Hey! This is my first fanfic! Hope all of you who read this enjoy it and also check out my favourite authors for there are some great stories!
I love Naruto, spend all my time watching it or reading and now writing slash, my obsession fuelled by my undying love for Sasuke, and I wish I could have sex with him… in fact I do in my Beta's story: The Greatest Evil by Ashes Of Stars. It's a Harry Potter/ Naruto crossover. READ! Lol… ok read one of our stories.
Thank you…
Ms. Uchiha/Tomoe-Betrayal-Sophie-Pigeon… (Ok… So my Beta wrote this intro…)
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO…oh but the possibilities would be endless if I did!
Things I never said: From my mind: Flashbacks and thoughts...
The blanket of black that hung in the air was cold and the sparkling diamonds that clung to it were scatted around like players on a football pitch. The curtains of the 20 year old mans bedrooms were open causing the curtains to flap about in the wind. He liked the cold it helped him think.
Sasuke sat up in his bed, thinking about a pink haired girl. He scratched his head at the thought, as he couldn't't figure out why she had acted the way she had for the past few days.
'Why is she acting like this?' .His onyx eyes stared at the ceiling, but he soon got bored of that and let the image of the pink haired, emerald eyed young woman come in to his mind.
'Why the sudden change? What have I done wrong?' Sasuke turned over trying to get comfortable again. 'I should be glad that Sakura is ignoring me, I hoped for so long that she wouldn't't bug me the way she did. Why am I so pissed off that she isn't paying attention to me now?' He had an angry expression on his face and he opened one eye to look at the bedside table to see what the time was.
Sasuke turned over trying to get comfortable again.He had an angry expression on his face and he opened one eye to look at the bedside table to see what the time was.'12.57 am'
"Why should I worry? I know that she still has a crush on me and that she loves me, it's just a little phase she is going… WAIT! WHAT THE FUCK AM I THINKING!" Sasuke opened his eyes in shock. He had just said that out loud, he was thankful that he was in his room and not out in the streets of the village.
He sat up and pulled the covers off his body and walked to the window. He lifted his topless body on to the window seat; his body had become more muscular over the years.
He looked up at the stars as he placed his hand on the cursed seal mark that Orochimaru had given him whilst team 7 when in the forest of death, during the chuunin exam.
'Sakura was the one who looked after me after Orochimaru had bitten me. She was the one who welcomed me home when I came back from Orochimaru' he smirked
Flashback
Sakura and Naruto were waiting at the bridge, at team 7's meeting place, waiting for Kakashi, as always. Sakura noticed two figures in the distance, she recognized one as Kakashi but couldn't see the other figure clearly. As Kakashi and the unrecognized figure got closer, she shook her heard in shock. She turned to Naruto.
''Naruto is it just me or does that person with Kakashi look like Sasuke?'' she asked as her heartbeat got faster. Naruto turned his gaze upon Sakura's point of focus and his jaw almost hit the floor, he was shocked. He couldn't help but clench his fists as Kakashi and the unknown person finally reached the bridge.
''SASUKE!'' Sakura and Naruto Shouted in unison, Sakura sounding shocked whereas Naruto had a mix of shock and anger in his voice.
''Hn!'' By that one little recognizable grunt that came from the unknown persons mouth, Sakura just couldn't't move, she reached in her weapon pouch and lifted out a kunai and stabbed her finger with the sharp shiny end.
"I'm bleeding, it is real, and it isn't a dream!" She accidentally said out loud and received a weird look from Kakashi.
She ran up to Sasuke and hugged him as hard as she could; she felt a salty liquid trickle down her cheek.
Sasuke was finding it hard to breathe. He was about to ask her to get off him, but then he felt his shoulder becoming wet with a salty - watery substance. She was crying, so Sasuke decided to say nothing. As he remembered of what she had said to him before he left the village the words repeated in his head 'I understand now. If you leave it would be like solitude to me, Sasuke-kun'. A small smirk appeared on his face, he was glad to be home again, he had missed his important friends, in a way.
Sakura let go of Sasuke after five minutes, she looked at him and gave a weak smile, but Naruto was the opposite to Sakura; he wanted to kill Sasuke and out of no where, Naruto punched Sasuke as hard as he could, that set Sasuke flying through the air. It was only when Sasuke hit the side of a building did he stop and Sakura ran over to him to see if he was alright.
'WHAT WAS THAT FOR?'' Sakura shouted at the top of her lungs to Naruto as she helped Sasuke up.
''WHAT? DID YOU THINK THAT I WOULD FORGIVE HIM AFTER EVERYTHING HE'S DONE TO US!'' Naruto shouted back, his face bright red with anger.
Sakura lowered her head thinking about all the times that she had cried for Sasuke. She felt a sharp pain in her chest as she lifted her hand up to try and stop the pain.
''Naruto, Tsunade knows about his return and he is going to punished, so there is no need for that.'' Kakashi said as he put his orange book in to his back pocket.
End of flashback
Sasuke looked down to the cherry blossoms in his garden, another image of Sakura popped in to his head ''Sakura is cute though, I must admit…………. But she is still annoying, like when she was younger' He thought, adding the last part to make sure he wasn't losing his coldness towards her.
Sasuke shut the window and walked over to his bed and got under the covers. He closed his pitch-black eyes and tried to sleep, it was now 2.00 am, but he couldn't get the thoughts of Sakura out of his mind.
'WHY CANT I GET HER OUT MY HEAD!' He shouted at himself, with his Sharinghan activated. He rolled over on to his side and thought about what happened yesterday.
Flashback
Sasuke was walking home after a long days training in the woods, when he noticed Naruto, Sakura and Ino at Naruto's favourite ramen bar. He slowly walked over as his body ached from the tiring training he had just finished. Naruto greeted him first.
''Hey, Sasuke-Bastard, come have some ramen'' Naruto shouted. Ino gave a funny look at Sakura who smirked and winked at Ino. Sasuke saw this and raised an eyebrow at the two girls. He was expecting a big smile and a ''Konnichiwa, Sasuke-kun'' from Sakura but it never came so he decided to make the first move, FOR ONCE!
''Konnichiwa, Sakura!''
No response
''Uh….. Sakura?'' he asked with a troubled face.
'' Oh… its YOU, SASUKE!'' Sakura replied in a very rude way, making the last two words louder and turned her back on him for effect.
Ino and Naruto had wide eyes at what Sakura had just said to Sasuke who wore a shocked face. They all had noticed that Sakura had left 'Kun' of the end of his name that normally she would never forget. 'Did she forget to put the 'Kun' on the end of my name or did she mean to leave that off? And what's with her today? It cant be her time of month, I remember her taking everything out on Naruto last week and then apologized for be a bitch because of her period!'' Sasuke thought to himself for he had a come back for her being so rude to him.
''You're annoying'' he said with a devious look swept upon his face; He wasn't ready for what he was about to hear.
''Oh Sasuke, grow up!'' She spat with a childish grin but it was soon washed off when she saw the expression on Sasuke's face; He couldn't believe his ears, nor could Ino and Naruto. Sasuke's expression dropped and he lowered his head in thought as he sat next to Naruto. A smile appeared on the blonde boys face for he felt himself about to burst; he couldn't hold it in any longer.
''HAHAHAHA, THAT SHUT YOU UP, IT NEEDED TO BE SAID! HAHAHAHAHAHA, SASUKE - BASTARD!'' Naruto shouted while trying to breathe because he had laughed so hard.
''Shut the fuck up baka, Your acting more like a child than me.'' Sasuke said in his calm, cool tone.
'' HEY, WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCK, BACK OFF TO OROCHIMARU, IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR ALL OF US!'' Naruto screeched from the anger of Sasuke's last comment as he smacked his hand down on the ramen bar.
''Naruto, there was no need for that, that was plain nasty, both of you stop it.'' Ino said trying to calm the argument down and she looked towards Sakura, who was starring in to thin air as a tear rolled down her cheek and into her bowl of chilli-beef ramen that was going cold. 'Shit, I have to do something quickly!' Ino thought desperately.
''Hn'' came out of Sasuke's mouth as he smirked evilly, then punched Naruto in the jaw, that sent his previous team-mate flying over the bar to the cooking area. Ayame screamed as she dodged the flying Naruto coming towards her and after recovery Naruto jumped up and screamed from behind the bar, "SASUKE-BASTARD!'' Ino quickly stood up but before she could say anything…
"ENOUGH!'' Sakura screamed with pain and anger in her voice with hot tears pouring down her face. Everyone in the street had stopped to see what the commotion was all about the distraught Sakura ran off towards her home .
"SAKURA, COME BACK!'' Ino Shouted worried about her best friend but she couldn't leave Naruto and Sasuke to get in a bigger fight, so she stayed behind to sort things out between her to male friends. She looked at both of them with a worried look on her face for as Naruto and Sasuke stood dead still, everybody in the street shot weird looks at the two.
Ino looked at their expressions, Naruto had a sad look on his face, 'Probably because he feels guilty for making Sakura upset, he shouldn't have gotten involved with in it in the first place.' Ino thought. She then turned to Sasuke who had an angry but confused expression and this made Ino felt the most guilty one of all 'I shouldn't have given Sakura that Idea! Sasuke doesn't have a clue what's going on but I can't tell him that I told her to act that way towards him. I didn't know that she would go that far and I will be to blame if anyone finds out!' Ino thought to her self as she lowered her head.
"Sasuke, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gotten involved.'' Naruto said whilst jumping over the bar and walking towards Sasuke who nodded his head in return.
"I'm sorry too, I went over the top.'' Sasuke apologized blandly.
Well, Naruto sure wasn't expecting that and took a step back not noticing the stool lying on the floor behind him, he just couldn't believe his ears. All of the sudden, Naruto felt himself falling backwards and he didn't have much time to react. He fell on the floor with a big 'Thud!' Ino giggled at this and it made her cheer up a bit. 'I have to go see Sakura, to make sure she's ok' Ino thought after she stopped giggling.
''Right, I have to go and check on Sakura.'' She said to both of them.
Sasuke nodded and Naruto decided to go with Ino and they left the ramen bar walking in direction to Sakura's Apartment, and Sasuke left too, looking in the direction of Ino and her small blonde friend.
''Ino…..?'' Sasuke asked in a calm tone loud enough for Ino to hear and both people in front of him turned their heads to look at him.
"Can you ask Sakura what all of that was about?'' Sasuke demanded with a concerned tone as he turned and started to walk in the opposite direction, hands in his pockets in a typical Sasuke fashion.
''Hai, Sasuke-kun!'' Ino replied, noticing that it was more of a demanded than a question from Sasuke and carried on walking beside Naruto.
End of Flashback
Sasuke thought that Ino would get back with Sakura's answer of why she acted the way she did, But Ino never did which pissed him off, she could have phoned or popped by and told him. 'Shikamaru was right 'Women are troublesome'… I have to stop thinking about this, it's driving me crazy!' He thought to him self, quickly changing his thoughts to some Itachi, his older brother and his clan came to his mind, but he had to get the thought of his brother away from his thoughts, he was already angry enough. So Sasuke started to thinking about restoring his clan, he was now 20 years old and soon he should be thinking about the right woman to ask for they're hand in marriage. He thought about all the girls that he knew and had a little friendship with, but he only had four friends that were female, 'There's Ino but I cant ask her, she is with Shikamaru. Hinata, but she is too shy and wrapped up in Naruto, hmmm… Tenten but she is going out with Neji and there's only one left……………Sakura, I don't know what's going on with her right now!' He sighed running a hand through his hair and he couldn't ask any one from his fan club 'They're even more annoying than Sakura.' He sighed once again and turned over with the whole Sakura thing out of his mind and slipped off into a dreamless sleep.
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At Sakura's Apartment
Sakura sat in the corner of her dark living room with her head low, her arms leaning on her knees and held both hands with the other as she thought about her one-sided love for Sasuke. 'I didn't mean to be so mean to him, when I saw him walking up to us, I panicked, I didn't know what to say.' She thought to herself as tears began to fall again and let her gaze slide up the wall to the clock; it was 2.30 am. She needed sleep but had already failed to sleeping 10 times that night, thoughts travelling through her mind stopping her from sleeping, 'I don't want to play this game anymore, but he's just so mean to me. I don't know what to do… I have to fight back' She wiped the tears away from her cheeks and remembered the plan that Ino suggested enthusiastically, that she had used on Shikamaru bringing the two together.
Flashback
Ino and Sakura sat in they're favourite coffee shop, where they would talk about love and all they're problems in they're lives. They sat in the back corner of the cafe so no one would over hear or disturb them. Sakura blew on her hot coffee and took a sip and as Ino watched her friend as she took a bite of her chocolate cheese cake noticing that something was wrong with Sakura. Ino put her plate of cheese cake down, "Sakura, is something the matter?" She asked tentatively.
"Huh? Sorry Ino, I was miles away…" Sakura said, shaking her head out of her thoughts.
"Is something wrong?" Ino asked again and placed her hand over Sakura's who lowered her head at the thought.
"Sakura, you can tell me? Ino squeezed Sakura's hand that lay under hers, a warm invitation for confession.
"Yeah, Sasuke said some nasty things to me again today.'' Sakura sighed as she finished her sentence with Ino looking at her with utmost concern.
Sakura felt her throat become dry, she took another sip of her coffee slightly burning her tongue, before she started to tell her friend what had happened.
"Me, Naruto and Sasuke were training together, I through a kunai at Sasuke from behind thinking that he knew that I was there, but… He didn't and…and…It hit him on the arm. He …" She paused to wipe the tears away that were forming in her eyes, "… had a go at me… he said that I was too weak to be a ninja and that I was annoying. And he's right , I am …. weak. I should hand in my notice as a ninja. He doesn't know how much it hurts when he says those things to me Ino!'' Sakura's eyes began to sparkle as the tears filled up her vision. Ino pulled Sakura by the hand and gave her a warm friendly hug and as she did this she rubbed Sakura's back.
''Your not weak, you're one of the strongest people that I know. You've been giving the one that you love your love, life and soul for nothing in return. Now that's what I call being strong. I know that I couldn't do it.''
"But Ino, I don't think I can do it any more...'' Sakura mumbled through her sniffles.
"Don't give up, not after all these years! Why don't you play him at his own game!" Ino asked, with a smile on her face remembering the time given Shikamaru a run for his money.
"HUH…what do you mean?" Asked a curious Sakura, while turning her head towards Ino, the heavy toll on the pink haired girls heart easing Ino's suggestion.
"Sakura… do the same thing that he does to you, fight back. Don't let him see that it hurts. Ignore him for a while and when he notices that he no longer has your love, he'll come running to you. Instead of you chasing him, let him chase you!" Ino said with a small smile, girlish excitement brewing inside of her tall thin body.
'Are you sure that that would work on him, Ino?'' Sakura questioned, uncertain at Ino's plan, for Sasuke was a very smart man, albeit troubled.
"Of course it will! I did the same thing to Shikamaru, and Shikamaru hates women because they are, and I quote 'TROUBLESOME!'" Ino giggled as she made speech marks in the air and relished in the undignified approach to women, "And now look at me and Shikamaru, We are happy and getting married next December!" Ino said in a high pitch excited voice and Sakura only responded with a clench on her friend's hand and a beaming smile on her face.
End of Flashback
Sakura noticed that her throat was dry, she got up and walked to her kitchen and sat at the kitchen table, deep in thought for while. 'Was Ino's idea working? Why is he so mean to me all the time? I just don't understand!' But even though it was killing her slowly, she was going to use Ino's plan for one more day and tell no one to get involved in it.
"Why Sasuke? Why? WHY!'' She screamed the last word as she broke down with floods of tears and started banging her head on the table; Her head hurt after that, but not as much as her heart did. And laying her head down on the table she thought about the past day's events.
Flashback
Sakura ran as fast as she could to her apartment, bumping in to people as the tears blinded her but she didn't care she needed to get home and out of the streets, she needed to think…alone. She sobbed whilst running up the stairs that lead to her apartment and as did she quickly opened her door and slammed it shut. She leaned against the light blue door and slid down to the floor sobbing for 15minutes straight, until….
KNOCK! KNOCK!
She stopped and held her breath and starred at the picture that hung on the wall opposite her. It was a picture of team seven and Kakashi Sensei when they became Genin's. She gave a weak smile at the picture remembering the first day as in her new title 'Genin Sakura' but she quickly lost her smile and froze when she heard Ino, "Sakura, we know that your in there, please, let us in?" Ino said in a soft voice and as soon as Ino had finished speaking, Sakura thought 'WE? US? OH MY GOD! Sasuke might be out there and heard me crying! SHIT !'
"Sakura, Sasuke asked me to tell you that he is sorry and he wants to know what's wrong? He's worried Sakura!" Ino said through the door, she hinted that Sasuke wasn't with them and hoped that Sakura would open the door to her and Naruto.
But there was still no response, this time Naruto decided to speak.
"Saaakuuuraaa - chaaan, please open the door?'' Naruto said in the happiest voice he could muster trying to weald her out
No response.
"Sakura…I'm really sorry about earlier, I couldn't help it, its just that Sasuke gets me so mad when I see the way he treats you, Sakura! Please open the door, I promise I wont get involved in an argument between you and him again. I know that its not my place" Naruto said in a sad voice.
Still no response.
Finally it went silent, Sakura couldn't hear the voice of her friends so she looked through the key hole to see if they were still there.
They had gone, she lifted her self off the floor and slowly walked to her bedroom and flopped on her bed her hair scatted over her pillows, she lay there as her eyes slowly shut and she fell asleep.
She awoke around 9.00 pm.
End of Flashback
Sakura had a headache and felt tired so she got up and walked slowly to her bedroom however once she stepped over the threshold she felt sick and she became very cold. She took one step forward a loud yell escaping her lips and fell, leaving her unconscious and alone in her apartment; She had just pushed her friends away through silence and there was no one to scream for now.