Chapter 2
"Hey, I'm gonna go to work now you guys! See ya later," Haruhi (Sakura) called from the door.
She received three responses:
"Be back before 10, and you'll get dinner before Suigetsu and Juugo eat it all up!"
"See ya later, Pinky."
"I hope work will go well at the hospital, Haruhi-san."
That was normal—it ws a daily routine in which Sakura would go to the hospital to work as a head doctor and Karin would work at a pharmacy for a few hours. Suigetsu would try to run a few errands to help with the rent money, and Juugo would cook or go grocery shopping. They had grown accustomed to this, and they bonded better this way.
Sakura slowly walked to the hospital, which was about five blocks away. Unknown to anyone, a fragment of her mind still wanted to see her friends again, to talk and train with them in the old shinobi world.
She still thought of Sasuke and Akemi, how she was overly jealous of Akemi and resented her heart for loving Sasuke. I have to get a grip, Sakura urged herself. That time period has ended centuries ago…and if those shinobi are gonna replace me, so be it!
Her work at the hospital was pretty normal. Today just happened to be one of those days where everything was at ease, and only the typical broken bone or abrupt asthma attacks came in. Sakura found comfort in days like this—it gave her so much more time to think.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Her cell phone started to ring during her lunch break.
Thinking it was a call from one of her many fanboys and patients, she decided to answer it only if the caller recalled her, which the person did.
"What do—"she was interrupted when Suigetsu's panting voice was heard.
"Sakura," he said.
I thought we agreed to call me Haruhi to stop the pain. What's with the heavy breathing? Suigetsu never had asthma or anything like that…Sakura somewhat panicked.
"Yeah? What do you need?" Sakura's tone was indifferent.
"Come back home immediately! The shoinobi have found us!" he answered.
"Is that some sort of band or something?" She refused to admit they cared.
"You know what I'm talking about! Can you pick up Karin, too?"
"Hai, hai. I'll be there in twenty minutes."
"Fine."
They hung up, nad Sakura could feel her heart beating heavily. What could they want? In her frustration, Sakura walked into a few walls and fell down a few stairs. Just what she needed. Note the sarcasm.
Once she and Karin arrived to the tiny condo, they were surprised when they only saw Kakashi, Sasuke, and Naruto. They hid their surprise well enough so that the shinobi weren't aware of it.
"Are you guys real ninjas? Because you might just be stalkers, ya never know!" Karin said calmly.
"Seriously! What's with the clothes and the headband with the flipped over snail?" Sakura asked. (Got that from the abridged series)
"You honestly don't remember us?" the men (except Sasuke) inquired.
"Remember?! I would remember anyone dressed in those!" the girls fought back, refusing to remember.
"Fine, we'll just show you, believe it!"Naruto shouted.
"Who says that anymore? You're so out of style," Karin huffed.
"Hn…"
"So you're the anti-social guy of the group?" Sakura mumbled.
Kakashi got out his old porn, Icha Icha Paradise. He hisses something about the "road of life" and the weird team.
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Do you remember?" Sasuke asked, annoyed.
"Get out of our condo, freaks!" Sakura and Karin yelled simultaneously, slamming the door.
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"Dammit! Why don't they remember?" Kakashi hissed, totally forgetting his cool self.
"I dunno, maybe we should stay a little longer in this time plane. We'll just constantly remind her—them—of Konoha…"
"The dobe's right. They can still use chakra. I felt Sakura's chakra being focused into her fist, ready to punch us out."
Reaching the silent agreement, Team Kakashi went to find a condo in the same building.
Sasuke felt regret in the pit of his stomach. He actually wanted the pinkette return to Konoha with his team. What scared him the most was how Sakura had thought of him as a freak.
Realization dawned upon him as he knew what he wanted at the moment: Sakura to be his. This knowledge only made his determination increase ten-fold.
Not only did he want to have Sakura as his wife, he also wanted Akemi gone from the shinobi world forever. Staring up at the ceiling from his futon with his hands tucked under his head, Sasuke let him sleep into a world where everything was as it should be.
Where Sakura and Team Hebi never left, where Akemi never placed that genjutsu on anyone, where he and Sakura had tons of children all over the Uchiha Estate.
That was what he wanted his life to be like, not at some weird other time where there were cell phones, televisions, and no shinobi.
Hi! Thanks for reading! Oh, I have a question:
Do you want________to happen in the next chappie?
Choices are:
Sakura and Team Hebi come back to help the other teams get rid of Akemi
b) Sasuke personally comes back and manipulates Akemi and retrieves Sakura
c) Team Kakashi gives up and tries again after well-developed plans to get Team Hebi and Sakura back
PLEASE CHOOSE ONE!!! I'M NOT SURE WHICH TO CHOOSE!!!
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