Let's see… this is my first fanfic so I hope you like it.

I think that's all for now…

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

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Chapter 1: The Dream

Sasuke looked down at the ground below him. He often liked sitting in trees. Just to forget all that had happened and to simply keep his nerve down. The stress these days had gotten to him. He could never truly believe Itachi was dead. Not only had his brother meant good all along but had never stopped loving him.

Sasuke jerked up right to the sound of rustling leaves above. He looked up into the face of Karen.

"Thought I'd find you here…' she smirked and sat next to him.

Sasuke looked at her, annoyed and managed a brief nod. He looked up at the moon thinking of Konoha. His home. He never quite had 'left' it entirely. There was always a part of him that would stay there forever. He remembered when he had encountered Sakura and Naruto last. He had been hostile. Showing coldness to the world, for his sole purpose of revenge. But now he seemingly regretted it. He had noticed Sakura mostly. She had grown quite beautiful in only two years. He shook his head. What was he thinking? He couldn't possibly like Sakura! She probably hated him now for abandoning Konoha and now she had seen him bearing the 'Akatsuki' symbol.

All of Sasuke's thoughts were interrupted as Karen tapped his shoulder.

"Sasuke, ever since we saw Konoha ninja's in the forest I've noticed…" she blushed in embarrassment "that you seem somehow... I don't know… different?" she looked up at him.

Sasuke sighed, " You should keep your nose out of my life." And with that he leapt down from the tree and began making his way back to the camp out, leaving a stumped Karen staring at him worriedly.

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Sakura jumped up out of her bed, at yet another dream. She had seen Sasuke. Somewhere distant, but she had been sure she had seen him, with that girl from his group named 'Karen'. Oddly enough it seemed like she had been in his head, seeing only a few, but at least some of his thoughts although some of them had been unreadable. All she had gotten out of him had been that he had remembered Konoha. A smile spread across her face. She quickly got up out of her bed got dressed and ran to Naruto and the Godaime to tell her of her dream.

"But it was actually real!" Sakura protested. She had gotten both the Godaime and Naruto in Tsunada's office and after telling them her dream they had recommended her to Konoha's psychiatrist.

"I'm not fricken crazy!" she shouted. Tsunada-sama gave her a skeptical look.

"Okay Sakura calm down. I'm not recommending you to a psychiatrist because I think you're crazy…"

"You're not?!" Naruto interrupted surprised.

Sakura and Tsunada gave Naruto a look of pure anger and annoyance that caused Naruto to quickly shrink back to a corner.

Tsunada turned back towards Sakura, "As I was saying, I'm not recommending you to a psychiatrist because I think you're crazy but because Dr. Michiko can actually try and make sense of why you saw this, for all we know this might bring us closer to finding Sasuke than you think." She gave a small but hopeful smile.

Naruto quietly litsened from his corner what Tsunada had to say. 'Sakura sounded pretty crazy to me…' he thought as he looked up at the ceiling. 'Why do women have to be so scary?' he thought showing an annoyed look on his facewhich was quickly changed at Tsunada-sama's glance.

He sighed and moved up to Tsunada and Sakura. "I do re-call of Jiraiya once mentioning something like this…"

He was cut off.

"Are you Dr. Michiko?!" Tsunada asked abruptly "Think about who you're talking about? JIRAIYA! All he can come up with is with perverted books!"

Sakura glanced at the Godaime "Umm Tsunada? Let's just hear this one out, it might do us some help.."

Tsunada stopped and looked uncertainly at Naruto "Fine, you've got a pretty serious face on, shoot."