His Return

Naruro did manage to save Sasuke and bring him back to Konoha. For the past years, nothing seems to have

change. The village is just like how Sasuke have left and now he was staring at the white ceiling of the hospital

blocking his ears from all the words his blond friend are saying. He was sharing the same hospital room with the

dobe. How unfortunate was he.

At last the dobe did shut his big mouth. There was silent in the room until there was a knock on the door. Sasuke

sit from his lying position earlier as he sees a pink haired girl enter the room. Sakura walk pass his bed and with

teary eyes went to Naruto's side.

He saw her smile at the dobe and wraps her arms around him. Tears raced down her cheeks with a smile on her

face.

"Thank you, Naruto" Sasuke heard her whisper in his ears

Thank you for what? Sasuke thought as he watches his old teammates still in an embrace. Watching the both of

them feels awkward. His wound hurts but there is something in him that hurts even more as he continues to

watch them.

Sakura release Naruto from her embrace and turn to face Sasuke. She smiles at him.

Sakura still holds that sweet smile that he missed for a long time. He waited for her tight embrace like before, he

waited for her warm skin touches his, and he waited for her arms wrap around him but there was none. Instead

of a hug, she walks closer to him and touches his right arm that was cover with bandages. She starts to heal him

with her own chakra.

When did she become a medic? He doesn't know much more anything about her at that moment. It looks like he

was looking at the face of the girl she left but he was with a girl she doesn't know at all. Look like time made a

big gap between him and her.

After she was done treating his wounds, Sakura smiled at him saying "Welcome back, Sasuke" With that, Sasuke

watch her leave the room

Days pass fast; Sasuke was release from the hospital. Everything stays the same way like before; he was doing

missions with his previous teammates, eating ramen with Naruto and training with Kakashi. Everything around

him still the same but his mind keep telling him that it was not. The person who's in his mind reminding him that

something has change, it was Sakura.

Sasuke notice that Sakura have changed, she is not the Sakura she used to know. She never hug him like she

used to be and she doesn't even follow him around like before.

Sakura has changed, she still cries a lot but wipes her tears away, she still punches Naruto but there is

something different between that that he cannot point out. She is not Sakura that she was before, she is not

weak anymore, she is not the same person he needed to protect and she is not the Sakura who he left crying for

him not to leave.

Sasuke was puzzled by the way she act around him and he couldn't help but to wonder. He knows that it is not a

big deal, at least now there is no annoying girl to deal with but h couldn't settle down and decided to follow the

pink haired girl.

He follows her everyday, hiding not to let her know. He follows her at the hospital as she heals patients with a

smile on her face. He follows her at the library as she reads tons of books. He follows her at the Ichiraku eating

ramen with the dobe as they laugh. She still have that same smile that he haven't seen in a long time but that

smile is not for him anymore, it's for the blond boy that have been with her since he left her.

One night, as he follow her home secretly home, Sakura went to a familiar place, in fact it was so familiar that

memories come rushing to his mind. They were in the entrance gate of Konoha, the place that he left her crying.

He watches Sakura as she sit in a familiar bench and look up the stars.

"Sasuke, I know you're following me" he heard her speak softly

Sasuke come out from where he was hiding and walk near her.

"Do you remember the night you left Konoha?" She ask while looking at the twinkling stars "This is the place you

left me"

"Hn" Was his response as he watches her

Sakura look at him and smile "Still the same Sasuke that I knew" She lowers her stare to the ground. Is the pain

that he can see in her eyes?

"This is the place that I offer my heart" She said now that the pain is clear in her beautiful face "I offer everything

I got to a boy even if it means leaving Konoha. I said that I love him with all my heart, I beg him not to go but he

still left me and his only response is 'Thank You'"

Tears start to run down her emerald eyes down to her cheeks. He wanted to go near her and put his arms

around her but is that enough to make her pain go away?

"Do you know how hard it is to love a person like you, Sasuke?" She shouted without looking at him

Her words hit something in him. He clinches his hands. He wanted to punch himself for causing too mush pain I

her. He wanted to feel what she feels but he couldn't.

"Do you know how many times I tried to forget you?" She asks him. She stops herself from crying and wipe her

tears away "I tried I many times, I couldn't count if it anymore. I even try to fake myself that I'm already over

you"

She stand, her back facing him "Now, I'm begging you. We've been friend, right? For the sake of our friendship,

please don't follow me anymore. It's harder for me to move on"

Her last word shocks him. Feels like he cannot move from where he was standing. He looks at Sakura who is

already walking away from him. He could feel a pain in his chest and it is getting harder and harder to breath by

every second. No, he will not let Sakura go away again.

"Sakura!"

His voice echo in the wind. He doesn't care anymore who ever hear him now just as long as Sakura would come

back. She looks at him. There is no more trace of tears in her eyes. Her emerald eyes are shining like before and

her pink hair was swaying in the wind.

"I love you" he whisper just enough for her to her

She smiles at him.

"You should have said that before" She started to walk away

He was left, startle as he watch her fade away.

Sasuke realize to change for better, just when the situation got worst. He realize to finally correct his mistake

just when those mistake have caused irreversible damaged, he finally decide to prove himself worthy just when

the person whom he want to prove his worth has already decide that his not worth it at all…


This is my first Fanfic...Hope you guys like it (=^.^=)