A look of disappointment didn’t have time to make it onto her face because he said he would crush the sugar. A beaming smile moved across her face as gave the countertop a quick clean and stepped back to allow him to have access to the countertop.

It may not seem like much to him but for anyone outside of his skillset, watching him do something as tedious as turning sugar into powder was like watching art happen. Half of the time she was looking at his face, watching his eye flicker back and forth as he worked and the other half of the time she watched his hands work the materials he needed in order to complete his task. He was so fluid it was almost graceful and majestic to watch him work. At one point she was actually leaning in to watch his movements before she jerked herself back upright and muttered a small embarrassed apology before she gave him a bit more room to work. 

Then her gaze moved to his face once more. The conversation with Naruto played quickly through her head. Did he really seem like a ‘weight’ had be lessened when he was around her? Was what Akino pushing for the same weight? What about his time at the graveyard? That seemed pretty heavy, much less asking to die. Maybe the loss of someone is weighing so much on him that he just feels like life is better to be ended. A wave of sadness moved over her as she practically convinced herself to be sad. Shaking her head slightly she stepped around him and as he wrapped up his crushing of the sugar. The blonde stepped up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, a gentle hug from behind. 

A small sigh left her as she rested her head against his back. She couldn’t get herself to say anything because she didn’t want to him to be sad but she always didn’t want to assume she knew what the problem was. He was a man of many mysteries and figuring him out would be impossible so if he wanted to tell her, she wanted to make it clear she would listen and that she was here for him. And the only way she could convey all of that through her hug from behind him, even as her grip tightened just a bit, a bit to say she really did care about him.

Letting him go she stepped to the oven and open it to pull out the well rounded baked cinnamon rolls. “Alright. Now for the glaze!” Her tone was back to normal and she seemed happy once again. It only took her a few minutes to get the glaze how she wanted it between her laughter over the fact that he was covered in sugar and she was covered in flower. “We are quite the pair!” Her laugh rang through the kitchen as she glazed the two cinnamon rolls and handed him his plated neatly. 

“Let’s eat!”

*******

Team seven were chatting among themselves as they headed towards the training grounds for a light practice before calling it a full day and returning to their respective homes. The kids, however, continued to badger Kakashi for information of what happened when he vanished, the ‘kids’ mainly being Naruto.

[color=yellow]“Come on Sensei just tell us what happened!”[/color] Onto his six round of begging for information, he was practically pulling on the clone in an attempt to get anything he could out of the man. [color=yellow]“How many were there? How many did you take out? What happened? Why was she taken? Was there more than just her? Tell me tell me tell m…”[/color] His last beg was cut off as a wail seemed to echo from the road and a cloud of dust seemed to be traveling towards them. [color=yellow]“What the…?”[/color]

As Naturo’s head tilted to the side, the cloud of dust came into view as Guy seemed to be bolting in their direction, his wail soon became words, [color=orange]“AIRI WHERE ARE YOU ARE YOU OKAY?!”[/color] Guy’s trail of tears seemed to cut off as he realized he nearly ran into Kakashi and his group. 

[color=pink]“Calm down Guy-Sensei.”[/color] Sakura said softly in an attempt to calm down the now halted man. [color=pink]“Miss Mae is just fine.”[/color] However before she could continue…

[color=yellow]“Yeah she’s sleeping at Kakashi-Sensei’s house right now. Probably had a rough night what with being kidnapped and all…”[/color]