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Sakura sighed as so much had happened recently with the news of Jiraiya's death reaching them. She understood that Naruto would be devastated by learning such a thing. To Naruto probably more than almost anyone else around. Jiraiya was more than just his master and he was more than just his disciple. However one of those people was Tsunade so while Naruto was devastated by his master's death so too was her own master. So she tried making it so that Naruto did not take out his anger too much on Tsunade as she did not need that at the moment. Someone telling her things she was probably already thinking herself and would only do so even more if Naruto said them.

She did not want to seem that she was not aware of what Naruto was going through because even if she could not fully know what it was like. After all, they had grown up in different ways that caused them to see things in different ways but she was more aware of this now. Far more aware of it than back when they were still kids or even back when they had first formed Team Seven.
While she was doing this she heard a knock on the door to her place and went down to see that it was a friend of hers.
"Hey Sakura how is it going," her friend asked her

"Fine….well as fine as I can be considering what happened recently," she said to her

"I would guess so considering that the Frog Sanin has died and how close he was to the Hokage after all" the friend said in a low voice.

Grabbing inside as that was not really info that had gotten around the entire village yet so it probably was not the best thing to just say at the moment. Considering that they did not know when Pain might attack them coming after Naruto. In a similar manner to how his group had gone after Gaara and the others that had tailed beast sealed within them.

"That is not something that you should really be saying as I do not know how many ninjas were informed but to let civilians overhear that might not be a good idea," Sakura said.

After the last attack on the village basically three years ago now. There were still those who had not gotten over it as they managed to avoid too many injuries and damage to the village over all but they could not prevent any from happening at all. Sakura being so close to Tsunade who was the Hokage meant she was aware of various things that had to do not just with those against them from without but also those against them from within. There were those in the village that did not like her master or how she ran things thus another attack or even the possibility of one would go over that well.

Brushing Sakura's hands off of them, her friend then looks at her with a serious look of their own.
"Remember that little bet we had a while back," they said.

"What about?" Sakura inquired as she narrowed her own eyes at them.

She sadly had taken after her master when it came to gambling as well. Though not as horrible when it came to gambling as Tsunade, since Sakura could win and win very often. Sakura's problem was she just did not know when to stop when she got on a roll. Shizune would always be sighing when something like this happened. It seems that between the two of them, Tsunade's bad habits rubbed off on Sakura more than Jiriaya's had on Naruto. At least she just gambling and not drinking Tsunade would always counter when this was brought up.

"I am calling in my favor that you owe me as I want you to cover for me in my guard duty today. You did say that I could call it in at any time and you have nothing to do today. So I am here to tell you that you have to report for guard duty" the friend said.

Sighing as she did promise that she would have to do this as she did not have anything to do today so this would be something to get her mind off of everything that have been going down lately. She had basically helped out as much as she could regarding the final message given by Jiriaya. Getting Shikamaru to help decipher it rather than just skip out on it was the best she was able to do at the moment. After this guard duty was over she was planning to help out with it herself. Getting this done would be helpful not only to Naruto but to Tsunade as well.