A/N: I'm sorry it took quite long to update!! I'll try to be A LOT faster in the future.

Naruto watched the main street of Konoha from the window in his office. It was normal; people were busy and running from store to store, some ninjas were talking and laughing and some old man was begging for money. Nothing looked different in his village but it felt different. The enemy had invaded his Konoha.

He turned to look at his table which was under a huge pile of papers. The papers were mostly reports which he would have to check later. He hated the paperwork. He wouldn't be the first Hokage who hated it and he wouldn't be the last either. There was a coffee mug on the table on top of all the stacks of paper, he took it and left the room to get some more coffee.

He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't see where he was going and he bumped into someone. If his coffee mug had been full of coffee, he would have spilled all the contents of the mug to the person he had bumped into.

"Gosh. I am so sorry." Naruto said as soon as he regained his thoughts.

"Naruto. It's me and it's alright." a woman laughed.

He looked up and realized that he had bumped into Hinata. First he was extremely happy to see her but then his mind started having disturbing thoughts about her coming alone to the Jounin Headquarters without her "bodyguards". He looked around and fortunately he saw Neji and Shino standing at the end of the hall talking to each other.

"Aren't you gonna say 'hi' to me?" she asked with a disappointed voice but before he could say anything, she gave him a peck and continued, "Anyways, I came here because… I want to talk about the eyes I got… There are not a lot of white eyes and my father… He's on a mission and…"

"He's been called off from the mission and he should come as soon as possible." he said quickly.

"When was he called off?" she asked with a little bit of hope in her voice.

"A little over a week before… before you received the eyes… but it doesn't mean that the eyes are his."

"I hope you're right." she sighed and the hope was gone from her.

"Hey, come on… He can protect himself and if something had happened, we would've heard it already." he notified trying to cheer her up. But when he noticed tears in her eyes, he wrapped his arms around her telling her that she would not be alone.

Sakura stepped from the guestroom in which she had spent the night. She walked to Kakashi's room hoping that he would be there. She shivered on the way there because she was only wearing an oversized t-shirt and the floor was not that warm.

She knocked to the door of his room and waited for a reply.

"Yes, Sakura, come in." the man chuckled in the room.

She noticed that he had taken a shower since his hair was still damp. He wasn't wearing his normal Jounin uniform, he was wearing black pants and a white shirt and no mask.

She went in and sat right next to him on his bed. She didn't say anything; she just looked at the room she was in. He had a simple desk and scrolls on it, a huge bookshelf with a lot of scrolls, pictures, books and other stuff in it, a closet and the twin bed they were sitting on.

"Kakashi…" she started but did not continue, she just stared at her thighs sadly.

"Yes?"

"I… Well, can I take a hot shower?" she asked lifting her gaze from her thighs to his unmasked face.

"Yes, of course but… what were you really going to ask?"

"Uh… Nothing, really, it's not important. But, um, can I borrow some clean clothes from you?"

"Sure, sure. Just take whatever you need from the closet and you can get clean towels from the hallway closet. I'll go and make some breakfast."

"Ah, ok!" she chirped and gave a quick peck to his cheek before she got up from the bed and went to his closet.

"Want anything special for breakfast?"

"Pancakes!" she laughed.

Sasuke was already in the kitchen and reading the morning newspaper. He had always been a morning person: it was no problem for him to wake up early.

Since the clock was past 11 am, he had already done all of his morning routines: taking a shower, brushing his teeth and getting some clothes on.

He watched his old teacher come to the kitchen and start getting some food from the kitchen cabinets and from the refrigerator.

"Do you think it's gonna be a war?" the raven haired man asked quietly.

"Honestly? It might…" the older man sighed.

"If it became a war… Sakura and Hinata, they'd be in immediate danger." Sasuke thought aloud.

"You're right." Kakashi said in a tone which told the younger man to drop the subject.

The raven haired man watched his old teacher mixing the pancake ingredients in a white bowl. He began to think of the past 4 years and how hard those years had been to everyone. It hadn't come across anyone's mind that Sakura would leave the village and go to an S-ranked mission. She had proved herself to them that she was strong and not weak anymore. But, everyone had just thought that mentally, she had stayed the same. The S-ranked mission was the final proof for the fact that she had grown up. That she was independent and capable of taking care of herself.

His thoughts were interrupted when Sakura came to the kitchen and she was humming some song.

"Kakashi! Can you flip pancakes?" she asked and sat to a chair next to Sasuke.

"No, I can't." he chuckled.

"Oh man… I want to learn how to flip pancakes!" she laughed.

"Um. I can flip… pancakes…" the raven haired man said quietly.

"WHAT?!" she yelled. She never thought Sasuke was the kind of man who'd know how to flip pancakes. She thought that he was just the Uchiha-prodigy kind of man.

"Yeah… Itachi… taught me…" he continued quietly as if he was ashamed. And, he was ashamed. Kakashi chocked and Sakura just blinked.

"He… what?" she asked.

"Yeah, well… I was 4 or something and mom asked him to teach me to flip pancakes and he taught me that."

"Oh my God." Sakura said.

"Well, anyways, if you want to, I can teach you how to flip 'em and we'd be saving Kakashi from burning those damn pancakes", Sasuke said wanting desperately to change the subject from Itachi and the pancakes to anything else.

"Okay", she said and went next to Kakashi, "we'll take it from here, you can sit and watch."

"Sure. Sweety", he whispered into her ear making her shiver and went to sit down and watch.

The raven haired man walked next to her. "Okay, take a firm grip from the handle cuz we don't want the frying pan end up flying to the floor."

"Okay", she said and followed his advice," and now?"

"Now", he said and put his hand firmly on hers and continued, "and you do this."

Kakashi watched as the younger man moved their hands and the pancake flew up high and fall down back to the frying pan. He watched how close the raven haired man was to her, how his right hand was upon hers, how his left hand was on her shoulder and how he leaned on her a bit too much.

Thoughts of his Sakura falling in love with Sasuke again ran in his mind. He knew she had gotten over him years ago, many years ago. But, he still was her first love. And, he still was way too close to her. His chest was touching her back. His jaw was almost on her shoulder.

Watching them like that made him feel uneasy so he decided to make the pancake flipping stop, "Okay, kids, I don't want you to mess up my kitchen."

Sakura and Sasuke stopped flipping pancakes and turned their gazes to their old teacher who was acting strangely.

"Okay… You do the pancakes then", she sighed and went to sit.

Naruto sat comfortably in his office chair. He was eating some ramen and lost in his thoughts as Hagane Kotetsu came into his office with a concerned look on his face.

"Uh? Kotetsu-san? What's happened?" the Hokage asked.

"We… We caught one of them", Kotetsu said.

"What? When? Where is he?" Naruto asked and put his ramen bowl to his desk with a 'bang' and stood up.

"In an interrogation room."

"Which one of them?" the Hokage asked and already running towards the interrogation rooms.

"C-2!" the older man had to yell so Naruto would hear him.

He ran through the hallways as if it was a life-death situation. The truth was that the one who had been caught could wait, too. But, he was way too energetic and his nature didn't allow him to wait.

When he got closer to the interrogation rooms, he began to hear someone yelling. He didn't make out the words but he realized the voice belonged to a man.

He went in the interrogation room and looked at the man chained to a chair by chakra wire. The man had quite short brown hair and brown eyes. He reminded Naruto of Kakashi and Sasuke.

The blonde man looked around and saw a few member of his Anbu team and a few Jounins. His Anbus were already sharpening their weapons, waiting for their moment to interrogate and the Jounins were making sure the captive wouldn't get away.

"I want to see her!" the man yelled.

"Who do you want to see?" the blonde haired man asked.

"Hotaru… I want to see Hotaru." the man had stopped yelling and was speaking more calmly now, he had realized that yelling did no good.

'Hotaru? I know no Ho—! … Sakura chose Hotaru to be her name… But why does he want to see her?' Naruto thought.

"She has pink hair… and green eyes." the man continued quietly as if he was trying to paint her looks on his mind.

'Is this the man who—. No, I need to talk to Sakura first before jumping in any conclusions…'

The Hokage just looked at the man, the man who had intruded his village. He kept looking at him and said to a member of his Anbu team: "Find Sakura and bring her here."

"Ho—"

"—you're in no position to ask for anything", the blonde man said cutting the man off.

The breakfast was eaten in an uncomfortable silence. There was some tension between the men and Sakura didn't want to have anything to do with it. She wasn't sure what the tension was about and her female intuition told her to stay away.

She was just eating the last piece of her pancake as an Anbu ninja 'poofed' into the room.

"Hokage wants to see you. Now", the Anbu said looking directly at the pink haired woman.

"Oh, okay, we'd better go then", she said to the other men in the room.

Sakura nodded to the Anbu and said, "We'll be there in a few minutes." The ninja nodded and with a 'poof' of smoke he was gone.

"Let's go. Kakashi, I… I'll do the dishes later", she said and got up from her chair and went to get her sandals leaving the other men alone.

Naruto waited patiently in an observation room where was a huge oneway mirror hunf in the interrogation room. He could see inside the room but no one could see him from there. He watched the man who had intruded his village. To Naruto, the man was way too calm. He looked like he didn't care that he'd be betraying his master or dead soon.

The door to the observation room opened and his former team mates came in. He looked at Sakura who hadn't looked into the room, yet.

"Sakura. Do you know him?" he asked and looked at the man in the other room. Then he looked back at Sakura whose eyes were on all on the man, Kakashi and Sasuke looked at the man, too.

"I… Uh… Um, did he say something?" she asked quietly still looking at him.

"Only that he wants to meet Hotaru before he says anything", the Hokage said.

"I wanna go see him", she said looking sternly at her old team mate.

"I knew you would but you won't go see him alone", the blonde haired man said.

"Okay", she said and went to the door which would lead to the room where the intruder was in.

"Sakura—"

"—I know, I know", she said cutting Naruto off.

With shaky hands she opened the door the other room and went in. Naruto followed her while Kakashi and Sasuke stayed in the observation room.

"Hotaru!" the man yelled as soon as he saw her.

"Kenshin…" she said quietly trying to avoid his gaze. She took a chair for herself from the upper left corner of the room and placed it in front of him. She sat on the chair and looked to the floor.

"Is it true?! Did you betray us?" he yelled still staring at her.

"I… I'm sorry", she said.

"You're… sorry?" he asked his voice filled with disbelief and disappointment.

"Yeah. For everything", she said lifting her gaze from the floor to meet his.

He said nothing, he lowered his gaze to the floor and sighed. There was nothing he could do anymore.

"Naruto, can you leave me alone with him for some time?" she asked.

"Sakura—"

"—It's personal. I won't give any information. I just need to talk him alone", she said coldly cutting Naruto off again.

"Sakura—"

"I NEED JUST A FUCKING HOUR OR TWO!" she yelled.

"You'll get one hour. No more than that", he said and was about to walk out of the room when she said: "Um, Naruto, I'm sorry… Can you… Can you turn the microphones off?"

"If you're sure", he said.

"I'm sure", she answered and turned her eyes back on Kenshin who looked extremely surprised.

Kakashi who had looked the situation first between Sakura and Kenshin and then between Sakura and Naruto, he started to feel uneasy. He started to feel jealous again. He hated the feeling and he hated the images his brains were feeding him, images of his Sakura and Kenshin.

Naruto came into the room and turned off the microphones and looked at his old team mates.

"She needs her privacy", he said and the other men just nodded and walked out of the room to the hallway.

Naruto came to the hallway too and looked at Kakashi. He started to worry about his old sensei.

"She's not in love with him", the blonde man said and started leaning on the wall.

"What?" the older man asked.

"Sakura. She's not in love with Kenshin", the blonde man said again.

"I know…" Kakashi sighed.

A/N: Yay! I've updated!! Please review!! I'll update again in 2-3 weeks.