Author's Note:

Welcome back everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas, I know I did, I got a lot of Naruto things for Christmas, hehehehe. I got stuffed up with eating so much freaking ham and turkey also over the holidays, I almost turning into a Chouji in a way, (Just kidding Chouji! Ya know I love ya to bits! Hehehehe!).

Alright, now that I've returned to the Internet, well rested and all, its time to get down to business. Without further a do, Chapter Four: Return of the Phoenix.


Chapter Four: The Return of the Phoenix

Sasuke's POV:

What the hell is wrong with me? It's already been a month and I can't stop thinking about her. Damn that girl, she's like a type of cancer that simply won't go away, a sickness that distracts me from my daily work.

I just can not concentrate, on my training or my work that I am attempting to do at this very moment. I almost got killed the other day, by a few Sunagakure ANBU, it seems they still have not got the message that I refuse to return to that god forsaken Village in the Leaf.

Grrr…this is making me so angry, the only way to get rid of this feeling maybe, is to kidnap her, maybe offer her a deal. I'll have to wait and see…hmmm this would go against the plan though. This can't be that disgusting emotion though, what was it called?

Love, I think that was what it was called. Funny, my family never taught me how to love, or what to expect if I would ever to have this feeling deep inside of me. It's not like the feeling I had when I'm around the dobe. No that, feeling is a different kind of 'love' I guess. Perhaps the feelings I had for Naruto though, was more or less the same feelings I had for Itachi before he killed my Clan, brotherly love perhaps I should call this.

Love has no place in my life right now, wait, why am I saying this? I've finished my duty in life, perhaps I should think about the future of the Uchiha Clan now, what's left of my Clan that is.

Argh…I can't make up my mind, I can't even for fuck sake's sleep at night. I wake up in the middle of the night, plagued with nightmares of my past, visions of a Pink haired beauty in my dreams. I awaken also feverish, sweating and panting. This can only be one thing, but I can't accept this, this feeling. No…not yet.

Why for Kami-Sama's sake can I not fall asleep and not have to dream about her? She used to be so annoying, always trying to win my affection when we were just 12 years old, before I left the village. Fucking hell, I guess I have no choice, I have to do something about her soon, she is getting into my system, and I just can't allow this right now.

Now just how to do it, is the question though. I can't kill her that would just make whatever this feeling really is either worse or make me want to kill my own self. Hn, I never thought this would be so complicated. I'm supposed to be a genius; I got to start thinking like one.

I've got it…


Sasuke woke up with a start as he had been attempting to have a night of dreamless slumbering, which had only rewarded him with that feverish feeling and sweat pouring down his naked torso, dressed only in black boxers as he stared around the room he had been staying in for awhile now.

Sasuke growled lowly as he kicked the thin bed sheets off himself, and sat up on the edge of the bed. A hand ran through his sweat drenched raven locks, he was not pleased at this very moment. All he could do was think of her, dream of the pink haired one, for the past few weeks. The insomnia was making dark rings under his eyes. Pretty much soon, one could think he would end up looking a lot like Gaara No Sabaku of Sunagakure.

"Grrr…why can't I sleep?!" He shouted almost totally out loud. "She is such annoyance! I'm going to deal with her as soon as I can come up with a way to do it…" He then began to plot and plan what he wanted to do as he laid back down on his bed, looking with his onyx eyes at the ceiling as he thought for awhile.

About what seemed to be an hour of thinking, Sasuke finally came up with a plan, it probably would get him killed, but it was for the best, right? A small smirk played upon his lips as the idea ran in his head, he would go to Konohagakure, under the cover of darkness, and he would surprise Sakura, maybe hideout wherever she was living for awhile, at least until he felt the dreams would stop plaguing him enough.

'It might sound stupid, but to me it's the only way to get rid of her and out of my thoughts…I guess…' thought Sasuke.

'Admit it, you love her, in that big dark pit you call your heart, you still care about the Pink haired one…' Said an inner voice inside of his head. Sasuke blinked when he heard this voice inside of his head, was this his conscience? "Heh...haven't heard nor had to use that part of my brain in a long time…guess I could use it for once…" He then thought to the inner voice, 'I don't love her, if that's what you're thinking, there's no way in hell I love her! She was always annoying, a weakling, always going gaga over me throughout our Academy days…'

'Perhaps it's also why you didn't kill her when she tried to get in your way to going to Orochimaru's place when you were 12 years old…'said his inner self again to him. 'That's also why you made love to her when you kidnapped her…if that isn't love; I'm sure your worse then the dobe…for not seeing what love truly is.' Said his Inner self.

Sasuke growled and thought to that voice, 'Shut it…before…god never mind, your not worth my time, I'm doing this to get her out of my mind once and for all, that's it that's all…'

His inner self just said this last part, 'Sure there, whatever…dobe…' Sasuke blinked and shook his head, he looked towards the window, the only window in this room, and saw it was still dark out; he immediately slipped back into his bed and tried to get some shut eye before his trip to Konohagakure. He was going back, yes indeed he was, and enough was enough.


Sakura's POV:

Hmmm…life seems so much better for me, though I really, really feel bad for breaking that vow of celibacy I made to Tsunade-sama's gravestone. –Sigh- Ah well, so far though, nobody has questioned the reason I feel so much better these days, I mean, I seem to be more cheery, and at times I don't feel that depressed.

Though he's not here, at my side, I guess I should be a little depressed. I already miss him a lot, but I don't want to push him to come back, it's his decision, I figured it out the day he killed Sai and almost Naruto.

For some reason I always knew, if I had been in Sasuke's shoes, I would be so, so lonely, I mean the path of revenge is always like that right? I never once hated Sasuke, even after the day he knocked me out, and pretty much disappeared from the Shinobi world for a long time.

-Sigh- I guess you could say…I still care about him, deeply at this. I wish he would come back to me, and also Naruto. I've forgiven him for all the things he did, killing Sai, injuring me and Naruto, I knew he was just messed up after finally managing to survive his battle with his brother, Itachi.

-Sniffle- I love him still, it's so damn obvious isn't it? But what can someone like me do? I mean there's nothing really I can do, he's still that cold self of his, and he wouldn't want to come back to the village. I…that night we shared, was just a one night stand. I know that now, he probably used me, just to fulfill his urge to have female 'company'.

But why can't I stop loving him? Why do I feel in the deep recesses of my heart that I never once hated him? Naruto probably feels the same way. I mean, god I feel so stupid, I'm crazy to think that Sasuke would even love someone like me. I mean he's the last of the Uchiha for god sakes. I know he could have any possible woman out there.

Maybe…there's still hope though, maybe I have a chance still. I…I guess I'll have to see if that will happen or not.


Sakura opened her emerald green eyes and stared up at the ceiling, rolling over to look out the window. She felt depressed at the moment. Pondering things as she stared out at the night sky over the village, she decided to get to her feet, and go outside.

Dressed in a simple lavender nightgown that went just above her thighs, she grabbed her housecoat, and placing it on, she began walking barefoot to her balcony. Once she was outside she allowed the cool night air to attempt to soothe her wandering mind.

Sakura looked up at the night sky, and saw nothing but the stars and the crescent moon stare back at her. She had a lot of things coming back into her mind. Everybody but her was loved; at least that was what she had believed. Naruto had Hinata; even Ino had Kiba for crying out loud. Why had she always rejected Lee, back when she was younger? He had been nothing but a sweetheart towards her, and she had to be such a bitch to him.

She blamed herself for ending up a lone, she had always chased after one particular guy for most of her teenaged years, and now she had regretted everything she had done. She should have accepted his advances; Lee's that is, and put her feelings for Sasuke to rest, or at least bury them deep into that black part of her heart that she was trying to get rid of.

Lee had given up on her, and had gone off to marry some girl who was of the Rock Village apparently; she was a Master of her own Taijutsu style, which perhaps had attracted Lee to the girl in the first place. (A/N: This little piece of info might become a story of mine in the future guys, hehehehe we will see though, keep staying tuned) She was very happy for Lee that he finally had found true love, instead of always focusing on chasing after her.

She would have to pay the happy couple a visit some day, Lee and his wife, Hyperia every 6 months moved back and forth between Iwagakure and Konohagakure, which Naruto and even Tsunade-sama had allowed to have happened. And right now, Lee was probably in Iwagakure at this moment, at least she thought he was.

This also brought tears to her eyes at the very moment; quickly she closed them, as she felt the wetness spilled down her cheeks. She was so alone, she felt this way, or always had felt this way, since the day Sasuke had left. She knew no one would accept her, she was probably the last of their little group that had not found happiness, and perhaps she would remain this way for now.

She looked up at the sky and saw a shooting star fly across the beautiful night sky, and quickly she made a wish out loud, "Sasuke…I want you to come back to me, to us…this is my last final wish…and my only hope that you'll come back to Konohagakure to stay here with me…"

She made a swipe for her eyes as she felt more warm tears pour down her face. She then shouted out to the entire world, "I LOVE HIM! I LOVE SASUKE UCHIHA!" She was admitting to her feelings for him. "CHA THERE'S NOTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLD THAT WILL MAKE ME STOP LOVING HIM EITHER!!!"

She smirked as she knew her neighbors would be having a cow at this very moment, if they were paying attention. She did not care at all; all she cared about was that she could admit to her feelings now. She would stop at nothing to make Sasuke hers, and just hers. And if she had to, she would beat Sasuke to a bloody pulp herself and bring him back to Konohagakure.

She began to plot and plan as she decided to head back into her bedroom to do this. She would track Sasuke down and deal with him herself. As she did this, she had no idea Sasuke was already planning and plotting to come back to the Village he had abandoned years ago. He was doing this for his sanity as well.


Sasuke headed for Konohagakure at the fastest pace he could muster, he had been traveling for 2 days, without rest, and he would not stop at least until he was in the Land of Fire, by the 3rd night, he was tired but he didn't care. He wanted to be in that village as quick as he could.

Sasuke growled, "I hope she hasn't gone on a mission somewhere, because I know it'll be hard to hide out in her place without her being there." He pondered something in his head as he finally managed to pass into the Land of Fire, apparently ahead on schedule. What if…she hated him for deflowering her? What if she had been trying to lure him back to Konohagakure all this time, by giving herself to him?

Sasuke suddenly felt a little bit dizzy, and quickly he stopped on one of the tree branches. It was his body's way of telling him he was tired, and needed rest. He guessed he could do this now that he was in the Land of Fire at last. He just hoped no one from Konohagakure would spot him right away. Soon he would be home again, yes, home.

A sudden sad look came into Sasuke's eyes, a sign of regret perhaps? Who knew right? Perhaps the once Uchiha 'Avenger' was feeling the remorse of leaving this Land over 8 years ago, for his foolish 'ambitions'. He was beating himself up at this very moment too, he wished his brother had never killed his parents and the rest of his Clan, he felt it was his fault in a way for his brother's 'ambition' to try to kill the rest of the clan to 'test' himself.

Grunting he quietly sat down against the trunk of the tree he had decided to rest in, and crossing his legs, he allowed himself to fall asleep, knowing soon he would be with the Pink haired one, the one that had always plagued him with thoughts of things that should have happened in the first place, and things that shouldn't have happened as well.

8 hours later, Sasuke woke up and got to his feet, grabbing something quick out of his backpack to eat, he then took off for Konohagakure. The forest certainly never changed, not even after the war with Otogakure and the Akatsuki had managed to change the forest that protected and hid Konohagakure's secret way to getting there, very well.

'I wonder if the Dobe achieved his silly dream and ambition yet…I'll have to wait and see, all I'd have to do is look up at Hokage mountain and see if his stupid whiskered face is up there.' He thought to himself, this brought a chuckle out of him, which he hadn't laughed in a long time, not since before leaving Konohagakure all those 8 years ago. It felt so good to laugh it seemed.

Sasuke smirked to himself as he continued heading in the direction of Konohagakure. About an hour or so of leaping through trees and attempting to avoid the path that most of the other Shinobi of the village used, he had managed to come to the wall that protected the village at last.

He stopped just outside of the wall, and remained hidden in the bushes for a few minutes as he stared at the wall, 'Well I'm back now, just how do I get into the Village…it's almost night fall, wait…stupid me, I could just use the Body Flicker technique, I'm just worried someone might catch me, that's all I need…ANBU catching me trying to sneak into the village, whoever's the Hokage now, might want my head if they do managed to do this…' He thought to himself quietly as he pondered.

It was getting dark by the time Sasuke made his move to sneak into the Village, he quickly made a handseal, "Fire Style: Fire Body Flicker Technique…" he called out softly and quickly he disappeared with a flash of dark flames and crackling lightning, reappearing about a 2 to three miles in an alleyway, not far from the wall of the Village.

Slightly disoriented, he quickly looked around to make sure no one had seen him appear in here. So far the coast was clear. Suddenly he heard a voice and quickly ducked into the shadows. The voice was coming from a woman, someone almost familiar sounding at this. He watched from the shadows as a very familiar looking Ino Yamanaka appeared walking with Kiba and his dog Akamaru.

The mutt had grown huge it seemed, the last time Sasuke had seen Kiba and Akamaru was back on that fateful day, he had somehow managed to defeat Juugo pretty fast, knocking the man unconscious, which had taken Sasuke and even an injured Karin awhile to revive him just to retreat and disappear from the Shinobi world for what seemed like forever.

He froze, hoping Kiba and Akamaru wouldn't pick up his scent. Knowing the dog using ninja he probably would sooner or later. Sasuke continued to wait in silence and watched in disgust as Ino and Kiba were seen trying to get the other's tongues down each other's throats. Well it seemed Ino certainly had given up on him pretty fast. He shook his head and inwardly was chuckling to himself.

The couple quickly disappeared from his sight after a few seconds of making out, Sasuke was horrified and yet disgusted all in the same way at how the two had just openly began making out in front of the Uchiha man. Shaking his raven haired head, he quickly remembered why he was in this stupid Village and quickly took off down the alleyway quietly, heading for Sakura's apartment, all he would have to do was track her down by sensing for her familiar chakra presence. He hoped she would love the little surprise that would be in store for her in the next perhaps 30 minutes from now.

Sakura was so depressed she hadn't gone on a mission in days, and even had avoided doing her hospital duties. Naruto had become worried about his best friend's condition, and had sent Hinata to attempt to cheer her up. Which was not working very well, not that Sakura didn't care about her Best friend's future wife to be, it was that she was lonely in so many utter ways, perhaps Naruto wouldn't understand this, that was why she had sent Hinata back to her fiancée and told her to tell him that she was fine she was just needing some time away from Shinobi duties and what hocus pocus.


It was night fall the night that he came to her, she was asleep, dreaming some very odd dreams. A shadow appeared on the balcony, and she could have sworn she heard a voice saying softly outside her window, "I found you….Sakura."

Sakura opened her green eyes for a moment, and looked around with blurry like eyes at her surroundings. She then felt a shadow loom over her, blocking the moon's rays that had been peering in through her window. Sakura's eyes widened, as she saw someone standing there, immediately she went to the hidden Kunai blade underneath her pillow and brought it out, she called out,

"Who's there, show yourself…I'm armed…and not afraid to use this!!" She then heard a familiar chuckle, as she then felt a strong hand grab the wrist that held her kunai blade, and then warm breath on her ear as a voice whispered,

"You wouldn't do that, I know you too well Sakura…after all, why would you want to harm your…beloved…" Sakura's eyes widened and immediately she dropped the kunai blade and grabbed at the person in a tight hug as she cried out,

"Sasuke! What the hell are you doing here?!" Tears began to well up in her eyes as she hugged him, he felt good in her arms that was for sure. She felt his arms wrap around her waist as he laid his head on her shoulder for a moment. If one might think, Sakura definitely had missed Sasuke a lot.

"I came to see you, Sakura, I need a place to stay for awhile maybe longer…" said Sasuke softly as he sat down on the side of her bed as Sakura let him go after a few minutes of hugging him.

Sakura blinked a few times, and then nodded, "Won't the ANBU catch you? I mean they are still looking for you, if I get caught I could be in trouble…deep trouble for harboring a criminal…" She eeked softly as she said the word criminal, Sasuke shouldn't have to be a criminal, he had done a stupid mistake correct but that shouldn't make him a criminal in the end. Perhaps she would go speak to Naruto about this, not exactly say that she had Sasuke hiding in her apartment right at this moment but ask him perhaps what he would do if Sasuke turned himself in.

Sasuke looked at her for a moment in the darkness, reaching out to touch her cheek with his cold hand and said, "As long as no one seen me coming into the village, they won't have to know, yet…I'm…" He paused, "I'm…planning to return perhaps soon, face whatever punishment awaits for me…here."

Sakura nuzzled into the hand that was touching her cheek and she nodded and was taken a back a little by his sudden wanting to eventually come back to Konohagakure. She closed her eyes as she wiped at her tear stained eyes briefly, she wanted him to stay with her, she then said finally after a moment of Sasuke continuing to stroke her cheek with his hand, still gazing at her,

"Sasuke-Kun…you can…stay here then, but…on one condition, when you are ready, you have to come and see Naruto and get his forgiveness." She would leave out the part and allow him to figure out if Naruto had become Hokage like the loud mouth had always been yelling a lot about since they were 12 years old, and before that.

Sasuke made a small 'hmphing' sound and then nodded, "Fine…how he is anyway? The dobe." Sakura giggled and shook her head, at least Sasuke still referred to him as that, which meant he still in a way had always cared about Naruto; he certainly wouldn't be calling him his 'pet' name if he hadn't. She then responded as she got a little closer to lay her head on his shoulder.

"He's fine…he's engaged to get married to Hinata-Chan in the next year or so."

He felt so cold to the touch, but she knew she had warmed his heart in some way, he wouldn't have come all the way here, to risk his life just to see her, if she hadn't woken something in his darkened heart after all, why did he come and almost risked getting killed? This played in her mind as she listened to Sasuke's shocked voice,

"Hn…the idiot actually proposed to Hinata Hyuuga huh…interesting, I had a feeling that girl had always had feelings for him, she was always the weird one out of our class after all." Sakura couldn't have agreed more, Hinata had always been watching Naruto, back during their Academy years, she had been so shy, yet Sakura would never have guessed the shy girl was indeed a powerful kunoichi underneath that meekness and shyness.

She had witnessed a battle that Hinata had initiated a year after Sasuke disappeared for what she had thought for good, Sakura had been shocked as well as some of the others who had never seen the girl fight, other then of course her own team mates. Naruto before he had become Hokage, already knew what sort of power Hinata had possessed; he had after all seen her fight off the Rock Ninja who had used Bugs when they had been 12 to 13 years old after all.

Sasuke smirked as he watched her ponder over something and did something pretty bold, he grabbed her and suddenly lifted her into his lap, burying his head into her chest, allowing himself to smell her scent, she smelt like lilacs and something else, something that only Sakura had, that made her who she was. He heard her eek at the bold move, but immediately wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed his cheek.

"Sakura…I have something to confess…" he said softly, suddenly feeling a large pain in his chest well up. Suddenly the Uchiha was crying, tears had begun to soak into Sakura's orchid colored nightgown as he spoke in between soft sobs,

"I…I missed the both of you, everyday, I felt…so much pain, regret and guilt…I don't know why, some days I would just, I couldn't sleep nor think of anything else. All I could see in my dreams was your beautiful sad face, and the guilt and pain in my chest," He clenched at where the pain was mostly to show her what he meant, "Just would not go away, forgive…forgive me Sakura, for everything I did to you, to Naruto…please…"

"I was not proud of the things I did, killing your replacement team mate, all because of my stupid revenge, I didn't realize that what was most important was my friendship with you both…again please forgive me…"

He was begging her for forgiveness?! This was very unlike the man she had fallen in love with all those years ago, perhaps this would have been the Sasuke that had no need for revenge if Itachi had not killed his entire clan perhaps. His voice was so hoarse at this moment. Sakura smiled and leaned her face closer to him, and tilted his chin to look into those dark eyes of his, kissing him softly on the lips and finally speaking,

"I've already forgiven you Sasuke-Kun, the day you kidnapped me and we…made love, you had to kill your brother, to restore your honor, selfish as it was, you could not help it, it was apart of your fate, and now you're here, alive still, you achieved your goal at last, and now…" She left the last part out for him to fill in. She had indeed forgiven him long ago, he had been confused after managing to achieve his goal, and she understood this.

Sasuke looked at her after his tears dried up, briefly, she had already forgiven him? After what he had done to her? Sakura was stupid yet; perhaps this was why he always felt so strongly about her, she was more forgiving then some people it seemed. He nuzzled into her neck for a moment and said quietly,

"Sakura…thank you…" He kissed her on the mouth after this. At first Sakura thought he was going to harm her or something, but immediately she began kissing him back, gasping ever so slightly. Sasuke closed his eyes and continued to kiss her for a few minutes before pulling away, staring into her emerald eyes for a few minutes.

Sakura smiled and curled more into his lap, resting her head on his shoulder, and breathed in his scent for a few moments. He was feeling warm, his skin; it was no longer cold almost. Sakura closed her eyes and whispered, "Sasuke…I'm feeling sleepy, maybe we should go to sleep…"

Sasuke had something else planned just as Sakura said this, he began to nibble on her shoulder, his hands immediately going to her chest and slowly began to massage her breasts through her nightgown, she looked cute in the skimpy thing, which apparently his 'other' self couldn't have agreed more, seeing it was poking at her thigh as he grinded himself slightly against her to show that he wanted to do something more then just 'sleep'.

Sakura gasped and moaned at his touch and especially when he grinded himself against her. "Sasuke…" She whimpered his name and was silenced as Sasuke kissed her on the mouth, forcing his tongue into her mouth.


A/N: Warning Second heavy Lemon ahead, this Lemon will be the one that a possible surprise will happen in later chapters of this story, we will see ;) Stay tuned.
Sakura kissed him back just as passionately as he was, moaning softly as his hands continued to massage her breasts. She began fiddling with the corner of his shirt and immediately attempted to remove it; he had been wearing a black sleeveless top and fishnet shirt underneath the black shirt. Sasuke pulled back from the kiss to help her remove his shirt and fishnet as well, he had decided to forgo wearing those garishly ugly clothing Orochimaru had made him wear long ago it seemed apparently.

Sasuke buried his head into her breasts again after removing his shirt, and moving the straps of her nightgown down her shoulders, kissing ever bit of skin that he exposed while he moved the straps down her arms, he then flicked his tongue experimentally against her left breast, teasingly almost. He then took the entire nipple into his mouth and began to lazily suckle on it for awhile.

He listened to her moans, and this time he didn't want her to be silenced, her moaning was making him more turned on. She was just so cute when she was enjoying herself under his precise attentions. He continued to suck on her breast while fondling the other with his hand. He then grabbed her after giving the other breast as much attention with his mouth, and picked her up into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist.

He was going to forgo the foreplay, he needed to be buried inside of her, and he wanted to do this right now. He pulled her nightgown down to around her hips more and pushed her against the wall, fumbling with the shorts he had placed on, before he had reached here and what not, he was glad he had forgone wearing his boxers, he managed to get them down to his ankles with the help of Sakura as they shared a very heated passionate kiss for a few moments.

Sakura immediately wrapped her arms around his neck, as she stared lovingly into his eyes. He did the same to her as he slowly slipped into her, grunting as he stilled himself once he was totally buried to the hilt in her. She felt so tight still; he had only made love to her what, twice so far? Of course she probably would still be tight, he could get used to this though, venting his sexual frustrations and needs with Sakura.

Sakura moaned softly against the side of his neck as he began to start at a slow yet brutal pace inside of her. It was obvious he needed this badly, she did as well, and she was willing to give her entire being to him, if he asked for it at a whim for all she cared. She wanted Sasuke to stay and perhaps fate was answering her prayers at last. At least she hoped so.

"Mmm…Sasuke…" She managed to gasp out as he bent to kiss her ear as he continued to push himself hard into her, not stopping with the pace nor picking up the pace either. Sakura knew he was taking his time with her this time, their last love making session, one could say it had been rushed in a way.

Sasuke looked at her after flicking his tongue into her ear and asked, "What…what does my cherry blossom want?" He asked this teasingly of course as he thrusted once really hard into her, and squeezed her bottom hard as he used both his hands to support her, one on her hip and the other on her backside.

"Faster…harder please Sasuke…" She whined after hearing him call her 'his' cherry blossom. She giggled a little but then mid way her giggle turned into a loud moan as Sasuke complied with her plea to go faster, he picked up the pace slightly and both of them moaned and panted as he began to pound into her a lot harder then the last time he had made love to her.

Sasuke bit and licked any bit of skin on Sakura's body he could get to as he felt himself on the edge of his end, he was very indeed needy, and he also knew Sakura had to have her own pleasure too, not just him. She felt like heaven as he continued to pound into her, blissful heaven at this. He groaned softly as he felt her walls tighten around him even more. Had she came yet? He then heard her call his name, and that only encouraged him to go faster now.

Sasuke whispered into her ear, "Sakura…your so fucking tight…" He groaned and kissed her passionately on the mouth, his night colored jet black eyes drifting closed, trying to reach his peak, he was getting there. He felt Sakura's arms wrap around him more tightly, as she grinded herself slightly against him a bit more, trying to help him, which he finally climaxed after another moment, he pulled away from the brutal kiss he had placed on her lips and groaned her name loudly.

He then buried his head into her chest once more, and attempted to regain his breath, he felt Sakura's lips on his forehead and her hands in his hair, stroking him gently. Sasuke peered up at her and kissed her almost tenderly on the mouth once again, he then without placing her feet down, carried her after removing himself once his seed had been totally spilt into her, to her bed and laid her down against her pillows before crawling in with her, and pulled her into his arms.

For some reason, he felt different as if a weight had been lifted from his chest, and he would thank Sakura for this eventually. He felt Sakura snuggle into his chest and he leaned over and kissed her cheeks and her forehead before kissing her nose gently.

"Sakura…" He whispered. Sakura opened one of her emerald green eyes and before he could say anything else he heard her utter those three precious words, well four really,

"I love you Sasuke…" Without another word she fell asleep, feeling for once never lonely as long as Sasuke was there for her. Sasuke froze when he heard those words from her and a small smile; just a very tiny rare smile appeared on the once unemotional Uchiha's face. He whispered back to her,

"Me too…Sakura…" He then sighed as he began stroking her pink cotton candy colored hair and sleep was rewarded to him, for once it was that of a dreamless sleep as well.


A/N: Well how was that guys? Hehehehe. I know it might be a little mushy but I was thinking that Sasuke could start you know having feelings seeing he really never had them before in a way. I made this chapter longer, cuz I felt bad leaving ya guys hanging and all.

But I'm glad I've returned; I've been working on a few new stories that will be posted soon on my list of stories created. I've had nothing but a lot of time on my hands it seems. Stay tuned for these stories that will be coming up in the near future.

Alright on with the story stuffs.

Preview of the Next Chapter: Sasuke has indeed finally returned to Konohagakure after almost 8 years on the run from being hunted by ANBU and Hunter Shinobi and among else others who would want him dead. But for how long will Sasuke stay for?

Sakura finds out a deep secret, but doesn't know how Sasuke will react to it, seeing he just finally started showing his emotions, and how can she explain to Naruto how she got this 'secret' without revealing that Sasuke has come back and has been hiding at her place.

Someone from Sasuke's past returns to make their claim on him, but finds out that they are probably too late. Can the two of them deal with this new threat that will shatter perhaps their 'happiness'? What and how will Naruto react when he finds out all this time Sasuke has returned, and never came to talk to him in the first place?

Find out in Chapter Five: Old Friend Returns, Deep Secret Revealed.

Alright that's all for now guys, take care of yourselves, I hope ya all had fun during your holidays. Heh. Stay tuned for more of my fanfics, as well as more of Phoenix and the Blossom.

Take care all, and until next time, never eat turkey then go sit near or listen to white noise, unless you want to fall asleep. (It's a true story) Hehehehe. Bye, bye for now!