Chapter 9

It was late afternoon and the group were all outside the training area, waiting for their friend. They weren't allowed to go in the area cause of the risks so they sat and waited and could feel the ground shake from the two females.

"Man Sakura hope she's ok." Said Naruto softly and the group all nodded.

Sasuke was standing and looking intently. He was worried yes he would admit that Sakura and him had grown quite close since the incident on their first night here. When ever they were on missions he made sure to always keep her in sight and at night would always walk past making sure she was there and asleep. After learning that Itachi had killed her family and her old team members that just made them get closer. So he started to stare at her longer than he should have, he found her smile so … happy and her pink hair just added to how unique she is. So yes he was worried.

"Hey the shaking stopped." noticed Shikamaru.

They all stood and looked up and waited to see Sakura. Two figures started to come towards them and Sakura's arm was swung over Tsunade's shoulders and man she looked awful. Sakura was covered with dirt, cuts, blood, bruises, scratches and her clothes were torn. Tsunade was covered in dirt with a few scratches. The group ran to them and Sakura gave them all a smile and used her other arm to form a peace sign. Sasuke remembering her picture from her room, but that spark in her eyes were brighter than before. Sasuke had this warm feeling in his chest but pushed aside.

"Sakura are you ok?" asked everyone.

"Yeah I'm fine." She said but you could hear how tired she was.

Tsunade looked at him and he nodded he walked up to Sakura and put her on his back and started to take her to her room. While Tsunade tried to calm Naruto.

The two were silent and were half way to her room.

"Sasuke?" she said softly and he turned his head a little to show her he was listening.

"When I was about to hit the other jet you shouted at me to pull up." She started and he nodded, "why did you do it?" she asked. Sasuke was silent for a while.

"You're someone who I think is close to me." He finally said and he could feel her smile.

"Thanks Sasuke." She said.

Sasuke smirked when he felt that she had fallen asleep on his back and had buried her head into his neck. He put her in bed and stroked her hair and looked over at her pictures. He stared at the one of her family and then to Jun and Aya. "You had your turns now it is my turn to protect her." He then looked back at the one of her family, "I will protect her." He thought to himself and walked out making sure she was ok.

"Sasuke Tsunade requests you in her office." Said a voice to him and he nodded.

Sasuke knocked on the door and entered.

"You wanted to see me?" asked Sasuke.

"Yes I need to talk to you about Itachi Uchiha." She said sternly.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her, she was treading on dangerous ground.

"Do you know why he started the war?"

"No."

Tsunade just asked questions and Sasuke either said yes or no.

"Alright one last question what Itachi want with white chakra?" she asked.

"I don't know, white chakra doesn't exist." He said.

"You sure about that?" Tsunade asked with a small smile and Sasuke nodded.

"Alright you can go, just remember that things can be right under your nose." She said and Sasuke left.

Sasuke walked back to his room thinking about what Tsunade had said wondering what she had meant by that. White chakra doesn't exist and even if it did why would Itachi want that. He was walking past Sakura's room and heard some movement and stopped. He knocked on the door and walked in and found Sakura sitting up and was healing herself except what really caught his eye was that instead of there being green chakra there was…white?

"Sakura?" he asked and she jumped a little.

"Sasuke what are you doing here?" she asked and he shrugged he was still looking at her chakra.

So that is what Tsunade meant. So why would Itachi want white chakra but that would mean… he had to get Sakura.

"Sakura is Itachi after you?" he asked feeling angry.

Sakura tensed a bit. Looking at him straight in the eye, they stared at each other until Sakura sighed and motioned for him to sit down next to her.

"It started on the day the war started…"