
A Single Step 2 - LostA Single Step - Chapter 2, LostA Single Step 2 - Lost by =trixieg
He'd lost so much time already. But if she knew something else, then it was worth going back. Besides, he had to make sure she wasn't gone too .
That decided it. Kakashi peeled off from the small recon group without a word and sped back to the village.
The boys had been gone three days. Their defection had been discovered quite early on the night patrol had come across a weeping Sakura, and they pieced together enough of a story to have the first search team out by dawn. But the boys had made the most of their headstart.
Which told Kakashi that this had been planned.
But he wasn't worried until he m

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Sakura wiggled her wet toes and stepped into another pool of golden light. Streams of morning sun angled down through the canopy of Konoha's ancient forests, dappling the shinobi trails. Scuffing over a patch of moss, dew flung out from the ends of Sakura's shoes and sparkled in the air in front of her. She smiled lightly, relishing the early morning solitude.
Sakura had always loved the deep forests that hid her village. As a child she would peer out wide-eyed at the green-black world beyond the huge gates. The woods were so full of mystery to her.
But as she grew older, became a shinobi and ventured beyond th