Disclaimer: Kishimoto-sensei owns Naruto, not me.

This one is SasuSaku.

Sasuke looked up at the pouring sky. Forgetting for a moment what he had come here for, training, he looked at the clouds and let the rain pour down his face, deep in thought. What would happen after he killed his brother? What then? Nothing would drive him on, to fight, to become stronger. What then?

He closed his eyes, the rain running from off his headband, over his eyelids. Then…Would he rebuild his clan? With who? Ino, the one that was always clinging around his neck? Not a chance. One of the rabid fangirls from the Academy? No way. Sakura?

…

Sakura…

Ah…Sakura. The pink-haired girl with the high forehead that was infatuated with him. She who could beat him or Naruto to a bloody pulp if she wanted (and always seemed about ready to, in Naruto's case, that is). The girl was weak, so weak during missions…Or was she? He had never seen her actually fight. In fact, he never really wanted to. He never wanted to see her cry like she did during the Chuunin exams, or as broken as she had been. Sasuke never really wanted the violent, bloody Shinobi life for her. He always protected her. During Zabuza's attempt at killing them and the bridge builder, during the exams when Orochimaru was ready to put a kunai through both of their heads, and when Gaara wanted her out of his way to get to him. There was one time, when she protected him, that he finally felt safe from the demon in front of them. She had made him feel wanted, and made him feel what he hadn't felt in a long time…

Cared for.

She filled him with annoyance, she aggravated him, and she made him feel almost whole. Annoying as she was, she still made him smile and live his life a bit happier. Her constant sweet, syrupy greeting of Sasuke-kun nearly made him laugh and made him ever closer to actually accept her as maybe…more than a friend?

Maybe, if his feelings grew…

Would they live happily together and rebuild his assassinated clan?

Maybe…Just maybe…The two of them might pull it off.

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-Dattabayo