Second Chance as Cherry Blossom

Chapter 4: A Story To Tell!

Sakura smiled sadly to him and hummed with a nod. 

The man made himself present on her room, and quickly closed the door behind him. The man immediatly perceived how unnatural dark her room was. He remembers when he discussed how his daughter's room would look like; bright, colorful, lively.

But now, an melancholic trace permeated the entire red and pink room.

At the same time Kizashi took a quick note of the room, Sakura took notice of his clothing, which was the normal dark blue ninja uniform the village always gave it's warriors. Giving the fact he always likes to be more relaxed at home, it seemed he choose to not change; something he would foremost do when arriving home.

Sakura: 'He.. probably arrived some minutes ago...' She thought

Kizashi quickly took the chair, that was present next to the desk Sakura had on her room, placing the object closer to the bed she was sitting on. After he sat looking straight at her, he couldn't help but smile.

Kizashi: "Oh, I like what you did with your hair!" He exclaimed happily "You look a lot more pretty now!"

Sakura couldn't help but giggle in shame; her cheeks becoming a pint of pink.

Sakura: "My new friend did it for me. Her name is Ino. She... gifted me this bow. I didn't asked for it. But she said it would be better if I used it..."

Kizashi: "Well it was very nice of her to do such a thing." He spoke and looked up in thought "You know, usually when this happens it's a forever friendship for sure." He smiled

Sakura - with her head tilted slightly - looked confused at Kizashi; remembering that it took quite the time for Sakura and Ino to become friends again in the canon story. Sasuke being the main topic of why they couldn't be friends again, even though the boy was quite the opposite of 'wealthy boyfriend vibes'.

Either way, this time it could be different... 

Meeting Ino for the first time was tremendously different from what was supposed to happen, so things could work out well.

Sakura: "Forever friendship?"

Kizashi: "Yeah! That is what happens when you find someone like Ino around. And if you get lucky, you can get more 'Forever Friends' in your life." He continued smiling "I have some of them myself. One of them is pretty lazy sometimes but he's super chill and very experienced. And the other one... well she's quite gal, to be honest. Never seen someone so patient as her; aside from your mother of course. I think these two are really close too, somehow. Never seen them completly apart from eachother."

Sakura: "Really?"  She asked, but eventually smiled right after "Well... that means I have two forever friends then." She then thought 'At least... I think he still is...'

Kizashi: "Oh? Is that right? Who is the other one then?" He curiously asked

Sakura: "I'm not sure if you know him, but he's a very cool boy! His name is Naruto!" She happily explained; only good memories filling her head on the process "I don't know if he caused you any trouble, but I can assure you, that he's actually a good person at heart."

Kizashi: "Hmm.... Naruto... Naruto..." 

Just like Mebuki, he started to search through his mind to find any type of knowledge about the boy. More seconds passed, as something slowly came into mind. A blonde spiked haired boy smiling nervously at him, while passing his hand behind his back. 

It was a summer day and he was completly wet after falling in box full of water after trying to run away from some shinobi. Kizashi was casually passing by - patrolling - and happened to find the boy by mistake.