𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎? [ 𝘀𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 ]

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"A ninja sits until the time is ripe, just as the target drops his arts and falls into the deep, having whatever dreams or nightmares that simply must occur. That shinobi must strike at that time, the middle of the night."

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"Wanna follow them?" Someone softly suggested, and Shikamaru commented.

"Sure, if we wanna get involved in stuff like that. Paperwork is such a drag, whatever's on there has to be boring."

They all stood silently, and as if they were really talking, they agreed on what they were going to do, follow the girls or just not bother, and everyone decided to not bother instead of Naruto, since he was really curious to see what it was about.

"Naruto, one) majority rules, and two) like Shikamaru said, do you really want to get involved with them?" Kiba groaned. "But we could hear what they're hiding!"

"...nothing's gonna be a surprise, Naruto. It's regular girl stuff, things girls usually talk about!"

"Don't say any stereotypical things about them!"

"Guys, can we go? I'm bored." Shikamaru yawned and started ranting on how to treat girls in this village because so many of them are so damn terrifying.

The boys already started out and started for elsewhere in the village. They didn't know where to go, but in the end, they settled on Naruto's apartment. When they got there, they went in and realized the whole place was kind of a mess. Not so much compared back to when he was younger, but it was still messy.

"Sorry about the mess, guys!" Naruto laughed nervously and picked some stuff up and cleared off his table.

"Your apartment is a dump.." Kiba muttered, and Shino glared. "Shut up, Kiba. He isn't as lucky as us, so be respectful."

"It's fine Shino, really!" Naruto said as Choji started helping him out. Shikamaru joined in and they got it cleaned in no time.

"Sorry for the wait, but we can sit now." Naruto offered the chairs and a few stools he found outside that the neighbors probably were getting rid of.

They all sat down and started talking about random stuff, when the topic of the girls suddenly came back up. "Hey, you guys never told me. Who did Sakura and Hinata use to like?" Naruto asked and they all stared blankly at him.

"Do you truly not know!?" Lee yelled in confusion. "He's dense, just leave it." Shikamaru shrugged and Naruto scratched the back of his head.

"I don't get it..."

[ Sakura and Hinata's Tree ]

"Aw, man.." Sakura yawned and stretched her arms out. "I'm so tired." She gave a weary look at Hinata, who simply patted her lap.

"Lay down. We can nap for a bit."
"But I wanna work on those mission plans."

"Shh, it's okay." Hinata put the papers aside as Sakura dropped into her lap. "We can do it later." The Hyūga leaned back and closed her eyes. She noticed that they were acting like a real couple now and smiled a bit, her face feeling a little warm as she thought about it. Comforting Sakura and slowing her down for a change really made her happy..both of them happy. They never thought they'd be doing this, but there they were now.

"Love you, Hinata." Sakura smiled softly as she dug herself into Hinata's stomach. "Your twelve o'clock." She felt the morse code Sakura spelled out on her stomach, and looked forward, sensing a familiar presence. Is that why she laid in her lap? Hinata seemed disappointed, but Sakura noticed that and giggled softly, hugging Hinata's sides.

"Kakashi and Kurenai-sensei are so supportive, don't you think?" She asked, and Sakura hummed. "Yeah. That's another thing that I love about them." A faint rustling was heard, and the two giggled.

"Guessing he was caught?"
"Definitely."
"Anyways, I heard Chido's coming back just for a bit. He set up some training for us."
"But we've already surpassed him!"
"For him, dummy."
"Wow, he's weak compared to us then if he needs the training."
"I feel like it's just our techniques. You know. we bribe, threaten, take hostages, blackmail, all kinds of stuff. It's not necessarily jutsu that Chido wants to learn."

Sakura sat up and laughed. "It's been a while. Tsunade's trained us everything. Healing ninjutsu, taijutsu and how to enhance it even more than we can now, psychological techniques, and more shit like you just said."

"Aren't you storing chakra for some seal?"
"Yeah."

Hinata smiled along with her. "We've all come a long way. Broken, fragile, weak, young girls..now that we're together, we can be unstoppable, right?" Sakura smirked and kissed her cheek. "Even the two of us can take them all down if we wish to do so."

"I doubt that.." Hinata rolled her eyes as Sakura scoffed. "Come on, have some fun, it's just an exaggeration."

They sat there until sunset, when the sun began going down. "So we're going separate ways tonight?"

"Like we always do."

[ An Abandoned Warehouse Not Far From Konoha ]

"Yo, Konan, so you have the paperwork from last week? I think I left it here somewhere."

"Hold on Iko, I put it with the rest of your portion of files earlier. Help me please..you have a little too much paperwork to do."

"Wait, wait!"
"What?"
"Itachi's coming?"
"Yeah— Hey, where are you going-? Ino!"
"I'll be back tomorrow! I gotta go grab a bite and speak with Tenko, so I'll see you~!"

Konan mumbled in annoyance and rolled her eyes, looking down at the documents and contracts on Ino's desk..or Iko's desk, anyways. "What kind of deals is she making with him? Gee, errands, assassinations..."

"She's climbing up the ranks."

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CHIDO LMAOOO
(cheeto) ISHSJS 😭
I'MLAYHING SO HARD RNNOMG

ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAKASHI ILY MY DAMN FINE PROBE READER JONIN WHO DOESN'T EVEN EXIST IN THIS PARTICULAR WORLD AS A REAL PERSON😍🫶

short but idc there probs will be only like 7 chapters but idk there might be more

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SORRY ABOUT THE UNPUBLISHING AND THE REPUBLISHING I REALIZED I'M MISSING A PART OF THE STORY CONTINUING FROM LAST CHAPTER 💀