All right. Originally, I had said that this would be a one-shot. Obviously, it's not anymore. XD Um... I fixed up a few things. All three are older now - nineteen instead of fourteen, with the exception of Sakura who will remain eighteen for the time being. xP

Anyway, yeah. O.o Go read now and review. xP

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. However, I do own a Naruto headband and I am very proud. =D

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"Naruto!"

No answer.

"Naruto!"

No answer yet.

"Naruto, where the hell are you?"

No answer still.

Sakura heaved an irritated sigh. She had been storming around the Uchiha manor for the past few minutes - and to her, a few minutes was a long time - trying and failing to find Naruto. You may ask, what the heck was Sakura doing in the home of Uchiha Sasuke, so freely raging about and screaming delicately for Naruto's appearance?

Well, even though the three were jounin now, Konoha was in a time of peace. Things were well, and no missions had been required of them to do. And out of boredom, the three decided a get-together with their former sensei would be fun. So they had a meeting.

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"Where is he?" Naruto demanded, arms crossing huffily. Seven years of change had changed his appearance - but not his personality. "Is he never on time?"

"Hn." This came from Sasuke, who had changed just as much as Naruto had. Which was zero.

"Oh, Naruto, shut up." Sakura mumbled, but it lacked the venom it would've had twelve years ago. Yes, Sakura had changed the most out of them. She had matured, and now properly regarded Naruto as one of her best friends.

"He's two hours late!" Naruto said furiously. "That's - that's - irritating!" His voice raised several decibels. "You'd think that seven years of yelling at him would've changed something!"

"Naruto-baka, do you mind?" Sasuke drawled, throwing Naruto a dark scowl. "We know you haven't gone through puberty yet, you don't have to advertise it."

"Yo!" The arrival of everybody's favorite silver-haired jounin cut off any arguments that would've risen.

Instead, Naruto and Sakura pointed their fingers at Kakashi and yelled out of pure habit, "YOU'RE LATE!"

"Sorry. This fennec fox tried to steal my pants, so I had to chase it from here to the Sand country and then back again."

"LIAR!"

"Aheh." Kakashi rubbed the back of his neck, grinning sheepishly at them. "Don't say that..."

"So, passed any more students lately, Kakashi?" Naruto piped up.

'No," Kakashi said frankly.

They all laughed, and even Sasuke gave a light grin.

"I have a request for you three," Kakashi said after a few seconds in which they just relished being together again.

"Is it a mission?" Naruto interrupted excitedly.

"Idiot, he's not our sensei anymore."

Naruto didn't even bother with insulting him back - he was far too used to the nicknames to bother. "So?" he shot back. "He could still... ask us... favors!"

Kakashi threw Sakura an amused, lazy grin, and Sakura grinned back at him as the two boys fell into their natural bickering.

"Knock it off," Sakura finally said, whacking Naruto on the back of the head.

"Anyway, this request I have..." continued Kakashi, "I've missed you three, and I won't deny it. So for old times sake, yes, I have a mission for you."

Naruto's face split in half as he grinned. Sakura frowned thoughtfully. And Sasuke blinked.

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Sakura growled - something she didn't do normally. As much as she admired Kakashi, his idea of making the former team seven live together for one week, under the same roof, doing everything together, was a no-no. There was no way that it would work. Sasuke had walked stubbornly out on his two teammates sometime before the sun had even risen, plainly defying Kakashi's wishes. Or maybe he just couldn't stand Naruto's snores. And he had not come back yet.

Sakura had awakened second, and she had sleepily gone to awake the boys, determined to be a good sport, despite her opinion of this plan - she had to impress Sasuke somehow.

Unfortunately, Sasuke wasn't even in the house, and Naruto was nowhere to be found.

And so we arrive back at the beginning of our story, with our young ninja maiden frantically tearing up the Uchiha manor in a vain effort to root out the whereabouts of Naruto. She had checked every room... well, almost. There were three doors that she hadn't dared to open yet, even with Sasuke being absent. One was the one that led to the expansive garden - somehow, she got the feeling that it was a sacred place... and besides, why would Naruto be in the garden? Another was the door to the basement - Sakura hated basements, they were so cold and scary. And the last door was 'The One', which lead to Sasuke's personal bedroom. But of course, there was no logical reason to why Naruto would be in there either.

Sakura wandered hesitatingly towards the basement door, her hand resting unwillingly upon the doorknob. Her green eyes, fringed in thick lashes, looked the picture of reluctance as they fixed their gaze on the dreaded knob. She gripped the handle resolutely; what would Sasuke think of her? An eighteen-year-old girl too afraid to enter a basement! And in full daylight too... As she hovered on the brink facing the basement or not (for there must be centipedes and other bugs... icky!), her quest for Naruto's locations ended abruptly as the boy in question crept up and tackled the pink-haired girl about the waist, yelling a wildly prolonged holler of, "CAUGHT YOU OFF YOUR GUARD!"

"AAAAIIIIEEEEEEE!" squealed the victim, brought down with a bump as Naruto sprawled on top, laughing his head off. Sakura clutched her chest, and felt her heart thumping madly. She took several deep breaths... and then the Uchiha manor fairly bounced off the ground as she gave Naruto a verbal beating.

"NARUTO where have you been? You made me run around the house looking for your sorry hide! I just near about killed my throat yelling your name and you have the time to play silly stupid tricks? I can't believe that you didn't have the brains to see that Sasuke is missing too, but instead you went around trying to use me as a landing mat YOU KNOW YOU MAKE ME SICK!"

Naruto flinched terribly at her last few words.

Sakura's anger ebbed away, and she sighed, feeling sorry for him. "I'm sorry, Naruto. I'm just in a bad mood, I guess." She patted the top of his blond head, mint-green eyes reflecting the tiredness of she. Naruto rubbed the back of his head, scrambled upright and stood rocking on his heels, just like a kid who had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Gomen nasai, Sakura-chan," he mumbled half-heartedly, scuffing his foot against the carpeted floor. [A/N: Something close to the meaning of 'sorry' or 'pardon me'. XD]

"No problem... Do you want breakfast?" Without really listening to Naruto's joyful bellow of 'YEAH!' She took a moment to get the general direction of Sasuke's kitchen, and then headed off that way. "Ramen, I suppose," she murmured, rooting around in the cupboards. Did Sasuke even have ramen in the house? Luckily for her - or rather, for Naruto - Sasuke did. In fact, he had plenty. Sakura brushed back her pink hair, selected three cups, and dumped the contents of all three in a pot. She poured water into the pot, set it to boil, and leaned back on the counter to wait.

Naruto hovered near the pink-haired shinobi, alternately peering at his beloved ramen, patting his growling stomach, and bouncing around.

"Naruto," said a very frustrated Sakura, "Go and find Sasuke if you're so bored."

"Iie, he can starve," exclaimed the blond-haired shinobi with a wide grin, which he immediately wiped off his face as Sakura gave him a whack over the head with a wet towel. [A/N: No.]

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"'Go find Sasuke, Naruto, or else.'" Naruto mimicked in a fairly high-pitched voice, stumbling and crashing through the forest without much heed to how much noise he was making. As much as he did not want Sasuke back, for Sakura, he'd do anything. Now isn't that just romantic? So with an irate expression dawning within his blue eyes, he came to a halt near a clearing, took a deep breath, and bellowed with all the volume he could muster.

"SASUUUKEEEEEE!!!" A couple of birds abandoned their nests, chicks and all.

And - gods - speak of the devil but Sasuke loped steadily up behind Naruto, looked thoughtful for a moment, and then banged a fist down on the kitsune's head.

"OOOWWWWW!" A few more birds zoomed away, chirping angrily. Naruto rubbed his head; that was the second time he'd been hit there in the last ten minutes! "You jerk!" he cried, gingerly prodding the lovely purplish bruise forming under his scalp with a finger. "What was that for?"

Sasuke regarded the shorter boy before him seriously, his dark eyes lingering on Naruto's head. In a tone that radiated sincerity, he answered with one word. "... Nothing."

Naruto twitched, but remained silent.

"What do you want, moron?"

"What do you mean, 'What do I' --" He paused. Oh yeah. He had called for Sasuke.

"I mean why did you call me, you idiot." The corners of his lips lifting, Sasuke cast the shorter boy a vague Uchiha-smirk, his arms crossing over his chest.

"Bastard," he muttered, swinging back his fist and punching forward with all the force he could accumulate, which, by Sasuke's standards, wasn't very fast. The black-haired shinobi dodged the punch without much hassle. The blond-haired Naruto took a calming breath, his heart thumping madly. "Sakura made breakfast," he snapped shortly, promptly turning around and starting back towards the manor. One more minute of staring at Sasuke's demoralizing smirk and his willpower might just crack. But at least he followed out with Sakura's orders, and he could hear Sasuke's footsteps behind him. Good. He was coming.

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Sakura gently distributed the ramen into three equal shares. And then on second thought, she divided her own bowl into four quarters, and poured one quarter into each of the boys' shares. Always the one looking out for the other two, Sakura sighed and sat herself down, sprawled tiredly in a chair as she awaited Naruto's return, hopefully bringing Sasuke back with him. She rubbed her eyes wearily and cupped her face with her hands, leaning on the edge of the table as she stared out the window.

Kakashi sure has a lot of faith in us, she thought to herself with a smile. And, as she had done many times before, she reflected on just how much Kakashi-sensei had helped in their lives. Her smile widened. Even if the guy did read porn books. She laughed quietly.

"Sakura, we're baaaa-aaack!"

She blinked and shook herself out of her reverie, glancing around at Naruto, who looked slightly pissed off despite his happy entrance, and then at Sasuke, who simply looked like always - dispassionately unresponsive. But it was a relief to Sakura that he was back.

"Arigatou, Naruto... I made breakfast," she said shyly, directing this last bit to Sasuke, and pointing to the table, where the bowls lay. Luckily, they were still warm, and even steaming a little. Naruto, disregarding proper manners, gave Sakura a welcoming nod, and jumped right in to eat. Sasuke, however, only stared at the breakfast for a few seconds, unmoved. Sakura began to get slightly nervous. "Something wrong, Sasuke?"

"Iie," he replied systematically, seating himself down and beginning to eat.

"Oh. Um - all right," she responded awkwardly, sitting down between them, and quietly starting on her own bowl of ramen.

Silence fell between the three shinobi.

Sakura sighed. As close friends as they were, she didn't know if she could stand a week of this...

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I fixed up the mistakes people mentioned, and I think now there should be nothing wrong with it... If this if your first time reading this, keep reading and review! XD