A white steamy bowl of ramen floated towards me, my mouth opened as I felt drool leaking down the side of my mouth, I could see a bounty of bean sprouts, green onions and chashu pork riding on top the back of a large helping of fresh noodles. I reached out, so close to getting my hands on the bowl-
"Get the fuck up!" A high-pitched voice caused my eyes to snap open, I rolled falling off my bed with my comforter wrapping around my legs.
"What-What the hell!?" I asked looking around quickly.
"Pathetic." I groaned sitting up seeing Hazel Aamir standing in front of me. "I don't know what those two morons were doing with you Leaf shinobi, but I am not as lazy. Get the fuck up your late for training."
"Why are you in my apartment!?" I jumped, getting caught up in my blanket and falling face first on my hardwood floor.
"Unlike Carver and Raiden, I don't take my job lightly. Commander Haruno gave me a task and I tend to complete it. Your late, get up."
"But-But-" I was so confused!
"Let's go before I drag you outside in your underwear for everyone to see!" Captain Aamir demanded, I jumped knowing she was not joking. They dragged Lee out of his house in nothing but his boxers and forced him to train like that. I grabbed my shirt, pants and shoved my shoes on. Captain Aamir grabbed me before I could do another thing,
"Hey-!" I protested, "-Let go!"
"Shut up." She demanded,
"Ugh!" I yelled as she dragged me to the arena. "It's Thanksgiving! Why are we training today!?" I saw most of my friends were here looking half asleep and stressed. The freaking sun wasn't even out yet! Sasuke was right, this has freaking sucked. It had only been four days since Captain Aamir, and her team of doom and gloom took over our training from Carver and Raiden and it has been hell. They force us to train sixteen hours a day! I glared as a masked shinobi locked a collar around my neck. They shocked us when we messed up or couldn't keep up, Carver and Raiden were nothing like this.
"Go!" Captain Aamir yelled, we had to run ten laps around the arena or get shocked and it fucking hurt, so everyone moved once she finished yelling. I could see Kakashi, Tsuande and other sensei on the roof of the arena looking down. Tsuande tried to end this hellish field day but Captain Aamir wouldn't hear of it, she said that for her to stop training she needed the order to come from Sakura herself. Tsunade said this was her village, she was the Hokage but then Captain Aamir counted with she wasn't a part of this village, and Tsunade wasn't her boss and that she can shove her orders up her ass and run a field goal. My mouth never dropped so fast before in my life! When Carver said they were going easy on us, I had no idea that they were really serious.
Captain Aamir and her goons ran us until my lungs screamed and my legs were jelly. My body never hurt like this before. I trained until I passed out when I was a kid, but these waterfall shinobi were cut from a different cloth than I was. They were relentless, we were feed once during the sixteen hours than ran our asses. A bottle of water and protein bar, you had four minutes to cram it down your throat or your fucked for the rest of the day.
"Ah!" I turned my head, Choji fell to the ground unable to keep up with the laps.
"Get up!" Captain Aamir yelled, Choji was panting as he laid on his side.
"I-I can't." Choji breathed.
"You can, you are just choosing not too!" Captain Aamir said as she hit the button, shocking Choji through the collar around his neck. Choji cried out, I heard Ino whimper behind me.
"We didn't tell you to stop!" A masked Waterfall shinobi snapped at us, TenTen and I continued our jog, but I couldn't stop looking at Choji who was still crying in pain.
"That is enough!" Tsunade boomed, jumping down from the ceiling. "I don't care who you think you are you have no right to treat my shinobi this way!"
"Like I said before-" Captain Aamir said getting in Tsunade's face. "I don't give a fuck who you are-" Kakashi pushed Captain Aamir back.
"You're not inside the Waterfall Village." Kakashi said putting his hands in his pockets, "You should mind your manners while your Commander is away."
"Ha." Captain Aamir and a few other waterfall shinobi laughed.
"I can see why Commander Haruno hated this village so much." A masked woman crossed her arms over her chest.
"Right?" Another agreed crouching down. "They are weak-"
"We are not!" I yelled, walking over towards them. I was tired of this! Tired of them looking down on our village and calling us trash!
"Get back in line!" Captain Aamir snapped.
"Hell no." I glared, "This is no way to train people-"
"You're only saying that because you can't cut it." A masked shinobi said.
"Oh yeah?" I challenged, "I bet I could take you-"
"You want to make that a bet that you little-?"
"Don't you dare touch my shinobi!" Tsunade cut in. "Get out of my village!"
"I don't take orders from you." Captain Aamir spat, "We were stationed here, we won't be leaving-"
"What the fuck!?" I snapped around seeing Carver marching towards us with Raiden close behind him. "What are you doing Hazel!? "
"It's Captain to you." She glared,
"Ha." Carver darkly laughed, "Not even in your dreams."
"Why you-"
"Sakura said take it easy on the Leaf shinobi!"
"This is easy." Captain Aamir rolled her eyes, I looked up like hell it was!
"You and your team are being pulled back to the Waterfall Village." Raiden stepped in front of Carver, blocking him from Captain Aamir and hoping to prevent a fight from breaking out.
"On whose order?" Captain Aamir placed a hand on her hip.
"Your Commanders." Carver said from behind Raiden.
"I didn't hear any-" Captain Aamir cut herself off seeing Sakura's seal light up.
"There's your call." Carver said, "Go." Captain Aamir smiled, walking towards the seal.
"I can't wait to tear you apart." Captain Aamir said as her team collected behind her.
"Go to hell." Carver spat.
"Where do you think I live?" Captain Aamir questioned as the wind wrapped around her. I watched her lift a black controller in her hand as a dark smile spread across her mouth. She hit the button and tossed it over her shoulder. "Until next time." She nodded; it took a second until I heard the light beep. My eyes widened as I looked at Carver. The collars went off on everyone, my hands reached up to my neck as pain radiates down my body. I dropped to my knee as Tsunade touched my shoulder, I felt the electricity twisting through my body, I bit down my jaw as I embraced the scorching pain.
From the corner of my eye I watched Raiden scoop up the controller and turn it off. I breathed, falling to the ground as the pain stopped. Carver dropped down beside me, quickly removing the metal collar.
"Man..." I breathed, "...am I happy to see you." I lightly laughed as Carver smiled, Kakashi leaned down making sure I was ok as Carver and Raiden removed the collars off everyone else.
"What the hell kind of bitch is that chick?!" Kiba coughed, holding his neck.
"That's Hazel for you." Carver muttered. "She is a different breed."
"That-" Tsunade shook her head, "-is a kind way to put it."
"I'm sorry guys." Carver sighed, "We tried getting back as soon as we could."
"Where is Sakura?" I asked looking around,
"Dropping off the teams we made for the other villages, she said she will be here later." Raiden smiled, "Are you guys ok?"
"No!" TenTen cried, "My body hurts, my bones feel like jelly! Why didn't she go easy on us like Sakura told her to do!?"
"Well..." Raiden trailed off.
"Shut up." I said, "That was easy?!"
"Kinda." Carver shrugged.
"How!?" I yelled, "That was insanity!"
"Yeah." Carver nodded, "That is how our training is."
"Sakura trained you all like this?" Lee wondered,
"Yeah." Raiden nodded,
"How the hell-?!"
"Because that is how she was trained." Carver said, cutting Shikamaru off.
"Alright!" Raiden clapped, "I think you guys have done your time." He chuckled. "How about you have the rest of the week off?"
"Yes!" TenTen cheered as she laid down.
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Kakashi was inside his kitchen cooking as the rest of us sat on the couch having been banished to the living room. I peeked over the back of the couch glaring at Kakashi's head. He wouldn't let me nipple on anything, he wouldn't let me have a taste or even let me lick the spoon! He wouldn't let anyone leave because he knew we were all starving so if we left, we were clearly going to have a snack but he said that would ruin our dinner so we were grounded to the couch! I was a grown man! If I wanted to leave and have four cups of ramen as an appetizer I should be allowed too!
The closer the clock ticked to six the more excited I felt. Kakashi was beginning to set the table, his apartment smelt so good! I was so excited I am starving! Raiden was sucked into the TV screen, the moon village had a large parade that I watched every year, one day I hope to see the parade in person.
After a slow twenty minutes of my stomach hitting me in the gut to feed it and begging Kakashi for a snack Raiden snapped up.
"Get your stuff!" Raiden jumped off the couch, I looked over biting my nails.
"Huh?" Carver asked, not gazing away from the screen.
"Get your shit!" Raiden yelled running out of the apartment, Carver looked confused but moved to follow Raiden. I looked back at Kakashi as he sat the turkey on the table, he and I didn't let a heartbeat pass before we were already following them into the space that they made their home inside this village.
"Raiden what-?!" I asked as I walked in, my team behind me wondering the same thing I was.
"Dawn texted me." Raiden said quickly scrambling his gear on and grabbing his weapons.
"Ok?" I said, "And?"
"There wasn't much detail." Raiden responded, "All she said is stand by, Sakura is opening a seal for us to return to the Waterfall Village."
"Why?" Sasuke asked, Raiden looked him dead in the eye with a stern face.
"Because the Waterfall Village is at war." With those words he turned and ran past us with Carver behind him.
"Wa-War!?" I yelled running after them, they didn't respond the entire way to the arena. I quickly gazed around expecting her glowing seals, but we were greeted with an empty dark field.
"I'm confused." Carver said, "Why isn't the seal lit?"
"I don't know!" Raiden said quickly pulling his phone from his pocket. It was cold out tonight; I could see my breath as the chilly wind blew through my thin long sleeve.
"Who attacked them?" Sasuke breathed into his hands as I shivered.
"No one." Raiden shook his head at his phone.
"Little more detail would be nice!" I said, Raiden looked up at me.
"The Waterfall Village is at war with itself."
"What?" I breathed,
"A civil war?" Kakashi asked, "Why-"
"Sakura." Raiden said, "I didn't get much detail, but a group rose up against Sakura is started a fucking revolution."
"Dawn texted you?" Carver asked,
"Yeah." Raiden breathed, "Yes!" He said as his screen lit up, showing someone answered the phone. I quickly pooled around him as did everyone else.
"Diem!?" Carver called, "What in the hell-?"
"Son of a bitch!" Diem, Sakura's third commander cursed as I heard an explosion erupt through the phone line.
"What is going on over there!?" Raiden yelled.
"I don't know!" Diem spoke, "Everything was fine one second and the next everyone is at each other's fucking throats!"
"Why?" I found myself asking.
"They are going after Sakura what fucking else!?" Diem snapped; my heart dropped into my stomach. I looked at Kakashi, expecting him to smile at me and tell me everything will going to be fine. He looked just as cold washed as I did. "I can't fucking find her!"
"What do you mean you can't find her!?" Carver yelled. "You have one job-"
"I am not in the mood for your sarcastic bullshit Carver!" Diem yelled, "It's a fucking war zone over here right now! I can't find Dawn, Sakura or even fucking Kaguya!"
"Where is Hazel?" Carver asked, "Why did she-"
"Last I saw she was keeping the soldiers who went bat shit crazy away from the citizens."
"Get us over there!" Raiden shouted.
"If I fucking could I would! I have no idea where Sakura is!"
"Didn't she give Dawn the order to get us ready?" Carver asked,
"I don't think so, I think that was all Dawn." Diem said as the sound of gun fire echoed through the phone.
"Are those gunshots!?" Raiden looked pale.
"No-!" Diem asked, "They are our fucking church choir, what the fuck do you think!?" I was beginning to see why Carver didn't like Sakura's third in command. "Look, I don't have time to chat with you while I am trying to stay alive, stay by Sakura's seal if I find her, I will let her know your standing by!"
"Wait-!" Raiden yelled, "Diem don't hang up-" Raiden cursed as the call ended.
"Fuck!" Carver yelled, walking away from us running his hands through his thick hair. The Waterfall Village was far away, without Sakura's seal it would take us days to reach them. I looked around the dark empty arena as I realized all we could do now is something I hated the most, it was one of the hardest things a shinobi can do...wait...
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The sun lifted itself up in the sky, lighting our surroundings. It had been hours and still nothing. We called and texted Sakura and the other commanders of the waterfall village nonstop throughout the night and we got nothing in return. I was internally freaking out, I kept telling myself that not hearing something was a good sign. Sakura was strong, she would deal with a simple civil uprising...right? But the annoying little bastard in the back of my head would always leak thoughts into my mind like, what if she wasn't responding because she was hurt...what if she needed us and we were just sitting here playing with our thumps?! What if...what if she was worse than hurt...
Tsunade joined our group a while ago, as did a few others. Guy tried to lift our spirits, but it was hard to when you knew your friends was trapped inside a war and there was nothing we can do except sit here. I licked my lips as my stomach gurgled again, I was starving but I couldn't move. I needed to be here when Sakura's seal lit up, with my luck the second I move to go home she will call and boom! When I get back no one would be here, they would all be inside the waterfall village fighting.
Hinata came once the afternoon came, circled around us and left. I felt bad, we had a lunch date, but I was thankful she understood that I needed to be here. If Sakura needed me then I will be ready!
"This is very rude!" Raiden yelled at his phone as he called Sakura again, but no one picked up. I sighed as my ass hurt from sitting on this cold hard ground for so long. I would stand but I was already so freaking tired, and hungry! I could feel my stomach trying to eat itself! "Who does something like this!?" He continued to yell at his phone as if it was going to answer him. I loved Raiden but damn he was giving me a headache.
I laid on my back, looking up at the soft clouds passing my us without a care in the world. I was so excited for our Thanksgiving dinner...all that food went to waste!
"I don't think she is coming." Neji muttered after another hour, it was the late afternoon. Tsunade sighed, hating the fact she agreed with Neji.
"Your right." Carver nodded.
"What!" I jumped up, not expecting to hear him agree.
"Either Sakura got it under control and that is why she hasn't open her seal to bring us there or..."
"Or?" I breathed, don't say it Carver...tell me she is as strong as I think she is, and nothing can bring her down.
"Sakura was taken down in the strike last night."
"Why are the other two Commanders not responding?" Neji wondered, yeah that was a great question! What the hell!?
"Because." Raiden shook his head; he didn't like the thoughts racking around inside his head.
"Because?" I asked slowly,
"Chances are if they were able to take Sakura down in that fight then that means they turned and went after Dawn and Diem."
"Why would they do that?" Hinata breathed.
"Same reason they go after Sakura."
"Their title?" Guy asked.
"Yeah." Carver said clearing his throat, I knew I didn't know a lot about him, but I knew Carver enough to know he was hiding something from us. "We need to go." Carver said.
"Go?" Tsunade asked,
"Yeah, we need to start making our way to the Waterfall Village." Raiden said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because." Raiden sounded like something inside him broke, he gazed into the sky and then turned towards us. "Because if we get to the village, and she is fine and just ghosting us then great, making that trip is better than walking around this village stir crazy waiting to find out if my friend is alive or not."
"And the other option?" Sasuke asked, he felt the same thing I did.
"If...If they killed Sakura and the other Commanders then they strung their bodies up for display-" Raiden spat the truth out, my stomach rolled as I was taken back. I knew my face showed all the shock and horror on it. "-and we need to get her body and bury her because that is what she would do for us."
"I'll come." Kakashi offered,
"Me too." I said,
"Yeah." Sasuke nodded. Carver and Raiden just nodded; they didn't even fight us like I thought they would. I looked over at Tsunade, she looked sad which for her was a little different. Tsunade was always so strong and loud...sadness didn't match her features very well.
"Go." Tsunade nodded, "Don't let those bastard display her like a fucking trophy, when you put her to rest you five better get your asses back here."
"Tsunade?" Raiden asked,
"I fucking mean it." Tsunade pointed to Raiden and Carver, "I will come after you myself!"
"Yes ma'am." Raiden nodded, I watched them turn and begin their way home. I followed; I now had a mission. I turned to Hinata who simply nodded, understanding the fact that I needed to go. I blinked a few times as I walked away from her; I didn't want her to see the tears in my eyes. I didn't want to go on this mission, I wanted Tsunade to tell me no, I couldn't go I needed to stay here and protect the leaf village from the reapers. I didn't want to go on a mission to discover if my friend was alive or not...I didn't want to walk into that village and see her hanging in a tree or whatever those sick fucks would do to her. I also couldn't just sit by knowing she could be gone, and her body being used as a fucking trophy. I was going to kill whoever the fuck did this to her! That village...that hell on earth needs to be burnt to the ground and wiped off the face of this earth!
"One hour." Carver called as we stepped off the elevators of our apartment building. I nodded, one hour to get ready to go find out if my friend who I just got back into my life is alive or dead...Happy Thanksgiving to me...
~~ P.O.V. Change ~~
Kakashi closed his front door and leaned against it for support. He ripped his mask down, feeling as if he was suffocating in it as he took in long deep breaths. His body was trembling as he stared ahead of him, it wasn't the cold air or lack of food that had him shaking. Flashes of Sakura's smiling face tormented his memory as he took steps to go pack a bag in order to travel to the waterfall village. The thought of her being striked down was too much for him to bare. He only got a taste; he wasn't ready for her to be taken away. His imagination ran wild he could see Sakura being killed, a sword running through her beautiful body spilling her sweet blood then she is tied up, her arms above her head like he did to her in his bed. Her soft pink hair blowing through the wind as she was used as a symbol, Kakashi shook his head. This was going to torment him until he knew for sure what had happened last night. Kakashi walked into his bedroom to change, he pulled his phone to his ear trying to call her again.
Kakashi dropped his phone, he stared at the body in his bed. He heard buzzing on the floor from another phone as Kakashi walked to the side of his bed, he reached down and gasped. Sakura was breathing as she slept in between his sheets. Kakashi's legs were numb as he fell to the side of the bed, he wrapped his arms around her pulling her up into his chest.
"Hump." He heard her protest, but he didn't care his heart was leaping with joy. "Kakashi?" Sakura sounded half asleep.
"Your alive!" He breathed looking into her sleepy eyes.
"Yeah?" She said slowly, "So are you?"
"No-" Kakashi shook his head, "-you were--what happened last night!?"
"Ah, I am sorry I wasn't here. I just got busy-"
"Your village attacked itself, that isn't being just busy!"
"Wait-" Sakura shook her head, "How-How do you know about that?" She asked,
"Raiden got a text from Dawn and then Diem filled us roughly in on what was going on." Kakashi said, running his hand through her hair. "They said they were going to find you to open a seal so Carver and Raiden could be brought over."
"I...I am going to kill them." Sakura sighed.
"You're ok?" Kakashi asked, quickly looking down at her body. He loved the fact she wore his shirt, that piece of clothing never looked better.
"Yeah." Sakura yawned, "Don't worry, I am-"
"Your side-!" Kakashi saw a thin line of blood peeking through the white gauze.
"It's fine-" Kakashi quickly put Sakura back on the bed. "Ow." Sakura said, feeling her side quickly being bent back to being straight. Kakashi reappeared and began redressing her side ignoring Sakura's protest.
"You should have called us." Kakashi said, "Everyone was panicking."
"I didn't know you guys knew." Sakura defended,
"You should have called me either way."
"I handled it-"
"You don't need to handle it alone!" Kakashi snapped, Sakura wasn't used to this side of Kakashi,
"What is the big deal-?"
"I am in love with you-!" Kakashi said, "-Hearing that the woman you love is a target is hard enough and knowing people inside her own village want to kill her every day is a challenge. So, you going days or weeks without responding to one of us makes me a little uneasy."
"Kakashi..." Sakura breathed.
"We were all getting ready to travel to the Waterfall Village." Kakashi said as he pulled his shirt down on Sakura. "Naruto, Sasuke, Carver, Raiden and I were all going to go there to make sure your body wasn't disgracefully hanging in the middle of the street looking like some fucked up prize!"
"Kakashi I...I wasn't going to tell you-"
"That's another problem." Kakashi placed his hands on both sides of her body as he leaned closer to her. "I want to know what is going on with you, I don't care how bad or how good I just need to know because if I don't know what is going on how can I help you?!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you guys knew." Sakura repeated. Kakashi leaned forward, kissing Sakura as he cupped the side of her face.
"I love you Sakura." Kakashi breathed against her lips, Sakura opened her eyes and saw Kakashi was watching her like a puppy waiting for a treat. Her mouth dried up and her throat swelled shut, was it too late for her to return to the waterfall village and go back to being hunted?
"I..." Sakura trailed off not knowing what to say or do. "Uh..."
"Kakashi!" Naruto banged on the front door; Sakura sighed in relief as Kakashi stood. He pulled his mask up and looked back at the pink haired goddess that was turning into the center of his world. She slowly got up from the bed looking sore and tired. Kakashi looked at her up and down, she had messy bed hair, his baggy shirt which fell to her mid-thigh.
"You're not walking out in that." He stated, Sakura rolled her eyes and pointed to her bag laying against the wall. Kakashi fished out a pair of baggy pajama bottoms, she slipped them on. Kakashi noticed her stiff movements, Carver and Raiden still hurt from the iron village attack how could she possibly feel? Kakashi walked into the living room to unlock his front door.
"Hey Kakashi." Naruto breathed, "Are you ready-" Naruto's heart jumped seeing the pink hair woman standing behind Kakashi looking half asleep. "Sa-Sakura?" Naruto breathed. Kakashi stepped back letting Naruto fly into the apartment like a bat out of a cave. "You're ok!?" He cried, pulling Sakura into a painfully tight hug.
"Yeah." Sakura said patting his back. "I'm good."
"Alright!" Carver yelled walking into view. "What the fuck!?" He said dropping his bag dramatically. "I am getting too old for this shit!"
"Sakura!" Raiden cried running and latching onto Naruto's hug.
"Alright." Sakura sighed after a moment, "Stop touching me."
"We thought you were hurt or worse!" Raiden sniffed, "Be nice to us."
"I get that, I am sorry I didn't know you guys were contacted but I am a little sore." Naruto and Raiden instantly let go hearing she was hurt.
"How hurt are you!?" Raiden said as he dragged her to sit on the couch.
"I am not hurt." Sakura muttered, "Just tired, I want to go to bed."
"Yeah-" Raiden laughed, "-no, tell us what the fuck happened!?"
"Ugh." Sakura sighed, "I have had maybe an hour of sleep in the past three days, I just fought a good three dozen of my own soldiers I am pretty sure I can smell sound at this point, I am fucking tired!"
"Your fine." Raiden brushed off.
"Ugh." Sakura huffed rubbing her numb face. Kakashi sat beside Sakura, her knee which was pulled up rested against his leg. He wanted more, he wanted to reach out and pull her into him but he didn't know if he could...he told her he loved her, the words just spilled out of his mouth before he could stop them. It wasn't like he wanted to take them back but maybe she wasn't ready to hear those three little words, he didn't want to spook her.
"Sakura-" Raiden said looking around, "-why were you sleeping in here and not our apartment?" Naruto and Carver muttered in agreement; they were confused too. Sakura glanced over at Kakashi,
"Wait..." Carver said slowly, looking back from between the two adults. "...are you...are you two fucking?" He asked, Naruto and Sasuke instantly looked up and towards Sakura who licked her lips leaning slowly against the back of the couch feeling sore as fuck.
"Yeah." She answered, shocking everyone including Kakashi.
"You-You and Kakashi are-!?" Naruto's mouth dropped open as he quickly looked from Kakashi to Sakura in an endless loop. "What...what? No, no...that...that's odd! No, Oh! No, no...no really? Really...Really? No!"
"Why?" Sasuke asked ignoring Naruto's endless ramble, his eyes sharp as he glared into Kakashi's laid back masked face.
"How!?" Naruto added like his statement was more important.
"You really want me to explain the birds and the bees to you?" Sakura wondered.
"No-No! I know how sex works I just want to know how you could sleep with him!?" Naruto corrected. "He is still our sensei!"
"He is not mine." Sakura corrected.
"He knew you when you were just a kid." Sasuke said,
"Yeah, so do you and you still want to fuck me." Sakura bluntly stated, Carver spit up some of his water he was drinking.
"That is different." Sasuke said, "He was an adult when we were kids, he mentored you!"
"Kakashi did you have a thing for Sakura when she was still here?" Naruto asked, feeling gross and a little dirty. Kakashi didn't respond he just remained silent; in fact, he was feeling guilty. He wanted to reach out and touch Sakura, he felt a need to apologize to her, maybe his actions were inappropriate. Kakashi sat against his couch as a guilt he didn't know he had begun to weigh down on him. He felt like a disgrace to his headband...was this how his father felt before he took his own life?
"Sakura is younger than all of us." Sasuke went on, "She is still a child in a lot of ways, how could you take advantage of her-" Sakura snapped her eyes onto Sasuke, what the fuck was he saying now?
"I stopped being a kid the day Tsunade sent me out of this village to die." Sakura snapped rising to her feet. She was pissed, anger laced her tired bones as she glared down onto Naruto and Sasuke. She was not a child; she will not sit here and be treated as such. "I am not a child." She spat out, "I built a village from nothing and became the Commander of it, don't look down on me just because I may be younger than you."
"Sakura, we know." Naruto said, "It is just a little inappropriate of Kakashi-"
"Why?" Sakura asked, "I am a grown adult, I will fuck who I want to and I don't need your fucking permission to do it."
"But he is your-"
"He is your sensei?" Sakura cut Naruto off, "He was never mine."
Sakura stormed out of Kakashi's apartment and into the one she was borrowing. Sakura walked right to the fridge and pulled out a cold glass bottle of beer. Carver walked in, he closed the door lightly and moved to where Sakura stood her back facing him. Carver grabbed a beer with a sigh, hopping up to sit on the counter next to the sink.
"I knew you didn't hate him." Carver said after a second, "I had no clue you were fucking him though." Carver laughed opening the bottle.
"Yeah well, I am." Sakura said, she wouldn't look at Carver. Why did she feel as if she has been doing something wrong?
"Is it just sex or is it something more?" Carver asked slowly testing his waters. Sakura sighed, turning to lean against the fridge. "Because in there-" Carver pointed towards Kakashi's apartment, "-it looked like something more."
"I thought it was just sex." Sakura shook her head,
"Is it not?" Carver asked,
"He told me he loved me..." Sakura sighed.
"And...do you love him back?"
"I don't know." Sakura shrugged.
"Sakura..." Carver huffed reading her face. "I know Kaguya beat a lot of shit into your head, she trained you to be a soldier and a war machine but you're not just those things." Sakura didn't respond. "I thought we showed you that?" Carver said remembering back to when their full team was alive and well.
"I was..." Sakura said playing with the bottle in her hand. "I was seeing that...with him."
"Then what is the look on your face for?"
"I don't know."
"Are you ashamed of him?"
"No." Sakura scoffed, "If anything he should be ashamed of me."
"Sakura-"
"I never thought I would be in this type of situation." Sakura said out of the blue.
"Huh?"
"After accepting the title of Commander inside that village and after my parents died..." Carver was lightly shocked, Sakura never spoke of her parents. "...I never wanted to get close to another person again."
"And the Nine came and fucked all that up!" Carver laughed making Sakura smile.
"Yeah." She agreed, "Then they started to die and..."
"And that is when you decided that enough was enough?" Carver guessed, having felt the same thing. "Grave after grave, you got tired of burying your friends and vowed to not get close to anyone else because that level of pain that damn near knocks you on your ass wasn't worth it?"
"Yeah." Sakura said,
"Yeah I was like that too...that's why I was so cold towards the Leaf shinobi. It took a lot to let me open up and I love it here Sakura, we forgot underneath all that loss that it is worth it."
"Where are the other idiots?" Sakura asked seeing the apartment was empty and no one followed Carver.
"I thought they were right behind me?" Carver said, Sakura pushed herself off the fridge. She walked out of her apartment and opened Kakashi's door; she could hear them grilling Kakashi about the things he shouldn't be doing. For a moment it was like she checked out of her head, she placed the beer on the coffee table and grabbed Naruto's arm and the back of Sasuke's shirt and dragged them out of the apartment. She tossed them into the hall as Raiden willingly followed them without having Sakura force him out.
"Sakura!?" Naruto protested.
"Fuck off." She said shutting and locking the door on their faces, she turned seeing Kakashi had stood. There was guilt swimming in his eyes, and he refused to look at her. she shook her head moving towards him, guilt didn't belong in those eyes.
"Sakura." He said her name as she reached up and pulled his mask down, his touch was so gentle on her arm. Sakura ignored him as she wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him into a kiss that quickly grew hungry.
Sakura laid in Kakashi's large bed her breathing hitched as Kakashi laid under the sheets in between Sakura's legs. Her heart was pounding as waves of pleasure washed over her, drowning her away from her thoughts. Her body felt hot as her back arched feeling Kakashi slid a finger into her and begin pumping.
"Ka-Kakashi-" Sakura breathed feeling two more fingers being added as Kakashi licked and sucked at her womanhood. Sakura moaned as Kakashi reached out grasping her sensitive breast in his large hand. He seamlessly glided up her body as he positioned himself in her opening and thrusted into her. Sakura moaned as she pulled against the straps of his headband which tired her hands above her head.
"Sakura!" Naruto's voice floated into the steamy bedroom. Kakashi opened his eyes, he thrusted harder into her pulling her mind back onto him and not on the outside world. Kakashi leaned down, kissing her roughly he forced his tongue into her mouth.
"Sakura-!" Raiden banged on Kakashi's front door. "We have a problem!"
"What?" Sakura breathed as her eyes fluttered open. Kakashi sighed, slowly his pace before pulling out. He gazed down at the naked body underneath him, as he untied Sakura's hands.
"Are you sure she is here?" A deep male voice questioned Raiden.
"I don't know." Raiden muttered, "I thought she would be."
"No." Sakura said, touching Kakashi shoulder with a shake of her head.
"What?" He was confused.
"Don't stop."
"But-"
"Trust me." She said, knowing that male voice and knowing who it belonged too. Kakashi didn't need convincing as he thrusted back into her taking Sakura by surprise, she gasped out placing her hands on his bare chest.
"Your so wet." Kakashi breathed into her ear, "This is where you belong, right underneath me." He groaned as he pumped himself into her until they both finished.
Sakura reached over Kakashi checking her phone on the in table, she cursed under her breath.
"Everything ok?" Kakashi asked,
"Tsunade is in a meeting with a village leader." Sakura said,
"Which one?"
"She didn't say." Sakura sighed getting up, she turned to Kakashi. "I don't mean to smash and dash..." Sakura lightly laughed, "I just..."
"I know." Kakashi smiled watching as Sakura got dressed, she watched him get up from the corner of her eye. She watched his toned muscles and the way they bent and move as he walked up behind her. "You can use me in any way you want." Kakashi's hot breath fanned her ear sending shivers down her body. Kakashi grabbed her neck leaning her back as he kissed her deeply, exploring every inch of her mouth. He left her breathless as he pulled away, a smirk played on his lips seeing the blush on her cheeks. "Can I walk you there?" He asked.
"Uh-Huh." Sakura said clearing her throat as she went back to getting dressed.
"Why do you care Tsunade is talking to a village leader?" Kakashi thought out loud.
"Because the other villages are paying for my teams to be inside their village." Sakura explained as she did her belt, "I don't need villages on my ass if they find out the Leaf Village isn't paying for Raiden and Carver."
"I thought Tsunade did pay you for you to be here." Kakashi said pulling his shirt on, it should be a crime for a body like that to be hidden by clothing.
"Erm-" Sakura shook herself out of her lustful thoughts. "-yeah Tsunade did months ago for me to help eliminate a threat and go on a mission with you."
"So, you posted Raiden and Carver here for free?"
"Yeah." Sakura shrugged,
"Carver and Raiden are fine with-"
"They are being paid." Sakura said,
"By whom?"
"Me." Sakura said like it wasn't a big deal, she grabbed her phone off the in table and looked at Kakashi, "You ready?"
"Yeah." He smiled pulling up his mask.
Sakura and Kakashi made their way to the Hokage Tower, they enjoyed the quiet silence as they walked the chilly streets of the leaf village. Kakashi nodded at a passing shinobi, Sakura never noticed how popular of a man he was, but she could see why.
"Where is Tsunade?" Kakashi questioned Shizune, who chuckled as a response.
"Conference room." She answered walking past them.
"Was that odd to you?" Sakura asked,
"Yes." Kakashi nodded as they walked through the halls to where Tsunade was.
"Why not Tsunade!?" A high-pitched voice scratched Sakura's ears, she internally groaned,
"Fuck me." She breathed not wanting to go into that room, she knew that voice and who it belonged to.
"I just did." Kakashi smirked under his mask seeing Sakura's unamused glare. "But I'll go again."
"There you are!" Sakura and Kakashi turned seeing Naruto, Sasuke, Carver and Raiden jogging towards them.
"We have been looking for you!" Naruto whined, "Where have you been!?"
"Kakashi's." Sakura nodded towards him.
"Ha!" Carver laughed, "I was right."
"We were there for like an hour waiting for you then, what the hell were you two doing?" Naruto asked, Carver cleared his throat looking away from the group as Sakura pulled her lips together turning from the men and walked into the conference room. Tsunade was standing looking at a large white screen that took up a large portion of the wall.
"I have already given you my answer." Tsunade spoke to the stone village's leader Onoki, one of Sakura's least favorite people.
"They have grown to strong, and the Reaper is unpredictable! They need to be taken down a peg-!"
"Not this again." Sakura rolled her eyes, Tsunade turned hearing her voice.
"Sakura?" Tsunade breathed watching as Sakura moved to stand beside Tsunade.
"So good to see you again, Onoki." Sakura crossed her arms over her chest.
"Re-Reaper!?" Onoki gasped, "What-What are you doing inside the Leaf Village!?"
"What I do is none of your damn business." Sakura responded, Naruto chuckled a little.
"I hear you have been dropping off teams in every village in order to train them." Onoki said, "Where is mine?"
"Excuse me?" Sakura laughed,
"Where is my team Reaper?"
"Um, I am not sending one to you."
"Why!?" Onoki yelled,
"Because I don't like you?" Sakura shook her head as if that was clear as crystal. "You have been trying to gather a following in order to attack my village, why the fuck would I send a team to better train your shinobi?" Sakura uncrossed her arms. "How stupid do you think I am?"
"But-"
"Alright gingerbread-" Sakura cut Onoki off, "-Lets just cut to the chase, you know I'll be the one responding to any strike so why not cut out the middleman and you and I go a few rounds?" The power the seeped off Sakura had Kakashi wanting to pull her out of this room and go another round with her. "If you come out and play we can make friendship bracelets." Sakura was taunting him.
"Well-Well-" Onoki stuttered, rambling off excuses as to why he should remain in his office as he sends his shinobi out to fight his battles. Sakura turned her head to look out the window feeling a familiar chakra. Carver turned his head feeling the same thing as a dreading feeling grabbed his spine.
"Oh shit." The words fell out of Carver's mouth before he could stop them. "Sorry!" He said as Tsunade, Sakura and Onoki turn their attention onto him. "Ignore me."
"What the fuck?" Sasuke mouthed as Carver shook his head telling him to shut up.
"Well!" Sakura raised her voice, causing Tsunade to jump. "I just realized I don't give a fuck so-"
"Wha-What?!" Onoki gasped,
"You want to try and attack my village; you know where I live." Sakura nodded as she turned to leave but she stopped as a smile bloomed on her lips catching Kakashi's attention. Sakura looked back to the monitor, "Maybe I will just cut right to the point and come after your village first."
"Wh-!?" Onoki gasped as he turned blue. "You-You'll start another shinobi war! I will have everyone rain down on your head so fast-!"
"Oh, don't threaten me with a good time." Sakura smiled, "This wouldn't be my first war and it damn sure won't be my last, but at this point it's all routine, it's the same fight just with different people dying."
"I'm not afraid of you Reaper!" Onoki said but his face was pale, and his eyes were wide.
"You think you'll see me coming?" Sakura questioned as she turned on her heel and walked out of the room, letting the threat soak into Onoki. Raiden grabbed Naruto's jacket as the five men followed Sakura like a herd of sheep. Sakura walked out of the tower, the wind quickly found its way through her long hair as she turned, she seen two of her black op's members looking at her confused.
"Sakura-!" Annora smiled at the pink haired commander. Sakura's mouth was lightly agape seeing the two missing members of her unit who didn't answer when called.
"Carver!" Zander waved; he was the voice outside Kakashi's door.
"What-" Sakura stopped talking looking around at the crowded street. "Go." She pointed to her left.
"Huh?" Zander said as Sakura roughly pushed Annora and Zander towards the training grounds which should be empty this time of day. Zander bounced beside Raiden who kept his eyes to the ground, he could feel the anger seeping off Sakura as they all moved towards the leaf training grounds.
"Sakura?" Annora turned once they were alone from by standards.
"Where the hell have you been?!" Sakura snapped; Naruto shirked back seeing her glaring eyes.
"Wha-?" Zander was taken off guard.
"I pulled all the teams back to the Waterfall Village; your team has been missing for weeks!"
"I know-"
"If you fucking knew why haven't you contacted Dawn or Diem!?"
"Because..." Zander looked at the grass.
"Because!?" Sakura yelled,
"We were running after Ian." Annora sighed,
"Ian?" Sakura said, "Where the hell is he?"
"I don't know." Annora shrugged, "I thought I tracked him to this village, but I guess I was-"
"You were right." A deep voice called turning everyone's head. Naruto looked at a tall man walking towards them, he had perfect skin and handsome face with dark hair the brushed over his eyes. His eyes are what drew Naruto in, one blue and the other green. "I am here."
"Ian!" Zander smiled waving to his teammate.
"Where have you been!?" Annora yelled,
"Around." He shrugged, "I heard some shit went down inside the village, what happened?"
"If you were where you were supposed to be you would know." Sakura scolded them.
"Commander." Ian bowed his head, "Beautiful as ever I see." Kakashi perked up, looking from his book to the man who was standing three feet too close to her.
"You had orders-" Sakura ignored Ian's flirting.
"We did them!" Zander reminded Naruto of Raiden.
"But then you didn't get back to the village."
"Well...no..."
"I'm sorry Sakura, this is my fault-" Annora stepped up.
"Your damn straight it is." Sakura snapped,
"Sakura-!" Tsunade waved pulling Sakura's attention off her black ops team in front of her. Sakura sighed seeing the leaf Hokage walking towards her. "-what did you need to talk to me about?" She wondered, Sakura turned to Annora and her team.
"Stay." She ordered walking away from them to explain to Tsunade that she needed to keep the fact the Leaf village wasn't paying the Waterfall Village for Raiden and Carvers training.
"So!" Zander smiled, "How have you guys been!?" He asked with a bushy smile, Naruto raised an eyebrow seeing a lot of similarities to Raiden. Zander kind of reminded Naruto of a knock off character of Raiden. Naruto smiled at his thoughts.
"My question-" Ian's voice caused Naruto to turn to their conversation. "-why is Sakura in this village?" Ian asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"What?" Naruto asked turning to face the two eyed creep, Kakashi walked away from the group of bickering kids and went to stand beside Sakura as she spoke with Tsunade.
"Your village is boring." Ian smirked, "There are no attractions, no night life nothing that would draw someone like Sakura to this dusty little arm pit of a town."
"That isn't true!" Naruto furrowed his face feeling anger that, yet another person is trashing his village right in front of him!
"Ian you're being a dick." Carver muttered.
"I am just being honest!"
"It is kinda weird." Zander agreed.
"Why are you three here?" Raiden asked, Carver waited for an answer also wondering this question.
"Your changing the subject." Zander said,
"I am not, you are!" Raiden scuffed.
"Is she at least getting laid in this town?" Annora asked bored.
"Yeah right." Ian laughed like she would fuck someone from this-
"She is actually!" Raiden really wanted to knock Ian down a few pegs.
"What!?" Annora laughed, "No way!"
"Yeah." Raiden nodded pointing to Kakashi. "Him."
"Him?" Ian and Zander said together.
"Why?" Ian looked Kakashi up and down. "He is so boring-"
"That is a man." Zander said as his eyes trailed along Kakashi's body.
"What?" Ian laughed, "I am more of a man than he is!"
"No." Zander shook his head. "That-" He pointed to Kakashi, "-is a whole ass man, while you are..."
"I am what?" Ian said feeling defensive.
"...your more of a hairless boy compared to him." Zander smiled.
"I-I am not!" Ian argued as the men around him laughed, Annora rolled her eyes but gazed at Kakashi's masked face. Sakura told him he was nothing to her, Annora quickly looked away as Sakura and Kakashi walked away from Tsunade.
"You three-" Sakura pointed towards Annora and her team. "-Let's go."
"Go?" Annora asked,
"Yeah, your getting back to the fucking village and when I get there, I will deal with you three then."
"Yes Commander." Zander said, Naruto looked over seeing a glowing circle form on the dirt a few yards away. He gasped knowing that was Sakura's seal! She can just summon them whenever she wanted!?
"See ya later beautiful." Ian winked at Sakura as he followed Zander. Kakashi had hard eyes on him.
"Annora." Sakura called, nodding her head for Annora to walk over to where she stood, the captain quickly did as told.
"Ye-Yes?"
"Get your fucking team together." Sakura warned.
"I know, but Ian just took off-"
"He is not the captain of this team." Sakura's voice was low and sharp. Naruto was happy he was not on the cutting end of it. "-You are."
"Yes Commander." Annora nodded,
"I'm not joking Annora, get your team together before I do it for you." Sakura threatened, Annora nodded and quickly moved inside Sakura's seal. Naruto watched as the dome of air wrapped around the waterfall team sending them miles away.
"Sakura-?" Naruto was about to step forward until Carver placed a strong hand on his shoulder. Naruto looked behind his shoulder confused, all Carver did was shake his head no. Kakashi ignored them as Sakura pulled out her phone and placed it against her ear.
"Sakura?" Dawn answered,
"Did you get my present?" Sakura asked turning to walk towards team seven, Carver and Raiden.
"How could I not!?" Dawn growled, "You sent them into my office! Paper is everywhere-"
"Put a team on them." Sakura stated, a team would shadow them without them knowing Sakura had a nagging feeling in her gut.
"A-A team? You have got to be joking!"
"Do I sound like I am joking?" Sakura asked,
"No."
"They don't leave the village, I want to know everything they do."
"When are you going to be back?"
"When I get back." Sakura hung up the phone, she looked up at Raiden's hurt puppy dog eyes.
"You don't think Annora, Zander and Ian would really do anything to hurt-"
"I don't know." Sakura cut Raiden off.
"But they have been our friends for years!" Raiden defended them.
"People change." Sakura said.
"They survived just as much fucked up shit as you did-" Raiden wouldn't drop it like Sakura hoped he would, she turned to look him dead in the eyes.
"You don't trust a person until you know what they survived." Sakura knew Raiden didn't know the half of what those three shinobi did to survive Kaguya's trails, Sakura kept them at arm's length for a reason.
"So..." Carver awkwardly trying to change the subject, "...who needs a drink?"
Everyone raised their hand.