"milord, we heard that if they sky god found out that sakura is here with us, they will start a war with us. is that true?"
now they all have a meeting in the underworld for the gods and goddesses who didnt come nor invited. everyone started talking among themselves now. some were afraid, some were reasonable. sakura on the other hand was sitting next to him with her head hanging low and looking at the ground.
"should we just... give her back to the land?"
"why would you do that?! shes here seeking refuge! we are all here because at one point we were seeking refuge under the eldest one's protection!"
"he's right! we are all family here! we can't just abandon anyone like this!"
they started debating and getting into heated arguments. sakura on the other hand slowly stood up and walked out of the hall and everyone fell quiet.
"jiraiya isnt someone we should be afraid of. he might be scheming something and plotting something behind our backs. but we are being protected by the underworld. for the rest of you who forgotten, the underworld, land, seas, and skies are different entities." sasuke spoke up.
"this is just trivial matter you all shouldnt worry about. i took her in, it will be my responsibility. you all are just here to make her feel welcome and treat her as our own." he added.
more opinions arised and they continued talking and debating. when the meeting ended, he was about to leave and look for her but he was stopped by other gods who wants to talk to him about different matters. he motioned karin to look for her and she nodded understandingwhat he meant.
"did the eldest one sent you here to check up on me if i'm ok?"
"yes, he did." sakura sighed and sat down on the ground and played with the flowers around her.
she didnt say more to follow what karin said. but to her surprise, karin sat next to her and started picking flowers and making them as flower crowns.
"i heard that land goddesses make crowns out of flowers. its not a customary here as we dont usually play with flowers here. but since you are here, i've seen a lot of gods and goddesses following your trend. so dont feel guilty or sad that someone said something like that. everyone likes you here. plus youre under the eldest one's custody." before she could say something, the eldest one himself came up to them and karin stood up and bowed to him.
"milord." she greeted.
"you may go now." he commanded.
karin gave her finished flower crown to sakura and she watches her leave and walked towards to her section of the underworld. sakura didnt faced him nor greeted him. she continued putting more flowers on the flower crown that karin started and finished.
he sat next to her and putting some distance between themselves. sauske's mist started circling around them and made form as a humanoid and wrapped herself around sakura from behind. the mist touched the flower crown but it just went through her hands instead.
they didnt talked for a while until he stood up and he commanded her to get up but she didnt complied.
"come with me. i want to show you something." he started walking away and sakura hesitated if she should follow him or not. she doesnt want to get in trouble and be punished so she got up and followed him.
they walked for a couple of minutes going to the back part of the palace. they passed the patrol team of the underworld while suigetsu and karin are there monitoring them with the illusion god. after a few more minutes, they finally reached their destination. she saw a domed glass structure and she could see that there are greenery on the other side. sasuke opened the door and she immediately got wired to it as if the living things are inviting her in.
sasuke closed the door and let her breathe in and take in all of the scenery.
"this is called a green house. all of the plants in the seas and land are here. stored. maintained. experimented. and researched."
sakura looked around and she noticed the pink tree similar to the one that sasuke gave to her when he visited them for the first time. she walked over there and touched it.
"and plants that ive created are here." he sat down on one of the benches and just watched her.
she laid down on the grass and just looked up at the artificial light that looks like the sun. it gives off the same radiant and heat as the sun at the above world and the ceiling was like the skies.
"eldest one, come lay down here with me."
he was thinking of something else but her words broke through him and it shocked him. he immediately turned red as he wasnt expecting that. it took him a moment to comply to her request but he laid down next to her and giving themselves some distance.
she has her eyes closed and he could feel that she's trying to gather some energy from the artificial sun. she sighed deeply and started to relax once more. i started to feel relaxed while laying down under the sakura tree with her. but a few minutes had passed, she turned towards him and started looking at him.
she didnt say anything, she just looks at him. sasuke cant bring himself to look at her as he just stared at the pink petals above. he heard her come closer to him while all of the sudden she put her head on his chest, wrapping her right arm around his waist and pressed her body against him.
he closed his eyes and turned his body towards her and wrapped his right arm around her and pulling her closer to him. she snuggled deep in his chest as he could feel her drift to sleep even more in their position. a few minutes later, he was feeling drowsy and he followed her soon after.
"eldest one? what are you doing here?"
tsunade turned around from mending the plants when she saw sasuke walking towards her. he gave her a brown bag full of underworld plants and she put them in her plant box.
"delivering these plants."
he looked around and he saw other nymphs mending the plants like she was doing. he saw shizune grinding some plants making potions out of them.
"shizune has been a really good helper, im so thankful you let her stay with me."
he shook his head and he told her how shizune always wanted to come study the plants in the lands.
"how... how is my daughter?" she whispered.
"shes... fine. getting along with everyone down below."
he sat down in front of the lake again and watched the scenery. at the same time tsunade sat next to him and did the same also.
"although, my family are getting anxiety and nervous breakdown if there's another war again. the last war did a toll on them. and i dont have my healer down below to help me ease their psychological state."
"if you want, shizune can go back with you and help you! im fine here by myself!" she insisted.
"no. shizune stays here. without her, i dont have eyes near you and to protect you." there was a short period of silence that hung between them. when the sun was setting, tsunade announced herslef that shes going to go now.
"thank you for these by the way."
"no problem."
"can you give here these? she's the only one who can open these and shell know its from me. and can you tell her that i love and miss her?"
she gave the box to sasuke and his mist took it from him.
"i will tell her." she bid her good night to him and he left. when he saw naruto escorting hinata to the skies, that was his cue to go back to the underworld.
"the eldest one went to the lands to do some business. he does this every month. he wont be back till later or tomorrow the latest."
one of the guards told sakura was she was walking around and looking for him.
"see, i told you. he does this all the time. leaves us without any notice. its like he's in his own world. and minding his own business." ino sighed.
"shikamaru isnt here either. he probably visited his 'love interest' in the land of sands also. whenever sasuke leaves, shikamaru does also." tenten laughed at ino's comment.
"dont you have someone that caught your attention lately? or should i say... a long time?" tenten teased.
"it's not like that at all! its like he doesnt have a single clue! him and sasuke i swear..." ino muttered.
sakura just giggled to herself and smiled at the two girls bickering at each other. when she turned to the right, she noticed that neji, karin, suigetsu, and juugo were together. their armours pretty bent and bloody.
"fuck that shit, useless." suigetsu muttered while wiping blood out of his face.
"you messed it up, like always. now sasuke's going to kill us!" karin screeched.
neji on the other hand, removed his armours and carried them around.
"no, we did the right thing. spies are spies. we are not a stealth group, we did the right thing. right, neji?"
juugo turned to neji and waiting for his reply.
"yes. juugo is right. as long as we did our obejectives, we're fine. you guys go on ahead, ill go write this down at the missions office."
they all walked in separate ways but ino yelled at karin's name so she perked up and trotted to where we were.
"oh hey, sup bitches. what you guys been up to?" she cheesed.
"just got done easing up the tension of the people who has a nervous breakdown, fearing that we might go in a war." ino said.
"same here. there were spies that was sent by the sky god to see if sakura is here." karin looked at sakura with a reassuring face.
"we are here to protect you sakura, you are our friend and our family." they smiled at her and held her hand.
at this point, sakura was letting tears dropped from her eyes and started crying.
"im so scared. i never felt this scared in my whole life. but im so happy. im so happy im here and with you all"
sakura hugged the girls and they reciprocated.
"speaking of being here, since im so bloody and shit, let's all go bathe together! spa, hot springs, and sauna!"