It's been ten days since I saw Sakura. I would whenever I come back from missions and work, I would check up on her silently at her house to see if she was fine. Ten days without talking to her was a little bit of weird feeling to me but I told myself that we both have separate lives. She's a doctor. I'm an ANBU. I'm walking around town after my training session with my new ANBU team when I saw Naruto jogging with the guys. "YO TEME! GOOD MORNING!" I was about to turn away but they already saw me. "Want to go running with me and these fine men in this fine early morning?" Lee asked. "Hello. And I was about to go eat." Neji stopped me and smirked. "I guess ANBU team captain can't handle some running session in the morning after his hard training." I squinted my eyes at him and just gave him a dead stare. "Fine. One round. I'm taking my leisure jog." All of them looked at each other and Naruto yelled out, "WE HAVE TO RUN THE TOWN 50 TIMES AND THE LAST PERSON WILL TREAT US TO LUNCH! AND NO WE CAN'T USE OUR CHAKRA WE HAVE TO RUN 'LEE STYLE'!" Great. This game again. On Lee's mark, we commenced our 'morning running session'
The running session became brutal. I didn't know I would be this exhausted afterwards. I came in first beating Lee and Naruto was the last one. "It's not fair!" he whined. "It's fair. You know what to do. Treat us to lunch!" Kiba slapped Naruto's back while getting on Akamaru's back. We decided to go to the bbq place where Chouji loves to eat and we just spent our afternoon there enjoying each other's company before we all went on our separate ways. "I have to go to the hospital and get my ankle checked. I'm pretty sure Sakura-chan is going to yell at me again." I look at Kiba and his feet were swollen. "Definitely get it checked out, you have a mission in three days, it would sucked if you can't be on your top performance." Shino accompanied Kiba to the hospital as I walked away to go back to my place. When I got there, I turned on the hot water and started soaking myself. I could feel my muscles started to relax under the hot water. I start relaxing until I heard those whispering once again. "We need to kill. We have to kill. We need to kill. We have to kill." It kept repeating the statement over and over again. I learned to shut it up by ignoring it. But there are times during the mission where it would laugh as if it has a complete control over my body, as if I'm one killing machine.
"Uchiha-san, it's time for us to be examined." I opened my eyes and stood up on my chair as my team and I were waiting on our annual health exams. I looked around and I saw some female nurses trying to see who's going to examine me. "I want to examine the Uchiha!" "No, I will!" it went back and forth until the door closed and I saw Sakura was in there. "Oh! Sasuke-kun! I didn't know this was your team!" I nodded at her as I sat on the bench and removed my shirt. "You already know what I was going to say, Sasuke-kun." She giggled as she performed her examinations. She checked my eyes last, not like last time where she would check it first monthly. "Everything is fine, but try to limit your Sharingan, ok?" I put on my shirt as I watched her scribbled notes on my paper before handing it to me. "Are you free tonight?" She asked. I looked at her while folding the paper and put it at the back of my pocket. "Yes. Do you want me to pick you up?" She smiled and nodded. "If that's fine with you, I get off at 8pm." I nodded and before she opened the door, I leaned in and gave her a kiss on the lips. "Until then" I said. "Until then, Sasuke-kun."
I picked her up and we went back to her apartment and we were watching tv after we ate dinner. We were cuddling until someone knocked on her door. "Sakura! Sakura! Open hurry!" She got off the couch and went to open the door. "Sakura! Guess what! Sai asked me to be his girlfrie—Oh. I didn't know you have company?" I looked back and saw Ino looking at me while I finished up the remaining contents of my beer before settling it down by the table. "Sasuke's just visiting, Ino." They talked about some nonsense stuff that I could care less about listening to. "Well, I'll tell you more about it later and tell me more about THIS later." And she left. She closed and locked the door and went back next to me. I was sitting down at the corner of the sofa when she sat on my lap and put her head on my shoulder and just hugged me from there. We just sat there in silence and listened to the news. But soon after 12am, I felt her sleeping already. I turned off the tv and decided to put her to her bed. "Sasuke-kun?" She opened her eyes and she saw me almost walking out of her room. "Will you stay the night with me?" I closed the door and removed my shirt before climbing next to her in bed. I lifted the covers and pulled her near me as she snuggled more to me. I quickly began falling asleep just by soothing her hair while the scent of her hair was filling up my nose senses. I kissed her forehead before letting sleep consumed me for the night.
I awoke on that morning where she wasn't in bed with me but I heard her laughing downstairs and the door closed afterwards. I walked downstairs while putting on my shirt. "Oh, good morning, Sasuke-kun!" She came near me and gave me a peck on the lips. I went to the kitchen and sat down on the table with the tea already waiting to be consumed. She gave me breakfast and sat next to me while smiling. "Guess what?" I looked at her while sipping on my tea. "Neji is taking TenTen to be his wife. The clan welcomed her with open arms! Isn't that exciting?!" I nodded and finished up the breakfast she made. She kept on smiling while she drank her tea and looking at me. "What is it?" "Oh nothing, Sasuke-kun. Are you off today?" I shook my head and I told her that I have a meeting in 2 hours with the whole ANBU team. "Ah, I see. Will you be staying here today as well?" I looked at her and I told her that we'll see. "I'll keep that in mind. But I have to go home and get changed." She nodded and walked me out of the door. "Will I see you after your meeting?" I turned around to face her after I put my shoes on and I could tell something was bothering her. "When I'm free, is that ok?" She nodded. I asked her what's wrong while touching her face and she told me how she doesn't like how she always misses me. I kissed her lips slowly before pulling away, "it's also lonely where I live, you know. Plus I hate sleeping by myself." She looked at me with this confused face as if I grew two heads in one body. "Are you asking me to come live with you?" She touched my hands resting on her face and I nodded. She smiled and gave me a kiss. But as soon as I pulled back, I could tell it wasn't enough. She still has this sad look on her face. Before I could do anything, Ino opened the door and didn't even realize that I was there. "OH! SAKU- OH SASUKE I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE THERE!" She removed her shoes and walked passed me. "We have to go to this one bakery and I heard they have some good cake sale and you'll love it! And is it ok if I used your bathroom really quick?" Sakura nodded and smiled at her. She left to go to the bathroom and closed the door. Before leaving, she held on to my shirt and she was looking down. I went back to her and cupped her face to kiss her again. "Hey Sakura, since Sasu—WHAT?! YOU AND SASUKE UCHIHA ARE DATING?!" We both pulled away and looked at her. Great. I thought we could hide our relationship for a while before telling everybody about us.