I haven't updated my Since I was Young yet, but I will soon, promise ;)

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He was coming back to Konoha. Finally in all his desperate attempts at escape he was coming back...Sasuke Uchiha was coming back to Konoha. Like a breath of fresh air to his lungs he was coming back. He couldn't hear anything, there was too much wind in his ears as he ran.

He was running fast...to fast...noise flooded his ears quickly and it hurt. Everything was everywhere, for once in his life he felt naked, he had no protection. He kept running, though the noise followed him, he going going to see her. He was going to finally see her, after all those years. He had waited all those years, he had apologized to her in every dream and prayer; he would see her, he knew.

He ran faster, but stopped abruptly sending dust into the air clouding his vision...something was wrong...

When the dust cleared he understood what had happened. It had all went well: he had escaped, he had ran, and he had looked over his shoulder countless times to make sure no one would follow him. But maybe through the giddiness he had forgotten to look over his shoulder that once last time to make sure there wasn't anyone following him as he neared Konoha gates.

He had been stupid, all of Sound had followed him and he hadn't even noticed. He stood in front of Konoha gates, realizing what he had done. He stood in front of Konoha gates, in the biggest war of his life. Bodies flew in every direction just narrowly missing his own petrified one.

He had led all of Sound back to his home without even knowing it, his attempt to run away from Orochimaru did not include bringing Orochimaru with him in the plan. He looked around at his old Konoha friends. Or...well they had never really been his friends, but he knew them... Shikamaru...and Shino were at his immediate left fighting Kabuto. Oh...Ino was there, she annoyed him, but she was fighting Karin. Good fight there.

All of there faces were laboured and dirty, his own face was dirty as well. He doubted any one recognized him or...he hoped no one would recognize him. He spun around, his sword catching a sound ninja on the way down stopping them from hitting Kakashi. Sasuke smiled but Kakashi didn't even look to his savior as he turned to another sound ninja.

Blonde caught his eye... Naruto...Naruto was fighting for his life aswell. Sasuke wished he could help but continued his search. As his onyx eyes scanned the sea of ninja's desperatly.

That only left one person, the most important. Where was she? Where was Sakura?

Orochimaru stood above the crowd smiling. Someone lunged forward at him, there face dirty but completely and utterly determined. More passion in that face than he had ever seen. Well except maybe in Sakura's face. He watched helpless as Orochimaru had flung them aside mercyless. Kami, how he hated Orochimaru...

As they flew, dust flew with them revealing the shocking pink hair. Oh...Sakura...

He ran pushing people aside, pushing through the people. Her beautiful face spun in his mind pointing him in the right direction. He would find her. Konoha would win the war, he would live perfectly with Sakura or...maybe none of that would happen a more rational part of him admitted, but he liked to imagine...still he ran to her.

He saw her beautiful body a crumpled heap on the dirty red ground. Pain was ovbious on her features, and she was bruised everywhere as he noticed the purple all along her skin. But he saw no one stop to pick her off from the ground.

No one even looked to him as he ran to her side. It seemed death was almost inevitable in this war. He looked upon her silky skin and the horrible idea of it seemed wrong, but she was dead wasn't she? And it was his fault wasn't it? She never deserved it, if anyone, she did not deserve it. Orochimaru should be dead, not her.

It was too confusing, his emotions were muddled, he couldn't form proper thoughts, and no words escaped his mouth the way he would have liked. There wasn't even a scream possible from escaping his lip.

He layed down beside her in the middle of the war, opened her tiny hand and held it in his own large one. No one stopped to look at them, as he rolled her body to him and held it against himself. He rubbed his hands against her arms trying to warm her with friction.

Her eyes fluttered open revealing the bright green for maybe a fraction of a second before closing again. "I...k-knew...you'd..come...b-back...Sausuke-k-kun..." Her words were almost in-coherent but he understood the way her mouth moved.

He closed his eyes as well... wishing one thing.

I wish I could go back to Team Seven just somehow go back in time... before I ever left. And I would never leave. And I would live the life I would have lived if I never went to Sound...

A single tear fell from his cheek and then it all went black...darkness had consumed him, and somehow it was ok...


His face was wet as he woke up. He had had a lot orf nightmares in his life, mostly horrible guresome flashes from the past bit that was by far the most terryifying. Everything had beem so clear, Sakura's death... The pain he had felt was so sharp. He looked at his arms, as he pushed himself from the large bed, seeing the young not so muscled arms he had possesed in his dream feeling weak. But the were still scarred like they had been in the dream.

It hadn't been a dream, had it? The thought hit him strong and he stumbled back into the wall, mostly likely creating bruises he would regret later. He ran to the calender, it was a week before he had left to Orochimaru. He was still in Konoha. He had never left. He was 13 years old and Sakura was still alive...

He remembered his wish...

He had gotten a chance to redo so much. And this time he would do it right...


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This was just the prologue, the next chapter will probably be up tomorrow or the next day.