Disclaimer: This is my first fanfic so be gentle with me! So I guess this is just gonna be a short one so don't expect too much from it at first. I might add more chapters later on, we'll see how it goes. Chapter One will be fairly short.
Reviews are very much appreciated!!
Ah yes almost forgot; I DON'T OWN NARUTO. (and never will)
Pairings? (heehee.)
Rating: T (for now)
We all know Sakura has a lovely inner voice.
Inner Voice will be in bold.
Thoughts will be in italics.
Might be a bit OOC. Forgive me.
A Not So Sweet Escape – Chapter 1 Paperwork
Sakura tucked a loose strand of pink hair behind her ear. She stared down at the hospital paperwork with a cold glare and grumbled.
"I can't believe Shisshou is making me do this!" She huffed.
She was right too. Sakura Haruno had been appointed Jounin six months prior, and she did not want to spend her month off missions doing hospital paperwork in a dim backroom of the Konoha Hospital. Sakura sighed. She had hoped that she would be able to skip such mediocre tasks once she became Jounin.
"This is a job for nurses…" she thought bitterly.
She had wanted to gain recognition as a skilled Konoha shinobi, not as Tsunade's lapdog (no offence meant to Shizune). Being the weakest link in a team of some of the strongest ninjas Konoha had ever seen made her strive for bigger, better things. She had trained hard and spent long hours studying to achieve the status she had only ever dreamed of. Reaching Tsunade's level as a medic-nin, maybe even surpassing her. Becoming a Jounin. Hell, even buying her own apartment flat! All things Sakura could've only dreamed of as the small, weak member of team 7.
She supposed Konoha still thought her to be small, weak Sakura-Chan. After all, Naruto was ONLY the Kyuubi, and Sasuke, ONLY one of the most powerful missing-nins from Konoha. She grumbled again, scratching out mistakes nurses had made on patient records.
"Sasuke…"
She had long overcome her childhood crush for him, but that didn't stop her mind wandering to him now and then. They had been friends. She knew deep down he wouldn't be the same boy she knew in her genin days.
"Not like he had been that great." Her inner voice mused.
"…Shut up."
She couldn't help wondering if the next time she'd see him, it would be Naruto bringing him back to Konoha, or perhaps killed by Konoha Hunter-nins. Or maybe-
"Stop thinking about stupid possibilities," Sakura thought, cutting herself off, "It doesn't make anything better."
She sighed. If Sasuke ever did come back she didn't know how she would react. Would she be relieved that he was back? Angry with him for leaving. Embarrassment came to mind as well.
"He left me on a bench, that bastard!" Sakura's famous temper rose up…
"Like I said, not that great."
"…hmmpf." And then it was gone.
Not wanting to dwell on thoughts of Sasuke any longer she went back to longing for an escape from the piles of paperwork that lay in front of her.
Little did she know, an escape was on its way. A little trip not so far away from Konoha.