ReTurn

First off, I just wanted to say that in the last chapters, Sakura has already accepted Naruto and Sasuke as her teammates, but hasn't accepted them as her friends. She's having trust issues with Sasuke mostly because of what happened in her future and she wants to distance herself from Naruto because she doesn't want to hurt him.

Will she accept them? Or will she continue on her path alone?

Chapter 7:

The Demons Amongst The Mist

They were still in the mission room as they introduced each other.

"I'm Tazuna," the old man introduced. "A master bridge builder and I must return to my country. I'm building a bridge there that will change our world and I expect you to get me there in one piece. Even if it means giving up you life."

Team 7 respectfully nodded and

they all left to their homes to get ready for their first C-ranked mission.

In Sakura's room...

As Sakura packed her bag, her thoughts drifted back to their test a few weeks ago. She remembered how she helped Sasuke and she clenched her fists. Her brow furrowed and she gritted her teeth angrily.

Shit, she cursed.

She was softening up again. She will work with the Uchiha if she had to, but to soften up to them? To him?

Nope. She couldn't afford to. Her sole purpose being there, in this time, was to fix it. To give them a better future. Not to make peace with the cold blooded, revenge-obsessed traitor.

Now she was mad at herself. She let it happen. She let her guard down and put her walls down for him. Willingly, she might add.

Sakura ground her teeth together and turned to face her white pillow on her bed. She aimed her gloved fist and just as it made contact with the pillow's surface, it blew up in a burst of cotton and feathers.

She can't get close to him. Not if she wanted her heart to be broken a second time.

Near the entrance gate of Konoha...

After making distance,Team 7 and Tazuna stopped walking from the gate when Naruto screamed in joy and threw his arms in the air. "Yahoo! Alright! I'm a traveler now, believe it!"

Tazuna pointed to Naruto as he turned to Kakashi. "Am I really supposed to just trust my life to this runt? He's a joke."

Kakashi smiled at him, his lone eye crinkling. "Don't worry. I'm a jounin. You're in good hands."

Tazuna's words repeated in Naruto's mind and turned to yell at him.

Sakura and Sasuke stood silently to side, aloof expressions on their faces as the watched the scene play out. She hadn't looked at him since Team 7 had met up at the gate and she was still pissed-

Then Sakura felt it.

Her head snapped to look behind her, her senses on full alert, her face guarded. Her head swiveled side to side as she scanned their surroundings.

Sasuke noticed Sakura tense and glanced at her as she viewed their surroundings.

"Sakura?" he called. She continued her observation, ignoring him.

It's them, she thought. It has to be.

She felt the chakra at the edge of her field of her vision, chakra wise that is.