Sarada Uchiha: My little girl

"The Journey"

A/N:

' : It means what the character's saying on his mind.

'Missing' Sasuke thought while giving his usual stare at Naruto. He was trying so hard not to have a breakdown in pain and fear front of his friend so he turned around as if nothig ever happened.

"Sasuke! What are you gonna do?" Naruto asked. He stopped thinking the question. What was he gonna do? Leave the Village again and deal alone wih his pain? Wait until Mitsuki and his stupid student solve the situation? Go after Sarada by his own will?

"If it were you, what would you do?" He replied to the Seventh. Naruto sensed that Sasuke was really out of ideas, so he looked at him with determination.

"I would tell Sakura about everything and then go and rescue her.."

Sasuke blinked. How was he supposed to tell Sakura that her only daughter, was missing?

He left the office and went to the Hospital. Suprisely, there weren't many patients that needed attention so maybe Sakura had free time.

He walked through the white hallways searching for her. He saw a nurse dealing with some paperwork so he decided to ask her.

"Where's Sakura?"

"She's about to finish a surgery. You can wait here until she's out." she replied.

"Tell her that Sasuke Uchiha is here and that I need to talk to her." he finished while seating in a chair.

As the hours passed, Sasuke stared to get impatient. He thought of every minute he wasted here in the village hoping that her daughter will be safe. The mere thought of her being tortured just because she's an Uchiha was enough to kill him mentally.

Suddenly, he saw a pink woman walking to him. Her face shpwed confusion.

"Sasuke-kun? What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk." Sakura froze. She knew that something was wrong due to the tone of his voice. He was nervous and his eyes barely looked at her. She began having a bad feeling about it.

"So? What's wrong?" Sasuke didn't answer for a while. "Sasuke."

"Sarada's missing." He said. There was a moment of silence between them. Sakuras face was still in shock processing what her husband just said.

Sasuke stood there not knowing what else to do. He was about to explain her what happened but she interrupted him.

"SHE'S WHAT?!?!?!? How could that happen!?!?!? Since when?!?!?! How-"

"Naruto knows the details. I'll go talk to him and then we'll work on how to bring her back." He said trying to calm her down. Sakura's eyes were watering and lowered her head. Sasuke decided to leave her for a while and went to see Naruto.

Naruto was walking from one side of the office to another, waiting for Sasuke's return. He knew he must be telling the news to Sakura so he was preparing himself for the worst. Suddenly Sasuke opened he door and got into the office.

"I'll go for her" Naruto knew that it was the best option at the moment. He wanted to go with him but he wasn't sure that his duties as Hokage wouldn't let him.

"What about Sakura?"

"She'll stay here and wait." Sasuke replied. "It'll be better if she stays here at the village."

"No.."

Both Naruto ans Sasuke turned around to see her friend standing in the door with determination. Sakura was indeed worried, but she seemed to be ready to go.

"Sakura-chan.." Naruto said.

"I won't stay here with my arms crossed if Sarada's missing. And I won't care if I'll be in danger if I leave the village, I won't change my opinion and I surely will rescue my daughter." She finished while crossing her arms. Sasuke smirked, knowing that it was impossible to make her change her mind this time while Naruto smiled at her.

He did the clone jutsu sign to make one clone of himself. Sasuke and Sakura looked at him in cofusion.

"What?" Naruto stared, "You think you can get on a rescue mission without me? I may be the Hokage but my best friend's daughter is in trouble and believe me, I won't let pass an opportunity like this to bring back the original Team 7!! So you got my help!" Naruto said before giving orders to his clone.

Sasuke and Sakura looked at eachother and nodded while Naruto told them to meet at the gates this morning to start the journey.

At the gates, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were ready to leave. Hinata, Himawari and Shikamaru went to say goodbye.

"Well, time to leave!" Naruto said "Keep and eye on everything Shikamaru. Hinata, Hima I'll be safe so don't worry."

Shikamaru sighed, "Great, so you leave me with all your paperwork..What a drag."

"Be safe dad, and bring nii-san back okay?" Himawari said.

"I will!" Naruto hugged his daughter and looked at Hinata. They both stared at eachother's eyes for a while.

"Be safe Naruto-kun." His wife said.

"Dobe! We're wasting time!" Sasuke said, gettig impatient. Naruto gave Hinata a quick kiss and started running towards his comrades.

"Oi, let's go!" He said.

While running, Sasuke got lost in his thoughts. Team 7 was reunited one more time to rescue his daughter...his little girl. He eyed Sakura for a while, her face was full of determination, but he also felt that she had fear. Fear of the worst.

'Hang on Sarada, we're coming for you'