Sakura felt her body shaking uncontrollably as she stared at her former teammate. His body was so badly torn it was almost impossible to tell that it was him. The slashes on his face were incredible she never seen anyone this badly torn up, he condition was worse then Naruto's. Her eyes landed on his jaw and saw blood flowing from his mouth. She knew he was just punched and hard she then looked at Kakashi who was still staring out the window.

"Tsunade-Baa-Chan what's going on?" Naruto asked not taking his eyes off his former teammate.

"He was found on the outside gate of the village. Shikamaru found him and brought him here." Jiraiya briefly explained. Naruto then looked at Sakura who was looking down clutching her fists.

"Sakura." He then looked back at Tsunade who was looking at her student. Tsunade sighed and rubbed her temples even more.

"Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto." She said sternly causing them to look at her. She stared at them with such seriousness that made then both nervous. "As you know Uchiha Sasuke is an S rank Criminal, he was associated with Orochimaru and he has committed numerous of crimes against his fellow ninjas let alone betraying this village." Tsunade said staring at them. They both looked down sadly. It killed her to remind them of what they already knew but she had to let them know how serious this was. She ignored the hurt faces and continued. "Uchiha Sasuke then fought against Orochimaru for unknown reasons, he was presumed dead since his body was not found but today at fourteen-zero hours he was found outside the village gate by Nara Shikamaru." She noticed the shock looks on their faces. "Normally…as Hokage I have the order to determine his fate and I said I would…but….I'm leaving his fate in your hands….his former teammates." She said and gave then to signal to speak now. Naruto stepped forward holding his fist tightly.

"Why are you leaving his fate in our hands now?! After you cold heartily stated your point! " Naruto snapped at her a little harsher then usual causing Jiraiya, Shizune, Kakashi, Kasumi and Shikamaru to look at him in shock. Tsunade just stared him in his eyes.

"Because…Naruto you know all the answers and besides if I would've ordered for his death you would've fought against it. So now is your chance to make decisions as future Hokage as you proclaim to be. But just know what you choose and whatever happens based on your decision you both will be held responsible." She answered in a monotone. Naruto growled and got ready to speak until he was cut off.

"Just kill me." Sasuke spoke for the rest time. His voice was hard and very raspy as if he hadn't talked in months. Naruto looked at him and growled. "Let me die you know what to kill me." Sasuke said slowly looking at Naruto but could barely see him due to his blurry vision. Naruto then ran over to him and punched him in face with full force making more blood leave Sasuke's body. Naruto then grabbed his collar and stared Sasuke in the face. Sasuke had his eyes shut.

"WHY?!" Naruto yelled at him shaking him a bit. "You think you have all the answers?! Huh?!!! What about Sakura? Huh? Did you once think about her? She loves you and she constantly cries for you and you to come here to throw your life away?! Are you a coward?!!" Naruto yelled shaking the badly wounded man harder.

"Naruto, stop it." Sakura whispered softly catching everyone's attention. Naruto looked at her. She never raised her head up to look as she spoke. "I don't want part in this decision." She then ran out the room.

"Sakura-Chan!" Naruto called out.

"Naruto." He looked at Tsunade who stared at him.

"You tell Sakura you have a week to decide your answer and that's an order." She said. "Hibiki, Hibachi." She called out and two shonobi appeared in the room. "Take Sasuke to his cell." She replied. They nodded and walked to Sasuke. Naruto slowly let go of his collar as he one of the men picked him up. They then left. Naruto looked at Tsunade.

"What about his wounds?" He asked looking concern.

"We will not heal him if you two decide death for him." She answered. Kasumi stared at the door where Sasuke was taken. "All but Kasumi, Shizune and Jiraiya may leave." She said and Kakashi, Naruto and Shikamaru slowly left out the room on order. Shikamaru closed the door behind himself. Kasumi stared at Tsunade.

"Yes Hokage-Sama."

"Kasumi, you do not know the situation follow your head and not your heart." She said softly. Kasumi didn't understand what she meant but nodded her head.

"Yes."

"That is all." Kasumi then bowed again and left out the room leaving the two Sannin and Shizune alone.

"You know what you told her was a waste of breath." Jiraiya smirked. Tsunade sighed and nodded her head.

"Sometimes I think the Third Hokage had an easy way out." She sighed deeply.

Sakura sighed deeply and sat on her bed of her apartment. She wiped her eyes but the tears kept coming. She was angry, sad, hurt, confused and torn. She didn't know if she could handle all those emotions.

There was a knock on her front door. Sakura slowly got up and walked to the door. She didn't bother to wipe the tears from her eyes. She opened the door and stared at Naruto.

"C-Can I come in?" He asked softly. Sakura didn't reply she just moved from the door and retreated back into her room. Naruto closed the front door and followed her. He sat down on the chair across from the bed and looked out the window.

Silence befell them as they were lost in their thoughts.

"Naruto-Kun." She said softly. He looked at her. "How can you do it?" She asked. He raised his eyebrow.

"Do what?"

"How can you be so strong emotionally at a time like this? I couldn't keep up with you and Sasuke so I strengthen my physical skill but now look at me I can't even keep you with you emotionally. My emotions are out of wack. I can't handle this." She cried.

"That's because you're keeping everything in. Let it out." He told her. She stared at him. "That's what I do when I feel overwhelm with emotions. That's the best way actually." He said and rubbed the back of his head. Sakura slowly got off her bed and sat on Naruto's lap. She placed her head on his chest.

"Can you hold me please?" She whispered and began sobbing a little. Naruto wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him.

"We have a week to decide." He said. She slowly nodded her head.

"We have to make this decision together." She said hugging him tighter. He nodded his head and rested his chin on top of her head. They both then closed their eyes letting their sadness take over.

Kasumi held a tray in her hands and went down the steps that led to a cold, dark and damp dungeon. This was different from the other prison. This dungeon was for the serious criminals that committed serious crimes. She felt a little nervous from the dimly lit place. She walked up to the cell where Sasuke was leaning against the wall chain free. She sat down on her knees and slid the tray under the bars as close to him as possible.

"Why are you here?" He asked coldly not looking at her.

"Giving you food you must be hungry." She replied.

"I don't need food, I'm gonna die anyway." He said.

"No, Naruto-San and Sakura-Sensei are not like that. They won't have you killed." She snapped. He looked at her it made her cringe from his sight. He had death all over him. If they didn't order his death he looked like he was going to die anyway.

"How do you know? You don't know what I've done. You don't know what happened? And you don't know what Naruto and Sakura are thinking."

"Why are you here? What have you done?" She whispered feeling almost too afraid to speak regular volume. He then looked away from her.

"That's none of your business. Who are you anyway?" He snapped staring at her. He had never seen her in the village before when he was living here.

"My name is Kuroki Kasumi." She slightly bowed. "I am eighteen years old and came to Konoha a year ago at age seventeen. I'm originally from the village hidden in the fog but my family was brutally murdered by my elder brother." She replied looking down. She missed the shock expression on Sasuke's face even if she was looking at him she wouldn't have been able to see his face clearly from the dim light. "I was the only survivor not because I could fight my brother but because I was weak and wasn't worth the effort." She sighed. "He told me to come after him to get revenge, I was going to." Sasuke tightened his fists. "I ran from village to village learning different ninja techniques but then I ran to this village with nothing and Hokage-Sama accepted me and Shizune-Sama assigned Sakura-Sensei as my trainer so I could help in the hospital. As I stayed here and began making friends my brother became less important and to this day I'm glad I didn't try to find him and kill him. I'm happy here in Konoha." She explained. Sasuke looked away from her and stared up at the window that was so high up in the cell that revealed it was night out.

"Why did you tell me all of that?" He asked. Kasumi sighed looking at her fists.

"I'm not sure. You asked and I just started talking. Something told me you would understand." She answered. She then stood up. He looked at her. He couldn't see her clearly one; from his blurry vision and two; from the dimly lit area. All he saw was a thin silhouette with long hair that fell to her waistline. He then looked away from her and closed his eyes it was too much of a strain when he had them open too long. "Eat up, I shall be back tomorrow with your breakfast." With that she left. She didn't want to be late for the dinner that Sakura invited her to.

It was silent in the restaurant as everyone sat together and ate in silence. Every one of them knew the situation and was afraid to address Sakura and Naruto about.

Naruto sighed deeply.

"Ah man no ramen? What's a good dinner without ramen?" Naruto said to lose some of the tension around the table. Sakura growled and looked at Naruto.

"Is that all you think about baka?! Ramen! Sheesh there are other foods out there in the world." She snapped at him. He looked at her and pouted.

"But I love ramen."

"Too bad eat what's on the table." She snapped at him as he sighed like a little kid. He then began eating. Ino gripped her chopsticks tightly before snapping.

"Naruto, Sakura what are you going to do?" Ino asked causing Naruto and Sakura to look at her. Kiba covered Ino's mouth and began laughing.

"She means what are you two gonna do? Stay friends or begin dating?" He smiled holding up his pinky causing the two to blush. Naruto remembering their little incident early looked down pushing his two index fingers together.

"Well…it would be certain that Sakura-Chan and I were dating now." He smiled. Sakura gasped and then growled. She then punched Naruto real hard sending him flying across the restaurant and through the wall.

"YEAH RIGHT LIKE I'M DATING A BAKA LIKE YOU!!!!!!!!!" She shouted causing everyone at the table to look frightened. They forgot how strong Sakura was now.

"Never mind." Ino looked the other way. Kasumi wiped her mouth with her napkin and cleared her throat.

"Sakura-Sensei, I think it's clear and obvious that Ino-San was talking about Sasuke-San." She dared say causing everyone to look around in anticipation. Sakura sighed and looked down.

"What about him?" She asked staring at Kasumi.

"Have you and Naruto-San made your decision?" She asked. Sakura looked around the table and saw many curious eyes.

"Yeah, we've made our decision." Naruto said finally recovering from that hit. Lucky for him he had Kyuubi or else he would probably be dead from that hit. He sat down next to Sakura who nodded her head.

"What is it?" Neji asked taking a sip of his drink. Sakura looked down as Naruto cleared his throat.

"We're gonna have him executed." He said and the table became awkwardly silent.

"Some of us would like to add in our two cents if that mattered." Lee said breaking the silence Sakura and Naruto looked at each other and nodded their heads. "I'll begin. I understand your decision very well but don't you think people deserve a second chance after he didn't help to kill Orochimaru?" Lee asked as Naruto's eyes widened a bit.

"That guy betrayed us though. How do we know he won't go and do something like this again?" Neji said.

"Yeah, but if you think about it Sasuke did it for a probable cause." Shikamaru said putting his cigarette out. "If everyone in the Hyuuga Clan was killed by one person you were close to and then they tormented you about it and literally told you to come after them knowing you're not strong enough to kill them. And then someone offers the power you need to kill that one person wouldn't you take it?" He asked looking at Neji and Hinata who both looked down.

"Yeah, but also he literally attacked us and nearly killed us on more then one occasion." Choji said eating some baroque ribs.

"But Sasuke was probably just being manipulated by Orochimaru because if you think about many people were deceived by him." Ino stated putting her chopsticks down.

"Yeah, but Orochimaru did give Sasuke a choice to seek him out. Which he knew Sasuke would do." Shino said.

"He even sent four people from his Sound Village to pick him up and he went with them willingly." Kiba added giving Akamaru some food.

"But, we have to think about the future of Konoha, let's say you let Sasuke live and then he reproduces restoring his clan. What if history repeats itself?" Tenten asked around the table. Her question was very good and had everyone thinking.

"It's wrong though." Kasumi whispered. They all looked at her. "I don't know much about this Uchiha Sasuke. But from what I'm hearing his situation is much like mine before I came here." She said looking at them. They all gave her a shocked look. "It's hard, when you're alone you're alone. Even when you make friends you still have that emptiness within. You think every single day and every single night. If only I was stronger I could've prevented this from happening. It's not an easy thing when I looked into his eyes all I saw was emptiness and confusion. I think he wants to die regardless if you decide he lives or not." Kasumi cleared throat and then began blushing. "But then again it could be different."

Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and sighed deeply.

Sasuke slowly opened his eyes and slowly turned his head toward the bars and saw someone sitting there.

"Who's there?" He demanded making the person.

"Oh, I'm sorry Sasuke-San." He heard the soft voice apologize. He sighed and leaned his head against the cell wall recognizing the voice.

"Why would you call me Sasuke-San? I'm a criminal." He said.

"I'm just polite." She told him. He sighed.

"Baka." She began blushing.

"It's so dark would you like some light?" She asked.

"It doesn't matter. I can't see anyway." He replied. She lit a candle and looked toward the dark cell. She felt bad for him his body just seemed worn out. He just sat there not moving and from time to time it seemed as if he wasn't breathing.

"How bad are your wounds?" Kasumi asked.

"My vision is very blurry, I have gashes everywhere on my body I wouldn't be surprised if my wounds are infected and my legs won't move."

"You can't move your legs?" She asked.

"I just told you that." He snapped. She blushed and looked down.

"Sorry." He sighed.

"Stop apologizing….um….I don't know your name."

"It's Kasumi." She replied.

"Kasumi." He repeated and he shivered a bit.