Chapter 12: I Will Always Love You

After 2 and a half hours sakura finished healing sasuke.

"Open your eyes" she said wiping the sweat off her face.

Sasuke slowly opened his eyes and looked around the room, everything was clear and bright.

"Sakura... Arigatō" sasuke said looking at her.

Sakura smiled at him "no prob."

Sasuke put his hand on her cheek and stroke it.

Sakura closed her eyes and place her hand on his "Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke's eyes widen "did you just call me sasuke-kun?."

"Guess I did, old habits die hard" she said opening her eyes.

Sasuke leaned in but sakura turned her head away "we can't I'm dating gaara."

"Do you love him?" sasuke asked pulling his hand away and stared at her.

"Of-of course I do" sakura said lowering her head not meeting his eyes.

"Look me in the eyes and tell me you love him, tell me that all the things you told me before I left wasn't real" sasuke challenge.

Sakura's eyes started to water, she hadn't cry for a very long time until now, she raised her head and looked at him in the eyes "Sasuke-kun I can't do that... I really loved you..." she said.

Sasuke's heart sunk when she said loved the past tense of love.

"... Some part of my heart will always love you... But your too late, I love gaara now... My love for you was in the past" she said crying.

"So... You're telling me that you don't love me anymore even though you promise to only love me" sasuke ask emotionless but inside his heart was breaking.

"I still do... But my heart belongs to gaara now... And sasuke promises are meant to be broken" she said "do you even love me?."

"What do you think" sasuke said before standing up and walking away, leaving a crying sakura behind, unknown to the both of them gaara heard their conversation.

Days past by, both sasuke and sakura ignored each other, their teammates always wondered what happened to them, they tried asking them but they never answered.

A day before gaara's schedule to go back to suna, he asked sakura to meet him on top of the hokage mountain.

"Hey gaara-kun" sakura said once she arrive.

Gaara looked at her and smiled "Hey."

"What do you want to talk about?" sakura ask embracing him.

Gaara returned the hug resting his head on top of hers, "you know i love you right" he said, he felt sakura nod on his chest.

"And I you" sakura said lifting her head to look at him in the eyes.

"Do you really?" gaara ask.

Sakura was shock at his question "of course I do, why did you ask?."

"Do you love him?" he ask.

"Who?" sakura ask pretending she doesn't know "what in the world is going on?."

"You know who" gaara said in a monotone.

Sakura pulled away and look at konoha "I love you gaara... But-."

"You also love him, don't try to deny it" Gaara said cutting her off.

"Gaara... Please stop this" sakura said "yes I love him... But that was before... Before I agreed to be yours."

"Sakura don't lie... You still love him, I can see it in your eyes... I know you love me but... Not as much as you love him" gaara said smiling sadly at her.

Sakura closed her eyes and let tears fall from them "gaara what are you trying to say."

"I thought that the most painful feeling in the world is having no one but yourself... But I guess there's more than that... Because what's even more painful is loving someone so much, knowing that she will never love you the same way... Sakura I'm letting you go..." gaara said his voice breaking.

Sakura choked back a sob and cover her mouth "d-d-don't do this... Gaara-kun."

Gaara turned his head away "sakura we have to do this... This... This is for the best."

"No! we could work this out... We don't have to break up... I'll even come to suna with you... So we can be together" sakura said grabbing his hand.

Gaara placed his hand on top of hers.

"Sakura-chan... Go to him alright... You love him, I'll be fine" gaara said trying to smile.

"Gaara... Arigatō... Aishiteru don't ever think that I never did" sakura said kissing him on the lips, gaara kiss back knowing that this would be their last kiss.

Sakura broke the kiss and lean her forehead to his "I'm so sorry gaara."

"Shh...don't be this is my choice..." Gaara said.

"No it's mine... I... I... I cheated on you" sakura said closing her eyes.

Gaara's eyes widen and pulled away from her "na-nani?."

"I... I... Slept with him" sakura said looking down feeling ashamed.

Gaara gritted his teeth and he felt a tear fall from his eyes, sakura raised her head and gasp, gaara was crying.

"Ga-ga-gaara-k-kun" sakura said, this was the first time she saw gaara cry.

"Sakura I... I don't know what to say" he said wiping his eyes.

"I'm sorry... I'm really really sorry" sakura said "can you ever forgive me?."

"Sakura you're the first girl I have ever love... And i'll always will ok... I'm not mad and I forgive you...There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go" gaara said hugging her.

"Ok who gave you that line" sakura ask playfully.

Gaara pouted "hey I thought of it."

Sakura laugh and pulled away "thank you gaara for everything."

"No problem... I want you to be happy" gaara said.

"I am happy... Our 2 years relationship means a lot to me..." she said.

"It's getting late... We're leaving early tomorrow" swirl of sand surrounded gaara and sakura.

They appeared outside team 7 mansion.

"Well I'll see you tomorrow" sakura said hugging him, gaara hug her back.

"I love you" sakura said.

"I love you too" gaara said kissing her on the forehead, before disappearing in a swirl of sand.

Sasuke was watching them through his window and was frowning.

The next day, sakura woke up early in the morning with his team to say goodbye to the kazekage.

"I'm gonna miss you gaara" sakura whispered as she hug gaara.

Sasuke was watching them both happy and jealous, happy because gaara is leaving and jealous because even though gaara is leaving he's still sakura's boyfriend, he didn't know that the two broke up last night.

"Yeah me too" gaara said, he pulled away from sakura and walk towards sasuke, while sakura went to say goodbye to temari who was making-out with shikamaru.

"Look uchiha... If you love her, tell her... Because if you don't then you'll never find out what could have been" gaara said staring at him.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes and gave him a questioning look.

"I broke up with her last night... She's all yours" gaara said.

"Why?" sasuke ask raising an eye brow.

"Even after all this years she still loves you... I don't think she ever stop" gaara said closing his eyes "I want her to be happy... Take care of her and don't ever make her cry like you did 3 years ago cause if you did, I won't even care that I'm the kazekage I will kill you even if its the last thing I do."

"Aa" sasuke said, gaara held his hand out and shook sasuke's hand before walking back to his siblings.

"What was that about?" naruto ask appearing next to sasuke.

"Hn" Sasuke said ignoring him.

"Oh come teme are you replacing me... Is he your new best friend huh huh- itai... Teme that hurts" naruto said crying anime style while rubbing the lump on his head.

"Baka" Sasuke said shaking his head.

Sasuke watch as sakura wave goodbye to gaara and his sibling until you can't see them anymore, sakura sigh and look at the sky before turning around to look at his teammates.

"Let's go guys" she said walking towards them, she looked at sasuke and smiled at him before walking next to sai.

That night sasuke couldn't sleep so he went to the backyard to clear his head.

Sasuke walked on the water and stayed there, he felt a familiar chakra behind him.

"Hey... Couldn't sleep?" sakura asked stepping on the water.

"Aa... Is it true?."

"Nani?."

"That you and gaara broke up."

"Hai."

"Why?."

"Don't act like you don't know."

"Come here."

Sakura walked towards him and sasuke wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I love you I really do... Always have and always will, even when we were still a Genin, I just didn't want to tell you because I thought that you only love me because of my reputation... But the night I left, you told me you love me... You have no idea how much I wanted to stay and hold you in my arms... Then I thought of itachi and orochimaru... I... I was afraid that if they found out that you were my weakness they would hurt you... So I left to protect you, then I came back and found out you were dating gaara... It hurts I tried to ignore it but it just won't go... But now... Now that your single again I would never let you go" sasuke said not giving her time to reply, he kiss her with so much passion, sakura felt tears fall from her eyes, she closed her eyes and wrap her arms around sasuke's neck and kiss him.

"WOW!" they pulled away when they heard naruto's voice.

They both turned their head and saw a very shock naruto.

Naruto stared at them shock, he pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming, then he grinned at them "who knew you had it in you teme."

Sasuke glared at him with daggers "whatever was said here, stays here... Or else..."

"Alright geesh... You know you could trust me... Now I'll leave the both of you alone... Oh and by the way wear protection" naruto said before quickly disappearing before he die.

"Baka" both sasuke and sakura said, then sakura remember something.

"Can I ask you a question."

"Aa."

"Were you a virgin when we had sex?" sakura ask afraid of his answer.

"Were you?" sasuke ask raising an eye brow.

"Hey I asked you first."

"Yes I was."

"So was i."

Sasuke smiled at her.

Sakura's eyes widen "did you just smile?."

"Your the only one who could make me show my emotions" sasuke said leaning his forehead to hers "move in with me."

"Are you forgetting... We live in the same house" sakura said looking at him weirdly.

Sasuke rolled his eyes at her "I meant move in to my room."

"Oh ok i'll 'move in' with you... Now kiss me" sakura said.

"Gladly."


Finally the flashback is over.

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