Where have you been? (Chapter 7)
Chapter 7
So in the following weeks nothing special actually happened we woke up ate breakfast after breakfast we went out to train every few days we would do shopping for food and after training or grocery shopping we would go home have dinner and sometimes meet up with some friend who had returned from their mission. That was our daily schedule until someday the Hokage asked us to come to her tower.
When we arrived at the Hokage's tower we were immediately ordered to go in and so we did. Tsunade was sitting behind her desk with a cup of tea in her hands, Shizune was standing behind her and we stood before her desk.
"You are going on a mission looking for your old teammates and Jiraya, this could be a pretty hard mission but it could also be dead simple. The team should have arrived three days ago but they didn't I don't think anything serious could have happened to them but you can never be too sure. They were last seen near where sound used to be and they were heading towards Konoha, so you'll be traveling towards sound in the hope you'll meet them somewhere on your way."
I was confused I wasn't allowed to go on missions yet right? Even though this mission would be deadly simple it would require me leaving Konoha.
"Hokage-sama, I'm still restricted from missions for one week."
"I don't care, go and leave within to hour and find them, now dismissed."
We nodded and ran to my home, we packed for our mission and left half an hour later, we ran until the evening fell the we put up our camp and sat near the fire Sakura had started. I made some dinner like thing and we just ate quietly. After dinner we just sat silently staring into the fire until:
"So you are finally going to see Naruto again after more than six years. Are you nervous"
"Hn, not really. I wonder if he's finally gotten stronger then me"
I looked at her, she was still staring into the fire, I could see the flames dancing in her emerald eyes, I was happy to see that usual spark again. Then I wished I could just tell her what I felt and just hold her, stroke through her silky hair, kiss her, say sweet things to her-… huh wait what? Say sweet things to her… my gawd was I getting crazy… I guess I was…
She looked annoyed by the remark I gave, after all these years I still wanted to get stronger and stronger. She was probably thinking about that I had gotten what I wanted but boy was she wrong. If she only knew what I wanted and no these were no dirty things. Then she spoke up again.
"I wonder what has caused their delay…"
"Hn Probably lost on the road of life"
"oh yes I forgot Kakashi's with them"
She said laughing. She really did look truly happy. She did look much better than when I found her even though I still wasn't okay with her figure she still was far too skinny, but she wouldn't want to gain more weight she had already freaked out when she found out she wasn't 79 pounds but 80. It didn't even cheer her up when I said I weighed much more than that. She started talking about guys always weigh much more then girls!
"It is so long ago when we first heard who were on our teams. I was so happy when I heard I was on the same team as you were, I didn't even care that you hated it… that crazy infatuation of me"
"Is that infatuation over now?"
I asked it carefully I hoped she wouldn't bust me. After 2 or 3 seconds she answered softly:
"Y-Yes I think so… why?"
"No nothing I just didn't want you to walk around with that infatuation which would be quite unlikely to be answered since I left for six years"
We both sighed. Now it was certain she was over me, now I had to try getting of her… But how? She was living in my house… we were sharing the same room, hell even the same bed.
We both stood up putting out the fire and crawling into our tent, we had decided to not do different shifts of watches but just keep our guards up even while we're asleep, we lay down in our sleeping bags and I quickly fell asleep, Sakura on the other hand was tossing and turning and after a while woke me up again.
"Sasuke? I-I can't sleep I haven't been out like this for a long time, could I join you in your sleeping bag?"
"hn"
I opened it for her so she could crawl in with out any weird situations, she crawled in and I closed it again, she gently pushed me on my back, and lay her head on my chest, I wrapped my arms around her and soon we both fell asleep again.
Four days just consisted of getting up having breakfast running, short pit stops, dinner and sleeping. We didn't talk a lot but every evening she would just crawl into my sleeping bag together with me.
On the fifth evening we suddenly felt chakra presences they got closer and closer we got into fighting stance, until Kakashi and Jiraya came up out of the bushes.
"KAKASHI!"
Sakura ran up to Kakashi and hugged him, Kakashi dropped the guy he was carrying, it was a guy wearing an Akatsuki robe and an orange mask, he was obviously put under a genjutsu, and wrapped his arms around her, then his eyes turned to me.
"So Sasuke you have returned"
"And he's grown too"
Jiraya added. Suddenly another boy came out of the bushes carrying a guy who looked like Pein, also under genjutsu. He almost screamed:
"WHAT TEME'S BACK?!"
"Yes dobe I'm right here"
Naruto dropped the body next to Tobi's and ran up to me, he started poking me in the sides before concluding:
"It really is you…"
Sakura who had let go of Kakashi smacked him over the head with a bit of her inhuman strength and he fell to the ground pretty hard.
"Of course it's him, Naruto…"
"G-Good to see you too Sakura-chan"
Naruto mumbled into the ground. I laughed a bit and sat down, Sakura sat down adjacent from me and the three men sat down as well. Sakura was silently chatting with Naruto I could see their eyes sometimes direct towards me. I couldn't catch what they were saying also because Kakashi started talking to me.
