Chapter 2: Judgment

The laughing stopped for while when Tsunade headed back to her desk. Sakura got up from her seat and walked over to lean on the desk.
“What is it now?” The Hokage asked her. Did she really want to say it?
“Sasuke-kun, what’s his punishment?” Sakura asked her, the Hokage looked up from to faced the kunochi.
“I’ll let him stay but-“
“But?” Sakura looked more determined. The Hokage closed her eyes and rested her chin on her folded fingers.
“He’s not allowed to leave this place ever! And”
“And?”
“He’s only allowed out when I give him missions”
“O-ok…” Sakura said depressed. As she turned her head in another direction, the Hokage followed her movement and shifted her attention to the window where Sakura was looking at.  Tsunade grunted to get Sakura’s attention back to her as she handed Sakura a piece of document that she had arranged for her.
“Sakura, this is a mission I’m giving you okay?” Sakura examined the document carefully,

Type of mission: Escort
Rank: B
Members on the mission: -Haruno Sakura
- Uchiha Sasuke
- Hyuuga Neji
Objective: Escort Client to hometown
Duration: Starting the first week of September
Ending: 2nd week of September

Sakura flipped through the folder and looked at the Tsunade again “Tsunade-sama there’s limited information here…” She continued to flip through the pages of the folder given to her.
“Yeah I know the client didn’t give us that much information, all I got from him was to escort him, his name is Riku”
“Hai” Sakura walked out of the Hokage office and down the hallways.

Sasuke shifted his head towards the incoming rays that came in from his hospital window when he heard the sliding door open. Sakura walked in slowly as she took her place in the hospital stool once again, she whispered to him softly.
“Sasuke-kun….how are you f-feeling?” Sasuke shifted his gaze towards her again.
“Hn…” He replied to her as he continued to get lost in his thoughts again. She moved the steel chair closer to him, placed her hand over his hands and asked him softly.
“Sasuke-kun why did you come back?” Sasuke’s eyes widen at the question that she had asked him he dreamt of this horrible day when she would ask him and here it was.
“I-I-I-“ The sound of the sliding door opened again as Sakura broke her glance from Sasuke and moved her chair back to where it was.
“Sasuke-teme there you are! HI Sakura-chan!” The blonde ninja said as he jumped up and down, after Naruto was Hinata she slowly and shyly walked to where Sakura was and started talking to her whilst Naruto jumped up and down making the Uchiha somewhat annoyed.  Both girls walked out of the room.

“So Hinata what did you want to talk to me about?” Sakura asked as she close the last bit of space from the door.
“S-S-Sakura u-u-umm h-how should I put this?”  The Hyuuga stuttered.
“Hinata what is it?” Hinata looked at her friend she signaled the pink kunochi to come closer and whispered in her ear.
“Sakura, did you get anymore information on Sasuke?”
“Why?” The kunochi asked confused on what the Hyuuga said.
“I went to Tsunade-sama and she told me to come here if you have any more information on him” Sakura shook her head from side to side.  “O-Ok….that’s ok I guess” the Hyuuga wondered. Sakura opened the sliding door again and found that Naruto was annoying Sasuke even more the anger in his eyes showed that he was about to land the punch in Naruto’s face.
“Naruto!” Sakura yelled at him. Naruto confused looked at the Uchiha and then the Haruno, slowly nodded his head and walked out with Hinata.

Sakura slowly headed over towards Sasuke who looked at her with his obsidian eyes. She slowly sat back on the stool and looked at him.
“What do you want now?” He asked impolitely to the rosette hair woman. But answered back without hesitation, Sakura pulled out the folder that was in her bag and showed it to the Uchiha. Sasuke grabbed the folder of her and looked at it.
“That Tsunade I came back and she already wants me to go on missions already” Sasuke said as he clenched his fist. He turned to Sakura “So it’s me, you and Neji?”  Sakura nodded back in reply.
“Sounds good enough when do we go?” Sakura stared at him and pointed to where it said ‘departure’ Sasuke nodded slowly. “So two weeks from now huh?” Sakura placed her hands on his arm as she looked at him with her big green, emerald eyes and she whispered in his ear slowly and quietly.
“I’ll always be there for you….got that?”