Where's a sand, there's still a life
The first encounter with a pair of notorious shinobis - Deidara and Sasori who are from the criminal slash strongest lion-den organization with the red cloud symbol - Akatsuki left a lot of crumble and destructive side effect to a group of Konoha shinobi and also village of sand.
The traps along their way would activate the explosion with any steps from Sand nin as it's the calculated work of the red scorpion - Sasori as well as the burnt and crumble area from the bomb as the artistic expression of Deidata to toy and show them how beautiful his art was.
Who would have known each of the sane artistic duo would create the chaos this much for them to handle.
They have a grief for the sacrifice of the grandmother Chiyo. She transferred her lifeforce into the very important person of the Sunagakure - Gaara. On the bright side, they have their fifth Kazekage back like a miracle in literature. Most of the expedition team in the frontline are witnessing the miraculous moment and shed tears like a baby, including Naruto. He, without any hesitation, lunged forward to give his best friend a hug and smile.
Gaara responded with the nod and faint smile, looking around a second later to compute the situation around himself and perceived that everyone was safe including him with the help of Konoha force both team Saven and team Gai.
Everyone in the frontline slowly returned to the village with the backup team to help them in retrieving the wounded and injured.
Lots of shinobi are mourning from the pain as the medics try their best to tend their wounds and another team gradually tries to remove a number of leftover traps from Sasori of the sand.
"Welcome back!"
"Lord Kazekage!"
"Thank you everyone!"
The welcoming sound from Sand citizens echoed after they entered the village, indicating how patiently they were waiting for this moment to rise and how pleased they were to have their respected Kazekage back after the kidnapping and fighting event between Gaara and Deidara. The mood of the villagers seemed to lift up in ecstasy after a long sadness. The smile plastered on their face with the joyous tear. They poured down onto the street to give a word under their chest to every shinobi.
After a while, the hot vapor from the food stall and music are valid in every corner of this village under the full moon and nice cold air.
Meanwhile, the joy on the street could bring up the mood of every shinobi and laugh to their heart's content after the harsh fight. Except for the medic team, they have been busy tending everyone wounds and injuries since the return around evening till now.
Pink haired medics from Konoha, Haruno Sakura, just finish bandanging one ninja. Wiping a large drop of sweat at the middle of her forehead with her back hand, Sakura said "get well soon and don't forget to clean the wound again tomorrow at the hospital" and gave him the warm smile even though she's tired af and could pass out in anytime from the chakra exhaustion. The queue is still long and the night is young for the medic team.
As she became the lead of the medic team by nature and also received the respect from every medic here, Sakura had to be in charge of tending the patients and also giving instruction to the hard and complicated case. Right now, she found one of a hair rubber band on the closest table, whomever it belongs to, she doesn't care because her hand catches it and tie her hair in a ponytail while commanding one medics to prepare the medicine according to her writing.
Until the clock on the wall rings at 3PM., it's commonly the time for every Sand villager to get into the house and calls it a day because the more late in the nighttime, the colder and more dangerous in the desert.
"Um.. excuse me Toma-san" Sakura called one of the young man-medics near her in the soft tone. He immediately looks up at her, waiting for her to speak while he's trying to mix the herbs "I have to go somewhere else"
He replied back "Okay miss Haruno and where are you going?"
She said in a whispering tone and held her hand around the mouth as a secret gesture between them "Around here, just to meet my friend" with a left eye wink to him.
There's no way he can reject her request and ask her to stay to run her job, The young medic Toma, nodding to her many times with an awkward smile. The sheer beauty still prevails on the face of pink haired shinobi even if there's a trace of exhaustion over her face. The tress of pink hair around her face accentuate the grace of her green eyes and the soft pink but dry lip. With the hard work she put her effort on, she looks so natural and her beauty is still on the evidence.
"Okay miss, take your t-time"
"See you around!"
After the waving, Sakura opened the tent door and her facial expression shifted suddenly when she's hit by the night time and cold air outside, leaping up to the roof so quickly. She almost tripped her balance because of the tiring and non-stop working, looking at the direction she still remembered the direction well because she made a mental note when traveling this afternoon with the expedition team.
Her puff of air is white from the coldness then she raised the metabolism in her body to heat up the temperature of her body and ate one of the soldier pill in which its taste is horrid but Sakura had no additional option left at this point because she had to visit one place in order to settle the unfinished business.
Sakura jumped along the broken log and passed through the dent ground from the explosion. The sound of the river below is her sole companion at this time.
It's the battlefield where they crossed paths with a notorious pair of Akatsuki.
Why does she have to visit here at this hour? even when everyone is still resting in the Sunagakure.
Sakura comes here alone and without the acknowledgement of her friends.
The pink haired kunoichi stopped her track in the front of the cave where she was locked inside with grandma Chiyo. Panting from the long run and sore legs, each of her steps entering the cave almost took the last portion of her energy but she has to move..Damn it! move the baka leg! please a little bit I have to go..
Thinking inside her head while walking carefully in the cave where it's blasted off from the serious fight and there are multiple weapons laying on the ground. Yes the owner of those broken poisoned and assaulting weapons and the torn puppet was the master of puppet, Sasori.
The sigh comes in the hearing.
Another painting is echoing in the cave.
Not was.. but is..
The green eyes met with the brown one.
"Hi little sister. You make your big brother waited so long" The lazy and non challenging but low in baritone style rings in
Sakura looked up to see a man in black cape with a red cloud pattern sitting cross legged on one of the rocks. The moonlight wiped the shadow away and revealed the bored and deadpan expression of a man who should have been dead in the battle. He should have been in the grave after she hit the core heart of his puppet part. He should have been out of breath after they witnessed his life fade in front of their eyes.
"Shut up..niisan" Sakura answered back to Sasori and received a faint smile from him after she uttered out his pronoun as 'brother'