Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters, but its too much fun writing about them
AN: Hey guys! Thanks so much for the feedback/follows, it means a lot to me people take the time to read my story! For all you NaruSaku fans, I absolutely despise the Naruto and Sakura ship, but under certain circumstances, it could work, and you guys have inspired me to perhaps make a NaruSaku story *cringe*.
What woke Sakura up was a bang in the kitchen. She rolled over and checked her alarm clock which told her it was past midnight. What was going on? In a sleepy daze, Sakura slid a shirt over her head that was one of Naruto's. She sleepily walked out of her room into the hallway to see what all the ruckus was. She stood in the hallway just outside her door, giving her access to the kitchen. "Naruto, it's the middle of the night, what the hell are you-" She cut off her sentence after realizing there was another person sitting at the table. Squinting, she realized the other person in the kitchen with him was no other than Uchiha Sasuke. After the hurt of seeing him sitting so casually on a chair, she bolted back into her room, shut the door and lunged into her bed, trying to make her seem as small as possible.
Sakura's mind raced, what the hell. Uchiha Sasuke was in her kitchen, and she never felt more angry. After all the effort Naruto and she put in to bring him home, and after all the rejection they received, it wasn't fair that he decided to just waltz back into the Leaf and more importantly, her home, as if nothing had happened. He rejected her since they were twelve, and he also rejected Naruto many times even though Sasuke had admitted a long time ago that Naruto was his best friend.
Maybe he's just stopping through, inner Sakura told herself, she would never believe that he would just stay here, no way would people be welcome to him. She laughed despite herself, he wouldn't last a day back in Konoha. If he were to be staying, she would just ignore him like he didn't exist, and for the past two years, he hadn't, so it shouldn't be too hard.
She heard her bedroom door open, and as reflex she shot up into a sitting position with a kunai in hand.
"Oh, Naruto, I didn't think…" Sakura muttered.
"Its okay Sakura-chan, really, just lay back down, everything's going to be okay." Naruto spoke reassuringly.
Sakura did as he told her, and a dip in the bed signaled Naruto lying on the other side of the bed, as they sometimes did when the other was feeling down, anxious or stressed. Their bodies faced each other, and Sakura stared into those brilliant blue eyes of his.
"H-how, Naruto, how is everything going to be okay?" Sakura asked, voice shaking.
"I will make sure of it, you're my best friend, I know how you must feel seeing him in our kitchen."
Sakura turned her head, she wished she wasn't so damn emotional.
"Please tell me, that he isn't staying?"
"He has no where else to go Sakura-chan. I offered him my bed for tonight, and tomorrow we'll figure things out." Naruto consoled her.
"Its not fair to us that he's doing this." Sakura whispered.
"He's finally come home Sakura, I'm so incredibly happy, he came back to his family."
Sakura turned on her other side, refusing to let Naruto see the tear that had escaped her eye. Once she started though, she knew she wouldn't be able to stop. She let a sob escape and officially broke down.
"Come here Sakura, it will be alright."
Sakura turned and buried her face into Naruto's chest, his comfort was just what she needed. She fell asleep almost instantly.
Early the next morning, Sakura awoke to the broad daylight shining through her window, but also the obnoxious snore of her best friend. She rolled her eyes, and then rolled out of bed. Sakura was well aware that Sasuke occupied Naruto's room, so she stealthily made her way to the bathroom.
The warm water felt good on Sakura's stiff muscles, from all her training with Tsunade yesterday. As she wrapped a towel around her body and opened the door, there he was staring at her. She raised an eyebrow at him as if to say, 'what the hell do you want'. Sasuke must have caught himself, because he turned away quickly, leaving her room to push past him and make her way back to her bedroom.
Naruto was still snoring away, so she focused a little chakra into her foot and kicked the bed, sending Naruto in his morning glory on the floor.
"What the hell!" Naruto mumbled.
"Out. Now. Otherwise it won't be a happy ending for you."
Naruto left her room rubbing the back of his head muttering how violent she was.
Sakura changed into her medical-nin clothes and exited her room, passing through the kitchen to grab a breakfast to go, and then left.
Today was a training day with Kakashi-sensei, but since Sasuke had shown up, Naruto thought it would be best to take the day off, maybe him and Sasuke could go to Ichiraku and grab some ramen, maybe talk… definitely eat.
"So, Sasuke, let's go grab some ramen and talk about arrangements…" Naruto meant for his statement to actually be a statement and not a question, but the words ended up as a question.
"Hn." Was the only verbal response Naruto received from the missing-nin, but when Sasuke got up from the table to head for the door, he knew it was a yes.
On the way to Ichiraku, they coincidentally ran into Kakashi, who was wide eyed to see Sasuke back in Konoha. Naruto invited their old sensei to eat ramen with the boys, and he just shrugged as if he had nothing better to do.
Once they ordered their ramen, both Naruto and Kakashi's eyes were trained on Sasuke, waiting for him to speak.
"So…" Naruto started.
"Why are you back, Sasuke?" Kakashi asked the question everyone seemed to be wondering.
"There's nothing left for me. I have completed my task, and now I'm back." Sasuke stated as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
"Why…?" Naruto prodded.
"To rebuild my clan of course."
"SO, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU CAME ALL THE WAY BACK TO KONOHA TO KNOCK UP SOME FEMALE AND CREATE LITTLE SASUKES." Naruto raged.
Naruto was hurt that Sasuke came back for selfish reasons, like he didn't even care about the times Naruto had wasted sleep, time and effort to go rescue his best friend.
Sasuke gave Naruto an irritated look. "Annoying as ever." Sasuke muttered.
"Sasuke is just thinking logically Naruto, but I agree that it is a bit odd that you came back for that reason only Sasuke." Kakashi mused.
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and folded his hands against his mouth.
Naruto glanced at Kakashi, but his eyes gave away nothing, no emotions, but Naruto knew his sensei too well to think he made nothing of the situation at hand, Naruto would confront Kakashi later to see what he was thinking.
"So… Naruto. About your living arrangements," Sasuke started, "Are you and Sakura…?" He quickly finished.
Naruto spit out his ramen at his question, while Kakashi gave a bemused chuckle at the question. Only because he asked the same question a few months back.
"Hell no! Ever since you left, we've become really close, I mean there was that one night… but no, Sakura and I aren't together, she would probably beat me up if she heard that question from anyone."
"One night?" Sasuke continued.
"Yeah, a few years back, after another failed attempt to rescue someone, we snuck into Granny Tsunade's office and stole a bottle of sake, and after experiencing being drunk the first time, we sort of… well we kissed. And then she threw up."
Sasuke's eyes went wide at the confession, but Kakashi just laughed and said, "So you two were the thieves the Hokage was hunting down for weeks." Kakashi continued to chuckle a bit and muttered something along the lines of 'classic'.
"So does this mean Team Seven can actually be a team again!" Naruto exclaimed.
"That depends on the Hokage, and whether Sasuke and Sakura both agree to be on the same team." Kakashi mused.
"Sure." Sasuke responded.
"Well, it's up to the girls, I don't think Granny Tsunade will be that hard to convince, but… Don't say one word to Sakura about this, but she's the one to convince… Sasuke really broke her heart." Naruto said.
Naruto thought to himself that their first mission as a 'team' was to re-create the team itself.