Chapter Sixty: Exhaustion
She'd been gone for eight weeks.
He thought he would go crazy after day three. As time progressed, he tried to figure out what made her back off. He tried to think where he'd gone wrong.
He was leaning against a tree littered with kunai, resting from a training session when he sensed her presence. She gracefully folded herself to the ground beside him, and raised a hand to his face.
He sighed, and pushed the glowing green fingers away from the scratch he'd gotten earlier and closed his eyes tiredly. The green faded out slowly.
"Not now Sakura."