Sakura's eyes widened, she stepped back … Sasuke looked different sense the last time, but mostly his clothes changed, no longer did he wear that outfit from before(oh I don't know how to describe it!) Now he was wearing more ninja fitting looking clothes. They were pretty simple though mostly black ,with some dark blue.(picture of the idea on my page!) His hair length or color hasn't changed (oohh he must have cut it….). His eyes were exactly as she remembered...black...cold...emotionless. Sakura was looking at him without a word or a thought for the longest time. Sasuke didn't say anything ither, at first he looked at Sakura, but after a while looked away.

"Oh Sakrua, you're going to have a lot of time to stare, but the thing is, is that I've been looking for a another person for your mission ,and sense Sasuke came back, he's perfect! He'll be going on your mission with you." Sakura barely heard a word Tsunade said…she kept staring….but something inside her finally awoken her, she snapped to reality.

"…Tsu..Tsunade..he..he came back just like that…and.." Sakura was trying to keep her eyes on Tsunade ,not Sasuke. But as Sakura said those words, she couldn't finish,because there was to much going through her head..things like.. ' WHAT THE HECK….. he just came back and Tsunade is already putting him on a mission..and with us?? Why did he come back, did he defeat Itachi? And he just cant come back like this...he...what...' Sakura was confused.

"Sakura, relax! We talked already. He came yesterday night ..we had a very long talk…you can find out anything you need to know ,because you guys will have plenty of time together on the mission……"As Tsunade was saying those words, Sakura thought 'What? Does Tsunade think I'm totally in love with him or something?! Now Sasuke will think I'm the same as before, and WHY did I have to stare at him like that?? Its only been.. ..3 years….' ( sense they encountered sasuke in the shippuden)

"So…. What now? We still have a whole hour till Naruto gets here, did u really think I would need so much time just for this?" Sakura said, trying to sound like Sasuke didn't matter that much. But actually , it really didn't .She stared for him for some time ,but that was it, she wasn't shocked anymore, she wasn't even happy that he's back...she was more angry.

"No , I thought you would notice Sakura ,but Naruto come early for missions everytime ,today…I would say he will be half and hour early, so actually you have 30 minutes…um..I have to get a drink…" she said as she stood up and left the room. Sakura and Sasuke were now alone in the room. No one said a word for a long time. Sasuke turned around and was looking out the window. Sakura finally broke the silence.

"…Did you kill Itachi?" sakura asked .

"…..Why would I come back if I didn't?" Sasuke replied while still looking out the window.

"….So..you killed Itachi and now you think everything is going to be back to normal….with you coming back here?

"Well, what did you want me to do Sakura…" he turned around, now facing her. "It sounds to me like you're not glad that I'm back." he raised his eyes a little. She frowned.

" Sasuke ,things changed sense you left. And so have I." she said and turned around thinking 'He does still think I love him!! ARHHHH that pisses me of so much!...hm..Tsunade never takes this long go get water! It's two doors down! Ha! She left us together alone for such a long time on purpose…Tsunade…….!!!!!'

"Sakura,……I'm sorry…about before…but now I'm here , and I'm going on a mission with you, so you have to deal with it."

'Deal with it??Haha!..' she thought… 'but hey..he said 'im sorry'…does he really mean it though? Probably not..not with ThAT tone of voice… "You're not sorry" she said. Right then Tsunade came in, along with Naruto.

"..just tell me….!!!" Naruto was saying, but as soon as Naruto spotted Sasuke, he stopped mid-sentence. He stared as Sasuke, but he didn't stare too long before saying "S…s…SASUKEEEEEEEEEE?!!" with a blank tone of voice(but loud) but Naruto didn't know what to do…..hug him….or hate him…? He came back didn't he ?It was his choice of will, so apparently Sasuke still… "You came back…."……Naruto said, quieter this time.The whole time he was having a battle in his head….how was Naruto feeling toward Sasuke….? happy?...angry..?

"Oh yeah, same goes for you Naruto,I talked to Sasuke, so everything is ok, and…he will be joining you on your mission, with Sakura." Tsunade said. Naruto walked slowly towards Sasuke, he stopped at about 4 feet away. He looked right into his eyes. Naruto carefully thought about this, and finally made his decision. He widened his eyes, and put a huge smile on his face as he jumped on Sasuke and gave him the biggest, tightest hug. Sasuke stepped back a little ,he was a bit surprised..

"Uhh…." He said "..Actually ..Im glad to see you too Naruto " he said,as he put a small smile on his face(OMG! lol) but he didn't really hug back.

'He didn't even smile at me ,yet alone tell me he was glad to see me……. But I guess I'm glad for Naruto..' Sakura thought. Finally Naruto let go of Sasuke and said-

"This is ..this is… so weird! Its been,...how many years? 3..4?...I'm glad you came back Sasuke."… "And we're having a mission together aren't we? Well that's even better! Tsunade tell us the mission !" Naruto said smiling. Sakura was still thinking 'Well, Im glad Naruto took things well…he's glad to see his best friend back..' she smiled for Naruto..but wasn't so sure for herself.

"Ok, now for the mission. This is a rated B mission….but we're not sure ,because it involves the Hidden Rain Village, which we do not know much about, including how skilled the are. Anyway , long time ago the Rain Village took something that originally belonged to us.The Fan and the Sword of Kupaku. I- " Tsunade was cut off by Sakura.

" Kupaku? Hey I've heard of that- " she said

"Sakura! You know there is no interupting!" Sakura looked away" I will spare the time of explaining that ,but the thing is , is that these talismans are very powerful, and we really need then back, they are really usefull, especially in time of war, which there is not right now. ...but…."she paused " Anyway ,your mission is to get them. I will give you exactly where they are located, you will have 4 days for this mission ,a day to get there, a day to get back…and two days there. You will set out tomorrow afternoon, and the approximate back should be on friday ,got it?

"Got it ." Sakura and Naruto said at the same time. Sasuke gave a small nod.

"One more thing…like I said before, we don't know their skill level, they might be easy, …but I doubt it, because the Fan and the Sword would probably be heavily guarded…they are very prized pozessions… be careful."

"We will Tsunade. " Sakura said . Sakura took all her missions very seriously.

"If there is no questions, you're dismissed." Tsunade said.

"No, nope ,no questions, bye Tsunade !" Naruto said as he walked out the door. Sasuke followed.

Sakura thought about it for a while, "Tsunade…. I didn't know what you were thinking when you said that stuff before ,but I do NOT like sasuke anymore ,ok? What gave you the idea anyway? Please don't talk like that in front of him…and..you….-"

"Hey that's not a question sakura." Sakura frowned at Tsunade "Hey ,just kidding!..and….ok whatever you say ,but this is a mission, and you better work together with him well you know."

"I take my missions seriously, don't worry sensei. " Sakura only called her 'sensei' when she was being very serious. Sakura still had something on her mind to ask, but she decided not to. "Bye" she said as she went out the door.

As Sakura was walking back, she was thinking about many things. ' Maybe…just maybe.. he really has changed… he smiled back there…' she smiled. ' I'll give him a chance' she thought.

That night there wasn't a full moon, but very close, the difference was almost not noticeable. Sakura went on her walk again. She remembered not to go on the same path as yesterday. After about 10 minutes, she could see someone sitting on a bench(a random bench), about 100 feet away.As she got closer, she saw that it was Sasuke. She walked right next to him and stopped .There was enough room on the bench for her, but she decided not to sit down. "Hey, what are you doing here?" she asked

He looked up at her ,and then back down "Thinking about things."

"Do…" she though about this first. "Do you want to walk with me?"

He didn't say anything. "……Which direction are you going?" he asked

She though that Sasuke was going back ,the opposite of the direction she was going….should she still do it? She needed to talk to him about things though.

"That way" she pointed.

"But you just came from there."

"I know..but I wanted to talk to you."

"I was going to go back anyway, so I guess so." He said this as he got up .Sakura moved back . ' I bet he thinks I'm still in love with him...esspecially sense I'm doing this now….dang it ,I shouldn't have!...too late now…at least I could get some answers out of him…hopefully.' Sakura thought. They started walking, they were about 2 feet away from each other.

"Sasuke...did you miss Konoha at all?" she asked.

" How could I not..." he said this as he looked up at the stars. Sakura smiled, he did have a heart…

"They're beautiful, aren't they?" she said, talking about the stars.

"Ugh…!" Sasuke said looking down at his hand.

"Whats wrong?" she looked at his hand.

"It's a small wound, but it always keep opening…" Sasuke felt a bit embarrassed talking about such a small wound.

"Let me help." she took his hand with her left hand and put her right hand on top to do the healing. It produced a light greenish light. After a few moments it was healed. She smiled. She lifted his hand and kissed the spot.

"Now it will never bug you again" she said smiling.

"Heh." He took his hand back " No wonder you're so weak."

Sakura quickly turned around. Anger was burning inside of her. She couldn't take it, she just couldn't. She has had enough ! She slowly clenched her right fist. Sasuke just stared blankly. Sakura quickly turned back around, while sending a chakra powered fist in Sasuke's face. Sasuke had not in the least expected this, so the punch had sent Sasuke flying back 200 feet, and if it wasn't for that building, he could have been flying for a hundred more. When he hit the building, he sulked down, and put his head between his knees.You could see drops of blood slowly dripping.

"Don't you ever….talk to me again." She said this in a normal tone of voice, she knew Sasuke could hear it (unless he passed out…..).

The next morning Sakura didn't get up until nine o clock, which was very unusual for her(she usually got up much earlier to train) .She washed up, got dressed ,ate ,got her weapons ,backpack ,and everything for the mission , and was ready by ten. She thought that being two hours early for the meeting place was a bit too early...so she went to her usual training place. She ran several miles,and landed a few punches on the tree she usually practices on(yes, a rough, hard tree).Then it was finally time to go, she noticed Sasuke walking on the path behind the bushes. No, sakura was not going to walk with Sasuke,until she couldn't see him anymore, she walked on to the path. Finally she reached the bridge, their meeting place. Naruto was there already also. When Sakura got there she noticed that sasuke had a cast- like bandage on his nose(imagine that!)).She realized that she must have broken his nose.

"So, you guys ready to go? We're heading northwest, and-" he paused to look at Sakura "…you guys got your packs? " Naruto asked.

"Yes." Sakura says. She could tell that Naruto already found out about the nose thing ,it would be the first thing naruto would ask Sasuke for sure. 'I wonder what sasuke had told him…'

"Yeah" Sasuke answers.

"Alright….Lets go then! Lets try to travel fast….." Naruto said as they took off.

Getting to the Hidden Rain village by normal running would take about one day,but the speed they were,it could take half. But going at such high speed took a lot of energy….they would need to take breaks. Finally, they arrived in the village, it took then 22 hours.They slept that night in a forest .They would try to take the talismans the next day.

"Ok,here's the plan, two of us will go for one object and the other one will go for the other,-"Naruto began saying.

"You and me, sasuke can do one himself." Sakura said to Naruto.

"Umm…is that ok with you sasuke?"

"Whatever." he said.

"Ok, great that's what we'll do." Naruto took out the map Tsunade gave them. "The two objects are in two different buildings, one right here, and one right here." He said pointing at the map. "Thy're about half a mile apart…Sasuke, you will take the Fan,and we'll take the Sword. I don't know how many guards they have, but we'll just have to take them out. After we get the pieces, meet right here." Naruto pointed on a place on the map. "Got it?"

"Yep, lets go then." Sakura said as she stood up.Naruto and sasuke stood up too.

"Alright! ..Lets go!" And they took off.

(im not going throught all the explaining ….lol) –The first day didn't go too well, both Sasuke, and Sakura and Naruto came back empty handed…

"….Ther are so many guards, inside AND outside the buildings…and there is 3 whole barriers..and if you get close to the talisman..it.. there is just so much! These talismans must be REALLY important….." Sakura was saying "None of us got hurt, but we thought that it was going to be easy, guess we have to try a bit harder, this IS a B ranked mission….."

"Hey,how bout change of plans? Why don't we try Sakura going with Sasuke and me going alone? I mean it might not-"

"No!"sakura said. "I..I..no Naruto,I just feel..better doing it with you..besides..sasuke got the closest , he can easily do it..I'm sure…. Naruto .." Sakura felt bad saying this, sense she was acting a bit childish, she was suposed to do anything for the mission….

"Sakura! We have to try though! Who knows-"

"No! Naruto!" Sakura knew she couldn't work with Sasuke. "No, I just, and-

"Sakura! We have to try this!! Besides why not? Is there something between you and Sasuke??" Naruto looked right into her eyes.

(hehe I can't do cliff -hangers! Oh well,I'll try better next time! I would love you if you leave a review! Esspesially sense its my first story! Pretty please!)

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