Where have you been

Where have you been? (Chapter 3)

Chapter 3

I was doing the dishes after dinner and to my surprise she started helping me by drying everything I had cleaned and finding the place where it belonged and then putting it away.

"You will be staying here until you have the courage to go home to your own apartment, you know that right? I won't let my friends stay on the streets"

Sakura somehow seemed happy with what I had said, she was putting our plates away and when she turned back to me she smiled.

"Thank you, Sasuke, I didn't really expect seeing you ever again… but here you are and it seems too good to be true"

I looked at her I was done with the dishes but I stared at her kinda amazed.

"Too good to be true huh? I wouldn't have expected you to say that after six years, not that I would have expected you to finally fall for the dobe either but, to think that you were actually still hoping for me to return… Why would you?"

I slowly wrapped my arms around her in a brother-ish hug and held her tight. She slowly put her head on my shoulder and I felt how her shoulders started to shake, she was crying, I knew this would come sooner or later but wouldn't have expected that those tears would still be shed for me…

"Where did Naruto go? Hasn't he been here?"

I lifted her up walked to the couch and set down, setting her on my lap still with her head on my shoulders and her face buried in my neck, it felt good to have someone to care for again. She mumbled with a trembling voice:

"H-He le-left for tr-aining t-two years a-after you left…"

I was confused he still hadn't returned? It had been four years since he left why would he leave Sakura alone for such a long time? I know I did but I was a jerk who didn't understand a thing about friendship… When she'd calmed down a bit I decided to ask her.

"Do you have any idea what is taking him so long?"

"Akatsuki was still after him and so he decided to train, after two years Kakashi decided to go after him but I wasn't allowed to come along, Kakashi said I was needed here and he just wanted to see how Naruto was doing and try training Naruto with the training he had thought of. Three months after Kakashi had left I got a letter from him saying the three of them would go after Akatsuki."

Now it made sense but that would been they have been hunting Akatsuki for a year and 7 months.

"Do you have any idea of the progress they made?"

She nodded but had started crying again and I realized what I had been doing, she had been in tears and all I was doing was ask her things instead of soothing her. So I started rocking her a bit and mumbled:

"we'll talk about it some other time okay?"

She nodded and we stayed like that for hours until I found out she had fallen asleep in my arms, I stood up and brought her up stairs, I put her on the bed of the guest room, and got a for her oversized shirt and changed her into it, constantly making sure I wouldn't see any private parts of her body, we might have seen each other naked on missions when we were twelve but we've grown up I respected her privacy, when she was changed, I put her to bed and softly kissed her forehead and I whispered:

"We'll find them, as soon as you are fully okay we'll go and look for them together, I promise."

I stood up and just as I was about to leave the room she mumbled:

"Please stay here?"

I saw she had woken up because her eyes were slightly open. I softly answered:

"Don't worry I'm in the room right from this one you can wake me up if something's wrong"

I saw she nodded but wasn't really satisfied with the answer she got from me. I guess she didn't want to be alone anymore. So I nodded:

"Okay I'll stay"

I smiled when I saw how relieved she was, I walked back into the room and took of my clothing except for my boxers, and lay down next to her, she crawled into my arms and soon I heard how her breathing was constant and calm, she had fallen asleep again.

I smiled, part of the family of team seven was reunited again. I didn't have feelings for the girl that was resting in my arms she was one of my best friends she was one of the people I would give my life for the other two were still to be found but at least I had her. And with that thought I finally fell asleep, holding her tightly in my sleep never wanting to let go.

(Author's note)

So chapter 3 is already done yippee thanks for the reviews please keep giving them and if you've got any advice or ideas I'd be happy to hear them from you. Please don't kill me if there are spelling or grammatical mistakes I'm Dutch so English is my second language. If you find any mistakes I would appreciate it if you would kindly point them out to me so I can learn from the mistakes I make. Thanks a lot.