She watched as the man she once loved was bound in chains and led to the dungeons far below them.

Unsure of how to feel, the kunoichi just stared at him. And he stared back. The look of complete and utter shock still on his face. All she had said was his name. "Sasuke." Nothing special. Which was the reason for such a shock.

Flashbacks

"Sasuke-kun!"

"Naruto! Don't talk to Sasuke-kun like that!"

"Are you okay, Sasuke-kun?"

End of Flashbacks

He mouthed her name.

And then he was gone.

"Are you okay," Tsunade, the Hokage and her teacher, asked her, "Sakura?"

"…Yeah."

Tsunade gave her a looked that said she knew it was a lie. Sakura didn't return a look, but in her head she was silently telling her that no, it was not a lie.

Haruno Sakura had moved on.

-::-

"It'll be fine, Naruto." Sakura said, rubbing his back gently. "At least they're just putting him in prison. They have every right to execute him."

Naruto nodded still letting the tears run down his face. He had been on front gate duty when he saw Sasuke approach the village. Sasuke willingly turned himself in. Naruto had tried fighting to let Sasuke stay as a citizen of Konoha. Unfortunately, Sasuke had too much going against him.

"Baa-chan didn't need to be so m-mean to him…" Naruto stuttered, leaning against Sakura.

"He's lucky she wasn't meaner."

"B-but…"

"Naruto." Naruto looked up at his pink haired friend. They had become like siblings after Sasuke left the village. "Let's go get some ramen. My treat."

"O-okay."

"Come on, Naruto. That's not how you react to someone buying you ramen."

"Sorry, I'll get over it. Hey, he's allowed to have visitors, right?"

"…Yeah?"

"Let's go see him after lunch!"

"Haha, okay okay."

-::-

Naruto had brightened up after lunch. Sakura, however, did not. They were on their way to see Sasuke and she wasn't sure how she should feel. At one time, she would have been bouncing up and down with glee, but now she was just confused. How do you approach an old crush? How do you make it known that you've moved on without saying it?

Sakura was starting to feel sick.

"Hello, are you here to visit someone?" The guard asked at the entrance to the dungeon.

"Yes! We're here to see Uchiha Sasuke!" Naruto said, a huge grin plastered to his face.

"Oh, right. Of course." He pointed out the direction Sasuke was in. The two shinobi walked down the dimly lit, underground passage.

"N-Naruto *cough* S-Sakura?"

Naruto jumped in the direction of the voice, while Sakura just froze.

"TEME!"

"Yo, Dobe." Sasuke laughed weakly. "Hey Sakura."

"Hi… Sasuke." Sasuke flinched.

"So… does this mean that you two don't hate me?" Sasuke, though he addressed them both, was staring straight at Sakura.

"What? Of course!" Naruto almost shouted, holding onto the bars of Sasuke's cell, "How could we hate you? We're a team, remember?"

"B-but I left."

"So what? You came back, didn't you?"

"I'm stuck in a prison cell as another common criminal."

"Because that's what you are."

Both of the boys turned towards Sakura's voice with wide eyes. Sasuke visibly winced.

"Sakura-chan… That was cruel."

"But it's true. I'm not saying I hate you or anything, Sasuke. And I really did miss you. But you did just turn out to be another criminal. You'll be free of that title in a year when they let you out of here and give you back your Konoha citizenship."

"So forgiveness was too much to ask for." It wasn't a question; it was a fact.

"It's hard to forgive someone who swore to protect you then went off and tried to kill you once or twice."

"Sakura…"

"I have to go. It's my turn to make dinner."

"Sakura, it's just past lunch."

"I have to go buy ingredients."

"Neh, Teme. I think you should just let her go."

Sasuke's eyebrows shot up. Since when was Naruto the logical one? Obviously a lot had happened that Sasuke would have to get used to.

"Naruto?"

"Yeah Sasuke?"

"Do you still love Sakura?"

"I do… but only as a sister."

"Hn."

"You like her, don't you?"

"I never said that."

"You didn't have to."

"…"

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