Sakura visits him everyday.

Despite her very busy schedule, she manages to find time in the morning to go to his hospital room, place flowers in the vase, and chat a bit. She tells him the things he missed while he was gone. "I assure you, though; Naruto is still addicted to ramen cup noodles."

Sasuke raises his brows, and she doesn't know if it's out of surprise, or out of being impressed. "That dobe has way too much preservatives in his body now."

She shakes her head, and a sigh escapes her lips. "I know, right? It's so unhealthy. I can't believe him."

She tells him how she notices that Naruto and Hinata are getting closer day by day, how she has a bet with Ino that Hinata will probably confess first. She tells him how she was trained by Lady Tsunade, and when a challenging look crosses his face, she tells him that she can punch him and make the ground break.

He doesn't doubt that.

She tells him how Neji died, how much Konoha has changed, how she has nightmares every night of the people she needed to save, but failed to do so. She tells him of the enemies, their blood spilled on the ground, their lungs struggling to keep them breathing, their voices asking for help, and how she had to run pass them to heal Konoha's ninjas.

She tells him that she didn't know this would be her future.

(She was just a small girl with high hopes.)

And while he listens, he places his hand on top of hers. (He doesn't know how to comfort her on this; he has his fair share of trauma, if not more.)

They really were just kids.