Hi. I just wanted to say real quck that Sasuke is back in Konoha in this story because he finally killed Itachi. He's been back in this story for about a year.
Also I do not own Naruto. If I did, Sasuke and Sakura would be together.
So now on with the story.
Sakura was putting the popcorn bowl on the coffee table when the doorbell rang. 'Perfect timing,' she thought. She walked to the front door of her small apartment and opened it. There stood Naruto and Sai smiling with Sasuke behind them with his usual stoic expression.
"Sakura-chan, I managed to drag the teme here," Naruto said, gesturing to Sasuke which caused Sasuke to glare at him. Sakura just laughed and let them all in.
Naruto, Sai, and Sakura had started this movie night tradition before Sasuke had come back to Konoha. Every month, they would all go to one of their houses and stay up all night, watching movies. This month, they had all come over to Sakura's apartment. This was the first time Sasuke had ever come to movie night. Even though he had been back over a year, he had been put on restriction until recently and hadn't been allowed to leave his house after dark. Sakura hoped they could make it through the night with out a big fight between Sasuke and Naruto.
"So," she said while shutting the door behind them. "What movies did ya rent?"
Naruto held up a couple action and horror DVDs. "I get to pick which one we watch first," he shouted like a little kid as he ran into the living room with Sai following slowly behind.
"Dobe," Sakura heard Sasuke say. She looked up at him and smiled. "What?" he asked annoyed.
"Nothing," She lied. Truthfully, when he said things like that, it reminded her of old times, when Naruto and Sasuke would always bicker with each other.
She walked into the living room with Sasuke behind her. Naruto was putting in the DVD in while Sai was sitting in a bean bag chair in the corner. Sakura sat on the couch and Sasuke sat down next to her. Naruto grabbed the bowl of popcorn from the coffee table, and sat down on the floor, starting the movie.
Around the middle of the second movie, Sakura felt herself began to get drowsy and she fell asleep.
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Sakura snuggled into the warm pillow. She opened her eyes and discovered that the warm pillow was actually Sasuke who was asleep next to her. She was leaning against him. She looked around the room. One of the movies still playing. Naruto was asleep on the ground with little pieces of popcorn around him. Sai was also asleep with his legs hugged to his chest and his head resting on his knees. There was a blanket that had been folded up and on the back of the couch over Sakura. One of the guys must have put it over her.
Sakura looked back at Sasuke and felt her whole face go hot with a blush. 'How long have we been like this?' she thought. She looked up at the clock on the wall. It was three in the morning.
Slowly, she moved away from Sasuke, trying not to wake him. Silently, she got up off the couch, shrugging off the blanket. She walked over to the closet, opened it, and began searching through it until she found what she wanted, three blankets. She walked over to Naruto first and she covered him up with one of the blankets and then did the same with Sai. She turned around and was going to cover up Sasuke but saw that he was up, watching her every move. She felt herself blush again, thinking about the position that they had just been in. She was thankful it was kind of dark in the room, the only light coming from the television.
"Here," she whispered, handing him the blanket. He took it and nodded.
She sat back down on the couch, trying to sit as far away as she could from Sasuke. There was an awkward silence between her and him. She pretended to watch the movie, but she really wasn't interested in it. She glanced over at Sasuke and saw that he was still watching her. She shivered from his gaze and a little from the cold. She was going to pick her blanket up and wrap it around herself, but instead she felt herself being pulled towards Sasuke until she was leaning against him again. He put his blanket over both of them.
Sakura looked up at him surprised. "Sasuke-kun?" she questioned.
"Your cold, aren't you?" he said indifferently. She nodded. "Then just be quiet."
She shut her mouth and looked down, hiding a blush. This felt so right, her leaning against him. She looked around the room at her two other teammates and smiled to herself. These three boys were her life. She didn't know what she'd do without them. She felt herself begin to get drowsy and she relaxed against Sasuke. She was happy that he had come back, even though she knew that because of his betrayal, the team would never quite be the same, but for now, that was okay. Anyways, if he had never left, Naruto and her would never have met Sai. She was happy that Sai had been able to stay with the team too. Their little family wouldn't be the same without him.
'Everything feels so peaceful,' she thought, and with that, Sakura Haruno fell asleep with a smile on her face.
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