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She was running.

Running at one in the morning through the Konoha village.

Mikoto saw her blurred figured, rushing past her and her family, nothing but a moving blob of pink hair.

Who is this girl? Mikoto asked herself. She knew of Haruno Sakura, very well actually, and she knew that she was Sasuke-chan's teammate. But, how close were they that she would be running through the village at one in the morning to meet her team at the gates?

Mikoto sped up, leaving her husband and eldest son behind as she followed the quick girl. The gates came into view, two figures slowly inching forward. Sakura saw them, her shoulders lifting as she sped up even more, covering the last few yards with one finally leap into their arms.

Mikoto couldn't believe her eyes. Her son was embracing a complete stranger before his own mother? The girl was crying as she turn around, her small arms seeming to be the only support keeping Naruto and Sasuke on their feet. Her hands glowed with a sparkling green chakra as her lips moved with words Mikoto could not hear. Naruto was grinning, his head resting on the girl's, whispering back to her.

"Mom." Sasuke called, snapping the Uchiha woman's attention back to him. She frowned at what she saw, bruises adorning his usual flawless face, blood splattered across his ANBU uniform, tears in his clothing where she could still see blood oozing.

Mikoto stepped closer, enabling herself to hear what Naruto and the girl were talking about. "…and if you two ever scare me like that again, I swear I'm coming to find you and killing you two myself. Understood?"

"Yes, Sakura-chan…"

"Do you have any idea how worried I was? You had Sai worried. Sai. He wanted to request a retrieval mission, guys. SAI." Angry tears ran down her cheeks.

"Sakura," Sasuke said softly.

The small girl's angry glare was turned on Mikoto's son. "And you, I told you—"

"Sakura," He said again, his eyes soft, his other hand coming to rest on top of the green glow.

"We're okay." Sakura nodded, unable to speak anything more. Her arms wound even tighter around their waists, bringing them closer.

Mikoto turned and saw that Itachi and Fugaku had seen everything she had, still watching the three stand so close together, just whispering to each other.

"Mom," Sasuke said again, smiling slightly. Mikoto expecting her own embrace, her time to tell him how worried she was. "We staying with Sakura tonight." Mikoto's smile fell.

"Yea, she thinks we have eternal bleeding or something." Naruto supplied, still smiling.

"And you do, idiot, you see? This is what happens when the stupid Elders assign you to an ANBU mission without me. You come back about to die at my feet. You both suffered mental injuries if you think I'm ever letting you two go on another mission without me as long as I live."

"Yes, Sakura-chan."

"Good, now, come on, we need to get you two to the hospital." Naruto made a face as he starting walking again.

"Ew. Do we have to?"

"Yes."

"But I hate it there."

"You should have thought of that when you decided to leave without me."

"But they never let me have any ramen!"

Mikoto listened to their slight bickering until she couldn't hear them any longer. This Sakura girl, she decided, was something else entirely.

And Mikoto approved.

"I like her," She said absently. "How come I have never met her before?"

Neither her husband or son had an answer, but, she didn't mind, she wasn't looking for one anyway.

Mikoto's welcome home would just have to wait until tomorrow.

And, she decided, she was okay with that.

A/N: Yes, kind of cheesy, but I really liked writing it. Tell me whatcha think!

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