Chapter 2

The next day

When the next morning came Sakura was called to the Hokage office so when she knocked on the door to come in she was surprised to see two other people beside Tsunade and Shizune.

One was her former Sensei Kakashi and the other one her former Teammate Sasuke Uchiha.

As he looked at her, her heart started beating faster almost skipping a beat.

"Ah good you're here Sakura. You and Kakashi will accompany Sasuke on his first mission" began the Hokage to explain.

"I'm going to explain now what you are supposed to do so listen carefully…" Even though Tsunade said that Sakura couldn't help but glance at Sasuke from the side. She felt happy that she was she one who was able to go on a mission with him.

"…that's why there might be a surprise attack coming from the mountain side tonight. So I want you three to go there and check the situation. If you need help, call for back up. But I doubt you will!" she added, looking proudly at the Team she chose.

That was all Sakura had heard.

"Good you start now. Prepare everything you need to stay outside for a cold night"

And with that the three left her office.

It was already in the afternoon when they arrived at the mountains.

"We should search for a place to stay tonight" Kakashi suggested and Sakura and Sasuke nodded.

It will be the first time in a long while since Sakura had stayed a night together with Sasuke.

But it was that moment where her senses became as keen as a razor.

The bushes nearby began to rustle and many black flashes jumped out. They wore masks which made it impossible to see their faces but Sakura could feel their intent to kill them.

These were the guys Tsunade talked about.

As fast as she could she counted them. 1, 2, 3… it was 3 against 30 she counted.

But it was them who had the upper hand.

Sasuke and Kakashi had already started attacking them as Sakura watched the raven haired boy in amazement. He fought with such grace and precession it automatically attracted her.

"Sakura it is not the time to just stand there and drool over Sasuke-kun! Shanarooo!" screamed her Inner self at the pinkettte. She flinched and then shook her head.

Inner Sakura was right, this was a chance to fight alongside him and to show how good she became even after the forth Shinobi world war.

So she jumped in and started fighting to. The enemy wasn't really that strong so when she let her guard down for a second, one of them saw his chance and attacked her.

Luckily Sasuke jumped in between and cut him before he could reach her.

"Sasuke-kun, thank yo-" she began but was cut off, "Sakura stop dreaming and don't stand in my way" he scolded her coldly.

That wasn't what she had wanted. She wanted him to look at her and not see something bothersome but nevertheless she did it again.

Why did she always mess up like that?

And if things couldn't get worse, there was already the next ninja that sprung at her from behind, seizing his chance to kill one off.

To shocked to move, she squinted her eyes.

When she opened them again she saw Sasuke standing in front of her. He had already killed the enemy.

He turned around and glared at her "What the hell are you doing? If you're being useless do it somewhere where you're not standing in the way!"

With that he went to beat the last few ones that Kakashi did not already kill.

The sun was already setting when they finished every last one of them.

"We should really look for a rest place in case there are more of them coming later" suggested Kakashi and the other two agreed.

When they finally found a cave that was big enough, they decided to stay there and putted their gear down.

As the sun disappeared and it got darker and darker, it also got colder with time.

No wonder they were in the mountains after all.

They decided to get wood to burn so when the exhausted Sakura wanted to stand up to help search for some, Sasuke stood in her way. "You stay here" were his words. Cold and emotionless.

Sakura didn't like the way things were going. "I'm coming too" she insisted.

"No you won't", "Yes I will", "Kakashi and I are enough", Sakura did not want to give up "I can help!" "SAKURA you're annoying!" he was getting really agitated.

Sakura stopped, to hear these words again even after all the time, hurt more than anything.

It felt like he just stabbed her heart and pulled the dagger out again.

"I see" she pressed the words out of her mouth, trying to hold the Tears back that were coming up.

As she noticed that it didn't help she turned away and walked deeper in the cave.

Under no circumstances did she want Sasuke to see her Tears.

Looking a bit confused on her suddenly giving up, Sasuke turned to the man who had just stood there and watch them bicker.

"Let's go" Sasuke said in a calm voice now. "If you're ok with me" he said in an amusing tone. Sasuke just ignored him.

As they were searching for firewood Kakashi started talking.

"You know, you could let her off the hook", "I don't know what you mean" he replied not even looking at his former Sensei.

"I mean Sakura. She was just trying to help. She was probably just feeling nervous because she wanted your first outside mission to go well", "Why would she, that's ridiculous?!" Sasuke responded.

"You really don't know?" At that question Sasuke stopped and looked up before he said anything back "It's none of your business. Leave me alone".

Kakashi couldn't help but smile.

When they got back Sakura was sitting in the corner not saying anything. She had pulled her legs closer to herself und leaned her head on them.

"Sakura you're catching a cold if you sit there like that without a blanket-" started Kakashi but was cut off as suddenly a hawk flew right in the cave and landed on his shoulder.

He took the letter out the Bird was wearing and read it. "What is it?" asked Sasuke.

"Tsunade wants me to come back now since there seems something suddenly came up and I am supposed to go on another mission that is if the situation allows me to" he looked at Sasuke and Sakura.

"Well I don't mind. I don't need you." Sasuke answered. "Haha how loving of you" laughed Kakashi before he got serious and walked over to Sakura who was still sitting there saying nothing.

He leaned closer to her so only she could hear him "Is it ok?"

Sakura just nodded. Though it wasn't really she couldn't stand in the way of another mission. She had already messed up enough.

Kakashi accepted her reply and patted her head before he went out to go.

As he walked by Sasuke he stopped. "You know, I remember you telling me that you wanted to rebuild your clan again and that you wanted your family back. You may not be able to get them back but that doesn't mean you can't have a family. Just not in the position as a son" he smirked under his mask "Try love instead of revenge and hatred"

And with these words he had vanished in the darkness leaving behind a confused Sasuke who had no idea what Kakashi had wanted to say.

Sasukes POV

Sasuke had started the fire with one of his fireballs and sat down.

It was now really dark outside and the fire was the only source of light.

He looked at Sakura. She was still sitting in the dark corner far away from the fire as possible.

It irritated him that she wasn't saying anything and was just sulking all by herself. She had always been so lively when he saw her in Town.

But why was she sulking anyway? She had no reason to at all. But then Sasuke remembered Kakashis words.

Had it been because he told her she were in the way?

Well he was right he thought to himself getting a little angry, she could have been killed because she hadn't paid any attention and it wasn't easy to protect her while fighting.

He wasn't used to it anymore since a long time ago.

When he was with Hebi it didn't matter what happened to them, he only thought about revenge.

But it was different now. Sakura was different.

And he also didn't want her to help with the Firewood because she looked exhausted but somehow she felt offended by it for no reason.

As he watched her, he noticed her shivering. That's because she was sitting so far away from the fire he complained in his head.

"Come here" the words that came out of his mouth were as cold as she felt although he didn't really want to intimidate her he just didn't want her to catch a cold.

Surprisingly she listened. It was probably because the cold wind got the better of her.

"Where's your blanket?" he asked her now in a softer voice. "I forgot it at home" she muttered in a small voice.

She really was annoying him, how could she forget it? She was really troublesome.

Sasuke stood up, took his blanket and walked over to her.

Her eyes widened and her cheeks blushed as he took her and wrapped her inside the blanket.

"Stay that way" he told her and sat back down at his place.

He had closed his eyes for a short moment when he heard something and opened them again to see what she was doing.

It was now her turn to come over to him, she sat beside him and to his surprise leaned against his shoulder "This way you won't be as cold" she said and closed her eyes, clearly afraid of rejection.

But not today anymore so he put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her even closer, he too closing his eyes "…Yeah…"

And she was right it was getting a little warmer but he decided it was because Sakura was blushing really hard now.

That was my second chapter. Hope you liked it.

Don't worry I was gonna do Sasuke POV anyway, it just had to be at the right place and it won't be the last time