Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I just ADORE it.

By the time she had turned 16, Sakura Haruno was only sure of one thing and that was the fact that she wasn't really sure of anything. Life in the village of Konoha meant that nothing was for sure. After all, they were a village of ninja. You could wake up one morning and your best friend is dead or your life could be in grave danger in a matter of seconds. People went missing all the time and people died all the time. That was life. Nothing was safe and nothing was for sure for the most part. But don't think that life as a ninja in the hidden leaf village was all fear and unease. Life was actually quite peaceful at times, especially on this day as Sakura headed early into town to run some errands before her shift started.

On her way to the Hokage's office, Sakura had stopped at the Yamanaka flower store to pay a visit to her long-time rival.

"Hello Ino-pig!"

"Yo! Billboard-brow! Morning off?"

"No, I'm heading there now actually a bit early, maybe I'll get to end my shift early."

"I hear you there," giggled Ino, "working with flowers is such a drag."

"Ha ha." murmured Sakura sarcastically. If only she had decided to become a florist for a living…

"SAKURRAA-CHANNNNN!" yelled a voice behind her. She didn't even need to look to know whom the flash of yellow and orange coming at her was. Naruto appeared before her, grinning at her with this fox-like smile.

"Ohaiyo Sakura-chan! Me and Sai were just on our way to get some ramen for BREAKFAST, wanna join us?" As if on cue, an unusually gloomy looking Sai appeared behind the grinning jinchuriki.

"Well…er-"

"Great!" shouted Naruto, as he grabbed Sakura's wrist and pulled her towards the Ichiraku ramen shop.

"He dragged you into this too?" mumbled Sakura

"Do I really need to answer that question?" Sai replied, giving a good excuse to the sulking look on his face.

At the ramen shop, Sakura didn't have to think much for Naruto was doing all the talking. An hour or so passed of ramblings about missions and ramen when Naruto turned to Sakura and said,

"Hey Sakura-chan, have you uh…talked to Sasuke lately?"

"Sasuke?" she replied, snapping out of her daze, "Er, no I haven't." This was the truth actually. Sakura didn't care to admit that she had been avoiding Sasuke ever since he had come back to Konoha, or might she say dragged into Konoha completely unwillingly. She figured it was partially because he might have blamed her for him being so forcefully brought back. The other part was due to the fact that well, Sakura wouldn't really know what to do even if she had talked to Sasuke.

"Well" said Naruto, quickly trying to change the subject, "Who votes Sai pays for breakfast!" Sakura had finally found the chance to politely sneak away from the two, who were now in a heated argument about who should pay for the meal.

Finally! Thought Sakura to herself. The last thing she wanted to do was spend the rest of the day listening to Sai and Naruto shout at each other. So, Sakura decided to walk home for a little while, taking a shortcut over the bridge. She stopped and gazed at it, remembering how familiar it had been four years ago and how often she would see his face…

"Stop thinking about that Sakura," she whispered to herself, "Those days are over…"

When Sakura got home, she took a hot bath and lay in bed. Soon, she found herself drifting off to sleep.

"Sakura." A voice was calling out to her, but she couldn't quite find where it was coming from. It sounded familiar, too familiar….

"Sakura…." The voice called out. But it was farther away now. It was fading away.

"NO! WAIT! COME BACK!" she yelled. All of a sudden, she felt somebody behind her with a chakra that was all too familiar.

"Sa-Sasuke?" Her voice was barely a whisper.

"Sakura…" he said again. She could feel the cold of a knife at her throat….

Sakura awoke with a fright, her eyes blinking rapidly as reality began to sink in. Sakura sat there for a moment longer and a cold chill ran down her spine. Looking towards the window, the pink-haired kunoichi laughed to herself.

"Baka! I left the window open!" she exclaimed a little too loud and laughing nervously, she closed the open window and sat back down. Taking a deep breath she looked at her bedside table. It was 11 o'clock.

"Shit I'm going to be late!" yelled Sakura running out the door. She had a feeling that this day was going to be a particularly long day. Little did she know just how right she was.

Sasuke Uchiha really hated days like this. Days when the sun was shining and people were going about in the street below him and he was confined to his dark apartment, sulking. He would never admit it, but he really missed having some kind of social interaction with well… people. Who wouldn't right? He missed the sun on his face and the smiles of the people in town and even the silly little missions he used to go on as a kid with Team 7. But, those days were behind him. Sasuke was 16 years old and the shadow of who he used to be was far behind who he was now. He was taller, stronger, faster, and less in touch with anything that had to do with emotions.

Ever since he had been forced to come back to the hell he called Konoha, he had been planning a way to escape. Sure Itachi was dead and he really had nothing to do he did have one goal: to find his next goal. That sounds completely ridiculous but Sasuke had to admit that he had no goals whatsoever. Being on surveillance 24/7, however, wasn't aiding him in his search for a purpose at all. Especially on days like this.

After taking a quick shower Sasuke walked to his dresser, pulled out some clean clothes, and changed quickly. As he padded his way to the kitchen, he looked at his list of who would be babysitting him today. He secretly hoped it wouldn't be that woman with the curly brown hair who tried to jump him at every moment possible but he soon changed his mind when he found out who actually was going to be babysitting him.

"Fuck…"

"You want me to what?" yelled Sakura. Her face felt hot with something that was anger and something that was disbelief. The folder in front of her shouldn't have been that big of a deal for it was a simple surveillence mission. But it had nothing to do with WHAT it was it had everything to do with WHO it was for.

"Uchiha Sasuke was your old teammate, ne? He's been bickering me about the types of people I hire to watch his arrogant ass so I figured you'd be an appropriate candidate. It won't be that hard of a mission, Sakura." she said, rubbing her temples. "It's just for the day, so please, I have one mother of a headache and I don't need to hear any of your grievances at the moment."

"Yes hokage sama." sighed Sakura. Gathering what composure she had left, she headed out the door of the Tsunade's office and made her way out into the street to Sasuke's house cursing the whole way there.

A/N: Sorry if it was too short and uninteresting. I promise it will get better! It's my first fic and reviews are much appreciated! Just try to be kind, yeah?