The moment he stepped through the doors to the Hokage's office, he realized something. He would never be accepted back into this village. But he had to try. Because he had nothing left to do. His eyes met the Hokage's briefly before she said, "What do you want, Uchiha?"

She didn't seem to be on alert even though his presence was known throughout the tower. He felt another presence in the room. His met with jade. They were flat and expressionless. He ignored her, he always did and continued down. He threw a group of papers down on the desk. Tsunade riffled through them before gasping and saying, "Sakura, come here."

She complied and he was greeted with the sight of his ex-teammate's face, much like her eyes, flat and expressionless. She saw the papers and said nothing. Thought he could've sworn her eyes widened.

Tsunade looked up at him and said quietly, "Is this real?"

He shrugged in a nonchalant way and said, "Sure."

Tsunade flashed a look at Sakura, she let out a shrill whistle. Sasuke was surrounded by ANBU in a few seconds. He didn't resist capture. He looked at Tsunade and Sakura and said, "I seek amnesty. I don't want to fight you."

The two women said nothing, simply looked at the seventeen year old who looked much older. His eyes were dark and the only think they seemed to show was the dark, black obsidian of the Uchiha eyes and his face was gaunt as if he hadn't eaten in days. Sakura had said nothing to him the whole time.

………….

"Teme…" a voice drifted to him. Sasuke had been in his cell for a few hours. He had been dozing off.

"Naruto," he said in a flat tone.

He opened his eyes slightly to look at his former teammate. Naruto was older looking, more mature. His blue eyes were serious but that wasn't the only thing that was slightly… off about his teammate. Naruto's arm was set in a sling and his other arm was holding a crutch. As Sasuke recalled, Naruto healed abnormally fast, so why was he hurt now? Also, the numerous lacerations and scratches on his face and arms that weren't covered in his trademark orange and black jacket. Then a fairly large gash that went up his forearm.

"What happened to you, dobe?" he muttered, still unemotionally.

A blonde eyebrow raised, "Concerned?"

"Of course not. But why aren't you healed already?" he asked, not bothering to keep up that ice-block mask.

Naruto frowned slightly and said, "It seemed that Sakura found a way to repress the Kyuubi's chakra so that other people can operate on me. I was pretty messed up when I came here so she used all her chakra to heal the major wounds but couldn't get to the other ones so she managed to suppress it's chakra. She's out now so she hasn't been able to undo the seal."

Sasuke looked slightly confused.

Naruto chuckled slightly and said, "I wouldn't expect you to know. Sakura's the go-to person for things regarding evil chakra, cursed seals, and genjutsu. Not to mention number 2 medic nin around. I'm actually pretty surprised that she wasn't the one to seal you."

Sasuke shrugged. But maybe she would know why the cursed seal was still there even though its creator was gone.

Naruto seemed to sense what Sasuke was thinking because he then said, "If you want to see her, you'll have to get off with probation or something. I seriously doubt that she'd visit."

One black eyebrow rose in an unspoken question.

Naruto chuckled, "It's not really that complicated. You're dead to her."

You're dead to her. The four words echoed unmercifully through his mind. So that was what he had become to the one person who loved him more then anything in the world.

Naruto appeared to be satisfied with the amount of things for Sasuke to mull over and left.