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Chapter 1

She was obsessed. He was everything to her, and he left. Without a second thought he broke her heart. The worst part is he knew exactly how she'd react. What would become of her? He didn't care. For weeks after he left she secluded herself. Naruto came to visit her several times. She didn't care. Her whole world revolved around Sasuke, who was gone. It didn't matter that Naruto was missing him too, and felt as bad if not worse then she did. Nothing mattered anymore.

"Honey, it's been a month. Tsunade asked that you go see her." her mother beckoned from downstairs.

Without a word, Sakura slipped out of her room and walked to the Hokage tower.

As Sakura was walking up to the building she saw a bright blond smiling and waving at her.

'What is he doing here?' she though, her sad face turning sour. 'He's the last person I want to deal with right now.' As she neared him he saw the cold empty look in her eye. His big grin faded, as he realized she probably just wanted to get this over with and go back into her dark room. He could take a hint. With a small nod they climbed the stairs and got to Tsunade's office.

"Hello!" chirped Tsunade cheerfully. "How are you feeling today?" she slurred slightly. A little too much sake for the Godaime this morning.

"Great! The ramen shop made a new flavor! I have to say it's the best yet!" Naruto responded cheerfully, which earned a caring grin from Tsunade.

"And you Sakura?" Tsunade inquired. She hadn't seen her for quite some time.

"Just fine." Sakura replied shortly. 'Grin and bear it.' was what she was repeating to herself in her head. She had to get through this one mission, and then she could go back to her room and try and figure out just where she stands in this world.

Tsunade saw through Sakura's cheep plastered on grin and decided to go strait to the mission. "Okay, well I decided that you two have had enough of a break and should probably get back into the swing of being a ninja. I'm going to start you out with an easy mission. Border patrol. I heard that the millionaire from two countries over is coming to visit his relatives here, so there could be some dangerous people trying to get into Konoha. Capture any shifty characters and report back tonight."

While Tsunade recited the long specifics of this mission, Naruto had started to let his mind wonder. He thought back to the days were Sakura always wore that beautiful smile. He missed those days. It was all he could do not to grab Sakura into his arms and tell her everything would be okay, because she was one of his special people and he would never let anything happen to any of his special people. As soon as Tsunade finished talking Naruto quickly snapped back into this universe and nodded.

Sakura started walking out of Tsunade's office, closely followed by Naruto when they both heard Tsunade add, "And don't get off track. I'm counting on you."

As soon as the two teenagers were out of Tsunade's earshot, Naruto started whining about this mission. "Obaa-san is just sending us out on gossip missions! We don't even know if this 'millionaire' is really coming. She's just wasting our time and the resources of Konoha!"

"Since when did YOU know what resources meant?" Cocked Sakura, someone had to take over Sasuke's constant ridicule of Naruto.

"Ouch! Fine then, I'll just shut up now. Does that sound better to you?" He retorted

"I don't think you'd make it a day without talking."

"Wanna bet?"

"Ya! I'll give you all the money I get from this mission if you don't say a word this whole mission. Just tap me on the shoulder is you see anything suspicious." Sakura was going to like today. Sitting in the trees at the border on some made up mission, with no noise coming from Naruto.

"You got a deal." They shook hands, and Naruto was determined not to say a word to Sakura, even if he had a million things to ask her and to say to her.