• "Another day, another mission!" Sakura smiled to herself as she looked at the full-length mirror. On her usual dress, the red full dress with no sleeves and her now short, pink hair with the Konoha-sign headband tied to it. "I wonder what our mission is right now", she mumbled while getting downstairs.
    "Sakura dear, your Sensei Kakashi and Naruto are here to see you!" her mother called up to her from downstairs.
    "What?!" Sakura's huge, green eyes widened with surprise. "Why are they here?", she thought to herself while hurrying herself.
    "Sakura-Chan!" a familiar squeaky voice of a boy called to her. "Hurry up!"
    "Naruto?" Sakura said casually as he saw a boy about her age with blond hair, deep blue eyes and an annoyingly happy expression and a tall, young man in his early twenties with grey hair and a masked face and his left eye covered. Uzumaki Naruto and her Sensei Hatake Kakashi.
    "What's wrong?" asked Sakura uncertainly. She felt somethings not right, she could discern a bad thing occurred.
    "We found Sasuke", replied Kakashi.
    Sakura held her breath. It was two months ago since Sasuke left Konoha village to search for his brother, Itachi, and avenge the death of his parents. She also remembered the very emotional good-byes when he was about to leave.
    She did not know what to say or the facial expression she should be wearing when she heard Kakashi. Sasuke's picture flashed in her mind again the dark hair, sad and vengeful black eyes and his handsome face. Memories.
    "Good news, it is", hehehe, Sakura put on her fake smile. But somehow, she felt happy from the bottom of her chest but also saddened because those gloomy experiences recurred back in her head again.
    "No", Naruto said abruptly, like he was being chased or something.
    "What?!" Sakura's heart almost jumped to her throat. Now her love and worries for her long-time crush came back again. But it wasn't a good time right now, it was just a bad news, not only for her but to Kakashi and Naruto as well.
    "He's in the hands of Orochimaru right now and he's in great danger", Kakashi heaved out a heavy sigh. "Orochimaru's planning to use him to destroy Konoha as well as the other villages of the Alliance."
    Sakura felt like crying, Sasuke's been to a lot of difficult things! First, he lost his parents and his brother almost killed him. Now, he was being used as a puppet by the mischievous Orochimaru, who is likely to destroy all the villages and kill its people.
    "We need to rescue him, Sakura", said Naruto.
    "Or else he'll die in the hands of Orochimaru", added Kakashi.
    "I - I dont know", said Sakura indecisively.
    Kakashi and Naruto exchanged bewildered glances. This was not like Sakura at all! When Sasuke's in trouble, she would always be the first one to come to aid him and help him.
    "But why, Sakura?" Kakashi kneeled down and looked up to her student's lovely face.
    "He wouldn't want to see me", she said sadly, almost like a whisper.
    "That's ridiculous!" Naruto bellowed. "Sasuke needs us, he needs you! Will you just let him die?!" he said so strongly even though it means that Sakuras love for Sasuke would come back again. He's been liking Sakura for such a long time but kept being ignored because of Sasukes presence.
    Sakura was hit hard buy the word die. Even though Sasuke turned away from her love and went onto somewhere she didnt know, she never considered Sasuke dead physically and inside her heart. She would always love him, Uchiha Sasuke.
    "We're leaving soon, as soon as you will make up your mind", Kakashi stood up. He gestured Naruto to pick up their backpacks now. "Make up your mind, Sakura."
    Naruto stared at her for a while. Sakura kept her head down. He noticed that silent tears were falling from her eyes.
    "I guess we just have to leave, Naruto", said Kakashi. "We cant waste time."
    "But -"
    "Let's go", Naruto.
    Naruto hesitated to leave while seeing Sakura struggling. But, he was dragged by Kakashi and was left with no choice but to leave.
    "Wait!"
    Kakashi and Naruto both looked back to Sakura.
    "I guess we'll need a lot of food to bring in our journey!" Sakura smiled so widely while wiping tears away from her eyes.