"I'm not making you any promises, not anymore."

Broken Bonds ; One

"Baby, I don't know what it is, but you drive me crazy." The brown haired boy whispered in my ear as he held me close enough for me to hear his heart beat.

I had a permanent smile on my face, "What are you talking about, silly?" I put my face where his face was and looked into his catlike slit eyes.

He rubbed his hand against my face, and looked at the full moon above us. He took his hand away and sighed. "Oh Sakura, if you only knew how much I cared about you." He sat up, "If I can't have all of you, I don't want any of you."

I don't know why, but my heart sank, "What do you mean," I couldn't stop myself from saying, "I love you!"

"Yeah," he said coldly, "You love Sasuke, too." Then he vanished. Everything turned hazy and I woke up in cold sweat.

"Took you long enough, billboard brow." said childhood rival and best friend, Ino Yamanaka, from my window ceil.

"It was another one, Ino." I said as I braced myself ; placing my arms around my knees, while sitting up.

"The mysterious boy that is always in your dreams, rejecting you because you can't let go of your feelings for Sasuke?" she asked, as if she were reading a line from a script, very dramatic at that.

"I am over him, thank you. He's," I paused and looked out the window, "It's been three years since," I stopped once again. Saying it made it feel real, that which I didn't want my heart to believe, or my mind to know. "That isn't an issue, anymore and you know that, as well as I do." I lied.

"Took you a while, Sakura." She sighed, looking at my study. She walked over from the window ceil and picked up a book, on the study. "You picked up a book about dreams? Silly girl." She smiled down on the book.

"It bugs me, you know?" I sighed as I stretched from my bed. I yawned, "It says that dreams can a lot of things. Sometimes dreams can be about things you yearn for in life. Other times it's just about the things you think about for the last five minutes of when you were awake. Then again it can be premonitions of things to co-"

"Shut up!" giggled Ino. "Do you hear yourself? Saku, honey, it's a dream! Dreams are whatever. They make us happy, when things aren't empty. Maybe you just made that guy up. Maybe," she paused and whispered, "Maybe you're just over thinking the situation."

"Oh hell no."

"What?" she asked, innocently.

"You used those air quotation mark thingies on me. Li-like I'm some kind of crazy!"

"Well, you are going through a phase…"

"Shut up! What are you doing here, anyway, you leech." I replied angrily as I stormed to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

"Pues," she responded in Spanish, "Overlord Tsunade has been sending me death threats, that if I don't get you to the office, off with my head."

"Oh hoy." I said, with the toothbrush still in my mouth.

"You're telling me! Get to the office quick, though. You have a mission the one of the Team Habi crazies." She smirked as she walked back to the window ceil.

"Where will you be?" I asked.

"Me? I'll be at the hospital, handing out flowers to the sick little children."

"You saint."

"Likewise."

"If they only knew what you did with Shikamaru two weeks ago."

"Excuse me, cow dung?" she growled.

"Oh nothing." I smirked. "Shoo, shoo. I need to get ready."

"I bid you, farewell!" she bowed as she made her dramatic exit. I ran to the window and looked down, to see Ino blowing kisses to her invisible fans. I smiled. She always seemed to make me happy, somehow.

"Sakura…" whispered a weary yet familiar voice ; a warm and optimistic voice that I had not heard in nearly three years.

'Naruto?" I murmured before finding myself in a puddle of tears.