A/N : Hey there! Okay, I know I'm a liar. I promised that I would update this like, a month ago? I don't really remember. I'm really sorry about this.

I'm glad that there are people who are reading and reviewing my story, your sweet reviews make my day, really. Now, going back to the story, I'm sorry if there are any mistakes ( which I'm sure there are ) but English is not my first language. Have a good time reading!

Disclaimer : Sadly, I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 2

Drift away

People often don't realize how much they've hurt their beloved ones until it's too late. That's also Sakura's problem. After everything she's done, nobody wants to hear anything about her. She understood this the day after she's been at Ino. It was pretty disturbing for the young woman but she didn't have any reasons to complain about this, after all, she was the one who made them act like this towards her. She sighed as she was looking the report she had to give to the hokage.

Tsunade needed her in her office early that morning to sign a few documents and while they were talking, the pink haired woman found out that all of her friends went on mission on the same morning. Still pretending she didn't care about this, she didn't tell the hokage how horrible she felt about the things she's done. But also, the young ANBU didn't know either that her mentor already knew about those things because on the same morning, all of rockie 9 and the three student's of Guy told her the news. Adding how talkative Sakura was that morning, Tsunade started to have hope for her student again.

Since then it's been three weeks. Her friends got home a week ago but she was on a mission that she's just finished. The mission was a little longer but with Sakura there it was done really quickly. After she was done with singing the files, Tsunade sent her student in the village to get some stuff that she had ti send to the kazekage. So now, she was on her way to the hokage tour, again, not paying attention to what was going on around. Why would she ? She didn't care about any news the village had or about new gossips. She really hated those kind of things. Looking up, she saw a group of four girls hiding from her. Thinking a little about this fact, she made her way where the girls had hidden and tried to hear what was going on. Okay, so I lied. She was a little curious about this, but who wouldn't be giving those circumstances?

" Ne, ne, are you sure Kimiko ? " asked one of the girls, Sakura couldn't figure out which one cause it was too dark and she really couldn't care less.

"Yes, I'm sure. I've heard that we're going to have a new person who's going to live here. Not sure if it's a civilian or a shinobi though." answered another girl .

Sakura frowned. How can somebody know when a person would move to Konoha and why would it be such a secret? The Haruno heir was pretty disappointed about this. She thought that those girls would be talking about her, other gossips about her. She was getting fed up with those and she promised herself that one day she'll find at least one of the persons who would start those lies about her life.

"But I heard some other things about him." other girl started. So the one who would move in Konoha would be a man. " He's really good looking and he's also searching for a girl to marry him . "

Getting tired of this, Sakura made her way back towards the tour. Who would care if a man would be moving in Konmoha ? I mean really, since the village was re-built, Konoha had much more civilians than shinobi which wasn't a really good thing for a Hidden Village. After all, the other villages that were near the Hidden ones were only, and only for civilians. That's what Sakura hated the most. I mean, because more than half of the villagers were civilians. Those idiots thought that they were better than shinobi, that they would need to be protected no matter what and some of them would ask the hokage to give to her shonobi the worst missions ever only to make their work better. That was until one or two years ago when Tsunade was really annoyed with those bastards of civilians and gave them some rules for what missions they would put her shinobi through. And really, since then there weren't any missions like getting who knows who's cat, or helping the civilians with their gardens. The only missions for this kind of things were only for people who really needed help because they had medical problems, and really, if anyone would want to request a mission like this, that persons needed to give the hokage a lot of medical documents telling what his/her problem was. And of course, no one would go through a hell like this because it would take like two or three weeks to get those things done. Tsunade knew what she was doing.

Back to the present, Sakura was preparing to knock on the door when a loud voice shouted through the room " Incompetent! Bastard! How can a person be so stupid to do those kind of things! ". So Tsunade wasn't really in a good mood. Why was that? After all, before Sakura left her, like an hour ago, she was really in a freaking good mood, too good for Sakura's liking. After hearing a little more of her sishou's screaming she thought she could wait a little longer. " Haruno, I know you're there! If you dare to take another step towards the opposite part I'll make sure to let you work for the rest of the year only in the hospital ! " the same voice shouted a little louder than before, if that was even possible. So getting out of there wasn't really a good idea. Taking a deep breath, Sakura entered the room where her mentor was. Looking at her desk, she saw there an empty bottle which Sakura thought – or maybe said, already knew – was once full of sake –and let me add, that wasn't long ago.

" Don't stay there and do nothing! Give me the damn things I've sent you for already !" the blonde woman said while looking through some papers, more than annoyed. Sakura gulped, then went over the desk and put the sheets of paper she has been holding. The brown eyed woman stared at her and Sakura started to feel anxious like she used to when she first started to train with her. Taking a few steps back, the young ANBU started looking through the room and saw a young man, a few years older than her, but not older than twenty five. Paying more attention to the male, she could say that he was really good looking. His orange hair was reaching his shoulders and his eyes were pretty strange. Looking from where she was, his eyes seemed to be light brown but when moving his head to the light, they seemed to be yellow.

Analyzing the male a little longer, the pink haired woman could say the man was well built, his muscles could be seen through his clothes. A cough made Sakura realize she was staring at the male and a pink blush appeared on her features. Looking at the person who did so, she found the hokage frowning at her with a ' It's- not-polite-to-stare-at-people ' look.

" Now back to our business. How long will you be staying here… " Tsunade stopped a little while she tried to remember the man's name, at least that's what Sakura thought. " Katashi-san? " the hokage finally finished her question.

" Not more than six months. That would be enough time for me to see all the women from the village . " the man responded and Sakura blushed a little more when she heard his strong voice. So this man was the one the four girls were talking about. Sakura rolled her eyes, who would be idiot enough to fall for him? Sure, he was good looking, hell, only from the spot she saw him, she could tell he was a sex god, but nothing more.

" Well Katashi-san, from what I see on for files, you are a very good shinobi, well trained on genjutsu and ninjutsu. " the blonde woman said as she was looking through the files. " But I have something to tell you. If you find here a woman, and if she is a kunoichi, you can't move with her in another village. Compared to the civilians, we have less shinobi and even a single shinobi who leaves from here is a loss for us. "

"I understand. If I find a woman that is a kunoichi I'll start my family here, in Konoha . " answered the man after a few moments of thinking for this decision.

" Good, now you may leave. " Tsunade said as she was satisfied with his answer. " Sakura, please show him the way to his apartment. You can find it here . " she finally added as she handed Sakura a file . She nodded then left with the man. Hell, if she had know that Tsunade would make her show him his apartment she would have left earlier.

Getting out of the building, Sakura took a little look at the file she was holding to see where she needed to take this man and realized she had to take him to the other part of the village. She sighed the turned around to face the young man who, until then was staring at the pink haired woman . " Okay, we need to get to the other side of the village which will take some time. Now follow me . " she said as she turned around again, this time to walk to the man's apartment.

" Is that your natural hair color ? " asked the man with a bit of curiousness in his voice after some time. Seeing as Sakura didn't pay attention to him, he frowned. She was the first woman to ever ignore him. " Okay, sorry, not a normal question for a first conversation. I'm Katashi Shou but you can call me Shou-kun . " the man said, ending the sentence with a childish voice. Again, Sakura didn't pay attention to him which already got on his nerves. Being ignored once was a first, but being ignored twice by the same woman was already breaking his man pride. So, the orange haired man got her by her wrist and made Sakura look at him.

" What ? " asked Sakura annoyed of his behavior. She was thinking of what she'd need to buy after she finishes with this idiot when he made her stop. Looking at him, he was also annoyed. What was with this man ?

Realizing that she didn't ignore him on purpose, he let her go and apologized . A few moments passed and none of them moved forward. Realizing this, Sakura turned around and started walking, this time faster, in hope they'll be at the apartment in no time and she can get back home soon. For a reason or another, this man was really suspicious. Something about him reminded of someone. But who ? None of the person who she'd known until now acts like this. Okay, that's a big lie, all of the older men act like this towards her, starting with that good for nothing jounin Genma, with whom she had been on a lot of missions lately. But this man didn't remind her of Genma. Hell, that was annoying her way too much. Looking up, she realized she's been standing in front of the man's door for quite some time. Okay, has she been lost in her thoughts this much ? Sighing, she turned to face the man which had now an emotionless face.

" Okay, we're here. Have a good stay . " she said then left, not letting him say anything.

Minutes had passed since the young woman left and the orange haired shinobi didn't move from his spot. A smirk appeared on the beautiful men's features after he sensed her chakra disappearing somewhere in the village. " How interesting . " he said as he entered his new apartment and closed the door behind him, his smirk being on his face all the time.

A few hours later Sakura was walking around the village, not really knowing where to go or what to do. Not long ago she would have been gone training but now she wanted something else to do.

" Sakura-san ! " somebody from behind her called her. The green eyed woman turned around to see Moegi running towards her. Her orange hair was set up in a ponytail and it reached her back. Her cheeks didn't have the blush they used to, after all, she had just reached sixteen years. And Sakura was glad that she didn't call her anymore ' Sakura-nee-chan' .

" What is it Moegi ? " asked the older woman, eyeing the teenage girl.

" Here, hokage-sama gave me to hand you this. " the orange haired girl said as she gave Sakura a file and then left in hurry .

" Strange . " Sakura said as she was looking at Moegi disappearing in the crowd then frowned at the file she was holding. What did Tsunade want ? Not wasting any more time, she looked through the file and saw she had to go to meet someone in front of a restaurant ? She rolled her eyes then made her way towards the place written in the file. At least she could have said there who would she meet.

She made her way through the streets, walking fast so she could get done with whatever Tsunade has assigned her to do. A few moments later, Sakura could see some persons waiting outside the restaurant. It took her a few seconds to see clearly who was there. Naruto, Ino, Kiba, Shikamaru and Hinata were waiting there. At first she thought she had to go on a mission with them but looking at the group she could see very well that they were there only to hang out. The pink haired woman frowned and looked again at the file she was holding. The handwriting wasn't Tsunade's, that's for sure. Though she couldn't guess who would have written it.

And then Sakura realized. The file was from one of those five and he or she gave it to Moegi and told her to tell Sakura it was from the hokage. And more, they planned this with Tsunade, who told her they were on a mission. Pretty clever though. Sakura hesitated for a few moments. Did she really want to face all of them ? Sakura wanted to be friends again but after what happened a few weeks ago she didn't have the courage to face them. Hell, she couldn't face Naruto nor Ino, let alone the whole group. After thinking hard Sakura made her decision, she wouldn't go to see them. She didn't have the guts to. So she turned around and went home not bothering to look back.

" Where the hell is Sakura ? " asked the blonde haired woman getting impatient.

" I don't think she'll come . " said the dog trainer also known as Kiba.

" That's why I told you it's a waste of time . " continued Ino.

" Ino, Sakura will come, I believe she will come . " said Naruto while looking at the crowd.

" Hey, that's her ! " said Kiba . " Look, she's heading the other way ! Let's go after her " . he said as he started running for the pink haired woman . " Sakura, wait up ! " he screamed through the crowd. After hearing his voice, Sakura started running . Kiba frowned. What was wrong with this woman. First she said she wanted to be friends again and now she was running from him, from them ? Hell, he wouldn't let her do this ! Running faster, he pushed all the people who were in his way and saw Sakura turn around a corner . When he turned the same corner she was already gone and the bad thing was that Sakura already masked her scent.

" Hell. This time you got away but next time you won't have the same luck! " shouted Kiba making all the people look at him.

A/N: So, here it was, the second chapter of the story. I think I kind of rushed the action a little, but I don't know what I should have added more there. This chapter was actually done like a few weeks ago and today I was looking through it, facepalming myself of the things I've written because they didn't have any connection. I mean, at first I was saying something, then it was the opposite.

Still, I hope you like it and reviews are really appreciated.