The real story of Sakura Haruno
'When was it that I started to love three teenagers' he sighed mentally "I really have become a father" he laughed and shoved his hands into his pockets and disappeared into the night.
Chapter 6:
Sakura stepped into the dark apartment and slipped off her strappy red high heel shoes, she sat on the floor and rubbed her soar feet. Sasuke walked in soon after and slipped off his shoes and walked past her with out a word about what had just happened.
"Training starts at eight tomorrow" Sakura called after him not moving her place on the floor.
"Yah ok what ever" he called back. Sakura heard his door slam a few minutes later. Sasuke had changed a lot since four years ago. He'd grown a great deal since then, now he was a lot taller that her, so much so that she had to look up at him, if he stood to close she would have to crane her neck so she could see his face. His raven coloured hair had grown a lot longer as well; she would have to convince him to get it cut soon. He had also grown a lot stronger from four years of training; she hadn't seen him fight yet or even train but she could tell he had grown stronger. Not only was he ripped but he was a lot more open about his feelings and his opinions, he'd grown in his connection with people and you could clearly see that he had changed. Sakura saw a lot of Naruto showing up in Sasuke, and Naruto was starting to show a lot of Sasuke's traits. Sasuke's once dark cold eyes had grown brighter and oozed warmth. Sasuke had almost taken a 360 turn on his personality, just like she had.
The overpowering feeling of curiosity overwhelmed her; she wanted to know everything that had happened to him; how he'd ended up like this, kind, gentle, warm, rather than cold, harsh and cruel. How had he managed to grow so strong? How was it that he had been able to get so close to so many horrible people and not be killed, what was it about Sasuke that made you secretly trust him even though he'd most likely betray you in the end. Why was it that a bunny feel in love with a snake?
The front door opened again and Naruto walked in silently kicking off his dark blue sandals, he walked past her just like Sasuke had, with out a word.
"Naruto, training starts tomorrow at eight ok make sure you wake up on time ok" She called after him once he was half way down the hall to his room. He grunted in acknowledgement and slipped into his room quietly, she heard the sound of him flipping on his light.
She finally stood and padded to the kitchen to get a glass of water. The day had gone by faster then she had thought, but it still felt long, funny how that worked. They were back, she didn't know for how long, or if they'd all stay this way, but they were back, and they were with her, and some where deep inside of her, she was happy.
She pulled Sasuke's sweater around her body letting his scent flood over her, the musky scent of a man, that's what Sasuke was now, he was a man, just like how she had become a woman, she'd never known Sasuke's scent before this, she'd never gotten that close to him, but now she new that his scent was now the only thing that made her feel like a woman. After sitting on one of the kitchen stools finishing her glass of water Sakura decided to go to bed, glancing at the clock she discovered that it was already two in the morning and she would have to be up in six hours, which in her opinion was to early. She walked around her apartment turning off the lights; she left the light on by the front door since it shone a bit of light down the hall of the boys rooms. She slipped out of her work cloths, throwing on a large t-shit that went to her mid thighs and fell into her king sized bed settling into the covers.
'Every night since Sasuke and Naruto left I've had the same nightmare, where they leave me behind, after everything was going perfect they leave, and I wake up with the image of their retreating backs and the sound of Sasuke's voice in my ear saying 'thank-you', will I have that same dream again? Even though I know they're back?' She slipped into a pleasantly temperate sleep before she could think of any sort of pessimistic answer to her questions. She woke to the sound of her alarm, she looked over at it disgruntle, and read the neon red numbers flashing randomly.
"Oy Sakura shut off your damn alarm already it's six thirty in the fucking morning" Naruto roared from the other side of the apartment, the black haired shinobi complied to his demand and leaned over to crash her hand down on the alarm, the beeping slowed down in the dramatic way they always did when ever Sakura broke them, it always made her laugh.
'Just like in the movies" She giggled lightly jumping out of bed and realised something important.
"I didn't have the dream last night" she spoke in a hoarse whisper scarcely believing the words. She shook her head to clear the racing thoughts, and walked into her bathroom. She turned on the tap and ran cold water, waiting for a few seconds for the temperature to drop, she splashed the ice water onto her face and gasped in slight surprise at how her senses jumped into action. She raised her face to look at herself in the mirror, her hair was messy and puffy but not damp with sweat like normal, her pupils were an average size not like normally after she woke up, they were always dilated; she looked at herself and realised that she looked healthy, which she never did when she woke up.
Sakura quickly moved through the morning routine, brushing her teeth, washing her face, the normal stuff. She walked back into her room and started to rummage through her closet in the training clothes section of her very limited wardrobe; she chose a tight black skirt that barely went to her mid thighs and a pair of hot pink spankies, she couldn't decided between a black tub top or a hot pink one, she finally decided neither was right and pulled out a white skin tight low v neck shirt and a tight black leather jacket. She pulled out a pair of black calf high boots with bells attached to every seam, the skirt and jacket also had bells attached to the few buckles or loops on them. She smiled, ever since they had been first tested to become gennin back when they first met Kakashi, she had loved the idea of fighting with bells on, it just seamed like it would be fun- once she was good enough - to have bells on but to still be able to beat someone, that was what she had secretly wished for, now she never trained with out them.
She lay the cloths on her bed, so she could change into them before she left, and walked out of her room, still only in her over sized t-shirt that barely made it past her mid thighs, down the short hall that lead to her kitchen. She started on breakfast, having to remind her self many times that she was now cooking for two hungry male ninja's that ate everything in sight, with that in mind, her normal half a package of bacon turned into two packages of bacon, and the normal two eggs she had turned into a whole package. She let a sigh escape her lips as she pulled out some cup ramen for Naruto; she shuffled around the kitchen in her red furry slippers, staring at the coffee pot as it perked away. She turned around to look at the island of her kitchen to see Kakashi leaning against it reading one of his perverted books.
"Kakashi" Sakura breathed in surprise, a smile snaking its way onto her face "I wish you would make at least a little noise when you come in" she mumbled turning away from her old teacher to check on breakfast. She felt an arm wrap around her waist and a light pressure on the top of her head as Kakashi planted a small kiss on her head.
"Good morning to you to" he mumbled releasing his old student smiling warmly down at her "I just came to check on you, since last night seemed..." he trailed off looking away from his book and into her glowing green eyes.
"Kakashi" Sakura started slowly looking up into her old teachers eyes "I..." She paused gathering her confidence "I didn't have the dream last night" She whispered, still not completely believing the words. That dream had haunted her for the last four years, every night she woke up screaming their names, or crying, she always woke up in a cold sweat and with blood shot eyes. Kakashi noticed all this, her hair wasn't wet from a shower, her eyes were clear and bright, and she seemed to be floating.
"What dream?" asked a voice from the door way of the kitchen, both Kakashi and Sakura looked to see who the owner of the voice was. Sasuke stood leaning against the door frame in a pair of black boxers with pink bunnies on them. Sakura couldn't help but smile at the picture, his toned muscles tensed at her action knowing full well that she had spotted his boxers. He stared at her from the door frame angrily, then he noticed what she was wearing, a ratty old t-shirt, it looked like something Kakashi would wear, the shirt hung off of her right shoulder revealing a heart shaped birth mark around the curve of her neck and shoulder, his eyes couldn't help but notice the amount of thigh she was showing off, what was this girl thinking, with a body like hers around two teenage boys and a perverted old man.
"So you do still have them" Sakura said trying to suppress the smile pulling at her lips.
"Hmm" Sasuke hummed keeping his arms crossed over his chest "answer the question Sakura" his voice held an annoyed tone as well as an authoritative one, he was trying to distract himself from her lack of clothing.
"Oh it's nothing, its gone now so it doesn't matter" She said brushing off his question "So how many eggs do you want?" She asked producing a plate from a cupboard.
"What ever" Sasuke mumbled keeping his eyes to the floor as the shirt revelled her light blue underwear, walking over to one of the stools located on the other side of the island from where Sakura stood in front of the stove; She frowned at him unhappy with the answer.
"Fine then the Uchiha with no opinion gets no food" Sakura announced sliding the empty plate across the island to him. The male sighed and glared at her angrily, not used to people questioning his attitude, but was glad that he could no longer see her beautiful, absolutely sexy bare legs anymore.
"Fine just give me half" Sasuke sighed sliding the plate back across the island fuming over the fact that he'd caved so easily to Sakura's will, he convinced himself that it was all because she was so irresistibly good looking that morning nothing else. Kakashi smiled at his old students and sat down beside Sasuke with out a word listening to the two of them bicker, watching as Sasuke tried to control his teenage hormones.
"Naruto get up I made breakfast" Sakura called down the hall towards the blond's room; a mumbled reply was heard and Sakura laughed.
"If you don't come now I'll let Sasuke eat it all" She called back in a playful tone. Sasuke watched her silently from where he sat, thinking over the changes that Sakura and gone threw; the difference between her now and her last night were amazing, like a whole different person, what really happened to Sakura while they had been away, the Uchiha didn't know but he would soon find out one way or another.
"Sakura it's to early to get up" Naruto whined from somewhere in the back of the apartment.
"I made instant ramen" She sang temptingly while clanking a plate loudly onto the island counter "Well i guess he isn't coming so you can have the rest Sasuke" She spoke with an uninterested voice hinting some disappointment, while she let a devilish grin sneak onto her face. The rhythmic sound of food steps running down a hall was heard and then Naruto appeared, wearing the same clothes from yesterday with a sock hanging off his ear.
"Ok I'm up damn it, just don't give that bastard my food!" the boy yelled sleepily, still rubbing sleep from his eyes. Sakura giggled with the empty plate in hand while Sasuke kept on eating his food, trying too suppress the grin that was pulling at his lips; Kakashi sat quietly at the island counter reading his book and watching his old students with an amused smile on his face.
"That was a dirty trick Sakura" Naruto grumbled yanking the plate out of her hands."It worked" Sakura smirked, scoping most of the bacon and eggs onto his plate "Ramen's over there by Sasuke" She told him pointing to the other end of the island. She picked up the pan by its handle producing a fork from behind her 'magically', though no one was paying attention to her anymore. They ate in silence for the most part, each one thinking over yesterday's events while eating the delicious food.
"So Kakashi, should we train till lunch then you could take the boys shopping for clothes and stuff while I set up the rest of the stuff" Sakura proposed suddenly making all three males raise their heads.
"I guess we could do that...but why do I have to go shopping with them? You know they'll only buy one other set of clothing right" Kakashi sighed as a light went on in Sakura's eyes."Then do you want to deal with bank people, and the elders, and the key maker and the mail man?" Sakura asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Why don't you take them shopping tomorrow?" Kakashi asked, not really wanting to do any work.
"Because I don't want to have to smell them for that long" Sakura snapped crossing her arms over her chest glaring at the man.
"Hey I showered" Naruto yelled in defence; they all eyed him sceptically.
"When last year?" Sakura asked frowning at the boy.
"No" Naruto mumbled after a few seconds of silence.
"Well it doesn't matter they still stink and they'll stink even more after training today" Sakura stated glaring angrily at the silver haired man. Sasuke stood, his empty plate in his hands, he walked over to the sink and dumped the plate in, he walked past Sakura, who was still glaring at Kakashi; he leaned down and whispered into her ear.
"Thanks for the food, but I don't stink" he smirked, wrapping his arm around her head making her smell his armpit. She squealed and pulled away from him crashing into the kitchen counter, Naruto erupted with laughter, Sakura's face turned red realizing that she had just been half hugged by a half naked Uchiha, she turned on the tap and splashed cold water on her face.
"That was nasty, ew armpit hair" she mumbled into the tea towel, Sasuke smirked leaning against the door frame.
"Sakura don't be annoying, you know you liked it" He chuckled retreating from the kitchen as a butcher knife went flying past his head, lodging itself into the door frame of the front door. Just as the knife was lodging itself into the door frame of the front door, the door opened, Ino was about to step into the apartment she heard a dull thud by her head, horrified she looked over at the knife and then stared into the kitchen at Sakura who was still in throwing form, Sasuke was leaning against the wall just beside the door way with his arms crossed and a slight smirk playing on his lips. She stared at the Uchiha, whom was still shirt less, and still had sleepy head hair, she couldn't help but admit he looked irresistibly sexy; but she confirmed that she liked Shikamaru better. Sakura finally noticed the blond girl standing in the door way, with the butcher knife still only centimetres away from her head.
"Ino?" the black haired girl asked, flicking her pink side bangs out of her eyes.
yes i know it wasn't much but i have a life...and homework, i'll try to write more but...only if you review more...and i know more then 5 people have read my story, all comments are welcome (but if your going to be mean...try to be nice about it i'm a person to!)
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