Mebuki's secret
Chapter 13: Between the missions there are missions
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Thoughts
Paragraphs are flashbacks
Inner Sakura
(Will come out at some point)
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Recap
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"Kakashi-sensei what the hell did you do now?!" Sakura shouted as she rushed towards him, her green eyes flashing furiously at him. Kakashi was too dumb struck to care until one of the enemy shinobi barreled into the red haired girl and knocked her clear off her feet.
With a startled scream Kakashi snapped out of his daze and rushed to Sakura and held a kunai up to sever the older kunochi's neck when he heard a loud snort. Kakashi froze as his eyes locked on the form that pinned his student to the ground; it took him a moment to realize that Sakura wasn't screaming in agony but was instead was laughing and thrashing beneath the woman who was currently tickling her.
"St-st-sto-op ha-ha-ha i-i-it!" Sakura laughed as her legs flailed on either side of the woman who had her pinned her to the rocky ground. "TH-tha (ha-ha) tick—(ha-ha)—les! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Stop it!"
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End recap
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Kakashi stared down at the two in his half frozen lunge to kill the woman that had tackled his student. He was so dumb founded that he didn't notice Jiraya jump down and quickly approach them.
"Kakashi Hatake!" Said white haired Jonin turned at the sound of his voice, it also made the pile of girl mush on the ground before him stiffen and look at the one speaking as well. Not even fifteen feet away stood the rest of the woman's team, each studying her and the child she tackled… with the exception of the big man who was clearly the leader of the team.
"Who is this child?" The man asked tilting his head slightly in Sakura's direction. Green eyes widened as Sakura finally remembered that she was supposed to be doing something for her sensei. Gasping and sputtering her apologies, Sakura palm striked the woman's shoulder and rolled and pushed the older woman off of her as she quickly jumped to her feet.
"I'm so sorry Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted as she took a few steps towards him. "I know you said to get to you quickly, but I kind of… sort of… uh umm…" Sakura suddenly calmed and started to fidget uncertainly. "N-never mind…" Sakura mumbled as she bowed her head in shame, her shoulders slumped and her arms limp at her side.
"What happened Sakura-chan?" Kakashi asked as he shifted to stand a little more in front of his student, she shifted slightly, her fingers twisting and turning as she bit nervously at her lip. "Ne~ Sakura-chan you had me worried there…You were so late, that's not like you."
"I'm so sorry sensei!" Sakura said quickly, her head snapping up to look at Kakashi pleadingly. "But someone hit me in the back of the head and I blacked out! I was intending to fallow their path and make sure they didn't intend to hurt you but I came across you instead…" Sakura trailed off and blinked a few times at her teacher; giggling to herself she scratched the back of her head as she looked nervously up at her superior. "He-he opps…"
"Oops is right young lady," Jiraya chided as he landed just behind Kakashi but standing between the older kunochi and Sakura. "What would you have done had they killed you instead of just knocking you out? What then?" Sakura shifted as she glanced up at the toad sage, her eyes fluttering as she smiled shyly at him.
"The good news is that a genin cell woke me up," Sakura mumbled still smiling shyly at the two white haired men on either side of her.
"What genin cell was this?" Kakashi asked sharply, Sakura paused as her features twisted up again in thought.
"There was a girl there that had really long red hair and… and she was wearing a fox mask…" Sakura commented before shaking her head, not realizing just how stiff the adults around her were. "Her teammates seemed to be in a rush but they told me they beat the snot out of the guy that knocked me out."
Kakashi sighed and rubbed at his temple. What in the seven hells is going on? Do I even want to know?
"Will someone please answer my damn question?" the enemy captain asked with a ticking eyebrow. "Who's the damn brat?!"
"Who're you calling brat?!" Sakura asked back before slapping her hands over her mouth looking horrified.
"Well?"
"Why should we tell you?" Jiraya asked looking like he was insulted at the idea.
"Because if you don't I'll lodge a kunai in her throat." The man growled.
Sakura tried to hold back her snort at the thought, she really did try—Kakashi and Jiraya didn't even bother hiding their amusement on the matter. Honestly it was Kakashi the copy cat ninja and Jiraya of the Sanin that stood on either side of her, did he really think he was faster than them?
"Captain I told you who she is!" the kunochi still kneeling on the stone path on the other side of Jiraya whined as she rubbed a bruise on her chin. "She's Kushina Uzumaki!"
Sakura blinked before her eyes swiveled to look up at her teacher, who looked slightly panicked even as he pressed his hands just a little tighter on her ears. Now she couldn't even hear what they were saying, she couldn't even look in the woman's direction because Jiraya and Kakashi were suddenly shielding her from their attacker's view.
"Umm Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked softly, hoping her voice wasn't too loud, he just glanced at her and shook his head. Great, I didn't hear her and now I'm just staring at his flank jacket, oh how entertaining!
I could show you what'd be entertaining Inner growled lowly, Sakura felt her brow twitch slightly as her Inner self started showing her pictures of how to touchier and possibly seriously maim her instructor.
They'd all lead back to me… Sakura thought as she finally shook her head free of Kakashi's hands. Just as she was about to say something to the older Jonin, Sakura felt herself slip on the edge of the river bank.
Sakura gasped and reached out to her sensei, but Kakashi only pushed her slightly and took a step away from her, thus making her fingers clasp air instead of his jacket. With a startled shout Sakura felt herself fall back words. Sakura glanced back behind herself at the river below her and paled as she saw that it was couple hundred feet below.
With a shriek that'd make a banshee proud, Sakura felt herself slip off the edge of the small path and down to the river far, far below her.
Only something big, slimy and incredibly gross snatched her out of the air. Sakura tried her best not to puke when she found herself in the mouth of what appeared to be a frog. The Anbu team that Kakashi was with, were wrapped up in the tong nearby as well, the only conscience member confirming her fears.
"Didn't Kakashi-san tell you?" the man asked, his head tilting to the side curiously. "This was why he'd sent for Jiraya-sama."
"I see," Sakura said softly pushing her wig off while she tried to settle her stomach. Only for the creature she was in started jumping, Sakura waited until the frog stopped hoping and then begged to be let out of the frog's mouth before she threw up.
The frog happily complied.
Once she was done trying to empty her stomach, Sakura looked around the small clearing where they were resting and saw that the Anbu team had long since left. Sakura eyed the two conversing gray haired men not far from her and threw a kunai at her sensei with an explosion tag attached to it's end.
"Kakashi-sensei you jerk!"
"Now wait a moment Sakura!" The jonin shouted as he dogged the small explosion, she wasn't intending to maim him just bruise his ego, and waved his hands out in front of himself peacefully.
"What was the point of bringing me there if I wasn't needed?!" Sakura screeched as she threw another kunai at her teacher and proceeded with a punch at the older man's stomach.
"You weren't supposed to be apart of the fight!" Kakashi shouted out as he dogged. "You were supposed to meet with me at the temple in the village that you came across looking for me!"
"Huh?" Sakura froze mid strike, her eyes narrowed in warning at him. "The temple at the last village?"
"Yes," Kakashi answered with slight sigh with the word. "I needed you in that shrine because that was where you would be the most useful to me. The fight after word wasn't planned. I came upon that Anbu team accidentally and was given no other choice but to lend my aid to them."
Sakura was silent as she relaxed her stance and faced off her teacher with a narrowed eyed suspicious aura that told Kakashi that he would regret not telling her everything later.
"So your telling me... that I just flashed a possible enemy with my strongest, and most unstable, ninjutsu? That now they know what Konoha has? What techniques that I have? and after everything you told me, I just showed our enemies, What I am?" Sakura asked slowly, her aura darkening drastically with each word she spoke.
"Umm… Yes?" Suddenly Sakura's aura vanished as she stood stock still, when she raised her head she gave an overly cheerful smile that she some times gave Naruto... right before she knocked his lights out.
"Kakashi-sensei I will NEVER forgive you!"
Kakashi then spent the day dodging one very angry, and incredibly smart, genin kunochi who was determined to at least get a scratch on him. When she was bone tiered and couldn't run, or throw, anything at him anymore; Kakashi deemed her safe enough to approach. He picked her up, ignoring her mumbled threats, and quickly set her by the fire that Jiraya had set up for them.
"I have some questions for you," Jiraya said after a moment, he never got to say what was on his mind because Sakura interrupted him.
"Where by the six paths did you get that creepy scroll?" Sakura asked with a tiered yawn. "That prophecy thingy was really creepy."
"You were able to open it?" Kakashi asked soundly only slightly surprised, Sakura gave him a look that said she knew he was acting for Jiraya's sake. "Aw well… an old friend left it to a friend for me to retrieve when some one I knew was old enough to receive it." Jiraya gave him a knowing look while Sakura looked at him like she was thinking of throwing another bomb at him.
"...You aren't going to tell me are you?" Sakura asked, Kakashi just gave her another smile, to which Sakura threw another exploding tag at him before she rolled over on her sleeping mat and went to bed—Intending to ignore both men until she felt better.
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"Thank you miss for your help," Sakura said with a slight bow to the older priestess. The woman smiled calmly at her, looking like she might cry. "If there's anything else you may need, please don't be afraid to ask us."
"There is nothing that we will need from you little Hime," The woman said in a thick voice. "If you ever need anything don't be afraid to ask us for it, alright?" Sakura tilted her head at the priestess of the village temple curiously before she agreed.
"There is one more thing I would like to give you little one." the priestess said, stopping Sakura and Kakashi from their retreat. The older woman swept forward with a small unnoticeable scroll in her hand and pressed it against Sakura's hands.
"Your path is long and hard," the woman said with a far away look. "You will need all the help you can get little one. When you are hung above all others and hope seems to not exist, do not be afraid to ask for help. Your friends will stand beside you, you need only to ask." Sakura stared up at the old woman blankly.
"You're as creepy as Hanako is." Sakura replied bluntly.
Kakashi swore that the resounding slap echoed all the way back to Konoha. With all the rushing, gibbering, questioning and showing off the chains, he had forgotten to tell Sakura to keep her manners in check.
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"Oh yeah Sakura-chan," Kakashi said softly as he walk calmly down the steps of the templ, trying his best to ignore how swullen Sakura's right cheek was, or her death glare for that matter.
"about you comeing and saving me and the team earlyer." Kakashi paused on the steps frowned down at his studnet. "How do you know the names 'Mikoto' and 'Kushina'?"
Sakura stared dumbly up at him for a moment. "Mikoto was my mother's friend, she used to visit my home before she died."
"uh-huh," Kakashi took a few more steps before he looked back at Sakura. "What about 'Kushina'?"
"that was my code name." Sakura answered looking confused as she tilted her head up to him. "Jiraya-sama called me that when he first saw the out fit you gave me." Kakashi smiled at Sakura, trying to remember just what outfit he had given her. "and since i refused to wear those contacts." Sakura growled the word out and her glare got venomous as she glared pointedly at Kakashi. "I made a clone to where them."
"and the explotion of danceing chains?" Kakashi asked trying to fight off a smile.
"My clones have the same abilities as i do." Sakura answered. "Both Kushina and Mikoto were chain clones that I made. which would explain why I should up in a different outfit then the one that was sealed into the scroll."
well now i know where the outfit she mentioned came from... Kakashi smiled at Sakura before he disapeared in a puff of smoke. Sakura glared at where he was before she screamed, her voice echoing back to her from the village far below her, and raced into the tree tops in the direction the man should have gone.
"Kakashi-sensei you abandoning jerk!"
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A few days later
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"Ne~ Sakura-chan haven't you forgive me yet?" Kakashi asked as his student walked out of a cloths shop with Ino at her side. Sakura's first reaction to seeing him was throwing as many kunai and shiriken at him as she had on her person.
Of course she didn't hit him… but he did go away.
Kakashi decided that he would try asking again when she was too tired to try and harm his person. So he picked out a day he knew that Tsunade would have seriously tuckered the small pinkette out.
As it turned out, Tsunade hadn't forgiven him either… for both what he'd done to Sakura and for other reasons he wasn't privy to know about at that current point in time…
Maybe I should just leave the girls alone and just write a letter of apology to Sakura…
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"That lazy *** Sensei!" Sakura scratched as she read the short note she found on her nightstand beside her bed. "Now I'm never going to forgive you, you lazy sack of bones!"
Kakashi sighed and slumped his shoulders; he could hear her from two houses down. There's no pleasing this girl…
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"Come in," Hiashi ordered from his study, he was expecting for one of his daughters to enter; he didn't think that one of the more spiteful members of the branch house would walk in.
"Fujita-san why are you here?" Hiashi asked as the young man stepped forward and kneeled on the ground before his desk, keeping a good five feet between them.
"Hiashi-sama I have come across something strange on my last mission a few days ago." Fujita answered calmly, Hiashi stared at his relative dumbly for a moment before he lifted an eyebrow curiously at him.
"You've come across strange things in missions before," Hiashi replied slowly. "Never before have you decided to discuss them with me." Hiashi reached for his tea cup and turned to face his cousin fully. "What is so strange about this last mission that you wish to inform me about it now instead of letting the elders and Hokage tell me?"
"…Because I believe I met Kushina Uzumaki on my last mission." Fujita answered calmly, Hiashi stared at him dumbly for a moment, his tea cup lowering from his face before he glared at the slightly younger man.
"Kushina-san has been dead for the past fourteen years." Hiashi said coolly. "It's impossible for the dead to come back to life. Why do you say that she's alive?" Fujita didn't answer as he rumbaed in his rob and pulled out a small wooden box and pushed it towards his clan head.
"Regardless of what Kakashi-san had said, this is how I realized that I wasn't drugged and hallucinated everything." Fujita answered. Hiashi stared at Fujita before shaking his head and reaching for the small wooden box. Sliding the lid out of the way, Hiashi carefully removed the small strips of white cloth out of his way as he sipped on his tea. Finally seeing what was within the box, Hiashi nearly spat out his tea. Coughing slightly he grabbed a napkin and held it up to dry up the bit that spilt out on his face.
"Where did you get this?" Hiashi demanded as he set his cup down and pulled the box into his lap at the same time. "Do you know if there were any other's left?"
"On my last mission and no not to my knowledge," Fujita replied, Hiashi gave him a look that said 'explain it'. "Check out the chakra signature," Fujita said instead. "Isn't it familiar? Been sitting around the compound for a while?" Hiashi blinked at him before he looked back down at the box and concentrated on the five nearly completely formed chain links.
Kushina-san's chains were golden… Hiashi thought as he brushed a finger over the closest link, his brow twitched when the emerald colored chain burned the tip of his finger. These are green… and like to burn things… nearly every person with any bit of political sway watched the video of the attach on the hospital… could there be someone else out there like Hanako Haruno?
Hiashi stiffened at the thought, there is more than just one Haruno… Hiashi sighed and sealed the box once more, setting it off to the side and close behind him. One of them is male and the other is friends with… Hinata. Hiashi nearly groaned at the thought of his eldest daughter.
"Hiashi-sama," Fujita called, drawing Hiashi's attention back to himself. "Everyone of A or higher ranked watched that video. The problem is that it's a couple months old and the chain wielder in it is dead."
"So the question is who else has that ability?" Hiashi asked as he brought a hand to his forehead.
"No Hiashi-sama," Fujita said with a light shake of his head. "You already know who else has the ability. The question is are you going to tell me?"
"…No," Hiashi answered with a sigh. "You are to speak of this to no one."
"Understood." Fujita nodded and quickly stood. "The only other person awake to watch the chain wielder on my mission was Kakashi Hatake and Jiraya of the Sanin. I doubt either will say anything, but you should know no one else knows. I left it out of my report."
Hiashi stared curiously at the branch member's back as he walked straight out of his study, like he always did. Without asking for permission to leave and acting like he owned the joint. Hiashi sighed and shook his head, although he frowned at Fujita's rather blunt dislike of him, he had grown used to the younger man's slight disrespect and didn't bother calling him out on it innless it was blunter then usual and required a talking too.
"Ah Neji-sama how are you?" Fujita's voice made Hiashi turn back to his open study door and watched as the shadow of his nephew bowed to the older man before answering softly, too softly for Hiashi to hear. "Ah! So then you want to talk to Hiashi-sama about that little trinket?" Hiashi stiffened and watched as Neji seemed to regard Fujita wirily.
"Oh don't look at me like that. We were just discussing it actually. Go on in and see for yourself." Fujita said before disappearing from sight. Hesitantly Neji peeked into the study and seemed to silently ask for permission.
"Come on in Neji, I'm not doing anything to important." Hiashi sighed as he leaned on his desk and rubbed at his temple slightly. At least not any more…
"What did Fujita-san mean by that uncle?" Neji asked as he stepped into the small room and closed the door.
"Hopefully he simply knocked a few screws loose in that head of his." Hiashi answered blandly, Neji lifted an eyebrow at him and sat at the foot of his desk.
"I hope that it won't cause him too much damage…" Neji replied calmly, Hiashi hid his smirk behind his cup of tea.
"What trinket was he talking about?" Hiashi asked instead. Neji stiffened and stared at nothing for a moment before he sighed and relaxed his legs into a more comfortable sitting placement.
"You remember Sakura Haruno from a few months back?" Neji asked looking like he really didn't want to talk about it.
"You better not be thinking of courting her." Hiashi warned immanently. I will not be responsible for the hellions that would come from the two of you!
"Where did that come from?" Neji asked looking only slightly horrified at the thought. "I was merely asking if you remembered her. How does that equal to me wanting to date her?"
"You called her interesting." Hiashi answered. "You've never showed an interest in the female race until she came here and I'm worried that you might have a strange taste in women. Besides the elders wouldn't approve of her." Neji looked sick as he sighed and rubbed at his temple.
"I have no such interest in Haruno-san," Neji assured his uncle. "She's not even my type." Neji murmured the last part to himself, hoping his uncle didn't hear him. He had no such luck. Hiashi hid another smirk behind his cup of tea… only to find that he was out of tea.
"So what's this trinket and what does it have to do with Haruno-san?" Neji pulled out a small tightly wrapped, white thing from his kunai holder and handed it over to Hiashi calmly.
"When Haruno-san was staying the night here, I caught her and Hinata-sama practicing in the training grounds." Neji said as Hiashi picked it up and started to unravel the white square calmly. "When I approached them I found Haruno-san wielding that—" Hiashi stared at the half unraveled chain sitting in his palm, his eyes wide with disbelieve.
"And Hinata-sama defending herself against it. They appeared to be testing Haruno-san's jutsu. When I asked them what it was they both ran away." Hiashi sighed; half heartedly wrapped the ends of the white cloth back over the chain link and reached for the small box that was given to him just a few minutes earlier by Fujita. "When I tried to confront Hinata-sama in the morning she ran straight to Haruno-san, who denied the entire thing like it never even happened."
Hiashi nodded in understanding and quietly placed the complete link into the box with the other half formed links, the chain immanently looped it's two ends around said link, forming a half hearted loop.
"Have you told anyone about this?" Hiashi asked as he hid the box slightly behind him, Neji shook his head in answer. "Good…" Hiashi mumbled under his breath, not really expecting Neji to hear him. "I can't believe I missed it."
"Missed what?" Neji asked curious, Hiashi looked back at him and shook his head tiredly.
"Nothing you need to worry about." Hiashi answered quickly standing and using his foot to hid the box further behind him and closer to his desk. "Make sure not to talk about this with anyone… and I mean anyone. That includes your sensei and my daughter." Hiashi ordered as he waved the boy away.
"Yes Hiashi-sama," Neji nodded and stood from his place.
I expected Sensei would be left out… but Hinata-sama? Neji thought as he closed the shoji door behind him quietly, he briefly caught sight that his uncle was staring at one of the many pictures on the wall and as curious as he was, Neji knew that he wasn't at the appropriate angle to see just which one he was staring at. What was it that you missed uncle?
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Today was one of the rarer days of Kiba Inuzuka; he actually had the day off. He was still in the hospital because of his wounds from his last mission but that didn't really mean much to him, Akamaru wasn't hurt and he wouldn't be in the hospital for much longer. As he leaned back into his almost upright hospital bed, he let his mind wonder over what had happened since he graduated, or more specifically the pinkette that kept beating him in various ways since his graduation. Hearing a soft knock on his door, Kiba turned to watch as his sister and mother enter his room.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Kiba asked loudly when he caught sight of the third member that came to see him.
"I'm here to check up on you." Sakura dead paned, her brow twitched at Kiba's tune of voice.
"Checking up on me?" Kiba asked dumbly, he blinked and in took in Sakura's medic uniform, his brow twitched slightly at the faint pink tinge to it. "You work here?"
"Part time," Sakura answered she went to the end of his bed and looked at his charts. "Are you feeling any pain?"
"Just the headache your presence gives." Kiba answered automatically, Sakura's immanent reaction was to smile at him… the kind of smile that sent shivers up his spine.
"You should be careful not to anger your medic Inuzuka-san." Sakura smiled pleasantly at Kiba, her body relaxed as if her tone of voice wasn't promising the injured boy a beating later.
"…Okay," Kiba agreed shakily, his face slightly pale as he watched Sakura nod at him and turn on her heal, immanently heading for the door.
"You're free to leave now," Sakura said as she marched right out the door. Instantly his mother rounded on him.
"Wait I can explain!" Kiba shouted, his mother didn't hear anything as her fist landed alongside his head. "OW!"
"Didn't I teach you any manners?!" Tsume snapped out. "You don't say that to a girl!"
"Oh come on mom," Hana grinned at her mother and brother, an amused light twinkling in her dark eyes, a familiar one that set Kiba slightly on edge. "Boys teas the girls they like, right?"
Silence and then…
"I don't like her!" Kiba cried out, his face so red his crimson triangles were nearly completely hidden.
"That's my boy!" Tsume cried out wrapping her arms around Kiba's neck. "When are you going to bring her by the house?"
"I gotta teach you how to treat a crush…" Hana mumbled looking like she was in pain at the thought before a smile split across her face.
"I don't like her!" Kiba shouted again to no avail as both his mother and sister just laughed and left the room telling him to get dressed so they could go out and celebrate.
"I'm so doomed." Kiba groaned as stepped into the bathroom. "It'll never end, I'm done for."
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"Tenten-chan!" Sakura greeted warmly when she turned the corner and headed towards the nurse's station and caught sight of the shyer girl. "What are you doing here?"
"Hello Sakura-san," Tenten greeted, she fidgeted for a moment and Sakura looked for the reason why, only for her eyes to land on Hiashi, Hinata's father.
"Hello Hyūga-san," Sakura greeted, her features smoothing and her voice cooling instantly. "How can I help you?"
"Hinata was wondering if you would like to stay the night again." Hiashi replied just as coolly. Sakura glanced at Tenten for a moment before she turned to look up at Hiashi.
"I don't see why I can't," Sakura said thought fully, her brows tilting down word as she thought for a moment. Just as she opened her mouth to say something, another's voice cut her off.
"Excuse me; I'm looking for Sakura Haruno." A voice called from the other side of the nurse's station.
"I'm here," Sakura called immanently, turning towards the one who called her. A young chunin stood on the other side of the station. He looked up and nodded in greeting as he quickly walked towards her.
"Lady Hokage has asked for your presence in her office."
"Do you know what it's about?" Hiashi asked, the young chunin shook his head.
"My apologies, I just have a list of genin to get to lady Hokage as soon as passable." The chunin replied. "It's an emergency mission."
"Really? Who are they?" Sakura asked curious at her soon to be teammates.
"Um… let's see…" the Chunin pulled out a slip of paper from his pocket. "Ah, well there is Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Naruto Uzumaki, and Ino Yamanaka… um Hinata Hyūga and… you, Sakura Haruno."
Sakura nodded in understanding. "Thank you, I'll go get Kiba and let him know what's up."
"No need," a voice called the small group turned to look down the hall Sakura had walked out of. "He heard you loud and clear. When are we going to leave?"
"Kiba Inuzuka?" The chunin asked, blinking at the three Inuzuka approaching the nurse's station.
"That's me," Kiba grinned. "Let's go before my mom blows a gasket." Kiba said as he tugged at Sakura's sleeves, pulling them towards the quickest exist, ignoring the stifled snickers and low growling coming from behind him.
"I apologize shinobi-san," Hiashi said, his voice stilling the two quickly retreating teens. "Hinata has training to get to," Hiashi said as he took a few steps forward. "I'm sorry but you'll have to get someone else to take her place."
"But it's an emergency mission—" The chunin started to protest, until Hiashi turned his eyes onto him. "…*sigh* I'll relay the message." Kiba shot a look at Sakura before he tugged at her sleeve, urging her forward.
"Maybe next time Tenten-chan!" Sakura called as she raced down the hallway with Kiba beside her.
"I'll meet you in the Hokage's office," Sakura said as she slowed to stop at a door to her right. "I have a stop to make."
"What kind of stop?" Kiba asked as he slid to a stop beside her, when his eyes locked onto her the only thing he registered was that she was shrugging out of her nurses uniform with her hat in one hand, the door was already half opened.
"What are you doing?!" Kiba shouted backing away a few steps. We're in the middle of the hallway!
"With Lady Tsunade jumping in here at random points of the day I've learned to keep an extra set of cloths." Sakura answered as she stepped out of the uniform, showing that she was wearing a sports bra with netting and black bicker shorts beneath the uniform. She quickly grabbed a tan bag and her crimson dress before barging right back out of the room, leaving her uniform and hat hanging in her still opened locker.
"Carry this!" Sakura snapped as she through her bag at Kiba, snapping him out of his daze. Sakura didn't bother waiting for him as she tore down the hall and through the lobby, flinging her crimson dress on over her shoulders and zipping it up as she ran.
"Sakura wait up!" Kiba called as he raced after her, unaware of the very amused family members watching from down the hall and around the corner. "What the hell do you have in here?!"
"Just some things," Sakura answered as she slowed to put on her kunai pouch. "Why?"
"Because it's heavy!" Kiba whined, Sakura snickered at him and took back her bag.
"Happy?" Sakura asked as she raced off again, Kiba not far behind her.
"Yes very!" And out the front doors the two teens went, unaware of one giggling and planning woman left behind in their wake.
"We're going to black mail him aren't we?" Hana asked her mother while fanning herself with a picture.
"But of course," Tsume grinned. I can't wait till he comes home!
"… I'll see you next time ladies." Hiashi said as he made a quick retreat. Tsume is not involving me in another of one of her damned schemes…
"L-later," Tenten stuttered as she started for the closest window. Good luck Kiba, you're going to need it.
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