A/N:Sakura's POV in the beginning and then goes to Sasuke centric. I hope you all don't hate what is gonna happen between Sasuke and Sakura here...I don't like this chapter much for writing since I think I could have done better if I wasn't so engrossed in my fandom of the WWE.
I push past Sasuke and into the place I once believed to be my home. Nothing had changed, I never expected anything to. He had always been keen about leaving things the way they were. I looked back at him, he was confused and rightfully so. "I need to talk." I state.
He rolls his eyes at me, but shuts the door and walks to a chair. He sits himself down and silently gestures for me to do the same.
I take a my seat on the couch, my body turned to him. "You put together the furniture in Jiraiya's room." The words are hard to get out...I wish I knew why.
"Hinata forced herself to move because of me. Just thought I'd help her out." He shrugged acting as if he'd done nothing strange.
"So...why not just come with the rest of us?" I play with the loose string on my shirt, unable to look into his eyes.
"Sakura, is there a point to all this?" Sasuke urged. He didn't bother hiding his annoyance and lack of interest to my arrival at such a strange time...I snapped.
"You never helped me when I was pregnant! Not the nursery, none of the doctor visits-"
"There was a reason for that, like the fact that the child you were pregnant with WASN'T MINE!"
We both were standing, glaring at one another.
"Who's fault is that?" I question. Tears were starting to sting my eyes, but I held them back the best I could. His mouth snapped shut, so I continued. "You were gone constantly! Even when we were together you didn't care to even fake interest! I loved you! I thought that marrying you was when we could finally be together...but just like when we were kids you were still running away."
"So you ran to Naruto." He stated. I would have liked to believe the anger he was showing was at himself, but this wouldn't have been the first time I was wrong about him. "You can screw me for not giving into your needy crap, I don't care! But instead you screwed over one of your closest friends when you screwed their husband!"
"I didn't plan it!" The tears were dropping freely now. I thought I had planned to leave Sasuke feeling miserable, but when had my plans ever worked.
"You didn't stop it!" He countered. He paused taking in a calming breath. "Look...I did care about you...just not enough. I never planned to change for you. Maybe I should have, then we might still be married."
"You've changed for Hinata..." My words were bitter, they left a foul taste in my mouth for multiple reasons.
"I don't think I have...but yes, I do have feelings for her. I want to help her. She was more crushed than me by you and Naruto. I could probably give plenty of reasons as to why it didn't surprise me, but she didn't have that. She thought she was married happily with that idiot." Sasuke explained.
"She also thought I was happily married to you..." She said in a low voice.
"Is there a point to all this?" Sasuke was annoyed now. I hated him.
"I need to say that...I also need to say this..." I inhaled a deep breath to calm myself. "If you have feelings for Hinata...then before you even try to have a relationship...you need to be sure that you won't hurt her like you did me..." I continued to take in deep breaths wanting to calm myself.
"I can't say I won't...relationships always have problems, but I know I'll try not to." Sasuke said.
When he reached out to me I flinched at his touch. His hands felt cold, they always had. He pulled me into a hug that I lightly responded. My heart didn't skip a beat, my blood didn't boil, all I felt was guilt for not saying goodbye to Naruto before I left...I felt like I was cheating. I pulled away, "I have to go."
"Bye Sakura." He let me leave.
As I walked out with the door shutting behind me I felt a weight come off my shoulders as I headed back to Hinata's to see my daughter and husband.
Sasuke's body felt heavy as he sat on the couch. It might have been that he only had four hours of sleep since he was so late putting together Jiraiya's room. But what Sakura said did make him think. He could remember leaving for long periods of time after he married Sakura. They never even had a proper honeymoon.
He knew he was not purposely trying to avoid Sakura, not at first. His standing in the village was still shaky, so any mission he took allowed him further into good graces with the village that accepted him back. It wasn't till later when he just wanted to get away...he didn't want to leave the village, but just get away from the trials that came with being around people, namely Sakura.
He probably should have divorced her when he started to feel that there was nothing of that "true love", he had heard of for years about, between them. Yes, he cared for her. She was one of the only women from after his clans death that he did care about. But it wasn't enough.
Now the only question was, does he love her enough?
A/N: Bit of a cliffhanger here too. I'll try to get another chapter up before the month ends at the lastest.
