Stronger than Before

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Name: Sakura Haruno
D/O/B: March 28
Occupation: Shinobi and Medic
Ranking: ANBU Captain - S rank or higher
Currently: Filing reports for the Fifth Hokage
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"Instead of a real mission, Lady Tsunade told me to finish the rest of her work." I said to myself as a hauled a pile of boxes full of files onto a table. I've been here for 8 hours and still haven't gotten to the half way point so no missions for a while. 'Look at the bright side. The faster you start, the faster you'll be out of this dump.' Inner said. I sighed, knowing that she was right, and began to look over the first file. For hours, I stayed in the exact spot until an ANBU appeared in the room and said, "The Hokage requests your presence in her office." "Tell her I'll be right down." I said as I put the file in my hands down onto the table in front of me. 'Hopefully she doesn't give me another task. I'm not even done with the first one.' I thought as I disappeared with some cherry blossoms.  When I appeared in the office, I saw six people waiting for me, one being Lady Tsunade while the others were wearing cloaks. "Ya called?" I asked while crossing my arms. "You know I'm a busy woman since you assigned me to everything." "Sakura, you are excused from the rest of your work. I have another assignment for you. Long term, 6 months to be exact." Lady Tsunade said while maintaining eye contact with the people behind me. "Fine. What's the mission?" I asked, hoping to get a good one. "Babysitting." She said bluntly. There was a pregnant pause until I shouted, "WHAT?!?!" "You didn't let me finish. You'll be watching over a criminal and a fellow shinobi." She said after my loud complaint. 'Criminal, huh?' I thought. 'It might throw you off of the good side, but I'd say DON'T do it.' Inner said. But you know me, I decided to go against her wishes and accepted the mission. "Who am I watching?" I asked as I uncrossed my hands and placed them on my hips, waiting for the names. "Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto." Although I kept a straight face, I was internally screaming with the help of Inner. After I calmed down, I walked up to the desk and slammed my hands onto the hard wood, making small pieces chip off and fly onto the floor. "I'd rather die then have to deal with those idiots." I said in a serious tone while giving her one of my intense glares. She, in return, slammed her hands onto the table and stood up. "You will do what I assign you to do." She said through clenched teeth. I just continued to glare at her. "Now!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. I slammed my fist onto the desk one last time, which broke under the pressure and caved in, making the papers roll off. And without saying a word, I left the room slamming the door behind me.

Lady Tsunade POV

As Sakura slammed the door, the wall around it cracked. I turned back to the cloaked figures and said "You'll be staying with her. That's final." One of the figures stepped forward and took off the hood revealing spiked light gray hair and a single eye, seeing that the rest of his face was covered. "Tsunade-sama, don't you think this will be to hard for Sakura to handle. I mean, Naruto and Sasuke are stronger than she remembers them to be. She's not ready to look after them." Hatake Kakashi stated. "She's stronger than she looks, Kakashi. Never judge a person based on their looks." I said as I sat down on the chair. 'I need to ask Shizune to get me a new desk.' I thought as I examined the damage from my seat.

Sakura POV

After I left the office, I went straight to the hospital to get updates on the patients and start on surgeries. Now that Lady Tsunade told me that I had to babysit two idiots, I was more determined to stay at the hospital my whole life, not like I already did. Surgery after surgery, the burden on my shoulders slowly lifted as I forgot about my newly assigned mission. It was soon the middle of the night and the night shift had already taken over, but I still stayed to complete the major surgeries and tend to the critically wounded. Besides, I had to keep the hospital from going into chaos because that's my job. I was about to take a short break when a team of medics rushed through the door with a bloody and unconscious person on a stretcher. "Take him to room 101!" I yelled as I quickly followed them. I started to tell the nurses to prepare a remedy but was interrupted by a loud, blonde haired idiot bursting through the door. "Sakura-chan!!!" Naruto exclaimed. I looked at him for a second before running to get a nurse to prepare the remedy. I worked on that patient for an hour before assigning one of the doctors to him. When. I walked out to the front desk, I saw Naruto being dragged out by hospital security. "Haku. Takuno. I can take it from here." I said as I walked towards them. "Sakura-san." They said slightly bowing. They let Naruto go and walked away. "What are you doing here?" I asked him. "Granny said to bring you home." He said with a smile. "Go home." I said as I turned to walk back to my office. "Granny said I have to stay with you if you don't go back." Naruto said as he caught up with me. 'Why do you make my life so difficult?' I thought, mentally questioning Lady Tsunade. I sighed and motioned him to follow me.

A few hours later, I was carrying a sleeping idiot on my back. He fell asleep while I was doing my work. The sun was already starting to rise in the horizon when I got to my house. I assumed that Sasuke was in, so I kicked the door cause I couldn't get my keys. Sure enough a few minutes later, Sasuke opened the door with messy hair and bunny slippers. I dumped Naruto on him and walked to my room, locking the door behind me. I looked at the clock on my wall, which showed 4:30, and changed into my ANBU uniform for a mission with my squad.

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After we completed the mission, an assassination, Lady Tsunade gave my squad a week off to rest before going on a 2 day training retreat with another team.  She also sent Shizune to take over the hospital for the day so I could start babysitting. I could also use the time to sleep. Sleep would be much better. BUT Lady Tsunade was expecting a report on their behavior next week so I couldn't sleep. I walked home, being to tired to use chairs, and prayed that my two housemates were still asleep. And sure enough, fate was one my side. Naruto was laid out on the couch and Sasuke was in the guest room sound asleep. I crept into my room and went straight to bed with my uniform still on. I only slept for an hour before I woken up by a crash from the kitchen. I literally jumped out of bed and ran to the kitchen to find a pile of pots and pans on the floor with Naruto holding the smallest pan I owned. "What happened here?" I asked as I crossed my arms across my chest. He gave me a nervous smile before saying "I was hungry, dattebayo." I sighed and said "I was told to babysit you. Getting my house wrecked was not part of the deal." I said as I began to pick up the fallen pots and pans from the floor. "Go wake the other idiot and we'll go out to eat." I said placing the the pots in the sink. "Yay!" He exclaimed as he ran down the hall to the guest room. I finished picking up all the cooking ware from the floor then went to change into my regular out fit. A zipped red top with black ninja shorts and a pink skirt that was cut to improve movement. A few minutes later, when everyone was ready, we left the house and went to Ichiraku Ramen, because Naruto was begging to go. And since Sasuke didn't have any other ideas, so that was the only option.

After lunch, I took the boys to Konoha 12's meeting area, in hopes that they, if they were there, would take them off of my hands for an hour or so. No one was there. They were all on call for a mission or on errands. Great.