Water and Oil
Two
"My eye always on you."
The sun was setting high in the sky when she opened her eyes. She was in the room. White room with light blue curtain. The wind swayed the curtain gently. She felt calm all sudden. She was in the room and she didn't what room she was. But, she didn't care. As long as she could keeps this feeling forever.
Sakura swung her legs over the edge of the bed and sat still. The creaked door made her jump and she quickly saw familiar face. Black hair, ink black eyes, pale skin.
Sasu-
"Sai. What are you doing here?"
"This is my room. I'm the one who should ask that." He replied unemotionally.
Silent. She looked around before get up and walked passed him.
"Nara Shikamaru brought you here last night."
"Next time you meet him, say to him that please not to toss me at some unknown person."
"You know me, Sakura." His voice was slow and almost like whisper. "We're friend."
Sakura hands on the door's knob when she heard the ink user ninja said that. "Don't call me so casually and we're not friend."
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"Sakura!"
She was at the street when some high pitched voice called her name. Without second thought, she knows very well that voice.
"Ino."
"Sakura, do you see Sai around?" The blond girl asked. Just like Naruto if she adds the color more. The blond that I missed so must.
"No." She walked passed her. She did that quite a lot today. "Why are you asked me out of people, Ino?"
She sighed. "Because you're his teammate."
Sakura stopped walking. "I'm not!"
"You're."
"Not!"
"You're."
"You'r-" Sakura cut her sentences.
"My teammates are only Naruto and Sasuke-kun!"
Ino looked into her so best friend eyes. She saw nothing except one; loneliness.
"Were. They're dead."
Sakura's eyes turned wide. Ino relived. At least, she still got the reaction.
"Say that again and I swear that we will never speak to each other, Yamanaka."
"Get it real, Sakura."
Sakura glared at her. How could, how could she said that to her. Her friends were never dead. That's was a joke. A bad one. She highly believed that someday, Kakashi-sensei will come to her and say that Naruto and Sasuke-kun was hiding under her bed all the time.
"They're dead, Haruno."
Both of the girls turned around only to see Shikamaru looked both of them sternly. He still kept his boredom appearances in check with both of his hands tucked inside his pocket's pant. He wore his typical uniform except the ANBU mask.
"Get lost, Nara."
"Not so fast, Haruno. You're in my team for the next mission."
He glanced at Ino who looked suspiciously at him, "Sai at his apartment. Don't ask her. She will never speak the truth even she just met him when she opened her eyes on his bed."
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"Haruno, duck!"
Sakura evaded the attacked from the assassin before she landed harshly behind Shikamaru. She was breathing hard. Three hours walking without stop and got an ambush from the enemies made her tired easily. Shikamaru on the other hand, looked so calm and ready to take another attack. She clutched the kunai on both of her hands tightly before threw it to the mid air.
"Now!" Both of them jumped and the clashing sound was produced when the enemies counter back. Two against three. Sakura managed to get one as well as Shikamaru. The other one succeed to run away. Sakura threw a dagger but it's only flown passed his shoulder. She doubted it will get him a minor injured.
She glanced over her shoulder only to see Shikamaru already behind her.
"I'm here." He said, and his smile is thin and ironic and suddenly Sakura felt her faces all hot. She looked away quickly. She's never really seen Shikamaru's smile before. Being a squad leader for ANBU is kind impossible to make someone smile. She cleared her throat.
"Good."
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"Now, Haruno. Let me ask you again. Where were you eyes when the enemy, specifically, the assassin almost get you head off?" His smile all gone only substituted with anger and disproved and she can see one more emotion. Is that, concern? She doubted that.
"I forget to bring it. Probably left it at hospital." She shrugged.
A few chuckles escaped from another two comrades, Hyuuga Neji and Inuzuka Kiba with Akamaru.
"Where did I gave both of you permission to laugh?"
"Left beside Haruno's eye." Kiba answered only to annoy Shikamaru more. He did the job well when Shikamaru grunted and move away. He highly hope that he get so much better expectation from the Hyuuga.
He sat down in the middle and ignored Kiba's commented before started speaking, "We will take another route as the walking is dangerous. We run branch by branch on the tree. Kiba you go first next is me then Haruno. Neji you will cover the last. Got it?"
They all nodded.
"Like the formation when we wanted to pursue that bastard." Kiba said. Neji hissed.
"Except there was no Haruno and Naruto instead." He continued, ignored the glared from the Shikamaru.
"I will go first." Haruno said.
"No, Kiba first." Shikamaru held her shoulder.
"Don't touch me, Nara. Like I cared about what that dog said." Haruno walked past them before jumped to the one of the branches and disappeared.
"I hoped you satisfied, Kiba." Even Neji could feel the tension.
"You need to do something, Shikamaru. She is your wife." Neji said while gathered his bag.
"Was. We were just divorced." Shikamaru jumped and disappeared, leaving the two comrades dumbfounded.
"Great." They said in unison.
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"Here, our mission is to investigate the killer of the Feudal Lord of the Tomatoes' Land. If we meet the assassin, kill them is first priority. Any questions?"
Sakura raised her hands.
"Who's the new Feudal Lord?"
"That's out of our mission, Haruno." Shikamaru replied while closed the scroll and putted into his pocket.
"I asked, who's the new Feudal Lord now?"
"I said, that's not our mission."
They were at the boundary of the Land of Tomatoes. After another argued throughout to the Land of Tomatoes, Kiba apologized to the Sakura and Sakura accepted it as Neji said if they kept argued he will put them both into coma for the next two weeks.
"Okay, let me tell you something, Captain."
Shikamaru furrow one's of his brow.
"Why one of the assassins, that attacked us earlier, specifically, the one that ran away, wore head protector from the Land of Tomatoes itself?"
"You didn't tell that to me. Why you did not report it, Haruno?"
"I wanted to but you kept asking me, where were my eyes all the time. So, can I ask you something?"
His eyes looked boredom, "What?"
She looked at him with same, disinterested eyes "Where were you eyes, Nara?"
"Watch over you."
Continue.
Thanks for the read .
I love tomatoes (;