"Thanks……fine here…..fainted, that's……yeah……okay" Sasuke heard these voices. Who could they be? What were they talking about? And why did his head hurt? Then he remembered. Sakura knew how he felt, how he had secretly loved her. And he also remembered how he embarrassingly fainted in shock as to what he had said. Great! Now Sakura probably thinks I'm weak, he thought to himself. Sasuke decided he had to find Sakura and explain what really happened.

"Oh, look who's finally awake" said some strange voice. Sasuke's attention was directed to its owner in an instant. It was an old man with long spiky-ish hair. On his back he carried a scroll. Sasuke looked at this man with complete and utter confusion. Who could this strangely attired person be? He then remembered seeing Naruto train with him in the not so distant past. Yet he could still not remember his name.

"Ummm, who are you?" Sasuke asked in a monotonous voice to make it know that he didn't really care.

"Who am I?" the old man asked. Sasuke could tell that the man obviously thought very highly of himself. "You have got to be kidding," he said in a slightly disappointed tone. "You don't know who I am, but you know who Tsunade is, and Orochimaru don't you? He asked as his temper began to rise.

"Yeah, both of them are of the three legendary sannin" Sasuke responded flatly. "But how does that have anything to do with my question?" Sasuke asked starting to get quite annoyed.

"THREE!!! There are three sannin. Not just two! I am the third!" the old man said. He had clearly lost it.

"Yeah, okay. Keep telling yourself that." Sasuke said in a rude and highly sarcastic voice. Seriously. The sannin were supposed to be incredibly powerful. But this guy? Sasuke chuckled to himself as he thought how easily he could defeat this old man.

"Fine believe what you want you little punk, but answer me this. What happened that caused both you and miss Haruno to faint?" the old man asked Sasuke. Sasuke didn't even hear the question. All he heard was that both of them (Sasuke and Sakura) had fainted. Both. He wasn't weak. And with that Sasuke launched himself out of bed, out of the room, and to the front desk of the hospital.

"Hello, where could I-" Sasuke began but was cut off when he heard someone calling his name. It was that voice that he longed for. He turned to see Sakura running down the hallway to see him.

"Uh, sir? Where could you…what?" the lady at the desk asked. Sasuke heard nothing at all but Sakura's voice and he replied with just a whisper.

"Sakura" she came to him. The two lovers. They hugged at first. Then Sasuke whispered her name again "Sakura" and he kissed her. "Sakura?" he asked in a passionate voice.

"Yeah" she barely formed the words, as she couldn't believe the luck she had. Finally she had her wish come true.

"Would you dine with me tonight?" he asked her. Everything in the village had seemed bad. Orochimaru's attack, and even thought the village was all hustle and bustle. There was always time for love.