The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter Thirty Two

"Come on! Get the hell up!" Carver yelled as he banged on Naruto's front door. "We are going to be late!" The door slowly opened a half-asleep Naruto peeked out to see his two new teammates. Raiden pushed the door open and walked into his apartment, Carver and Raiden saw Naruto was barely put together for the day. 

"Well..." Raiden said running the back of his neck. "...he is dressed."

"He looks like an extra from the walking dead." Carver muttered.

"Better than nothing." Raiden smiled.

"True." Carver agreed nodding, "Alright come on." He said grabbing Naruto's arm.

"Where are we going?" Naruto yawned as Carver locked Naruto's door for him.

"We don't know yet." Carver sighed and Sasuke came out of his apartment hearing voices.

"What?" Raiden asked seeing Sasuke's face, "Why do you look so surprised?"

"You actually got him up before noon." Sasuke looked at his watch.

"Yeah, no thanks to you." Raiden muttered with a playful glare.

"I gave up years ago." Sasuke shook his head, Naruto yawned again as he was dragged to Tsunade's office. He closed his eyes, trying to shield them from the bright sun once they pulled him from the building.

"Raiden sleeps likes a lot like Naruto does." Carver muttered, "They sleep like a bunch of rocks."

"Naruto is a rock." Sasuke muttered to himself and then waited to hear Naruto's loud voice defend himself, but when he didn't Sasuke turned. Carver pulled his lips together seeing the depressed look on Naruto's face. Hinata had been killed nine months ago and Naruto was still acting like it was just last week.

Raiden looked away from Naruto and focused on dragging his newly formed team towards the Hokage tower for their first mission out together. Carver and Raiden had finally become Leaf shinobi. It took some adjusting to having rules that needed to be followed and it was different having a hokage to listen to. Carver and Raiden were so use to Sakura being their one and only boss. Raiden frowned at the thought of her name, he hadn't seen her since Kakashi's funeral. She doesn't call or answer her phone. 

This part Raiden was used to, but he knew this was her way as well as Carver and Raiden's way of dealing with death and he wasn't so sure it was healthy. When a person would die that they were close too, they would instead of taking the time to feel those emotions and learn how to make room in their lives for that numbing pain they pushed those feeling into a bottle and threw the bottle in the farthest parts of their mind and worked none stop in order to avoid it. Raiden knew if he bugged her and made her feel guilty about staying put inside this village or even her own, she would go mad. Sakura was doing what she needed to do even though it was self-destructive.

Carver understood losing Kakashi damaged Sakura in ways even she didn't understand, she needed her time and space to learn how to deal with it. Carver and Raiden would fight about this almost all the time when they were alone. Raiden wanted to go find Sakura while Carver said they should just leave her be. But now that they had a hokage and belonged to a village they couldn't just take off like they were used to doing. The two went to Tsunade for advice on how to deal with this situation.

She explained that Sakura; how badly as Tsunade wanted to send team seven after her, she couldn't. Sakura was the commander of another village and even if Tsunade did send team seven out, they had no idea where Sakura was or if she would even be inside her village. She wasn't answering the hundred phone calls they sent her or replying to text messaging, it was simply too risky to send a team out. It sucked but that was how things were.