Sakura (3)

"By the way, Sakura, why do you want to become Tsunade's disciple?" I picked a fried chicken with the fork and carefully sent it to my lips, made sure not a single surface of the fork touched my precious mouth.

Sakura, eating with chopsticks, damn I envied her, she stopped then looked at me, said, "Is it strange?"

"Well, yes, aren't you a lady? Afraid of yourself getting hurt? Also a smarty pants girl?"

"Gah, I am not, where the hell you heard such a thing?!" Sakura almost choked after hearing my words, slamming the table with her hand.

"You not? Then I must have heard the wrong bird..." I chuckled at her reaction, "then, why?"

"Huu..." Sakura calmed herself, the number one rule of being bullied was not to get angry because it would just please the bully more, she said, "because I don't want to get left behind."

"..." I looked at her, who was staring down at the soup.

"Do you know? When I first saw Naruto, I thought, huh, this guy will never be able to do anything well, he almost as bad as anything in the academy, what could he possibly achieve even after being Shinobi..." Sakura mumbled, then continued, "but in fact, I was wrong, terribly wrong, the only one who almost couldn't do anything was me after all. I still remembered, at that time, at the Chunin Exam, we stumbled upon Orochimaru and he got both Naruto and Sasuke out of commission; Naruto got struck in his seal, and Sasuke was the first time to receive the cursed mark."

"In the night, we were attacked by the Shinobi from the sound village, I tried what I could to defend them, but it's not enough, if not for Sasuke to wake up in time, we were all be dead the next day."

"Then, Sasuke was taught personally by Teacher Kakashi, Naruto was taught personally by Master Jiraiya, both of them moved forward from their starting point, meanwhile I... stuck where I began."

"I was weak... while Naruto and Sasuke get stronger, so that's why I went to Master Tsunade, but even now... I felt like I still behind them, even I could feel Naruto is still much stronger than me," Sakura said, then she sipped on her drink and didn't continue talking.

I took a deep breath, put down my tableware, Thankgod, then I said while looking at her, "Do you really want to catch up with them?"

"Un," Sakura nodded.

"Sakura, do you really want to catch up with them?" I asked her again.

Sakura lifted her face and looked at strangely, she said, "I do."

"Let me ask you one more time, do you really want to catch up with them?" there was no playfulness on my face, no teasing, my eyes squinted at her.

"What exactly do you want me to say?" Sakura was getting angry, obviously didn't understand what I was implying.

I said, "Sakura, you will never be able to catch up with them."

Crack

Sakura clenched the mug in her hand, the crackling sound was so loud despite this lively place, she said while shivering, "Why do you say that?"

"Because your goal is kept moving with you, do you think Naruto and Sasuke will stop just to wait for you?"

"One is the Jinchuriki of the Nine Tail, the other is the prodigy with blessed bloodline pumped in his vein, let me ask you, can you catch up with those two talent monsters?"

Sakura was kept trembling, perhaps in her mind, this was the first time someone scolded her dream, right, Tsunade although strict with her lesson, but never told Sakura how foolish her dream was, no one had ever done it.

What was the concept of Jinchuriki? The people who had Bijuu inside of them, the legendary beast in legend and possessed extraordinary strength, were destined to become great in the future, Naruto was no different.

And what about Uchiha? Why Orochimaru took so fond of Sasuke? Was it not because of his blood? The greatness that laid dormant inside his birth as the Uchiha?

"That I..." Sakura was shaking, in her face, there was truly chaotic, perhaps now that she thought about it, what she had done in the past wasn't right?

I sighed, then said softly, "I am sorry, perhaps I was a little too harsh, but when you dream, you should dream something precise, you will not be able to catch up with Naruto and Sasuke because they will grow along with you, their starting point already far in the front."

"Then... what do you think I should do? How could I be at their level?" Sakura looked at me with hopeful eyes, we had talked a lot, after all, she started seeing me as someone with quite a knowledge.

I smiled, then looked at the time, I should pick Ino for our usual drawing session, I had told Kakashi about my 10 days departure, said I need to take care of something private, and Kakashi let me, Tenten also knew, the only one remained clueless was Ino.

I stood up, then said, "Someone once told me, 'I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else'."

"Don't surpass anyone?" Sakura said in the absentminded face, obviously, she was lost in her thought.

"You're smart, I believe you can figure it out," I grinned then left the store.

After a while, I heard Sakura screamed from behind.

"Abe, you have not paid for the food!!!"

When I arrived in front of Ino's house, and she came out, she actually wore a long trench coat that actually covered almost her entire body. I couldn't help but feel a little loose, but actually kind of happy? Maybe because I thought of her as my own woman already, one-sidedly, it left me uncomfortable when she walked around with sexy attire.

"Shall we go?" Ino scooted closer and hooked her hands around my arm, oh boy, I could feel the tenderness of her front part of the body, and the scent from her lost me in the dream.

Along the way, she told me that she just returned from a mission this morning, it was a little bit difficult one, some kind of gathering for intel, and she heard about the rumor that Kirigakure's success in capturing their criminal overnight, even one of the Akatsuki's member, it was said that they would start extracting information from his head.

"My father is brought to the Kage's summit, they need his expertise to infiltrate the Akatsuki's head," Ino said.

"I see, do you think he will be alright?" there was a concern in my tone, this was Akatsuki we talked about, surely they might have prepared something to prevent their member from leaking out information about them?

"I can only hope, but regarding his skill, I do not have doubt," Ino's tone might sound calm, but I believed she must have the same thought of me.

"Well, I hope so too, the father-in-law cannot die yet without seeing his grandson come to the earth," I said with a teasing tone.

"Hum... what grandson? Who's going to be my husband?" the corner of Ino's lips curled upward.

"Well... one, he is a handsome man... two, he is good at drawing..." I pretended to think.

"Wow, handsome and artist, who would that be?"

I stopped and turned around, my hand curled around her waist, and pulled her tender body toward me, we were in the middle of the street, there were eyes watching our gesture.

"What are you doing?" Ino's cheek turned red, despite how brave she was, it's still embarrassing to be intimated in the public like this.

"Showing you the future husband," I smiled, looking at her blue eyes and red lips, I somehow had the urge to kiss her, but I knew she probably would reject if I did it on the lips, so I aimed at her forehead instead.

Ino struggled a bit, but when my lips pressed on her clean and smooth forehead, she immediately went silent, it's actually very rare for a lover to kiss on the forehead, especially when they just boyfriend and girlfriend. A kiss on the cheek proved a quick greet and friendship, a kiss on the lips proved lust and desire, but a kiss on the forehead signified a person's care and love toward their lover.

It was a long and dry kiss, I was feeling her heat and smelling her fragrance through the kiss, and also conveyed my tenderness and gentle for her, Tenten might be my number 1 girl, and Mei along with Tsunade was the hottest milf I had ever met, but Ino was the absolute beauty in my eyes, nothing could surpass her ever, and I wanted her to feel my appreciation, and how lucky I was to have her.

After a while, I departed my lips from her forehead, then met it together with my own, our face almost stuck in the same place.

"Ino, I know words are really cheap, but I like you, I want you..."

"Then pick me only, forget other girls," Ino said with closed eyes.

"I can't... if I can't have all, then I might as well don't have anyone..." I firmly said.

"Why? Don't you... don't you want me?" Ino was a little unwilling.

"I want you... I really do, it will be the greatest disappointment in my life if I can't have you."

"Then why?"

"Because I am greedy."

Ino went silent for a while, then she moved to my ears, said, "Well, then greedy man, let's see if I can change your mind..."