Author's note: Hey! I'm back with a new story! Hope you like it… No flames accepted. Just read and review please. THIS IS NOT A YURI FIC! Takes place during Shippuden. Their clothes are from Shippuden as well. WARNING! Sasuke, Juugo, & Karin are OOC.

Main pairing: SasuSaku; Slight SakuTeamHebi, NaruHina, NejiTen, ShikaIno

-VampireBassist

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, otherwise… Naruto wouldn't be so dense not to notice Hinata-chan's feelings for him, and Sakura & Sasuke would be together already.

'thoughts'

"speaking"

-FLASHBACK-

Chapter 1: He's Back

It's been two years since Sasuke had left for revenge, and now he's back to claim a certain cherry blossom of his after finishing his ambition. Sasuke walked down to the gates of Konoha, noting the guards his presence. They took him to Lady Tsunade for his punishment. They reached Hokage tower, and knocked on her door.

"Come in," was heard through the door. Sasuke went inside and sat down.

"So, you finally decided to come back," Tsunade said.

"Hn. Where's Sakura and the dobe," he replied.

"Naruto's probably eating ramen, and Sakura? She's at the hospital. Now for your punishment... Hmm… what should I do with you?"

"I killed Itachi, and as a bonus, Orochimaru and Kabuto," Sasuke said, hoping to get his punishment over with already.

"Okay, for your punishment, you are in probation for ten months, allowed in only C or D-ranked missions, and you must have an ANBU with you for two months. Agreed?"

"Hai."

"You're dismissed."

In a puff of leaves, Sasuke disappeared to look for his Sakura.

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Sakura was running for her life. She was trying to get away from her so called fans since they found her during her lunch break again. Unfortunately, Karin was getting on to her. Now you're all probably confused onto why KARIN, a. k. a. Sasuke's number 'one' fan girl is chasing after our dear cherry blossom. Well, it all started out like this:

-FLASHBACK-

Karin was walking down Orochimaru's lair, looking for 'her' dear Sasuke-kun. She ran into a large pool, which was filled with this Sakura-loving potion that was made for Sasuke to use to bathe, but he didn't know that Orochimaru and Kabuto did that.

Anyway, Karin slipped and fell into the water, but what she didn't know was that one, it had the potion in it; two, when she sees Sakura, she'd be all over her; and three, Juugo and Suigetsu were also in the pool.

Karin got out of the pool, and ran back to her room, forgetting all about Sasuke. Orochimaru and Kabuto saw what happened and were laughing like two stupid, gay hyenas. The reason they made the potion was because they wanted to intensify Sasuke's feelings for the blossom. Although they are gay at some point, they just wanted to see what would happen to Sasuke since he's all emo and stuff.

-FLASHBACK ENDS-

As Sakura was running, being the klutz she can be, she tripped on an unnoticed twig. She closed her eyes as she waited for the ground to hit her face, but was met with air. Sakura opened her eyes and found two arms wrapped on her waist. She looked up and saw…

Author's note: Haha. I wanted to end it there for now. Cliff hangers are so FUN! Please review!

-VampireBassist