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To be Loved Or Unloved: Chapter 2:

"Acceptance Of Future Come"

Naruto gently stroked the soft feathery felt bangs belonging to a slumbering raven named Sasuke.

He can hardly move and his legs are numbing due to the folded position of his legs and his arms are starting to cramp up due to lack of movement and the blood vessels are squeezed under the weight of Sasuke's body that is half spread over the lap of Naruto's.

But he doesn't care because for seeing the ravenette in sleeping bliss, he is willing to see that it continuing this way.

After all, with the events that happened to Sasuke, who suffered a breakdown after breakdown.

"Who can bounce back to their normal life?" Naruto thought as he gazed out the window, displaying a view of the night cloudless sky bright by sparkling stars and a strongly illuminated crescent moon.

The door being knocked echo throughout the occupied ward, Naruto gave the permission to enter which result the door to open and giving way for Sakura and Sai to come and see how their wayward comrade is doing.

"He looks so peaceful sleeping there. When you came to visit, did he talk to you?" Sakura asked as she arranged back Sasuke's fringes while Sai arranged chairs to seated next the bed.

"He didn't. He was staring to ceiling, and his eyes seems darken with sorrow and despair that it is hard for me to see him so...I cannot describe of what I saw and I don't know what to do just to get his attention on me."

Naruto looked down to the cargo bundled so comfortably in his arms as if seeking the warmth exuding by Naruto.

"He started to cry and I tried to comfort him which leads to how I am in such an uncomfortable position but as long he is now sleeping, I don't mind. How about your end, everything went well?" Naruto inquired of Sakura's task to analyze Sasuke's condition while Sakura and Sai sat on the chairs.

"His injuries are healing well but rather slowly. That mostly due to his mentalilty and physique, suspected of depression and rather underweight for his physical structure. He is severely dehydrated and it seems that quite along of injuries he sustain while he had...I don't know if what he is having is due to time with Orochimaru or he did it to himself. It seems to be something esle in him but we are currently investigating the unknown object in him..."

Sakura clamped her hands into tight fists to the point it left marks on her palms as she explained the medical condition of her ex comrade, her anxiety over her ex comrade did not go unnoticed by Sai and Naruto.

Sai holds a soft assuring grip to stop Sakura of furthering damaging her palms which Sakura looks at him in surprise, only then she realized she is hurting her palms.

"Please, Sakura. Don't belittle yourself of not being able to stop Uchiha-kun from leaving his village." Sakura's green eyes turns to Sai's black abyss eyes as he gazed with an understanding glint.

"Maybe it is fate that he leaves the village even though he can choose not to leave but he left anyway. Reasons of leaving only Uchiha-kun knows and we will never know now but maybe in the future. For now, we help him get past his tradgies and his social stigma of hatred he has with Konoha," Sai advised with a soft but a determined voice to encourage Sakura not to feel belittle that she had not worked hard enoungh to stop Sasuke in leaving Konoha.

Naruto gave an assuring smile which he moved to place his hand on the clasped hands of Sai's and Sakura's.

But in doing so caused Sasuke to feel disturbed of the sudden movement and gripped tightly to the sleeves of his jacket with his eyebrows furrowed and mewling out of fear that he will lose the warmth he had sought.

Naruto quickly adjusted and slowly stroked on the ravenette's stiff but soft frayed locks who soon fell into soft slumber again

Sakura giggled at the child like features Sasuke had when he is sleeping and realising how small he is to Naruto's stature like he is designed to be fitted snugly in Naruto's arms.

As she gave a small smile, she soon takes rememberance of Team 7 memories. And she wonders after the rescue and retrieval mission of Sasuke Uchiha.

Will it bring a great change to future incoming Konoha?

"Why do I have a feeling that this is not over and that there will be reckoning in Konoha?" Sakura thought so somberly.