Destiny's Calling
Chapter 4
When Sayuri woke up the next time she was alone. It was early morning from looking at the sun through her window. With nothing to do her eyes zeroed in on the cards left from unknown people. She giggled a she read each card from people she had never meet. Someone called Naruto was over enthusiastic and wished to tell her that her mother was too old to be mopping inside a hospital already filled with grumpy patients. Another card from someone called Rock Lee hoped that she had not become depressed in her recovery at the hospital and wanted to know if they could train together. Mmmm, these cards were really interesting.
After she read each card Sayuri helped herself to some candy, loving the sweet taste. On her second piece her door opened to reveal Kakashi.
"Yo." She said before getting back to the candy.
"It's no time for candy." Kakashi said, taking the yummy sweets. "It's time to get up. You're being checked out."
"Awesome, but where are we going." Sayuri said as she slipped off the bed. They walked down the long hallway of the hospital, down some stairs and into the main room. Chairs lined the walls and a desk sat in the middle where a nurse was seated. The nurse smiled as Kakashi passed and Sayuri giggled.
"Ok come on." Kakashi said, walking faster out of the room. The fresh morning air hit Sayuri like a bucket of cold water. Unlike in her small village a lot of people were up and starting the day. That may have been because there were a larger number of ninja's who got up early to train and what not.
They walked past a small river with a stone fence. Sayuri jumped onto the fence, jumping from stone block to stone block. Some people were also walking along the river, while others stopped at the small bridges to look into the water. Sayuri skipped one of the blocks on the fence, knowing that it was loose and that she would have fallen into the water. Sometimes her blood limit was very useful. They walked along the bridge in quiet, they didn't need to talk.
After a while Kakashi turned into a street and Sayuri followed.
"So where are we going." Sayuri questioned.
"I thought that as your first time in Konoha you should try some ramen." Kakashi said with his one eye smile. Sayuri smiled back. They stopped at a place called Ichiraku Ramen. They walked inside and Sayuri looked around at the small restaurant. It was warm and cosy with a bar and tables lining around it. Only one other person was sitting down, eating some ramen that smelt really good.
As they sat down on the chairs a man walked over. He was tall with a nice smile and a big gut as if he had eaten too much ramen. Sayuri instantly got a good vibe from him.
As Kakashi knew what she liked she let him order. While they waited for the food the man on the other side of the bar started up a conversation.
"Kakashi it's been awhile, and who's your friend." He said with a smile.
"Oh this is Sayuri my cousin." Kakashi said while Sayuri said hi.
"Hello, I'm Teuchi and this here's my daughter Ayame." Teuchi said as a pretty woman with brown hair came out with their food.
With the first bite of her beef ramen Sayuri fell in love. It was way better than her Obaasan's ramen but only by a tiny bit she thought guiltily.
Kakashi ate his bowl in a few seconds while Sayuri took longer, eating slowly at she thought. It was strange being here when she had never left the village in her life. Hopefully she could stay now that her secret was out. She knew that here was where she belonged even though she knew her grandmother would be saddened without her. That thought sent a wave of fresh guilt to her. She had scared her Obaasan and then she would find out that her granddaughter was staying in Konoha. She really was a terrible person. She should write her a letter and explain everything later when she found some ink and paper.
Just as she was finishing her last spoonful someone crashed into her. Sayuri fell onto the ground with an oof and glared at her attacker. A young guy around her age was standing next to Kakashi, smiling sheepishly at her as he rubbed the back of his head.
He held out his hand. Sayuri grabbed it as he pulled her back up. "Sorry about that. I was running to fast to stop."
"Oh I'm Naruto by the way." Naruto said happily. Oh so he was the over enthusiastic one.
"Hey I'm Sayuri." Naruto ordered some ramen while Kakashi and Sayuri talked next to him. Naruto would sometimes comment, spitting food everywhere until Sayuri had the sense to move away from him.
Once Naruto had finished and paid for all his food they left, walking around the town. Naruto took up most of the conversation, telling Sayuri about his adventures.
As they were walking a girl ran up to the small group. Her hair was pink which shocked Sayuri. She had to have dyed it, right. But as she looked closer the hair looked really healthy. How odd.
"Kakashi, Naruto." The girl turned to Sayuri. "I'm Sakura."
"Sayuri." She greeted.
"I was looking for you guys. Gai wants to know if you want to meet up for lunch at the barbeque shop to celebrate Sayuri being here." Sakura said with a smile.
"I'm in. How about you Sayuri? You'll get to meet bushy brows, Tenten, Neji and Gai. They all helped to save you." Naruto said, excitement taking over his body.
"Sure, I'd like to thank them. You guys as well." Sayuri said with gratitude.
Naruto smiled in embarrassment. "It was nothing, really." Sakura smiled and hugged her. "We were happy to help."
An arm wrapped around her shoulders as they walked on. Sayuri smiled up at Kakashi. He wasn't the best with words but just the little things he did were worth more an anything he said. "Come on, we should take you back to Tsunade before she freaks out, wondering where you are."
Sayuri looked up. "You didn't tell her. Oh she's going to be mad."
Kakashi's eye widened. "How mad."
"Well, if I was you I wouldn't go inside." She giggled.
"Right well, I've got to get lost on the road of life." This was followed by two screeches of "again" by Naruto and Sakura as Kakashi slipped off in a puff of smoke.
Sayuri laughed as they walked on, though to where she had no idea. It was weird, not knowing where her mother lived or where she would be staying. Obviously with her mother but it still gave her a weird feeling not knowing.
They neared a large mansion, which Sayuri knew was her stop.
"This is the Hokage residence, occupied by the Hokage. It's one of the oldest buildings in the Hidden Leaf Village." Sakura said straight from the text book.
"Wow now I know I'm going to get lost just trying to get to the kitchen." She joked, knowing that she wouldn't get lost. It just wasn't possible with her blood limit. She could walk into the wrong direction but she would automatically know that she was going in the wrong direction. As they walked into the mansion Sayuri sensed the ANBU Black Ops, hidden in different places. This made Sayuri believe that there was more to the mansion than just accommodation.
The first room looked like a waiting room with chairs everywhere. A person was sitting at a desk, working on something. The man didn't look up as they pasted but the twitch of his eye brow told Sayuri that he was watching them. After that they walked up a flight of stairs and into an office. Her Oka-san was sitting in a high backed chair made from cherry wood and her expression was not happy. At the sight of the door opening the blonde woman had gotten ready to yell at the intruder but as she saw Sayuri she calmed down a bit.
"Where is he?" Tsunade said with her eyes ablaze.
"Oh do you mean Kakashi because he said something about needing a vacation I think. Or maybe he said something about hiding from you, whatever it was you won't be seeing him for awhile." Sayuri said with humour. Her mother didn't look pleased at her vague answer.
"Mmmm, I'll track him down later." Oka-san looked deep in thought, planning out ways to torture Kakashi.
"Ah Oka-san." Sayuri said, a little worried for Kakashi.
"Oh sorry. Got lost in thought for a second. Anyway Naruto, Sakura, you may leave."
"Yes malady." Sakura muttered while Naruto fist pumped the air, running out the door.
"So" Sayuri jumped onto the table, pushing paper aside. "What does the mighty Hokage want?"
"Funny Sayuri. Now come one. I want to show you your room." Her Oka-san pulled her along, excited. She wondered if Oka-san had worked on the room for the past couple of days. Yes, Sayuri thought straight away as her blood limit told her the answer.
They practically ran up the stairs, both wanting to beat the other. Sayuri had gotten her competitive side from her mother after all.
At the end of the hall Oka-san opened a thick wooden door. The wood slid easily with greased hinges. The room was beautifully arranged in her favourite colours of blue, silver and purple. The queen bed frame was silver and straight, it looked like it wouldn't break if she wanted to test the mattress with some jumping. The bed sheets were plain silver silk with light blue and purple pillows.
Before she stepped inside she took off her shoes and walked onto the soft white carpet. A window opened up half of one side of the room, with light purple and blue curtains.
"You have a walk in closet; I didn't want to put too much out in the open." Tsunade walked around the large room. "A bathroom connects to the side door."
Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at the effort that her Oba-san had taken into designing her room. Even with her duties as Hokage she still made time to do all this. Sayuri ran up to her startled mother.
"I love it Oba-san. Thank you." As yelled as she hugged her mother tightly.
"You're welcome Sayuri, I'm just so happy to have you here. I want you to be as comfortable as possible. I know it's not the same as Obaasan's but hopefully you can be happy here." Her Oba-san said, looking away as she said this.
"Oba-san I'm already happy here. Just being here with you and Kakashi makes me happy." Sayuri said, as her Oba-san looked at her with love.
"Thank you Sayuri."
In the few words Sayuri thought she understood her mother a little better. Sayuri knew that her Oba-san had lost her family and her blood limit told her that her mother was scared at losing another loved one.
Tsunade left shortly after that as she was needed in a meeting. Oba-san gave her one last smile before leaving with a soft click of the door.
Sayuri flopped onto the soft bed. As she turned her head she saw a clock on the wall. It was ten o'clock. With nothing better to do she stepped into the bathroom to have a shower.
As she saw the size of the bathroom Sayuri sighed. Her mother was always one for luxury but really. There was a spa bath that she you could almost swim in, followed by a shower, toilet and a mirror expanding from one side of the room to the other.
When Sayuri came out of the steaming room she looked at the clock, seeing that she had only wasted an hour. Only in a towel she didn't want to walk into her room with the huge window but her problem was solved as she found a door in the bathroom connecting to the walk in closet. And what she found in the closet really surprised her. Her normal outfit was set out, the same as the one she was wearing if not newer. When she searched around she found that she had a couple of the same outfits.
After getting dressed and brushing her hair she was ready to go but she still had an hour to kill.
Even though she didn't know where to go Sayuri decided to go early. Her blood limit would help her get there and then she would just sit down and wait. As she left her new room as took one look back and smiled, she was going to love it here.