A/N: I finally got this done, ha! I changed my writing style a bit but it's not something major. I hope you enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: Naruto© Kishimoto Masashi

Behind The Cold Eyes

Chapter 1: Captured

Birds chirped as the sound of people converse back and forth with each other. Children run around, playing tag or ninjas while carrying fake plastic shuriken and kunai toys in each hand. Everything was peaceful and full of harmony as she observed what was happening around, no one would have guessed what had happened before this if they weren't here before.

That before this, there was a war.

Bloodshed, cruel war that taken the lives of many innocent people and promising Shinobi. Many families had lost their loved ones, parents had lost their children, and wives had lost their husbands. It had caused many hardship and horrifying sights to the people of every village. It's a miracle after what the war had caused, everyone has still managed to get through it and turn the village almost back to its origin.

A sigh left the young woman's mouth as she walked on the busy street of Konoha, greeting a few construction workers and volunteered Shinobi fixing the roofs and re-build the houses. Her pink hair dangling just on her shoulders as the wind blew at her. Her shining emerald eyes sparkled as she stared at the sun on the clear blue sky.

But it's over now. Madara had been defeated. Kabuto had died and everything was okay. But she still felt something was incomplete because—

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan!" a loud voice called from behind her as the girl stopped on her heels and turned around, grinning when she recognized the voice of her dear friend. Not long after, a male figure had run up to her, his blonde hair shine with the sunlight as he panted from his exhaustions.

"Hey, Naruto." She greeted as she watched her teammate finally recovered and stood on his usual height, a few inches taller than her. His lips stretched into a wide smile.

"Want to go to Ichiraku? They just finished fixing it!" he offered.

Sakura laughed at the old antics of Naruto. He couldn't last a day without Ramen, she even remembered the time that he had demanded Teuchi to fix him Ramen when they hadn't finished rebuilding Ichiraku yet. He sat on the floor in front of the broken stand as people walked by, staring at him weirdly.

"No, thanks."

Naruto scowled at her refuse, his grin turning upside down showing his displeasure. "Really? I'll pay!"

She just shook her head. "Sorry, I told you. I'm not hungry. I just want to help people out today." She said instead as the boy nodded in understanding.

"I see. See you later then." At that, the goofy teen waved and ran straight towards the street where his favorite Ramen stand was at. With a small smile, Sakura turned around and continued her way around the village, to see if anyone needed her help. She had always tried her best to help re-establish Konoha after the war had ended.

"You wanted to see me, Tsunade-shishou?" Sakura said as she stood in front of her master, who was still the sixth Hokage after what had happened. The blonde woman averted her attention from the paper works on her desk and turned to her apprentice.

"Ah, yes Sakura. I have a mission for you." She said and leaned back to her chair to open the drawer to her left and rummaged through it, looking for her wanted scroll while Sakura waited patiently for teacher to finish, tapping her foot to pass the time.

Tsunade's face brightened when she came across her desired object and pulled it out. "Are you familiar of the routes to Wave?"

"Hai."

"I want you to go to wave and deliver this message to the Mizukage and then stay there for a few days until she give you a specific scroll and take this back. Since this message is important, people will come after this so keep it safe. Do you understand?" she asked, looking at the girl straight in the eyes.

"Hai, I'll protect it with my life!" Sakura saluted playfully, although she was very serious for this. She walked closer to the desk and took the scroll that Tsunade had handed her. She put it inside her pouch.

"When will I leave, Shishou?"

"Tomorrow." At that, Sakura nodded and excused herself outside the room when she heard her master calling out to her.

"Wait, Sakura!" Confused, the pinkette halted her hand on the door knob and looked over her shoulder back to Tsunade, who was biting her lips and looking away from her.

"Shishou?"

Tsunade sighed and turned her honey colored eyes back to her emerald ones, a glint of worry in it.

"Remember, this is an A-ranked mission and it will be dangerous. If it weren't for the other Jounin were busy, I wouldn't have sent you this." Sakura was about to open her mouth but she got cut off again.

"I know that you are capable of this but I'm still worried about you. The war had just ended and there are still dangerous criminals out there. If there's anything wrong, summon Katsuyu and tell us immediately."

Sakura flashed her a big smile. "Don't worry, Tsunade-shishou. I'm just as strong as you now; I can take care of myself." She said, confidence lacing through her voice as clear as the sparkle of water sparkling in the sun. The Hokage smirked at this. Her student really had progressed after the war had ended. She was as strong as anybody now, she needn't to worry but she still felt that something was not right.

"I understand." The young Kunoichi bobbed her head and turned back to the door that led to the exit of the room.

"One more thing, Sakura…"

"Yes?"

Tsunade's calm eyes suddenly turned serious. Sakura knew that look. Her master only had that look on when something really serious was happening. She wondered what she was going to say.

"I heard Uchiha Sasuke is still out there…" her breath hitched as she mentioned the name of her former teammate. She hated herself for showing that many emotions but no matter what she did, his name was always a taboo for her.

"If you encounter him, don't let your feelings get in the way. He's not your teammate anymore, he's a rogue ninja. Fight him if you must." And then she was dismissed.

When she closed the door, she was surprised to see Tenten there, looking slightly bruised. She must have just come back from a mission, Sakura assumed. The girls gave each other hug, giggling along with one another. Sakura pulled away and look at her close friend.

"So just came back from a mission?" she asked, although she already knew the answer. Tenten was aware of this but she nodded nonetheless.

"I just came back from checking on Lee and Neji in the hospital. I'm here to give my reports to Tsunade-sama." Sakura nodded at her answer.

"You want to grab something to eat after I'm done? We haven't hung out for a long time." Tenten offered. The pink haired Kunoichi thought about it for a moment. She hadn't eaten since this morning and she declined Naruto's proposal to Ramen. Well, she still wasn't that hungry but it's Tenten, they hadn't talked much since last months because of busy schedule.

"Sure!"

"So how have you been?" Tenten asked as she pulled another dango ball into her mouth with the use of her sharp with teeth. They had settled for a small dango shop next to the Hokage tower, seeing as it was the only decent shop that was fixed.

Sakura swallowed her dango. "I'm fine." She shrugged while chewing on another ball of sweet. The flavor had a good taste on her mouth, she didn't know if it was because she hadn't eaten this for a long time or the fact that she was hungry now.

"What were you doing with Tsunade-sama earlier?"

"Oh, I got an A ranked mission to the land of Waves." Tenten looked at her with a questioning gaze as she once again swallowed another dumpling. "What mission?"

"Just delivering a scroll and back."

"How long will it take?" Sakura raised her pink brow. "Since when did you become my mom, Tenten?" she teased as the brunette across from her sent her a glare. She laughed at that. She and Tenten had gotten along with each other a lot after the war. They seemed it understand each other and was a lot alike. They just trained from time to time when their teammates were busy and then hang out later. They became the closest of friends ever.

"Just answer the question, Sakura." She gritted her teeth.

"A few days I guess. Or more if they are ninjas after me." She added and then turned to Tenten, whose eyes were filled with concern.

"Be careful." Sakura snorted at that. "I'm fine. I'm a big girl now; you don't have to worry about me." Why couldn't people get the fact that she was as strong as the toughest ninja now? She trained hard and was able to defeat Kakashi and Naruto at times and she went on dangerous mission and succeeded. They still treated her like a baby and she didn't like that, it reminded her of how she was when she was still a Genin. How weak and useless she was.

"I know, I know."

Sakura probed her elbow on the table and leaned her face on the palms of her bent hands. "Enough about me. You?"

Tenten just flipped her hand back and forth while still nibbling on her food. "Still the same. Lee and Neji just can't seem to get along even though we have worked with each other for a long time. Ugh, boys…" she rolled her eyes.

"Lee just keeps screaming 'Youth' and Neji, as usual, get annoyed and call him an idiot which lead them to argue and fight."

Sakura laughed at her friend's antic. An image of Neji and Lee arguing with each other popped into her mind as she giggled to herself. It was just too funny as she imagined Neji having Lee in a headlock, the poor guy flailing his arms in the air to pry the Hyuuga's hands off him.

And then suddenly, Lee's bowl cut hair changed to a spiky one, fading to a pale color of yellow. His green jumpsuit changed color to orange. Neji's long hair shorten up to his neck and was growing spikier at the back, the bangs on the side of his face turned shorter as it changed into a black color instead of his chocolate brown. His white eyes darken to the deep blue color she was so familiar with. They look just like...

"Sasuke-kun and Naruto…" she trailed off absentmindedly as Tenten raised her eyebrow at her in confusion. The pink haired girl didn't seem to notice she had said that, seeing as she was still deep in her thought.

Tenten gulped down her chewed dango and looked at her friend in concern. She was reminiscing about her old team again. She knew that it pained her whenever she thought of them, how goofy they were before compare to now. And she said the name that everyone knew was a taboo to her, without even realizing it. This was a bad sign.

"Sakura?" said girl blinked in surprised and then smiled weakly at Tenten when she noticed that she was spacing out and ignoring her friend.

"Sorry, I was just—"

"Thinking about Sasuke?" Tenten finished for her with a raised brow. Sakura looked at her with her eyes wide; the shock was evident on her face as the brown haired girl said this. When she didn't reply and look away, Tenten sighed.

"I know you miss him, Sakura."

Her head snapped back to look at Tenten, her pink hair flowing with her movement. "No, I'm not—"

"Don't deny it, Sakura, I know you are." She stayed silent. The bun haired ninja looked at her with a sympathetic look. Sasuke's disappearance was affecting her, even if she didn't know it.

"Sakura…"

"Huh?"

"Don't dwell on the past too much; thinking about him is affecting you. He tried to kill you and Naruto. He betrayed the village and an S-ranked criminal. Everyone is moving on, even Naruto and look at how peaceful he is. I know it's hard for you to forget about him since you still love hi—"

"I don't love him, Tenten." Sakura hissed through gritted teeth, which caused Tenten to stop her speech and let out a breath.

"I am moving on. He can do whatever he wants. After so many failed attempts of bringing him back now, I know he wants be alone. And I know that much to let him go." She finished.

'Yeah, keep telling yourself that…first love don't die that easily…' Tenten thought as she watched the Konoha sweetheart waved to the waiter to order another plate of dumplings.

And Sakura couldn't sleep that night. She was just tossing and turning in bed, trying but failing to get to sleep. She needed her energy to leave first thing in the morning tomorrow but here she was, staring at her open window, watching as the night breeze blow the leaves rocking back and forth outside.

The reason why she couldn't sleep was simple. Her mind told her to sleep and stopped thinking but her heart seemed to disobey. The stupid memories and images of her ex-teammate was rebellious and remained in her mind no matter how hard she tried to get rid of it.

She didn't get it, the war had ended. Everything was calm now, she didn't get why he still wasn't coming back to the village, to his team…to her. She had heard, no saw him during the war. He had helped them defeat Madara and Kabuto. That was the last time she saw him. He helped them, but after all that he didn't come back. And everyone just ignore the fact that he had assisted them in winning the war and he was still the first one to every nation's bingo book lists.

She and Naruto had never given up though; they still constantly looked for him and try to make him understand that there were people waiting for him at home. But they couldn't find him, he never left his trace and if they ever had a contact to him, it won't last long. It's like he didn't want anyone to find him. He was laying low, he never committed things that were against the law anymore, and it seemed he was just traveling throughout the world.

So now, even Naruto gave up and move on with his life. At one point she thought she was too but every time she saw something that reminded her of him, the memories that she once erased had come back. She just push it back to her the back of her mind, and each time it seemed to get easier. But now…this time, it came back and it was strong.

She couldn't get rid of him, the images of him smirking, scowling, insulting Naruto. The way he would frown whenever she came to him and ask for a date and the way he refused them. How he helped her in their first mission in the Waves and the Chunin exam, their encounter three years later in Oto.

The many times that he tried to kill her and the way she tried to kill him back to stop him. She was sad, angry and betrayed whenever she thought of this. He meant to kill her in all his attempts, not blinking nor having second thoughts every time he lifted his arms and attacked her whereas she faltered every single time. He didn't care about her at all.

She gave a bitter smile. Of course, he didn't care. He wasn't Sasuke anymore, Karin was right; he's not the quiet and kind boy that Sakura had fallen in love with. His dark blue eyes, even though they were cold, she could still see the life in them if she tried to look beyond them, but now whenever she had a chance to look at them, they were just empty hues.

And she had given now, nothing she could do to bring back the old Sasuke back. With that thought, her mind went blank as her chest heaved up and down from the air she took and fell asleep.

She couldn't feel the presence that was in the room with her after all this time, watching her.

She woke up at dawn after her needed rest last night, but she still felt tired. She took the showers and the back pack that she had prepared last night, the scroll that Tsunade had given to her inside it. Before she walked out her door, she briefly glanced back on her nightstand, where the picture of Team Kakashi was on.

She looked at her calm but happy sensei behind the three of them, his hands ruffling the boys' heads. And then she moved to Naruto, scowling unhappily to the guy on his left. Her normal cheery self was in the middle, looking as the happy girl she was with her closed hands to her chin, unaware of the hostility behind her.

And then her eyes lingered on Sasuke. The frowning boy was glaring at something but at least it wasn't the camera, otherwise it would ruin the picture that had taken a very long time to take.

With a few minutes of staring, she opened the door and stepped outside. The wind blew again, as the leaves scatter all over the atmosphere, blowing the man in the shadow of the room with it.

The harsh wind of the night hit her as she jumped from tree to tree to the direction of the Land of Waves. She was quite familiar with the route; she had gone to a mission there for a few times so she was comfortable that it wouldn't take a long time to get there. The mission wouldn't last long as a week.

A familiar pattern of Chakra appeared and Sakura stiffened, landing on the ground and looked around. Nothing was there. Sakura's face scrunched up in confusion, she could have sworn she sense someone behind her. Shrugging, she turned on her heels and was about to leap off when a voice startled her.

"You still haven't notice me?" she stopped immediately and went rigid as she recognized the unique voice. It was still as rich and deep, maybe even more, as it was since she last saw him. She turned around and looked up to the tree to see a figure standing there with his arm crossed.

"Hn, Sakura?" he finished and disappeared and then reappeared a few feet in front of her. It didn't surprise her one bit. But she was still shocked to know that he was here right now, right in front her and near reach.

She shook her head and shut her eyes. No, he was a missing ninja, she was Konoha Shinobi. Feelings mustn't get in the way. She snapped her eyes open and glare at the man in front of her, who in turn raised his brow in amusement.

She took a kunai out and stood in a fighting stance.

"Uchiha Sasuke-kun, by all the nations of Shinobi and my duty as a Kunoichi of Konoha, it's my job to take you back." She tried to control her voice to be as firm as professional as possible. She didn't want to show him her feelings. Feelings get in the way.

"Hn? You're not begging me to go back anymore?" he asked emotionlessly but Sakura could still sense the amusement in his tone. Her angry grew.

"I've don't that too many times already and I've given up now. People need to grow up and move on. I'm doing my job to take you down for my village." She still kept her voice stern and clear. Sasuke noted this, she had grown up now. Into a true Shinobi, he could tell from the amount of Chakra he sense coming from her, she must have grown stronger.

But no matter how hard she tried, Sasuke thought, she still couldn't keep her emotions in check as he observe her every movement. Sasuke took notice that she still wore the same thing like she did.

While he was in his thought, Sakura took the chance to observe him, how much he changed these last few months. He was still wearing his high collar shirt, zipped up to his mid chest but at least he wore a grey shirt underneath, everything he wore was the same, except for the missing purple rope on his waist band, replaced with a black sash.

"So, you're gonna take me down?" he asked.

"Hai!" she said confidently and once again Sasuke was amused. He needed to confirm this. This thing that he was wondering throughout the whole time he went away in order for his next plan to be achieved.

"Even after I helped you in war?" He was taunting her, Sakura had thought, he was trying to fuel the anger in her and she didn't know if he was joking with her or making her slit his head off his body. The nerve of that person.

But she couldn't help but agree with him a little. He helped them out at war, whether he wanted to or not. He did make it apparent that Madara was his enemy too and it made use of it by taking grant of the help the joint Shinobi war to get rid of the man that should have been dead for a long time. She didn't know which side he was on during the time and even now.

"Well?" she could feel the veins in her forehead making themselves known by pulsing. He's pushing her buttons. The grip on her kunai tightened, as her glare intensified.

The two of them were just staring at each other, not moving at all from their places in front of one another. It was as if they were trying to make their once in a long time reunion last. But Sakura knew better, it wasn't like that. She wasn't the girl who believed there was always a bright side to everything; she had seen the ugly side of the world after her participation in her harsh Shinobi war.

Part of her was urging her to ran to him and slash his limbs off for what he had done to her and Team 7. What he did to the village to achieve his so called revenge. Many lives had been wasted for him and he didn't seem to care. He wasn't the same anymore, he changed into the worse. A rogue Ninja and a monster that kill anything that got in his way to avenge his clan.

But half of her, her heart for the matter, understand why he did that. She had known why Uchiha Itachi had murdered his own clan alive. Naruto and Kakashi had told her that, only her and she had respected Itachi to keep it to herself. And it must have been hard for Sasuke to know that, seeing as he respected his brother since a kid and tried so hard to kill him all his life and to only realize that he did it for him and he killed Itachi with his own hands.

And the elders were still alive, living and breathing while Itachi was dead. To tell the truth, she hated them. She didn't even look at them anymore whenever they came inside Tsunade's office. She had tried so hard to stop herself from smashing their heads in the wall of the room but they didn't deserve to cover their blood on the Hokage's office.

Times seemed to fly while she was in her own world and she wondered why Sasuke hadn't bothered to interrupt her or attack while she led down her guard. What was he thinking standing and looking at her with a blank face like that? She never knew.

She sighed and stood in her usual stance and put her kunai back into her pouch behind her and she was more than aware that the Uchiha had raised his thin black brows when she did that. She knew what he was thinking.

"Go, I don't want to kill you." she took in a breath and closed her eyes, seeming to think about what she should say to him. Emerald eyes revealed themselves under her eyelids and stare at him with confidence. "If anyone who deserves to die, it's the elders."

He stayed silent as he stood in his place. Sasuke didn't seem fazed by the fact but Sakura could sense the slight flickering of his dark cold eyes. She could have sworn she had seen some emotions there.

"So you knew?" he asked with a slight surprise.

"Kakashi-sensei and Naruto told me." So they really did told her, but by the fact that all the nations still came after him and people still hating him, the two had only told Sakura about it, and he was a but thankful she didn't spread it out. She respected Itachi and Sasuke respected her for that.

"Does that mean you're letting me go? That's strange; if you know that then maybe you would try harder to get me back."

"After the times that I had tried, I knew enough that you wouldn't want come back to the village that had killed your family. And after what you had done to us, I want nothing to do with you anymore. Having you in my life only brings me pain." She turned on her heels and proceeded to walk away from him, from the pain that they were separating again. She just could get over this like she had done many times he walked away from them.

After a few steps he asked something that she didn't know she could answer.

"Do you hate me?"

The question hung in the air for a while as silence engulfed the two former teammates. She stopped her movements and just stood there, with her back to him. She could feel his eyes piercing through the back of her head but she just ignored it. She hoped that it was just a stupid question that slipped out of his lips to piss her off and that he would just forget about it.

"Don't ignore it, Sakura." Her hopes were crushed. Why couldn't he just her leave, wasn't that what he wanted. Did it please him to see her struggle? But the way he said her name, it made something in her snap and she refused to think what it was.

With as much courage as she could pull, she turned around to face him. The two Shinobi looked at each other dead in the eyes, both not wavering.

"What do you think?" she responded and broke their eye contact when he was met by her red shirt on her back again as her feet made contact to the grass below them, walking towards her original destinations.

So, she was escaping his question. He would be just fine for that but this was something that he needed to now, his instinct was telling to do things that were the opposite of this minds lately since the war ended, the moment Madara had fall onto the dirt bloody ground in front of his red eyes.

His body flickered and disappeared. Sakura could feel a cool wind brushing her sides and she wasn't surprised to see him in front of her in a flash, she didn't even blink. Instead, she glared at him, which didn't make a difference to his face at all.

"What the hell do you want from me now!? I told you to go and leave me alone! I want nothing to do with you anymore! Don't you understand!?" she yelled at him, making the anger in voice clear to him that she wasn't in the mood to deal with him.

"I understand."

"Good!" And she walked pass him. She didn't even hit her third steps until he grabbed her wrist, his grip making it apparent to her that he didn't intend to let her go anytime soon.

"But I'm afraid I can't do that." He whispered to her and even with her raising anger, she had to raise her eye brow at that.

"What do you mean?" he didn't answer. She furrowed her eyes. Now she was sure he was doing this to piss her off. The young Kunoichi wriggled her hands out of his grasp but he didn't loosened, only tightening them to a grip that threaten to crush your bone and it could, she just wondered why he didn't.

Focusing Chakra into her hands, she finally escaped his hold.

"I'm letting you go and now what, you want me to fight you?" he just smirked and it didn't ceased her raging temper one bit.

"Okay, if that's what you want." She pulled out her gloves and put it on, gripping and un-gripping them to warm up. She reached behind her to grab her previous kunai.

"Let's go!"

And with that the two ninjas dashed away to thin air, the grass underneath them scattered around by the force of power they pushed to their feet. Soft thud echoed the forest as the trees made contact with the sole of Shinobi sandals. Kunai flew out from each of their hands and wisped in the air.

A loud clang was made when the pointed sharp edge of the objects touched each other and fell down. It didn't even touched the ground until it disappeared again and was relocated in the pink haired Kunoichi and the last remaining Uchiha's hands as they landed on each tree in front of each other, just a few meters distance between them.

Sakura gritted her teeth and dashed away again, reappearing behind Sasuke and throw him her leg. Cold air made contact with her skin as he disappeared to the ground below them. She fell down and spun around to land on her heels, stood up straight to stare at him.

It didn't take long for him to do a few hand seals that she was more than familiar with and shifted her feet to get ready. Her body stood in motion when his hands stopped at the tiger seal.

"Katon: Gokakyou no Jutsu!" a huge amount of fire flew out of his mouth and headed straight to her direction at a fast pace. Her feet pushed at the ground and lifted herself up to the air, a gush of wind brushed her as Sasuke flashed behind her.

She lifted her left leg and made a round house kick behind her but he caught her leg with ease. Sakura twisted her body to the side a little as her arms reached and grabbed his head, which he was surprised at, and throw him to the ground below. A loud thud was heard when his body hit the ground, cracking from the Chakra that she had used in her move.

She cursed at the trunk of a tree that he used as a substitution when she landed on the ground.

"You think that you can beat me with that?" she snapped her head upward and looked at the smirking Sasuke on the tree branch, his arms crossed and not a scratch on him.

"You haven't seen half of me yet." She countered with a smirk of her own, which caused the Uchiha to lift his brow in amusement. With that, his eyes started changing to a red color as the Sharingan made itself appeared in his eyes.

'Good, he thinks of me as a threat enough to use his Sharingan.' She leaped off the ground again the same as Sasuke hoped off the tree and dashed to her directions. She grabbed a shuriken from her hostler and threw it at him, which was countered back by another shuriken.

Kunai and Katana faced against each other as they stopped just a few inches away. Their grip on their weapons shook as their force pushed against one another.

"You're getting better." Sasuke commented bluntly and the corners of her mouths tugged up into an arrogant smirk.

"I'm not the little girl that you guys protect from years ago anymore; I'm my own woman now." He could feel himself smirking when she said this. She really did change; she was her own sixteen-year-old Shinobi. He could tell she was as strong as Naruto now. He wouldn't doubt her abilities for a second after all the training she had been doing, how he knew of this was another story.

But he still needed to rile her up some more if he wanted her to reveal her true power. She was still soft. "I couldn't actually tell the difference." She glared at him and they dashed away again, landing another few meters away, the ground screeching when they pushed their feet onto it to stop.

"Don't underestimate me!" she yelled out to him.

"Hn…" and he flickered away again and appeared behind her. A cold feeling ran up her spine again at the familiar stance and positions. He had knocked her out it this; he had tried to kill her in this too with his Chidori.

She turned around when she heard the familiar chirping of lightning from behind her but instead of a light blue hand coming at her; a hand grabbed her from the back of her neck when she turned around as the Sasuke that she turned to face disappeared in a puff of smoke.

'Shadow Clone—' she rasped in her mind as the hold on her neck tightened and lifted her up to the air, her hands desperately trying to pry his fingers off. Her breath hitched as she was having difficult to breath in and out with the grip on her neck.

"What were you saying again?" he taunted. All that came out from her mouth was choking sound. He loosened his grip a bit to let her speak.

"Don't—" she said hoarsely. "Underestimate me!" and what was in his hold ended up in a cloud of smoke. His eyes widened when he felt her Chakra behind him. Fisting her hands, she lifted up as it glowed in a light green color and punched him but that didn't work because he knelt down and spun his feet under her to sweep her own feet off the ground.

She jumped and lifted her right feet as far up as she could.

"Heaven Kick of Pain!" and the ground cracked open when her feet landed on top of the man under her. Pebbles and rocks flew around from the impact. She hoped onto a tree and looked down. Her eyes flew open when she didn't see any body of Sasuke anywhere on the crater that she had created.

A hand on her left shoulder startled her and she turned around to face him, but no one was there. She quickly dashed down when she felt him rapidly approaching her.

They clashed with each other, with their hands aiming at their opponents. Her hand caught his fist as his caught hers. They stared into each other eyes, betraying no emotions what so ever.

"You can hold your own better than I thought." He said and her eyes flared with anger.

"I told you I'm not a Genin anymore!" she glared at him hard. Something in his eyes sparkled and she didn't have time to figure what he was before he leaned in and brushed his lips against the side of her left cheek, her eyes almost flew out of its socket when his lips made contact on her skin.

Sasuke pulled back with a smirk on his face as she stared wide eyes at him in disbelief. 'Did he just—' too bad at that slight moment of shock caused her to let down her guard and her world went black when she felt a slight pressure on the back of her neck.

Her body went limp and Sasuke caught her with his arms around her waist, the smirk never leaving his face as his eyes went back to its original color.

"You still let your feelings get in the way, Sakura…" he whispered. As expected, he received no response and he shifted. His arms went under the back of her knees and the other went around her back to carry her in a more comfortable position. Drops of water fell down from the dark sky and hit him lightly as he walked with the pinkette to his place.

"Let's go to our home…"

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Next Chapter:New Home

Cold air hit her body as the blanket that was covering her fell down to bunched up on her legs as she bent them to put the sole of her feet on the bed. The pink haired medic shivered from the chilling temperature, making her wonder where she was to be this cold with no air conditioner, fans or air in the room.

That was until she glanced down and her big emerald eyes flew opened to a point that was not normal.

Holy shit, she was practically naked!

"Kyaaaa!"

A/N: Yeah, not a great review huh? Well, this story got stuck in my mind for a long time and i needed to get it out in my head. I got stuck with the name, you know? I can't decide between 'Behind The Cold Eyes' or 'Behind The Cold Exterior'. The first option kinda sounded cooler but the later covered most of the story. Help?

Please enjoy and review on what you think. I'll update faster that way.