When Sakura awoke, she heard the distinct sound of a heart-beat monitor. She was in the hospital.
"Wh- What happened?"
"You're in the hospital, Sakura. A fact I'm sure you're well aware of, unless you bumped your head like an idiot when you stupidly ran off."
Sakura flinched at the rough words of her Shishou. She knew her reaction to her mother's death wasn't smart, so she didn't need her Shishou telling her what she already knew. Hell, Tsunade ran off for years at a time after Orochimaru deserted Konoha! Why couldn't she take one moment to collect herself before everyone was pestering her about her new state as an orphan? To Sakura, Tsunade seemed like the biggest hypocrite in the world right now.
Sharp emerald met honey brown.
"Shishou, I hardly think that your accusations are fair. When you left-"
"Sakura Haruno! I left with full permission from the Hokage! I left with a clear head, and I knew what I was doing! Most importantly, I left fully able to protect myself, with a full supply of chakra! You left because you were in distress, with a clouded mind, without my permission and with left to no chakra left! I'd say our situations were very, very different, so don't you dare say I'm overreacting dammit!"
Sakura looked down, defeated, ready to cry. She inhaled, no, she would not cry in front of her teacher. She would not be weak.
Tsunade sighed. Perhaps she was too hard on Sakura? She did lose her mom the day before after all. Tsunade thought for a minute, glancing at Sakura every now and then. Sometimes that girl scared her to death, not that she would admit it. Hell, wasn't her reaction to Sakura's departure enough proof to the fact that she care deeply about her apprentice, whom she thought about like a daughter? She exploded because she cares. Tsunade thought about yesterday. 'Kiba looked like he was about to shit his pants' she remembered with mirth, then sobered up when she remembered the very same Inuzuka arriving with her apprentice in his arms a few hours after she gave him his mission. 'I have to thank him'
"Sakura, before I forget, we took the liberty to search your mother's house for any items, sentimental and valuable. We figured it would be too hard for you to do it yourself, and there's been an offer on the house, so there really wasn't any time for you to take the time for you to do it yourself. If we forgot anything, you are more than welcome to go back to the house to quickly recover it."
Sakura sat up. The house was being sold?! It was her property! She grew up in that house, and her parents did so much work on it! That house belonged to her family, to her! Sakura's temper flared, 'How dare she sell it!'
"You- You're selling the house? Hokage-sama, I don't understand. Isn't the house my property as my mother's daughter and the last remaining member of my family?"
Tsunade sighed. She'd hoped Sakura would just accept the fact instead of questioning it, but she wouldn't have been Sakura if she had.
"I'm sorry Sakura, but your mother didn't include the house in her will, so it belongs to Konoha now. As soon as the house was deemed appropriate, people started to make offers and we really didn't have reason to keep if off the market."
"Excuse me, Tsunade?! No reason? I'm a reason! Couldn't you have held off the selling for me?!
"To tell you the truth Sakura, I felt that getting rid of that house would be good for you. You can't attach yourself to it anymore; it holds too many memories."
Sakura kept quiet, silently seething. Good for her?! She had no right, even if she was the Hokage! She got up and took the IV out of her arm, stopping the monitor. As soon as she was able to right herself on her feet, Sakura walked straight out of the room, past the Hokage and into the familiar hallway of the third floor. Tsunade didn't bother to stop her; she needed to work things out herself. Not to mention, it was just too funny to see Sakura walk out unaware that she was still in her hospital gown. Tsunade walked out of the room chuckling.