Question between Two
"Tsunade-sama, may I ask a question?" Sakura hid cautiously behind the door connected to the Hokage's office.
"What is it?" The blonde retorted impatiently, obviously caught in another painful hangover. Her chair swiveled clockwise to face a scowling Sakura.
"It's about Oozora…"
"Don't worry. She isn't interested in him. Either of them." Tsunade pointed out clearly.
"It's not that!" The rosette replied indignantly. "Part of it is, but…"
"Then what is it?" The irritated Hokage interrogated.
"It's just that…how come she gets all the CONFIDENTIAL part of the missions!?" Sakura pounded her fists on the wooden piece of furniture. "Do you think we can't?!"
"Because of your outburst right now, I have a reason to doubt you. Straighten the facts, Sakura. This is only one mission, and the business she has been assigned to attend to requires her presence, considering the dangers if three Konoha ninja enter the Rain territory publicly. I don't want the already threadbare alliance to snap, just like that." Tsunade finished her answer with a snap of her fingers, gesturing Sakura to leave. Sakura was dumbfounded and stumbled slightly out the door.
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"Tenten." Sasuke passed through the entrance way quietly, his footsteps as light as the tapping of the distant rain outside the window. He slid a hand underneath the sensor light, pausing until the automated sliding glass opened with a swivel.
"Yes?" The brunette addressed answered calmly as she propped several sheathed blades against a blank blue wall. Her back was turned to the Uchiha.
"Do you really think Haku is back? I mean, I did see him get killed and all…" He ran a cold hand through his naturally-spiked, navy locks. Mocha irises turned to him contemplatively.
"I'm not so sure myself. I heard of his death back when I was genin, but whereabouts…I have no idea. Either way, people claimed to have seen him flouncing around the Mist." Tenten replied with a hand on her chin. Grinning widely, her lips twitched negatively.
"It is going to be fun, won't it?"
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Neji sighed for the eighteenth time that hour. All in all, he was bored to death. His frequent training partner and arch-rival, the Uchiha, was off on 'personal' business again. Sakura was having a chat with the Hokage about the strange mercenary girl. While he, the prodigious Neji Hyuuga, pride of the Hyuuga clan, was stuck sitting in a tree.
"Oozora…" He squinted, frustrated. He had heard of mercenaries before, but they were always either the male gender or seductive succubuses who manipulated the other sex. Even still, she was awfully familiar.
"Brown…the same brown hair." He mused to himself, recalling his teammate that disappeared years ago. Smirking, he shook his head.
It was no use comparing someone dead to someone alive.
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Author's Ramblings: Hee hee. This story is going at a snail's pace, isn't it? Don't worry, I'll move the plot along in the next chapter. --