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57. Guess who's back?
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.One day during lunch at the Hyuuga compound Naruto asks his wife out of the blue: "Who do you think was the one who has wrapped up the gift Kakashi brought for Boruto?"
Hinata watches her son chewing happily on a piece of meat. "Why do you ask?"
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The blonde jinchuuriki answers between bites: "It looked rather untypical like he hasn't made it himself. That decorative bow carried the mark of a woman. I wonder who she is."
"Don't you dare to investigate the hokage's private life!" She knows her husband very well, he is stubborn and when something catches his interest it's better to nip it in the bud before he decides to put his idea into action.
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Naruto raises a brow and cocks his head to the side. "Why not? I'm his former teammate, his former student, I think I need to know."
Hinata shakes her head negatively. "Let him be. Don't you think he deserves a relationship after all those lonely years? When the time has come and he wants you to know, he'll inform you."
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Sighing he responds: "I guess you're right, but I'm dying of curiosity!"
His lovely wife helps their son to clean up.
I hope he won't cause any disturbance. I'm sure they had to go a rough path each until they finally found what they've been looking for. I'll make sure he keeps it at bay and leaves them alone for as long as I can. Distract him!
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"Speaking about your teammates and after our dinner date, what do you think about Tatsuo and Sakura as a couple?"
"They make a perfect match! I'm so happy for them!"
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Smiling relieved she returns to eat her steamed zucchini with salmon and rice while Naruto keeps on telling stories and pointing out similarities between his ANBU captain and his former teammate.
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Sakura and Kakashi had another wonderful week together. The medic nin has never felt that good in her life before. She doesn't feel alone anymore, she has finally found someone waiting for her to come home and someone worth enough to be carried on her hands. The best thing is he returns it. All the time he has been right in front of her and so has she in reverse, but they have not noticed each other in the way they did now. Reflecting the impressions of the last months she stretches her arms as sleep wears off slowly of her body. Kakashi's warm naked body is lying close to her and makes up for every single minute she had to spend alone in all those years. She turns a bit and lays her head onto his muscular chest. His steady heartbeat relaxes her and she drifts off again.
Time passes by too quickly, so she hasn't fallen asleep fully by now as Kakashi begins to stir.
"Good morning." His deep voice greets the sleeping beauty while strong fingers brush away some pink strands of her face.
Her eyes struggle to adjust to the morning light. "Good morning", she murmurs grumpily.
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"Breakfast?" He kisses her forehead and tries to get out of bed, but her arms wrapped around his middle pull him back.
"Ugh… five more minutes please. The sun is barely up."
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"It's funny that you're not a morning person, but you were constantly claiming about me always being late." He chuckles amused. "Come on, we should get up."
"Get up for what?" The pinkette answers frowning.
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"Training, Sakura. Training! A shinobi needs to maintain his exceptional skills." There is his dramatic gesture again.
"But it's my day off." Her head finally finds her favourite place to rest and mentally recharge right on the middle of his chest.
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"Well, in that case you get your five more minutes." Chuckling he pulls the victoriuosly smiling woman closer.
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By dawn he walks through the gates of Konoha.
"Just fill out this form and you're allowed to pass, but keep in mind you must visit the hokage during the office hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., the sooner the better." Kotetsu states and hands him said papers.
After he has completed his registration with tha gate guards he decides to take a stroll through the town and to get something to eat. Unfortunately it is too early for the stalls and restaurants to open, so after an hour of pointless roaming around the streets he decides to walk in a lazy pace into the direction of her apartment. He has nothing else to do and maybe she will be awake by now.
The shinobi has been randomly in the near of Konoha and fittingly he has wanted to ask Sakura to be his date at the Memorial Day festivities anyway. According to rumours she has been with the kazekage for months and a strange part of him has been a little jealous and angry back then, but that's the past. Today he wants to take a step into the future. Apparently he is fortunate, there is light in her apartment. With firm steps he just turns into the small path leading to the entrance of her apartment building as suddenly the door opens from inside.
With his skills it doesn't take him long until he notices the man exiting the building.
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"YOU, of all people?!"
"What do you mean, me of all people?" Tatsuo responds calm hoping the other man will get the hint.
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"You can't fool me, you know that already since our last meeting. What are you doing here?"
Pretending to be confused in case somebody could witness he ruffles his light-brown hair. "Ah. Good morning, Sasuke! What brings you here to Konoha?"
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"Sakura. I want to discuss some things with her. Tell me now, why are you leaving her apartment in the early morning hours?"
"We had to discuss some important things." Inwardly he wanted to slap himself for his stupid and unusually impetuous answer.
To bring her breakfast.
To look after her because she's ill.
To gather some dog treats she made for the pack.
To ask her to get my kage robes white again.
Everything would have been better.
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"Sure. Your lame excuses again… " A cruel and disgusted chuckle underlines his words.
Tatsuo gives Sasuke a very serious look without any further expression in his infamous blank I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude as a warning while the black-haired fuming man remembers the scene as he has seen Sakura for the last time.
Back then the sleepy pinkette mumbled "I love you Sasuke and I always will." While he put on his clothes and before she woke up he was gone. Today he has stopped by to visit her and to talk with her about becoming godfather and godmother, also he has wanted to surprise her with his presence in the morning to make up for when he had left her lying there long ago. He has thought that through, maybe he will be able to try it, maybe it would work, maybe this time it could be different. But then he finds another man here instead.
I wonder if she now tells him the same in her slumber.
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The last Uchiha steps closer and lowers his voice to a snarl only audible for Tatsuo. "What were you doing with my Sakura?"
"Sasuke, not here. Let's go to the tower and talk in private."