Sage Advice
Sakura and Kakashi went back in time.
Now, they sat on a random park bench in Konoha, just staring at nothing.
"So…" Sakura said. "You're eight now."
"And you're still seventeen," remarked Kakashi.
She sighed and leaned her head back. "It's probably some complicated thing to do with the fact that you had a readily available body to go into, while I didn't," she guessed using logic. "But that doesn't matter. What does matter, is how we're going to do this now?"
"Did the Sage give you any advice?" Kakashi asked. "All he told me was to make sure to cherish what I have. Easy enough, considering."
"He said some weird thing about how Naruto will be born no matter what happens," Sakura said, then shrugged. "I don't get it."
Kakashi thought about that a moment, but didn't end up having anything to say.
Their companionship was broken a moment later when someone appeared as if from nowhere, and Sakura and Kakashi kept from showing their surprise with various results. It was the (not quite yet) Yondaime, and Sakura stared up at him in awe while Kakashi did his best not to show how glad he was to see his sensei alive and well.
"There you are, Kakashi!" Minato exclaimed. "I've been looking for you! We've got a mission to go out to one of the border posts and… Uh, who's this with you?"
"Minato-sensei, this is Sakura," Kakashi introduced them.
"Oh, hello," Minato greeted. "So… you're a friend of Kakashi's?"
"Uh, y-yes," Sakura stuttered, and she was so embarrassed, she was sure she'd turned a little red.
Minato smiled. "Well I'm glad he's making friends finally," he said.
Sakura was just staring at him, and Kakashi looked between the two a few times, before his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Yes, she's my friend," Kakashi said, getting up off the bench to stand between the two as best he could. "You said we have a mission, right sensei?"
"Huh? Oh right… mission," Minato was only half paying attention to his student as he and Sakura stared at one another.
Kakashi let out a long suffering sigh and began to shove at his sensei. "Let's go, sensei," he said. "Sakura… I'll see you later."
"Hm? Sure Kakashi," Sakura vaguely replied, still making eyes at Minato, who was doing the same with her.
As he dragged his rather reluctant sensei off, Kakashi wondered just what the Sage had been thinking, bringing the two of them back here with that odd advice of his.