"we are heading to konoha"
"whaaaat?but why" shrieked karin.
sasuke gave her an annoyed look but didn't elaborate.
"sasuke, um I don't want to disobey or question your orders,but we are a team. we need to know why is there a sudden change in the plans." jugo tried. He too, like others, was curious to know what it is that brought a sudden change in their leader's plans. He really didn't want to question his leader but like all wise people say, curiosity kills the cat.
It's not like he will refuse to follow sasuke or anything. After all he has to follow him everywhere, unless he wishes to become that merciless bloodthirsty monster who he hates so passionately. yes, he hates himself. Hates when he looses control over his anger.
Because of his reasons, he will follow sasuke...even if he is ordered something he doesn't want to do.
sasuke gave them a leveled stare and then sighed minutely. they couldn't have catched the sigh if they weren't watching him as intensely as they were.
"konaha have more information on akatsuki than us. we are going to steal all the data they have on akatsuki." he explained.
"oO but you are aware of how tight security is around that village, right? how are we even going to set a foot in the village, much less the hokage tower, without having those bastard Anbus at our necks."
Suigetsu can be cautious when he wants to be. After all trespassing the most powerful shinobi village is not a child's play And he certainly value his life above everything.
"there is no security system that my sharingan can't pass through " it was quiet for a while after that statement.
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"Naruto-kun" her voice echoed in the dark apartment.
Hinata was worried.
She is very well aware of what day it is today and So her concern for a certain blonde has been more than usual.
As she looked around the small darken apartment, she tried to adjust her eyes to the dark to find the owner of the apartment.
Then she heard it. It sounds like someone's crying.
her eyes widened as she saw a silhouette around the corner of the bed. The figure was shaking, probably sobbing on the floor.
Hinata ran to the figure. "n-naruto-kun"
Naruto looked up at the worried face of Hinata.
"Hinata" tears were running freely from his eyes. "She-She...today ..missed ..to-today's her.." Grieving, he couldn't even form proper sentences.
hinata shook her head as a few tears escescaped her pearly eyes.
She wrapped her hands around the shaking figure and hugged him tightly.
To comfort her Naruto-kun, Hyuga Hinata can easily forsake her timidness.
"It's Okay. it's okay. you can let go." Hinata mumbled soothingly in his ear. " you have every right to cry. to show your pain."
hearing her words, he wailed loudly. Shouted for all the world to hear.
"why , why does she have to die. why? she doesn't deserve it. she doesn't deserve any of it. "
"yes." hinata said in her soft and sweet voice.
"you know, before-before she went to retrieve that *sob* damned headband , She promised that she will be back soon. promised that i won't even notice her gone. she promised *sob* promised "
he looked at hinata with a pitiful look on his face.
"And promises should never be broken , right? right. she always kept her promises. then why didn't she do it this time. why? tell me why sakura-chan " he screamed her name again and again and again. His throat was dry by now but he couldn't stop himself, it was damn too painful.
hinata couldn't say anything without breaking down in tears herself, so she kept quiet. he looks so pitiful right now, so broken down, crying his heart down.
"and now...now she even mis-missed her 16th birthday" his voice was hoarse from crying for hours.
after four hours of naruto whimpering and occasionally letting out a wail of dispare and hinata trying to comfort him and trying to control her own grief-stricken sobs, they both fell alseep. naruto's last mumbled words before falling in a slumber were,
"you know, it hurts a lot now when your not here. and no one can heal this hurt, sakura-chan"
There was a knock on the door after some time.
Naruto was tired from all that crying so didn't even budge at the sound. Hinata untangled herself from their embrace and blushed madly while doing so.
She opened the door and peeked meekly.'it's so embarrassing, i am answering Naruto-kun's door. it's almost like we...we a-are to-toge' she was too embarrassed to even finish her though.
Sai was on the door. "I apologise if I came on the wrong time hinata-san, but Hokage-sama is asking for dickless"
He gave her his creepy fake smile.
Hinata shook her head violently " we weren't doing anything and..and Naruto-kun is sleeping, he was just tired and-"
Sai opened his big mouth again, " I didn't know it was allowed in hyuga family to date outsiders"
Hinata's face was tomato red by now. She was so close to fainting but stopped herself and slammed the door closed instead.
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"shizune bring me those files which the elders want tomorrow. And tell me today's damn date. I'll show those old geesers that i finished before dead line, so they can shove these papers down their ass."
konoha's esteemed Hokage-sama is drunk.again.
"yes, tsunade-sama. And today's date is 28 march."
As shizune said this, she turned back towards the shelf containg various scrolls and started sorting them out.
But as she turned to face her leader, she saw a peculiar scene.
tsunade-sama doesn't cry without reason when she is drunk.
"happy birthday, sakura. my dear pupil" whimpered the most powerful shinobi of leaf.
he whole village knew of today's importance by now. There was a blanket of great sorrow over the village, even the people who didn't know the pink haired medic, prayed for her.