Dangerous

By BelleDayNight

Summary: (AU) Sasuke had broken Sakura's heart and almost killed her in a fit of madness. Two years later, he sees her on television in the Olympic Games playing Taekwondo and starts to obsess about her. Their paths collide at college where he and Naruto play football. Can she help him solve the mystery of his parents' death and clear Itachi's name? Or is everything just an illusion? SakuSasu NaruHina, some Sakura Neji

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but the man who does, Masashi Kishimoto, is making me so happy right now with the direction of the series.


Chapter One:

"Wake up, you jerk!" Naruto shouted throwing open his roommate's door.

Said roommate groaned and threw his pillow at the loud-mouthed blond. "Leave me alone. Can't you see I'm sleeping?" He glanced at the alarm clock on his nightstand. It was seven in the morning—what could be so important? He just went to bed.

Naruto evaded the fluffy projectile with ease and slipped into his moody friend's room. He went directly to the flat screen sitting on his friend's dresser and flipped it on to NBC. "Seriously, you've got to see this," he said.

Realizing his roommate wouldn't take no for an answer the half-asleep young man rubbed his eyes and glared at whatever was so important on the television. "Better be an earthquake that sunk California or something as important as that," he muttered.

"Do you see who that is?" Naruto asked hopping from foot to foot in his excitement.

He would recognize that pink hair anywhere. In spite of staying up until five in the morning finishing his engineering project he was suddenly wide awake.

"It's the freaking Olympics! And Sakura-chan is in the freaking quarter-finals!" Naruto said grinning from ear to ear. "I haven't seen her in ages and yet I was just flipping the channels enjoying my wheaties and there she is! In the Olympics!"

And just like that - Sakura Haruno was in his life again. Because while he'd managed to not think about her for the past few months—finally—his roommate would now be a constant reminder.

"I've got to call Hinata. See if she's watching this," Naruto said rushing out of the room and back into the living room where now that he was awake the disgruntled future engineer could hear the other television sound rumbling an echo of the television in his own room.

Sasuke Uchiha—star defensive cornerback of Konoha University—former juvenile delinquent now had undeniable proof that the woman whose heart he'd ripped out and crushed years ago was doing just fine without him. And instead of getting a few hours of blissful, dreamless sleep he was staring at the television and watching one of his former best friends crush her opponent in Taekwondo.

It was interesting really, because that's how they all met. Him, Naruto, Sakura. They had known each other since middle school when they started Sarutobi's Taekwondo. He'd quit in high school when he couldn't juggle football and martial arts into his schedule. He thought she had quit when he did—since he was her motivation to take the class after all—but it looks like he was wrong or she joined back up again.

He watched as the referee held up her hand in victory and then as her coach—a white haired young man held out his arms and the victorious young woman leapt into his embrace to be spun around by the rejoicing coach. Then the coverage switched to another sport and he flipped off the television and fell back to bed and stared at his ceiling. Just when he thought he was over her, there she was on freaking TV showing she was just as happy and successful as he had hoped she would be.

He knew it was the right decision to end things with her. He'd have only dragged her down anyway. The corner of his mouth twitched upwards slightly and he found himself a little bit relieved to know that she was okay.

And then with a groan he turned on his laptop and went to NBC's Olympic coverage website and searched for Sakura's profile so he could cyber stalk her, hoping there would be something in her happy life that wasn't so happy. Because, he might have wanted her to be happy, but part of him wanted her to be miserable without him too. That's normal, right?


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"You did great, Sakura!" Kakashi said swinging around his student in a happy, victorious circle.

"Thanks, Master Kakashi! I couldn't have done this without you," Sakura said with a wide grin and her jade eyes sparkling in victorious bliss.

"And me," Neji, her male teammate said holding out his arms and receiving another jumping hug from the winning girl. "You wouldn't even be doing this sport if I hadn't talked you into it."

"True, true," she agreed holding his face in her hands, palms on his cheeks and planting a loud kiss right on his mouth. His eyes grew wide in surprise at the unexpected show of affection. She used his momentary loss of composure to let herself out of his hold and hooked her arms between the elbow crooks of both men and started to leave the auditorium.

Neji recovered quick enough to grab her gym bag, but was left speechless.

She wasn't sure why she kissed the prodigy. It wasn't like they were romantically involved, but she owed the young man so much. When she graduated high school a semester early and enrolled into Konoha University she didn't think she'd know anyone. To be honest, she was running away and didn't care to know anyone. The person she'd trusted most had just broken her heart.

Her high school career had gone pretty smooth over all. She'd been number one in her class, took several duel credit courses and by the time she was a senior in high school she had enough college credits to be considered a junior in college! She couldn't really blame her ex-boyfriend for breaking her heart; there was a lot of bad press around him at the time and while she wanted to stick by him because she believed in his innocence he didn't want her. She was always busy trying to earn her college scholarship by volunteering at the hospital, taking all the classes she could, heck she was even in band, but she'd always made time for him. She used to be in the same Taekwondo School as her ex-boyfriend and his best friend, but when they quit it wasn't as fun and she didn't have the heart and dedication to continue.

However, she had done one last tournament her high school junior year as a favor to her Master Sarutobi and placed very well. In fact she'd made such an impression that Neji Hyuga, the victor of the tournament remembered her, and when they ended up in the same Organic Chemistry class last spring during her first semester at university he'd been quick to introduce himself and recruit her to the school's Taekwondo team. And now, she was an Olympian.

Sakura looked first to her right at her coach Master Kakashi (he didn't want to be called by his last name claiming he wasn't that old) and to her left at Neji Hyuga, her closest friend aside from her roommate Ino. And that's when she realized, that while Sasuke Uchiha might have broken her heart two years ago, she was pretty dang happy right then and there.


A/N: This has been inspired from the latest amazing events in the manga…it had me so pumped that I decided to write a Sasuke x Sakura fanfiction. And I have to say, until I started reading JinnySkeans AU fanfictions I wasn't a fan for the Naruto series in alternate universe, but then as I was driving to work this morning the House of Heroes song Dangerous was playing and this idea popped into my head. And as I'm a black belt in Taekwondo and was pre-med in college I'll do my best to keep at least some of the details accurate. I hope you enjoy!