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The Fox's Brush.	By : spookymuffin Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1114 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Naruto scooted a little closer to the fire and yawned, blinking sleepily at the flames; he hated keeping watch. It was mind numbingly boring just sitting here while everyone else was asleep, he couldn’t even try and find something to do to keep himself busy because then he’d run the risk of waking the others up or worse, not noticing an attack before it was too late.
Despite his best efforts to stay awake he eventually slumped forward, eyes drifting closed and consciousness slipping away. He woke with a jolt when a hand clapped down heavily on his shoulder and his own hand went to his shuriken holster automatically.
“Naruto.” Kakashi spoke firmly and caught Naruto’s arm in a painful grip, fingers digging into the tendons of his wrist so that his hand spasmed and the shuriken he’d been holding fell uselessly to the ground.
“Ow, fuck!” Naruto hissed, before remembering that he was supposed to be whispering “What the hell was that for?!”
“You’re supposed to be keeping watch… not taking a nap” Kakashi whispered back, he sounded a bit disappointed but not angry. It wasn’t like this was the first time they had had this conversation after all “I shouldn’t have been able to sneak up on you like that.”
“I guess…” Naruto said, pulling his arm free from Kakashi’s grasp and rubbing his wrist sullenly. He debated mentioning that he had been awake for the whole hour and it was only right at the end that he’d started having trouble (and even then he’d only closed his eyes for a second) but knew that there wasn’t really any point in arguing “… sorry.”
“Just don’t let it happen again.” Kakashi said good naturedly, taking a seat beside the fire “Now, go get some sleep, we’re leaving in two hours”
Naruto stood up and stretched, wiggling his toes to try and work out some of the pins and needles in his legs. Once he got some of the feeling back he started walking around the fire and towards his hut but came to a stop just as he reached Sai’s; he peered inside and had to fight the urge to snicker at what he saw. Sai was asleep on his back, laying ramrod straight with his arms at his sides; looking more like some kind of robot in standby mode than a person actually sleeping. Naruto had always wondered about the strange way that Sai slept and he was even more curious now that he knew from experience that his teammate didn’t sleep that way when he was at home in his own bed.
He wondered if he could get away with climbing in beside Sai instead of going back to his own sleeping bag and looked over his shoulder to where his sensei was sitting on the other side of the fire. Naruto opened his mouth to speak but Kakashi beat him to it.
“Go on” he said with a sigh and a wave of his hand “But no funny business… I’ve seen more than enough of that to last me for a life time”
Naruto grinned despite his embarrassment “Thanks, Kakashi-sensei.”
He got down on his hands and knees and crawled into the small wooden shelter. He was just reaching for the edge of the sleeping bag when Sai’s eyes snapped open and his hand shot out to grab Naruto’s forearm; body tense and ready to deal with the perceived threat. It wasn’t anything that Naruto hadn’t been expecting; he had had to wake Sai up for enough watches over the years to know that he had a tendency to be a bit jumpy.
Naruto waited until he saw the spark of recognition in Sai’s eyes and the way he relaxed visibly (although not entirely) when he realised that the person who had woken him wasn’t also trying to kill him.
“Naruto?” he asked softly “Did something happen?”
“Nope” Naruto answered simply, toeing off his sandals and unzipping the side of the sleeping bag.
“I don’t understand” Sai said, his eyebrows were drawn together in confusion but he made no protest when Naruto wriggled in beside him.
“Just go back to sleep, Sai” Naruto said with a yawn, pulling Sai closer and resting his head in the crook of his shoulder.
Sai didn’t try to pursue the matter further and Naruto felt the last of the tension slip out of his teammate; they were both soundly asleep within minutes.
**
An hour after his watch had started Kakashi saw Yamato stir; he appreciated the way that the other man always woke for his shift without needing to be called first, a skill that the younger members of Team Kakashi had yet to acquire… although Naruto would have to master the simple task of staying awake for the entirety of his watch first.
Yamato crawled out from his shelter and answered Kakashi’s salute with a small wave of his own before turning to fold his sleeping bag up and pack it away. Kakashi couldn’t quite keep the smile off his face when he saw Yamato do a double take as he passed Sai’s hut and realised that it was a little more crowded than it had been when he’d last seen it.
“Is there a problem, Yamato?” he asked mischievously.
“No, Senpai” Yamato replied, but the way that his mouth was drawn in a disapproving line and the colour high on his cheekbones (obvious even in the dim light provided by the fire) said otherwise.
Kakashi toyed with the idea of staying up for the last hour and teasing his co-captain a little more (who would have thought that Tenzou could be such a prude?) but ultimately decided against it. It would be irresponsible of him to miss out on even an hour’s sleep when they would be travelling for most of the following day.
He stood up and winced at the way his knees popped as he did so; ah, the wonders of age. “See you in an hour then.”
**
Sakura woke up to the sound of Naruto complaining and a rock sticking painfully into the small of her back. Not exactly a recipe for a good start to the day, she thought grumpily as she climbed out of her sleeping bag.
“Good morning, Sakura-chan~” Naruto said, grinning so brightly at her that she almost had to squint against the glare.
“What are you moaning about this early in the morning, Naruto?” she asked.
The grin was gone just as quickly as it had surfaced and was replaced with a pained grimace “I forgot to bring any instant ramen with me and now I have no breakfast.”
“I offered to share mine with you.” Sai said, looking a little hurt.
Naruto stuck his tongue out in an exaggerated show of disgust “I can’t eat those ration bars, they taste like cardboard!”
“Have you eaten cardboard before?” Sai asked curiously.
“What?” Naruto was looking at Sai like he’d just grown a second head. “Of course not!”
“But you just said-”
“It’s just an expression, Sai” Sakura said with a tired sigh, it was way too early in the morning for this. “Anyway, I can’t help you, Naruto” she reached into her bag and pulled out her own meagre breakfast to illustrate her point “I have the same thing as Sai.”
“We all do” Yamato added, sounding unimpressed “If you hadn’t eaten enough to feed four people last night maybe we’d have some meat left over for breakfast.”
“I was hungry!” Naruto cried indignantly and crossed his arms in a defiant posture “If I ate as little as you guys I’d probably starve to death!”
“You might want to reconsider Sai’s generosity, Naruto” Kakashi said “because you aren’t going anywhere on an empty stomach.” Naruto opened his mouth to argue but Kakashi cut across him “It’s not up for discussion.”
Sakura watched as Naruto snatched a handful of bars from Sai and almost ripped the packaging off one, grumbling under his breath the whole time. He chewed slowly and deliberately, his face scrunched up in an expression of extreme distaste. He looked so much like a petulant toddler that Sakura couldn’t stop the laugh that bubbled up in the back of her throat and she tried to disguise it with a cough when Naruto shot her a wounded look.
“Now, while we’re waiting for Naruto to finish choking down his breakfast…” Kakashi said, obviously not impressed with Naruto’s little tantrum “Yamato, if you would”
Yamato stepped forward “I’m going to need the three of you to swallow these.” He opened his hand and revealed the small seeds there.
Sakura took hers without argument, swallowing it with a mouthful of water and grimacing at the way it still managed to stick in her throat on the way down.
“How come Kakashi-sensei doesn’t have to eat one, huh?” Naruto asked through a mouthful of food; Sakura saw that he was wearing the sly expression that he usually adopted whenever he thought he was going to be presented with an opportunity to see under their sensei’s mask.
“…I swallowed mine earlier while you were still asleep.”
“No fair!” Naruto squawked.
Sakura rolled her eyes and took a bite out one of her own ration bars, it was true that they didn’t exactly taste great (and they were certainly not something that you’d ever go out of your way to eat) but they were nowhere near as bad as Naruto made them out to be. And despite his complaints, Sakura noticed that he had eaten a large portion of Sai’s rations; she made a mental note to check with Sai later and see if he needed some of hers.
Once everyone had eaten their fill and packed away their belongings, Yamato used an earth element jutsu to cover the remnants of their campfire and their shelters; destroying any evidence that they had spent the night in the clearing before they set off into the trees silently.
**
They had been travelling for almost four hours when Kakashi felt the prickle of unfamiliar chakra on his skin; he landed on a thick branch, coming to a stop and raising a hand to bring his team to a halt. They fell in behind him without question.
The thick foliage a few feet in front of them rustled before three ANBU emerged, Kakashi took note of their masks (a dog, a boar and a ram) but didn’t recognise any of them. The one with the boar mask was closest to him and was also wearing a white captain’s cloak.
“Kakashi-san” Boar spoke and the voice was deep and male; Kakashi found that it was just as unfamiliar as the mask “What are you doing here?”
“There’s no point in asking questions you already know the answer to” Kakashi kept his tone light and friendly; he glanced quickly at the rest of his squad and saw no hesitation in their eyes. Good.
“This is… unfortunate.” Boar said, but didn’t really sound very convincing.
A few tense seconds ticked by before Kakashi caught Ram moving from the corner of his eye, hand moving discretely beneath their cloak in what was most likely hand seals. Kakashi threw a handful of shuriken reflexively; they thunked harmlessly into the wood of the branch where Ram had been standing but they had still served a purpose in interrupting whatever jutsu the ANBU in the ram mask had been preparing.
With the first move made chaos erupted around him, kunai and shuriken slicing through the air from both sides; he dodged a rain of senbon effortlessly and lifted his hands just in time to block the downward swipe of Boar’s katana with the metal guards on the back of his gloves.
“Take them alive if you can!” he called out just as he heard the sound of splintering wood and a tree crashing to the ground behind him; he wasn’t sure whether it was from Naruto’s rasengan, Sakura’s super strength or something one of the rogue ANBU had done. He didn’t have too much time to dwell on it as Boar drew back his sword to slash at him again, Kakashi quickly gathered chakra in the soles of his feet and pushed off from the branch; lifting several feet in the air. His hands shot through the familiar hand seals and he unleashed a massive fireball on the ANBU below him, giving him enough distance and time to reach up and straighten his forehead protector; relishing the way the world took on a new clarity with his sharingan exposed.
He could see that Yamato and Sai had managed to restrain Dog, wood and ink snakes binding the ANBU so completely that they were totally immobilised. He saw Naruto charging towards Ram; rasengan spinning in his hand. He scanned the area quickly for Sakura but didn’t immediately see her. It was when Boar came flying at him from the smoke below, meaning to skewer him with his sword, that Kakashi noticed Sakura running up the tree directly behind the rogue ANBU; her hand in her weapons pouch.
Her intent was clear enough, so when Boar lunged at him again Kakashi didn’t try to dodge the blow, he caught Boar’s wrist in a tight grip and stopped the blade with the back of his other hand. He barely even winced as the sword glanced off the guard on his glove and sliced into the back of his hand instead; he just tightened his grip on his opponent’s forearm and held his breath. This close he could make out a pair of brown eyes through the eyeholes of the mask and he saw panic and comprehension dawn there. Too late, Kakashi thought as they were engulfed in white smoke.
He held his position for a few seconds after he felt Boar go limp, needing to make sure that the loss of consciousness wasn’t feigned despite the way his lungs were burning and begging for air. When he was satisfied that his opponent really was out of commission he jumped back out of the smoke (taking Boar with him) and gulped down a lung full of clean air gratefully.
Sakura landed beside him, her hand going straight to the rogue ANBU’s neck to check his pulse “he should be out cold for more than 72 hours” she said “…unless someone finds him and gives him the antidote.”
“Good work, Sakura.” He said, and he meant it. There was a lot to be said about incapacitating their enemies without risking injury to themselves, especially when they hadn’t even reached their primary target yet.
He looked down to the ground where Yamato was standing by Dog, making sure that the restraints stayed in place; Naruto was a few feet away, several of his kage bunshins beating Ram to a bloody pulp while Sai looked on.
“Sai” Kakashi called down to them “Bind that ANBU before Naruto gets too carried away…”
Sai did as he was told, whipping out his scroll and animating the snakes that were already drawn carefully onto the paper.
Yamato stood up straight and Kakashi’s sharingan picked up the almost imperceptible way he swayed a little on his feet for a second “Sakura… I think I need you to take a look at me… I got nicked by one of those senbon…”
Sakura jumped down to him and Kakashi followed, watching as she put her hand to Yamato’s chest; her brows drawn together in concentration.
“It’s a pretty potent poison” she said eventually “but it’s relatively slow acting and I have a serum that should counteract it.”
“As expected of the Fifth Hokage’s apprentice” Kakashi said with a smile, he went to reach out and ruffle her hair but that was when he remembered the nasty gash across the back of his hand. Sakura had obviously seen it too because when she spoke again she was in full Mother Hen mode.
“Kakashi-sensei!” she tutted, reaching out to grab his wrist and jerk his hand roughly into the light so she could see it better; when she next spoke it was with a tone that one might use to address a particularly slow child “Try to stop the bleeding while I get the serum for Yamato… you can do that much, can’t you?”
“Yes…” he said, not wanting to provoke her. He shared a long suffering look with Yamato over her head; her bedside manner really left a lot to be desired.
Sakura presented Yamato with a vial of purple liquid that Kakashi could smell even at a distance... it would be an understatement to say that the odour was anything less than stomach turning. Sakura glowered up at Yamato, hands planted on her hips; as if the threat of death by poison wasn’t motivation enough. He eyed the concoction warily before downing it in one go; grimacing in disgust as he swallowed.
The other members of their team made their way over to them and Kakashi turned to see Naruto dragging Ram unceremoniously behind him.
“This guy was pretty tough!” Naruto said with a grin “But he was no match for me!”
Kakashi ignored Naruto’s bragging and dropped into a crouched position beside the bound ANBU, he reached out and removed the Ram mask (which had several large cracks in it by now) carefully, revealing an unconscious face that rang a few dim bells in the back of his mind.
“It looks like ‘this guy’ is actually a woman, Naruto” Kakashi said simply; sure that he had seen her before in the bars that were usually frequented by jounin and ANBU, although he didn’t think that they had ever spoken. “…We should unmask the other two”
Seeing Boar’s real face still did nothing for Kakashi’s memory and he had to assume that he didn’t know the man at all. He looked up at his team “Do any of you know him?” but they all just shook their heads. That was odd.
“Ah” Sai said with mild surprise “I recognise this one”
Kakashi turned to see Sai kneeling down beside Dog; the porcelain mask lay discarded on the ground, exposing the face of a girl that couldn’t be much older than twenty. She was conscious and her expression was completely blank. “I won’t talk” she said without any inflection, it was a statement rather than a challenge.
Kakashi ignored her and looked to Sai “What do you know about her?”
“We were in the same age group in the Foundation, her most commonly used codename was Saki…” he paused and Kakashi thought he might have seen something flicker in Sai’s eyes before he continued “If I remember correctly she was a strong tracker but especially weak in genjutsu training”
“That works out well enough” Kakashi said, he didn’t quite have the same repertoire of genjutsu that a native sharingan user would but he could still do enough to get information out of someone, especially if they had difficulties with genjutsu to begin with.
He didn’t even need to get up and cross the distance between them; just catching her eye was enough.
**
Sakura watched the girl go rigid and her eyes lose focus, it wasn’t long before Kakashi closed his sharingan eye.
“There are only ten of them in the base at the moment… and another two scout teams… but we shouldn’t bump into them on the route we’re taking” he said.
“Is that all you could get from her?” she asked, it came out a little snarkier than she had intended but Kakashi didn’t seem to notice.
“She doesn’t have high enough clearance to have access to any more useful information”
“So… now what?” Naruto asked.
“We make sure that the three of them are sedated and bound securely.” Kakashi said “We’ll stash them up in a tree to keep them safe from any hungry animals and pick them up on the way back… other than that, we continue on as we originally planned.”
Sakura stepped forward just as Kakashi stooped to pick up the ANBU that had been wearing the boar mask “Leave that to the others, Kakashi-sensei. I need to see to that hand of yours.”
He sat down on the ground without arguing and held out his injured hand. Blood was dripping thickly from the wound and onto the ground in big fat droplets; she had to bite her tongue to keep herself from reprimanding him for not trying to stop the bleeding like he had said he would, still feeling bad for snapping at him before.
She pulled his glove off carefully, it was sticky and wet with his blood and she had to ease it off slowly to avoid tugging at his wound any more than was necessary. She clasped his hand in her own and concentrated her chakra on the cut; it went deeper than she had initially thought, some of the major blood vessels were damaged and she had to mend a few fractured bones before she was done. There was a thin white line left where the wound had been but it hardly stood out amongst the many (much worse) scars that already stood out on the back of his hand.
“There” she said, releasing his hand and wiping the sweat from her brow “How’s that?”
He flexed his hand experimentally before smiling at her “Thank you, Sakura.”
“Sakura-chan!” Naruto called from above them “We need you to come up and put the other two to sleep!”
“I’m coming!”
**
They travelled for another eight hours and while there was still a good four hours of daylight left, Kakashi knew that if they continued on at this pace that they would soon be too close to the enemy base to make camp safely. He signalled for them to stop at the edge of a small river and delegated his team with the same jobs that he had given them the previous evening.
After Naruto, Sakura and Sai reported back that the perimeter was secure he watched them shoot off in different directions to gather fuel for the fire. He pretended not to notice the way that Naruto doubled back so that he could follow Sai.
Boys would be boys after all.
**
Sakura set her branches down beside the fire-pit and busied herself with setting up the fire while she waited for Sai and Naruto to come back to camp with their share of the firewood. She deliberately took her time but even then there was still no sign of her teammates by the time she was finished.
She stood up and huffed bad temperedly under her breath “What is taking them so long?”
“I’m sure they’ll be back soon, Sakura” Kakashi said, he didn’t look up from the kunai he was sharpening but Sakura could hear the smile in his voice. That just annoyed her even more.
“Well, I’m going after them.” She said, turning away from them.
“Sakura…” Yamato called after her wearily.
She ignored him and set off into the forest, fully intent on finding her two teammates and dragging them back to camp by the ear when she did. What exactly did they think they were playing at anyway? She wanted to be supportive of their relationship but they were on a mission and a very important one at that; it was hardly appropriate for them to be taking every opportunity that presented itself to sneak off and make out in the woods.
Sakura moved quietly through the undergrowth with practiced ease, still being cautious even though she wanted nothing more than to stomp flat every leaf and twig under her feet; she couldn’t let her personal feelings potentially compromise the mission… if only her teammates could get that basic concept through their thick skulls.
She travelled in an almost straight line for several minutes before she realised that she wasn’t entirely sure where Sai and Naruto might be and that she couldn’t even try to feel them out with her chakra without risking giving away her own position to any nearby enemies. She came to a stop in front of an immensely large tree, one that was nearly three times the width of any of the others in the near vicinity, and debated whether she should turn back around and ask Yamato to point her in the right direction.
Her mind was made up for her when she heard movement from not that far ahead. She flattened herself against the big tree without thinking and held her breath, waiting for the sound to repeat itself and give her some kind of indication as to whether it was from a friend or foe. There was nothing but silence for a few seconds, each one punctuated by the sound of her heart beating in her ears, before it was broken by a soft breathy moan. She felt the tension slip out of her body and she sagged against the tree in exasperation, that was unmistakeably Sai and he was also quite clearly not moaning in pain. She felt some of her earlier annoyance return and tried to ignore the way her cheeks were burning before stepping around the edge of the tree.
Sakura had intended to announce her presence as soon as she saw them but the scene that was playing out less than twenty feet away from her stopped her dead in her tracks. She had been fully expecting (and maybe even hoping) to catch them kissing, thinking that it would embarrass Naruto enough that he’d think twice about running off like this again in the future. What she hadn’t been expecting was to see Sai with his back pressed up against a tree and Naruto on his knees in front of him.
Sai’s eyes were closed tightly (for which Sakura was immensely grateful) and he was biting down on his lower lip, obviously trying to avoid moaning aloud again. Some part of her mind screamed at her to get back into cover before one of them noticed her but Sakura felt as if she were just as rooted to the spot as the trees that surrounded them; riveted by the sight of Sai so uncharacteristically flustered and the way that Naruto’s head bobbed up and down enthusiastically in a rhythmic motion.
Naruto picked up the pace and Sai reached down; sliding his fingers through blonde hair and groaning. Arousal twisted low in the pit of Sakura’s stomach and she had to bite back the whimper that threatened to escape at the sensation. Sai started thrusting shallowly in time with Naruto’s movements, his breathing was coming in short ragged pants and Sakura could see quite clearly (even from a distance) how much he was shaking.
Sakura watched raptly as Sai’s expression contorted in pained pleasure and he came with a ragged cry that sounded incredibly loud in the still forest. She saw his eyelids flutter and that was enough for spur her into action and put the big tree between herself and her teammates again. She pressed herself against the gnarled bark of the tree, holding her breath and waiting to see if they had noticed her.
Seconds of silence dragged by excruciatingly slowly (she felt like her heart was trying its hardest to thump through the front of her ribcage) before finally she heard Naruto speak up; his voice was barely a whisper but she caught enough of what he had said to know that he was asking Sai to return the favour. She almost sighed out loud in relief; if they still hadn’t realised that she was there then maybe she could manage to sneak back to camp and pretend that this hadn’t happened at all.
“Oh~” Naruto moaned loudly and Sakura had to remind herself why it would be a bad idea to try and sneak another peek around the edge of the tree.
Now that they were distracted again she risked moving from her hiding place and began to creep slowly back in the direction she had come from earlier.
**
Yamato watched Sakura go with a frown, a little offended (but not at all surprised) that she had ignored him completely.
“Let her go, Yamato” Kakashi said mildly, holding his kunai up to the light and running his finger along the edge to gauge its sharpness.
Yamato sighed and sat down on the ground next to him; Kakashi had always been willing to look the other way when it came to his student’s ‘high jinks’ (he wasn’t quite sure if it was out of indulgence or a lack of interest on Kakashi’s part) but Yamato felt that things were beginning to get a little ridiculous “Are you going to talk to Naruto and Sai about their behaviour?”
“Hm?” Kakashi turned and looked at him, seeming genuinely surprised by the question “Isn’t that what the team evaluation is for?”
“Well… yes” Yamato conceded “But we’re on a mission now and I think that, as team captain, you should talk to them about how they should be keeping those kinds of… activities for when they’re in the village.”
Kakashi smiled at him and reached out to place a hand on his shoulder “If it’s that much of an issue then I think that I can trust my co-captain to take care of it.” Yamato opened his mouth to protest but Kakashi continued regardless, mirth evident in his voice “Unless their relationship makes you uncomfortable?”
“N-no! Of course not!” Yamato stammered quickly, the last thing he needed was for Kakashi of all people to misunderstand.
“Then you’ll talk to them about it?”
“Uh…” Yamato gaped at him, how had the situation been turned around so completely?
“That is, of course, only if you think it can’t wait until the evaluation.”
Yamato sighed in defeat “I guess it can wait a day or two…”
“I’m glad we agree.” Kakashi said amicably before turning his attention back to his weapons.
Yamato frowned and looked out over the little stream; he had already considered speaking to Naruto and Sai himself about the less than appropriate way they were conducting themselves but he didn’t really know where to begin... and it wasn’t like Naruto would listen to him anyway. Kakashi on the other hand had just demonstrated how good he was at twisting a conversation in such a way that he got what he wanted and almost convince the other person that that was what they had wanted in the first place as well. But thinking about it now, he wasn’t sure why he had thought that Kakashi would actually step in and do something about the situation; if the way that he had found Naruto and Sai this morning was any indicator he was obviously more than content to let his students do whatever they wanted.
He shot a sidelong glance at Kakashi, who still seemed to be completely focused on what he was doing, from the corner of his eye. He had nothing but the utmost respect for his senpai (and some other emotions that he didn’t like to think about too deeply) but he did wish that Kakashi would reign in the younger members of their squad a little more often.
Feeling a little resigned Yamato unclasped his own weapon pouch and set the contents out on the ground in front of him, doing a quick inventory as he did it; his frown deepened when he realised that he was missing his whet stones. He was almost one hundred percent positive that he’d packed them when he was getting ready to leave for the mission so he had to wonder if he had somehow lost them while they were travelling…
Kakashi held a hand out to him; smooth stone nestled in his gloved palm and smile obvious even behind his mask.
“Thank you, Senpai” Yamato said gratefully as he accepted the whet stone; he immediately felt his mood improve at the simple gesture.
They sat in comfortable silence like that for a while; the only sound being the grinding of their blades against stone and the slow trickle of water.
They both looked up as Sakura reappeared at the edge of camp, Yamato couldn’t help but notice that she was without her teammates and looked more than a little flustered. They watched as she made a beeline for her shelter and belongings without even acknowledging them before sitting down and started rifling through her bag in an aimless way that was obviously intended to discourage conversation.
Her transparent tactics did not have the desired effect on Kakashi “I assume they were busy, then?”
She didn’t lift her eyes from her bag as she mumbled “I couldn’t find them, so I came back here to wait.”
“…Is that so?” Kakashi asked, not sounding convinced in the least.
Sakura didn’t answer and just made an annoyed noise in the back of her throat, Yamato might have felt sorry for her if she hadn’t completely ignored the way that he had tried to warn her about going after them earlier.
**
As the five of them sat around the campfire, tucking into the fish that they had caught fresh from the stream Kakashi decided that it was time to bring up something important that they had yet to get out of the way. “Sai”
Sai looked up from his food, eyebrows raised in question.
“I’m going to need you to tell us everything you know about Root”
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