Here's a two shot I have had written for a while now. I really wanted to publish it but I was working on Him and Her and I didn't want to upload this too in the middle of it. So read it and tell me if you guys liked it. Remember to review.

Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me. The dialogue belongs to Mashashi Kishimoto and the thoughts belong to me and the plot of course.


she doesn't need to know

After finding out the truth about the Uchiha massacre, Sasuke felt like his brother needed justice. And it was Sasuke's job, no...it was his responsibility to avenge, not only his clan but also his brother's death, because his brother didn't deserve any of it and neither did he.

Here he is now, in all his glory, standing at the bridge where he had driven Danzo into killing himself in hopes of killing Sasuke as well in the process. Boy, was he wrong! Sasuke didn't want to be happy. He wanted to feel satisfied, he wanted to feel content and now with Danzo's death he was that much more closer to it. He just wasn't entirely sure he was fully ready to take the next step towards his...contentment.

He started walking towards the almost dead member of his team. ' I should just end her life like Madara said. She is of no use to me now anyway.' Sasuke thought approaching Karin's bloody body. He started up his chidori bringing his hand towards her body. He chose not to see the hurt and the pain he saw in her red eyes. They reminded him of yet another girl whose heart he had trampled on.

As if his thoughts had magically brought said girl to him, he heard it. Her voice, her heartbreaking beautiful voice calling out to him.

"Sasuke-kun." she said. His chidori was gone in seconds, because he wasn't focusing on anything other than her voice now. She wasn't stuttering anymore when she addressed him. Her voice sounded confident and it wasn't squeaky and annoying anymore either. Her voice sounded...grown up, matured. He resisted the urge to smirk and he didn't have the strength to deal with this...deal with her right now. Which is probably why he didn't even sense her chakra until she had arrived here.

He slowly turned around to face her. His half awake brain didn't forget to noticed how beautiful she looked standing tall in front of him like nothing scared her. She was just as beautiful as she was when she was younger. Her pink hair was short like it had been since she had cut it in order to save him and Naruto. Her green eyes looks exactly the same except for the confidence that they held right now. She didn't have that in their genin days and he immediately noted he liked her eyes even more now.

"Sakura, huh?" he said in his monotone voice. "What are you doing here?" he asked hoping she would say 'jJust passing by' but that was unlikely, it was always unlikely when it came to team seven. He wanted her to say anything that didn't involve him or the village because he couldn't, he could not bear to see pain in those beautiful emerald eyes. He, not in a million years, could have been prepared for what she said next.

"I'm coming with you! I'm leaving the hidden leaf village Sasuke-kun!" she said her eyebrows crunching up together.

Yes, he was surprised to hear this coming from her, but he shouldn't have been. He recalled the night he left Konoha and how even back then she was prepared to leave with him. But the surprise was gone when he felt Kakashi's chakra from farther down the path she had emerged from. He has searched the area as soon as she showed up to know how many were with her. Because surely, they weren't dumb enough to send her alone to him. He thinks he's leaving her in the safety of the village, of Naruto, and yet here she is confronting him alone. Idiots!

He stared at her in hope that she will break under his gaze, like she always did. 'what is she planning?' he thought staring at her in his usual emotionless face. But she didn't crack, except she stared back into his onyx orbs with confidence that he had never seen in her before. He was proud of her. Sure, they were probably here to take him back to that hell hole of a village, but the amount she had improved in his absence made him proud to admit, only to himself and even that quiet reluctantly, that this girl held a part of his heart, part of his life, part of his blackened soul.

He watched as she crossed the bridge half way and jumped to his side with the grace that he had always known she possessed. My god! He was going crazy! No, he couldn't, could not let this girl get to him. He has goals to full fill. He couldn't let anything get in his way. Not even her, like he has told her many a times.

"What's in it for me?" he asked sounding uninterested.

"Ever since you left the village, I have regretted not following you." he hated that night. Why did she have to bring it up dammit!?"I'll do whatever you want Sasuke-kun." she said in desperation.

"Do you know what I want Sakura?" he asked her, because he's sure she wouldn't want to be any part of it, whether she loved him or not.

"I don't care. I'll do whatever you want me to." she replied without hesitation.

"I want to destroy the hidden leaf." he said without missing a beat.

Her eyes widened in surprise at his declaration. He had expected that.

"Are you willing to abandon the village and destroy it?" he asked because he knew she wasn't. He knew her too well.

"Yes, if you want me to Sasuke-kun." she replied, but he knew she didn't mean what she said.

"Then prove it." he said tilting his head to the right. "Finish her off." he finished pointing at Karin.

No, he knew she would give up now. Sakura is too innocent to kill an innocent person. Sakura is Sakura, shes too...Sakura for that. So when she took out a kunai and walked towards him, he was beyond surprised, although he did a pretty good job of hiding it like he always has. But it was gone just as fast as it had appeared. Sasuke wasn't sure what her plan was, but he knew it wasn't to help him.

Kakashi is only seconds away from them. If he could do this right, may be he would finally be able convince them to stop pursuing him. May be if he timed this right, he could convince HER to move on, to give up on him, to not have a place in her pure beautiful heart for him. Even if it hurt her and even him, he didn't deserve everything she's given him, as much as he wanted to take it, to take everything that she offers, the things she has offered him s many countless time, he didn't deserve it.

"Who is she?" she asked.

"A member of team Taka. Sakura, you are a medic. You can replace her." if he made it look like he trusted her, she will be caught off guard even more.

He knew these words hurt her, hell they hurt him to even say, but he has no choice. She deserves to be free and he can set her free.

She started walking towards him, becoming more and more beautiful with each step she took towards him.

He watched as she walked by him, wishing that it could have been different. Wishing that he didn't have to break her heart even more than he already has.

"Well Sakura? You can't do it?" he asked. Alright, Kakashi is very close. He has to time this exactly, otherwise he could end up hurting her and he knew he wouldn't be able to handle that.

He walked to stand behind her. Alright! He started up chidori on his left hand.

"Stop, Sasuke." Karin mumbled making Sakura twirl around to turn to him. Her magnificent eyes widened in surprise and fear.

Three, two...

He counted down moving his hand towards her. Come on Kakashi, he thought as his heart started to beat at an insane speed.

One.

Kakashi had arrived and his chidori hand was pushed aside by his former teacher who had taught him the attack. He unconsciously released a breath he didn't know he was holding. That was too close, he thought.

"How you've fallen Sasuke?" his former teacher stated. But Sasuke didn't care.

Nobody needed to know he really didn't mean to kill her. Nobody needed to know the only reason he did what he did was because he wanted her to be free. Free of him, free of the hatred, the evil that he carried. Nobody needed to know that the reason he did it was because even if his heart is full of hatred, there was a small part of his black heart that belonged to her and her alone. Whether he liked to admit it or not, whether anybody believed him or not, it was there. Nobody. Not even her. Especially her.


PLEASE READ:I wanted everyone to know that I have not forgotten that Sakura tried to kill Sasuke first. But this story's main focus is Sasuke's inner thoughts and not Sakura's. As I have mentioned in the story, Sasuke doesn't know why she's here because as cool as he is, he can't read minds. Since we always get to see Sakura's thoughts and feelings in the manga, my main focus is Sasuke's thoughts and feelings because we rarely get to see his feelings towards Sakura and as a die hard sasusaku fan that's something I would love to see in the manga but since I'm not getting it, I kinda have to do it myself. so I just wanted to let you guys know that.

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This story is literally a story that my defence mechanisms came up with to deal with the whole bridge scene. He could not have meant to kill her. I know it was a long time ago. But I didn't know about fanfiction then but now I know and here it is, my version of why Sasuke attempted to kill Sakura. Tell me if you enjoyed it. Thanks!

SORRY OF I DONT UPDATE SOON. ITS SXAM TIMES AS I AM SURE SOME OF YOU KNOW. SO AS SOON AS I AM DONE, I'LL UPDATE. I HAVE FIVE EXAMS IN THE SPAN OF A WEEK, SO FORGIVE ME FOR NOT UPDATING.