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She was curled on her side facing him. Her small, slim hands folded and tucked under her chin. She was so very close, her hands and knees inches from his own.

Sasuke watched the sleeping woman beside him. Her pink hair draped over her bare neck and shoulder, flowing out behind her, a-top the dark blue of the pillow. The contrast heightened by the soft moon light, that filtered in over her peaches and cream complexion. She was down right radiant...and for a moment she was all he could see.

Slowly he propped his head up, as he lay on his side looking down intently at her.

She had always been there for him, hadn't she…

When he had returned to the village after everything with Madara, Itachi, and the war, she had somehow still been waiting…well maybe thats an exaggeration, he mused.

The Askaski were gone, Madara dead for real this time and Itachi….. Sasuke looked away from the woman. He knew now what a fool he had been when he was younger. A complete fool. He hoped the last three years since his return had improved his foolish-ness.

He looked down again eyeing the woman emotionlessly. She was still annoying, especially when she got mad over nothing. He smirked slightly to himself, his eyes catching the light, but only just, something sparkled in the deep black pools.

He had been a fool in so many ways but in the last three years he was sure of one choice he had made that had not been foolish in the least; Sakura.

His free hand brushed her knuckles and then settled beside her folded ones. She had gotten so much stronger then he ever imagined she would. Stronger then he ever cared to admit.

He first acknowledged it a year into the Ninja War when she bruised his spine…

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She hadn't seen him for what felt like ages. Now after all this time they would meet again. Much to her dislike she could feel her heart begin to ache all over again for the sad avenger...

"NARUTO!" Sakura screamed. Sasuke cringed internally, but kept his carefully emotionless expression in-tacked. She was still annoyingly screechy.

She was speeding towards the two. Coming to a skidding halt besides Naruto.

The three stood in a vast grassy plain, with nothing to hide behind but a few large boulders embedded in the ground.

"Sakura I promised I would get him back! Today I'm going to keep that promise!" Naruto smiled, but his eyes remained narrowed at Sasuke.

"Naruto...there are bigger things going on then you and I." Sasuke said simply, before turning to walk away.

The War had already begun, months had come and gone, with many lives lost. Kohona leveled to rubble, all but the Hokage Tower. Madara was in hiding... again, and not even Itachi knew where he was. Poor Itachi was stuck in his weird resurrected form since Kabuto was somehow killed. Sasuke would come to find out later that it was Sakura who ended Kabuto's pathetic existence.

Sasuke was set on finding Madara and ending him, along with anyone else that pledged loyalty to him. He had made a mistake once with revenge but he planed to amend his mistake this time.

Sasuke expected Naruto to attack or yell something senseless about bonds, but was slightly surprised that it was Sakura who acted.

Seconds before she moved she whispered to Naruto to wait till she tried talking to him before acting impulsively. He had listened and was standing silently where she had left him.

She was in front of Sasuke moments after he turned his back on the pair. He did nothing to show his surprise, just stopped to look bored at her.

She was looking at him as if she knew something he didn't. She... actually looked smug, and arrogant, as if she could stand against him.

She stood in a hunch, ready to attack, with a smug smile and glinting green eyes. When she spoke however her voice did not match her appearance. She spoke almost gently, as if she was weighing her words and choosing carefully. It confused him for a moment but it never showed.

"Where... are you going to Sasuke?"

Sakura knew that one wrong move, word, expression and he would just vanish from there lives all over again. She had to keep him guessing, had to use the one thing that she had come to find out was the biggest weakness amongst men; curiosity. She wasn't sure if it would work on the arrogant Uchiha but she was willing to try.

"That is irrelevant." His eyes narrowed at her and he made a motion to continue walking.

"You going to kill Madara?" She knew all about what had happened and she understood what he would most likely be trying to do now. Revenge wins again she thought bitterly.

Sasuke saw no point in lying. "Hm." And began walking around her, but she kept pace remanning in front of him, much to his annoyance.

"You have done the revenge route before and to be honest we saw how great that turned out. Why r-" she was cut off, slammed down into the thick grass. Sasuke's Kusanagi sliced into the ground beside her head, making her flinch. His hand remained on the hilt, his other clutched painfully around her shoulder and collar bone. He knelt down close to her.

Naruto was on them in seconds a kunai at the back of Sasuke's head.

"What do you know of anything. Your pathetic...Sa...ku..ra..." He spat, his face empty but his voice dripped with hate. Hate for her she wondered?

She gave Naruto a look that made him realize that he was, again, trying to protect her and not giving her the chance to be strong. He instantly backed off and was out of her line of sight. Sasuke noticed but said nothing.

Sasuke expected many things from his interaction with the pair. He had expected Sakura to cry or argue perhaps, but defiantly not move her face up and closer to his. He felt his stomach drop for a second, as he glanced at her lips which moved to speak.

"I know a lot more then you give me credit for Sa...su...ke…" She grit out each syllable. "I have a proposition for you, if you are willing to hear me out." She refrained from adding some what more colorful name to the end of her statement. She was trying to make nice, long enough for him to maybe get the stick out of his butt and listen to her.

"You have nothing I want." He said simply. He could feel her breath on his chin and lips and it was beginning to annoy him more then if she had cried.

He moved to stand away from her. Sakura didn't like his last comment and was taking it a little bit more personally then she probably should have. Without really thinking she grabbed his collar and using chakra slammed him into the closet boulder, turning it to dust and rubble.

She yanked him roughly by the collar. "I know where Madara is you blasted moron! If you want any information, you rat, then you better play nice with Naruto and I. Got it?" The foul words were out of her mouth before she could bite them back and she knew she just lost her chance at ever getting him to cooperate.

Besides she didn't even know where Madara was. She was supposed to get intel from Shikamaru, from the Hokaga, about it in two days but it would be no guarantee and right now she needed cold hard facts to keep this Uchiha in place.

Sasuke shoved her away, shifting out of the rubble. He glared hatefully at her, his Kusanagi drawn towards her.

He didn't like a single word that came out of the once love struck kunoichi's mouth. Most of all he didn't like that he had let his guard down enough, with this woman, to be so easily attacked. Where had she learned that strength...he felt a sharp ache in his back...

"What do you know. Tell me or die."

"Screw you. You want my help you travel with me and Naruto. In three days time you will have what you want." She smacked his Kusanagi away from her face and glowered at him with fearless eyes. Kami I hope this works.

When had she gotten so...so… he didn't even have a word at the time to describe her when she got that way, and to this day he still didn't.

Sasuke, ever the people person, after much more bickering and a bit more name calling and fighting, mostly with Naruto, agreed.

Agreed is the wrong word, more like ordered.

"Very well you will accompany me, till I get what I want." It was the best choice at the time since he had no idea where to start looking, and it beat aimlessly wandering around when information was readily available. He could have just tortured Sakura to get the information, but then he would have to deal with Naruto if he killed her and mostly he told himself she wasn't worth the effort. Plus if trouble came they would always make good decoys.

Sasuke started this journey, with them, with one desire, one goal on his mind, but by the end of three days he wanted a lot more then revenge.

Just a bit to wet your whistle hope you enjoyed!

I bet your wondering why Sasuke and Sakura are sleeping together hm.. hmhmmm? Any guesses?

Suppose you will just have to leave a comment, so i'll post sooner, to find out ;)

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MGP