Domo arigato to LadyNorth76 and MistereKitsune for the reviews! And yes, Itachi is a perv, but a DIGNIFIED perv! XD This chapter is longer as a thank you, hope you like it!
I'm trying to shoot these chapters out about two a day, so hopefully I can keep them coming! Enjoy!
Sakura slid the towel over herself as she stepped out of the bath. Ah, so relaxing, she thought, and so much better with those earplugs in. Sometimes I wonder where Naruto's energy just appears from…. Speaking of energy, what was that weird feeling I got a few minutes ago? Sakura was sure someone was watching her, it felt just like when she was on missions and knew someone was spying on her. The difference was this energy felt very familiar. Was that Uchiha Itachi she sensed by the door?
Eventually Sakura decided to let it go, the feeling had passed quickly after she noticed it. She dressed quickly and decided she needed to put herself to a task. Even though it was her day off, Sakura would feel uneasy if she weren't alert and focused on something. After thanking Fugaku and Mikoto and politely excusing herself from the Uchiha residence Sakura decided to head over to Tsunade's office to see if there was any busywork she could help with.
She took her time strolling through the streets of Konoha, no need to rush and her mentor would probably been drunk and giving Shizune a hard time right about now. She felt bad for her one-chan, but then again Sakura didn't have the rare ability to make Tsunade-sama actually work on her papers like Shizune. Sakura arrived at the door just in time for Tsunade-sama to launch a chair through it. Luckily, due to her training, Sakura punched it into smaller pieces before it impacted.
"Good morning, Tsunade-sama," Sakura greeted with a less than enthusiastic tone. She could tell that today was full of unwanted paperwork for the Hokage.
"Tch, if you can call it that. Look at all these damn papers! My arm's gonna fall off before the end of the hour," she whined, pouting on her desk while Shizune just sweat dropped off to the side.
Sakura couldn't help but smile at her mentor's childlike behavior. She had never wanted to get involved in signing papers, no matter how much they just kept piling up. "Well, I have nothing to do today so I can at least help you sort through some things, as long as you actually do so work." Sakura deadpanned at the end, knowing she'd never get much out of Tsunade.
"Hai, hai. Fine. Maybe if I get some of this out of the way it'll get those clan leaders to settle down and the Mizukage to stop pestering me about going out…." Tsunade rambled on, her mumbling never ceasing during her work.
Sakura found a nice spot off to the side where she got flip through less official papers. There was nothing there of much importance, it was mostly just flipping through different things and organizing them into shelves. She had managed to get through two and a half for tall stacks before Tsunade interrupted her filing the civilian papers from the shinobi ones.
"Oh, Sakura, I forgot to tell you about a small thing I want you to oversee," Tsunade-sama was swirling a cup of sake in one hand while she placed her chin nonchalantly on the other. "It's just a simple check-up of a group of shinobi at the hospital. It's pretty simple but Shizune and I have our hands full here and a bunch of rookies were just hired on so I want someone knowledgeable and trustworthy around so they don't screw up."
"No problem," Sakura raised herself up from her seated position, "I'm actually glad for the break from this mess."
"Psh, at least one of us gets a break." The Hokage started sulking again, much to Shizune's distress. "Go on then, the examinations will start in a few minutes." Tsunda-sama waved her off. Sakura could see her eye twitch as Shizune placed another stack of papers on her desk.
Sakura couldn't help but giggle on her way out. I can't imagine how much worse it's going to be in Naruto has to be the one with all that work. Her face automatically changed to match her thoughts: we're all doomed. Instead of walking to the hospital, she decided to jump the rooftops, the fresh air would be nice and her legs needed stretching after all that sitting.
In a few seconds she had reached her destination. And boy was it a mess. The new nurses were painfully obvious, even to untrained eyes. Looks of worry and panic spread across they faces as they ran from door to office to desk to operation room trying to stay out of the way while doing their job correctly. The hospital wasn't actually busy, it was a fairly quiet day and there were no major injuries to deal with, just the regular amount of scheduled operations, first aid, and check ups. Sakura felt bad for them, she remembered when she was an unseasoned trainee here along with Ino, except Tsunade-sama expected them to catch on much quicker.
"Ami-san," Sakura directed her attention to the receptionist, "please let all of the trainees know that they are to be shadowing a seasoned nurse from the staff list available at this desk. I'll be taking over the check-ups for the day, so just tell them they only need to learn the basics for now."
"Of course, Sakura-san." Ami began setting up trainees with staff. "And here's the clipboard with all of the check-up information on it. They're just the annual ANBU physicals. Their personal files are available in the examination room."
"Thank you very much." With that Sakura swiveled around and headed to her office to get ready. Once she had her uniform on she proceeded to room #B1, since it was a regular physical the first patient would be in the first room on the second floor as always. All of the physicals went smoothly, of course Sakura wasn't surprised, they're ANBU and they're to be in tip-top shape at all times. She was also proud of herself for making it through them all with such speed. She'd started at noon and it was around 3 p.m., for the number of physicals she had to do it was extremely quick.
The only blunder she'd had was when, of course, Kakashi waltzed in.
"Well hello there, Sakura!" The silver-haired nin sat with a smile on his face. Sakura knew he was up to no good.
"Hello, Kakashi-sensei. Anything wrong or suspicious that I need to check out?" Sakura was already busy doing the normal routine and Kakashi breathed in and out when necessary.
"Nope, healthy as a horse!" His eye crinkled even more, if it was even possible, and his grin gave him away.
"Ok, what is it you're smiling about?" Sakura slammed the stethoscope down. "It's obvious you've got something up your sleeve and based on that smile it involves me." Sakura folded her arms as she stared down her former teacher.
"Why Sakura," Kakashi feigned surprise, "I'm shocked you would accuse me of something mischievous! I have nothing up my sleeve!"
Yeah, right! Inner Sakura decided to chime in. You've always got something up your sleeve! Sakura decided to prod a bit farther.
"You might as well tell me, or at the training session tomorrow I'll be sure that I get to pulverize you into dust before Naruto and Sasuke even get a chance to touch you." A wicked smile spread across her face. Luckily it frightened Kakashi even to know she was plotting that he coughed up the information.
"Geez, Tsunade-sama really wore off on you. It's nothing really. It's just you've been causing quite the ruckus at ANBU headquarters."
Sakura lifted an eyebrow in confusion.. How did that happen? She'd never even set foot in ANBU HQ before. "Explain."
"Well it was mostly just thoughts of you. It seems like you've caught the eye of a very eligible young shinobi." The tone of his voice even sounded perverted. He casually slipped his shirt back on as she tried to wipe that voice out of her mind, it was causing scars.
"Listen, if this is about Sasuke whining about me 'intruding on his domain', I can assure you I only went into his room to find Naruto. I had no clue he was even in there, much less exiting his shower."
Kakashi didn't know about that incident; he made a note to ask Sasuke about it later. "No, it's not Sasuke that's got you on his mind. But that's close."
Sakura had no clue what he was blabbering on about at this point so she decided to dismiss it. "Ok, whatever Kakashi-sensei, I'll just drag a coherent answer from you tomorrow morning." The devilish smile was back and Kakashi took it as his sign to run from the kunoichi.
"Well it was pleasant talking to you as always Sakura. Bye bye!" He slipped out of the window, why not use the door like normal people?, and disappeared.
"AND DON'T BE LATE OR I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT TOO!" She yelled after him. Sometimes that man is just too much.
She went through the door, like a normal person, and headed to the cafeteria to grab a quick snack and drink. On her way back to dropped by the reception desk and popped the copy nin's file into it's proper place. She pulled out some files from a recent operation whose patient was in stable condition and she wanted to run over his treatment.
"Sakura-san," Ami called to her, she was so engrossed in those files she nearly ran into the men's bathroom door. "Your last patient just arrived and is ready."
"Thanks, Ami-san. Here are Junko-san's files, everything's gone smoothly so far so I don't think I'll need to mark anything up on it." Sakura smiled and returned to the room.
"Alright, let's get this thing done with, I'm sure you've got somewhere better to be than on my table." Sakura walked into the exam room while adjusting her uniform. She looked up at a very red Uchiha.
"Uchiha-san?" Her voice managed to squeak out. Sakura was a bit pink herself, after this morning she hadn't thought much about sensing his chakra watching her until now.
"H-Haruno-san." Did he just stutter? Uchiha never stutter!
There was an awkward silence between them as they stared at each other, she standing there fumbling with a tongue depressor, he shirtless sitting on the ta- wait what? Uchiha Itachi shirtless on own exam table? Oh Kami-sam, catch me I'm swooning! She just had to find a way to shut that inner self up. But now that she mentioned it, his arms were pretty nice. Her eyes scanned him slowly, she prayed her face didn't betray her thoughts. His chest was broad, but still slender enough to make him faster than the average shinobi. His pectorals were in amazing shape, she'd never seen an ANBU so toned. And his abs… oh his abs! They're so delicious I could melt on them! He's so sculpted, like a god! Oh, I could just pounce on him! Sakura had to side with her inner on this one, Uchiha Itachi was one fine specimen, and she'd only seen him bare his upper half.
Unconscientiously, Sakura's eyes had lingered on his abdomen too long. She was so absorbed in her thoughts Itachi's next words startled her, both the sudden sound and what he had actually asked her to do….
Aaand that's the end! Well, of the chapter at least!