Two Hearts of Konoha

Based on the Anime series Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. I did not create the characters. Just the smut. This is also my first Naruto fanfic. Enjoy


PART II

It took a long time to get Sakura's mind back to Konoha. She sat up on her bed for a long time, figuring to recollect what she dreamt about? Why she dreamt about it? And of all people…

"KAKASHI???????" She freaked out loud. Just the slippage of mentioning his name made her slap her well-known forehead with a nice thud, followed by the pulling of her own pink tresses.

Her realization about last night's fantasy made her face blend in with her hair. Sakura blushed with embarrassment to find herself dreaming about that particular man. But she was also blushing because she liked her dream. I mean, who wouldn't. It was with Kakashi: his looks, his body, his loyalty to his country, his reliable friendship, he was almost the total package. On the flip side, Kakashi was always late, he was hard to conversate with, his head is always buried in that Icha Icha book, and he never, and I mean, NEVER shows emotions. I would say, if he wanted to, Kakashi could have gotten with all the women in Konoha, ALL of them!!! But his heart belongs to Jiraya's books.

Sakura's thoughts about Kakashi were distracted by the snooze of her alarm. Her mind was drifting off again. Dammit. This time, she realized that it wasn't little past seven.

9:15 A.M.

"Holy shit, I'm late!!!" Sakura screamed out. It turns out that she got so involved in her dream that she snoozed for the last two hours. In God-like flash, Sakura threw off her pink Konoha elite shirt and headed toward her garments that laid on the floor.

Black compression biker shorts, "check."

Bra/breast bindings, "check."

Cargo skirt, "check."

Red Haruno shirt, "ch-che-crap." There was a stain on it…On her right boob to be exact. Last night, she had ramen with Naruto and being himself, the fool could never chew and talk. The rest of her red shirts were in the laundry as well. It didn't take long to decide what to do. "Oh to hell with it." The pink haired ninja zipped up her dirty shirt, grabbed her medical waist bag, slipped on her usual boots and grabbed her head protector as she dashed out of her apartment.

Man, why me?!?! Shishou is going to kill me!! Sakura's mind panicked as she hopped from one roof to another, strapping on her bag and fixing on her hair at the same time.

Sakura was slipping: She was always sharp and keen. Now, the girl is catching herself day dreaming. She was never late. She was always 15 minutes early for everything, even if she's meeting up with Kakashi for a team meeting and mission. Now, its been two hours past her meeting with her teacher. She was starting to be like Kakashi.

Kakashi eh…Can't get away from the thought of him, huh? She asked herself. The quick Kunoichi grinned at her petty self and finally dismissed her dirty thoughts one last time.

Man, I'm getting old. I can't lose my edge. I'm starting a new mission today. Sakura finally snapped back to her old self and planned and focused on her day ahead.

"She's late…," Tsunade stated as she tapped her right index finger on her cup of tea, "She's never late." The Hokage was not in the best of mood that morning. Well, it was morning for one. And two, there were heaping stacks of papers on her desk. Though she was known to be one of the legendary Sannins who could kick ass, save a country, and still look twenty at the same time, stacks of papers always defeated her. And Tsunade was not the most organized person either. You couldn't even tell there was even a desk. There, the big breasted woman sighed as she moderately attempted to file her documents and memos.

"You know, you have been workin her hard," Shizune informed cautiously as she helped out the Hokage. "I don't think you noticed, but Sakura has been workin double shifts for the past 2 weeks. I don't even recall you working for 7 straight hou-"

"I get the point Shizune," Tsunade interrupted. "But even Kakashi reported before her." There was a pause. It was a common silence though. It always started tense, but he pause always turned peaceful and mindful. Shizune knew the Hokage needed to collect herself. It wasn't long for their pet pig to oink to break the silence. Not to mention, the racing footsteps that got louder behind the office door.

"Haruno Sakura here to report," she busted through the door and bowed to her Shishou. "I truly apologize for my tardiness. I will work three times har-"

"It's not necessary Sakura," Tsunade softly expressed. All three women sighed. None of them wanted drama or confrontations. It's too early in the morning.

Thank God Shishou isn't pissed. I could have sworn she'd want me to spar with her. Oh my God. Sakura was really excited. The last time she made a mistake with her medical tests, Tsunade had them spar with each other, and Sakura ended up not working for three days. The Hokage worked her out till her very last drop of chakra. Not only that, the teacher did not even bother healing her student. What tough love. Sakura's thoughts of the past were then interrupted.

"Now, for your mission today…Where'd…it go? Oi, Shizune, what did I do with it? Shit." Tsunade was busy shuffling her papers, leaving Sakura very amused. This was a common sight, her teacher always lost her things, always constantly reorganizing to be disorganized. This left time for Sakura to fix her hair, pat off any dirt in sight, straighten out her skirt, and wipe the sweat off of her face.

Time ticked a little louder this morning.

"Dammit, fine then," Tsunade said defeatedly. "I was going to give you an A-rank mission today, but I was thinking you needed to slow down, you know, take a break from the fast life."

Sakura looked up from fixing her skirt to her master. She thought for a second. A break. A break is taking days off. VACATION! But whatever. Sakura brushed off her thoughts and decided to take her work seriously.

"What kind of mission are you going to give me? I'm actually fine, I can take that A-rank mission," Sakura stated confidently. "Don't worry about me," Sakura lied. She was tired. Her body, her mind was breaking down. Suck it up Haruno.

Irritated by the fact she couldn't find a mission, Tsunade just picked up the closest mission paper close to her.

"Here," the Hokage paused. "This is a C-ranked mission. I want you to go to the Hidden Village of the Wave. There is a spy there that goes by Karou. We don't know who this person looks like, where that person is from, and what they want. Says here that this person works for underground gangs and sells information to the highest bidder. Lately, Naruto has been a popular target every time he goes out of the country. My guess it's because this person. Your job Sakura, is to gather any information, find the person and if all possible, bring them here."

"Hai," Sakura accepted. Sounded like a good mission. It's been a while since she's been out and about the country. And this was a perfect opportunity to prove she can work for more than two weeks straight.

"The Wave country is having their High Tide festival too," Tsunade added on, "so there's going to be a lot of distractions that can either work for you, or against you, got it?"

"Hai."

"You have a week, seven days including travel time to retrieve information about this person. Knowing you and your stubborn head, you might want to capture the person as well, even if it means staying there longer. If you stay past your time limit, they might be suspicious. DON'T try anything after the week!!!! Just gathering information would enough. Leave today"

"Hai." And there she went. Before she touched the doorknob to freedom, Tsunade stopped her student at her tracks.

"By the way, don't make me wait this long again, or else I'll make you spar with me." The Hokage paused. "And clean your shirt, you got something on your boob."

"Hai." Sakura halted to look at her right breast, as did Tsunade and Shizune. How embarrassing. The rosette hair kunoichi felt like their eyes were firing off lazer beams at her breasts. She dashed off immediately.

Sakura packed light. Some food rations, "check."

Two freshly clean shorts, shirts, and cargo skirt, "check, check and check."

Socks, food, water, weapons, toiletries, "check."

Finally, I'm ready to go. Sakura started to get excited: A mission alone, where she can be at peace with no one to worry about, or have no one to order her around. She glanced behind her as Konaha stood still, as peaceful as a still lake. I'll be back. She told to the country. The woman then turned front and started her way towards the Wave Country, towards the sun.

Meanwhile, back at Hokage's office, Tsunade and Shizune were busy, shuffling papers around. It was a hard-long-conjoint effort to find the hint of brown the papers very well covered. Hell, the two women had forgotten what of brown the desk was colored: a redwood, perhaps, bamboo, or even cherry wood. But it was then Shizune stopped at a certain document.

"What is it?" Tsunade annoyingly asked. They were doing such a good job. Why stop the pace. She wasn't having it today. The big bosomed babe would rather battle a million guys than battle stacks of papers at any day. But it was her job. She knew she had to get over it. She just couldn't wait to go to happy hour.

"Anooooooo," Shizune thought for moment. "You gave this mission to Sakura, right?" The apprentice handed the document to Tsunade.

The Hokage stared long and hard at the paper. "Ok, what about it? I'm sure I made the mission clear."

"Well- the thing is…," Shizune stuttered, "I think you gave this mission to another person earlier."

Long silence. It would be even appropriate to have crickets chirping at this point. The two tired women looked at each at disarray. What did they do wrong this time? It was then the blond Sannin blinked when she realized it was too late…

He was on the same mission too…

To be continued


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