The Power Within
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: No, I still don't own Naruto. ; )
Sakura awoke and sleepily wiped her eyes. Her and Hinata had fallen asleep while watching
their movie, and Hinata was still curled up on her pallet in the dark room. Sakura looked around
the room, trying to figure out where the noise came from that had awoken her. Everything was
still in place in the room, and the television was still on like it had been left when they fell
asleep. Suddenly, Sakura felt the weight of someone's gaze on her, and quickly looked out the
window. She saw a shadow quickly move away from the window to disappear into the
darkness. She slowly climbed out of pallet, and went to the window to see if the person was
really gone. Just as she had feared, the person had gotten away. Still, the question remained,
how had they gotten over the fence, and why hadn't they been torn to ribbons by her guard dogs.
Nothing and no one had ever gotten past them. Sakura had picked them out herself, and they
were brutal to intruders, and yet they had never even so much as barked to alert her. Something
about this intrusion didn't sit well with Sakura, but until she found out what it was, she wasn't
going to tell Hinata. The poor girl worried enough as it was. Sakura walked through the living
room and into the kitchen. She knew she wouldn't be able to sleep, so she started fixing
breakfast for her and Hinata. Hinata awoke a few hours later from the sounds and smells
wafting out of the kitchen. She glanced up at the clock above the tv. It was barely six in the
morning. 'I wonder what's wrong now' she thought 'Sakura is never up this early, especially
not with breakfast already made. I wonder if she had a bad dream like I do' Hinata went and
took a shower, and when she arrived in the kitchen a few minutes later, Sakura had already set
the table, and was placing the last plate of food on it. Hinata's jaw dropped when she saw all the
food heaped on the table. Sakura had apparently been up for a while working on it. "Sakura,"
she asked quietly, "Is there something wrong? You must have been up for hours making all this
food. Did you not sleep well?" Sakura inwardly sighed, she should have known Hinata would
catch on. "I'm fine, Hinata, I just woke up early, so I decided to fix breakfast since I couldn't
fall back to sleep." Sakura hoped that answer would placate her friend. She didn't want to tell
her the whole story, but she didn't want to have to lie to her either. She hated lying, especially
to her friends. Hinata sensed that she was hiding something from her, but decided that she must
have her reasons for it, so she decided to let it go. "Honestly though Sakura, do you really think
we can eat all this food by ourselves?" Sakura laughed at the look on Hinata's face. "Yeah I
guess I did go a little overboard with it, didn't I? Oh well, let's eat. All this cooking has made
me hungry. We'll just put all the leftovers in the fridge when we're done."