A/N: Just what the world needs. Another Sasuke-returns-to-Konoha fic. Enjoy.
I'd finally returned. Finally, after five long years, I returned to the Hidden Leaf Village. I was home.
Sure, the Hokage punished me. Sure, the citizens resented me. Sure, my home and the Uchiha district was as empty as ever, save the dust. But I was home. And now I could set the rest of my life into action.
When I killed Uchiha Itachi, my one living relative, my one brother, a humongous weight had been lifted from my shoulders. He was gone from my life for ever. His only future was to rot on the ground where I left him in a pool of his own blood. It's what he wanted; that's why he spared me so long ago. He deserved what he got.
I walked the streets that first night back in Konoha. All was quiet. Few lights were on though it was only about nine o'clock, then again, Tsunade had said many of the ninja had just returned from exams. Inwardly, I smirked to myself.
"It was meant as a trap, and you fell right into it."
Chuunin exams. It seemed so long ago now. I couldn't help but wonder how Naruto and Sakura were. Shortly after I returned, Tsunade had been rambling drunkenly about how surprised they would be that I had returned. I half wondered if the Hokage herself would remember in the morning. Probably not.
Soon enough, I found myself hopping across the rooftops without a single sound to give me away. I could not go home just yet. I had to find the answers to my question.
As I sat on the ledge outside Naruto's window, I discovered an empty bed. It was for the best, anyway. He could yell at me when he returned from his mission, the dobe. Still, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed that he wasn't there. If I saw a familiar face, maybe I wouldn't feel quite so hollow inside. Over the past month, the month that I knew for a fact that Itachi was gone from the face of the earth, the gaping hole in my heart had begun to repair itself. Things seemed to be looking up. I made a mental note to tell that to Kakashi later.
Again, I jumped across rooftops. Again, I sat on a window ledge, this time, Sakura's. She lay on her bed, facing away from me, her nose in a book. She certainly looked much different. She was taller, older, and fuller. Even I couldn't ignore the widened hips and fuller chest that she had acquired over the past five years.
But I couldn't talk to her now. It was late, and judging by the jounin vest hanging on the back of her door, she would have a busy day tomorrow. I smirked to myself, a familiar, now realized feeling making my heart swell.
"Until tomorrow, my cherry blossom…"
A/N: Yes, that is the end. I tried to get the reunions back in there, but they were awkward. If I get enough requests to continue it, I will, it'll just be a short, fluffy fic. XD