He was there. For now on, her always would be. In her eyes the events of the war were unbelievable. Konaha winning. Him returning. Once he did, there were no more fatalities. Team 7 was back together again.

Sasuke Uchiha had apologized. It seemed like he was the kind to go along with not saying sorry for all that he had put everybody thorough. Once all the fighting once done, he had a public announcement to the village. He'd called out everyone he'd hurt and was forgiven by everybody except for her.
Sakura Haruno didn't want to forgive him. She feared that if she gave him the proper forgiveness he very well deserved, she would love him again. The girl had never fallen out of love with him and she was sure everybody knew it. Her only fear was that he did too and that one day he might do something evil again and break her shattered heart into smaller shards.

The sun was strong in the day as Sasuke looked over Konaha. He couldn't believe it'd been so long since he'd been in the village. Over four years. Thinking over the events during that time, he almost felt ashamed. He'd put all of the people he once called his friends and family through so much pain. He inflicted so much sorrow to try and get rid of his own, not thinking of his actions.

The village was in shambles. A lot of the homes and stores had gotten destroyed. A lot of the towns people had gotten injured and severely hurt. Most of the ninja weren't going on missions because Konaha needed to be fixed and protected.

Tsunade had decided to put Sasuke back onto Team 7 with Naruto and Sakura. Sai had been placed somewhere else. The Uchiha didn't care for that man. Since he'd been a replacement for himself, he felt like they should be in competition.

Sai wasn't a big worry for him, knowing that he won his spot back. His biggest competition at the moment was the knuckle head ninja, Naruto. Who would become Hokage? Who would be a big hero? Who would win Sakura? He wasn't sure how that question came up with the other but she'd always been a competition. Naruto had loved her and she loved Sasuke. Not to say that he never returned the feelings in some sort. She was a rock for him for a bit. It was nice knowing she was there when they were twelve.

Now they were grown up. Sakura had matured into a beautiful, graceful, and independent woman. She didn't need to be protected by him. For a while, she had to be protected from him. Thoughts began to race about how horrible he was. Leaving behind the girl that loved him a lot. What if on the night he left the village, she'd come along? He couldn't think of the pinkette being 'evil'. He chuckled to himself at the thought of it.

Sakura had been assigned ten patients, since she wasn't a doctor. The medical nin hadn't left the hospital in days. She was always dedicated to her work. Her patients that had been injured in the war came first. She considered herself lucky to have been in good condition after the brutal battle that she would've taken care of the whole hospital. She felt that it would almost repay the debt she owed to whomever kept her safe.

"Sakura!" Ino called out to her, seeing her for the first time.
The girl formed a smile on her beaten face as her friend approached her, "What floor are you working on?"
"I've been on floor five for the past week."
"They put me on four."

The two girls held a small talk conversation for two more minutes. Then Sakura hurried away. She finally had a break and she wanted to go to her home until she had to come back in the next day. Leaving her coat at the front desk, she changed into her pink casual clothes.

She was so full of joy, she could've been skipping around the town. Their were too many strangers from other villages to do that. She felt a pair of dark eyes on her and she couldn't be happy around those. She was ecstatic when they were on her but she couldn't let him know. Sakura was independent.

"Yo." He spoke with a clear voice that sent shakes throughout her body, melting her at the tone that she always loved.

At first she kept on walking, in an attempt to ignore his voice. She feared that if they begun to talk she would tell him about how much she missed him and loved him. She couldn't let him see that side of her. That's the side she had when he left, now she had to show she had grown up.

"I want to say sorry." he continued, with a little bit of breath departure. He had begun to follow her as she wasn't going to stay in one spot to listen to him. After there was no reply to that statement, he grabbed her thin wrist and she didn't fight to get away. " I know I put you through a lot, Sakura…"

As his voice trailed off at a loss of what words to use, she took over. "I don't care if you're sorry. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check on Naruto and then head home."

She slipped her wrist from his hand and began to step away at a moderate pace. Again, he followed her. Even when she wasn't talking, he could feel how pissed she was getting. Maybe she would even hit him. That might show she acknowledged him. If he stayed around her long enough. Bothered her long enough. She would eventually give in, right?

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