Chapter Two – Memories

Chapter Two – Memories

Chapter Two – Memories

Flashback

Sasuke's P.O.V.

"Sasuke-kun, do you wanna eat ramen with me later on today? Like, on a date?" asked Sakura. We just finished up our first mission, and was walking on the newly built bridge.

"I think I'll pass." I said plainly.

"Sakura-chan! I'll go with you!" yelled Naruto happily.

"NARUTO! THAT WAS A PRIVET CONVERSATION! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!" Sakura yelled.

Kakashi-sensei laughed under his mask, and Sakura punched Naruto's head.

"OW!" he yelled.

After that mission, I was walking around the park, near the Konaha Academy. I saw Sakura there, admiring the trees.

She looked so peaceful, graceful, beautiful. This whole new feeling was building up on me, and I don't know why. What is the new feeling?

"Sakura," I said calmly. She turned around, and smiled a sweet one at me.

"Yes, Sasuke-kun?" she replied as I walked over to her.

"What are you looking at?" I asked.

"Some plants, each herb is one special seed. It can grow to be as tall as those big tress in the forest…." Sakura explained as she planted a seed to the ground. I saw how much care she put into it.

"Do you want to try?" she asked. I squatted down to where she was, and she placed a tiny seed into my hand. It felt like magic when her soft hands touched mine.

I placed the tiny seed on the dirt, and covered it up. Sakura patted it softly, and smiled at me.

"I've always wanted to plant things with friends… But, I don't have any." she laughed, but I could see the pain behind her hazel eyes.

"I…" I started.

"You should be training. You need to get stronger, as usual." she sighed as she got up. She gave me a hand, but I refused to take it. Instead, I just jumped to my feet.

"This'll be our tree…" I sighed, trying to make Sakura feel better. I always hate hurting her. "Maybe in a few years, like you said, it'll be as big as the ones in the forests."

Sakura smiled at me sweetly.

"It's a promise. We'll come back here in seven years to meet." giggled Sakura. She held out her pinky.

"What?" I asked staring at it.

"It's a pinky promise." replied Sakura.

"Oh…" I said as I wrapped my pinky around hers.

She smiled, and I couldn't help it, but I did too.

End Of Flashback

I still remember the memory as clear as I remember it. The way Sakura smiled at me, and the way I felt about her. It was almost so sweet I could taste it.

"Sasuke, get to work!" commanded Mardara. I snapped out of my thinking, and turned my head toward him.

"What." I said coldly.

"Don't give me an attitude, boy." snapped Mardara. "Get to work now, which means, get the gears on, and we're charging at Konaha in a few minutes."

I got up, and walked towards my weapons. Well, this was it. The last time I'll be in peace.

"It's time…" Mardara said. I grabbed my sword, and stormed out with Mardara and the rest of the team.

"May the best win…" I muttered as we started jumping from tree to tree.

Flashback

Sakura's P.O.V.

It was after our first mission, and we were walking on the bridge.

"Sasuke-kun, do you wanna eat ramen with me later on today? Like, on a date?" I asked sweetly.

"I think I'll pass." replied Sasuke coolly.

Inner Me: UGH!! NO, NO, NO!!

"Sakura-chan! I'll go with you!" yelled Naruto happily.

"NARUTO! THAT WAS A PRIVET CONVERSATION! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!" I screamed at him.

Kakashi-sensei laughed under his mask, and I punched Naruto's head.

"OW!" he yelled.

Inner Me: CHAAAAAA!!

I was in the park, plating seeds. I've always wanted to do that with friends-but I don't have any…

"Sakura," Sasuke said calmly. I turned around, and smiled a sweet one at him. .

"Yes, Sasuke-kun?" I replied as he walked over to me..

"What are you looking at?" Sasuke asked.

"Some plants, each herb is one special seed. It can grow to be as tall as those big tress in the forest…." I explained as she planted a seed to the ground.

"Do you want to try?" I asked. Sasuke squatted down to where she was, and she placed a tiny seed into my hand. Sasuke slowly placed the tiny seed on the dirt, and covered it up. I patted it softly, and smiled at him.

"I've always wanted to plant things with friends… But, I don't have any." I laughed, trying to hide the pain.

"I…" Sasuke started.

"You should be training. You need to get stronger, as usual." I sighed as I got up. I gave him my hand, but he refused to take it. Instead, Sasuke just jumped to my feet.

"This'll be our tree…" Sasuke sighed, trying to make me feel better. "Maybe in a few years, like you said, it'll be as big as the ones in the forests."

I smiled at him with hope.

"It's a promise. We'll come back here in seven years to meet." I giggled. I held out my pinky.

"What?" Sasuke asked staring at it.

"It's a pinky promise." I replied.

"Oh…" Sasuke said as he wrapped my pinky around mines.

I smiled at him, and for the first time, I saw a true Sasuke Uchiha smile. And it was a real one.

End Of Flashback

I woke up finding myself on a bed, crying. What happened?

"What happened?" I moaned.

"I took you to the ANBU floor." replied Lady Tsunade.

"I fell asleep?" I asked.

"You were extremely tired." said Lady Tsunade.

I sat up straight, and looked around.

"Where is everyone?" I asked. The only person here was Naruto.

"Out fighting." replied Naruto. "And I have to miss it all." he added, muttering it.

"I… I feel so guilty!" I cried as I wet tears streamed down my face.

"Sakura, remember what I told you? Crying never solves a problem." said Lady Tsunade sternly.

I wiped the tears away, and sighed.

Naruto walked out of the room, and into another one.

"Sakura, I have something to give you. Well--technically, Sasuke left it behind." Lady Tsunade took out a small necklace out. "It belongs to Sasuke, it was on his bed in his old apartment. There was a note, and it says it's for you." Lady Tsunade gave me the note, and the necklace and walked out of the room.

I opened the letter.

Dear Sakura,

I know I'm always a jerk to you. And I really don't give a damn about it. But here's something I wanted to give to you. It belonged to my mother, but I want you to have it.

-Sasuke U.

PS. I still despite you.

I looked at the tiny necklace. It had the Uchiha symbol on it, I rapidly put it on, and tears came down.

"Sasuke…" I whispered painfully.

I heard bombs exploding… The war started…

Naruto rushed into my room, and sat down next to me.

"Hey, I wanted to fight too. But Grandma Tsunade didn't let me go." said Naruto, trying to make me feel better.

"I know." I whispered sadly.

Sasuke's P.O.V.

"We will fight to the end. Alive or dead, we will win!" I yelled.

"YEAHHHHH!!" yelled the team.

Madara threw a bomb up in the air, towards Konaha, which was only twenty miles away.

"BOOOOOM!!"

"They now know that war starts," said Madara coldly. "let's go."

We all jumped down from the mountain, and ran towards Konaha with our weapons.

As we got closer, we saw thousands of ninjas waiting for us.

"This'll be a challenge!" Madara said, licking his lips.

The ninjas came running towards us.

"Bad move." I smirked.

A ninja was coming from behind me, I could feel it, so with my swords, I swiped it behind me, and the ninja was killed in half.

"ATTACK!" yelled Lady Tsunade.

The ninja charged at us, but we all dodged them, with that done, Karen punched one to death, with blood flying everywhere.

"Let's go for that old fag." said Madara, pointing at Lady Tsunade.

"You go, I wanna finish someone I've always wanted to." I replied, as I ran across the charging ninjas.

I searched around the ninjas, but no sign of Naruto. I really didn't want to kill him, I just wanted to tell him something important.

"Watch out!" yelled Karen, I looked behind, and saw a ninja charging at me.

I smirked.

"CHIDORI!" I yelled, beams of blue lightning came surrounding me.

The ninja still didn't stop, he had something in his hands, the third hokagay's sword. Very foolish of him.

The strikes me, but, instead, he got burnt by my electric around me.

Sakura's P.O.V.

"Sakura, do you need some water or something?" asked Naruto.

I sighed, he's been trying to make me feel better for about… let's see… an hour.

"Naruto, I'm fine. Perfectly fine, you go do what you need to." I said.

"But-"

"No buts Naruto." I interrupted.

"What do we do now?" asked Naruto.

"I honestly don't know. I need to get out of here, that's for sure. Are you in?" I asked.

There was a pause. Since when did Naruto say no to something so extreme? I remember back then, when we were twelve, and when Sasuke left, I wanted to go find him. Naruto followed me, and said, "I'm so going! I'm not missing out on the fun!"

"Hell yeah! I'm in!" said Naruto.

"Alright, start packing." I said.

Sasuke's P.O.V.

We're winning. Most of the ninjas are dead, or injured badly, so badly that they couldn't fight anymore. There is about eighty more ninjas that can fight. Most of them injured.

"This is so easy." I muttered.

"Wait, there's something that doesn't seem right," said Madara, looking around. "I know that Konaha has better ninjas than this."

That hit me, where were the better ninjas? Are they in hiding?

"What happened?" I asked.

"There's a trick…" Madara started as he punched a ninja coming towards him.

"What trick?" I asked, striking another ninja.

"This is just the beginning for Konaha's plot. There's way more tricks and ninjas than this." Madara said.

Oh shit. Is he serious? There's more? And this is just the beginning?

As I was deep in thought, I didn't notice someone behind me, but it hit me right in the gut. I fell down to the ground.

I got hurt there a day ago, and it hurts like hell anway. Now it's worse.

I yelled.

"Sasuke, get up you baka!" yelled Madara.

"I, can't." I screamed of pain.

"Ugh." moaned Madara as he killed a few ninjas.

I tried with all my force to get up, and succeeded.

"Get away! Move! Do what you can to heal your injury! NOW!" yelled Madara. I nodded, and jumped towards the old Konaha garden.

My thoughts rumbled…

"This'll be our tree…" I sighed, trying to make Sakura feel better. I always hate hurting her. "Maybe in a few years, like you said, it'll be as big as the ones in the forests."

Sakura smiled at me sweetly.

"It's a promise. We'll come back here in seven years to meet." giggled Sakura. She held out her pinky.

"What?" I asked staring at it.

"It's a pinky promise." replied Sakura.

"Oh…" I said as I wrapped my pinky around hers.

She smiled, and I couldn't help it, but I did too.

The tree! Sakura… she won't remember it, I'm pretty sure of it. She probably hates my guts now.

I sat down against a tree, and thought for a moment. I turned around to see this enormous Cherry Blossom Tree.

The memories came pouring in….

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled. I was wiped out because of the third hokagay's sword. The mission was when we had to help this runner win for his village's freedom. We were at the cliff, and I fell down, blacked out.

When I woke up, I found myself alive, seeing Sakura close to my face.

"Naruto! He's awake!" yelled Sakura from above.

I looked down, and saw the roaring ocean, and the waves rocking around fiercely.

"Ah." I said as I tried to stand up.

"Sasuke-kun, stop. You'll hurt yourself." Sakura said as she put an arm around me. She cares… and, even if she is a fan-girl, she has real feelings for me.

The day I broke Sakura's heart… When I left the village, and never came back…

Sakura's P.O.V.

"Naruto, let's go!" I yelled.

"Alright! Let me go to the bathroom first!" replied Naruto as he ran into the bathroom. I sighed, and sat down on the bed.

I looked at the picture of team seven, when we took it at the age of twelve. When we just made the team.

Kakashi-sensei had his hands on Naruto and Sasuke's heads. It was funny, and I was right in the middle, all happy. Now, I look like hell's daughter.

I used to be happy and fun. Now I'm sad and boring.

The memories came back to me…

It was late at night, probably at least one or two o'clock in the morning. I was walking back to my apartment, but I suddenly remembered, after my team became genin, some evil person named Orochimaru made a mark on Sasuke's neck. And Sasuke seeks revenge to his brother, because he killed his clan. Now Sasuke seeks power.

I just realized.. Sasuke was probably going to leave the village tonight, because today, is the full moon. So I walked to the path that is the only way to leave the village. Just then, when I was almost there, I saw Sasuke..

"What are you doing here, this late at night?" asked Sasuke. He was leaving Konaha, that's the village we're in. He had his backpack, and was leaving.

"This is the only way out of the village.." I replied quietly.

"Well go home." Said Sasuke as he started walking toward the big gates. A tear streamed down my face.

"Why? Why won't you say anything to me?" I asked with some tears falling down my face.

"Why do I have to tell you?" Sasuke questioned interrupting me. "I'm telling you that you meddle too much. Stop bothering me all the time." I looked down to the ground, with more tears falling down my face.

"You always act like you hate me, Sasuke-Kun." I said sadly still looking down. "Don't you remember? When we became genin, we were at this very spot, you were really angry at me, weren't you? You called me annoying.." I looked up with tears in my eyes.

"I don't remember." Sasuke replied rather plainly. More tears came out of my eyes..

"Heh.. I guess. That was so long ago." I said. "But on that day.. it was when it was the start of me and you. Naruto, and Kakashi-sensei. We did lots of missions together, it was difficult, but.. even so, it was fun." Tears streamed down my face again. Sasuke was silent.

"But revenge alone, you won't be happy, and neither would any one… I know what happen to your clan.. But if you go.. it won't make anyone happy, not you, nor me.." I said sadly with some tears filling in my eyes again.

"I know that." Sasuke replied. I looked at Sasuke.

"I'm different from you and Naruto. I follow different paths then you guys. The four of us together.. it's true I have thought of that as one of the possible paths. Despite the four of us together, my heart chooses revenge." Sasuke continued. "I live for that purpose. I can't be like you and Naruto.

"Aren't you going to be lonely by yourself! You told me how painful it is to be alone.." I said tears falling down my face harder. "I know that so much that it hurts! I know how it's like too! But.. if you leave.. I'll be all alone again!"

"From this point on, new paths will start." Sasuke said.

"I.." I started. "I don't want you to leave! I love you more then anything!" I shouted as tears came out of my eyes. "I'll do anything for you.. I'll make everything enjoyable everyday for you.. Please don't go!" Sasuke turned around to face me.

"After all that," Sasuke began. "You're still annoying." I looked up in shock.

"Don't go!" I yelled as I began to run forward. "PLEASE!" Before I could say anymore, Sasuke disappeared to the back of me. I didn't say anything, I just stood there, staring in front of me, with tears in my eyes.

"Sakura.." Sasuke said. "Thank you." After that, without me saying anything, Sasuke hit my nerve point, and made me faint. I fell down flat on the ground, Sasuke picked me up, and put me on the bench.

I started crying. Why did that flashback have to be so painful? I could almost taste the emotions. It was so real.

It was so… extraordinary.