A.N. Okay so this is my first story I have ever written so please review when your done reading and let me know if I should continue or not. I probably will even if you say not too but some constructive critism would be nice to let me know what needs working on. Enjoy

He didn't know just when exactly he had fallen for her. Perhaps it was those nights they had stayed awake while the other two slept talking about nothing In particular. Or the moment in the Forest of Death when she had seemed so determined to protect him and Naruto from the ninja from the mysterious Sound. Maybe it was the way her pink locks framed her face so perfectly or how her soft rose petal lips formed or words so cautiously. Or the way those emerald orbs looked at him so innocently. He didn't know just when or how but he knew that in this moment, staring at her from his perch above the ruble the leaf ninja that looked like him he had never met before had created, and she spoke his name with those rose petal lips, somewhere along the line he had fallen hard for the pink haired beauty from the Village Hidden in the Leaves. He never minded that she was weak. Her intellect more than made up for that. It never mattered that she was annoying or that she always needed to be protected. That fact that she loved him was more than enough for him.

He had thought back to the time when she had attempted to stop him from deserting his home. He admits he was surprised to find her awake at such an hour. But she had caught him red handed and all he could do to keep her from carrying out her threat of screaming was to knock her out and place her gently on a bench nearby. He contemplated taking her home but that would take too much time and he didn't want to risk someone spotting him again. So he laid her gingerly on the bench, placing his lips softly against hers, thanking her one last time for the unrelenting love she had bestowed upon him in the short time they had been a team….

Just as he had been reminiscing Naruto came running out of the hall into the ruble that used to be his room.

"Naruto too I see", He heard himself say.

Naruto looked up at him with those clear blue eyes. "SASUKE! I'M BRINGING YOU HOME TODAY!" Naruto had shouted up at him.

Just then Sasuke laughed to himself as he recalled the earlier events of that day. He must say he was a bit shocked that is old team had found him. Even more shocked that they had replaced him with someone who looked so similar to himself. Naruto had failed in bringing him home. He was on his way to another hideout with Orochimaru, Kabuto, and a few other outlaws in league with the snake man. Sasuke found this whole gang to be creepy and he was beginning to miss Konoha and his Cherry Blossom but this was the only way for him to become powerful enough to kill his brother. His thoughts drifted to the Hidden Leafs beautiful Sakura. Seeing her today had brought up feelings he had thought he put to rest long ago. But those emerald eyes only seemed to have gotten brighter. When she spoke his name with those perfect lips it took all his willpower to not go down there and take her for his own in front of everyone. He had resisted as was expected of Sasuke Uchiha, but now has he jumped from tree to tree with his mentor leading the way he began to let his mind wonder. He wondered what it would be like to touch her face, to feel her pale flesh against his own, smell her sweet scent, taste her mouth, hear her moans of….

He shook his head in an attempt to tame the bulge growing in his pants. He couldn't think of her like this. He had an objective, a goal. He was an avenger and his time could not be squandered away fantasizing of pathetic little girl. But she wasn't pathetic. She had gotten stronger. He could see that. Not as strong as himself or Naruto. But she was growing. She had a look in her eyes of determination when she had ran into the sun before she had seen him-

"Sasuke-kun you'll give yourself a tumor thinking that hard", Orochimaru called back from about five feet ahead of him. "What has my little Sasuke-kun thinking so much more than usual? Does it have anything to do with pink haired beauty from earlier today?"

"I was wondering how Naruto found us in the first place." Not a complete lie.

Orochimaru then proceeded to tell him of how the mission to kill Sasori turned out to be pointless because the leaf ninja had already killed him and it was all a trap, pretending that he believed Sasuke's sad attempt to cover up the fact that he had been thinking about the pink haired girl. Come to think of it wasn't Sasuke's birthday coming up?