Chapter 4: believing in promises
"I don't understand why we need this guy." Naruto groaned giving Sai a dirty look. "I mean we already have Azusa-chan and she's a jonin. We don't really need five members do we?"
"Then I guess the jonin girl can go?" Sai smiled.
"I think not," I grinned back. Team Kakashi seemed to have changed drastically. Apparently Kakashi was in the hospital and now we had some other guy as our captain named Yamato. There was something off about both of the new members.
Yamato-sensei explained to us our mission and my legs felt loose all of a sudden. All I heard was Sasuke's name, something about bringing him back and I had already opened my mouth to speak.
"He won't come back. I know Sasuke and he won't come back. He's too twisted with revenge, he won't." The words just tumbled out, I couldn't hold them in. How could I try to bring back someone that I knew wouldn't come back?
"We'll meet back here in an hour," Yamato-sensei said looking at me then I walked off.
"So you don't even want to try to get Sasuke back? You're the twisted one Azusa." Sakura scowled.
"I don't see a point." I replied.
"He was your best friend and you don't even care that he's gone. That brother of his is trash anyway. You just have to look at him once to realize it." Sakura argued.
My eyes widened and I stared at her. "Itachi is trash? Is that what you think? You don't even know him, how could you even start to say that about him."
"I met him on the mission we last went on and he didn't seem too great to me."
My heart beat against my chest. They saw Itachi? I'd been waiting nine years for him to come back to me and they were the ones that got to see him? I felt a tear slip down my cheek. Both of the Uchiha brothers had left me. "You make it seem like I don't have a care in the world, but you're so lucky Sakura. You haven't lost everything that you love. I lost Itachi and Sasuke, both who promised they'd be with me forever. In the end they just left me. You're so lucky Sakura, you get everything good. You have parents that love you and friends that will always be there for you. My parents are dead and all they ever did was lock me away from the world, my two best friends left the village for reasons that they didn't even care to explain to me. You act like I don't have a care in the world, like if someone leaves me I'm totally immune to it. You don't know Sasuke like I do, he's horrible and cruel. Itachi is so much better, even that doesn't explain it. I hate him so much." I sobbed. "You will never understand the way I'm feeling." Then I walked away from them. Did I still want to go on this mission? It involved Sasuke and I didn't even know what to do when I saw him. I wanted to hide away.
"Hey, Azusa?" Kiba's voice came from behind me and I turned around. He saw my tear streaked face and pulled me in. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked worriedly.
"It's nothing. It's just that the mission I said I'd do. It involves Sasuke and I don't know what to do," I said wiping away tears. "Should I do the mission, drop it? I don't know." Kiba was the only one who I told about the night Sasuke left. The words he'd said to me, and the reason I had to become even stronger.
"You'll be fine, I know you will." Kiba said. "'Cos you're strong Azusa I know you'll be able to do it. Want me to help you grab equipment for the mission?"
I nodded and he released me. "Come on, I'll let you ride Akamaru again, and hey," he smiled. "If you complete this mission then I promise you I'll let you ride on Akamaru by yourself. How does that sound?"
"Sounds great to me." I smiled back.