A/N: This one is sort of crack-y, but is meant to be set right after the end of the War (which hopefully ends happily with Kaguya gone and some little future moments :3) Sakura may be a little out of character, but yeah I felt like making her use some of Tsunade's raging anger! Also, rated T for language, as Sakura is quite the fatalist with her thoughts. Sorry this is short! Enjoy!

XII. Silver Lining

Haruno Sakura put up with a lot of shit in her life.

And when she said a lot of shit, she meant. A lot of shit. Tons of it. She was picked on for the size of her forehead and the color of her hair until she was seven, she made a rival of her best friend over a boy (of all goddamn things), she had been slammed into things, and found herself unconscious so many times that she lost count, she was dumped on a fucking bench in the middle of the goddamn night, stabbed to near death by a Pinocchio look alike puppet mother fucker, attacked by the Kyuubi form, almost killed twice by the same boy she and Ino fought over, and to top it off, fell in deep love with said guy.

She needed a break.

So, when Uchiha Sasuke's taunting words cut through the silence the team brought about, Sakura just about lost all of her self control. Her eye twitched, her knuckles clenched, and her teeth gritted. She had put up with so much, so much, and she had amazing will power (and chakra control, take that you handsome bastard!) but right now, she was tied between three courses of actions.

Slamming Uchiha Sasuke's head into the concrete wall to rid him of his smirk (which was her first choice, of course), delivering a blow to his groin so that he would never see little Uchiha babies running around in the future, or pressing a fierce kiss to his lips (because she damn well could, and she deserved it).

The four of them had been bent over, panting, taking the final blows. They were recovering from the finals of Kaguya's last attacks, before she was gone. The war was over. Sakura quickly healed most of her three male teammates' deepest wounds and checked Kakashi's Sharingan eye. Naruto and Sasuke were panting, refusing to lock eyes, and Kakashi looked weakened, fed up. He rubbed his head.

"Looks like it's all over now, and Team 7 is back." Naruto groaned.

"Great, teme's back." He muttered, as Sakura tended to a nasty cut on his shoulder.

"Hn."

Sakura finished with Naruto, smacking his hands away as he tried to stop her from healing him and using up the remains of her chakra, and straightened up, healing herself. Honestly, at this point, she wasn't very eager to approach Sasuke. After saving his ass from the desert dimension, and his lack of a simple thank you, she focused on fighting, and helping Naruto and protecting Kakashi if need be.

She finally went over to Sasuke, pressing her hand to the gash on his bicep, ignoring his scowl. He tried to writhe from her grasp, but she held him tight. She still had enough chakra to show him just how much brute strength she had. He looked away, scowling deeper as she healed up his bleeding wounds, and then stepped away from him.

Just as they began walking away from the wreck of a battle field in front of them, Sasuke 'hn'ed once more, and Sakura's lip twitched.

"Still annoying as ever, I see, Sakura."

She lost it.

She debated of the three choices she could make, which one would be most fitting. The wall one sounded pretty nice, it would shut him up; but the kick to his balls sounded very tempting. And then there was the kiss. Nope, she was heading for choice numero dos. Her eyes shon in anger, and she felt Naruto gasp from beside her, tensing up. He knew what was coming to Sasuke. She swung around to face his smirking features, her fist raised, foot twitching in anticipation.

She took a step towards him and gripped his chin between her fingers, pinching the bone with her strength.

"You absolutely pathetic, son of a bit-"

Before she could finish her own sentence, her other hand reached up to grab at his shirt collar, and using both hands and her left over chakra, yanked his lips against hers. She really hadn't planned on kissing him. But those damned lips of his looked oh so.. ravishing in his large smirk. God dammit. Her cheeks flared red in anger, her fingers clenching his shirt tighter. She refused to pull her fingers from their vice like grip on his chin.

She waited for him to react, to yank himself away from her lips, shove her away as usual. She was used to it by now, even after the many years. Well. She had done it now, the dragon had been released. She sighed inwardly, getting ready to pull away from his lips so she could yell at him a little more, perhaps heal him, slap him, she didn't really know. Her hands relaxed on his chin, and pulled away from his skin. Her fingers unclenched his shirt.

Just as she was going to pull away from his unresponsive lips, a large, warm hand shot up to cup her head, eagerly holding her in place. His frozen mouth suddenly melted against hers, panting in her mouth. She let out a noise of surprise.

Well...shit.

She heard Kakashi snort from behind her, and she could feel Naruto's sly grin on her turned back.

"Guess there's a silver lining to this whole 'saving the world thing', eh?" Kakashi addressed Naruto, but he was too busy shooting the couple a dirty grin. Kakashi's next question came out of nowhere and made Sakura's eyes pop open in realization.

"Anybody seen Yamato?"

Hah, I was a day early! *evil laughter*