Legendary Lovers

This story has done its job. I’ve updated Bonding! Here’s another chapter early to celebrate it. Any reviews are welcome.

Part Two:

If Sakura had drunk the drink, she wouldn’t only be choking from the contents of the glass. She may have been estranged from Sasuke for the past three and half years, but she knew him well enough to know he would never allow a party in his house, not even a small one. Sakura could count on one hand how many times she’d been there herself when they were younger.  “There is no way he agreed to that.”

“You’re right. He didn’t.”

She felt her jaw loosen as her mouth dropped open. “You know he has to let us in first right?”

Ino grinned devilishly, appearing like she had it all figured out. “And that,” Ino gave a dramatic pause, “is why Naruto is already there to let us all in.”

“You and Naruto planned this? Oh God.” With a groan, she bowed her head. “I see this night being trouble, with a capital T. And who is ‘us all’ by the way?”

“The original rookie nine-err, um, seven, I mean. Chouji has some family honorary thing to attend and Shino got all buggy on me. He started talking about this rare breed of beetle he found and offered to show me. I split. I don’t do insects.” Ino flipped her pony-tailed blonde hair with a hand and shifted to her knees so she could stand up. “Come on, get up. Let’s go. We can’t be late.”

It was because of that shot from earlier. She couldn’t be Shino and think on her feet to get out of this party with alcohol in her system. Sakura racked her brain, but when she went to speak, she fumbled. She was tongue tied and, though she’d only admit it to herself, she really wanted to see Sasuke.

She hadn’t seen him since the war, Naruto either for that matter. She’d been too busy with the wounded. She’d heard about the “trial” though. The one that forgave the crimes of Sasuke and everyone that had once been enemies of Konoha but had come to their rescue regardless. Even Orochimaru had been forgiven with the happiness breeding from the win.

All of them, Orochimaru, Kabuto, Sasuke and his team ‘Hebi’, Obito—who’d taken to thanking Sakura every time he bumped into her for saving his eye from Madara and implanting it successfully back into him—had been forgiven and were allowed to stay in the village if they so desired… and they apparently did. That took some getting used to the first time she’d seen Kabuto in the makeshift tent hospitals they’d had to make in town, offering his services to her.

What was most surprising was that, at this point, no villages had enemies. Per Naruto’s request, the assembly of Kages all agreed that the truce they’d made for the war would continue for as long as they could manage it.