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Forbidden Love Under The Sakura Tree
Sakura ran from the hidden leaf hospital, her soft pink hair blowing in the wind behind her. Behind her she could hear Naruto screaming her name telling her to come back, but she couldn't do it, he had hurt her, betrayed her trust. She carried on running, out of the village gates, scaring the guards as she ran past, sliver tears streaming down her face.
She slowed down to a fast walk after running for a while and completely stopped when she realised it was night already.
"Hmmm… I didn't even notice the sunset… How depressing, it's my favourite time of day. Now, where can I go…"
"Over there!"
Sakura groaned, her innerself had decided to pay her a visit,
"What do you want?"
"Hmphh, Its late at night, I'm only trying to help you know,"
She ignored her but looked to where her innerself had indicated, sure enough there was a small gap in the bushes that seemed interesting, and it seemed small enough to fit her body through… Just.
After, slightly, forcing herself through the gap, she gasped before being interrupted,
"You need to lay off the sweets hunny,"
"Ughh, shut up,"
"Again, I'm only trying to help,"
And with that inner Sakura sank back into the darkness of her mind.
She walked forward to the huge Sakura tree infront of her. It was in full bloom and the branches were twisted and intertwined so gracefully while being gently nudged by the warm breeze, made them look they were dancing. The top of the tree was slightly leaning to bend over the glittering lake in the middle of the clearing, which, with the branches, created the perfect little place to relax without being noticed.
Meanwhile…
"Tobi is a good boy!"
"Shut up Tobi, un,"
"But Sempai, Tobi is a good boy!"
"Tobi,"
"But…"
"I SWEAR IF YOU DON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP TOBI IM GONNA BLOW YOU TO PIECES, UN!"
"Sorry Sempai…"
To himself,
"Ughh, I'm almost out of chakra, un, where can we land for the night… Aha!"
Deidara had of course spotted the clearing with the Sakura tree and lake and there was a small shack that was hidden behind a cluster of trees. But what had really caught his attention, was the lone chakra that seemed to be coming from that clearing, he landed his clay bird and hopped down, Tobi copied his moves exactly and Deidara sighed.
"Go and set up in the shack Tobi, theres something I wanna check out, un."
And with that the strode their opposite ways.
"Sempai seems awfully mad tonight, maybe I can play some cards with him when he gets back! Yeah, Tobi thinks he'll like that"
Deidara strode round the lake towards where the chakra was coming from. He stopped about 20 metres away before removing his cloak and masking his chakra.
Sakura's stomach rumbled as she routed through her small backpack before removing an apple she'd managed to swipe from the reception on her way out of the hospital. Her stomach churned,
"The hospital,"
She groaned remembering all that had happened to her that day. She knew it was childish running away like that, but Naruto had just upset her so much. She started regretting ever leaving, but she knew she couldn't go back now without smashing Naruto through a wall or two, and that surely wouldn't help Tsunade to forgive her for running away.
"Why is everything so complicated when Naruto is involved,"
She thought to herself,
"Because he's a dim-whitted knuckle head,"
"Yeah, but he's my best friend, and I don't see how I can forgive him now,"
"You can't just run all your like Sakura, you need to grow some ba… "
"Shhh, theres someone nearby!"
"You idiot, they can't hear me!"
"But I don't need you distracting me if they're the enemy!"
When she didn't get a reply she took a kunai out of her bag and crept out of from her hiding place. She looked left and right but couldn't seem to see anyone, so she straightened up and decided it was just paranoia so she took the chance to get some water. She returned and was startled to find a blonde guy sitting where she was just moments before, instantly she reached for her kunai, but it wasn't there, she'd left it by the lake.
"Damn,"
She thought to herself.
"At least it looks like he's sleeping,"
Right on cue, he opened one blue eye lazily, the other covered by a blonde bang,
"So you're the chakra I felt earlier, un"
He looked familiar, but Sakura couldn't think where she'd seen him before,
"Who are you? And why did you follow my chakra?"
Just then she noticed his headband,
"So he's from the hidden rock, but why is there a slash through his headband…"
"Who cares, he's cute!"
As much as she hated her innerself, she couldn't disagree, there was something about the way his bang fell carelessly over his sky blue eyes and the way the rest of his hair was held by a ribbon in a half-up half-down style and the way he stared at her lazily just screamed cute, but then something clicked and Sakura went into battle mode,
"Woah! What are you doing?"
"Don't deprive me of him, you can't deny it! If you don't make a move on him because of that Sasuke kid, get over yourself!"
The sudden mention of his name startled her a bit, but she regained herself and hissed back,
"His headband, it has a slash through it,"