0.5 - plots
"Naruto, you're a jōnin, you can afford a better apartment, I swear to god." Sakura threw a pillow in Naruto's direction while Sakura, for whatever reason, laid down on the rug with her feet propped up on her bed. She overshot, however, and the pillow landed far past the target; Naruto ignored it.
"I know, but," Naruto shrugged, absentmindedly running her fingers through one of her pigtails. "It's just… I've been here a while, you know? During all of it, really. And I'm not really fussy, anyway."
At this Sakura sat up and looked at Naruto, and her expression softened a little. Both women spent a brief moment reflecting on the past. The apartment had been through a lot. Naruto had lived here during her time at the Academy, through the creation of Team Seven, the whole fiasco with Sasuke, that bastard—although technically, Naruto conceded to herself, I guess it's just a replica after Nagato's attack. Naruto kind of missed the cracks in the wall of the original, if she was being honest. She sighed. It had only been a short few years after Konoha had been devastated, but at least rebuilding efforts had been efficient and effective, and now the village stood strong despite it all—thank the ramen gods for Yamato and his mokuton.
Consciously brushing aside the uncharacteristically melancholy mood, Sakura emphatically pointed at Naruto as she exclaimed, "Naruto, you won't even need to pay that much to move, let's be real. No way will your new landlord not give you some outrageous discount and, like, free ramen on top of that for saving the world."
Naruto rubbed her head a smidge sheepishly at that, smiling a little. "Maybe," she agreed, "but I wouldn't want to take advantage, and you're right that I can afford it."
Sakura smiled triumphantly. "Let's go apartment hunting then!" She energetically grabbed the blonde by her hand and pulled her towards the door.
"Wait, Sakura-chan, I haven't actually agreed yet!" Naruto protested, though she didn't really resist her friend's manhandling.
"At least check it out together with me. C'mon, it'll be fun!" Sakura smiled brightly and Naruto laughed, mood brightened, and, finally giving in, let herself be pulled along.
notes: no prompts this time! since this drabble grew from the last chapter. I've been completely surprised and overwhelmed by the response to this fic (honestly written on a whim).
as always, further notes are at my tumblr, the link which is in my profile (if I can get it to work - if not, it's apolausta as well)
since I doubt many of you will travel all the way there, however, here are some tl;dr points
- these are drabbles based on prompts I find from tumblr
- chapters are numbered chronologically (this one is 0.5 because it happens before the prior chapter, if that's not obvious from context)
- drabble lengths will vary depending on how my inspiration strikes