Sakura just stood as she saw looked into the dark onyx eyes. The eyes of the boy she fell in love with, became teammates with, friends, and the one that broke her heart. She's played what would actually happen when she first saw him again for years. Now that it's actually happening, she was too shocked and happy to actually move. Sasuke made the first move.
"What are you doing here Sakura?" Sasuke asked.
"You know her Sasuke-kun?" Karin asked.
'Sasuke-kun?' Sakura thought.
"I...I came looking for you Sasuke-kun..I couldn't keep waiting, hoping, that Naruto was going to be able to bring you back himself. So, I took matters into my own hand...and-" Sakura said.
"I'm not going back to Konoha. I thought it was clear why I left the village." Sasuke interrupted.
"I know why you left...but that's why I'm here to help you now. I saw Itachi once..." Sakura said.
"You-You saw him? When?" Sasuke asked.
"It was last year but-" Sakura answered.
"Useless..." Sasuke said.
"Well, I was going to say before you cut me off again, that if you had stayed with us, Team 7, you would've had a chance to fight to him, and get your revenge! You left us! You abandoned us! Do you know what it was like when we became Team 7 again?" Sakura said.
-flashback-
"We were Team 7." Sakura said.
"Three-man call, huh?" Naruto said.
"Back then, we had Sasuke with us..." Kakashi said.
Sakura and Naruto get all depressed.
"Sasuke's name is taboo around them." Kakashi thought.
-flashback ends-
"We got the bells Sasuke...remember? We couldn't get them when we turned Genin, but we got it that time." Sakura told.
Sasuke looked at Sakura with a calm, but also shocked face. He couldn't believe how they improved. Sakura actually yelled at Sasuke, when they were Genin all she would do is adore and praise him.
'She's changed.' Sasuke thought.
'Was he always this cold? No... he wasn't.' Sakura thought.
"Sasuke-kun, please, let me help you. I said I would help you with your revenge five years ago, and I still mean it now." Sakura confessed.
"Even if you were to become a missing nin?" Sasuke asked.
"I wouldn't have left if I cared about that. I left my headband behind." Sakura answered.
She was right, she didn't have the headband on the top of her head like she usually does. Sasuke looked at her and felt differently about her. She wasn't a whiny, weak genin anymore. She was a strong, beautiful medic chunin.
"Please Sasuke-kun..." Sakura said.
"Alright.." Sasuke agreed.
"Really?" Sakura asked.
"What? Sasuke-kun! You really want...this...this...this inexperienced weak kunoichi with us?" Karin asked.
"Weak? You think I'm weak?" Sakura asked.
Sakura put on her glove, concentrated all the chakra into her fist and punched the boulder that was three times her size to smithereens. Sasuke gave a smirk,and Suigestsu was impressed. Karin was scared, but didn't show it. Jugo was calm as he usually he is until he has the urge to kill.
"Now do you think I'm weak?" Sakura asked.
She walked past Karin bumping into her shoulder. They all walked and Karin stood there in shock for about 10 seconds before catching up with the rest of them.
Meanwhile Naruto was at Icharuka, Shikamaru appeared. Naruto was on his 10th ramen bowl, it's amazing that he isn't broke by now from all the ramen he eats in one day.
"What are you doing here Shikamaru?" Naruto asked.
"Hokage-sama wants to see you, Sai and Kakashi, but I'm sure Sai and Kakashi is already there by now." Shikamaru answered.
"What for?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know! I'm just the messenger, go find out yourself." Shikamaru answered.
"Fine! Here's the money for the ramen Mr.!" Naruto shouted.
He put the money on the counter and ran off toward the Hokage tower. He burst into the office with his usual, pumped up self.
"What did you need to see me for Tsunade-baachan?" Naruto asked.
"Sakura has gone missing. I'm sending you three to go find her! Go now!" Tsunade ordered.
"Wait! Why is she missing? Was she kidnapped?" Naruto asked.
"We don't know for sure, but... we think she may have left to look for...Uchiha Sasuke..." Tsunade answered.
"How can you just assume that? We promised to look for him together!" Naruto shouted.
"Someone had overheard her say 'I'm going to find you...I'm coming Sasuke-kun.' and then she disappeared." Tsuande said.
Naruto clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
'What is Sakura thinking going alone by herself? She could get killed out there by herself!' Naruto thought.
"Go now! Go find Sakura and bring her back!" Tsunade ordered.
With that, Naruto, Sai, and Kakashi disappeared.
Team Hebi and Sakura had set up camp after 5 hours of traveling, from the looks of it it was about 2 am.
"So Sakura, how did you find me?" Sasuke asked.
"I didn't intentionally...I was first going to head to Otogakure to find any clues since you last killed Orochimaru, and work from there, but meeting you here has made that much easier." Sakura said.
"You're different now, you're stronger, you're less annoying, and beautiful..." Sasuke said the last word subconsciously.
"W-What?" Sakura asked.
She was red in the cheeks, and Karin whipped her head to them with her mouth open. Suigestu was also in shock and grinning, and well Jugo you can probably guess.
"Whoa, Sasuke. Didn't know you were capable of showing that much emotion to someone." Suigestu joked.
"Shut up." Sasuke said.
With that, he got up and walked further into the woods, leaving a shocked Sakura and a jealous Karin.
