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Chapter 7- I wonder…

'It has been a month since she died, and yet I still have my doubts,' Kakashi thought deeply. 'Naruto's usual smile and hyperness hasn't been the same as before, although he seems to cheer up whenever the Hyuga girl is with him. Sasuke just seems to be in more angst than before. It isn't good like this.'

He watched his students train under the sun. They don't look very tired after 6 hours of training. They just had one 5 minute break then resumed their training.

'I must train harder! I need to be stronger. I have to be able to kill Itachi and hunt down the people who killed Sakura.' Sasuke thought while putting a large hole in the middle of a tree which caused it to fall down.

'I must train harder! I promised Sakura-chan that I will be the Hokage someday. I'll keep my promise even though she isn't with us anymore,' Naruto thought while throwing his kunais at his targets. He hit all of them at the middle but he isn't satisfied so he decided to do other kinds of hard training.

"I must admit that they are getting stronger but it isn't the same without Sakura," Kakashi muttered to himself.

"I can do it. I can do it. I can do it," Sakura repeated over and over again to encourage herself. She concentrated half of her chakra to both her hands. She then released it by opening her palms and directed it to her right and left side. She heard loud crashes and loud thuds of heavy things being dropped on the ground. She looked around and counted how many rocks she hit and destroyed. She estimated about 25 rocks were hit by her left hand and 29 by her right. She smiled in satisfaction.

'I guess I should head back to the inn now,' she thought.

Flashback

Sakura is traveling for hours looking for a nearby village until she heard a cry for help. She cautiously went to the place where she heard it. She found a woman in her 20's clutching her ankle.

"Um…hello," Sakura said slowly.

The woman was surprised by her voice but a wave of relief came over her when she saw that it was only a girl about 14 yrs. old. 'I thought it was some bandit' she thought.

"Hi! Can you please help me? I sprained my ankle and I can't walk properly. I need to get home ASAP. Don't worry you won't be empty handed after you help me," she said

"Oh! You don't have to give me anything in return," Sakura told her as she came closer. She placed her palm over the woman's sprained ankle then bluish chakra came emitting from it. The woman was shocked to see Sakura do her healing. Sakura finished and the woman's ankle is already healed.

She was speechless for a while to see a kid no older than 15 do that in a matter of seconds. "Oh my! How rude of me not to introduce myself. I'm Sasaki Chisato by the way," Chisato told Sakura with a smile.

"Haruno Sakura," Sakura introduced herself smiling at her knew friend. "Um…is it okay if I ask for a favor?" she asked sheepishly.

"Depends on what it is," Chisato answered.

"Ano…do you know where the nearest village is? I need to stay in an inn for awhile so I have to start looking for one," Sakura told her.

"You're in luck, Sakura. I happen to own an inn in a village not too far from here," she told her. "To show my gratitude to you, I'll let you stay there as long as you want for free."

"Thank you so much!" Sakura exclaimed as she hugged her in a tight bear hug.

End of flashback

Sakura went in her room in the inn. It has a king size bed, a closet, one bathroom, two mahogany drawers, two bedside tables with a lamp each. It is so comfortable there because there is an air con considering the temperature there.

She lied down her bed and thought about her parents, friends and beloved teachers. 'I miss them so much,' she thought while tears formed in her eyes. 'I could go back now but my efforts will just go to waste,' her tears then flowed from her emerald colored eyes.

'I wonder if they all believe I'm dead.'

'I don't think she's dead!' Kakashi confirmed in his mind after thinking of all the possibilities that could've happened. 'I'm going to look for her. I know if someone will know about this they'll surely stop me. I know that they'll say that I should just accept the fact that she's dead but I really have a strong feeling that she isn't,' he thought while packing some clothes, weapons and money.

Kakashi then started to head out to look for Sakura alone. He didn't even leave a note or anything to indicate that he left to find one of his students.

The next morning……

"We've been waiting here for hours! Do you think he'll come, Sasuk-teme?" Naruto said while getting impatient by the second.

"I don't know. Let's just train by ourselves, and if he comes we'll follow what he'll order us," Sasuke stated.

"Okay then," Naruto said while walking to his training spot in the forest.

Both of them are training on their own for some hours when a jounin called for them.

"Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, Tsunade-sama sent me to tell the both of you to report in her office in 5 minutes sharp," he said hurriedly as if he needed to go to another place quickly. After he said it he was gone in a 'poof'

"Hey Sasuke, do you know what was that for?" Naruto asked curiously.

"No," Sasuke answered.

5 minutes later…….

Knock! Knock!

"Come in," Tsunade said. The door opened to reveal Naruto and Sasuke waiting patiently on what she's about to tell them.

"Both of you sit down," she said while motioning for the two chairs facing her desk. "Something came up. I want to tell both of you that your sensei, Hatake Kakashi... is missing. He didn't show up for any of his duties for today so we searched his house but no clues were found." She continued. "I know this is hard for both of you. I already sent ANBU teams to search for him so don't worry so much, okay?" she said in a gentler tone.

Naruto and Sasuke are speechless at the moment. They just looked at her with shocked expressions. They can't believe that their sensei is missing.

"How could he go missing? I mean he is one of the strongest ninjas in Konoha. He couldn't possibly get abducted just like that, right?" Naruto asked, confusion clear inhis voice.

"There is no sign of a fight in his house when we searched it. There are no attacks in Konoha as of last night and this morning. He just disappeared without a trace," she answered.

'First Sakura died then Kakashi-sensei goes missing? What kind of shit is this?' Sasuke thought madly in his head. He frowned when he thought about it which didn't go unnoticed by the Hokage. She knew that they are still upset about her death and now their sensei goes missing.

'This is so hard for them,' she thought while looking at Naruto and Sasuke.

tbc...

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