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Heart's Choice
Chapter 1: Reunion
It has been a long time after he left her unconscious on that bench. A lot had happened to her.
Sasuke had left to join Oruchimaru and Sakura had lost her parents soon after that. They were killed in the attack the village suffered from ninjas that were after the Uchiha brothers.
Team 7 couldn't continue just with Naruto and Sakura, after all, the teams were supposed to be a three man team, so Tsunade called a guy named Sai to help complete the team. He would never take Sasuke's place and Sakura wouldn't let him even think about doing that.
They left on a mission and after years the finally saw Sasuke, he was more handsome than ever. Sakura couldn't help it, she just froze while looking at him. After all these years he only managed to get even coolder.
After all these days together Sakura and Naruto began to like Sai and his weird way. They were starting to get along but of course that was when they weren't fighting.
Sasuke looked at then as if they were nothing. He provoked Naruto and made fun of his substitute. Sakura couldn't stand his arrogance: "Who are you to say anything? Your nothing but a coward, always thinking about power, revenge... Man, you are so lame."
Sasuke was surprised. He never thought she would be able to say anything like that. "Well, well, well... Looks like little Sakura still talks to much. I know you don't think like that, after all you always had a thing for me. You're just saying that because I left you." He said that while trying to pretend he didn't even care, but the truth was that he felt strange while he saw Sai holding Sakura's hand tight.
Sai was trying to comfort Sakura and he was afraid of what she might do, but she just stood still.
Sasuke left with Orochimaru and team 7 couldn't do nothing about it so they went back to konoha.
Hinata was waiting for Naruto as they got in the village. Kakashi's team went diffent ways, Naruto left with Hinata and Sakura and Sai just stood at the gates looking at each other.
Sakura finally broke the silence: "Thank you". Sai didn't understand: "What are you thanking for?" he asked Sakura. She gave him a small smile: "thank you for holding my hand and giving me the strength to hold myself". Sai felt something weird, something he never had felt before and for the first time he gave her a true smile as she walked away.
Every time she walked home she would think about how she was lonely and how she would never she her parents again, but this time the pink haired girl just watched the sky. It was a beautiful day, everything seemed as if nothing has happened, like she hadn't seen Sasuke a couple of days before, like she wasn't always thinking about her mysterious new team member. She got inside and had a hot bath, she was so tired that as soon as she sat down she feel asleep. That night she woke up from a very weird dream...