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The trip back home was uneventful until they were about 1 kilometer away from the Konoha gates. They were about to be ambushed by the ninja that were on patrol, had it not being the flash of chakra that Naruto had sent out.

"Uzumaki?" asked one, bewilderment crossing his features, as he jumped down from one of the trees and landed in front of them. He had not expected the soon to be Hokage to be accompanied by two Akatsuki ex-members, one of the unconscious, the rosette that used to be the head of the hospital, an unknown child, and the traitor of Konoha as a prisoner.

"Yeah," asked the blonde, his bright smile adorning his handsome face.

The ninja a little out of sorts scratched the back of his head. What was he supposed to do, they were not criminals, exc ept maybe the girl, she had been gone for a long time and nobody knew why. People were starting to consider her a rogue ninja that did dirty work to earn her money. So closing his brown eyes and sighing, he aimlessly pointed at the lot.

Kakashi getting what the man was trying to say cleared his throat. "Ah, we are taking them directly to Tsunade." He smiled behind his mask, his only visible eye crinkling.

The man looked at the whole bunch. The tallest of them all, who was carrying the unconsicou man on his back, was smiling creepily at him, his pointy teeth shining. The copy-nin was still smiling. The blonde was looking at him, eyes full of hope. The child's green eyes were looking everywhere but him. The captured Uchiha was blindfolded, that was a smart idea he thought. And the used to be cherry blossom of Konoha was glaring murderously at him, and that frightened him to no end. So he only had one choice really.

He nodded before signaling the other ninja up at the trees to keep going. "Good to have you back Uzumaki. Hatake," he smiled before following his team and continue on their task.

"That's a green go then," smiled Kakashi as he started to walk towards the gates.

Once at the gates, the ninja at gate duty let them pass without so much as a glance, just raising a paper that they had received notice of them from the patrol ninja.

Walking down the main street towards the Hokage tower, they were a bunch to see. The towns people started whispereing amongst themselves while stealing glances at them. The blonde and the copy-nin didn't seem to mind. Kisame was grumbling while looking straight ahead. Sasuke kept on walking his shoulder straight and head high. Sano was looking at the ground as he tightly held on to his mom's hand. And Sakura looked everywhere, taking in all the details. She had missed Konoha so much, and somethings had changed, like the tailor's store was now red instead of green, and the bakery had a new sign, and the weapon's shop had a new windowpane, but it was just the same old Konoha.

She was terrified and happy at the same time. She was back home, true home. But she could see the villagers whispering, and gossip traveled fast. Gossip that was sure to get to the number one gossip lover: Ino. If Ino knew, the whole Rookie 9, and team Gai. Would they accept her back? What would they think about Sano? Would they accept her 'relationship' with Itachi? Itachi! She could care less for those things now. They had come back because Itachi needed the medical attention that she could not offer outdoors. He needed to wake up first, then should would worry about the friends that she left behind.

Before she could berate herself for forgetting about Itachi's conditioned, they were already inside the Hokage tower and were about to climb up the stairs. In no time they were facing the door to the main office. Naruto knocked and waited for the soft 'Come in' from the other side.

He poked his head inside, "Granny Tsunade!,"

"Naruto! You were supposed to be back about 2 weeks ago!," reprimanded the busty blonde, taking off her glasses and laying them on the desk.

"Brought you a surprise!," he smiled.

"I don't like your surprises," she scowled shaking her head and leaning back on her seat. Nonetheless she waited for the so called surprise.

The blonde winked at her before slamming the door open. All he received was a raised eyebrow from the woman. Kakashi was right behind him, covering everyone else. Exasperated with the man, he pushed him inside and stepped aside.

The woman sat there, mouth wide open, as tears pricked her eyes. Sakura was there. She was standing at her door; beautiful, healthy, and with a boy holding her hand. This was a surprise, and one of the few she absolutely loved.

The girl smiling shyly, sniffed before stepping inside and pulling Sano along with her. Behind her Kisame walked in, with Itachi on his back. At this the woman's eyes widened, she turned to the Sakura who just shrugged in response. And behind Kisame was the Uchiha avenger, blindfolded and with chakra binds on his wrist.

Naruto sure did know how to do surprises right.

She was about to stand up to greet the pinkette and the boy that was obviously her son, but said girl went down on her knees. "Tsunade, I know I have asked too much already and it's been a long time, but," the girl paused diverting her eyes to the man on Kisame's back, "Itachi needs serious medical attention. I did all I could, please save him."

The girl didn't look up, as she continued to kneel. The boy next to her soon ran up to the blonde woman and pulled at her shirt. "Please. He's my daddy, he can't die," said the boy, his green eyes, the same ones as Sakura, glazing over and bottom lip quivering.

"All right," consented the busty woman, as she took her seat once again and started scribbling something on a piece of paper, "You fish guy, take this to Shizune, and she'll know what to do. The rest of you stay here."

Once the heavy footsteps of the man weren't heard behind the doors anymore the woman turned towards the girl who was biting her lower lip nervously. She stood up and practically ran towards the girl, embracing her in the biggest hug ever. The girl laughed returning the hug eagerly, damn she missed this woman so much!

"I missed you so much, you have no idea," whispered Tsunade as she pulled away and patted the girls head.

"Me too," smiled Sakura. She looked down at the boy who was happily seeing the reunion of the woman.

"You are?" asked Tsunade squatting down to the boy's eye level. Before answering he looked up at his mom, since she nodded her head he smiled before answering, "Uchiha Sano."

"Such a handsome boy," said the woman while patting Sano's beanie-covered head. Chuckling under her breath she stood up. The reunion was short indeed, and there wasn;t much emotion displayed, but she couldn't cry, even if they were tears of joy, Sakura was back safe and sound and that was all that mattered. Besides there were more urgent matter to attend to like what to do with the young Uchiha.

She turned towards Kakashi who was keeping an eye on the Uchiha. "I'll need a report on everything, especially how you captured him," she said pointing at the blinded boy, "Meanwhile I'll have some ANBU guard him at his prison cell. The elder's and I will discuss the date for his trial and possible punishments."

The man nodded, while taking hold of the boys arm. "They would be worried about continuing the Uchiha blood-limit in Konoha, but now it turns out that there is more than just one Uchiha or, is no one going to know about…," Kakashi trailed off in what he was saying.

The woman crossed her arms over her chest as she stared at the wall. What would be best for all of them?

The copy-nin cleared his throat, getting the Hokage's attention. "I shall escort him." The woman in return held out her hand, motioning him to the door.

She was leaning against her desk when the girl called her name, but she waited until she was sure the Uchiha had been escorted out of hearing range. After all she didn't want him knowing about his brother's whereabouts while said brother was unconscious and not able to protect himself.

What was to happen to her now? Sakura didn't know if she should ask for her apartment, if it was still hers. Should she ask what would happen to Itachi, although he had received the Hokage's forgiveness long ago. Was she now considered a rogue ninja? But all the rosette's thought wher brought to a halt when her mother-figure started talking.

"Go to the top floor of the hospital, room 506. Shizune is there and already knows all your circumstances," smiled the woman as she saw a relief pass through the girl's features, "Better go by roof, less people see you."

Sakura nodded her head. She wanted to hug the woman and express her thank you's but now was not the time, and they both knew the blonde was not an emotional person when everybody was safe and sound. So she opened her arms out so that she could carry Sano out the window. And before anymore thoughts of what was going to be of her Tsunade said, "Don't worry, we still need to talk before everything goes public."

With that said the woman sat on her chair and continued with the long overdue papers on her desk, and the girl leaped out the window.

Little did they know that some news leaked to the public already, and into the ears of a certain blonde.

Her baby blue eyes widened in excitement as she heard the two ninja that were walking ahead of her and her teammates. Once the men walked down another street she squealed in delight and turned towards her two teammates.

"Did you guys hear that?" she asked gripping both their arms.

"What, Ino?" asked a sleep-deprived Shikamaru. He had just arrived from a reconnaissance mission and he just wanted to get home, shower, and eat before reporting to the Hokage.

"Don't be so grouchy," muttered the blonde to which her other companion chuckled, "Let him be, he's tired."

"You guys!," huffed the girl before a sickly sweet smiled spread across her lips, "He's back!"

"Who?" asked Chouji completely immersed in his potato chip bag than in what his teammate was saying.

"Who does she talk about nowadays," replied Shikamaru as he scratched his neck and pulled his arm back from the blonde's grasp.

"Oh," replied the food-loving boy, as if it was no big deal.

"I wish forehead was here, I can't talk about this to you guys," pouted the girl but nonetheless continued, "Anyways he wasn't a traitor in the end, I heard he was doing secret ANBU missions for Konoha, he's gorgeous, he's single, and he's perfect for me. If Sakura was here she would be cheering me on, unlike you guys who don't care about what I'm talking about."

"Yeah yeah, he's perfect for you, this is too troublesome, I'm leaving now," stated the shadow-user as he took a turn to the left towards he his home, "see ya."

Her baby blue eyes glared in his direction. He could be so frustrating at times. She turned towards her right to see her other teammate gobbling down the last of his chips and knew that he would go to the store to replenish his supply, so she only had one thing left to do.

According to the rumors he was unconscious so he would surely be at the hospital. So the hospital it was, "Chouji I'll be going too."

"Ok Ino, see you," smiled the boy as he too turned around and continued walking.

So tightening her ponytail and fixing her skirt she started walking towards the hospital.

Well that's it.

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