Forever, I'll Love You

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Chapter One-

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Today certainly wasn't the greatest for a certain pink haired kunoichi. Her name was Sakura Haruno and she was a woman of many talents. Most people however knew her by her monster strength and her healing hands. Lately though, she was earning herself a new title, one that she wasn't rather fond of.

It wasn't like it was her fault or anything. It all started about three months prior, when Tsunade, the woman who had taught her everything she knew- and the former Hokage of her entire village set her up for a new mission she was almost positive would end up killing her. Though she was talented it seemed, in anything she did, her new lifestyle was changing her more and more by the day.

She was working for two different villages now, her own and Suna. It was as if she was a double agent and most of the time her work consisted of spying, or pretending to be someone she wasn't so that she could close enough to a target to ultimately take he or she out. It saddened her when she thought of it, because she was no longer the happy-go-lucky girl she had always been growing up. Though she had been through a lot considering her first and only love had crushed her completely again and again over time.

Sakura had finally given up on him and did as best she could to move on with her life. She'd worked as hard as possible in her career to become what she was now, but at the same time, she'd never expected to be promoted to special ops. Needless to say, she was never at the hospital anymore, unless there was an urgent need for her and she couldn't even remember the last time she'd stepped foot into her own home. She was more of a wanderer now. She always had to be on the go... There was always someone else to find and most of the time, there were ninja who pursued her, though never to any avail.

Almost all of her days blended together, same old stuff- search and destroy, drink and pass out. Today was different though, even from the moment she woke up. Sakura was one woman with a keen eye. Even if she was staggering drunk before going to sleep, which she was most of these days now, she would always remember exactly how she'd left things. This morning when she'd awoken, the first thing she noticed is that someone had been in the apartment she was staying in. She had only been there for two nights, her usual stay somewhere when she had as many jobs to complete in the area as she did this one. But, she never expected someone to find her here; she was always careful.

She had been scolding herself all day long for obviously not being careful enough, because as if it wasn't enough that she could sense that someone had been there, they left a little souvenir, as if to be sure she knew they were there. It wasn't much she supposed, but she knew it was some type of warning. Why else would someone skilled enough to just casually come into her apartment without waking her, leave behind such and exotic and expensive lingerie set, hanging on the door.

All day long, she kept asking herself 'what the hell...' Who could it have been and why? If they wanted to hurt her, couldn't they have gotten it over with while she was sleeping? She could only suppose they wanted to scare her... make her paranoid. Well they would have a damn hard time of that, the only thing they had managed to do was getting her blood boiling. She was mad. She was beyond mad. So mad she'd had to go off into the woods just to take some of her steam out on the beautiful trees, which now she felt guilt for.

Her depression had only worsened by that night as she'd found herself a local tavern, hoping to have a drink and relax; only to find two of her five local targets treating themselves to a fun time together. She hadn't expected them to know each other and now instead of being able to relax, she was in work mode. She mentally went over everything she knew about the two, both high ranking rouge ninja, one was huge and rather mean looking, with reddish hair, the other was slim and white headed, though surely not from his age. Sakura recognized the long, large blade posted up next to him, she knew he was dangerous, but she didn't have any information on the other guy. Either way, she wasn't doubting her ability to take them both on, even at the same time.

This was a golden opportunity and she wasn't about to let it slip through her fingers. She'd taken several drinks to calm her nerves, it was the only thing that helped anymore. Then she made her way over to the two men, who were among a few others even though they seemed to be keeping mostly to themselves.

"Hi," Sakura smiled seductively at the two, greeting them as soon as she'd arrived at their booth.

The two men stared at the beauty before them, captivated by her very presence. Her eyes were big and as green as emeralds and her pink hair was long and braided tightly all the way down. She was dressed in a small and revealing red dress. Everything about the girl was alluring, so much so that neither of the men could even respond to her greeting.

"Mind if I join? It's kind of lonely drinking by myself." She batted her lashes and waited, though only for a second before the big guy slid out from the booth and gestured for her to sit, which she did, sliding over close to the slimmer guy, giving the other on room to join them. "Thanks!" She giggled girlishly, looking back and forth from one to the other.

"So, what's a cutie like you doing in a place like this?" The white-haired guy asked, grinning at her like she was a million bucks.

Forcing herself not to roll her eyes, she answered quickly. "I was so bored and I just needed a drink!"

"Here," The red head offered her some Sake that a waitress had just delivered. Sakura took it, thanking him as she did, then she drained her glass.

They seemed surprised by the way she drank, as did everyone she did this to. It was easy for her with her healing abilities to flush alcohol right out of her system, so she only ever got a drunk as she wanted to be, while everyone else trying to keep up easily got left in the dust. It was only a couple hours into their drinking together that both of the men were to their limit and they didn't have to tell her for her to know.

"I swear... I know you from somewhere..." The white-haired man, called Sui by his friend, said for the umpteenth time of the night.

"It's the pink hair and the green eyes... She had the same qualities." The redhead, Juugo answered thoughtfully. Sakura listened carefully, wondering who shewas.

"Ah, Sakura wasn't it?" Sui seemed to remember suddenly and Sakura went cold at the sound of her name. How would they possibly know her?

"Yes, though this couldn't be her, so we don't have to worry..."

"Right you are," Sui seemed suddenly enthusiastic. "Anyway, want you come home with us, Cherry?

"Really, you don't mind?" Sakura asked happily, she was ready to get there and carry out her mission and be done.

"What kind of question is that? Juugo, let's get going!"

On the long walk, Sakura spent more time thinking to herself than she did talking to them. She wondered why if they knew her true identity, would they think she couldn't be herself. It didn't make any sense. She hadn't decided yet if she would question them on the matter at all, but if she did, it would be just before she carried out the second part of her two-phase mission. Destroy.

"Okay, let's say he did see her, it wouldn't matter. Just because she looks like Sakura doesn't mean he will give a damn. He doesn't care about anything. Hell, he doesn't come out of his fucking cave anyway. He's the last person I'm worried about running into."

Cursing herself for missing whatever part of that conversation she had, Sakura timidly walked up to Sui and grabbed his arm. "What are you talking about exactly?"

"Oh nothing, you just favor some girl our leader had the hots for." He chuckled, laughing it off casually. Sakura blinked at him in confusion.

"This... Sakura you speak of?" She asked carefully.

He nodded once, his face sobering momentarily. "Yes, but she was killed, some years ago..."

'What?!' Sakura didn't understand why anyone would think that. She certainly had never died and her village wasn't keeping her life a secret either so she couldn't understand how someone could be under the impression that she was killed, but at the same time, she wasn't about to be correcting them.

"That's so sad... and he really liked her, huh?" She pouted meaningfully, curious to know who the man was they spoke of as their leader.

"Well it was a little more complicated than that... In a way, even though we'd never known it, I think she was very special to him. Because since her death, he hasn't been the same."

"Yes, that's right. It had taken a lot for him to recover himself but he did, all for her. Just when he'd turned himself around, he heard the news of her death and ever since..."

As Sakura listened to their words, and she couldn't help becoming more and more curious as to who the man was. She had never been that special to anyone before. Nobody truly loved her. Sure, there were many men who desired her, but not just to love her, which is why she steered clear of all that. Even now in her twenty-third year of life, she had still never lost her virginity.

She certainly had no intentions on doing so. There wasn't a man in the world that she could want anymore. She had been hurt enough by that one. She never wanted to go through that again and because of those feelings, she couldn't help feeling sorry for whomever it was thinking that she was dead, especially if she had apparently meant so much to him. But how could she have? How would he have known her? Who could he be? She just had to know, or it would kill her.

"Hey you know, we could get Cherry here to pretend to be Sakura and go to him. I'm sure she would fall for him either way, just as every woman does."

"Are you crazy?" Sui snapped. "If he found out, we would be dead as fuck."

"But, if he doesn't find out..." Sakura was surprisingly the one who spoke up, taking this sudden chance. She just felt like she had to do this.

"You got to be kidding me? You'd be willing to impersonate another woman just to make our lives easier?"

"Why not?... I... don't have anywhere else to go... I can be Sakura. I look like her right?"

They both nodded thoughtfully. "Identical, though I don't think she ever braided her hair and I think it was short... But, I'm sure the length doesn't matter."

"Well you said it had been years..." Sakura trailed off, knowing full well the timing would be perfect with her length... because she was the real her. She almost found this amusing as she mulled over these thoughts in her head.

"Right, well I'm down then." Sui said with a grin.

"Oh my, our lord is going to be a new man." Juugo was ecstatic.

"Well what are we waiting for?" Sakura giggled.

"Right, follow me Sakura." Sui winked at her and she rolled her eyes as they all started walking again.

It was outside of a hidden village not far from the sand. It was obviously a hideout they were going to, which wasn't a surprise to Sakura considering they were shinobi. The two men had come up with a plan that Sakura would play as if she was herself, but with lost memories, and the two of them had found her just wandering around somewhere. Sakura, being intoxicated and interested, didn't care as long as she got to meet this guy and see how he reacted to seeing her.

"Come here, let's make it look more real." Sui suggested, lifting Sakura into his arms. "Look scared, and fragile... It will really do him in!"

Doing as they asked, Sakura didn't even object to being held by the weird guy with the white hair. They entered an underground hideout, hidden behind a waterfall and their pace quickened once inside. They ran, and ran with Sakura until they were inside the deepest part of the hideout, where they came upon a door. Sakura could see why they would have referred to it as a cave. It was nothing but.

"Open up!" Sui yelled as he banged relentlessly on the door with his foot, while holding Sakura close to his body.

"What?!" A deep voice yelled, the exact moment the door before them was swung open. Not having to fake nervousness, Sakura timidly looked over to meet the face of the man who had supposedly thought so much of her, only to find none other than Sasuke Uchiha, the very man who had destroyed her, because he never gave a damn. It couldn't be him... She never meant anything to him, and he proved that to her time and time again. Overwhelmed with shock, the pink haired kunoichi fainted right there in Suigetsu's arms.

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