Where have you been

Where have you been?(Chapter two)

Chapter 2.

There were no features of an old man instead, I found the face of a young woman, I couldn't see anything but her face, she looked shocked and after a while she mumbled:

"N-no th-thank you, s-sir"

I stared at her for a while realizing I had met her somewhere before after some time I realized what she had said and answered that I insisted and wouldn't take no for an answer. She sighed but picked up her cup and stood up her face constantly directed to the floor. I let her in and put the bag with groceries I had bought today in the kitchen. I realized she hadn't walked after me and was probably still in the hallway:

"You know usually it's polite to take off your hood"

She turned to me surprised and hesitated before really slowly taking off her hood. Who I saw was no one else than the one I had been searching for the passed two weeks.

"What the hell are you doing on the streets?! You can go home the lady you lived with would gladly allow you back in"

Her answer was really soft and I had to be really silent and really do my best to understand what she was saying:

"I-I t-told her I-I wouldn't be back u-until I found him… Wh-when I realized I couldn't leave this town I knew I had nowhere to go. And I ended right there w-where you found me everyday, sir."

"Sakura, stop this nonsense you know who I am there is no reason of calling me sir and even less reason to be scared of looking at me"

Slowly she directed her gaze towards my face I was shocked to see how bad she looked her hair didn't shine like it used to do, she was pale, bags under her eyes, her face looked skinny and her eyes didn't have that usual glow of happiness would she have really lost that what I used to call annoying thing which actually made her one of my best friends or maybe even sister?

I led her upstairs and gave her some old clothing I had kept which used to belong to my mother then I brought her to the bathroom told her to take a shower and just freshen up, gave her a towel toothbrush and everything she needed, and then I left, giving her her privacy, I walked down and started cooking dinner.

Half an hour later she walked into the kitchen, and somehow I managed to show something close to a smile, she looked a lot more like herself again.

"That looks a lot better to me you know? Go ahead sit down dinner is almost served"

Yes staying with Orochimaru, searching Itachi for a year and walking around without purpose for another year had really changed my attitude towards the team I used to have in Konoha I had learned to appreciate them instead of pushing them away and only now I realized how much better it would have been for them and for me if I had started with that right away.

We had dinner and I somehow managed to get her to loosen up a bit, I got her to smile several times it wasn't the smile I used to receive but to be honest this smiles seemed more true. The smile I used to receive seemed so fake since she was always trying to be with me make a good impression on me and stuff like that. This seemed like an honest smile more like the ones she gave to Naruto and Kakashi back in the time, even though the sparkle to it was missing.