My first real story. Sorry for my weird, repeating sentence structure.
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Winter had come. The entire village of Konoha had become laced with snow; trees and lakes crystallized by ice. It was as if nothing else was occurring at this point in time, everything else had stopped to witness the beauty that the snow and the ice created. It was about ten at night, all was dark – save for the white gold protruding from the unclear night sky.
Twenty year old Haruno Sakura had just finished her work shift, met by exhaustion. She had over-worked herself so much these last few years, as there was not much else in her life that was consistent; never changing. Almost a year ago, Naruto and Kakashi had been stationed in Suna, since the village of Iwagakure had not been very loyal to Suna – and had attacked their shinobi squads rather frequently. Gaara had asked Tsunade for help, and of course she would only send the best.
Sakura had seen them every now and then, when Tsunade would give her escort missions which would eventually lead the clients to Suna. But it had been five months since she had been given one of those missions, and she had now been left to working at the hospital. Sakura felt as if everything she had done up to now was useless – she felt that she should be in Suna with her former teammates.
But that was not what fate decided; after all, she is Konoha's most esteemed medical shinobi, apart from Tsunade herself. She had no other choice but to be the head doctor at Konoha Hospital. It was exhausting, but Sakura had always been the one to do it to herself. She never accepted help from others unless she absolutely needed it.
So here we are, into the present.
Sakura had been about half-way home.. when all of a sudden, she noticed something. A very faint - yet familiar chakra had been coming from the Uchiha compound. It was about a block away from where she was right now.
She stopped dead in her tracks.. Sasuke.
What was she to do? Her chakra was rather depleted.. and there was nobody in sight that she could notify. Most of the Konoha shinobi had been on missions, and Tsunade was probably in bed by now.
Sakura had no other choice. She built up her strength, and began towards the Uchiha compound, quicker in pace than she had been walking before.
She reached her destination. Rusty, broken gates had met her eyes. The Uchiha compound was so desolate, having not been occupied for more than a decade. The buildings had been vandalized, covered in graffiti. Almost all of the windows on the houses had been broken. This would be thanks to Konoha's teenagers. A few years after Sasuke had left, it had become the hot spot for late night drinking escapades.
Sakura had been to the compound a few times, so she knew her way around. It was her favorite place to be when Sasuke had left. The lake was a wonderful place to be alone, and at peace. Nobody had bothered to go there, save for the occasional rotten teenagers.
Sakura closed her eyes, and focused on the location of Sasuke's chakra. She was so glad that she had masked her chakra constantly, otherwise she may have had a rude awakening by now.
From what she could tell, Sasuke was by her favorite spot – the lake.
Kunai in hand, Sakura quietly rushed towards his chakra.
When he came into sight, she hid in the trees. Sasuke was sitting at the edge of the short boardwalk. No emotion was visible on his face, he just looked completely.. empty.
But then, he disappeared, so quickly that you would have believed he was an illusion, vanishing in thin air.
She panicked. He was right behind her.
"Sakura."
She turned around, to be met by blazing sharingan eyes. Her energy began to fail her.
"...Sasuke..."
And with that, her world turned black. All was cold, yet she felt a small amount of warmth.