Road to Nowhere

Chapter 7

When Sakura returned home after a hectic day at work she found Naruto nowhere in sight, figuring he was up to some of his usual shenanigans she let it go and figured he would be back soon.

A few hours after Sakura got home Naruto came bursting thorough the door completely drenched from the recently developed rain storm.

"Naruto where in hell have you been!" Sakura screamed, "I've been worried sick for you!"

"I know Sakura-chan it took me a while to uhhhh… finish a mission I got assigned today," Naruto said feeling as though he was really cunning.

"Are you kidding me Naruto do you really think I'm going to buy that load of shit? You had better tell me where you were just now or I swear to god I'm going to beat you senseless!" Sakura fumed while menacingly walking over getting ready to beat Naruto until he talked.

"I'll take the beating," Naruto whispered while lowering his head and closing his eyes.

Sakura heard this and instantly knew that he had done something either bad, shameful, or both. "Naruto, what did you do?" she asked taking on a much sweeter demeanor, "come on tell me I'm here for you."

Naruto lifted his head and he knew that those dreaded eyes of hers were going to torture him into spilling the beans. "Ummm… Sakura-chan… I was just now at the village's prison… I was there because… I felt like I had to break your father out it didn't seem right that he was sentenced to that harsh of a punishment."

Sakura couldn't believe her ears… the man she loved just did something for her that she knew she couldn't ignore even if she wanted to, but on the other hand it was something that could endanger his life if they found out who had done it.

"Uhhhh… but don't worry Sakura-chan he is going to be fine I found a cave outside of the village and I left him there I just know he'll be safe," Naruto continued ranting about all the reasons that he knew her father was going to be okay.

"Naruto you idiot!" Sakura's tone rose again, "do you have any idea how much shit you are in, if they find you you could wind up in the same situation he was in."

Naruto was stunned that Sakura had this kind of reaction, "but Sakura-chan I had to do it… it wasn't fair… the way it played out none of it."

"Naruto I agree about how it all played out, but Naruto you need to start thinking about yourself more," she said while somewhat laughing and at the same time crying.

"It's ok Sakura-chan I promise that nothing will happen," Naruto said while reaching down to comfort Sakura, with her leaning her head into his shoulder and grabbing his jacket.

Sakura sobbed harder and shakily asked, "But how can you be sure… I mean that I am a relative and so they will ask me and by default you too… what will we say?"

Naruto had to think of an idea himself before saying, "We will just have to feign ignorance I suppose," he tried to comfort Sakura with his hasty plan, but he wasn't sure the idea would work either.

She cried into his arms for hours until she fell asleep in his arms and he was able to carry her to bed.

"Jeez I didn't think she'd take it like that," he stated to no one in particular.

"Don't you get it she loves you and would do anything for you and seeing you in danger hurts her a lot," said a familiar voice that came from Naruto's windowsill.

Naruto whirled around to see the familiar face of his friend and sensei… Kakashi. "Holy crap did you hear that whole thing Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto squealed knowing that he was going to jail and that his faster teacher was going to be the one to run him down.

"Calm down Naruto I'm on your side… I figured you would do something like this," Kakashi said while trying to calm Naruto down, "honestly I would have done it myself if one of you two hadn't."

"Really Kakashi-sensei thank goodness but what should we do about him? I mean he is still sitting up there in that cave," Naruto queried.

"Until I can come up with a good plan to get him somewhere where he can live happily we need to just bring him some supplies," Kakashi said while in deep thought.

"Ok but do you think we should let miss Haruno in on this or not?" Naruto continued with another question.

"I don't think so… in fact I just came up with an idea, but Naruto I want you to stay out for your own good and before you can start whining about this the thing that I want you to take care of is Sakura because I need her to be able to think rationally in a little while so try and calm her down and not bring it up again, ok?" Kakashi stated, very seriously.

"Ughh you know how much I hate sitting around but I'll do it," Naruto reluctantly affirmed.

After Kakashi was satisfied with Naruto's answer he poofed off silently thus leaving Naruto alone to get some much needed shut-eye and to think on what he had done earlier that day.

(Author's note)

Well I personally hope that I am able to turn this story around since it has been going down the drain and all but as always comments are appreciated and do your best to send me lots of hate mail. Hahaha jkjk but anyways for security reasons I changed my username so ya mostly cuz I kinda got some identity theft a little while ago but its all cleared up now and we can all move on yay ! Also i am going to New Zealand for three weeks so it'll be a while so here is my last gift to you for a while.