Love the Way you Lie

A SasoSaku Story

Chpt. 1

"Ugh." groaned the girl with abnormal bright pink hair that was wearing an oversized cloak.

The girl blew on her hands, trying to give her frozen fingertips some warmth. There was only one other person with her that didn't seem phased by the cold and was strangely quiet. She'd been half expecting him to be complaining the whole time.

'I guess this is punishment,' the girl named Sakura thought, half sighing.

'I know I was slacking on my training, but did Tsunade really need to pair me with Naruto on top of sending me to the Land of Iron?' Sakura was eternally grateful Tsunade, her mentor was well again, and respected her greatly, but sometimes she can be a real—

"Sakura!" the boy named Naruto called, interrupting her thought.

Sakura looked up seeing as they had arrived to the old location of the Gokage Summit. Lady Tsunade had sent them back there as to see if they could find any more leads on the akatsuki, but mostly the rouge ninja Sasuke.

Sakura had long ago gotten over her love struck fantasy with the raven haired traitor. She was sick of running after an empty paged love story that had no happy ending with them ever being friends again.

"Naruto! Let's make sure the perimeters clear and then we can move in." Sakura shouted to the back of an orange jumpsuit with blonde hair that started walking away quietly.

'Man. Naruto's been so silent lately. I wonder if everything's ok.' Sakura thought watching him.

After 15 minutes the both of them had the perimeter secure and met up once again.

"We've got to stay quiet as we move closer. Ok Naruto? This isn't some extreme combat mission." Sakura said to Naruto with clouds of breath floating away.

"Right." he replied not meeting her eyes.

As they started to creep closer to the base Sakura caught sight of in the corner of her eye. But when she looked again nothing was there. She could've sworn she saw undeniable red against all the white snow.

"Sakura! Look out!" Naruto yelled just before she had enough time to dodge a kunai.

"Naruto we need to—" Sakura started to say, but Naruto just yelled back again.

"Let's head over there!" He was pointing to a snowy cliff that had a perfect view of the place.

They took off at a very fast pace and that's when 3 akatsuki jumped out, following behind. Sakura looked back and saw red hair. Her eyes grew wide as she realized it was Sasori of the Red Sand, as Grandma Chiyo had called him. He was supposed to be dead…

Bombs were triggered suddenly, sending Sakura almost off the mountain. This wasn't the greatest place to be fighting. Avalanches are likely to happen and on the small ledge there wasn't much space. Sakura stood up in the freezing snow taking out her own kunai as she saw the advancing akatsuki.

'Where's Naruto?' she thought just before a large rumble was heard.

Sakura looked up seeing the large rush of snow tumbling down towards her.

"Sakura move!" she heard Naruto scream from somewhere, but couldn't see him.

She was about to jump, but another explosion went off closer this time making her fall and hit her head on something hard. The avalanche was still coming right at her. Her vision was already blurring and she knew she couldn't make it.

But just when she closed her eyes she could feel her body getting carried away by someone whose hair tickled her now. The cold was really too much now that her clothes were soaked. She tried to open her eyes once more, but only saw a blur of dark red and black with two dark brown eyes staring at her.

"Troublesome girl…" Sakura heard before her eyes closed this time, she thought permanently.