This thought occurred to me quite suddenly. Sakura isn't one of my favorite characters and neither is Sasuke. I don't know why I did this one-shot. Oh, well. Enjoy.


It's strange, one Sakura Haruno mused as she laid her once smooth and unscarred hands on the chest of another victim of the Fourth Shinobi War. Said victim sighed in relief as her green and cool chakra mended his particularly bloody wound.

In a twisted way, I own everything to… Sasuke. The more the pink-haired teen thought about it, the more it seemed true. If he hadn't left the village, if he hadn't been a power-obsessed, revenge-freak bastard, if he hadn't been himself, well…

The young medic shuddered as her patient started showering with praise and "thank you so much"s. He felt so much better, now that he didn't have a gaping wound on his stomach!

I'd still be a stupid, boy-clothes-looks obsessed moron.

A little peeved by her unresponsiveness, her patient waved a hand in front of her absent emerald green eyes. Startled out her thoughts, the Konoha-nin looked around wildly before realizing there was no danger and that her patient was merely thanking her. She managed a strained smile before quite literally shoving the previously wounded man out of the medical tent and once again losing herself in the contemplation of the things that might've been.

Let's see: if Sasuke hadn't spurred me with mean but true comments, I would still wash my hair six times a day, just for him, instead of cutting it and training to become stronger.

If Sasuke hadn't been so obsessed with acquiring the power to kill his elder brother, he wouldn't have left and I wouldn't have found my reason, my drive as Tsunade called it, to become her apprentice.

If I hadn't found the drive to become a medic-nin, I would've become a mediocre ninja, the unimportant, second-rate girl on the team of the Last Uchiha and the Kyuubi Jinchuriki. I wouldn't be "The Great Pink Haired Medic", the one who played a key part in the current war. I would be one of those who died on the battlefield, maybe one of the first. I would die with only one regret: that Sasuke hadn't noticed me.

So, in a warped and twisted way, I owe my current life to Sasuke. It's a shame that Naruto will have to confront and most certainly have to kill him during the war. I can't believe I was in love with that bastard. Pitiful. Pitiful, but necessary.

And with that final thought, she passed her head through the flap of the medical tent and beckoned another wounded shinobi to come forwards so as to heal him.


Let me know if like me, you think this is true. That without the betrayal of Sasuke and his general personlity, Sakura wouldn't be who she is, a bad ass medical genius. Review if you like! Don't flame, but give constructive criticism! Thank you.