Prologue: The Escape
The Forth Great Ninja War is over, and Madara has been killed by Naruto. Sasuke became a prisoner of war and was placed in confinement. He would stay in confinement until the Hokage decided what to do with him. However, Sasuke easily escaped from the prison cell underground. No one knew how he managed to escape, seeing as how he was under constant Anbu surveillance.
Search parties were soon sent out throughout the Land of Fire and Wind. The Land of Wind was the only other nation besides the Land of Fire, to agree to help search for Sasuke. However, after the War the other Lands became arrogant once again and would not help any nation besides itself. Even though, Sasuke was there enemy back in the War, once he was captured he became the Land of Fire's responsibility. He wasn't there ninja, so why should they help? That's what they thought amongst themselves. Tsunade and Gaara both tried to explain that even though he had become the Land of Fire's responsibility, he still was an S-Rank criminal internationally. He could easily start attacking their villages without a sweat. But still, no one else wanted to help. Naruto even begged them, but again, it was no use.
Soon months passed, and there was no word of Sasuke from any village. People in the Leaf started to panic wondering if he had started building up his own army to come back to destroy their homeland. Naruto argued with them, saying that was ridiculous and Sasuke would never do that. But as time went on, people started to forget about Sasuke. Expect for Naruto, Sakura, Tsunade, and Kakashi. Everyone else started to believe Sasuke would never want to come back to the Leaf, and if he did come back, it would be to destroy it.
Sakura began growing her hair out after the War, which was a year ago now. She would always think every day about Sasuke. She wondered always where he was and if he was alright. She would use her free time to train with Tsunade to try to take her mind off him. Most of the time, it didn't always work to get him out of head.
Tsunade could see the determination in Sakura's face whenever they trained. She also saw Sakura's ninja skills rise little by little, at the end of the session. It seemed to her, her apprentice would continually get better and better every day. One day, she might be able to surpass her master, if she keeps working this hard every day.
Of course, Sakura also had the responsibility to train her genin team and go on missions with them till they were eligible to become chunin themselves. She would become stressed out from all the pressure of worrying about Sasuke, training with Tsunade, and going on missions with her team, she began to pass out from all the stress.
Tsunade knew even though Sakura never talked about Sasuke, she still had feelings for him. No matter what Tsunade said about forgetting Sasuke, Sakura would just avoided eye contact and change the subject. She began to worry about Sakura for not being able to let go of him. So she decided to ask Sakura a question. Depending on how she answered the question, might change her fate, forever.