Chapter 7:
It has been a week since her birthday party. Her days have been passing dully, always following the same routine:
Wake up
Jogging
Breakfast
Fencing lessons
Language lessons
Lunch
Martial arts lessons
Culture lessons
Wizarding World lectures
Dinner
Free time (research/taijutsu/ninjutsu/genjutsu)
Sleep
Repeat
By the second day, a rugged owl with a letter attached to its leg bumped on her glass door and fell down unconscious. She opened the door and carried the poor owl in and laid the bird on the sofa. She grabbed the letter from the owl and opened it.
Dear Sakura,
Do you want to stay over? My mum has been pestering me about you. My brothers are teasing me, quite annoying, really. You can ask for permission for staying here for a week. Send me a reply as soon as you can and you can also send the date that's convenient for you.
Sincerely,
Kakashi
As soon as Sakura finished reading the letter, she immediately went down to ask for permission from Sarah and Lucas. Not that the two lover birds will not allow Sakura, they spoiled her rotten, again, not that Sakura let them. The kunoichi immediately whipped up a reply letter to Kakashi.
Mama and Papa said yes! Is 10 a.m. tomorrow okay? What else should I bring? Kakashi I l Never mind. See you tomorrow.
Love,
Sakura
She attached the letter to one of her family owls, seeing that the one Kakashi sent was still unconscious. She released her owl in her balcony, just outside her room. She didn't go inside after the owl was out of sight; she just stayed in the balcony and stared at the direction where the owl flew.
'You look like a puppy waiting for its master.' Inner observed.
'I do not look like a puppy. . . do I'? Sakura thought hesitatingly.
'Yes you do, sweetheart. Do you. . . actually feel something?' Inner asked.
'I. . . I. . . don't. For goodness sake he's my former teacher, a member of my team.'
'Honey, don't lie to me. I'm literally inside your mind. You can't lie, what do you really feel?'
'I don't know. All of these is new to me, I. . . don't know. I feel weird, I liked him back then, thenMadara went and fucked everything up. I'm not sure now.' Sakura said honestly.
'Sakura, this is a second chance. Your second chance. Don't know fuck it up.' Inner said seriously, the most serious Sakura had ever heard her.
'I know.' Sakura thought, really meaning it.
By this time, the owl Sakura sent flew towards her, and landed in front of her, on top of the rails. The owl raised its leg and the kunoichi grabbed the letter attached.
Just bring whatever you need. You can floo here (we're probably not welcome there), shout 'the Burrow' and you'll arrive here. Everything else you can get here. 10 a.m. is okay, knowing you you'd probably wake up before the dawn. 'The very youthful time to wake up is before the sun shows!' I look forward in seeing you tomorrow.
Kakashi
P.S. Bring comfortable clothes, you're going to need it.
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Sakura woke up at the same time she wakes up everyday, that is to say, very early. She did her morning jogging, and then went to the bathroom. She bathed (strawberry shampoo and vanilla bath soap) and donned a soft dark blue tunic with crème belt and black leggings. She wore brown leather boots with fur to cover her feet. She fixed her hair that reached until her mid back in a French braid and tied the end with a dark blue ribbon. Once she was satisfied with her appearance, she packed her necessities – tops, bottoms, pajamas, some accessories, footwear, and personal necessities inside a white furry satchel with beautiful butterflies that scatters from the right side outwards charmed with an untraceable extension charm and feather light charm and put in on her shoulder. Sakura picked up Matatabi and ran in the gardens to eat breakfast with Sarah and Lucas.
"Good morning honey! Did you sleep well?" Sarah said when Sakura settled down in the table.
"Good morning, Mom, Dad!" Sakura happily replied.
"Someone woke up at the right side of the bed this morning. Are you excited for your sleepover?" Lucas asked.
"Yes! I need to floo over there, by the way." Sakura informed them.
"We know, dearie. Is it the same 'the Burrow'?" Sarah asked, knowing Molly's house when she visited there for their wedding.
"Yes, mum." Sakura said.
"Remember, no boys and stay safe." Lucas sternly said while Sarah laughed.
"Dad! I'm 9!" Sakura almost whined.
"And you're our baby forever." Sarah and Lucas said at the same time, causing them to look at each other. Sakura suddenly laughed, and was followed by Sarah then Lucas.
Their breakfast went smoothly, and Sakura was giddy at the thought of seeing Kakashi. They went to the fireplace and said their goodbyes. After decades, or so Sakura thought, of listening to Sarah and Lucas' repeated lectures, the kunoichi grabbed a fistful of floo powder with her right hand, cradling Matatabi with her left. She clearly shouted 'the Burrow' and disappeared from her parent's sight.
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Sakura groaned. After being in the Wizarding world and using its transportation methods for almost 6 to 7 years, she still can't get used to floo transportation. She was covered in soot, and her head was swirling, causing her to lose her balance. Luckily (or unluckily for Sakura's heart), Kakashi was waiting for her and caught her before she fell.
"Ka- Silver, tha-thank you." Sakura stuttered, blushing at their rather compromising situation.
'When did I become a stuttering fool?' Sakura thought.
'When the silver-haired hottie decided to catch you.' Inner said, swooning at Kakashi.
"Azalea, welcome to the Burrow, my home."Kakashi said proudly, giving Sakura his famous eye smile, and was still holding, or rather hugging, her.
"Thank you, Silver." Sakura said, now more composed. She smiled brightly at him, something that Kakashi didn't see ever since her first kill, officially ending her innocence.
"Ahem, Ahem" Sakura heard someone behind Kakashi. It seems that they were so lost in their moment that they forgot that the whole Weasley family was behind them. Molly was in between rage and amusement, Arthur was looking at both of them thoughtfully, Bill was raising an eyebrow at their exchange, Charlie was trying to hide his sniggers, but was failing miserably, Fred and George weren't even trying to hide their identical smirks, and was openly showing their amusement, Percy, Ron and Ginny was blushing furiously, foreign to these kinds of . . . gestures.
Sakura immediately put a respectable distance between her and Kakashi. The silver-haired jounin gestured Sakura in front of his 'family' and introduced Sakura.
"You have already met my mum, this is my father, Arthur Weasley. Mum, dad this is Azalea." Kakashi introduced. "It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Weasley, Mr. Weasley." Sakura said politely. "Oh, none of that dearie, call me Molly. We're family." Said red-head beamed at Sakura, and Sakura returned the smile. "You can also call me Arthur." The Weasley patriarch said. They both shook hands with Sakura.
"This is my oldest brother, Bill Weasley. He graduated last year at Hogwarts, and is currently working as a curse-breaker for the Gringotts." Sakura also shook hands with the oldest red-head(besides Arthur and Molly.) "It's a pleasure to finally meet the lady Charlie and the twins have been talking about." Bill said. "Likewise, Bill." Sakura smiled at him.
"You have also met Charlie, and the twins, Fred and George." Kakashi said, glaring warningly at the three of them.
"Nice to see you again, Azalea." Charlie said.
"Yeah, it's a"
"pleasure to meet you again."
"You can call me Gred"
"and Forge."
Sakura laughed at the twin's antics before saying "It's a pleasure to meet you three again!"
"This is Percy, 3rd year at Hogwarts."Kakashi said, before whispering "he's an uptight prudish rule defender." Sakura giggled before Percy said indignantly "I heard that!" Everyone broke into laughter and after seconds Percy joined in.
After the laughter simmered down, he continued introducing Azalea to one of the red-heads. "This is Ron, he's the same age as us. He reveres the Chuckly Cannons." Kakashi said. Almost immediately, Ron huffed in anger and retorted, "It's Chudley! And I do not revere them."
Ignoring Ron, which spiked the boy more, he introduced the only female offspring. "This is Ginny, our icky wittle baby." Kakashi teased.
"I am not a baby!" Ginny said, pouting slightly. Sakura will later realize that Kakashi saw Rin in Ginny.
"Nice to meet you all. As Silver said, my name is Azalea, Azalea Black." Gasps can be heard from Arthur, Percy, Ron and Ginny when they heard her surname.
"What are you doing here! You're probably a death eater in training!" Ron shouted rudely at Sakura, causing her eyes to widen fractionally and a frown to appear in her face.
"Ron! DO NOT ever say that! She's not like most purebloods, and certainly not that – those psychotic followers of You-Know-Who!" Charlie defended Sakura, remembering her at their first meeting.
"Ron say sorry to her! I did not raise you to be like this! She's family, your COUSIN!" Molly raged in her infamous red-headed temper.
"Ron, apologize to her now. I am saying this for your own good. Otherwise - "Kakashi let his sentence hang, staring at Ron with a strange glint in his eyes while releasing a good amount of killing intent. The other Weasleys however, did not notice his killing intent as he directed it on Ron only and his control on it was as good as Sakura's control on chakra. A nine year old could only do as much, he was terribly shaking, not out of anger, but out of fear. His eyes were dilated, and his mouth hung dry. The best he can do was to prevent from peeing himself, and he almost did, if Sakura hadn't interfered.
"Silver, drop it." Sakura said to his ex-sensei, knowing that he knew perfectly what she meant. Kakashi immediately dropped it, thinking that maybe he went too far. But he certainly deserved it.
Ron's knees buckled, and soon collapsed. His eyes regained its focus and he managed to close his mouth, but he was still shaking, though Kakashi wasn't sure if it was still out of fear or out of anger. He certainly wished that it was the former.
Sakura went her way to Ron and kneeled in front of him. She summoned soothing healing chakra into her hand and she patted his hair with the same hand. She didn't say anything, but she continued doing it until he stopped shaking.
The other Weasleys were still looking at them in confusion, oblivious to the child that almost had a mental breakdown because of a lethal jounin's, once ANBU, killing intent. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I was terribly rude." Ron said, now calm.
"Apology accepted, though I wish you wouldn't call me that anymore." Sakura said as an afterthought.
Sakura glared at the silver-haired jounin, and Kakashi sighed. "I'm sorry Ron, I went too far." But you still deserved that. He left the last part unsaid.
"Now dearie, why don't you lead Azalea to her room." Molly said to Kakashi.
"By the way, you'll be sharing with Ginny." Kakashi said to Sakura as he led Sakura to Ginny's room.
"S'alright." Sakura said. Once Sakura settled down, they went downstairs again.
"Where's everyone?" Sakura asked, seeing that no one's left.
"Bill and Charlie are fixing the tables outside, we won't fit here. Percy, Ron and Ginny are setting the tablewares. Mum is probably in the kitchen with Dad." Kakashi said.
"Oh," Sakura said, embarrassed that she didn't notice the time.
They went outside, to see that a large table was already fixed with plates and utensils already on top. They all sat in the chairs (no duh), with Arthur on the front with Molly on his right followed by Ginny, Ron and Percy. Charlie was on the left of Arthur, followed y Fred, George, Kakashi and Sakura, with Bill at the rear.
Sakura found out that Molly was a great cook. Her dishes were delicious, albeit a little less fancier than what she was used to. There was a homey feeling to the food, much like her birth mother's dishes, though she really don't remember them much.
"So, Azalea dearie, how is Sarah? We really don't get in touch much." Molly said.
"Oh, Mum is great! She's very happy with Dad." Sakura said with a smile, thinking about the two lovebirds that interact like it's their first year of marriage.
"That's great! I'm very sorry that we didn't get to attend your party, I believe we won't be welcome there." Molly said.
"It's alright." Sakura said, not like she was really expecting them to arrive, considering the animosity between the two sides.
"Well, we are very much honored to receive the head-in-waiting of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black." Kakashi teased, stressing the last part of his sentence.
"Haha, Silver. Very funny. It's a good thing I didn't pass out of shock, I wasn't aware that I will follow that grouchy old – I mean the Head Lady." Sakura dryly retorted.
While the others were shocked, Kakashi only chuckled. The others immediately looked at Kakashi like he's grown two heads.
"What?" Kakashi said.
"She – She – She's the head of the Black family?" Ron gaped while pointing at Sakura.
"Hey! That's rude, and drop your hands, pointing is also rude. Honestly, it's like you let out all your manners in that mouth of yours. And its head-in-waiting, I won't be head until I reach 18." Sakura said, disliking Ron more and more by the second.
"And it's not like I'll terrorize you any moment now, I wasn't raised that way. And though I don't exactly disagree with the pureblood supremacy, I don't support it either. And I don't hate the muggles or think that I am superior to the muggleborns." Sakura said as an afterthought, pouting slightly.
"You're different than most purebloods, especially being a Black. Most don't think that way." Bill commented.
"Well, that's me. I only put my 'pureblood' façade in front of those prudish and boring parties. In fact, I like outdoors, and sports, though I can't show that, being a lady of the Black family." Sakura said.
"Then we'll get along" Fred said.
"just fine." George finished.
"It's very admirable that you have those values when you were raised with all those pureblood nonsense." Percy said.
"Me too! I really admire you!" Ginny said.
"More than the Harry Potter?" Kakashi teased.
"He-he's different." Ginny blushed in a shade of red that put her hair to a shame.
"Well, I already knew that you were different the moment we met in the Alley." Charlie added.
"Thank you, it really means a lot to me." Sakura smiled genuinely, really happy that Kakashi's family approved of her.
'Though that Ron still hates you like you stole all his treasures' Inner said.
Ignoring Inner, Sakura finished her plate while politely answering more of their questions. After eating, the boys disassembled the tent and the table while Ginny cleaned the tables with Sakura helping, even though Molly and Ginny said otherwise.
"Azalea do you want to play Catch?" Charlie said.
"Catch?" Sakura asked, unfamiliar with the game.
"Well since we lack players for Quidditch, we can just pass the Quaffle on brooms. Are you up for it?" Kakashi answered.
"Oh, Sure! Though I only rode a broom twice." Sakura added.
"Really? Well we shall change that." Bill said.
Sakura found out that riding a broom is the same with jumping through trees. The feel of exhilarating wind on your face, seeing the ground from high above, it was all so familiar with Sakura. She enjoyed the day playing on brooms, and by dinner time, she was really exhausted. She ate her dinner and slammed on the transfigure bed they provided for her in the room she shared with Ginny.
Her week passed by quickly, and the day of her departure arrived. By this time, she has gotten quite close with Kakashi's siblings. Bill, she found out, was a Prefect and Head Boy in his time in Hogwarts and obtained 12 O.W.L.S., a feat for most students. Charlie loved animals, particularly dragons, and wants to study in Romania about these creatures when he graduates. As she expected with his built, Charlie was the Quidditch captain of Gryffindor. Percy, as Kakashi said, was uptight and a bookworm. He was very particular with the rules, and wants to be a Prefect and Head Boy like Bill. Fred and George, much to Sakura's amusement, were pranksters. It was like Naruto doubled. Ron was prideful, which annoyed Sakura very much, and was good at chess, though he didn't beat Sakura in every game they played, as expected to someone who beat a Nara many times in shogi. Ginny was cute and lovable, and very much different to girls who only care about their appearance. In fact, she likes to watch Quidditch, and wants to ride a broom, something that her protective brothers didn't permit.
She said goodbye to the family which she considered as her own, and finally flooed back home. She enjoyed her time in the Burrow, and of course, her very much precious time with Kakashi was worth it.
'Now if we could only live at the Burrow and see 101% hotness of a silver-haired now-kid jounin sensei, I'll die a happy woman.'
A/N: Hello! I'm very sorry for the long wait but finally, I'm REBORN! Days of horrid hot hot hot summer took a toll on me. Anyways, I'm very thankful for those who reviewed, especially to those who gave me additional ideas on my story! I love you very much 3 Those who followed and faved my story, I give my heartfelt gratitude and I promise I won't disappoint you.
This chapter was originally supposed to be a visit to the Malfoys, but unfortunately, I have other time for that visit. It was important that Sakura knew the Weasleys, especially now that the Hogwarts chapter is nearing( and if I say near, I mean NEAR!) So look forward to my next update .
~OfStarsAndMoon