." Sakura told him. "He was supposed to meet his new team today. They are probably waiting for him to show up right about now!"
Guy could tell that she was getting angry. "How about I go and meet them instead?" he offered.
Sakura shook her head. She wouldn't hear it. "I'll go. I just don't want to leave him here alone because of how sick he was earlier. You stay hear."
Guy nodded his head sadly. He knew that it was his fault for getting Kakashi drunk like that. He walked back inside the house.
Sakura sighed and also went back in. She grabbed her headband out of the bag that she had been carrying before leaving to find Kakashi's students.
Hana Flora was pacing back and forth on the looking area. She didn't like to be kept waiting for ten minutes, let alone over an hour. She had a boys haircut and wore a loose tee shirt secure by a belt with
Konahamaru was watching her pace back and forth with a spaced out look on his face. He had grown into a lanky teen but he still wore the long scarf.
Kai Lenu was the last person there. He wasn't even paying attention. He was in the shade of a beam, fast asleep. He had dyed his hair dark purple and wore a white bandana over it. He never took it off.
They were waiting for their sensei to arrive. They had been waiting in the classroom but Iruka had to lock up so they had to wait out there.
A girl came running up to them. "Your team Seven, right?" she asked. She was wearing a headband in her hair.
Hana looked at her. "Are you our sensei?" she hotly asked.
Sakura shook her head. "I'm just hear to get the info about who you are for him."
Kai had woken up and was listening. He didn't speak much.
Hana glared at her. "Then where is our sensei? Shouldn't he be here instead of you?" she spat out.
Sakura sighed. "Your sensei isn't feeling all too well today. Now, I want you to introduce yourselves and tell me something about you."
No one answered or volunteered to be first, just like team seven.
Sakura laughed a bit. "Okay. I'll start. I'm Haruno Sakura and I used to have the same sensei as you three have now."
Kai went next. "Kai Lenu. Not much to say."
Hana and Konahamaru sighed. He needed to talk more. Konahamaru went next. "Ya'll already know me. I like…..girls!" he happily said.
Hana glared and he shrunk back. "I'm Hana Flora and I don't let anyone mess with me. Cross me and regret it." she spat out.
Sakura laughed a bit. Kakashi was going to have a hard time with this group. "Alright. I'll give you the answer that your sensei would have given. He's Kakashi and that's all you need to know."
They smiled a bit. Kai spoke up. "We have to take some sorta test, don't we?"
Sakura nodded. "I can't tell you what but I can tell you this. Don't eat breakfast tomorrow if you don't want to throw up." she walked to the edge and jumped off, leaving Kakashi's students wondering what she was talking about.