"Oh, god. I'm so pathetic." Sakura said laying down on her bed at night wallowing in self-pity. "Its been two years since Sasuke left and yet I'm still crying over him every night."
'Yeah, you really are pathetic.' Inner Sakura agreed with her.
'You're my inner self. Isn't this the part where you are supposed to help me cheering me up?'
'Nope. This is the part where I tell you that you need to get over that emo bastard Sasuke and move on! You don't need him! I mean you are strong! Remember? You just recently finished your training with Tsunade!'
'I can't get over him. I just can't help it.'
'God. I'd rather you be in love with Naruto than with Sasuke!'
'Eew. I don't like Naruto like that. He's just my friend. But he's gone too. He left on a training mission with Jiraya.'
'I'm just saying that if you want to you could get almost any boy you wanted. I mean you know both Lee and Naruto have a crush on you. I'm sure If you looked you could find someone to take Sasuke's place. You know someone who won't betray the village.'
'I doubt it. All the shinobi my age are just my friends. I mean I've had a crush on Sasuke since I was seven so I never considered anyone else.'
'Sakura just go out and do something besides think about Sasuke! You deserve better than that bastard!'
'Do you have an off button?'
'Sakura…'
'I mean I really can't help it I still love Sasuke. I can't force myself to love someone else.'
'Hearts move Sakura…you wouldn't be forcing yourself.'
'…'
'Sakura?'
'Leave me alone for right now. I want to go to bed.'
'Go to bed or cry yourself asleep over Sasuke?'
'Go away I'm going to sleep.'
Inner Sakura left Sakura alone even though she was right Sakura did cry herself to sleep over Sasuke again. She had been doing that ever since Sasuke had left.
Sakura was now wandering around dreamland.
She wanted with all her heart to see Sasuke again. She kept asking herself in her sleep 'Where are you Sasuke?' 'Where are you?'
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Sakura found herself wandering around in darkness.
Then she saw something.
"Sasuke…" She breathed not able to believe the sight before her or should I say the person in front of her.
The figure turned around to face Sakura.
"Sakura." His eyes widened a little in surprise. He pinched himself as did Sakura. They both confirmed that they were still asleep and dreaming.
"I can sense your presence even if I'm asleep. Why are you here?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know but I want to see you Sasuke! I miss you so much!" Sakura broke into tears and ran to Sasuke to hug him but Sasuke moved before she got to him. She turned around saw Sasuke behind her.
"Sakura. I don't miss you."
This made Sakura cry more only this time out of sadness.
"Sasuke then why did you say 'Thank you' to me when you left? What did that mean?"
He shrugged.
"Sasuke…"
"Sakura, I've changed, I'm not the same person you knew."
"Sasuke, I'm not the same person you knew either." It was true she was much stronger after training with Tsunade and Sasuke and Naruto both leaving had changed her.
"From what I can tell you haven't."
"Sasuke…"
"Leave Sakura." He then flicked her on the forehead. She fell backwards into a dark oblivion. Looking up at Sasuke's face that was getting farther and farther away.
Her tear stained face screamed up at him, "Sasuke!"
She woke with a start.
She was sweating and panting. She was also crying and she couldn't stop.
She wrapped her arms around her legs and buried her face in her knees.
"Sasuke…" She cried.
The next morning was hell for Sakura. She was completely tired and was depressed after her meeting with Sasuke. And now she had to go see Tsunade-shishou.
"Morning, Tsunade-shishou." Sakura said in between yawns as she got to the Hokage's office.
"Sakura, did you get enough sleep last night?" Tsunade asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Sakura said her very unconvincing lie as she sat down in the chair seated in front of Tsunade's desk.
Tsunade looked at her suspiciously before sighing. "Okay, I brought you here because you have completed your training with me so I think its time for you to start going back on missions. So I have assigned you to another team for a mission that takes place next week." She turned her back to Sakura for a moment to go to the set up board explaining the mission. Then she turned back around and said, "Okay, so this explains the mission which is-" Tsunade's eye began to twitch. There seated before her was her apprentice, fast asleep.
"SAKURA! WAKE UP!" Tsunade yelled.
Sakura woke with a start, said "Ahh!" in surprise and caused her chair to fall and bring Sakura down with it to the floor.
Once she managed to untangle herself from the chair, she stood up and said, "Gomen, Tsunade-shishou."
"Sakura I know you've been having minor sleep problems since Sasuke left. But nothing this bad. Is something wrong?"
Sakura bit her lip. She wasn't sure if she wanted to tell Tsunade-shishou about her 'meeting' with Sasuke because she probably would think that her apprentice had gone crazy and she didn't want that. But her mouth obviously didn't agree with her.
"Is it possible to travel into someone's dream?"
"What?" Tsunade was confused.
"I…Think that… I might have traveled into Sasuke's dream last night… And talked to him." Sakura said nervously.
"…"
"Sasuke said that he sensed my presence, as if I was really in his dream or soul or something…"
"Sakura, I think that you just miss Sasuke too much so you had a dream about it. Okay? Now go home and get some rest. I will give you the mission briefing tomorrow." Tsunade said sympathetically, she was worried about Sakura. Sasuke leaving had a big effect on her.
Sakura nodded. Maybe it was just a dream. But it really didn't seem like it, she was almost positive that she saw Sasuke.
She left the Hokage's office but she didn't go home. She decided to go get some ramen at Ichiraku. She had been here a lot with Naruto before he left with Jiraiya.
And guess who showed up after Sakura had sat down and ordered. Her best friend then rival then best friend again Ino! (Ino got over Sasuke)
"Hi Sakura! I haven't seen you in a while. How are you doing?" Ino asked and when she said 'How are you doing?' she meant 'Are you still upset over Sasuke?'
"Not good. And to make it worse I fell asleep in front of Tsunade-shishou during a mission briefing."
"What? Did you not get any sleep last night?"
"Sort of. I think I saw Sasuke in my dream. I mean like I was actually there with him, not just in a dream." Sakura told her and then something hit her, " Ino you can get your soul inside of someone's mind right? That's your family's jutsu. So is it possible that I could enter someone else's dream by accident?" She looked up at Ino with pleading eyes, because her sanity was on the line.
Ino was caught off guard with the question, but she thought it over. "Well, I have heard of Astral Projection. It's when your spirit leaves your body, and when you're in Astral form you can enter a person's dream. But I'm not sure you can do it on accident… but it is possible."
Sakura gave her friend a crushing hug. "Yay! So I'm not crazy!" Sakura happily cheered.
"Sakura…you're crushing me…can't…breath…" Ino managed to choke out from under her friend's super strength hug.
Sakura let go of her friend and rapidly said "Gomen" about a hundred times before Ino told her to stop.
"Sakura, what makes you think that you were actually in Sasuke's dream?" Ino asked.
"He said he sensed my presence or something like that." Sakura answered.
"Well I guess with his sharingan that makes sense." Ino said. She still doubted whether it was just Sakura's dream or if she was actually in Sasuke's mind. But she knew that Sakura wasn't crazy, because if she were, the Hokage wouldn't have picked her to be her apprentice.
Sakura happily ate her ramen knowing that she was sane, she was so happy she even treated Ino to ramen.
Later Sakura was wandering around Konoha about the time that everyone else was beginning to sleep.
She happened upon the area where Sasuke left her. It brought back many sad memories. She sat down on the bench where Sasuke laid her down after he knocked her out cold.
She shifted her position and laid down on the bench looking at the stars and reminiscing about Sasuke. She realized that her inner self hadn't said anything to her since yesterday.
Then she decided to close her eyes to just rest them for a moment but she was too tired and she fell asleep.
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She found herself in somebody else's dream again. But this time she didn't know whose dream it was.
She saw a three-year-old version of Hinata and a little boy that she vaguely recognized.
The boy told his father that he thought that the girl was cute and his father frowned.
Sakura figured that she was seeing the little boy's past.
The boy vaguely reminded her of Sasuke so it cheered her up to watch the little boy dream about his past.
Until she saw some memories that weren't so cheerful…
A/N: So what do you think? Is it a good introduction to a story? I realized that I made Sakura really pathetic in this chapter. Don't worry she gets better. And this is not a SasuSaku fanfic. It is a NejiSaku fanfic. I'm guessing you guys already know who the little boy is.
Yeah, I redid this chapter. I decided that I didn't like it all that much. I mostly rushed it because I was leaving on a trip so I made it better; I sure hope I didn't make it worse. And someone pointed out that Sasuke was OOC so I tried to fix that.
Well, Please Review! The more reviews I get the sooner I will update!