A/N: No…. I STILL don't own Naruto…If only I had enough money….
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Kakashi looked down from the tree he was in at the retreating Sasuke and the confused Sakura. He had just come up here for look around, but then was caught up in seeing that whole scene with Sakura and Sasuke unfold beneath him. "So…Sasuke does have some feelings to show…but now they're both confused," he sighed and shook his head, now seeing Sakura going to bed as well. "Sasuke probably doesn't even get it…" He had been wondering why the boy had been frustrated lately…and been glancing over at the pink cherry blossom more…
Maybe he'd have to intervene or at least talk with Sasuke. No, that might make him mad…. He was always worried about his student's safety, but this time he'd deal with more than that. He went to bed after awhile, too.
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Sakura had woken up from an okay night's sleep. She had slept a little, but things were on her mind. She stretched and went to her bag that lies in the corner. They all had separate tents and her tent was zipped up right now and it was also early so she decided it was okay to change right now. She opened it up, grabbed some clean clothes, and took off her top. She was about to slip another one on, but low and behold, someone had unzipped the tent and shouted in, "SAKURA-CHAN! Breakfa-" his voice trailed off though when he saw the half-dressed Kunochi who was already blushing heavily.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" a piercing scream echoed through the forest.
Sasuke spun around; he was helping with breakfast when he had heard her scream. "Sakura! Naruto!" he ran over to the tent and saw Naruto there, dazed. "What's wrong?" he asked quickly and looked in quickly. He saw what he thought he saw alright… A dark red color washed over his cheeks as she yelled again. Now two boys were just staring at her and her blush wouldn't stop. Sasuke took his head out of the tent, turned around, grabbing Naruto's collar of his shirt and dragged the dazed boy away, quiet dazed himself. It looked like Naruto did receive a smack from her, because there seemed to be a big bump on his head.
Kakashi looked over at the two blushing and silent boys as they sat down to eat. 'Well, they're quiet, wonder what happened….' He thought and went back to reading his book.
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Sakura had sat there for a few more moments, blush still hanging over her cheeks. First Naruto and then Sasuke…She sighed and changed all of the way. She had given Naruto a good smack, but he only sat back outside of the tent and looked at the ground, blushing and dazed. She just shook her head and walked out, fully changed and she went over to eat. She looked at the two boys, but they avoided eye contact.
Sakura sighed and just sat down, eating quietly. Naruto eventually got over it though and his blush faded. Sasuke on the other hand had to pretty much hide his face from any more on coming threats for his face to turn red. "Ahhh, sorry I just looked in your tent like that…" Naruto said and leaned back after finishing his food. She looked over at him and nodded.
"It's alright Naruto, really. Just don't do it again…"
He nodded and she looked over at Sasuke, expecting him to say something. Nothing came out of the raven-haired boy's mouth though and she just sighed.
"Sorry…" he said quietly.
Her head shot up; did she hear that right? The Uchiha just apologized? That was rare…Kakashi quirked an eyebrow.
'Well isn't that interesting,' he thought and smiled under his mask.
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When the finished breakfast, they got everything together eventually and started their walk again. Naruto pulled the cart once again and Sakura walked more towards the front to talk with Naruto since Sasuke wasn't saying anything really.
"Naruto, how's it going?" she asked, smiling.
"Ahh good! I have tons of energy left!" he grinned at her and walked along happily.
"How do you have so much energy? It makes me envious…"
Sasuke's eyes shot up at her and a glare formed on his face, oh yes, he got very pissed. She was envious of his energy? Shouldn't she be like that to him…He had energy too and was certainly stronger, but he chose to save it in case they needed it for fighting or something, not just be a hyperactive-knuckle head-blonde-stupid-dobe and use it all up.
"Oh really Sakura-chan?! I've always had this much energy! We could train sometime and bring yours up.."
That was the last straw. "Sakura, stand at the side of the cart more incase an enemy comes. We need to watch over it carefully, not goof around," Sasuke said and shot a glare at the blonde boy as if to say 'Mind, hands off,' Naruto caught this and was confused…What did Sasuke have to be mad about with him?
Sakura looked back at Sasuke. "All you think about is the mission, you need to loosen up a little sometimes!"
"Getting injured because of you goofing around wouldn't be smart," he was actually more worried about her getting injured than him.
She let out a forceful sigh and walked back to the side of the cart, looking over at Sasuke. 'Always puts the mission first…' she thought.
'At least she isn't by Naruto anymore,' he thought and sighed himself.
Kakashi looked over at the two and wanted to laugh at Sasuke's jealousy. Of course, he could see it right away. He always knew that Sasuke had sort of possessiveness over the cherry blossom. Sakura was clueless though; he just called her back there to get her from talking with Naruto.
Kakashi got a little caught up in some thought and noticed an enemy was close. He lifted his headband and looked around, they were coming closer and fast. "Sasuke! Naruto! Sakura! Get ready! We have some guests…"
They all nodded and got into stance, eyes darting around. What would somebody want with the boxes in the cart? Kakashi hadn't said what was in them, but they couldn't have been that important.
A man flew out of the bushes and sent some kunai towards them. They dodged and stood in front of the cart, protecting the goods. The man stood in front of them and smirked. "Awww some little kids are playing Ninja… " Some more ninja emerged from the bushes and looked at them, laughing.
"Shut up!" Naruto opened his big mouth. "We can kick your butt!"
"Oh, really?" he smirked at went to hit them, but Kakashi had hid and then come in, kicking the man in the head and sent him flying into a tree. He slumped over, but got back up after a couple of seconds. "That all you got?" he asked, still smirking.
"Don't move," Kakashi said to team 7. "Just protect the cart."
They all nodded and he headed forward to beat all of them and shoo them off. He did a pretty good job and after a few punches and kicks later there was a pile of unconscious ninja at the side of the road. He smiled and put his headband down back over his eye. But something else caught his attention. Another ninja had been hiding under genjutsu and he had underestimated him. How the hell could he do that? He was Kakashi…
The man jumped out with kunai in hand and Sakura was already there, protecting the cart. How'd she see through it so fast? He didn't care though; he went right at her full speed with the Kunai. Sasuke turned around quickly in time to see Sakura getting stabbed. Time stopped.
She fell to the ground slowly, blood was seen and Sasuke's eyes widened.
"S-sakura?" Sasuke said quietly. She had managed to injure the other guy and he stumbled over. Kakashi went there quickly, punching him into unconsciousness.
"Sakura!" Naruto's face scrunched up and he ran to the cherry blossoms side. "Sakura! Are you okay?!" No answer came. He flipped her over; there was a wound in the middle of her chest, bad news, really bad.
'No…' Sasuke's looked at her limp figure on the ground in Naruto's arms. Naruto's face filled with sadness. Was she okay?!
Kakashi went over to her side quickly as well, Sasuke just stood there, staring. Kakashi looked down at her sadly, this was his fault for not being careful enough. 'Dammit!' he cursed to himself. Kakashi said some things to Naruto quickly and Naruto nodded, but Sasuke didn't hear any of this, his cherry blossom was hurt…
'No….' she seemed lifeless. Was she breathing? He couldn't see if her chest was moving up or down from there.
'No! Not again dammit!' he thought and his eyes reflected the scene before him.
"Sakura!" Sasuke finally snapped and ran over there, not caring. He needed to see her.
He needed to make sure she was alright…
