First off, I just wanted to say that in the last chapters, Sakura has already accepted Naruto and Sasuke as her teammates, but hasn't accepted them as her friends. She's having trust issues with Sasuke mostly because of what happened in her future and she wants to distance herself from Naruto because she doesn't want to hurt him.

Will she accept them? Or will she continue on her path alone?

Chapter 5:

The Demons Amongst the Mist

They were still in the mission room as they introduced each other.

"I'm Tazuna," the old man introduced. "A master bridge builder and I must return to my country. I'm building a bridge there that will change our world and I expect you to get me there in one piece. Even if it means giving up you life."

Team 7 respectfully nodded and they all left to their homes to get ready for their first C-ranked mission.

In Sakura's room...

As Sakura packed her bag, her thoughts drifted back to their test a few weeks ago. She remembered how she helped Sasuke and she clenched her fists. Her brow furrowed and she gritted her teeth angrily.

Shit, she cursed.

She was softening up again. She will work with the Uchiha if she had to, but to soften up to them? To him?

Nope. She couldn't afford to. Her sole purpose being there, in this time, was to fix it. To give them a better future. Not to make peace with the cold blooded, revenge-obsessed traitor.

Now she was mad at herself. She let it happen. She let her guard down and put her walls down for him. Willingly, she might add.

Sakura ground her teeth together and turned to face her white pillow on her bed. She aimed her gloved fist and just as it made contact with the pillow's surface, it blew up in a burst of cotton and feathers.

She can't get close to him. Not if she wanted her heart to be broken a second time.

Near the entrance gate of Konoha...

After making distance,Team 7 and Tazuna stopped walking from the gate when Naruto screamed in joy and threw his arms in the air. "Yahoo! Alright! I'm a traveler now, believe it!"

Tazuna pointed to Naruto as he turned to Kakashi. "Am I really supposed to just trust my life to this runt? He's a joke."

Kakashi smiled at him, his lone eye crinkling. "Don't worry. I'm a jounin. You're in good hands."

Tazuna's words repeated in Naruto's mind and turned to yell at him.

Sakura and Sasuke stood silently to side, aloof expressions on their faces as the watched the scene play out. She hadn't looked at him since Team 7 had met up at the gate and she was still pissed-

Then Sakura felt it.

Her head snapped to look behind her, her senses on full alert, her face guarded. Her head swiveled side to side as she scanned their surroundings.

Sasuke noticed Sakura tense and glanced at her as she viewed their surroundings.

"Sakura?" he called. She continued her observation, ignoring him.

It's them, she thought. It has to be.

She felt the chakra at the edge of her field of her vision, chakra wise that is.

She had a hard time remembering the names of who came after them, but she only remembered that they were from the Hidden Mist and that they were chunnin.

Sasuke called her again, curious and, unknowingly to him, worried, as Naruto and Tazuna argued. "Sakura...Sakura... Sakura."

Sakura snapped her head back to Sasuke and hissed,"What?"

Sasuke frowned as he stared at Sakura for a moment. "What are you doing?"

"...Nothing." Damn!

Sasuke scowled. "You hesitated. What were you doing?"

"Yeah, I'd like to know as well," Kakashi spoke up.

Kakashi noticed their chat and decided to join. He too, had noticed Sakura's oddly cautious behavior before and was curious, so he walked to them.

For a short moment, Sakura pondered whether she should trust them and tell Kakashi about the upcoming attack. Would it be best? Would he believe her? Would he think of her as a crazy or suspicious character? Can she even trust him? And her own teammates? Could she trust the future man that almost killed her and wanted to kill her master?

She decided no, she would not tell them anything.

She shook her head, doing her best to act casual. "I thought I heard an animal."

Sasuke didn't believe it for a second and opened his mouth to retort, but Kakashi cut in before him.

"Oh, okay. Whatever," Kakashi said, shrugging.

Sakura turned and walked over to Tazuna and Naruto, wanting an excuse to leave them by seeing if she could calm the two down.

Once she was out of earshot, Sasuke looked at Kakashi in confusion.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Why'd you stop me?"

Kakashi's gaze followed after Sakura and he watched her interact with Naruto and Tazuna comfortably as he spoke to Sasuke.

"As teammates, you must trust each other," he said wisely. "But first, you must gain that trust in order to put it to action and to have faith in one another."

After he saw how Sakura smiled at Naruto and Tazuna after they had calmed down, he turned to look at Sasuke.

"I believe Sakura will tell us when she is ready. I have faith in her that she will."

Sasuke scoffed, "You're thinking too much. Whatever. I don't even care anymore." He turned started walking down the dirt path, away from the other four. Then they followed.

A little while later, they were getting farther away from Konoha and as they strolled calmly down the road, Sakura noticed at the corner of her eye a puddle, but she kept her gaze forward.

She remembered it hadn't rained in days and that was where the chunnin appeared the first time.

They walked past it as if they hadn't noticed, but Sakura knew Kakashi and Sasuke noticed it too.

They went another four feet, when they attacked.

Two Hidden Mist ninja jumped out from behind them from the puddle and latched their shurriken-like chain around Kakashi.

Kakashi's eyes widened and he gasped as if he was surprised, "What?"

"Now!" One exclaimed.

Once they landed on the ground, the chain tightened around Kakashi as it retreated into the metal casing attached to their arms.

Then the other four saw blood. To Sasuke, Naruto, and Tazuna, Naruto and Tazuna's eyes widened from shock as they saw chunks of bloody body parts flying, while Sasuke only tensed and narrowed his eyes at the enemy. But unlike them, Sakura knew what happened and her face stayed passive and not surprised. She tensed and got ready to attack.

"K-Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled in shock.

The two Hidden Mist chunnin turned to Naruto, a psychotic look in their eyes.

"You're next."

The next thing Naruto knew, he saw the chain swung towards his face and he gasped.

Sakura let Sasuke react first.

He rushed forward and jumped in the air, throwing a shurriken that caught a link in the chain, causing it to go off corse and missing Naruto by centimeters. The shurriken stuck to a trunk of a tree, with the chain in between and Sasuke threw a kunai in the hole of the shurriken for good measure.

"What the hell?" One of the chunnin gaped, both struggling to pull their chain weapon out.

Sasuke landed on their outstretched arms and, leaning over and holding their arms for leverage, kicked both of their faces at the same time.

Sakura scoffed. Show off.

Suddenly, one of the Mist ninja released the chain from their casing and and rushed towards Tazuna with metal claw hand outstretched to her.

Sakura immediately jumped in front of him, kunai in hand. Then Sasuke appeared in front of her, arms spread out as if to protect her.

But she knew he was trying to protect Tazuna and complete the mission. He probably thought she couldn't protect Tazuna herself. Did he not see the crater she made during their test?

At that thought, she snapped.

As if it was natural to her, her eyes narrowed as she lunged left then forward towards the chunnin. She dodged the claw, ducking left and as the Mist ninja passed by her, she lifted her leg, pumping a small amount of chakra into her heel, enough to knock him down, in a roundhouse kick to his back. He was knocked forward and he fell face first into a tree. Hard.

He slid to the floor on his stomach, unconscious.

She straightened up and calmly turned back, looking for the other enemy.

He was in a headlock in Kakashi's arm, unconscious.

She showed no surprise. I knew it.

"Great job, Sakura," Kakashi said to her before turning to Sasuke, who stared at her in shock. "You too, Sasuke."

Sakura nodded and Sasuke didn't say anything as he quickly recovered from his shock. His thoughts drifted back to Sakura.

He hadn't thought much of it, but now that he has had a good view of it, he wondered.

Naruto stared at Sakura in shock and awe, not noticing Kakashi and the light stinging on his hand.

When did Sakura get so strong? Or was she always like that? the two younger boys wondered.

Kakashi, with the other Mist ninja still unconscious in his arms, turned to Naruto. "Sorry, Naruto. I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I just didn't think you would freeze up like that. Anyways, those Mist ninja..."

"So?" Sakura asked casually, although she knew already. She still had to act clueless and so far she noticed that she wasn't really doing a great job.

Kakashi nodded. "These guys are the Demon Brothers of the Hidden Mist. Both chunnin."

Sakura nodded. "They were after Tazuna too."

Everyone turned to look at Tazuna.

"So, care to explain."

They stared at Tazuna and he stared back for a moment before sighing.

"Alright. Fine. Ya got me. I'll tell ya."

SECONDS LATER AFTER EXPLAINING ABOUT POVERTY...

Kakashi nodded in understanding.

"I see. We'll discuss this later. First off, Naruto. The Mist nin had poison coating their weapons and it's spreading through you right now. We need to extract the blood from the wound before it spreads any further."

Naruto blinked. "Huh?"

He looked down at himself and, finally noticing the pain, lifted his hand to see a cut.

Kakashi sighed, "We'll have to head back to Konoha to remove the poison. And delay the mission."

The three gennin didn't want to go back though.

But Sakura's thoughts were on Naruto's wound. Even if she had some of her strength, she still hadn't practiced her medical ninjutsu. If she could, she would have healed Naruto.

Suddenly, she remembered what was going to happen and she looked at Naruto.

"Naruto, wait!" she yelled.

It was too late. He had already stabbed the kunai into the wound. He grunted in pain, but didn't complain. Then he opened his mouth and made his big, inspiring speech.

He said to Tazuna through gritted teeth, "...Upon this wound, I make this pledge. Believe it! I'll complete your mission and protect you with this kunai." Then he turned back to look at the rest of Team 7.

"A ninja never gives up and neither will I. Don't you guys worry about me. I'll be fine. Now let's go."

Before Kakashi could say anything, Sakura spoke up. "Yeah...The way you took out the poison was cool and all, but if you loose anymore blood, Naruto, your going to die from blood loss," she said bluntly.

There was a moment of awkward silence and a bird chirped.

Naruto trembled as he turned blue and broke into a cold sweat.

Sakura came up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Seriously, you should stop the bleeding. Now."

Suddenly, Naruto started flailing his arms and running around. He screamed.

They all sighed.

SECONDS LATER...

Sakura kneeled on the ground as she was bandaging Naruto's hand. He sat on the ground as she was frowning and lecturing him.

"-Seriously, Naruto. Like I said earlier, you don't need to do that. If you want to become Hokage, you'll have to live to see that day! You shouldn't be so reckless."

Naruto scratched the back of his head, grinning. "Gomen, gomen, Sakura-chan."

When Naruto had stabbed the kunai into the cut, he made the blood spill faster out of the wound and extracted the poisoned blood. He had given his little speech and Sakura had to hide a smile. She was really proud of him. Even when he was reckless and stupid, he was noble and honorable.

When Sakura had walked over to him to hims with gauze and started wrapping the wound, she noticed the wound slowly closing.

Must be Kurama, she thought. She knew the jinchiriki had their benefits and this was one of them.

Sakura sighed as she finished wrapping the wound, "Whatever. Just be careful next time."

Naruto blushed as Sakura got up and grinned even wider. "Okay, Sakura-chan!"

She rolled her eyes and they made their way over to Kakashi and Sasuke, who stood in front of a tree, the two enemy ninja tied around it.

"So what do we do with the old man?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi scratched the back of his head and sighed, "Well, for now I've decided that we just escort Mr. Tazuna to the Hidden Mist. Then we'll see from there."

They all nodded, Tazuna's mouth turning to a frown.

Later On A Boat...

"Hey," Sakura, pretending to be curious when, honestly, she didn't give a fuck because she already knew, asked to Tazuna. "Why are you being targeted?"

Tazuna looked at her. "Pretty straightforward, aren't ya? You know, sticking your nose into other people's business is annoying and rude."

Sakura raised an eyebrow at him. "You're the one who brought us into this mess. Because of you, Naruto could've died. The least you could do is answer my question."

Tazuna didn't say anything and stared at her for a short moment. Then he nodded. "The Mist wasn't always in poverty," he started.

He explained how the Mist had become poor and how the famous businessman, Gato, had caused all this and took control over the islands.

"...I have been constructing a bridge that would connect to the mainland."

Sakura nodded thoughtfully. "I see. So, the reason why Gato's been after you is because if you finish that bridge, he'll loose control."

"Exactly," Tazuna agreed.

"And those guys we fought were working for Gato," Sasuke said.

Kakashi spoke up. "I don't understand. If you knew that he was dangerous, knew he would send ninja, why did you hide that from us?"

Tazuna nodded. "I told you how the Land of Waves is a poverish nation. Even our nobles have little money. The common people building this bridge, they can't afford an A or B ranked mission. Too expensive. If you end the mission when you drop me ashore, there will be no bridge. They'll assassinate me before I get home."

"Kakashi-sensei," Sakura called.

Kakashi looked at her and nodded.

"I guess we have no choice," he sighed. "We'll have to keep on guarding you."

Naruto shouted out in joy, but was quickly shushed be the boat driver.

Tazuna stared at them in surprise, but said nothing.

I didn't even have to use the guilt-building story, Tazuna thought before hiding a smirk. Suckers.

A few minutes later, they finally docked off at the port and started off to bring Tazuna to his home.

They trekked through the forest for a few minutes until Naruto suddenly threw a kunai into a nearby bush, yelling, "Over there!"

When Naruto ran to see what it was, he found a frightened snow hare trembling, back against a tree and kunai embedded between the small space between its ears.

Tazuna sighed,"All this fuss over a rodent."

Sakura walked over to Naruto as he cradled the rabbit in his arms and apologized.

"I'm sorry, Little Rabbit! I'll take you home and you could stay with me!" Naruto babbled.

"Baka, look what you did!" she said, gesturing to the rabbit. "You traumatized the poor guy. I bet his owner's worried."

Naruto looked at her curiously. "How do you know someone owns him?"

Sakura hid her panic. Crap, I did it again!

"Uh," she hesitated. "Well, obviously because it's already white. Snow hares only turn white when it's winter and, since it's not winter, it must have been kept inside. Duh!" she explained, trying to sound casual.

Naruto gazed at her suspiciously and Sakura smiled innocently, refraining from looking away.

Then Naruto shrugged and she sighed in relief. Naruto let the rabbit go and they continued on the way.

I really need to be more careful with my words, she thought.

As they hiked down the dirt path, Sakura recognized the area and immediately yelled, her body tensing and face guarded.

"Get down!" she cried and dropped to the ground.

They did and a giant blade spun right over their heads and embedded itself into a tree.

As they straighten up, a man appeared and landed on the sword.

"Well, well. Look what we have here."

Sakura gazed up at the S-ranked rogue ninja. "...Zabuza...Peach, right?"

Behind the bandage that masked his face, Zabuza gritted his teeth in irritation and narrowed his eyes angrily at the pink haired girl.

"It's Momochi!" he yelled at her and jumped down to the ground, grabbing his sword. "I was considering holding back on you kids, but now I'm thinking of pummeling you."

Sakura's guard was up in a second and she reached into her pouch.

"Stay back, Sakura," Kakashi warned, stopping her. "Let me handle this."

Zabuza's gaze switched Kakashi. "If it isn't Kakashi of the Sharingan," he sneered. "It's a pleasure to meet you. We were warned to immediately kill you if we ever met you."

Kakashi didn't say anything and Sakura glanced at Sasuke. She knew that he was most effected by the new information.

He was looking at Kakashi, deep in thought.

The scene played out just like before. Sasuke was mentally breaking down and freaking out and Kakashi made his noble speech about protecting them. Kakashi and Zabuza started fighting and Kakashi got trapped in the Water Prison jutsu. Sasuke and Naruto worked as a team to defeat the water and clone Zabuza made as he held the prison. As all this happened, Sakura stood aside in front of Tazuna, to protect him.

I can't let them have all the fun, she thought.

"Naruto," she called and he glanced back to her, confidently grinning. This was the moment when Naruto and Sasuke were going to plan on the attack with a single glance. "Give me a turn!"

Still grinning, he nodded. "Sure thing Sakura-chan!"

Sakura and Naruto switched places, Sakura being in the outer side of the protective formation and Naruto in it.

"Try me, girly," the Zabuza clone sneered.

She narrowed her eyes at him and cracked her knuckles.

They both came at each other. They dashed at each other and the Zabuza clone swung his sword horizontally like a bat and, as if seeing it in slow motion, Sakura slid under it on her behind like matrix. He stopped and slashed it behind to her and she ducked forward, hitting the ground. Then Sasuke joined in. He took out a fuuma shurriken and threw it at Zabuza. Zabuza dodged, making him move away from Sakura as she stood up and her eyes widened. The fuuma shurriken missed her head as it flew centimeters from her eyes.

Whew, that was close, she thought and sighed in relief as she turned to the Zabuza clone. She glanced to the side at Sasuke, eyes narrowed. That shit-head could've made me blind!

"Oi, Sasuke, " Naruto called to him as he stood in front of Tazuna. "Watch where you throw that thing!"

Sasuke didn't say anything.

Now it was her turn and she was on offense.

The Zabuza clone swung again and brought the sword down. Sakura dodged again and swung a punch at his stomach. The clone dodged.

This girl's stronger than she looks, Zabuza thought from his position next to the in prisoned Kakashi. Zabuza could feel it in his gut. The way she fought, it was as if she knew their movements already. Like she had 17 years worth of experience. It also looked as if Sakura's chakra-enhanced fists were gonna make some big, purple bruises on him.

Sasuke came up behind the Zabuza clone and attempted to kick him. The clone dodged it too and punched Sasuke, hard enough to make him fall on the ground. Zabuza brought up his blade over head to kill Sasuke, and for the first time in a long time, Sasuke actually thought he was going to die.

Naruto's eyes widened as he gasped, "Sasuke!"

Sasuke's eyes widened by millimeters, and he felt the fear and panic rise in his chest. The clone brought the sword down and Sasuke shut his eyes tightly, awaiting his painful, bloody death.

He didn't feel a thing. He didn't feel pain, not in the slightest bit.

Seconds later, he still didn't feel a thing.

Was he dead? Did the clone swiftly kill him to make it painless?

No, that wasn't it. Sasuke slowly opened one eye and looked up to see red and pink. Sasuke's eyes widened.

Sakura kneeled right in front him, back bent over him as she held the sword between her palms. She was so close that her hair brushed his nose.

She gritted her teeth as she struggled a bit to keep the blade between her palms, her hold on the blade shaking.

She glanced over her shoulder at him. "Are you gonna just sit there or are you gonna get out of the way?" she snapped.

Sasuke blinked and quickly got up and leaped away to stand by Naruto.

Sakura looked back at the clone and Sakura's grip faltered, causing the blade to slip down between her hands and close in on her face. Instinctively, she dodged her head right, making the blade cut into her left shoulder and her grip tightened.

She sucked in a breath to refrain from yelping and flinched as the sword cut in a little deeper into her shoulder. Quickly, she used her enhanced strength to lift the sword off her and threw it to the side. She leaped away and back next to Tazuna. Sasuke and Naruto were next to her in second.

"Sakura-chan," Naruto called, gazing worriedly at the gash on her shoulder. Blood welled from the wound and ran down her arm and chest. "Are you okay?"

Sakura breathed heavily and nodded. She put her hand on her wounded shoulder, clamping down on the bleeding wound. Her shoulder stung and burned from the pain from the deep cut.

The Zabuza clone chuckled. "I guess that all you've got, girly."

Sakura's eyes had turned to angry slits and something in her snapped. Forget about the bloody cut. She wouldn't hold back. She wasn't. "Aw hell naw! It's on now!" Sakura growled.

Shaaaaa! Inner roared in her mind. Beat him to a pulp!

Sakura felt a burst of energy run through her like a shockwave. She was behind him in a second. "Don't underestimate girls," she snarled, her eyes glaring menacingly.

Before the clone could react, she socked him in the back of head so hard, his head bent at an odd angle and he dissipated into water.

Sakura panted heavily and her eyes locked on the real Zabuza. She ran as fast as a cheetah with her left fist raised at Zabuza, eyes zeroing on him.

She jumped and threw her fist at his face, but he didn't have to dodge. She missed completely, the fist passing his face by inches. Her face fell, with all rage and confidence gone, and Zabuza smirked behind the mask. But, as if she had meant to miss him, she smirked and her fist continued on it's path, she, bending over and punching the water's surface, releasing her chakra.

The water immediately broke and a geyser of water erupted right under and around Zabuza and Sakura, causing both of them to be completely surrounded by one circular wall of water. Zabuza looked behind him for her, but she was already gone.

Zabuza's eyes quickly scanned around himself, his mind racing.

Not there. She's not behind me. She should be caught in here with me. Then he sensed it and he looked up, but it was too late.

Sakura's fist met his face.

From Naruto and Sasuke's point of view, they could see that Zabuza was surrounded by a wall of water. Then suddenly, he flew straight through it and flipped painfully over the ground several times. Finally, he stopped when his back slammed into a tree, turning him unconscious.

The water prison on Kakashi dispersed and he landed awkwardly onto the water. Sakura stood next, drenched in water.

"Kakashi-sensei, are you okay?" she asked.

He nodded. "I'm fine. Thank you, Sakura."

She nodded and looked Zabuza and started to walk to him. Then, out of no where, needles penetrated his neck, blood spurting out of his wound and he fell over. A familiar masked figure came into view and appeared in front of Zabuza defenseless body.

It was lady with long black hair in in two ponytails and a bun. She wore attire from the Hidden Mist, wearing a mask.

The person bowed, voice sounding like a young tone. "Thank you. I've been tracking Zabuza for a long time, waiting for this chance to finally take him down."

Kakashi studied her. "Judging by your mask, I'm assuming that you're a tracker ninja from the Hidden Mist."

She straightened herself and nodded.

Naruto gasped and stepped in front of Tazuna. "Oh no! A tracker ninja!"

Sakura rolled her eyes. "You don't even know what a tracker ninja is, Naruto. She's not a threat to us." She gave a suspicious look at the lady as she said the last part. Sakura stepped forward and asked, "May I check if he's dead?"

The lady nodded and motioned to Zabuza's still body. "Why of course."

Sakura calmly walked towards them as if she wasn't afraid of a dead body, unlike the petrified Naruto and stunned Sasuke, both who stood frozen next to Tazuna.

Sakura passed the lady cautiously, sending her a suspicious look behind her back, and kneeled down to press her fire and middle finger onto Zabuza's vitals.

Sakura blinked and stood up. "No pulse," she confirmed. She stared up at the lady blankly for a moment before walking back to Tazuna.

The lady nodded. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I must now take Zabuza's body to burn."

And with that, the lady bent down to carry Zabuza's body around her shoulders and disappeared in a breeze.

Then Kakashi fainted.

Sakura was there just in time to catch him and put his arm around her shoulder.

"Come on," Tazuna said as he motioned them into the forest. "My home is nearby. He can rest there."

As they trekked through the the trees, Sakura's own sight became blurry and her breathing heavy.

Noticing the change, Sasuke was at her side.

"Are you okay?" He looked not at her face, but at the gash on her shoulder. It was still bleeding heavily through her shirt, staining the top, left half of her chest.

She nodded, but her eyes showed drowsiness and pain. She felt her legs give out and she would have almost collapsed on the ground, if Sasuke hadn't caught her. Naruto grabbed Kakashi.

As Naruto put Kakashi's arm around his shoulder and Tazuna came to help carry him, Sasuke somehow managed to get Sakura to let him give her piggyback ride.

Naruto, Tazuna, with Kakashi's arms around their shoulders, and Sssuke, with Sakura's arms around his shoulders and on his back, started walking again and Sakura felt drowsiness from the blood loss take its toll on her. She could feel relaxing darkness slowly take over her.

Before she fell into the darkness, she whispered in Sasuke's ear tiredly and asked, "Why are you helping me?"

Sasuke glanced back at her, surprised she hadn't fallen asleep yet. "Why?" he repeated.

Sakura's tired eyes showed vulnerability and sorrow. "Don't you think I'm annoying?"

As she spoke, she remembered the first time Sasuke had attempted to kill her. At the time, she was still foolishly in love with a revenge obsessed man and her heart and mind wouldn't let her give up on him. He had told her she was annoying so many times and tried to kill her, but why wasn't this Sasuke trying to kill her too? Why was this one helping her? Carrying her? "If you do, then why are you helping me?" she whispered.

"I think you're annoying," Sasuke replied, still looking at her, and Sakura felt her heart drop. "but that doesn't mean I can't help you and return the favor."

Sakura's eyes widened in surprise. "Huh?"

Sasuke turned back to the path in front of him as he trailed behind Tazuna and Naruto. "You saved me, this is the least I could do in return."

Sakura stared at the back of Sasuke's head in shock for a moment, but she was to tired to care anymore and leaned into Sasuke's back. Before she let herself fall into the inviting darkness, she mumbled, "Thank you." Then she let her eyes droop down and almost fell right asleep when she heard Sasuke speak again.

Sasuke scoffed, "Idiot, that's supposed to be my line." Then he muttered quietly, "Thanks for saving me."

After he spoke, Sakura fell into a deep sleep, unknowingly smiling softly.

To be continued...

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