I do not own the anime Naruto, although, I wish I did. :

A/N: My other story, An Angel Floating Fast, I'm discontinuing that story. Although, I most likely will take my ideas from there to add on to this story haha. I'll keep An Angel Floating Fast up until I feel that most of my subscribers have seen it... perhaps for just a few months. I dunno, I'm quite lazy. Im terribly sorry for not continuing my other story, but I feel that Ive rushed the feelings between Sasuke and Sakura, and imo, I was stuck and it was too late to change it. I promise, I'll try to update this story as much as I can and finish it. Forgive me. :

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Chapter One - Memory

She was sitting down on her bed and she couldn't sleep... she stayed up all night, thinking.

"Sakura. Thank you."

Sakura inwardly gasped before her world slowly went black.

She remembered that time. When he left. She felt sad, yet happy. Sad because he left her, not letting her come along after she told him her feelings. To be honest, it made her a little more depressed rather than sad.

Happy because he left something for her. Earrings. To think Sasuke said 'thank you' to her and leave her something is surprising. And that something happened to be earrings is more surprising. Who knew Sasuke had such great taste. Sakura smiled. She wrapped her finger around the chain that held on to two small bells dangling from her ears. She loved the light, pure dinging sound she heard from them. Two small bells on both of the earrings made the sound more innocent to her ears.

"Sasuke." Sakura whispered under her breath. Sakuras alarm went off, she looked at the clock, unplugged it and threw it out the open window. "Damn alarm clock. I hate those annoying things." Sakura sighed.

"Annoying..." Sasuke appeared in her mind. He smiled. "You really are annoying."

"Why am I thinking about him so much today? Its been 5 years. I'm 17 now. But why am I thinking about him? He's gone. I know he killed Oorichimaru and Itachi because everyone was buzzing about it 3 years ago. And I was happy because I thought that maybe he would come back. I was wrong." Sakura looked up quickly, the bells from her ears dinging, she walked up to her calendar and ran her finger to the days date. "Today is... August... August 19th..." She slowly dropped her hand from the calendar. "No wonder... Today was when Sasuke left." A/N: I hate to ruin this depressing moment but yea, did they even say what day Sasuke left? I don't think they did, so I just made up a date haha. 'Kay back to the story.

"Geez. SAKURA!"Sakura cringed and slowly made her way to the window."SAKURA!"Sakura raised her arm and punched him into the ground, making a small crater. "I was right in front of you, you idiot, you didn't have to yell!!"

Naruto rubbed his head, "Geez Sakura, you could at least go easy on me, I just wanted to yell at you for throwing your clock at me." Naruto said with a grin.

"First off, that WAS going easy on you and I didn't throw it at you!" Sakura played with her right earring, making the music she liked most. "It went off, so I threw it out the window because it was annoying me."

"Sa-ku-ra-chan You DO know that you can turn off the alarm when it goes off, that IS what this button does on the side of it." Naruto said pointing to the gray button.

Sakura was about to punch Naruto in the head but lowered her arm. "I know! I just wasn't thinking."

Naruto closed his eyes in a pondering fashion. "You got that right."

Sakura smiled. Naruto really doesn't think before he speaks.

I didn't know he could think in the first place.

"Why are you smiling Sakura-chan?" Naruto said nervously.

Sakura raised her already clenched fist and added another bump to his head. "Anyway Naruto, today is a depressing day. Why are you so happy?"

Naruto turned serious. "I know Sakura. Sorry. But I came to your house for a reason."

"Oh...?"

Naruto nodded. "Uhhh, can I come in?"

A vein appeared on Sakuras forehead, "It's MAY I come in, Naruto!"

"Come in where?" he said confused while rubbing the back of his head.

"Never mind." Sakura said, giving up. "Come in."

Naruto clumsily crawled in through the window and sat on the floor while Sakura sat down on her bed.

"Sakura, I'm going on a mission with Chouji, Lee, Tenten and Hinata."

"Five people?"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah. The missions going to take a while to complete, and Im sworn not to talk to anyone about it besides my team mates." he said while putting a finger on his lips.

"Oh.. I see, so when are you leaving?"

"..." Naruto shifted his body. "Well I'm suppose to be at the main gate right now, but I couldn't leave without letting you know where I would be."

"I see." Sakura moved to the floor and hugged Naruto, "Have a safe trip" she said while smiling.

"Of course Sakura-chan!" he grinned back while giving her a thumbs-up sign. "I'm sorry I couldn't stay with you today to share memories of team 7 like we always do."

On the day when Sasuke left Konoha, Naruto and Sakura decided to remember the good times they had with Sasuke. Whether it be arguing or fighting, they were still good times because Sasuke was there. They decided to tell Kakashi-sensei and keep it between them, but Kakashi has been with the Kazekage for a year to help out with something. Kakashi would visit Konoha for a bit but he would often have a busy schedule so he wouldn't be able to stay long.

Sakura waved her hand passively, "Details, details. It's alright Naruto, I'm quite busy with stuff today. Tsunande-sama is working me to death."

Naruto grinned with slight sadness sewn into it. "That must suck Sakura-chan"

"No worries." Sakura quickly stood up and grabbed Narutos hand. "Come on, you don't wanna be like Kakashi-sensei and show up late."

He stood up with Sakuras help and smiled. "Yeah. I'll see you later Sakura-chan."

"Byebye."

Naruto disappeared in a flash.

Sakura sighed. "Honestly... Tsunande hasn't told me to do anything in days... but I couldn't tell Naruto that. I don't want him to feel bad about me. I don't want anyone feeling bad about me..." after a long silence Sakura cheered up. "OKAY! I'll just pass today's time by, by asking Tsunande if I can help out with anything!"

Sakura quickly ran out her house and locked her door.

"Oh, Sakura-san!"

"Mmmm?" Sakura turned around towards where the voice came. "Sai-kun!" Sakura ran up to Sai and hugged him tight.

"Sakura-san, I can't breathe..." Sai said after chuckling

"Gomen..Um, where are you heading now Sai?""I could say the same for you." A small awkward silence which seemed like 5 minutes stood between them. "Sakura-san?"

"OH! Sorry... um, I was spacing out." she said with a nervous laugh.Sai smiled. "Sakura-san where are you going?"

"Geez, I don't have a private life anymore do I? I'm going to Tsunande-sama to ask her if she can give me some small jobs to pass todays time."

Sai's smile faded. Sakura had told everything about Sasuke to him, so he knew why Sakura wanted to focus on jobs rather than today.

"Sai, Im gonna get going, I'll talk to you later okay?" Sakura smiled and started running so she could hurry and talk to Tsunande.

"Wait! I forgot to tell you something!" he called out, but it was already too late, Sakura was too far ahead.

"Damn... I can't catch up to her, I have an errand to do for lazy ass Shikamaru."

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"Shizune-san!"

"Oh, Sakura-chan. What's wrong?"

"Is Tsunande-sama in?"

"Yes, but-""Thanks Shizune-san!" Sakura said, not bothering to listen to what Shizune has to say.

She always says but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, b-

I GET IT!

Sakura stopped running when she reached the double doors leading into the Hokages room. "Ok. I'll just open the door frantically saying I'm extremely bored and I need something to do to keep me entertained." Sakura said to herself while smiling at her great plan. Besides, if she kicked the doors open, Tsunande would surely give more work to Sakura than she wanted.

1... 2...

3! GO!GO!GO!

Sakura quickly opened the doors, almost pulling them off their hinges. "Tsunande-sama! I'm bored, I need wo-"

"Sakura?"

Before Sakura could finish her sentence, her gaze slowly went to the person sitting in front of Tsunande.

"Sasuke...?"

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Well. R&R :D