Prologue
Haruno Sakura couldn't sleep. She's been trying to fall asleep for 4 hours and it was now 2 in the morning. But like any other night, she new what the problem was, but couldn't fix it. Like any other night she was thinking about…him. It's been 4 years since he left the village, 4 years since she poured her heart out to him. And 4 years since he left her on a bench in the cold, with nothing but a thank you and the picture of their old team that she kept all of these years to remember him by. And as this night ritual would go, she would cry silently whenever she thought about him. She would make no sound, nor would she move at all. She just layer there staring at the ceiling…and cry. Cry about the one man she fell in love with when she was 12. Cry about the one man she loved more than anything, but hated to love. Her heart was broken by him. It mended within the next couple of years, but the scar left began to ache when she thought about him. She saw him once before when she was 15 and all of her dormant feelings she had for him. Her concern, her pain, her fear, her love. Like before, they all came back to her when she saw him again. And like before, he treaded over them like they were nothing when he tried to kill her, along with one of her most precious friends. This hurt her deeply and her heart broke again. She became afraid that day. Afraid of caring for him again, afraid of letting anyone else in. But her greatest fear by far, was being hurt again by someone precious to her. She didn't want to risk it, even with the people she was so close to. For some reason, she couldn't let go of her worry. Her trust for everyone was gone. All because of him. All because of Sasuke Uchiha.