Chapter Eighteen
Sakura opened her eyes taking in a deep breath as a yawn flexed her lips. She looked around her bedroom as she slowly sat up, she could feel the knots and tangles lacing her long hair as she scratched her head.
She stretched her arms out, joints inside her body joyfully popped as a result, Sakura sighed feeling her tightened muscles loosen. Slowly but surely last night replayed through her mind, Itachi's drunken kiss and her interesting encounter with Kakashi.
"Ugh..." Sakura groaned, dropping her face into her hands.
How could she have gotten mad at Kakashi the way she did? She knew it wasn't his fault but at the same time, she felt like it was...he called her by that woman's name, what else was Sakura supposed to do!?
Sakura yawned again before getting out of bed, her stomach roared its hungry head. She wondered if she had any food at all, she never had the second to check if she was left with any supplies, she may need to make a list and do her second least favorite thing: grocery shopping.
"Well good morning!"
Sakura peeked through her fingers as she walked into the living room rubbing her tired face. Carver waved from sitting the couch watching television.
"I thought this was my apartment." Sakura muttered,
"It is." Carver laughed at Sakura's grumpy expression, "I brought presents."
"Hm?" Sakura asked turning to Carver,
"Well first there's coffee-" Carver pointed to the kitchen.
"Yes." Sakura breathed,
"-there is also fired rice for you." Carver added knowing how when Sakura is hung over, she craves fried rice.
"Really?" Sakura's eyes pooled to the small bar that separated the kitchen and living room from each other, there placed a white container with a bottle of water sitting beside it. "What do you want?" Sakura asked as she picked up the plastic fork and began to dig in.
"Nothing!" Carver flashed a grin. "I just know you and how you are after you drink."
"Yes." Sakura nodded, "But normally when you do nice things for me, you want something in return."
"I don't need anything."
"But what do you want?" Sakura pressed.
"Nothing!" Carver nervously laughed, "I just thought it would be nice to feed and water you."
"I'm not a plant."
"You're like a cactus." Carver replied. "Little bit of sunlight and water you a couple times a week, your fine!"
"Go away." Sakura commented turning to make herself a cup of coffee.
"Oh, come on-!" Carver laughed, "-that was funny!"
"Mhm." Sakura hummed sipping the hot liquid.
"By the way-" Carver muttered, "-where did you go last night?"
"Huh?"
"You vanished for like an hour."
"I'm surprised you noticed." Sakura answered, "You were pretty drunk-"
"We were all pretty drunk, but we still noticed the guest of honor missing."
"Took you an hour?"
"We were drunk!" Carver defended, "But then you showed up so..."
"I was with Itachi." Sakura said, "I showed him my office."
"Oh?" Carver raised his eyebrows, "Nice-Nice...so did you...break your new office in or-"
"I didn't fuck him." Sakura rolled her eyes, "I don't know why that is your go to for everything-"
"Your hot!" Carver joked, "Why wouldn't you want to have men falling at your feet?"
"I don't like people?" Sakura guessed.
"You like me." Carver joked.
"Barely." Sakura said turning back to her rice.
"Hey-" Carver pointed, "-drink that water."
"No." Sakura said.
"Drink it, it's good for you-"
"No, it's not." Sakura responded, "It's unnatural."
"I-It's water!" Carver laughed, "That's about as natural as you can get."
"What about the sun?" Sakura asked,
"Well that's different it's the fucking sun-stop trying to change the subject!" Carver caught on, "You drank a shit ton last night, you need to re-hydrate yourself."
"There's water in this." Sakura said lifting her coffee mug.
"That doesn't count."
"Why?"
"Because it doesn't."
"But why?" Sakura asked, "There's water in it."
"But not the water you need."
"There are different kinds of water now?"
"Yes."
"Name them." Sakura challenged.
"Uh-Um...I am calling Tsunade."
"Why?"
"Because she will be on my side about your needing to drink water."
"Go for it." Sakura shrugged, "I'll tell her the same thing."
"Tell her what?" Carver asked feeling lightly confused,
"There is water in this." Sakura said holding her coffee mug back up.
"No!" Carver growled feeling a need to pull his hair out. "I am too hung over for you!"
"You're in my apartment." Sakura said.
"That I moved out to give you." Carver countered.
"I left the village I built to lead yours." Sakura smirked. "We can do this all day."
"Ha-Ha." Carver mocked seeing he lost the argument. "I don't think anyone is going to wake up from the dead-er...I mean uh..."
"It's fine." Sakura laughed seeing his flustered face, "I assumed everyone would be too hung over or still drunk to really even function today anyway."
"I was hoping to have everyone here for your first day of work." Carver weakly smiled, "We could all have breakfast and send you off."
"I appreciate it." Sakura said, "But you don't have to bend over backwards for me, I am here. I accepted the Commander title and I'm not going anywhere."
"I know it's just..." Carver laughed shaking his head feeling stupid, "...I just wanted to make you feel like you were home."
"I do feel like I am home." Sakura said, "So stop trying so hard and just relax."
"Ok-" Carver breathed, his chest deflating as he relaxed, "-I really did want everyone here for your first real day as our Commander."
"All Tsunade and I are doing today is getting me caught up with everything going on inside the village and also putting me into the system."
"That's it?"
"Yeah." Sakura nodding scratching her neck, "Nothing fun just yet." She smirked.
"Well..." Carver sighed, "...alright..."
"You look like you were just dragged out of hell-" Sakura commented, "-go get some sleep."
"Fine!" Carver dramatically threw his arms, "-I'll go to sleep while you head to work, but I'm not going to enjoy it."
"Yes-" Sakura nodded, as Carver walked to the front door. "-your life is just so hard."
"Your damn right!" Carver laughed opening the door, "Text me when your free tonight and we can probably grab dinner."
"Alright." Sakura shrugged.
"And drink that water!" Carver pointed before exiting the room.
"He thinks I'm a damn fish." Sakura muttered to herself as she picked up her coffee and avoided the water bottle at all costs as she got dressed for her first day as commander of the leaf village.
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"Good morning!" Tsunade's voice filled Sakura's quiet office, the pinkette looked up from the large stacks of files that cluttered her new desk.
"It's the afternoon now." Sakura muttered glancing at the clock which hung on the wall.
"Well..." Tsunade muttered, "...I might have slept in a bit, I was up late last night throwing up-"
"You and probably half of the village." Sakura smirked leaning back in her seat.
"I see you got all the files!" Tsunade scanned the desk.
"Oh yeah-" Sakura darkly laughed, "-I sure did. What the hell is all of this?"
"What do you mean?"
"This-" Sakura placed her hand on a foot-tall stake of files.
"Those are...?"
"Disciplinary files-" Sakura filled Tsunade in, "-that have been left undetermined for months."
"Like I said..." Tsunade sighed, "...I have genuinely been excruciatingly busy these past months."
"Hm." Sakura hummed, "Well thank you for the mountain of paperwork."
"I'm sorry, those were disciplinary issues were so low on my to do list I may have forgotten about them."
"I can see this." Sakura commented. "So, what do I owe the pleasure then?"
"Huh?"
"Your here?"
"Oh!" Tsunade chuckled, "How uh, how hung over are you?"
"Huh?" Sakura asked reaching over and grabbing her chilled fried rice. "I am fine, what do you want?" Sakura said reading through Tsunade's words.
"So, you can work?"
"What am I doing now?" Sakura asked looking around, "Building a damn bridge to Terabithia?"
"No-" Tsunade laughed at Sakura's sarcasm. "-how was last night!?"
"Uh..." Sakura trailed off recalling her drunken encounter with Itachi and then Kakashi's hot kiss. "...fantastic..." Sakura lied, not in the mood to relay the details of last night.
"Great!" Tsunade nodded sitting down on the couch, "Because we need to talk."
"What is falling from the sky today?" Sakura leaned on her desk after closing the file in front of her, it wasn't even one o'clock yet and there was already a conspiracy getting thrown into Sakura's lap.
"Well...We really need to discuss what we are going to do about the eh...the..."
"The Lock Village?" Sakura guessed, "I remember you saying something about them having one of our shinobi?"
"Yes!" Tsunade breathed, "Riichi Buecher, he is normally a guard for the front gates and his family also owns one of the inns in town, he was taken a few weeks ago."
"I see." Sakura nodded, "Well I have a plan-"
"Re-Really!?" Tsunade breathed out, her chest fluttering with hopeful sparks.
"Yes." Sakura nodded, "But I will need to barrow Shizune for the day."
"Consider it done!" Tsunade instantly agreed, pulling her phone from her pocket to text her assistant to come to Sakura's office.
"While we wait for Shizune-" Tsunade said setting her phone down, "-what did you all do last night?"
"Um...just drank at the café." Sakura shrugged.
"That's it?"
"Yeah." Sakura nodded, "Just drank and told stupid stories."
"Well that sounds like a fun time."
"It was." Sakura flashed a smile. "I had fun."
"Good, how are-" Tsunade cut herself off as a knock on the door ended their light conversation.
"Come in." Sakura called; the door slowly opened to reveal Shizune Kato, Tsunade's apprentice as well as her husband Dan's niece.
"You called for me Lady Tsunade?" Shizune asked.
"I did." Tsunade said turning to Sakura. "You're going to be working for Sakura today."
"I-I am!?" Shizune gasped.
"Yes." Tsunade nodded.
"Oh-Oh...U-Um what do you need Commander?" Shizune blushed looking away from the bright emerald eyes, having Sakura's gaze on Shizune felt like her very soul was being scorched.
"Here." Sakura picked up a folder resting beside the dead cell phone she had forgotten here last night. "I need you inform the shinobis that on this list to report tomorrow morning for an S-Rank mission."
"S-S-Rank!?" Shizune gasped, S-Rank missions were rare and extremely dangerous but paid the best if able to complete.
"Yes." Sakura nodded, "I also will need you to contact the Lock Village and let them know we will be accepting their trade, our shinobi for their spy."
"We-We are!?" Tsunade and Shizune gasped sounding astounded by Sakura's order.
"Yes." Sakura nodded, "It will take the Lock Village at least half a day to travel here, so please go and contact them first."
"U-Um, yes Commander. Right away!" Shizune nodded as she quickly turned leaving the room and the two woman alone in silence.
"We are going to just give Hanare over!?" Tsunade harshly gasped once the shock settled.
"Hell no." Sakura laughed, "But Shizune doesn't need to know that."
"I-I am so confused." Tsunade blinked.
"The only people who need to know the true plan are the ones going on this mission." Sakura said.
"You're going to at least tell me the plan, right!?"
"Yes." Sakura chuckled, "Calm down."
"I am calm." Tsunade pouted,
"We are not going to give up Hanare, we simply can't." Sakura explained, "Hanare dug through Inoichi's mind while he was inside her head and now she has so much Intel on us if she gets loose, we are royally fucked."
"So...what do we do?"
"Well we got lucky-" Sakura said, "-Hanare could have been able to get away with her plan. Inoichi would have believed she was just an innocent girl and let her go if you hadn't called me in when you did."
"But she still got into Inoichi's head."
"Yes." Sakura nodded, "Which is why we are going to bring her to the trade with the Lock Village, we are going to get Riichi but not give them Hanare-"
"They are not going to go for that."
"Which is why I am labeling this an S-Ranked mission." Sakura said,
"You're going to kill them." Tsunade realized.
"If it comes down to it..." Sakura licked her lips, if she was still in charge of the waterfall village she and a small team would crawl into the lock village and burn it to the ground but she was no longer apart of the waterfall village, she was with the leaf now and they were more...sensitive. "...yes."
"But-"
"Do you want to get Riichi back?" Sakura asked.
"Well of course-"
"Then let me just do my job."
"But this-"
"They sent a spy into the village-" Sakura spelled out, "-they kidnapped our shinobi and put Kakashi under a jutsu. You're lucky I am not on my way to their fucking village right now with a torch in each hand."
"Your right." Tsunade sighed, "But don't you think it is just a high risk to bring her?"
"I do." Sakura agreed, "Which is why I am going to burn her before we go."
"Uh...burn her...?"
"It's a torture technique Kaguya taught me." Sakura sighed,
"O-Oh..." Tsunade's chest tightened not knowing how to feel about this statement.
"I can burn pieces of Hanare's memory away but it's a high-risk technique which is why it's not widely used in this day in age. I will barely have any control over what area's of Hanare's mind will be affected."
"So, when you...burn her, it will what? Basically, burn her brain so she won't remember?"
"Yup."
"And she will live?"
"Possibly."
"This is..." Tsunade breathed, "...I don't know Sakura."
"This isn't one of our own we are talking about." Sakura said crossing her arms over her chest, "This is a spy who snuck into your village, performing this technique takes a lot of chakra. I don't want to do it but it's a strong fail safe encase anything goes sideways."
"I agree." Tsunade said with an unsettled stomach, surprising Sakura who was expecting an argument or at least a little back talk. "So Shizune will gather the shinobi you wish to bring?"
"Yes."
"And she is arranging the drop between us and the Lock Village?"
"Yup." Sakura nodded, "It's all in the file I gave her, we will meet them tomorrow afternoon just outside our territory."
"Fantastic!" Tsunade stood, "In the meantime, we have some meeting to attend."
"Alright-" Sakura waved turning to face her desk, "-you better get going."
"Uh..." Tsunade trailed off quickly scratching her chin. "...you..."
"You have got to be kidding me." Sakura muttered, "You want me to go with you?"
"Yes." Tsunade smiled,
"No." Sakura shook her head. "I have enough shit to do before-"
"But..." Tsunade racked her brain, "...I am pregnant and-"
"Don't pull that pregnant bullshit with me." Sakura cut in, "I already picked up a lot of your work."
"Please?" Tsunade said with large innocent eyes. "I'll treat you to lunch afterwards."
"Ugh." Sakura sighed but rose to her feet despite the raging urge to run away. "Lead the way." The promise of food kept Sakura inside the building.
"Yes!" Tsunade turned on her heel, she quickly walked across the hall to where her office sat.
"What's this meeting about?" Sakura questioned as she felt a yawn coming on.
"We have our weekly meeting with the other villages." Tsunade answered opening her door.
"Your what?" Sakura smirked, "You all check in with each other?"
"Yes." Tsunade said matter-of-factly. "We all check in once a week."
"Are we five now?" Sakura joked following Tsunade into her office, Sakura carelessly pushed the door closed behind her as she turned to face the room.
"No-" Tsunade commented, Sakura took in Tsunade's lived in office and instantly froze seeing the silver hair leaning against the wall. Sakura stomach soured seeing him. "-you may think it's funny, because the Waterfall Village has always annoyingly done their own thing-"
Sakura nodded at Tsunade, but she was too busy trying to keep her gaze off Kakashi. Of course, he would be here, he was studying under Tsunade to become the next Hokage, why hadn't Sakura prepared herself for him to become Tsunade's mini shadow.
"-but this is how we all live beside each other and keep the peace." Tsunade finished her statement as she turned on the monitors that hung on her wall, turning to look at a masked Sakura. "Are you ok?"
"Yup." Sakura said quickly clearing her throat.
"You are hung over huh?" Tsunade chuckled, Sakura's face felt hot as blood pooled to it, she could feel his eyes on the back of her head.
Sakura internally groaned, as her mind fell sideways into the gutter thinking back to the last time he gazed at the back of her head, there were a lot less clothes involved and it was a lot more fun than this.
"Sakura?"
"Huh?" Sakura blinked looking over at Tsunade's voice.
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"Just peachy." Sakura answered moving to sit on the couch, Kakashi leaned against the wall just feet away.
"Alright!" Tsunade said waiting for the other village leaders to get onto their video chat. "Sakura, what you would like for lunch?"
"I don't care." Sakura muttered, looking everywhere in the room except to her right where he stood.
"Lady Tsunade." Gaara nodded as he and the other village leaders flicked to life on the many screens. Sakura leaned back against the couch feeling bored, she didn't need to be here for this, she knew Tsunade simply wanted to show of that Sakura was now living inside the leaf village.
Sakura felt daring, stealing a quick glance over in Kakashi's direction. His presence was suffocating, wrapping around and not leaving her be. He casually leaned back against the wall, his hands in his pockets gazing a head watching Tsunade speak with the other village leaders.
Sakura pulled her lips together prying her eyes away from Kakashi before he noticed her watching him. Her heart fluttered inside her chest as she still felt the impression if his kiss from last night. Sakura leaned on the arm of the couch, pulling right leg up as her mind played dirty tricks on her, she glanced back at Kakashi, she could almost still feel his hot tongue running down her bare stomach as he gripped her-
"This is atrocious!" Onoki's voice filled Tsunade's office, snapping Sakura away from her lustful thoughts. "Why is the Reaper inside your village!?"
"She is now the Commander of the Leaf." Tsunade said with pride as she held her head high.
"Absolutely not!" Onoki shouted, Kakashi raised an eyebrow. Did Onoki of the stone village really believe he could tell Sakura where she can and cannot live?
"I don't see how this is fair." Mei, head of the mist village agreed, "Why do you get the Reaper?"
Kakashi looked over at Sakura who held a bored expression across her fair face. He felt a ping of annoyance hearing them call her 'Reaper', granted it had been her nickname for many years, how could someone call her something that was meant to be so grim and pessimistic?
"Commander Haruno is not a tool that can be passed around." Tsunade asserted.
"Why not?" Mei questioned,
"Wh-What!?" Tsunade stuttered, she couldn't believe what she was hearing!
"Why can't the Reaper travel village to village and work for all of us?" Onoki dared to say.
Sakura looked over to the screen hearing these words, what was this now?
"That is true." A who was head of the cloud village painfully agreed with Onoki, "It can travel village to village in mere seconds, why do you get to keep a weapon like that to yourselves?"
Sakura's heart heaved as she licked her lips turning away from the screen to gaze into the distance.
It.
That was what she was to the people she worked so hard to protected, she was simply a weapon; a war machine. When shit hit the fan that was when everyone needed her but when the trouble cleared, she was no longer wanted around.
"You will not belittle my Commander like this!" Tsunade snapped, much to Sakura's surprise. "Sakura Haruno is not an 'it' or a weapon for you all to pass around for your villages convenience!" Sakura's mouth parted lightly stunned seeing someone stick up for her, much less Tsunade off all people.
"But she shouldn't-"
"Clearly Sakura Haruno can do whatever the hell she wants!" Tsunade snapped, "But she has gracefully decided to live within my village, and you all will respect that, or you will have me to deal with."
"But she is the Reaper-!" Onoki spat, "-you can't have that kind of power-"
Sakura sighed; this is the reason she got dragged into this meeting? Kakashi's eye instantly locked onto her as Sakura got up from the couch and moved to stand beside Tsunade.
"Re-Reaper!" Onoki gasped once Sakura appeared on the screen.
"Has it ever occurred to you-?" Sakura questioned, "-that you all handed me the wolfs clothing and I just simply put it on and continued to hang out with my sheep?"
"What?" Onoki asked looking confused,
"Of course." Sakura sighed; he wasn't the brightest tool in the shed.
"Why are you inside the leaf village Reaper!?" Onoki sneered.
"Why haven't I come and burned your village down yet?" Sakura counted, sending shivers through the village leaders. "There are a lot of questions I could ask."
"If your inside the Leaf Village-" Gaara spoke up, "-who is keeping the Waterfall Village in check?"
"What if Purgatory rises!?" Onoki dramatically gasped, putting his hands on his face. Sakura and Tsunade watched as the village leaders stirred uncomfortable at the thought of Purgatory hanging over their heads once again.
"What if Commander Dawn allows-"
"Purgatory will not rise!" Sakura shouted over the mixed voices. The power that laced through Sakura's voice caused Kakashi to shift from foot to foot as he felt himself heat up.
"How do you know?" A questioned, "Your no longer inside-"
"Commander Dawn will never purposely allow Purgatory to return." Sakura stated.
"How do you-"
"Because Dawn knows if she does then I will personally ride into her village and bring what I built crumbling down." Sakura glared into the screens. "Now is there an actual issue going on with any of you that entitles help from the Leaf Village or can you all just fuck off already?"
"Sakura-" Tsunade whispered at her choice of language.
"No-" Sakura heard one answer, she took it and ran with it quickly ending the video chat with the village leaders. Once the screens went dark Sakura sighed, feeling slightly better.
"You just hung up on-"
"I sure did." Sakura nodded turning to leave the room.
"Where are you going!?" Tsunade called.
"To do my job?" Sakura shrugged placing her hand on the door handle until Kakashi gripped the side of his head, stumbling backwards. "Kakashi!?" Sakura breathed rushing to his side, she and Tsunade lowered him to sit on the floor.
"What's wrong Kakashi!?" Tsunade asked quickly taking his pulse.
"M-My head." Kakashi breathed out his exposed eye sealed shut as pain racked his skull. Tsunade breathed as she watched Sakura's eyes shift into familiar glittering Christmas Wreaths.
"Yeah..." Sakura muttered with a nod.
"Do you know what is happening with him?" Tsunade asked feeling hopeful.
"Yeah." Sakura breathed, "His mind is starting to collapse."
"Wh-What!?" Tsunade puttered, "A little more detail would be great!"
"Without Hanare around keeping together the glass perception of a different reality she had you trapped in, it's going to begin to crumble."
"What does that mean?" Tsunade asked worried.
"It means the fake altered memories Hanare placed inside his mind are going to begin to break apart, he should be able to tell what was real and what wasn't but this type of jutsu is rare and even I don't know much about it."
Kakashi looked up at Sakura as she placed both her hands on the sides of his masked face. She spoke more to Tsunade and ignored Kakashi's tired gaze, Sakura's warmth soaked through his mask warming his skin.
Kakashi understood what was happening to him now. Inside his bedroom this morning, his memories felt like they were shedding, and how his stomach soured...it all made sense now.
"I'm sorry." Sakura said turning to Kakashi, he looked at her. "There isn't much I can do."
"Why?" Tsunade asked,
"I can't reach into his head and pull out the glass shards of broken reality." Sakura answered, "Kakashi is just going to have to ride this out and let this process take its course-"
"It's ok-" Kakashi said reaching out without thinking and placed his hand over Sakura's. "-you being here is enough."
Tsunade puckered her lips, feeling awkward as she cleared her throat pulling the attention onto her.
"Uh, Kakashi why don't you just head home for the day and get some rest? Right Sakura?"
"Yeah." Sakura agreed, "That is probably the best thing you can do right now."
"Right." Kakashi breathed standing with Sakura and Tsunade's aid.
"Do you need help getting home?" Tsunade asked,
"I'll be fine-" Kakashi flashed a closed eye smile. "-thank you."
Sakura and Tsunade watched in silence as Kakashi turned and exited the room.
"I don't think Kakashi should be there tomorrow." Sakura commented after a quiet moment.
"Huh?"
"During the trade with the Lock Village-" Sakura clarified, "-he shouldn't be there."
"What!?" Tsunade laughed, "Why shouldn't he be-!?"
"His mind is scrambled-" Sakura said, "- we don't know how tangled he is with Hanare and-"
"Sakura." Tsunade rolled her eyes, "Your being paranoid."
"And your being too laid back." Sakura countered, "I'm tell you it's a bad idea for him-"
"He is going to be the next Hokage of this village-" Tsunade shut the conversation down. "-he has to be there."
"No, he doesn't." Sakura said, "Shinobi are my job, not yours and not his-"
"Sakura-" Tsunade sighed, "-can we continue this conversation with food, I am starving and eating for two."
"Yeah." Sakura tittered.
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After a brisk lunch with Tsunade, Sakura returned to her office knocking out the mindless tasks that needed to get done. After a couple hours Carver and Raiden came and scooped her up for dinner at Ichiraku Ramen where she found Naruto and Hinata waiting for them.
It was a mellow time filled with low level conversation, sadly though dinner had to come to an end and Sakura much to her dismay needed to return to her office to try to get as much work done as she possibly could so she could catch the leaf village up and get things into working order.
"Itachi?" Sakura asked seeing his long hair pulled back into a low ponytail, his back faced her as he walked towards the direction of his house. He was dressed in his ANBU gear, he turned hearing his name being called.
"Sakura?" Itachi asked facing her, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah?" She said, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"I uh..." Itachi blushed, recalling the feel of her soft lips against his. "...well, about last night-"
"It's fine." Sakura said,
"It-It is!?" Itachi breathed, fireworks sparked inside his stomach.
"Well yeah-" Sakura said, "-we were both drunk and-" Itachi felt like he got a left hook to the jaw, he stood feet apart of Sakura watching her talk but all he could feel was himself getting cast away inside the forever friend zone.
"Sakura I wasn't-"
"Shit." Sakura cursed seeing the time. "I have to get going."
"To where this late?"
"Shizune." Sakura answered, "She should be waiting for me in my office by now with the final details of tomorrows trade, but you agreed to come tomorrow right?"
"Yes." Itachi nodded,
"Alright-" Sakura flashed a smile that made Itachi's knees weak, "-I'll see you tomorrow!" Sakura called with a wave of her hand.
"Uh, yeah..." Itachi sighed watching Sakura walk away as his heart floated to the bottom of his stomach.