another update, we're reaching the 2/3 point folks!
It is no surprise that they are assigned together on a mission involving married couples. It's an old cliché, not that Sakura particularly cares. It'll be an easy time of it and they get to stay in a nice hotel.
They do it all by rote: spy, dispatch, snuggle.
Until.
One of the man's associates finds them, gets in a lucky shot (literally: it bounces off the goddamn wall) and then her stomach is burning, burning burning-
Kakashi kills the man and runs to her, eyes wide over his mask, and all she can see is a haze of red-