Ren: Hey peoples!!!

Sasuke: -speaks glumly- Hey...

Sakura: Why so sad?

Sasuke: She made me drown in guilt...

Ren: Sorry, Sasuke-nii!!! That was part of the script, so stick to it!

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Kyuubi

Chapter 4: Erase

Sasuke widened his eyes at the sight. He wanted to scream so loud, but his reputation didn't let him. "Oh, shit." Naruto cursed and immediately jumped down the cliff. Sasuke took the long turn, dragging his feet all the way down to the water where Sakura lay, looking all lifeless.

The once deep blue waters now turned blood red from Sakura's blood. Naruto was right; someone's time will be up the moment the dawn breaks, but it's not the Uchiha prodigy. No, it just had to be the fragile Haruno. "Sakura-chan! Wake up!" Naruto kept on shaking Sakura by the shoulders, always the one who never loses hope. But hey, sometimes persistence pays off.

Sasuke, ever so slowly, crouched down beside Sakura's cold and wet body and held her wrist. He checked her pulse. He didn't feel anything.

"She's... Dead..." Sasuke said, his face lifeless than usual. "No, she's not! Damn it! Let's take her to the hospital!" Naruto yelled at him. He carried her piggyback style and jumped from tree to tree back to Konoha.

Everything was ruined. From their dirty faces, to their once beautiful outfits, and to the core of their hearts. They can't believe it. Haruno Sakura. Dead.

Uchiha Sasuke left the hospital early and jumped body first to the open window of the Hokage tower.

"Next. Next. Next. Shizune, hand me the stupid papers faster! You're too slow!" Sasuke heard Tsunade shout as he silently walked his way in front of the oak table. "Tsunade-sama." Sasuke greeted.

Tsunade looked up at him. "Uchiha. What's your problem? I'm hurrying right now." "Aa, I just wanted to say that--"

Just in time, an ANBU came in. "Tsunade-sama! Haruno Sakura is in the hospital, and we believe she's dead!" In a split-second, Tsunade was up, her fist pounding hardly on the oak desk, almost breaking it in half.

"WHAT?!" Tsunade asked loudly, her eyebrows creased, her mouth trembling. "Tsunade-sama... -pant- Haruno -pant- Sakura -pant- reported dead!" The ANBU managed to say in between pants.

"I'll be there right away." Tsunade said, her head lowered so that her bangs are now covering her eyes.

How weird for Tsunade-sama to be so... Into her work...

She said that she felt like something bad will happen this week,

And that there's no time to spend slacking off.

Exactly, that doesn't seem to be like her...

Shizune thought as she caressed Tonton's skin absent-mindedly. The big wooden double-door to the Hokage's office closed and left silence in the wide room.

"Hn. Hokage-sama, I want you to erase my memories of her." Sasuke said, his face lowered. Shizune widened his eyes and turned to stare at the Uchiha. "B-But Tsunade-s-sama! That technique is forbidden!" Shizune said, warning the two of them.

Tsunade held her hand up, a sign for her to stop and wait. "Why?"Tsunade asked bluntly. "She... Is a big part of my life... Bigger than that of what my family was... And I'd rather forget her than bear with the pain of losing her..." Reputations didn't matter to Sasuke anymore. "Hai." Tsunade agreed nonchalantly and sat herself down on her big chair.

She motioned for Sasuke to come forward, and he did what she motioned for him to. Sasuke bent his body, his face forty-five degrees to the table. Tsunade touched his forehead with her two fingers and muttered the jutsu in silence.

She tapped Sasuke's forehead once, and a few veins appeared in a few seconds, and disappeared. For a few seconds, Sasuke's eyes were blank.

"Uhh.... Why am I here?" Sasuke asked.

In the hospital by the time Tsunade tapped Sasuke's forehead...

The defibrillator rested on Sakura's chest which caused her body to linger in the air for a few moments. "One... Two... Three... -tug-" The sound of the electric shock running to Sakura's body, the i.v., and the doctor's voice was the only sound in the room that was heard.

Konoha 12, excluding Sasuke gathered around the hospital bed. The neon green line that appears in the screen of the i.v. was straight, not signifying any signs of life from the pinkette. Ino was choking back her sobs, Hinata crying on Naruto's chest, Tenten crying freely but silently on Neji's shoulder, Matsuri the same with Hinata, but to Gaara's chest.

It seems like all bad luck is in Konoha. Bad karma? Seems so...

BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!

The neon green light waved up and down until it got higher. And the number of heartbeats displayed on the monitor increased until it reached the normal heart rate.

All the girls jumped and hugged Sakura.

The doctor reached for the telephone and dialed the number to the Hokage Tower. "Tsunade-sama, Haruno Sakura lived."

A year later...

Ages: boys- 22 girls- 21

"Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" All the girls, including Temari, were hanging around the Yamanaka Flower Shop for the time being. They were dead bored so they decided to play a game.

"Hinata stole the cookies from the cookie jar!" Tenten said, giggling at the end. "Wh-Who m-me?" Hinata asked. "Yes you!" All of them replied. "Not m-m-me," Hinata said back. "Then who?" All of them asked. "Sak-k-kura stole the cookies f-from the c-cookie jar..." Hinata said, smiling softly at Sakura who pointed her tongue.

Their game was interrupted by the sound of the sliding door with the wind chimes opening. The familiar greeting of the automatic sound greeting system reached their ears.

"Welcome to Yamanaka Flower Shop, how may we help you?"

The paging system shut off after that. "Hn."

Sakura's heartbeat sped up.

Sasuke-kun...

Oh, no...

He doesn't know us, remember? Chill... We've had practice with Ino-pig... We've been waiting for this encounter, and most of all, we're PREPARED. Cool it... He..

Forgot about us.

Exactly.

"Ino, Shikamaru's calling for you in the Hokage tower. Tsunade-sama assigned you for a new mission or something," Since the day his memories --about her-- got erased, Sasuke's personality changed. He became more of a gentleman than he already was. Sasuke's and Sakura's eyes met. An invisible spark happened between liquid emerald and cold onyx orbs.

"Aa. Who's your friend?" Sasuke asked, casually putting his hands in his black ANBU pants pockets and leaned on the wall. "H-Haruno Sakura, nice to meet you." Sakura said, standing up and then held her hand out for him to shake. Sasuke approached her and shook her hand. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her shaky hands, but just shrugged it off.

"See you around," Sasuke said, giving off a two-finger salute and walked off the sliding glass doors of Ino's flower shop.

"Thank you for coming to Yamanaka Flower Shop. Please come again!"

The cheery voice in the paging system said. At that instance, Sakura fell to her knees.

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