Stranger things have happened.....or maybe not.

Suspicion

Sakura went back to Konoha the next morning, though before she could leave Kisame insisted on walking her back. Even though Akuma was with her he thought she would like some company other than him. It was strictly for that reason, not at all because he didn't want them to be alone for a three day walk. She had spent about four days on her mission because of the three days she spent with the Akatsuki. So she had about two weeks left in this month and at the end of those two weeks she had the Chunin exams again. So for the next week Sakura's days had consisted of training, sleeping, eating, and most importantly avoiding Sasuke. There were now only six days until the final fights and Sakura had no doubt that she would advance to chunin. First however she had to figure out a way to make sure the third did not die. Which would not be to difficult considering her fight was the very first fight of the matches. She would be fighting a young mist ninja who specialized in hand to hand combat and had mostly close range jutsu's.

This was good, it meant Sakura could put on a good show without completely wiping out her opponent in two seconds. As every ninja knew, all the leaders wanted was some entertainment from the chunnin exams. Sakura sighed 'Is it bad that I am starting to look forward to leaving.' She thought. Sakura grunted as she was held onto the rail on the rooftop of the Hokage tower while suspending her legs up into a handstand and was currently doing her one handed pushups.

"210, 211, 212." She whispered almost breathlessly as she continued her push ups. Sakura flicked her eyes to the door of the roof top as she heard it's metallic screech as it slid open. "Hello Lee-san." Sakura then focused on her pushups again.

"Good morning Sakura-san, I see you are as youthful as ever today," Lee said as he began doing one handed push-ups as well. After three hours of their workout Lee volunteered to go buy them some lunch. So he went into town to go to one of their favorite food stores while Sakura waited for him on the roof top. Sakura and Lee became quite good friends in a week, which was a feat for Lee because it took much more than a week to become Sakura's friend. Their relationship was much like Gai and Kakashi's, Sakura found Lee annoying sometimes but they got along for the most part. Even if the constant talk of 'youth' got on her nerves, he was still a good and loyal friend. Though after the few days of him asking her out was over they began training together and having lunch together and they sometimes just relaxed and took walks.

Which most of the time turned into races considering how competitive they both were.Lee came back with their lunches in record time giving Sakura his signature thumbs up as he handed her lunch to her. They sat on the rooftop enjoying each others company a they ate their food and talked. Their heads both turned to the entrance to the roof as it creaked open.

"There you are Lee I should have known you would be with the Youthful Sakura-san."

"Hello Gai." Sakura greeted with a small smile on her face. There was a puff of smoke and Kakashi appeared next to Gai reading his ever so famous orange book.

"Yo." He greeted boredly.

"What are you doing here Kakashi?" Sakura asked, confused as to why he wasn't training Sasuke at the moment.

"Just looking for you Sakura-san." Kakashi creased his eyes and put away his book.