A Gift for the Wonderful Kiyomi Inuzuka, I hope this meets your expectations!
I Do Not Own Naruto
Chapter 1
After killing Itachi he had been found by Naruto and his friends and brought back to the village with Itachi's body. He had buried his brother's body, after telling Tsunade he'd need Itachi's eyes if he didn't want to go blind. The truth was he just wanted a part of his brother to remember him by. Also, the Fifth was the one to inform him that his brother had supposedly been a spy for the Third Hokage and Danzo, he didn't really care though.
Over the next five years he endured Naruto and Sai's social blunderings, he paid attention to everything Kakashi was teaching him, survived all of Yamato's training, and he slowly built a friendship with Sakura. Slowly being the key word in that statement. Sakura and him were an uncertain element to his relationships with the Team 7.
Yamato and Kakashi were rather like Sakura's guardians or something, like two crazy uncles who adored their niece and would kick the asses of any man who wasn't up to snuff for their girl. Naruto was rather like Sakura's brother, and so was Sai; he had noticed that immediately, she had good relationships with her Team and she still loved him. So they were on uncertain terms, mostly because he did not want to hurt her and have the wrath of Kakashi, Yamato, Naruto, Sai and her mentor Tsunade raining down on him. Though he was good at fighting, he knew there was no way in hell he'd survive the wrath of Tsunade. It just was not possible. The woman was a monster!
No matter, five years later he was here in the village and he was currently walking with Sakura through the village as they both picked up their groceries. No! They were not shopping together, they had happened to run into each other and just decided to continue their shopping together. Also, Sakura was annoyingly short and couldn't seem to reach the stuff she wanted on the top shelf.
"Here," he said as he grabbed the can she was jumping for, it was easier to just give it to her rather than have her accidentally knock the shelves over and them have to run from the store; this had happened before.
"Thanks, anything else?" she asked as she talked to herself. He looked at his list, she looked hers' over.
"No," he answered and started towards the counter.
"Wait up!" she chirped and jogged after him. He grunted as he unloaded his basket for the clerk who was quick to register everything. Sakura was just beside him unloading hers' as well and he wondered why the hell she had so much food, she didn't eat that much, did she?
No matter, it was not his problem to worry about as he paid for his and waited for her to pay for hers'. They left together and she was chatting with him, he didn't understand her need to talk to him but he just listened absently to what she was saying, filing it away just in case it turned out to be important later. Because unlike Sai or the dobe he was not getting his ass knocked to Suna and back for not listening to her and what she had to say. Even if it was trivial and unimportant.
"Well, it was nice seeing you Sasuke!" she said and waved him off as she turned towards her apartments to disappear. He just waited a moment to make certain she was safe and then continued his walk to the Uchiha compound. He didn't care about what he was doing tonight, it was probably going to be eat dinner and read a book before training a bit and then watching something on the new television before going to sleep. It was nothing fancy, but since he had to live at the Uchiha compound it was a routine that would help him ignore the memories which threatened to simmer up and consume him.
Once in the compound he started putting the groceries away he started looking over what he had to make dinner to night and decided on something simple with tomatoes. Simple enough, even he could cook it, which was why he started on the rice.
A phone call had him growling a bit as he answered the phone expecting it to be the Hokage ready to demand he do another mission for the village, and another part of him had a bad feeling that this phone call was going to be from one of the members of Team 7 who were not Kakashi or Sakura.
"Teme!" a voice shouted into the phone and he promptly hung up and resumed cooked. The phone rang again and again he answered.
"Teme!" the voice deafened him and he hung up again. He was not dealing with Naruto shouting in his ear through the phone; the dobe would figure this out eventually. Then again, it was Naruto… and Naruto was by no means the sharpest knife in the drawer…
The phone rang again and he answered it now.
"Yell in my ear one more time dobe and I will pull your scrawny ass through the phone and set you on fire, is that understood!" he snapped into the receiver.
"Uh… I was only calling to ask if you had my apples by mistake," Sakura's voice filled his ear and he closed his eyes as he prayed for patience. "I did shove my stuff up on the counter with yours, and the clerk was giving you the goo-goo eyes, I think she may have given you my pork and apples too."
"Aa," he nodded remembering them in his bag.
"Alright, I'll come get them," Sakura said.
"No, stay I'll bring them by," he sighed. He was going to swing by Naruto's apartment and kick the blonde dobe's ass!
"Alright, the door's unlocked," Sakura informed him.
"Hn," he hung up then and grumbled as he turned off the stove before he burned his house down, pulled out the apples and pork to walk to Sakura's then.
Sakura was no love sick girl anymore, she still loved Sasuke; very much, but she wasn't about to throw herself at his feet. She had standards after all, and though they were minimal she was sticking to them, and she'd wait until he made a move; if he made a move; before she reacted and told him she loved him again. Not that it mattered as she hung up her phone and started cooking her rice again, when he brought the pork by she'd start cooking that as well, but for now she was cooking her rice and spinach. Humming to herself she listened to the radio while she cooked when her apartment opened.
"Here," Sasuke said as he put the items in question on the counter.
"Thanks, here's the pay back because I think you paid for them," she said as she went to her wallet and pulled out the money.
"Keep it," he shrugged as he exited her apartment. Smiling to herself she put her apples away and picked up the pork to cook it.
In the past five years she and Sasuke had figured out how to be civil with one another, it was not an easy task sometimes because there were times when she wanted to shove him off a cliff and he wanted to light her on fire for annoying him. But they were doing it, they were figuring out how to be friends, and she was pleased with it even if it wasn't much in the grand scheme of the world. Then again, Sakura was never one who needed a lot.
She picked up her ringing phone then.
"Hello?"
"Sakura, come to my office in one hour, I have a mission for you," Tsunade's voice was brisk and then the phone was dead. Sighing she set the phone down and continued her cooking. Once she had her diner she finished eating it and cleaned up quickly as she then walked to the hokage tower. It was clearly important because she was greeted by Shikamaru who personally escorted her to Tsunade's office.
"Evening, my lady, what can I do for you?" Sakura said after straightening in the presence of her mentor.
"Shikamaru, go stand watch and keep Naruto and Sasuke away," Tsunade ordered.
"Yes ma'am," he exited and Sakura turned her attention to Tsunade again.
"We've had disturbing reports, about Kabuto, I want you to investigate them, you'll be going on a team with Anko and Hyūga Neji, and Rock Lee," Tsunade said and quickly in shuffled her three teammates.
"Alright, but why me my lady?" she asked as she looked over those three; they made sense on a mission to go get Kabuto, but she didn't think she fit here.
"Because, no one is a better medic than you, and Kabuto uses his medical ninjutsu in battle against his opponents as you well know. I need some I know to go with them who can hold their own against him," Tsunade explained.
"And why not send Sasuke?" she asked because Sasuke did hold the most information on Kabuto.
"Because, our mission is to capture him; not kill him," Anko said tartly.
"Alright," Sakura nodded.
"Good, you leave in the hour," Tsunade said with a firm nod.
"Yes my lady," she nodded as she took the intel scroll then ran home to grab her gear. She was ready for this. She could do this, and she would be fine. Kabuto was nothing more than a slimy roach to be squished; she was going to stomp him into oblivion then drag his ass back here for the Hokage. But she was going to hurt Kabuto for having hurt her friends and family.
Once ready to go Sakura silently slipped to the entry gates and managed to time it so she was arriving with Neji. She saw Neji kiss a girl who ducked away into the shadow as he came over to her.
"Neji, got a girlfriend or lover you're hiding out on us?" she asked cheekily; she was pretty sure he and Tenten had been a thing since last year when Tenten had come to her with a pregnancy scare. Sakura smiled broadly at the fluster Hyūga's appearance.
"What!? Don't be ridiculous!" he snapped indignantly to her, she sniggered and was greeted by Anko and Lee jogging up to her then.
"Let's go," Anko said as they all ran out of the village and took to the trees.
Yes, this is from my story Uchiha.
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Undone! =)