Hello This is an attempt to make a longer, more serious Fanfiction. Just a bit of a warning though, there are quite a few spoilers.
Disclaimer: Kishimoto owns all, bow down to his greatness.
Here goes nothing!
2,5 years after Sasuke left Konoha to join Orochimaru, Sasuke killed Orochimaru.
For the next five years he was not to be sighted again, but someone had been killing of Akatsuki members one by one and they were now completely destroyed.
It had taken months before the Anbu stopped looking for Sasuke. After that, very few people believed that he would ever return. Even Sakura and Ino had lost all hope after three years.
No one believed that he was ever returning, well no one except a certain blond boy.
Uzumaki Naruto sat alone in a bar near the main entrance of Konoha. He sat there twirling his glass with half dimmed eyes. Just like he'd been doing every night for the last four years.
Occasionally he went of on missions with leads about Sasuke, but as these had gotten fewer and fewer over the years, he ended up at the same bar.
The first weeks he spent his nights getting liquored up; Sakura had desperately tried to get him to leave. However Naruto had grown both in size and in strength, so her efforts were quite pointless. Thus he ended up at the same bar, with the same drink, sitting at the same table, alone.
He could hear the door to the bar opening, but didn't care enough to look up to see who it was.
The person walked up to the bar disk and as she ordered a drink, Naruto got the strangest déja vu from her voice and he looked up.
The girl had shoulder lengthed raven hair, and as she turned around Naruto almost choked. She looked exactly like Sasuke. Naruto hadn't had any interest in women, and the only relationship he'd had was a short fling with Neji. That had gone quite badly though, when he had said Sasuke name in bed. A lot of times.
Getting back to the girl, he felt himself blushing as he looked at her. She was wearing a short black skirt showing of her beautiful legs and a dark blue, fitted shirt.
The girl didn't pay him any notice, she probably didn't even see him, since he was sitting in a dark corner, alone and silent, drooling just a bit.
All eyes in the bar were turned to the dark haired girl, but she didn't seem to take any notice of them. Naruto figured she was used to it, but didn't manage to get any other decent thoughts into his head before he fell asleep. As usual.
When he woke up the sun was shining brightly outside the window and he was being poked gently by a waitress.
"Naruto, get up, it's almost none" she said with a soft voice.
When he only responded with a grunt, she yelled in his ear.
"NARUTO"
"I'm up, I'm up" he said with a sleepy grin. The waitress sighed and walked off, telling him to go home and get some decent sleep.
Yawning he left the bar to walk the 600 metres to his apartment, not to sleep, but to go and get his stuff for training. Luckily the Kyuubi inside of him didn't need much more then a few hours of sleep, so neither did he.
After getting all of his stuff, he proceeded to go to the training ground. In the back of his mind he could sense that he had forgotten something, something about last night, but it was all a blur.
On his way he met Hinata. She had not quite gotten over her crush on Naruto, but she no longer blushed while talking to him.
"Hi Hinata-chan" he said to the shy Anbu captain.
"Naruto" she said with a smile.
"Where are you of to?"
"People have reported that a stranger has gotten into Konoha, and I'm in charge of finding that someone"
Something was ringing small bells in the back of his mind, but he could not get what.
"Well I have to go now Naruto, see you later. If I ever find this girl that is" she said with a smile and within a few seconds she had rushed out of sight.
Ok, something was really ringing bells here, big, loud bells.
"OH!" he practically yelled and the people around him stared at him as though he was insane.
It all had come rushing back, the girl from last night. His first thought was to tell Hinata that he'd met her, but she was already out of sight long ago.
Instead he decided to go to the training ground, telling himself that he would tell her later.
After return to his apartment and getting a hot shower, Naruto steered his steps towards the usual bar.
When he entered the room, he scanned the place for the girl, but couldn't see her. He sighed and walked over to one of the waitresses, asking for the usual.
A few moments later she returned with his order and he thanked her happily. He walked over to the dark part of the bar and sat down at his usual table.
Today though something was not as usual. Strange, he though to himself, same table, same drink, same extra chair with someone sitting in it…wait?
He looked at the usually empty seat, seeing someone sitting in it.
He hastily stood up, and was just about to apologize when his eyes met the girl's in front of him. It was the girl from last night.
"Uhm…I…sorry…this table…eh…" Naruto said, incapable of making a sentence that humans can understand.
The girl just stared at him, and when he looked into her dark eyes he sensed a bit of anger, surprise and something else he couldn't quite place.
Before Naruto had time to react, the girl had gotten up and walked off, exiting the bar. Naruto's brain didn't have time to think anything through, so Naruto simply walked of after her.
As his brain caught up to the fact that he was simply following a strange girl, quite stalker like, he stopped. What was he doing?
Sighing he decided to return home, he wasn't in the mood to be in that bar.
Totally caught up in his own thoughts, he didn't notice crack in the pavement and tumbled quite un-ninja like. Only his quick reflexes saved him from falling face first onto the ground, he grabbed onto the closest thing and hoped it wouldn't brake.
This resulted in Naruto pulling the thing over himself and smacking his head in the pavement.
"Great, just great" he thought.
"Dobe!" came a frustrated voice from above him. His eyes shot up and he saw the girl from earlier over him.
The girl made an attempt to stand up, but her wrist seemed to be sprained and she failed, falling back onto Naruto's chest. The second attempt went better and she managed to stand up, as did Naruto.
"I'm so sorry, I'm such a cluts" Naruto apologized.
"You dobe…I mean it's ok" She started walking of, but Naruto stopped her by grabbing her healthy wrist.
"At least let me help you with your wrist…"
She pulled herself loose.
"Let go of me, Naruto" she almost screamed, trying to push Naruto away, but only managing to hurt her wrist even more.
"How the hell does she know my name? I have to take her back to my place to question her, especially since even Hinata is looking for her"
"You are coming with me, you're a stranger here and you have no right to be in Konoha"
"The hell I am" she started to fight him.
"Man, she's strong!"
He decided that he had to knock her out to be able to get her anywhere.
As she fell to the ground, she poofed. Naruto's eyes grew wide at the sight of the man laying in front of him.
"Sasuke?" he whispered.
To be continued, I hope. Please review!!!