Sorry for the very late update people. I've been very busy with school assignments' and homework! Please forgive me?
It all started off with one stupid promise. A stupid promise that she never intended him to keep. It was all her fault. It's been three years now and Sakura didn't believe Naruto could keep his promise for that long, but that's because she never knew him. All this time she's been looking up to Sasuke and chasing after him that she didn't understand the true meanings behind Naruto's idiotic grin when he had made the promise. She never understood Naruto and she never tried to. All those days back in the academy, Sakura never took her time to learn more about Naruto. She just simply jumped to the conclusion of him being annoying and a complete idiot. It was always Sasuke this and Sasuke that.
Sakura re-bandaged her wounded arm and stared out the window, out into the horizon. All her fault, she thought and bit back the tears. She had never felt so alone in her whole life. First Sasuke and now Naruto and even worse, the whole village hates her. Lady Tsunade won't even talk to her, let alone look at her. And the rookie 11? None of them are talking to her either except for Rock Lee, Ino and Hinata who tried to cheer her up.
She couldn't blame them though; she hated herself right now too.
Sakura sighed and neatly put her ninja tools in her backpack, standing up as she walked out of her room, looking back at the photograph that stood in her bedside table. The Picture of team Kakashi.
"Come on Kakashi sensei, we don't need Naruto in this picture!" Sakura stated and Sasuke chuckle. "Don't laugh teme," Naruto glared at Sasuke. "Why shouldn't I?" Sasuke retorted and Naruto just scoffed. "Teme…!" "Dobe…"
Sakura smiled sadly at the memory and closed her bedroom door quietly. She walked out into the living room and scanned around for her parents but no one was home. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, suddenly disappearing out of sight.
"Sakura-Chan…" Sakura stopped at the gates and turned around to face Lee, who was grinning mildly as he walked over to her. Sakura smiled, or at least tried to when Lee came and stopped in front of her. "Hey Lee," She greeted and Lee just frowned at her.
"Where are you going?" Lee asked, his expression suddenly turning serious. Sakura shifted her gaze to her feet, avoiding Lee's intense stare.
"I'm going on a mission, of course," She replied. "To look for Naruto…" She added quietly and felt Lee flinch slightly.
Moments of silence passed between the two and no one spoke.
Sakura's eyes widen and she lifted her head as she felt hands gently lay on her shoulder.
"Well I wish you the safest journey, Sakura-Chan." Lee smiled at her and Sakura just nodded. "Thank you…" She whispered and Rock Lee just nodded in turn. He waved to her before heading back into the village. Sakura turned on her heels and left.
"I should be seeing someone by now," Sakura said to herself as she hoped from tree to tree carefully. She had sense the chakra signal of some of the rookie 11 but she couldn't see any of them yet. She couldn't quiet sense any of the ANBUs' chakra as she was pretty sure they made it insensible and made a very good job of hiding it.
Sakura growled and sped up. She cursed and furious with herself, landed in an empty field.
Instantly she reacted and reached for her kunai. She could sense someone's chakra and so far she didn't like it. On guard at all times, Sakura scanned her surroundings, the kunai held firmly in her hand.
"Well hello bitch," Sakura turned around abruptly instantly recognizing the voice. Deidara smirked, molding clay in his hand. "Nice to meet you again," He grinned and Sakura just glowered at him. Deidara frowned, "What, aren't you happy to see me uhn?" he asked rhetorically. From the look on her face, he was sure he knew the answer.
"What have you done with Naruto?" Sakura demanded before she could stop herself. She gritted her teeth and glared at Deidara who just raised his eye brow confusingly. Her grip on the kunai tighten and she was pretty sure that if looks could kill, she'd see Deidara drop dead right in front of her now.
Deidara pretended to think for a few seconds and soon his face lit up, a smirk creeping on his face as the answer dawned on him. "Oh yeah, the Jinchūriki; he's dead." Sakura felt her entire world turn black and she wasn't sure if she could still feel her heart beat. Her whole body just went numb and her stomach twisted into a knot. Dead? Naruto? Dead?
"T-that's…a l-lie!" Sakura stammered and her hands started trembling. Deidara watched, amused as he smirked again, the clay in his hand ready. "Not really," he stated, hiding his hand behind his back as he began to perform a jutsu. "We offered him a spot in the Akatsuki, but the fool refused. We tried everything you know, to get him to join us but the kid just wouldn't hear of it! It was pretty disappointing if you asked me, the idiot was too light-hearted," Deidara snickered and stepped forward, a clay bird neatly in the palm of his hand behind his back. "I tried to reason with him, telling him about all the new jutsu we could teach him and all but he refused any offer we throw at him! Typical! When all out offers failed, we decided to do it the hard way. We extracted the Kyuubi from him," He paused and looked at Sakura, who was now trembling all over, despite her afford to try and hide it from Deidara. "You know what happens after that, so I'm not going to bother myself with the boring details." Deidara continued, fake yawning.
"You're a pretty good liar, you know that…" Sakura stiffed and turned to oh-so familiar voice. Deidara smirked and turned around. "Well thank you for your compliment Naruto, but unfortunately, you just killed the whole thing!" Naruto grinned and hoped down from his current position, glancing sideways at Sakura before turning his attention to Deidara.
Sakura's eyes widen as she stared in shock at what he was wearing. No! She thought. No way in hell!
"You should be a propagandist." Naruto suggested, ignoring Sakura's intense stare at him. Deidara just raised his eye brow in question, tilting his head to one side in confusion. "What's that?" He questioned but Naruto chose to ignore him and turn his attention to Sakura.
Sakura froze and could feel her knees going weak, any minute now and they'll suddenly give up on her.
"Hey Sakura-Chan," Naruto smiled a smile that Sakura never saw before. It wasn't his normal smile; nope, far from it. This smile wasn't cheerful or sheepish or happy; it was nothing. This smile was just like one of those smiles Sai usually wore often.
Sakura flinched at the realization as she suddenly met Naruto's eyes. They were cold and emotionless…
Ok guys, I just want to say I'm sorry for the late update (again), I tried my hardest to get this chapter up. If there are any mistake's here, please do correct me, I didn't have time to edit it and since it's my little brother's birthday tomorrow, I want to update this today coz I won't get a chance tomorrow.
Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed and please Review.
And yes, thank you people for pointing out that I spelled Yamato wrong; you have my sister to blame. I asked her for the spelling, but anyways thank you and now I can go and rub it in her face! *Grins*
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