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Chapter Title: Ugly Green Jealousy

The piercing ringing of the alarm awoke Sakura. She felt like she had gotten five minutes of sleep the whole night, she kept tossing and turning for a reason unknown to her.

She rose from bed stretching her arms high into the air. Her pink hair was a mess, and her body ached from the lack of sleep. She wanted to climb back into bed and sleep away the day, but she knew that wasn't really an option.

'You can wait for the world, but the world won't wait for you'

After a warm shower, and some extensive work to make her hair look neat, she quickly changed into her outfit. Sakura never took to much care into her clothing, but today she wanted to look just a little bit nicer.

She heard a slight noise in the living room, not at all scared she almost without a doubt knew it was Sasuke, he always made an interesting entrance.

As she opened her bedroom door and walked into the living room a grin grew to her face. She was right, but her grin diminished just as quickly as it had arrived when she figured the reason why he was here.

"You took long today", he started giving her his usual dark look.

Ignoring his comment she asked, "Are you leaving on a mission?"

His eyes did not meet hers, and she knew he was going on a dangerous S rank mission, unaccompanied most likely.

"Hm" he replied

"You promised Sasuke, you promised you would not go on those types of missions for awhile, last time…last time you nearly killed me laying in that hospital bed."

Sasuke knew if it hadn't been for her spectacular healing skills we wouldn't be here, but he couldn't stop taking missions because he got ambushed and injured. He wasn't a coward, no matter how much his best friend pleaded with him.

"Sakura I will be okay, I am stopping in the Village of Sand before I head for my mission, Gaara will accompany me. We will both be returning to Konoha in a few days." He replied

Gaara was another good friend that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura could count on. After saving his life, he vowed to defend Konoha like it was his own home. This new information eased Sakura, but still did not entirely relieve her.

Noticing the alarming expression on her face he had to get her to stop thinking about it to much.

"Breakfast?" asked Sasuke a small grin upon his face.

As they made their way around the village together they encountered a new group of genin. The girls all paused to admire the handsome looking Uchiha. They began fiddling with their hair, and sticking out there tongues to catch his attention.

The genin boys stood around not understanding what the ridiculous girls thought was so amazing about Sasuke. Of course one glance from Sasuke and those same boys were running away in terror. The Uchiha name was still feared in Konoha and many of the villagers knew not to infuriate Sasuke.

After Sasuke came back he moved onto the large compound, and had rebuilt much of it again, wiping away any reminiscences of Itachi.

Sasuke suddenly got in a curious mood.

"So Sakura what do you think of Naruto and Hinata's wedding plans?"

Sakura turned up to look up at him one eyebrow arched in the air.

"I am happy…of course. Why wouldn't I be, they make a wonderful couple. They will be so happy, and this is what he wants." , she spoke in a fast and flustered tone. Sasuke was having a hard time keeping up.

She went on listing the reasons why she was so happy only to be interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Sakura, Sasuke, good morning", said a timid Hinata.

Sakura and Sasuke turned around and found Hinata walking toward them.

"May I ask you something?" said Hinata as she joined the two on their walk.

Both Sasuke and Sakura looked at her and gave a silent nod.

"What should I get Naruto for a wedding gift? You two are his closet friends and know what he would truly like. I want to surprise him; I want him to have whatever he wants."

Sasuke and Sakura did not have a clue what Naruto would like, they looked at each other and back at Hinata not knowing the exact response to provide about not knowing their best friends desires. Much to their fortune Naruto came into view near the gates of Konoha.

Naruto had just finished signing a paper and dismissed an ANBU member. In a flash the ANBU member was gone leaving a whirl of dust in his place.

He took notice of the three people walking toward him, and walked over to join them.

"Good morning Naruto", Sakura sounded quite cheery compared to when she woke up.

" Sasuke and I were on the way to breakfast would you care to join us? Hinata would you like to come as well.", Sakura inquired. Hoping to spend some quality buddy time with Naruto.

"No", was all Naruto said. This caused a few puzzled faces among his friends and fiancé.

They stood there in silent for a moment.

Naruto realized it had come out much more harsh than intended, but he most definitely did not want to have breakfast while Sasuke and Sakura made lovy dovy eyes at each other.

"I mean I can't come at the moment, I have official business at the tower today. It is imperative I be there right away. Sorry I can't join you two."

"I see, well you better get going than don't want you to be late", Sakura replied.

"hm" replied Naruto and gave a swift kiss to Hinata and was gone in a flash.

'What's bugging him', thought Sakura.

Sakura and Sasuke enjoyed their meal, and Sakura bide farewell to Sasuke warning him if he came back injured he would have to dread her more than the hurt he already had. Sasuke promised to be cautious and be back soon. He gave Sakura a quick hug and departed.

Sakura did not know what to do, she was free for the rest of the day and now that Sasuke had gone she was uncertain of how she would pass her time. Maybe she could stop by the hospital just to check on how things were going. She fought against the idea knowing once she got there she would never get the opportunity to get away.

She than remembered how Naruto didn't have a chance to have breakfast and would most likely be hungry by now as it was close to lunch. She made her way to the tower to see if he would like to eat.

"Hello, I am here to see Naruto", she spoke quietly to a lady sitting at the front desk of the tower.

"You may go in," she replied half asleep.

"Thank you", Sakura stated and headed in the direction of the Hokage's office.

Naruto being a captain had his own office fairly close to the Hokage's office. As Sakura turned the corner she noticed his door was open and decided she would sneak up on him to give him a little scare.

"Naruto was always easy to scare when we were kids, maybe I can make him laugh by doing it now."

As she crept to the door, she quickly jumped out into the entrance of the doorway, but to her surprise Naruto was not sitting as his desk.

In less than a second, she was against the wall face to face with Naruto. He had his Kunai out but well way from her. Her arms were pinned to the wall, Naruto had his whole body pressed against hers, causing her to blush a cherry red. Their eyes met, causing Sakura to feel as if her heart was beating in her throat. Naruto realized it was Sakura and he hastily let her go.

"Sakura-chan, what are you doing here?," Naruto questioned trying to regain his composure.

Still a slight dazed she wasn't able to reply quickly to his question, "I thought I could scare you, but apparently you shouldn't do that to someone on the ANBU squad.", she huffed.

"I could sense your charka, and than you unexpectedly concealed it. I thought you were after me, so I decided to sneak up on you. I did not realize it was you", Naruto replied tucking his kunai away from view.

"Is that why you came up here to see if you could scare me?" he asked with a confused grin on his face.

"No No I came to ask if you wanted to have lunch since you missed breakfast this morning", Sakura asked.

Naruto was going to reply that he was not hungry. He wanted to spend some time alone doing some thinking about their friendship and his wedding plans, when suddenly his stomach gave a loud grunge noise. He blushed a slight pink.

"Man my stomach always gets me in trouble" Naruto thought

"Uhh sure I don't see why we can't get.." he was cut off by a knock on the door

"Naruto, honey are you ready for lunch?" Hinata asked as she stood by the doorway.

There was a moment of silence.

"You know now that I think of it I have some training to do, so I better head out.", Sakura stated.

Naruto completely forget his lunch date with Hinata, causing him to be embarrassed about making plans with Sakura.

Sakura stood there awkwardly. She knew she couldn't just tag along with Hinata and Naruto as they discussed their wedding plans. She had to get out of there fast.

"Sakura would you like to join us for lunch.", Hinata asked her eyes closed and her face revealing a genuine sweet expression.

"No thank you Hinata I am not hungry", she replied avoiding Naruto's eyes completely.

"Was there something you needed Naruto for, I don't want to interfere with official Konoha business over the wedding." Hinata replied.

"Oh no, I got the answer I need from Naruto", Sakura replied in a slight high pitched voice, she didn't expect it to come out like that but it did.

"If you too would please excuse me", Sakura said.

She hurried out of Naruto's office just as she heard Naruto's tummy grumble one more time, and sweet laughter fill the air.

"Why am I feeling…", she couldn't put a word to describe it as she walked past the secretary.

"Why do I feel so…grrrr", she stomped in frustration.

"What is it I am feeling?", Sakura screamed out loud.

"Maybe your jealous",

Sakura raised her head toward the sky a bit scared at where the answer had come from. She then turned to notice Kakashi-sensei.

He was sitting on the bench in front of the training ground. His trusty book in front of his face, he didn't even lift his head from the book, but still answered Sakura's question.

This caused a perplexed look to form onto Sakura's face.

Sakura silently mouthed the word to herself again and again. After saying it to herself a few times she spoke the words out loud.

. "Jealous… of Naruto and Hinata?"

'I'm not jealous.'