Secrets

Secret Told

The wind was strong and the people of Konoha stumbled as their hats, and or papers, were flying all around. Two men started to walk out of the Hokage's office. Lady Tsunade did not plan on giving them any sort of a break at this rate. The missions they were assigned to kept on coming.

"Annoying…." The taller man thought and groaned and scratched the back of his head. The blonde one lead him out of the tower, grinning.

"Come on Sasuke! There's no time to waste. The trip to the Sand Village takes three days. I'm all fired up! We'll get there in less than three days, believe it!" The blonde yelled, almost in Sasuke's ears, as he walked passed him.

"No matter how you put it, it's still going to take us three days worth of travel, dobe…" He smirked, and continued to walk behind the silly, now laughing blonde.
"Maybe we should split up and gather the others, huh Sasuke?" Naruto stopped and asked. "I'll get Kakashi-Sensei, and you can get Sakura-chan." The blonde said, and giggled sheepishly looking over at Sasuke.

He continued to walk past his friend, and only smirked. "Fine, hurry it up though. We shouldn't waste time standing by the gates, waiting for him."

"Right!" With that, the blonde dashed off to look for their always late, sensei.

Sasuke continued on walking towards the pink-haired kunoichi's house. As he reached her doorstep, he hadn't bother to think twice about knocking on her door, so instead he jumped to her terrace that directed to her room. "Sakura! We've been given another mission, hurry up will you? Kakashi and the dobe are already waiting for us."

Sakura looked over to the open door that led to her terrace. "Oh, Sasuke-kun, it's only you." The kunoichi sighed in relief and dropped her 'ready to attack' position. "I'll be there in a minute." Then she disappeared through a door.
Sasuke waited, and in less than a minute the kunoichi reappeared. At the moment he saw her come back, he jumped off her terrace, and soon she followed. They started for the gates, neither spoke a word. Sakura put on her leaf ninja headband the way she usually put it, and Sasuke led them to their waiting comrades.

For once, Kakashi wasn't late. "Oi, nice to see that for once you weren't the last one to arrive, Sensei." The Uchiha said looking emotionless at the silver haired man with the face mask on.

"Well nice to see you too, Sasuke." Kakashi said, giving Sasuke his usual two-finger salute. "I guess now we could start our journey. I'd give you the briefing of our mission on the way." And with that, they all started for Sunna.

"Just look at us, seems like nothing has really changed were all still here. Team Kakashi, no longer team 7. It feels like only yesterday Naruto, Sasuke, and I had turned the age of twenty one…and now, we've officially been assigned as an ANBU team." Sakura tuned back in to Kakashi's briefing, only to find that it was now over. She didn't worry too much, because he'd say it again as soon as they got to the Sand Village.

Naruto stayed back and paced himself with Sakura, letting Kakashi and Sasuke go first. "Hey Sakura…" The blonde managed, "How're your wounds healing?"

"It's getting better, specially that Lady Tsunade herself healed it. Although, it can't be resisted if it suddenly hurts from time to time," She looked at her gaping blonde friend, he looked worried, "But it's getting better like I said, and even faster than it should be, Naruto."

"I'm glad to hear that, I wouldn't want you risking your life during the mission, Sakura." He said with his biggest grin. Sakura had been injured badly just on the mission they had recently finished, but like she said, thanks to Lady Tsunade, the wounds are healing and closing up rather quickly than it should be. "Well, I'll go on ahead! I'll talk to you later Sakura." With that, he dashed off in front of Sasuke and Kakashi.

Sakura then went back to her train of thought. "Kakashi-Sensei does not look like he'd grown older nor had he aged backwards, he still looked the same. Naruto as well, he looked just like he did before going off training with Master Jiraya, and after that. The only difference was his clothing, he didn't look like a thin orange anymore, his clothes had black streaks on its shoulders. And Sasuke, he was the only one who really changed in all of them. He no longer wore the similar clothes he did when they were young. Now, he wore something that made him look a little like a samurai, and he carried out a sword with him. But other than that, he was still the same old Sasuke of team 7—err team Kakashi."

"Right, the sun's been down for a few hours now, it's best to camp out here tonight and save up our energy. We're nearly there, and judging from the looks of it we shouldn't need another full day to travel unlike we did before." Naruto then pulled out his sleeping bag and prepared himself to sleep.

"Alright then! I wonder why we hadn't been able to travel this fast before, huh? Don't you teme?!" Naruto said clueless looking over at Sasuke.

"Maybe because a certain dobe stopped us too many times for long, unnecessary bathroom breaks? What do you think?" The Uchiha replied not bothering to look at Naruto as he set up the fire and his sleeping bag.

"Well, actually now that you mentioned it teme…hehe…" That's all the blonde could actually say, and soon enough he took out a frying pan, a water bottle, and a bag of ramen out of his backpack.

Sakura, ignoring the men's earlier conversation, stared absolutely dumbfounded at the blonde as he took out his things. "Err….N-Naruto? Why do you have those in your backpack?" She asked pointing to the things her blonde friend took out.

"I was hungry before we left Konoha, so I thought I'd bring ramen along with me." He replied grinning at the kunoichi.

"Err….O-okay then…"

"Don't bother the dobe, he's finally done something reasonable, and not something stupid for once." The Uchiha interrupted, fixing his sleeping bag.

"HEY! That's not true! Sasuke-teme, you're a bastard you know that!?" Naruto yelled, stumping his feet at the ground.

"Hey you two, stop that and go get some rest, tomorrow is another long day." Kakashi said, laying down reading his book.

They did stop, Sasuke and Sakura laid down and started to drift to sleep when Naruto suddenly cried out.

Sakura jumped up from her bed alarmed by Naruto's sudden shriek. "Naruto! What is it!?" She asked, alarm noticeable in her voice. Kakashi only raised his head and looked around then went back to reading his book.

"It's nothing, go back to sleep Sakura. The dobe was over-reacting over nothing." Sasuke informed her, staying still in his laying position, with his back faced to the fire.

"Nu uh! I poured all my water in my ramen soup, and forgot that I only brought one!" The blonde exclaimed, clearly over reacting as Sasuke had said earlier.

Naruto! You got me all worried for nothing! Arghh— Just go to sleep will 'ya!?" Sakura said angrily, going back to her comfy sleeping bag, turning away from the fire as well.

"I was wrong," Sasuke started, "I stand corrected, the dobe still hasn't done anything reasonable, and still does stupid things, and more importantly, he's in the process of it."

"Why you—"

"Enough! Get some sleep you two." Kakashi said, finally closing his book and closing his eyes slowly drifting to sleep."

"But Sensei, I can't sleep." The blonde replied.

Sakura sat up and decided to talk to Naruto. "Naruto lie down," she said, "and I'll talk to you, to make you go to sleep." She smiled weakly at him, as tired as she was, she won't get anywhere near sleep if Naruto were to keep talking because he wasn't able to get some sleep.

"You would really do that? Thank you, thank you so much Sakura!" Naruto said happily, returning the smile she gave him.

It took long but it seems like Naruto has finally fallen asleep, not only that, but the fire has diminished as well. Then she heard someone moving. Sasuke had gotten up.

"Sorry if I woke you up Sasuke, I didn't mean to do so." She managed to give him a smile.

The Uchiha walked to her and her sleeping bag. "Had fun flirting did you?" He asked her, quite angry as he wrapped his arm around Sakura's waist.

"Sasuke—"

"They're sound asleep."He said, digging his head unto Sakura's neck.

"But...we're out here in the woods..."

"I'll protect you no matter what. I haven't seen you for days because you were with Lady Tsunade. Give me tonight at least..." He kissed her neck, and move his hands all over her body.

"Sasuke-kun...they might wake up..." Sakura said shyly,shivering from every kiss Sasuke placed on her neck.

Sasuke didn't stop. "Would you rather we go in deeper in the woods then?"

Sakura blushed, she couldn't stop thinking about what they were doing in front of their team mates' unconscious bodies. But then she got a hold of herself. She turned to face Sasuke, and planted a longing and loving kiss on his lips, wrapping her arms around his neck.

Sasuke then in return kissed her more dearly, sliding her left sleeve down, kissing her bare shoulder. She then played with his hair, but then stopped.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun..." She sighed, "but it really is getting late now, and we need to get some sleep and gather up our strength for tomorr—"

"Tch. In case you've forgotten, Sakura. I always get what I want." He held her closer and tighter as her eyes widened. "But I'll let this one slip. His hold on her released, and he went back to his own sleeping bag and went to sleep. Sakura stared at amazement. In all this time, them secretly dating, Sasuke did get all he wanted. But he's never asked her to go that far...yet. But then there's left a question on the table—

"When are we going to stop secretly dating and be just dating for real?"
She let the thought go and laid back on her bed, willing herself to sleep.