Sakura was stomping through the village her
parents had died to protect, returning the cheery greetings with a polite smile
that didn’t reach her stormy eyes. She heard the source of her irritation
before she saw him. The distant girlish giggles and squeals allowed her to
pinpoint the location of her annoying teammate.
Charasuke was leaning coolly against the
wall, surrounded by a circle of his rather loud female fans. He was soaking up
their attention like a sponge. One lucky girl he had an arm around was almost
hyperventilating from his closeness. If you squinted, you could almost see the
little hearts in her eyes.
The crease between Sakura’s brows became
more pronounced as she watched the same stupid show her teammate routinely
pulled off. Charasuke twirled a rose between his fingers like he was doing a
magic trick and presented it to the girl. Not to make his other fans jealous,
he started handing out more identical red roses. If Sakura didn’t know from Ino
that he was a regular customer at the flower shop, she’d have thought he
possessed some secret rose-conjuring jutsu. It didn’t hurt that as his teammate
she was privy to know that he also had a summoning seal on his wrist, which
normally would be used to store shuriken. But Charasuke was just that, a
flashy, shallow guy that would use a ninja technique for something as redundant
as this.
Sakura snorted a little too loudly and
Charasuke’s head snapped up, his gaze zeroing in on her. He looked like a hound
that just caught a whiff of a nice, juicy bone. Sakura quirked her brow at him,
turned on her heel and walked off.
“Sorry, ladies, I need to go. Duty calls.
See you later!” With a quick goodbye, Charasuke ran after his teammate to the
disappointment of his fangirls.
In a few bounds he caught up to Sakura and
walked next to her, matching her stride.
“Good morning!” Charasuke chirped.
“… Morning,” Sakura replied cautiously.
She studiously kept her eyes forward and away from him. She wasn’t going to let
him pull her into one of his little games.
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“I’m fine,” Sasuke snapped for the umpteenth time. The nurse that had been trying to fuss over him for the past few minutes glared at him and left.
He’d been put in a room and left alone after Ino double checked he wasn’t in any danger. Not even Naruto had come to find him, and while he was glad on that account, it was also suspicious. Nobody was answering his questions about what happened with the mission or what had happened to Sakura. Her screams were still ringing in his ears, haunting him.
The door to his room suddenly slammed open, making him flinch for half a second before he composed himself. The former Hokage glared down at him as she strode into the room, an orange blob coming in right behind her. She dragged a chair from the corner of the room and took a seat right in front of him, his medical file open on her lap.
“I assume you have questions, brat,” she scoffed in irritation.
“What happened to Sakura?” That was the only thing he was truly concerned with.
Behind her, Naruto shook his head with terrified eyes, signaling at him to drop the question. He slapped his forehead at the same time Tsunade snapped the pen in her hand.
“Technically speaking, you were dead, Uchiha,” declared Tsunade. “Your heart couldn’t handle the stress from the poison and the discharges from the chakra restraints.”
He frowned. “Then how…?”
“My student is the only goddamn reason you’re alive,” she responded through gritted teeth. “Sakura used a jutsu that I strictly forbade her from using unless her own life was in danger and it was the absolutely last option.”
Sasuke’s frown deepened. He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.
“Since you were beyond medical healing, Sakura took some of her life force and transferred it to you,” she continued. “This is different than when she uses the byakugō, what she used was pure life essence that draws from her life force.”
“Erm, so you’re saying Sakura-chan sacrificed years off of her life just to bring the teme back to life?” Naruto asked wide eyed.
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