Uchiha Sasuke was sharpening his weapons. It was all peace and quiet, except for the satisfying clinks the metal made against the whetstone, when a piercing shriek rang through the house.

He cut himself on a kunai.

"SASUKE-KUN!"

Sasuke walked(he never ran except in dire circumstances) hurriedly to the kitchen, the origin of the ear-splitting shouts. Though his face was emotionless and composed, his mind was in a whirlpool of questions. 'What happened? Bandits? Enemy nin? A robber?' His grip tightened around the kunai in his hand as he rounded the corner into the kitchen.

"Sakura. What's wrong?"

His pink-haired teammate had come over to his apartment to keep him company and to "cook you a decent lunch", in her words. She had seen him only eating tomatoes when he actually ate, and occasionally going out for ramen with Naruto. He was going to ruin his health, she had said. He had said that he would rather ruin his health than eat her horrible cooking, which had earned him a painful punch in the head.

At the moment, the monstrously strong Sakura Haruno was backed up against the wall, a shaking frying pan in her hands and a horrified expression on her face.

'A frying pan.' Sasuke lifted an eyebrow. 'Seriously?'

As he thought about it, though, he had never heard Sakura scream these days. She had grown up, had become famous as Konoha's best medic with the fearsome strength and fiery temper. She had taken a sword through her stomach without screaming, for kami's sake. What was wrong with her now?

His eyes followed Sakura's line of vision, resting on the cause of her hysterics.

A cockroach. On the floor.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT THING. IT'S HUGE." Sakura's eyes widened and her chest heaved with each word. She shakingly waved the frying pan at it experimentally, and shrieked once again when it did not budge.

"Calm down. It's only a cockroach." Sasuke rolled his eyes. Sakura was freaking out at this tiny thing?

"SHUT UP AND KILL IT. NOW."

Sakura scooted behind him, clinging to his arm and muttering some colorful words as she stared at the bug.

The Uchiha rose his eyebrows. Sakura had not clung to him like this since their genin days. Heck, she had not even touched him except to heal ever since he had come back to Konoha after the war.

"Hn." He stretched out a leg towards the creature, calmly nudging it with a sandaled foot. He shouldn't have done that. The bug scuttled towards the wall.

All hell broke lose.

"SASUKE-KUN IT'S MOVING DAMMIT OH MY GOD." Sakura lost it. She started swinging the frying pan in various directions, catching Sasuke in the jaw.

"SAKURA—"

"SHANNARO."

Sasuke heard a boom and the next second, they both were surrounded with dust. He immediately knew what had happened.

A gaping hole stared at them from the middle of the wall, and debris littered the floor around them. For a long moment or two that seemed like forever, a uncomfortable silence issued between the two.

Unusually, Sasuke was the one to break it.

"You're scared of bugs." He sighed and rubbed his aching jaw. "There was no reason to overreact like that." He stared at Sakura's wide green eyes, frowning a bit.

"Ah… I'm… I'm sorry. I don't know what happened to me." Sakura let go of Sasuke's arm, feeling a bit embarrassed for clutching at it so tightly and panicking so much. She looked at her dust-covered fist. "I'll pay for the damage."

"No." Sasuke looked at her pointedly and huffed. "I doubt you'll even have the money to."

The kunoichi smiled softly. He sometimes knew more about her than she thought he did. "Thanks, Sasuke-kun." She rested a hand on his arm, peering at his scowling face.

"Hn."

As he silently turned away to get back to sharpening his weapons, he spotted a black spot moving across the kitchen tiles near his feet.

"FUCK. IT'S BACK."