The boys walked away from the men, they were dealt with swiftly under the moonlight, standing by their cars they looked at each other.
"Bring Sakura by my office tomorrow, we're going to see just how much she knows." Naruto nodded, he knew the man was lying, there was no way Sakura knew the full extent of what her parents were doing.
Making it home in a decent time frame, he walked in to see Sakura standing by the door waiting for him, she took one look at his apperance and frowned, his eyebrow was busted, his eye was starting to blacken, his lip was busted and he was covered in dirt.
"Are you okay?!" She ran over and grabbed his face, looking him over nothing seemed to be life threatening, pulling him to the bathrooms he made him sit on the edge of the tub, "Where's your first aide kit?"
He grabbed her hand as she started to walk away, pulling her close to him he wrapped his arms around her waist, "We have to go see Sasuke tomorrow morning, he's going to question you and see how much you really knew about you parents."
Sakura froze in place, "Why?" pulling away she looked for his first aide kit, finally finding it she walked back over to him and started to clean his cuts.
"He was attacked tonight when he was leaving work and the man that attacked him had some unsettling new about how much you really know." Naruto studied her reaction, looking for any red flags, Sasuke was good at picking someone's mind while Naruto was good at reading someone's body language.
She sighed, "They told the police the same thing, they're trying to frame me."
She finished, cleaning up she left the bathroom and went to her room, she shut the door leaving Naruto alone with his thoughts. She didn't seem like she was lying but he could be wrong, he's so close to her he doesn't want to see if she's lying. He only wants to see the good, Sakura was a good person, he knew she was.
The next morning they left for Sasuke's office in silence, wearing pretty much the same thing as yesterday Naruto adjusted his hat as he got out of the car. Wearing a pair of sweats and a t-shirt Sakura was dressed for comfort as the weather started to cool down, and it was still raining.
Finally getting to his office on the top they walked through the doors, in the middle of this giant room was a couch and two chairs covered in black leather, across the room closest to the windows was a massive wooden desk with a computer off to the side and a chair in front of the desk.
Sasuke wave before asking her to take a seat in the chair in front of his desk, walking around he stood in front of her with his arms grossed and the sleeves of his white shirt were rolled up, "I'm sure Naruto told you why you were here."
She nodded, "Yes."
"Good, because you have a lot of explaining to do." She looked at him confused, "I found more files, not just any files, files with your name plastered all over them."
"I don't understand, what files?" She asked him, his anger seemed to flare up.
"Easy Sasuke." Naruto could pick up on it from a mile away, Sasuke was pissed.
"Bank statements, test that were supervised by you, documents you signed off on." Sasuke grabbed a stack of papers from his desk and threw them at her, the papers flew everywhere while she covered head.
"Sasuke!" Naruto started to step forward but Sakura stood up knocking the chair over and looked the Uchiha right in his eyes, Sasuke grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and held her in her spot.
"The only thing they would let me do is cross reference the names of people in the studies because junkies would try and sneak in multiple trails for the money and it would screw everything up so if they were on the list they were given fakes instead and black listed, that's what I signed off on." Her jaw clenched, she was pissed, "I'm so tired of people acting like I hand in anything, I was seventeen years old at the time most of this shit started to happen, I was busy locked in my room trying to fucking study!"
"My parents have been trying to frame me from the start, they use to have me sign shit and if I refused they beat me!" Sakura lifted up her shirt to reveal a nasty scar on her hip, "My so called father dragged a knife across my hip because I didn't want to give him access to my trust fund."
Grabbing his hand and pulling it off of her shirt she looked at the dark eyes man, "I believe you, but you're going to have to make the rest of the world believe you too, you've been silent about the situation for too long. This had allowed rumors to form and run wild, you have to put a stop to them." He straightened his shirt, looking at the girl he felt bad for her, "Sorry, I didn't mean to give so rough with you. I needed to know you were telling the truth."
"It's fine, I'm use to it by now." She looked away and fixed her shirt, Naruto stood there dumbfounded at what just happened.
"This is a heavy burden you're carrying, when the weight becomes too much, please lean on one of us." Naruto looked at Sasuke confused, "Ino has been very worried about your mental state through all of this."
"I'm okay, and she doesn't need too, I'm a big girl." Sakura turned and walked out of the office, she waved bye without looking back, Naruto nodded and followed her out.
"Are you really okay?" Naruto asked, pulling her door open.
"Yes." She climbed in, shutting the door behind her he quickly walked around to the other side and got in. Starting the car, they went for a little drive along the coast line, the ocean was so pretty during the fall. The white sand looked like something out of a fairytale, the clear water crashing against the short with a dark sky in the background, she loves the fall.
"Hungry?" After spending most of the car ride in silence she nodded, "I have a cool place I want to take you."
Leaning against the door, she watched the buildings go by, "If I remember correctly you like hot pot, right?"
She up and nodded, "I love hot pot!"
He smiled, her reaction was better than he hoped for, pulling into the parking lot they got out and she practically skipped to the door. Her cheeks started to turn pink, when she turned around she caught him watching her and smiling.
"What? I'm simple, I like food." He laughed opening the door for her, they were seat quickly and she was beaming, the food started to show up not too long after her placed the order. The waiter prepared the hot pot base, the two were separated by a divider, one side was spicy while the other was just normal broth.
She went to grab a piece of meat but Naruto lightly slapped her hand, laughing "You have to let it finish cooking, goober."
She laughed, "Did you just call me a goober?"
"Yeah, I think I did." They both laughed.
"That's a new one, I don't think I've ever heard you say that before." Her laugh was light, it was music to his ears, it's had been so long since her heard her laugh like that.
The beef was ready, grabbing a piece he held it up for her to eat. Her ears burned as she leaned forward to take a bite, "It's so goooood."
She sat back enjoying the food, the restaurant was small and empty, "Would you like a drink?"
"I don't really drink, and one of us has to drive?" He orders a bottle of sake, the water appeared in a hurry with the bottle and two glasses.
"That's what uber is for." He reached for the bottle but she grabbed it first, unscrewing the top she poured his glass and then hers. They tapped the glasses on the table and took the shot.
They continued to laugh and drink as the night went on, they left and got a lift home, "What to go out tonight?"
She looked over at him, "Awful adventurous today, don't you have to work tomorrow?"
He shook his head and pulled out his phone, he was feeling a light buzz and it was a Friday night, "Nah, I don't work on the weekends and you've been couped up in this house since you got here, why not try and have a little fun?"
He was trying to take her mind off of things, he didn't want her to sit in the house and waste away in her own head, "I don't see why not but I don't have anything to wear."
"That can be fixed." he smiled as he pulled her along, "I let Ino use my card."
He opened her closet and it was full, her eyes bugged out a little, "You didn't have to do that, is this why we went out to eat?"
"Partly, I wanted you to have a nice lunch too." She smiled as he left to fins something.
She could tell Ino was the one who picked most of this out but she kept Sakura's style in mind, she grabbed a pair of black pants and a halter. She curled her pink hair and put her make up on. She was looking forward to the night out, it had been so long she almost forgot what to wear.
She settled on a light teal halter top with a pair of skinny jeans and black thigh high boots. Spraying her perfume on, taking one last look in the mirror she smiled and skipped out to the living room where Naruto was waiting for her, he look simple in his button up with the sleeves rolled up. The watch around his wrist was black and matched his black pants, and shoes.
"You look beautiful." Grabbing her hand and spun her around.
She laugh and they met the Uber outside, he locked the door and they left.