Yes I'm back from my exams and I must say it was very pressuring. I hope you like the slight changes to how I write the story. As for why I did a rewrite well as I said, the last one got too hard for me to continue and I felt like the plot didn't really make sense. So I made a new starting plot with Sakura and Sasuke being just couples but not married couples. I hope you can continue to support me just like how you did to me previous ones though not as angsty as the previous but I think this was one is better. Let me know what you think in the reviews. Back to the story!

Chapter 2: Long time no see

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A young woman groans after being woken up by the alarm clock. She sat up and popped a few bones back to its place then let a relaxing sigh. She ran her fingers through her disheveled long pink hair. Rubbing her eyes and waiting for a few moments to let it adjust to the room brightness in the morning. Finally adjusted she took a photo frame on a small drawer by her bed and looked at it. They didn't even get a new team photo after Sasuke's return, she also remembered that they never truly went out as a team again and it was all because of her. It had been two years since she found out that Naruto went out for a two year long recon mission in hostile territory Otogakure and Iwagakure. What's strange was that on the night he left she felt something warm and soft touched her forehead where her diamond seal and to this day she still doesn't know what it was. Maybe she had been dreaming or something. She put the photo down and she had a sad smile when she saw the other one next to team 7's old photo. It was a photo of both Naruto and her standing side by side holding two sets of bells in their hands grinning. Ino had taken it when she was passing by the training grounds and she so happened to be holding a camera at that time. She picked it up and ran a thumb over Naruto's grinning face. How she wished she could go back to those times, she missed his company, his smiling face that could light up anyone's day but most of all she missed him. It was a few days later she started to miss the blonde haired ninja. She tried to forget him and focus on her relationship with Sasuke but she started to doubt her feelings for the Uchiha. No matter how many times she pushed that small voice of doubt in her head it would always come back. Sasuke wasn't a bad person, he did have a soft side she later found out but he's just…Sasuke. He's cold most of the time, emotionless, he rarely replies her with more than a sentence and she always had to start the conversations on their dates. Furthermore, she found out that he's quite possessive and forceful sometimes. His kisses were sometimes forceful and mostly possessive. It wasn't the loving kiss she fantasized she would have with Sasuke, in fact nothing about her relationship with Sasuke was what she imagined. She always fantasized Sasuke and herself kissing lovingly, smiling, laughing, holding hands and all sorts of stuff lovers would do.

When Naruto walked out of her life, everything to her was grey. Naruto was the one who could always brighten up her day and with him gone, everything was just boring. It was later then she realized that Naruto was more than a friend to her. When she compared her time with Sasuke and Naruto she found out that she missed Naruto's company a lot more than her boyfriend at that time. Then one day Sasuke brought her to a quiet and did something that caught her completely off guard.

Flashback

She followed Sasuke up the Hokage monument, wondering what was he planning. When they reached the top Sasuke turned to her. To a normal person it may look like an emotionless face but after dating this emo guy for almost a year she could tell which is which. It took a moment to read his expression and it was a serious one so she focused on the guy in front of her instead of the other one….He spoke "Sakura, we've been dating for a while now." She nodded silently.

"I think it's time we take it up to the next level."

It took her moment to figure out what it meant then her eyes widen 'No it can't be.' Sasuke went of one knee and took out a ring then held out to her "Sakura Haruno will you marry me?"

Her breath caught, her mind went blank, her whole body felt numb and she lost all awareness of her surroundings. It took her a moment to recompose herself before she could finally register what was happening and that was Uchiha Sasuke asking for her hand in marriage. Her twelve year old self would be screaming with joy but she isn't twelve anymore. Moreover, her heart didn't belong to Sasuke anymore. She finds the situation pretty ironic to be honest, right now something straight from her childhood dreams was happening in front of her and she didn't immediately accept nor is she jumping with joy. Her twelve year old self would be berating her endlessly. She looked at the young man in front her, a man she once imagined spending the rest of her life with in sickness and in health till death do them apart. However not until recently she started imagining life with another man, a man who would promise her endless happiness and joy and that man was definitely not the man kneeling in front of her. "I'm sorry Sasuke"

Sasuke looked at her confused "Huh?"

"I can't accept this proposal. I just can't"

Sasuke stood up, anger and confusion started to creep on to his face "Why not"

Sakura looked at him and gave a sad smile "It's because I don't love you anymore." She turned away from him and looked towards the village "Maybe I never did."

"Then why did you start dating me?"

"I don't know." She sigh "Maybe I always thought you were what I always wanted but you weren't. For months I tried to convince myself that this was what I've always wanted, to get recognition from you, for you to finally return my feelings but the doubts kept coming. Eventually I started comparing how different both of you were. It seems that the quiet and cool type isn't my cup of tea anymore. It was only recently did I realized that my heart belonged to another man. The one who gave me so much but never ask for anything in return, the one who went through thick and thin with me, the one who gave me a shoulder to cry on, taking the my burdens away and sacrificing his happiness for the sake of mine. The man is Naruto Uzumaki."

Sasuke slowly gave a small smile then chuckled "So the dobe won the round as well."

Sakura walked forward and put a hand on his shoulder "You're a good man Sasuke but you aren't the one I want." With that she gave a kiss on his cheek and walked away "See you soon Sasuke."

End of flashback

She was thankful that she still kept a close bond with Sasuke after their break up. Turns out that she loves him more like a big brother than a lover and Sasuke eventually admitted the same as well. Sasuke recently started dating another kunoichi but a year younger than him. They met during an A rank mission and they've been together for almost a year now. From the looks of it they seem to have good chemistry. She was happy for them. She put the photo frame down and began her morning routine.

When she came out of the bathroom she saw a message bird waiting for her by the window frame. She walked towards it and took the message then let the bird fly off. "An –A rank mission?" she rarely gets anything above B rank these days since she spends most of her time in the hospital. Her highest mission rank was B and that was a few weeks ago. Thankfully she hasn't lost her physical fitness yet since she goes to sparring sessions with most of the rookie 11 but even though they were great sparring partners, she missed sparring with Naruto the most. Most of them don't really go full force against her since she's a medical nin and the only who goes full force was Sasuke but being the cold bastard he more on the provoking and harassment side where as Naruto would always encourage her to keep going and it was because of him she became the most respected Kunoichi in Konoha next to the Godaime Hokage. It's a title she's proud of. She sigh, she never did thank Naruto for all he did. To this day she blamed herself for Naruto's departure. He was slowly drifting away from her and she didn't bother to do anything about it. She noticed that he was slowly putting distance between him and herself, she was worried at first but brushed it off thinking that he's just busy or giving time alone and Sasuke and her. How stupid and blind she was to not even know the pain he was going through. She was aware Naruto held feelings for her but she forgotten everything when she started dating Sasuke. What kind of best friend was she?

She sighed, no point dwelling on the past. You can't change the past but you can make a better future and make up for your mistakes. She went to her closet, undressed her night gown and started dressing her ninja clothes. Her attire hasn't changed much ever since Naruto left other than growing her hair out since Ino said she looks better with long hair. Said she looks more feminine compared to her short hair since it made her look abit tomboyish . She also figured that keeping her old attire showed her curves more. Her red shirt was slightly smaller and showed her stomach and other than that everything is pretty much the same, except her new boots which Tsunade gave her as a birthday present last year. She finally dressed, tied her hairband and head out to the Hokage tower. Walking down the street, she noticed that she attracted a good amount of looks mainly from the male population. At first she enjoyed the attention since it proves that she finally filled out her assets mainly her butt but it started to creep her out later since she heard a few gossips of what perverts would want to do to her body. As long as they don't touch her or anything that involves physical she's fine with the looks but it doesn't mean it never tends to scare her. Deciding she gained enough looks, she head for the roofs and started jumping over them towards the Hokage tower. Upon reaching she found out that she was the latest, she apologized and stood at the back for Tsunade to start her mission briefing. Looking around she found Sasuke, Ino, Kakashi, Sai were her teammates for this mission. Tsunade stood up "I'm glad you all could come. As you know this is an –A rank mission so becareful, especially you Sakura." Sakura nodded in understanding "We got a letter from a village near the border of the Fire country saying that they've been experiencing an unknown epidemic so that's why I'm bringing Ino along with you Sakura since both of you are the best we have. We already have an ANBU squad stationed there to protect the village from incoming threats. Any questions?"

Sai raised his hand "Why send an ANBU to guard a village when we could just send a squad of chunin?"

"Well the ANBU squad was just returning from a long term mission and they were close by to the village. They were the ones who sent the letter to us. Anymore?" no one answered

"Good. You leave in two hours"

With that the team left to prepare their gear for the mission. Two hours later the team already readied at the gate now await for Kakashi to find his way through the path of life. Who knows, maybe a litter of black kittens and a mother cat decided to cross his path. When he finally reach, he was about to give his usual excuse when the team already left for the trees without him. Shrugging he went for the trees and caught up with them, he quickly went to the front of the team since he was the team leader. He noticed that everyone was quiet no one said anything since there was nothing else to be said. It was a calming type of silent. That is until Sai decided to start talking "So ugly how you've been?" said Sai with a fake smile.

Sakura turned to him with the most innocent smile "Care to repeat that name again?"

Before Sai could speak Ino already covered his mouth "Now, now Sakura I'm sure he didn't mean it." She started rubbing his head with her fist so fast that you could've smell smoke emitting from his head if you were near him "Right Sai?" she gave her own sweet smile but he knew better that if he said that word one more time, he would be facing two enraged kunoichi. So he just nodded. Why do people feel insulted when all he's telling is the truth? He thought for a moment then took a book from his pouch, there the title wrote 'Understanding Human Feelings'. He read the book for a while till he noticed his male raven haired teammate was silent. He decided to start a conversation "So duck-"

"Finish that sentence and I will make sure the title of dickless goes to you"

Well that certainly shut him up. Since no one was in the mood to talk he just continued reading his book in silence. They traveled for another two hours with no further conflicts and arguments till Kakashi sighted the town's gate. He signaled them to slow their pace, the landed in front of the gate and noticed that there weren't any guards coming to greet them so went on full alert just in case if there's an ambush. They walked through the dirt road leading into the town they noticed that there weren't many people walking around. Suddenly out of nowhere a female ANBU with long chestnut hair stopped in front of them. The team went on guard for a moment then noticed the tattoo on her shoulder, it's a tattoo all Konoha ANBU nins. Every village has their own tattoo patterns and Konoha's one has a swirl like pattern to it. The ANBU agent spoke "So I'm guessing you're the team Tsunade sent you?"

"Hai" Kakashi said.

"We can skip the introductions first. Now I need you to follow me to the town hall to speak with the mayor regarding the epidemic."

The team nodded and followed the ANBU jumping on of the roofs. Upon reaching they found a male ANBU waiting for their arrival. He had similar raven hair like Sasuke but only shorter, on his back were two ninjato and you could already tell he's an experienced dual wielding swordsman.

"The mayor is waiting for you. Follow me."
The team nodded and followed the ANBU agent to the mayor. Walking in the town hall, the interior design of the building was pretty classy with several colorful vases, some flowers, an inside water fountain in the middle of the entire building. This town mayor had to be pretty rich to build this kind of building. They also just noticed that there weren't many employees walking around them. "Most of the town residents got sick including the staff members of the town hall if that's what you're wondering."

They nodded in understanding but Sakura had a questioning face 'what could cause the entire town to fall sick?' They continued walking till they came upon a flight of stairs. They walked up to the second level and continue walking down the hall way to the mayor's office. There were several rooms for the senior staff down the hallway but most of them were closed signaling they weren't around. They finally reached the mayor's office and the ANBU agent knocked a few times before hearing a male voice telling them to come in. They went in and they were greeted by a middle age man probably in his fifties. They were slightly shocked because even though he looked pretty old he still had a pretty fit figure but the most noticeable thing was how shiny his bald head was. It was so shiny that the sun shining through the window reflected to Sasuke's eye causing him to cover his eyes. The man stood up and greeted them "Ah so you're the team that Hokage-sama sent you."

The team bowed back with respect, Kakashi stepped forward and shook the mayor's hand "Hai" answering the mayor.

"Ah if it isn't Kakashi Hatake the copy-cat nin"

"Hai that's me erm…"

"Call me Saitama"

"Saitama-sama"

The man gave a genuine smile "Please Kakashi, there's no need for such formalities. Saitama is enough."

Kakashi nodded "Hai"

The elder man smiled and looked over Kakashi's shoulder "So do you mind introducing your team? They look pretty promising to me."

"Hai" Kakashi stepped aside "The blonde haired Kunoichi is Ino Yamanaka from the Yamanaka clan. She specializes in interrogation and is also an experience medical combat nin."

"A Yamanaka clan…is your father Inoichi Yamanaka?"

Ino nodded "Yes but how did you know?"

"I met your father when I was on a business trip to Konoha."

"I see"

Kakashi then continued the introductions "The pale skin man is Sai, he has no clan but was a former ANBU agent."

The elder man nodded and smiled at the young man.

"The raven haired man is Sasuke Uchiha from the renowned Uchiha clan."

The elder man tensed up, he has heard of the misdeeds the Uchiha did in the past and the cold glare he was giving wasn't very comforting. Kakashi of course noticed this and put a hand on Sasuke's head and start rubbing his head "Don't worry Saitama-san, he's okay now. He is actually a pretty nice guy when you get to know him aside from his cold demeanor. Isn't that right Sasuke?"

Sasuke swatted Kakashi's hand away clearly not appreciating being treated like a genin again crossed his arms over his chest and looked away "Hn"

Kakashi sweat dropped while Saitama gave an awkward smile. He signaled Kakashi to continue to the final member "Lastly we have Sakura Haruno from the Haruno clan. She's renown and highly respected medic combat nin and looked up upon as an idol amongst other kunoichi in the village. She was trained by the Godaime Hokage Lady Tsunade and she will be the leading the investigation and medical research for your epidemic problem."

The elder man face beamed with happiness "Oh I've heard of you. You were the one who worked with Lady Chiyo in defeating one of the Akatsuki members right?"

Sakura blushed with embarrassment "Well I don't want to boast but I guess you could say that." She scratched the back of her head and giving a shy smile.

"Then my town is saved. Having two experience medic nins and one of them being the apprentice of Lady Tsunade nonetheless."

Sakura gave a small but shy smile "I'm flattered"

Then the elder man turned serious "I think it's time we get down to business"

The whole team tensed up and nodded. They all moved to a table and sat around it "So what seems to be the problem mayor"

The mayor let out a sigh "Well the epidemic started about a week ago when people started falling sick."

"What are the symptoms?"

"Well they consist of coughing, flu, headache and mostly stomach ache. I know it may sound like your average illness but our town doctor tried to cure them but his medicines had no effect and now even he has fallen victim to the illness."

Sakura put a finger on her chin and started thinking "What is your main source of food?"

"Cows and pigs but we also have a paddy field not too far from here."

"I see. Well maybe that's where the source of the problem is. I think it's best we should start our investigation there don't you think Kakashi-sensei?"

"I don't know" he shrugged " but since you're the medic here I'll just follow you"

Just before they could continue discussing further, a staff member came crashing in "Saitama-sama!"

Saitama stood up "What is it?"

"B-bandits! They are closing in from the main gate"

Just before Saitama could answer Kakashi's team already stood up "We'll deal with them"

"W-wait, I already got-" before he could finish Kakashi and his team already left "ANBU agents" he sigh. Oh well, they ANBU's did say that their leader was an ex-teammate of the team that just left.

A large group of bandits which consist of several missing nins were heading to the town and they were closing in fast. The leader of the group was eager to set foot into the village 'when I'm done with this I'm gonna have some fun with that cute secretary' he licked his lips. Their advance came to a complete standstill when a flash of pink hair came in front of them and punched the ground hard causing them to fly back. The leader being a skilled nin managed to land safely but others weren't so lucky. They large group looked at their enemy only to find a small group of nins, they laughed out loud "This is what they sent?"

"What can 5 people do against us? Hahahah"

With a flick of a finger from the leader they all kept quiet. "I apologize for their behavior. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Shinjiru, formerly an ANBU from the village hidden in the mist. You must be the team Konoha sent am I right."

Kakashi stood in front "Well since you're so kind to introduce yourself so why not I return the favor. Kakashi Hatake, a.k.a The copy nin and this is my team."

"Ah Kakashi Hatake, it is such an honor to meet you. Now why don't you introduce your little team, especially the blonde and the pink haired cutie" he said licking his lips.

Sakura and Ino glared at the man clearly wanting a piece of him. Shinjuru gave a sick smile "No? Well don't worry, when I'm done with this battle you can all the time you want to introduce yourselves to me and my men later. Sounds good?"

The group of men cheered. Sakura and Ino heard whispers of what sick things the men were going to do them if they were to be captured. They shivered with disgust, they would rather die than giving these men the pleasure of raping them. Suddenly Shinjuru ordered them to attack and Kakashi's team went into battle stance. Shinjuru took on Kakashi while the others deal with the rest of his team. Sasuke quickly activate his sharingan and unsheathed his Kusanagi while Sai drew multiple Lions. Sakura and Ino being the team's medic stayed back for support. Kakashi activated his own sharingan and took out a kunai to block Shinjuru's ninjato. As their weapons grinned against each other, they looked at each other eye to eye. Shinjuru gave a sick smile "I'm pretty sure that pink haired girl would make a fine sex slave for me and the blonde can be my men's play toy. Great idea don't you think?" he gave a sick smile.

Kakashi growled "You stay away from them."

They jumped back, Kakashi did a few handsigns "Koton Gokakyu No Jutsu!" he sent a large fireball to Shinjuru who did his own handsigns

"Doton Doryuheki!" a mud wall came up and blocked the fire jutsu.

Kakashi was impressed because that was a B-rank jutsu which meant that Shinjuru is not to be taken lightly. Kakashi took his kunai and charged forward and started a barrage of attacks at Shinjuru. He almost dodged everything but Kakashi got managed to get a kick to his stomach and sent him flying backwards. Having gained some breathing space he turned to his team to check on how they are doing, he saw that they were doing well but they were slowly surrounded by the sheer amount of enemy. He did a few handsigns and turned towards the large zerg of enemies "Futon Daitoppa!" a powerful blast of wind blew away a large portion of the enemy surrounding his team. Sasuke gave a nod of appreciation for his help. When Kakashi turned back, Shinjuru was already gone. He turned back to Shinjuru who already got him "Lucky shot" with that he charged forward with and started his own series of attack on Kakashi. Though Shinjuru attacked with tenacity, Kakashi having the Sharingan was able to keep up. The two were evenly matched, their speed so fast that to a normal eye it would be impossible to keep up. Some of the men watched in awe for a while then continue their assault.

Sasuke smirked as he managed to take two more enemies, everything was going well so far and it would just a matter of time before they beat everyone. That is unless he jinxed himself

"Drop your weapons!"

Everyone turned behind to see Sakura with a blade poised at her throat by and another guy standing beside her. They noticed that Sakura had her hands held behind her back Ino seeing this jumped back to the safety of the two men. Sakura on the other hand was not happy, 'how could I let these two sneak up on me like that? ' Sakura tried to break free from the man's hold with her superhuman strength but she the hold wouldn't budge 'This guy is adding chakra to his fingers to hold me!' The battle stopped and everyone was silent. Kakashi and his team were tense and were already trying to form up a plan to rescue Sakura. Shinjuru smiled at Kakashi "Well looks like I'll be getting my prize earlier than expected." He gave a wicked smile.

Kakashi growled at him trying to think of a plan when he noticed the man beside Sakura started to get too 'close' for comfort. The man beside Sakura was too close for her comfort, he started to caress her face but Sakura turned away and glared at him "Fiesty one aren't you?" he traced a finger over her slightly expose stomach then stopped and stepped back abit "Such erotic clothes you wear my little blossom. Now why don't you show us your assets" with that he walked forward and started to lift the hem of her shirt.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

A random voice spoke. All eyes looked to the source of that voice to find a man under the tree shade standing on branch looking over them. "Who the fuck are you faggot?"

Suddenly the man threw a kunai and went right past the man's face "Haha you-"

Before the man could finish, a thundering sound could be heard and the man on the branch suddenly disappeared on to reappear beside behind him in a yellow flash. In broad daylight, everyone could see he was dressed in ANBU attire. The ANBU grabbed the man's face from the back and slammed it down to the ground hard then in one swift move he was already behind the man who was holding Sakura hostage and did the same to him just as he had done to the man previously. Sakura already free rubbed her wrist to check for any signs of bruise but found none. She looked to the ANBU beside her, he had sun kissed blonde hair that seemed to defy gravity and 'Could it be?' there on the side of his face where the mask didn't cover were whiskered marks. "N-Naruto?" tears starting to form

The man turned to her, she could see his cerulean eyes. It has to be him. "Long time no see Sakura"

I'm done! Finally! As for this chapter, I made Sakura slightly weaker but don't worry she will be badass in the later chapters. As for Naruto, well hes already a badass. The next chapter will be longer since I will update the highschool fanfic. So yea…

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