![]() Sakura looked back to Naruto, her smile matching his. Inside, their sensei was trying to keep Sasuke from getting punished too harshly for a “lapse in judgment” as Kakashi was calling it. “Together,” he agreed and they both looked towards the closed door where Kakashi and Sasuke were speaking to Tsunade and the Council. “It’s not,” she insisted, “but I’m going to get stronger. “It’s okay,” Naruto tried to reassure her, but she shook her head, both hands curled into fists. Naruto and Sasuke both had advantages she didn’t, but she had the best chakra control of the three of them. This time, she thought, she would never go back to being that helpless girl. She should have been right next to Naruto so they could bring their teammate back together, because Sasuke wasn’t just hers, not since Team 7 was formed. ![]() In her heartbreak of thinking Sasuke was gone, she’d let herself revert back and had known the moment the retrieval team left that she’d made a mistake. She’d stayed behind and waited for them like she’d been helpless when she’d sworn to herself that she’d never be like that again.ĭuring the Chuunin Exams, she’d reached for a strength she hadn’t had before and while she hadn’t advanced to the final round, she’d been proud of herself for not being the same girl who had walked into the Forest of Death. “I should have gone with you to bring him back,” Sakura told Naruto quietly, head bowed and so angry at herself. In retrospect, Kakashi should have known all of this ended too easily. He was mostly just relieved that all of his genin were safe inside the village walls again. Neither Sasuke nor Naruto ever spoke of what happened in the Valley of the End, never explained how Naruto convinced Sasuke to come back to Konoha with him and, honestly, Kakashi never wanted to ask. Naruto hugged her back with one arm, too tired to be giddy at the contact. She hugged them both at once instead of diving for Sasuke first like Kakashi had expected, but threw one arm around each boy and pulled them into her. Sakura met them at the village gates, hands clasped tightly to her chest and so, so relieved to see them walking back together. It wasn’t Naruto’s hand around Sasuke’s wrist and it wasn’t Sasuke sighing with the weariness someone his age shouldn’t be able to muster as he said, “Let’s go home, dobe.” When Kakashi made it to the Valley, he didn’t know what he expected to see, but it definitely wasn’t Naruto and Sasuke sitting on the shore, battered, bruised, and together. Secret Snipers Exchange Round 3, For Rereading, Alicia's idea of good fics Stats: Published: Words: 3,235 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 17 Kudos: 494 Bookmarks: 129 Hits: 2,324 they're all little shits that turn into big shits.Dai-nana-han | Team 7 are Trolls (Naruto).Dai-nana-han | Team 7 as Family (Naruto).Haruno Sakura & Hatake Kakashi & Uchiha Sasuke & Uzumaki Naruto.Haruno Sakura & Uchiha Sasuke & Uzumaki Naruto.
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