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Authors notes: If anyone is actually reading this, this is my first time writing fanfic so constructive criticism would be helpful and I hope that you like this. Also sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes.
Chapter One
The sound was faint at first. Carried away by the wind. So faint, he almost didn't hear it. Didn't believe it. But as they drew closer there was no mistaking it. She was coming. Her soft voice sang the sweet melody of her ancestors while her feet kept echoing the beat. Finally it stop. The giant monkey looked down and was greeted with striking lavender eyes starring back up at him.
"It's been a long time Son Goku" She smirked.
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Back at Konoha Naruto was slurping up his ramen while laughing at his friend Sasuke. "I still can't believe it!" He said with his signature grin on his face. "Man, you really messed up Teme. I can't believe she turned you down!" He was laughing away. Such blatant mockery of his misfortunes would not be allowed if it was any other person. This wasn't just anyone though, this was his best friend, Naruto, and as much as he was annoying him right now, he knew that even if he bet him to a pulp Naruto would still be at his heels the next day laughing and mocking him. So, he decided to ignore him. Only replying with "Hn" at the necessary intervals while staring down at his food, not really hungry enough to eat it. To be honest Sasuke couldn't believe it either. He never thought after all these years Sakura would say no to going out on a date with him. Sure he knew that they had a lot of stuff to work out, after all he did try to kill her, but she had been in love with him all these years, he thought he would at least get a chance to try and make it up to her. He did not expect her to be so mad at the suggestion that she hospitalized him for three days. He replayed the experience in his mind.
She was at the training ground doing some aiming practice. She looked so cute with her pink hair flowing in the wind that he decided to just go for it. He came up behind her and embraced her with a hug. She tensed, surprised, not because she didn't know he was there, she sensed him the moment he arrived at the training ground, but because this was new and Sasuke never did anything like it before. She blushed and he smirked knowing the effect that he had on her. "Sakura…" Sasuke whispered in her ear. "Will you go out with me?" Sakura turned around in his arms. Their faces were only inches apart. She looked at him, wide eye. He gave out a small laugh as she looked so adorable. This snapped her out of the trance she had seemed to be in. She looked down, her body became more ridged than it had before. Her eye twitched and she clamped her hands into fist. In a deadly low voice Sakura said, "you've been back a month." Before Sasuke knew what was coming he was met with an angry, "Cha" and was flown back by a mighty punch. Before he blacked out he remember her tired demeanour next to him. "You can't just do that, you know," she said not even looking at him, she was talking more to herself than to him. He wasn't even sure that she aware he was conscious. "I have been waiting so long for you to say that to me." Tears were threatening her eyes. "I… I… I thought that after you came to Konoha everything would be back to how it was. But you left again... I get why, I do. However, it's been a year since then. You never wrote to me. You did to Naruto, to the Hokage but not to me. When you came back I was so happy. I thought this was finally the end of waiting, but again you never came to see me." She stood up. "I can't wait around any longer. I love you Sasuke, I always will but if you think I'm just going to go out with you when you have treated me like a second priority our whole lives, your mistaken." A single tear ran down Sakura's face and Sasuke blacked out.
Naruto's laughing snapped Sasuke back to where he was. "That Sakura, always know how to throw a punch." Finally noticing his friend's dreary mood Naruto turned serious. "I'ld send her flowers to start off with. Get Ino to help out with that. Take a month off your missions." Sasuke starred at his friend, shocked. "What are you going on about?" he said. "To get Sakura," he replied as if it was obvious. "She said no, you buckle headed idiot." Sasuke gave him an angry glare. "You're the baka. You just have to wear her down. Get to know her again. You have been gone for so long both of you need to get reacquainted," he replied dismissively. "We both know she's loved you forever. She probably doesn't feel like she knows you though. She just wants to be prioritized and who can blame her?" "Hn" Sasuke replied not looking at his friend, knowing that he's right. "When did you become observant with relationships?" Naruto turned his head down towards his ramen, glum. Mixing the broth slowly a forgone look took over his face as though remembering something painful. "When it was to late."