Uchiha Sasuke. He had been an S-rank ninja ordered to be captured by the five great countries of the ninja world. He assasinated his older brother, Itachi, whom had killed the entire Uchiha clan single handedly.

He had become cruel and cold and had become a heartless creature that shouldn't be called human. His eyes no longer holded any light in them and his skin was usually cold to the touch as if he was indeed cold-blooded.

In missions, which she had never been with him in more than three years, were now terrifying to complete. He would kill if possible and often was the cause of the enemy giving them a reason to kill.

Mental torture was what he was now most skilled at; he seemed very proud of that fact and wouldn't think twice on using it on friends, or so-called-friends. After all those years of his absenses, it was hard to tell.

"Sasuke-kun?"

"What is it,"Sasuke responded emotionless as he practiced his kunai tossing, which Sakura thought it was a waste of time as he was and excellent ninja.

"Why don't you take a break,"she smiled sheepishly at the raven haired young man who simple turned his head to give her a glare,"You look worn out and you're gonna kill yourself if you over work."

Sasuke simply looked at her before turning and walking away. Most likely to his home.

Sakura sighed.

He always gave short answers, like a 'yes' or 'no' and a few phrases. Of course he hadn't talked much years ago, which was why she loved him so much in the first place, because it made him look cool and mysterious.

Now it was just cold and distant and heartbreaking to see him as the walking dead. Naruto was happy and seemed not to noticed Sasuke's personality change, or he was just ignoring the fact.

To the village, what matter was that they had Sasuke and not that he was dead inside. Sakura had been like that in the beginning, but it was like losing Sasuke for a second time and it killed her to think that.

"He's here,"she whisperd to herself holding a fist to her chest, refusing so desperately to cry,"Sasuke-kun is safe and in the village...he's here and safe...he is safe..."

She lifted her gaze to were the Uchiha had walked off to debating for a moment on what was going through her mind. Should she go after him like before or should she just let time do it's healing work.

That was just not an option now after so many years of depending on that alone.

Her decision was to go after him; she had always walked behind him any how and chaced after him for three years, a few hours of her day wouldn't do any harm. Hopefully, if he didn't decide to hurt her.

He wouldn't do that. He couldn't do that...not in the village.

In minutes she had made it to his house in the Uchiha compound. She didn't dare go rushing in on him, so she waited patiently for any sign of him from outside.

Hours passed and the day turned into night, but still she waited. It must have been a feeling because any other day she wouldn't have done it, but she just wanted to know. Something was wrong with him and she wanted to help.

If she could.

Then what she had been waiting for finally happened, but that was not exactly what she had been expecting. Sasuke hadn't even been inside the house and probably not even in the village for the last few hours.

"S-Sasuke-kun..."

Her lips trembled and her eyes started to water at the scene she was looking at from atop the trees.

He had gone after her.

Sasuke had gone after the red-headed girl with the glasses who he had been traveling with when going after Itachi's life.

A member of Taka; Karin.

He was touching her.

Sasuke had his arm around her shoulder and touching her hair as he walked her into the house. She looked happy as she was grinning like a total idiot as she flirted with Sasuke opening and running her hands all over him.

It hurt her, hurt Sakura badly like if Sasuke himself was digging a kunai into her heart. Her chest was pulsing and squeezing and stabbing at her heart. A single tear ran down her flushed cheek when she turned away.

She didn't need to guess why Sasuke needed the girl, but she could imagen it never happen. She could ignore it and just walk away from there, from him, from her past. Naruto was always asking for a date, she might as well give him one.

Sakura looked back at the house.

She heard laughing coming from Karin, but no sound coming from Sasuke. It made her wounder if he trully loved Karin or if he was just using her for his own selfish needs.

Sakura caught a glimpse of him, of Sasuke, and he seemed to have a smile on his lips. Her insides turned, but not in a way of feeling pain from getting betray by your love. No, it felt different than the heart stabbing pain from before.

The devil's smirk the Uchiha had on his lips made her mind race and her body burn with desire for the man. He looked like he was about to commit murder, and he was smiling; and Sakura was burning with passion.

She loved him in the passed because he had been mysterious and cool and in his own way caring of others.

But that was then.

Right now, in this precise moment, she had fallen in love with him again, but for a completely different reason.

Those dark eyes and that smirk of his at that moment in which he was thinking despicable things; she loved it, she loved him.

All of him.

The new him.

"Sasuke-kun,"his name was purred into a long seductive voice accompanied by a small wicked smirk and eyes that could be compared to that of a wild tigress,"My Sasuke-kun."