yeah kinda rushed..unbeta'd and all


Sakura stared at the picture of them when they were genins, she took a small sip of sake and got up and opened her window and stared out at konoha as the early afternoon sun rose over the village. A gentle breeze blew on her warm skin and she closed her eyes as she enjoyed the feeling. Three dark blur whizzed past her window, she briefly caught the faces of naruto, hinata and sasuke, She stared in shock at the figures that ran up konoha's wall with inhuman speed sakura flew out of her window and soared into the air before landing on a roof and took off.

Naruto and sasuke jumped off the wall and flew through the air, sasuke looked behind him and saw hinata struggling to keep up with them and smirked, he stared into her eyes and looked at naruto

"I think we should slow down"

He said to naruto who looked over his shoulder at hinata who seemed to be out of breath.

"Sure"

Naruto said guiltily, he had forgotten that hinata couldn't keep up with ninjas like him and sasuke, sasuke and naruto descended in a large clearing quickly and waited for hinata who had a relieved look on her face, she landed beside sasuke and started panting.

"Are you ok?"

Naruto asked and she smiled at him, showing him that he was ok.

"Let's go"

Naruto said softly

"Where are we going anyway?"

Sasuke asked and naruto smirked.

"Just going to have a little swim"

"Oh"

A shadow passed over them and the three shinobi looked up, squinting as the bright afternoon sunlight hit their faces, sasuke instantly recognized the person, and he mentally cursed as sakura landed in front of naruto.

"Sakura"

Sakura brushed back her wind swept hair and smiled at naruto.

"What is the problem?"

Naruto asked his tone low and serious.

"Nothing…just asking if I can tag along"

"Oh...Yeah"

Naruto said nervously looking at sasuke out of the corner of his eyes, and sighed when sasuke kept his face blank. Sasuke studied sakura she was wearing a tight red shirt that showed her curves and big breast and a blue pants and the standard shinobi footwear.

"Then let's go"

Naruto said and they vanished from the clearing. Sasuke and hinata was side by side this time and sasuke could feel sakura's eyes on his neck back. Everyone was silent as they flew through the trees at a steady pace, the wind whistling softly in their ears.

"Hinata"

Sasuke said and hinata looked up surprised, she felt her face go red.

"What?"

"There is something I need to ask you"

Sasuke said and sakura and naruto brows furrowed as they listened to the two ahead them, sasuke suddenly stopped and everyone whizzed past him, Ruffling his clothes and hair. Everyone stopped and he looked at naruto and naruto picked up immediately and nodded.

"Let's go sakura"

Naruto said in his deep voice and took off, sakura looked at the two before of them before moving off. There was silence as hinata stared at sasuke sunlight filtered through the leaves illuminating patches of the dark forest floor, creating weird patterns on sasuke's body, the bird chirping died and hinata got serious.

"What do you want to ask me?"

Sasuke smiled at her and vanished in the blink of an eye and appeared in front of hinata who stood her ground and looked up into sasuke's pale face, his face had gone from blank to a weird look hinata had seen many times on the face of people. Hinata felt sasuke's arm going around her waist and a heavy blush came on her face as sasuke drew her into a tight embrace.

"Thank you hinata"

Sasuke said softly, his voice laced with emotions alien to him, sasuke lowered his cold lips on her warm ones and felt a strange tingle run through his spine. He drew back from her and saw that tears were running down her face.

"I am sorry sasuke"

Hinata said fighting to keep her emotions under control.

"What happened six years ago was a mistake"

"What do you mean?"

Sasuke said trying to compose himself, the kiss was making him feel light headed.

"I shouldn't have saved you that day"

"I know"


Sasuke said, memories came rushing back to him.

(Flash back)

Everything hurt, and his head pounded faster than his slowing heartbeats, he felt his eyelids go heavy and he fought to keep them open.

"Fuck"

Sasuke said, staring up into the thick grey clouds which looked ready to burst open any minute, his breathing become ragged and he knew his time had come, he heard thunderous cheers in the distance and sasuke smirked, the war had finally ended, with sasuke being the last remaining enemy and was now dying a slow and painful death in a huge crater created by naruto's wind rasen shuriken that had caught him off guard, he didn't feel hatred toward naruto, only gratitude, at last he could die along with the rest of the uchiha clan.

"Mom…dad…itachi.. I am coming to join you"

Sasuke though, tears spilling out of his eyes and he closed his lids and felt himself drifting into sleep like darkness, there were quick footsteps and sasuke slowly opened his eyes, standing over him was a kunoichi with long dark hair and haunting white eyes, then thunder boomed and the rain came, and sasuke felt his hair plastering against his face. Her name came to him and he wheezed out her name.

"Hinata...hyuuga"

Hinata dropped to her knees beside sasuke and placed her ear near his mouth, and he heard a small gasp, suddenly he felt her warm mouth on his and felt air forcing down his throat and into his lungs, sasuke coughed, he felt her cool palm on his bare chest and he felt his heart speeding up.

"What…are you doing?"

Sasuke asked weakly, craning his aching neck to look down on her.

"I am healing you"

She said, sasuke let his head drop back on the ground and he felt his head throbbing less. She continued to heal him for few minutes and sasuke felt his head clear. Her chakra was warm and it made him sleepy and he felt his lids close. And he drifted into a dreamless sleep.

(End of flashback)


"That day you saved me from certain death"

Sasuke said, he stepped back and hinata blushed, soon the birds began chirping again.

"I always thought that there was no such thing as love in this world, but that day you showed me that I was wrong"

Sasuke said looking down on hinata with his blank stare, leaves flew around them as a strong gust of wind blew through the trees.

"Hinata"

Sasuke and hinata opened her mouth slightly

"I love you"


Sasuke and hinata burst out of the trees and gasped in surprise, the area team 7 had done their survival exercise was now crowded with shinobi, sasuke and hinata soared over their heads, sasuke saw naruto talking to a ninja sasuke immediately recognized, rock lee, he landed behind naruto and he felt lee eyes on him.

"Hello sasuke"

Lee said in his deep voice and sasuke looked into the black of lee eyes, he had outgrown the weird look and now looked like a decent ninja, his bobbed hairstyle was replaced by long hair that reached his shoulders, he wore a black mariner like the one sasuke wore, showing off his muscular arm, he had on a black pants. Even his eyes had changed, from the round squirrelly look to normal looking eyes.

"Naruto"

Some said and sasuke looked around, neji came towards sasuke, tall and imposing as ever.

"What is it?"

Neji stopped and looked at sasuke, his cool eyes studying the uchiha.

It's a confidential"

Neji said and naruto sighed, he and neji vanished, leaving sasuke with lee. Annoyed sasuke walked off into the crowd, searching for hinata.