Chapter 1:

Hi everyone, this is my first time writing a fanfiction, I did my best, so I hope you guys like it. Please review, (I appreciate constructive critisism, please do not critisize without motivating, (eg. "This shit sucks" - without saying whhyyy...) Well have fun reading it:P (its a sasuhina story btw.)

I'm Back

He felt the wind blowing through his hair, the wind full of hope, fire and leafs. A wind he hadn't felt in 4 long years. He had missed it more then he ever would be willing to admit, had missed the environment, the safety, and even – did he dare say it? – the man he called his best friend.

He was scared, through all of these years being away, never being scared, not caring, after killing his brother, he was scared now. Scared of the rejection he knew would soon come, the rejection by the villagers was one thing, he could care less, the rejection of his old classmates, would sting but not enough worth mentioning.

No, Uchiha Sasuke was scared of rejection from the few people that actually accepted and respected him for whom he was, not just based on his looks. The rejection from his old sensei, Hatake Kakashi, but mostly the rejection from his old team-mate, the friend who never gave up and never stopped looking for him, he was scared of rejection from Uzumaki Naruto.

He was thinking these thoughts while standing on the hill, looking over the village from a distance, feeling the wind blow through his hair, he understood this was the last piece of freedom, being free from worries, he would have for a long time. Maybe even the last ever. He sighed one time, deeply. Then he slowly but decisively started making his way to the village he had so missed all this time. "Konoha, I'm back" he whispered silently to himself.

He kept walking, now closing in on the entrance gates. He was actually a little bit curious about how the guards would react when they saw him, Uchiha Sasuke - long time missing nin - just walking into the village. He wondered if they would just try to kill him immediatley, or maybe just beat him up badly and then throw him into prison to rot. When he thought these thoughts a small frown appeared on his face, making him almost miss the fact that he was at the gates now.

When he noticed this he just stood still, staring at the place he had missed so badly, yet never desired to return to before his mission was accomplished. He stayed like that for another couple of minutes before deciding he couldn't just stay out there all day, whatever was gonna happen would happen sooner or later anyway.

While having these thoughts in mind, he stepped into the village.

That day was a quite day, at least the ANBU-captain on guarding duty thought so far. He was resting against the wall into the village, while having his ANBU team scattered around to report in the hourly check. He was one of the youngest ANBU-captains Konoha had ever had, and even though he didn't boast about it, everyone knew he was quite proud to have accomplised this. While thinking about how everything had turned out fine for him, his team started reporting in.

"Hyuuga-sama, reporting in" his team-mate said, while bowing on his knee to his captain.

"What is it Shino?" the captain answered, even though he might have appeared relaxed and like he was not paying attention, the people who knew him knew it was the opposite.

"There is a missing-nin approaching the village, standing just outside the main gates, what are your orders?" The Aburame-nin quickly spoke.

"Which nin? But you are one of my best ANBU yet you don't start protocol immediatley, you know the protocol, so what makes this different?" Neji asked with interest, as he said Shino was one of his best ANBU and would no doubt start protocol immediatley, so something must really be special about this case.

"The nin in question is no other then Uchiha Sasuke" Shino's voice calmly spoke.

No more then 10 steps past the gate had he come, when he felt many different chakras approach him in a quick speed. He was actually surprised that they hadn't stopped him the second he stepped past the gates. He was alert, even though he had decided against fighting back, he just didn't want to be slaughtered the first thing when he came back.

"Drop your weapons Uchiha" A voice snarled to him. He saw the man, an ANBU-captain he noticed, that spoke to him. He knew he recognised the voice, he just couldn't place it, and obviously he couldn't see who it was since the man was hiding behind a mask.

"I will drop my weapons when you tell the two men behind me to stand down, I'm not here to fight." The Uchiha calmly stated while never breaking eye-contact with the captain.

"Hmph, he is still as arrogant as he was when he left" The Hyuuga thought while smiling behind his mask, not showing the surprise he had that the last Uchiha actually sensed the two ANBU behind him, they were experts on masking their chakra, and could only be sensed by very skilled shinobi. He gave the signal for the men to stand down.

As soon as Sasuke sensed the men stepping down, he had no choice but to take of all of his weapons, he put his katana on the ground. As soon as it touched the ground he was pushed harsly from behind and felt shackles being places on his hand, he realised they were chakra-restrainers. He didn't struggle against it, accepting his fate while still keeping his pride.

He was quickly pushed away from the main street, and he was half-carried by the ANBU towards a big red building he recognized as the Hokage-tower.

"Leave!" The hard, yet feminine voice of the fifth ordered.

All the ANBU, including the captain, left the moment she spoke the word. Now it was just Tsunade and the last Uchiha left in the room. He looked straight at her, refusing to look at his feet like most people would do in his situation. No, Uchiha Sasuke was definetly not most people.

"So, you came back" Tsunade said with a grin on her face, while observing him closely.

Sasuke knew that even though she spoke lightly, there was no way he would get away with just a small reprimand.

"Hn" Was the only reply Tsunade got, and for some reason she smiled at this, even though she had never met the boy (for she still thought of him as a boy for he was not yet 18) she had heard a lot about him from the ninja in the village, especially the loud mouth blonde ninja with the name Naruto.

"Uchiha, you better sit down for it seems like we'll be in here for a little while" She said, still with a grin on her face for she knew what the reaction would be of the blonde brat, she could not wait to tell him. But first things first, the Uchiha's punishment.

The famous blonde ninja (or loud-mouth, which ever you prefer) was walking through the streets of Konoha, he had just returned from a mission, which he completed succefully with only a few scratches to show that he had actually been away. As usual he hurried through the streets to reach the Hokage tower so he could hand in his mission report, he always hurried when he came back, all because he wanted to go get his precious ramen at Ichiraku's. He hurried through the streets, saying hello to fellow ninjas he had teamed up with in previous mission, not suspecting that this day would be different from the other days he came back from a mission.

"Umph!" In his hurry, he hadn't been watching out where he was going and crashed into someone. While apologizing over and over, he reached his hand down to help whomever he had knocked over. He was surprised, however, when he saw that it was a girl with white eyes and raven hair he had knocked over and helped up. "H hina-chan, I'm soooo sorry!" He quickly apologized stuttering in his embarrassment, to the Hyuuga heiress.

When she realised it was Naruto who had knocked her over, she quickly blushed.

"It's ok Naruto, I'm sure you did not mean it, it was probably just as much my fault." She quickly smiled at him. He was as surprised as ever that she didn't stutter, even though she had gotten rid of it a long time ago, shortly after the Chuunin exams she got more confidence, and there the stutter went. Even though she was more confident, even around Naruto (her long-time crush), she could never help her endless blushing, which would explain why Naruto thought she had a constant fever and shouldn't be walking around... ever.

"Well, I'm sorry, I have to hurry to the Hokage office, returning my mission report, and then it's time for RAMEN!!" He yelled the last part out, pounding his fist in the air, and therefore scaring the shy heiress who stumbled back a little bit. She smiled up at him, even though she was taken by surprise with his sudden yelling, she felt her always-there admiration for him bubble up again.

"Hey, Hinata, would you like to join me for ramen maybe?" Naruto asked, even though he was not especially close to the white eyed Hyuuga, she was good company and he didn't want to be lonely today, he always got like this after a mission, because he would remember the times when him and team 7 still did missions together and always went for ramen after it was completed. It was painful for him to be alone after missions now, especially since Sakura was so busy in the hospital all the time, and Sasuke... well you know.

Hinata taken aback by this sudden request just stood gaping at him for a second before she realised what she was doing. She blushed (yes, it's possible for her to blush even more) but still managed to nod her head, accepting his offer.

"Ok then! I just have to bring this to the Hokage's office, and then ramen it is!" Naruto said, while he started walking towards the red building in the centre of town, pulling Hinata along by holding her sleeve.

After a short while he released her sleeve and they continued to walk, she quickly hid her disappointment and focused on keeping up with him, for he was still in a hurry and didn't bother slowing down just because he had company now. He told her about his mission, while she listened, paying attention to every word he said and smiling up at him.

"Naruto! Hinata!" A sudden voice was heard over the crowd, and a pink haired kunoichi appeared, waving at the two.

"Hi Sakura-chan" Naruto said while giving her a hug. She just smiled at him while giving the shy Hyuuga heiress a hug as well. "Sakura-san" was all Hinata could exclaim before she was almost crushed to death in the heart-warming hug Sakura just gave her, Sakura sometimes forgot her own strength when it came to hugs and things like that, it was because she was Tsunades apprentice it was demanded that she possessed power like that for self-protection.

"So, where are you guys headed?" Sakura asked, while walking with them.

"Tsunades office, returning a mission report, how about you?" Naruto told her, while continuing walking at a fast pace, Hinata followed, a little less then a step behind the two. She didn't like feeling like a bother, so she kind of stepped out of the way, believing they wouldn't notice anyway. Even though she had built more confidence, she still had trouble sometimes to not feel like a nuisance. When people tried talking to her about it, she just brushed them off, unconsciously making her friends angry at her father, for they knew that he had something to do with her confidence-problems, with the way he raised her and all.

"Oh! I walk you, I need to talk to her about a patient, he has been giving me so much trouble. Denying us helping him, he had this fractured rib that when he..." As Sakura continued telling the story about the patient fracturing his rib and refusing some types of treatment, Hinata couldn't help staring at the person she was walking next to, even though Sakura was a very good friend of her, she was little bit sad that she didn't get to spend the time alone with Naruto like she wanted.

It was true that maybe her crush had dimnished a bit over the years (even though she was not fully aware of that), she still admired him greatly and wanted his attention, she sometimes envied Sakura because she was beautiful, had all Naruto's attention, and was very clever (and a good kunoichi). In that way Hinata was a bit naive, she did not believe that she was those things Sakura was, even though most of the male population in Konoha would dissagree immediatly if she would mention it to anyone.

They had finally arrived at the Hokage tower and entered together. They followed Naruto's usual routine, just stepping into Tsunade's office before knocking.

"Tsunade obaachan! Here's my mission report!" He put the report on her table and smiled at her. She was a bit surprised and scared of how Naruto would react by finding out that Sasuke was back in this way. After no response from Tsunade, he turned around looking at the door, not understanding why Hinata and Sakura didn't follow him. They saw that both had frozen in the entrance and were staring at the same spot in the room.

He followed there gazes and suddenly understood their shocked expressions.

On the chair he saw the man he had been looking for, for 4 years now, sitting calmly, smirking up at him. The man he had dreams about retrieving, helping to get back to the village. The man he never gave up on, the one he thought never would try to hurt him.

Yes, Naruto was a bit naive about the last part, but still he was baffled about seeing the man he looked for so long, just sitting there. In the background he heard a faint thud, Sakura fainting (he didn't realise that was what had happened until later), and Hinata worrying about her. No, Naruto could only focus on one thing now, the man sitting in front of him, staring at him, with a smirk.

Underneath that smirk he noticed the worry in the young Uchiha's eyes. The worry about being accepted back, he knew those eyes all too well, he had had them when he was still a kid and all the villagers had frowned upon him. He was in shock, otherwise he would have been making so much more noise instead of just standing there gaping. For the first time in his life, he really did not know what to say, think or do. He just looked at the man in shock while he whispered silently.

"Sasuke-teme..."

So this was it, the first chapter (I might rename it, and the story later, we shall see). So what did you guys think? Please review, I want to hear thoughts and constructive critisism. This first chapter is not really about the romantic story yet, as you can see, more of an introduction of How Sasuke comes back to Konoha. The next chapter will have more of that, more of an outline to the story.

So thanks for reading anyway, see you next time;)

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(And yes, I know I havent updated for two weeks, From next week I will update every week AT LEAST, probably maybe every three days, depending on my school, test week is coming up sooo... , well just wanted to tell you this because I have been busy, vacation so being abroad, studying and other such nuisances. But I will be back...)