Hey guys! I haven't updated in a while…as you all know. Anyway, here it is!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto! Yaaaaaaaaay! It'd be too troublesome anyway…
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Old team 7 walked down the streets of Konoha. The townspeople stared at Sasuke like if he was a freak of nature.
He was feeling slightly uncomfortable with all the eyes that were on him. Without noticing, he went closer to Sakura, like if she was going to defend him from the 'evil' townspeople.
Sakura of course, did notice. She started laughing.
Sasuke and Naruto looked at her. Kakashi already knew what was going on so he just kept his perverted eye on his perverted book.
-"Sakura-chan, why are you laughing?" Naruto asked with confusion clearly playing in his face.
Sakura looked at Naruto and then at Sasuke. She stopped laughing and went back to her stoic expression.
-"Konoha's people don't bite." She stated. Naruto looked even more confused while Sasuke glared at her. She saw the glare and smirked at him. Sasuke distanced himself from her and kept walking while still glaring.
-"I don't get it?" Naruto said. They all sweat dropped.
-"There's nothing to understand, dobe." Sasuke said. If Naruto found out what he did, he would never live it down. The Kyuubi container glared at Sasuke.
-"Don't call me dobe, teme!"
-"I'll call you whatever I want…dobe." Sakura sighed; she knew where this was going.
-"Ok, both of you stop now." She stated while she glared at both. Naruto stopped immediately while Sasuke just glared back at her. She stopped her glare and looked ahead of her. Sasuke kept the glare for a while but then stopped.
Finally, they made it. They walked up a flight of stairs and finally a door with the number 9 on it came to view. Sakura took out her keys and opened the door. Walking in, Sasuke looked around the place. There was a living room with a giant couch and a TV. Then came the kitchen, which was pretty big, seeing this is an apartment after all. It had a small table that has four chairs. The next room was the bathroom. After those three rooms, there were three doors left. Sakura opened the door that was in the end of the hallway.
-"This is your room, Sasuke." She said with a stoic expression on her face. All of team 7 went inside to check it out. There was a queen sized bed, a wardrobe, and a small desk with a chair. The walls were blue. Sakura eyed Sasuke's expression. It seemed as though he liked it.
-"I'll leave you in your room." She said while walking to the door.
-"What are the other two rooms?" he asked, not even sparing her a glance.
-"One of them is my room and the other one is a small library." She stated.
-"Sakura" Kakashi started. "You really don't know how to treat your guests, do you?" Kakashi said tauntingly while still keeping his eye on his book.
-"I want to see the other two rooms." Sasuke said. Sakura raised an eyebrow; he was demanding to see the other rooms? It's her apartment!
-"Check the library out for yourself, although it's only filled with medical books and as for my room, don't you dare try and enter my room. That's the only room you can't go into." Sakura stated as she closed the door behind her.
All the guys looked at each other and blinked twice.
-"Have you guys ever been to her room?" Sasuke asked.
-"No teme, why should I go in there?" Naruto stated.
-"I've been in it." Kakashi said. Both Naruto and Sasuke looked at their teacher like if he just said the stupidest thing they ever imagined. "For her birthday, we celebrated here in her house. In the end, we started talking about old times, and she led me into her room showing me the picture of team 7." They looked at Kakashi disbelieving. Kakashi ignored them and kept reading his book.
-"You're such a liar Kakashi-sensei!" screamed Naruto. Kakashi sighed; he didn't know his students knew him so well.
Now all three of them thought, 'isn't it a little weird that no one has seen Sakura's room?'
-"Well, it is a girl's room right?" Naruto said. "I mean, I'm sure Ino has seen her room." Kakashi and Sasuke nodded in agreement.
-"For once, you actually said something intelligent dobe." Sasuke…err…complemented?
-"TEMEEEEEEEE! DON'T CALL ME DOOOOOOBE!" Naruto yelled as he threw a punch in Sasuke's direction. Sasuke easily dodged and grabbed Naruto's fist. They immediately stopped when Kakashi said to. They both respected their ex-sensei too much to disobey him (A/N: not counting the Sasuke leaving thing).
Well, all three smelled something delicious in the air. They looked at each other and nodded. They left Sasuke's room to check out what was that wonderful smell.
They stopped when they heard a humming sound. It was such a melodic voice. It could captivate anyone's heart, soft, sweet, and caring. Just like the old Sakura's.
Naruto decided to head in while Kakashi tried to stop him by his collar. It seemed that their ex-sensei who was hentai (pervert) liked the voice as much as Sasuke. Naruto, however, only smelled the cooking and wasn't thinking about the voice.
Something happened, the beautiful voice stopped. They looked at each other and decided to enter the battlefield that was awaiting them. Surely Sakura had detected them.
They entered the kitchen, as if nothing happened. Naruto drooled when he saw the ramen on the table; after all, everyone knew that after Hinata and Ichiraku's, Sakura's ramen was one of the best. She had a special hand in cooking, although in his opinion, Hinata's cooking was way better. He would never admit it in front of Sakura unless he wanted to die a slow and painful death.
They all sat down at the table while Sakura eyed them. She nodded at them, as if giving them a sign so they could start eating. She knew they were listening to her humming. She smirked; they must've liked it because they didn't even approach the table to eat.
She sat down on the table as well. She eyed them and their faces. She knew that from Kakashi and Sasuke, it would be hard to get something out, but Naruto was a different story, especially when the blonde's eating.
-"How's the food?" she asked them, not really caring.
Naruto grinned while Sasuke and Kakashi nodded.
-"Your cooking is one of the best, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said happily.
This was her chance.
-"Is it as good as my voice?" she asked. Before Kakashi and Sasuke could stop Naruto from spilling, the blonde had blurted everything out.
-"Sasuke-teme and Kakashi-sensei must like it better than your food, but I don't!" Naruto said and then automatically clasped a hand to his mouth.
Sakura smirked. She got up from the table, not even touching the plate she had in front of her. She approached Naruto and put the plate next to the other one he was eating, which was half empty.
-"Eat up Naruto-kun, you deserve it for today, although as a medic I'm completely against it." Naruto taking his hand out of his mouth grinned at Sakura. She had added the suffix –kun! It's been a long time since she calls him like that.
-"Thanks Sakura-chan!" He grinned broadly. She nodded and left the room.
-"Dobe, you had to open your stupid mouth." Sasuke glared at Naruto.
Naruto, not wanting to start an argument because he was eating shrugged off the fact that Sasuke had called him dobe for the millionth time today. Instead, he grinned at Sasuke. Kakashi and Sasuke both took notice of this and sighed. Both of them thought the same thing: 'hopeless'.
-"Look on the bright side teme! I got an extra dish of ramen!" Naruto said, his grin as wide as his face could possibly stretch.
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-"Hey Shika! Welcome home!" Ino smiled at her husband and gave him a giant hug as he entered the house.
-"Troublesome" he mumbled under his breath as he hugged her back and smirked at her.
-"You came early from the mission! The kids are still at the Academy!" Ino added exstatically. Shikamaru nodded at his wife as he went to sit on a chair in the living room.
-"Have you spoken to Sakura?" Ino looked puzzled at her husband. She nodded at him.
-"Yea, she came here yesterday, why?"
-"I need to speak to her."
-"Oh, about?" she asked with a grin on her face. Ino is too curious and couldn't help but ask.
-"It's about the mission I just had. I can't tell you about it Ino, you know it." He stated as he got up. "I'm going to take a shower." He said as he looked at his wife.
She looked disappointed but tried to hide it. She smiled up at him and nodded. He caught the disappointed look and sighed.
-"You know it's against ANBU regulations to tell anyone about their mission." He said as he passed a hand through his hair. She nodded at him while getting up herself.
-"Shika?"
-"Yea?"
-"What do you want me to make you for dinner?" Shikamaru cringed at the thought of Ino cooking or doing one of her weird experiments. He had to distract her somehow.
-"Ino?"
-"Yes, Shika?"
-"Let's take a shower together." He stated as he smirked at her. Ino blushed and then without thinking twice, nodded as she grabbed her husband's hand and they walked to the bathroom.
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-"Are you sure, Neji-nee-san?" a worried look all over her face as Hinata looked at her cousin. He nodded. "I see. How do you think Sakura-chan and Sasuke-san will take it?"
-"I don't care how Uchiha takes it, but I don't think he'll be too happy. Not that he ever is happy. Sakura-san is who I'm worried about." He said as he looked out the window of the Hyuuga mansion's fourth or fifth living room. "Will you tell Naruto?" his eyes still looking out the window.
-"I don't know, I guess I'll have to… but everything has been so weird since Sasuke-san has arrived. I'm worried of how Naruto-kun might take it."
-"Don't worry, he won't be bothered more than the necessary. We are after all talking about Naruto, the knuckle-headed ninja of Konoha." Hinata giggled, but nodded at him.
-"Right." With that said she got up and left him alone.
As soon as he heard the door close behind him, he let out the breath he had been holding. He didn't like what he and Shikamaru had found out in that mission. They needed answers and the only one that could give them was Haruno Sakura. He left the room and went towards her apartment.
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-"Sakura didn't eat anything." Sasuke stated as if he didn't give a damn, when deep inside he was debating of whether or not bring a plate to her room.
-"Don't worry teme, Sakura-chan doesn't eat a lot. She's usually off on a mission or training. She always says that she doesn't have time for such trivial things as food." Naruto said smiling at his seventh bowl of ramen.
Sakura had cooked a lot of ramen knowing that Naruto couldn't live without eating at least five bowls, if not more.
-"What do you mean? She doesn't eat at all?" Sasuke asked with a bored expression. Naruto and Kakashi saw this as there cue as they sensed a presence coming, one they knew very well.
-"Well, teme, we have to go, see ya and say bye to Sakura-chan for us, right Kakashi-sensei?" When Naruto looked for the pervert with his orange book, he had found out that the hentai ditched him. "KAKASHI-SENSEI!" With that said, Naruto ran off, closing the door behind him.
Sakura approached Sasuke who was in the couch and sat down next to him. Finally, they left, now she was going to get her answers.
Sasuke looked at Sakura and knew what was coming. She was going to ask about THE incident.
-"Uchi-" A knock on the door cut her sentence short. She got up and opened the door to see no one other then the Hyuuga prodigy in all his glory.
After the years, Sakura and Neji had become close friends. They usually trained together and they went on a lot of missions together also.
He smirked at her as she smirked back.
-"Neji-kun, what a pleasant surprise. I thought you were on a mission? What are you doing here?" she asked as she let him in.
Neji looked at the man sitting on the couch that was glaring at him. Neji decided to glare back.
-"Hyuuga." Sasuke spit out.
-"Uchiha" Neji stated with venom clearly located there.
If looks could kill, the youngest Uchiha would have been in a pool of blood with all of his chakra holes closed and kunais all over his body, while Neji would also be in a pool of blood, but unlike Sasuke, he would have had choke marks on his neck and all of his intestines opened and ripped out.
Neji stopped glaring at Sasuke as he saw Sakura pass him and sit next to the Uchiha.
-"Sit down, Neji-kun, can I get you something?" Sasuke cringed and Neji saw this and smirked. Since when did she add the suffix –kun to Neji, when the one who was supposed to have it was him.
Neji sat down next to Sakura and shook his head to respond to her question.
-"So…why did you come over?" she asked looking at him curiously. He sighed.
-"Shikamaru was going to pass by here later, but knowing him, he might come tomorrow instead. I decided to come over instead of him and tell you and Uchiha about what we discovered during our mission." He stated.
Sasuke got up from the couch and stood in front of the Hyuuga, while Sakura turned her whole body to face Neji.
-"What is it?" she asked looking deep into his opal eyes.
-"Itachi." He said. Sasuke's eyes narrowed in anger as Sakura's widened. "My mission was to scout the border of the Fire country. When we were coming back, we spotted him and his partner Kisame. We fought of course, Shikamaru and I against Itachi, while the rest of our ANBU team went against Kisame."
-"What happened?" Sakura asked, getting impatient.
-"Sakura, you need to answer with the truth to this question I'm about to ask you." Sakura looked puzzled at him, but then nodded. Sasuke clenched his fists, waiting for the man in front of him to get on with it. He was getting annoyed. "Did you know Itachi before the massacre and before becoming a missing nin?"
Sakura's eyes widened. Why would Neji ask such a question?
-"No, I knew Sasuke, but not Itachi. If I recall, he was usually out on missions. Sasuke once told me. What does that have to do with anything though?" she asked getting curious.
Neji looked at her. She was saying the truth. He was afraid of this. Then that only meant one thing.
-"He's been watching you." Sakura looked shock at him and so did Sasuke.
-"What do you mean?"
-"He asked me about you and Sasuke when we were fighting him. Of course, I expected him to ask about Sasuke, but not you. For some reason, he also looked very interested to know the answer. Neither me or Nara answered and minutes later, he escaped with Kisame. We were very injured so we let them be and returned to Konohagakure to treat our wounds since our medic-nin was very injured and couldn't." The Hyuuga said in one breath.
Sasuke looked at Sakura, and she was looking at Neji. What did his brother want with her? She's nothing special, right? Unless…
-"We have a theory." Neji interrupted Sasuke's train of thoughts. "We think that he needs you to heal his eyes. The last time we saw him, Nara and I noticed that he couldn't see us very well because he was squinting. He must've heard of Sakura surpassing the Hokage in medical skills, so we imagined that might be the reason."
Sakura took her gaze from Neji and then looked at Sasuke. He was staring at her and she at him. He averted his gaze to Neji.
-"So, what are we supposed to do?" Sasuke asked.
-"We told the Hokage and she said that both of you can handle Itachi. She has too much faith in you two if you ask me."
-"Nobody asked you" Sasuke said glaring at Neji. He smirked at the Uchiha.
-"I'm sure you'll be alright Sakura so don't worry too much after the oldest Uchiha. After all, you already got one of them to worry about and that's already a pain." He stated, breaking the gaze between him and Sasuke to look at Sakura.
Sakura got up and nodded. Sasuke glared at the Hyuuga harder, sending him the famous Uchiha glare that so many people fear.
-"Thank you Neji-kun and I'll keep that in mind." He got up and nodded as he headed for the door. He looked back at her before closing the door behind him.
-"Training is tomorrow at eight." He stated. She nodded and smirked at him. She looked at Sasuke and then at Neji.
-"We'll be there." He smirked as he closed the door and she looked back at Sasuke. "Come on, we have to buy you some clothes. Did you see the face Neji-kun put when he saw you dressed in white?" she mocked. He glared at her.
-"He didn't put a face, and even if he did, I don't give a damn." He stated as he opened the door to leave. "Are you coming?" he asked. She nodded and both left, closing the door behind them.