AN: I dont know, man. Mountain Dew and boredom can do a lot to a person. I suddenly had the urge to write a SasuNaru fiction, even though it's not my favorite couple...but. Yeah. Here it is.
I couldn't think of anything good for the first chapter, so sorry it's so short.
Please review, my people, even though it sucks!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any of it's characters!
Three years, seven weeks, twenty five days. It had been two years, seven weeks, and twenty five days since Sasuke Uchiha had left the Leaf Village.
"Eh, Sakura-chan!" Naruto Uzumaki called to his teammate from the other end of the street. "Where's Sai-san? I haven't seen him all day."
"Neither have I," Sakura replied, walking with her blond teammate up to the training grounds. Sai was their replacement teammate, though Sakura hated the word "replacement." She still believed that Sasuke would come back one day and resume being their third teammate, like nothing ever happened.
The rest of the Genin had given up hope of finding him, including Sakura and Naruto.
"Do you think he could already be there?" Sakura suggested, gazing up at the bright sun.
"I don't know, may-HEY, look there he is!!" Naruto leaped over the river and greeted Sai, smiling. "Wanna train today?" He asked brightly. Sai simply nodded, being mysteriously quiet like he usually was. Naruto and Sakura had grown used to that, and dismissed it as they would.
The team trained until sundown, when they said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. Naruto stayed behind a while, walking slowly down the street and looking at the sky. He felt thoughtful that day for some strange reason, like he was ready for any question. Actually, all he thought about was Sasuke. He thought about his face when he occasionally and rarely smiled. He thought about his arrogant and snobbish manner, but his willingness to protect his teammates. With a sad smile, he remembered when they went to the Village Hidden in the Mist and fought Zabuza and Haku. He remembered how they all thought Sasuke had been killed by Haku's mirror jutsu. He pictured Sakura's face as she wailed into the sky at the thought of never seeing her beloved again. Vaguely, he recalled the Nine Tailed Fox's Chakra exploding and breaking all of Haku's secret mirrors.
"How odd," he said out loud to himself. "I haven't really thought about all the memories we had before Sasuke left the Leaf Village…why now?" He lowered his eyes as he reached his apartment. Throwing his jacket onto the ground, he got into bed and turned his head to the wall, feeling wide-awake. He was in a sort of a bubble, that only let him see and think about what was in his mind. It was like his thoughts that he was trying to get rid of bounced off the bubble's surface and smashed right back into his head. He wasn't sure if he could take anymore of these flashbacks he kept having.
He sighed as he suddenly remembered the day at the Academy, when they accidentally had their "first kiss" much to the horror of all the girls. He didn't count that as his first kiss, but his and Sakura's. It was in the middle of the sidewalk, when he had asked her out on a date for a least the thousandth time, and instead of answering, she kissed him. He considered that to be his first kiss and not his and Sasuke's because that wasn't intentional. He hated it and he didn't enjoy any part of it…right?
"Naruto-chan!!" A voice hissed from outside. "Naruto-chan, wake up!" He looked out the window to see Sakura standing in front of his door with a worried look on her face. He didn't bother putting on his shirt again, stepping outside and facing Sakura.
"What is it?" He asked groggily.
"I want to tell you something," she said, fidgeting.
"What?" He rubbed his eyes.
"I've been thinking about Sasuke-chan a lot." Naruto raised his head, furrowing his eyebrows.
"Me too," he admitted. "I just can't see to get him out of my mind. I mean, I keep thinking about everything that…everything that-"
"Everything that happened before he left," Sakura finished for him. "Yes, I have too. What do you suppose it means?"
"Maybe nothing," Naruto shrugged. "Maybe a lot. We gave up the search a while ago, I don't think it means we should go after him again. I don't know if we could do that."
"Me neither…should we just forget about it?"
"That would be best." Naruto frowned as Sakura began to cry for no apparent reason.
"Sakura…" he said awkwardly, putting his hand on her shoulder. He wanted to be sympathetic, but really he was getting quite angry. He believed Sakura was regretting picking Naruto over Sasuke, leaving behind her deep crush for the Uchiha. Maybe she thought she could have kept Sasuke in the village if she had loved him a little longer.
But she loved Naruto now!!…didn't she?
"Sakura don't cry!" He said a little more forcefully. "You know…I hate to see you cry." His heart softened as he realized he knew Sakura didn't regret choosing him over Sasuke, and even if she did, he could never stop loving her with all his being. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her to his chest, stroking her back.
Sakura melted into his embrace, noticing how much Naruto had changed in the past couple years; from a cocky, annoying brat to a passionate, caring lover. She suspected that Sasuke's absence brought this sudden change in him because the depressed cloud over Sasuke's friends made Naruto think more of others. Also, there was no one to work him up and make being the best the only thing on his mind. Sakura felt a little bit guilty for liking the way Naruto was without Sasuke, but also wishing that the Uchiha was still with them. Her heart was in two and her mind in pieces and she didn't know what to do.