Pink stiches

Chapter 3


Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto were at the training field waiting on Kakashi to arrive.

Naruto was excited to see what kind of things he was going to learn today. Sasuke was still brooding over what happened yesterday and was staring sakura down. Sakura saw that he was staring but ignored him because they both will hurt each other somehow.

The trio have now waited for Kakashi now for 3 hours, Naruto was getting very irritated by Kakashi's lateness and he was starting to get on Sasuke's nerves. Naruto was asking Sasuke a lot of questions and Sasuke was not answering any of them. Sakura was getting some amusement from watching the boys and at the time she could she what emotions to take advantage of when she needed to.

Kakashi finally arrived to the training field acting like he wasn't late, this made Naruto madder and he started yelling.

"Now, now let's calm down and proceed with our day" Kakashi said waving his hands
"But you were still late" Naruto said

"Today we are going to be doing a team challenge" Kakashi said

"what kind of challenge" Sasuke asked

"It's a tracking assignment, this assignment you three will work together and find this item but make sure you don't move it too much and bring it back to me before sunset" Kakashi said meekly

"What thing or person are we tracking" Sakura asked

"The lady speaks! Well since you asked nicely, you all have to find some tools or was it a book I guess you guys and gal have to figure out which one it is." Kakashi said

"Then do you have a scroll or instructions on this item" Sasuke asked

"Oh here it is! Have a great time" Kakashi said disappearing

Sasuke looked at the paper and read off what it said and folded the paper up and put it in his pocket. Sasuke told Naruto to go to the book store and he would check the weapons store. Sakura asked what she could do and Sasuke said that he didn't need her ruining the assignment for him.

Sakura walked up to Sasuke so that they would be eye to eye and took the letter out of his pocket. Sakura left a dumbfounded Sasuke to figure out what to do after he went to the weapons' store.

Sakura read the letter

find a short sword with a blue handle

next go to the book store and find a subject on tracking.

After that go find a shovel

Lastly the subject/object can be found in one of the abandoned fields

P.S. the sword and book are paid off not the shovel

Sakura put the letter away and went to the book store to get Naruto, when she arrived to the book store she was knocked over by a civilian. The civilian laughed at her along with others civilian's. while she was on the ground they started kicking her and calling her names. Sakura knows that if she were to move too fast or if she got up they would start accusing her of things she didn't do, like when she was 10 they accused her of hurting some kid. The parents of that kid went after her and beat her, a few days later the parents found out that the kid lied about sakura hurting them and told sakura that she better stay away from there kid.

The civilians left and sakura go up, she was slightly dirty and had a couple of bruises but overall fine you can say.

After she got up Naruto went to her and asked her what she was doing here. She told him that they needed to find a book on tracking. Naruto nodded and went to the clerk's desk and asked for a book for tracking, the clerk gave both him and sakura dirty looks but handed them the book.

They left the book store and sakura told him that they needed to find Sasuke. Naruto again nodded and ran to find Sasuke. Naruto didn't want to be around sakura any more than he had to in public anyway. He felt embarrassed being around her and felt more targeted too. Naruto was still curious to why she called him a fox as well as mad that he can't compete against her yet.

Sakura followed Naruto till they meet saw Sasuke, she asked him if he had grabbed the sword and he asked her why she came. Sakura didn't respond and told them that they needed to grab a shovel and go to the abandoned fields to search for what they needed to find.

Sasuke took the lead, he went to a random garden and snatched a shovel. Naruto complained that he was going to get in trouble for taking someone's shovels. Sasuke said that they could just blame sakura, he saw that sakura gave him a dark glare.

The trio made it to the abandoned fields and started looking for any odd or missing things. They were looking for a 1 ½ when sakura noted that the ground underneath her was soft. Naruto started digging up the dirt and hit a box.

Sakura picked up the box, she was about to open the box when Sasuke snatched it from her and kicked the back of her legs. Sakura cursed at him and slapped him in his face, Sasuke was going to punch her when Naruto stopped him and said that they needed to finish the assignment before sunset. Sasuke listened to Naruto, he opened the box to reveal a white lily.

"What does a flower have to do with tracking, it was a waste of time" Naruto complained

"It means we were just doing useless things" Sasuke said chiming in

"A white lily symbolizes virtue, a symbol of purity and chastity; they were moms favorite" Sakura said sadly

"Um, ok let's go back to Kakashi sensei" Naruto said

The group went back to the training field; they were greeted by Kakashi who was reading one of his many famous books. Sasuke handed him the lily and he congratulated them on passing, Naruto did a happy scream and ran off to tell Iruka. Sasuke smiled and went home, lastly sakura nodded and was about to leave when Kakashi asked her to wait.

Kakashi waited till the boys left and told sakura to follow him, she was hesitant but did what she was told. When they were far enough Kakashi handed sakura the sword, the book and lily.

"Why are you giving me this?" Sakura asked

"Im giving you this to help you feel a little more normal" Kakashi said

"Why" Sakura said firmly

"If you put the sword and lily together they become the sword lily which means Gladiolus, which stands for strength, faithfulness, and never giving up. You have experienced more than the usual kid will in a whole life time and you have the maturity of someone my age. And let me say that you love your books too so you can study more on tracking as well. The fact is that you will still face hard times because of who your father is and you will accomplish more to exceed anybody's expectation of you because your mother raised you that way."

"STOP TALKING IiKE YOU KNEW HER! SHE MY MOM, MINE, NOBODY EVER HELPED US AND YOU JUST MENTIONING 'SHE RAISED YOU LIKE THAT WAY'. YES, I TRY TO EXCEED EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE OTHERS WONT TAKE THE TIME TO KNOW ME NOR HELP ME AND PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF MY SANITY DON'T EVER TALK TO ME ABOUT HER BECAUSE YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER!" Sakura yelled

After that Sakura left Kakashi and went to her apartment, she slammed the door behind her and threw herself on the bed. She took the mask off and started crying into her pillow. The last thing she wanted to her was anything about mom. Mom is always a sensitive subject with Sakura anyway, that was her only friend till she killed herself.

Sakura cried herself to sleep and hoped that she won't have to deal with any more heartache.

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