Her face felt hot, too hot. And the tears didn't help at all. She felt like her face had been beaten for the past 24 hours. Once she finally got a hold of her self, it only seemed to consume her all over again the minute she saw the top border edges of the great gates of konoha. Sakura had felt sadness before. Once when sasuke left, it felt like someone had stabbed her in the heart over and over again. The second time when her sensei told her of her parents death. And again when jaraiya was killed by the akatski leader, pein. But the pain she felt now, was not of sadness or guilt. Even though it should have been for all intensive purposes. No, she wasn't sad. She was pissed off. Everything that had happened ever since she was 12 years old, was for nothing. Sasuke wasn't on the revenge mission like he had planned, he was on a suicide note. And what pained her more, was that the suicide note wasn't sasuke's. But for the man he was hunting, his big brother, itachi.
Sakura had learned a lot of things over the past couple of days and she was eager to tell her hokage as soon as possible. But she was not looking forward to telling her best friend/teammate.
' he is going to be so angry,' she thought.
Sure he would see some light at the end of this dark tunnel but what it came down to was the fact that all of the fighting and blood shed had been for all the wrong reasons. Konoha's rookie nine shouldn't be trying to save sasuke, they should be trying to save itachi. The framed man.
And the tears kept coming, it would be worse once she started walking amongst the buildings of her home. When she reached the outside gates of the hokage's office she had to pause for a deep breathe.
' she isn't going to like this,' sakura thought to herself as she re-tucked the satchel full of scrolls under her right arm.
Knock, Knock
"Enter," came a feminine voice.
Sakura slowly creaked open the office door and peered inside. Sure a person in power is a thing to behold, but tsunade could be downright scary. And for some reason sakura had never been afraid of her, probably the only one out of all the shin obi of the fire country. But at that moment, she was petrified. sakura was shaking nonstop as she began moving forward towards her sensei's desk. Tsuande had yet to lift her head but sakura was sure she knew of her presence. You arent named sannin for your good looks.
"Lady hokage," sakura began, "I have returned with a report for you."
The hokage raised her head to look upon her apprentice, her left eyebrow raised with confusion as she noticed the trails from her eyes down her cheeks and lastly down her neck.
'it was too much for her,' tsuande thought.
"please, take a seat sakura," she stated gesturing towards the chair in front of her desk.
Sakura sat down and started giving her report while taking the satchel, opening it and placing the scrolls on the desk.
During her tale sakura stood up to roll open the largest of the scrolls to show the hokage something.
"see here," sakura pointed. "its signed by the third, you cannot dismiss it lady hokage."
"hmmm…it seems things are not what they seem ," stated tsunade while rubbing her temple.
They sat in silence for what seemed like forever until the hokage spoke up once more.
"good job, im proud of you. You can tell your team mates but be cautious. We don't need naruto causing any more chaos. He has done enough since your absense."
"yes shishou," sakura bowed.
"and sakura," tsuande said catching the young shin obi's attention, " justice will be served."
At that, sakura smiled and exited the tower to go home and take that nice hot shower she had been yearning for. But deep down, she was worried for the eldest uchiha.
' soon itachi-kun, soon.'