16 - Reunited
Sakura feels warm and safe. Many times, over the eight months since she’s been reborn, she’s felt safe with her “new” family. Her biological brother is a staple part of her day. Her parents are far more warm and loving than she remembers them being.
But the warmth and safety she feels currently takes her back. Back to when she was a genin and shared a tent with her boys in the cold. To cuddling up together in a cave as Sensei shared stories from his travels. To the end of the war, where after she healed the idiots, they simply basked in each other's presence for a moment.
The rosette has gotten better control of her limbs and muscles in the last few months, so it takes little energy for her to flip onto her stomach.
She can hear ripples of water and pauses, Am I in the garden?
“No garden, kit.”
Beryl eyes snap open and she attempts to sit up on her bum. The being, thankfully, gives her a moment to get her bearings before barking out a laugh. Sakura takes in the scarlet fox before her.
There is water dripping from the ceiling and on the floor below her. In front of her is a giant gate separating her from bijū. And it is only her familiarity with Naruto that she knows this is the holding facility Kurama first stayed in with the blonde.
“Ku’ama!” Sakura chirps at the fox, undisturbed by his flat stare. She looks to her left and right and finds that the safety she felt was warranted.
A tiny one-month-old Naruto lays swaddled tight to her right and a five-month old Sasuke is gripping his blanket and dinosaur toy. Both boys are absolutely adorable and Sakura can’t help but to giggle and poke their cheeks.
“Your parents brought you over for a ‘play date’” Kurama says, laying down on his forearms, “I brought you three here to hear more about your original world.”
Sakura stops poking Naruto’s cheeks (she’s relieved she gets to see him and confirm that he’s alive) and looks up at Kurama.
“Can I come th’ough the gate?”
The bijū simply raises a brow at her and Sakura grins as she crawls quickly through one of the gaps. She makes it through safely and Kurama simply picks her up and puts her on one of his tails.
“Start talking, kit.”
She beams at him as she makes herself comfortable at the top of his hill of tails.
Once all three of us wanted to see who had a better poison resistance, so Kakashi-sensei monitored as all three of us started chugging them..