"Not again!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Stop scratching it dobe!"
Naruto kept on moaning and groaning about the wound he received from the A-rank mission, which consisted of a particularly annoying jutsu.
"Leave me alone teme! How was I to know that he would use poison ivy whips! Stupid vegetarian freak!"
This vegetarian jutsu made it where every time Naruto scratched his itch a little plant friend with a yellow body and teary eyes would pop out of his body and annoy both of them with a high pitched chuckling noise. Every time Naruto scratched his itch. Which was every second for this impatient imbecile.
"Naruto! If you don't stop itching I'll have to make you stop!" , Sasuke growled in annoyance.
Naruto gulped. He didn't doubt that Sasuke would and knew that it would probably consist of Sasuke chidoriing his ass.
This wasn't the first time Sasuke had an outburst of irritation. This whole mission contained annoyance after annoyance.
First, they got to the person that they were suppose to escort and it was a pompous noble who thought he was entitled to use everyone and thought he could boss Sasuke and Naruto around like servants. This did not go down with them at all and of course Naruto got a punch in on "his highness", but that didn't stop this guy from complaining about them the whole escort. Second, they came upon some downright weird ninja who were vegetarians and used a bunch of ridiculous plant jutsus. They were pretty weak and had no real effect, but after Sasuke and Naruto kick the enemy's butts and thought they were knocked out, one of them popped up and whipped this vine of poison ivy at Naruto. Sasuke ended up punching his lights out, cleaning up the mess, and then having to deal with Naruto's affliction that started popping up on the road.
Needless to say, he was ready to go home.
They were in sight of Konoha's gates and they both sighed in relief.
"I can't wait to see Sakura-chan so that I can finally be done with this!" Naruto whined.
All of team seven usually made a beeline to Sakura after one of their missions since she wanted to see them to make sure that they were ok anyways. They are pretty pampered by her even though when they show up she complains about them not being careful enough. However, they would take Sakura's mother hen instincts over waiting in line to be treated by someone less experienced and who they weren't familiar with any day.
"Aa." Sasuke looked away from Naruto towards the entrance guards.
They made their way though the gate albeit with weirded out glances from the guard at Naruto's screeching deformity. After entering the village they started walking towards the hospital or in Naruto's case stumbling because the plant had gone silent and was now sleeping on Naruto's knee. Why did it stop? No one knows.
As they were walking Sasuke noticed something was off. The atmosphere was different as if it were buzzing with excitement.
The villagers were glancing his way and whispering to each other like they were gossiping. This was really nothing new for the reknown Uchiha traitor as that's how his presence was usually accompanied. Especially when he came back to Konoha it was constant. But now it had calmed down quite a bit. And this wasn't the same air as 'look at the evil traitor'. It was as if something big was happening and it involved him.
"Sasuke, why are they staring at us like that?" Naruto whispered with his eyes squinted.
"Tch, they are just looking at you and that weird growth dobe."
"Eehhhh?! Really?! No they can't just be looking at me I have a reputation to upkeep! I'm gonna be Hokage Dattebayo!", Naruto whined.
Naruto continued whining as they made their way into the hospital, and the glances only increased, this time by the nurses and hospital staff. Sasuke started hearing catches of the whispering like 'new guy' and 'marriage'. Sasuke still did not understand why they would be looking at him.
They got to the door of Sakura's office and Sasuke was fixing to open the door when he heard someone speaking.
"Thank you Sakura for the wonderful treatment you gave me. Not only did you heal my body with your healing touch but also my heart," the voice proclaimed.
Sasuke froze at the door with Naruto wondering why he wasn't going in. "Hey!...umphkdjf!" Sasuke clamped his hand over Naruto's mouth.
"Errr.. thank you… for the compliment Akihiko-kun," Sakura stuttered sounding clearly flustered.
Sasuke's grip on the door handle tightened. 'Akihiko-KUN. Sakura. Just Sakura. No one but me can call her that.'
In irritation Sasuke barged in, politeness be damned but stopped short at what he saw.
A guy had his lips pressed up against her hand with his body in a half bow position.
With a very flustered looking blushing Sakura.
Naruto looked at the scene in disbelief and then yelled, "Stop there you perverted patient!"
Both Sakura and Akihiko looked up towards Sasuke and Naruto.