Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Sassychan ❯ Chapter 10: The Sighting ( Chapter 10 )

Author's Notes:

Okay. I'm no longer depressed (grins widely). Again, I am sorry about the last chapter. I promise to make this chapter ten good. Konoha at last! Heheheheh...I was thinking of picking up the speed of the story but the thing is...though excited as i am about the fact sasuke is coming face to face with his teammates and friends again in his new form, i found out that if i just went ahead and rammed the whole point in, the story would die...so...i'm picking my way through the plot...sloooowwwlllyyyy...but surely...much funnier and climactic that way...or least that's the impression that i am aiming at...anyways, read and hopefully: enjoy...

DISCLAIMER:

It's not about the money! It's not all about the money! I love Naruto...I don't own him...I make nothing out of doing this! I just wanna have a higher paying job! Hire me! I swear I am good...way better than...well...i could think of nothing at the moment...but I swear it on the boulder Calibur was stuck onto...

...no deal still?...sigh...no use...on to the story...

Sassychan

by Boyarina

Chapter 10: The Sighting

Sakura could not believe her ears. When Chouji announced that Sasuke had been sighted near the gates of Konoha, being attacked by Sound nins and has Kabuto's head in hand, she knew that the man she had been pinning for the longest time now is here to stay.

Stay here in Konoha for good.

Unmindful of the fact that she is not included in the team that had been deployed to fight side by side Sasuke and eventually escort him back to Konoha, Sakura rushed head-long into the fray. When Naruto, the head of the aforementioned convoy, found out of her presence in their rescue mission, he simply winked at her and proceeded on crushing the enemies under his merciless super-human attacks.

Truth to be told (and only if she is subjected to pure unrelenting torture would she admit to it), she loves the guy more than Tsunade-sama loves her sake bottles.

NOw is not the time to dwell on that though. Sasuke is here and that is the important thing. Once the uproar regarding his arrival has died, she already have planned on sitting him down (willing or not, even if she would resort in asking Naruto to go Kyuubi on him just so the Uchiha would be restrained) and giving him the talk that they should have done a long, LONG, time ago.

"Sakura-chan," Naruto's voice drifted off to her side. Without her conscious knowledge of it, she had instinctively siddled up to where Naruto is despite the fact she had purposely distanced herself away from him after her one time ecounter with him earlier.

Or it could be the other way around---at any rate, it doesn't really matter. More or less, due to the fact they had always inevitably get paired up in group missions or two-man mission, it wouldn't be that surprising that they would involuntarily seek each other out and pair up. Unlike the rest of the Konoha nin surrounding them whose sole goal is to defeat the sound nins and retrieve Sasuke, the two of them has this unspoken goal that they have added to that list:

Revive Team Seven .

Today, it seems, is the appointed day that they would be able to do just that. Come hell or high water, nothing would take this opportunity away from them.

Today is the day.

"Don't you think it's a high and fine time that we finish them all off?" Sakura asked as she knocked out a sound nin that was going for Naruto's blind side. ONly after she had thrown two kunais to the sound nin that was either planning to give her shave or to relocate her head, that she had realized she had whined like a five-year old child to Naruto.

No wonder he is smirking at her.

"Excited, Sakura-chan?" he asked, managing to sound cheeky in between grunts and gasps. Completing a round house kick, he took three sound nins down for the count.

Had she a second to spare, Sakura would have gladly reintroduced Naruto's face to the ground like she had always been so fond of doing whenever he hits a nerve. Fortunately for him (and his well being) she's far too occupied right now to indulge into her whims and into his masochistic desire to get clobbered by her most of the time.

"Oh, shut up baka," she said, exasperation tainting her tone as she got cornered on the spot right behind his back. With a trained eye, she surveyed the five sound shinobi who foolishly formed a circle around her and Naruto. They would be easy enough to handle, however, at the rate that the seemingly unendless mass of incoming shinobis that are joining their comrades ion the fight against Konoha ( \and the fight for who is the rightful owner of SAsuke-kun), this battle could turn ugly very soon.

"You know," Naruto said as though reading her exact thoughts, "they are getting far too many for comfort. Ch', time to take out the pesticide, " he paused here to playfully nudge her by the elbow, "Besides, I don't want to detain your meeting with Uchiha-teme."

Sakura rolled her eyes as a small chuckle escaped her lips. Trust Naruto to manage squeezing in a teasing banter in a dire situation such as this.

"Pesticide, huh?" she mused thinking of the few times that they had actually used that technique to accomplish mass annihilation--all made possible due to Kyuubi's chakra.

There's this one teensy-tiny complication: they haven't yet tried it in the number of enemies they are facing now.

"Yep, pesticide revised edition, Sakura-chan," Naruto said, exuding enough self-confidence for the both of them. NOrmally, she would have been annoyed at the boastful tone in his voice, but today, it only bouyed her spirits. Gazillion enemies or more, she knew that it would be executed perfectly.

"They are gonna be sorry they ever stepped past the borders of Konoha," Naruto added smugly, making Sakura's smile broaden. Going by that hard as diamond resolution of his, it is truly beyond any smidgen of doubt that these bastards would soon be meeting their maker.

It'll show them that Sasuke-kun was and still is theirs.

Comments:

Have anyone here heard of the song "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt?. Check it out. Here's a verse from his song:

You touched my heart, you touched my soul

you changed my life and all my goals

love is blind that's when I knew then

my heart is blinded by you

i've kissed your lips and held your hand

shared your dreams and shared your bed

i know you well and i know your smell

i've been addicted to you

goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend

you have been the one, you have been the one for me...

sad, eh?