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The Return

He was back. Naruto had said he was back. She had to get to the hospital. She needed to teach a certain Uchiha a lesson.

She had taken some flowers to put in a vase for his room. She had just finished arranging them and was about to leave.

"Sakura." He was there. And he was awake. Her hand froze on the doorknob. She did not turn.

"Sasuke."

"What? No hug? No 'Sasuke-kun! I'm so glad you're back!' to greet me? Pathetic."

"You're a cold, heartless bastard. You don't deserve it."

He sat up in his bed. She could feel his dark eyes burning holes into her, even though her back was turned.

"Don't deserve it? My, my, Sakura. If anyone doesn't deserve it, it's you. You're spoiled. You get anything you want. You haven't suffered once in your life! You're……annoying."

That struck a nerve. Letting go of the doorknob, she spun around to look at him.

"Annoying? You want to know what's annoying, Uchiha? When an arrogant bastard randomly says 'thank you' and then knocks you out. And you know what else is annoying? When he leaves you on a park bench to get raped or something!"

She was storming up to him now. Her pale face was twisted with anger, yet she had no trouble finding what to say. She had been waiting a long time for this.

"And you think I've never suffered? When the one thing you love most suddenly leaves to go join up with a snake and nearly kills your best friend, you suffer. When he doesn't come back for six years and just expects you to be happy and forgiving and love him all over again, you want to kill him!"

"Sakura, I— " She didn't give him time to finish.

"Listen here, Uchiha. I have been working my butt off trying to deal with the endless amount of ANBU in the hospital. Why? Because you and your son-of-a-bitch snake-man tried to kill them. You know how hard it is to keep someone alive when they're covered in snake bites and have a tree branch jutting out of their chests? Not to mention, most of them are under some sort of gen-jutsu, meaning, they tend to lash out and try to kill me WHILE I'm trying to heal them!" She was on a rant now.

"Sakura."

She wouldn't let him talk to her. It was too late.

Just then, Kiba walked into the room. "Hey, you two having a lover's quarrel or something?"

He walked back out when our favorite kunoichi punched him in the face. She then turned again to look at Sasuke. Using her inhuman strength, she punched deep into his muscled tummy.

He let out a strangled "Oof!" and red blood started to dribble from the bastard's mouth.

"Haruno!" yelled Tsunade from the P. A., "I just saw that from the security cameras! Nice work!"

Sakura wheeled around to face the camera in the room. She smiled.

"Uchiha." The pinkette spoke his name as if it were a curse. "I hate you."

Sasuke looked taken aback by the small female's coldness. She should be smothering him with happiness, for Kami's sake! Not hating him and punching him into oblivion!

All he could reply with was a cough, as more blood started to pool in his sheets.

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Ok people don't shoot me. My computer more or less blew up and I have yet to recover my files, including this one. In fact, until this thing gets fixed, I won't be able to update at all. Sorry people. I'm technologically challenged and so is this computer. Give me a few weeks and by then I'll probably have this taken care of. Like I said, don't shoot me! But just so you know I'll be working on the story anyway. I just won't be able to post it for a little while.

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