The next morning Sakura woke up and had breakfast. She then went in her room and pulled out some clothes she had in one of the boxes. A pair of light blue jean shorts and a lilac purple tank top. Sakura stuck it on, then she heard her phone ring.
"Hello, Sakura speaking." She said as she answered the noisey phone.
It was Naruto. "Hey, Sakura, we got information about your mother."
She took in a deep breath, not ready to here it. She just hoped that hers and Sasukes theory would be right. If that's the case, then she would definitely solve it, without Sasukes help.
"Well Naruto, you can come over for a while, just tell me then, unless your busy or something." Sakura said as she sat down on the couch.
"Sure thing, and I'll help you unpack your things if you want?" Naruto was always generous.
"That sounds great." Sakura commented.
"Alright, well, I'll see you in an hour?" Naruto said as he leaned back in his chair at work.
She walked over to the table and replied,"Ok, see you then, bye."
They both hung up the phone. Sakura could use some help unpacking so she accepted his offer. Sakura loved Narutos charm. He was so nice to her, she new him since she was little. He still had that bright blonde hair and those bright blue eyes. He grew much taller then her, 6'1" was his height now. He was another one those guys who were built. 'I guess Naruto and Sasuke still hit the gym together.' Sakura thought to herself.
An hour passed by and Naruto arrived and knocked on the door.
Sakura looked out the window to see Naruto and answered the door,"Hi, Naruto."
Naruto smiled and walked in,"I see you still have more work to be done. How about we get some of this taken care of and then I'll tell you what you need to know about your mother."
'Mother,' that word repeated itself in her mind. How she missed her mother so much. She was the only girl Sakura could talk to. There was Ino, but she lived in Konoha with Shikamaru and there new born baby boy.
They took boxes off of one another and Naruto came across a picture of him, Sakura, and Sasuke with there sensai Kakashi at a martial art school. All three of them graduated at Kakashi Martial Arts. In the picture it looked like Sasuke and Saskura just finished arguing because they both were glaring at each other. Always competition between those two.
He placed it on her night stand and open another box full of dishes. He took them out and placed them in the cubbered. Next he found some of her clothes and shoes and he put them in her closet. 'I forgot, I invited Sasuke over to help. I wonder how these two are going to act.' Naruto thought to himself with a worried look.
Sakura took out her clocks and stuck one in the kitchen, another one in the living room, and the last one in her room on her night stand. She saw the picture Naruto must have put there. The four of them, amazing memories. She saw the glares that her and Sasuke were sending to each other and couldn't help but smile. Those were the good old days even if it was two years ago. 'You don't like to lose, do you Sasuke?' Sakura said to herself.
A knock came to the door, and again, Sakura looked out the window to see Sasuke standing there, looking casual in his jeans and his tee-shirt. 'What does he want? Didn't I tell him yesturday I don't want his help?' Sakura made the comment to herself remembering what she said to him yesturday.
She opened the door,"What do you want?"
Sasuke looked Sakura up and down, and thought she looked nice,"Well thats a rude way of greeting someone, but anyway, Naruto invited me over."
Naruto cut throught the room and saw them standing at the door way,"Hey, Sasuke, glad you made it."
Sakura glared at Naruto and it made him scared, he had to admit, for a girl, she was scary sometimes.
"Why did you invite him over? This is my house you know, I didn't tell you to have him come over." Sakura said still glaring with Sasuke rubbing the back of his neck looking at Naruto.
Naruto walked over to them both a replied to Sakura's statment,"Yes, I know, but I figured you could use extra help. The more the marrier, right?"
She walked away to go back and unpack, Sasuke looked at Naruto confusingly,"So, I guess that means I'm allowed in?"
Naruto motioned for him to come in and they went to where Sakura was to help her. Sasuke opened a box and took out the lamps. The bigger ones went in the living room and the smaller one went in her room. He put the one tall lamp by the one side of the couch and the other one on the other side. He walked in her room then and stuck the small lamp on the night stand. He saw the picture of them four.
'What happened to us Sakura?' Sasuke thought to himself. He met her in seventh grade. At the time they were friends for two years. Then, in nineth grade, they had a track and field competition. Coach Adams wanted boy against girls. It was Sasuke and Sakuras turn to go against one another. They started running and at the end Sasuke beat Sakura by only 3.5 seconds. He had to admit, she was fast. After the race he walked up to her and told her he was faster and that she wouldn't win against him, plus, he said to her that he was better then her. Sakura just looked at him with small tears forming, he new she didn't like to lose either. Just like himself, she always wanted to be first, so she looked at him, kicked dirt on his white uniform, and smacked him in the face. Then, she went home crying. Talk about a sore loser, so ever since then there was always competition between them.
Sasuke wished he never made those remarks to her, about himself being better and stuff. 'I'm really sorry Sakura' He said to himself. He tried appauligizing to her before, but she would never accept it. 'She must really hate me.' He again said to himself.
As he walked over to grab more boxes he saw Sakura trying to carry this one that seemed really heavy.
He walked up to her and started grabbing the box,'Here, let me help you with this one."
She shook her head no and grabbed it from him only to be stumbling a little with it because of it's weight,"No, I can do it myself. Thanks, but no thanks."
She almost fell, but Sasuke was assisting on taking it from her so she wouldn't hurt herself,"Sakura, seriously, just let me carry it for you. It's too heavy and your going to end up hurting yourself."
"I wont hurt myself," She said as she started to fall.
They box landed on the floor and Sasuke cought her,"See I told you, you would end up falling, but you didn't want to listen to me now did you?"
Sakura glared at him, as usual, he was right again,"Yea, ok, you were right, but let me go now."
She pushed him away and Sasuke smirked.
Later that night Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto sat on the couch. Sasuke noticed a game that looked like checkers. A smile came to his face. He new Sakura wouldn't turn down his challenge.
"Hey, Sakura, I challenge you in a game of checkers." Sasuke said girnning.
She looked surprised, but it shortly changed to her usual game face,"Ok, your on."
They took out the game and placed it on the table. At the beginning Sakura was able to take two of his checkes, but then he ended up taking three of hers. After awhile they both had to stop a think a few times. They we're both on equal levels.It soon came down to the last final moves. It was Sakura's turn and she wanted to make sure she wasn't going to make a stupid move. She just had to win this so she could rub it in his face that she won and he didn't. Then, she saw her winning move. She jumped Sasuke's checkers three times and took them.
"Ha, I won." She said pointing at him.
"Very good Sakura, you beat me." Sasuek said showing not much emotion.
Sakura just blinked a few times,"You mean that's it, you not going to try to tell me I cheated or it was just luck?"
He leaned back in his seat,"That's right, you won this."
She narrowed her eyes,"Wait a minute, you let me win didn't you? There's no way you would have lost so easily."
Silence.
"I knew it, you did let me win, I want a rematch." Sakura demanded.
Naruto joined the conversation,"Look Sakura, it's getting late, let me just tell you about your mother because I'm getting tired."
Sakura nodded and sat down in the middle between Naruto and Sasuke. This was the last thing she wanted to talk about. Oh how Sakura missed her mother so much.
"Well, we got the results from the lab and Sakura, your mother was shot."
Sakura gasped."I knew it, me and Sasuke were right. I knew my mother would have never have commited suicide. How do you know that she was murdered though?"
Sasuke was listening carefully and Naruto explained,"At the lab, they took out the bullet that was shot in her temple. The bullet didn't match the bullets that was in the gun beside your mom. Now we just got to figure out who did it."
Sakura was in total shock.
Naruto and Sasuke both got up from the couch,"Well, we better get going it's already a little mast midnight. I'll talk to you later Sakura."
Sasuke waved and they both left.
Sakura went upstairs and took a shower. Then she put on her pajamas and brushed her teeth. Sakura laid in bed. 'Who would want my mother dead? Did she do something to offend someone or did she threaten them?' Well, I'll just have to do some investigating tomorrow.' Sakura said closing her eyes trying to fall alseep.