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"You seem a bit old for reading glasses," Sakura says as she walks in, tearing off those black gloves she seems so fond of.

Steve looks up. "You'd be surprised by how old I actually am."

She scrutinizes him with those intense eyes, and Steve does his best not to fidget.

"And how old are you, then?"

"Well over seventy years old."

"Well," she sighed, grabbing a glass of water. "You'll have to share your secret with me. I want to look like that when I'm going on 70 years."

He shakes his head, smiling at the indirect compliment he just received. Putting a bookmark in on the page he is reading, he closes the book. "I was frozen in ice for a long time, when I woke up I ended up here. Everything was different. New technology, no familiar faces, even the regular haunts I loved to spend time in Brooklyn, all gone."

Sakura stops what she is doing to listen, and understands his plight immediately. "I see," she says and Steve wonders what she sees as she stares at him. "So this is a new world for you, too."

And she sits down with him, opening the pouch he has never seen her without. Delicately, almost sacredly, she shows him a book of photos no bigger than three by two inches and he blinks in surprise.

The Polaroid size photos are better quality than he imagined, filled with many unique, colorful people. She flips to one picture, where five people sit at a picnic in tall grass, shaded by a leafy tree. There she is in the middle, head tilt back and mouth stretched wide in laughter to the sky, surrounded by her loved ones, and she brushes her thumb across the picture in apparent longing.

"I left my world in the middle of a war. I don't know what has happened to them. What if my boys need me? I don't know if I'll ever be able to get back, to grow old with them."

"Wow, Sakura," says Captain, because he isn't sure what to say. The world he can see from the the photos looks so drastically different, a large village she calls home, filled with so much green, and he is beyond sure that she misses it, because he knows he does. He can hear it so plainly in her voice, the threat of tears never too far away as she looks at the smiling faces in the photos. And he doesn't know what to say, because she has opened up to him inexplicably, unsure as to why.

She stares at the photo a little while longer before carefully closing the book and tucking it away. Shaking her head, she says, "There is nothing that can be done. I am glad I have this left of them, at least."

Steve looks at the raw look on her face, and pulls out his own relic for her to look at. Peggy's face looks back at him, as youthful as ever. She places a hand on his shoulder and they don't say anything for a minute.

"She is beautiful," she tells him after a brief moment of silence. He nods in agreement. "She is."

Thor!" Cries Sakura, running into the room, a wide grin nearly splitting her face. Thor looks up, a pop tart in his hand, and the newspaper in another.

"Yes, Sakura?"

"It's beautiful out! Let's go flying," She says to him, sitting on the arm of his chair. He moves to accommodate her, placing his poptart and newspaper on the coffee table, wrapping an arm around her waist and looking up at her.

"How do you know that I can fly?"

"Tony said you can?"

Tony, who is making a quick breakfast at the counter in a navy suit and tie, has the decency to look sheepish at the look Thor sends him. "I did no such thing!" He pipes up. When Sakura glances over at him, the look disappears completely. "Princess, that was supposed to be a secret."

She rolls her eyes. "As if anything you say is a secret."

He wags his finger at her. "Ah-ah attitude! Watch it, Cherry Bomb, and behave. Point Break, if you take her with you, don't drop her." With that, Tony leaves, talking into his cellphone, over his slightly burnt toast. "Yes, Pepper I'll be right there, yes, Happy is driving—, now, has anyone heard of the most recent attack?"

Sakura furrows her brows at Iron Man, who has just left, making a mental note to figure out what he had been talking about. "So?" She turns back around and asks him, and Thor frowns. "I do not know, little one. It is not very safe."

Sakura rolls her eyes again, and Thor wonders where the quiet girl he remembers and this sassy woman met in the middle. "Come on, now, I promise I'm stronger than I look."

Those words are heavy with promise, and while Thor is dubious, he knows when he is losing a fight. Jane taught him well in that aspect.

"Very well then, we shall go flying."

"Yatta!" She cheered. "Let's go somewhere green, I haven't seen plants in too long."

Thor follows as the pink haired spritely woman bounces up the stairs to the roof. The skies are a dreary grey and the air is cool, but there is a bright look on her face. "It may rain, little one," he informs her, but she just grins up at him and Thor doesn't have it in him to say no.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" She asks him when he stands there awkwardly, unaware that he doesn't know just how to hold her safely. With Jane, he has confidence. But Sakura is built like the flowers in his mother's garden, despite her bubbly attitude. He takes too long, apparently, because Sakura is making a running start off the building and Thor's heart lodges itself in his throat permanently- "Sakura!"

She leaps over the edge with laughter in her chest, and Thor zooms down to reach her. The breath leaves her as she is caught jarringly, her eyes sparkling and wide with adrenaline.

"You will be the death of me," he tells her, and she just looks up at him innocently. In another bold move, she wriggles out of his arms and he drops her and has to reach out and catch her again. About to scold her, he stops at the sight of her wide grin and blown pupils and decides to shake his head.

The wind blows through their hair and Thor flies them beyond the city limits, where the urban sprawl begins to fade and make way for green, rolling hills. She sits quietly, looking down at the world in wonder, and Thor steals glances at the woman enraptured with nature, smiling fondly.

"Are you not cold?" He asks after a long beat of silence, and she just burrows deeper into the fabric of his shirt, shaking her head and unable to look away from the scenery.

"This world is so different from mine," she breathes, and Thor can't help but agree with Sakura. Earth has it's charm, but he misses home from time to time, and knows the pink haired woman must feel the same way.

"Why do you like to fly?" He says, and she looks up at him, finally. "Why do you like to fly?" She turns the question back at him and says, "Part of it is the freedom, the literal seperation from the ground and responsibilities, but Sai always used to take us flying. It reminds me of him."

The two say nothing the rest of the trip, as they calmly fly back home to the tower. Thor sets her down gently, and gets a brief hug in gratitude. He waves her off as she disappears into the tower, and promises himself he will not see sadness in those familiar green eyes again, even if it means using Mjolnir for purposes other than fighting.

The Avengers Initiative is what Nick Fury calls it, and Sakura is curious. "This is what you got after New York, no? Your team."

Fury nods and pushes the papers to her. She picks them up and scrutinized them.

"And what does this have to do with me?" She questions him, unsure as to where the conversation is going. "You have what you want."

Fury raises his eyebrow and gives her a pointed look. "I want you, Haruno, on this team. We need you."

Sakura sighs and looks out at the New York City skyline, thinking long and hard. After a few minutes of careful thoughts, Sakura shakes her head and pushes the envelope back.

"No."

Fury blinks, almost as if he wasn't expecting her answer. "No?" He repeats.

She nods. "No. This world does not need me when it has enough heroes to save it. I will not join this team as a fighter, but maybe as a healer…" She trails off, and now Fury is truly surprised.

"A healer?"

"No one is invincible."

"Fair enough. So what do you propose?"

"Going with the team to areas of conflict. Healing them and civilians. No one will have to worry, I know how to defend myself."

Nick Fury smiles and it is a grim thing. They shake hands. "Alright then, Haruno. It's a done deal. Welcome to the Avengers."

She returns the smile. "No going back now."

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