Chapter 3
Team 7 and 10 walked into the Kazekage's office, he looked up from his desk. Naruto smiled and walked a little closer, "Hey Gaara." He smiled when he saw Naruto.
"Hello, Naruto." Gaara replied he nodded to the other Konoha Shinobi, "Thank you for coming, I'm glad you could help us out." He gestured to the door where Temari stood, "Temari, will help you out."
They nodded and went over to Temari, who said, "Nice too see guys again." She led them down the hall, "I'm afraid we don't have a whole lot of room so we paired you up in the rooms, Naruto and Sasuke, Choji and Shikamaru, Ino and Sakura."
They continued talking to each other, about what they were supposed to, and exchanging news. At some point Temari and Shikamaru left the rest of the group after Temari showed them were they were sleeping. Naruto dragged Choji and Sasuke around with him showing them Suna.
That left Sakura and Ino alone. "You've never been here, right Ino?" Sakura asked.
Ino nodded, "It's awfully dry, is there anything interesting to do?"
Sakura smiled, "Of course!" They went to a food stand and got something to eat. When they finished they went out shopping. When they got back they were both laughing and giggling and it was late. Sakura stopped in front of Sasuke and Naruto's room, she frowned when she herd noises, "I wonder how there doing?" She asked.
Ino turned, "Uh Sakura I-" Too late. Sakura opened the door and froze, then hit her head on the door frame, while Naruto and Sasuke were blinking from the light that Sakura had admitted into the room when she opened the door.
When they adjusted to the light Naruto said, "Oh." Of course ha and Sasuke were sleeping together as they did very often these days. Sakura just stared at the door frame then turned to look at them.
"Sorry, I'll just let myself out." And very quietly shut the door and went to her room with Ino.
"You don't look all that shocked." Ino commented.
"I'm not," Sakura shook her head, "I uh- saw them once, when they thought they were alone, they didn't see me. I just didn't think they would sleep together here." Then she paused, "you know?"
Ino nodded, "I, well I just do." She didn't feel like explaining the whole ordeal to Sakura. So Ino leaned over and kissed her instead, "Now get some sleep your going to have to work tomorrow."
Sakura shook her head; she was at Suna's hospital helping the other medical nin. She frowned and started healing shinobi who just got back from a mission. "What the hell were you doing?" She asked him.
"Just taking care of some robbers they had a few more than I expected." He replied, "They also had a trained shinobi with them, she was tough, a genjustu user." Sakura shook her head, and finished up.
When she had finished the day she was tired, and went in search of food. Temari found her, and treated her to some food. When Sakura finished Temari spoke to her, "Sakura I want to thank you for helping out our medical nin."
Sakura looked at her, "Oh, your welcome." She said a little surprised that Temari had even said as much.
Temari continued, "You saved Kankuro once. We don't have as many medical nin as we used to. It's a problem it means our shinobi are out of commission for longer and can't work on other missions, I'm hoping the relief you guys give us will last until we can function properly again."
Temari shook her head, "The others are on quick missions for Suna, would you like to do something?" Sakura nodded and she and Temari had some fun until the other Konoha shinobi returned.
When Sakura returned to her room with a book on medical ninjutsu from Suna's library she found Ino there scowling, Sakura locked the door, "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?!" Ino shouted, "I go on a day mission and when I return my girlfriend is talking to some sand slut, about what, nothing less than thanking you for coming to Suna and helping with their problems!"
Now Sakura frowned also, "Really Ino, grow up, I love you, Temari is a friend this isn't going to work if you're going to get jealous over a stupid thing like that!" She shook her head and settled down, "Besides you know as well as I do that Temari has a thing for Shikamaru even if she denies it, just as he denies liking her, whenever it's brought up!"
Ino knew Sakura was right but she still didn't like it. She fumed silently for awhile until she noticed Sakura was hunched over reading something. She looked over Sakura's shoulder, "What are you reading, love?"
"hmn?" Sakura mumbled then answered, "Oh this is a medical ninjutsu book from Suna I was just reading it, some of is really good!" She sat back and cracked her neck stretching out her back.
Ino frowned, "Darling you're hurting you back like that." She dug her fingers into Sakura's back, massaging the tension out of her back.
"mmmmm" Sakura said, "Thank you, Ino, that's nice." She continued reading her book for awhile then asked, "How was your mission?"
Ino sighed, "It went well, I wish you were there love. You would have wrapped it up in seconds. One bone crushing punch and we could have been out of there. Maybe you wouldn't even have to hit him. I'm sure if you hit the ground he would have given up his package rather easily."
Sakura laughed. "Okay Ino I'm going to sleep." She turned and hugged the other girl, "You do know I love you right?" Ino nodded and Sakura crawled into her pallet and slept.
"Ino gazed at her, entranced. She never thought they would end up here, in fact at one time Ino had never thought Sakura would ever love her. Ino didn't want to remember that so she went even farther back in time. The first time she saw Sakura, she had been crying and Ino loved her then.
Ino dressed her up and bragged to the rest of the world, who thought the forehead girl was ugly, was in fact, a beautiful bud waiting to bloom. Ino had been attracted to her then. The pink hair the emerald eyes, hell even her wide forehead had been gorgeous.
That was her own downfall Ino knew, showing the world, Sakura got confident in herself and said she liked Sasuke. Ino could not believe it and hide the fact that she liked Sakura saying she also liked Sasuke causing the war. Her mind stopped seeing the past and started to look at the women Sakura was now.
Ino moved some hair out of Sakura's sleeping face, when her hand moved down Sakura jaw line; she bent down and kissed Sakura. While Ino's lips lingered on Sakura's her hand moved further down and rested on Sakura's bosom.
Ino drew back feeling guilty. She would have to do something to make up for accusing Sakura of having other interests, other than Ino. She went to bed on the other side of the room with those thoughts.
