Chapter 7: Visit from an Old Friend

Sakura eyes squint of the bright sun beaming in her room. She was still in her bed, arms feeling like huge paperweights for doing some of the Hokage's paperwork. Being a good little helper she had to be, she stayed up almost all night getting the paperwork down to at least one pal. Sakura didn't mine helping her sensei but Tsunade basically made her do all the work. Tsunade was smiling the whole time doing a small portion of the paperwork as if her mind was in her own little world. She was actually happy to do paperwork which was scary for Sakura because that woman doesn't like to do paperwork unless she was possessed by a ghost.

"I wonder," Sakura looked up at the ceiling as she remembered Naruto's happy expression when he saw her at the Administrative Office yesterday. "Hmph, Naruto always happy over anything." She looked out the window and then immediately jumped out the bed. "NARUTO! I forgot!"

Sakura forgot that Naruto told her to meet him bright and early to do an escort mission.

Konoha Entrance Doors

Naruto put his hands up to his eyes blocking the sun gleaming down at the village. He sighed of boredom, waiting for Sakura as he kept looking around for her. Unlike her, he was very excited of this mission because he was going to meet her. Naruto's face started to blush again from the anticipation and pulled out her picture from his pocket. His eyes gawk at her beauty and spend around doing a dance.

"I can't wait, she's a princess, and free! I hope she stays at Konoha for a long time to work my charm on her."

Naruto's eyes drifted in his crazy fantasy island. He pictured Tori on the ground, being surrounded by three shinobis, as she has a damsel in distress look on her face, wearing a sexy outfit like a person would see in Jiraiya Icha Icha books.

"Help, Help me!" Tori shout in a sexy voice. "Who can beat these powerful shinobis from hurting me?"

Naruto comes out from the shadows of the trees and punched one of the guys as he slammed into a tree. Naruto dropped down in a bad boy cool pose.

"Don't worry princess, I will save you." Naruto charged at the two remaining men and take them out quick with a punch and a kick. They land on top of each other out cold. Naruto ran over to Tori and helped her up as she looked at him in shyness. "Don't worry Uzumaki Naruto is here to save you." He gave her a pretty boy smile.

"Naruto, you're a strong shinobis and for your effort I will gladly become your wife because a princess needs a strong warrior by her side." She shyly said in a high sexy voice.

She hugged Naruto as his face was happily placed on her chest with a big smile on his face.

"Oh Naruto!" Tori shyly express.

"I love when you say my name." Naruto happily replied as if learning a new Jutsu.

Tori voice started to fade away saying his name over and over again.

"Naruto. Naruto!" Sakura yelled getting Naruto attention. She saw him on the ground rubbing his backpack in a joyful manner as drool comes out of his mouth. "NARUTO!!!" She screamed.

He snapped out of his dream and looked at Sakura. He smiled of embarrassment and quickly shot back to his feet. "Sakura-chan good morning," He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "How long have you been standing there?"

She gives Naruto an evil glare, having a feeling what he was daydreaming about, something dirty.

"Long enough," She sighed but change to a calm expression. "Sorry I'm late. I stayed up too late helping Hokage-sama out with your paperwork."

"My paperwork?" Naruto gave her a blank expression and shrugged it off. "No big deal. Are you ready?"

"Sure." She smiled and stared at him.

Sakura actually wanted to go on a mission that wasn't to serious after their failed attempt to bring Sasuke back from Orochimaru. They both felt down so it will be great for them to stop being depressed by doing this. For once she enjoyed wanting his company even though he could be an idiot sometimes.

Naruto noticed her staring at him.

"Sakura-chan you ok?" He asked.

Sakura smiled and ran in front of him going out of Konoha main doors. "Let's go. Don't want to be late then we already are."

Naruto smiled at her. "Ok."

Two squirrels were chasing each other up the tree, down the tree, and jumping from dangerous heights from tree top to tree top using their claws and tails as balance. Near them unaffected by the dare devils squirrels, a brown bunny runs through some bushes using it as covering from predators. Its bunny ears perk up, nose twitching to smell and to see if the coast was clear. Its kept running deeper in the forest as the bunny comes to a beautiful waterfall. The bunny comes out cautiously and observes its surrounding. It walked a couple feet away from the waterfall and started to drink from the stream. Ten seconds later, its ears perk up and looked behind, feeling somebody around. When the bunny turned around it saw a cute little girl ten feet away from him.

The little girl was five years old. She had long dark black hair coming down her back; her left eye was green as her right eye was grey. She was wearing a white shirt, blue pants that came to her ankles as this showed her black shinobi shoes. She wore a light blue hoody jacket that was a little big as it came just a little pass her hips but was perfect for spring time. The jacket had a symbol of a running black wolf stitched on the front.

She was crouched near the ground as her hands were around her legs watching the bunny as it was watching her. She and the bunny were locked in a staring contest to see who will move first because to it she was an enemy. She gave a cute smile and waves at the bunny. She looked up in the sky and smelled the air of another scent of a human. She gets up, gives one last wave to the bunny, and runs away.

A young girl was lying on a branch being part of an enormous tree that looked like it's been around for hundreds of years covering a huge part of the forest. The tree made the forest look enchanted. The girl had on a bamboo hat covering her face from the sun as she was fairly asleep loving the beautiful nature around her. But for a second, the forest started to get quiet from the animals in which the trees started to stand still. She lifted her hat up an inch, it showed a little of her left brown eye, as she looked around the forest for a bit.

"Hmph." She smiled and puts the hat back over her eye not worrying that's she being watched.

Six shurikens, full force, were flying out the shadows from the trees aimed at her. Her body was still, not moving from her position as she was relaxed. She use to feel annoyed by this tactic when she was young but she knew who it was and played along for their enjoyment. The shurikens hit her body directly but she smirked as her body puff into a log.

The dark figure in the shadows surveyed the area but saw four Sharingan Windmill Triple Blade flying around him formulating wires. It surrounded him and brought his body back to the tree behind him. The wires pinned him down securing his movements as he tried secretly to escape.

An image flashed in front of him as the girl had a kunai aimed directly at his throat. His eyes stared in shock for a second but he smirked and her to him. She pulled off her bamboo hat slowly, revealing her entire face.

"Still playing this game with me Sasuke." She said.

"I told you one day I will defeat you in it, Tori."