Morning came, and sunlight colors the saturnine atmosphere of Konohagakure; clouds drifted about in the sky. However, despite the light of a new day, the hidden leaf village's people were reluctant to step out of their homes.
Others, that were Shinobi looked out through their windows, and just couldn't bring themselves to go out.
At the Hokage tower, Kakashi was seated with his back turned to his desk, looking at the village through the opened window of his office. The sixth Hokage, had his mask down, allowing cold after rain morning breeze to blow at his face and refresh him.
" You return with the unexpected, Naruto... " He sighs, " things have always been particularly hard for you. And here I was thinking, everything would be smooth sailing for you now, but I guess the tale of Naruto Uzumaki is not over yet. " said Kakashi.
- Last night -
Every single adult and adolescents in the village, having felt a change in the air were drawn out of their homes. When they got out, they each noticed the explosive light of the destructive balls when Sasuke had shot at them in orbit.
The sensor types, due to the Susano-o being far up in the exosphere could only faintly sense the massive amount of chakra being utilized by the Uchiha.
As they observed, the rain which had eased into a drizzle began to pour once more, none however left the spot in which they stood before the rain started up again. They didn't mind being wet, as they deemed their self given task too important.
Kakashi Hatake also stood upon a rooftop, alongside Shikamaru and several Anbu observing the skies, as their clothes and bodies got drenched.
Several minutes passed, then Kurama broke through the pouring clouds in a majestic and dazzling form, every eye outside watched the nine tailed fox's descent from the raining sky above.
Kakashi made a hand gesture, thus Shikamaru and the Anbus moved accordingly and followed behind the Hokage. Jumping from one roof to another, bringing them closer to Kurama's area of descent.
Arriving, Kurama was in the spacious midst of a massive crowd from every corner of the village. From the rooftop, Kakashi and those with him observed the situation below.
" Is that Kurama? " Shikamaru inquired quizzically, " it would seem so. And it seems he came bringing Naruto and Sasuke " said Kakashi.
" Naruto?... You mean, that other guy is Naruto, " " some things have definitely changed. But yes, that's him "
" Hokage sama, allow me to approach Kurama, he'll give me the details, " said one of the Anbus, with a mask that had the spiral Uzumaki symbol drawn upon it in bold red colour.
" Go " said Kakashi in monotone.
The spiral masked anbu takes off with a single jump, till he drops down a few feet from Kurama, whoms light illuminated his surroundings.
" Kurama San, is that you? " asked the anbu approaching cautiously with his eyes observing the unconscious form of Naruto and Sasuke.
" You've seen enough, go home... You, Sarutobi grandson come with me " said Kurama wrapping a third tail around the spiral masked anbu, and then flying off with him.
Once Kurama was gone, the villagers dispersed and went back into their homes.
" Shouldn't we follow too? " asked an anbu, " no. This matter has gotten personal, we shouldn't interfere " Shikamaru says. . .
" Hey babe, have a taste and tell me what you think ".
Sasuke turns away from a black laptop on the kitchen counter, to Sakura whom had a chirirenge in her hand, with the most beautiful smile any man could ever see on her fair face.
Sasuke without an ounce of hesitation leaned in, and takes a sip of the soup within the spoon,
" Hmm " he utters, then he sips some more till there was no more soup in the spoon.
At this, Sakura giggles slightly, " you must really like it, uh " she says.
Sasuke smiles, before taking hold of Sakura's wrist which was holding the chirirenge, and lower it down. With his other hand, he pulled Sakura closer to him, surprising the latter a bit.
" The soup is quiet delicious, but do you know what I know is even better?... " Sasuke says,
Sakura turns her head slightly to the side, with a psuedo curiosity on her face, " what could be more delicious than my soup?... Hmm, how perplexing "
Sasuke retracts his hand which was on Sakura's wrist, and turns Sakura's face back to him with his index underneath her chin and his thumb pressing vertically above it.
Sasuke lowers his head, and brings Sakura's face closer to his, till he laid a peck upon her lips with his: Sasuke pulls back ever so slightly for a second or so, before drawing back in and pecking Sakura on the lips again.
He pulls back slightly again, and Sakura smiled as he came back in. But instead for a peck, he sucked gently on her lower lip, a ' hmm... ' escapes through Sakura's mouth.
Sasuke sucks on Sakura's upper lip as well, before taking both her lips with his; whilst he kissed her, Sasuke turns Sakura around without breaking contact, he steps forward and Sakura stepped back instinctively.
Sasuke lowers both his arms, and place his hands behind her thighs, then he breaks away from Sakura's lips as he lifts her up the kitchen floor and unto the kitchen counter.
Sakura puts the chirirenge down on the counter, while Sasuke encircles her back with his arms. Sakura also wraps her arms around Sasuke's neck.
Their lips came back in and found one another, till they resumed kissing. Sakura digs her left hand fingers into the back of Sasuke's coal black hair, deepening their kiss.
Sasuke places his hands lying flat on the counter, at each side of Sakura, withdrawing his face by a few inches. He looks at Sakura with a smile.
" I don't deserve you, no– not in a million years " he says.
At that, Sakura's expression turns sour, " no. You do not... Sasuke, let's break up " she utters. . .
Everything changed and Sasuke found himself, with the back to the door and a wet dripping folded umbrella in his hand, staring at Sasuke's heartbreaking sad smile.
" Let's break up ", he heard her say again.
This time, Sasuke couldn't say a thing, and just watched as she stepped closer and took the umbrella from him, and then walked past him in slow motion.
A tear trails down the corner of Sasuke's (Naruto) left eye, as the eyelids lift and luminous blue eyes were revealed.
" You're awake, come to the living room. You should join in ".
Sasuke hears Kurama's voice in his head, and it all came rushing back to him, the unexpected power of the destructive ball which pursued them vehemently into Mars.
The Uchiha caught in Naruto's body, sat up his eyes towards the closed door, his blue eyes came down and look at the blond hairs on his bare and ripped arms.
" Inside Naruto's body, it can't get much worse than this " Sasuke says in a familiar, but unfamiliar voice.
Sasuke pressed his lips together tightly, then he gets off the bed on bare foot leaving the room. Sasuke walks towards the living room, feeling like a stranger.
As he approached the living room, Sasuke began to hear the ongoing colloquial between Naruto (Sasuke) and Kurama, in his voice and it felt foreign. When he finally got to the living room, the dazzling majestic fox was seated on the single sitter, while Naruto sat on the sofa with his arms folded and a deep frown on his face.
" Hey, can you not frown with my beautiful face this early in the morning, it's unnerving " said Sasuke approaching the sofa.
Naruto turns the head towards Sasuke, as the Uchiha came and sat down on the sofa's armrest. Naruto looks at his face irritatedly.
" This is really fucked up. How in the world do we deal with this, I don't know any soul shift Jutsu, or do you Sasuke– damn it's really weird looking at myself " said Naruto.
Sasuke looks away, his eyes became stuck on the sight of the kitchen, which was across from the living room; his eyes on the kitchen counter brought his dream back to his remembrance,
" Hey Sasuke, what are you looking at, don't you know how serious and terrible this is? ", " I've never seen a smile so beautiful, it was truly a breathtaking sight, hmmm. And the things her lips were capable of. My world ".
Naruto looks to Kurama befuddled, and the fox shrugged his shoulders.
" Kurama, any idea on how long we'll be like this? " Sasuke asked, " not at the moment. I'm still inspecting, as we speak. Your separate souls, is still very much attached to your separate bodies " said Kurama.
" I really I'm fucked... " said Sasuke, " ya think! " yelled Naruto.
" You've been at the hospital all night, tending to patients. You should go home and rest, I can receive the herbs you requested from Sunagakure " said Konohamaru in front of Sakura's office.
Sakura came out of the office, closing the door behind her as Konohamaru stepped back.
" I can't do that, I personally requested it when I went there two months ago. It would be rude of me. But if you really want to help, you can just accompany me to the village's gate, they are almost due now " Sakura said already eight steps away from Konohamaru.
" Really, I can do that too, " " then be quick on your feet if you want to keep up " she says.
Konohamaru smiles as he jogs after Sakura... Twenty minutes later, Sakura and Konohamaru were only a few meters from the opened entrance gate, when they noticed four hidden sand village's ninjas. Two Kunoichis and two shinobis approaching.
" There they are, " Sakura says.
Sakura and Konohamaru bowed their heads slightly to Kotetsu, and Izumo whom were on an early duty guarding the gate. The sand ninjas stepped through and enter the village.
" Good morning, I'm so glad you could make it– is that it? " Sakura asked noticing a huge red painted square box carried by the two shinobis, by the handles on each side.
" Yes ma'am, " replied one of the kunoichi. " A lot must have grown, "
" Indeed, it grew in abundance. It was quite a surprise, no one thought it would survive long enough to grow as big as it did. " said the other kunoichi.
" How big did it grow, this big? " Sakura said widening her arms, the Kunoichis chuckle. " Much more than that, it's at least half the size of a forest ",
Sakura's eyes widen astounded, with her mouth slightly parted.
" That's ridiculous, from within the deserts sand too, " " yeah, it was a miracle. And in your hands, I'm sure it's going to become a true miracle for anyone severely hurt or sick ".
Sakura smiles modestly. " Let us hope so. Come on, let me show you the village, as we head for the hospital " said Sakura.
Sakura turns away and lead the way for the sand ninjas to follow, while Konohamaru stood back watching her with a smile.
' Big sis is really doing what she likes ' thought Konohamaru.
Konohamaru also turned away from the gate and was about to follow after the sand ninjas, when he remembered catching a glimpse of something very odd a second ago. Konohamaru stopped, and turned back around to look keenly at the forest several meters beyond the entrance gate.
" Konohamaru, are you just going to stand there, join us! " said Sakura without looking back. " Wait Sakura san, we have an unexpected visitor– no, visitors ",
Sakura stopped and the sand ninjas with her, Sakura turned around and looked in Konohamaru's direction.
She fixed her eyes unto those approaching from beyond the gate, and too her surprise, it was a very familiar individual, along with other unfamiliar individuals.
Sakura wasn't sure why, but her face became stern as she left the sand ninjas standing and walked over to Konohamaru till she passed by him forward. The young Sarutobi followed, meeting the approaching individuals at the final line which separated the hidden leaf village from the outside world.
" Pink hair, green eyes like mine. You must be Haruno Sakura. " said Mei Terumi staring at Sakura.
Sakura looked back sternly.
" And to what do we owe a visit from the fifth Mizukage, " Sakura says " is that a question? ".
Sakura said nothing and just stared. Watching her, Mei Terumi's escorts began to glare infuriated by the manner by which Sakura Haruno was speaking to their Mizukage.
" Watch how you speak to the Mizukage. " said one of the escorts, " and you watch how you speak to a hero of the Ninja war " Konohamaru retorts with a glare.
Mei Terumi dips her hands into the pockets of her cotton hakama pants.
" We're both women with notable accomplishments, we should act civilly for the sake of decorum and the alliance, " said Mei Terumi
" And we'll get to that, as soon as I get my answer " Sakura says her expression unchanging.
Seeing Sakura would not back down, Mei Terumi drew her red lipsticked lips into a crooked line.
" I'm here for my man, of course ".