UNEXPECTED GUEST

A Hunch

Sasuke side eyed Kakashi and gave a smirk implying his victory. He was confident on her love, he knew if he asks she would do anything no matter how much it hurts. This is the reason he hate attachments and sentiments like love. It drops a person's logical ability to null.

Sakura's eyes however was empty of emotion, she was walking toward him but somehow her soul was not present there in that moment as if she doesn't know what she is doing. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, she is looking pale like a dead.

Sakura never thought him to be so cruel to use her love to manipulate her for completing his own goal. Did this person even care about her for once? Her love is always irrelevant for him but how can he rub salt on her fresh wounds by referring those words? Today she died again by that same person. How many times one can kill a person? He killed me again and again and again without a regret.

Suddenly sakura's eyes widen in shock when she felt her foot slipped from the branch of tree. She tried to use her chakra to stick on the tree but her foot already lost the contact of the surface. Everything happened so suddenly that she didn't even get time to react. Her eyes closed tightly due to sudden adrenaline rush.

She heard Kakashi's voice "Sakuraaaaaaaaaaa" and Naruto's shout "Sakura channnnnnnnn..". She could feel that Naruto is running toward her but it will be too late she is going to fall hard.

However she didn't feel the expected free fall, a strong hand grabbed her arm. She felt the tree branch beneath her foot again and a strong chest under her palm. He quickly pulled her arm with one hand and immediately snaked his arm on her waist, her head landed in his chest due to their height differences and her hand rested on his left side of chest where she could feel his heart beat.

In an instant, the musky smell of wood and first rain filled her nose. A smell she craved everyday in last 3 years, a smell which she will get never tired of, a smell by which she can recognize the person even in closed eyes. She lifted her tired gaze only to meet his red one. Sarada also shouted in fear "Mamaaaaaaaaa" in sasuke's arm.

On the other hand, Sasuke purely acted on an instinct when he saw Sakura to fall from that tree. He hold sarada in his one arm and took quick steps to Sakura and grabbed her arm with the free hand and pulled her toward his chest. As usual his sharingan activated in hurry after sensing the danger.

When sakura opened her eyes slowly, he saw how Sakura was looking into his eyes,  her deep gaze was making him uncomfortable. Somehow it is feeling like her eyes are accusing him for using her love to fulfill his demand. He averted his gaze from her to sarada, he can't bear her deep gaze anymore.

Sakura raised her palm to stop Naruto when she saw him to run toward her but she stated "I am fine Naruto, no need to come here". Naruto looked at her with deep worries in his eyes and stopped in his track.

She lowered her hand and shifted her eyes from Naruto to sarada. Sarada was still there in sasuke's arm with her red tired eyes. She was looking at Sasuke with a confused eye. She was really confused to see the interactions between her parents. She can't understand why mama is not smiling. Papa and mama was not talking also. Papa seems angry with mama but she doesn't know why? She scrunched her thin brows in confusion and looked into Papa's red eyes which is very familiar to her.

However moments later little Sarada felt a familiar hand on her eyes. The sweet smell of cherries entered in her nostrils. She closed her eyes in habbit after inhaling the well known smell of her mother.

A relief washed over sasuke when he saw Sakura's hand grew green on Sarada's eyes. He noticed the red color of her eyes are fading very slowly. Her chakra is helping her to deactivate the sharingan.