I Will Always Be With You

Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters.

Summary: sasusaku Sakura's always loved Sasuke... and Sasuke's always loved Sakura. However, with all the problems happening in Sakura's life, will she still be able to keep on loving Sasuke?

Prologue:

Sasuke's P.O.V.

It was early morning, and as usual I'm always the first to arrive at the training area. All I ever wanted to do was train, train to get stronger, to be able to reach my goal, to know that his death was all because of me…

Life for me was always like this, ever since my entire clan died. I was the only survivor, and being the only one left, I wanted revenge. I wanted revenge from my brother, because of him, because of their death; my life took a turning point.

My happiness and everything that I ever wanted vanished on that day. All my emotions faded away and were replaced by the cold and heartless person that I am now.

Having hatred and revenge in ones mind can change a lot of things. In fact, it changed everything about me. After seeing my loved ones death before my own eyes, I stopped smiling, I was never the same person again…

But, as the years passed, and I grew from becoming a genin to a chunin, I met her… I met the one person who made me want to show my smile once more. Who made me want be the child that I used to be, the soul in me that had perished so long ago.

Chapter 1: My precious Cherry Blossom

I was lying in my bed, my eyes still closed shut. I felt tiny rays of sunlight touch my face. A part of me wanted to stay asleep, wait for the day to end, while lingering in my thoughts. But another part of me, a silent voice, kept on urging me to go out and train, to get stronger, to have enough power to kill him…

I couldn't resist the voice, it was like a drug, a drug that you could easily get addicted to. I quickly got out of bed, picked a change of clothes and headed down stairs. I ate a quick breakfast and headed out the door.

As I was about to go out, I saw a portrait of our team, team 7. I took a quick glance at the picture and noticed her, her sweet and charming smile, facing me. I continued to gaze upon her. Her face looked like an innocent angel and her skin looked as soft as a petal. As I gaped upon her, I smiled.

And when I realized what I was doing, my face soon turned into the cold and heartless person I really was. What was I thinking? I should never have feelings for her. I could never love one who is so innocent. If I ever show my true feelings for her, who knows what dangers she might face? I never want any of my loved ones to die because of me. I never want her to feel the pain that I have. It hurts me so much to know that I cannot tell her how much I love her. But its for her best, even though I know it hurts her, I have to push her away from me as much as I can. I have to show her that I am not the person who she should love. She deserves someone better than me, someone who doesn't have the hatred that I have.

I walked out the door and walked towards the training area, it was around six forty – five when I arrived there. Only a few more minutes before the meeting time. About five minutes later, Sakura came. She was running towards me, her pink hair swaying gently, and her sweet smile was on her face. She had always smiled like that, and seeing her that way, made me want to tell her how beautiful she was.

As she got closer to me, her smile widened, "Ohayo! Sasuke – Kun!"

In return, I did nothing but stayed silent, ignoring what she had just said. Sakura, in return became quiet, she knew what I liked and she knew that noise was something I had hated. She was just looking into the sky and admiring the shapes that the clouds formed while waiting for Naruto and Kakashi – sensei to arrive. I gazed at her, admiring her beauty and cherished the time that I had alone with her. Minutes later, Naruto arrived.

As usual, he was late, he had that mischievous smile that he always had on his face, delighted to see that Sakura was already there, "Ohayo! My Sakura – chan!"

Sakura went up to Naruto, she hit him hardly on the head, "Never call me your Sakura – chan! There is only one person who can call me that! And that is not you!" She said as she continued to hit the blonde boy.

I laughed inwardly, 'When will Naruto learn to stop, maybe he likes Sakura beating him up,' I thought.

Everything about Sakura just seems to appeal to me. Everything about her, her innocence, I loved seeing her as she argued with Naruto, it made her look like an innocent child and always made me laugh. But deep within myself, a silent voice kept on telling me to never show my emotions, to always keep them within myself. It always told me that having a heart full of emotions would just lead me to becoming weaker.

But watching her, watching her every movement and getting to know her day by day, it makes me wish that I never went into this cold world of darkness. It makes me want to go back and change everything that happened. I regret on dwelling on my hatred for too long. I regret on wanting to get strong, to have power, to be able to have my revenge.

Even as the day ends, I can still see her gentle smile and pure face every time I close my eyes. And every time I see her face, I regret everything that I had done in the past, wishing that it was all just a terrible nightmare.