The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Twenty

I stretched my neck as the wind broke around me, I stood inside the Leaf Village on the arena. I could see Carver and Raiden training the leaf shinobi. It was the middle of the day and I had to admit, it was nice not having to look over my shoulder for my own soldiers who wanted to kill me.

Carver turned and waved having noticed me, my lips tilted upward watching Naruto jumping up and down waving after Carver gave me away. As I moved my way to the floor where they stood, I counted the days it had been since I had seen them. Two or maybe three weeks? Time inside the waterfall village seemed to just crawl away, not wanting to be inside that hellish pit that was drenched with the thirst to kill each other.

"Hey!" Naruto beamed bouncing as he moved to reach my side,

"Hey Naruto." I nodded.

"Where have you been?" Carver asked me, granted I have been gone for a while I did still stay in touch with them, which wasn't my norm. I have learned how to respond to a text, if I didn't Naruto would give my phone a heart attack until I texted back.

"It's been busy." I sighed, my body felt stiff and my side still felt raw.

"You have been gone for like ever!" Naruto whined, "You missed the bonfire."

"I know, I tried to get here but I just couldn't." I explained.

"How?" Raiden wondered, "You're the boss-"

"Anyway-" I interrupted, "-how has things been going around here?"

"Not bad." Carver yawned, "Your pretty much looking at what we have been doing."

"Any more Reaper sightings?" I asked.

"One or two?" Carver shrugged, "Maybe they are scouting?"

"Maybe." I muttered.

"Diem tells me you took down another camp?" Carver said,

"Yeah, it wasn't that big. Dozen Reapers or so." I said,

"Hm..." Carver trailed off.

"What?" I said, "I didn't go alone."

"You didn't come get-"

"I had a unit with me." I said, "There was no reason to come get one of you."

"Mhm." Carver said inspecting me, I rolled my eyes. "What pleasure do we have for you being here?"

"I was just checking on you." I said, looking around at the leaf shinobi train.

"I find that rude." Raiden scoffed, "You never checked on us before why now-?"

"Because she wanted a reason to come see us and she can't openly admit she missed everyone here." Carver explained, I was about to shoot him a glare when I felt my phone buzzing in my pocket. I internally groaned and my face showed it.

"I see you have been burning the candle at both ends." Raiden read my face.

"Yeah well..." I sighed, "...this is why I hate phones." I said pulling it to my ear turning from the three men. It was the River Village; something was going down and they requested my presence. After hanging up the phone I turned back to the group feeling disappointed. I had just got here, and I didn't get to see--Kakashi dropped from the freaking sky landing beside me. I quickly turned to gaze at his masked face, he looked down at me with that stupid closed eye smile.

"Hello Sakura." Kakashi greeted, his voice sent shivers through my body and settled in my bones.

"Who was on the phone?" Carver asked, I quickly gave him my attention.