Chapter Forty Four

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Shout out to @OviQi17 for their beautiful interpretation of Commander Sakura Haruno!

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"Third shift sucks." Naruto muttered as his eyes burned inside his skull bone, his brain throbbed in pain from lack of sleep and selfcare. Team seven accompanied along with Kakashi piled into the compact elevator of their apartment building. The team had finished their shift of guard duty on the gates of the leaf village, there was a high rush of missions into the village so now many of their shinobi were deployed.

Team seven and others had been working around the clock to make sure the protection of their precious home never slacked. Kakashi attached onto their squad making it a five manned team in order to pull the doubles.

Naruto's belly grumped with contempt causing him to groan out, he needed food and sleep before the village meeting today! The meeting was about the new restrictions on how many shinobi can leave the village at once. Naruto didn't understand why the meeting would be called for today, when over half the shinobi weren't even inside the village to attend it!

Tsunade was not pleased so many ninjas were able to leave the village without anyone noticing how big of a problem this would bring until it presented itself.

Kakashi checked his phone once more, anger bubbled his blood not seeing a reply waiting to greet him after a long shift. The silver haired shinobi was feeling gravity weigh on his shoulders and his lower back tensed up.

Three long weeks without her touch, without her inside his arms and with the lack of sleep piling onto his shoulders, it was too much for Kakashi to bare. He needed to see her, he needed to hear Sakura's voice.

Kakashi quickly texted her phone number as the elevator opened its doors, he threatened to travel back to the waterfall village again if she didn't reply. Kakashi would make that horrid trip if it meant he got to see her again, he fully believed just one touch, one word from those beautiful lips of hers would calm the storm raging inside his chest.

Kakashi wasn't quite sure what happened the last day he was with her, they had breakfast together and then she got dressed in her gear claiming she had to get to the river village for some reasoning she wouldn't tell him. She used the fact Kakashi couldn't remain outside the leaf village much longer without being marked rogue to drop him off home without so much as a hug or wave goodbye.

What scorched Kakashi to his bones even more than the cold shoulder was the fact he knew Itachi was by her side and he wasn't.

Carver puckered his lips watching Kakashi's hard gaze on his phone, he had been snappy lately, it was clear as a sunny day the reasoning behind his attitude. Carver hadn't heard much from Sakura in the past weeks, he figured she was busy doing whatever a commander does. Carver didn't want Kakashi's famous death glare turned onto him, so he kept his mouth shut about the topic.

Kakashi's heart quickly fluttered in his chest, seeing her name unexpectedly pop onto the screen. Without any thought he opened her text message, feeling starved of her attention: 'I am in the village.'

Kakashi snapped his eyes to his apartment door walking into view. Sakura was here? He quickened his pace; he couldn't wait to get his arms around her. He had a hundred things going through his head that he wanted to do with her as he quickly began to unlock his front door. His hand wouldn't stop trembling from the excitement numbing his fingers.

Kakashi was going to punish her for the bad behavior, he was determined he warned her while he stayed inside her house, but she relapsed quickly and ghosted him without so much as a warning to prepare him. Kakashi had envisioned every steamy little detail he was going to do to her when he slipped his arms around her again.

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