It's a slow day in the hospital. I was lucky enough that Tsunade Sama let me off early. It's only 3pm but the skies are clear blue, the sun with its embracing warm rays. I never get out this early to see the light of day. Maybe I can take this time to train with Sarada. Sasuke hasn't been home for a little over two weeks, but hearing from Naruto, he's been tracking a suspicious man with some sort of kekke genki. I'll pay Naruto a visit if anything. I'm walking in the direction of the Hokage tower anyways.
"Naruto!" I sang as I opened the doors to the Hokage's office.
"AH! Sakura chan!" His smile is practically covering his face if it wasn't the pile of papers in front of him almost blocking him from my view.
"What brings you here so early?"
"I was just released from the hospital since its slow. Tsunade sama said I could take the rest of the day off. I was wondering if you've eaten yet?" From the looks of it, he hasn't even left the room for a bathroom break.
"I'm a little busy as you can see...haha" his right arm fell behind him, scratching the top of his head.
"How does ramen sound?" Naruto's eyes flickered with excitement, and I swear I could see him starting to cry from happiness.
"Ehhh..these papers can wait. I haven't eaten anything since yesterday…." I grabbed the nearest book and threw it at his face.
"BAKA! HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF THE VILLAGE IF YOU CAN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF?!" I yelled at him with the book directly hitting him on the nose.
"Buuuut Sakuraaaa…" His nose bleeding now, and tears of hurt falling. He's such a big baby. How does Hinata even handle him?
"Can you atleast heal this before we go…" He cried as he twirled his fingers.
"Fine, as long as you pay" I giggled.
We walked along the busy streets of Konoha. Just reminiscing about our genine days, and talked about how far along Sarada and Boruto's training is going.
"Yeah, Boruto is still learning how to control and expand the rasengan. He even thought about new techniques with it. Only thing though, since Sasuke isn't training with him, he hurt his arm and isn't allowed to train for a week."
"Yeah I heard from Hinata at the hospital. I'm glad he'll be ok though. It's just a fractured shoulder, knowing he's your son, he'll be up and running a muck with Sarada and Mitsuki again." I couldn't help but just laugh at how absurdly Boruto resembled Naruto.
"Just looking at him when he's so determined to get stronger is like looking at a mirror you know?" His eyes drifted into the sky.
"What's wrong Naruto?" I asked him with a puzzled face. Just a second ago, he had the biggest smile. But his facial expressions turned very serious.
"Sakura chan..there's a weird chakra coming closer to the village…"
"What?!" I'm not really understanding him right now but I know this is bad, just by reading his body language.
"Who is it?!"
"I'm not quite sure…but Sasuke is with it…"
"What do you mean Sasuke is with it?!" Now I'm just confused.
"He's not exactly with it..more like chasing it.."
Out of nowhere, dark clouds started to form about the village. As Naruto and I looked toward the sky, the villagers around us stopped in place as they started to look up too.
"Naruto...what's going on..?B
"SHADOW CLONE NO JUTSU!" In a blink of an eye, a hundred of Naruto's shadow clones appeared. One going toward the tower, and the rest scattering to get the villagers to safety.
"Sakura this is going to be….."
-BOOOOM-
As Naruto spoke, we were interrupted by a loud explosion coming from the village entrance.
"Naruto!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. His eyes wide at the scene of a large dark flume cloud came from the direction ahead of us. Villagers around us started yelling and running towards the safety of the bunkers.
I turned to face Naruto but he was frozen in his stance, trying to understand what's going on, and that's when I see him.
"Sasuke kun…..?" He was in mid air, fighting someone. His chidori filled the sky as lightning started to rumble.
"Sakura, we need to get the villagers to safety.." Naruto finally turned to me, I didn't even realize he was already in his nine tail's chakra. Glowing bright orange, he stood in front of me with a look of anger.
"KATON GOKAKYU NO JUTSU!" I heard Sasuke yell as I felt the heat from his fireball soar through the sky. Before I could even turn to Naruto to say a thing, I could already see him catching up to Sasuke's position.
"MAMA!" From the edge of my eye, I could see Sarada and Boruto running towards me.
"Sarada...Boruto! We need to get every villager in this area to the bunkers now!" I ordered.
Boruto summoned a couple shadow clones, and I watched as Sarada activated her Sharingan. As Sarada yelled at Boruto at every chakra presence she saw, a clone would run in that direction to retrieve the villager and back. As they were doing that, I ran around healing those who were hurt from crumbling building.
-What's going on over there? Who is this person?- I kept asking myself.
"Mama...look.." I wasn't paying attention to the fight itself, but what ever was going on, the village was being destroyed. I turned my attention back to the sky. I saw Naruto levitating, but with three of his seekers around him. To the right of him, I saw Sasuke with his dark purple Susano engulfing his body. But what…
"No….It can't be….."
"No way..but I thought Sasuke Oji was the only one who can…" Boruto looked up, terrified, mouth gaping, and trembling.
"Sa...sasano…." Sarada had tears filling up her eyes. The sight of another Susano facing her father and the Hokage is terrifying. She knows it's impossible. Sasuke and Sarada are the only two Uchiha's left in this world. Sarada barely achieved her third tomoe, let alone, has never activated her mangekyo sharingan. So the only person who has this ability is Sasuke..
The skies were echoed with loud crashes as Naruto and Sasuke fought off this stranger. But this chakra seems all too familiar. Another loud crash roared into the air, Sarada, Boruto, and I jumped to the roof tops to get a better view of the fight as we retreated towards the hospital.
The sky was filled with more lighting, I assume from Sasuke's chidori, and thousands of Naruto's shadow clones filled the air.
"Mama! Who is that?!" Sarada looked back at me intensely.
"I don't know..I thought..no you and your father are the only ones left.."
"That doesn't make any sense though…" Boruto was looking straight ahead.
"I'm sorry Sakura obasan..I need to find Himawari and my mom.." And before I could stop him, he vanished.
"He'll be ok mama, his arm is already healed up from granny senju." Though her face was filled with concern, she was able to put a grin on it.
Although we were retreating to the hospital, their fight seemed to get closer and closer to us. In the distance, I could hear Naruto yell out his rasen shuriken jutsu and Sasuke with his chidori stream. Sarada in front of me was so tense, I could sense her chakra flickr.
"They'll be ok honey." She turned to me, eyes filled with panic and fear. But before I could say anything another loud and almost deathening crash erupted behind us, along with a cloud of wind toppling us. Sarada's eyes widened even more, and her sharingan activated once more. I couldn't hear what she was saying, but as she pointed, her lips were reading papa…
I turned my head around as fast as possible, only to see Naruto grasping the enemy, and Sasuke plummeting down towards the village floor. My instinct kicked in and I turned my heel to run in his direction. Sarada followed close behind me. Pumping every ounce of my chakra to move faster, everything happened so quickly. The force of him falling had me falling with him. Catching him in my arms, I took the most force out of his fall.
"Sakura…?" He looked up at me, his face covered in blood, his body riddled with cuts and other wounds, I can sense his chakra is almost depleted.
"Papa!" Sarada yelled as I finally realized what was happening.
"Anata hold on!" Before I knew it, my hands started glowing green and I tended to his tattered body.
"Sarada, keep watch ok." I stated directly at her, just in case the enemy tries to attack. She might not be able to fight him directly but with her sharingan, we'll see it coming.
-Faster Sakura Faster!-
My thoughts were screaming as I looked down at my glowing hands on his chest. I didn't realize it but the seal from the strength of a hundred jutsu started stretching onto my arms and across onto Sasuke's body.
I peeked up at his face only to seem him with a smirk.
"Hn.."
"Papa! You're going to be ok!" Sarada ran up beside me to grab her father's hand.
"Just give me a few more seconds Sasuke…" I just need to concentrate a little longer.
"WATCH OUT!" Sasuke yelled as Sarada and I were consumed inside of Susano. Blocking what I assume was a fire ball riddled with shuriken.
I helped Sasuke back up on to his feet, as Sosano starts to diminish.
"Papa who-?!"
"SARADA!" Sasuke and I yelled as the cloaked man grabbed our precious daughter from our grasp.
"LET GO OF ME!" Sarada was yelling as we both chased after.
"Chidor.."
"Sasuke no! You could hit Sarada on accident!" Sasuke looked at me so angrily, as if I insulted his skills.
"I won't hurt her, let me just.."
"CHIDORI!" In front of us, we watch as Sarada's free hand sparkle with electricity.
"SHANAROO" She jabs the left side of the mysterious man as he coughs up blood and drops her.
With smirk on his face, Sasuke catches her before she could fall from the top of the buildings.
"Papa!" Sarada buried her face in her father's chest, as Sasuke places her by my side.
"Sakura you need to leave now." He said so sternly.
Our short family reunion was interrupted with hysterical laughter coming from the masked man engulfed in his very own Sosano.
"Well how heartwarming is this, with my very own eyes, the new and improved Uchiha clan."
"Who are you!?" Sarada yelled.
"Sarada this doesn't concern you, take your mother and leave!" Sasuke hissed at her.
"No papa! You lied!"
"Sarada! Hold your tongue, this isn't the time and place for this…" I put my arms around Sarada as a notion to move, but she just stood there, her eyes locked on to her father, who was starring back.
"Where do you women think you're going?" The cloaked man flew between Sasuke and Sarada.
His hand signs were too fast for any of us to recognize, as a seal beneath all of us appeared and everything around us turned bright white, time sat still for a moment our senses numbed, and we're all left in a daze.