I thank you all for the reviews and I think there is a few things I need to clear up before I go anyfurther. Yes this is going to be a NaruSaku story obvious by the summary and I wouldn't have put it in the NaruSaku filter if not. However, Sakura is not going to go running to Naruto and suddenly the past nine years will be forgotten and happily ever after crap. It is going to take a while so don't worry it won't be like some of the other stories I've written that started out as SasuSaku then became NaruSaku.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
A month had passed since Sasuke had broken the news to Sakura and she had stormed off to a hotel. Now she had found herself a nice apartment, as far away from the Uchiha compound as possible. It was greatly under furnished what with all of her stuff still at Sasuke's. She needed things, not a lot of things just some basics, you know her bed. So that's how she found herself outside of Sasuke's place, keeping a stoic face Sakura knocked twice before she opened the door. Kaede gasped and backed away, Sakura snorted in derision before forcing her way in.
"Kaede? Who's at the do- Sakura?!" Sasuke asked in clear shock.
"That's right, I'm here for my things Sasuke." she answered.
Not even bothering to give them another look she pushed further into the house and towards the bedroom. Using her chakra to augment her strength she placed her dresser on top of the bed before pulling them both out.
"H-hey! My things are in that dresser!" Kaede whined.
"Fine." was Sakura's simple response.
She ripped out the drawers and dumped the clothes on the floor before replacing them.
"Happy now?" she asked.
Kaede gulped and nodded before backing away from the intimidating medic. Sakura was almost out the door when Sasuke tried to stop her.
"Sakura, let me explain." he tried.
"Don't fucking talk to me Uchiha." she spat. "Besides, there's nothing to explain. You want kids, I can't give you kids, she can. Open and shut case."
Sasuke stood there for a moment before attempting to help her with the bed. She pushed him aside before taking the dresser off the bed and turning it on the side, she easily slid the furniture out of the house and stacked it again outside. Sasuke stood in his doorway watching her, mostly it was to keep her from scaring Kaede again.
"You know." Sakura started. "Naruto warned me about this, guess I should have taken his warning a bit more seriously."
Sasuke gulped at the mention of Naruto's name, he wasn't sure what would happen if she told Naruto about this but he was fairly certain it would be bad. A small nervous sweat began to form on his brow.
"Oh really?" he asked.
"Yes, back when we were still good friends." she chuckled. "Was looking out for me."
Again using her chakra to augment her strength she hefted the bed and dresser up and over her head.
"A bit of advice Sasuke." Sakura was looking at him now. "Don't come near me again, 'cause when I punch you next time, I won't hold back."
Sasuke backed away into his house and watched Sakura walk away. This time when she walked through the village she knew she was sight. Walking away from the Uchiha compound with a bed and dresser above her, the civilians gave her a wide berth. Of course some people gave her odd stares which only served to piss her off.
"What?!" she shouted. "Never seen a woman moving before?!"
The men and women who were staring quickly looked down at their feet. Sakura grunted before picking up the pace towards her apartment.
"Jerks." she mumbled.
It wasn't until she reached her door did she come across a problem. How was she going to get her keys? The walkway she was on wasn't wide enough to place her dresser down, she looked around a couple times to see if anyone was around to help her.
"Of course not." she mumbled.
Getting annoyed she tried to balance the furniture on one arm only to have said limb almost snap in half.
"Okay not that!" she grunted.
An idea came to her, she backed up a bit and looked up. Excellent, nothing to get in the way, she smirked before launching the bed and dresser into the air. She quickly fumbled in her pocket for her keys and was able to open the door before the objects came back down. She put her arms up and braced for the impact as the heavy pieces of furniture crashed back down. A smile of victory made its way onto her face as she proceeded to move the furniture into her apartment easily now. She set the dresser down in the living room and pushed the bed into her room before going back out to retrieve the other piece of furniture.
"Ahh..." she sighed aloud. "So much better."
It was getting late in the day which she supposed was good, there wasn't much else for her to do on this day off. Sakura got up off her bed and went to the bathroom for a shower.
Naruto, Keiko and Hitomi were standing in front of Tsunade waiting for their mission. They were mind numbingly tedious, back to D and C rank missions. Both girls wanted to complain about it to their Hokage but she had made a good arguement.
"Unfortunately, there are no single Genin or Chunin at the moment." Tsunade said. "I won't keep you three on lockdown until we find one though."
Naruto nodded and the Date's let go of a sigh of relief.
"I can still give you missions, but they will all have to be low ranking missions." she explained. "I'll do my best to give you the C-ranked missions but I will have to throw some D-ranks at you."
"But Tsunade-sama...!" Hitomi whined.
"Look, it's protocol. I know that you three are good, very good in fact." Tsunade tried in hopes of calming the girl down. "I'm not gonna have the Council breathing down my neck for a breach of protocol simply because you don't want these missions."
Hitomi deflated and nodded her head in understanding.
"Okay you three, I've got a good one for you." the blonde Hokage said. "You actually get to leave the village for this one."
The Date's eyes lit up at the mention of that. Finally a mission that wouldn't be a total waste of time.
"There is an important document that needs retrieving from Kumo, too important for your average courier." Tsunade explained. "It shouldn't take too long, but, as always be careful."
The ninja nodded and went off to retrieve their gear.
"Sheesh! Finally we get out of here!" Hitomi whined. "Any longer and I would've went crazy."
"Quit your bitchin'." Keiko smirked.
"Make me!" Hitomi growled.
"Both of you shut up." Naruto said in his sensei voice.
"Y-yes Naruto-sensei." both girls whimpered, they hated that voice.
As the girls made a sprint to their house Naruto smirked, he loved it when he had a chance to use that voice. He loved it even more when he got to use it on more than just his students, like Anko. To this day he still doesn't know if the look she had was one of fear, hilarious confusion or perhaps a combination of both.
"Phew. That was a close one." Naruto said as he let go of Anko's waist.
"Took your sweet time didn't you Uzumaki?" the purple haired Jounin said as she straightened her trench coat.
A tick mark found its way onto Naruto's head. "What you really mean to say is "Thank you for saving me!" isn't that right?!"
Shaking his head and the memory along with it, he made his way to his apartment to get ready.
Another month had passed since Sakura had gotten her bed and dresser back. She had tried to throw herself into her work, and it worked... for a time. Slowly but surely it became all to obvious for her, nothing had changed. Wake up, shower, brush teeth, eat breakfast and go to work. The only deviation being when she did some light training to keep herself in shape, her life was dreadfully monotonous. Monotonous to the point that she, for a period of four days, seriously considered ending the cycle, permanently. That thought process was broken when she thought of her few friends and family, oh man her parents would be so pissed. She finally came up with what she had hoped would be a good solution, and that's how she found herself outside of the Hokage's office.
'Okay, come on you can do this Sakura!' She psyched herself up.
She knocked twice before entering, without even waiting for a reply from her former teacher. Sakura was, surprised, to see Tsunade at the desk. Not because she expected someone else or that Tsunade would be sleeping one off, it was just, like she hadn't moved in nine years.
"Hmm? Oh! Sakura, isn't this a surprise." the busty Hokage said.
Sakura gulped, why was she so nervous all of a sudden? "Hello, Tsunade-sama."
"What brings you here?" Tsunade, straight to the point.
"R-right! I, um- well you see..." Sakura stumbled with her words.
"Sakura." Tsunade said in a commanding voice. "Calm down, there's no reason to be nervous around me."
Sakura gulped again but nodded her head before taking a calming breath.
"I was wondering if there was anyway you could put me back into active duty." Sakura said.
"You sure? I thought you wanted more hospital time." Tsunade said. "You know, more money for you and Sasuke."
'She doesn't know? Or is she taunting me?' Sakura wondered.
"Sasuke and I, we are no longer together." she said.
"Why is that?" Tsunade asked.
"I'd rather not talk about it." Sakura said and looked down.
"Very well." Tsunade said. "It's a personal matter, one that I hope will not affect any missions I put you on?"
Sakura shook her head no. Tsunade quickly shuffled through her papers and Sakura could have sworn she had a smirk on her face.
"Hmmm, unfortunately with you being out of the loop for so long I can't just through back into the thick of things. You understand Sakura." she said.
"Yes, Tsunade-sama." Sakura said, defeated.
"However, if you'd be willing to be placed into a team of other Chunin. You know train regularly, work alongside other shinobi and such I believe I have just the place for you." Tsunade explained.
"Like be a sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Oh no, no no no." Tsunade chuckled. "Be the student."
'Congrats Sakura! Twenty-five and back to being a student with a sensei as old as yourself probably.' Sakura thought.
"So? Are you willing to do that and get back into active duty? Or should I call the Hospital and tell them to keep that office of yours?" Tsunade asked.
Sakura gulped for the third time before looking at Tsunade. "I would be more than willing to be part of a team again."
"Good." Tsunade smirked. "Here, these are the transfer papers for a full placement."
Sakura took the documents and looked them over.
'Strange, only the team number is on here.' Sakura thought.
"Um, Tsunade-sama?" Sakura started. "This doesn't seem very official, the only identification is the team number. What about the sensei and other squad mates?"
"Well, I want that to be a surprise Sakura." the Hokage smiled at her. "Besides, if you look closely there is also the meeting area."
"Okay, so all I do is have the Jounin in charge sign this?" Sakura asked.
"Yes... but," there was always a but, "the sensei has final call in it. If they don't think you're a good edition to the team they can say no."
"Oh, lovely." Sakura muttered. "Is the team in Konoha now?"
"Yes, they got back a few days ago." Tsunade explained. "If you go now, you can most likely find them still at the meeting area."
Sakura nodded and left the office, but first thanked Tsunade. The blonde Hokage smirked, oh this was gonna be fun.
Sakura walked down the roads leading away from the heavily populated areas of the Village at a brisk pace. She kept looking down at the documents Tsunade had given her, Team 3, that was the only true information on it.
'I wonder who the sensei is?' Sakura wondered.
The rest of the papers were just big words that had to be thrown in to make it seem much more official. Of course just by looking at it one could tell that Hokage herself had wrote this. Sakura sighed and looked forward, she could make out three figures in the distance. Yes! She was getting closer. One of the three, most likely the Jounin stood away from the other two who were sparring. Sakura was impressed at what she had seen so far, already they were using advance jutsu.
"That's enough you two!" the Jounin said.
Both, girls she could tell now, stopped their match and sat down to rest. Taking this momentary peace she quickly covered the distance between her and the other three. As she got closer more details came into view, the two girls looked very similar, sisters perhaps? She looked towards the Jounin and began to take in his, definitely a man, appearance. Tall, much taller than her by at least a foot, unlike some of the other Jounin she noticed around the village he wore the basic Shinobi uniform flak jacket and all. A few glimpses of his skin, like his neck and hands, showed him to have a healthy tan. Wait, this man seemed familiar, very familiar. It was when one of the girls, the one with the Chunin vest, whined out his name did it all connect.
"Naruto-sensei...! We're hungry...!" she whined.
Naruto, of course. That's why Tsunade smirked, that's why this team needed a new member and that's why Tsunade had hand written the transfer form! She was so going to get the busty Hokage back for this. No point in trying to hide, might as well make herself known.
"Ahem!" she cleared her throat.
The three turned to her, the two girls had calm but questioning faces. Naruto on the other hand had a look of shock and confusion.
"Sakura?" he asked.
"Hi there, Naruto." she smiled at him nervously.
Before he could ask anything else she shoved the transfer papers into his face and stood there awkwardly.
That was probably obvious to everyone, Sakura being the new squad member and all. I will describe her appearance in the next chapter.
And some more things I feel I should clear up for you all
1. There will not be any teacher on student lovin' to all of you who are wondering. Hitomi and Keiko see Naruto as, for Hitomi- A big brother, and Keiko- A father figure.
2. To clear up any confusion the scenes where Sakura got her things back and Naruto, Hitomi and Keiko getting a mission from Tsunade happened at the same time. So to clear up, it has been two months since the events of the second chapter.
Some things I've been throwing around too. Instead of giving you all a couple of lines or a paragraph or two of the past, I was thinking of writing full on chapters in the past.
-Raidori