"There you are Naruto." Minato smiled seeing his son was leaning against his girlfriend who he showed to love deeply, laughing in front of a roaring fire on a clear night. "Oh-" He spotted her cross the fire drinking a beer sitting beside her two commanders who were bickering with Carver and Raiden. "-Commander Haruno, I wasn't aware you were inside the village."
"Mm...why would you be?" Sakura wondered turning at him. "You're not the Hokage, and she knows I am here."
"Any reason for that?" Minato wondered; Sakura gestured in front of her.
"I was invited to the party."
"Oh?" Minato was surprised, who would want to deal with a woman like Sakura Haruno willingly?
"Yes." TenTen said. "I invited her."
"We all did." Naruto added looking at his father. For the life of him Minato could not understand Naruto's relationship with Sakura.
"That reminds me!" TenTen jumped up, her face flushed showing her drinking. "Sakura!"
"Yes?"
"I was told we were friends!"
"We were."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why were we friends?"
"Do you really want me to walk you through the psychological reasoning behind why people have friends?" Sakura asked causing Carver and Diem to laugh.
"No!" TenTen slurred, "Why are we friends, like what made you like me?"
"What made me like you?" Sakura tilted her head, "What isn't there to like?" Sakura furrowed her brows.
"H-Huh?" TenTen blushed.
"TenTen your awesome." Sakura said.
"N-No I'm not-"
"How not?" Sakura asked, "Your caring but you don't let that be a weakness. You don't let the world hold you back, your free spirited and your love for weapons and hand to hand combat and training is how we bonded and became close friends."
"O-Oh..." TenTen's face was bright red.
"Neji do you want to help me out here?" Sakura called to him sitting in a chair a few feet away. Sakura smirked watching him jump at the sound of his name and TenTen turning to look at him.
"We should fight!" TenTen jumped to her feet.
"Say what now?" Sakura watched TenTen pull on her shoes.
"My doctor said if I do the things I use to do before I lost my memory then maybe I could jog something lose. Maybe sparing with you will kickstart something!"
"I'm all for that-" Sakura said, "-but you have been drinking."
"So?"
"Can you walk in a straight line?" Sakura asked.
"I don't need to walk in a straight line to train!" TenTen laughed, "That's like the easiest way to kill me!"
"That...That isn't what I meant..." Sakura sighed.
"TenTen." Neji said walking over, "Commander Haruno is right, you shouldn't train after you drank this much."
"We won't use weapons then." TenTen shrugged, "What do you say Sakura?"
"Fuck it." Sakura said standing.
"Commander-" Neji breathed.
"She will be fine." Sakura turned to him. "It will be only hand to hand."
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The girl with Pink Hair
MaceraBurned by a cursed seal Sakura Haruno is forced to rip up her roots from the Leaf Village and thrown to the wolves as she is banished. Five years pass, Sakura rises as Commander of the Waterfall Village and must return to the leaf to save them from...
