As Long As You're Mine.

Chapter Seven: Real Tears

With every step Naruto took further and further into the forest that surrounded his village he became angrier and angrier. After all he had done for the Uchiha, and this was how he was repaid. After years for searching for him. Of years of fighting to save his brother the dark haired boy had gone and done this. Attack his wife and abduct his daughter.

Naruto clenched his fist together. His eyes turning red for a split second before going back to their normal blue. He needed to keep a calm head. As a leader of the village he shouldn't allow his emotions to control him… but it was so damn hard! If Naru wasn't healthy when he got to him, the Uchiha would be dead. Without a second thought, he would kill that bastard.

A flash of worry washed over the blonde. He could only hope that Sakura would be fine. After all Sakura was a strong woman. He closed his eyes trying to take in calming breathes as a loud clash of thunder sounded.

"Naruto," Naruto opened his eyes, side glancing he found Kakashi next to him. "I have Pakkun scouting the area. We need to locate him before the rain starts," Naruto nodded. His eyes remained forward. "Naruto… Sakura's fine."

Naruto looked up at Kakashi. Kakashi placed a reassuring hand on the blonde's shoulder. "Shizune says she'll just have to stay in the hospital until tomorrow morning. A few bruised bones and chakra depletion, nothing to serious."

Naruto's shoulders relaxed. Thank god. Naruto closed his eyes. He couldn't even think what life would be like without Sakura. Just then Pakkun landed in front of the two.

"Found him, He's a few miles south of here." Kakashi nodded and the two took off to find Sasuke.

"Kakashi," Naruto said pushing off a tree limb not bothering to look at the older man. "When we get there… get Naru-chan and get out. Leave Sasuke to me."

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Naru let out a battle cry before bringing her legs up having it collide with Sasuke's groin. Sasuke winched before falling to his knees. "Let me go! You're a bad man!" She screamed trying to kick him again only for Sasuke to smack her across the face. Naru stood there shocked before turning to look back at Sasuke, tears fell from her eyes.

"I don't want to hurt you, so don't make me," Sasuke glared down at the younger girl. He wanted to sound strong, but on the inside he was breaking. This entire time he had hated this little girl. He had hated her because he believed that Sakura had forgotten about him. Never once did he think of the reality of the situation or how similar she looked to himself. He stared into her eyes seeing a piece of him. Those eyes reminded him of his own, yet they were so different. They held innocence. And beauty that matched her mother.

"Naru… is Naruto your real father?" Sasuke asked, despite his better judgment he spoke the words he was thinking out loud.

Naru hiccupped and pulled her knees to her chest. She glared at Sasuke. "Yes! Of course he is! And when he gets here he's going to kick your butt!" She yelled.

Sasuke looked away from the little girl. How had he become this person? How had he let himself fall so deeply into the darkness to now see what he had become? What he was doing to the people who he loved. Who cared about. He bit his lip, he didn't deserve their love.

"Naru…" he whispered, his eyes watered slightly as he watched her. She was beautiful. She was his daughter. She was the last Uchiha. "I understand that you will hate me forever… I just hope… that one day… you can forgive me," Naru stared wide eyed at the man not understanding what he was saying. "Come on… I'm sure your father will want you home,"

Naru stared at him for a moment before standing up and following Sasuke back through the forest the same way they had come. Back to Konoha. Back to her home.

After a few minutes of walking Naru yawned and started to fall behind. Sasuke stopped and picked the girl up giving her a piggy back ride so that way she could sleep. He continued on through the forest as a loud boom of thunder sounded through the forest. And then a downpour of rain. Sasuke closed his eyes and let the water fall over him. The cold rain washed away his warm tears as he continued on.

He had never really thought about how awful of a man he had become. It wasn't until he stared into his daughter's innocent eyes that the truth had hit him. All the wrong he had done. The innocent people he had killed. His friends that he had hurt.

He held back a sob. Naruto… the one person who always tried to bring him back from his dark place. The only person who never gave up hope on him. All the blonde man had wanted was to help him. To be a brother. To be someone he could lean against. Someone to truly understand him. He had betrayed him. Not once, not twice, over and over he had hurt the blonde. Emotionally and physically. Countless times he had tried to kill the boy…

Sakura… the one woman he had loved. The mother of his child. He smiled bitterly. He had really screwed that one up… and then he tried to rip her happiness away. Take away what she deserved. Someone who could make her happy. Someone who wasn't him. He tried to take away their daughter. A sob escaped from his throat.

The downpour soaked him to the bone. For once he enjoyed the rain. It made him feel like maybe he would finally be cleansed of all of his wrong doings. Of all the bad he had done. He looked up to meet blue eyes. Sasuke turned and watched as Kakashi moved towards him. Sasuke removed Naru from his back and handed her off to Kakashi. He watched as the silver haired man left leaving the two teammates alone.

"How could you…" Naruto's voice came out shaky, the blonde body shook with the anger that surged through his body. Sasuke looked away from Naruto. He couldn't bring himself to meet his eyes. "How could you Sasuke!"

Sasuke swallowed hard before looking up to meet Naruto's eyes which had turned to a deep red. Sasuke took in a deep breath before taking a step towards Naruto, and then another and another until he stood in front of the shaky eyes. Sasuke looked up at Naruto his dark eyes stared into Naruto's red ones.

"I don't deserve your forgiveness anymore Naruto, I never did," Naruto's eyes widened before turning back to blue. The blonde looked away from Sasuke. Naruto sighed. What the hell was he supposed to do now. He had every intention of killing the bastard once he retried his daughter, and now he was overcome by doubt.

"Damnit Sasuke," Naruto mumbled, scratching the back of his head. He looked at the man and sighed once more. Naruto pursed his lips together before clenching his fist. He brought his arm back before slamming his fist right into the Uchiha's face. Sasuke flew back before slamming into a tree. Sasuke looked up at Naruto shocked.

Naruto turned away from the Uchiha before stuffing his hands into his pockets. Dispite his better judgment the Uchiha would at least live to see the morning light. "Come on," Naruto mumbled before walking away. Sasuke stared at Naruto's back for a few minutes before pushing himself to stand and follow the blonde.

A/N

Okay… first and foremost I was happy with my reviews, until I got two extremely rude reviews by two unsigned people who decided to tell me my writing is rubbish and that I shouldn't write NaruSaku fics because I'm a Sasuke lover.

Okay… the one thing that drives me fucking nuts is that every time I write a NaruSaku fic I get bitched as because my penname is Kunoichi Uchiha Sakura. I would like to point out to you dumb fucks that there is more than one Uchiha in the anime. Oh my gosh! I bet you didn't know that! Idiots. If you bothered to look you would know that I write Itachi and Sakura fics. Itachi and Sakura is my favorite crack paring. Naruto and Sakura is my favorite canon paring. Good job on being intelligent people and reading.

If you bothered to read my other stuff before making assumptions you would know that Sasuke is always the bad guy in my fics. I don't know if you realize this either but he's normally the bad guy in everyone's Naruto fanfics.

You see nothing changed from the first time? The obviously you don't know how to read since there is quite a difference but hey I understand it's hard to read. That's why they have classes that are made for people like you. Learn how to read then get back to me. Also, grow a pair and leave signed reviews.

NOW! That my rant is over, I would like to thank those of you who reviewed who actually had something intelligent to write to me. There is one less chapter in this fic compared to the original since there was one chapter that was just an A/N the first time around. Sorry for the extra-long A/N just sick of little trolls. It gets annoying.

More than likely this will be the last chapter until I get back from vacation unless I can force myself to stay up and write. Thanks again for the reviews and the feedback!