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"Talking"

'Thinking'

'Inner/Demons'

"Black Zetsu"

(Author's Note)

Chapter 2: At the Ship

The ship was huge but has an old and antique style. It was barely made of metal and mostly made of woods. It could be compared to a pirate's ship but this one was a lot neater to look at.

Naruto and his friends had already arrived at the ship- well, actually except for Kakashi. Everyone knew and expected the man would be late thus none of them actually cared if he was there or not. It would be his own little fault if the ship departed without him.

Everyone waited for the captain to arrive and just relaxed themselves on the ship.

Naruto and Hinata decided to explore the ship; the two held each other's hand as they wondered around the large vessel. Hinata as usual was blushing but unlike before, she doesn't faint anymore whenever the blond shinobi was very near to her.

Tsunade, the glorious hokage, was busy drinking her favorite sake and Shizune was having one of her hardest time trying to stop the blond woman because it's morning and the Gondaime did not ate her breakfast.

"It's bad for your health." Shizune cried like a mother.

Jiraiya had a playboy magazine on his hand, staring intently on the contents of it with red liquid almost dripping from his nose. The man was sitting on the edge of the ship, smiling gleefully and out of his world.

Kurenai and Asuma were eating breakfast as if they were on a picnic. It was the dark haired woman who prepared everything including the food and apparently, her husband was spoiled. Soon, Shino and Chouji joined the newly wed couple.

Gai, Lee, Tenten and Neji were having a meeting. Apparently, no one cared about their meeting as everyone knew it was only about some training they might do once they arrived at the certain island. Neji sighed helplessly. Why does he have to be stuck with freaks?

Shikamaru on the other hand, well, still Shikamaru; sleeping somewhere at the ship with the huge sleeping dog as his pillow and Tonton the cutest pig, sleeping too on his side.

Ino was talking with Kiba and it seemed like they were enjoying each other's company.

Sai was sitting silently on the higher part of the ship. A sketchpad rested on his lap while on his side lies different shades of oil pastel. His face was blank and definitely oblivious to his surroundings as his hand moved so fast while an image of a sea slowly formed on his sketchpad.

Sakura stood alone on the edge of the deck, watching the sea. She noticed that it was becoming too often being on her own. Normally, her friend Ino would accompany her but the blond was busy talking with the brown haired guy. She kind of felt lonely of course and left behind but her signature smile never left her face.

She knew that they were all happy for their vacation and she was happy for them too. In fact, she was happy to have a vacation with all of them. She just felt quite left behind as her two closest friends namely Ino and Naruto were busy in their own life. Although she knew that's how she felt, she also felt that something was missing and that's the reason why she felt so alone when normally she wouldn't feel that.

'What is it?' She wondered to herself. 'What's missing?'

'Its love, duh.' Her inner self replied out of nowhere, surprising the outer and other Sakura.

'What the hell? You are gone good from long ago, why are you here?'

'Nothing, I just wanna have some good time. You know we've never been to Nin-island.'

Sakura rolled her green orbs. 'Yeah, whatever. Bye' She said, clearly not interested to have a nonsense conversation with her inner.

'Hey, wait!' Inner called.

'What?' Sakura asked, becoming to be annoyed.

'You see, we missed love, loving, to be love, love love, you know, like the time when we were still deeply in love with Sasuke-kun.'

'We? We? Woah. Woah. I think you're wrong about that. I definitely don't need love, maybe you, but not me, and don't -kun him! As far as I'm concerned he tried to kill us many times and now I can't see any reason for us to respect him that much.'

'May I remind you that you are me.'

'B-'

'And look, Naruto and Hinata are very happy together.'

Sakura moved her head to look at the couple and saw Naruto kissed Hinata on her right cheek. Obviously Hinata's face turned as red as tomatoes but a smile was still curved on her glossy lips and instead of fainting or being overly shy, she hugged the blonde's arm tightly. It was Naruto's turn to blush as he felt his lover's soft breast on his arm.

'The new marriage couple, Asuma-sensei and Kurenai-sensei.' Inner Sakura continued.

Her pink head turned to the couple who were sharing food with each other. The black haired woman wiped off the food on her lover's cheek with a tissue and then the pampered man held her wrist gently. The tissue fell from her hand as her lover kissed her fingers one by one with dark eyes staring intensely on her own crimson eyes.

'Aren't they sweet?' Inner Sakura squealed. 'Oh and look at Ino-pig,'

She then saw Kiba gave Ino a puppy key chain and Ino obviously liked it. A smile never left both of their faces and tints of pink were slightly visible on the blonde's cheeks.

'I think Chouji likes her too, you know, he's been staring at them for an hour.'

'So, what if they have their own love life? I can still live in this world without a partner for life.'

'Yeah but don't you feel envy?'

'Envy for what?'

'Because they are loving and being love and you're not. You are lonely more than every woman in here right now.'

'Okay, let me make this clear. For me, love is the least thing I need. Focusing on missions and hospital duties are far more important than that love you're talking about. Besides, I don't want to feel that pain anymore. You know how much it hurts.'

Sakura failed to notice the long haired ninja calling her for the tenth time as she spoke inside her mind what she thought about love.

"Hey Haruno," The handsome guy called once again.

Sakura snapped out and returned to her real world. "Oh, hey. Neji?"

The chocolate haired man looked at her as his brows moved, slightly meeting each other. "Are you alright? You're spacing out, I thought you're about to faint."

"Oh," Sakura then laughed sheepishly, cursing her inner for talking to her. Inner just laughed at her. "I'm fine. I just tend to space out whenever I'd see a nice view." She smiled and turned her head to the sea.

Neji stared at her peaceful face for a few seconds before he spoke again and looked at the blue sea, "I see. I never expected you to be quite as weird as the others."

"I think weird is good." Sakura then breathed the fresh air.

"Hn. I like weird too," Neji replied. His teammates then called him. "but not as weird as my sensei and Lee." Sakura laughed. "Later," He said and then left to go to where his team was standing.

'You know what? I think he likes you.' Inner said.

'Yeah right and the pigs fly.' Sakura replied.

Then, before her inner could say anything, she heard Naruto's loud voice yelled, "The Akatsuki? Why the hell are they here?"

She then looked ahead. There, she saw a group walking, wearing a cloak with red clouds on it.

A/N: Okay, that's all for now, hehe. What do you think? Anyone can give an idea because honestly, I'm running out of an idea right now. And review please, thank you. Here are cookies for those who read -throws chocolate chips cookies-. That's all for now, bye. : )