((Hi there :D This is my first story xD I used events from Madara's Arc so I hope the beginning is not too dry. There will be more chapters! Well I hope you enjoy this!))

Ps: Lemon will be in later chapters!

Chapter one

There stood the familiar raven haired missing-nin, with the usual blank expression. He seemed to not care what the others were going to think of him, but wanted to get his point across since it was the only way to carry on his brother's legacy.

"Yeah right a missing-nin suddenly appears and starts saying jokes? Do you even know the meaning of being Hokage?" Kiba growled in anger. Everyone in Rookie nine agreed and the raven received displeasing looks.

The Uchiha overlooked Kiba and merely stated, "I don't care what any of you think, I'll be Hokage. Only I can change this village…" The rest of Rookie nine went quiet. Sakura was surprised that Sasuke had changed suddenly after everything that had happened. 'Why now?' She thought to herself and looked over at Naruto. He looked surprised, yet a little depressed. Naruto didn't want to have another fight with his 'best friend' because he believed there was still a way to convince the Uchiha. After a few moments of their quarrel toward the Uchiha, they decided to drop the conversation for now since they were on battle field. Naruto needed Sasuke's help to destroy the ten tails that waited for their existence.

The ten-tails waited as Sasuke and Naruto walked up to the beast. The beast began to clone itself and Sasuke used his kenjutsu skills on the clones as Naruto attempted his attacks. Meanwhile, Sai attempted to figure out the beast's weaknesses while the two fought it. Still in distress, Sakura's hope on Sasuke had risen in some way. She began to believe that maybe he really wanted to change after all, in a good way at least. Suddenly, she ran up to her former-team members in order to help them. What Sakura didn't notice was that one of the clones was charging toward her from behind. When she sensed the beast's movements, Sasuke ran toward it using his chakra.

Sasuke looked back at her and she was surprised that he saved her. "Eh?! Oh..T-thanks Sasuke." Embarrassed, she turned away. 'Dammit he must still think I'm useless.' She ran toward them again. "I want to help you guys!" Naruto noticed this and looked over at her.

"No Sakura! You should stay back; me and Sasuke will destroy it!" Naruto shouted as he landed next to her. She was starting to get a little pissed off at the blonde, but pushed her anger aside. She didn't want to be known as the useless girl anymore. "I promised myself I'll get stronger. I want to help too! You and Sasuke… Both of you always protected me and now it's my turn to help!" She saw Naruto smile in approval and even Sasuke, whose smile was faint.

"How the hell do we destroy this thing?" Naruto was getting frustrated after being continuously attacked by the beast's clones. Finally, Sai figured it out and ran quickly to tell Naruto. Naruto told the other two, and they simultaneously used their summoning technique. A snake was summoned alongside with Katsuyu and Gamakichi. The snake slid past the clones which the clones created a barrier in front of Sasuke. He used his Susanoo on the barrier which made the beast very weak.

"Extinguish the flames Sasuke! The beast is weak now." The blonde commanded, but Sasuke only refused.

"No we can figure out another way…" Sasuke's tone was different.

Not much longer after, Sasuke and the snake went over to Obito. "You need to stop all of this." The raven hissed. Obito didn't answer only to have the snake captured by the beast above them. Sasuke lunged at Obito using his susanoo, but Obitio deflected its process. It wasn't long before everyone saw Sasuke and Obito fighting and the others were ready to fight.

After the long lasting moments of the battle, Obito was finally weak. 'Now it's my chance' the breathless Uchiha thought to himself and approached him, but Kakashi teleported in front of him and stood in front. "Let me do it Sasuke," said the determined teacher. Just when Kakashi thought he had the chance, reanimated Minato stopped them both. "Don't kill it. Naruto help Hashirama, Madara will kill her if you're not there to help." Naruto obeyed and asked Sasuke to help him.

Naruto and Sai were quickly defeated, only leaving Sasuke well enough to fight. Madara smirked to himself and deflected Sasuke's chidori attacks. Sasuke was far annoyed with the elder Uchiha and took out his katana which he was able to stab Madara's arm in an instant. Blood had spewed from his arm and splattered on the ground.

"Gah!" Madara winced in pain as he slowly spoke to the Uchiha holding his arm. "I see you've improved. How about we stop this fighting Sasuke and join me, a Uchiha, instead!" he offered, hoping Sasuke would agree. Instead, Sasuke smirked back at Madara. "I don't intend on joining you, I want to kill you!" This only made Madara angrier and he growled at the dark haired raven. "Then you'll pay for what you've done to my Rinnengan! I'll take those precious eyes of yours!." Before the two fought again, Sai and Naruto regained a little chakra and assisted Sasuke.

Madara escaped quickly from the three attacks, which Sasuke sent the hawk after him. To his surprise, Hashirama intercepted it. "Sasuke there's another way to. You need to use Tobimara's technique." The Uchiha used his blunt reply "Hn." But then wondered: "You're telling an Uchiha this?" Hashrimama smiled a little. "You remind me of Izuna. Only Izuna is able to stop Madara even during his uncontrollable state."

So, Sasuke followed as instructed and attacked through the opening using Tobimara's technique. Madara notices and instead Sasuke is halted by him.

"W-what?!" Slowly, Sasuke rose to the air and Madara stabbed him instantly.

~End Of Flashback~

It had been about a few days after the battle and Sasuke was still unconscious, lying in the hospital. The bright and bubbly cherry blossom was now concerned with the Uchiha that returned recently. It wasn't just because Sasuke health was affected, but she was unsure if this missing-nin should be trusted. As she mentally battled herself walking to the hospital, she was then confronted by Kakashi. She stopped walking and froze, thinking he was angry at her for not showing up this morning. She thought Tsunade told him.

"Are you going to see Sasuke right now?"

His statement was a bit alarming to her, since she thought her own teacher would know.

She smiled and said, "Tsunade told me to heal him. I just thought you knew that. Why?" Her teacher nodded and walked alongside with her.

"I see. Sakura, I just wanted to tell you that I am proud of you. You proved that you don't always need Naruto and Sasuke's help."

Hearing this, she smiled warmly to her teacher and stopped at the doors of the hospital. Kakashi put his hand on her shoulder.

"I understand that you're worried about Sasuke. But if he is your nakama, then you need to trust him no matter what. I know you care about him, so you're going to have to find a way to trust him. It's hard for all of us, but Sasuke doesn't intend on doing something unless he has a reason for it."

Sakura faintly blushed, but shook it off. "K-Kakashi-sensei, I understand. B-but like I told Naruto… I don't care for him like that. Well at least not anymore. I cared about the Sasuke who protected his teammates not the one who fell into darkness. It was a childish thing to tell him that I loved him. Those feelings are long gone now."

Her teacher stared at her for a moment and laughed. Was he really laughing when she had work to do? "Well one you lied to Naruto about that because you wanted to kill Sasuke yourself. And second, I didn't exactly ask you if you cared about him, so no need to explain. I need to go to the office." After he disappeared she blushed again in humiliation. She had no need to explain herself at all and Kakashi was testing her.

As she went into the hospital, Tsunade directed her into Sasuke's room. Here, the pale raven haired teammate was tied down by powerful chains around the rim of the bed so he couldn't attack if he gained back chakra. His expression was soft for once, but there was no smile or any expression on his mouth at all. She walked up to the Uchiha and looked him over again. She really wanted to hold him or even touch his face to know that he was really here in Konoha once again. Cautiously, she gently stroked the strands of the raven's dark hair to the longer locks at the end. He looked so peaceful and she saw him taking slow breaths, trying to recover. Her hand then slowly moved from his strand to his cheek and she held his face. Sasuke was really here, and maybe everything would be back to normal again.

When she thought her moment with him could be longer, her thoughts were interrupted. Sasuke had awaken as his torso lifted up and his eyes activated with the mangekyo. Sakura flew back from the force and screamed for Tsunade. Sasuke was going through some convulsion as black marks appeared on his pale complexion. The chains that once held him down began to rattle and each prong slowly broke from each other.

"Shit! H-help! Tsunade Sasuke is-,"

"Sakura hold his arms down. I'll handle it!" The silver haired teacher barged into the room instead.

She nodded and held down Sasuke's arms as he kept trying to get free. Sasuke's eyes met hers. His eyes looked deadly, but yet it looked like a cry for help. She never saw Sasuke in so much pain physically.

"Sakura don't look into his eyes!"

Everything went black and Sakura found herself in the village, but in an earlier time. She looked around and saw the Uchiha massacre. She saw younger Sasuke crying and talking to Itachi about what happened to his clan. 'I'm in Sasuke's memories?' She questioned herself. Itachi told Sasuke the reason he killed their family, leaving Sasuke to run. Sasuke believed Itachi's lie and his personality changed to being cold hearted. Suddenly time forward as she saw all the memories Sasuke had with team seven to when he had his new team. Time continued to forward to where Sasuke announced himself to be Hokage. Although they were memories, it seemed Sasuke had only remembered the bad ones.

She gained consciousness and looked at her teacher. "Sasuke is getting affected by all the bad memories."

Her teacher eyes widened and he looked at the reckless Uchiha.

"What's wrong with him?" Her voice got shaky.

Her sensei analyzed the Uchiha and his eyes had a look of disbelief. "He broke from the curse of hatred. You were able to see all his memories. I'll have to use a forbidden jutsu to end Sasuke's pain." Chakra was present in Kakashi's hands as he slammed his hands onto Sasuke's chest. The jutsu started to absorb the energy from Sasuke as his marks slowly started to disappear. The helpless Uchiha cringed in pain and screamed.

As much as Sakura wanted to protest against her teacher, she knew the only way to stop Sasuke's pain was by using pain. Slowly, blood dripped from Sasuke's nose and he began to cough, which blood was spewed out. His red eyes blinked and the onyx orbs were shown instead.

Sasuke said nothing, but looked at Sakura and Kakashi with eyes half dazed.

"Alright heal him Sakura."

She knelt down and placed her hands onto Sasuke's chest to heal him. Sasuke's expression formed into anger and he looked up at her with a menacing look.

"Don't heal me. I'll be fine on my own."

'Maybe he didn't change at all' she thought to herself as she quickly pulled her arms away from him.

Sakura opened her mouth to say something, but felt a little frightened toward the unwelcoming Uchiha, which Kakashi answered for her.

"Sakura is doing something nice for you by trying to save you."

Of course the Uchiha replied with a blunt "Hn" and his eyes shifted to look at the ceiling. Slowly he offered his arm back to Sakura.

Kakashi sighed."Do what you can Sakura. Just to let you know he isn't awake. His mangekyo is only controlling him. So don't reason with him until he is actually awake."

Kakashi then left the room, knowing Sakura could heal him on her own. Sakura wanted to ask Sasuke so many questions, but figured this wasn't a good time. She looked at the ground and put her hands on Sasuke's arms to heal him. Sasuke didn't fight her on this and he turned his head to look at her. Her eyes drifted up to meet the Uchiha's eyes, who seemed to be still staring at her. She sighed and finished with the healing process.

She wanted to ask him something, but instead she asked him a more appropriate question. "Why did you return Sasuke? Why now?" Her voice squeaked and tears started stinging her eyes. She couldn't help it, but to continue to ask him questions. "Y-you worried everyone. You changed so much why would you turn on us and then come back? You killed Danzo! I mean I guess I understand, but there's so much I want to know. " She held back her tears and saw Sasuke's face soften as he looked away from her. "Dammit Sasuke please answer me" her voice was shaky again and she stood back up.

There was a long pause and she was starting to think that Sasuke would never acknowledge her questions. She felt stupid to even ramble to him.

"Well, um. Get rest Sasuke." Was all she could say to him. She turned away from the Uchiha and headed toward the door. He nodded, but there was a curve that appeared on his lips that seemed to look like he was smiling.

She viewed his smile as taunting her and she left the room, feeling like she wanted to cry. As she began to close the door she heard a quiet mumble from Sasuke's lips.

"Thank you again Sakura."

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