Chapter 2:
The sun shone brightly today, a perfect day for Konoha. The weather is perfect. Though the sun is bright it wasn't too hot. The breeze felt very soothing, it went harmoniously with the sun. Ah… what a perfect day for team 7's mission… flower picking?
"This is going to be boring…" groaned Naruto as they walked on the countryside. "Of all the missions, why does it have to be flower picking?"
Apparently, they are now on their way to the garden where Tsunade-sama sent them. For team 7, this is the most boring mission ever. For goodness sake, their already chuunins! Not to mention Sakura is already considered a highly ranked chuunin because of her high level medical jutsus. These kinds of missions should be given to genins; these are for low-level genins such as rookie genins.
Naruto sighed again, which made Sasuke sigh too. Seeing both of her teammates so down just reminded her about their lame mission, Sakura could not help but sigh as well. Kakashi saw his team so down, he couldn't help but sigh silently behind his mask.
"Aw men!" whined Naruto as he kicked one of the rocks on the ground. "Can't we walk any faster? I want this mission to be finished quickly so that I can go back to training."
"Aa" Sasuke, for once has to agree with Naruto. He has more important things to do rather than pick flowers.
"Tsunade-sama had been giving us low-level missions recently, no?" Kakashi thought of starting up a conversation to risen up his team's mood. It was really unusual that their team would be so quiet. Normally, Naruto would be bragging about how he will kick the enemy's ass while Sasuke will use some short words to insult Naruto. From there, the two would start fighting. And that's where Sakura would come and quiet them down.
"Yeah!" Naruto yelled, "if ever we get another boring mission tomorrow, I will have to start an argument with Obachan."
"I doubt that it will do any good to talk to her," Sakura sighed as she played with her hair. "You haven't seen her in a bad mood yet, have you? I have to warn you that it's not a good idea at all to piss her off."
"Demo-"
"I know! These missions are totally lame…" Sakura rolled her eyes. "We're already chuunins, don't we deserve better missions than these. Don't we deserve at least a C-ranked mission?"
"A-re? Sakura, you seem to be more motivated than before," Kakashi patted her head.
"Of course, Sensei!" Sakura played with her kunai absent-mindedly with her right pointing finger. "Low ranked missions are equal to low salary. A super high ranked mission is equal to more cash."
The three boys walking behind her sweat dropped at her statement. Being Godaime's apprentice for two and a half years, they were glad that Sakura wasn't influenced by Tsunade's obsession over gambling. But, Sakura did grow quite an obsession over money though…
Sakura continued speaking freely as they walk. "Mou… I'm having bad luck with money lately. Heck, my mangas are not even selling."
You didn't hear- or rather, you didn't read wrong. When Sakura trained under Godaime, Sakura didn't have much time to go to missions. To make some extra cash, Sakura decided to submit some of her made up drawings to a publishing center. One of the editor in chief found her stories and drawings somewhat interesting so she accepted Sakura's creation. After a few months, her manga series became a hit in the Fire Country. But now, she didn't have much ideas and lacked inspirations.
"Hehe, Sakura-chan…" Naruto made a sheepish smile. "You just need some inspiration. You know, maybe… we can go out together. Who knows, you might get some good ideas for your manga."
"Naruto," Sakura called calmly, "If you're asking me out on a date, then my answer is a…."
"Yes?"
"No" Sakura replied shortly. "And anyway, the manga series that I'm writing about is a shounen manga. It's mostly about fighting and stuffs like that. I might include some romance in future series, but it probably will only be a slight touch."
"Tch, dobe."
"NANI!" yelled Naruto furiously as he pointed a finger straight to Sasuke's face. "Let's see you ask a girl out on a date."
Sasuke smirked. His hands on his pockets, he continued to walk.
"What's that smirk for?"
Sakura giggled.
"What?"
"I-iie, never mind…"
"What is it, Sakura-chan?"
"N-nothing…"
"Come on, Sakura-chan."
"Naruto could be so naïve sometimes." Kakashi sighed. "Sakura, why don't you just say it? He probably won't take it too offensively, anyway."
"What are you guys talking about?"
"Your too naïve, Naruto" Sakura sweatdropped. "How should I say this? To make it short and simple," Sakura sighed and continue "the girl that will turn Sasuke down does not exist."
"Oh, your right" Naruto meant to said it softly so that only Sakura could hear it. But unknown to him, Kakashi and Sasuke were also listening. "Mou, Sakura-chan. I was just bragging in front of Sasuke to make myself look cool…"
The rest of the 3 sweatdropped when they heard him say that. They continued their walk as they converse about different things until they arrived their destination.
When Sakura saw the garden, she was speechless. Lots of memories came flashing back as she look at the garden full of beautiful flowers."
"Ne. Daijobu desu ka?" Naruto asked her as he waved his hand in front of her face.
"…"
"Sakura-chan"
"…"
"Sakura-chan!"
"…"
"Sakura-CHAN!"
"…"
"SAKURA-CHAN!"
"H-huh?" this time Sakura came back to reality. "Did you call my name?"
"Are you feeling okay?" Kakashi asked his student with a worried tone.
"I'm fine." Sakura gave his worried teammates a reassuring smile. "I just remembered some memorable memories from the past."
Her 3 teammates looked confusedly at each other.
END OF CHAPTER 2Author's note:
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