DRABBLE: And Secrets To Keep
In which Sakura learns something about her mentor.
I don’t like how this turned out, but I love the idea behind it, so I am posting it. May try to rewrite it at a later date.
And Secrets to Keep
Zayne
“Eh… shishou, thank you for treating me to the bathhouse, but I should probably be getting home soon” Sakura mumbled, blushing a little as she shifted in preparation for leaving the warm, wonderful water.
Tsunade smirked at her, an expression Sakura was beginning to think she must have been born wearing.
“It was the least I could do after beating you up all day in training. I expect you to do better tomorrow, by the way.”
“Of course, shishou.”
“In any case, I should probably leave as well, Shizune will be wondering what happened to me.”
Sakura pulled herself out of the water and turned around to wait for Tsunade, as was polite. She had never been entirely comfortable with public nudity, or even the semi-public nudity of the bathhouse, but that wasn’t an excuse for rudeness. Tsunade had beaten that into her within the first month of her training.
And she had to oggle Tsunade’s body just a little bit. Not in a sexual way (well, not really) but in a damn, I wish I could look like that way. Pure, unadulterated jealousy. Her eyes drifted down to Tsunade’s tiny waist (smaller than Sakura’s, and Tsunade was fifty years old, damn her) and she noted, with some shock, thin silver marks marring the pale skin. Scars? No… those are…
“Tsunade, you have a child?” she blurted, and immediately regretted it. Why did she have to have such a damn big mouth?
Tsunade’s eyes shot up to meet her own, equally shocked. After a second of staring at each other, her shishou’s eyes darkened.
“I did. He died, many years ago.”
“I- I’m sorry, shishou, I didn’t mean to-”
“It’s fine, Sakura. Never speak of this again.”
“Yes, of course, shishou.”
And Sakura never did, but she scrutinized the Hokage memorial more closely the next time she walked through the village.
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disclaimer- don’t own Naruto, not making profit off this, don’t sue me.
