Sakura stared gloomily at the water below. How long had it been now...? Sakura's last moment of Sasuke was seen through tears. She had tried many times to see him in the last nine years, chasing him in every country.
"Sakura, guess what!" Naruto cried as he sprinted up to her.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"I've become the sixth Hokage!" Naruto practically screamed.
"Congratulations, Naruto" Sakura said, her heart just a little bit lighter...for now.
"I'm gonna go tell everyone now, are you gona be okay?"
"I'll be fine Naruto" Sakura said, smiling.
Sakura now gazed at the sky. Ino sat on a bench close by. She had gotten over Sasuke within a year, and soon after that Shikamaru and her had found something more than friendship or being teammates. But, Ino and Sakura had never reconciled.
Chouji sat beside Shikamaru, eating what else, but a bag of potato chips. Suddenly, a sickening feeling permeated through the summer air, going down everyone's throat, and inciting a tight knot that could only mean one thing: Gaara was there.
Temari stepped forward," The allies of Konoha have come to celebrate the new Hokage."
"That was fast," said Shikamaru"We just found out."
"The village hidden in the sand told us a few days ago"
"Naruto's been on a mission the past few days, remember?" asked Ino.
"Well, where is the new Hokage?" said Kankurou.
"He just left in that direction" said Sakura. The sand ninjas walked away to find Naruto.
Later that evening, Sakura was trudging home, when Naruto called from the Ramen stand,"Hey Sakura! I wanted to ask you something.Sakura walked into the crowded ramen stand, and Naruto said to the man sitting next to him" Hey, could you move for just a second so my friend Sakura can sit down?" Sakura sat. "I was thinking, since I've just become the sixth Hokage, aand your birhtday is coming up, why don't we throw a huge party for both of them."
Sakura knew Naruto wanted this, so she accepted. She was still his friend, after all.Now, let me explain what Sakura had been doing all these years, besides from being a med ninja, she sat in the back of her apartment inventing new weapons. She had invented close combat weapons, like one that had spinning kunai knifes, and one that was somewhat like Rasengan, except it twisted your enemy's insides, all of which she carried around in a sack on her back. Yes, this inventing could have been what kept her from dropping herself off a cliff.
Or maybe it was her determination to see Sasuke.