2: Questions
I was suddenly attacked from my right side. A pink mess of tears and cries locked it's self onto me. "Roe…" The woman clung to me, pushing my face into her neck and her arms wrapped around my head. I push her off and gasp for air. "Sakura! You're gunna kill me!" she wipes the tears from her pale green eyes and stands tall. With her heels on, she's a whole head taller than me.
"Roe… there's so much we need to catch up on…"
"Yeah, but…" I look around him to the desk. It's piled with papers, books, and scrolls. "It looks like you have work to do… how about, I treat you to Ichiraku if you finish all your work?" I turn to Sakura, "I wanna meet everyone again, see how much has changed."
"A lot has changed, but also, not much…" Sakura looked over at Naruto who was drooling in thought. "Naruto!"
"Ah, H-hi?"
"Get back to work, the sooner you finish, the sooner we can all get together."
"But Sakura, it's Ichi-" Naruto froze at Sakura's glare and hurried back to his desk. I stiffed a laugh.
"Yuki, take Roe and show her around, you'll know where to find the other Jounin."
"I'm sure I know my way around." I quickly say before the guy at my side objects.
"A lot has changed in eight years, Roe." Sakura turned her back to us as she realized Naruto trying to climb out the window.
Yuki, as it turns out, is the guy who left five indents in my arm where he 'helped escorted me' to the Hokage's office. We quietly left the building with my humming and his head down. Right before we leave the building he spoke up. "So who are you? You seem to know our Hokage really well yet I've never seen you in our village before." He pulled his hood down and began working on the straps to his mask.
"Of course you wouldn't. I haven't been here in years." I begin to look around the familiar hallway and suddenly get the craving to walk out into the sun. "For me, though, it feels like yesterday."
"If you haven't been here in years and you know the Hokage so well… I'm confused." he pulls off his mask, revealing a young boy under the dark colors. I smile, turn, and open the big doors, welcoming sunlight.
We walk for a while in silence, me taking in every detail of the new village. The warm sun beat down on us and I begin to wish I would've left my hooded jacket in Naruto's office. "It's weird, you know?" I walk slower and let Yuki fall in line next to me. He's about the same height as me but looks younger. His big, pale blue eyes stare at me in question. "I've known Naruto since he was a kid. I always knew he was going to become Hokage someday, I never doubted that, but… I guess I'm just disappointed I missed so much of their lives. Can't be helped, though. They didn't need me. If they didn't need me…" I sighed, a little irritated that my rambling brought back the question that's been bothering me, "I wouldn't be here."